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The official name of the institution is San José State University (with diacritical mark included), and has been this way now for at least a decade. Many page-one Google search returns for "San Jose State University" include the diacritical mark. These search returns include the university's official
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Again, there is no harm in including the diacritic here since the old, incorrect spelling is easily deduced from the newer, correct spelling. Conversely, and more importantly, the correct spelling that includes the diacritic cannot easily be deduced from the old, incorrect spelling. Above all,
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Why are we resisting referring to SJSU correctly and accurately? A Wiki page move here helps to clear the air and basically set the record state. Let Knowledge lead by example as any legitimate encyclopedic enterprise should.
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website, all of the university's official social media feeds, the latest USNWR college rankings and Glassdoor. ESPN also includes the diacritical mark in all of its SJSU athletics coverage.
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information; not outdated, inaccurate information. The official name of the university is San José State University and has been for years. Let's get this right per Wiki's own guidelines.
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Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a
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on 7 December 2023. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected page, please see
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after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
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Can we put this to a vote again, please? Let's do the right thing here.
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This is consistent with the common usage of the name of the city of
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As laid out in the discussion, current name appears to be the
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On 14 October 2022, it was proposed that this article be
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San Jose State University → San José State University
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