Talk:Firestone

Requested move 26 May 2025

It has been proposed in this section that Firestone be renamed and moved to Firestone (disambiguation).

A bot will list this discussion on the requested moves current discussions subpage within an hour of this tag being placed. The discussion may be closed 7 days after being opened, if consensus has been reached (see the closing instructions). Please base arguments on article title policy, and keep discussion succinct and civil.

Please use {{subst:requested move}}. Do not use {{requested move/dated}} directly.

Links: current log • target log • direct move

Firestone → Firestone (disambiguation) – Firestone should re-direct to Firestone Tire and Rubber Company because it is the common meaning. Flint, which this page is set up so that it is the primary meaning, is an article that doesn't even mention the word "Firestone" anywhere. Georgia guy (talk) 01:28, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose Even excluding flint, there is no primary topic. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 16:46, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Zxcvbnm, how is the tire company not the primary meaning?? Georgia guy (talk) 17:59, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Firestone Country Club, Firestone (song) both get decent pageviews. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 18:01, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I can see an argument that Firestone (surname) at least complicates determination of primary topic by long-term significance. Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 08:21, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Why do so many editors these days obsess about forcing primary topics onto every title. The dab lists two co-primary topics, flint or firestone – you know, the stone the ancients used to start fires before they invented matches – and Firestone (surname) – notably Harvey Samuel Firestone, founder of Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, and his son, Harvey Samuel Firestone Jr. – from the German Feuerstein (also meaning fire + stone). Yet someone wants to usurp all this to define the word as meaning a tire manufacturer. – wbm1058 (talk) 16:26, 1 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. In the USA there may be a case for the tire company being the primary topic, but globally there is no such case. Flint is a better candidate globally and by long term significant, but the DAB at the base name is better still. Andrewa (talk) 09:37, 2 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
User:Andrewa, the Flint article begins: Flint, occasionally flintstone, is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz,[1][2] categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk or marly limestone. with no mention of the name "firestone" anywhere in the article. Georgia guy (talk) 11:20, 2 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]