Talk:Seattle Great Wheel/Archive 1

Archive 1

Photos requested

We have only one photo of the Seattle Great Wheel, and it's mediocre quality, at best. File:Seattle Great Wheel.JPG. It's one side view that has a moderate level of detail, and only roughly conveys the locale where the wheel sits. At a minimum, we'd need one decent illustration of the immediate surroundings under the wheel, and at least one photo of the view from it. The purpose of a Ferris wheel is as a vantage point, after all. And since on one side you see downtown Seattle, and on the other you see Puget Sound, probably two views from the wheel is a minimum. More practically, it will probably take around a half dozen to a dozen quality photos before we can say this subject is adequately illustrated. As noted in the comment, we ought to have nighttime views of the lights, and the interior of the structure, and more.

It is much easier to achieve that if this article is not deleted from Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Seattle, Washington, so that when Wikipedians are out collecting photos they won't skip past the Great Wheel. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 04:45, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

Requested move 19 July 2019

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. No consensus to do so. (non-admin closure) Calidum 01:52, 26 July 2019 (UTC)

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Seattle Great Wheel → The Seattle Great Wheel – the trademarked name of this attraction is The Seattle Great Wheel as opposed to only Seattle Great Wheel. Ownership is requesting the proper trademarked name be used. Please refer to official website logo showing The Seattle Great Wheel in the logo. Andriagerry (talk) 18:27, 19 July 2019 (UTC)

Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Trademarks, our usual style is "Do not capitalize the word the in a trademark (see WP:Manual of Style/Capital letters § Institutions, and § Capitalization of "The") regardless how the name is styled in logos and the like, except at the beginning of a sentence".

There are rare exceptions, but we generally aim to reflect whatever form is prevalaent among reliable sources, and don't feel obligated to say REALTOR® instead of Realtor or Toys Я Us over Toys "R" Us. Wikipedia style would generally prefer Playstation over PlayStation, avoiding camel case, but PlayStation is more widely used so we follow suit. See MOS:TMRULES.

From what I can tell, few if any published sources refer to it as The Seattle Great Wheel. You often see the Seattle Great Wheel, with the not capitalized, indicating the source doesn't recognize it as formally part of the name. Other formulations such as Seattle's Great Wheel or, most often, Seattle Great Wheel with no article at all.

We don't title article with a subject's official formal name unless that is also the common name -- see WP:COMMONNAME -- hence, Bill Clinton, not William Jefferson Clinton or William Jefferson Blythe III.

It's probably harmless to move it to The Seattle Great Wheel and I don't really mind, but from what I can tell Seattle Great Wheel more closely adheres to our guidelines. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 20:53, 19 July 2019 (UTC)

• Strong oppose . Secondary sources like The Seattle Times and local TV news stations do not use "The Seattle Great Wheel" to refer to this business or its structure. This accounts user name matches the name of the company's co-owner, so I suspect there's WP:COI involved. SounderBruce 00:03, 20 July 2019 (UTC)

• Strong oppose for COI. Nothing to see here. O.N.R. ^(talk) 01:39, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
• Oppose per WP:THE. Wikipedia follows its own article naming conventions, and ownership and official trademarks are not given a very special priority in those guidelines. —BarrelProof (talk) 19:43, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
• Oppose per WP:THE. We don't pander to marketing requests. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:48, 24 July 2019 (UTC)

Response for consideration to opposing comments: secondary sources providing an incorrect name is not good justification for continuing to repeat the incorrect name. It has been called Seattle's Great Wheel, The Great Wheel, The Seattle Wheel, but that does not mean we should start using those as well. Properly informed journalists and news anchors use our correct name. The first article of Seattle Great Wheel WP page, written by The Seattle Times uses the correct name. I am not sure why it was stated The Seattle Times uses the incorrect name when in fact they got it right [1].

Heck, even Yelp got our name right! [2] Full disclosure, I am an employee of Great Western Attractions, which i have added to my user page (this is all new so bear with me-i'm learning). Formerly a research scientist for UW during which I developed by love of accuracy. This is why I am trying to correct my workplace name. I was incorrectly identified as part of the ownership group, based on Everett Herald article, which correctly states I am the ticketing manager. Believe me, wish I was part owner!! no such luck. Never does the article state I am in the ownership group. I will receive no compensation for this and was trying to provide the most accurate and correct information. If the name is changed to the correct name, awesome. If not, oh well. Based on the fact Wikipedia follows its own article naming conventions and official trademarks are not given priority in those guidelines, this makes me think the WP is not a good third party source for correct and factual information, a somewhat disappointing result of this endeavor. A small thing, such as using a proper name, is something I though WP would like to do. By stepping into the WP arena I was hoping to correct other mis-information including owner, and other incorrect statistics on the page, plus provide better pictures, however it is proving to be difficult and potentially not worth the effort. Using “Seattle Great Wheel” (no “the”) is actually less accurate and less grammatically correct than “The Seattle Great Wheel” (Andrianina7 (talk) 22:40, 25 July 2019 (UTC))

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