Talk:King Edward VI Five Ways School

message: Very good page and you are discussing the right issues below. I hope this wasn't copied off the school web page..... if it was then you need to delete that bit as it is copyright. Alumin tick. Refs are listed but its not clear where they are used. Look at the ref tag to see how it is used. Welcome. Oh we can help more ... Victuallers 13:56, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Assess for Schools

message: Was grammar deliberately spelled wrong? I dunno about Malcom X. I think Mussolini was more of an influence on Wheelybin, y'know...the faschism and all.Hashimashadoo 10:18, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Lulz, I think you're going to get owned for saying that Gagabrain 21:19, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Grammar

message: Aston and KES have lists of famous, or "notable" old boys. Does anyone have a list of those, or more realistically, know of anyone that went on to become really great? Alex Holowczak 18:12, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There is at least one old boy who now works for radio 4. I can't remember his name, maybe consult Mr. Sharp on this one. 41214 21:21, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Thankyou for the tip-off, I shall investigate! Alex Holowczak 20:20, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

text: I noticed, and I agree it's a better choice of word. Alex Holowczak (talk) 13:00, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Old Edwardians 

message: In view of the fact that this article is supposed to generally promote the school in a good light, I for one nominate this section for deletion. --LibLord 19:27, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: What makes you think that it's a fact that this article is supposed to generally promote the school in a good light? Surely encyclopedia articles should be factual and neutral. A neutral point of view seems to be lacking throughout.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.122.50.62 (talk) 12:56, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Pupils' Worries

message: This is not a place to post any dislike for Mr. Wheeldon. It will be swiftly deleted. The Pupils' Worries is a bad reflection on the school, and we cannot allow that. If you would like to do that, post it on the Five Ways myspace page instead - somewhere a little less public. I agree with User:LibLord that that should be deleted. I tried softening it up, but alas, I think it needs to go completely. Alex Holowczak 21:59, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Complaints

message: Just here to point out a few things with the article I'd like to see change gradually, in the long term. Most of it involves tweaking the article in accordance to Wikipedia's policies on article content. This may be the school's article, and we may want to portray it in a good light, but it's still on Wikipedia:
::"This may be the school's article..." Really? Wikipedia articles are private fiefdoms are they?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.122.50.62 (talk) 13:11, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It shouldn't be "more factual, less opinionated", it should be wholly factual (and verifiably so) and not in the least opinionated.
*References: the more the merrier, really. Anything that can be referenced, do. Go here to see how, and that's the type of referencing I propose we adopt. If you can't do it just post your links here and I will.
*Spelling errors! Seems silly but there are so many of them. I could just change them myself but that wouldn't be so sustainable. So yeah. Use a dictionary.
LibLord 23:11, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Or failing that, use the Wiktionary! Alex Holowczak 21:52, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Some more random points from me

message: I hope you like the infobox! LibLord 19:10, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Infobox!

message: I copied and pasted a whole heap of stuff from the school website about links to other schools. Is that overdominating the page? Alex Holowczak 20:24, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Links Too Long? 

message: I just removed a few paragraphs regarding P.E. teachers, sexual incidents, 'claims of harassment and debauchery', and 'prospective sex offenders'. Why?
:That's simply censoring the truth and as it is relevant to the school, should stay. Despite the fact that it may put the school in a bad light, we should make a point of being honest. If you were doing a Nathan Gale article, you wouldn't miss out that he shot Dimebag, in the same way we should not hide the truth, unless I'm mistaken and it is fictitious. Gagabrain 21:25, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: sexual incidents

message: This addition doesn't belong in the section the editor placed it in. It belongs in the "pupil's worries" section. But we deleted that section several weeks ago on the grounds that is was inappropriate and just made the school look like a bad place... sure, there are things about Five Ways that people are going to dislike - hell, even hate. But it's the same for every school. Other schools don't write about it on their wikipedia pages, so why should we? Writing about a sex offender in the school, no matter how much truth there is in it, just makes the place look like a dump. Anyway, that's my opinion, but please let's discuss. If enough people think it's a good idea to talk about the school as a "humanities specialist sex-offender institute", I guess maybe that makes me wrong.
LibLord 12:15, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: "Current Issues and The Future" section

message: I think the editors of this page need to be careful about only wanting to show the positive side of the school, if someone comes along with verifiable information that is negative, you'll have to let them add it if it's notable enough.  Other schools have had to let it happen on Wikipedia.Terri G 19:25, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: POV and bias

message: I deleted the "see also" of Babati, because:
*I don't think there's any need to have it as a see also... it's already linked to within the main article.
*We don't have any other "see alsos" and so it looked silly on its own. 
Any comments?
LibLord 16:37, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No problem. Alex Holowczak 19:44, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

text: Perhaps some users find it easier to see a list of relevant wiki pages, rather than have to hunt through the article for it...... 86.130.252.131 22:32, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: deleted "see also"

message: We found a list of Old Edwardians, thanks to a prospectus supplied from none other than Mr Wheeldon himself! He also pointed out he was not an ex-pupil of the school. All corrected now. Alex Holowczak 22:21, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changes 

message: Rumour has it that Mazher Mahmood also came here? Anyone know anything about that? Alex Holowczak 22:22, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Confirmed from as good a source as any - Mr Sharp! Alex Holowczak 15:30, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

text: Mr. Sharp is a great place to check for old Edwardians by the looks of things! Callum (talk) 15:47, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fake Sheikh? 

