Talk:Hwa Chong Institution

message: There is no basis to merge this article with The Chinese High School.
:Exactly. -- Миборовский U|T|C|M|E|Chugoku Banzai! 07:35, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge

message: Can someone upload some pictures? -- minghan 15:37, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Pictures

message: I think HCI is the only Singapore-institution that does not use the Singapore School infobox. For standardisation purposes, change that.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by The Toad (talk • contribs) 12:16, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox? 

message: Please, this is NOT the place to promote your consortiums. Go read the above 2 wikipedia policies. Frankchn 15:39, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree. Lots of unncessary names also. -- mh 18:08, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

text: Following Jonseng's violation of the NPOV policy, I would like to remind editors that Wikipedia articles should follow a neutral point-of-view. As Frankchn has mentioned earlier, this is not a place where you advertise yourself, regardless of your various achievements. Thank you. Angcr (talk) 14:41, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[WP:VANITY]] and [[WP:NPOV]] 

message: I would like to propose a new structure to the article. The new skeleton of the article will follow this structure. However, the information regarding Council, Consortiums etc will still be kept. What I hopefully will change is the introduction of new sections, such as Notable Alumni, Curriculum etc. Feel free to share your views here. Thank you. Angcr (talk) 14:50, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  New structure to article 

message: This article needs proper references before it can qualify as a B class article so I've changed the rating to C class. It is however seemingly a very important school with important alumni. I've upgraded it to high importance. Please come back for a re-assessment when you have added some references as this is potentially a top importance school. As well as adding references you need to work on cutting out some of the trivia. You should also check the copyright status of the school song lyrics. Dahliarose (talk) 11:47, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Re-assess for Schools Project

message: I noticed that recently a number of unregistered users are vandalising the staff and alumni section. Based on their edits, I suspect that they are from the high school. They have added their teachers (eg Mrs Teo CC, Mr Tan HC) and their classmates to the list out of sheer mischief. These people whose names they've added are not notable enough to be on the list. Lonelydarksky (talk) 13:33, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not about who finds it notable or not. It's about how relevant it is to the article. Under your rationale, we could just add a list of every teacher, administrator, technical specialist, landscaper and janitor in Hwa Chong. Would that be necessary? --Chinkeeyong (talk) 13:20, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: If there is any wish on the alumni part to praise any of the teachers, be it from high school or college, they can do so by writing a commendation letter to the school or throwing a party for whichever teacher they admire the most, but not here! This is simply abuse of space  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Enoughsaid05 (talk • contribs) 15:06, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Notable staff and alumni section

message: A lot of information can be left out like the songs, too trivial. The section on Information Technology Facilities should be rewritten, too much like an advertisement. Really, the whole article has to be reviewed and rewritten, and I am filing a semi-protection request so that... teachers don't edit the page.
Coolzgeek (talk) 11:45, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: NPOV, Trival Information and page protection

message: I have pruned many unencyclopedic lists of information. Please discuss before reverting. Thanks Overmage (talk) 16:15, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  general cleanup 

message: I am assessing this article following a request at WP:WPSCH/A#R. I have decided to keep the existing rating of C / High. Some parts of the article are rather good, such as the lead and the history section. The use of pictures also makes the article look a lot better. The biggest weakness of the article however is a lot of gaps in references. In the "Academics" and "School culture" sections for instance, there are large amounts of text without any references. The "Consortiums and faculties" section also reads as a little promotional and at times looks like a personal analysis e.g. "Life in both the consortium and faculty is more than just curricular education; they offer differing programmes of their own - such as exchange programmes and student bonding activities." The "Clubs and societies" section also has this issue e.g. "While traditionally not as highly regarded as the sports and uniformed groups CCAs, many of these clubs/societies have performed well in competitions." Says who? An example is given, but this is still expressing a viewpoint beyond what a source says so this violates WP:NOR. On the infobox, per WP:MISSION and WP:WPSCH/AG#WNTI, mission statements should not be included. CT Cooper · talk 14:33, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Noted. Was looking more at raising quality rating rather than importance rating. Still, I quite agree with your assessment; the article needs more references to be credible. I'll do my best and improve this article; other editors, if you're reading, do also contribute too! Thanks, AngChenrui (talk) 15:06, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re-assessment 

message: I noticed that a bold merge was carried out (Diffs:, , ) by . I have reverted it for the time being as I feel there needs to be more discussion about this. Personally, I don't see a real need to merge the article. The previously constituent organisations The Chinese High School (Singapore) and Hwa Chong Junior College are both independently notable enough to have their own article. They also have enough content in the articles which is harder to squeeze here without violating WP:UNDUE. As such it is preferable if they continue to have their own article while the "main article" template can be used to link to it. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 10:23, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  October 2016 Merge 

message: There was an old merge template on Hwa Chong Institution High School Band. The band is not independently notable, so a merge is fine here. However, there is hardly any secondary sources about the band and I am unable to find any as well. It would also be WP:UNDUE to merge that much information. As a result, I am redirecting Hwa Chong Institution High School Band to Hwa Chong Institution. The article history can still be accessed by any interested editors. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 16:38, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: the redirect. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 16:50, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge from [[Hwa Chong Institution High School Band]] 

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