Talk:Winstanley College

Jon Culshaw
Jon Culshaw went to John Rigby, I doubt he went to both.

I removed his name from the article, as you say he went to John Rigby college and not Winstanley. Darksun 11:36, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

I know nothing where Culshaw went, but Winstanley (as Upholland Grammar) and possibly John Rigby were previously grammar schools at one time or another. This means he could conceivably have gone to both, one as a grammar school and the other as a college?

Mathematics Department
Anyone who regards a bias to the mathematics department of this college as unfair is a fool, and clearly has never had the honour to be a student of it.

Notable Students
Please don't remove information on the past students.

Steven Gaskell attained a first at Oxford University, and Rob Taylor who was awarded a Professorship, for his work in Quantum Computing. -This should be removed; not only is it irrelevant, but incorrect. Neither of these students have even completed their undergraduate courses yet.

=Removed= Sir Steven Gaskell is a students' myth/joke. The only google result for Sir Steven Gaskell is this very page. Unusual for a knighthood!

Deletion of seperate Article
I realy do think a large sixth form college deseves its own artcle, other such places have their own. It also takes up more than half of the article for billinge with winstanley.

Location
The college is located on Winstanley Road in the Billinge Higher End area of Wigan. Not in the Orrell area. Also its county is Greater Manchester not Lancashire.


 * See your optician, get new specs.. Winstanley College is connected, by development, to Orrell. There are houses from Orrell on both sides of the road, then the college, then several dozen hectares of open farmland. This probably explains why the college is in Orrell council ward.

The college is classed as being located in Wigan by the Learning and Skills Council who provide the funding for the college, as the machinery of government changes then the college will be revert back under local authority control (Wigan). The location of the college reflects this and should remain as Wigan. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lyghthouse (talk • contribs) 12:51, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Missing Citations
The numbers on roll have been edited from 1749 to 1803 which includes a citation from published college documents. Why this information is undone by an user who doesn't sign in is a mystery. This citation was requested at the top of the article and has been posted. Additionally the uncited comments regarding universities where students go to has been removed as this is just a list of universities which may apply to any sixth form college not just Winstanley. The college has not published data showing % of students going to these colleges and students go to a wide range of colleges. Without specific citation of data then this comment is irrelevant and has been deleted. Lyghthouse 08.45, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

This reads like an advertisement. Needs a very big overhaul.
You get the strong feeling that you're reading the sixth form's website, as written by staff members trying to talk the place up. This is a neutral encyclopaedia website, not a platform to brag. Some examples of issues: "It was named the TES Best Sixth Form College 2017 as the most recent of many national awards." This doesn't belong in the introduction. It's vague ('many' awards) and is perhaps even an exaggeration. "Winstanley College is highly oversubscribed due to its outstanding Ofsted Reports and A Level performance." This part really tipped me off. No source for its suggestion. No mention that many sixth forms are oversubscribed anyway. And unverified reasoning for said oversubscription. Even the use of 'highly', again, sounds like a hyperbole. "The Art and Psychology Departments for their imaginative architecture" What? How do you verify that a building is 'imaginative' if no source has ever stated that? And of course, we have that fantastically long and unnecessary list of alumni, not all of whom are well-known. As I said, this page needs a complete rewrite in a format appropriate for Wikipedia. Sameera62 (talk) 22:01, 13 September 2017 (UTC)