Talk:List of Balliol College people

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[edit] Principles for inclusion

Balliol alumni are often talented and to indulge all the high achievers could crowd this page to the point of hubris. There should be some principles for determining inclusion on this page and suggestions are welcome. I propose that those included should be notable or exceptional in some way. Whilst much can be achieved early in life, the temptation should be resisted to place individuals of the wikipedia generation upon a pedestal until the passage of time provides proof. I suggest that the following taken individually are insufficient grounds for inclusion:

• a current member of the academic staff
• a recently published book

JPF 23:49, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Some of the recent entries seem difficult to justify - William Wallace a philosopher?; non-students; red entries; graduates with promising but unproven contributions etc. - a more objective approach needs to be found.. JPF 10:10, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

If the individual has been judged worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, s/he should be worth including in Wikipedia's List of Balliol College people. Sir Paul 16:52, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

The William Waldegrave article claims that he attended Corpus Christi, not Balliol – is his entry here an error, or does it refer to an ancestor? Or is the Waldegrave article wrong? Ronald Collinson 00:05, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

It seems the entry here is wrong. I'll delete it. JPF 00:54, 26 February 2006 (UTC)