User talk:Scribble Monkey

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[edit] School knowledge

I take it due to your knowledge of buckinghamshire and Princes Risborough School, you are a member of it? thanks, ~Beegee7730 (talk) 13:54, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Specialist school categories

It does make sense to rename these categories for consistency. I should have checked the format for the other categories first before going ahead and creating the pages! I did in fact name the page Mathematics and Computing College, rather than Mathematics & Computing College. I know the DFES use an ampersand but I thought it looked a little strange to have an ampersand in a title. I might argue for the retention of the "and", though I think whatever is decided consistency is the most important issue. Are you going ahead and suggesting that the Buckinghamshire specialist categories be deleted? I don't think there are enough specialist schools in each county to justify separate county headings.Dahliarose 17:28, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the help sorting out these categories. I hadn't realised I was creating so many problems! At least once the category re-naming goes through they will all follow a consistent format. I had noticed that the Buckinghamshire categories had now all gone. I shall have a go at adding a few schools to the new categories once the renaming has been done. I did wonder if there should be a list of specialist schools by county or by education authority. Dahliarose 11:41, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

I wonder if specialist schools might be best listed by county rather than education authority. I wouldn't like to start something off and do it in the wrong way. All the Berkshire schools, for example, are categorised by county Category:Schools in Berkshire but the List of schools in England is sorted by region and then by education authority. The boundaries for education authorities can sometimes be quite arbitrary and people might not know where to look for a particular school. What do you think? Dahliarose 11:50, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Commas

I'm pleased to see that you've contributed to the school naming debate. I'm not going to be able to do much for the next few weeks. I think this whole parenthesis business has been agreed on very little consensus. It's very much do as you please across Wikipedia with all buildings and place names. If given a vote I think I might opt for commas. UK churches already use commas. I wonder if you might be able to raise the subject with WikiProject England in my absence? Dahliarose 16:19, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Buckinghamshire Schools

Please accept my apologies, I was going through all the educational navboxes and changing them to the 'generic navbox' template. The other templates all had the schools grouped into types and the Buckinghamshire system completely baffled me at first. When I looked on the DfES website it listed the schools as being of Secondary Modern in type so I grouped them in that category. There was no active discussion on the Buckinghamshire template page itself so I didn't think it'd cause a problem. I didn't intend for my edit to cause any offence and am sorry if it did. CR7 13:11, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

I considered grouping them under 'Upper School' but some of them don't fit the pattern very well. The system itself seems a little bit odd but maybe that's just my view from the outside. Thanks, CR7 14:57, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Infobox UK school

I think removing it to avoid accidental linkage is a good idea too. How should this be gone about? Speedy deletion or templates for deletion? CR7 (message me) 14:53, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Which template do you think describes it best? Personally, I think I'd choose db-histmerge - History merge; but I'm not sure it's the right one. CR7 (message me) 15:04, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
Please comment [[1]]. Thanks, CR7 (message me) 23:50, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Speen, Buckinghamshire

Could you please refrain from removing information about this subject? Thanks a lot. HoOhMajor 12:10, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Thing is though, I added trivia - the name IS in fact hilarious. You, for no good reason removed information which may make someone's day. —Preceding unsigned comment added by HoOhMajor (talk • contribs) 12:30, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] {{Herefordshire-school-stub}}

Hi - I see you have recently created one or more new stub types. As it states at Wikipedia:Stub, at the top of most stub categories, and in many other places on Wikipedia, it is recommended that new stub types are proposed prior to creation at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals, in order to check whether the new stub type is already covered by existing stub types, whether it is named according to stub naming guidelines, whether it is otherwise correctly formatted, whether it reaches the standard threshold for creation of a new stub type, and whether it crosses existing stub type hierarchies. Your new stub type is currently listed at WP:WSS/D - please feel free to make any comments there as to any rationale for this stub type. And please, in future, consider proposing new stub types first! Grutness...wha? 22:58, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WP:NC(S) input

Hello, as you might have noticed I have brought up a new proposal for a guideline on school naming conventions. However, there has been very little input for it to go anywhere. I remember you were involved in the last proposal, so I would appreciate your input once again at WT:NC(S) if possible. Thanks. Camaron1 | Chris 11:36, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:Waddesdon cofe logo.jpg)

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[edit] South Chadderton School

I reverted again and cited applicable policies on the talk page. If you disagree, please write me an email and I'll be glad to discuss this with you and other people. Not being British, I do not know much about the tabloid "People" but from having a look at its website and a quick glance at the Wikipedia article, I do not think that it is a reputable source in the sense of "known for fact-checking". Yours, --Mbimmler (talk) 17:29, 26 November 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:BicesterCommunityCollege.png

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[edit] Aylesbury Junior Schools

