Talk:Bruce Pearl

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	Basketball Portal Bruce Pearl is part of WikiProject College Basketball, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to college basketball on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
Start	This article has been rated as Start-Class on the quality scale. (If you rated the article please give a short summary at comments to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses.)
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the importance scale.

This article must adhere to the policy on biographies of living persons. Controversial material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libellous. If such material is repeatedly inserted or if there are other concerns relative to this policy, report it on the living persons biographies noticeboard.

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography. For more information, visit the project page.	Biography Portal
Start	This article has been rated as Start-Class on the project's quality scale. [FAQ]
	This article is supported by the Sports and games work group.

[edit] Regarding school names

I don't know the official Wikipedia policy on commonly-used but non-official school names (such as "Illinois" referring to UIUC or "Iowa" referring to the University of Iowam especially in sports-related articles). If there is such a policy, it should definitely be applied here. Intuitively, if "Milwaukee" is the most commonly used and widely recognized name for the sports program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, then it should be the name used throughout the article after the first reference. I'm opening this talk page if anyone else knows an official policy or has arguments otherwise. AcidPenguin9873 05:57, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

It's really simple: this is an encyclopedia, therefore ALL athletic program's get their OFFICIAL brand used. That's not always so in the media, i.e. seeing "UNC-Charlotte" written in a newspaper for Charlotte, or "Alabama-Birmingham" for UAB, or "Wisconsin-Milwaukee" for Milwaukee. But this is an encyclopedia, therefore references to the team's and program's must be what the school's official athletics "brand name" is (which takes <15 seconds of research on any school's official athletics site to find out).

I'd hate to see this pretty much universally accepted policy change, as it would very much require hundreds if not thousands of college sports-related wikipedia articles to have multiple changes made. -- CollegeSportsGuy 05:12, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Given the debate about UWM's official brand name, I'd say that both CollegeSportsGuy and Airtuna08 should cite a source from that school's official athletics web site showing the official brand name being used. I couldn't find one anywhere on the UWM athletics site, but I didn't look very hard. In my opinion, I've always heard the school referred to as "UW-Milwaukee"...but that's just anecdotal. Please cite a source so we can resolve this. AcidPenguin9873 23:47, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 08:07, 10 November 2007 (UTC)