Talk:Pingry School

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Important alumni and old (for US) school Victuallers 18:48, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

why is pingry listed in an online encyclopedia?

Chertoff went to Pingry! I'm so proud. - Loweeel 15:24, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] The SAT scores

um those SAT scores have a huge gap (610-720) for the middle 50%. Furthermore, does this mean that those of us at pingry who are above average intelligence for a Pingry Student all get 720-800s??? just a thought..Jigsaw Jimmy 18:04, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dan Kahn

Dan... you haven't graduated yet... Maybe in June...

[edit] Pingry and Wikipedia

I know that Mr. Hata has already begun something like what I'm going to describe, but wouldn't it be lovely if somehow updating Wikipedia articles of all types could be worked into some classroom assignments? It would be a lovely way to let lots of the research that we all do and then throw out not go to waste. - Rizachar '08


[edit] More Pingry and Wikipedia

I've been looking around at other schools' wikipedia articles, and I think that we could do better with this one. I think that in any case student government should have the position of school Historian, whose primary role would be regular interview of the older faculty and recording of storytelling, as well as some research into past files, perhaps by rummaging though the old files in the archives. In any case. this guy might occasionally update this article with alumni, stats, etc. Just an idea. - Rizachar '08

[edit] Notable alumni

Lots and lots of Pingry alumni are in prominent positions, but I've tried to keep this list to those who would meet the Wikipedia criteria detailed here. Bruxism 01:18, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

The current list is too filled with vaguely accomplished figures along with very accomplished figures like Chertoff or Andrew McCarthy; just because someone is a musician in a band, fenced for the US, or wrote a book does not and should not mean they should be included on this list. For the sake of creating a clean and legible page the current list should be trimmed to reflect actually notable alumni. Crogle94 16:48, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pingree

I added disambiguation between this and Pingree. Anyone have a problem with that? Sound okay? --Sempersoph 22:32, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Do schools articles fall under different criteria?

Sometime ago I put up a "neutrality" flag that was promptly removed, without any edit of the actual page. Do schools get different treatment than other articles on Wikipedia? Form the beginning, statements like, "Pingry has stood for excellence in education," etc. permeate the article. I doubt there are any schools that would claim they "stand for mediocrity in education." Again, I think this article is not neutral, not encyclopedic, and self-serving. (If individuals are discouraged from writing about themselves, why are staff and students of an institution not discouraged in the same way? ChrisStansfield 22:53, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

I agree that this article is somewhat biased. After I saw your flag, I pruned some of the excessively flattering statements away, and took down the flag. Someone soon reverted my edits, but failed to replace the flag. Atungare 00:10, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Well, this seems to be a problem with most of the schools entries, and I'm wondering what general board or section I should bring this issue up in. Again, if I can't write a self-serving autobiography here, I can't see why school administrations should be extended that opportunity. ChrisStansfield 09:04, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

I don't want to be or sound naïve, so I will just say that I don't know to what extent school administrators have written this article, but I find it somewhat hard to believe that they wrote any great part. But who knows, maybe they wrote the whole thing. What I do know is that many students of Pingry have contributed to this article, and let's just say that many of those contributions contain varying levels of flattery. Some student editors here, however, were very committed to remaining completely encyclopedic. SeanMD80talk | contribs 12:02, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV

As a prep school graduate, I enjoy trolling the Wikipedia articles on various schools, and I'm often quite taken aback by how non-neutral and self-congratulatory they are. But this one is really aggressively nauseating. I'm slashing and burning things like how wonderful and nationally recognized Pingry is (I hadn't heard of it until I clicked through from another page.) It sounds like a great place, but really now, an entire section on the honor code? This is not notable, as most prep schools and many colleges have some sort of honor code. Let's see what we can do to ake this better. Mjl0509 02:09, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
Also: to answer the question posed by the header of the previous talk topic, there's no reason for schools to fall under different topics; alums and students are just instinctually protective of their almae matrae.Mjl0509 02:14, 2 June 2007 (UTC)