Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Education in Canada/Archive5

Bonar Law Memorial Secondary High School and Eleanor Graham Middle School, both located in Kent County New Brunswick are missing from the list of New Brunswick schools

A plea for help: United Synagogue Day School

An editor, User:Pan Dan, has tagged United Synagogue Day School, a private Conservative Jewish Day school in Toronto, as not being notable. I am having trouble proving its notability. Any help to keep it would be appreciated. --YUL89YYZ 23:53, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

• I would like to see a policy which says that schools are automatically notable. Otherwise, more and more school articles will be deleted. --Eastmain 01:09, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
  • You may be interested in joining this discussion. --Stéphane Charette 02:54, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Violating freedom of speech

My high school http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornlea_Secondary_School page was modified and rewrote by school admins to beaautify the article. They also removed all negative information written about the school (e.g. drugs, dropouts, students skipping class). For more info, check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Thornlea_Secondary_School

I would read Wikipedia's NPOV document. Misterjerk2 19:14, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

But the admins (principal and vice-principals) won't read. Instead, they asked the student council to do the dirty job for them. I know those are the truth because I studied there before graduated to university. OhanaUnited 14:33, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Category:Alberta school stubs

There was already a template for it, but no cat, and that didn't make any sense to me. So I created one. I hope I didn't step on any toes. Kevlar67 23:45, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Notability Problem

Just a heads-up that three more elementary schools are presently being discussed for deletion on grounds of lack of notability:

• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eagle Ridge Elementary School
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Walton Elementary School
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Westwood Elementary School (Coquitlam)

With momentum building there to do all the rest that don't claim notabilty too. DMacks 18:58, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Please note that the three schools currently noted above (Eagle Ridge, Walton and Westwood) were all changed to redirect to their respective school boards. PKT 14:53, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't know... I've been involved with this project for a while now, and I'm not sure I can totally justify having a page for every elementary school in Canada. Perhaps the creation of articles for every school in BC was (although well intentioned) a little hasty and ill advised. - TheMightyQuill 01:09, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

• You may also want to take a look at Adam Robertson Elementary School, another British Columbia school article to which a {{prod}} has been applied. --Eastmain 02:29, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
  • As the person who prodded and then sent to afd Adam Robertson Elementary School (when someone removed the prod without comment) - yes, I of course think it was a bit hasty to create all those elementary school articles (although for stubs, they are nicely done.) I would really like to see them all reduced to redirects to the respective school boards - mostly so that people elsewhere will not be led by this example to do it for their state/province/country etc. (Aside: Can you imagine how many elementary schools the world must have? Hmmm. What do we have, 4 billion people? Maybe 10% of school age... let's say only 5%, with those that don't attend... brings us to 200 million school kids. Let's say average size of school is 400 (bit large, but will do for a round number), which leaves us with an extremely rough estimate of 500,000 elementary schools world-wide! That's a lot of articles to store and maintain and de-vandalize, and most of them of little interest to anyone outside the local area.) Anyways, I am contemplating going through and putting merge tags on all those elementary schools, at least the ones that are just stubs with no claim at all to notability. Would people object strongly? Would anyone like to help? It is kind of an enormous task, but it will be far worse if the articles all have to go to AFD in small batches because people are trying to save them. --Brianyoumans 02:15, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Peer review

In order to bring the Upper Canada College article up to a status where it can be nominated as a featured article, I've initiated a peer review. Please have a look at the article and submit your comments at Wikipedia:Peer review/Upper Canada College/archive1. Thanks. --G2bambino 18:37, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Traditional Schools

Suggestion: someone should write an article on the "traditional schools" concept in British Columbia (and elsewhere, if applicable). Brianyoumans 05:21, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Added Greater Saskatoon Catholic School Division on the basis of how Saskatoon Public School Division was started. Also added redirect from Saskatoon Catholic School Division as this was also a link that had been started on some pages, however the proper naming convention seems to be more properly...Greater Saskatoon Catholic School Division Julia 04:48, 4 April 2007 (UTC) SriMesh

Dalhousie Faculty of Medicine

Someone should add a page for the Faculty of Medicine at Dalhousie since all the other medical schools have a page. Also, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Schools_of_medicine_in_Canada lists Nova Scotia of not having a medical school. 74.110.113.158 22:10, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Elementary Schools

On random page patrol, I came across a demographics-only stub of a British Columbia elementary school. At first thinking it was an isolated case and happily seeing a school district article existed with the school listed in a table, I redirected ... and then redirected the handful of other elementary schools in that district. One, though, led me through a redirection page and I discovered the world of Category:Elementary schools in British Columbia (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs). AFD is generally permissive of high schools, but rarely allows elementary school articles to survive. I would like to go through and redirect all of these to their school district and clean up the linking from those district articles, but I don't want to step on anyone's toes.

