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Brilliant Addition to Whitgift - are you planning to do all the school-train links? Its a notable addition to the page. Victuallers 09:33, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Railways

Thx again - adding good refs is a very good idea. Someone adding bits like this well will, I hope, lead the prime editors to up their game and use citations more. The VC and GC is a great idea but I hope you won't just restrict it to public schools ... these people make the "comp" notable!. Their is an online database of VC winners but it gives birthplace .. but not schools ... but I notice that their are two books that claim to name names.

  • Oh trivia ... Repton school has a prep school called Foremarke Hall ... which also has a train named after it
  • Other trivia - there is a school in India at Lucknow that was given "battle honours" in 1930 for its student's role in the Indian mutiny Victuallers 09:38, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Victoria College

Hello. Thanks for the work on Vic. For the cat:, the School itself is not an OV (Old Victorian) so shouldn't be in the Old Victorians category - but the category page contains a link to the Vic article.

The status of the school is slightly bizarre in that it is owned by the public, but a member of HMC. The existence of a fee-paying sector within States-provided education in Jersey sometimes seems odd to outsiders. Until the establishment of the governing body a few years back, the school was directly under the control of the Education Committee, but it is much more of an autonomous institution now than it was (but that goes for States education generally, under the new regime of governing bodies).

BTW, I'm not certain that Queen Victoria can be described as being the Founder without being somewhat misleading. What do you think? Man vyi 11:24, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

I've put in a link to the cat: As for the founder, it was the States. The Loi (1860) au sujet du Collège Victoria comments that the school was erected by the States and the administrators of impôts (as explained in the article, the States didn't have full control over educational provision until 1921).
BTW, helpful wiki-hint - you can sign and date your comments easily by typing 4 tildes at the end of what you write, like I'm about to do here: Man vyi 05:11, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Efficiency Medal

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[edit] George Stainforth

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[edit] Efficiency Medal

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[edit] George Stainforth

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[edit] List of Old Alleynians

Longer lists like this are hard to know how to manage. I noticed you were reorganizing this list and also doing some work on the Old Wellingtonians. At the Old Greshamians list, I have ended up with quite a simple structure - you may like the header Public life, which catches some people who are hard to put in a small box of their own, like ambassadors. The List of notable Old Marlburians is very like the Old Alleynians approach.

So far, I see the Old Carthusians list is simply chronological, like the four lists of Old Etonians, while the lists of Old Harrovians and the Old Rugbeians are simply in alphabetical order. There clearly isn't any norm yet! Xn4 02:59, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

My reply is on your talk page Kwib 12:45, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi. Yes, I noticed you have been adding VCs and GCs. We are up to similar things.
Seems to me that for now Mark Clarke is a borderline case. Usually, political candidates aren't notable, but leading a national political youth movement might give him a claim. I should have thought that so long as he has a Wikipedia article, you might decide to include him?
regards, Xn4 21:18, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Victoria Crosses

Did you read my nomination on AfD? The two subjects have little relationship to each other. Corvus cornix 21:06, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of Victoria Crosses by School

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The above seems to answer the question you left on my talk page a little before Woodym555 left this for you. (NB, you can sign and date your posts just by typing a line of four tildes at the end (that is, these Spanish accents: ~ ) regards, Xn4 22:25, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
With regards to the article, why are the school wikilinks in the notes section bold? It seems strange to me, i have never seen it before. This was a minor question about the article and has no bearing on the AFD which is why i am asking you here. Thanks Woodym555 20:49, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
I see what you mean. There is no need for the wikilinks to be bold and I will amend this. The reason, I think, is that I built up the initial list in excel and then wrote some formulas to create the text for the wiki table. I believe that I mistakenly added the three inverted comments at the beginning of that wikilink. Simple as that really.Kwib 12:14, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] St Bees School

Hello there. I started work on a new article some months ago but was plagued by the dearth of recent information, despite being an alumnus of the school. I neglected several parts of the history due to exams, and the same with the 3 VC winners. I'm currently on business in the United States and therefore have no access to my history of St Bees School which I planned to cite to Kingdom come, although if time allows I might utilise the village website's fine history to make the page current. Of course, feel free to take whatever you want from the page. Time I had another look at it I think. Nice to see the new Old St Beghians Category in being. --Harlsbottom 23:52, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AB - disambiguation style

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Thank you for bringing the entry into line with guidelines and for letting me know what they are. I have made a few other such entries and I will endeavour to tidy them in line with guidelines also.Kwib 00:34, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Kg and Kg (disambiguation)

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[edit] Norwood School (Bethesda, Maryland)

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[edit] Dulwich College Visitor

I am unaware of the position of the Archbishop of Canterbury as visitor to the school. Indeed, putting it in such a prominent position in the infobox seems a trifle unecessary, as it is giving an unecessary level of emphasis to a position that is perhaps historical, and yet meaningless today. (Indeed, I can definately say he has never visited the school - at least as archbishop) He is not mentioned in any of the schools publications. Feel free to correct me. Bensonby 13:30, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Trains & Schools

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I have responded to this on Doctor Boogaloo's talk page.Kwib (talk) 14:04, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

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