Talk:U of M

I believe that deletion of the accusation of ignorant, and indeed, gratuitously hostile, bigotry would leave an unjust and factually inaccurate impression. Nonetheless I expect complaints of POV unless I give reams of documentation. I doubt anyone has ever attempted seriously to prosecute this particular case. Michael Hardy 03:05, 13 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Can you disambiguate U of Maryland please? :-) Evercat 03:06, 13 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I doubt anyone seriously considers this article anything other than a candidate for Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ed Poor (talk • contribs)

I turned this into a disambiguation page. The fact that there is occasional discussion of who is the "real U of M" isn't particularly noteworthy: this happens with lots of other university abbreviations (e.g. the UTs: Texas and Tennessee, who happen to also be football rivals). --Delirium 05:11, Nov 14, 2003 (UTC)

I was a visiting professor at UT for a year, and it was neither in Texas nor in Tennessee. Michael Hardy 20:19, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Extraordinary bigotry

Anyone who thinks I exaggerate when I speak of extraordinarily intense and extensive bigotry incessantly emanating out of the otherwise admirable University of Michigan needs only to look at the falsehoods in the recent anonymous edit summaries. Michael Hardy 02:14, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

• See WP:WEASEL. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.227.194.89 (talk • contribs)

I wish you wouldn't apply such a label to the entire University of Michigan population. It appears you may be struggling with a "vocal" minority in this case. This "vocal" minority does appear to be making uninformed edits to this Wiki article, but I don't believe this situation is limited to this article. As stated in the discussion on the University of Michigan page I would suggest, "Revert, rewrite, and don't let it get to you too much."

Personally I believe this page (once converted to disambig) has slowly become a little too wordy. I'm not sure how debating "who uses the abbreviation more" betters this disambig page or other articles. I submit the following change suggestion:

• University of Michigan, also referred to as "U-M" or "UM".
• University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities area. Locally often called "the U".

Terryfoster 19:47, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

The point of this page is less about debating which of these two is the real "U of M" (it's obviously Michigan, founded 34 years earlier and more widely known) and more about pointing out that people in Minnesota can't come up with any of their own nicknames for a university (see "The U" for further proof). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.30.95.82 (talk) 16:20, 13 December 2019 (UTC)

Cleanup

This page has become just a list of universities that start with the letter M. Most of these universities are never refered to as the U of M. Would anyone to removing all articles that do not bold "U of M" in the lead? ~ Eóin (talk) 06:42, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

I'm with you on the Universidad de Monterrey. The article indicates the school is abbreviated as "UDEM". In order to become "U of M" you would need to show that it was common to translate the name into English and then abbreviate it. That seems unlikely. (I'm giving the benefit of the doubt to the French Canadian schools on the list since they're officially bilingual.) Please note, that my point is not related to the University of Michigan in any way; please keep that in mind when responding. RevelationDirect (talk) 09:22, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

I completely agree. I think there should only be 3 universities listed here (Michigan, Minnesota, and Miami) because those are the only three who refer to themselves as the U of M with any frequency. Wikipediarules2221 22:54, 17 January 2010 (UTC)