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Both this article and S&H Green Stamps are relatively short, and information from each is repeated in both. Unless both can be expanded readily, I suggest they be merged. The only problem I can see right now with a merger is that this article is categorized with UK-related categories, which might be confusing in an article about a US-originated company. B7T ( talk) 13:49, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
It seems that Green Shield Stamps were not operated by S&H. See Pink Stamps below. I will remove the merge tag. -- Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) ( Talk) 14:26, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
I find this sentence fragment confusing:
Were Green Shield Stamps licensed by S&H, as suggested in Owen's seminar paper [1], or did S&H operate the competitor Pink Stamps, because Tomkins got the colour green first?
If Owen is correct, we should simply delete the portion in parentheses. -- Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) ( Talk) 14:15, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
Owen is quite likely wrong - that era of history is not the topic of his paper. The DNB article on Tompkins, though a tertiary source, at least confirms the original author of the Wikipedia article. -- Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) ( Talk) 14:26, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
Someone has labelled the paragraph "Dubious - Discuss". Absolutely nothing dubious about it. That is exactly what happened. I remember the furore in the newspapers at the time and I actually watched the signwriters change the badging over the door of the Cardiff Green Shield shop....I still to this day slip up and say "I am off to Green Shield to buy a telly" 21stCenturyGreenstuff ( talk) 01:15, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
That is very interesting information indeed: thanks.
Several decades of UK newspapers have been digitized and are accessible from the net. I sometimes use my local public library's website when I need to back up a 'fact' that I have written into a Wikipedia article.
-- Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) ( Talk) 14:06, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
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Both this article and S&H Green Stamps are relatively short, and information from each is repeated in both. Unless both can be expanded readily, I suggest they be merged. The only problem I can see right now with a merger is that this article is categorized with UK-related categories, which might be confusing in an article about a US-originated company. B7T ( talk) 13:49, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
It seems that Green Shield Stamps were not operated by S&H. See Pink Stamps below. I will remove the merge tag. -- Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) ( Talk) 14:26, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
I find this sentence fragment confusing:
Were Green Shield Stamps licensed by S&H, as suggested in Owen's seminar paper [1], or did S&H operate the competitor Pink Stamps, because Tomkins got the colour green first?
If Owen is correct, we should simply delete the portion in parentheses. -- Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) ( Talk) 14:15, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
Owen is quite likely wrong - that era of history is not the topic of his paper. The DNB article on Tompkins, though a tertiary source, at least confirms the original author of the Wikipedia article. -- Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) ( Talk) 14:26, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
Someone has labelled the paragraph "Dubious - Discuss". Absolutely nothing dubious about it. That is exactly what happened. I remember the furore in the newspapers at the time and I actually watched the signwriters change the badging over the door of the Cardiff Green Shield shop....I still to this day slip up and say "I am off to Green Shield to buy a telly" 21stCenturyGreenstuff ( talk) 01:15, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
That is very interesting information indeed: thanks.
Several decades of UK newspapers have been digitized and are accessible from the net. I sometimes use my local public library's website when I need to back up a 'fact' that I have written into a Wikipedia article.
-- Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) ( Talk) 14:06, 3 October 2008 (UTC)