Talk:Victoria Junior College

message: ===Copy-edit===
Hey all. I've been working on copy-editing wikipedia articles these few weeks, and I'll be startig a copy-edit of this one. I'll make improvements as best as I can and add the relevant tags. If you have any questions, just yell here or at my talk page :) And yes, I'm a Victorian. 02S15. Back in the days when the auditorium was not air-con-ed. Actually, it was supposed to happen in our year before the A-levels but it got postponed... But I digress. -Samy85 (talk) 03:40, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I only managed to do a partial copy-edit... needs a lot more citations and some portions are self-contradictory, like whether VJ students cram Japanese-style. Some portions were also ridiculous, like top students applying to VJ because of the sexy uniforms! (but IF it is true, cite your source). okie that's all! will come back another time to continue! --Samy85 (talk) 04:34, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: 2008

message: Hey all. I've been working on copy-editing wikipedia articles these few weeks, and I'll be startig a copy-edit of this one. I'll make improvements as best as I can and add the relevant tags. If you have any questions, just yell here or at my talk page :) And yes, I'm a Victorian. 02S15. Back in the days when the auditorium was not air-con-ed. Actually, it was supposed to happen in our year before the A-levels but it got postponed... But I digress. -Samy85 (talk) 03:40, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I only managed to do a partial copy-edit... needs a lot more citations and some portions are self-contradictory, like whether VJ students cram Japanese-style. Some portions were also ridiculous, like top students applying to VJ because of the sexy uniforms! (but IF it is true, cite your source). okie that's all! will come back another time to continue! --Samy85 (talk) 04:34, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Copy-edit

message: Yes, I'm a current victorian.
It is very hard to talk about the school culture since there are no websites or evidences to support this view, and no study has been done comparing the different school cultures around Singapore.
--supremebull 10:46, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, that is the correct meaning in British English. The American usage - they appear to use it to mean "all the teaching staff added together" - seems quite weird to me. Alarics (talk) 20:52, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

text: I think it's worded this way because it would be stupid to put it in the present tense (as many articles do), only having to switch it to past tense once the year is over, creating unnecessary work. As an aside, it should be flashed wildly somewhere that Aquila is pronounced ah-KWEE-la, and not as many victorians pronounce it: ah-KEE-la. —Dudboi 00:18, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: 2005-2006

message: This is fairly interesting, the year hasn't passed and "In 2006, Aquila was the overall champion house."? StrawHatLuffy 16:37, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it's worded this way because it would be stupid to put it in the present tense (as many articles do), only having to switch it to past tense once the year is over, creating unnecessary work. As an aside, it should be flashed wildly somewhere that Aquila is pronounced ah-KWEE-la, and not as many victorians pronounce it: ah-KEE-la. —Dudboi 00:18, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aquila 2006 champions? 

message: http://www.asiaone.com/News/Education/Story/A1Story20090327-131603.html
Referring to the above article, I am wondering why the principal of VJC has so much say in this matter. Principals come and go every few years. But the alumni will always be alumni. What is the VAC/VEC stand on this matter? Shouldn't the VAC/VEC have jurisdiction over the 2 schools?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.156.9.238 (talk) 20:23, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  VJC 6-year programme 

message: An editor with a clear Conflict of Interest is turning this article into a spam-vehicle. It would be nice when that editor come up with reliable (no social media), independent (not the schoolwebsite or related websites), prior published sources (preferrably but necessarily in English). The Banner talk 16:34, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  SPAM 

message: That editor is trying very hard now to figure out what sort of sources constitute reliable and  independent sources now, so do help her along and together we can all improve the article bit by bit! :)
The old version of the article has a lot of information, but a lot of it lacks sources / sounds promotional (I swear it's not intentional). I will be relooking the currently omitted statements and searching for sources for those statements that didn't sound promotional. I've just done so for some bits, mostly in the "History" segment e.g. about Theatre Studies, French LEP, choir's win at Cardigan Eisteddfod etc. However, I'm unable to find neutral sources for some things e.g. East Zone S&T Centre. Would appreciate help in looking for sources! Skyelyrics (talk) 03:20, 25 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarification 

message: Merry Christmas y'all.
Added back the achievements of VJ choir, this time with backing from the website of the competitions' organiser (Interkultur). As the world ranking is likely to change over time, rendering the information inaccurate, I referenced a cached version of the world rankings instead of the live version. Also, the url of the pdf downloadable results were used, so here are the websites from which they were retrieved: 
* http://www.interkultur.com/events/world-choir-games/bremen-2004/
* http://www.interkultur.com/events/world-choir-games/xiamen-2006/#c1256
* http://www.interkultur.com/results/
Fixed some broken links and added back the trivia about David Beckham. 
Does anyone know if it's possible to search Straits Times archives without a subscription? I remember being able to do it with a school subscription. It would make the job much easier if its articles could be searched (for example, there's bound to be some mention of the principal succession in 2006 when Mr Chan took over, but right now, all I have is the press release). 
Will be adding back the sports CCA info/achievements next, because the CCA list is too skewed to performing arts right now. Sources for those (redsports & straits times?) shouldn't be too hard to find, I hope. 
I copied-and-pasted quite heavily from the old versions of this article so please feel free to edit the flow of the text if it's weird now.   — Preceding unsigned comment added by Skyelyrics (talk • contribs) 06:03, 25 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Details of Edits, 25/12 

message: Wikipedia is not the place for school trivia. You cannot list every CCA of every school here  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.161.196.136 (talk) 10:52, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing list of CCAs 

message: Usually, any title or gender is omitted from a section like that about the principals. In this case, I think it is worthwhile to add them. The reason is in the fact that Wikipedia is a worldwide encyclopaedia. As I am just a European, I fail to recognize female and male first names. So it would be in the best interest of the readers to add those titles. But once is enough. The Banner talk 10:54, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title/gender principal