Talk:Santander UK

Merger proposal
I have been involved with this article and Abbey National for some time, and have come to the point where I think it might be worth considering merging Abbey National into Santander UK. The present-day bank is a renamed Abbey National, and so the banks share that history. Abbey subsumed Alliance & Leicester and the savings business and branches of Bradford & Bingley and the resulting organisation was renamed Santander. Cloudbound (talk) 23:44, 9 August 2020 (UTC) • Oppose. Am here for specific information regarding this specific entity, not Santander. Would cause undue difficulty to dig for this specific info within a broader Santander entry.
 * Oppose, As Santander UK was formed from Santander's acquisition of a number of simultaneous acqistitutions, best to retain the now defunct entities in stand-alone articles and have this article focus on events post 2010. Busztrax (talk) 05:54, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
 * I'd oppose as well, echoing Busztrax. Also, it would be illogical to merge Abbey National, and keep separate articles for the other two (and, before anyone suggests it, merging all three would be a hopeless mess). Moonraker12 (talk) 00:19, 19 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Oppose This is a common problem - how to deal with entities subsumed into other organisatons. Abbey was one of the country's leading buiding societies and surely justifies an entry in its own right. Keeping it separate also means the Santander article clean. Anyone reading Santander wanting to know the history of its acquisitions can use the highlighted link - which is what those links are there for.Bebington (talk) 12:58, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for your opinions on the articles. The consensus is fully in favour of keeping the articles separate, which I agree with, so I am closing this and removing the merge tags. Cloudbound (talk) 20:40, 11 October 2020 (UTC)