Talk:UNF

Disambiguation, not redirect

This should remain a disambiguation page. Plrk (talk) 11:14, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Why? The University of North Florida is the top 4/5 on Google's page rank and all the other articles are quite small. Nichos (talk) 01:31, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

comments

UNF should direct to the University of North Florida, given the other articles are so small and have very little traffic.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.231.118.122 (talk • contribs)

I'm biased toward the subject, but I tend to agree - the other uses of this acronym appear to be significantly less common at this juncture.--Cúchullain ^t/c 01:45, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: page moved, merging histories next -- JHunterJ (talk) 00:49, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

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UNF (disambiguation) → UNF – I think with my recent additions of the United Nations Foundation and UniFirst to this page, the University of North Florida can no longer be thought of as the primary topic. The university is still undoubtedly the topic most searched for among those listed, but I don't think it can satisfy the guideline's wording of "A topic is primary for a term, with respect to usage, if it is highly likely—much more likely than any other topic, and more likely than all the other topics combined—to be the topic sought when a reader searches for that term." For example, when I tried searching Google for "unf" (no quotes), the United Nations Foundation was result number five, and when I tried a search of "UNF" (with quotes), UniFirst's stock listing at Yahoo Finance was result number eight. — Mr. Stradivarius ^♫ 18:18, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

• Support. University of North Florida has no natural, universal claim to such a commonly used abbreviation. The evidence in the current DAB page is persuasive. Noetica^Tea? 23:05, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
• Comment Can you (or anyone else) muster more reliable and useful evidence? I'm not challenging this requested move but the evidence presented above is not very convincing. ElKevbo (talk) 03:15, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

  Sure, here are the Google books hits for each of the entries on the page:

  • Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL - About 66,500 results
  • Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL - About 7,820 results
  • Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL - About 68 results
  • Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL - About 4,830 results
  • Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL - About 12,800 results
  • Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL - About 159,000 results

  The pattern isn't all that different for news or plain Google results, although the United National Front results seem to be especially high in Google Books. It's debatable whether the United National Front entries count as being results for this disambiguation page, but even without them the other results make a significant dent in the University of North Florida's count. — Mr. Stradivarius ^♫ 11:11, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

• Comment UNF (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) is the older disambiguation page. It should have been moved to this location instead of making a new page. I suggest you just revert to the disambiguation page, and then merge this dab page to that one. 70.24.248.211 (talk) 04:04, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
• Comment This seems reasonable to me, but I'd like to see evidence that the acronym "UNF" in particular is used for these other entries with frequency, not just that the United Nations Foundation and UniFirst draw a substantial amount of Google hits under their actual names. The university is commonly known as "UNF"; in fact nearly all hits in my cursory Google News search for UNF were about the university.--Cúchullain ^t/c 14:50, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

  That's going to be a tricky request to find hard numbers for. I'm afraid the best I can do at the moment is let you know that UNF is UniFirst's stock ticker symbol. Best — Mr. Stradivarius ^♫ 16:16, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

  Actually, ignore that - I already said it in my nomination. I think the Wikipedia search results for "UNF" are interesting though. The first page are mostly referring to the University of North Florida, but there are an awful lot that refer to various United National Fronts after that. There are only 297 of them, so countable, but it would still be a pain in the neck to do. I did, however, catch a couple of UNF references that should be entries on the disambiguation page. I'll add them in now. — Mr. Stradivarius ^♫ 16:58, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

For now I'm going with a tentative oppose, as I just don't see much evidence that "UNF" is used frequently for other subjects. As I said, nearly all hits for "UNF" in Google News are for the university. In Google Books, UNF "University" gets 111,000 hits, while UNF "UniFirst" gets 982 and UNF "United Nations" gets 13,100 (some of which are for other topics such as the United Nations Front and the United Nations Fund). It seems to me that "UNF" most commonly refers to the school, though I'm fine with it either way.--Cúchullain ^t/c 17:26, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

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Love the Wiktionary redirect definition ;P -- œ^™ 10:41, 2 April 2014 (UTC)