message: in some places, staff names are quoted in full, e.g. David Wheeldon, in other places, formally, i.e. Mr Wilson. would some continuty in staff naming be sensible?
ukeivo 21:30, 09 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I suppose so - we just don't know all the teachers names! Hence the anonymosity. Alex Holowczak 21:36, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

text: I think you mean anonymity. LibLord 18:50, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

text: I think I mean that too. :) Alex Holowczak 20:33, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Continuity of names 

message: Really? He was born in Gloucester, it seems a bit of a commute. I know it says he came here on his page, but there's no guarantee that he came here. The others came from The Chronicle, produced by the school, which is a verifyable source, but not on the Internet sadly. Yet Pegg's name was not mentioned in The Chronicle, yet I feel it is worthy enough of a mention for it to be there. Thoughts? Alex Holowczak 17:14, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No, he wasn't as confirmed by Mr Marston. Alex Holowczak 13:14, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Simon Pegg 

message: Upon its review on October 20, 2007, this good article nomination was quick-failed because it:
::had a virtual or complete lack of reliable sources
thus making it ineligible for good article consideration.  According to WP:Verifiability, "Material that is challenged or likely to be challenged, and all quotations, must be attributed to a reliable, published source."
This article did not receive a thorough review, and may not meet other parts of the good article criteria.  The article needs a lot of work. There are a handful of sections with zero references or wikilinks. Before anything the article needs to be brought up to standard with the manual of style. Headers and section structure need to be changed to better comply with the manual. Look at the good article criteria and make sure you comply with all points before submitting again. Best of luck! I encourage you to remedy this problem (and any others) and resubmit it for consideration.  If you feel that this review is in error, feel free to take it to a Good article reassessment.  Thank you for your work so far.—Noetic Sage 23:09, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Failed "good article" nomination

message: I don't know why all the negative tags have been attached to this article. Perhaps one section, "King Edwards Public School" needs some clean-up or cites added. But the rest of the article looks just fine. Just compare it to any university entry in Wikipedia. Is the MIT [] article an advertisement?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.151.21.99 (talk) 00:59, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't worry too much. I asked the user to put tags here, for where I should include sources to improve the article. He has only done as I have requested. Although I admit, it does look awful now! But it will look better once I have things to replace the tags. Alex Holowczak 20:17, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  N-POV? Advertisement?  

message: Please do not add "Nish" to the Old Edwardians section. "Old Edwardians" are old boys of the school. I.e. they don't go to Five Ways anymore. Hence, "Nish", who still goes to our school, is not an Old Edwardian, so therefore should not be included. Any further attempts to add him will be removed swiftly, in accordance with this message. Alex Holowczak (talk) 15:46, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Nish" 

message: Please find a source. It again strikes me as one of those things the school would put in the prospectus. Alex Holowczak (talk) 13:51, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oscar Deutsch 

message: I was trying to disambiguate the EDGE wikilink but failed to find any more specific information. The disambiguation page also doesn't contain anything related. Does that partnership programme(?) have a web page or something? --saimhe (talk) 17:25, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, here it is. Alex Holowczak (talk) 20:21, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks! At last the disambig page has became a bit better. I can only dream about a separate article. --saimhe (talk) 21:40, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  EDGE partnership -- what's that? 

message: Particular highlights:
* "Most people catch the 22 bus." So what if they do? That has no relevance on the article in question. It is only necessary to state the presence of the public and private services, any further detail could be placed on a separate article. Also bordering on POV.
* "Eleven Plus. aka 11+." It doesn't matter whether the alias was Konstantinov, the point has nothing to do with KEFW. So put it on the Eleven Plus article if you think it warrants inclusion.
So please think before you edit. :-) Alex Holowczak (talk) 09:52, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pointless Additions 

message: There ought to be a law requiring people who claim that X is traditional to say just what tradition X adheres to.
"We" in the section King Edward Public School ("We also welcome another party from India...") is inappropriate.
The article is littered with management-speak: "a school improvement strategy", "roadmap for further development", "Links are being forged at the moment", "The next stage is to embed this link". Perhaps this is the way headteachers address their staff and pupils, but it is inappropriate for a Wikipedia article.  81.131.31.196 (talk) 15:24, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Language 

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