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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.
Virginia Tech → Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University – The November 2012 discussion has several strong arguments in favor of never changing the name to Virginia Tech. Georgia Tech is the only example cited that doesn't use its formal name; all other technical schools such as MIT and Caltech use their official names in their article titles. Other schools such as USC and West Point also use their formal name as their article titles. 50.47.244.81 (talk) 03:51, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
Oppose. Other schools such as USC and West Point also use their formal name as their article titles. Even outside of Georgia Tech, there are several that don't; just look at Rutgers or Stanford. As noted above, vt.edu uses "Virginia Tech" everywhere, outside of a copyright notice at the bottom. Even if it wasn't the WP:COMMONNAME, it's used in so many "official" contexts that there's no reason to consider it colloquial. Nohomersryan (talk) 19:37, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
Oppose. There aren't really a lot of schools whose "formal" name differs from their "common" name other than abbreviating or removing "University". "Texas Tech University" is commonly called "Texas Tech". "University of Oklahoma" is "Oklahoma" or "OU". The best analog is probably Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, which, thankfully, we just call Rutgers University. --B (talk) 19:54, 6 October 2024 (UTC)
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