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Former good articleGeorgia Tech was one of the Social sciences and society good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
On this day... Article milestones
DateProcessResult
February 22, 2007Good article nomineeListed
March 8, 2007Peer reviewReviewed
September 27, 2007Featured topic candidateNot promoted
July 22, 2009Good article reassessmentKept
August 18, 2009Featured article candidateNot promoted
June 3, 2023Good article reassessmentDelisted
On this day... Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on October 13, 2013, October 13, 2015, and October 13, 2017.
Current status: Delisted good article

Requested move 9 February 2023

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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: not moved. Favonian (talk) 12:10, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Georgia Tech → Georgia Institute of Technology – The Georgia Institute of Technology is the school's official name used in the vast majority of cases. It should be noted that Georgia Tech is only a common abbreviation for the full name of the school, and does not constitute WP:COMMONNAME situation in the Wikipedia Community Guidelines.

The precedent that can be referred to includes the common abbreviation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is MIT, but the entry is still the original name. The common abbreviation for The California Institute of Technology is Caltech, but the entry is still the original name. The University of California, Berkeley is often abbreviated as UC Berkeley, but the entry is still the original name.

In the 2019 discussion, some contributors mentioned "Virginia Tech" as a precedent. First, "Virginia Tech" is a rare case of article title usage among U.S. university and college Wikipedia entries. Second, the use of the name "Virginia Tech" is a different case: its original name is too long and contains "and", and is hardly used in general. If you were to ask passers-by on the street in the United States if they knew about the "Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University," they'd probably be confused. But if you mention "Virginia Tech," it will be more likely that they say "oh, I know it." This is where Wikipedia's COMMONNAME guidelines apply. I don't believe it would be appropriate to refer to Virginia Tech and Georgia Tech as precedent here. Cfls (talk) 00:52, 10 February 2023 (UTC)— Relisting. —usernamekiran (talk) 05:31, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  • Oppose. It has not been made clear why this current title does constitute WP:COMMONNAME like the nomination says. Saying it doesn't because it is "only a common abbreviation" is just WP:OFFICIALNAME. If we look at the website, Georgia Tech is far more common than Georgia Institute of Technology. So it isn't apparent what the problem is here, to me at least. --Quiz shows 01:54, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Out of curiosity, I took a look at Ohio State University. There have been multiple past attempts to rename the article The Ohio State University. Interestingly, the most common name used was "Ohio State" and not Ohio State University nor The Ohio State University. Checking the University of Michigan, "Michigan" is more common than University of Michigan. Michigan State University takes a different route and uses "MSU" 17 times over the single use of Michigan State University. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign does not mention themselves as University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign on their website, but does mention "Illinois" and "U of I" instead. To wrap this up, Pennsylvania State University goes by that name once and by "Penn State" at least 13 times. To sum it up, I don't think that we should be using the website of a university to determine the name that Wikipedia should use. --Super Goku V (talk) 04:46, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    As a brief follow-up, Reuters has use Georgia Institute of Technology recently outside of sports coverage, A dozen universities contacted by Reuters, including the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Rice University in Houston and institutions of higher learning in Hungary and Slovakia, did not immediately return messages seeking comment. I checked to see what the AP did, but all I could find that was recent was sports articles. --Super Goku V (talk) 04:59, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support I made my arguments last time in the section up the page, but ... Acroterion (talk) 01:57, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
My point made above is that there is no clear practice concerning popular names for educational institutions, and that there appears to be a sentiment here that "Foo Tech" is obvious common usage, but "Foo State" isn't. I'm not sure why we're drawing the distinction. Acroterion (talk) 02:16, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Rreagan007. Estar8806 (talk) 02:44, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Georgia Tech is the common name and is used for academics as much as sports. Many university entries use abbreviated names (London School of Economics, Sciences Po, University at Buffalo, Virginia Tech, Stanford University). BojackSanchez12 (talk) 13:32, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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.

Good article criteria

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This article was first promoted to GA status in 2007, and reassessed in 2009 but since then seems to have slipped. While the prose is fine, the main issue is missing citations. The traditions section has had a refimprove tag since 2010, but more are needed elsewhere. Bneu2013 (talk) 23:12, 16 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

GA Reassessment

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Georgia Tech

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The following discussion 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.

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Result: It has been more than a week, and the outlying issues still remain. Unfortunately, that means that we cannot, in good faith, continue to declare this to meet a standard that it no longer does. That being said, I will be boldly closing this discussion. Bneu2013 (talk) 18:49, 3 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I am nominating this article for GA reassessment. It has been sixteen years since this was promoted, and a lot of issues have accumulated since then. The biggest is a lack of adequate citations, which would be an automatic fail in a GA nomination. There are two {{more citations needed}} tags, one of which has been there since 2010, and has somehow flown under the radar since then. Bneu2013 (talk) 21:25, 26 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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.
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