Template talk:Durham college

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[edit] Syntax

{{Durham college |
  name     = Trevelyan College, Durham |
  image    = [[Image:Trevelyan College.jpg|200px|Trevelyan College]]|
  caption  = Trevelyan College |
  title    = Principal |
  head     = Dr Nigel Martin |
  title2   = JCR President |
  head2    = Mr President |
  founded  = 1966 |
  location = Elvet Hill Road |
  students = ~600 |
  motto_l  = Vera fictis libentius |
  motto_e  = "Truth more readily than falsehood" |
  arms     = [[Image:Durham_-_Trevelyan_arms.png|98px|College arms]]
}}

[edit] Notes

Added arms 2005-02-04, and uploaded a full set of college arms - TSP

[edit] JCR President

If we leave in the 'title2' chunk then we're going to have to update it, for every one of the 15 colleges and societies, every year. Is information like this that only lasts a year sufficiently encyclopaedic?

Would it really be that big a hassle for somebody from each college to update their page each year? For example, the Mildert page is monitored by quite a few people from that college, so it would be quickly updated as the information changes.

Mildert's is by some way the most actively-edited of the pages at the moment; some of the others seem never to have been edited by anyone knowledgable at all (do YOU know who the JCR President-equivalent at Ushaw is? I don't). To an extent, though, I'm really more concerned about whether an encyclopedia should contain information that is necessarily going to be out of date within a year of being updated. Wikipedia appears in forms other than this website; if we include necessarily transient information like this we're introducing guaranteed inaccuracy for any medium other than this website. The information can be found on websites which should be referenced from the pages concerned; I'd have thought that, for information that is likely to only be accurate for a short time, it's better to let people look at the references rather than have to update every year. TSP 09:03, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

Alternatively, perhaps the template should provide a space at the bottom of the page for a list of past and present Principals and Presidents.

Principals, perhaps (Grey's entry already includes every principal there's been - there have only been four). But is a full list of people who have held a position that is intrinsically only held for one year notable? Castle's list would presumably be 175 people long; I doubt we have names for them all, and I'm not sure the list would be encyclopedia-worthy if we did....

If you want a list like this, though, it can be added to the page - I wouldn't expect it to go in the template. TSP 09:03, 25 May 2005 (UTC)