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St Stephen's House Infobox

I added an infobox to the St Stephen's House page. If anyone knows any of the missing info, please add it! For example, anyone know who the JCR president might be? I assumed the college was named after St Stephen, but maybe it was one of the others. Casper Gutman 08:54, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Domitianus

Not strictly within the project remit, I know, but could someone go to the Ashmolean and take a photo of the Domitianus coin, to replace Image:Domitianus coin.jpg, which may soon be deleted for not being fair use. Thanks! Neddyseagoon - talk 13:38, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

List of University of Oxford people

I have made a start, a slow start, at converting the current list into a sortable table format. List of Dartmouth College alumni is a Featured List and shows how interesting and useful an alumni list can be, rather than just a plain list as we have at present. Anyone else care to help? Discussion welcome. Bencherlite 22:06, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

List of people associated with Jesus College, Oxford

Having put my previous project (see above post) on hold for a bit, I've tackled this page and put it into sortable table format, complete with dates (as many as I could find) and references. There are other Jesus College alumni / fellows in the relevant categories yet to be included in this list: feel free to add them, but preferably with dates and references. Also, I'd welcome comments on the layout etc. I'll take it to Peer review later too, but feedback there would appear to be slow. Thanks, Bencherlite^Talk 22:41, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

Actually, decided to skip the backlog and go straight for Featured List status (there being no intermediate stage of "Good List"). All further improvements welcomed. Bencherlite^Talk 15:56, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Wow! You've put quite some work into that page, Bencherlite, and it's looking amazing. Well done! Casper Gutman 07:02, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. As you've noted elsewhere, it's now a Featured List. Now, which college shall I do next...? Bencherlite^Talk 03:28, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

List of Chancellors & nav boxes

List of Chancellors of the University of Oxford needs some tweaking, particularly for the dates of Chancellors between 1867 and 1933.

I've added the academic nav boxes for the last four Chancellors - one the dates for earlier ones are confirmed these can go on all articles.

For those who want to help with this, the code for (to pick one at random) E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax is:

{{s-aca}}

{{succession box|title=[[List of Chancellors of the University of Oxford|Chancellor of the University of Oxford]]|years=1933–1959|before=[[Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon|Viscount Grey of Fallodon]]|after=[[Harold Macmillan]]}}

(Please note that the name for a predecessor should be their title when they finished in post and the successor should be when they start in post. So the 1960-1986 Chancellor is listed as "Harold Macmillan" on Halifax's box, but "Earl of Stockton" on Roy Jenkins's box (Macmillan wasn't enobled until 1984).)

And displays as follows:

If there are no other position nav boxes then add {{start box}} at the beginning and {{end}} at the end. Timrollpickering 11:37, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

Chancellor elections

University of Oxford Chancellor election, 1925 has been created. Details on the other Chancellor elections would be useful. Timrollpickering 11:20, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

There's a further one at University of Oxford Chancellor election, 1987. Timrollpickering 11:41, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Talk:University of Oxford

I've archived discussion at this page from February - August of this year, since one section constituted inappropriate use of talk pages (re selection process). I also templated the user initiating that inappropriate discussion (warning since blanked, instead of archived...). Coldmachine^Talk 08:39, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Discussion about the page length of List of University of Oxford people

There is a discussion underway at Talk:List of University of Oxford people#Very long about sorting out the enormous length of this list. All views welcome. Bencherlite^Talk 10:33, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Oriel College, or Oriel College, Oxford?

There is a discussion - well, it would be a discussion if anyone replied! - about the best name for the article about Oriel. Please stop by at Talk:Oriel College#Oriel College, or Oriel College, Oxford? if you get a chance. Bencherlite^Talk 12:42, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Userboxes/Education/United Kingdom/University of Oxford

• Wikipedia:Userboxes/Education/United Kingdom/University of Oxford

I have several concerns with the edits to Oxford College useboxes that have been made recently:-

1. All except Oriel are fair use images which can not be used on user pages. I am not certain whether the justification for the Oriel crest being fair use is correct.
2. The use of terms such as "Balliolian" are not really standard, and I do not think there is consensus to replace terms such as "studied at Balliol College", "belongs to Balliol College" or "graduated from Balliol College" with that term.
3. Two of the earlier templates have been deleted, when there is no consensus to change them.

