Wikipedia talk:WikiProject University of Cambridge

message: Is it possible to create a watchlist for all of the articles relating to the University?  This would be useful to counter unhelpful edits (e.g. the recent vandalism of the University of Cambridge page) and perhaps to attract interested editors to join the WikiProject. A.C. Norman (talk) 10:27, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Watchlist 

message: Hi!  I'd like to draw your attention to the new WikiProject coordinators' working group, an effort to bring both official and unofficial WikiProject coordinators together so that the projects can more easily develop consensus and collaborate.  This group has been created after discussion regarding possible changes to the A-Class review system, and that may be one of the first things discussed by interested coordinators.
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thread_title:  Coordinators' working group 

message: There is now a DRV on the categories for Wranglers, a travesty Cantabrigians will wish to remedy. Occuli (talk) 03:24, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  DRV 

message: I'm hoping this won't prove too controversial, so here goes...
Every college boat club currently has an article. Unfortunately, most are completely unsourced, and many are very unencyclopedic in tone. I seriously doubt whether a lot of the clubs meet the notability requirements, whilst at the same time I am certain that a lot will.
In terms of sources, I know that the bumps results are often covered by the telegraph and the times, so reputable sources will be found which mention the clubs, but finding multiple reliable sources giving the clubs significant coverage will be harder to come by. 
My purpose in raising this is to try and get some other opinions on the subject, rather than just going to AfD with some of the articles. Quantpole (talk) 20:01, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that there is little point using Wikipedia just for a list of bumps results (WP:NOT#STATS). Any articles on the Boat Clubs should require some element of notability generally. Connections to famous alumni may be relevant. Also, things like First and Third's involvement with their May Ball may well be relevant as well. Mrh30 (talk) 10:05, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: In searching a bit more I did find this book  which seems to have pretty decent information about all of the boatclubs, so is a start towards addressing notability. I definately agree that the articles all need a good clean up as a start. Quantpole (talk) 10:26, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Jesus College Boat Club (Oxford) is now a Featured Article, so anything is possible... BencherliteTalk 18:40, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability of boat clubs 

message: At the moment the department/faculty articles are named somewhat arbitrarily (:Category:Departments of the University of Cambridge), especially where disambiguation is needed. I think it should be a high priority to get these consistent, to the benefit of readers and editors. For the fictional Department of Wikipedia Studies I can see a few alternatives:
* Department of Wikipedia Studies, University of Cambridge - I feel this is best stylistically
* Department of Wikipedia Studies, Cambridge - as used for colleges
* Department of Wikipedia Studies (University of Cambridge) - I like this because it's then possible to use the pipe trick for links, and because "University of Cambridge" isn't actually part of the department names as such
* Department of Wikipedia Studies (Cambridge)
* University of Cambridge Department of Wikipedia Studies
* Cambridge University Department of Wikipedia Studies
Obviously this would be irrelevant for some departments where disambiguation isn't needed (e.g. Faculty of Politics, Psychology, Sociology and International Studies is a pretty unique name which is a mouthful already!) or others where normal use is overwhelmingly different (e.g. Cambridge University Library, Cambridge University Botanic Garden). Thoughts? the wub "?!" 11:34, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I personally prefer 1 or 3 above, but I think perhaps some variety ought to be allowed, since the departments are somewhat disparate and arbitrary in themselves.  The articles should probably follow house style where possible.  Also, some pages listed, e.g. the Registrary, the Regent House and the TCM group at the Cavendish, are not departments.  A.C. Norman (talk) 13:58, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Department naming 

message: For those who don't know of it, Alumni Cantabrigienses (by the logician John Venn and his son John Archibald Venn) was a multivolume list, with biographical details, of pre-1900 Cambridge alumni. It's recently been turned into a searchable web database, and I've been using Template:Venn to add references to it. I estimate there may be about 3,000 people with wikibios who are included in Venn.Dsp13 (talk) 10:43, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Venn's ''Alumni Cantabrigienses''

message: Having tried to improve a few New Zealand college articles, I have found that there are a number of articles on residential colleges that are similar in style without much linking between them. So... I thought that having a WikiProject for residential colleges (in the non-US sense) might be useful and would be interested in finding any other editors who agree. While this would have to include very different ideas of 'college', the hope would be that the most significant articles would benefit from a talking-shop and the currently neglected ones, from the associated interest. If anybody is keen, please see the proposal --Philtweir (talk) 12:34, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  College Project 

message: The article linked includes these words:- "Plume left a most elaborate will with many bequests beyond the Maldon Library.  One was the founding of what has become the Plumean Professorship of Astronomy in Cambridge, which, like our Library, is still highly active to this day." Additionally there is a link to an annual lecture that gives far more information about Thomas Plume. I hope a more experienced Wiki editor than I will now update the main article, in the approved style of this project and remove the request for a citation.
The request for a citation about such an easily researched seems nonsensical in the way that is expressed, to me.Stranger on the shore (talk) 11:02, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy]] Link to citation requested 

message: I made us a barnstar. It could be improved. Marnanel (talk) 00:00, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Barnstar 

message: I've started a page at Wikipedia:Cambridge University Wikipedia Society to coordinate Wikipedia outreach efforts towards the university. If you're a current member of the university, or lives in the proximity of Cambridge and would like to help, please sign up! Deryck C. 19:40, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cambridge Wikipedia society 

