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This could do with a full rewrite if anyone from the school gets time, it is missing the formality expected and serves as a very bad "advertisement" for the school, it is filled with grammatical innacuracies and unnecesary links I have today edited the sections about the school plays and musicals, but I think we do need to work this out, it's giving the school a bad name as it stands.
This is becoming an advertisement. Is this statement: "As is the case with many public schools SMC has exam results well above the national average. The vast majority of all pupils will go onto Higher Education" verifiable? If so, where is a reference?
The various documents located on this page justify this statement.
Someone (or possibly more then one person) has been adding fictitious information to this page in an attempt at humour, this is probably due to the URL being posted in the schools forum on bebo.
If anyone who reads this page and finds obviously fictitious information (such as references to magical powers) could they please remove them and return he page to the way it was before.
I changed references to the Pipe Band as being "one of the best in the world"- such grandiose statements without evidence are questionable. Similarly removed reference to Juvenile band as in the "top ten best in the world"- such an (official) top 10 does not exist!
Would it be appropriate to add in a list of famous former pupils? This has already been done on other private schools' Wiki pages. Two which spring to mind (which are also on Wikipedia) are Doddie Weir and Dario Franchitti, but there must be many more. Preacherdoc 16:20, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
A list of notable alumni would certainly be an appropriate addititon. Perhaps the school itself could provide a more comprehensive list barring legal restrictions? 20:10, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
A good start. More needed on the history. References are needed to advance to a B. Dahliarose 22:33, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
I would have thought that being a schools article the sections on the pastoral care and sixth form should come immediately after the history, rather then at the very end with sport as the second section. Given that this is an article about the school I would have thought that would be of more immediate interst as it describes the overall organisation of the school. Although sport is a reasonably important part of school life it is an extracurricular activity, and only a comparatively minor one at that.
Does anyone agree/disagree?82.41.30.194 (talk) 21:56, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
On Google Maps, the linear distance from the centre of the main buildings of DSMC and MES is 1.002 miles, or 1.636km. However, travelling by road the distances will be slightly longer. I don't know how to estimate the shortest distance travelled by road. Preacherdoc (talk) 10:46, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
In the extra-curricular section, I believe that STEM2 is now fully in colour, priced at 50p and not always self-funded as a recent glossy issue was given another budget not produced by sales of previous magazines but, generally speaking, it is still mainly a self-supporting venture. Can anyone back me up? —Preceding unsigned comment added by DebatingGreg (talk • contribs) 11:23, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
There is a mysterious (to me) paragraph about examinations in the lead section. I have no idea what SQA, intermediate 2, Standard grade etc. mean. This paragraph to me is much too detailed and should be in the body of the article - not in the lead section which is supposed, as per Wikipedia guidelines, to be a brief summary of the information in the rest of the article. I propose moving this examinations paragraph down into the body of the article. I hope then someone will re-write it so that I can understand it. Also it is out of date. It refers to what will happen in 2013. It is now October 2014. Did whatever was supposed to happen actually take place in 2013?SylviaStanley (talk) 16:48, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
There is a paragraph in the History section about a medal: "The school now has in its possession a medal dated 15 July 1870 presented to a John Stewart [9] The medal was gifted to the school by a Mrs Rose Connolly of Glasgow whose birthday is coincidentally also on 15 July." There is one reference: " Mrs Rose Connolly" Unless someone can convince me otherwise, I do not think this meets Wikipedia's criteria for notability. Also the reference is not a reliable secondary source as per Wikipedia guidelines. I propose deleting this paragraph.SylviaStanley (talk) 20:51, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
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I added a mention of the co-ed S6 in the opening paragraph which may not be necessary (although the link to Sixth Year is).
If/when the Junior School expansion is completed, please update the page when someone gets the chance. Paleclams (talk) 21:57, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
I've taken this section out as it discussed the controversy over Dundas and the Melville Monument, which is covered by those respective articles. If others have points to add on how the controversy related directly to the school, please add it; however, as it stood, the section was irrelevant and gave a false impression that the school is closely linked to Dundas rather than, as is the case, being only partly and indirectly named after him.CPClegg (talk) 13:12, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
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