Talk:Great Western Bank (California)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 22:50, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

New Great Western Bank
There is a new one operating in the midwest: Great Western Bank. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.254.229.218 (talk) 20:08, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Founded 1919?
Sometime in the 1980s or early 90s, Great Western aired a number of TV commercials (viewable on YouTube) celebrating "its 100th year as part of the West" and featuring its iconic spots with John Wayne. If Great Western was founded in 1919 as the citation notes, then something doesn't quite add up. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.254.26.126 (talk) 20:09, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

Public domain photo available
As a part of the National Centers for Environmental Information image database showing the aftermath of the 1994 Northridge earthquake, there is a high resolution public domain photograph (TIFF format) of a Great Western administrative building that could be used for Wikipedia if it properly cropped in Photoshop or Gimp. There could be additional photos at this website.


 * https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazardimages/picture/show/380


 * https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazard/img/200_res/18/18_380.tif

68.45.25.137 (talk) 02:12, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

Requested move 10 November 2022

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The result of the move request was: No support or opposition to move/rename pages. (non-admin closure)  Mattdaviesfsic (talk) 19:53, 10 December 2022 (UTC)

– There has to be a clearer way to disambiguate these titles than by the years which they were/are in business. I tried looking at WP:NCCOMP for ideas, but found nothing ... not even guidance to retain the current disambiguators. I tried looking up titles that end with "company)" and titles that end with "bank)", and ran across no precedence there either. At this point, the only thought I have in the matter is to somehow include "California" and "South Dakota" in their disambiguators, respectively ... but even that doesn't seem to have a policy-based precedence. Steel1943 (talk) 22:43, 10 November 2022 (UTC) — Relisting. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 00:48, 20 November 2022 (UTC)  — Relisting. NasssaNsertalk 02:56, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Great Western Bank (1919–1997) → ?
 * Great Western Bank (1907–present) → ?
 * Comment Great Western Bank's stock was delisted in 2022 following its acquisition by First Interstate BancSystem. The correct title is therefore Great Western Bank (1907–2022). 162 etc. (talk) 23:22, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Comment - Instead of distinguishing the two banks by years (which I also find very confusing, especial when both organizations are currently defunct and would become more confusing when time goes on), I would suggest the use of the names of their respect corporate parents as the name of the articles, i.e. Great Western Financial and Great Western Bancorp, similar to what is currently done with First Interstate BancSystem and First Interstate Bancorp which both use the identical trade name of First Interstate Bank in different geographical regions. (BTW, if you need examples of articles that use geographical locations to distinguish different banks that use the same name, go look at the disambiguation page First National Bank.)  -- 108.71.214.235 (talk) 06:00, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Relisting comment: Move target undecided. NasssaNsertalk 02:56, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Requested move 3 March 2024

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The result of the move request was: Moved. No opposition, and the request seems reasonable. &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 13:11, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

– Last discussed in 2022, although poorly attended. The current date disambiguation does little to increase recognizability. 162 etc. (talk) 17:55, 3 March 2024 (UTC) The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Great Western Bank (1919–1997) → Great Western Bank (California)
 * Great Western Bank (1907–2022) → Great Western Bank (South Dakota)