Talk:St John's College, Oxford

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[edit] Image of Canterbury Quad

This is a flickr image and is currently under review (as all flickr images under creative commons licence must be until confirmed by a trusted user) but all the attribution is correct, therefore it will be accepted, so it seems reasonable to add the image.

I find it hard to believe that Sir Oscar the Cat is the president.

Especially since he's dead (liver cancer; had to be put down). Greg carter 18:58, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
But it wouldn't be impossible: Grace the Cat was elected MCR president in the 1980s, though she had a human "acting president" to help. Myopic Bookworm 11:17, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] notorious how exactly?

"the notorious writers J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis " Daniel Barlow 14:43, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Undergraduate English, I'm afraid; they meant "famous". --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 18:49, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Famous alumni

Famous alumni have to be famous: if they are not notable enough to have a Wikipedia entry then they are not notable enough to be listed here. I'm sure Mr. Sanjeev Sanyal is a good chap (Indian banker and economist, former Rhodes Scholar, etc.): if he's important enough for an entry, then write the entry first, and link from here afterwards. Myopic Bookworm 11:15, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

For those who wish to and are editing from machines within Oxford University, you should be able to access the ODNB from here by clicking the "Dictionaries, Encyclopædias and Reference Works" under All Subjects, then click "(Oxford) Dictionary of National Biography" and then the top link - "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online (Direct access from Oxford)". You might wish to type "John's College, Oxford" in the 'search text of articles' box, only a few will be "so and so gave St John's College, Oxford a silver platter" and the like, the rest (with luck some hundreds) will be previous presidents, fellows, and students.--Alf melmac 19:19, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] UniverSTD

I was wondering if anyone else thinks that the allegations about St John's undergraduates and their sexual behaviour in this article should be included. Elmsters 13:56, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

I would say not. It's not well sourced (how would they get statistics on STD infection rates?), so doesn't provide any reliable information about the college. (This isn't a biography, but I'd say the third paragraph of WP:BLP#Reliable sources is relevant here.) If the story had been picked up by signficiant other sources we could include something like "The People reported in February 2007...", but nobody seems to have taken much notice of the story. EALacey 14:13, 1 April 2007 (UTC)