Talk:Industry (economics)

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Requested move 6 October 2020

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Not moved. No consensus for proposed move. Station1 (talk) 20:47, 26 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Industry (economics) → Economic branch – More unambiguous name, similar to article about an economic sector Ecomt (talk) 15:33, 6 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I can see the logic, but I would personally lean against it. My entire reason is simply that while "branch" is used in our definition and others, it's not really a synonym. Without even more context, an "economic branch" could mean several other things, whereas "sector" & "industry" are the go-to terms for their respective classification levels. --Zar2gar1 (talk) 01:16, 7 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

How about moving the article to something like Economic industry as a WP:NATURALDISAMBIGUATION? Rreagan007 (talk) 00:13, 8 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Term is not in use; most likely, "industry" is the proper term for this concept. Is there a primary topic for this title? –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 14:08, 8 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@LaundryPizza03: This article used to be the primary topic until it was moved a few weeks ago and the disambiguation page took its place at Industry. Rreagan007 (talk) 15:59, 8 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The Ngram is not really helpful since industry is such a common word with multiple meanings. But comparing economic branch with economic industry shows a preference IMHO for economic branch. But overall I‘d prefer the current title industry. --S.K. (talk) 20:02, 8 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose any move I dabbed 2,000 incoming links to "industry" dab page. I concluded that there is no primary topic. However, I think that this topic is most commonly referred to as "industry". (t · c) buidhe 05:04, 22 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose No indication that the new name is used outside Wikipedia. Dimadick (talk) 09:24, 25 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Requested move 11 November 2020

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The result of the move request was: Not moved. This request has no supports or opposes and represents nothing substantive beyond a mere restatement of the original failed request. Guy (help! - typo?) 00:11, 20 November 2020 (UTC) Guy (help! - typo?) 00:11, 20 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Industry (economics) → Economic industry – My previous proposal was closed with no consensus. OK. But in that discussion Rreagan007 proposed to move the article to Economic industry per a WP:NATURALDISAMBIGUATION. I think that it would be a great and much better title than current one. Ecomt (talk) 19:21, 11 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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