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CAA[edit]

Is CAA = "Canadian Aile Association" correct?

What does Aile mean?

Canadian Automobile Association

Tabletop 06:13, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Fuel grades[edit]

The author seems to concentrate too much on European grades and ratings of gasoline. A more complete discussion would mention the AKI metric commonly used ih the United States. The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.216.122.126 (talk • contribs) 19:34, 22 September 2005.

Storage[edit]

The article does not explain storage mechanisms used by filling station franchisees - underground, tower silo, etc. Also, no mention regarding typical refill frequency contracts.

Requested move 17 November 2022[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.

Per move review, I have agreed to re-close this RM as, other than move 3, the results for move's 1, 2 & 4 as : no consensus. For obvious reasons which I had failed to perceive, this should have been the original result, and for that, I do apologize. Judekkan (talk) 19:39, 28 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Previous closure

The result of the move request was: Pages moved. Despite the divided discussion, not a single editor provided any source or statistic that demonstrates the WP:COMMONNAME. All arguments were based either on some kind of personal view, or experience, and this. The only individual that has demonstrated the common name happens to be the RM initiator via Google Ngram. (closed by non-admin page mover) Judekkan (talk) 23:47, 24 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]


– Who even says "filling station"? According to the article, American English uses "gas station" while British English uses "petrol station". Now, in addition to this article being written in American English, per the Google Books Ngram Viewer "gas station" has been the most common name among the three since 1970, and this has apparently also been the case for British English since the 2000s. There are more entries on Google Scholar for "gas station" than "petrol station", and there are more Google News results for "gas station" than "petrol station". InfiniteNexus (talk) 22:54, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"Gas" in this context is short for Gasoline, which is a liquid. Rreagan007 (talk) 07:16, 20 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
What about LNG? ;) YorkshireExpat (talk) 22:29, 18 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Or LPG? --User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 23:00, 20 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Discussing this move at the closer's talk page[edit]

To anyone watching, I disagree with this move and have started a discussion at User_talk:Judekkan. I will look to move to review after this. Thanks. YorkshireExpat (talk) 07:57, 25 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@InfiniteNexus, Jerium, Necrothesp, and YorkshireExpat: In terms of usage in British English a look at the search results on Geograph Britain and Ireland returns 82 for "Gas station" of the 52 shown all but 1 or maybe 2 (both in Ireland) appear to be false positives "Petrol station" returns 4,595 and "Filling station" returns 6,955 from the 58 results shown all appear to be for petrol stations. So while the term "filling station" may be less common in everyday usage it is broader and more global. Crouch, Swale (talk) 18:06, 20 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I'm a little confused on why we were suddenly pinged. The failed RM and MR above occured one year ago, and the page has remained in its current title since. There have been no further developments after that nor attempts to move the page. InfiniteNexus (talk) 20:16, 20 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
It worked out fine, let it go :). YorkshireExpat (talk) 08:16, 21 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Just something I was thinking about but it could be useful in the future if there are anymore RMs. Crouch, Swale (talk) 17:29, 22 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]