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"Flagship" designation

If "flagship" designation is appropriate in a Wikipedia article at all, it should be referenced, and not just in SUNY Buffalo's own materials. I don't live in New York or have an affiliation with any higher ed institution there except Cornell, but I think the Stony Brook people would take exception to Buffalo receiving that designation. I'll leave it here for a while and see if generates discussion, if not I'll just delete it.AlexFeldman (talk) 10:29, 27 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This is correct, and I would advocate removal as suggested above (and removal of listing of Buffalo here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Flagship_universities_in_the_United_States). It is at best highly misleading to refer to Buffalo as SUNY flagship, as the system has deliberately not ever designated a single flagship campus. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:State_University_of_New_York#No_Flagship and links added to introductory section of that entry. Attempted to edit entry and added referenced to reflect the actual state of affairs, but reverted by anonymous partisan/s who seem invested in Buffalo's alleged flagship state. ~dak~ 15:57, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

OK, I edited it again. If the people who reverted it want to give us something more than the internal reference, and the College Board, I'll stop. But please don't revert it without comment. AlexFeldman (talk) 22:07, 17 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

How you can ignore the University and the College Board is baffling. Those are the two major players in the topic at hand. 'university at buffalo is the flagship. The College Board and buffalo's own site, are accurate, valid, current sources. The College Board is the one who put together the list of flagship universities in the first place and it lists buffalo's as it for new york. Look at the definition of a flagship University, on Wikipedia even, it says it's determined by the state and college board. It's the largest and biggest public school that has all the big division 1 athletics for the state. It is the most well known and highest research activity. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagship_university#Education `The College Board, for example, defines flagship universities as the best-known institutions in the state, noting that they were generally the first to be established and are frequently the largest and most selective, as well as the most research-intensive public universities, it is also the states biggest University '. Which buffalo is. It's crazy it keeps getting removed, unless you find something that says it's not or another University in New York is the flagship then buffalo remains to be the flagship. There is even much talk at the state that it's the flagship, it's own website makes the flagship designation. Nothing else in new york comes close and that's backed up by sources, the College Board article was posted this October as well as the universities own website which is run by suny!!!!!