Talk:The Burning of the School

Previous AfD Nomination

This article was nominated for deletion on October 19, 2005. The consensus at the time was to keep the article. Rob Church ^{Talk | FAHD} 23:08, 24 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Too much information

I suggest removing the entire section beginning "Examples of variations of the verse". Giving an endless list of variations is unnecessary, unencyclopaedic, difficult to read, and openly invites anyone to come along and add their pet variation to the list. I would have removed it myself, but when I tried I got a warning saying that if other people disagree with my deletion I may be banned from editing Wikipedia. :( 91.107.184.177 (talk) 23:25, 26 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I agree WP articles are the place for notable information and not endless lists of ephemeral trivia, but what we are dealing with here is a piece of ever-changing folklore and I seriously doubt if there are peer-refereed citable empirical studies that rise to the level of Reliable Source on a canonical text of the Battle Hymn of the Brats. I would suggest moving alternate versions to Talk for discussion about the article, not removing entirely: Fahrenheit 451, temperature of the Memory Hole. Hey, teach, leave em kids alone. I remember this version no later than my fifth grade (which would make it before 1959); oh, the glorious memories of my school daze.

  Mine eyes have seen the glory  
    Of the burning of the school 
  We have tortured every teacher 
    We have broken every rule    
  We have beaten up the principal
    And kicked him outta school   
  Us brats go marching on!        
                                 
  Glory glory how pecul-yer      
    Teacher hit me with a rul-yer
  I conked her on the bean       
    With a rotten tangerine      
  Us brats go marching on!

Naaman Brown (talk) 00:50, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]