Talk:ETH Domain

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: No consensus to move. All the participants used good arguments but the votes are split. The written-out forms of these names do seem easier to understand. But a check of the web indicates that these Swiss organizations tend to use the abbreviations when referring to themselves. Certainly they use the abbreviations on their websites. They have ETH-Rat for what our article calls ETH-Board, and de:ETH-Bereich for what we call ETH-Domain. Of course official names (whether or not they are abbreviations) don't always win here on Wikipedia. All these options are consistent with policy and guidelines, it's just that we have no agreement here. Green Giant suggests merging ETH-Board into our ETH-Domain article, and in fact that's how the two topics are handled in the German Wikipedia. EdJohnston (talk) 15:47, 26 May 2013 (UTC)

– Correct name as well but clearly easier to understand for the average user. Relisted. BDD (talk) 04:12, 11 May 2013 (UTC) Agroduct (talk) 08:38, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
 * ETH Domain → Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain
 * ETH Board → Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology


 * Oppose because the overall domain is commonly referred to as "ETH Domain" (see the overview on their website), although the individual units are known by acronyms and full names. Instead these two articles should be merged at ETH Domain since they overlap extensively in their scope. Green Giant (talk) 11:48, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
 *  Support moves. "ETH Domain" is the abbreviation of the "Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain" (in German). The English translation is also official, is clear and is easier to understand. Leighperonn (talk) 12:34, 6 May 2013 (UTC).
 * Oppose for the domain, support for the board. The former seems to fail WP:COMMONNAME - I get 61k ghits for "ETH Domain" versus 3k results for "Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain"; similar results in google books &c. bobrayner (talk) 20:48, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.