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English presses or English countries?

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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]

Is Moody Publishers a university press?

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

Polish universities or Polish university presses

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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]

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http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/University_press

http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/List_of_university_presses

http://wiki.riteme.site/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]

Needs work

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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:

External links that don't belong on a list:

Defunct:

Need attention:

Many of the other stub articles rely on primary sources, which doesn't establish notability. And of course there all the redlinked articles which shouldn't be included.

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]

Umbrella organization memberships

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Is it too promotional for this global list to note whether a press belongs to the Association of University Presses (AUP), the Association of European University Presses (AEUP), Association of Canadian University Presses (ACUP), or the Association Française des Presses d’Universités Diffusion (AFPU-D)? ---- M2545 (talk) 07:49, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I added those in there just because in academia there is often an interest in whether or not a UP is affiliated with organizations like these. Additionally, the organizations I included were the ones that had Wikipedia articles. (Ideally, I would want to include the presses that are a part of the Association of University Presses of Latin America and the Caribbean, too.)--Gen. Quon[Talk] 19:51, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Gen. Quon: Thanks for the explanation. It does seem useful to readers to include information about umbrella organizations. But some umbrella organizations are not mentioned in this list and I wonder if it's perhaps misleading or biased (WP:WEIGHT, WP:BALANCE) to include some umbrella organizations but not others? See for example, Leuven UP, which mentions both well-established and lesser-known organizations. -- M2545 (talk) 10:45, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
That's a fair point. When I put this all together, however, I thought to focus exclusively on UP-related organizations, rather than the full spectrum of organizations out there. (To be fair, on many of the pages I've created for UPs, I have attempted to list the other organizations, too.)--Gen. Quon[Talk] 15:34, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]