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I've copied this over from Colleges of the University of Oxford so I can keep track of what I've put into categories. If you complete one please strike it through.

Jackliddle 18:09, 15 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

* Somerville College, Oxford (1879) Website

* Trinity College, Oxford (1554) Website * University College, Oxford (1249) Website * Wadham College, Oxford (1610) Website

Alumni?

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The equivalent Cambridge categories have all been renamed "Category:Alumni of Foo College, Cambridge". It's a bit disappointing to see these all created with the cumbersome, awkward-sounding and unusual name "Former Students of Foo College, Oxford". David | Talk 17:53, 2 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Does the term "alumnus" imply that a person actually graduated? If so I vote to keep the current title ("Former students of...") as while trying to add as many people as poss. to the Jesus College category I found at least two who attended the college without completing a degree. I think it's still worth having a note of their connection with the place. --Ed hazell 12:00, 8 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
A dictionary defines an alumnus as a former student, so people who did not graduate are still alumni. For example, students at Templeton College courses like the Senior Executive Programme don't get degrees, but still become Templeton alumni. --Duncan 19:35, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Articles in this category

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Ideally, as its lede says, this category "should directly contain very few, if any, articles", since every student at Oxford must become a member of one of the colleges of the University. But there are some valid reasons why articles are here:

  • People who studied at Oxford before colleges were established, e.g. Roger Bacon.
  • People of former centuries for whom records only say that they studied at Oxford without mention of college, e.g.Thomas Abel.
  • People who studies at colleges outside the university qualified them for an Oxford degree (e.g. Westminster College, Oxford).
  • People who are identified as studying at Oxford only in sports records, e.g. Andrew Barker (cricketer).

Besides these, there are many modern people whose biographies just say that they took a degree from Oxford: there's no alternative but to leave them in this category until it's possible to identify their colleges and put them in their correct categories. Stanning (talk) 15:11, 15 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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