Talk:GM

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Contents 1 A few changes 2 Request New Vote to move General Motors → GM and GM → GM (disambig) 3 Old move discussion 4 Grindelsomething 5 Requested move 5.1 Voting

[edit] A few changes

I moved the order of some of them. If anyone dissagrees give your reason below and change it.

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[edit] Request New Vote to move General Motors → GM and GM → GM (disambig)

• Support; General Motors is among the largest corporations in the world, and is the largest vehicle corporation in the world. I see that there is a number of other GMs out there, but General Motors is the most famous usage of the term. Putting it this way, if someone is going to look up GM on Wikipedia- are they going to look up genetically modified or General Motors? --Zouf 02:44, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

• Oppose; No-one outside the US would automatically associate GM with General Motors. Wikipedia is supposed to be international; outside the US GM is usually taken to mean Genetically Modified. GM should link to a disamb page which highlights General Motors and genetically modified only. English Wikipedia may have a large number of US users but that does not mean that Non-Americans should be ignored.--84.12.21.104 00:21, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Old move discussion

• Oppose: The distinction between the disambiguation page and GM page is important for disambiguation of inbound links. Josh Parris ✉ 00:28, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

• Oppose; seems like GM could productively redirect to General Motors with a link at the top back to GM (disambiguation), actually. --Quuxplusone 01:01, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Since there is a lot more to GM than General Motors. Wikipedia should reflect an international audience rather than a US-centric viewpoint. Alan Liefting 04:01, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I wouldn't object to that, but I'm not sure that GM is clearly General Motors. Look at the size of the dab page. Josh Parris ✉ 02:11, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

In the UK, "GM" is far more commonly understood to mean "genetically modified" than "General Motors". If you doubt this, try searching the BBC site for "GM" GrahamN 03:36, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

It was requested that this article be renamed but there was no consensus for it be moved. violet/riga (t) 23:16, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Grindelsomething

www.ggm-bahn.ch uses GGM, not GM, for "Grindelwald Männlichenbahn" (sic), which should probably read Grindelwald-Männlichen-Bahn, Männlichenbahn Grindelwald or something similar. This seems to be a somwhat obscure abbreviation that shouldn't clutter up the dab page unless 69.197.51.18 or somebody else comes forward with examples of GM in use. – Wikipeditor 20:37, 4 November 2005 (UTC)