Talk:University of Georgia/Archives/2019

Georgia the U.S. state and Georgia the country

NO ONE WOULD CONFUSE THIS UNIVERSITY (JUST LOOK AT THE INTRO) W/ A UNIVERSITY IN THE COUNTRY OF GEORGIA - ANY REFERENCE OTHERWISE IS DUMB.Quaerens-veritatem (talk) 09:43, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

We have an international audience. ElKevbo (talk) 10:58, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

The hatnote it's is not about people getting the two institutions confused, it's about redirecting people who have typed "University of Georgia" looking for the University of Georgia (Tbilisi) to the correct place. What it says it's that this is the "primary topic" for this title, because the odds are good that anyone looking for the University of Georgia is looking for this one, but that there is another University of Georgia that people might have been looking for.

This has nothing to do with the content of the article: as it says in WP: DISAMBIGUATION "Disambiguation hatnotes are not article content—they are associated with the title, rather than any article topic content." It is required here because of the title of this article. ÀMany other universities have disambiguation hatnotes, e.g. York University, Newcastle University, University of Miami, Yale College. They are a normal part of Wikipedia. Robminchin (talk) 04:10, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

Exactly, a user might type in the term and not be even aware there is a university of Georgia (USA). After all University of Georgia (Tbilisi) has a link the this article.Slatersteven (talk) 12:29, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

The disambiguation should stay. It's helpful to readers who went to the wrong page. starship.paint (talk) 12:57, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

Yes, it's needed. Not all of our readers will be aware of the names of all the US states, or that states have universities named for them. And such hatnotes are placed right at the top so the reader in the wrong place doesn't need to read any of the article. Yngvadottir (talk) 03:45, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

Foreign heads of state

Why was this removed?Slatersteven (talk) 22:03, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

I planned to reinstate it (as simply "heads of state") but could see no mention in the section later in the article, or in the full List of University of Georgia people article. Yngvadottir (talk) 03:43, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

OK.Slatersteven (talk) 10:23, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

Beginnings of the UGA abbreviation

This article uses the handy abbreviation 'UGA' throughout, even when discussing the university's eighteenth-century charter. Does it strike anyone else as odd to be using such a modern abbreviation (all caps, no punctuation) in such a context, and do we know when 'UGA' in its current form actually came into use? Cheers —jameslucas ^{▄▄▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄} 11:18, 9 September 2019 (UTC)