Talk:St. Mark's School of Texas

message: The article is missing some important things.  It's a college-preparatory school, so where did the recent students decide to go to college?  How many made it into the Ivy league and Stanford/Caltech/MIT?  What Advanced placement courses are offered, and how many students take them?  What math courses are offered?  
Presumably parents and prospective students look at the page, and they get immediately bogged down with useless information on history and athletic victories from 20 years ago.
108.45.80.41 (talk) 05:55, 30 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing the important stuff 

message: Yorke, Baker, van dorn, and bryson all seem to be made up.
I seriously doubt the guy from radiohead in Britain went to this school: Thom Yorke. Can anyone confirm this?
I'm currently a student at St. Mark's, and I can assure you Thom Yorke did not go there. jodan2007
Owen Wilson got deleted from this list along the way, but he did attend until he was expelled. This ranks him as an alumnus, and he is one whose attendance at the school has had a clear impact on his career (his early work was clearly based on his experience at the school). 
Does Robert Hoffman rate as "famous?" prior to becoming a successful businessman and civic leader in Dallas (he ran Coca Cola Bottling Southwest for something like 25 years, he co-founded the Harvard Lampoon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Lampoon  
Boz Scaggs definitely attended St. Marks. Here's a link (http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:kx5zUz0HS-IJ:musicmoz.org/Bands_and_Artists/S/Scaggs,_Boz/Biographies/+boz+scaggs+biography+%22st.+marks%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8)
As requested, quick google searches turn up sources for alumni:
*David Laney 
*Steve Miller 
*Tommy Lee Jones 
*Douglas St. Clair Smith, aka Ivan Stang 
*Luke Wilson 
*Owen Wilson 
--Laura Scudder | Talk 01:29, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Alumni

message: --Mcdonaldlyle 20:46, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable Alumni 

message: Hey, saw this on WP:GAC. I'd like to give the article writers some suggestions on how to improve it, as althoguh it's not GA quality, the article can be improved to it (hopefully) relatively easily. 
#The article must be expanded per WP:LEAD.
#There is no information on the academics or any description of the school buildign itself. 
#The external links are good, but it you can turn them into references per , that would be great.
This has potential, but it's not ready there yet.--Wizardman 00:36, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  GA Review 

message: While I'm sure the school that this article discusses is a fine school, the article should not read like a recruiting brochure.  Many of the sections need to be re-written to simply convey the verifiable facts about the school.  219.25.41.201 (talk) 11:14, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Neutral Point of View

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message: I feel the huge charts of the sports records makes the overall article too slanted towards varsity sports, which is not an even an academic activity.  That's a lot of size devoted to something which isn't that important.  Furthermore, more students take PE classes than play varsity (and this is 100% true in the first 8 years), but there is almost no information about the PE program.
People who care about high school sports are going to read about big public high schools, anyway.  It is more interesting to see what colleges the students get into for academic reasons than what sports teams kids will play in for a few years before it's all forgotten in the real world.
108.45.80.41 (talk) 04:34, 30 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sports 

message: change the motto from "courage and honor" to "boys will be boys" 2600:1700:2C0:F5F0:95DC:30EB:2714:3AEE (talk) 01:36, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. DannyS712 (talk) 01:56, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 14 November 2018 

message: Fencing is not a UIL sport in Texas. There are no high school state championships. St Marks does offer fencing, but it's in pursuit of USFA fencing goals like JOs and age group USFA events. I knew the fencing coach in the 90s. His name was Waldek Czaja. He was an excellent coach, but there was no such thing as a state championship then, I have no idea what the St Marks web site is on about. Two St Marks kids made the final eight of JMS in the mid-90s, that was what the team and coach were focused on. 
I'm not going to edit it because it's linked to a cite on the St Marks page, but it's not correct. I don't know what the wikipedia protocol is here, but for those of you who know more about this than I do, if anyone cares, it's not true. 2600:1700:51C0:B370:3CB2:890D:BBF:DC65 (talk) 04:32, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fencing state champions?