Talk:Yardley Court

The school moved to Somerhill in summer 1990, not 1999 so I'm editing that. I'm also deleting the headmasters nicknames as I don't see that it adds anything and I'm not sure how universally they were used, e.g. I don't remember anyone referring to Mr Michael as "mickey" let alone "Michaelmas daisies". Do let me know if there's a problem with my edits Paul** (talk) 11:14, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

I don't buy the "Dr" nicknames for the Bickmores. I was there from '70 to '75 and they were always called "Mr." I don't remember any of them having a doctorate.

Does anybody remember anything about John Barber's tenure as headmaster? Why did he resign? He was a teacher when I was there between '70 and '75.

- Hello there, I don't know how old the query is that I'm responding to but yes I was at YC from 84-90 and remember John Barber very well. He resigned after a boy in my year who left at age 11 accused him of being a paedophile. There was a court case but Mr Barber was never convicted. I'm afraid I never knew if he was not convicted due to lack of evidence or whether the court wholly dismissed the claims of the boy in question. I feel a huge amount of shame here - Mr Barber groped me up on more than one occasion and I was too scared to come forward to say anything. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.249.216.151 (talk) 13:05, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

Barber used to take boys up to his room for "extra French". And then abuse them. And we (all of those not getting abused) thought he was great! At least Mr. John was fairly overt, with his tendency to come into the bathroom while you were having a bath. But he never *did* anything - just looked. At least for me. Years: 77-81. If *you* are affected by this, then there are resources out there, and no shame. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.102.44.24 (talk) 02:09, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

Changed motto translation to "friends in friendship" which was how it was always translated for us by Mr Michael. Also added Ed Smith to notable people but couldn't work out how to get it to link to the correct Ed Smith rather than the disambiguation page... Perhaps someone might help. Paul** (talk) 12:32, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

I changed the motto translation back to "friends in friendship" - someone had altered it. I added "comrades in comradeship", an alternative which I remember from my time at the school.

Does anyone know why the school moved? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.98.255.115 (talk) 00:37, 2 December 2012 (UTC) I had a go at answering this. It's from memory, unsourced I'm afraid.

Does anyone remember a big scandal at the school? It was front page news in the Kent and Sussex Courier, around 1980 I think. I won't add the detail I remember, as it would be libellous if I got it wrong. Maybe I should ask the Courier.

'Come on Yardley!'

Twice the 'Come on Yardley!' section of the Yardley Court Wikipedia page has been removed. Alums of very many Kent prep schools (especially those who attended during the '80s & '90s) will recognise the use of the phrase 'Come on Yardley!' to indicate that a person's behaviour has become try-hard/pretentious/pseudo. Perhaps some citations can be found? The last time I heard the phrase used in this way was at a bar near Canary Wharf, and I'd never seen the chap (a Cantabrigian in his 20s who had attended the New Beacon in Sevenoaks) before. Since I am from a different generation, and attended a different prep school in Kent, the fact that its use is relatively widespread does not seem to be questionable. Thoughts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C4:C002:6F00:617D:FA49:1C64:4B22 (talk) 16:44, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

I'd say that comes under needing a reliable source or Wikipedia Content Guidelines. Two people in a bar do not make reliable source. --213.122.95.161 (talk) 22:35, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

John

Please could you stop your disruptive editing. If you feel we are soapboxing, promotional or advertising material please point out what the issue is and it can be altered. You are stripping out information that is correct and had been there, entered by others, for a long while. You are stripping out post nominal letters someone is entitled to have after their name and a school motto that had a citation with no discussion on this page. Please edit selectively instead of vandalising the whole page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SomerhillIT (talk • contribs) 13:14, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

Please see WP:NOTVAND, WP:ADVERT, WP:V and WP:NPOV. WP:COI is also worth a look considering your username. What you are doing is not vandalism but it is disruptive. I'll give you 24 hours to read those policies. If you continue to restore the material after that you will be blocked. --John (talk) 14:26, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

This was actually brought to our attention by a small group of students working on this as a pet project. They were upset that their page was being vandalised and information that they knew to be correct was being removed with no reasoning. Once again you have not pointed out where the article is advertising and you have removed information that is cited. Feel free to block account, we will in future let pupils know that wikipedia is not a reliable or useful source of information and direct them elsewhere. Top effort on turning off an interested party of young minds.SomerhillIT (talk —Preceding undated comment added 15:03, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia *is* a useful source of information but it is not reliable! Not just your pupils but adult journalists should learn this. A particular problem is that journalists use Wikipedia as a source, publish a "fact" in a reputable newspaper, and this in turn becomes a cite in the Wikipedia article. I've seen this more than once - and indeed seen my own Wikipedia edits (based on personal knowledge) appear in the press a couple of weeks later.

My current problem with this page is that the list of notable alumni is not credible. Some are right, e.g. Forsyth and Woolmer. But others are not. 81.102.44.24 (talk) 00:39, 7 August 2022 (UTC)