Talk:University of Oxford

2nd to 3rd oldest university in the world

In the world, it's third. People need to remember the period that the University of al-Qarawiyyin spent as a madrasa that handed out internationally recognized diplomas and doctorates for a millennium before getting the name "state university". --Dashboard breaker (talk) 22:42, 2 September 2022 (UTC)

See the extensive discussions of this point at List of oldest universities in continuous operation, the associated talk page, and the talk page archives. Jonathan A Jones (talk) 07:48, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

Guiness book of records places Moroccan former madrasa as world's oldest educational establishment. Dashboard breaker (talk) 18:27, 12 September 2022 (UTC)

See the extensive discussions of this point at List of oldest universities in continuous operation, the associated talk page, and the talk page archives. Guiness is not a reliable source for the history of universities. Jonathan A Jones (talk) 18:52, 12 September 2022 (UTC)

Just to note that Dashboard breaker has now been indefinitely blocked by Widr for long term abuse. Jonathan A Jones (talk) 21:11, 12 September 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 25 November 2022

"The two English ancient universities share many common features, are jointly referred to as Oxbridge."

Grammatical error: A 'which' is missing after 'ancient universities'. Meilxn (talk) 16:43, 25 November 2022 (UTC)

Meilxn, thank you for the suggestion, the sentence previously had an and after 'features', so I have added it back. TSventon (talk) 18:26, 25 November 2022 (UTC)

GA Reassessment

University of Oxford

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Result: Delist - Article lacks significant citations. @Onegreatjoke, the way people reflect that discussions are not a vote on Wikipedia, is to say something like "I !vote delist". —Femke 🐦 (talk) 08:50, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

This 2007-listed, level 4 vital article lacks significant numbers of citations. I have tagged over 30 locations, but more may still be there. Without significant improvement, the article should be delisted as failing GA criterion 2. As this is a vital article, with a huge number of reliable sources written about it, I do not think that it will be too much work. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 00:10, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

Delist Doesn't seem like anyone is going out of their way too fix the article from the ground up so I vote to delist. Onegreatjoke (talk) 01:14, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Endowment

EmyRussell, thank you for updating the article, however I disagree with this edit, which changes the University (consolidated) endowment from £1,701.7M to £1,259.1M. I believe that the expendable endowment of £442.6M is also part of the endowment. TSventon (talk) 14:40, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

TSventon, apologies, I incorrectly mistook the expendable reserves figure for the restricted reserves figure. I agree that for Oxford, the endowment figure is made up of both the permanent and expendable components. EmyRussell (talk) 23:54, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

After revieweing Charity reserves: building resilience from the Charity Commission for England and Wales I agree with this interpretation. Jonathan A Jones (talk) 16:00, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

Coordinate error

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—2409:4088:BEBC:FF61:0:0:C34A:8302 (talk) 05:55, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

Can you expand on this? It makes no sense to me. Bduke (talk) 06:35, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

You haven't said what you think is wrong with the coordinates in the article, and they appear to be correct. If you still think that there is an error, you'll need to supply a clear explanation of what it is. Deor (talk) 22:43, 16 April 2024 (UTC)