Talk:University of California, San Diego

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Former good article nomineeUniversity of California, San Diego was a Social sciences and society good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
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Wiki Education assignment: Introduction to Policy Analysis - Summer Session22[edit]

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 1 August 2022 and 4 September 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Sunsh1n3d011 (article contribs). Peer reviewers: A2prieto.

— Assignment last updated by A2prieto (talk) 04:15, 22 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Comma in name[edit]

According to https://brand.ucsd.edu/logos-and-brand-elements/use-of-the-university-name/index.html, "University of California San Diego" should not have a comma in its name. Should this be reflected in the article?

(I'm on mobile right now and don't remember link formatting, sorry.) SheepTester (talk) 07:30, 20 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

+1 that this should be reflected in the article. The page you linked has been moved here, but the brand guidelines now reflect this. The statement and rationale:
"We no longer use a comma when referencing the University of California San Diego. Our goals are to avoid the multiple variations currently used for naming the campus — University of California (“at” or “in,” or with the comma) San Diego — and to foster consistency, so use this name in all print and online applications." JohnDyss (talk) 22:47, 3 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
This is our guiding policy on how we name articles. In general, we follow the conventions used in most of the available sources - we are not beholden to the wishes and demands of the article's subject. ElKevbo (talk) 00:18, 4 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Rankings in lede[edit]

With regards to the edit made by @ElKevbo, I note that University of California, Los Angeles does mention its ranking as a public university. WP:BOOSTER suggests replacing "…is widely acknowledged as the preeminent university by most university rankings" with "…is ranked A by X, B by Y, and C by Z", so I am unsure why the same couldn't be done here.

One point of contention is the removal of the amount of applications received—I am unsure why @GuardianH did this as it being the second most applied to university in the United States is a noteworthy fact, and is similarly mentioned in the opening of University of California, Los Angeles. This is not WP:UNDUE.Blimpherd (talk) 08:47, 18 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It sounds like WP:BOOSTER is outdated and out of sync with WP:HIGHEREDREP; we should update it to avoid this (understandable) confusion. ElKevbo (talk) 11:29, 18 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Per WP:DUE, information in the lede should be summaries of the content in the body. The application fact wasn't even in the body, so it didn't make sense to put it prominently in the lede. GuardianH (talk) 14:50, 18 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]