Talk:Birkbeck, University of London

message: # Support. For Birkbeck, but each institution in the University of London should be decided on a case by case basis. Philip Baird Shearer 17:14, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Support

message: This article has been renamed as the result of a move request. violet/riga (t) 22:18, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Decision

message: :Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: Birkbeck, University of London has been created for all current Birkbeck students and Birkbeck alumni editing Wikipedia. Timrollpickering 21:07, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category for students and alumni on Wikipedia 

message: A page for Birkbeck Stratford has now been created. Timrollpickering 14:06, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birkbeck Stratford 

message: (I'm posting this to all articles on UK universities as so far discussion hasn't really taken off on Wikipedia:WikiProject Universities.)
There needs to be a broader convention about which university rankings to include in articles. Currently it seems most pages are listing primarily those that show the institution at its best (or worst in a few cases). See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Universities#University ratings. Timrollpickering 00:15, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: University ratings

message: What is the correct pronunciation? I am familiar with the pronunciations Birbeck and Birkbeck. I have read that the former, i.e. with the first k unpronounced, is the correct one, if less commonly heard.--Oxonian2006 (talk) 18:16, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: "Birkbeck" is by far the most common I've heard around the college itself. Timrollpickering (talk) 20:27, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

text: I'm a student a Birkbeck, and my tutors, fellow students, and all the other folk I've spoken to pronounce it as it's written, although someone was once talking to me about George Birkbeck and didn't pronounce the 'k' when they spoke his name. I suspect that after more than a century of being in print, it has become normal (and so correct) to pronounce it 'birkbeck'.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Semafore (talk • contribs) 22:14, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronunciation

message: What does that mean? It sounds like it means that some of them have stellar reputations but some are a bit substandard. Perhaps the correct meaning ought to be spelled out or the comment deleted.--Oxonian2006 (talk) 11:38, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Its staff members have diverse research reputations.' 

message: Somehow I can't understand the history of The School of Continuing Education. "It was integrated into Birkbeck in 1988. Initially known as the Centre for Extra-Mural Studies, it has also been called the Faculty of Continuing Education before adopting its current name in 2005." So far so good, in 2005 it was called "School of Continuing Education", right? Then come the following sentence "In 2009 the Faculty of LifeLong Learning was incorporated into the main College structure". The Faculty of LifeLong Learning? what is this, and what connection does it have with The School of Continuing Education? Looking at the official history of Birkbeck I found no mention of "The School of Continuing Education", on the contrary I find that on "1 October 2007 - Faculty of Continuing Education officially becomes the Faculty of Lifelong Learning". Explanations? Avihu (talk) 20:50, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The confusion is that this part of the college had multiple name changes across the decade and either there was singing from different hymn sheets for point or some reversions of titles. The names "Faculty of Continuing Education" and "School of Continuing Education" seemed to flip back and forth before "Faculty of Lifelong Learning" (can't remember the precise capitalisation) was adopted in 2007. The section needs a bit of reworking to clarify all the names floating about. Timrollpickering (talk) 00:49, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The section needs more then a bit of reworking to clarify all the names floating about. It should be incorporated with the history section. It starts with a promise about "long separate history.", then tell that long separate history in just two sentences and the rest of the section deals with it's history within Birkbeck. Apart from name changes the article also hints about s structural change in 2009 but does not specify what was the change. One thing more. The reason I read the article is that I intend to translate most of it for the Hebrew Wikipedia and I found several other faults with it. First, there is the sentence "'Its staff members have diverse research reputations." which user Oxonian2006 already remarked about 5 months ago. Second, how an article about Birkbeck fails to mention the achievements of the crystallography department under John Desmond Bernal: discovering the structure of the the tobacco mosaic virus by Rosalind Franklin and Aaron Klug and  inventions of the magnetic drum memory and Booth's multiplication algorithm by Andrew Donald Booth? Third, what about the fact that Birkbeck is going to open the first British Institute for the Study of Antisemitism and that the Wiener Library, will be relocating to Birkbeck? Avihu (talk) 10:28, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:   Faculty of LifeLong Learning 

message: Dear Aloneinthewild, sources have been provided. It takes time and effort of making such edits, but easy to remove them, aren't they? --Tubslubeamorepersempre (talk) 22:26, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  So what with the revert 

message: Why is "Rankings" written in bold, in the contents? It stands out (on purpose?).
This is the first time I have ever seen such a usage of bold in any wikipedia article.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.135.92.184 (talk) 10:36, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed now Aloneinthewild (talk) 14:01, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: "Rankings" is written with bold characters in contents

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message: Hello fellow Wikipedians. I notice on this page Birkbeck, University of London that the list of notable people includes the name of my aunt Shirley Toulson. Of course I understand that it would not be appropriate for me to create a page for her but if we can agree that such a page would meet the requirements of notability maybe someone else would like to create one. Bughub (talk) 12:31, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: She and one other has been erased from the list now. Please see WP:LISTN and WP:WTAF for context. Enking yow, 2A02:C7F:BE04:700:3C7C:E121:F045:4DFA (talk) 13:22, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable People