Talk:2019 merger of CBS and Viacom

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Contested deletion[edit]

This page should not be speedily deleted because... (Its not intended to be a one line news piece page. Its intended to be a page documenting the second merger between CBS and Viacom as it happens in the like of Acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney) --DisneyAviationRollerCoasterEnthusiast (talk) 00:49, 22 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Unlike that article, though, this is largely redundant to existing articles, and unlike that deal there's little view of this having any antitrust concerns. This just strikes me as an unneeded article. oknazevad (talk) 20:30, 25 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

To be honest both individual articles have a lot of duplicating information on this subject if someone was reading the CBS Corporation article and wanted more information and went to the Viacom article they essentially see the same information. Now that this article exists the section on both CBS Corporation and Viacom (2005-present) can be shortened and summarized with this article having most of the information. It wouldn't hurt this article to have a small list of key assets that CBS Corp. and Viacom owns similar to how Acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney had. Alucard 16_{❯❯❯ chat?} 13:11, 4 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I oppose the deletion as well. The content in both the CBS and Viacom individual articles is duplicate and should be moved here instead. We should have only one place to track the merger. Starforce¹³ 00:06, 5 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 24 January 2020[edit]

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 (non-admin closure) ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA^talk 06:45, 31 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

2019 merger of CBS and Viacom → 2019 Merger of CBS and Viacom – Gramatically correct title according to MOS:AT DisneyAviationRollerCoasterEnthusiast (talk) 05:19, 24 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This is a contested technical request (permalink). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:34, 24 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@DisneyAviationRollerCoasterEnthusiast: But is the name a proper name or is it merely descriptive? Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:35, 24 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Anthony Appleyard: According to every major style format ,except I believe APA, its proper. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DisneyAviationRollerCoasterEnthusiast (talk • contribs) 05:41, 24 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I'm leaning Oppose. "merger", "acquisition", etc. technical terms and are not an official name. In a sentence it would be "The 2019 merger of CBS and Viacom" and not "The 2019 Merger of CBS and Viacom". See Acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney where the year isn't presented so "Acquisition" is capitalized, but the lead sentence is "The acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney". Also, could you please point to what in MOS:AT you are referring to?--Gonnym (talk) 10:33, 24 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose: This is a descriptive title, not the title of a specific entity or a creative work. —BarrelProof (talk) 10:39, 24 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose: Per WP:AT, sentence case should be used, so the current version is correct. Trivialist (talk) 11:04, 24 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - Purely descriptive. Primergrey (talk) 13:12, 24 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose since sentence case is what WP:AT instructs us to use. UnitedStatesian (talk) 18:56, 24 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose Wikipedia follows sentence case, not proper/title case. "Acquisition" in Acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney has first initial upper case because it's the first word in the title. Starforce¹³

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Post acquisition section[edit]

Several events involving ViacomCBS have taken place since the acquisitions closure, and I’m sure that the section will grow with details. Jkline16 (talk) 02:04, 16 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]