Talk:Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe: Difference between revisions

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Roy Page? The Maths teacher? He was teaching back in 75 when I first went to the Grammar School and though he never taught me I remember him from supervising the lunches. I assume it is the same person as he was a young man then. Indeed I hope that is the case, as RP Brown, headmaster durung my time, came to the school as headmaster and was far too remote. Doubtless the site page will confirm or deny my suspicions, SqueakBox 15:16, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

One and the same. In my opinion a good man for the job, very "with it". ZoFreX 19:03, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

I do agree about a good man for the job. I guess he must only have been in his late twenties when I knew him (from 75) though I had imagined he was much older but "with it" is a good description as is humorous. I just never saw him as headmaster material, perhaps because he was so young. I was clearly wrong, SqueakBox 14:19, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

"Roy Page, Former Senior Deputy Headmaster, who is currently Acting Headmaster, while Mr. Dingle is on leave." - source / confirmation anyone? ZoFreX 08:54, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Wolfe

The new section on Dr. Wolfe is slightly misleading, in that the Government eventually backed down and said that a short assessment would be all that is required to obtain Qualified Teacher Status in his circumstances. (See bottom two sections of this BBC News Article)--Chrisd87 10:30, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

I have rewritten this section to be better - thanks for wikifying and correcting it btw Chris. I've also emailed David asking him to check the facts, as he'd be one to know :) ZoFreX 11:59, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Mr Dingle

I can't find this Daily Mail article and the Mail online appears ignorant of it. Please source and we can replace it, until then I have removed it as a possible spoof, SqueakBox 14:39, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Source article was in the Daily Mail, Saturday 4th February 2006, Pages 8-9, but was not made available online. The school has however responded to it with a press statement, suggesting authenticity. --Chrisd87 15:56, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

I can confirm that the articles really appeared in the Daily Mail on Saturday 4th February 2006, I have scans I can show a mod or whatever but obviously cannot make them publicly available. For now I'm reinstating the section, because I know that the article appeared and I can prove it. Edit: Also a smidgen of information from the local newspaper free press ZoFreX 18:43, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Far be it for me to accuse the Daily Mail of tabloid journalism, but do we have any other more reliable sources for this information? The Bucks Free Press article you cite only mentions the investigation into the allegations made by the Daily Mail, not the substance of the allegations themselves, and what we don't want to do as an encyclopedia is to repeat an untruth and get into trouble for it. Find another reliable source for the allegations, and then we can talk about the paragraph being reinserted. -- Francs2000 19:06, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

I know what the Daily Mail is like, but thus far the article only says that "allegations have been made", which is true whether they are founded or not. 137.222.10.57 19:17, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Yes I just made sure that everything is alleged only, and that nothing has, in reality, been revealed. -- Francs2000 19:28, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

My apologies, the use of "revealed" was careless of me. /Sable X. Veins 88.106.228.157 23:48, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

I changed the Bucks Free Press citation as the edit (allegations echoed by local paper) and what was before (allegations being investigated by LEA) are both factually inaccurate. ZoFreX 00:49, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

It may interest people to have a look at [1] from the RGS website. (It also answers your question about Roy Page, ZoFreX)--Chrisd87 02:16, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Which I have added as good NPOVing of the whole allegations, ie giving a balanced portrayal, SqueakBox 17:14, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Notable alumni - James Bunyard

I have reverted the edit of 16:14, 12 May 2006 by 84.92.84.138 in which this person added Dr. James Bunyard - Famous surgeon to the list of notable alumni. James Bunyard was in fact an alias used by Mr Dingle. See, for example, the article in The Bucks Free Press which includes:

The allegations were made by 35-year-old Nicky Barr, who claimed Mr Dingle had snorted cocaine at parties and wooed her by pretending to be a top London surgeon called James Bunyard.

I like your sense of humour, 84.92.84.138, but unfortunately the truth must prevail...

Euchiasmus 20:11, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Boarding house picture

I've removed the link to the boarding house picture as it went to a 403 error. Does anyone have or know of a valid link or picture? --Chrisd87 21:14, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

shame...

This article could really be better. Pictures? Structure? Anyway, I'm an old boy.. 2005. 'Twas fun. The best of schools. That dingle story had me in hysterics. -- Alfakim --  talk  02:17, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Well as a slightly older old boy (1981, before you were born!) I am too far from the RGS to go back and take some photos but if you were to take some (esp of the clocktower) we could indeed publish them, you would just need to upload the files. Glad you liked the school (I hated it) and can understand why the Dingle story got you in hysterics, certainly RP Brown was the epitome of respectability and Dingle sounded like he failed miserably in following in his footsteps, SqueakBox 14:14, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Calls to cite web

Please do the {{cite web}} calls by using params "url" and "title". Also "accessdate" should be specified (is a required param). --Ligulem 17:32, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

alumni

Question: why was Mark Oldknow removed from the section on notable alumni? There seems to be no reason given for this

Because he doesn't have an article, hence not notable enough, SqueakBox 14:06, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Mascot

Needs sourcing as Dim Tingle is obviously a piss take of Tim Dingle, and a fairly crude one, and hence without proper sourcing it must be removed. If it were a real mascot it would predate the extremely recent Dingle episode and this character clearly is not worthy to be the RGS mascot, SqueakBox 14:07, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Headmaster's title

Removing the headmaster's title with the edit summaries "that's not how we do things here" and "we don't do that", is neither helpful nor true. Including the title conveys additional information and breaks no Wikipedia rule that I am aware of. - Scribble Monkey 07:45, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Source alumni

We must have a reliable source for the inclusion of anyone in this list. The fact that I know that, eg, Tim Tolkein went there is not sufficient as it would be original research. I welcome the return of alumni sourced. Thanks, SqueakBox 19:09, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Strongly agree, are we going to look though to make sure we can find references for those that we know attended the school? -- Roleplayer 19:52, 11 September 2007 (UTC)