I am tempted to revert right back and restore the former Oriel and Pembroke userboes, but I'll leave them for comment here, particularly from User:Pizza1512 who made all but one of the recent changes. --Bduke 22:36, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

I share your concerns. User:Pizza1512 is re-creating many Ox userboxes and badly and against the userbox migration solution. Also he's attempting to subvert the speedy delete process. I'm seriously thinking about making a report on the admin incident noticeboard. Aula^TPN 22:38, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

This guy is doing it all over the place. Taking an established template, creating a really bad copy, replacing all references to the original then having it deleted. I've undone as much damage as I can and requested the resurrection of the old templates. I'm now going to place a notice on the admin board because this is just disruptive and ridiculous. Aula^TPN 22:55, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Good idea. I managed to undo his changes to the Wadham templates before the category got speedily deleted (out of process, as it wouldn't have been empty for 4 days), but a couple of other colleges weren't so fortunate, judging by the redlinks. Pizza1512 has previously been warned about fair-use images in userboxes, incidentally. Bencherlite^Talk 23:00, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, you can see my complaint here Aula^TPN 23:08, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

I did, and added to it here. Bencherlite^Talk 23:16, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

I have undeleted the Oriel and Pembroke templates.--Bduke 23:27, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

• I have just reverted a change made to the main {{user oxon}} template by the same user, and issued a warning about blanking/removing content to his/her user talk page. Coldmachine^Talk 08:42, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

University of Oxford has been nominated for Good Article status

So keep your eyes open for ways to improve the article; if the article isn't a straight "pass", then the reviewer should leave comments on the talk page to work through. Bencherlite^Talk 08:28, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Christchurch College, Cambridge?

(Cross-posted from WP:RD/H) I am working on a new biographical article partially sourced from this book chapter from 1890. The second sentence says Thomas Jones graduated from "Christchurch College, Cambridge". What is that? The only English Christchurch College I see is Christ Church, Oxford not Cambridge. The closest Cambridge match I see is Christ's College, Cambridge but that appears far less prominent than the Oxford college and is not called Christchurch. Can anyone help determine which to link to? —Wknight94 (talk) 11:23, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

The Dictionary of National Biography (online, subscription access) says Christ's College, Cambridge. Omassey 11:49, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

So do Christ Church and Christ's College need 'see also' links? Omassey 12:04, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Good idea. Bencherlite^Talk 18:41, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

I cant see the point of diluting the impact of the Christ's College article with a link to an Oxford college, apparently to help some one who has got stumped by an incorrect reference in a 1890 book. Although I have encountered other examples of attributing colleges to the wrong University, I don't think an encyclopedia need use up space to make a link to help solve such occasional problems. I will remove the link on the Christ's College page, but I would not presume to intefer with what the members of this project do for another place! BTW keep up the good work boys your institution do deserve good articles. Op. Deo 22:34, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

GA on hold for University of Oxford

Talk:University of Oxford#GA on hold lists the points raised by the assessor, if anybody is interested in trying to help. Bencherlite^Talk 13:08, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

It passed, incidentally. Bencherlite^Talk 07:57, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

College lists

College lits sof almuni and fellows are out of hand. They are just so long and it is completely unnecessary. Unless someone else sorts them all out first, I will remove everyone without a Wikipedia page. No exceptions. I will then cut down the number of people on the page, with their own pages, to a more sensible and minimalistic number.

N.B. I have no idea who most, if any, of these people are and so I may well only leave in a bunch of nobodies. It would be best, from this point of view, if people with knowledge of these alumni and fellows got there first. asyndeton 23:08, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

I think the best course of action is to make sure there is a category for alumni and one for fellows for each college. Then link to that and delete the whole list. That means anyone with an article can be found from the category. Anyone without an article probably should not be in the article anyway as nobody knows if they are notable. If notability is clear, write a stub to get it going. --Bduke 23:14, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

That's a good start. But me writing a stud is out of the question; like I said, I know nothing of 99% of these people. asyndeton 23:19, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

