Talk:Millfield

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[edit] Alumni

There is a new category: [[Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: Millfield School]] which you can add to your user page if interested. Brookie :) - a will o' the wisp ! ^(Whisper...) 17:38, 21 March 2007 (UTC) Didn't Alex Pettyfer go to shiplake?

[edit] Question

What is the most expensive school in the UK, if not millfield?

Charterhouse 202.180.106.181 08:29, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

I put the famous pupils list into alphabetical order. 88.105.121.127 10:21, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Categories

If there is a wider category - why exclude it from that as well - it doesn't seem sensible - it also means that the wider category is not properly poulated - comments please. Brookie :) - a collector of little round things! ^(Talk!) 07:57, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Because it would be thoroughly pointless having a subcat as well as a wider cat. This is overcategorisation. Of course it's properly populated - it's populated by subcats. We never use both a subcat and a wider cat if we can avoid it - look at other categorisation. See also Wikipedia:Categorization - "Articles should not usually be in both a category and its subcategory". -- Necrothesp 11:14, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Fair enough! Brookie :) - a collector of little round things! ^(Talk!) 11:43, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Character of Millfield

This article misleadingly sings praises of this unique school, but totally ignores its genuinely distinctive character and history. Please will a pupil, not a marketing department, rewrite it? Jezza 00:06, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Agreed - this article reads like a prospectus --81.156.75.128 17:37, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, but it is not good enough to claim that the school is "well known for its academic excellence". There is no source given for this, externally or elsewhere is the article. Let's have some figures, not weasel words. Viewfinder 16:26, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Notable parents

While interesting to some, a list of "Notable parents" is the kind of trivial intersection we're trying to avoid here. After all, there are many notable people having articles, many of them parents which usually send their children to some school, which is often listed here as well. Where people send their children to school, is rarely found at the 'parents' page themselves, hard to source and an invitation to original research, but on the other hand constitutes information of doubtful and actually dubious value where we're talking about living persons. If Millfield has been "the alma mater for the children of many rich and famous people" then there will be reliable sources allowing for this to be described in the article itself, without adding a list of individual names of parents.--Tikiwont (talk) 15:44, 29 January 2008 (UTC)