Talk:The King's School, Chester
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[edit] References
I have just come to this site and applied a few reference changes as part of citations and reference project. However there is still a lot of unverified information on this page. Can the people who input the information please give references or delete it. Some information which is verified is being consistently removed, please stop removing verified information or the page will have to be locked. Notably the section of controversy, some of which is still unverified and if sources cannot be provided this information sould be deleted, should remain and I suspect vanity editing is going on here.
[edit] History
I believe the item of most importance in this article should be history of the school and its founding, yet there is very little here. My knowledge of it is not very precise so perhaps someone else could write something of use?
[edit] Barry Horne
Is he Head of Chemistry? The blue book lists Mr Mellor as HoD and I'm it's KHM, not BH.
[edit] Type of School?
The King's School Chester is an English Independent school, so it should be described as a Public school rather than a private one. The School is English not American.
reply: the word public infers it is run by the government, and in England we use private the same as independent.
Reply: The preferred term for this kind of school is simply "independent". Private is not really correct as it is not privately run (although it charges fees and is not government controlled), and Public is generally considered to be term for the larger - and more exclusive - boarding schools eg Harrow, Winchester etc.
[edit] Notable Teachers/controversy/vanity editing
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As such this page should not just be about corporate self-editing and vanity page creation, and all information about former teachers can be included and not just information which benefits the subject of this page.
Note: Interim Executive Director Brad Patrick issued, "a call to arms to the community to act in a much more draconian fashion in response to corporate self-editing and vanity page creation."
- refer to post on references, please remove any claims which cannot be backed up
[edit] Needs review
I have cleaned up this article a little bit but it still is fairly awful. Certainly a lot of vanity and much of the information is non-encyclopedic. I don't know of a good standard with which to compare this page. Plse advise. SuzanneKn 22:58, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
