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Is the Telegraph interview online?

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Dunno, the main article's gone too. Md25 02:05, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Private Eye link seems to be broken too Albatross2147 00:47, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I remember the diary (I buy the Eye), but I don't remember hearing about the Telegraph article, and I can't find it or a reference to it. I am curious whether this article should stay in Wikipedia. It caused a media flurry at the time, but I don't remember any policy change or lasting consequence from it. --Telsa ((t)(c)) 15:44, 14 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Where is this Telegraph article?

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This article has one external link, which is an archive.org copy, and no references beyond "over the course of two weeks in April 2004" and "in the following issue". And I still cannot find the Telegraph article. Obviously it must have happened between April and July 2004, but some more details would help a lot.

I also feel the article is slightly point-of-view (or at least, unreferenced!) when it claims "The diary revealed a massive undercurrent of pupil misbehaviour and incompetence in schools". Can this statement be backed up? --Telsa (talk) 12:22, 28 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Right, I have found the Telegraph article in the local library. It was in the Sunday Telegraph, not the Daily Telegraph, and either it's not online on the Telegraph site, or I simply can't find it there. Now that I have found it, I have tried Google and the Telegraph's own search tool, with a selection of names and quotes from the article, and it will still not show up. Readers will just have to follow up the reference themselves :) I've added it, and changed the tense of some of the article to reflect that.
Googling on various combinations of the guy's name, the school, the diary, and so on, I can't find anything in the way of follow-up. So it was a nine-day's wonder with no effect on education, education policy, and so on. In which case, I don't think it needs its own article.
Telsa (talk) 16:47, 5 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

--"Over the course of two weeks..."--

Private Eye is a fortnightly publication. "Over the course of two weeks..." would suggest that the article appeared once. Is this the case? AuntFlo (talk) 03:28, 19 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Moved

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@Paul 012: moved page Teacher's Diary to The Secret Diary of a School Teacher: Actual title

Hi, do you have any WP:RS that this is the WP:COMMONNAME of the article?? In ictu oculi (talk)
(Modified from my comment at WP:RMT:) Actually, I'm questioning the notability of the subject, as it doesn't appear to have achieved any lasting significance. The few relevant Google results that I found that aren't Wikipedia mirrors are all articles from 2004, and none of them refer to it as "Teacher's Diary". The BBC uses "The secret diary of a Telford school teacher",[1] while The Mirror reprints it as "Secret Diary of a Teacher".[2] "The Secret Diary of a School Teacher" is the actual title used given on the Private Eye's website.[3] --Paul_012 (talk) 14:49, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]