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74: 53: 846: 920: 687: 666: 263: 697: 169: 142: 409: 796: 771: 179: 582: 561: 592: 320: 299: 1038:, you find that, for page after page, the only occurrence of "the Sharper Image" is specific-product references like "the Sharper Image ", with "the" referring to the entire product construction and using "Sharper Image" as a modifer, not with the definite article being part of a name "The Sharper Image". Having this article at a title starting with "The" was always iffy per 251: 22: 330: 1238:
It does not pass WP:THE, per WP:NAMECHANGES, since neither the company nor independent sources still use "The", so it would no longer be capitalized in running text, if used at all, which it mostly is not except in specific-product constructions like "using the Sharper Image tool on the right and the
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sources, which did often refer to the company as "The Sharper Image" rather than "the Sharper Image" or just "Sharper Image". But current sources almost invariably do not do that, and those are the ones we care more about per
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ago, and redireted TheSharperImage.com to SharperImage.com, and later just abandoned the former entirely. Independent sources since the name change consistently reflect this change, and that is what NAMECHANGES wants to see.
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parameter, presumably because I misspelled the parameter name). Whether the company was "all but dead" at some point wouldn't matter; lots of companies are completely dead but we still use the current COMMONNAME for them.
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for most of its existence as an actual company was still "The Sharper Image", and a new name put in place after a company was all but dead is not a common one.
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I remember the company being "The Sharper Image", so they must have changed names extremely recently after the brand was relaunched. The
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policy. And 11 years ago isn't "extremely recently" (though in fairness, my original nomination was broken in missing the
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PS: Sorry my initial nomination was missing a rationale. Some kind of mess-up with the rm template, I guess.
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Dyson on the left", where "the" refers to the product not the company.
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You anecdotal memories (which match mine) are supportable by
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Companies
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