Any objection to this? I'd rather help than hinder whatever the determination. Serpent's Choice 06:47, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Contact the creator of most if not all of them, Wakemp (talk · contribs). I'd support redirecting all of them to the relevant school district articles. Some of them like Kensington Prairie Elementary School might have information worth merging. –Pomte 00:14, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Wakemp is no longer participating in Wikipedia, per his talk archive, so unfortunately I cannot inquire with him. However, if the project agrees that this is a logical approach, I'll get to work. And obviously, any such articles that contain an assertion of notability beyond just the demographic content will not be redirected without discussion. Serpent's Choice 02:17, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

At Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/University Hill Elementary School there was a lot of support for the organizational structure of the articles in this WikiProject. However, the above discussion #AfD results and Bridge Elementary School acknowledges that practically content-less stubs should be deleted with no prejudice against recreation if expanded. –Pomte 03:17, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Northview Heights Secondary School

Hi, big user of Wikipedia but new to editing and all that. I want to create a page for my school, NHSS (Bathurst and Finch). Is there any point to creating this page... and if yes how do I go about doing it? Deathsupport 22:13, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

A lot of high school articles have been discussed for deletion because they are considered to be non-notable. You'll need to assert the notability of the school and back up any claims you make by citing multiple independent reliable sources. Some of the articles at Google News Archive may help. If you think there's enough to say, start the article at Northview Heights Secondary School and I'll help you format it. For examples, see Don Mills Collegiate Institute and other articles in Category:High schools in Toronto. –Pomte 00:06, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Well it has the CyberARTS program, as well as the Honours Math, Science and Technology Program. Furthermore, we have this CCNA Certified Cisco course.. a good swim team. The school recently turned 50. Well, I will find some information and then see where I am at that point. Thanks!

Deathsupport 00:45, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

I put some stuff together. Will expand on it, but for now Northview Heights Secondary School.

Deathsupport 02:02, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Naming conventions (schools)

Wikipedia:Naming conventions (schools) -- naming convention for schools. I don't believe I've noticed people from this project there and this wasn't linked to on the project page, so just letting everyone know. Also, obviously, input from all education projects that this applies to would be great. Miss Mondegreen talk  10:19, May 17 2007

Another deletionist's passion

See my comments at User talk:Brianyoumans#Anderson Elementary School. This guy seems intent on merging BC school articles into their districts. The Richmond School District is about as much as I can watch myself, and two articles have already been completely deleted from there for no good reason. Eclecticology 07:27, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

He's right: not all schools are inherently notable. See notability as defined for Wikipedia. Are there multiple independent reliable sources that talk about the elementary schools? The answer is probably no for many of them.

Of course, there's another sense of notability with regards to "importance", and the question would be: Can the article be expanded to say verifiable useful info? Henry Anderson Elementary School lists a bunch of facts about the school, but presumably parents can find these out themselves by looking at official documents. All 4 links at the bottom are at the BC government website, an obvious place to look. If the school had some sort of controversy that people should know, then there would likely be reliable sources to fill the article with, avoiding the first problem altogether. But if there's nothing much to say about the school other than the location and basic numbers, it's not a very useful tool for comparison. –Pomte 08:12, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

So now something must be controversial to be important! This says a lot about where people put their priorities. Consider too the detail that people attach to the minutiae of the fictional universe, yet these schools which have a real effect on people's lives over the much longer period when they remain standing require more verification than Pokémon. As for looking at official documents, are you saying that if you moved to BC you would have any idea where to look for "official information" that would allow you to make a valid decision about the school where you would send your children? Tracking down these government sites is not at all obvious, even though they provide massive amounts of information. I'll be the first to admit that the existing articles are somewhat stubbish; it's just a matter of time before it's added. Eclecticology 21:15, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

