User talk:71.202.196.168

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The current revision by IP address 71.202.196.168 matches the text used for the Ph.D., Ed.D., Eng.D. and M.D. degrees (I did not check entries beyond those). I don't think it matters much whether "teacher" or "doctor" is used, but for the sake of internal consistency, the rationale selected for describing one of the degrees should be applied to all of the degrees.

Your repeated POV edits to California State Polytechnic University, Pomona could be considered vandalism, and at the very least you will end up violating the three-revert rule, since at least two other editors disagree with your attempts to make Wikipedia inappropriately prescriptive. Please stop.--Curtis Clark 14:33, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

This is not POV or vandalism. "Cal Poly Pomona" is an official name of the school, not "Cal Poly". Calling it such is by definition incorrect.

No, your editing is probably not POV, except to those of us who understand the value of connotation as well as denotation. It is POV in that you are repeating the POV of the State of California. The state says its Cal Poly and Cal Poly Pomona, and so you say that is correct. Well, it is correct, officially. This may not correspond with common usage, and after all, common usage is as much the source of naming as it officialdom. I went to Poly, and that is what the student body (who attended at the time of my tenure) called the school. We did not call it Cal Poly, not even when we thought of the school in official terms. We, except for one case, and that is when telling someone else where we went to school, and that was Cal Poly, and this for students of both schools. If the question came up of which Cal Poly, then you say SLO or Pomona. Frankly, this was an expression of elitist attitude toward the other campuses of the California State University. If you don't believe me, conduct a survey of past and present students. William R. Buckley 09:50, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Relating to the history, the campus at SLO was the first, and Pomona was started as a sister campus. The is why SLO got the name Cal Poly, and Pomona got Cal Poly Pomona; SLO has the historical claim. Yet, you can buy memorabilia from the store of the campus foundation of either school that uses the logo Cal Poly. William R. Buckley 09:50, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

There is one thing that you could do to your work with the article that would get me to go away, quickly. Just make sure that your article expressly states that you are giving only the official name of the institutions, as reported within institutional documentation, and give the references. You sort of do this, without the references, but I think you can re-inforce the point better than you have. If all you care about is the official policy of the institutions, then say so very explicitly. If so stated, then yours is a position with which I can agree. William R. Buckley 09:50, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

You could extend the point, by including a section on popular naming, or the history of campus naming, or some such. William R. Buckley 09:50, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

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