Talk:Whitgift School

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[edit] Vanity/Insults

Although it is admittedly a good source of Wikipedians, could pupils please stop adding themselves to the list of alumni? They only get deleted quickly, and however much you may like yourself, you are not that famous or someone would already have put you there. Please also don't add people to the list with insulting comments, as the same applies. There will be a list here for naming and shaming, and you could be listed as vandals, so don't do it! Daniel 17:33, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Naming and Shaming

These are some of the users who have added people to the alumni. You can only remove your name if you will never do it again!

• User:Flamez91
• User:Dbmag9 (yes, even I am guilty!)

There are more, but they don't have accounts. Daniel (☎) 18:49, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Alumni

Should people who do not have a Wikipedia page be taken off, or allowed to remain. Should external links be allowed? What is the consensus on this topic? Daniel (☎) 18:51, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Have a look at Wilson's School for an example, which includes internally and externally linked Old Boys, and some with no page at all, such as these two below - important enough, but they are unlikely to get biographies on Wikipedia! I would put the ones with links at the top of the list.

• Lt. Col. W. R. Bowden, Founder Master of the Worshipful Company of Marketors
• Rt. Revd. H. A. Wilson, CBE, DD, former Bishop of Chelmsford

Parmesan 23:33, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] POV template

Can someone explain why this article carries a {{POV-check}} template? I see nothing on the talk page to justify it having been put there in the first place, let alone left there for the last five months. If no-one can say what the POV dispute is, it needs to be removed. Vilĉjo 18:20, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Removed. Vilĉjo 12:43, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Assess

In progress. But see if you can do this^[1] Victuallers 19:55, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] References

1. ^ Where is this written? If you edit the refs sections then you will not find this...

[edit] School location: London or Surrey?

There's been an amusing tit-for-tat re-edit of the location of Whitgift School as a result of user Samtheboy mistakenly believing that the school is in the county of Surrey. Without wishing to sound like an anorak, this Greater London vs. the 'old' county boundaries around London is a bit of an old chestnut. Significant changes in local government in the 1960s and 70s (the result of the inexorable spread of suburban London) meant that towns like Croydon, Kingston and Bromley in the south were swallowed up by London, becoming the London Borough of Croydon, etc. One old county - Middlesex - disappeared altogether. Confusingly, the Post Office retained the old names, disregarding the new borough locations, and to this day people in places like Thornton Heath believe they live in Surrey - a fact which couldn't be further from the truth. The same is true of south Croydon, which is in the London Borough of Croydon and hence Greater London. The county of Surrey begins further down the road and the local council taxpayers, commercial ratepayers and other residents of south Croydon pay their taxes, have their roads repaired and their refuse collected by the local London borough. I suppose the reaction is: who cares? But if Wikipedia has pretentions to accuracy, we should get these things right. Nowhere will Samtheboy or anyone else find any accurate evidence that Whitgift school is in Surrey because the simple fact is that it is not. End of sermon. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nikcanon79 (talk • contribs) 20:44, 24 October 2007 (UTC)