Talk:Haberdashers' Girls' School

message: This is a really nitpicking point, but the caption 'the school crest' should really read 'coat of arms' so I shall alter it.  Though crest is widely used in everyday English as a synonym for coat of arms, that doesn't make it right!  :)  
It is, of course, the coat of arms of the Haberdashers' Company, and hence of the associated schools, and perhaps that, too, should be made clearer, though I am not sure how/where.  AgTigress (talk) 12:53, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coat of Arms 

message: Obviously this article is very rudimentary at the moment, and if it is ever to be made fuller, it must include the history of the school.  The project is not helped by the fact that the current website of the Elstree school is incredibly weak on the institution's history.  For example, there is no list of headmistresses, let alone one of notable teachers, such as Margaret Meek, who taught English there in the early 1950s, and went on to become a very notable academic in the field of literacy teaching.  And I think the only reference to the formidable Oxford bluestocking Eileen Harold on the web is in the list of heads of North London Collegiate school, where she was headmistress for about three years during the Second World War, before returning to Habs in Acton in 1944 for a much longer career as headmistress there. 
Is there any Wiki rule against copying over the first section of the history (that is, the £20,000 bequest in Robert Aske's will in 1689-90, with which the almhouses and the first Haberdashers' Company school were founded in Hoxton) as set out in the article on the boys' school?  These facts are common to both, and can be referenced to the Haberdashers' Company's own website, and apparently, the VCH Middlesex volume, though I haven't checked that personally.  AgTigress (talk) 12:57, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: No, but explain what you are doing in the edit summary, eg: "early history copied from other article name; same for here", so that the whole editing history can be traced. Johnbod (talk) 19:46, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  History of the school 

message: I know I am talking to myself here!  Since when have alumnus / alumna become acceptable in British English to mean former pupils of a secondary school?  I am an alumna of my University, but merely an Old Girl of my secondary school.  The use of the Latin term is an Americanism when applied to secondary education, in my view, as is the concept of 'graduating' from school at 18.  I didn't 'graduate':  I simply left school.  :)  AgTigress (talk) 19:31, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The term ''alumnae'' 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I removed some non-notable people and received the following email:
"I noticed that you have amended the school's wiki page to remove some names of notable Old Girls. [redacted] I have been adding names to this list over time [redacted]. I have been complimented by members of the school community as to how this list is growing and how interesting it is to discover the success of alumni. When I originally started [redacted] the list was inaccurate and I pride myself on its current accuracy."
User has reverted my changes. I don't want to edit war about this so leaving it for the community. Tacyarg (talk) 13:15, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Notable past students