Talk:Bedales School
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Very good but... pics? refs should be inline? infobox Welcome Victuallers 19:43, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
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"Bedales is noted for its beautiful arts and crafts library,...Bedales school is also renowned for its liberal ethos and relaxed attitude, which has been the subject of controversy in recent years."
Noted by who? renowned by who, why has its relaxed attitude been controversial and why in recent years only?
Everything in this article may be perfectly accurate but how is the reader supposed to know. I don't claim to know anything about this school but for someone who does the article needs Wikipedia:Verifiability Alci12 13:39, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
What does "However this ehthos is reverting to Charterhousian views" mean, please? If it refers to the school Charterhouse (whose adjectival form, as far as I am aware, is Carthusian, not Charterhousian), with its radically different foundation, history, culture and ethos, then this is such a radical observation that it needs pretty solid substantiation if it is to be allowed to stand. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.108.78.10 (talk) 16:52, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Alumni
I'm not sure why people have been deleted from the alumni list with the explanation "unexplained notability". The notability of many of them is fairly obvious (Sir Peter Wright was both a knight and Director of Sadler's Wells, for instance - how can he possibly have "unexplained notability"?). Most also appear in the Dictionary of National Biography. And please note that being redlinked is not a criterion for deletion. -- Necrothesp 17:18, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
- Can you check who each of these people is and verify that they are indeed ex-alumni? From Wikipedia's official policy on verifiability: The obligation to provide a reputable source lies with the editors wishing to include the material, not on those seeking to remove it. Redlink indeed isn't a deletion criterion; please note that lack of verifiable reliable sources however is. The article has exactly one sourced entry at this time; I hope the non-redlinks contain relevant sources in the persons' own articles.
- Articles on schools are magnets for every jill & jack putting their own names in. So it's a good idea to keep some order on unsourced and unexplained information. If you or someone can keep tabs on what gets included and verify the entries then that's way cool! Or even better of course if you can volunteer the time: write stubs on any notable people so others don't need to wonder who some "engineer and tool collector" is (despite his title in this article quick googling suggests he might indeed be notable.). Weregerbil 17:46, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
- Yes, I know all that - I watch school articles for vandalism endlessly myself. However, and I've said this before on other school articles, it is usually pretty obvious who is adding rubbish to the lists of notable alumni. a) They're rarely dead, and even if they are, b) They usually have either very silly names or very silly descriptions or both. I think it's a little premature to remove every red link and claim their notability has not been proved. I could add a footnote to every entry stating they're included in the DNB (and yes, every entry I've added attended Bedales according to the DNB), but that, I think, would look a little strange and would be overkill. Since the online DNB is not open access, there is not a lot of point in providing links to individual articles. Any suggestions? -- Necrothesp 18:03, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
