Talk:Haberdashers' Adams

message: This article reads like a bad school prospectus. It is supposed to be an enclopedia article - would a casual reader care who is Head of House/CCF/Senior boarding?? No. Its a very weak article that makes the school look bad. 109.156.17.228 (talk) 15:02, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: School Prospectus

message: Much of this article, as it reads makes little to no sense: "The school, including the sixth form, has approximately 800 pupils HRH Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex with also the unveiling of a bust of William Adams, the founder of the school." What does that mean? Nothing (*profanity removed).
Also, the section 'School life' is written in an incredibly convoluted way, making it difficult to decipher what it actually means. Additionally, I would suggest this section is overall void of significance, and that it should be removed, and any 'vital' information incorporated into other sections. This shouldn't take long, since the only interesting part is that about Dr Pack being AI chair; which only reinforces my point that the section contains nothing at all to do with 'school life'. And what the fuck is a "boetician", I can't even begin to guess at what that was supposed to read, and I am forced to assume that it was made up by a pupil with pitiful delusions of intelligence and significance, flaws which, while permanent and damaging, he is not personally responsible for. He, like all the others who enter this institute of sin as normal, happy humans, and leave it with the characteristic pretentious arrogance; victims of the systematic reinforcement of mediocrity perceived as success; victims of the vitiate teachers who take it upon themselves to preach amelioration, but in reality do nothing but encourage the embracing of Pride and Greed, superiority and debauchery.
On the more mundane topic of housekeeping, I took the liberty of removing the line "It is considered by many to be the best school in the country." This was because the line is untrue. While not a bad school in the usual sense, no sane person could consider it the best school in the country. It generally receives good exam results, but the extra-curricular activities in particular fall far short of those in most private schools. This line appears to have been added in an attempt to make the school look better than it is to prospective parents. I reiterate that it is not true, and therefore has no place in an encyclopedia.
In the "History" article there are no references. Perhaps this should be renamed "Invented and irrelevant bullshit". I severely doubt that Adams' history formed the basis for Miss Havisham as was so tenuously intimated. I would be interested in hearing from whence or from whom this "fact" originated.
The general malaise with which this article was put together is quite stunning considering the amount of work which must have gone into it. Misspellings, grammar misuse (ironic I'm sure) and failure to cite references abound. Indeed in one place the line "listed below as a reference" is used in lieu of a proper reference, this would have taken considerably longer to write than simply using the reference tag.
And now we arrive at the cesspool of ignorance, which has here been named 'Notable alumni'. I fail to see how the following people qualify as 'notable', bearing in mind that the term means "people you might conceivable give a toss about": Peter Butler; Jeremy Corbyn; Thomas Hanmer; Charles Sylvester Horne (this one is really scraping the barrel- MP for Ipswich nearly 100 years ago?); Peter Price; Tom Pym (may or may not be good at chess, clearly wrote his article himself, has achieved nothing); Frank Armstrong (seriously, he's assistant commissioner????? Oh wait, NOBODY GIVES A SHIT!). Also, readers are expected to believe that Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge "invented" Birmingham University. Did a blind, retarded baboon write this article?
I have tagged this article appropriately, and must request that these are not removed until the issues raised above are dealt with. Tomob57 (talk) 12:56, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Bad Article

message: are  eligible for being notable allumni they are a signed successful pop band.  
http://www.nme.com/artists/ripchord
they are successfull in their field and should be included.
* Would suggest citing them; link their name on the page to the NME article, maybe. Or, perhaps, create a proper Wikipedia page for Ripchord themselves, and see how that stands regarding vanity pages, etc. If it's OK-ed, then they can stay, and the names can link through to the page, rather than being un-linked text. Don't take me as gospel, mind, I'm no huge contributor myself, so I might be suggesting something that'll just annoy everyone. Still, it's worth a thought, and things are easier to justify on here if they have proper links and references. --JTA 18:42, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Ripchord

message: Clive has the elephant as it's symbol but what do the other three houses use (if they do)? David ON
*I'm not sure any of the others do...
*Webb certainly doesn't, and in seven years I never came across one for Darwin or Talbot. Perhaps we can nick the Hogwarts ones? Darwin have so got to be Slytherin--LukeSurl 17:52, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  House symbols 

message: How are the shamrock pirates non notable? i beleive they ar more famous than ANY of the other people on a list. plus i have almost now affiliation with the band so vanity WTF?
*I doubt your opinion will be supported by the vast majority of the Wikipedia community. – drw25 (talk) 22:49, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shamrock pirates vanity>? 

message: OK...I think we might have gone over the 3 revert rule now, so I don't really want to do it again...  What are the next steps?– drw25 (talk) 10:31, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, reckon you are right. I've asked for some help. See Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection#Adams.27_Grammar_School   - Naturenet | Talk 11:31, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Page protected as per request. Note that the 3RR explicitly states that reverting vandalism is excempt, but even so its not beneficial to anybody and page protection is best. Thryduulf 12:11, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reverting 

message: I'm going through instances of the use of links to "rugby" and disambiguating them.  Could someone unlock this page and disambiguate the single link on here, please? Thanks!
*Tonywalton (now I've remembered to log in!)
Rugby union is appropriate. I edited your comment (sorry) to remote its links, as I spend a lot of time disambiguating "rugby" and the extraneous links from talk pages make it slightly harder. -Arch dude 21:43, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ambiguous Rugby 

message: I reverted an edit made by 88.111.85.58. "Selective" means the same as "grammar" and the selectivity is discussed in the second paragraph. --LukeSurl 00:55, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing "selective" from first line. 

message: I've just removed a couple of questionable alumni from the list - one person listed as having won the "I AM A TWAT" prize, another for being a champion of some video game. Also, the last few entries on the alumni list are not in alphabetical order. I would have fixed it but I'm not at all certain they're actually notable enough to be included in the list in the first place. Help?
Thanks, Jessicapierce 15:06, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: One questionable alumnus, the first Earl Gower.  Any evidence he attended this school?  The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and the Complete Peerage both record his education being at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford University, which he entered 1710.Cloptonson (talk) 18:41, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I also question two alleged alumni. In his wiki article Robert Charnock's pre-university education is not mentioned in his DNB article, the sole cited source so I have put a citation need against the mention of the school in his wiki article. Keith Jones the Dean of York is stated in his wiki article and Who's Who to have been educated not at Newport but Ludlow Grammar School.Cloptonson (talk) 19:34, 9 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Mild vandalism to alumni list, and question

message: The stuff about the new science block should certainly not be under Background, in the unlikely event that it should be included at all. Salopian (talk) 10:17, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Science block

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