Talk:American University of Antigua College of Medicine

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[edit] Change in wording

I request the beginning sentence: For the unaccredited medical school with a similar name disapproved by many U.S. states, see University of Health Sciences Antigua be benignantly reworded. If you really want to expose how "unaccredited" and "disapproved" UHSA is, I believe a link to UHSA Wiki page would be enough. Wouldn't it? DrGladwin 02:56, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

As I posted on the Administrator's noticeboard, the names "American University of Antigua College of Medicine" and "University of Health Sciences Antigua" are not similar enough to warrant disambiguation notices at the top of the articles. I have removed this notice accordingly. Mike R 17:27, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

As two medical schools located in Antigua, I feel that they are similar enough to warrant disambiguation. Leuko 17:42, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

I noticed this from WP:ANI and I'd have to agree with Mike R, those are sufficiently different names that I don't think a disambiguation in necessary. That said, if a disambiguation has consenses, it should exist without qualifiers like "unaccredited" and "disapproved"... that is better covered in the actual article text.--Isotope23 ^talk 17:45, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

I agree with Isotope and Mike. First, we don't need a notice. Second, we don't need words like "unaccredited" and "disapproved" in front of names of medical schools (except only on their Wikipage). DrGladwin 18:46, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Agree with Isotope on the latter point. But as I said, I really don't think a notice is needed at all. Mike R 17:49, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Actually, I recently converted article text into the dablink [1]. This text was placed 28 June 2007 [2] after confusion relating to which of the two schools was banned by Indiana. As such, I would contend that the names are similar enough to easily mistake, and a dablink would be appropriate. Leuko 18:06, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

I disagree. UHSA sounds completely different from AUA. Any intelligent prespective medical student can visit their websites, call the school directly, or visit 3rd party medical school forums. So, I don't feel that extra line is necessary. DrGladwin 18:50, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Right, that article text wasn't even necessary. Antiguan Medical education is probably the furthest thing from my area of knowledge, but even without any kind of qualifier I can tell the difference between "American University of Antigua" and "University of Health Sciences in Antigua".

I don't think this is an University of Iowa/Iowa State University type of scenario.--Isotope23 ^talk 17:27, 4 October 2007 (UTC)