Sorted?[edit]

This list seems to be sorted by name but also loosely sorted by each person's notable characteristic (profession, etc.), such as "Canadian Prime Minister". Are we going with name, profession or arbitrary sorting? Andrewjuren(talk) 00:27, 23 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

References[edit]

Is there any reason what this list needs to cite its sources? I don't see what needs verifying. This is a list to articles about alumni from UBC and each article contains its own references. Andrewjuren(talk) 02:03, 23 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

References are required to prove they went to UBC, not that they're notable necessarily, though not everyone on the list has an article. It's part of the policy of verifiability. Every featured list that we have, all CITES references in the list. J 02:19, 23 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I offer an apology. I didn't see your message on the talk page when I did my edit summary. J 02:21, 23 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The purpose, to answer your question, is to encourage people to add citations for the existing list, and to add citations for new additions. Perhaps someone or a bot will go through and add citations where they already exist. J 03:03, 23 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

GreenJoe (J), can you cite a Wikipedia policy which says that each entry in a list must cite a source even if the article for that entry cites verifiable sources which justify its inclusion on the list? I ask because I've been through the issue of verifiability of "alumni lists" for a city and a secondary school. I've not been able to find such a policy, and I've had other editors push back on demands for redundant citations. The only discussion of this issue which I've found ended with everyone except me skeptical that it's worth having an explicit policy on verifying alumni status. So, J, I would be happy if you could point to a policy statement that represents a consensus of editors. I'd like to apply it. But if you don't, then perhaps what you're insisting on for this article is your personal judgement, not a Wikipedia policy or even rough consensus. --Jdlh | Talk 21:28, 23 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The policy I hold out for on other pages is this. I also propose it for this list. I think it's less strict than what GreenJoe (J) is requesting. --Jdlh | Talk 21:28, 23 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not feeling great today, so I'm simply going to skip ahead to the RFC. J 22:10, 23 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Request for Comment[edit]

The discussion is: A few people affiliated with UBC doubt that this list needs to cite sources. J 22:18, 23 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Revert[edit]

I made the recent revert because in the subject's Wikipedia article, there was no citation for their UBC affiliation. Me-123567-Me (talk) 06:39, 6 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]