Talk:Charterhouse School

message: In January 2009, Charterhouse made the decision to move from A-Level to the International Baccalaureate, along with the Pre-U course. Should this be added in? Grieferhate (talk) 16:34, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Charterhouse moves to [[International Baccalaureate]] 

message: Just a note - the school term is always spelt "Quarter" with an upper case "Q" (the school breaktime is called "quarter" with a lower case "q"). Grieferhate (talk) 07:55, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling 

message: Duckites is here listed as an "old" house.  surely incorrect.  Duckites is a block house (i.e. in the main school block), but is not an old house: that is limited to S,V and G?
No its an Old House, mate.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.195.210.231 (talk) 16:34, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Houses: Old vs New 

message: Largest War Memorial? Surely All Souls, Oxford is a larger war memorial than Charterhouse chapel. Just a different war...
Response - it is the largest WWI memorial.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.227.236.38 (talk) 11:32, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Largest War Memorial 

message: IIRC, the Minor Sport's colours were a maroon tie with thin silver stripes. Has this changed? Jokl 02:21, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Uniform 

message: Not the kind of thing that should go into the article (mostly due to lack of verification) but at a number of other independent schools during the 90s Charterhouse was known as "Chaaaaaaaarterhouse", with a long-drawn-out sheeplike noise in the middle. This was due to a supposed incident in which several boys had been found engaging in some kind of sexual act with a sheep in a bedroom or dorm at Weekites House. I've no idea if the story is true, but it was certainly widespread. PeteVerdon 13:27, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sheep 

message: Removed this section due to NPOV and fact it adds nothing to the article.
It read in full "The grounds at Charterhouse really are beautful and this is all thanks to the truly dedicated team of groundsmen and women who maintain the beauty of the school."[[User:Disneyfreak96|StareGirl]
:How can you say that this section does not add any value to the article. Us Groundsmen and woman work really hard to keep the school looking at its best! This little bit of recognition to our ongoing efforts goes a long way in saying thanks.  By removing it  - smacks of a slap in the face!!! user:siphoxolo
::Wikipedia doesn't exist to make you feel good about the job you do, though. 82.22.219.217 (talk) 16:08, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: The Grounds of Charterhouse

message: Do you realise how offensive it is for Carthusians to have the Controversy put down?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?! Stop putting in Controversy, please, as I am a current Carthusian and find this very offensive! Very little of it is true!
I agree this section is a JOKE. Other public schools such as Eton and Harrow don't have a controversy sections, so why should Charterhouse? This website goes on and on about it being an encyclopaedia and that only FACTS should be put in. Why then, if this is the case, is there a section entitled controversy? Surely, this goes against everything Wikipedia goes on and on about? It was a big mistake having a 'Controversy' section, an embarrassing one.
:Eton - eight subsections on controversy. Harrow - the cartel is mentioned but not under a heading 'controversy'. If the controversies can be backed up by reference to reliable external sources, then of course they should be there. 'I am embarrassed' and 'I am offended' do nothing to negate this view. 31.52.252.180 (talk) 14:53, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: It is actually meant as a more tempered heading than "Negative Press" or "Mistakes", having reviewed this article among a local list, such euphemisms are not uncommon across the slate of all articles.  If anyone would like to propose below a more subtle heading than "Mistakes" (I am generally as subtle and euphemistic as a sledgehammer) go ahead.  I see scandals comes up in headings below — Sheridan would be proud.- Adam37 Talk 09:28, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Stop putting in Controversy

message: Why has such a large section of the article been deleted? I am shocked at how much has gone. Bring it back! Bring it back! Bring it back!
:Now fixed, though I've removed the glossary on the basis it could be considered to be listcruft. -- zzuuzz (talk) 15:32, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I still find the glossary important, as things like that make up the culture of people who go to public schools. These sayings are key parts of public school, they are not minor and listcruft. For these reasons I believe that the glossary should be reinstated.--Jammydodger 15:49, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There are many problems with a glossary. First, it was completely unreferenced, failing the fundamental Wikipedia policy. Second and partly related, it's a magnet for made-up abusive crap such as SELF RINSAGE. Third, it contains items which are not sayings or jargon at all and/or can be looked up in a simple common dictionary, for example SUTTON'S HOSPITAL, STUDENT COUNCIL, HEADMASTER'S ESSAY SOCIETY, CHAPEL, LONDON CHARTERHOUSE, EXEAT, CHETWYND. Other terms such as JDTC and BTT are of no interest to anyone at all. There are some interesting relevant facts within what was the glossary, but this should not be a tedious and ever-expanding laundry list, it should be turned to prose and properly referenced, which in turn would indicate that the world of knowledge does not consider these facts to be minor small-world trivia, thus befitting an encyclopaedia not the Urban Dictionary. Unreferenced stuff should be junked as it is obviously of no interest to any publisher. -- zzuuzz (talk) 16:16, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Where has the article gone?!?!?!?!?!?!?????