I did not mean you specifically to write a stub. I meant anyone who sees a redlink disappear for someone they know is notable. --Bduke 03:25, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

I think it is time for the cull to begin. asyndeton 17:02, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

I have no problem with deleting redlinked names in the absence of a reference showing notability that could be used to write an article about them. (E.g. yesterday I removed a redlink from Brasenose's list which had been speedily deleted as non-notable and probably was a student's vanity page.) However, if the list of names in a college article is too long, the answer is to create a stand-alone annotated list article (e.g. List of people associated with Jesus College, Oxford, or List of Balliol College people) and then mention just a few names in the main article as a "taster" (e.g. Jesus College, Oxford#People associated with the College) rather than deleting the whole list and linking to the categories. A short section noting prominent former students and fellows has a place in a college's article. Bencherlite^Talk 17:30, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

I have just removed all fellows and alumni that do not have their own page. I do agree that the solution to long lists of people with their own pages is not deletion and your suggestion would be a good idea; however every real person on List of people associated with Jesus College, Oxford has their own page and so people who don't have their own shouldn't be revived if these lists are created. It is also worth noting that Oriel College, Oxford is a featured article and only has two very small paragraphs on 'People associated with the college,' not the endless lists you find on other pages. asyndeton 18:16, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

The section about Oriel people links to List of Oriel College people.--Alf ^melmac 15:24, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

"people who don't have their own shouldn't be revived if these lists are created." I entirely agree, and well done for your clean-up of the college articles. Bencherlite^Talk 18:56, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

While I agree wholeheartedly with your sentiments on this, the danger of the list being blindly edited in this way is that, while cruft does get removed, some important figures will also be axed as just happened with St Edmund Hall. While Emden and Kelley don't have their own pages they are largely responsible for the continued existence of the college in its present state. I don't feel it would be particularly difficult to assert their notability as they are both well-published academics (I believe one of Emden's works is even cited in the article). I've added those two entries back in to the list - if consensus deems it necessary to justify their inclusion then I will work on adding their own articles. Aula^TPN 09:20, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

These two do sound important, but I am still uncomfortable with having people who don't have their own article in a list of notable people. I think it sets a dangerous precedent. Oriel College, Oxford only lists seven people by name in the 'People associated with the College' section, one of them is Sir Walter Raleigh and two of the others are Nobel prize winners. I feel this is a model that all colleges should follow and, as a consequence of this, even Emden and Kelly wouldn't be in the article. -- asyndeton (talk) 18:08, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Articles that have large sections should have those sections spun off into their own articles leaving a summary in its place per Wikipedia:Summary style.--Alf ^melmac 15:33, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

It's a valid point. I'll get to work gathering material for articles on both - I should probably have made them before now but I'm just to lazy! ;-) Aula^TPN 22:15, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Photographs of colleges and PPHs

I've added photos to the infoboxes for Blackfriars, St Antony's College and St Benet's Hall.

We still need photos of Green College, St Hilda's College, Campion Hall, St Stephen's House and Wycliffe Hall (and Templeton College if anyone fancies going out there before it moves to the centre of Oxford). Omassey (talk) 15:04, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Oxbridge userboxes

Better take a look at User:Lady Aleena/User Oxbridge and comments on its talk page at User talk:Lady Aleena/User Oxbridge. They would replace all the existing College and University userboxes. It a bit painful as Lady Aleena really does not know much about Oxford or the other place. --Bduke (talk) 01:43, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Hmm, I was initially quite ambivolent regarding this but I really neither like how they look nor the idea of this sweeping an amalgamation. I'd rather we stuck to the many individual userboxes which have cropped up around the project. Aula^TPN 15:43, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Foster's Alumni Oxonienses

I have recently discovered that my work library has a copy of Foster's Alumni Oxonienses, which lists matriculation/graduation records for Oxford students from 1500 to 1886. If you'd like me to check names for you, let me know and I'll see what I can do. Bencherlite^Talk 12:26, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Cambridge Featured List

Colleges of the University of Cambridge is now a Featured List. Anyone interested in helping to get Colleges of the University of Oxford to that status? Bencherlite^Talk 12:26, 8 April 2008 (UTC)