Hi, I see you're doing a fine job of merging all the little schools into their respective locality articles. So that the Aylesbury article doesn't get chockablock with schools information, I have taken the liberty of adding a suggestion as to where the merge should be to on each junior and infant school article that comes under Category:Aylesbury. One or two will require me to create an article for their locality in the first place, but this isn't too bad as there is other information that can be included in with those. -- Roleplayer (talk) 17:38, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, I forgot! -- Roleplayer (talk) 12:53, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
I did that, and one of them was almost instantaneously proposed for deletion. I suppose you can't please everybody! -- Roleplayer (talk) 13:48, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
I have tried looking online for references for the estate, but am finding nothing. It'll mean a trip to the Record Office to find some references there, something that I can't do today. -- Roleplayer (talk) 14:33, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Primary Schools

Did i miss one, ive speedied alot of talk pages of deleted articles. Thanks for the note. Which ones btw. Twenty Years 16:25, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Cheers for that. Many thanks. Twenty Years 16:30, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Stone Church of England Combined School

I am sorry that you were not happy with me merging the information from this article and redirecting the page to the Stone, Buckinghamshire article. As you can see I have previously edited this article and those of other Buckinghamshire primary schools. However, I have come to the conclusion that there are insufficient editors prepared to maintain this material and that it is better to merge primary school information into their relevant locality articles. If you would like to discuss this please post on the school article or on my talk page. ~ Scribble Monkey (talk) 00:37, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

I mentioned in my revert comment that I saw insufficient attempts at merging the information in the school topic into the village topic. If all the information was merged from the school into the village topic, I would be perfectly happy with the deletion.
I don't like to see factual and useful information simply be deleted. Your "merge" adds only 32 words to the Stone village article. The information in the school topic is much more substantial than 32 words. Rbirkby (talk) 20:49, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

The material that was omitted is present word for word on the school website. I know we touched on the copyright status of the material before on the article's talk page, and that we were happy to leave it on the school's article. I was not as sure that we should replicate the text on the village article though. The fact that the material is all available through the school link means that nothing is lost, but a rewrite would be even better. What do you think? ~ Scribble Monkey (talk) 08:55, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia isn't dmoz (the open directory project). i.e. It's not just a collection of external links. It's an encyclopedia, citing authoritative sources. Rbirkby (talk) 09:42, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

I understand that, but the content is a copy/paste from the school website, which carries a copyright notice. Surely that is the issue. ~ Scribble Monkey (talk) 09:50, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

The history shows that you deleted all the supposed copyright-infringing content, then reverted your deletion. Nevertheless, there are several facts which should be included in the village page if you were to merge the school topic in. For example, current headteacher, former headteacher, date of change of head and links to the Ofsted and DfES reports. Rbirkby (talk) 21:57, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

As previously mentioned, we had touched on the copyright status of some of the material before. Might I suggest that you make the changes, which you believe are required, to the Stone article and change the school article to redirect to it. ~ Scribble Monkey (talk) 09:33, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

No. You're the one that wants to perform the merge. I invested time and energy into adding these facts into the original topic. It's not fun to have someone else come along, delete your factual content, then insist you re-enter them into a different topic. Rbirkby (talk) 16:53, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Please yourself. Thanks for all your help on this one. ~ Scribble Monkey (talk) 17:38, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Horwood House

Thanks for all the edits of Horwood House and of course you were correct with widow instead of window. Have you any connection with Horwood Hosue at all as I would really like to find out what happened to the Denny familiy? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Deben Dave (talk) 09:50, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome; you've done a really good job with this article and I'm just happy to help with some tidying. I'm afraid I have no connection with Horwood House or knowledge of what became of the Denny family. ~ Scribble Monkey (talk) 10:40, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Oh well thanks all the same. Would you mind casting your expert eye over the associated site which I am still modifying? It is Percy_Thrower...Thanks (talk) 12:11, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

I can certainly do that. ~ Scribble Monkey (talk) 15:48, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks very much Deben Dave (talk) 16:54, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

I looked at the reference section on Percy and when you edit it all the information is not there but a reflist. How does that work do you know Deben Dave (talk) 09:53, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Percy Thrower

Thanks for the edits of the references much appreciated. I have been to several pages where there are loads of refernces and yet when you go to edit they are not there just a reflist or something like that. How does that work or is it just my age? Deben Dave (talk) 11:18, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Hi Dave, the inline references (or footnotes) are added by using the <ref></ref> tags at the appropriate place in the article. The References section then contains a {{Reflist}} or <references/> tag which automatically displays the references. There is a brief explanation here or a slightly longer one here. Let me know if you need any further help. ~ Scribble Monkey (talk) 12:08, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Prebendal Farm, Aylesbury

Well done for diggin up the bit on Fowler, I always wondered whom Fowler Road was named after. -- Roleplayer (talk) 17:16, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. ~ Scribble Monkey (talk) 17:43, 18 February 2008 (UTC)