A slew of fiction/"in popular culture" articles are getting deleted as well. It may be a sad fact that Pokemon has affected more people than these schools, and hence discussed more in reliable sources. Pokemon articles do require as much verification, and WikiProject Pokémon does have this goal in mind. If parents are incapable of scoping out the appropriate links themselves, then they are possibly also the kind to trust Wikipedia blindly, which is even worse. If I moved to BC I would go to nearby schools and ask for information directly from the people whom it concerns, and of course to get a look at the atmosphere, which stats tell nothing about, then look on the internet for schools outside the area. Personally I'd google "Anderson Elementary School", get to the official school site with the first result, then go through all the links. In the "Professional Resources" section, the first link leads to Ministry of Education, which has all the documents. You can link the district articles to general search pages like [1], so they can find how for themselves how to conjure these PDFs, and to compare different schools' results. If these articles end up being deleted, drafts can be started in this WikiProject as subpages, and when they get to a certain quality, recreate the articles. Nothing lost. I don't agree with Wikipedians' priorities myself - maybe revive a discussion for Wikipedia:Schools. –Pomte 00:49, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Scoping out the schools in a new community is not that easy. Richmond has 39 elementary schools, and for someone coming from out of town it's difficult to know what they all are. Many parents want to know what they are before finding a place to live. Several offer French immersion programmes, and three have an alternate Montessori programme. How good official school sites have depends on whether there is a keen teacher there to maintain the website. They are highly variable. Eclecticology 07:32, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

One reason to support mergers to the district articles for elementary schools is that it does not delete content from the redirected page's history. The reality is that, at least at the moment, few if any elementary schools brought to AFD are dealt with other than by deletion (high schools are generally kept). It is certainly possible that some of these schools are more notable than others, and could support their own articles. By performing systematic mergers, the material remains available for recreation at such point as articles become possible. And for those where no independant notability exists, the school's name remains a valid search term leading to the district, where content such as the government websites can be linked, ensuring that information is available. Serpent's Choice 01:07, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

I agree completely with Serpent's Choice above. I participated in many of the AfD discussions, and even brought one to DR. It is impossible to make a case for keep on these Elementary School articles that just have a sentence or two and an infobox. Merging them to the district preserves the name and history for another editor who may want to expand the article later, plus it gives people who may be looking for info on the school a link to whay litte information is available on WP. More importantly, it keeps people from recreating these stubs because WP has no info. For schools, creation of stubs should be avoided, because of the history. They should be created under a school district (for North America) and split out when there is sufficient content.

It would be really helpful if folks from this project would get on board with this compromise solution, and merge/redirect the affected content, before the articles get nominated for AfD, with predictable results. Dhaluza 10:04, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

Dumb question from south of the border

The relationship between elementary and secondary religious schools (particularly) I suspect is different from the US. I suspect they are funded by the state which also exacts some control over the curricula, certification, etc. Is this discussed somewhere? My thought is that (not just for Canada but for all countries), a school article should read, "St. Elizabeth in the Fields is a (link) Canadian school (end of link) in Baytown, Ontario." The "Canadian school" article would contain all the details about the relationship between church and state and church and school. While the financial system is different in the lower colonies, we should probably have something similiar here. The distinction between a Canadian parochial/parish school, diocesan school and state school escapes me, not only in Canada, but in the US as well. Student7 20:13, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Kwantlen University College

This article along with Kwantlen Student Association needs a POV and fact check if folks have a few minutes, plus perhaps a complete re-write. The articles have been compromised by officials from both organizations. GreenJoe 19:31, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

How to write a great article...

Here's some advice I posted to a talk page: Think of the article this way... who are you, what do you want, why do you exist, when were you created, where are you located, and how do you function? Those are the basic questions that you want answered. We don't need to know about the campus pub, or how much a can of Pepsi is. It's not encyclopedic to mention who the current President is, or what they ate for lunch. We don't care about that. We do care if the President was impeached for buying that pizza with their corporate credit card. --GreenJoe 05:23, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Another school

I have added St. Patrick's Intermediate School to your project on its discussion page - hope that's OK Stephenb (Talk) 12:22, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Featured?

