Talk:La Rochelle University

Merger proposal
The two articles cover the same institution - the confusion seems to originate in whether or not the university's name is normally translated or not. Google searches of pages in English suggest that "Université de La Rochelle" is more common than "University of La Rochelle" so for now I'd recommend merging at the French title. Timrollpickering 11:23, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I'd say go ahead and redirect the other page here. JJL 15:04, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I've been putting in place stubs for all 91 French public universities, with some effort to having a reasonably consistent approach to naming for these universities. My understanding is that the common usage is to use English names, and I have noticed that this is the overwhelmingly common practice for universities in Wikipedia, including on the most highly rated university articles. MyPOV 15:53, 27 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Category:Universities and colleges in France shows quite a mixture of French and English translation names in use and this is complicated as some institutions make rather more of an effort to determine what name should be used in English (e.g. in journal articles etc...) than others, and whilst some do have a prescribed translation (or equivalent such as the German Fachhochschulen mainly calling themselves "University of Applied Sciences" in English), others do assert that their name should be kept untranslated. This one does need some guideline help, especially as most of the people in WikiProject Universities have been working on institutions in English speaking countries. Timrollpickering 16:36, 27 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Thank you for pointing out the mixture on Category:Universities and colleges in France. I notice that the Écoles Normales Supérieures are generally named in French. This might be a good choice, as people might balk at Normal School.  There might need to be one guideline for universities and another for the écoles. MyPOV 16:59, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 21:02, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Name of the university
Université de La Rochelle refers to itself as the University of La Rochelle when it presents itself in English. For instance, on its welcome page for international students (retrieved 2008-03-12). Or in its (retrieved 2008-03-12).

Please also see the naming guidelines for French universities.

MyPOV (talk) 01:39, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the proposal was move. JPG-GR (talk) 01:01, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

The best name for this article was first discussed above, in the Merger proposal section. At that time, last October, the name was kept at Université de La Rochelle based on a general impression of the most common usage from Google searches. Recently, though, I have brought new evidence to light of English language documents in which the university refers to itself as the University of La Rochelle. I have mentioned this, and have also cited information relating to other French universities, in the Name of the university section, also above.

MyPOV (talk) 02:07, 13 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Support, things are much clearer now than at the time of the merger of the two separate articles. Timrollpickering (talk) 02:09, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Support per evidence of usage by subject of article. Zuiver jo (talk) 21:55, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
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