Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of alumni of Jesus College, Oxford: Mathematics, medicine and science/archive1
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The list was promoted by Matthewedwards 21:45, 14 April 2009 [1].
- Nominator(s): BencherliteTalk
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Another spin-off from List of alumni of Jesus College, Oxford (which, with over 500 names before I started splitting the list into sections, had got too big to handle). As usual, it contains all the names in these fields from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Dictionary of Welsh Biography, obituaries in The Times and people who had articles here anyway. BencherliteTalk 10:02, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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- Support -- Previous issues resolved; article now meets WP:WIAFL. Great work.--Best, TRUCO 21:42, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support, all issues resolved. Dabomb87 (talk) 15:19, 4 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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Sources look good. Dabomb87 (talk) 03:38, 4 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Comments ahh, Bencherlite, my dark blue friend... find hereinwithbelow some choice comments which should assist you on your path...
- I've probably read it half a dozen times but since when did the Queen found an Oxbridge college at the request of a "mere" clergyman?
- Added that he was Treasurer of St David's Cathedral, no "mere"-ness about him. BencherliteTalk
- "about" is used twice in really quick succession leading to inelegant prose.
- Elegantized with an "approximately". BencherliteTalk
- "the Canadian Jonathan Borwein ..." no real need for "the" here.
- Reworded to "(a former Rhodes Scholar, and a professor at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada)". BencherliteTalk
- Might be worth finding a suitable link for "ultra-cold matter"?
- It's all Greek to me, but looking at details of his research on his website gave me the idea of linking to Bose–Einstein condensate, whatever that is... BencherliteTalk
- "an approximate year is used for table-sorting purposes." has a full stop, none of the other abbreviation explanations do...
- Turned into a sentence fragment and full stop surgically extracted without anaesthetic. BencherliteTalk
- No need to relink Bachelor of Arts in the para under the Degree abbreviations section.
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- "Music had been available as a specialist subject..." what does that mean? Sounds like something out of Mastermind to me...
- How about "Music had been taught as a specialist subject, rather than being part of the BA course, before these changes"? BencherliteTalk
- Re: David E. Evans, his dash messes up the sorting on M here.
- Ahh, no. His M date is 1972, as the note says, so I've put that as a hidden sortable date; it then sorts at the bottom, in chronological order. BencherliteTalk
- "The first Junior Research..." only one to start with "The..."
- Sentence fragment structure inverted to avoid this. BencherliteTalk
- You have no images of the medical practitioners. This makes the table expand across to fill the page. Looks odd to me.
- Added photos from Commons of relevant buildings to the three sections without photos of people. BencherliteTalk
- Mixtures of ?, DNG and numbers also messes up sorting on "Biologists and other scientists" table.
- Added a hidden sortable date for Lhuyd so his DNG is in chronological order at the top; the other "?"s are correctly at the bottom, chronologically. BencherliteTalk
- "BSc (gas kinetics research)" was that the official name of his degree?
- Don't forget that the BSc (no longer awarded) was a postgrad degree, not a first degree. The key to the table does say that the subject studied is included where known; I've removed the word "research", however, as superfluous. BencherliteTalk
- I've probably read it half a dozen times but since when did the Queen found an Oxbridge college at the request of a "mere" clergyman?
- That's all I have. Hope it helps... The Rambling Man (talk) 21:33, 4 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- ahh, The Rambling Man, my light blue nemesis, I've been expecting you... Thank you for your review. Hope my changes are in the right directions. As a free gift, have Derek Long, the latest addition to the list: I noticed that the piece in the Jesus College Record about the science labs that I used for the third para of the lead was written by an Emeritus Prof, who turned out to be worth an article of his own. BencherliteTalk 07:16, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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