I nominated List of Athabasca University people to become featured today. Please take the time to comment. GreenJoe 20:48, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Education in Australia

WikiProject Education in Australia is now officially up and running, feel free to join! Twenty Years 14:18, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Proposed deletions (WP:PROD)

• 5 September - expires 10 September
  • TLITE (PROD by User:Rklawton; "TLITE is an acronym for Teaching and Learning in a Technology Environment. TLITE is a graduate diploma program at Simon Fraser University for teachers....") --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 20:45, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Category:Lists of people by university in Canada

I'm disappointed because I went through every alumni/people list for a University in Canada, and only 1, List of Athabasca University people cites sources. This needs to be rectified. GreenJoe 15:48, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

• I think GreenJoe is making a reasonable application of policy such as WP:V, but I haven't seen that application written down as a Wikipedia consensus. I have seen, in several places, the opposite conclusion, that the place to verify alumni connection is in the biography article, not in the "list of alumni" article. Check out the Verifiability in "Lists of People" discussion in WP:BIO's Talk page for a discussion of the underlying policy. I'd love to have a consensus written down, rather than keep having this dscussion. --Jdlh | Talk 21:51, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Help with religious school funding summary

Given the importance of this issue in the Ontario election, I really think Wikipedia could use a simple summary of the different provinces' approach. I'm trying to do this at Talk:Education_in_Canada#Funding_for_religious_schools.3F I'm having trouble finding a centralized list for this kind of thing and any help would be appreciated. Padraic 22:22, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

WP:NC(S)

I have re-started the proposal for a guideline on naming conventions for school articles. I would like your input at WT:NC(S). Camaron1 | Chris 17:12, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Canadian schools in AfD

A large number of Canadian schools have been nominated en masse for deletion. Some are elementary schools and are probably beyond redemption. However, quite a few are secondary schools many of which appear to me to be notable. Perhaps people from this project might like to comment or help to improve the articles by adding references to save them from deletion. The discussions can be access from the following page: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Beaver Creek Elementary School. Dahliarose 15:53, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Assessment table

I set up a v1.0 assessment table for the project. A bot will automaticaly update the table with assessment information from talk page templates:

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    |caned=yes
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--Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 03:28, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

"Importance" criteria for Project tag

Now that we have consolidated and standardized on the spiffy Wikiproject Canada template, I find myself confused as to what "Importance" assessments should be assigned to the various articles out there. The "Top" article is Education in Canada, which makes sense to me. My question is, which articles should fall into the High, Mid and Low categories? To be more specific, what assessments should be applied to universities? Community colleges? School boards/districts?

If this has been hammered out somewhere, please advise. Otherwise, I think we need to develop some guidelines. PKT (talk) 04:05, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

The old {{CanEd}} project template had no importance parameter. The way the master {{WikiProject Canada}} template assessment works, the importance is the same for Canada project, education project, and any province or other projects included, thus, the importance should be on a Canada-wide scale. The importance scale is at Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada/Assessment#Importance assessment. I agree that some Education-specific guidelines are needed though. My reading is that Education in Canada would be the sole Top article. I would propose that High articles could be Education in province articles (Education in Québec). Mid could be major university articles and Low, of course, schools. I'm not sure of articles like major school boards (I suspect low) or articles like CEGEP (mid?). DoubleBlue (Talk) 05:34, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Holy Cross Secondary School (St. Catharines)

Hi, I'm looking for an editor for Holy Cross Secondary School (St. Catharines). This has a highly successful lacrosse team but the rest of the article needs a big expansion - history, academic standards, other sports etc and, importantly, requires a Google search to identify some good secondary sources. TerriersFan (talk) 16:55, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

NB school district templates

• Template:NBDistrict10Schools
• Template:NBDistrict11Schools
• Template:NBDistrict14Schools
• Template:NBDistrict15Schools
• Template:NBDistrict16Schools

• Template:NBDistrict17Schools
• Template:NBDistrict18Schools
• Template:NBDistrict1Schools
• Template:NBDistrict2Schools
• Template:NBDistrict3Schools

• Template:NBDistrict5Schools
• Template:NBDistrict6Schools
• Template:NBDistrict8Schools
• Template:NBDistrict9Schools

I haven't checked all of these yet, but the elementary/middle school articles that exist seem to be merely redirects to the school district articles. I'll remove these as well as plaintext from the templates as they serve no navigational value whatsoever. The school district articles themselves do not contain lists of their schools, so I will add them before doing this. –Pomte 08:42, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

proposed category: Ontario College of Art & Design

The Ontario College of Art & Design in Toronto has several notable past and current faculty members. I suggest creating a category for OCAD (and perhaps a subcategory for OCAD faculty) and addi the appropriate category to each of the notable faculty member articles. --Eastmain (talk) 04:35, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Is there a way to "bot-omate" template placement?

