User talk:Oxonian2006

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[edit] Welcome

Hello, Oxonian2006, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on your user page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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[edit] Theology Faculty of the University of Oxford

I've added the "{{prod}}" template to the article Theology Faculty of the University of Oxford, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not and Wikipedia:Importance). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree, discuss the issues raised at Talk:Theology Faculty of the University of Oxford. If you remove the {{dated prod}} template, the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. PruneauT 13:41, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bundy

Thanks for adding the interesting page about Colin Bundy. You'll see that I've trimmed his entry in the list of Mertonians so that it conforms with all the others: just name, job title, and date of matric. I think this looks better like this and hope you agree. My apologies for commenting him out in the first place. The red link made me trigger happy.

Have you thought of using the {{subst:Biography}} template on his page?

best wishes Thruston 14:49, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] More on Bundy

Regarding the former college barman whom you seem to wish to remove from that list, couldn't he be dropped on the technicality that he (presumably) didn't matriculate?

Oh Parky matriculated all right, in those days (1970s and 1980s) the undergraduates used to run the bar themselves, (it was very profitable for the JCR), and in some ways he has had a notable career, he is a BBC Oxford journalist I think, but his entry was (iirc) deleted under the Vanity policy sometime ago, so the link to it on the alumni page no longer seemed appropriate.
Alumnus in Latin is a verbal adjective meaning "having been fed" or "having been nourished". I think it has pretty much the same meaning as "graduate" except that it perhaps also includes those that attended but did not graduate (hardly any of these at Merton for sure). So strictly it perhaps should not include Fellows who were not undergraduates, but that's why the heading says Notable Former Mertonians. For what it's worth I think that we should probably split the lists up in some more imaginative ways. For example Fellows, Rhodes Scholars, Undergraduates perhaps. Part of the problem is that the whole notion of the modern student does not really apply for most of Merton's history. There were *no* undergraduates until the early 19th century...
Thruston 09:47, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Earle_Martin RfA

This is the RfA of user:Earle_Martin. I believe he would make a good and unconventional admin, so I'm running around right now, trying to encourage some of the more sensible people I know of to support him. Subversive 08:55, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject University of Oxford

WikiProject University of Oklahoma

As a current or past contributor to a related article, I thought I'd let you know about WikiProject University of Oxford, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of the University of Oxford. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks and related articles. Thanks! Casper Gutman 15:53, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
Welcome to the project! I think an early objective of the project should be the improvement of the main University page to at least Good Article standard, as I'd be willing to bet it gets read as often as several dozen of the other project pages put together! However, I've not had any experience of the Good Article nomination process so I thought nominating a few of the college pages might be an easier way to start and useful experience. I have a personal interest in the Jesus article (and recently put it up for peer review), but I think it's only one of several college articles that could easily be WP:GA candidates.
I think it would be useful to identify a shortlist of a few articles that are close to meeting the criteria. I suppose ideally they should be high on the project's importance rating scale too. Any personal favourites? Casper Gutman 21:33, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
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