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October 21, 2007	Good article nominee	Not listed
April 23, 2008	Good article nominee	Not listed
June 17, 2012	Peer review	Reviewed
July 11, 2016	Good article nominee	Listed
Current status: Good article

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Abdul Kalam

I have removed former President of India Abdul Kalam from the alumni section of this article despite there being a citation. The source does not appear that reliable, even though they are the words no less of Prinipal Rick Trainor, however I believe that he is most probably refering to Kalam as an alumnus in an honorary sense. See here. I could not find much on google to substantiate claims that he was at KCL. If anyone can find a reliable citation then of course by all means add him back.

Foo Fighters/Taylor Swift first gig in UK at KCL

can't find a 'reliable source' but Foo Fighters tweet and image on their first UK gig being at KCL (https://x.com/foofighters/status/1135663517179113472).

same w/ Taylor Swift (https://intouch.kcl.ac.uk/150-years-of-kclsu/) Barsho0 (talk) 18:12, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've added citations for both of these. Robminchin (talk) 20:40, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

awesome Barsho0 (talk) 22:27, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Current MPs in the Commons and Lords

assuming alumni includes "nineteen members of the current House of Commons, and seventeen members of the current House of Lords" is probably incorrect now. cannot find a list of universities that MPs went to. Barsho0 (talk) 00:08, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Probably the best thing to do is to go down the list of current MPs at List of alumni of King's College London and check which ones are still in there. It looks like the only new MP from 2024 is Jeevun Sandher (at least, that's the only one King's have put out a news release about that I've been able to find: King's alumnus wins seat at UK general election). Robminchin (talk) 00:43, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

GA concerns

I am concerned that this article no longer meets the good article criteria because of several uncited statements, including entire paragraphs and an entire section. Is anyone interested in addressing this concern, or should this go to WP:GAR? Z1720 (talk) 03:54, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like the uncited paragraphs and sections are ones summarising other articles (such as Strand Campus and Maughan Library), so (assuming the citations exist in those articles) this shouldn't be too hard to fix. I'll take a look. Robminchin (talk) 16:33, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Robminchin: Are you still working on this article? Z1720 (talk) 16:51, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, just rather busy with other stuff over Christmas! Robminchin (talk) 18:13, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think it's looking good apart from the notable people section, which may need to be nuked from orbit (as is normal for these sections). Robminchin (talk) 00:16, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I added "citation needed" tags to uncited text. I think the notable people section is fine, but the list can be re-curated if others think that some of the names need to be rotated. Z1720 (talk) 16:39, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Robminchin: or other page watchers: is anyone interested in addressing the remaining concerns? I also think the article is WP:TOOBIG and thus not concise: some information can probably be spun out or removed as being too detailed. Z1720 (talk) 17:03, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

All the 'citation needed' tags were addressed. No GA concerns other than missing citations were raised, so there do not appear to be any remaining concerns.

In terms of size, the article is at the bottom end of "Probably should be divided or trimmed, though the scope of a topic can sometimes justify the added reading material." This is a fairly standard size for articles on major universities, due to the scope of the topic. Also, article size is not one of the GA criteria – this is called out explicitly in Wikipedia:What the Good article criteria are not. While this says that "size issues may be indicative of genuine GA problems with coverage (3a), concision and focus (1a and 3b), or the use of summary style", "may be indicative of" (emphasis in original) is a long way from "thus not concise". While it is likely that further splitting of articles could reduce the size of this article, and would be a good idea, that can be a long process and involves establishing independent notability for the topics to be split – the low-hanging fruit have generally already been picked. I will look into this in the future, but I'm currently working on splitting off an article from the Durham University article to reduce its size. Robminchin (talk) 05:35, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]