Talk:Hymers College

message: Does anyone else think that this has got way too much information on the cadets?  All the information makes it look like Hymers is a military school.  All that is needed is the single sentence that is already under the 'Hymers today' section: 
Unlike most independent schools who have a CCF (Combined Cadet Force) unit, Hymers has its own ACF (Army Cadet Force) detachment (Hymers College ACF Detachment).'
Who's up for a deletion of this topic? RocketRocketRocketShip 17:15, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If I recall correctly from my "Hymers - The First 100 Years" book, up until the 1970s the CCF was compulsory. [Sorry you don't recall correctly, or if you do then the book's wrong -   I was at Hymers senior school in early 1960s and the rule was 'Boys are EXPECTED to join the CCF' but weren't forced to and there was no pressure to - I'd estimate about half in each year didn't (I did because, like others, I wanted to).] You could edit the topic quite a bit, but I think deleting it as a sub-heading would be taking it too far. The real problem is the comparative lack of detail on the school in general. Wiki-Ed 09:48, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yes, I agree, it seems like a major chunk of the article - could at least move below the Hymers today section, and IMHO could do with a little shortening.  I have a copy of First 100, but it's packed in a box...will have to dig it out sometime to confirm the Wiki-Ed comment. --Fraz 09:22, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

text:  Charles H. Gore was indeed the first headmaster, I have The First Hundred Years book in front of me now. I can't confirm your comment Wiki-Ed, the book is annoyingly set out in a way that makes this fact difficult to pin down without an extensive read through. The Guy From Ipanema 23:00, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Too much information on ACF detachment?

message: The comment about 40% of Hymers pupils being gay is absolute bollocks (I am a former Hymers pupil - I would know) and so has been removed
:Thank you. The sentence previously said that 40% of students are female. I have no idea if this is true so will not be putting it back. -- zzuuzz (talk) 19:04, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks former Hymers pupil, it fooled me as a current Hymers pupil. :P The Guy From Ipanema 23:00, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Removal of a comment

message: I'm going to go ahead and try to reconstruct/rewrite some of this article to provide some more information.  I don't know much about the history, so any help would be appreciated. Gk007 (talk) 13:36, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reconstruction/Major Work 

message: The article on newly-elected MP Keir Mather (winner of the 2023 Selby and Ainsty by-election) says in its current revision that  ... but no source is cited.
Can anyone find a reliable source to confirm or deny this assertion? BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 13:46, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: That sentence has already been removed, however I still think that this is a good question to raise. Sanmosa Outdia 13:58, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

text: The article on him now cites an article from "National World", but I'm pretty sure the source for the National World is probably just the Wikipedia article in the first place... Gk007 (talk) 08:40, 22 July 2023 (UTC)

text: Confirmed no: https://archive.li/qFFUe (Times Magazine archive link) Gk007 (talk) 11:36, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Keir Mather MP