Talk:Vancity/Archives/2013

Potential for a great article?

For a variety of reasons known well to those who are familiar with it, VanCity is one of the most interesting institutions in the global credit union system. The sheer scale of its operations is rare, but the diversity of the institutional arrangements it has made to serve market segments that are normally either not served by banks at all, or served very poorly, is its real claim to notability. How many other North American credit unions made presentations about their Vancouver-based microfinance operations at the Global Microcredit Summit in Halifax in 2006? How many have spun off major socially responsible mutual fund companies? VanCity also has a very interesting history, well documented in several books (Ian MacPherson's book Cooperation, Conflict and Consensus as well as a more recent history.Brett epic (talk) 18:49, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Canada's best employers

It says that Vancity is the only credit union in Canada that is in the top 100 employers, but on the Coast Capital Savings page, it says that CCS is one of the top 50 employers in Canada. If CCS is in the top 50, shouldn't it say that Vancity is one of 2 credit unions that are in the top 100, or are the 2 lists completely seperate? Dominiclai06 04:33, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 13:21, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Requested move

The following is a closed discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was Move Parsecboy :  Chat  23:55, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

The name "Vancity" is used far more than "Vancouver City Savings Credit Union". I propose the article be moved the more common name, as suggested in WP:NAME. +mt 05:37, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

• Comment. I suspect that "Van" is used more often than Vancouver, for the city? I know that North Van is used far more often than North Vancouver. And what about NYC? That is normally known simply as "The City". 199.125.109.126 (talk) 01:41, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

• "West Van" and "North Van" I hear all the time, but the usage of "Van" for "Vancouver" I hear far less frequently. +mt 03:35, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

• Support. Google news has 133 hits for Vancity (not all for the credit union, though), and exactly one for the full name,[1] and even that article uses "Vancity" 18 times. 199.125.109.126 (talk) 17:30, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.