Talk:Foundation Programme

There is a new website for comparison of UK Medical Foundation Schools - http://foundationschools.info Toad427 (talk) 15:08, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

Naming

I recently added the disambiguation to this article for the Foundation programme page which refers to the pre-undergraduate programmes offered by several institutions. I have been considering whether or not this page should be renamed for disambiguation. The example given at WP:TWOOTHER shows that there is no technical need for a parenthesis, i.e. Foundation Programme (medical) or Foundation Programme (medical education), since capitalisation difference alone is sufficient. Whether this is actually helpful to the average reader navigating these pages is yet to be determined.

More to the point is that the programme's own official website officially names it as UK Foundation Programme, with "UK" included as part of its proper name in all mentions on the site I've been able to find. There would be pros and cons to renaming this. Pros: this would arguably provide a more natural disambiguation per WP:NATURAL as well as include the programme's official name to boot. Cons: there is an argument for the current name being more recognisable per WP:COMMONNAME, and that adding the name in full would not help disambiguate from Foundation programme since that page at present largely mentions foundation programmes in the UK.

I personally am happy to leave it on the current naming following precedence, and so have not moved the page myself or opened a move request. But I obviously had doubts, and so wanted to send out feelers for thoughts on the naming. Benjitheijneb (talk) 17:40, 12 September 2023 (UTC)