Talk:Rugby School

message: I don't know who put a citation request template on that section, but I hardly see how anyone is going to be able to cite references or sources for the words there. They must all be straight from the horses' mouths - what more does anyone want??Nick Michael 16:11, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Straight from the horse's mouth, some of those terms (such as Stodge, Sixth, Boomer, Tosh, Copy, Distinction, Levee (I think one of the es is supposed to have an accent too)) are used and some (such as Beak, Tanner, Speckle, Bug, Topos) I have never heard in my life. They may be historical and not in current use, or I may just have, by chance, never heard the terms. Probably the former. 82.16.77.68 16:47, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: User:OllyH has taken exception to my removing from the section Rugby School slang the term Drugby. In reinstating it he touchily labels my editing as vandalism, which it wasn't (and he ought to know better). I removed the term because it is not Rugby School slang: as his entry puts it, it was a famous 80's Sun headline after yet another dope bust. This does not even make it slang, let alone Rugby School slang. I'm not going to get into an edit war with OllyH but I believe that if he wants to bring the term up it should go into the main article and not in the list of what are mostly venerable and historical slang words and expressions.Nick Michael 21:50, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

text: A link to a subpage is probably the best option here if it absolutely must be kept, but the guideline is pretty clear. Perhaps if it was a link out of the history section instead of a section in-and-of itself it wouldn't attract so much attention. Adam McCormick 21:27, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

text: Well it just goes to show how ephemeral school slang is. It would be interesting to know which words/expressions in the list have survived and which have become extinct.Nick Michael (talk) 23:13, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  This section has to be on of the worst I've ever read on Wikipedia. It cannot be verified so is open to abuse. Anyone could write anything. Also some of this isn't Rugby School slang, its public school slang. Beak is a commonly known (if somewhat oldfashioned) term and prep is used everywhere. I'm going to remove the terms I have heard of because clearly they are not Rugby School slang at all. Cls14 (talk) 09:58, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rugby School slang 

message: Made top based on Google hits. Pity they're are still few references. There should be 20 or 30. Its not too tricky and this school should have a top 100 article. Victuallers 11:04, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Reassess for Schools project

message: Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC KCB KCIE is a fictional character, not a real person  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.45.10.127 (talk) 20:58, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flashman 

message: Does anyone have a record of the mass revolt that happened at Rugby School in 1797?
Yes. Have a look at 
A HISTORY OF RUGBY SCHOOL 
BY 
W. H. D. ROUSE, M.A. 
SOMETIME FELLOW OF CHRIST'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE 
LONDON 
DUCKWORTH & CO. 
3, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN, W.C. 
1898 
Printed by BALLANTYNE, HANSON & Co. 
At the Ballantyne Press  
http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofrugbysc00rousuoft/historyofrugbysc00rousuoft_djvu.txt
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.7.44.27 (talk) 11:23, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: The great Rugby School mutiny of 1797

message: Much British Imperial expansion took place before 1828.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.97.55.83 (talk) 12:17, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  1828 

message: I note that the article on Eton includes an estimate of the annual fees. The Rugby website, of course, has nothing to say about this. Would some current student or staff member (several of whom I see have posted here) care to provide a similar figure for Rugby? --184.46.15.59 (talk) 01:32, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fees? 

message: At present there is a discussion relating to the renaming of this category. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at this discussion page. Please note that the discussion is not a majority vote so contributions should be based on Wikipedia policies and independent sources. Cjc13 (talk) 11:27, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:Category:Old Rugbeians]] 

message: Over the last ten years most UK public sector secondary schools have converted to academies and are therefore independent. They're independent of central government and Local Education Authority control. This development has made it all the more confusing to describe private schools as independent. If you take private healthcare; go to the BUPA article and in the opening paragraph it is described as a private hospital. If private schools have private school in the opening paragraph the link takes the reader to an article that makes explicitly clear.
Private schools, also known as independent schools, non-governmental, or nonstate schools,[1] are not administered by local, state or national governments; thus, they retain the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students tuition, rather than relying on mandatory taxation through public (government) funding; at some private schools students may be able to get a scholarship, which makes the cost cheaper, depending on a talent the student may have (e.g. sport scholarship, art scholarship, academic scholarship), financial need, or tax credit scholarships that might be available.
That is clear, unambiguous and unequivocal.(Garageland66 (talk) 14:12, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: The answer is to stop making your edits for the reasons we have already covered.  If you do it again, I shall seek a topic ban. KJP1 (talk) 15:15, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  Ah, I see, you're repeating this all over the place. That doesn't make you right; and I see also that you are being reverted and then reverting edits on this matter by numerous other editors. While this doesn't necessarily make you wrong, it at least indicates that you might possibly be in a minority. Discussion should be by consensus not by majority vote, but you certainly do not have consensus at the moment, even if you have pushed your changes through in a considerable number of articles on what we might for want of a neutral word call "public schools". The term "private school" does not accurately cover the case, as there are numerous other types of school that could be called private; the agreed term for many years has now been "independent school" to avoid that difficulty. Your "clear, unambiguous and unequivocal" statement does not take into account the many kinds of school in the UK: for example, it equates nonstate with non-governmental, but Church of England and Academy schools are certainly state schools but equally certainly non-governmental, so as a definition it's a total mess. A clear, unambiguous and unequivocal mess, perhaps. Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:23, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not repeating this 'all over the place' I'm placing it on the Talk Pages of those articles I'm trying to amend to seek clarity on private schools. Please don't try to claim that because there are so many different types of school, it's difficult to ascertain which ones are public sector and which ones are fee-paying private sector schools. We all know the difference and the diffence ought to be made clear on here. The purpose of Wikipedia is to inform, not to confuse. (Garageland66 (talk) 16:16, 7 January 2017 (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) 11:34, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Suggest you drop a note at the schools project to see if they have any input. Keith D (talk) 22:02, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Infobox

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