Talk:Marlborough College

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Assessment: Hello all, and thank you for contributing to this school article. I'm part of the Wikipedia:WikiProject_Schools/Assessment team, and I'm reviewing this page. I'm currently giving it a grade of Start on the Wikipedia 1.0 Assessment Scale and an importance of High on this importance scale. For information on improving this article, please visit the WikiProject Schools Project Page. My reasoning is as follows: A bit of good information but all unreferenced. Alumni list is also a bit excessive. Could use reorganization and expansion. Adam McCormick 19:19, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Unreferenced? What kind of references are you looking for? Most of this is personal knowledge. Perhaps you could direct us to a better example, please. Bearfoot 21:40, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Personal knowledge is not what Wikipedia publishes. There are policies on verifiability and no original research. Sources should be independent and reliable. For an example of a good (featured) school article, see Plano Senior High School. Count the references. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 21:46, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Incase anyone was wondering, Eugenie attends Marlborough while Emma attends the Dragon School. It's been a year since those "allegations" were made, and so I used some handy google searches to fix that :). ugen64 01:45, Jun 18, 2004 (UTC)

Christ's Hospital claims the largest unsupported roof in Europe! Bearfoot 18:01, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Field Marshall Henry Maitland Wilson

I note Wilson is claimed both by Marlborough and by Eton. His entry in Dictionary of National Biography only gives Eton. Does some one have a source to check his attendance at Marlborough? -- Op. Deo 23:02, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

You are right. Someone has changed the reference. It was FM Henry Hughes Wilson (1864-1922) who was the OM. Bearfoot 15:59, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

I am trying to add some info about Ian and Kevin Maxwell (nothing litigious) however it gets deleted. Why have there not been biographies of these two business men.

Can anyone help me Quickly!

[edit] Red-linked Old Marlburians

I have removed a number of old Marlburians from the list because they were red-linked and many have been for months. If they were that notable, they should have had a wiki article by now.Dabbler 20:55, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

I agree with you that many of the names you removed were not especially notable. However others are considered notable enough to merit an entry in the DNB. Is the founder of Heals more notable than the founder of Debenhams? And I would certainly consider as notables: the man who has trained the winner of the Grand National, the Cheltenham Gold Cup and the Champion Hurdle, an Olympic sailing gold-medalist, and two former chairmen of FTSE100 companies. Could they not be included without red-links? Bearfoot 17:27, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

If they are notable enough to be placed in this list, then they should have a non red-linked article in Wikipedia, otherwise anyone who went to Marlborough could claim to be notable enough to be listed. These names weren't put up one day and deleted the next, they were there for months and no one thought them notable enough to create an article about them. They should have at least a stub article about them in Wikipedia. If you think they are notable enough, why not create the articles describing their achievements and then link them here. I agree that there were a couple of names that I was slightly surprised to find were red-linked. Dabbler 17:59, 4 June 2007 (UTC)