Talk:University of Missouri–Kansas City
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[edit] UM System seal
I need someone who graduated from UMKC (i.e., knows what the diploma looks like) to answer this: is the UM System seal on the outside cover or on the diploma itself? Any other logos? Is the UM System seal used anywhere on campus at all? Could UMKC students even identify it? Just wondering and trying to decide what to do with the infobox. Thanks.—Lazytiger 19:12, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Please move back
The page move was wrong. The dash is used in writing to illustrate a pause in speaking. The UMKC official site clearly uses regular hyphen throughout. http://www.umkc.edu/umkc/catalog/html/intro/0200.html Badagnani 06:43, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
- The en dash is the proper English punctuation for the title of the university. You are right to say that one of the uses of the em dash is to illustrate a pause in speaking, but we are talking about the en dash here. Many people are simply ignorant of the en dash's existence or proper use. Hyphens are primarily for one purpose—to create compound words. There is no place called Missouri-Kansas City that has a university. There is, however, a University of Missouri at Kansas City. The en dash is used in places where words such as "at" or "to" or a comma (such as University of California, Berkeley) could be used instead. I am well aware of the fact that UMKC—as well as UMSL, MU, UMR, and countless other universities and organizations—often use hyphens on their websites and (even more embarrassingly) on their printed materials. This is purely out of laziness and/or ignorance of the proper punctuation. I see no reason to repeat their mistakes here. This argument was already hashed out on the MU talk page. See also the Wikipedia Manual of Style. And in any case, a redirect for the hyphenated variation exists, so there should be no problem with people accessing the article.—Lazytiger 14:47, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
