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part of it is already here why not the rest of the sports
Javiern (
talk) 23:49, 23 April 2010 (UTC)reply
Title of Cal Poly (SLO) Mustangs football
Requested move 1 March 2022
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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
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Cal Poly (SLO) Mustangs football →
Cal Poly Mustangs football – I (Eric Burdick, Associate Director of Athletics Communications at Cal Poly) am requesting a small change in the title of this page. I could not find a way for me to change the title. We are not Cal Poly SLO or Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. We are simply "Cal Poly". It has been that way since 1994 when Cal Poly began competition in NCAA Division I. There is another school called Cal Poly Pomona and, more recently, a third, Cal Poly Humboldt. We are simply Cal Poly. Similarly, it is not Wisconsin (Madison). They are known as Wisconsin. It is not Texas (Austin). They are known as Texas. I would greatly appreciate it of you could drop the (SLO) from our name.
Thank you for your consideration. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
129.65.82.227 (
talk) 04:18, March 1, 2022 (UTC)
Request converted from edit req to move req - not endorsing I havent looked at the merits Happy Editing--IAmChaos 06:04, 1 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Support. This is the common name in the specific context of sports. Under the conventions used by reliable sources that cover U.S. college athletic competitions under the
National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), they generally assign their "primary topics" (so to speak) to those college teams that belong to
NCAA Division I, the largest and most publicized group of schools. So as the OP says, the sports teams of the
University of Wisconsin–Madison are commonly known as the
Wisconsin Badgers, not "Wisconsin (Madison) Badgers"; and the teams of the
University of Texas at Austin are commonly known as the
Texas Longhorns, not "Texas (Austin) Longhorns". And thus the teams of
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo are commonly known as the "Cal Poly Mustangs", not "Cal Poly (SLO) Mustangs".
[1][2][3] The other two Cal Poly universities,
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and
California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, belong to the lower
NCAA Division II level, and thus many in the sports media (if some of these media organizations even do cover Division II) instead generally use the "natural disambiguation" titles for those teams like
Cal Poly Pomona Broncos[4] and
Cal Poly Humboldt Lumberjacks.
[5] Furthermore, those two Division II schools in Pomona and Humboldt currently do not even have football teams anymore (they discontinued their football teams after the 1982 and 2018 seasons, respectively), and each school has its own different sports nickname (Mustangs, Broncos, Lumberjacks), so adding "(SLO)" is really unnecessary disambiguation on this page's title anyway when
hatnotes could instead be used for clarification.
Zzyzx11 (
talk) 07:26, 1 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Support, likewise, we have
California Golden Bears not "UC Berkeley Golden Bears" nor "University of California (Berkeley) Golden Bears", in spite of there being other Universities of California besides Berkeley for ~100 years; Berkeley is still just "California", or "Cal" for short. This "Cal Poly (SLO)" thing is over the top...
2600:1702:4960:1DE0:214B:15FF:24A6:C4BD (
talk) 12:33, 1 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment It looks like this could actually just be a technical request to revert an undiscussed move. @
Chlorineer: moved this article to this title on February 13 2022, but it was not discussed anywhere I presume.
Natg 19 (
talk) 21:19, 2 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment - The original editor posted this as a COI edit request, so I presume wanted to not do it on their own as a UPE. Happy Editing--IAmChaos 22:43, 2 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Suport per nom.
Cbl62 (
talk) 13:34, 6 March 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.