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Some good material but needs more on the academic community of the college today, and on the architecture/buildings. Also needs a few references! Casper Gutman 19:03, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Gary Grue

Who is Gary Grue? Is he really a notable former student of New College? From what I found by looking on google ir doesn't seem that he is.--AlexanderLondon 12:15, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

I can't find anything about a notable Gary Grue and have removed from the list. Thanks.--Alf melmac 12:48, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
Gary Grue is notable all right, but probably does not warrant being on wikipedia!
I am wholly against this systematic erasure of references to Gary Grue, a figure who clearly warrants an entry in the dictionary of national biography, let alone wikipedia...
If you'd like to show us that he is notable enough for inclusion and have verifiabile information, as in producing reliable sources, I'd certainly consider it. Apart from drinking on YouTube and Blogging his own experiences is their anything encylopedic to say about the character?--Alf melmac 18:55, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] College templates

I have created a series of templates for former students of Oxford's various colleges. There are still plenty to do, but if you want to add one of the templates to your user page then feel free. See Wikipedia:Userboxes/Education/United Kingdom/University of Oxford for complete list. Please contact me if you would like another college fast-tracked... Image:Anglo-indian.jpg Deano 18:17, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Endowment

"It is one of the wealthier colleges, with an estimated financial endowment of £71m (2003, although due to a recent land sale, this figure will rise to £125m in 2007)."

Is this correct? Does the figure for the college's endowment not include property in any case, in which case the sale would simply tranfer money from one part of the accounts to another? Or do the figures quoted for Oxford college endowments include only cash, in which case they are not necessarily any guide at all to the wealth of a college...? --Casper Gutman 17:52, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Notable former students

I've tagged this section of the article as an example farm; currently this is in the form of a (large) embedded list, but the article is a non-list format article: it needs to be reformatted into prose. There are also, as I say, an inordinate number of examples. This issue has been tackled on other Oxford college articles by moving content to a new 'List of X college people'. A good example of an Oxford college article is Oriel College, Oxford where this approach has also been taken: see Oriel College, Oxford#People_associated_with_the_College which is written in prose, as it should be, and contains a link to another article entitled List_of_Oriel_College_people. I recommend this approach be taken here and will work on this provided there is consensus. If there are no replies I will be bold and make the changes anyway. If the consensus is opposed to the changes I will refer to the WikiProject University of Oxford. ColdmachineTalk 09:45, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Done. Plenty of time for input. ColdmachineTalk 17:03, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] MCR President

I changed the MCR President from Andrew McClennan to Thomas Adcock when the latter replaced the former after the MCR held elections in Hilary term. But Thomas Adcock shows up when I'm logged in, but if I'm logged out it's still Andrew McClennan. Why is this? And can it be properly updated to Thomas Adcock please?

Sounds like a browser caching issue. Try refreshing the page or clearing your cache when you are logged out, and it should update. ColdmachineTalk 17:04, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Motto

Does anyone know of a reference indicating that William of Wykeham did in fact intend his motto to convey the social message the article ascribes to it? Olaf Davis (talk) 10:40, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Possibly the book "New College, Oxford, 1379-1979". I have it back at New, but at the moment I am not at the College. I will be returning in 10 days' time or so, and will check then. For now, can we leave it in, and I will update when I know for certain either way? Batmanand | Talk 17:29, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
Sure thing, and thanks. Olaf Davis (talk) 11:26, 31 March 2008 (UTC)