message: As in, rules for a forum in which the participants may not be quoted (in order to encourage free discussion).
See http://www.newciv.org/cob/members/benking/voicetxt.html  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.135.231.49 (talk) 05:03, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Any relation to "Charterhouse Rules"? 

message: The end of the first sentence, "...also referred to a public school situated at Godalming in Surrey" doesn't quite make sense.  I'd fix it but it is unclear what it actually means, so can someone who knows do so? Huw Powell (talk) 23:24, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Phrasing broken 

message: Not sure the story that the SEALs challenged the school in the 1950s is all that correct.  While the US Navy had SEAL-like organizations since WWII such as the UDTs, the SEALs did not become a formal organization - with that name - until 1961/62. 80.4.81.4 (talk) 00:23, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  50-Mile Walk 

message: The school plays a prominent role in Goodbye to All That, a book which was kind of famous ca. 1930.  Graves was extremely unhappy there, because he found that the school had a culture which encouraged pervasive petty bullying and anti-intellectualism, and very little was valued other than success at team sports. AnonMoos (talk) 15:55, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Robert Graves

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message: There have been a number of scandals at Charterhouse School. Drugs were mentioned.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.152.26.92 (talk) 10:48, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Anything but associated with this school nor a liberal, I have to say thank you for that but in its lack of detail/citation/noteworthiness/time period it does offend the Talk page header which gives links to wikipedia's policies.  WP:V, WP:NOR and WP:N all come to mind.- Adam37 Talk 09:28, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scandals 

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message: I would suggest that Charterhouse School be described as a private school. The description independent is vague and unclear. Wikipedia is global and most readers recognise organisations as being either public sector or private sector. 'Independent school' is an Anglocentric term and is just not a recognised term in most countries. It only serves to open up questions; independent from whom? Independen from what?
:The British English word for such schools is 'public'!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.52.252.180 (talk) 14:54, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Private School 

message: The infoboxes for the seven historic English public schools are, at present, inconsistent. Five have the School Type  listed as ‘Independent’, one has it as ‘Private’ and only one has it as ‘Public’. Can I propose that, for the sake of consistency, they all have ‘Public School’ in the infobox. They are defined as such by the 1868 Public Schools Act. Is there a consensus on this? Garageland66 (talk) 11:30, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Infobox

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message: "Pleming would step down from his position as Headmaster in January, less than three years into his directorship"--is the headmaster really a director?  What of? 31.52.252.180 (talk) 14:48, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Not in the Companies Act sense but in direction yes; the word directorship is the individualised form of direction and although connotes legal Director in that very narrow sense due to the proliferation of companies it is not just reserved for company directors. It also appears the right level of dilution.  If direction is written that connotes a narrow dictatorship or very individualised vision and if one says trusteeship that is too loose, the other trustees delegate many day-to-day executive functions to the head, who in turn delegates specialised roles and tasks as is seen fit. The distinction is so subtle it is not really my forte.- Adam37 Talk 09:28, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Directorship? 

message: Quite early on, this article says that Charterhouse School has educated one British Prime Minister. It would be helpful if the article said who this Prime Minister was. Vorbee (talk) 17:36, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: - Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool. Absolutely agree the article should be explicit. KJP1 (talk) 21:06, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Who was the Prime Minister?

message: I used a current link, but the source shows up as a template. I don’t know how to fix it since it doesn’t show up in the edit page. It’s citation number 4.
 Thanks. Bigbrain132 (talk) 21:00, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broken source 

message: The uniform section is largely outdated and not common among other school articles. I think it would be best for anything that can be included in other sections (like sports) to be moved there, or deleted. Alternatively, a ‘school life’ section could be added with a small (much smaller than now) description of uniforms. Cowinatree (talk) 15:42, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Uniform section 

message: Old houses are ONLY house created before 1872. Despite the fact that Duckites (girdlestoneites) is in old school (and Sutton as well) does not mean they are old houses. The new houses used to be next to duckites, so going by that logic all houses would be old houses. Cowinatree (talk) 15:44, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Old house vs new house