Talk:WHSmith

message: About my "massive rewrite": firstly, I have tried to consistenly use "it" and the singular for the company throughout (I think I broke down towards the end). This isn't to everyone's taste, so I'm sorry if you don't like it. Secondly, two factoids from the previous article didn't make it in, because they seemed trivial to me:
:The W H Smith staff journal, Newsbasket, was published between 1908 and 1978, and provides an interesting business and social history of the firm at that time.
This seemed potentially interesting, but I'm not sure how easy it is to refer to copies of this internal publication. In taking it out I have orphaned the Newsbasket article; maybe it should go back in as a "see also", but I'm not sure.
:A W H Smith newsletter for the third age, Primetime was published from January 1995 to April 1996 and was edited by David Alston.
This lasted less than a year and was only a "newsletter", not even a magazine. The link to Primetime led to another topic altogether, anyway.
I may also have wandered into POV in my assessment of the offerings at W H Smith. Be bold if you disagree. --rbrwr± 17:50, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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message: I don't have the correct information, but the opening of the "History" section must be incorrect, as Euston station was not built until the 19th century, and passenger rail travel had not been invented in 1792. Ephialtes (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 11:27, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Error: Origins of the company

message: I've done a partial rewrite of the introductory section of the article. I've added new headings, which can hopefully be expanded further to explain the current operations of the company (the article as it stands seems largely focused on the history, and I'm not sure gets across the nature of WHSmith stores for people not from the UK who may not be familiar with them). UkPaolo 21:31, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Partial rewrite 

message: I work for WHSmith Retail so I have to deal with the guff that comes in and out of the shop on a daily basis. 
Despite mail coming addressed to "WHSmith", "WH Smith", "W H Smith", "W.H.Smith", and vaients of that using Smiths as well as John Menzies the official names are as follows.
WH Smith PLC
WHSmith Everything Else
Therefore I would suggest using WH Smith as the artcicle refers to the company as a whole.
Regarding the newsletters - they've been superceeded by ad-hoc communication on the company intranet.
81.178.236.108 16:24, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: * I work for WHS too, and per my section above would favour a move to "WHSmith". UkPaolo 19:10, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Move it then. Skinnyweed 12:56, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: But it is clear from the above msg that at least someone else would disagree with this title. It certainly wouldn't appear there's any consensus for a move, despite my personal preference. └ UkPaolo/talk┐ 19:05, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

text: Yeah, they have been branded WHSmith since the 1990s at least. Can someone move it? 86.131.98.77 (talk) 22:06, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  correct title 

message: A few questions, since I was adding a bit to the article:-
* Prior to the late-1990s (or mid-1990s), did W H Smith have any large ("high street") stores in Scotland?
* Ditto the small railway stores- I'm pretty sure I saw some there, but I may be wrong.
* How dominant was John Menzies in the UK-wide "railway station" market?
* Did Menzies have any large-format stores outside Scotland?
Fourohfour 12:21, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Smith's in Scotland, Menzies in England 

message: Prior to buying the Our Price chain, Smith's owned Sound FX, a record store which was merged with Our Price in 1986. Nothing about Sound FX is mentioned here. I can't add anything as I have looked high and low for information... anyone able to add anything? 205.188.117.71 22:16, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Sound FX

message: The article did state that the old box-shaped logo was used until 2004 (I have changed this). I know – and I'm sure most others can remember this – that the old logo was actually dropped in the early- or mid nineties, but I don't know which year. Can anyone help? — Stonefield 21:52, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Old Logo 

message: Regarding the move from W H Smith to WHSmith; this has been reverted. This wasn't due the name chosen (an important, but entirely separate issue; see below). It was because the move used cut-and-paste; losing the edit history- discourteous to contributors, as well as breaking the GFDL.
I know that it's not possible to properly move the page (without Admin powers) because WHSmith is an existing article. However, cut-and-paste moves are bad, full stop.
(I should make clear that the move was- apparently- carried out in good faith, and that the editor was a relative newcomer, so no hard feelings or blame intended towards them. Sorry if this came across as a lecture.)
Fourohfour 14:31, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: IMPORTANT: It still requires moving. They have used "WHSmith" as their brand for many years now, perhaps a decade or more. It certainly follows wiki precedent: many bands, albums, products, etc. are listed with strange stylistic capitals. Hell, there's even brian d foy. 86.164.246.89 (talk) 21:25, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cut-and-paste Page Move: Reversion 

message: Since I had to deal with the page move reversion anyway, we may as well discuss whether the page move was a good idea (even if it was executed badly).
There may be a case in favour if "WHSmith" reflects an actual official company name change and/or W H Smith are making a big deal about this rebranding.
On the other hand, if the removal of spacing simply reflects a minor stylistic issue over how Smiths wish their existing name to be presented, then (IMHO) leave the page where it is. Moving it for the sake of some over-extrapolated (if not misleading) pseudo-precision would be utterly pointless; just another form of wiki-masturbation that requires more link-maintenance.
Fourohfour 14:31, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: IMPORTANT: It still requires moving. They have used "WHSmith" as their brand for many years now, perhaps a decade or more. It certainly follows wiki precedent: many bands, albums, products, etc. are listed with strange stylistic capitals. Hell, there's even brian d foy. 86.164.246.89 (talk) 21:25, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Page title

message: In the article App Store, it the following quote in reference to WH Switch is include: "The Guardian described censorship of explicit content by Apple as analogous to that of the distributor WH Smith, a main distributor which for many years imposed content restrictions on British publishers." but when I came over to this article I found nothing on this former practice BY WH Smith. Something should be include in this article on about the former practice by WH Smith of forcing content restrictions on UK mags they sold. --Cab88 (talk) 10:46, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Former imposition of content restrictions on UK publishers 

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