Talk:Operation Mobilisation

On 24 July 2025, it was proposed that this article be moved to Operation Mobilization. The result of the discussion was not moved.

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Source? The article's latest versions (in the History sub-section) seem to be a word-for-word transcript of the material in the OM official website. Not only is this copyright infringement, but also hardly objective. Suggest returning to earlier versions (i.e. June 04).—Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.11.120.255 (talk • contribs) 5 August 2008 Are the organization's ships jointly owned with Gute Bücher Für Alle? Gute Bücher für Alle Their page also claims ownership of the vessels listed.

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Requested move 24 July 2025

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. (closed by non-admin page mover) Bensci54 (talk) 16:48, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Operation Mobilisation → Operation MobilizationOperation Mobilization – The US spelling, Operation Mobilization, is the one used on the official websites (where they use it at all; they're leaning on OM more, it appears.) Additionally, the organization was founded in the US, making that the preferred language. An Ngram search indicates that the US spelling is more than twice as common as the British. Nat Gertler (talk) 15:42, 24 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-correction: the main official website seems to redirect to your local website. However, they do use the z not just in the US, but also in Canada, although the s in the UK. English language websites for other locales seem to just use "OM International". -- Nat Gertler (talk) 15:55, 24 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Disagree. As @NatGertler shows, OM itself uses several varieties of English. In line with WP:TITLEVAR, and lacking compelling evidence of stronger ties to any particular variety, no change is needed.

As a minor point, I would also note:

While OM Canada (mentioned by @NatGertler) plays an important role as a “home office”, its operation is much smaller than that of OM India or OM South Africa — both of which use s rather than z.
Sources supporting that OM was founded in the US are present but weak. The work began in Mexico, under another name. Incorporation of Operation Mobilisation appears to have happened in the United Kingdom some years later (cf. Send the Light, unsourced).
OM's international headquarters have primarily been based in the UK, with the ships operated independently from Germany. At no point has the international HQ been located in the United States.

OJH (talk) 17:45, 24 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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