Talk:Comet (retailer)
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This article was nominated for merging with ProLine (company) on 25 November 2015. The result of the discussion was Keep separate articles. |
On 14 January 2025, it was proposed that this article be moved from Comet (retail) to Comet (retailer). The result of the discussion was moved. |
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Removed mention of NDC
[edit]I have removed mention of the National Distribution Center in Corby, Northamptonshire. It doesn't exist anymore, Comet have moved to a new system consisting of solely using RDC's (Regional Distribution Centers) Negashark (talk) 19:48, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
Date format
[edit]Per the MoS, "the date format chosen by the first major contributor in the early stages of an article should continue to be used, unless there is reason to change it based on strong national ties to the topic or consensus on article talk." The format that has been consistently used since 7 January 2009 is that of dmy (eg 9 June 2001). Please do not alter dates to the American mdy (eg June 9, 2001) style. Keristrasza (talk) 01:27, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
Criticism section
[edit]Seemed too pithy, tbh. There should be some mention of the larger controversies eg the industry price fixing and extended warranty investigations - and the Microsoft piracy thing may be worth mentioning - but looking at the article (and the company) as a whole, nit picking seems undue. Keristrasza (talk) 09:16, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
Current Situation
[edit]The title explains it!--88.111.116.8 (talk) 16:02, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
£2?
[edit]"Kesa sold Comet to private equity firm OpCapita for £2 in 2011.", from third paragraph. Don't know the correct figure to change it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.23.26.31 (talk) 17:27, 25 August 2013 (UTC)
- Doesn't need to be changed: £2 is the correct figure. Keri (talk) 20:34, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
Proposed merge with ProLine (company)
[edit]- The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.
- The result of this discussion was to keep the pages separate. Keri (talk) 09:04, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
- Oppose "ProLine is a range of own brand electronic products made by Darty plc for BCC in the Netherlands, Darty in France and Vandenborre in Belgium." Comet was the UK retailer for ProLine, not the sole retailer. Darty still exists. Keri (talk) 23:31, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
- Oppose per Keri. Rwendland (talk) 15:52, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
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Requested move 14 January 2025
[edit]- 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. (closed by non-admin page mover) Reading Beans, Duke of Rivia 06:43, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
Comet (retail) → Comet (retailer) – Clarifies the business type and aligns with naming conventions. Icaldonta (talk) 22:46, 14 January 2025 (UTC) I propose renaming the article from "Comet (retail)" to "Comet (retailer)" for clarity and consistency with Wikipedia's naming conventions for businesses. "Retailer" is a more precise term that better describes the company. Additionally, "Comet (retailer)" currently redirects to "Comet (retail)," so this move would align the page title with the existing redirect.--Icaldonta (talk) 22:46, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
- Support seems the more appropriate and consistent qualifier. Crouch, Swale (talk) 19:17, 15 January 2025 (UTC)
- Support per nom. Obvious. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:11, 16 January 2025 (UTC)
- Support – but mildly curious, as the present name was created by the same nominator, only a couple of days ago. Was it just a typo? GrindtXX (talk) 14:23, 16 January 2025 (UTC)
- Realised that "retailer" would make more sense. Icaldonta (talk) 16:09, 16 January 2025 (UTC)