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On 3 October 2024, it was proposed that this article be moved to Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. The result of the discussion was not moved.

Requested move 3 October 2024

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. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 08:33, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

Oppose per WP:COMMONNAME (per the 2012 requested-move discussion mentioned in the nomination) and per WP:CONCISE (vs. this unusually lengthy name). SilverLocust 💬 10:27, 3 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose: Even their own website says Virginia Tech.[1] The full name is not at all near the WP:COMMONNAME.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 11:23, 3 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose: Per the statements above. - Shearonink (talk) 14:26, 3 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

Oppose per COMMONNAME.--Mojo Hand (talk) 13:12, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: WikiProject Atlantic Coast Conference, INACTIVEWP, WikiProject Higher education, WikiProject Virginia, WikiProject Virginia Tech, and WikiProject Physics/Taskforces/Glass have been notified of this discussion. Web-julio (talk) 03:51, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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)[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.