Talk:Stroud & Swindon Building Society

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BetacommandBot 05:13, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Merge?

The City & Metropolitan Building Society has already merged with the Stroud & Swindon Building Society in real life. Since the City article is almost a redirect in the way it is written; I propose it be merged. --Stormbay (talk) 21:25, 22 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree :

To follow this logic, the Stroud & Swindon article will need to be merged with the Coventry Building Society article in a few months time. (And a few years down the line we'll just have a Nationwide Building Society article, but that's another story.)
The City & Metropolitan Building Society stub invites the addition of more detail. If it's just a footnote to the Stroud & Swindon, nobody's going to add anything. Bazj (talk) 05:28, 23 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Two weeks later and no support for the merger. I'll remove the tags. Bazj (talk) 11:38, 7 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I don't have strong feelings about the merge. I had hoped to elicit some interest in expanding City & Metropolitan Building Society which will probably remain a "one liner" and could have, in my opinion, been as well served by a short section in the other article. If nothing is added to it to discuss its notability, it really doesn't show significant importance for a "stand alone" article. However, you have made the call and, I'm reasonably sure, no one else cares. Cheers! --Stormbay (talk) 21:25, 7 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Tagged C&M for the Business & Cooperatives projects. Hopefully that'll drum up some passing interest. Regards, Bazj (talk) 17:47, 8 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]