Talk:List of Pomona College people/Archive 1

President of Pomona College
President of Pomona College
	Incumbent; G. Gabrielle Starr; since July 1, 2017
Reports to	Board of Trustees
Residence	President's House
Seat	Alexander Hall
Formation	1887
Website	pomona.edu/administration/president

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Archive 1

Dashes after name and before description

Hello, HandsomeFella.

I see that you have changed the dashes in the "Film and Television" section of the article. This change does look good, except now it's inconsistent with the rest of the page. Can we agree on it being one way or another?

Thanks, Gummygoodness (talk) 06:14, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

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Note on removals

I just checked the removals from earlier today to see if I could find sources to establish notability. I couldn't find two for any of them, but I found one for two of them, so plopping those here for use by anyone who wants to attempt in the future:

For Burnell H. DeVos, Jr.: NYT
For Edward T. Bishop: LAT 1926 and LAT 1934 (I couldn't find the articles themselves, just the reference to their existence)

{{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 03:55, 14 August 2020 (UTC)

Just did a fairly comprehensive run

I just went through the 269 results from this PetScan query and added the alumni category to 95 pages, the faculty category to 49 pages (two too many), and the trustee category to three pages. The query can be run again in the future, starting from articles with a page ID greater than 64596355. I also ran a similar query a while back that addressed pages that were categorized but didn't link to Pomona anywhere in the body.

My subjective impression is that not all of the people who I added are notable enough to be worth listing at List of Pomona College people, so it may be necessary to start being a little more stringent with the standards for this page. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 23:43, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

Update: now 66716423. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 11:17, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

Williamson dates of attendance

The sources are contradictory on when Marianne Williamson attended Pomona. The Scripps Voice says 1971–1973 based on a campus visit, National Review says 1973, and LA Mag and People talk about a move to NYC in 1973, but ABC News and The Student Life say 1970–1972. It seems that an incorrect date likely entered the information ecosystem at some point and has spread, but it's hard to tell which one. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 20:29, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

After some more sleuthing on this, she graduated from high school in 1970 per Houston Chronicle and there's no record of a gap year, so 1970–1972 seems more plausible. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 06:40, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

Judges section

It looks like the judges section is reasonably complete, at least at the federal level. This search from what I assume is a pretty comprehensive database turned up the six we have listed and no more. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 06:05, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

No online source available for Richard Fairbank

This search turned up only three pages; I just went through them all and there's nothing. Since he transferred to Stanford, I'm guessing he just dropped the Pomona affiliation and no one else has picked it up except the IP that added the entry here. The most authoritative biography I can find, here, doesn't mention Pomona on page 5. Still, it seems plausible enough that the IP was someone at Pomona who knew him and knew he transferred. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 07:59, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

Update: I've removed him from the list. Per WP:PRESERVE, here's the code for his line:

|-
| {{sortname|Richard|Fairbank}}
| style="text-align:center;" | Transferred {{circa|1970}}
| Founder and CEO of [[Capital One]]
| style="text-align:center;" | {{cn|date=August 2020}}

{{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 06:13, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

PetScan for pages in category but not here

Does anyone know how to use PetScan to make a list of pages that are in Category:Pomona College alumni or Category:Pomona College faculty but not linked here? I tried doing it the expected way, but it gave a bunch of pages that have redirects linked from here. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 08:12, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

I never figured that out, but here's PetScan of pages in category but not here by incoming links and PetScan by size. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 20:52, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

Official post infobox

I thought about using {{Infobox official post}}, shown at right, but it seems to duplicate the table too much and doesn't really add anything important, so I think I'll leave it out. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 23:43, 18 September 2020 (UTC)

AAAS fellows

People we may want to list: http://magazine.pomona.edu/pomoniana/2020/06/24/starr-named-to-academy/ {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 06:02, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

Done {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 06:45, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

Salvador Plascencia

He appears to be Harvey Mudd College faculty, not Pomona faculty, so I've tagged him dubious. The only thing keeping me from removing him is this Prezi presentation, which seems to have first-hand knowledge of him and says Pomona but is very much not a reliable source. For anyone unaware, the Claremont Colleges writing program is joint, I believe. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 22:03, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Update: I removed him. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 08:13, 31 August 2020 (UTC)