Talk:Winn-Dixie

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[edit] Deamericentrification?

Jacksonville, Florida, United States was changed to Jacksonville, Florida. United States was already mentioned (the sentence is "Winn-Dixie is a supermarket chain based in Jacksonville, Florida which has stores throughout the south-eastern United States"). I see no reason to mention United States twice. We wouldn't say "The London Philharmonic Orchestra (frequently abbreviated to LPO), based in London, England, United Kingdom, Europe, is one of the major orchestras of the United Kingdom", would we? anthony (see warning)

I think your nationalist views [1] may have blurred your good judgement in this issue. However, since the opening sentence does contain a reference to the nation, as well as the province/department/state, I have no objection to it in the present form. Also, I would consider London, England, UK, Europe excessive because if I wanted to send a postcard to the London Philharmonic Orchestra, I would only need London, United Kingdom, and the postcode; wheras a European sending a postcard to Winn-Dixie would need Jacksonville, Florida, United States, and the ZIP code. --"DICK" CHENEY 00:37, 1 May 2004 (UTC)
There's nothing nationalist about living in the greatest country in the world. And why does it matter what Europeans require on a postcard (assuming you're correct that they do)? By that argument we should be including the zip code as well. You might also want to fix Toronto Maple Leafs to make it less canadacentric. And I'm sure there are thousands of other example cities, both in and outside the US.
There's nothing nationalist about living in the greatest country in the world. Anthony, you should have been a comic actor. You've made my Friday night. And as much as I wish Florida were a sovereign nation, independent of the legislating and litigating anti-business socialists from California and our native New Jersey, Florida shares sovereignty with a national union. As such Florida has only limited state sovereignty, and no national sovereignty. Maybe this will change, but until then, we should avoid an nation-centric POV and list the nation in which a city or state is located in. --"DICK" CHENEY 03:27, 1 May 2004 (UTC)
You didn't say sovereign nation. You said nation. And Florida is sovereign. It may be jointly sovereign with the United States, but that doesn't make it non-sovereign. C'mon, you're a libertarian, you should know this. In any case, you have made no arguments for why we should list the "nation" in which a city or "state" is located in. Is not listing the continent continent-centric? What about not listing the confederation (or whatever the hell the EU is)? Is the UK a nation? According to Wikipedia England is the nation and the UK is the state. And as an EU-country, they are not completely independent of the legislating and litigating anti-business socialists from the other EU-nations. What about Hong Kong? They probably have less claim to sovereignty than Florida but of the 6 articles with the phrase "based in Hong Kong" I see 0 which say "based in Hong Kong, China". How China-centric. anthony (see warning)

[edit] Stock

Winn-Dixie's Stock Symbol is WIN. --Patricknoddy 20:37, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)User:Patricknoddy --Patricknoddy 20:37, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)User talk:Patricknoddy 16:37 August 25, 2004 (EDT)

[edit] Requested move

This page should be moved back to Winn-Dixie, where it used to be until a couple of days ago. Another user moved this page to the current title ("Winn-Dixie (supermarket)") citing that the name of the supermarket is ambiguous with the novel and movie Because of Winn-Dixie. This is hardly true, as the novel and movie not only have a different name (with the additional words "because of"), but also because the novel and movie are named for the supermarket. It seems clear that the supermarket is the primary meaning of the term "Winn-Dixie", and the supermarket should occupy the non-disambiguated title Winn-Dixie. Unfortunately, the pages need administrator attention in order to be moved back to their proper places. Thanks, — Dulcem (talk) 23:27, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

  • Support per nom. Other uses are derivative and not ambiguous. — AjaxSmack 00:31, 29 May 2008 (UTC)