Talk:Westcliff High School for Boys

Question about House Names

When I left in 1963 the houses were North, South, East, West, Crowthorne and Priory (to the best of my recall). When did that change? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Geofpick49 (talk • contribs) 14:43, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

There were still N/E/S/W during the 1980s. Crowthorne and Priory I don't know those.188.28.92.156 (talk) 22:28, 31 May 2016 (UTC)

Comment

I would suggest deletion of the previous comment. It is irrelevant to the encyclopedia and to any discussion about its contents. Given that it is about a living person, there may be additional reason to delete it.Jimjamjak (talk) 15:14, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

I have struck out the comment above.Jimjamjak (talk) 12:42, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

I deleted the comment completely as advised on Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons.Jimjamjak (talk) 22:41, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

Comment

There is nothing wrong with this article except that it is a stub. I am not good at editing, but somebody really needs to improve and add to it, as I am a pupil, I know that it has so much more. Compare to the article on SHSB. See?

Sloppy structure and poor referencing

The article could do with considerable restructuring and a deletion of that content which is not verified by citations. I will attempt to do both over the coming weeks.Jimjamjak (talk) 15:15, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Relevance of this page

I am struggling to think of what might be "notable" about WHSB, and why there should be a page on it in Wikipedia. I can't really see how this article will be more than a list of previous pupils and a stepping stone to the link to the school's website. Could it be that this is just a promotional article and should be removed? Jimjamjak (talk) 12:45, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

It's notable because it's an article about a high school. This has tended to be considered enough to grant notability to a subject. There are all sorts of guidelines about this sort of thing on the links above in the box. Or feel free to pop by my talk page and ask about it. The article needs to be kept to verifiable and notable factual stuff to avoid any puff pieces. Last time I looked at it it seemed OK from that pov but school articles do suffer occasionally from that sort of thing. Blue Square Thing (talk) 12:31, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks very much for your help. I hadn't looked into the guidelines sufficiently before, and now see from those pages that this is a notable subject.Jimjamjak (talk) 22:39, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

Image size

Why is the photograph so large?Jimjamjak (talk) 19:47, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

Notable alumni

This section is a bit out of control. Anyone care to pare it down to those entries that have a WP page and whose attendance at this school can be verified? P. D. Cook ^{Talk to me!} 18:16, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

This section is more than a little bit out of control, in my opinion. It is easy enough tto check whether these people are really notable or not, less easy to establish whether they went to the school or not. At some point I'll go through the notability of each of these people and remove those not notable for inclusion in an encyclopedia.Jimjamjak (talk) 14:13, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Either that or it needs an article to itself - I imagine that happens for schools with lots of alumni? Blue Square Thing (talk) 13:32, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

OK, so, being bold and all that, I'll suggest that we either prune it to a summary of the most important (as in Harrow School#Notable alumni and have a page listing Old Westcliffians, or we strongly enforce the guidance at WP:WPSCH/AG#Alumni and require that every alumnus is referenced appropriately. Which would essentially delete the list at present, although I have no doubt that suitable references could be found for many of them. Thoughts anyone? Blue Square Thing (talk) 08:24, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

I very much support this suggestion. The page is essentially turning into an unmanageable list - it has got much worse since I last looked at the page. I think that suitable references can be found easily enough for most of those with wikipedia pages. The rest can be checked and then deleted as necessary.Jimjamjak (talk) 18:27, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

Well, I got around to doing it eventually. The list itself needs a bit of pruning probably, but not it can work as a list in itself which is lovely for everyone concerned.

What'd be even nicer would be if anyone had anything through provoking and interesting to write about the school itself? Ta Blue Square Thing (talk) 16:36, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

• I'm not sure forking was a good idea. Anyway it needs a project tag and Alan Ross (singer) is a redlink: English singer and The Alan Ross Band bandleader: "Get The Guns" 1977, "What You Gonna Do About It?" 1978 "Restless Nights" 1979 In ictu oculi (talk) 02:22, 28 June 2014 (UTC)