Talk:Virginia–Virginia Tech football rivalry

Splitting Page
The Wikipedia standard is that each topic with the same name gets its own page and then a disambiguation page separates them. Using the google test, it's arguable whether the VT-UVA football game Commonwealth Cup is the most predominant usage of the term or not. The first hit is from the polo game, but that's just because of the URL.

I am going to split the content like this:


 * Commonwealth Cup = the VT-UVA football game
 * Commonweatlh Cup (disambiguation) = the disambig page
 * Commonwealth Cup (basketball) = BC-UMass roundball game (Already has its own article - I'll put a link on the disambig page)
 * The Cadillac Commonwealth Cup = If someone wants to create it, this would be a good name for the Goochland polo game (questionable whether its notable enough for its own article, I have no objections if it doesn't survive a prod)

If somebody really has their heart set against Commonwealth Cup being the football game and thinks that it should be the disambig page with Commonwealth Cup (American football) being the page for the VT-UVA game, ok, but honestly (1) virtually all of the content is for the football game, (2) both wiki pages linking here are linking here for the football game, and (3) most google references are for the football game.

BigDT 22:55, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

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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 moved. --BDD (talk) 16:45, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Commonwealth Cup → Virginia–Virginia Tech football rivalry – The teams have had a long rivalry well before the Cup was created in 1996. Focusing on the Commonwealth Cup era makes this article very uninteresting, seeing as how Virginia Tech has won the Cup in 14 of the 17 games, and gone 13–1 against Virginia since 1998. 174.29.215.188 (talk) 05:48, 4 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Comment then would you replace the Commonwealth Cup with Commonwealth Cup (disambiguation) ? -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 07:47, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
 * That is not necessary. A primary topic does not need to be an article of that title.  (see here and cf. Siam, Danzig).  There are no other articles at Commonwealth Cup (disambiguation) called "Commonwealth Cup".  —  AjaxSmack   18:21, 8 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Comment how does the Commonwealth Challenge relate to the cup? -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 07:48, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
 * The Commonwealth Challenge was program-wide rivalry for only a few years in the 2000s. —  AjaxSmack  18:21, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

I note that there are other items at Commonwealth Cup (disambiguation) called "Commonwealth Cup": If there is no primary topic for this then the links for the Virginia football rivalry should be disambiguated to Commonwealth Cup (Virginia). I'll do that as it never hurts to use more the more specific link. – wbm1058 (talk) 14:27, 6 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Commonwealth Cup (horse race)
 * Commonwealth Classic is also known as Commonwealth Cup, per its lead sentence
 * Now over 50 pages link to Commonwealth Cup (Virginia). I found only one link to Commonwealth Cup which was intended for the horse race, which I fixed. – wbm1058 (talk) 15:26, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

My problem with the above is that anyone typing Commonwealth Cup without any qualifier is taken to an article about an inter-college game of American football which seems bit US-centric and culturally biased. I notice that the horse race also has articles on the Japanese, Chinese and French wikis whereas the American football game has only a Japanese wiki article, suggesting that the horse race is rather bigger deal internationally. What's wrong with having Commonwealth Cup going to a dab page?  Tigerboy1966  18:13, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 25 November 2019
Change "a four-week run" to "a three-week run" an error appearing in the fourth (4th) paragraph, first (1st) sentence. Virginia was only ranked #1 in week 8 (10/16/1990), week 9 (10/23/1990) and week 10 (10/30/1990). C.E.Montgomery (talk) 01:27, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done NiciVampireHeart 13:47, 25 November 2019 (UTC)