Talk:St Paul's School, London

message: It may be worth sprotecting this article. --apers0n 17:37, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Semiprotect?

message: Can anyone confirm when the Hammersmith building was demolished? I'd heard it was 1968 but if the school moved out then, and the Waterhouse buildings were derelict by the time they were pulled down, it must have been later than that. Unless the school was in temporary accommodation for a while.
:I believe the majority was (St. Pauls Court flats were built on the site in the 1980s), but some wasn´t. I believe you can still see what´s remaining in Hammersmith Rd, West Kensington, as it is being used for an alternative use. nirvana2013 21:55, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question 

message: The article says SPS won a Daily Mail U15 cup in 2005, but the Daily Mail Cup article says it was won by a school in Ealing. ??? Myopic Bookworm 21:11, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: They reached the final, but lost. This should be changed --82.43.144.131 18:33, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sport facts 

message: No offence to Jamie Whitby, but is he sufficiently notable to be included in the same list as Sir Isaiah Berlin, Sir Clement Freud and, dare I say it, Nicholas Parsons? He gets fewer than 100 ghits (if you filter out the actor Jamie Whitby Coles) and when coupled with his band (Prozak, I think), only 17... Any thoughts? talkGiler 11:07, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Never mind. I see Myopic Bookworm has taken unilateral action! Perhaps I should have been more bold. talkGiler 09:46, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jamie Whitby 

message: Would anyone object if I renamed this school simply as St Paul's School? It is the oldest school of this name and far more articles link to it than any of the other St Paul's Schools because it has so many notable alumni? Dahliarose 16:05, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: n.b. Dab page restored. --Stemonitis 07:18, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Rename

message: I just added to the list some people born in the nineteen-fifties, I hope they fit your criteria (whatever they are).  I saw that Westminster is getting its famous (dead) old pupils from the Oxford DNB, which seems like a good idea.  Westminster is very efficient (I'm sure SPS is, too), someone provided a citation for Judge Jeffries as one of its old boys literally within minutes of my asking.  JO24--89.10.28.5 (talk) 22:31, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The Westminster article says that he was also educated at St Paul's, so I haven't removed him from the list here. Seems fine to use that citation here, so I've removed the citation needed from the page - do add the same citation here if you feel it's necessary. -- alex.muller (talk) 00:24, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable Old Paulines 

message: I've decided to try and get this article to good article status (if it isn't there already yet, that is – won't have a chance to properly go through it until this evening). I'll be following the criteria at Wikipedia:Good article criteria and please nominate it when you feel it's ready. If you can help at all, many thanks in advance. — alex.muller (talk • edits) 13:55, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  GA Editing 

message: Glad to see someone trying for GA! I'm failing the article for now since it doesn't seem to meet the verifiability criteria for GA. A lot of sections don't have citations yet. Those will be needed. Feel free to renominate once you feel this is fixed. Wrad (talk) 02:31, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: GA fail (for now)

message: I'm assessing this article as a B/high importance for WP Schools. The article is well written but a lot of work is now needed on referencing if you want to advance to GA status. The subjective statements (eg, "one of the top schools in the country") either need referencing or removing. Dahliarose (talk) 10:44, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment

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message: Could someone who knows or cares about these things try to sort out the current mess in the Examination results subsection. At present the second para starts off talking about Oxbridge admissions and A level results in 2010; and then about GCSE results in a sentence that begins "Also in 2011 ..."; yet both cited references are to 2008 sources. I have added "citation needed" tags. The next paragraph talks about something that "will be" happening in 2008: did it? GrindtXX (talk) 19:56, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Examination results 

message: St Paul's was not in fact included in the Public Schools Act of 1868. The school did not meet the definition of a public school. Therefore the sentence in the article is incorrect.   — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.98.129.169 (talk) 01:14, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Public Schools Act

message: Hi, I've been wondering if somebody could take a photo of John Colet's bust preserved at the school and upload it to Wikimedia Commons?
(If you need help uploading, write me on my talk page, and I'll do my best to assist you.)
I would be particularly grateful if the photo was taken from an angle similar to the one recorded by Hans Holbein the Younger in a 1530s drawing.
The problem is, even in all the non-free images I can find it is invariably shown frontally.
And the photos of the NPG copy are no better.
Thanks in advance!
Primaler (talk) 13:53, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Could somebody please take a photo of John Colet's bust? 

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message: In "Stopping Hitler" (G C Wynne, Pen & Sword Books , Barnsley, , 2017) it says on page 58 that "A Combined Home Defence Operations Room was established at St Paul's School, Hammersmith."  If Britain had been invaded, this school would therefore had become the nerve centre for the defence against the invasion.  Perhaps the following could be added to the history section. 
"In 1940 a Combined Home Defence Operations Room was established at the school, which would have become the nerve centre of the effort to repel the invaders if Operation Sealion (the invasion of Britain) had been carried out."
Sitalkes (talk) 21:55, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: The article already states that "the London buildings became the headquarters of the Home Forces in July 1940". Whether that needs elaboration I'll leave others to decide. GrindtXX (talk) 22:45, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  WW2 History 

message: About apposition the article says that "Since it was re-introduced in 1969,[9] the ceremony today takes place in May and is purely ceremonial, incorporating prize giving for boys in the final two years of the school."  I was at school from 1956 through 1961 and can state from my own knowledge that apposition was held every year during that period.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.192.181.192 (talk) 14:55, 7 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Apposition 

message: The report suggests that the practice was not limited to St Pauls, but its scale is likely to give WP:UNDUE, I suggest the report is spun off as a separate article before it destroys totally a potential GA. Comments? --ClemRutter (talk) 22:30, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Parking a reference--ClemRutter (talk) 13:15, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Abuse enquiry