Talk:List of fictional Oxbridge colleges

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Could I suggest St Anthony's College in 'Death at the President's Lodging' by Michael Innes (JIM Stewart), located in a fictional university in a city half-way between Oxford and Cambridge (around Bletchley, where Innes no doubt recalled changing on train journeys between the two). - Tom Burnham

Should add Jordan College from the Philip Pullman 'His Dark Materials' books. -KM — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.105.213.50 (talk) 11:02, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Future of three lists: sources, please.

The three lists List of fictional Oxford colleges, List of fictional Cambridge colleges and List of fictional Oxbridge colleges were proposed for deletion at AfD in July 2024, and kept, shortly after List of fictional British and Irish universities was AfD'd and kept with a consensus to move it to List of fictional universities and globalise it. (See Oxford, Cambridge, Oxbridge AfDs). But along the way, I made the following proposal:

I suggest that instead of deleting this trio of lists, we should:

Keep them
Tag them as {{More citations needed}}
Add a note on their talk pages pinging editors who have contributed to them over the years, alerting them to the fact that the list is inadequately sourced and may risk deletion (I hereby offer to add such notes if the lists survive this AfD)
Wait a year. (Why not? There is no deadline, and Wikipedia is not damaged by the existence of these lists) This will allow occasional editors to be alerted to the situation and given a chance to improve the lists. (It seems likely that some of the editors who have contributed to the list spend much more time reading books than editing Wikipedia.)

If after 12 months the lists do not appear to be worth keeping as standalones, bring them back to AfD or merge their sourced content to List of fictional universities, perhaps as a separate section.

So, as promised, I have now pinged all editors who seems to have contributed more than 1% of any of the three lists, at Talk:List_of_fictional_Oxford_colleges#Future_of_three_lists:_sources,_please . If you would like to see these lists survive, please add some sources for the unsourced content. Thanks.

I'm adding this note to the other two lists but without the pings, so you don't all get pinged three times. PamD 19:59, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]