Talk:Van Mildert College, Durham

message: This page has been listed on Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment. A brief, neutral summary follows:
* Some of information in the article is parochial and concern has been expressed about how relevant this is in the encylopaedia.
* An advocate of keeping the text states that the decision should, perhaps, be left to those who know the institution, and believes that as long as the core facts are in the article, there is no harm in having other, more "light-hearted" text.
Tompagenet 12:54, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for Comment 

message: I can't really see what's wrong with most of it. As long as the traditional encyclopaedic stuff (history etc.) is included, I don't see the problem with also providing more light-hearted information that will be of interest to anybody connected to the college, past, present or future.
: Oh, I don't have a problem with light-heartedness.  But Wikipedia is explicitly not written for people connected with the college - Mildert and Mildert JCR both have web pages for the benefit of people connected with the college.  Wikipedia should include the things about Mildert that an international audience would consider to be of interest.  Pretty much everything in the first section of the page, for example, is the sort of thing people in general might seek to find out about the college from an encyclopedia; whereas a vague tendency of members of the college to drink a particular not-very-unusual alcoholic drink (not actually something I'd noticed any of the times I've been there) probably isn't something most people outside the college would find interesting.
I think, perhaps, the decision as to what's relevant for an encyclopedia page about Van Mildert College should be left to those of us with a knowledge of the institution.
: But the people who are closest to the subject are not necessarily those who have the best idea of what is notable about it (Wikipedia guidelines say: "In order to prevent prolonged disputes about the significance, factual accuracy, and neutrality of material on subjects in which you are personally involved, it is often a good idea to wait until others lay the groundwork before creating or heavily expanding such articles.").  The current section on bops is an example: I'm sure Mildert bops are a particularly significant part of college life to those who live there.  On the other hand, all Durham colleges (and colleges and halls at other universities) have bops on not-dissimilar lines, so the fact that Mildert has bops isn't a particularly notable thing about Mildert to an outsider; deserving of a sentence, perhaps.  Ultimately no Wikipedia page belongs to anyone - the decision on what belongs here is in the hands of the community.  Please do keep adding, but pages need to be assessed by people with some distance from the subject, not just by those with a close affiliation to it, so don't be too surprised if someone comes in and significantly edits these sections. TSP 02:10, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability 

message: As has been discussed above, much of the material on this page is simply unencyclopedic. Unless. I have removed the majority of the 'Mildert Traditions' and societies, and think it should be up to contributors to provide verfiable sources and justification for any reintroductions. The other college pages do not include them as they violate Wikipedia:Verifiability and Wikipedia:Vanity. I am happy to accept that items such as the bands who have played at the summer ball and maybe even the darned kazoo could make an appearance, but am not really convinced Robdurbar 10:14, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Well I've removed a lot of stuff from here, but kept a few bits that might be seen as being notably different from any other durham, oxford, cambridge, york, lancaster etc. college. Personally, I think most of the other stuff under 'Mildert Traditions' could go too but I don't want to enter into an edit war. Robdurbar 15:21, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Fan-Cruft Material

message: Ick.  When did Mildert change from having a Principal to having a Master? MrTrev 12:10, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  A couple of weeks ago. RPC 21:05, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Principal/Master

message: * Van Mildert College SCR staff organisation  Open2universe 13:34, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed dead link 

message: According to the history page of New College (and my own recollection), Neville's Cross went co-educational as early as 1963. Here's the link: http://www.newcollegedurham.ac.uk/common/school/about/aboutncd/Pages/History.aspx. Though Neville's was primarily a teacher-training college it did admit people to read for undergraduate and postgraduate courses as well. Everyone has forgotten about Neville's because it ceased to exist when it merged with Durham Tech to become New College, but it was co-educational before Van Mildert was. Perhaps a Mildertian might make the change?Kranf (talk) 22:36, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Going Co-educational 

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