message: The Smith's prize is probably the university's single most famous prize and has an article cluttered with stuff on other prizes which needs clearing. But the list of recipients is a mess and incomplete. The university registry have kindly provided me with a photocopied list of every recipient of the Smith's prize since 1769 (two per year). Many of these are rather famous people. So how can I convert this into a reliable source, given that it has been directly provided by the most reliable source? Should I upload a set of scans or can I say give them to another reliable Cambridge Wikipedian to check? --BozMo talk 19:53, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Assuming that you have permission to reproduce, you could try uploading to Wikisource Bluap (talk) 02:25, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  Hmm. Good point. The document copyright is presumably UoC. --BozMo talk 14:01, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Smith's Prize]]

message: Do notable professors of Cambridge fall within the scope of this project?  By way of a for instance, I was reviewing the talk page of a previous Whewell Professor of International Law  and noticed this projects banner was not on the talk page.  Neither were a sampling of the other chair holders I clicked on.  Should the banner be added or not?  IMHO (talk) 21:16, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Does the scope of this project include professors? 

message: I have nominated University of Cambridge as a good article. Since it is definitely the most important article for this project, I thought you may be able to help or want to take part in the process. Thanks, --Mark91it's my world 12:24, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  GAN for University of Cambridge 

message: Hi all! As an alumna myself and here on behalf of another, I'm wondering if anyone from this WikiProject would help with reviewing some updates to the article for David Harding. The full request is outlined on his Talk page here, but mainly involves addition of new details regarding his role with Britain Stronger in Europe as well as correcting some existing information in the article. Since Harding is an alumnus of Catz and continues to be involved with the university, he may be of interest to this WikiProject and I hope someone from here would be interested to review the proposed updates. As full disclosure, I am consulting for Harding via Robin Eggar at MBD Communications as part of my work at Beutler Ink and will not make any edits to the article myself due to this COI. Instead, I am seeking uninvolved editors to review and make such changes as they feel are appropriate. Thanks in advance, 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI)  20:03, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: This request has been reviewed now. 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI)  17:38, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: While the main part of this request is done, I'm looking for help in adding a new photo of Mr. Harding: can anyone help? The new photo is linked from my request on the Talk page here. Thanks! 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI)  21:46, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:  The image has been added. 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI)  20:06, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help with ''David Harding (financier)'' 

message: Does anyone have access to Cambridge PhD theses either online or hard copy? Was wanting to check if Sydney Brenner was Karen Duff's doctoral supervisor; seems likely but can't be sure without a ref. Uhooep (talk) 03:41, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Cambridge theses

message: The University of Cambridge Project has become inactive. This change is annoying to me as a user of the Rater tool. Unil the change, I could type "cam" and the University of Cambridge would be on a graduate's talk page, but no more. I can type it in, or copy from somewhere, but best would make project active again, but how?
Anyone, please help.--Dthomsen8 (talk) 15:42, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  University of Cambridge Project 

message: I am inviting members of this WikiProject to give their view on the external links to combination room websites in external links sections on Wikipedia:External links/Noticeboard#Common rooms in colleges. TSventon (talk) 11:39, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mention of common rooms on college pages 

message: Of relevance to this wikiproject: A discussion of the way UniCamb degrees are modelled over at Wikidata. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 11:53, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cambridge colleges in 'educated at' statements 

message: I'd be keen to receive any help or further insight on this current draft. There is a good article on Apollo_University_Lodge at Oxford and this article remains a work in progress although has been subject to frequent vandalism.
Draft:Isaac_Newton_University_Lodge
JazzyCricket (talk) 17:18, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Isaac Newton University Lodge Article for Peer Review/Other Interested Parties 

message: I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like
*John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14. (John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.)
and turns it into something like
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It will work on a variety of links, including those from ,  and .
The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.
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thread_title:  User script to detect unreliable sources 

message: You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 May 10 § Category:Professors of the University of Cambridge.  I have proposed standardising towards a convention of using at for institutions and of for subjects, in category names of the format "professor(ship)s [at/of] [institution/subject]" and "[sociologists/historians/etc] [at/of] [institution/subject]" (at least within the Cambridge category tree). I am cross-posting this here as we require more input to reach consensus. Charlie A. (talk) 17:56, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed move: [[:Category:Professors of the University of Cambridge|Category:Professors '''of''' the University of Cambridge]] to [[:Category:Professors at the University of Cambridge|Category:Professors '''at''' the University of Cambridge]]

message: Hello editors, I wondered if any colleagues who are more familiar with the works of Priyamvada Gopal than me, might be able to help expand the content on her academic research? This is as a result of a suggestion on the talk page on how to resolve some ongoing questions on how to present her profile in the media. Many thanks in advance Lajmmoore (talk) 09:16, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Priyamvada Gopal 

message: Ian Gibbons (biochemist) -- was the Chief Scientist of Theranos, who took his own life amid controversy over the company's technology. Recently expanded article and nominated for Good Article consideration. Thank you, Princessa Unicorn (talk) 03:07, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Ian Gibbons (biochemist)]]  

message: You are invited to join the discussion at . Ham II (talk) 09:26, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed move: [[:Category:Alumni of the University of Cambridge]] to [[:Category:University of Cambridge alumni]] 

message: Please can I kindly request an assessment for this article on the Importance Scale. Thankyou. 82.38.214.91 (talk) 12:02, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bertram Fletcher Robinson