Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Keeper of the Archives/archive1

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The list was promoted by Dabomb87 23:05, 6 October 2010 [1].

Keeper of the Archives[edit]

Featured list candidates/Keeper of the Archives/archive1

Nominator(s): Bencherlite ^Talk 22:42, 14 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well, having got Registrar of the University of Oxford out of the way and promoted, here's another for all you crazy fans of Philip Bliss. Only 380 years of history on this one, unlike the 550 years of the last one, but this project did once again require a brand-new main article, with several subsidiary articles for the archivists (including a GA for Brian Twyne). No mention of Peterhouse, Cambridge (so TRM is bound to oppose!) but I can offer you a friend of Lewis Carroll (bizarrely suspected of being Jack the Ripper in tandem with Carroll - so bizarre that I don't mention it in this list, to avoid giving a fringe theory undue weight), a sex scandal and a mallard enthusiast. Not many images, I'm afraid, but only one or two more have possible images and it would be a waste of white space to add them to the side of the table. I will try and find out the educational details of the current job-holder, who is probably not notable enough for an article (ironically because he's a professional archivist rather than a career academic, like his predecessors); otherwise, the list is complete. Enjoy, review! Bencherlite ^Talk 22:42, 14 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Now added Simon Bailey's university of origin. Bencherlite ^Talk 15:53, 16 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from The Rambling Man (talk) 17:41, 20 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

"although the university's records pre-date this" so what? You haven't said that the Keeper was around from the foundation of the University so this isn't really surprising... or am I missing something?
Or, are you saying there should have been a Keeper because the University had records before 1634?
- Hmm, trying to think of a way to explain that the university had archives before 1634 but didn't have a "Keeper of the Archives" until then. Removed "although" - any better?
Perhaps link "press" here, just in case?
- Changed it to "cupboard", which I think is accurate looking at the photo and the dictionary as to the meaning of "press" in this context
Bodleian Library is overlinked.
- Removed
Of Bencherlite, they said "he loves his parentheses" - " (in office 1909–1927) " would be better in prose without the parentheses in my opinion (from 1909 to 1927)...
- OK
"Some but not all of the holders " doesn't some imply not all?
- Gaargh - I lifted that from the last FL, Registrar of the University of Oxford!
Poole appears to have been elected to the post. I'm not sure if I saw that the post was elected in the lead?
- It was but isn't now. I'll see if I can find when the last election was; expanded the lead anyway with reference to the juicy wording of the 1634 statutes (which were rather rude about the locals!)

Yeah, not a bad effort! The Rambling Man (talk) 16:46, 16 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Bencherlite ^Talk 17:37, 16 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support (grudgingly, of course...) The Rambling Man (talk) 17:42, 20 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks (grudging, of course...) Bencherlite ^Talk 12:22, 22 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from Courcelles 14:25, 22 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

*Comments

Ref 15 needs the same subscription required tag as the other ODNB refs.

Ditto ref 18

Refs 29, 30, 32, and 33 need the publisher/location. There are tons of newspapers called "The Times" in normal speech.

And that's where I am on this one. Nitpicking references. Not bad, not bad at all. Courcelles 03:18, 22 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- All done. I've switched to {{cite news}} from {{cite newspaper The Times}} in order to get the "location" parameter, at the expense of the issue number and column (which "cite news" doesn't support); but, frankly, the date and page are the important things required in order to be able to find the article, and they're kept. Thanks for your review. Bencherlite ^Talk 12:22, 22 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Courcelles 14:25, 22 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Could you explain, either in a key or elsewhere, what "College as Keeper of the Archives" refers to? Staxringold _talk^contribs 02:18, 27 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Does this edit help? Bencherlite ^Talk 09:07, 28 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Very much, thanks! Now I can easily Support Staxringold _talk^contribs 19:02, 30 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support. I found no serious problems. Ruslik_Zero 19:15, 5 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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