Talk:List of College of the Holy Cross alumni

[edit] Education section

Harold Ridley?: Removed Reverend Harold "Hap" Ridley, SJ, the 23rd President of Loyola College because his own wikipedia page claims he attended Fordham, Woodstock College, and the Union Theological Seminary but not Holy Cross although there is mention he served on Holy Cross's board. I have a copy of the Holy Cross Alumni Directory (1843-1990); there's only one Ridley listed and he's not it. Was he on this list because he should be under the faculty section or some yet-to-be created section? --Georgeryp 07:40, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

If you're going to add alumni, please, let them be notable...so notable that perhaps they have Wikipedia articles already, or so notable that you, yourself, are willing to create an article for them instead of simply writing down all their accomplishments in the small space next to their name. It would also be appreciated if you did not remove any names that were there in the article when you got there unless you know it to be misinformation. For example, Timothy Leary did, in fact, briefly attend, so there is no reason to remove his name. The alumni that were recently added have been removed...you may add them back by checking the articles history and just putting them back in there, but please try to keep it a legitimate section of the article instead of a hodge podge of any remotely mentionable persons. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by WordsEchoThus (talk • contribs) 20:27, Nov 12, 2005.

Matt Tully, you are NOT a well-known or famous alum. --Seanmullan 05:00, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Very nice to see someone ( 68.187.225.58 on 22 February 2007) add years of graduation but the two-digit years are sort of a Y2K problem... For example, is '49, 1949 or 1849 or 2049? See BC's page where they currently give 4-digit years.
A few photos might be nice (to shamelessly follow BC's page again). Good to see a Clarence Thomas photo was already added under alumni on HC's main page. --Georgeryp 08:33, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

A word of caution about name collisions. The wikilink [[Karen Baldwin]] formerly here redirected to a Karen Dianne Baldwin which, with a quick look, may have seemed to be the same person (since one is an HC 1985 grad and the other was Miss Canada 1982) but their middle names are different so I added the "E" middle initial here although it may rarely be used. Some other names (William J. McCarthy and Richard B. Fisher) weren't previously wikilinked here, probably in order to avoid similar name collisions, but I just added some descriptive term in their wikilinks to differentiate them (e.g. [[Richard B. Fisher (Federated_Securities)|Richard B. Fisher]]). I am unsure if this is the recommended practice or if a disambiguation page should be created? --Georgeryp 19:42, 27 March 2007 (UTC)