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Requested move 26 February 2026

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. Consensus to move. While only one editor explicitly invoked WP:LTS, I see TPH's arguments as implicitly invoking that guideline as well as arguing that it is the most common use. (non-admin closure) BilledMammal (talk) 03:23, 4 April 2026 (UTC)

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• F. W. Woolworth Company → Woolworth
• Woolworth → Woolworth (disambiguation)

– Extensive searching for just "Woolworth" with no other qualifiers turned up universally content for the former American chain. All the other chains by this name are derivations of the American company, use an S at the end, or both. Everything I found suggests that "Woolworth" is widely understood to be the WP:COMMONNAME of the American chain, and "Woolworths" with an S and no apostrophe mainly associated with the UK or Australia chains.

While I have seen the American chain referred to as "Woolworth's" with an apostrophe and S, this seems to be a common speech pattern mainly found in the Midwest, akin to people saying "Kroger's" instead of Kroger, and not a variant widely used by any of the chains. I feel that the "Woolworth", with no S and no apostrophe, is sufficient per WP:SMALLDETAILS to distinguish the various chains in Australia, UK, and elsewhere from the American chain. Everything else is either a partial title match and/or derived from the American chain. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 15:44, 26 February 2026 (UTC) — Relisting. Jeffrey34555 (talk) 00:38, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Note: WikiProject Companies has been notified of this discussion. Jeffrey34555 (talk) 00:38, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

• Support - I wish we could make it a dabconcept though Red Slash 18:08, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

• Support - We don't call the British Woolworths page Woolworths Group (United Kingdom), nor should we, I support this page being called Woolworth. I was previously against the change, but now support on this basis.--Icaldonta (talk) 23:10, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

• Support Industrialerror (talk) 08:03, 23 March 2026 (UTC)

• Oppose. Not convinced that evidence supports the suggestion that F. W. Woolworth Company is the primary topic. Wikinav and pageview data indicates that it is not more popular than all other topics combined, and indeed it doesn’t even have a plurality of pageviews among the articles linked from Woolworth. Tomiĉo (talk) 21:38, 24 March 2026 (UTC)

  Whilst it might not be the most popular Woolworth, it was the first one, I feel primary topic can be excused here as it is quite a unique scenario. Icaldonta (talk) 21:35, 1 April 2026 (UTC)

• Support – per WP:SMALLDETAILS and WP:LTS. I agree with nom about the distinction between "Woolworth" and "Woolworths". For just "Woolworth", the defunct US retailer is PT based on it being the originator of the name and because my research concurs that most sources using just "Woolworth" are referring to either the US chain as a whole or an individual location of the the chain. Wburrow (talk) 20:15, 3 April 2026 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Move discussion in progress

There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Woolworths Group (Australia) which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 19:32, 25 June 2026 (UTC)