Talk:UST Golden Tigresses volleyball

Confusing names and notabilty

There are 3 separate names for this team in the article, Nebraska women's volleyball, UST Golden Tigresses, The Cornhuskers. It is not clear which is the official name. Nicknames should not be used in the article unless the nickname is the title of the article because the name of the team is almost unknown Wikipedia:Naming conventions (sports teams). this article requires more sources to prove the notability as per WP:ORG. --Domdeparis (talk) 11:11, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

Requested move 2 September 2022

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The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) – robertsky (talk) 06:15, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

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• UST Golden Tigresses volleyball team → UST Golden Tigresses volleyball
• De La Salle Lady Spikers volleyball team → De La Salle Lady Spikers volleyball

– Philippine varsity teams are not included in WP:CBBALL and WP:CFB, but there's no reason we can't follow their naming conventions here, as the idea came from the U.S. In the Philippines, most women's teams (except the Ateneo Blue Eagles which are called the "Blue Eagles" in every sport, gender and level of competition) use the "female" version of the men's team. In these cases, the "UST Growling Tigers" become the "UST Golden Tigresses". However, still others use a sports-centric nickname (volleyball teams become "Spikers", soccer teams become "Booters", etc.), still some others are unique: the men's volleyball teams of the De La Salle Green Archers are the "De La Salle Green Spikers" (usual naming convention) but the women's teams are simply the "De La Salle Lady Spikers". Using the U.S. naming convention of "<team name> <sport>" (notably without the word "team"); this RM should be a simple move to what is the standard elsewhere, and the standard being discussed in other WP:RMs about this. Howard the Duck (talk) 00:03, 2 September 2022 (UTC) — Relisting. – robertsky (talk) 08:01, 9 September 2022 (UTC) — Relisting. — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 03:45, 18 September 2022 (UTC)

Updates: On other related RMs the following UAAP women's volleyball teams have been moved:

• Ateneo Lady Eagles volleyball → Ateneo Blue Eagles women's volleyball (Ateneo teams are called "Ateneo Blue Eagles" regardless of gender, sport or level)
• UP Fighting Maroons Volleyball Team → UP Lady Maroons volleyball
• The UP example is the ultimate destination of the UST and La Salle team articles, and is imperative for these to be consistent.

Howard the Duck (talk) 20:11, 22 September 2022 (UTC)

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Requested move 4 May 2024

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UST Golden Tigresses volleyball → UST Golden Tigresses – Technical move requested, because the desired new name is currently the title of a redirect page. Request as per WP:CONCISE and WP:PRECISE. As regards the discussion points addressed towards a prior requested move (see discussion under title "Requested move 2 September 2022"), my observation is that the US naming convention of "<team name> <sport>" (without the word "team"), as per WP:CBBALL and WP:CFB, is only applied when the sports team's name in question perfectly corresponds to its mother team's name (e.g. "Abilene Christian Wildcats men's basketball" for the men's basketball team of the mother team called Abilene Christian Wildcats). My corollary request is that teams whose names do not perfectly correspond to the name of their mother team be excluded from this naming convention or ruling. In the case of UST Golden Tigresses, for instance, applying that naming convention would be confusing, especially as there are no other sports teams carrying the same name. The confusion could be further complicated by the grammatical sense wherein the article seems to claim to be about a kind of volleyball played by the UST Golden Tigresses rather than simply being about that team. Bagoto (talk) 06:33, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

• Support per nom. 98𝚃𝙸𝙶𝙴𝚁𝙸𝚄𝚂 • [𝚃𝙰𝙻𝙺] 12:29, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose as the women's basketball team (no article yet for the defending women's champs) are called the "UST Tigresses" and can cause reasonable confusion between the basketball and volleyball teams, and the women's varsity teams in general, which can also be referred to as the "UST (Growling/Golden) Tigresses" (or even Lady Tigers lol). Howard the Duck (talk) 05:39, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

Also FWIW, in regards to retaining the sports name in the article name, in Talk:De La Salle Lady Booters football#Requested move 25 August 2022, I argued "My apprehension on ditching the sport name is it's not readily apparent what a "Spiker", "Booter", "Woodpusher" and "Tanker" is. Are they drug addicts, Imelda Marcos wannabes, (this term is not even readily apparent; Wiktionary says a "woodpusher" is a bad chess player), or a large land vehicle carrying gasoline? I'd imagine if football was the predominant sport in the country, we'd see terms such as "UST Slammers" or "UST Dribblers" or "UST Cagers"." This naming convention is exclusively Filipino, and Wikipedia readers are not exclusively Filipino. Howard the Duck (talk) 05:46, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

In which case, Howard, the article should then be titled "UST Growling Tigresses volleyball", to mean that there are other sports teams called "UST Growling Tigresses". The moniker "UST Golden Tigresses" should then find a place simply in the article description (e.g. "otherwise known by the moniker UST Golden Tigresses"). However, if Wikipedia is to capitulate to (or accommodate) UST Growling Tigers' predilection to give each of their sub-teams a unique name, then a Wikipedia article on one of those teams should carry the team's unique name, but followed by a parenthetical descriptor. Thus: "UST Golden Tigresses (volleyball team)". Bagoto (talk) 10:26, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

UST women's teams are generally named "UST Tigresses". It's not wrong to refer to the basketball/volleyball/softball/judo teams as the "UST Tigresses". Some add adjectives like the volleyball team uses "Golden". Some don't use "Tigers" and use a noun related to the sport (woodpushers, booters, judokas, etc.).

