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Kendals in Manchester is the largest department store, trading space wise, but not building wise. The title would of gone too Lewis's Liverpool (500,000 sq ft.) or Lewis's Manchester (now Primark) (513,000 sq ft.) had they used all the trading space in the store. Im not too sure on Debenhams though. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.142.19.56 (talk) 18:48, 15 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not sure that a former name of a department store is really a suitable subject for an article. I think the article should be about the department store, not about one of several names that it has had. And as a consequence, given that the store is currently trading, I think the only sensible title for the article is the current name of the store. (Though if the store were to close, IMHO there might be a case to be made to use the name the store was best known as, even if that wasn't the name when it closed.)
I therefore propose:
The article should be renamed to 'House of Fraser Manchester', although the name 'Kendals' should still be mentioned in the lead.
Kendals should of course redirect here
Comments?
And on further reflection: The article as it stands clearly is about the store and not the name, lead notwithstanding. The pretence in the lead that it is about the name Kendals is presumably just an attempt to avoid renaming it. Having grown up in the area, visiting Kendals is a childhood memory for me - but much as it pains me to do so I think we need to rename. [Or merge with House of Fraser. But for now I'm just proposing rename.]
