Talk:List of university presses

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The article is divided into English-speaking and non-English speaking countries. But shouldn't it be divided into English-speaking presses and non-English speaking presses?

See, while NUS press is English-speaking, Singapore's first language is Mandarin. (Similarly AUC press is in English, though Egypt is an Arabic-speaking country). On the other hand, we could have French-language presses from Quebec, Canada (though I don't think there're any right now).VR _talk 20:27, 5 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• You're right, the current subdivision does not make much sense. In addition, I could imagine some presses publishing books in more than one language. I think the list should just be reorganized geographically. --Guillaume2303 (talk) 21:42, 5 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Please see Talk:Moody_Publishers#University_press. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me} 20:08, 17 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I strongly suspect that whoever posted the Polish listings didn't understand that this page is a listing of university presses. The list looks unrealistically lengthy, and for most of them, I could find no indication that they have presses. Also, most lack a URL link. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.159.185.52 (talk) 23:03, 15 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_press

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_university_presses

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:University_presses_by_country

Shouldn't this all be rationalized in some way? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.159.185.52 (talk) 00:29, 16 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It may not be obvious, but they are organized:

• University press is an article on the general topic of university presses (lowercase, generic).
• University Press is a disambiguation page used as a navigational aid for articles with "University Press" in their titles. This includes articles which aren't directly about a university press, like the student newspapers titled University Press.
• List of university presses lists notable (meaning those with articles) university presses whether or not they have "university press" in their name.
• Category:University presses by country allows the Wikimedia software to generate additional lists automatically.

So you can see they're each a little different, approaching the information in a different way. – Reidgreg (talk) 10:46, 11 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I did a bit of cleanup on the list and noticed a few issues which I can't address right now. Mostly, I think a quite a few entries on the list have notability issues.

Several of the university presses on the list pointed to or were redirects to the university articles, which had no mention of a press, publication or printing house. I deleted these as non-notable:

• Baylor University Press – redirect, no mention of press in parent article
• Charles Darwin University Press
  – redirect, no mention of press in parent article
• Pace University Press – redirect, the press is only peripherally mentioned as occupying a historic building, it does not establish the notability of the press.
• Dhaka University Press
  – redirect with no mention of the press.
• Rajshahi University Press
  – redirect with no mention of the press.
• Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press
  – redirect with no mention of the press.
• Leiden University Press
  – redirect with no mention of the press.

External links that don't belong on a list:

• Canterbury University Press
• Otago University Press

Defunct:

• Eastern Washington University Press closed in 2010. Similarly with Howard University Press, United Nations University Press. I don't believe these are notable enough to include when the only reliable secondary source mention is of their closing.

Need attention:

• China Renmin University Press
  – redirect, mentioned but unsourced in parent article which claims the press is "one of the most famous publishers" and "the first university press in China".
• Central European University Press
  – unsourced stub
• Washington State University Press – unsourced stub
• Texas Christian University Press – unsourced stub
• Duquesne University Press – unsourced stub
• Carnegie Mellon University Press – unsourced stub
• Wake Forest University Press – unsourced stub
• Northumbria University Press
  – unsourced stub
• Karlstad University Press – unsourced stub
• East China Normal University Press – unsourced stub
• Bob Jones University Press prints mostly pre-college religious publications, and I'm not sure if it fits the peer-reviewed scholarly focus to qualify as a "university press" even if it is the press of a university. Andrews University Press may be a similar case.
• Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika and The Nicolaus Copernicus University Press
  appear to cover the same subject

Unfortunately, all the non-notable entries make it difficult to spot the important, notable ones like Oxford, Cambridge, and University of Chicago presses. – Reidgreg (talk) 16:48, 11 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]