Talk:Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood
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This is a long article, so it has taken me a long time to wikify it. It still needs work doing:
- Many of the links need checking and (probably) disambigutating.
- The history sub-sections may need reorganising, as they're just where it seemed apropriate as I was reading/skimming through, and thus are quite arbitrary in places. The time periods are nowhere near equal either.
Thryduulf 21:50, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Almost the entire page has been ripped directly from the school website - please check for copyright :-)
[edit] Questionable OMT's
I have just removed the following two entries from the list of OMT's. The first has just gone in, and looks very like a joke to me. The second has been in for some weeks, but I can't find any reference to him via Google, so I am suspicious.
- Michael William Burrow, Heroin trafficker and Jesus lookalike
- Jake Vaughan Turner, entrepreneur and philanthropist
ColinFine 22:25, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Disambiguation
I'm not sure that I agree with the disambiguation. When one refers to 'Merchant Taylors' School' it is assumed that you are talking about Northwood unless one specifies the other schools. This is not just a matter of geography and which is local to you, as it might be with the Haberdashers schools, but in all works on the history of education, Merchant Taylors' always assumes Northwood. Since the school does not call itself by the disambiguated name I have renamed the disambiguation 'Merchant Taylors' Schools' so that it accurately lists the appropriate schools.
[edit] Jadeja
I have just reverted the page to remove 'Mitulsinh Jadeja' from the list of OMT's. This is the third time this name has been added in the last month, by three different IP addresses all beginning 86 (not diagnostic, I know). Google finds only two entries for the name: this one, and http://static.namesdatabase.com/schools/UKMI/Northwood/MerchantTaylorsSchool.html, which lists him under 'class of 2000'.
Each time the name has been wikilinked only to Jadeja, which is an article about the Indian clan of that name. One of the three IP addresses also edited that article.
I feel reasonably sure that Mitulsinh Jadeja is a non-notable person, at or recently left MTS, who keeps adding himself to the list. ColinFine 23:23, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
