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Xavier Campuses and Houses

You seem to actually know something about the houses and campuses, so perhaps you can add some (more) clarifications to the Houses section of the article? For example, regarding the senior campus, what happened before 1991? And similarly, for Burke Hall, what happened before 1987, and for Kostka Hall, before 1971?
Also, who are/were Burke & Kostka?
Some of these questions are answered at http://www.xavier.vic.edu.au/AboutXavier/history.htm, but not all.

Regarding the tables

Is the data published somewhere accessible via the web?
Re: Burke Hall, three houses are listed as Premiers in 2006: Campion, Loyola & Owen.
Re: Kostka Hall, no Premier mentioned for 2010.

On other matters: What does the school use Billilla Mansion for, and how long has it been leasing it for?

Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 09:33, 22 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Good work! Well done. Pdfpdf (talk) 08:43, 27 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No problems -- I'm still running through the article and adding links where I can find them. Thanks for your help in any case! Nworsn (talk) 11:53, 27 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. What does the school use Billilla Mansion for, and how long has it been leasing it for? Pdfpdf (talk) 13:23, 27 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

From my own personal knowledge, since the Buxton campus was closed for renovation after the bushfires, it has been the School's venue for Year 11 & 12 retreats. I believe that Kostka Hall sporadically uses it too, but to what extent I don't know. The lease only began in the last few years -- I'm still scratching around for some documentation. Nworsn (talk) 13:59, 27 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Pdfpdf (talk) 04:42, 28 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Reference would be great - How about...

I'd reply over there, but far out has that conversation become convoluted. I note your correction regarding an overall principal and headmasters for each of the campuses. I, now, agree that they're notable. Non-web references are fine, and that'd be great if you could get one.

That being said, I'm beginning to get the impression that the different campuses of Xavier College might warrant their own pages, just to get around the problem of campus specific information on that main page. An example of this is Northern_Beaches_Secondary_College. This might be a good compromise around a lot of the problems that I have with the article and genuinely improves on it in any case. Take a look at NBSC and tell me what you think of doing something similar at Xavier? -danjel (talk to me) 10:42, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That's a good idea.. I'll see what I kind do in terms of creating those pages :) Nworsn (talk) 10:49, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Anything I can do to help? Keeping in mind that I don't know Xavier as well as you apparently do... :) -danjel (talk to me) 10:58, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If you like, you could try merging the "Campuses" section into "History" on the main Xavier page, under the three subtopics of Senior Campus/Burke Hall/Kostka Hall.. I was thinking about doing that, which would make creating separate pages for BH & KH later on much easier. What do you think? Nworsn (talk) 11:11, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wouldn't it go better in the introduction? I'll draft a paragraph in a sec. -danjel (talk to me) 11:21, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's just that the History section jumps around somewhat unclearly between campuses and then there's a redundant "Campuses" section below it.. Nworsn (talk) 11:24, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

For the introduction:

Xavier's students attend the college at three campuses around Melbourne. A Senior Campus for years 9 to 12, at Kew, and two Junior Campuses cater, separately, for both Kindergarten to year 4 and year 5 to 8, Burke Hall at Kew and Kostka Hall at Brighton.

In addition to these three main campuses, Xavier has an outdoor education facility in Buxton, near Marysville, and a rowing shed on the banks of the Yarra River. It also leases the historical mansion Billilla^[1] in Halifax Street, Brighton, from the Bayside City Council.^[2]

For the history section:

In 2009, the Buxton outdoor education centre was temporarily closed due to extensive damage from the Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria.^[3]

That cuts up the whole section into bits elsewhere. There are a couple of things that were said in both history and campuses. I've named the new sections to be made above, but you can edit as you see fit. I don't know what the senior campus is called..? -danjel (talk to me) 11:33, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That looks good -- you could remove the Campuses section if you added those in. The "Senior Campus" is its name, and is from Year 9 (not Year 10) to Year 12. And Burke and Kostka Halls have a clear split between the EYC and the 5-8 sections of them.. do you think you could mention that? It's a good start in any case. Nworsn (talk) 11:41, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Does that work? -danjel (talk to me) 12:09, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

By-the-way: Adding <references/> will get rid of the "error message" Pdfpdf (talk) 11:57, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

^ "Billilla Mansion". 2007-01-30. Retrieved 2010-12-22.
^ Billilla Gardens, Brighton, Bayside City Council
^ "Xavier College - Outdoor Education Centre at Buxton". Retrieved 2010-12-27.

Whoa Nelly!

Piece of friendly advice: I strongly advise that you discuss the splitting the article on the article's talk page BEFORE you start doing anything wrt splitting. Pdfpdf (talk) 11:55, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Good call, we should do that first. Nworsn (talk) 11:57, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

We haven't done the splitting yet, calm down ffs. -danjel (talk to me) 12:04, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 16:23, 8 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, Nworsn. You have new messages at Danjel's talk page.
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See also extensive and mostly unrelated rant. ˜danjel [ talk | contribs ] 21:35, 8 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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[Billilla-1] "Billilla Mansion". 2007-01-30. Retrieved 2010-12-22.

[2] Billilla Gardens, Brighton, Bayside City Council

[Buxton-3] "Xavier College - Outdoor Education Centre at Buxton". Retrieved 2010-12-27.

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