Talk:University College, Oxford/Archive 1

Archive 1

College templates

I have created a series of templates for former students of Oxford's various colleges. There are still plenty to do, but if you want to add one of the templates to your user page then feel free. See Wikipedia:Userboxes/Education/United Kingdom/University of Oxford for complete list. Please contact me if you would like another college fast-tracked... File:Anglo-indian.jpg Deano 18:19, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

'Her Majesty The Queen is Visitor...'- I thought that Brenda was the Visitor for ALL British universities (technically, at least). Is there any way in which UC Ox is unique therefore? Badgerpatrol 15:38, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Don't think so. The Bishop of Winchester is Visitor of Magdalen College, Oxford, for example, not the Queen Tobyox 04:17, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Charles Sorley: University College, Oxford (as his article and this one states), or one of the colleges of Cambridge (see Talk: Charles Sorley)? Ben davison 00:03, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Sentence

Her Majesty The Queen is Visitor.

I have moved this sentence here since, I think someone can put this sentence in a more appropiate context. It does seem a bit random having it after one master, and another set of masters. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Pizza1512 (talk • contribs) 21:37, 22 April 2007 (UTC).

Well it makes perfect sense as a complete sentence to me. A visitor is a peculiar legal position and the queen has that position.--Alf ^melmac 12:01, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

JCR President

I think that the JCR president is incorrectly listed (and yes, I know that I've just updated it, but I can admit a mistake :D). It was listed as Peter Surr - who was the JCR president at least 2 years ago I think. It seems to have all got a bit confused in the revision history... it did say Alex Bulfin, but this was overwritten between these revisions.

Please can somebody who knows update this to the correct name? --155.198.108.162 (talk) 12:15, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

The current JCR President is Alex Bulfin. Peter Surr was 2006/7 and Stefan Baskerville 07/08. I have updated this Hereward.Mills (talk) 15:37, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Notable alumni

This section of the article looks like an example farm at present, and it's dominating the article body at the expense of the actual subject matter. I've tagged with the appropriate template since I don't want to make a second revert in the space of 24 hours after yet another example has been added. However, I'll be bold and tackle the whole section in a few days if there's no objection to tidying it up and reducing it to pertinent and relevant examples. For some context on this problem see this discussion and for an example of how such sections could be handled more effectively see this. Coldmachine^Talk 21:26, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

I don't agree. The college is important indeed because of its alumni, so it's normal that they take up a big part of the article. --Nando65 (talk) 18:25, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

It is important, but so are many organisations which don't have such oppressively long lists of people. I have taken the initiative and tidied the list up a bit - adding what some people are famous for etc, and splitting into categories. I think that the list should be pruned to have 5-6 people in each section; everybody else should be listed in either the category pages listed, or in a separate page. --155.198.108.162 (talk) 12:14, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Also, I don't think that Hooke and Boyle should be listed as famous fellows/alumni since they weren't. There is a which says that it was "In a house on this site" that Boyle discovered the law. Neither of the pages on Robert Hooke or Robert Boyle mention that they were students or fellows of Univ. --155.198.108.162 (talk) 12:41, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

I have taken Hooke and Boyle out of the Notable alumni section as they do not belong there. However there is some association with the college - through proximity and Boyle's contribution to the completion of the Univ Hall. Thus I've created a new section for notable connections. Does this fit the bill?

Hereward.Mills (talk) 11:21, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

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Colours

Are you sure the college colours are right? From what I know, there are two single stripes, not two double. This is from looking at the scarf itself. --Charlie Huang 【遯卋山人】 14:39, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Grace

It isn't the longest grace of any Oxford college. That of Univ is 111 words, compared to 133 for Balliol's (see http://archives.balliol.ox.ac.uk/History/graces.asp). There may well be others that are longer still, I don't know. Admittedly, Balliol only uses the grace once a year, but that's by the by. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.194.165.95 (talk) 16:31, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Name

Presumably it wasn't called "University College" when William of Durham founded it. When was it first called by its present name? JMcC (talk) 14:10, 22 July 2013 (UTC)