Talk:University of Oxford

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Former good articleUniversity of Oxford was one of the Social sciences and society good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
Article milestones
DateProcessResult
March 15, 2006Featured article candidateNot promoted
November 8, 2007Good article nomineeListed
March 31, 2018Peer reviewReviewed
January 22, 2023Good article reassessmentDelisted
Current status: Delisted good article


Overlinking[edit]

Grimes2, I had a look at your edit removing overlinking per MOS:OVERLINK. How does the tool work, if I put back Oxford Blue and link private schools to Independent school (United Kingdom), will it recommend changing them again the next time you run it? Also, why delink History, but not Modern Languages and Geography? TSventon (talk) 16:14, 19 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I think, it will change again. Afaik, the tool looks for common "key words" from a list. Grimes2 (talk) 16:23, 19 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Global Ranking for Oxford from US News & World Report[edit]

Why is the global ranking for Oxford from US News & World Report not showing up on the main article page? Aceusa (talk) 21:53, 27 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

2nd to 3rd oldest university in the world[edit]

In the world, it's third. People need to remember the period that the University of al-Qarawiyyin spent as a madrasa that handed out internationally recognized diplomas and doctorates for a millennium before getting the name "state university". --Dashboard breaker (talk) 22:42, 2 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

See the extensive discussions of this point at List of oldest universities in continuous operation, the associated talk page, and the talk page archives. Jonathan A Jones (talk) 07:48, 3 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Guiness book of records places Moroccan former madrasa as world's oldest educational establishment. Dashboard breaker (talk) 18:27, 12 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
See the extensive discussions of this point at List of oldest universities in continuous operation, the associated talk page, and the talk page archives. Guiness is not a reliable source for the history of universities. Jonathan A Jones (talk) 18:52, 12 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Just to note that Dashboard breaker has now been indefinitely blocked by Widr for long term abuse. Jonathan A Jones (talk) 21:11, 12 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 25 November 2022[edit]

"The two English ancient universities share many common features, are jointly referred to as Oxbridge."

Grammatical error: A 'which' is missing after 'ancient universities'. Meilxn (talk) 16:43, 25 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Meilxn, thank you for the suggestion, the sentence previously had an and after 'features', so I have added it back. TSventon (talk) 18:26, 25 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

GA Reassessment[edit]

University of Oxford[edit]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.


Article (edit | visual edit | history) · Article talk (edit | history) · WatchWatch article reassessment page • GAN review not found
Result: Delist - Article lacks significant citations. @Onegreatjoke, the way people reflect that discussions are not a vote on Wikipedia, is to say something like "I !vote delist". —Femke 🐦 (talk) 08:50, 22 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This 2007-listed, level 4 vital article lacks significant numbers of citations. I have tagged over 30 locations, but more may still be there. Without significant improvement, the article should be delisted as failing GA criterion 2. As this is a vital article, with a huge number of reliable sources written about it, I do not think that it will be too much work. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 00:10, 11 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delist Doesn't seem like anyone is going out of their way too fix the article from the ground up so I vote to delist. Onegreatjoke (talk) 01:14, 19 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Endowment[edit]

EmyRussell, thank you for updating the article, however I disagree with this edit, which changes the University (consolidated) endowment from £1,701.7M to £1,259.1M. I believe that the expendable endowment of £442.6M is also part of the endowment. TSventon (talk) 14:40, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

TSventon, apologies, I incorrectly mistook the expendable reserves figure for the restricted reserves figure. I agree that for Oxford, the endowment figure is made up of both the permanent and expendable components. EmyRussell (talk) 23:54, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
After revieweing Charity reserves: building resilience from the Charity Commission for England and Wales I agree with this interpretation. Jonathan A Jones (talk) 16:00, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]