Talk:UNC

message: I think that typing in UNC should redirect to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and have a link to the disambig page at the top.  Clearly, the most searched for of the UNC topics on the disambig page is the university.  Anybody have any thoughts on the matter, any approvals or objections?  Wikipediarules2221 22:15, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, I think it's a bad idea.  As the page says, even with the Univ of NC it doesn't have to refer to UNC-CH.  A former governing national political party is at least as notable as one campus of a university.  Guettarda 03:31, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I am not sure how "a former governing national political party is at least as notable" as one of the top research universities in the United States.  Any other thoughts? Wikipediarules2221 18:28, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

text: Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the criteria used on Wikipedia to decide what page is the primary page for a particular entry such as "UNC" the likelihood that someone typing in "UNC" is searching for a particular page. Since this is the English wikipedia, I think that should pretty much knock out all the foreign political parties and universities (at least the non-English speaking ones). So that would pretty much leave the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Northern Colorado. I don't want to sound insulting to the University of Northern Colorado people, but I think if someone is typing in "UNC" on wikipedia they're much more likely to be looking for the University of North Carolina. Rreagan007 (talk) 20:24, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  UNC 

message: Again, UNC refers to the system.  Please see [].  UNC-Chapel Hill is only a constituent university.  Please can someone other than a Chapel Hill grad get involved in this discussion?  143.165.8.50 (talk) 19:12, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: In the past month on English Wikipedia, "University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill" has been viewed 19777 times , "University of North Carolina" has been viewed 5573 times , "University of Northern Colorado" has been viewed 2587 times , "United Nations Command (Korea)" has been viewed 1160 times , "Universidad Nacional de Córdoba" has been viewed 803 times , "University of Nueva Caceres" has been viewed 351 times , "United National Congress" has been viewed 302 times , "Uniform Naming Convention" has been viewed 69 times , "Union Nationale Camerounaise" has been viewed 4 times , and "Universitas Nicolai Copernici has been viewed 0 times .  This means that "University of North Carolina at Chapel  Hill" has been viewed almost 4 times as much as any other article on the UNC disambiguation page. I would call that overwhelmingly dominant. Rreagan007 (talk) 21:57, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: According to your stats, you want this page to redirect to a page that gets less than 2/3 of the page views.  While Wikipedia usage statistics is a very poor measure of "use of the term in English" (since it obviously is highly biased towards US usage), even they don't suggest anything close to "dominant" usage.  Guettarda (talk) 23:34, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Just what are the Wikipedia standards for dominant use then. Because if that's just your personal opinion then I think that if a page gets 4 times as many views as any other I'd call that dominant use. Rreagan007 (talk) 20:30, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

text: No actually I'm still not convinced. Rreagan007 (talk) 20:33, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not here to argue that UNC should redirect to UNC-CH, but it should at least be an option on the disambiguation page. It's absolutely absurd that it's not on here. I'm going to re-add it, because there's no valid reason for excluding it, at least as an option. They hold the trademark. They're most commonly referred to as UNC in practice. I'm putting it back on. Artifactblue (talk) 07:06, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  UNC redirect