User talk:Cmurphy au

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Thanks for your comment about the Scotch College, Melbourne article on its talk page. I have replied to your concerns there. If you can prove that information in an article is incorrect, feel free to change it yourself in future.

Again, welcome! Blarneytherinosaur talk 04:53, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Your edit to Fort Street High School
Interesting proposition. May I ask how you know that Newcsatle East Public School was established in 1818? I am quite sure that the national education system in NSW was established in 1849, but I am willing to be convinced.

One possibility I'm thinking of is that the school was established in 1818 (or, according to the school website, 1816), but was not a government-run school at the time? --Sumple (Talk) 06:01, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
 * A question, is Fort Street then the oldest government high school? The other examples you've cited are primary schools. enochlau (talk) 08:43, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Ok thanks. It's just that at school, we were told that Fort Street was the first something - or maybe its founding just coincided with the beginning of an education system in New South Wales? enochlau (talk) 09:04, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Oh, I deleted your (blank) user page - it looks like it was created by mistake by someone who was trying to welcome you. If you liked it being blank, I can undo the deletion, or you can just go and edit your user page and save a blank page. Thanks for the discussion about schools - quite enlightening. enochlau (talk) 10:14, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

School
As I understand it, Mercedes College is the oldest girls secondary school and Ormiston is the oldest girls' primary school, as that statement in the Melb article clearly said. I'm reverting it back in. And please sign your comments. Sarah 22:15, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
 * No problems at all and no need to apologise. I had actually planned to come back and leave you another message. I worked last night on the night shift (nursing) and was rather exhausted this morning and I'm sorry if I seemed a bit terse. Cheers, Sarah 09:20, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I know it says that on the schools site, but it doesn't say Cam Girls is the oldest girls school -- it says Ormiston House is and Ormiston is only a primary school. It is worded in a misleading way and I presume that is why the person who added it to the Melbourne article wrote it as they did. But I checked with the school (I went to Ormiston and the senior school) and was told Ormiston is the oldest girls primary school. To be honest, I'm really not fussed about it being in the Melb article. I was not the person who first added it and only found it when cleaning up a copyright violation by someone who added a slab of material from the school's website to the CGGS article. So if you want to remove it, I won't revert it again. Sarah 09:36, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
 *  Yeah, I was cleaning up after someone who posted a copyright violation. Unfortunately it is a constant battle with students copy and pasting material from their school websites. Camberwell Girls was my old school and so I do have a particular interest in it but I only found that edit to the Melb article when checking the recent contribs of my copyright violator.:-) I don't know why schools are falling over each other to claim the "oldest school" title. It seems bizarre. If I was looking for a school, I'd rather find one that had an anti-bullying plaque out the front than one for the oldest school! Sarah 09:43, 23 April 2007 (UTC)