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This entry, one of an unprecedented 52, has won the September 2005 West Dakota Prize, awarded for successfully employing the expression "legend states" in a complete sentence.

Statements such as "The nickname is of uncertain provenance," "The most legitimate theory comes from official University of Virginia sports documents," and "there is no theory suggesting why the University would have adopted a nickname based on another school's cheer" have been removed to improve the accuracy and reduce the bias of this article.

The sentence "Legend states that Natalie Floyd Otey came to Charlottesville's Opera House in 1893 and sang "Where'er You Are, There Shall My Love Be"" and succeeding information about that song were removed despite winning the Dakota award because they were inaccurate and misleading. Otey's second name is spelled Flloyd; it was the Levy Opera House; and the more important song she sang was "Wah-hoo-wah." A note was left in to allow for students possibly singing the chorus of that song to another of Otey's pieces.

No to the merge, but: This wahoos page should be about the name wahoo; it's currently about the song. There's lots more to be said about wahoos, and the song oughta be removed from this page. As it stands if you remove the wahoo page you don't remove much, and if anything this page gets merged into Good Old Song, not the other way around. B.S. Lawrence (talk) 19:17, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wahoos → ? – Wahoos should redirect to either Wahoo or Wahoo (disambiguation) as there is no primary topic. The current article could be moved to Virginia Wahoos or Wahoos (University of Virginia) - or it could be merged into the Virginia Cavaliers article. Gordon Meadows (talk) 11:59, 31 January 2025 (UTC) — Relisting.  ASUKITE 14:55, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Support. Move to Wahoos (University of Virginia) and redirect Wahoos to Wahoo (disambiguation). -- Necrothesp (talk) 16:03, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• The plural "wahoos" should redirect to the singular. Wahoo is an ordinary, countable, pluralizable noun. The fish is as strong of a primary topic for "wahoos" as it is for "wahoo", or stronger, as most entries of Wahoo (disambiguation) do not have a plural. Adumbrativus (talk) 00:07, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: WikiProject Virginia, WikiProject University of Virginia, and WikiProject Fishes have been notified of this discussion. ASUKITE 14:54, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisting comment: Relist to help decide if Wahoos should redirect to the disambiguation page, or the singular Wahoo ASUKITE 14:55, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]