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The California Review has a different controversy listed

On the California Review page it has a different story listed as being the major controversy dating back to 2010 instead of 2015. Should the 2010 one be included here and does that mean the other page needs and update to be accurate? Bgrus22 (talk) 08:54, 21 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Blanking of UCSD

Reposting this conversation from User talk:2603:8000:8E00:D700:D485:7B82:85F8:4AF2 to prevent a potential edit war:

Regarding this edit, the phrase 'UCSD' apears on that page 38 times. There is no source at the UC San Diego Article that says it is "colloquial," what it means or why it should be removed the way you've done. Even if it did, do you have a MOS or a WP page that says "colloquialisms" are not allowed on Wikipedia?
UCSD here is an acronym for a much longer phrase University of California, San Diego. Many if not most universities have one. According to Acronym#Expansion_at_first_use, In writing for a broad audience, the words of an acronym are typically written out in full at its first occurrence within a given text. You removed only the first occurrence, but not the following 38. If you really want to remov e the initialism from the page because it is "colloquial" then you must spell out "University of California, San Diego" on the page 39 times. You should also do this on every single page that mentions the acronym for any othe University on this list. This seems ridiculous to me, but perhaps I'm misunderstanding something. I am open to hear it. See also MOS:SOURCEABBR and MOS:ACRO: Do not edit war over these terms. Kire1975 (talk) 00:08, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

At the time, it was officially UCSD. The university rebranded, using UC San Diego instead. The instances you mention are from are from sentences that are based on events that happened before this. i.e. UCSD had 40,000 students in 2010. I removed mentions of the university that are not date-based. Any mentions of the university after the rebranding can be referred to as UC San Diego for each mention, thus you don't have to spell out "University of California, San Diego" over and over. Wikipedia does not change mentions of organizations, companies, etc. from before the time they were rebranded. i.e. we wouldn't change mentions of Twitter to X if it was something like, Twitter was founded in 2006, we would not change to X was founded in 2006. 2603:8000:8E00:D700:D485:7B82:85F8:4AF2 (talk) 00:35, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

At the time, it was officially UCSD. The university rebranded, using UC San Diego instead. The instances you mention are from are from sentences that are based on events that happened before this. i.e. UCSD had 40,000 students in 2010. I removed mentions of the university that are not date-based. Any mentions of the university after the rebranding can be referred to as UC San Diego for each mention, thus you don't have to spell out "University of California, San Diego" over and over. Wikipedia does not change mentions of organizations, companies, etc. from before the time they were rebranded. i.e. we wouldn't change mentions of Twitter to X if it was something like, Twitter was founded in 2006, we would not change to X was founded in 2006. 2603:8000:8E00:D700:D485:7B82:85F8:4AF2 (talk) 00:35, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

Something like UCLA for the University of California, Los Angeles or SDSU for San Diego State University is actually used by the university. I think adding (UCSD) after the name makes it appear to the reader that that is an official acronym. Perhaps all mentions could be UC San Diego, as the university has always used that as well. 2603:8000:8E00:D700:D485:7B82:85F8:4AF2 (talk) 00:44, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

I'm not seeing a source for any of this, but regardless how does this negate the need to spell out the first occurrence of an acronym according to the style guide above? Kire1975 (talk) 01:18, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

I'm not seeing a source for any of this, but regardless how does this negate the need to spell out the first occurrence of an acronym according to the style guide above? Kire1975 (talk) 01:18, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

you can do whatever you please I have made my points 2603:8000:8E00:D700:D485:7B82:85F8:4AF2 (talk) 01:29, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

Kire1975 (talk) 02:43, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]