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Good work, Chgallen! However, I don't think that having a per-college colour of the top of the infobox is a good idea. I think the colours on all instances of this infobox should be identical and recognisable. — Richie 17:13, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
The template currently only allows for links to the JCR homepage to be included, and not to the corresponding homepage for the MCR. This seems inconsistent. It may be useful to include both, as the latter may be of use to prospective graduate students researching their choice of College. It may also be necessary to give some flexibility of the naming, for example, St. Edmund's has a single student common room, and in Trinity the graduate body is the BA Society. 13:16, 25 June 2012 — Preceding unsigned comment added by BobQQ (talk • contribs)
The template assumes that only Latin mottos are used. However Magdalene's is Old French, something which I'm having trouble conveying, using this new box. Jetekus 19:57, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
As per previous discussion on Template talk:Oxbridge College Infobox, I am removing JCR/MCR presidents from the infobox, as they are not sufficiently relevant to the college articles and also change too frequently. — Richie 19:58, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
These are optional anyway so I've put them back. They only appear if the information has been entered
--128.232.250.187 (talk) 21:20, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
Still not relevant. — Richie 00:45, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
If the JCR and MCR Presidents are ommitted, then the SCR President should also be removed. The SCR is normally the least active common room. WikiWebbie 19:41, 30 April 2008
I agree. Additionally, there is actually no field for SCR president in the template. I will update the template documentation accordingly. — Richie 18:40, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
They are relevant, they're shown on oxford colleges, and only appear if the information is entered. --128.232.246.143 (talk) 20:28, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
As most college boat clubs have a Wikipedia article, would it not be more appropriate for this field to take wikilinks? BigBlueFish (talk) 00:12, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
The implementation I removed again resulted in ugly brackets appearing on college articles. In fact, out of 31 colleges, the only college to have these fields filled is Churchill. The rest had the unprofessional brackets.
Aside from this, there are other reasons not to include the positions. They're simply not notable. Even in Cambridge, barely anyone not involved in CUSU gives a damn who the JCR, MCR, SCR presidents of other colleges are. I know they're important positions among the college members, but they've got no place in the college infobox. The first thing people want to know when they look up a college isn't "who won the JCR elections this year?". It's "how old is the college?", "how big is it?", "who founded it?".
There's also the fact that these positions change all the time. Wikipedia guidelines say that as much as possible, all infoboxes for a type should have the same info. The only college that's put the info in is Churchill. It would look poor if the only college infoboxes to include JCR SCR and MCR presidents were those with a wiki-literate student body, and the rest left blank. I suggest for those editors who do want to include the information on a college page, a small section within the article about the different CRs. chgallen (talk) 12:16, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
I think it would be best to style the top bits of all college infoboxes the same, perhaps using the Cambridge dark blue background and white text. This would make the infoboxes more recognisable as their style would be more consistent, compared to the widely varying looks as for example in the Corpus Christi and Girton College articles. If there are no comments on this in a while, I will go ahead and remove the colour attributes from the template. — Richie 17:57, 16 August 2009 (UTC)