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On 26 May 2025, it was proposed that this article be moved to Firestone (disambiguation). The result of the discussion was not moved.
Requested move 26 May 2025
[edit ]- 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 after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Bensci54 (talk) 17:28, 4 June 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
Firestone → Firestone (disambiguation) Firestone (disambiguation) – Firestone should re-direct to Firestone Tire and Rubber Company because it is the common meaning. Flint, which this page is set up so that it is the primary meaning, is an article that doesn't even mention the word "Firestone" anywhere. Georgia guy (talk) 01:28, 26 May 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- Oppose Even excluding flint, there is no primary topic. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 16:46, 26 May 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- Zxcvbnm, how is the tire company not the primary meaning?? Georgia guy (talk) 17:59, 26 May 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- Firestone Country Club, Firestone (song) both get decent pageviews. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 18:01, 26 May 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- I can see an argument that Firestone (surname) at least complicates determination of primary topic by long-term significance. Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 08:21, 31 May 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- Firestone Country Club, Firestone (song) both get decent pageviews. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 18:01, 26 May 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- Why do so many editors these days obsess about forcing primary topics onto every title. The dab lists two co-primary topics, flint or firestone – you know, the stone the ancients used to start fires before they invented matches – and Firestone (surname) – notably Harvey Samuel Firestone, founder of Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, and his son, Harvey Samuel Firestone Jr. – from the German Feuerstein (also meaning fire + stone). Yet someone wants to usurp all this to define the word as meaning a tire manufacturer. – wbm1058 (talk) 16:26, 1 June 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- Oppose. In the USA there may be a case for the tire company being the primary topic, but globally there is no such case. Flint is a better candidate globally and by long term significant, but the DAB at the base name is better still. Andrewa (talk) 09:37, 2 June 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- User:Andrewa, the Flint article begins: Flint, occasionally flintstone, is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz,[1][2] categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk or marly limestone. with no mention of the name "firestone" anywhere in the article. Georgia guy (talk) 11:20, 2 June 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- True, but Wikipedia is not a reliable source for these purposes (which is surprising to some but a consistent and logical theme in our policies).
- Try
- http://quartzpage.de/flint.html Firestone, Hornstone, and Silex are other names for flint and chert.
- https://survival-kompass.de/en/flintstone/ Flint, also known as firestone,...
- If Wikipedia does not mention this, despite the encyclopedic nature of this information available from reliable sources, then it should, surely? I'll add it when I find the time, unless someone beats me to it.
- Yes, some gentle and probably well-intentioned souls do imply from time to time that Wikipedia is the only authoritative or necessary source of information... and this is probably part of the reason that some teachers sadly discourage its use (but see also User:Andrewa/Why they do not want you to use Wikipedia). With friends like those, who needs enemies? Andrewa (talk) 22:59, 2 June 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- User:Andrewa, the Flint article begins: Flint, occasionally flintstone, is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz,[1][2] categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk or marly limestone. with no mention of the name "firestone" anywhere in the article. Georgia guy (talk) 11:20, 2 June 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- Oppose. No primary topic.--MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk 23:52, 3 June 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
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.