Talk:Teacher's diary
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Is the Telegraph interview online?
Dunno, the main article's gone too. Md25 02:05, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Private Eye link seems to be broken too Albatross2147 00:47, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I remember the diary (I buy the Eye), but I don't remember hearing about the Telegraph article, and I can't find it or a reference to it. I am curious whether this article should stay in Wikipedia. It caused a media flurry at the time, but I don't remember any policy change or lasting consequence from it. --Telsa ((t)(c)) 15:44, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Where is this Telegraph article?
This article has one external link, which is an archive.org copy, and no references beyond "over the course of two weeks in April 2004" and "in the following issue". And I still cannot find the Telegraph article. Obviously it must have happened between April and July 2004, but some more details would help a lot.
I also feel the article is slightly point-of-view (or at least, unreferenced!) when it claims "The diary revealed a massive undercurrent of pupil misbehaviour and incompetence in schools". Can this statement be backed up?
--Telsa (talk) 12:22, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- Right, I have found the Telegraph article in the local library. It was in the Sunday Telegraph, not the Daily Telegraph, and either it's not online on the Telegraph site, or I simply can't find it there. Now that I have found it, I have tried Google and the Telegraph's own search tool, with a selection of names and quotes from the article, and it will still not show up. Readers will just have to follow up the reference themselves :) I've added it, and changed the tense of some of the article to reflect that.
- Googling on various combinations of the guy's name, the school, the diary, and so on, I can't find anything in the way of follow-up. So it was a nine-day's wonder with no effect on education, education policy, and so on. In which case, I don't think it needs its own article.
