Talk:Old Boys

Schools Mid‑importance

	Schools portal This article is related to WikiProject Schools, a collaborative effort to write quality articles about schools around the world. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page.SchoolsWikipedia:WikiProject SchoolsTemplate:WikiProject Schoolsschool articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

United Kingdom Mid‑importance

	United Kingdom portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject United Kingdom, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the United Kingdom on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.United KingdomWikipedia:WikiProject United KingdomTemplate:WikiProject United KingdomUnited Kingdom articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

Tip: Anchors are case-sensitive in most browsers.

This article links to one or more target anchors that no longer exist.

[[Lawrence School, Lovedale#Alumni Association|Old Lawrencians]] The anchor (Alumni Association) has been deleted.

Please help fix the broken anchors. You can remove this template after fixing the problems. | Reporting errors

If...[edit]

If these terms are used outside of the United Kingdom then why is the list limited to schools in the United Kingdom?John Pack Lambert (talk) 02:40, 25 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Good point. I have just added an initial list for South Africa, but more are needed. Moonraker (talk) 05:33, 26 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Why is a person from the Brigham Young college in a remote part of the USA so utterly obsessed with our English school nomenclature - to the exent of scrawling questions all over an article rather than on a talk page, adding facetious comments to category descriptions and spending Christmas day in a traditional act of seasonal goodwill by reopening for the xteenth time debates under CFD? Sorry, but it is very sad. Motmit (talk) 00:12, 27 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

John Pack Lambert, I have dealt with most of your queries and left a question mark where I do not have an immediate answer. I see no harm in that. It was helpful for you to prompt these improvements, but may I suggest that in future it would be more correct for such questions to be raised here on the talk page rather than in the body of the article? Moonraker (talk) 06:53, 27 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This system is not used[edit]

According to Wikipedia consensus, (Troll Pickering, Brown Haired Girl, Chris the Speller, all four geniuses), the name of the "people educated at xxx school". All Old Boy and Old Girl societies will be renamed in line with this consensus. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.157.211.113 (talk) 19:58, 18 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"Good ol' boy" listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]

The redirect Good ol' boy has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 September 24 § Good ol' boy until a consensus is reached. Jay 💬 17:36, 24 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]