Talk:Utah Tech University

Requested move 20 May 2022

 * 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. —usernamekiran (talk) 13:49, 27 May 2022 (UTC)

Dixie State University → Utah Tech University – University changed name. While the legal name change doesn't take place until midnight July 01, 2022. For ALL intents and purposes, They have changed their name. It's not just an announced future brand, ALL URLs, all social media, have transitioned to their new name. In all public aspects the name of this university is now Utah Tech University.&#32;GrantBess (talk) 03:49, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
 * This is a contested technical request (permalink). GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 13:40, 20 May 2022 (UTC)


 * WP:NAMECHANGES should still apply here though, even if the official legal name does not change until about a month and a couple of weeks until now, and some of their official websites and social media have already done so. Specifically, independent, reliable sources need to reflect the name change first before Wikipedia does, per WP:COMMONAME. Have they? Zzyzx11 (talk) 09:27, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Someone already moved to . —&#8288;&#8202;&#8288;BarrelProof (talk) 16:48, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Would media stories using the new name be sufficient? It appears that local St. George News has now done two stories and added the new name as a tag. I expect it will take a transition period for external sources to update their references, whether now or after July. —GreenwoodKL (t, c) 16:56, 20 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Support Given that the institution has already made this transition and it's clear that others will follow (as shown by the citations we already have from some news media), I'd be comfortable with this move. I'm not thrilled with doing it before the name change actually occurs and I'd recommend waiting until that happens but I won't lose sleep if someone jumps the gun by a few days. ElKevbo (talk) 19:59, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Support: Maybe I'm being a bit subjective about it, but the university itself has already switched everything over, and it's hard for me to imagine that this change is reversible. This is a state university, not some little self-governing institution. As far as I am concerned, the official date of the transition is pretty irrelevant – that seems like more of a matter of legality paperwork than anything else. —&#8288;&#8202;&#8288;BarrelProof (talk) 15:41, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Support because there is no way that every RS does not follow suit. It may be necessary to have the lead read Utah Tech University, known as Dixie State University until July 1, 2022, ... Sammi Brie  (she/her • t • c) 03:03, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Support per above. Since the university has changed its forward-facing name, there's no reason not to move the page. — Dale Arnett (talk) 22:25, 24 May 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.

BOLD names
While it makes sense to bold the most recent name (Dixie State University), it seems overwhelming and unnecessary to have all 7 or so former names in Bold typeface, especially since it occurs at the top, in the history section, and all that information is already in the infobox.LikeGrantTookRichmond (talk) 16:22, 21 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Agreed, I've gone ahead with this change keeping the current, previous (having been very recently in use), and original names in bold. - Odin (talk) 21:32, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
 * This is a common practice because there should be (but often aren't) redirects to this article from the previous names of the institution. This is the relevant part of the Manual of Style. ElKevbo (talk) 23:40, 6 December 2022 (UTC)