Talk:St Laurence's College

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This article has obviously been written from the perspective of someone promoting the school. This is most obvious in the Mission section and Facilities (i.e. : "We provide excellent facilities....") -DarkTurtle 08:40, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

I have had a go at removing some of the problem content. Rimmeraj 07:08, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

I have removed a large amount of material that also appears at the school's website, here and here. Perhaps someone would like to write a copyright free account of the history of the school. Blarneytherinosaur ^gabby? 09:01, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

{{editprotected|due to the amount of vandalism, occuring by registered and unregistered users. including current students please ask anadministrator to edit this page!Sandman2010 06:13, 6 September 2007 (UTC)}}

Use WP:RFPP for protection requests. I've removed the inaccurate protection tag. Cheers. --MZMcBride 10:16, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Protection

<< The following was copied from Sandman2010's Talk Page>>

Please note that you cannot add a protection notice to the top of the page if it is not actually protected. If it requires protection you need to request it from an administrator. Use WP:RFPP for protection requests. Rimmeraj 23:12, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi Sandman, thanks for the email.

The WP:RFPP article has the information you want. simply edit the 'Current requests for protection' section, and your request will be considered. BUT, it is very likely that your request may be rejected as there may not have been enough vandalism to warrant the protection. Rimmeraj 01:22, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

ps, you can reply here if you have further questions. Rimmeraj 01:22, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

ok not sure as to how i reply on my emails as there is no reply button and i have 2 options protect it with your help as i tried and have no understanding of this template stuff your on about or i was given the ok to completely remove this page today from the boss of the school (where i work at) so if i remove it you will not create a new one i hope? (copied from email)

Hi Sandman,

I shall put in the request for you, and let you know the result. Please note, that if you do remove the page it will be replaced as you will have vandalised the page. The page is not the property of your boss or the school. Rimmeraj 21:23, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

The page has been successfully protected for 2 Weeks. Only in exceptional circumstances will it be protected permenantly. Rimmeraj 21:38, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Rimmeraj 21:26, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 10:36, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

teachers staff

i am considering put ing a staff list to increase info mattythebatty (talk) 09:55, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

I have canceled this idea after considering this a benefit to only a few users and not to the whole community mattythebatty (talk) 11:43, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

Copyright problem removed

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Copyrighted text was taken from here. JRA_WestyQld2 ^Talk 03:56, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

College History

The first development on the hill where St Laurence's now stands was the foundation by the first Bishop of Brisbane, Dr Quinn, of a minor seminary for boys called St Kilian's. In 1874 the Bishop urged the Christian Brothers to take responsibility for St Kilian's as the first of their schools in Brisbane. Br Barrett was unimpressed, as he put it, by the frequent flooding of the streets by the river, and so he declined.

In 1899 this historic school, which was in turn under the control of the clergy and lay staff, was destroyed by fire. The new school, St Laurence's, owes its foundation to Dr Duhig of whom the advocate wrote, "His Grace Archbishop Duhig has thrown himself into the work of establishing St Laurence's with his accustomed vigour"

The first staff, Brs J Hogan, A Brennan, N Doran and D O'Connell and Mr Dean, faced 270 boys on the opening day in 1915. The original building is still standing. Two years later the brothers' monastery was completed, and these two fine buildings with an unpaved playing area between them on the crest of the hill fulfilled the accommodation needs for many years.

During World War II, the College was taken over by the army and classes were moved to Greenslopes. A new classroom block was completed in 1961, providing much needed accommodation, and in 1968 the main classroom block over the cliff and the Science block were completed. In 1973 Archbishop O'Donnell opened the new Secondary Library, an additional floor to the Science block and an imposing Chapel. In 1975 an additional floor of six classrooms was added to the main block. Subsequently the Manual Arts complex was completed in 1978 and the school hall, named after Br T P Brady, who died in office in 1981, was completed in that year. In 1984 the Edmund Rice Building which contains staffrooms, the McElligott Theatre and the Year 12 classrooms was completed. The Visual and Performing Arts building was completed in 1998.Work is currently underway to construct a shared multilevel carpark (complete with synthetic playing field on top level) and a 1500 seat auditorium. Work is due to be completed on these projects in 2010 as well as a move by the College Administration to the Monastery, the last brother having moved out in 2009.

Camp Laurence on Moogerah Dam was completed in 1977 as an outdoor recreational and educational extension to the campus at South Brisbane. The College acquired property at Runcorn in 1961 to extend its sporting facilities. The property now boasts eight playing fields, dressing sheds and the Brother Ryan Function Centre.

In 1994 a College Board was established to act in an advisory capacity to the Headmaster. From 1996, the Christian Brothers appointed the first lay principal, Mr D Frederiksen, while still retaining the ownership and control of the College. In 2001 Mr I McDonald was appointed as Headmaster. —Preceding unsigned comment added by L.P.Costello (talk • contribs) 12:30, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

Please read above, you cannot duplicate a source for entry into Wikipedia. Also please don't remove content already on the page. JRA_WestyQld2 ^Talk 12:43, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

References

Crime

I've removed the section on crime, and I feel that it needs to be discussed before adding back. The section was very large, with more time being given to these two cases than the entire history of the school. Given that they are only related to the school by dint of being ex-students, this sort of coverage seems to be seriously undue. At most one of them might mention being named as alumni (using the general rule that only notable individuals should be included in lists of people), but to give any more coverage than that would seem to be problematic, unless a significant connection can be drawn between the individuals and the institution. - Bilby (talk) 09:16, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

It was put back, which is fine, however while I think there's a discussion worth having about Scott Rush, Philip Heggie is a different matter. He hasn't been convicted and is otherwise non-notable, so including him prior to a conviction (and possibly after) is a definite problem given WP:PERPETRATOR. At best this is a case of one event, but the event itself isn't particularly notable anyway. Given how careful we need to be about BLPs, removing it seemed like the best course of action. - Bilby (talk) 09:50, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

Perhaps referring to the incident without dropping a name bomb could be used to avoid WP:PERP and any other BLP issues? JRA_WestyQld2 ^Talk 01:00, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

Possibly. :) And solving the BLP problems should be the major concern. However, I guess there's also the problem about grouping material here and suggesting that it is related to the school without evidence, and I'm not sure (especially in the case of Scott Rush) we sit on that. There's no problem with incidents which occur at any given school, whether negative or positive, but these are incidents related to the school because the people attended it. So I'm not sure if they can be said to sufficiently connected to the school to warrant coverage. - Bilby (talk) 13:31, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Orphaned references in St Laurence's College

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of St Laurence's College's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "2009AnnualReport":

• From Moreton Bay Boys' College: "2009 Annual Report" (PDF). Moreton Bay Boys College. Retrieved 2011-05-11.
• From Villanova College: "Community Report 2009" (PDF). Villanova College. 2009. Retrieved 2011-04-19.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 13:11, 22 August 2012 (UTC)