Talk:St Mary's Town and Country School

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Mark Landis at St. Mary's Town and Country School ?

"* Mark Landis - art dealer - philanthropist - gifts to Savannah College of Art and Design and University of Southern Mississippi"

I am concerned that if the entry for Mark Landis is not vandalism, that is is a good faith edit, meaning the author considers the information to be true, else why would it be there?

There is information on the web connecting him with Mount St. Mary's University, which is obviously not the same as the school in the article. There are connections to be found on the web to the other institutions Savannah College of Art and Design and University of Southern Mississippi. St. Mary's School in in England and closed in about 1982.

Ideally there should be convincing in-line citations, but occasionally people get added to like these though the "I knew him, he was in my year, or, someone told me about him" approach. It would be great to have Mark mentioned if he was at the school, but please convince with some clue as to when he was at the school, even who knows him - how old is he, old enough to have been there before 1982, was he in England when young? We have to be careful not to open the floodgates to random entries.

Please help rather than just reverting the deletion. Thanks for your patience. P0mbal (talk) 12:00, 30 November 2009 (UTC) Mark Landis, 3/10/1955 - attended St Mary's Town and Country School 1966/67 - upper 4th and part of lower 5th - Norman Barrington says he remembers tho a few terms behind. His father was USN with NATO - He is american - Alfred Nathan would probably remember him as would the 2 other americans in lower 4th at the time - also he lived next door at 36 Eton Ave. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jamesbrantley (talk • contribs) 11:36, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you James, Mark is back now, in the correct place alphabetically. Norman probably knows more than anyone else about the school. I was at the school myself, the Stanford Hall branch way back in 1948, contemporary with Tony Roland, Daughne Uniacke, Chris Weathersbee, Zuleika Dobson, John Ravilious, Evelyne Masson-Forestier to name some of those mentioned, and have since been in contact with Alisha Sufit, John Ravilious and Norman Barrington. P0mbal (talk) 15:18, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I am Norman Barrington author of the School website. Last month I received a detailed email from Mark including photographs of him in T&C uniform. He is perfectly happy to publish the story of his serial forgeries, supplying links to articled. Further it is worth noting that Mark broke no laws, just embarrassed 'experts' since he gifted his paintings. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.205.218.98 (talk) 20:42, 6 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]