Talk:List of Rhodes Scholars

message: Pdfpdf,
*I moved Talk:Rhodes Scholarship/Notables to here (Talk:Notable Rhodes Scholars) as that seemed the sensible thing to do.
:Sensible - Agreed.  (Embarassing, but sensible ... )
*First glance and it looks excellent.  Much better than yet another un-useful list and having a separate article is a good move also.  I will try to look at it more closely over the next few days.
:Thanks.
*I apologise for dropping the ball on this.  I've been distracted with issues closer to home and haven't had a chance to even look at Peter Rathjen, but I promise I will shortly. —Moondyne 06:49, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No need to apologise. (I don't see any urgency.)  I was just interested; I wondered what "stem cell scientist" really means, and wondered if he really did study at UniSA. (If so, he must be one of UniSA's first Rhodes Scholars.) Pdfpdf 08:53, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Sanity check

message: No, I thought not. The List of SA Rhodes Scholars says: Peter David Rathjen studied at Blackwood HS, University of Adelaide, and New College (1985). (I've changed the table.) Pdfpdf 08:57, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done! —Moondyne 10:32, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rathjen 

message: 68.34.126.100 has started to rename the column header as "District", after trying to work out what was in the column and trying to come up with an appropriate descriptor for the column's contents.
I agree that the column's contents are a random collection, and I'm not sure what it is that they are a random collection of!! Mostly, it looks like the area in which the university they attended is located. It doesn't seem to contain the area where they were born, raised, did their major work, or died. Hence, I have been changing the content to the name of the University they attended when doing the work which led them to be awarded the scholarship.
A number of points arise out of this, but I think the only important one is:
: What should this column contain?
Opinions please. Pdfpdf 00:44, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Content and title of "University" column in tables 

message: Jonathan Bonnitcha has been deleted from WP (personal page) due to WP:NOTABILITY (See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Jonathan_Bonnitcha_%282nd_nomination%29). I would argue the same here, as the Rhodes Scholars page specifically requires 'notability' to be listed. Seeing as though his sailing results were the subject of the deletion of his WP page, his notability in Rhodes Scholars is no longer applicable. I would suggest either showing academic or professional notability, or a removal from the list. Suggestions? Taymaishu (talk) 01:18, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Notability - Bonnitcha Revisit

message: See this list. BencherliteTalk 01:36, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Hopefully, this table is even more useful. Pdfpdf (talk) 14:51, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  A handy list of NZ Rhodes Scholars 

message: I'm not sure if there are still gaps in notable scholars (with particular reference to the comments above about those from India and NZ). For reference, Rhodes House keeps a complete list of scholars here: http://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/about/rhodes-scholars/rhodes-scholars-complete-list  —Preceding unsigned comment added by FunkyCanute (talk • contribs) 09:30, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I added him to the table as "Author, speechwriter, political cartoonist" (feel free to improve that description). Maybe somebody should link his Wikipedia page back to this one? Jzimba (talk) 12:59, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

text: I merged the above comment about Richard Stengel into the section on Missing Rhodes Scholars. Formerly it had been a standalone section. 108.41.59.144 (talk) 12:49, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing Rhodes scholars? 

message: Um. They all seem to be lefties politically. Would someone humor me and point out just one on the list that is a right winger or even a garden variety Libertarian? If not, maybe it should be mentioned.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.239.119.18 (talk) 03:52, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I have created the "Politics" section to contain this comment - formerly, the comment had been plopped down at the very top of the Talk page, outside of the outline structure entirely. The comment strikes me as pretty irrelevant however. Jzimba (talk) 21:07, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Politics

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message: This list is currently pretty useful, it should be broken up by country or even university. Ivar the Boneful (talk) 17:34, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestion 

message: Please add  to the list W. Richard Jacobs, 1968 Caribbean Rhodes Scholar, University of the West Indies. He was the President of the Guild of Students at University of the West Indies,  a Marxist Political Scientist, Trade Union leader and Ambassador Plenipotentiary and Extraordinary for Grenada (1979 -1983) to Cuba, Panama, Nicaragua, Mexico, USSR, Germany, Poland, Bulgaria and the Non-Aligned Movement.
162.216.161.117 (talk) 15:53, 18 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: There's a lot of missing names in this list, as it only contains those for whom a Wikipedia article exists. See Help:Your first article if you're interested in starting one. Doug butler (talk) 20:59, 18 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Addition to the Rhodes Scholar List 

message: I request to add the legal academic Stephen E. Sachs. GuardianH (talk) 02:18, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request to add [[Stephen E. Sachs]]