Talk:USC

message: The repeated, prominent placement of University of Southern California in bold above all other uses violates NPOV.  Watch for future vandalism.Thomas B 02:51, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Bold U of So Cal

message: This does not violate the npov because these two universities are the only American english speaking entries.  As well as the two most common and popular searches.  Placement and heading do not prevent others from searching for the other "usc" entries.
::Wikipedia is not solely an American resource.  Judging by wikilinks, UN Security Council and United States Constitution both significantly exceed the University of South Carolina in prominence.  Even if that wasn't true, placement at the top of the list is sufficient to direct attention to these common searches without distorting their overall relevance.  This is in line with the MoS on Disambig pages, which allows common usage to indicate order, but reserves level 2 headings for dividing large disambiguation pages by subject matter.  Incidentally, please sign your comments.  Thomas B 21:39, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  npov 

message: The links were recently alphabetized.  That definitely conflicts with the MoS, which insists that more frequently used pages should always be at the top of the list.  Southern California should be at the top, it just shouldn't be bolded like a heading, making the rest of the entries look like footnotes.Thomas B 08:10, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, I put them in order of popularity by wikilinks, as suggested by the manual of style.  I also consolidated the topic headings a bit, which may be controversial in its own right.  Having the Somali Congress off by itself seemed odd to me, when it seems somewhat like the Constabularies, so I conceptually split the non-education entries by groups in legal organizations and legal documents, using government and law as the headings.  There might be more descriptive words for those sections, or a better way to divide them.  Thomas B 23:26, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems like the goal of section headings should balance between the number of sections and the number of articles in that section, so the various sections should have about the same number of articles in each.  There might be an huge number of conceptually proper ways to split up pages, but you're really trying to subdivide a list to make searching through it more efficient.  To that end, there shouldn't be headings with only one article under them, and the headings should each have about equal weight.  There's undoubtedly a better way to split these articles up, feel free to change it.  Thomas B 23:26, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  order of pages 

message: The sections currently distinguish between American and International subsections.  While wikipedia is not solely an American resource, the American entries, taken together, are currently most popular.  I fully endorse the current version, which places the American Universities in a distinct section at the top, yet has every section, subsection, and article ordered by wikilinks.  Excellent job, folks.  Thomas B 23:34, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: How it is now seems very good; separating by American and Non-American.  It's easily understandable, and makes finding the correct article pretty easy.  If anyone is worried about which of the two, American or Non-American, should be first, it should go by which have more links.  It looks like this has already been taken care of. -- Natalya 21:25, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: How do we know the American ones are referred as USC more often than the others? Besides, ordering by the number of links is not always right - due to systemic bias, the American usages may be more familiar to us, and thus they would be linked to more often. --Schzmo 23:16, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikilinks are a definitely poor indication of real world popularity, especially due to issues of systemic bias.  But there's a few points that make this okay.  First, DAB pages aren't stating how popular articles are in the real world, they're just a tool for wikipedians.  As such, user popularity is most relevant, and wikilinks reflect that pretty accurately (so reflecting systemic bias is actually a good thing here).  Secondly, when choosing a piece of data that reflects article popularity, its ease of use might outweigh its imprecision.  A well designed and thorough 1 million person survey might be more accurate than a count of hits on google, but the latter is far more accessible and independently verifiable.  Wikilinks are easily available to every wikipedian, they can be quickly and easily verified.  They make an extremely handy proxy for popularity (even if not 100% accurate).  Finally, if a lower entry is deserving of a higher ranking, and someone familiar with that entry feels slighted, using wikilinks encourages them to improve their favored article.  All DAB pages involve some article competition, and the spirit of wikipedia is best captured if we channel that competition into improving other articles and their integration with the encyclopedia.  Thomas B 20:01, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  An Inevitable Compromise 

message: What do Akon or Slim Shady (rappers) have to do with USC? Also where did the other links go? I've never reverted a page back to a previous version but I'd appreciate it if someone could clean it up please. 172.193.26.95 06:50, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Akon or Slimshady?

message: USC is quite a large clothing retailer in the United Kingdom. The size of the company justifies that it should be represented on this page although I can't seem to find an article on it.24.187.26.104 (talk) 17:25, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The UK Clothing Store? 

message: Removed due to non-notability. Please provide sources indicating why this belongs here. I can't find any references to it at all excepting a commentary on some athlete, in which the company itself is referenced to only in name. I can't even find a website for the 'company.' 75.82.34.247 (talk) 12:04, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "United States China" 

message: This is 'UNSC', not 'USC'. I assume this was a mistake on the part of whoever put it in. Removed unless a source can be provided on this acronym. R0uge (talk) 01:17, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  United Nations Security Council 

message: I can find no reference to Penn State ever being commonly referred to by this name or the acronym USC. There is no mention of this nomenclature in their Wikipedia article. Can anyone provide a source that would verify that this has ever been a name commonly used for this institution? If not, it should be removed from this disambiguation. GarnetAndBlack (talk) 17:09, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  University of State College