Talk:List of University of Oxford people

message: When I try to access List of University of Oxford people the page ends very prematurely like this:
*[[[Randall Thomas Davidson]] (Trinity) 
<a href="/wiki/John_
When I try List of Oxford University people it works fine. What's happening and will it get sorted out?--Oxonian2006 12:47, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: What's happening with this page!?

message: Why not list all the colleges with which a person has been associated as a member of the Junior, Middle (=Graduate etc), or Senior Common Room? Hence Paul S. Fiddes would appear with St Peter's and Regent's Park, and Anthony Kenny with St Benet's Hall, Balliol, and St John's, obviosuly using common sense to leave out minor appointments (e.g. Lecturer) somebody (such as Kenny) may have held at other colleges.
To clarify, a Fellow (or Student of Christ Church) is not really a graduate student, except in the sense that he/she is a graduate and also a student in the broadest possible sense of the term (i.e. one who studies). Further, one is, unless some rare and drastic action is taken, a member of both college (or PPH) and university for life. One does not even need to be a matriculated member of the university to be an official member of a college, e.g. JYA students, who do not matriculate but are often entitled to sign the college register. The fact that somebody did not take a degree does not make them any less Oxonian. Nobody was more of an Oxonian than John Betjeman, who failed his Pass degree (not Divvers as commonly thought), and did not graduate until several decades later when he supplicated for an honorary DLitt. --Oxonian2006 13:16, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Solution?

message: Pages like this are a magnet for jokers or vanity edits, and of the various red links some look non-notable to me.  Can I suggest that if you must add a red link you should add a very brief summary of why the person is notable? But far better is to create at least a a stub article for the link to go to. Flapdragon 15:21, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Non-entities

message: Any room for 12th century alumni? 70.20.216.43 05:23, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Geoffrey of Monmouth]]

message: Stubs with rudimentary biographical detail on Oxford notables are unnecessary when they can be incorporated into this list more succinctly. Netkinetic/T/C/@ 06:08, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oxford People Stubs 

message: Busia was the Prime Minister of Ghana from 1969-1972. He obtained a BA (Hons) at Oxford University in Politics, Philosophy & Economics; MA. Ph.D.Social Anthropology. Please amend your list of notable Oxonians to reflect this fact. Busia was the Prime Minister at the time that Edward Akuffo Addo was the ceremonial President of Ghana. 161.73.47.120 14:28, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Dr. Kofi Abrefa Busia

message: Writing as the person who started the practice of adding notable details about people on this list in italics, I am suggesting that these are replaced with small text. This can be done by replacing  at the beginning and end of the text with  at the beginning and  at the end. This looks neater and it will allow us to get more information onto each line without the danger of breaking onto the next line.--Oxonian2006 20:46, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Replacement of italics with small

message: I have made a start.  I don't see why this list can't be as good as List of Dartmouth College alumni (a Featured List) with a lot of work.  All help welcome! Bencherlite 22:03, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sortable list 

message: How come I don't see any scientists/inventors alumni?
Tarikur (talk) 23:52, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: How about List of University of Oxford people in academic disciplines#Scientists? BencherliteTalk 08:49, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of scientists? 

message: For more information, Google "The Oxonian in" for a list of his books from Open Library, Google, etc. to determine his eligibility as an Oxford alumnus.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Webistrator (talk • contribs) 01:06, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oxonian Frederick Metcalfe? His books "The Oxonian in..." seem to qualify him 

message: Substituted at 22:11, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

message: At the risk of making this page any longer, there is nowhere for Andrew Copson, the prominent humanist. Religion hardly fits the bill, and as 50.6% of the population regarded themselves as belonging to no religion  it seems odd to me that there is no section for Humanists. Another suggestion might be religious skeptics, plenty of skeptics are Oxon: Balliol alone had Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins.   Mramoeba (talk) 23:38, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Humanists/ Religious skeptics

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