Disputatio:Index universitatum nominibus Latinis constitutis

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I think we're probably going to have to go through this and change all the locations from the format "..., Lutetia, Francia" to "..., Lutetiae in Francia" which seems much more logical in Latin. --Iustinus 00:22 iul 21, 2005 (UTC)

Hmm, Roland2 moved one of my source links to a footnote... but none of the others are int that format. I'm about to add a comment in a footnote, but I don't know that footnotes are necessary if we're just linking to a source (it seems like kind of a waste of effort, both from the point of view of the writers, and the readers). What do you think, fellow Wikipedians? If we're going to make this page consistant, which way shoudl it go? --Iustinus 06:07, 24 Augusti 2006 (UTC)

[recensere] Orationes X ALF Conventus

Roland2 asks if http://www.tekhnai.es/alfconventus/orationes.htm is a valid source. By the rules I've been using, no. I'm trying to avoid forms that have been used by Neo-Latinists, unless I can back them up in official university sources. Official university sources would include seals (of course) and official publications (many universities publish journals or books with Latin titles, e.g. Acta Universitatis Nephelococcygiensis). Non-official but attested forms might be useful for the proposed Index universitatum page (and they're also a useful place to start when you're looking for an official form), but they aren't really appropriate for this page. --Iustinus 18:45, 28 Augusti 2006 (UTC)

[recensere] Westminster

To repeat what I just posted elsewhere, my source on the Latin name Collegium Westmonasterium is personal conversation with Albertus Castro, head of the Westminster College Classics department. He was asked by the university to create an official Latin name for them. At first he suggested the more logical Collegium Westmonasteriense, but they told him it would be too long to put on a seal (more likely it would be too long for them to remember!) so he went with the current name, putting the college and its name in apposition. Now, to my knowledge, no online source confirms this name, and offhand I do not have a print source either. So on en: this change would have to be thrown out as unverifiable. But I'm hoping that for the purposes of la: you will take me at my word that I got this from the horse's mouth, so to speak. --Iustinus 00:54, 19 Ianuarii 2007 (UTC)

Good news! Albertus is considering contributing an image of the Latin seal. That would be awsome. --Iustinus 21:12, 19 Ianuarii 2007 (UTC)
Die 5 Novembris 1617: "Collegium Westmonasteriense excipit custodem sigilli et regni iudices prandio perlauto, ubi custos sigilli munificem se praebuit alumnis regiis."—http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/diary/2lat.html. IacobusAmor 20:19, 16 Septembris 2007 (UTC)
Excellent! But per my comment at #Orationes X ALF Conventus, perhaps we shouldn't count that. Camden is a hell of a lot more impressive than ALF, at least in terms of "officiality," but it's still not a university source. Furthermore, this isn't the same Westminster College. Also, I should probably nag Dr. Castro about this again. --Iustinus 20:34, 16 Septembris 2007 (UTC)

[recensere] Sources

First of all, thanks to Harissimo for taking the time to move all URL citations to inline refs. I've been meaning to do that since about a year ago (see above), but didn't want to bother with the grunt work. So I am grateful someone else showed the initiative to do this. Second of all, when I get the time I REALLY need to come up with an "Official Names" tag for pages like this, and the various names-by-profession pages I've done, explaining that all these names come from reliable sources and nothing should be added to the list without a good citation. Problem is that then I would be obligated to go back through these lists and provide all my sources. I did look up all the names, but these pages were started before there was an easy way to do citations, so I didn't bother to keep track. Looking up all the original sources again would be long and frustrating, especially for pages like astronomus. But perhaps there's some middle ground that can be used in the interim. --Iustinus 19:03, 16 Septembris 2007 (UTC)