Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/King's Scholarship
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- The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was Merge to King's Scholar. —Quarl (talk) 2007-04-27 11:49Z
[edit] King's Scholarship
Small scholarship for a small college? Far from notable, IMHO. TexasAndroid 12:59, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
- Delete Reserve your humility for more complicated case. This one's easy. YechielMan 14:44, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
Very strong keep- Eton is "a small college"? It's probably the most famous - and the oldest - school in the world. 18 former Prime Ministers, 50% of the current UK Shadow Cabinet, almost all male members of Europe & the Middle East's royalty (Prince Charles is the only significant exception I can think of) and 37 VC winners are Old Etonians and the King's Scholarship is an integral part of the story of the college. Yes, it's a low value scholarship now (although £2500/$5000 apiece isn't chicken feed), but that's because of 600 years of inflation; the very definition of the term Public school stems from the 70 Kings Scholars, (who had all their fees paid by the state, hence for public and not private benefit). The 70 people on scholarships ("Collegers") still technically form the core of the school; the 1200 others ("Oppidans") at least in theory exist to subsidise them. This article reflects a very significant part of UK educational history, and can easily be expanded (by cut-and-pasting the above paragraph, if nothing else) - iridescenti (talk to me!) 19:02, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
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- Just one bit of clarification. I said the college was small. 1300 (from the college's article itself) is indeed small. I never said the college was not notable. That said, the bit about this scholarship being the origin of the term "public school", if this fact can be well sourced, would go a long way towards changing my opinion of the notability of this scholarship. - TexasAndroid 19:34, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
- 1300 might be small in TX - here it's enormous. The other mega-public schools, Harrow and Stowe have 800 and 600 pupils respectively. Even the largest state school in the country, Whitchurch High, only has 2400 pupils. - iridescenti (talk to me!) 20:14, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
- Just one bit of clarification. I said the college was small. 1300 (from the college's article itself) is indeed small. I never said the college was not notable. That said, the bit about this scholarship being the origin of the term "public school", if this fact can be well sourced, would go a long way towards changing my opinion of the notability of this scholarship. - TexasAndroid 19:34, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
- Merge into King's Scholar. Not convinced we need separate articles for these related concepts. --Muchness 19:12, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
- Merge to King's Scholar, which can adequately handle the concept.-- danntm T C 20:02, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
- change to Merge - didn't realise we already had King's Scholar - iridescenti (talk to me!) 20:14, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
- Merge to King's Scholar per all above; clearly a very notable and important subject, but article already exists at King's Scholar. -- Ekjon Lok 20:47, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
- The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
