Talk:The Windsor Boys' School

Name - Includes the article?
Copying this user page discussion, to make it more visible to others, and to record any eventual outcome in a public place.

You recently unilaterally moved The Windsor Boys' School to Windsor Boys' School citing the school's web site as evidence of the name. As a governor of that school, I can vouch that the "The" is definitely part of the official name; that being the reason for my original move of the page to its correct name. Both the Local Authority responsible for the school and the Office for Standards in Education include "The". I'm open to further discussion; or will, after a while, revert this move. Bazza (talk) 14:00, 25 February 2009 (UTC)


 * I'd suggest you put your governors hat on and have a long discussion with whoever maintains the school's web site. If an organisation cannot be bothered to maintain its own branding properly, it cannot be too upset if third parties get it wrong. If the schools name really does encompass the article, then I suggest you revert. Unfortunately there are far too many WP articles which wrongly include the article.


 * Incidentally, my unilateral move was entirely in line with WP's policy of being bold. There wasn't any reason, from the information I had to hand, to think this would be a contentious move, as opposed to just rectifying the consequences of an article named by an inexperienced editor. Given that, I saw no reason for me to try and build a consensus. -- Starbois (talk) 15:40, 25 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your reply. The school is likely to be oblivious to this change, but with my Wikipedia pedant's hat on I felt the need to comment. You assume ill-feeling where there is none. I described your move as unilateral only because that is what it was, not as a criticism: I fully supported people going boldly. I could have simply reverted but felt it more polite to discuss first. You are right that many articles include "The" when they should not, but I don't think this is one. I will move it back again and this discussion will serve as a reminder as to why it was done that way. Bazza (talk) 16:20, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

It would appear that the school itself self-identifies sans the definite article -, kind regards Nancy  talk  13:22, 26 February 2009 (UTC)