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Somebody called User:Scientist-100 removed an image I added. He did not say why. I consider it a destructive act to just take things off without prior discussion or commenting. Robert Illes 09:03, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

=Private University+ Hi, I removed the word 'private' because in English a private university is one that is entirely funded through the private sector. 2/3 of VU funding is from the public sector. 212.64.98.189 19:18, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The name of the article should be changed

I'm a student of VU University Amsterdam and last December I got an e-mail from the university staff, that the official English name to be used in all publications should from then on be "VU University Amsterdam". Also was mentioned that "Vrije Universiteit" and "Free University" should not be used any more by the university's staff.

Therefore, I would say the name of this article should be changed from "Vrije Universiteit" to "VU University Amsterdam", as wikipedia should follow that management decision being an maximally objective source.

It's just that I don't know how to do that, so could someone reading this, please do so for me?

I think that the title in Wikipedia should be most familiar name, not so much the official name, though of course the official names should be mentioned in the article. Andries (talk) 19:56, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

I think that you file a proposal at Wikipedia:Requested_moves . I will not do it for you, because I do not feel so much sympathy for such dictated name changes. Andries (talk) 20:07, 24 May 2008 (UTC)