Wikipedia:WikiProject University of Oxford
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WikiProject University of Oxford
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WikiProject University of Oxford is a WikiProject which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of the University of Oxford.
As of March 2007, it seems that Oxford is not especially well covered on Wikipedia by comparison with some other institutions that are by no means any more notable. This project aims to coordinate efforts to remedy that! That said, members should always ensure that articles are written from a neutral point of view — Oxford is sufficiently prestigious that there should be no need to resort to academic "boosterism".
Please help this project evolve by providing your own modifications, comments and suggestions. (Leave a message).
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Announcements
- 29 June 2009
A list of resources (books, websites, etc) for the WikiProject is underway - add your favourite sources!
- 2 December 2009
Portal:University of Oxford is up and running
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Article alerts
Did you know
- 31 Oct 2025 – De Osma Studentship (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Aeengath (t · c); see discussion
- 10 Oct 2025 – Ring of Nestor (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by AirshipJungleman29 (t · c); see discussion
Good article nominees
- 20 Nov 2025 – Imran Khan (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by SheriffIsInTown (t · c); start discussion
- 21 Sep 2025 – Michael Gove (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Andysmith248 (t · c); see discussion
Good article reassessments
- 03 Nov 2025 – Stephen Breyer (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA reassessment by Z1720 (t · c); see discussion
Requested moves
- 21 Nov 2025 – William Fox (politician) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to William Fox (New Zealand politician) by Traumnovelle (t · c); see discussion
- 26 Oct 2025 – George Clarke (British politician) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to George Clarke (politician and architect) by KJP1 (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 11 Nov 2025 – Draft:Floyds Row (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 180559qAB3 (t · c)
- 13 Nov 2025 – Draft:Green Templeton Boat Club (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Oxfordhistorian101 (t · c) was declined by Pythoncoder (t · c) on 20 Nov 2025
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How can I contribute to Wikipedia
If you have never used Wikipedia, please take the time to read these articles:
Principal advice
To maintain article quality, please follow these rules:
- Provide sources for your edits. See also the Citations helpdesk below;
- ALWAYS make sure images you upload are under proper license Image Copyrights;
- Restrain the number of red links;
- Ensure external links are active/not broken;
- AVOID emotional arguments, statements about editors of other nationalities, name calling, and anything that is not perceived as constructive, source-backed argument;
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How can I contribute to this project
- Create articles about appropriate (and notable) subjects relating to the University of Oxford if they don't already exist.
- Tag appropriate existing articles with the project template, and assess them.
- Improve articles by adding appropriately content and references. For some ideas on priorities for improvement see the list of assessed articles by class and importance.
- Add related articles to your watchlist and keep an eye out for any vandalism.
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Templates in Use
Project banners:
- {{WikiProject University of Oxford}} - add to article talk pages
- {{subst:Invite User OX}} - add to current editors' talk pages to invite them to join the project
Userboxes:
- {{Wikipedia:WikiProject University of Oxford/Member userbox}} - For members of this WikiProject
Article pages:
- Oxford College Infobox - For use at head of main college articles
- {{University of Oxford}} - For use at foot of main college articles
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Participants
- Casper Gutman (talk · contribs) — matriculated in 2000; still here!
- Jpbowen (talk · contribs) — born and educated in Oxford
- Oxonian2006 (talk · contribs) - BA (MA London)
- Bencherlite (talk · contribs) BA etc, Jesus (early 90s)
- AulaTPN (talk · contribs) - BA, matriculated 1996 then saw the World!
- Bduke (talk · contribs) - matriculated in 1957, MA and DPhil, The Queen's, now in Australia.
- Mano_dei (talk · contribs) – matriculated 2004
- CPCHEM (talk · contribs) - matriculated 2006, at Balliol
- ukexpat (talk · contribs) - MA (Jurisprudence), matriculated in 1979 (Wadham), called to the Bar in 1983, now living and working in the USA
- Philbradley (talk · contribs) – matriculated 2004
- AVIosad (talk · contribs) - matriculated 2005.
- Jonathan A Jones (talk · contribs) Matriculated 1985, MA (Chemistry) CCC, DPhil SJC, JRF Merton, URF CCC, Tutorial Fellow (Physics) BNC.
- Coldmachine (talk · contribs) Matriculated 1999, MA, Worcester College.
- Garzo (talk · contribs) — matriculated 2006, at Wolfson, working on a doctorate
- DWR (talk · contribs) - matriculated 2002, BA Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Merton College
- Hadrian89 (talk · contribs)
- IncoherentScream (talk · contribs)
- Lelouch.Angelo. (talk · contribs)
- rst20xx (talk · contribs) - matriculated 2006, St Catz
- Zythe (talk · contribs) - Matriculated 2008, Balliol
- ChevronTango (talk · contribs) Matriculated 2010, St Catz
- MirkoS18 (talk · contribs) born in Serbia, now live in Croatia (Translation into Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia for this WP)
- Bellezzasolo (talk · contribs) Matriculated 2017, St Anne's
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Articles
See the category page for a full list of articles that have been identified as being within the scope of this project.
Subcategories:
- Articles in need of urgent attention
- Articles in need of infoboxes
- Articles organised by quality
- Articles organised by importance
- Articles with comments
- Templates and categories
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To Do List
A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.
- Add references to an unreferenced article about a living person connected with Oxford.
- Expand one of the stub-class articles relating to the University.
- Improve a B-class or a C-class Oxford article to Good Article standard.
- Improve the main University of Oxford page to help it reach Featured status.
- Ensure all the pages on constituent colleges are suitably structured.
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Assessment
Updated by a bot; by default the bot runs once per day but it can be launched manually if required.
| University of Oxford articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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| Quality | Importance | ||||||
| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
 FA
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1 | 15 | 51 | 67 | |||
| FL
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2 | 17 | 2 | 21 | |||
| FM
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24 | 24 | |||||
 A
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1 | 1 | |||||
 GA
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2 | 1 | 13 | 250 | 1 | 267 | |
| B | 8 | 14 | 56 | 284 | 90 | 452 | |
| C | 31 | 21 | 129 | 956 | 283 | 1,420 | |
| Start | 11 | 15 | 168 | 3,070 | 1,750 | 5,014 | |
| Stub | 2 | 64 | 1,850 | 1,691 | 3,607 | ||
| List | 4 | 124 | 35 | 163 | |||
| Category | 548 | 548 | |||||
| Portal | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Template | 47 | 47 | |||||
| NA | 5 | 29 | 163 | 197 | |||
| Assessed | 52 | 60 | 591 | 6,528 | 783 | 3,815 | 11,829 |
| Unassessed | 8 | 8 | |||||
| Total | 52 | 60 | 591 | 6,528 | 783 | 3,823 | 11,837 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 54,290 | Ω = 5.01 | |||||
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