Talk:King's College School

History Project
Some of the 4th form history classes at King's College School, Wimbledon, are working on some additions to this article. Please be patient with them.

-- AHI 20:49, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

what about articles on the ib programme

Okay: the IB is amazing and is much better than A level

no its not, a level is better

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Darre
Gaar. Walter Darre guy was an EXCHANGE student!


 * I removed the contention that Darre was influenced by the school biology teacher. Evidence should be provided for such a claim. JPF 08:44, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

I seem to remember that there was another serious Nazi who went to the school (other than Joyce and Darre), but this fellow was British? Anyone know anything?--Muinchille1 (talk) 12:42, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Article
The article seems to have disappeared, leaving a lot of red wikilinks in other articles - anyone know why? DuncanHill 12:27, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
 * - This talk page may answer any questions other people may have (I see you've already found it). Xeixz 22:41, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Restoration of Old Material
The old material on this article can still be found at Answers.com. A small amount of the content is vandalism, but this is obvious (ie - "Tom Banner - Said to have 6000 Bebo Views"). Xeixz 22:40, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Most of old content restored now. This image could be reuploaded and added to the article, however it had since been removed so I'll wait for the holder of the image to do so. Xeixz 00:51, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Black
Under noted alumni, we're missing Andrew Black - one of the two founders of betfair, largest online betting site on the web.

2nd School to teach science
At least 2 other schools claim to be teaching science in the 1840s, which would make the KCS claim inaccurate and it has been removed.

Ramw2 22:39, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

ziggymaster/wondergirls/lakshmix/Manmohit2002/92.233.104.110/86.137.51.135/92.233.108.66 sock puppet edits
For some reason there have been a number of edits on this article by sockpuppet accounts and IPs. I am assuming that it is a pupil/ex-pupil of King's College School. The same accounts/IPs are also making numerous edits on articles relating to Korea and Korea finance/business, next eleven, military expenditure etc.

Although many of these accounts have been blocked, the user seems to make new accounts in order to get around editing restrictions.

If anyone has any suspicions about new accounts editing this article, they should check the edit history and see if there are similar editing patterns to the above mentioned interests.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Ziggymaster/Archive

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Ziggymaster

カンチョーSennen Goroshi ! (talk) 12:22, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

William Joyce
An editor from the school's IP address has removed William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) from the list of Old Boys. Whether or not the school has lost the records of this pupil, it appears well-established that he attended the school. See http://timesonline.typepad.com/timesarchive/2009/01/jairmany-callin.html for at least one cite; there are many more available. Please discuss any proposed removal here before attempting a POV rewrite of history? Little grape (talk) 13:08, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Categories for discussion: nomination of various 'Former pupils' categories
A 'former pupils' category associated with this school has nominated for renaming, along with all similar categories. Comments are invited at the categories' entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you.Occuli (talk) 23:54, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Fewer peacock words
Recent helpful additions to the Sports section read more like a headmasters presentation to parents than an encyclopedia entry. As well as needing to support factual statements with in-line citations, it would be good if some of the WP:PEACOCK words are swiftly replaced with less promotional phraseology.Parkywiki (talk) 15:15, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

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Biased nature of article
Having read this article, it is clear that it has been largely written by someone who is part of the school and reads like an advert rather than an impartial Wikipedia article; perhaps it would be possible to alter this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.47.218.111 (talk) 17:09, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

Everyone’s Invited
Should anyone add a section re everyone’s invited? If I remember right there was an open letter specifically to kings. Epacnoss (talk) 13:27, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

King's College School, also known as Wimbledon,...
Has anyone actually heard of KCS being described as "Wimbledon"? Certainly, that wasn't in use 50 years ago. Then, and I suspect still, that was what people associated with the nearby Wimbledon College or Wimbledon High School, both down the hill, ½ mile south-east and 1 mile east of KCS respectively, tended to call their schools. Those not wanting to use an initialism would normally use "King's" or if the context was schools and to differentiate from the half dozen King's Schools in the UK, "King's College". AFAIK, there is only one other "King's College School" in the UK, in Cambridge, so to avoid confusion with them (or with the respective university colleges that spawned them) or when the location was important, one would say "King's Wimbledon", which must also have been the usage in 1935, when the Southern Railway's Schools Class 4-4-0 steam engine 931 (later British Railways 30931) was named after the school.

Anyway, while I have not been to Wimbledon for several years, I would be surprise if anyone called KCS "Wimbledon", so unless someone shows the abbreviation to "Wimbledon" is ever used of KCS, rather than of the two schools which have it in their name, I may delete it in a few weeks, and add King's Wimbledon, which certainly is used. Enginear (talk) 01:47, 23 May 2023 (UTC)