I just discovered in Category:British Columbia school stubs that most entries in the category have no template at all; I just worked my way through the 'A' section, but it's pretty laborious; does anyone know enough bot programming to maybe automate/bot the placement of templates globally across certain categories (excluding, in this case, 'A', and any others that have the same template already, as some will). It would take a couple of days to work my way through just this one category; template being placed is {{WikiProject Canada|bc=yes|education=yes}}.Skookum1 (talk) 18:17, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

New WikiProject proposal

I'm thinking of starting a new WikiProject just for students' unions. I'm wondering if anyone else would be interested in participating? I'm discussing it at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Universities/Student Affairs. GreenJoe 17:56, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

That sounds pretty interesting. Is this only for university education unions, or for unions outside of university such as in college or high school also? Would it only be unions, or would clubs and councils also be coverable? Tyciol (talk) 02:01, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

This would only be for post-secondary school student unions/associations, and just the main union/association(s) for the school, not the non-notable clubs. High school councils/unions sadly aren't notable. GreenJoe 02:27, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

There really are so many post-secondary schools with so many clubs (I think I've seen some with 50 clubs just for 1) that really, the amount makes individual ones possibly non-notable too even though they're not in highschool. The more notable ones are probably ones that network with identical clubs housed in other universities. It gets me thinking that possibly, if high school clubs did this as well (say, anime clubs in nearby highschools cooperating to produce a magazine) that they would become more notable and set an example for other clubs as well. In general, many clubs are just not notable until they do something noticable enough. Giving a possible category for secondary schools to accomplish notoriety in a field where post-secondary hasn't for lack of effort would I think send a good message encouraging contribution. It is sort of like stuff like AP exams getting a leg up on introductionary courses in univerity programs for accelerated learning and recognition for those willing to do the work for it. Tyciol (talk) 02:57, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Higher Education in Canada

I am a part of a graduate course at the University of British Columbia. The focus of our class is Higher Education Systems in Canada. We are researching the history of higher education in each province, as well as looking at key issues such as governance, funding, access, participation, transferability and trends for future planning and consideration. Is it possible to include this content within the WikiProject for Education in Canada? Included are also an overview that considers the role of federalism in higher education. Our class would like to post this content here to present the research we've found to each other, as well as experts in this field. Sherisse sy (talk) 04:40, 23 May 2008 (UTC)Sherisse Sy

Wikipedia isn't the place to post research papers, nor host class projects. Also see WP:NOR. --Stéphane Charette (talk) 17:07, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

You might want to try WikiSource for that. It seems to be more their forte. GreenJoe 18:15, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

I believe Sherisse was using the term "research" metaphorically. I'm in the same class and the intent is not to post original research nor host a class project. Instead, our "project" is to make an appropriate contribution to wikipedia by gathering relevant information on higher education in Canada (e.g., by province) and posting it according to the wikipedia Manual of Style. In short, we're here to help, play by the rules, and make a positive contribution to the information available on wikipedia. At the same time, everyone is new to wikipedia and we'll make some mistakes along the way. We appreciate the feedback you're giving and we'll pass it along to the rest of the teams. Adhe536ontario2008 (talk) 20:13, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Missing template notice

Since this talkpage is crowded, I thought I'd mention this on the appropriate talk page for the subsection, but am putting a notice here to get attention for it. Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Education_in_Canada/Participants. Currently there is a mistaken template link given for participants. Tyciol (talk) 02:03, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

• I've changed it now. DoubleBlue (Talk) 00:01, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Sedbergh School, Québec

Sedbergh School, Québec is a new article created today. I will leave it to those editors who work more closely with Canadian school articles to determine if the school if sufficiently notable to merit its own article. Even if it is notable, the article needs some work. Before spending any time on the article, however, I thought it best to get some feedback on notability first. Skeezix1000 (talk) 21:16, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Correction - it wasn't created today. It's been knocking around for sometime. Skeezix1000 (talk) 21:19, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Higher education in Canada task force

Hi all. It seems that there are a few (new) editors interested in working on articles related to Higher education in Canada. I don't think there's enough work there to warrant a WikiProject, so I suggested to one user we try to form a task force working in conjunction with this project. It would deal with all aspects of tertiary education in Canada: universities and colleges, public policy, journals, research, scholarship and financing, etc. (see Category:Higher education in Canada for details) Is anyone here interested in establishing such a task force for this project? Does anyone have concerns about this? I'm willing to do the work to set it up, and would participate in the task force to some degree. The reason for this proposal is to group discussion about topics in this field, which are currently relegated to the category talk page, making collaboration and coordination somewhat difficult. Mindmatrix 15:52, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Hi, I'm one of the new editors and think this is a great way to move this project forward. We've completed some offline brainstorming already and a task force project page would be a convenient way to bring all those thoughts into one place for those interested in contributing and visibility for other editors who are curious. Adhe536ontario2008 (talk) 18:00, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

