Talk:Cal Poly Mustangs football

this should become the athletics page

part of it is already here why not the rest of the sportsJaviern (talk) 23:49, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Requested move 1 March 2022

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: Moved (non-admin closure) Natg 19 (talk) 01:55, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

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Cal Poly (SLO) Mustangs football → Cal Poly Mustangs football – I (Eric Burdick, Associate Director of Athletics Communications at Cal Poly) am requesting a small change in the title of this page. I could not find a way for me to change the title. We are not Cal Poly SLO or Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. We are simply "Cal Poly". It has been that way since 1994 when Cal Poly began competition in NCAA Division I. There is another school called Cal Poly Pomona and, more recently, a third, Cal Poly Humboldt. We are simply Cal Poly. Similarly, it is not Wisconsin (Madison). They are known as Wisconsin. It is not Texas (Austin). They are known as Texas. I would greatly appreciate it of you could drop the (SLO) from our name.

Thank you for your consideration. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.65.82.227 (talk) 04:18, March 1, 2022 (UTC)

Request converted from edit req to move req - not endorsing I havent looked at the merits Happy Editing--IAmChaos 06:04, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

• Support. This is the common name in the specific context of sports. Under the conventions used by reliable sources that cover U.S. college athletic competitions under the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), they generally assign their "primary topics" (so to speak) to those college teams that belong to NCAA Division I, the largest and most publicized group of schools. So as the OP says, the sports teams of the University of Wisconsin–Madison are commonly known as the Wisconsin Badgers, not "Wisconsin (Madison) Badgers"; and the teams of the University of Texas at Austin are commonly known as the Texas Longhorns, not "Texas (Austin) Longhorns". And thus the teams of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo are commonly known as the "Cal Poly Mustangs", not "Cal Poly (SLO) Mustangs".[1][2][3] The other two Cal Poly universities, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, belong to the lower NCAA Division II level, and thus many in the sports media (if some of these media organizations even do cover Division II) instead generally use the "natural disambiguation" titles for those teams like Cal Poly Pomona Broncos[4] and Cal Poly Humboldt Lumberjacks.[5] Furthermore, those two Division II schools in Pomona and Humboldt currently do not even have football teams anymore (they discontinued their football teams after the 1982 and 2018 seasons, respectively), and each school has its own different sports nickname (Mustangs, Broncos, Lumberjacks), so adding "(SLO)" is really unnecessary disambiguation on this page's title anyway when hatnotes could instead be used for clarification. Zzyzx11 (talk) 07:26, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
• Support, likewise, we have California Golden Bears not "UC Berkeley Golden Bears" nor "University of California (Berkeley) Golden Bears", in spite of there being other Universities of California besides Berkeley for ~100 years; Berkeley is still just "California", or "Cal" for short. This "Cal Poly (SLO)" thing is over the top... 2600:1702:4960:1DE0:214B:15FF:24A6:C4BD (talk) 12:33, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
• Support per nom and WP:COMMONNAME. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 14:52, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
• Comment It looks like this could actually just be a technical request to revert an undiscussed move. @Chlorineer: moved this article to this title on February 13 2022, but it was not discussed anywhere I presume. Natg 19 (talk) 21:19, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

  Comment - The original editor posted this as a COI edit request, so I presume wanted to not do it on their own as a UPE. Happy Editing--IAmChaos 22:43, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

• Strong support User:Chlorineer recently WP:BOLDly moved the page from Cal Poly to Cal Poly (SLO) with the rationale that Cal Poly is ambiguous. Consider that the rest of the tree is currently at Cal Poly Mustangs. There are other Cal Polys but they are all have the city/prior identifier in their WP:Commonname. We have Texas A&M Aggies, Texas A&M–Kingsville Javelinas, and Texas A&M–Corpus Christi Islanders. We do not have Nebraska–Lincoln Cornhuskers but do have Nebraska–Kearney Lopers. Futhermore consider Miami RedHawks, Miami Hurricanes, California Golden Bears, California Vulcans, Georgetown Hoyas, Georgetown Tigers etc that have no parenthetical for state or locale. The only difference to this was Augustana (South Dakota) Vikings and Augustana (Illinois) Vikings for obvious reasons and IUP Crimson Hawks Indiana (PA) but that is shortened as part of its commonname.-UCO2009bluejay (talk) 02:59, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
• Support per nom. KingSkyLord (talk | contribs) 23:44, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
• Support per nom. Rreagan007 (talk) 19:05, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
• Suport per nom. Cbl62 (talk) 13:34, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.