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Old 10-14-2014, 10:32 PM
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Originally Posted by chi-o_cat View Post
The official abbreviation for the University of North Carolina at Charlotte is UNC Charlotte. Not UNCC and not UNC-Charlotte. I don't know if they're on Wikipedia, but the local media uses them all the time and it drives my significant other (a marketing/branding nerd who works at UNC Charlotte) absolutely nuts.
Meanwhile, the official short form for The University of North Carolina at Greensboro is UNCG, not UNC Greensboro (or UNC-Greensboro or UNC-G). But for Carolina, it's UNC-CH (or, of course, just UNC).

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Originally Posted by naraht View Post
I've spent about a week correcting most of the instances of "John Hopkins University" across Wikipedia (there were about 4000 of them most from one book on Sharks used as a reference produced by "John Hopkins University Press")

So what's next?
I've looked for "University of William and Mary" and "Carnegie-Melon"

What other college name mistakes should I look for?
Okay, I'll ask: Why? I mean, that's a lot of time involved.
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