Talk:Magdalen College School, Oxford

Vandalism
It would be greatly appreciated if pupils were to stop vandalising the school's page. If you dislike attending MCS then leave don't inflict pain upon the wiki-viewing public with such poor attempts at what you might like to call "wit". Most boys are proud of MCS and have enjoyed their time there, you might try being respectful, there is no point biting the hand that feeds you. Please leave this page alone, if you really are so sad that you have nothing better to do than be an online vandal go and do it to another page, perhaps a rival of MCS though I think any vandalising is stupid and deems you wholly unworthy of attending MCS. Stop it, if you're caught the IT staff have decided that you'll get an instant referral/cause for comment. User:86.139.12.255 22:54, 10 December 2006


 * old school, more than a stub Victuallers 23:27, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

School Breaktimes
"the boys at MCS mostly play cricket in the tarmacced playground, using bins as stumps, although some have the option of playing in the ICT suites," Must be expensive. Presumably whoever wrote this was not educated at MCS 62.56.100.86 22:26, 5 June 2007 (UTC)


 * 62.56.100.86, thanks for your comments - as Wikipedia is a collaborative project, feel free to help with articles - mistakes can always be reverted, so be bold! --Firetrap (talk • contribs) 23:05, 5 June 2007 (UTC)


 * I've made some changes to this based on my experiences as an Old Waynflete. See what you think. njan 18:37, 6 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Changes look sound to me, thanks for putting time into the article, and in to cleaning up the talk page! --Firetrap (talk • contribs) 19:20, 6 June 2007 (UTC)


 * My pleasure. :) njan 20:19, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Controversy
I removed the last half of the edit made on 15th Sept, as it was unsourced, and quite apart from being original research, is false to the best of my knowledge - feel free to provide a source if one exists however. The section I removed read as follows;

"Magdalen College School has tried to supress knowledge of Dr David Brunton's death for fear of being implicated as a reason for his suicide."

Firetrap (talk • contribs) 23:24, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Kingball Removal
I reverted 62.136.66.67's edits, which had stripped the entire Kingball section from the article - if people think it should be removed I'd rather there was a discussion here beforehand, especially considering that no reason was given by 62.136.66.67. Firetrap (talk • contribs) 17:38, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Much as I'd love to have a "unique game" as part of the school's tradition, isn't this game just Four square? I'd propose condensing this and saying that a version of four square known as Kingball is played. Abt21 (talk) 19:00, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
 * It would be more accurate to say that four square is a modern member of the family of games which include Kingball (which is older and more complex than four square). Jonathan A Jones (talk) 21:15, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

Major edit
I have decided to completely restructure the page, in order to conform with precedents such as Charterhouse School and Eton College. This may take some time, and so I have put a banner up to alert any future editors of the ongoing process. I ask that if you have a problem with an edit you highlight here or on my talk page and we shall discuss it first before keeping/removing it. Floreatm (talk) 19:52, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I have completed my restructure, although will insert a few more references when I have time. Any typo corrections or small changes are welcome, but please comment here, or on my talk page, before any substantial change. Floreatm (talk) 23:06, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Kingball merger
I have done a crude merge; this probably needs trimming! Jonathan A Jones (talk) 18:06, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

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Thomas More
It is unclear if More should be counted as an alum of school. As James McConica notes, "More may [emphasis mine] have spent some of his time [at Oxford, early 1490s] at Magdalen College School, then outstanding for reform of grammar teaching in England... the link would have been John Holt, schoolmaster to the boys in [Archbishop John] Morton's household at Lambeth Palace in 1495, and a sometime mater at Magdalen College School as well." More had already gained a pre-university education at St. Anthony's School in London and, during his time at Oxford, was an undergraduate at St. Mary's or Canterbury College. If More did conduct any study at Magdalen College School, which is not an established fact, it would have been through private tutoring with the master and not as an enrolled student. This connection to MCS is perhaps not strong enough to consider More an Old Waynflete. See George M. Logan (Ed), The Cambridge Companion to Thomas More, Cambridge University Press (2011), pp 25-26. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8805:3B00:EA:515E:D2F9:9B1E:7844 (talk) 18:41, 14 August 2022 (UTC)