Talk:Berkhamsted Collegiate School

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To-do list for Berkhamsted Collegiate School: edit · history · watch · refresh

Here are some tasks you can do:
  • Wikify: more text in place of lists
  • Verify: more citations needed
  • Expand: not enough on recent history; not clear what refers to old boys' and girls' schools; what relationship with the town and other schools

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[edit] Written Like an advert

The school mottos section is written like an advert as is some of the rest of the article, please rewrite it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.164.81.12 (talk) 17:32, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Assess

< 200 school articles this good. Well done. See Schools project to get in the top 10 in the world. Victuallers 14:53, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Folks at 137 (talk) 00:36, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

The image is on the speedy delete list as it has no source or copyright info, thats whu it was removed from the article. Before reinstating it fix that. Or take another (free) picture. Justinc 01:12, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Rewrite of 10th March

I intend to flesh out this article further with details of the School's history and its current activities. I felt a rewrite was appropriate to clarify the nature of the School's constitution and to allow for expansion under certain categories. Perhaps notable Old Berkhamstedians should come above the list of Headmasters, as the latter is rather long and the former more interesting!

--James 15:43, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Imperative

Note to myself: imperative should be imperative--James 10:57, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Heads of School privileges

  • The Head Boy is supposedly entitled to graze a goat on the Grass Quad, smoke a pipe during lessons and park his car on School grounds. Marriage of the Head Boy and Head Girl is said to result in a house being purchased for them by the School.

As a Berkhamsted student myself, I can't agree that this is a "schoolboy joke", but understand that it might be deemed unreliable. Writing it, I purposefully included "supposedly" to indicate this. Perhaps other could give their opinions.--James 11:30, 1 June 20Source]].06 (UTC)

I edited it out on the basis that while this may be a fact (or rumour) known to you personally, it's not externally sourced. MichaelMaggs 12:01, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

The goat grazing rule was known to the pupils back in the late 80's. 195.153.160.240 10:29, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Michael, the rumours about the head boy's privileges are so widely known (by more or less every senior school pupil, and certainly every pupil in sixth form) that, true or not, they should be included in the article. The fact that it is not given any citations is that by its nature as a rumour, it is unlikely to be written anywhere linkable. Incidentally, on top of the priveleges listed above, I'd always heard that the head boy is the only pupil allowed to grow a beard... --RaphaelBriand (talk) 22:19, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

True or not, Wikipedia accepts only material that is recorded in some externally reliable source. It's important to understand that the threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth: see WP:SOURCE. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 22:51, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
Yeah ok --RaphaelBriand 23:48, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Walking on the Quad

Article states that "Only prefects and Masters are permitted to walk on the Grass Quad". Not true. Only masters (change to "teachers"?) and THE HEAD BOY are allowed. The only head boy privilege (see above) actually enforced/genuine. --RaphaelBriand (talk) 22:24, 29 November 2007 (UTC)


[edit] WPHERTS ratings

There are proposed improvements on todo list: the shortage of citations is a particular weakness. Hence "start" rating on WPHERTS. Folks at 137 (talk) 00:36, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Emma Fielding

Her own article says that she was born in 1966, and this one says 1971. Which is true? --RaphaelBriand (talk) 16:11, 20 January 2008 (UTC)