Talk:Queen's College (University of Melbourne)
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Note: User:203.28.244.254 is what students of Queen's (without wikipedia accounts) will appear as. Watch out for vandalism.
Agree: Check this out.[1] I'm also living just a little around the crescent, and know your uncle Mitch.--schgooda 05:12, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
- Slight nit: That's what any student of ANY college will appear as. So doubly watch out for vandalism! --De Guerre 06:04, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
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- What do you base that statement on? From what I know and can see, it's incorrect - 203.28.244.254 is the interface just for the Queen's network. 203.28.244.0/24 is allocated to the Queen's college VLAN, which you can check using this tool http://www-networks.its.unimelb.edu.au/ip_info.cgi from within the university network, or using the inbound proxy. You can similarly check other college's external router interface on this page http://www-networks.its.unimelb.edu.au/new_graphs/non_core_routers/college.html. Note that you see many edits from 203.28.240.x (Trinity) and 203.17.189.x(ormond) which certainly don't come from the Queen's IP.--gummAY 07:50, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
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- D'oh! You're right. But since you asked, I based that statement on my own half-working memory. I set up the Queen's network. At the time, everything from the Crescent looked as though it came from a router at Ormond (not on 203.28.244.0/24; that was my mistake). Things must have changed since. -- De Guerre 00:48, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
- That makes complete sense based on where the fibre comes in, I guess they made changes somewhere along the line. Thanks for the network :) --gummAY 07:23, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
- D'oh! You're right. But since you asked, I based that statement on my own half-working memory. I set up the Queen's network. At the time, everything from the Crescent looked as though it came from a router at Ormond (not on 203.28.244.0/24; that was my mistake). Things must have changed since. -- De Guerre 00:48, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
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- Correct material can come from other IP addresses too. Dr Parnaby and Doc Henley don't use Queen's IP addresses, for instance.
We need more distinguished former residents! Is there a list anywhere? gummAY 07:56, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
- How about John Castles, distinguished for his architecture, much of which resembles tin sheds in both appearance and functionality? He once expressed his profound environmental sensitivity in the JCR in the words, "But electricity is so cheap!" It's thoughts like his that have made our walls so wonderfully sound-proof, the Johnson Wing bathrooms so warm in winter, and that gave Jack Clarke Compound its huge west-facing windows that take in every last beam of summer afternoon sun. I heard that his original bathroom design had to be modified a month after residents moved in because he put the toilet paper holder directly in the water from the shower. Pretty distinguishing, if you ask me.
The Qualifications look messy in the masters list, in my opinion. However, there is next to no other information about these people elsewhere on wikipedia, so they stay for now :) GummAY 12:36, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
- They are messy partly because they're badly formatted. First improvement: standard protocol is to get rid of "Dr" whenever the doctorate is listed after the name. Next improvement would be to bring the punctuation and abbreviations into line with some standard system. I took out "Lond." after one person's name because you either do them all this way, or none of them. We can probably find most of the conferring universities in Parnaby's history and in the college archives. There was also a stray "Syd." in the list of vice-masters. The vice-masters list is very short and of the three, only one has his degrees listed. These need to be filled in, or removed entirely. If they are removed entirely, then the masters' degrees ought to be removed too. One way to solve this is to make sure that they all have biography pages in the wiki that give this information. It's not really all that relevant here, seeing as this is meant to be an encyclopedia article, not a marketing flyer.
Do we only want to list the GC from the past 2 years? Wouldn't it be better to have only the current year's? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 203.28.244.254 (talk)
As it stands, no person on the GC meet's wikipedia's notability requirements for inclusion. I'm certainly not going to delete anything, but I just warn that if you do spend time compiling and updating such a list please don't be disappointed if some admin (or other editor) doesn't like it. (e.g. a similar list of student leaders was deleted from Haileybury College, Melbourne) Things that are concise are more likely to slip through the net, so if you want to do so, yes it would be better only to have current year's GC. --gummAY 08:11, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
- Individual GC members hardly rate in the long-term description of the college on the wikipedia scale. If they matter on the wikipedia scale, they should go in the list of distinguished alumni. Apart from that, why bother at all?
I removed Barry Humphries from notable wyverns, as everyone seeems to agree that he did not go to Queen's. (In fact, I think he went to Trinity.) - 10 August 2007
- It's unsourced so that's fair enough. You might also want to wander over to Barry Humphries and fix that too. ;)--gummAY 06:29, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
