Talk:Portora Royal School
With deep regret and sorrow I must announce that Portora Royal School closed its doors for the last time on the 28th June 2016. So, after all the mourning and crying, do, we keep the page as it is or give it a big overhaul? TheWikiMan026 (talk) 20:24, October 13, 2016 (UTC)
Delete. The only thing less accessible to the general reader than an article on someone's grade school, is an article on someone's grade school except that it no longer exists. Spıke 🎙️20:32 13-Oct-16
- VETO in the name of all who went there. I'l take care of it and make it the best article on the page. TheWikiMan026 (talk) 20:35, October 16, 2016 (UTC)
Is this humorous? (I don't speak British.)[edit]
This looks like it might be a very amusing article, and apparently at least one recent IP thought so too and took the time to make a number of rather careful edits to it. The edits might be humorous as well. Unfortunately ... I can't tell, I only speak American. Oh, well...
Incidentally, regarding Spike's rather snarky "Kill it with fire!" comment, this is not just someone's grade school. This is Oscar Wilde's grade school. Yes, really. You may have noticed that claim in the text and assumed it was bogus, but if it's bogus, then Wikipedia has been fooled by it, too. Snarglefoop (talk) 18:10, May 31, 2018 (UTC)
- That's why I didn't kill it. Oscar Wilde said something about this school. I don't think it was supportive. --
(Orate) 21:00, May 31, 2018 (UTC)
I can confirm that this was Oscar Wilde's school (as well as Samuel Beckett's) and so it is still googled fairly regularly. The school was forced to combine with a local girls' school in 2016 by the Northern Irish government or 'Assembly' (this Assembly no longer exists, as the politics of Northern Ireland is of course, extremely dysfunctional) The past pupils and other people in Fermanagh have enjoyed the page and it was even quoted in a local newspaper at one stage. The article has been brought up to date to reflect the fact that the school is no longer open and has been replaced by a new school on the same site.