Talk:Amesbury School

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	Reasoning for assessment: No references, history section is excessive and messy. Adam McCormick 06:29, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sources etc and the History

I am a newbie to Wikipedia so please excuse any technical ignorance. I will do my best over time to clean up the issues of reference etc. I have no experience however in formatting and may need some clean up help.

The bulk of the text comes from a pdf history of the school called Amesbury Rejoices that was published in 1995. I can upload a copy if that will help? She cites many key sources in her preface that I know would have been excellent - not the least David Montgomery.

There is a great deal of material on the School in Nigel Hamilton's Biography of General Montgomery and I will get the book and cite what there is now and add more items - Monty spent the night before D Day at the school where he had dinner - the Monty references are significant as this was in effect his home for the war.

The Monty references are important for the school - Amesbury was in the unusual position of being his home and the Reynolds were in effect Monty's son's guardians. Had Monty died he intended that they look after him. The impact on the school was significant. He kept his caravans there after the war until they were moved to the Imperial War Museum. He would regularly visit and tell us how he won the war. With the passage of time, this may not seem like much, but then it would have bene as if Royalty or the President was the visitor.

The History may seem rambling but as a 60 year old looking back into it, the text as it is has been a godsend. Schools like this were very personal and reflected the head master, who would have been the owner, in a way that never happend in other types of schools. This is why so much is made of the various transitions

(Rob (talk) 00:08, 21 February 2010 (UTC)) Rob (talk) 17:34, 29 March 2010 (UTC[reply]

Merge school

The merge school template is designed to be an alternative to a formal AfD. By and large, primary schools are not-inherently notable and there have been complaints about the clogging up of AfD with too many prep and primary schools. So rather than go to AfD with every one, and with this one in particular, its simpler and less disruptive to tag with a {{merge school}} template. I am formally proposing that the article subject is non-notable and that the article be merged to Hindhead, or that it me moved to an article about the building itself. Fmph (talk) 16:45, 28 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

There is no consensus that primary schools are prep schools are non-notable. This article is far too long for a merge to be practical. It is an old school with an interesting history and it makes no sense to merge it. It easily merits a standalone article. Dahliarose (talk) 17:21, 28 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

There is no consensus that primary and prep schools are definitively non-notable. Without a justification to merge, there is nothing else to argue against. ˜danjel [ talk | contribs ] 08:29, 29 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose merge per Dahliarose and Danjel. Despite the article's current problems, in my view there is too much to this school to question its notability. Moonraker (talk) 17:17, 29 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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