Talk:Marlborough College

message: Unreferenced?  What kind of references are you looking for?  Most of this is personal knowledge.  Perhaps you could direct us to a better example, please. Bearfoot 21:40, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Personal knowledge is not what Wikipedia publishes. There are policies on verifiability and no original research. Sources should be independent and reliable. For an example of a good (featured) school article, see Plano Senior High School. Count the references. -- zzuuzz (talk) 21:46, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

message: I note Wilson is claimed both by Marlborough and by Eton. His entry in Dictionary of National Biography only gives Eton. Does some one have a source to check his attendance at Marlborough? -- Op. Deo 23:02, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Field Marshall Henry Maitland Wilson 

message: I have removed a number of old Marlburians from the list because they were red-linked and many have been for months. If they were that notable, they should have had a wiki article by now.Dabbler 20:55, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If they are notable enough to be placed in this list, then they should have a non red-linked article in Wikipedia, otherwise anyone who went to Marlborough could claim to be notable enough to be listed. These names weren't put up one day and deleted the next, they were there for months and no one thought them notable enough to create an article about them. They should have at least a stub article about them in Wikipedia. If you think they are notable enough, why not create the articles describing their achievements and then link them here. I agree that there were a couple of names that I was slightly surprised to find were red-linked. Dabbler 17:59, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Red-linked Old Marlburians

message: Why was Eugenie sent to this school? She was attending a day school.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.103.54.82 (talk) 13:56, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  School 

message: I have merged the Cotton House article with the full article because I don't think it should have a separate article. dottydotdot (talk) 17:05, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think that it is appropriate to have puff pieces on individual houses, I will remove this section unless someone can give any good reasons for this section to exist. Dabbler (talk) 15:11, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm fine with that, just thought something should be done with it. dottydotdot (talk) 20:27, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Merged Cotton

message: At this edit today, a new section on Marlborough slang (added by 86.146.37.153) was deleted. I feel it has some merit, and it even included a citation for the last point made. What do other people think about this? Moonraker2 (talk) 06:35, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with the deletion. The citation was from a non-notable non-independent source. A quick check here and here suggest it would struggle to be considered in anyway notable and would fall foul of WP:INDISCRIMINATE at some point. The whole article, in common with many school articles, would be greatly improved by deleting more of it... names of houses and term dates have no place here.  Lame Name (talk) 06:54, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, the school slang isn't exactly essential to the article, for instance if there were a problem of space, which there isn't. Once it has been established that a subject is notable, which it clearly has been in this case, I suppose it depends on how good and comprehensive an account of the school we want to have. I can't agree with your comments on names of houses, Lame Name: in some schools, the house system can be a bit theoretical, but at a school like Marlborough the houses are the units which make up the school, both physically and socially. I do agree with you that "term dates have no place here", but the general description in the article of the names of the terms and the months they cover is, again, important information. No doubt it would be good to get it cited. Moonraker2 (talk) 04:07, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Marlborough slang

message: Please see the discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2011 February 10#Former pupils by school in the United Kingdom. Moonraker2 (talk) 14:27, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: *There is a further discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2012 May 9. Cjc13 (talk) 11:19, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Old Wykehamists, Old Radleians, etc.  to become "Alumni of... "? 

message: A large amount of text copied from the official college website (dated October 2007 or earlier) was added to this article by two users  and  on 5 October 2008. The copied material has been removed. See "Copyright problem removed" for possible next steps.Worldbruce (talk) 03:43, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright violation - facilities section 

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thread_title:  Copyright problem removed 

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message: " Victorian prison" is an interesting observation, but a claim like that needs a WP:RS. Can anyone help? --ClemRutter (talk) 11:21, 26 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:   Victorian prison architecture.