Talk:The Skinners' School

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More inline citations needed. Too many lists. Epbr123 10:49, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Trivia

As of 19:34, 1 February 2006 (UTC), the school's IT network has been blocked from Wikipedia 5 times, of which the most recent being a ban of 3 months.

[edit] School song

Does anyone know when the person who wrote the lyrics to the school song died? Copyright expires 70 years after the death of the lyricist so unless he died after 1937 the lyrics are not in the public domain and should not be published on this page. See: Wikipedia:Copyrights. Dahliarose 23:40, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

  • I have contacted the Worshipful Company of Skinners to see if they can provide any details of copyright status. As the song was written for the school after opening in 1887, it is likely that the lyricist did die before 1937 (a full 50 years after composition!), however, conformation is being sought. --McKDandy 10:34, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
    • Further to this, the Old Skinners Society contains the song in full on their website with no mention of copyright, I'm not sure if this helps? --McKDandy 10:43, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
      • It might well be in the public domain but it's best to clarify the situation. The Old Skinners' Society might be completely unaware of the copyright situation. Wikipedia content can be freely distributed and reproduced so it's important to ensure that no copyrighted material is included. Dahliarose 22:55, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
        • It was not written as a commercial work, so is not copyrighted, and in the Public domain. Mike Young 12:24, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
  • I've removed the word 'breathe' from the school song, along with some exclamation marks I don't remember being in the original. Would someone please update the punctuation too? hammeredshark
  • Song punctuation and words updated Mike Young 21:36, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Userbox

Here is a Skinners' school userbox I made. If you want to use it goto "edit this page" and copy the code you will see into your user page.


Hiss This user attended the Skinners' School where he hissed the whiskered.

Mike Young 13:42, 5 September 2007 (UTC)