QBWiki talk:Naming conventions

State/state university naming discussion

Perhaps we should include a note about the way to distinguish a college from the state it is in; for example, the page called Missouri for is distinguished from the page called Missouri (state). This seems like a reasonable convention I think we could include, though I'm not sure how many other state/college pairs have this ambiguity. Alex Dzurick 03:39, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

I'd think a majority of states at least have the potential for this conflict; would a better solution be to create the pages for the discussion of high school quizbowl as Missouri High School Quizbowl or something of the sort?--Fred Morlan 00:35, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

You might want to look at what I did at the top of the Illinois page. I may have copied it from another state that had already done the same thing. We might also want to agree on calling the pages from each state the same thing (other than the state name of course). David Reinstein 02:08, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

Multiple names

Re: Number of names, I think it's perfectly ok for things to have multiple names when it serves a historical function. (As it does for Maggie Walker, which was not known by that name in the 1990s.) Also, on a wiki it's very easy to make sure the links go to the right place with the | function: Governor's School-- Jeff Hoppes 00:39, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

Except that it is confusing if you don't know that they're the same school, and multiple pages use both names to cite that school. It'd be fine within the text of the Maggie Walker page to use the Governor's School name, but if you're on the results page of some 90s tournament and it says "Governor's School," it's unlikely that you'll know what school that is unless you are aware of quiz bowl history or else are from the Richmond area. --Fred Morlan 01:03, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

Acronyms

Is WKU referring to ourselves as such really that big of a problem? Our quizbowl team itself will continue to keep using the acronym WKU in our communications with the community regardless of what the QBWiki calls us. This is because our school administration greatly prefers "WKU" to "Western Kentucky", and over the last 4 years our school has went to great lengths to brand ourselves in that way. I really don't think that "WKU" is any less known than acronyms like UTC, UCI, or UCSD. Another example would be VCU, which is reasonably well known now but up until a few years ago (and even in some cases even now) was referred to as "Virginia Commonwealth" by a lot of people.--Nick Conder 03:26, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

It's not about what the WKU team refers to itself as, it's about what the quizbowl community refers to you as. It may be that WKU eventually becomes known as WKU, but I'm not certain that's the case. These things evolve. --Fred Morlan 23:54, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

OK, I'll try to adhere to this for now for whatever I do on the Wiki. At some point either the university will decide that "Western Kentucky" is just as good as "WKU" or it will sink in enough to where everyone uses the acronym. If the latter ever happens, we can resume the discussion then.--Nick Conder 06:51, 20 July 2011 (UTC)