Talk:GM

move discussion 2005

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• Oppose: The distinction between the disambiguation page and GM page is important for disambiguation of inbound links. Josh Parris ✉ 00:28, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

• Oppose; seems like GM could productively redirect to General Motors with a link at the top back to GM (disambiguation), actually. --Quuxplusone 01:01, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Since there is a lot more to GM than General Motors. Wikipedia should reflect an international audience rather than a US-centric viewpoint. Alan Liefting 04:01, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I wouldn't object to that, but I'm not sure that GM is clearly General Motors. Look at the size of the dab page. Josh Parris ✉ 02:11, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

In the UK, "GM" is far more commonly understood to mean "genetically modified" than "General Motors". If you doubt this, try searching the BBC site for "GM" GrahamN 03:36, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

It was requested that this article be renamed but there was no consensus for it to be moved. violet/riga (t) 23:16, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Grindelsomething

www.ggm-bahn.ch uses GGM, not GM, for "Grindelwald Männlichenbahn" (sic), which should probably read Grindelwald-Männlichen-Bahn, Männlichenbahn Grindelwald or something similar. This seems to be a somwhat obscure abbreviation that shouldn't clutter up the dab page unless 69.197.51.18 or somebody else comes forward with examples of GM in use. – Wikipeditor 20:37, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

A few changes

I moved the order of some of them. If anyone dissagrees give your reason below and change it.

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— Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.185.220.23 (talk • contribs) 03:44, 27 September 2006

Requested move - January 2006

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The result of the debate was move. —Nightstallion (?) 10:25, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

GM (disambiguation) → GM – Redirects from the article to a (disambiguation) page should be avoided. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vegaswikian (talk • contribs) 23:56, 21 January 2006‎

Voting

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• Support GM redirected to GM (disambiguation) and GM redirected to General Motors is not justified. Just put the dab page where the article would be. Vegaswikian 23:56, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
• Support removes reflexive redirect—jiy (talk) 00:29, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
• Support --Lox (t,c) 09:52, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

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Request move March 2006: New Vote to move General Motors → GM and GM → GM (disambig)

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• Support; General Motors is among the largest corporations in the world, and is the largest vehicle corporation in the world. I see that there is a number of other GMs out there, but General Motors is the most famous usage of the term. Putting it this way, if someone is going to look up GM on Wikipedia- are they going to look up genetically modified or General Motors? --Zouf 02:44, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

• Oppose; No-one outside the US would automatically associate GM with General Motors. Wikipedia is supposed to be international; outside the US GM is usually taken to mean Genetically Modified. GM should link to a disamb page which highlights General Motors and genetically modified only. English Wikipedia may have a large number of US users but that does not mean that Non-Americans should be ignored.--84.12.21.104 00:21, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

• Support; Most people that look up GM are looking for General Motors. 192.122.237.11 15:13, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
• Support; GM is a global corp. They sell cars on every continent (OK, not Antartica). When people around the world search for GM, the vast majority are looking for General Motors. HornColumbia 18:16, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

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Gary Moore?

Gary Moore, an Irish guitarist - Google search seems to show that Mr Moore is commonly known as GM. I'm as surprised as you. Josh Parris 03:41, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

GM --> General Motors

This is crazy. GM's most common usage is CLEARLY General Motors - and Im from New Zealand! 125.238.131.90 09:03, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

"Game Manager"?

re "Game Manager A job,maintance game(s)". Is GM=Game Manager a common abbreviation? I can't find a particular meaning of game manager: Google shows the phrase is used in various contexts from someone caring for wildlife to a system for controlling video games, but I can't see evidence of the regular use of "GM" in a particular field. There's no WP entry for Game Manager, which isn't in itself grounds for removing it, but makes keeping it of uncertain usefulness. Evidence or deletion? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Maltelauridsbrigge (talk • contribs) 13:55, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Let's remove these items from list

I think we should remove the items below from the page, and propose removing the following. This isn't supposed a list of all things that could be abbreviated as GM. This page is for somebody who types "GM" as the actual name of what they're looking for. Also, if somethings a minor topic, and GM isn't the primary name of the item, it doesn't belong here, as these are detracting from major topics (e.g. the auto company). --Rob (talk) 19:09, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

• Grand Marquis
• Greater Manchester
• GM1, GM1<>GM
• Göttinger Miszellen - not exactly a common term
• Gary Moore - not referred to by initials normally, same for other people
• George Michael
• Gabriella Montez
• RGM-79 GM - Trivia to the extreme
• Gamemaster (board game series)
• GamesMaster (magazine)
• Game Maker
• Garry's Mod
• Gold medal - During the Olympics people say "gold", not GM, SM, or BM?
• Grammatical modality - Not mentioned in article redirected to

Changing of order

I changed it so that General Motors came up first because it most likely that that is what people are looking for. This was the only change I made. Benp123456789 (talk) 20:32, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Genetic modification

I've added that to the top of the Science list. I'm surprised that it wasn't there before and I can't see any reason why it shouldn't be on top. Durand101 (talk) 10:25, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

"GM"

The usage and primary topic of GM is under discussion, see talk:General Motors -- 70.51.202.183 (talk) 18:27, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

Russo has wrong title

Russo is listed as CEO of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise. She is chairman of the board. Antonio Neri is CEO. Ken L (talk) 02:16, 31 August 2021 (UTC)