Portal talk:Commencement addresses
Add topicLatest comment: 18 years ago by BirgitteSB in topic Naming
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| Portal | Commencement addresses |
| Classification | L- |
| Class | L: Education |
| Subclass | -: General education |
| Classifier | AdamBMorgan |
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Naming
[edit]As commencement addresses are primarily a U.S.A. name, and to a lesser degree an institution, I wonder if it would be better renamed to University Addreses inorder to encompass other lectures to a university audience, such as the W:Romanes Lectures which I see we have a lot of potential to expand on wikisource. This is AllanHainey but this is a foreign keyboard so I can't find the squiggles.
- Heh, when I was in Italy last month, I ended up copy/pasting w:tildes that I asked a friend to type into MSN for me. v. frustrating. Anyhow, the only flaw I see with University Addresses is that it wouldn't then encompass colleges. You could try something wordy like Academic Addresses, but then you might confuse newbies who think it's just a useless section full of professors' lectures. Not sure, but I'm certainly not opposed to renaming it. Sherurcij (talk) (λεμα σαβαχθανει) 00:55, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
- I don{t know the situation with Colleges in the U.S.A. (or elsewhere) but in the UK colleges, unaffiliated with a university, wouldn{t really have an address by anyone prominent, or an address at all. that only really happens at the uni{s, and not all of them. For colleges affiliated to universities we can note these under the relevant uni. I Don{t think university addresses would necessarily rule out colleges in most peoples minds in any case, though a wee clarifying note at the top of the page, saying colleges are ok too, could take care of this. Alternatively something like higher education addresses, I wouldn{t want to specifically list every type of institution as it could go on forever - polytechnics, colleges & foreign versions/names, etc. AllanHainey 19:36, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
- I think University Addresses is fine. Univesity/College are used pretty interchangably in my neck of the woods. --BirgitteSB 19:53, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
- I don{t know the situation with Colleges in the U.S.A. (or elsewhere) but in the UK colleges, unaffiliated with a university, wouldn{t really have an address by anyone prominent, or an address at all. that only really happens at the uni{s, and not all of them. For colleges affiliated to universities we can note these under the relevant uni. I Don{t think university addresses would necessarily rule out colleges in most peoples minds in any case, though a wee clarifying note at the top of the page, saying colleges are ok too, could take care of this. Alternatively something like higher education addresses, I wouldn{t want to specifically list every type of institution as it could go on forever - polytechnics, colleges & foreign versions/names, etc. AllanHainey 19:36, 26 November 2006 (UTC)