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City of London School was one of the Social sciences and society good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
July 22, 2009	Peer review	Reviewed
August 29, 2009	Good article nominee	Listed
September 18, 2024	Good article reassessment	Delisted

Current status: Delisted good article

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Obviously wrong architects

The article said that the Embankment building was "... designed by Davis and Emanuel Pevsner and constructed by John Mowlem & Co...". This seems to have been inaccurately 'borrowed' from the School's website 'History' page, which actually says: "... designed by Davis and Emanuel. Pevsner described the façade of the magnificent hall as...".
Ministry (talk) 13:51, 11 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The original building at Milk Street was designed by architect J.B. Bunning, who was... an Old Citizen of the school.

How is this possible? Where was the school before the first building? Was Bunning a first year at the time and designed a building for his school it in Art class? Romomusicfan (talk) 13:10, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

GA concerns

I am concerned that this article no longer meets the good article criteria. Some of my concerns are listed below:

There is a lot of uncited text throughout the article.
I do not think the "Headmasters" section is necessary for the article: if these events are notable, they can be included in the "History" section
The "History" section stops at 1986: are there any notable current events to include?
The article has lots of short, one sentence paragraphs, particularily in the "Notable people" section. These should be merged together.

Is anyone interested in fixing up this article, or should this go to WP:GAR? Z1720 (talk) 05:20, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

City of London School

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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Result: Delisted. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 15:32, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There is a lot of uncited text throughout the article. I do not think the "Headmasters" section is necessary as most people listed are not notable enough to have an article on Wikipedia. The "History" section stops at 1986, and there are many short, one-sentence paragraphs that should be merged or reformatted. Z1720 (talk) 07:29, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

I agree the article needs some attention, though it looks like the work needed is fairly minor. Some sources need finding. Some mild copyediting. The Headmaster section seems fine - it contains relevant information, though could be tidied up and strengthened a little. If there's relevant history post 1986, then of course that should be added, but if there isn't then the history stopping at that year is appropriate. Rather than delist I feel the work should be done to keep the article at GA standard. I was pinged as I was the reviewer 15 years ago. I'm not often on Wikipedia these days - I have done a little bit of work, though I don't have the time or energy (or motivation, to be honest) to spend much effort on this. I wouldn't vote to keep while there are some statements that need citing, but nor do I feel the problems are such that I am propelled to vote delist. SilkTork (talk) 09:15, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]