Talk:List of college sports team nicknames in North America

Please note: I will be adding to this alot. -PhattyFatt 20:36, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Added a dozen or so Iowa college mascots to the list. Andrew42280 03:16, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

What about the Wichita State Wheatshockers? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.186.178.192 (talk) 22:59, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

It was never official, nor is it current; they're listed under Shockers. —C.Fred (talk) 00:54, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

City, State?

The first half or so of the list have the city and state of the college listed after the listing. This is especially useful for, e.g. "Saint Mary's College," where there are multiple schools by the same name. The bottom half of the list doesn't seem to have them. Do we want them on all schools listed? —C.Fred (talk) 16:18, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

"Mascot"?

I'm not sure that every "mascot" in this list is really an actual "mascot". For instance, the University of North Dakota's North Dakota Fighting Sioux athletic program does not have an actual "mascot" even though this list denotes the mascot as "Fighting Sioux." UND has not had an actual "mascot" for years..."Fighting Sioux" is instead considered to be strictly a nickname, not a mascot. Perhaps this list would be better off called List of colleges by athletic nickname? --MatthewUND^(talk) 08:30, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

I think that's got merit. I think leaving a redirect here is appropriate, since common usage equates nickname and mascot. On the other hand, it opens a new can of worms, since suddenly, "Ramblin' Wreck" is now a valid entry for Georgia Tech. I've flagged it for discussion on this talk page but not at Wikipedia:Requested Moves. —C.Fred (talk) 17:14, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Is this article just US schools?

I ask because the A.I.P. Fighting Owls from Panama are listed. I was going to remove, but nothing in the article clearly identifies it as only US schools, even though the vast majority are. Jbening (talk) 18:55, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Never mind on that one, as A.I.P. appears to be a secondary school, but the question still stands. Jbening (talk) 18:57, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Propose merge

Much of this article's information is contained in List of college athletic programs by U.S. state, and that list is far more comprehensive. I propose merging and redirecting this article there. Strikehold (talk) 16:18, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Adding Species Links

I've started adding wikipedia links for each heading (where appropriate) to the species or profession which the Universities use for their competing teams in line with how a few species were already linked (the UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs, for examples. This started as more of a self-serving project as I wanted to show how many schools use the American Cougar for their teams/individuals. Slingstone (talk) 06:35, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Slippery Rock

According to the Slippery Rock webpage...their nickname is The Rock, not the Rockets. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.130.17.187 (talk) 15:12, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

Links to schools

Since this page is about athletic teams' nicknames, should each Wikilink direct to the article about a school's athletics program (if one exists), or at least to the section of the school's article dealing with athletics (if there is no separate article), rather than to the main article about the school? [i.e., should UCLA link to UCLA Bruins, and Keystone College link to Keystone_College#Athletics?] Or is the status quo sufficient? Thank you.    → Michael J Ⓣ Ⓒ Ⓜ 05:59, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

Standardizing of Lists

I propose we establish a standardization of list format.

In my proposal, the following will be standardized:

• The city of each university/college. My suggestion is that they should be written in the order of city, state/province/territory, and then country.
• Notes concerning specific uses of the nickname within the respective university. Some of my suggestions would include but would not be limited to (men's/women's team only), (used until ----), etc.

I am open to more suggestions, but I do feel that standardizing the format of this wiki page will make the page tidier.

Grayson Woods 07:41, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

• First Amendment sparked by user Dale_Arnett. If the college's/university's title contains the name of the state/province/territory it is located in, I believe the state/province/territory should be omitted from the location section. --Grayson Woods 18:33, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
• Second Amendment With institution names utilizing a submodifier (e.g. Wisconsin–Waukesha, Houston–Downtown), the divider should be an en dash (–). This should not be confused with the em dash (—) or the minus sign (−). Grayson Woods 21:56, 5 May 2018 (UTC)
  • I always thought this was a hyphen, but apparently the en-dash is used specifically in this context, according to the Chicago Manual of Style. Usually it indicate the preposition “through” or equivalent, but here it seems to be a substitute for “at”. Note that many institutions don’t use a dash, preferring a comma or a space or the word “at”, and their practice should be followed. — Andy Anderson 22:21, 5 May 2018 (UTC)
    • I agree, if I see that I have placed an en dash where an institution does not include one in their abbreviations, I will revert it to that institution's practices. Well said, Andy. I would like to include this ruling as a clause under the Second Amendment. If I feel that an institution does not use the main argument of this amendment, I will add an note of reference to this clause (known as Section 2.1) to their institution. This reference will be made visible only in the editing interface. –Grayson Woods (talk) 18:47, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

Scorpions

UT Brownsville are the Ocelots (even listed here as so) not the Scorpions.LoneWolf1992 (talk) 20:55, 20 March 2020

Technically, they're the UT–Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros now. —C.Fred (talk) 01:05, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

Requested move 28 December 2020

List of college sports team nicknames → List of college sports team nicknames in North America – This list deals with the US and Canada exclusively, resulting in the {{Globalize}} template at the top of the page for the past 10 years. Expanding it to include the rest of the world would be challenging as, as far as I know, college sports are only a big deal in North America. The simplest solution is then to just rename the page so the title accurately reflects the contents. Lennart97 (talk) 16:19, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

Comment I think the lack of replies indicates this move is uncontroversial (which I expected it to be, anyway, but I filed the move request just in case), but I apparently am not allowed to close this discussion myself, so I would appreciate if someone else does so (or raises an objection, of course, if anyone does have one). Lennart97 (talk) 08:45, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

• Support per nom. Just to ephasise the above. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:47, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

Closed as move: seems sufficiently uncontroversial that I'll close the move request myself anyway and perform the move. Lennart97 (talk) 15:36, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

Aggregations: help or harm?

I noticed that some nicknames have been moved into aggregated categories. For instance, Wake Forest is no longer directly under "Demon Deacons"; they are instead under "Christian figures".

Is this sort of aggregation helpful to readers? If so, don't we at least need links to these sections so users can find them? Otherwise, we'll have duplicate entries for any of these grouped items. Do we also need to somehow note that these aren't directly nicknames but are groups? —C.Fred (talk) 16:03, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

Mess

This article has been turned into a huge mess. I vote we change it back. LoneWolf1992 (user talk) 21:08, 5 December 2021 (UTC)