Talk:University of Nevada

message: 19 Sept 2013
"The legal and corporate name of the State University is the University of Nevada. The System of: Universities, State colleges, Community colleges, Administrative services, Research facilities, including, without limitation: The Desert Research Institute, The Ethics Institute, and The Center for the Analysis of Crime Statistics, established within the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Departments within the Public Service Division, administered under the direction of the Board of Regents is hereby collectively known as the Nevada System of Higher Education" 
(NRS Chapter 396.020)  (Please see http://leg.state.nv.us/NRS/NRS-396.html).   
This page should redirect to nevada.edu.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.229.55.79 (talk) 05:07, 20 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The UNLV folks will come and throw rocks through your window. :-) Might be more diplomatic to redir to the UCCSN article, which didn't exist when I set this page up. Stan 13:49, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

text: Exactly. Keep in mind that website is partly a promotional mechanism, they're not always going to be totally straight about the fine points of a situation. More useful to look at the "fine print" parts, like mailing address, to see the more neutral parts of a website.  The cool thing to do with this article would be to describe the nomenclature controversy; although I've always heard it described it as such, was there an actual political fight in the legislature? Or just nasty words in newspaper editorials? Stan 03:05, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: When I was at school in Reno I occasionally heard references to UNR having gone to court to prove its right to refer to itself as "University of Nevada", but I haven't been able to find any hard facts about this. --209.108.217.226 19:30, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

text: Here's a news article on the topic: link to the Las Vegas Sun --4.246.3.1 02:37, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

message: An editor has chosen to use this article as a "pure DAB." Although I'm not generally against that, I don't think the text taken from this page fits in the "history" section of Nevada's page, either. Is there support or dissent for restoring this text back into the DAB page?
:The phrase University of Nevada by itself usually refers to the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), because that was the name by which it was known from the time of its founding in 1874 until its name was changed to "University of Nevada, Reno" in 1969, at the same time as the newly founded "Nevada Southern University" was renamed "University of Nevada, Las Vegas". Although UNR's official name is now "University of Nevada, Reno", several of the university's institutions retain the wording "University of Nevada", including the alumni association, the student government, the campus bookstore, and the athletics department (which refers to the school's teams simply as "Nevada").
...Madmaxmarchhare 04:21, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Since no one has objected, I am placing the text back in the file. Madmaxmarchhare 15:23, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have removed the text from the article because I think it is unnecessary to give an explanation of why UNR is on the page, and if the explanation is needed, it should be on the talk page (which it is). Also, by listing the University of Nevada, Reno at the top of the list, it already implies that the phrase "University of Nevada" most commonly refers to UNR. Thaurisiltc 13:10, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, but you're coming back a bit after the fact, and as I gave ample time for debate, I would apprecaite it if you do the same. I'm not going to put the text back in immediately, but I would apprecaite it if you would, give ample time for discussion and concensus, and then take the action decided upon. Madmaxmarchhare 14:58, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Text Removed from DAB 

message: I have made this page redirect to the University of Nevada, Reno. And see no reason for it not to based on precedent. 
First it was formerly known as the University of Nevada. It is also currently the most referred to as the University of Nevada. And its athletic teams are known as just Nevada. Also the medical school is called the University of Nevada School of Medicine, but when looking the the las vegas campus its dental school is called UNLV dental school. Lets now take a look at other Wikipedia articles. University of Nebraska redirects to University_of_Nebraska–Lincoln , even though there a multiple other University of Nebraska campuses' because it was the first to be known as that. Same with the University of Wisconsin redirects to University_of_Wisconsin–Madison and has a disamb on top of the page for others that might also be called that.The University of Texas redirects to the University of Texas at Austin, with a disamb on top of the page. This format makes the most sense to follow.AlaskanNativeRU (talk) 17:58, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirect to the University of Nevada, Reno