Talk:Ridley College (Ontario)

message: I am calling the neutrality of this article into question, as it is suspect at best. It reads as a lauding brochure for the school rather than an even-handed summation, likely planted by the school's extensive recruitment office. Of particular note are the Academics, and School Life.
Hahbie 03:53, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Neutrality

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Ridley College (Melbourne) which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you.  —RMCD bot 21:31, 23 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move discussion in progress 

message: :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: Move Ridley College to Ridley College (Ontario) and make a DAB (non-admin closure) >>> Extorc.talk 06:59, 29 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Note: to fix a request at Talk:Ridley College (Melbourne)#Requested move 23 May 2023, that proposal was transferred to this talk page. P.I. Ellsworth , ed. put'er there 01:34, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

text: Support first, oppose second. The move to Ridley College (Ontario) would certainly improve WP:RECOGNIZABILITY. On the other hand, there is no evidence that the institution of the same name in Melbourne is the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. As a matter of fact, the Ontario institution is the primary topic based on pageviews. In any case, neither has a truly strong case to be the PTOPIC so it's best the both have disambiguators with Ridley College left as a dab page. estar8806 (talk) ★ 01:57, 24 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I think, in reliable sources, mentions of "Ridley College" are significantly more likely to be the Australian institution than the Canadian one. For example, searching on JSTOR, the search  gives me 1078 results, whereas  gives me only 263 – so mentions of "Ridley College" in JSTOR appear to be roughly 4 times more likely to be about the Melbourne one than the Ontario one. Both tend to return quite a few results in which the mention is just the institutional affiliation of the author; to try to single out documents which have it in prose, I compared  (63 results) to  (11 results), which again seems to support the significantly greater prominence of the former. This actually makes sense, given one is a higher educational institution, and the other a K-12 school – scholarly sources tend to pay more attention to institutions of higher education than K-12 schools. I think the greater prominence of the Melbourne one in scholarly sources supports the idea that it is the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. SomethingForDeletion (talk) 07:52, 24 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 23 May 2023