Talk:Berkhamsted School

message: Please alter the mottos section as calling the school's motto "a remarkably forward-thinking ideology for a British public school" is incredibly biast. At least cite some sources as to why it is so. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.164.81.12 (talk) 19:36, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Motto's section written like an advert

message: The school mottos section is written like an advert as is some of the rest of the article, please rewrite it.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.164.81.12 (talk) 17:32, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Written Like an advert

message: < 200 school articles this good. Well done. See Schools project to get in the top 10 in the world.  Victuallers 14:53, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Assess

message: I intend to flesh out this article further with details of the School's history and its current activities.  I felt a rewrite was appropriate to clarify the nature of the School's constitution and to allow for expansion under certain categories.  Perhaps notable Old Berkhamstedians should come above the list of Headmasters, as the latter is rather long and the former more interesting!
--James 15:43, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rewrite of 10th March 

message: Note to myself: imperative should be imperative--James 10:57, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Imperative 

message: *The Head Boy is supposedly entitled to graze a goat on the Grass Quad, smoke a pipe during lessons and park his car on School grounds. Marriage of the Head Boy and Head Girl is said to result in a house being purchased for them by the School.
As a Berkhamsted student myself, I can't agree that this is a "schoolboy joke", but understand that it might be deemed unreliable.  Writing it, I purposefully included "supposedly" to indicate this.  Perhaps other could give their opinions.--James 11:30, 1 June 20Source]].06 (UTC)
I edited it out on the basis that while this may be a fact (or rumour) known to you personally, it's not externally sourced. MichaelMaggs 12:01, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: True or not, Wikipedia accepts only material that is recorded in some externally reliable source. It's important to understand that the threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth: see WP:SOURCE. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 22:51, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

text: Yeah ok --RaphaelBriand 23:48, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

text: No, not ok - completely disagree. Other atricles, thousands of them, are allowed to have sections dedicated to useful, truthful facts. It is one of the great and most interesting things about encyclopedias such as Wikipedia. its quality will degrade horribly if people get ultra OCD about citing references for every sentence. Do you want me to go and make a website saying this stuff its true, and then cite it as a reference to it just so i'm allowed to put up this info that we all know is true anyway? Or not, because that would be rather stupid. But it's pretty much what your saying.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.133.255.181 (talk) 23:23, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Heads of School privileges 

message: Article states that "Only prefects and Masters are permitted to walk on the Grass Quad". Not true. Only masters (change to "teachers"?) and THE HEAD BOY are allowed. The only head boy privilege (see above) actually enforced/genuine. --RaphaelBriand (talk) 22:24, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Walking on the Quad 

message: There are proposed improvements on todo list: the shortage of citations is a particular weakness. Hence "start" rating on WPHERTS. Folks at 137 (talk) 00:36, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: WPHERTS ratings

message: Her own article says that she was born in 1966, and this one says 1971. Which is true? --RaphaelBriand (talk) 16:11, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Emma Fielding 

message: Why do Wikipedia moderators keep changing this atricle saying information is wrong, when they don't even go to this school and don't know anything about it? The concept of century old traditions e.g. an old rule saying you can graze a goat on the quad if you are head boy (an actual rule lasting from medieval times) might seem odd to an ignorant american guy who knows only modern schools, but that doesent mean that such ignorance should be allowed to infiltrate this article. The removed material i'm refering to should be restored - and if there are any further complaints about its inlusion in existing paragraphs then I suggest a new 'trivia' section is made - thousands of wikipedia articles are allowed to have such sections and I fail to see why relevant, interesting and true information should be deleted from ours. It's a perfectly reasonable request. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.133.255.181 (talk) 23:23, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stop It 

message: The current version seems to omit most of the 20th century history of the two schools. Obvious questions include:
* The "History of Berkhamsted School, 1541-1996" section stops in the eighteenth century. What happened next?
* The original girls' school existed for c. 109 years before the merger. How was it organised? What age did pupils start? Didn't it have a motto? What was special about it?
* For both schools, were they originally mainly day schools or boarding schools? Were they academically successful? Did they have any other notable characteristics?
* What was the reason for the merger? When the schools merged, what changed? Is the merged school more/less academically successful than the original schools? What are the current fees and GCSE/A level/University Entrance rankings?
- Pointillist (talk) 00:53, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  More info still required 

message: Need to add sources or remove it. Also re-write many parts that are advertisement like.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by ConfusedSquid (talk • contribs) 21:04, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lots of unsourced text/Page written like advert 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The current head of Fry's house is Clare Tan. Andrew Harker has been 'retired' as the head of Fry's house.
Same with Loxwood, the current head is now Danielle Wates. Martin Middleton has retired.
I am a current Berkhamsted Student so my sources will be reliable.
There is also a change with a Girl School head of house, which I do not remember. Mosesman015 (talk) 19:16, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. "Yourself" is not a reliable source. Liu1126 (talk) 20:58, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 13 December 2023 

message: There seem to be two men with the same name, Alan Goldberg. 2A00:23C4:7C8F:A400:A821:E105:5BF6:EE63 (talk) 14:55, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
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