Talk:William Fitzgerald (educationalist)

David Keen (2001), In a Class of Its Own: A Dunedin College of Education Anniversary History, Dunedin: Dunedin College of Education, Wikidata Q139584085^[1]

Fitzgerald 1883

• ... that William Fitzgerald (pictured) helped develop the University of Otago's first women-only hostel because landladies preferred male students, thinking they required less effort?

Also Chisholm, James (22 March 1911). "St Margaret's Residential College". Otago Daily Times. p. 5. Retrieved 15 June 2026.

• • ALT1: ... that William Fitzgerald (pictured) organised the first national teacher's union in New Zealand? Source: as above, and E. J. Simmonds (1983). NZEI 100: an account of the New Zealand Educational Institute. Wellington: New Zealand Educational Institute. ISBN 0-908579-19-5. Wikidata Q140255055.
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  • Comment: 2nd Nomination, so no QPQ required

Str8toftheDome (talk) 00:59, 12 June 2026 (UTC).

• The source for the hook, as well as most of the article content, is from a self-published book written by whom I presume to be a descendant of Fitzgerald. That is not a reliable source and certainly not for the claim that landladies preferred male tenants. Traumnovelle (talk) 06:26, 13 June 2026 (UTC)

  Fitzgerald is a common name, I don't know that we can assume a relationship. Regardless, I have added a second source to the hook and article that supports the "men are less work" angle. DrThneed (talk) 06:07, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

  full review needed, thanks :) theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 19:12, 29 June 2026 (UTC)