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Is Coal Hill School described liks this in the series, as they are different types of schools? Tim! (talk) 20:20, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Subject of this article is a major part of the DW origin story. If notability is a concern with regards to a non-fictional school, I'd suggest renaming the article with a (Doctor Who) suffix. Merging into An Unearthly Child might be appropriate, but that article is quite long already. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Daburow (talk • contribs) 03:09, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
Merge into a Who page, not notable by itself. No independent sources regarding it except fan pages/episode guides. 86.139.247.169 (talk) 11:14, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
merely because IPs gave them, I did it because there was no valid rationale for deletion stated anywhere for me to complete the AfD. (And there still isn't.) Ansh666 08:11, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
The warning can only be issued if there is an active AfD going, which there was not. If an autoconfirmed user added a tag without creating the discussion, I would remove it just the same. If they created the discussion with the rationale, I would instantly close it as speedy keep. There is no difference. Ansh666 19:13, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
I've removed the following:
It used to be cited to Remembrance of the Daleks. Redrose64 (talk · contribs) noted that this appeared to be WP:CIRCULAR. I suspect that the editor intended to cite not the Wikipedia article Remembrance of the Daleks, but the episode itself, perhaps hoping that someone else would come along and fill out ((cite episode)). That's a questionable practice, of course; it's always better to cite secondary sources than to interpret the primary text ourselves. Anyway, although the description of the arms on the school sign does appear to be accurate, it also looks to me to be the same as this. I have no idea whether a school in Shoreditch would fall under the auspices of the City of London (or would have done so in 1963), but the entire question is fairly peripheral anyway. That said, if anyone can find a reliable source about these arms, they can be added back into the article (assuming it survives AfD). —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 02:52, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
Though this is probably moot, given the way the AfD is going, I thought I'd spell out what Kim Newman had to say about the school in Doctor Who: A Critical Reading of the Series. Here's the full quotation. In the unlikely event that the article is kept, people can discuss whether the current summary is accurate and adequate.
Our way into the box, a doorway to the infinite, is through Barbara Wright and Ian Chesterton, teachers at Coal Hill School. From the lack of uniform, mix of boys and girls, the fact that Ian teaches Science and the frankly drab-sounding name, we take Coal Hill to be a secondary modern, which means alien genius Susan (Carole Ann Ford) failed her eleven plus exam or entered the British tripartite educational system without enough documentation to get into grammar school. Though Coal Hill looks like a forerunner of Grange Hill (1978–), BBC-TV's comprehensive school-set soap, it was a television rarity in 1963, when children's programmes tended towards fantasy fee-paying schools, typified by Gerald Campion cadging buns in Billy Bunter at Greyfriars (1952–1961) or Jimmy Edwards thwacking bottoms in Whack-O (1956–60). More savvy about its audience, Doctor Who expected viewers to dislike little toffs: Cyril (Peter Stevens), a sinister schoolboy dressed like Billy Bunter, is a hateful menace in an early serial, 'The Celestial Toymaker' (1966). Decades later, Romana (Lalla Ward) and Turlough (Mark Strickson), companions of the Doctor, would model St. Trinian's or Greyfriars' uniform; that they (like Cyril) are obviously adults dressed up in fetish gear suggests a misty vision of British education — recently revived at Hogwarts — years away from credible, unlovely Coal Hill.
With a dress code progressive for its day and teachers committed enough to spot an alien in class, Coal Hill was nevertheless uniquely like the schools the bulk of Doctor Who's young audience actually attended. These sequences anchor "An Unearthly Child" in a reality from which the show could take off.
Newman has more discussion of the school in the subsequent paragraphs, but this is the key bit; the rest mostly relates to Ian, Barbara, and Susan. Tagging @Eleventh Doctor: so he can determine for himself whether this constitutes "significant coverage", as defined by WP:GNG. I think it does. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 01:39, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
Now that the AfD has closed as "no consensus", what should be done with the ((Notability)) tag? On the one hand, there was no consensus that the article meets the GNG; on the other hand, there was no consensus that it doesn't. I have no idea what the usual practice is in cases like this. Anyone? —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 14:32, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
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