Talk:The Other Place

Oxford/Cambridge Use of "The Other Place"

At the aformentioned universities it is very common for the one to refer to the other as "The Other Place". This is not simply recent student slang, a passing trend or any such thing: lecturers etc will be apt to use the term prolifically during lecturers and supervisions, and I have even seen job offers and phd placements offered as being at The Other Place (although why anyone would want to make the change I have no idea).

Source are as follows:

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/wiki/Cambridge_Slang http://web2.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oxinfo/guide/glossary.html

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This appears to be a dictionary definition, in that no articles exist for any of the things listed. Any reason not to transwiki to Wiktionary? TSP 12:42, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

No articles, other than those lovely blue links there. Looks like a useful dab page to me, though clearly nothing should link here. Chris talk back 18:03, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

No sources whatsoever on this article. Doesn't really make sense. "the other place" is more prominent between Eton and Harrow than between Winchester and Eton, for instance.--Zoso Jade 15:33, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Is there a reason the Oxford/Cambridge use of "The Other Place" was removed - while I have no sources, it does tend to be used on the rare occasions one of us has to refer to the other? -- 19:44, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

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Probably not encyclopedic enough for you, but over on h2g2, the other place is here. [1]

TRiG 13:56, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Dispute Oxford use of The Other Place

"The second best university in the UK" without a citation saying so amounts to opinion, better wording would be "The University of Oxford, as referred to by students and faculty at Cambridge University," but even that use must be supported by the same information in either Oxford, Cambridge, or both, with citations of course.

I recommend removal of this line until it is cited in one of the two articles, and once it is cited, removal of any mention of "second best" as it's inappropriate for a disambiguation page. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 20:50, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

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http://extras.timesonline.co.uk/tol_gug/gooduniversityguide.php?sort=RESEARCH (It is actually 3rd in this table, but I'm a sporting kinda guy: you gotta give those guys a chance you know, it must be hard for them)

http://extras.timesonline.co.uk/stug/universityguide.php

Wiki itself contains the world rankings, which clarify this further:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THES_-_QS_World_University_Rankings

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_Ranking_of_World_Universities

Need I say more? Andorin (talk)

That's not adequate. In order to use the term here, we need to show that term is used to refer to Oxford by more than a small group of people, and also that it does not refer to other universities. If it's merely used by Cambridge affiliates, it doesn't belong here. If the same term is used to refer to "the other school" in other university rivalries, it doesn't belong here. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 22:25, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Removed Oxford line... again

I removed "The University of Oxford, the second best university in the UK" because 1) there's no cited mention of it on the target web page 2) and there's no indication that this is unique to this school 3) and there's no indication it's use is widespread outside of Oxford- or Cambridge-connected circles.

Fix all 3 problems, with reliable sources, and document it in either a Cambridge or Oxford article, and it can come back. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 15:02, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Eton

Eton, surely, is the other place. Monty spent long afternoons in a punt with a young man named Dennis researching this. References from a poetry book stained with the butter drips of crumpets — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.211.89.236 (talk) 16:51, 5 November 2015 (UTC)