Talk:List of Pomona College people

Ordering

As I've been overhauling this page, I'm moving from alphabetical sorting to sorting by class year, which seems more useful (with alphabetical secondary when people have graduated in the same year). It might be good to switch to using big tables at some point, as seems to have been done at Georgetown University alumni and List of Presidents of the University of Michigan, two articles I'm using as references for good college people lists. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 22:08, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Update:  Done. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 08:13, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Late to the conversation, by alphabetial by last name is best. The tables are sortable by date with a click. However, it is impossible to use the sorting table feature for last name unless a sorting template is added to each person. Rublamb (talk) 08:26, 7 October 2023 (UTC)

Redlinked Pomona people

Going off of the Pomona timeline, here are some potentially notable Pomona people without Wikipedia pages:

• Charles B. Sumner, founding trustee, de facto first president[1]
• Edwin F. Hahn, class of 1898, longtime and first alum trustee[2]
• Frank Roger Seaver, class of 1905, first president of ASPC and major donor[3][4][5][6][7]
• Allen Hawley, class of 1916, creator of the Pomona Plan[8][9]
• Ch'en Shou-Yi, founder of Asian studies at Pomona[10][11]
• Virginia Prince Allen, longtime theatre professor[12]

Sumner is the most urgent gap, but I think if you could probably find enough between Lyon's 1977 History of Pomona College and other sources for all of them to pass WP:GNG. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 01:49, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by education/US - Pomona College. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 21:14, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

Other football coaches

@Sdkb: Nice work on this list. Are you planning to add any of the other Pomona football coaches? Aside from Merritt, I think the most notable are William I. Traeger, Chuck Mills, Eugene W. Nixon, and Fox Stanton. None of those four were Pomona alums, but perhaps they belong in a staff section? Some of those guys may have been faculty members as well—that was more typical of coaches in the early 20th century. Traeger also coached at USC, was LA Country Sheriff and served in US Congress for one term. Mills later coached for a couple of major football programs. Stanton had a long career in athletics and also coached at Occidental and Caltech. There's some interesting history with Eugene Nixon. In 1938, he ran for Congress, losing to Jerry Voorhis, who held that seat for a decade until losing to Richard Nixon in 1946. I don't believe the two Nixons were related, but Eugene would have coached against the Whittier teams of the early 30s for which Tricky Dick was a reserve player. Jweiss11 (talk) 03:08, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

Jweiss11, interesting that you bring up Voorhis—he taught briefly at Pomona from 1930–1935, so he would have been on campus at the same time as Nixon! My rough sense is that Merritt is the most notable (he's the only one mentioned on the college's athletics history page), so I don't currently plan on adding more people to avoid weighting the list too much toward athletics. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 03:22, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

On custom table color contrast

Yes as outlined in the edit by Sdkb the other day, the table color scheme has appropriate contrast between the fill color and text color, but the sort buttons, which are black, are almost completely invisible to me, and I do not have any form of visual impairment. Is there a way to change those buttons to white? Thrakkx (talk) 23:08, 26 June 2022 (UTC)

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T296795

@Thrakkx, very good question. I've asked for this before (check the associated phabricator ticket), but as with many Phabricator tickets, no one has taken it up yet. If you know of anyone on the coding side who might be able to help, please flag it; I'd love to see it addressed! {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 04:10, 27 June 2022 (UTC)