Talk:Richard C. Levin

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Levin is not the longest serving president in the ivy league (if his term began in 1993 as indicated by the article). Franklin HT Rhodes of Cornell University, for one, served 18 years from 1977 to 1995. I believe it should be "the longest serving ivy-league president still in office" Ll 19:19, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

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Rename/move to "Richard C. Levin"

I suggest this article be renamed "Richard C. Levin" in accordance with how he is listed in the historical listing of all Yale presidents. I'm baffled as to why this person's nickname is being used rather than his formal name. Another Richard, Richard Nixon, is not listed as "Dick Nixon". My guess is that the article may have been written by one of Levin's friends, to whom it seemed natural to call his buddy Rick. But a Google search for yale "richard c. levin" -rick reveals a long list of official Yale university releases that refer to him as Richard C. Levin, then specifying his professorship and other positions. Does anyone object to changing the article's title to "Richard C. Levin" and then mentioning (Rick) in the first line?

Requested move 11 February 2025

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Celia Homeford (talk) 15:34, 3 March 2025 (UTC)

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Rick Levin → Template:No redirect – Per WP:COMMONNAME.

• "Richard C. Levin" clearly leads "Rick Levin" in Ngrams: [1].
  • I'll point out here that "Richard Levin" leads both, but "Richard Levin" is a common name in general, and when looking through Google Books results for "Richard Levin" [2], I mostly see sources related to other people with the same name, such as UNC business professor Richard I. Levin [3], Stony Brook English professor Richard Louis Levin [4], and Nelson Mandela University visiting professor Richard Levin [5].
• "Richard C. Levin" is how Yale University, where this person is a professor and which this person was president of for twenty years, refers to him: [6] [7] [8] [9].
• "Richard C. Levin" is the name that appears on his published books [10] [11] and papers [12].
• "Richard C. Levin" is what sources like The New York Times [13] and The Washington Post [14] call him. Malerisch (talk) 11:18, 11 February 2025 (UTC)

Authority controls

• OCLC's VIAF has Richard C. Levin [15]
• The Library of Congress Name Authority has Richard C. Levin [16]

Triplingual (talk) 17:00, 11 February 2025 (UTC)

Template:U do you have any opinions on this requested move? It may help move this proposal along. Malerisch (talk) 03:04, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.