Talk:Plate glass university

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A glass plate is a plate made of glass, plate-glass is glass made in thin sheets originally by spinning into disks. Surely the term is Plate-glass University? The implicateion is that the buildings have lots of plate-glass (cf Red Brick University) rather than that the members of the university eat of glass plates (rather than say silver) Billlion 22:26, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] VfD

This article was listed for deletion; the result was to keep. See Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Glass plate university for a record of the votes and discussion. Postdlf 05:06, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Move

My impression from comments on the VfD is that it was generally felt that this page would be better at Plate-glass university. Any objections? TSP 10:11, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

I agree. I've done so - moved it to Plate Glass University add added redirects all over the place. A search for glass plate university on Google reveals only Wikipedia whereas a search for plate glass university reveals links elsewhere such as [[1]]. --Mintchocicecream 17:17, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
I concur. Plate glass university is to be preferred. I have modified the capitalisation in the article to be consistent with that preference. Dystopos 22:29, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Moved

I moved this from Glass Plate University to Plate Glass University because Plate Glass is the only term found outside Wikipedia on a Google search suggesting that it is more widely used. A talk page article on the old page has been up since 23 July thus I thought it would be safe to move. However if there are any disagreements, do voice them here. --Mintchocicecream 17:25, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

Well, you shouldn't have made a cut-and-paste move, destroying the history of the article. Please go to WP:RM and fix this. (Besides, as it is not a proper noun, I assume it should be at Plate-glass university or Plate glass university.) --up+land 18:42, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for your comment. I was unaware of the procedures involved in the move and have submitted a comment at WP:RM under Wikipedia:Requested_moves#Current_notices. I also made a request to put it under Plate glass university. --Mintchocicecream 10:26, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
I've reverted the redirect at Glass Plate University and updated the article with your changes as a quick restoration of the history. I'll turn this back into a redirect for the moment until there's a consensus on the page's eventual destination. Timrollpickering 14:33, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

This article has been renamed after the result of a move request. violet/riga (t) 12:14, 18 August 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Keele University

Keele was founded in 1949 long before the Robbins report; it really doesn't belong in this category. See also Radio 4's 'The Idea of a University' 24 August 2006.


[edit] metaphor

the metaphoric significance of the name is mentioned - Ithink this may be worth explicitly explaining and then commenting on how the universities have grown into or out of this metaphor, or simply changed away from it/ or not. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 136.186.1.185 (talk) 03:21, 14 February 2008 (UTC)