Talk:John Lyon School

message: This article is filled with POV claims, especially the Recent history section.  I have reverted some obvious treatises against individuals named in the article, but know nothing about this school, and therefore cannot judge the relative validity of many edits. -- Scientizzle 21:16, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV 

message: I have altered the first paragraph since it is clearly inaccurate to describe it as "part of Harrow school", both websites make it clear this is not the case. This is not a PR brochure.
Somebody called 'Felix-Fleix' is trying to alter this because he has a strange bias against Johann Hari, a journalist who once attended the school, and an agenda to suggest hilariously that Hari attended Harrow School! Anybody interested should go to the discussion on Hari's wiki entry to see a long history of 'Fleix-Fleix' vandalising Hari's wiki entry, hurling hysterical insults at him, insulting anybody else who posts in disagreement, etc. I will keep reverting to this more accurate first para unless given good arguments against, and ask all people who post here to be alert to Felix's vandalism David r from meth productions 16:23, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Grow up dave-altering this article to try and win a pathetic argument on the Johann Hari page is low, even for you. hence my revert.Felix-felix 16:36, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: What's wrong with the entry, dave? Are you interested in improving this article, or in boosting Johann Hari's credibility and web presence? I'm pretty sure that most wikipedians can tell which one.Please desist.Felix-felix 16:23, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

text: If you have daver on your side, it would seem to!Felix-felix 07:21, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Lots of people hate school and no other alumni get comments in. Thus I've removed it. Oh, remember to sign in, dave.Felix-felix 08:18, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Excellent idea, dave-until you come up with a comments by alumni section, I'll remove the comment by Hari.He should remain in the list of alumni, however.Felix-felix 11:10, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Yup, as above, it's not remarkable and there are no other comments.Will remove again.Please sign inFelix-felix 15:36, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

text: We've talked about WP:assume good faith before dave. There's no reason to keep inserting Haris comments unless you actually write a comments by alumni section. Until then, out it goes.Felix-felix 08:50, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Relationship with Harrow School

message: Just noticed the Alumni list, having been alerted the other day to the so-called 'fact' that Angus Fraser, the former England cricketer, attended JL. As a cricket writer who knows Angus well, this astonished me. He did NOT go to my alma mater. He did attend the nearby Gayton High, as did his brother Alastair. As a fan of Green Room, I'm delighted to learn that the marvellous Julian Rhind-Tutt is an old boy, and would like to point that another was weatherman Michael Fish, best known for failing to detect the approaching storm of 1987.(Rob Steen, JL 1969-76) 
As it stands, this section is pretty poor, I think either it should be expanded or got rid of-I would favour the latter. Any ideas?Felix-felix 15:50, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's removed now.Felix-felix 23:58, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Views of Alumni

message: :a highly selective day school for pupils of exceptional academic abilities.
Is this true? Is it an appropriate comment? I don't know anything about this school. In fact, I was only vaguely aware of its existence. Is it more selective than Winchester or St Paul's or a top-flight state grammar school like St Olave's? Does it take five new boys a year and all of them have an IQ of over 180? Do 90 percent of its alumni become fellows of All Souls or chess grandmasters? My guess is that it's an ordinary good private school whose pupils do fairly well academically. Indeed, this is given away by that fact that some of its old boys go on to Oxford or Cambridge and the rest tend to head for other universities in the top ten - whose top ten? (there are five or six main league tables and these change every year). I suppose it means they go to UCL, LSE, Imperial, York, Warwick, Bristol, Edinburgh, where most of them get a 2.1 or a 1st, maybe the odd 2.2 or 3rd, or they even drop out. So I suggest somebody changes this to something more accurate, or I might do it myself.--Oxonian2006 (talk) 21:20, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Just how selective and exceptional?

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