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Requested move 1 March 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. Withdrawn by nominator. ––FormalDude (talk) 09:00, 8 March 2023 (UTC) (closed by non-admin page mover)[reply]


– Using the word people is clunky and also grammatically incorrect. Not sure if a WP:MOS already exists for list of alumni articles, but similar articles I can find (List of Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni and List of BITS Pilani alumni) seem to consistently use alumni. Soni (talk) 04:02, 1 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Comment "List of [University] people" is not grammatically incorrect and is a frequently used title format when the list includes staff, alumni, and other people related to the university. Examples of this in use include: List of Harvard University people, List of University of California, Los Angeles people, List of University of Cambridge people, List of University of Southern California people, List of University of Maryland, College Park people, etc etc. Freedom4U (talk) 03:00, 6 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • I stand corrected on both counts. There was no Wikipedia policy in place for names such as these, so I relied on my knowledge of English language, which apparently was wrong. And somehow I did not manage to find the rest of the articles listed above.
  • Going through all of these articles, I can see each of them seem to have faculty or staff members listed in some form, so I'll withdraw the proposal. Soni (talk) 08:39, 8 March 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.