I think the name tag should show what is written on the shop sign. Some
of your suggested changes do this. For example, as far as I know
Waterstones never has an apostrophe. However, some of the proposed
changes look like doing the opposite: e.g. the signs do say "M&S Simply
Food" not "Marks & Spencer Simply Food" (if my memory is correct).
The changes to Co-op names look problematic, because they vary around
the country (unless they've been standardised very recently). Locally
the one in my home town (Stapleford, Nottingham) is 'The Co-operative
Food', another a few miles down the road in Castle Donington for a long
time just said 'Co-op', until it changed to 'The Co-operative Food' in
the last year or two ago. Unless you have strong evidence they have all
been standardised recently, I don't think they should be changed.
Cheers,
Will
On 24/10/2014 14:44, Matthijs Melissen wrote:
Dear all,
I am proposing to unify the names of chain shops within the UK. For
details, please see
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/Math1985/UK_Shop_Names.
Please let me know if you have any comments. If there are no further
comments, I will invite list members to vote on this automatic edit. I
will not proceed without at least 8 votes with 2/3 approval.
Kind regards,
Matthijs
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