Talk:NCAA transfer portal

Requested move 7 December 2022

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The result of the move request was: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Extraordinary Writ (talk) 03:56, 14 December 2022 (UTC)

NCAA transfer portal → NCAA Transfer Portal – This article describes a web application developed by the NCAA. The name of the app in the "NCAA Applications" list is "Transfer Portal", capitalized proper noun.

While I agree that the descriptive "transfer portal" is also commonly used in reliable sources, the origin of the name/concept is the proper noun NCAA Transfer Portal application. AFAIK the "transfer portal" description came from the NCAA's decision to name their application "Transfer Portal".


 * WP:COMMONNAME says: Although official, scientific, birth, original, or trademarked names are often used for article titles, the term or name most typically used in reliable sources is generally preferred.

So I could see this going either way.

IMO, I would like the wikipedia article to refer to the very specific "Transfer Portal" website/application itself. Then we can use Template:Infobox website, etc., with no reservations. If writing about the web app itself, the article should IMO clearly be titled "NCAA Transfer Portal". References to the general "place to transfer" concept within the article would be fine staying as "transfer portal".

PK-WIKI (talk) 02:41, 7 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Oppose move. The article describes the procedure by which players transfer from one school to another. You inserted "web app" today but the source you cited doesn't even call it a web application. As discussed on your talk page, it remains my view that the common name is "NCAA transfer portal" without initial caps. The major sports outlets and major media sources treat it this way and thus do not use initial caps. Examples:


 * NBC Sports uses lower case "NCAA transfer portal. See here
 * CBS Sports uses lower case "NCAA transfer portal". See here and here
 * ESPN.com uses "NCAA transfer portal". see here, here, here, and here
 * Fox Sports uses "NCAA transfer portal". See here and here.
 * USA Today uses "NCAA transfer portal". See here
 * Yahoo Sports uses "NCAA transfer portal". See here and here
 * The New York Times uses "N.C.A.A. transfer portal". See here and here
 * Boston Globe uses "NCAA transfer portal. See here and here.
 * Washington Post uses "NCAA transfer portal. See here and here.
 * Los Angeles Times uses "NCAA transfer portal". see here and here
 * Chicago Tribune uses "NCAA transfer portal". See here
 * San Francisco Chronicle uses "NCAA transfer portal. See here and here.

Cbl62 (talk) 02:57, 7 December 2022 (UTC)


 * I agree that media sources are generally writing "transfer portal".
 * The NCAA refers to their application/database/tool as the "NCAA Transfer Portal".
 * The Transfer Portal is an NCAA application to manage the transfer process for Division I and II student-athletes.
 * This article in the NCAA magazine was written by the Associate Director NCAA Communications.
 * It calls the web application the "NCAA Transfer Portal" and "Transfer Portal" but also frequently refers to "the portal". PK-WIKI (talk) 09:13, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Oppose move -- I don't think people are coming here to learn about the actual website that players are uploading their documents to, I think they're here because the phrase "transfer portal" has generally become shorthand for the entire process by which players transfer under the current NCAA regs. Given that, it doesn't make much sense to force the capitalization and try to make this about a website (that we'll never have much info about) when the sources all clearly go the other way. Alyo  (chat·edits) 15:02, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Strong oppose — As noted above, essentially ALL media coverage has been about the process in general, not about the NCAA app itself. — Dale Arnett (talk) 02:45, 10 December 2022 (UTC)

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