Talk:Sherborne School

Harper House
Is Harper House named after Hugo Harper, former headmaster and Principal of Jesus College, Oxford? My guess would be yes, but I don't know, so can't add it. If my guess is right, you can add in a wikilink (and also add to his article). BencherliteTalk 10:36, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Yes —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.19.135.76 (talk) 22:05, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

General rhetoric
This page needs some serious modifications. A huge number of claims are made without citation (too many to change myself), and the entire page reads like a marketing document. I have a suspicion that the page has been majorly edited by the Sherborne School marketing department; this is inappropriate. Claims made that aren't cited need to be removed.

Chaplain section
I have tagged this. It reads like a prospectus written by the school itself, and was probably copied out of such a prospectus. Viewfinder (talk) 23:12, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

On second thoughts, I have decided to remove the section. This is a neutral encyclopedia, not a school prospectus. Viewfinder (talk) 23:18, 27 June 2008 (UTC)


 * I have taken out more spam.

Facilities
This entire section lacks a source (there is data here without evidence), and is arguably unnecessary; Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia, not a marketing resource.

Jimmy Edwards
Edwards' biographical article indicates he was educated at King's School in Wimbledon, not at Sherborne. I've no idea which is correct. Fairlightseven 07/12/08 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.21.136.191 (talk) 20:06, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Evelyn Waugh
Waugh did not attend Sherborne School - I don't know where this came from. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.103.66.13 (talk) 21:04, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

His brother Alec Waugh (author of Loom of Youth etc) did however...

John Falconer
Did John Falconer attend Sherborne? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.159.30.164 (talk) 12:04, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

Alan Turing
This entry; 'Alan Turing OBE, FRS, mathematician and instrumental figure at Bletchley Park', is one of the most denigrating entries that you could have possibly made. One could question why his name is not listed in the 'Intelligence' section, for a start. One could ask why his contributions to computing are not identified. Certainly 'Academia' is not where many would place a person so important to modern computing, even though he thought he was writing an academic paper at the time. Think about what you are not achieving. Get real! 11:56, 8 June 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Linmhall (talk • contribs)

Category:Old Shirburnians rename
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Cartel
It seems strange that 50 of the country's top independent schools, have an identical item in their History. Given that these schools have many thousands of years of history between them, to have about half of the section on their history relating to a technical infringement of that occurred  some years previously  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Doodlerguy (talk • contribs) 22:36, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
 * The solution to that is easy - not deleting the cartel stuff, which is what I presume you would like to see given your previous unreferenced addition to the article, but to expand the rest of the history. Why not be bold and do that? --Bob Re-born (talk) 22:48, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Copyvio
This edit removed the info about the "cartel" issue, replacing it with a copyvio from the school's own history page.. That's going to have to come out, or be rewritten. Because this wasn't a recent edit, I don't want to roll the article back; that would be overkill. But it now needs a rewrite. Also, see Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard for a conflict of interest problem. --John Nagle (talk) 07:34, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
 * I've been looking for other sources. Sherborne is mentioned at length in several biographies of famous people who went there. . It appears to have been a miserable experience. --John Nagle (talk) 17:57, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Nobody did a rewrite, so I took out the material from the school's old history page. The early history is interesting but needs to be rewritten and properly cited if it is to be included. --John Nagle (talk) 17:50, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

Thomas Creech
The Wikipedia entry for the classical scholar Thomas Creech states that 'for two years (1694–6) he was the headmaster of Sherborne School.' But I can't find his name in the list of Headmasters here, nor even in the list of Ushers. Was he in fact Headmaster of Sherborne? If so, his name should be inserted into the list at the appropriate place. If not, the entry on Creech should be emended. Many thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cleisthenes2 (talk • contribs) 02:22, 26 May 2016 (UTC) The DNB says Creech was Headmaster from 1694-96, so I've inserted him in the list. (If anyone can show that the DNB is wrong, I'm happy to remove him.) One small problem is that he time overlaps by one year with his successor. Cleisthenes2 (talk) 03:34, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

Copyright problem removed
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organ specification
this didn't seem encyclopaedic. i've never seen it on wiki before. it was overly detailed, and thus too dominant in the article, betraying its relevance. I looked it up and there is a niche repository for organ specifications online but feel this is beyond the scope of this project. the deciding tie-breaker for me was westmister abbey's page - i would do as per their article. it wasn't on there and so i removed it from here. Rayman60 (talk) 23:11, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

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