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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)
So why exactly has GCR been changed back to MCR in the Infobox?D22 20:44, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
Casper, who is no fool when it comes to Jesus College matters, changed it in this edit with the edit summary "GCR -> MCR: see http://gcr.jesus.ox.ac.uk/", but I can't see anything there to indicate that Jesus now has an MCR. (Pops off to ask Casper what he's doing). Bencherlite 20:58, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
Should have replied to this sooner. Perhaps I did, somewhere else.... The GCR/MCR seems confused as to what it's called just now. Apparently the G/MCR committee tried changing the name (to MCR) a couple of times but failed to get the members to vote for it! Perhaps they'll manage to make the change one day but until then I'll leave the page alone. Casper Gutman (talk • contributions) 16:16, 4 October 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/archive1. --Casper Gutman 12:11, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] GA Review

Wow! Excellent, well-written article! Nice use of photos. Well referenced. Good work! Dr. Cash 22:07, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

w00t, pats on back all round, peeps.--Alf melmac 15:18, 3 August 2007 (UTC)