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It has been requested that I review the assessments of this article. First, I am going to maintain the article's existing high importance rating for WikiProject Schools, an argument could even be made for Top importance though I will leave that to a separate discussion. This article merits at least a C-class, so I will not demote it, however will compare it against the B-class criteria to see if it merits B-class:
So the article currently passes criteria 2,3,4,5 and 6, but fails criterion 1, and articles need to pass all these criteria to get B-class. So while nearly B-class, I am assessing the article as C-class for now.
Oh yes and an opinion was requested on the length of the article, the article is 58KB in total so it is not in danger zone yet and only readable prose counts at WP:SIZERULE and after a test I found the readable prose for this article is under 30KB. One easy way of reducing article size is to move all the alumni list into the former pupils sub-article and just have a brief prose summary in this article. Camaron · Christopher · talk 14:34, 11 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Would it be possible to indicate how long ago the relevant terms became obsolete? I'm reading John Rae's Westminster diary, The Old Boys' Network, and he uses "begging a play" as though it was current at the time. In the entry for 16 October 1973, Rae mentions that "I have asked Gerald Ellison ... to come to Latin prayers and beg a play" (lower-case p).
On a slightly different, but related, note, in the entry for 23 October 1975, Rae gives boys (plural) a digniora, and specifically refers to it as being Maundy money. When did that change? Loganberry (Talk) 18:55, 24 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
This sentence seems not to be suitable for an encyclopedia: "Prospective donors are particularly invited to note the School's gratitude to benefactors." I propose its deletion. Pemboid (talk) 12:55, 28 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Changed caption of photo - which does not show the facade of the school. None of the range of buildings of The Sanctuary house the school, which doesn't really have a facade as such. The photo does, however, show the War Memorial to boys who died in the Crimean War. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.30.108.33 (talk) 14:10, 6 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
In view of close links between Westminster School and Oxford and Cambridge universities, the high number going to the latter two need not have any academic significance. Common staff are the norm. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.153.96.198 (talk) 14:42, 10 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I agree that this is an advertisement. I have been trying to get the spamming out for years. There is very little else I can do without being sued for libel. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.171.21.223 (talk) 15:08, 15 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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I would suggest that Westminster school be described as a private school. The description independent is vague and unclear. Wikipedia is global and most readers recognise organisations as being either public sector or private sector. 'Independent school' is an Anglocentric term and is just not a recognised term in most countries. It only serves to open up questions; independent from whom? Independen from what?
Over the last ten years most UK public sector secondary schools have converted to academies and are therefore independent. They're independent of central government and Local Education Authority control. This development has made it all the more confusing to describe private schools as independent. If you take private healthcare; go to the BUPA article and in the opening paragraph it is described as a private hospital. If private schools have private school in the opening paragraph the link takes the reader to an article that makes explicitly clear:
Private schools, also known as independent schools, non-governmental, or nonstate schools,[1] are not administered by local, state or national governments; thus, they retain the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students tuition, rather than relying on mandatory taxation through public (government) funding; at some private schools students may be able to get a scholarship, which makes the cost cheaper, depending on a talent the student may have (e.g. sport scholarship, art scholarship, academic scholarship), financial need, or tax credit scholarships that might be available.
That is clear, unambiguous and uneqivocal. (Garageland66 (talk) 01:10, 30 August 2016 (UTC)).[reply]
