Talk:Université Savoie Mont Blanc

Name of the university
Université de Savoie refers to itself as the University of Savoie when it renders its name in English. For instance, on its international relations page (retrieved 2010-03-12).

There is some question, however, as to whether University of Savoie or University of Savoy should be the translation into English. Both forms of the regional name are used in English. For instance, the Wikipedia pages on Savoie and Haute-Savoie describe the two departments in which the university is located, whereas the page on Savoy describes the historical region of Savoy, which spans those two modern-day departments.

Since name of the university appears to refer to the historical region of Savoy, rather than simply the department of Savoie, the best translation would seem to be University of Savoy, overriding the usage employed by the university itself.

Please also see the naming guidelines for French universities.

MyPOV (talk) 06:50, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

IUT
In the technolac campus, there is an IUT too. And even an engineering school (Polytech'Savoie, also present in Annecy). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.23.236.196 (talk) 19:36, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

Requested move 31 May 2023

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Moved to Université Savoie Mont Blanc. Per consensus, Université Savoie Mont Blanc is the common name. (closed by non-admin page mover) – robertsky (talk) 05:31, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

Savoy Mont Blanc University → University Savoie Mont Blanc – This is the name that it refers to itself by, and is also the name most found by Google.


 * https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Savoy+Mont+Blanc+University%22 yields 732 results.
 * https://www.google.com/search?q=%22University+Savoie+Mont+Blanc%22 yields 12,100 results.

Thanks. Bob247 (talk) 18:28, 31 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Move to Université Savoie Mont Blanc rather than the rarely used translation or the horrible mixture of English and French. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:53, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
 * That would be fine also. --Bob247 (talk) 17:53, 7 June 2023 (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.
 * Support a move: Université Savoie Mont Blanc is the only title to pick up on ngrams (which is only English results). It's also vastly more common by ghits (~400k search results vs the ~12k for University Savoie Mont Blanc and under 1k for Savoy Mont Blanc University, though that includes French-language sources). Still, there's somehow 0 google news hits for Université Savoie Mont Blanc, while the other titles do get hits there. Overall, I think that the current title is the worst title – I have a slight preference for Université Savoie Mont Blanc, but not strongly, and I'm fine with University Savoie Mont Blanc. Skarmory   (talk •   contribs)  19:12, 7 June 2023 (UTC)

Move ignored Wikipedia's Use English policy
On Wikipedia, with very very few exceptions for a few extremely well known universities, the English term University is used rather than Université, Universidad, Universität, etc.

Please see Article titles.

See also, for example:
 * List_of_universities_in_Germany
 * List_of_universities_in_Spain
 * List_of_universities_in_Italy

This move decision is an extreme outlier, and the discussion does not justify why it ought to be.

MyPOV (talk) 18:23, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
 * WP:UE does not mandate the translation of everything into English. It's often misinterpreted this way, but (thank God!) that's not actually what it says. -- Necrothesp (talk) 08:59, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Indeed, it does not mandate translating everything. But it does mandate writing a common term such as "university" in English when deciding on the title of an article, in an English-language encyclopedia, about a university. Here is what it says about the German term "Tal", meaning "valley", for instance: "because Rheintal and Moseltal are translated Rhine Valley and Moselle Valley, it makes sense to translate lesser known valley names in the same way". Of course if you were to google lesser-known German valleys, you would find that the -tal form is far more common than using the English term "Valley", but, nonetheless, the mandate is to use the English term. -- MyPOV (talk) 08:09, 24 June 2023 (UTC)