Talk:Cal Poly

message: According to Cal Poly's identity guidelines, "Cal Poly SLO" or anything similar is improper. San Luis Obispo is not a part of the name of the university. Officially, Cal Poly by itself unambiguously refers to California Polytechnic State University, which happens to be in San Luis Obispo.
On the other hand, Cal Poly Pomona's identity guidelines explicitly state that Pomona should always be included as a part of the name of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Though it may seem redundant to refer to the university as "California State Polytechnic University, Pomona in Pomona," it parallels the only clear and acceptable way to write "California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo." -Anþony 09:08, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: The official position of the two universities

message: I removed the big chunk of historical info added in this version  to keep the disambiguation page in the traditional style .  I think the common or separate histories of the universities should be worked into the two articles instead of creating a mini third article here.Tyro 07:22, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Keeping it simple

message: Ask yourself: When readers enter a given term in the Wikipedia search box and pushes 'Go', what article would they most likely be expecting to view as a result? For example, when someone looks up Joker, would they expect to find information on comedians? On a card? On Batman's nemesis? On the hit song or album by The Steve Miller Band? When there is risk of confusion, there should be a way to take the reader from an ambiguous page and title/term to any of the reasonable possibilities for that term".
To me it doesn't get any clearer than what I just quoted, but it'd be better if Administrators vote to resolve this matter.
-201.153.173.111 (talk) 03:40, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that it may be possible for confusion, but I think a disambig page is overkill.  Take a look at what Penn and Penn State did: instead of a disambig page, they just have a small blurb on the top of each page directing to the other school if that is what the user is looking for.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.202.196.168 (talk) 04:33, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah! Take a look at the Penn article. On top of the disambiguation page, both Penn and Penn State have small blurbs on top of their articles that redirect to one another which is exactly what the Cal Poly Universities do.  To make a stronger case for the need of this disambiguation page, every year at the Rose Parade both universities put together ONE float with a sign on its side that reads "Cal Poly Universities", therefore recognizing the existence of two "Cal Poly" campuses.--Dabackgammonator (talk) 04:59, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: but seen to the public as one75.25.13.86 (talk) 04:40, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deciding to disambiguate 

message: The manual of style for name usage at Cal Poly at San Luis Obispo lists "Cal Poly at San Luis Obispo" as well as "Cal Poly San Luis Obispo" (with the words San Luis Obispo in a smaller font) as less formal, yet recognized names for the university. There is no such confusion at Cal Poly Pomona since they, besides the lengthy California State Polytechnic University, Pomona name, only recognize Cal Poly Pomona as its "less formal" counterpart. So, in summary this is what occurs:
CSU campus in San Luis Obispo:
Formal names:
*California Polytechnic State University
*Cal Poly   (By the way, the Cal Poly name moniker belongs to the California State University system through the State of California.)
Other less formal, yet recognized name derivations that can be used are:
*Cal Poly at San Luis Obispo
*Cal Poly 'San Luis Obispo' ('small font')
CSU campus in Pomona:
Formal names:
*California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Other less formal, yet recognized name derivations that can be used are:
*Cal Poly Pomona
Unless the Cal State system starts enforcing the CSU name convention upon all their campuses we will continue having these issues. Also important to understand are the implications of EDUCATION CODE SECTION 89000-89011 and how this affects both CSU campuses at Pomona and San Luis Obispo.--TheMexicanGentleman (talk) 17:11, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Cal Poly at San Luis Obispo name

message: Let's keep it simple:
"Cal Poly" may refer to:
*California Polytechnic State University, a public university in San Luis Obispo, California 
*California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, a public university in Pomona, California 
Let's drop the "originally", "formally", "officially" and “by divine intervention” labels from the disambiguation page. --Marco Guzman, Jr (talk) 22:03, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Not a chance.  "Cal Poly" is Cal Poly's name; you don't get to rename it just because you don't like it.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.202.205.242 (talk) 03:25, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Format of the disambiguation page

message: Gavin Newsom California state governor states that there are two "Cal Polys" on May 14, 2021. Source. Archive. Just adding this here since it very much pertains to the discussion of this topic and may be a good reference for future discussion. --Chlorineer (talk) 18:54, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  There are two Cal Polys. A third one in the brewing.