While Philippine articles are not included in the WP:CBB, WP:CFB and related projects, other Philippine college sports teams have adopted the naming conventions from those projects, with some modifications, where instead of parathentical disambiguation, a descriptive name is used. So instead of "UST Golden Tigresses (volleyball team)", the current title is used, along with other sports-specific teams. For example, we have UST Growling Tigers basketball, UST Lady Booters football, and UST Golden Spikers volleyball, etc.

Eventually, if we're making exceptions on this we'd ask, "what makes this exceptional?"

It isn't. Howard the Duck (talk) 12:47, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

I concede that we can't make an exception of "UST Golden Tigresses" without according the same to those other unique team names under an umbrella team. Thus my new offer that the article be titled "UST Growling Tigresses volleyball", with the first paragraph of the article mentioning that the team is "more popularly known by the moniker UST Golden Tigresses". To keep the present name is to give the UST Growling Tigers a kind of half-exception with its sub-team's name (sub-teams' names), as it were, given that there is no umbrella team with the name UST Golden Tigresses. Bagoto (talk) 03:56, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

FWIW, there are no UST women's teams called "Growling Tigresses", it's either just "Tigresses" for basketball, "Golden Tigresses" for volleyball, and something related to the sport itself for other sports, plus something related to Tigers, but not "Growling". See UST Growling Tigers#Varsity team monikers for details. Howard the Duck (talk) 06:20, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Also if we're stating "more popularly known by the moniker UST Golden Tigresses", then the next logical question would be "then why this is not at 'UST Golden Tigresses volleyball'," as per WP:NC? Howard the Duck (talk) 07:51, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Or, if we are to state "more popularly known as UST Golden Tigresses", the next question would be, Why is it not at "UST Golden Tigresses" then? After all, not all UST Growling Tigers sub-teams are notable enough to merit a separate Wikipedia article. Or am I wrong?

Anyway, my offer for this article's move to "UST Golden Tigresses" or to "UST Growling Tigers women's volleyball" (ok, not "UST Growling Tigresses volleyball") is simply about logical sense. For instance, it would make perfect logical sense to see a "Mall of Asia green" and a "Mall of Asia blue" article, even a "Mall of Asia sports" article, if the objective is to distinguish them from the mother institution "Mall of Asia", having perhaps each acquired a notable status of their own. However, a "Mall of Golden Asians" article about a high-end part of the Mall of Asia, though it still refers to a unique department within the Mall of Asia complex, would lose its logical presence should it be moved to an article under the title "Mall of Golden Asians high-end" (to distinguish it from another Mall of Golden Asians mall part?). Unless, perhaps, it is moved solely to a "Mall of Asia high-end" article, denigrating that mall part's independent notability, yes, but still maintaining logic in its being titled so. The denigration could be assuaged simply by an "also popularly known as . . ." line in the article's first paragraph.

I rest my offer. Bagoto (talk) 01:56, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

UST teams are usually named with these elements:

• Sometimes Tigers/Tigresses/Tiger Cubs
  • Sometimes an adjective associated with tigers e.g. "Growling"
• Sometimes a noun or an adjective associated with "gold" e.g. "Golden"
• Sometimes a sport-related noun e.g. "Tennisters" or "Shuttlers"
• Some combination of the previous
• "UST Growling Tigers" and "UST Tigresses" are the default names for all teams in all sports and is not wrong to refer to those teams with these names, aside from the "more rorrect" team-specific name, plus some confusion on which adjectives are used which can lead to "wrong" names such as "UST Golden Tigresses" referring to the women's judo team, for example.

Presumably one can encounter "UST Golden Tigresses" and you can infer it is a UST women's team, with the volleyball team not having WP:PRIMARYTOPIC as it can refer to any UST women's teams, same with just "UST Growling Tigresses" or the plain old "UST Tigresses" one, which is the name of the women's basketball team, and no one else, but will be named "UST Tigresses basketball" once created. Howard the Duck (talk) 08:46, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

Also malls and section of malls have different naming conventions from college sports teams, of which we do already have models to choose from, thanks to WP:CBBALL and WP:CFB. Howard the Duck (talk) 08:50, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

• Oppose per Howard the Duck rationale. 98𝚃𝙸𝙶𝙴𝚁𝙸𝚄𝚂 • [𝚃𝙰𝙻𝙺] 14:50, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

  Oppose while I acknowledge that the women's volleyball team is arguably the first team which comes first to mind for a Filipino upon the mere mention of "UST Golden Tigresses" without any qualifier (same goes that the spear counterpart "UST Growling Tigers" would mean the men's basketball team) but WP:NWFCTM would apply. UST Growling Tigers basically covers the whole sporting program. It isn't improper to refer to the UST women's football team as Tigresses instead of the preferred sport-specific moniker of "Lady Booters". Hariboneagle927 (talk) 04:38, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

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