Talk:University of the Andes (Colombia)

best university in COlombia ??

• Who says Universidad de los Andes is the best university in COlombia ???

an Uniandino?

• This page should be semi-protected, and so the other Universities on the wikipedia--afa86 (talk) 16:42, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

Proper name

"Los Andes" is a proper name, which I think shouldn't be translated to "The Andes"... it also sounds terrible!

In this case, this is not correct, since we are talking about a geographical feature.Andremun (talk) 14:26, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

The oficial name in English is The Universidad de los Andes, so the name must be changed. (EsperanzaKZ (talk) 18:07, 26 April 2011 (UTC)).

Agree: the proper name is "Universidad de Los Andes", just as other, for example, French Universities keep their name and accents even on their names, on the english Wikipedia.--afa86 (talk) 16:39, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

I come to resurrect the proper name discussion. I see that, based on the naming guidelines (available here, here and here), English translations and transliterations should be used, but I see there is an important priority given to common naming conventions (that means, as I understand, to name the article as closely as possible as people name it in common speech). Using different search terms for the same university in Google, I claim to find that:

• Several English-language websites use the official Spanish name (see here and here for examples). I am completely aware, however, that these are unreliable sources but they defend my point: naming the university "University of the Andes" is uncommon (although I will, for the sake of debate, give a counterexample here.)
• Although pretty incomplete, the English version of the homepage of the university available here refers to its name in Spanish. Page two of the presentation states the name as Universidad de Los Andes as well.
• At least one public doctoral dissertation, available here includes both the name of the university as "Universidad de Los Andes" and the name of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in their local languages.

Based on this, I simply propose to change the name of the article to "Los Andes University" or "Universidad de Los Andes".

--Innsýn (talk) 01:10, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

The US news World's Best Universities ranking and the QS World Universities Ranking, use the name "Universidad de los Andes", in the classification (see here) , as well as in articles feature in English Language (see here) ,. Based on this, I propose to use "Universidad de los Andes" --EsperanzaKZ (talk) 14:47, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

In my opinion is University of Los Andes no translate name ,for example in the history ,noboby call ,city of the angel-es (s) name kept ,even when no-english.--EEIM (talk) 01:34, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Now called University of Los Andes,am I wrong ,so will be name.--EEIM (talk) 04:24, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

I suggest, once again, to change the name to "Universidad de Los Andes". In their most recent release (June-2014), the official name in English is the Universidad de Los Andes EsperanzaKZ (talk) 18:06, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

This is the worst case of Spanglish I have seen in a while. Either the full name Universidad de Los Andes should remain intact, or it should be translated completely into English, i.e. University of the Andes. Clearly this has been discussed over time and has not been rectified; however, failure to repair the title gives the appearance of, at best, neglect for such an important institution. SusunW (talk) 00:58, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

@Ipigott, Rosiestep, and Dr. Blofeld: can you all weigh in here. All of you are multi-lingual and every time I come to this article to use it as an alma mater, I am struck by the fact that it does not follow our naming guidelines for English Wikipedia. SusunW (talk) 15:25, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

The problem seems to be about the one in Colombia. I would opt for "Universidad de los Andes (Colombia)". (Note the small L in los.) But there should be a common approach to all the articles listed at Universidad de los Andes.--Ipigott (talk) 15:39, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

I also support Universidad de los Andes (Colombia). --Rosiestep (talk) 16:20, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

Agreed.♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:09, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

References

Poor article

Looks like an infomercial, not like an encyclopedia article. There aren't references for most of the statements. Also, it´s heavily biased. Many parts of it require extensive rewrite and spell checking for God's sake

I was agree, this article is totally against the Wikipedia is not a soapbox policy. A cleanup is urgent. Xbox6 00:22, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Most of this article's content was copied verbatim from the university's website ([1]), and as such was a copyright violation. I have removed all the material in violation of copyright as per WP:Copyright. I also removed a few blatantly POV statements in the intro paragraph. It doesn't need a cleanup anymore so much as it needs almost all the content required for a decent article. ~ Danelo 03:55, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

It seems to be that whoever is editing this article does not accept criticism. The article (to this date) continues to be utterly biased, filled with irrelevant or contradictory information (e.g. how come Alberto Lleras Camargo is an Alumnus and a Founder at the same time???), and tags whose purpose is to alert other editors have been removed. Please refer to one of the FA articles on universities, like University of Michigan and improve its prose and content. Regards - Andremun (talk) 13:46, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Assessment comment

The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:University of the Andes (Colombia)/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

Some POV issues, but they can be backed up with references. The refs are there to turn this into a better article.

Substituted at 01:18, 12 June 2016 (UTC)

Name in English

Why was the name reverted to "University of the Andes" in this diff? That's a literal translation into English, but as per the discussion on this page, that doesn't seem to be the English name used by either the university or its staff. There is precedent for the previous name "University of Los Andes" (for example at the beginning of this interview). GanzKnusper (talk) 23:27, 19 March 2024 (UTC)