Talk:Thornleigh Salesian College

Unreferenced former pupils

I have removed the names below as they are unreferenced. Feel free to add them with reliable sources. Mr Stephen (talk) 22:16, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

• James Anderton- One of the founding boys and WW 2 pilot
• Danny Boyle - Oscar winning film director
• Conor McGloin - guitarist in the band Kinesis
• Damon Gough - musician, known as Badly Drawn Boy
• Maurice Lindsay - chairman, Wigan Rugby League Football Club, former chief executive of the Rugby Football League
• Ian McAllister - former chairman of Ford UK, current chairman of Network Rail
• Helen Flanagan - actress
• Frank Finlay - actor
• Brian Finch - television writer
• Richard Henry McFarlane - poet, known as Hovis Presley
• John Grant - Author of Lovejoy
• Bernard Wrigley - actor, comedian and musician
• Norman Prince - guitarist in the folk band the Houghton Weavers
• Tony Berry - vocalist in the folk band the Houghton Weavers
• Mike Pollitt - footballer, goalkeeper for Wigan Athletic FC
• Kerry Pollard - politician, former Member of Parliament for St Albans
• David Atherton - entrepreneur, founder of online retailer dabs.com
• Stuart Flinders - Reporter and Presenter on BBC News and BBC North West Tonight
• Danny Jones - singer, member of British band, McFly
• Tom Parker - vocalist from rising boy band The Wanted
• Clare Bennett - flautist with The Lion King the Musical UK tour
• Nicolas Meace - footballer, defender for Wigan Athletic FC and Chorley FC
• Sir Tom Duggin- former diplomat and British Ambassador to Colombia
• Brian Jackson - actor
• Geoffrey Shovelton - singer with D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
• Joseph Moulden - footballer for Blackpool FC U18's
• Chris Larkin - member of BBC Symphony Orchestra

From scanning a handful of these, it appears the necessary refs exist in the subject's own article (where linked). Where the user does not have their own article, or where that article lacks the necessary refs, then it would be appropriate to remove from here; but wholesale blanking is not the best solution in this case. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 22:50, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Let's start with Brian Finch; no, nothing referenced there. Hovis Presley; no. John Grant is a DAB. Bernard Wrigley; no. Looks like a load of rubbish to me. The references should be here. Mr Stephen (talk) 23:07, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Do not continue wholesale blanking, nor edit warring over your blanking - selective improvement is the correct course. As stated in WP:SCH/AG#Alumni, "When alumni have their own articles in mainspace, it is not necessary for their notability to be referenced, as long as it is done in the biographical articles." --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 23:18, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Ah, you clearly misunderstand what I intended. Maybe what I wrote was unclear or maybe you didn't read it. The notability of this crowd is not the issue, it is their attendance at the college. It (the attendance, not the notability) should be referenced in this article. I pulled out four in succession starting from a position I picked with a pin, and in none of the four articles was there a reliable source confirming their attendance at this college. I wrote this above, if you didn't read it. Even if their was a reliable source confirming their attendance at this college, it should be here. Somewhere in WP-space it says something to the effect of "it is the responsibility of those who wish to retain information to reference it". But, you clearly like this scrapheap, so let's leave it in. Mr Stephen (talk) 23:50, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

I came across this by accident, at WP:NLIST: every entry in any such list requires a reliable source attesting to the fact that the named person is a member of the listed group. So, out it goes. Mr Stephen (talk) 19:36, 2 June 2014 (UTC)