Talk:King's School, Chester

Partial Protection
I've partially protected this article for 3 months to stop the continuous addition of material that is not up to wikipedia's standards by mostly anonymous editors. The last that I saw was some material that seemed to blatantly break WP:BLP guidelines. Now, if any such material is added, we can at least see who it is who is adding it, because the last addition seemed very much to be done by an experienced editor hiding behind an anonymous IP address. DDStretch   (talk)  12:10, 31 May 2013 (UTC)


 * Seems to me that a lot of sections in the article aren't up to Wikipedia standards, not just the "Controversies" section. It's not against the rules to post anonymously, and you don't know for sure why anonymous posters choose to remain anonymous. It seems that some people are intent on removing embarrassing facts from the page. If a teacher goes to jail for downloading child pornography, it seems to me that this is an important fact that needs to be included on the page. If you want to removing sub-standard material, just remove the sub-standard material, not the entire section. It's a fact that a teacher went to jail, and I daresay it's more important, relevant, and interesting than the fact that the school's pupils take part in 130 extra-curricular activities, or that an ex-headmaster starred in a school play more than 10 years ago. Alice already in wonderland (talk) 11:18, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

Edit request on 25 July 2013
The King's School Chester moved to its present site in 1960, not 1950. I know - Iwas apupil there at the time of the move. Paul Cartwright

86.174.66.101 (talk) 09:50, 25 July 2013 (UTC)


 * This is useful, but it cannot be added unless it can be verified by a Reliable Source. If you strongly feel that it should be added, see if you can find some reliable source that gives the same information, and come back to us. I hope that helps.  DDStretch    (talk)  21:03, 25 July 2013 (UTC)


 * The date of 1950 is (presumably) not from a verifiable source anyway, so why keep the wrong date if you know it's wrong? It's pedantry gone mad! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.74.225.132 (talk) 20:43, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

I don't know which date is right or wrong. It seems a good idea to do nothing unless some reliable source is found. You may call it pedantry. I and wikipedia would call it being prudent and not opening oneself up to "surrogate vandalism" because this kind of thing has happened before. Instead of moaning about pedantry, you could be using the time to try to find some reliable sources. DDStretch   (talk)  03:58, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

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Five years of being patient- time to act
Many of the alleged reference point back to a broschure published by the schools PR department. The school is a product- and there is no room on Wikipedia for product placement. To stimulate the development of the article I am deleting a lot of material that is otherwise unreferenced. --ClemRutter (talk) 23:37, 29 May 2018 (UTC)