Talk:Abingdon School
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[edit] Just a warning...
I'm halfway through an edit on this page expanding it and have left a flurry of annotations for when I return tomorrow. I'll finish and clean it and perhaps upload some more pictures tomorrow.
I am a current student at the school finishing this year and am glad to see my school mentioned in Wikipedia, so I want to help out. Please help me help you. ThomasWinwood 23:23, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
Thomas Winwood - answer to your query - the new school opened in January 1870 with, initially, Edgar Summers as temporary headmaster. He was later confirmed in the post.
[edit] James Cobban
I've just started a biographical page for James Cobban, former headmaster of Abingdon. I've only gotten as far as Cobban's participation in the Second World War, and plan to continue with his career at Abingdon, but I welcome any contributions to the article. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 00:41, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Small edits
In the list of houses, I've reworded slightly, and removed Lower School from the list of houses - certainly, in my time (1991-1997), it was considered more of a year group (like the Upper and Lower Sixth were). Thanks greatly for the excellent start, ThomasWinwood. Do you have access to MStJP's magnum opus, "The Martlet and the Griffen"? If you have been using material from it, a mention of it as a source would be useful --Motmot 12:33, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
- I do have a copy of "The Martlet and the Griffin", but thus far I haven't referred to it as a source. As for whether the Lower School is a year group or a house, it seems to enjoy dual status - it's a house in interhouse events like the Public Speaking Competition, but a year group in other matters. It certainly has a housemaster (currently Adam Jenkins; I suppose it was Andrew Broadbent or Russell Slatford in your time, or their predecessors?). Thanks for the thanks. ThomasWinwood 11:07, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Help!
Help! 3/4 of List of notable Old Abingdonians has disappeared
Restored - where did it go??
Also I am unsure whether the word great is good enough to describe the wonderfully talented Olly Minton or whether a more emphatic word should be chosen.
[edit] Citation of Sources
I added two flags on the page due to missing sources in the extracurricular activities section and the academic section. I wonder if the rowing claim shouldn't be linked to the mention of "A History of Rowing at Abingdon School 1840-1990, R G Mortimer (1990)" in the reference section, but without having seen the book I can't be sure that this is the "documentary evidence" mentioned. As for the mention of the Russian Department, such a claim should be linked to an online copy of the article, or have the name of the newspaper itself included at the very least. I've also placed an "unreferenced" template in the document to raise the profile of the missing sources, and hopefully encourage them to be discovered. Hopefully someone with the material can sort this out! --Firetrap (talk • contribs) 01:28, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] About the band
Apparently, there's some controversy at the school about the Japanese band abingdon boys school's use of the school's name. 80.229.152.18 (talk • contribs • WHOIS) has requested that the information about the band be removed from the article; I don't think that's appropriate or necessary, since Wikipedia is not censored, and the fact is of potential interest to readers. However, if we can find a source for the school's objections, that can be added to the "Trivia" section, to indicate that the school does not approve of the band's use of their name. Also, if someone can find better citations for the fact that the band is named for the school — although it seems patently obvious, we should have a source if the subject is controversial — please add it. (The sources I've added aren't quite up to snuff, and should be replaced with more reliable ones.) Thanks! —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 18:05, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
