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[edit] MCR vs. GCR

Jesus doesn't have an MCR, instead it has a GCR. I tried to edit the file to reflect that, but changing the M to a G just made the entry not show in the table. Can someone cleverer than me fix this?

booth.adam 3/1/07. (Disclosure: old member).

(I took the liberty of moving this to the bottom of the page, to keep the comments in date order). From what I can see, the infobox is based on a standard template and changing MCR to GCR can only be done at the source template page - which would mean that all other Oxford colleges would be given GCRs, when the majority have MCRs. Short of coming up with a second template for Colleges-with-GCRs, we may have to live with it... Bencherlite 23:25, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Since the infobox template has many optional fields, I could see no harm in adding one more! So, it now has a "GCR president" option as well as an "MCR president" one. Of course, no article will use both of these! This seems to me like a reasonable compromise. The (more complicated) alternative would have been to provide an entry for "MCR name" or similar, with a default value of "MCR". This could have been used for e.g. Brasenose's "HCR". I'm afraid my mastery of the more esoteric features of template-coding weren't up to this though! --Casper Gutman 20:12, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Named after...

Someone (anonymous) changed the entry for "named after" in the infobox from "Jesus Christ" to "Jesus of Nazareth". I feel the former was probably marginally preferable — though calling Jesus "Christ" is a specifically Christian thing there can be no doubt it was the Christian messianic figure the college's founders had in mind when they named the place! Anyone else have any views? --Casper Gutman 20:07, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Agree that "Jesus Christ" is better in this context. Was tempted to make the reversion myself when I saw it earlier, but wasn't sufficiently concerned to act unilaterally. If there is consensus either way on this one, so much the better. Bencherlite 20:16, 18 March 2007 (UTC) (PS Casper - nice infobox fix on the GCR President point!)

[edit] Peer review

I just requested a peer review to get some ideas for improving the article. All contributions welcome at Wikipedia:Peer review/Jesus College, Oxford. --Casper Gutman 12:11, 22 March 2007 (UTC)