Talk:East Kilbride Shopping Centre

Requested move 9 February 2017

 * 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. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: not moved. Jenks24 (talk) 17:09, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

East Kilbride Shopping Centre → EK, East Kilbride – This shopping mall has rebranded; someone tried to create a second article about it under the new title, instead of moving the old one. McGeddon (talk) 15:32, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
 * This is a contested technical request (permalink). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:30, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

Headline writers like brevity, so their use of the more verbose form suggests that they do not expect their readers to recognise the two-letter "EK" without explanation. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 02:49, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
 * But it is still a shopping centre, not EK, East Kilbride. In ictu oculi (talk) 17:10, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Plenty of rebranded shopping centres used to have prosaic names which are still strictly true. Shall I take this to the talk page as "controversial"? --McGeddon (talk) 17:21, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
 * contested move Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:30, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Oppose unless there is evidence that the new name has entered common usage. I notice that one of the article's two refs refs to "EK" only in the body text, but the headline says "East Kilbride shopping centre".
 * Oppose per BHG. We move on the news, not the rumor (that is, on what it's called, not what it says it wants to be called). Dicklyon (talk) 05:51, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Oppose as per above as well as per COMMONNAME. – Davey 2010 Talk 16:52, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Not another claim that a brand name has primacy over a common name! Surely not! -- Necrothesp (talk) 15:21, 15 February 2017 (UTC)


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

Error re. shopping centre dates
Despite citation of the source by HES, Princes Square was certainly never 'opened' or finished on any particular date. It was an open-air public concourse lined with shops. It was built in stages and access was never curtailed up to any date to merit the idea of an opening. In any case, the development of the square-really an annexe of Princes Street-commenced after 1962 and was still underway in 1965/66. As the date is clearly incorrect, I have removed the reference and modified the expression. Note, these statements are not to be confused with its transformation into an uncover mall which was 'officially' opened in the 1990s. C. Ladds. 77.98.226.156 (talk) 21:36, 9 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Further to the above. I felt the need to extensively improve this article because of issues with passive voice and faulty parallelism which marred the expression. Word choice had to be revised to remove errors, such as where references to a year reflected when works commenced rather than when they were completed. The article also suffered from a number of errors, re. there being only one two-floor section of the Town Centre (actually three, including two with public concourse). The years for Princes Square were corrected and properly framed. The Stuart Hotel was at Cornwall Way and not near or adjoining Princes Square as stated. The hotel creator was not Scottish & Newcastle Breweries, but a predecessor component of it. This has been fixed in the way it is expressed in the article. The Bruce Hotel opened in 1968 and not in 1969. The Bruce Hotel was not solely designed by Walter Underwood & Partners. It was a partnership design project where that firm formed one half. 77.98.226.156 (talk) 22:07, 9 April 2024 (UTC)