I'm part of the original group that helped set up the Higher education in Canada pages and am going to start working on getting as many pages up to Wiki standards and getting into citation of content and conversion of as many of the lists to prose as I can. I'm a quick study, but am still fairly new to the "community" discussion side of Wikipedia. I'll do my best and would appreciate a task force being set up where efforts, as well as discussion, could be more focused.Chiklets99 7:30, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

OK, I've started the Higher education in Canada task force. See Higher education in Canada task force for continuing discussion and I'll help kick-start the project too. I expect that there will be sufficient activity to maintain it, but if not, it will be suspended. I propose a trial/probation period of three months to see how things go. I'll evaluate the project's progress and status sometime around Halloween. Mindmatrix 15:36, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme

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Portal:Schools

As mentioned at Wikiproject Schools, I'm looking for significant events closely related to primary and secondary-level schools for the selected anniversary section at Portal:Schools/Selected_anniversaries. The plan is to include information on when notable schools opened, events of historical significance, etc. Please consider looking at the current list and suggesting possible additions. Thanks, --Jh12 (talk) 21:20, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Education in Canada

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French schools outside QC

Category:French language schools in Canada outside Quebec has a very detailed inclusion guideline but I have one quibble. It referes to "full French Immersion" but does not define it. My elementry school offered French Immersion from grade 1 to 6, but my high school only offered it from grade 7 to 9, but not beyond that. Is that full, or not? Or does it refer to the percentage of students in the school in the program? Do dual-track schools with small FI classes not qualify as full? --Kevlar (talk • contribs) 21:13, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Requesting comments for the List of universities in Ontario FLC found HERE

The article List of universities in Ontario is currently at FLC; since the article falls under this WikiProject's scope, I am posting this notice here. It needs more comments, so if you've got time, please post comments on the FLC. If you do not believe that the article can be improved further, feel free to Support it; otherwise, if you find issues with the article that are actionable, then please Oppose it. Thanks in advance! Gary King (talk) 04:17, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Deletion process and school projects

Is there anything that can be done in the case of teachers asking students to write articles for wikipedia which is a wonderful way to let fledgling editors start up... and then wikipedia doesn't want them... Kopachuk Middle School So now this student's work is gone, and wasn't merged or redirected, just gone. SriMesh | talk 04:01, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

If material has been deleted, it can be retrieved by contacting someone at Category:Wikipedia administrators who will provide copies of deleted articles, although I think in this case editor's had concerns that the material was not appropriate for merging into Peninsula School District#Middle schools. Anyway, it looks like the user in question has appropriately taken up his/her efforts in userspace: User:Dappl/Kopachuck_Middle_School Best, --Jh12 (talk) 06:59, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your comment... I have also moved this conversation to Deletion of teacher assigned projects Here is another school project where the teacher has asked the kids to write about local Edmonton bands which got speedy deleted, and the kids are giving up and asking why bother with the teacher's assignment if they won't stay on wikipedia. band article deletion The articles created at this Unannounced class project for the most part survived AFD, and they received help from various wikipedians about manual of style to help them through the AFD nominations. SriMesh | talk 23:05, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Wikiproject membership - Admins - coordinators

Can this Wikipedia talk:School and university projects talk page project page have membership and admins -perhaps through wikiproject Education or its child projects, Wikipedia:WikiProject Education in Australia, Wikipedia:WikiProject Education in Canada, Wikipedia:WikiProject Universities, Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools, Wikipedia:WikiProject School Years, Wikipedia:WikiProject Alternative education, Wikipedia:WikiProject Homeschooling... to help find articles which come onto wikipedia as is commented upon in the deletion section above and get deleted before it is discovered they are part of a class project, so that the teacher/students can be contacted about templates etc. This message also posted at the other wikiprojects as well. Kind Regards SriMesh | talk 23:20, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Found it ....Wikiproject Classroom coordination with coordinators, and instructions for students with contacts. Tis already made. SriMesh | talk 23:44, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Standardisation for Saskatchewan school division naming

Discussion initiated for Saskatchewan continuity in names/categories. Please comment on Saskatchewan school division, school district article naming and categorisation. Kind Regards. SriMesh | talk 18:43, 21 December 2008 (UTC)