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Requested move 30 July 2015

It has been proposed in this section that Post-it note be renamed and moved to Sticky note.

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Post-it note → Sticky note – "Post-it note" is a trademark and, while sometimes used generically, it's my impression that people usually refer to them as "sticky notes". See a Google Ngram presentation of the relative frequency of use of the two terms in a corpus of books. "Sticky notes" is consistently found from year to year to be used more frequently than "Post-it notes", seven times as often in the latest year for which the site gives data, 2008. A comparable result obtains from the singular forms of the two terms. —Largo Plazo (talk) 11:53, 30 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose per WP:RETAIN and WP:COMMONNAME. Lugnuts ^{Dick Laurent is dead} 06:50, 31 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- WP:RETAIN is about selection of a variety of English, which this isn't about. Anyway, it says not to make changes without a consensus—which is exactly what I was looking to see if there might be, as opposed to just moving the article myself without asking. So if there is consensus, then that will be the answer. As for common names, I supplied evidence that "sticky note" is, by far, the more common name. —Largo Plazo (talk)
Oppose because it's the name of the product that started sticky notes and dominated the market via patent in still-recent history. No matter how common a generic naming becomes, Post-it notes as of themselves are a notable topic. Perhaps the solution is to have a separate article for the generic "sticky note", referring back to this article as the original product/version of them. Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 10:44, 31 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- That makes sense. —Largo Plazo (talk) 10:52, 31 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  - I oppose a split of the article as an unnecessary content fork. — AjaxSmack 22:13, 2 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
oppose common name.

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 **That makes sense. [[User:Largoplazo|—Largo Plazo]] ([[User talk:Largoplazo|talk]]) 10:52, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
 ***I oppose a [[WP:SPLIT|split]] of the article as an unnecessary [[WP:CFORK|content fork]].  — [[User talk:AjaxSmack|<span style="border:1px solid #000073;background:#4D4DA6;padding:2px;color:#F9FFFF;text-shadow:black 0.2em 0.2em 0.3em"><font face="Georgia">&nbsp;'''AjaxSmack'''&nbsp;</font></span>]] 22:13, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
+*'''oppose''' common name.