Category talk:Stanford University faculty

Creating a subcategory "Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences faculty"
I am looking at creating a subcategory "Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences faculty" here, analogous to the "School of Engineering faculty". The "Stanford University Department of Psychology faculty" would then be a subcategory of the H&S one (the capitalization would be as noted here). The idea is to eventually have all the scientists in their own subcategories (psychology, biology etc) and make that directly a subcategory of "Scientists of California". There doesn't seem to be any other way to have that category hold meaningful information (right now, people seem to be just ignoring it). Churn and change (talk) 05:38, 6 August 2012 (UTC)


 * I would probably put people in department categories starting now, e.g., Stanford Faculty Psychology (otherwise the name gets too long). This is for two reasons (1) Some faculty are in multiple departments (some with actual joint appointments and some by courtesy) and some of those appointments are across schools. (2) departments haven't always remained within the same school (CS moved from H&S to Engineering) and there have been other changes such as originally Stanford didn't have schools (some departments have also changed names, split and merged). We might want to decide whether to include courtesy as well as joint appointments when putting in categories. --Erp (talk) 23:45, 30 September 2012 (UTC)
 * The standard here has for some time been to include faculty in all categories they could possibly be put in. So, for joint appointments, even if just courtesy faculty, they would be included in the departments they had the title. The categories are not mutually exclusive. Yes, the issue of history is always there, however it is handled. A biochemist from the 1930s could well be in H&S (biology) or med-school. That is an old issue, and largely handled on a case-by-case basis. Churn and change (talk) 00:41, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

Historical info on Stanford departments and schools
The Stanford historical society has some info on what |departments existed in the past and what schools. It is slightly out of date as the departments of Anthropological Sciences and Cultural and Social Anthropology have remerged as Department of Anthropology. This may prove useful when classifying people. --Erp (talk) 04:07, 24 November 2012 (UTC)