Category talk:Heads of universities and colleges in Europe

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@Rathfelder: would you agree to renaming the European "Heads/rectors of universities" categories you created in May 2019 to "Heads/rectors of universities and colleges"? And, by the way, thank you for a useful improvement to the categorisation of universities. I will request the same change for the older categories for consistency. TSventon (talk) 10:36, 6 November 2019 (UTC) [reply]

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Heads of universities in Austria‎ 22 May 2019
Rectors of universities in Belgium‎ 22 May 2019
Rectors of universities in Bosnia and Herzegovina‎ 23 May 2019
Heads of universities in Bulgaria‎ 22 May 2019
Rectors of universities in Croatia‎ 23 May 2019
Rectors of universities in the Czech Republic‎ 22 May 2019
Rectors of universities in Estonia‎ 23 May 2019
Heads of universities in France‎ 22 May 2019
Category:Heads of universities in Iceland 23 May 2019
Heads of universities in Italy‎ 20 May 2019
Rectors of universities in Kosovo‎ 23 May 2019
Rectors of universities in Latvia‎ 23 May 2019
Heads of universities in Malta‎ 26 May 2019
Rectors of universities in Poland‎ 22 May 2019
Rectors of universities in Portugal‎ 22 May 2019
Rectors of universities in Romania‎ 19 March 2012
Rectors of universities in Russia‎ 21 May 2019
Rectors of universities in Slovakia‎ 22 May 2019
Heads of universities in Slovenia‎ 22 May 2019
Heads of universities in Spain‎ 22 May 2019
Rectors of universities in Switzerland‎ 22 May 2019

Rectors of universities in Georgia (country)‎ 19 Dec 2014
Heads of universities in Germany‎ 20 May 2007
Rectors of Hungarian universities‎ 16 November 2012
Rectors of universities in Lithuania‎ 4 December 2019
Rectors of universities in the Netherlands‎ 22 September 2014
Rectors of universities in the Soviet Union‎ 22 February 2015

I've no objection in principle, but I dont think heads of colleges are likely to be called rectors. My idea was that we should go with local usage if there was local usage. Rathfelder (talk) 12:38, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Rathfelder: Thanks, then "Heads of universities and colleges" would be better. Another advantage of heads is that sometimes the institution (or Wikipedia) translates rector as something like president or vice-chancellor in English. TSventon (talk) 13:01, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Rathfelder:, I have submitted a request for speedy renaming of subcategories of Category:Faculty by university or college in Europe to be consistent with subcategories of Category:People by university or college in Europe and Category:Alumni by university or college in Europe. Do you agree in principle with renaming the heads/rectors categories to universities and colleges? I think that using heads is best at national level because English translations seem to vary (including enwiki translations). What do you think? TSventon (talk) 12:32, 12 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]