Talk:Filling station

CAA

Is CAA = "Canadian Aile Association" correct?

What does Aile mean?

Canadian Automobile Association

Tabletop 06:13, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Fuel grades

The author seems to concentrate too much on European grades and ratings of gasoline. A more complete discussion would mention the AKI metric commonly used ih the United States. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.216.122.126 (talk • contribs) 19:34, 22 September 2005.

Storage

The article does not explain storage mechanisms used by filling station franchisees - underground, tower silo, etc. Also, no mention regarding typical refill frequency contracts.

“Gasoline” used for consistency

I took the liberty of changing most occurrences of the word petrol to gasoline. As it stood each term was basically used according to the English‐speaking region being discussed, but policy calls for consistency throughout the article. I have no strong feelings either way but gas station and American spellings seemed to predominate at the time of edit. —Wiki Wikardo 03:43, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for cleaning up and moving that long list of bolded alternate names in the lead. GA-RT-22 (talk) 13:40, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Requested move 17 November 2022

• Filling station → Gas station
• Filling station attendant → Gas station attendant
• List of filling station chains in North America → List of gas station chains in North America
• List of historic filling stations → List of historic gas stations

– Who even says "filling station"? According to the article, American English uses "gas station" while British English uses "petrol station". Now, in addition to this article being written in American English, per the Google Books Ngram Viewer "gas station" has been the most common name among the three since 1970, and this has apparently also been the case for British English since the 2000s. There are more entries on Google Scholar for "gas station" than "petrol station", and there are more Google News results for "gas station" than "petrol station". InfiniteNexus (talk) 22:54, 17 November 2022 (UTC)

• Support for List of filling station chains in North America since of course the North American name should be used for an article about North America. No opinion on the others (I may or may not return with an opinion on those). A7V2 (talk) 23:25, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
• Support per COMMONNAME.--Ortizesp (talk) 04:45, 18 November 2022 (UTC)
• Support per WP:COMMONNAME, MOS:ENGVAR, and WP:RETAIN. Almost nobody calls this subject a "filling station". The most common term in America is "gas station" and the most common term in the UK is "petrol station". Since this article is written in American English, it should be moved to the most common American term, as an article is supposed to consistently use one variety of English according to our rules and "filling station" is not the American term. And as it appears from the article history that the original title of this article was "Gas station", WP:RETAIN also applies. This article should have never been moved from "Gas station". Rreagan007 (talk) 06:02, 18 November 2022 (UTC)

  When was it previously moved? YorkshireExpat (talk) 19:18, 18 November 2022 (UTC)

• Oppose per MOS:COMMONALITY I've never heard the term "Gas station" and while the common name may be "Petrol station" in the UK as the article notes things like diesel and a number of less common things are fuel added to the tanks. No opposition to the 3rd move though as that is specific to North America and the article says "Gas bar" is used. No one is saying the articles should be moved to Petrol station, "Filling station" is a neutral term which RETAIN allows a move from a national term to an international one. Crouch, Swale (talk) 10:40, 18 November 2022 (UTC)
• Oppose per Crouch, Swale and MOS:ENGVAR, which clearly states that no variety of English is preferred, and the proposal is to move to the American English name. YorkshireExpat (talk) 16:51, 18 November 2022 (UTC)

  But no major English variety has this as the WP:COMMONNAME, so the current title is unfavorable. BhamBoi (talk) 19:39, 18 November 2022 (UTC)

  But which English variety should we favour? This isn't American English Wikipedia. YorkshireExpat (talk) 20:10, 18 November 2022 (UTC)

• Oppose gas is gas not liquid. In ictu oculi (talk) 21:58, 18 November 2022 (UTC)