Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Schools

Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference

Anyone care to comment on my proposal at Talk:Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference#List of schools?

The John Lyon School and coi editing

See[1]. I've just tidied the list again. If the school is paying someone to edit the article then I think if they want names listed that don't have articles they should create the articles. Dougweller (talk) 14:19, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Nothing to do with COI editing, but I have noticed a couple of school articles recently, that appear to be totally unsourced promotional leaflets just like this one. This is unfamiliar territory for me so I thought I'd ask. Is this acceptable? In other areas where I have a little experience an unsourced article like this wouldn't last five minutes without being pared back to a stub. Does anybody have any comments? -Roxy the dog (resonate) 19:03, 24 July 2014 (UTC)

May need a clean up of some unsourced content but certainly notable for a Wikipedia school article. I have removed the biography sections of the nn head teachers.-Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 01:09, 25 July 2014 (UTC)

A discussion that may be of interest to this project

There is currently a discussion taking place at Talk:Northwestern High School (Hyattsville, Maryland) in regards to image size in school infoboxes. John from Idegon (talk) 00:13, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

Do these schools' articles need trimming?

An IP complaining about their edits being reverted at Lake Travis High School has pointed to Boston Latin School, School for the Talented and Gifted and Winter Park High School as having perhaps too much information in them. I think I agree - yes, they seem to be prestigious schools, but they still need to follow our guidelines. 14:04, 28 July 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dougweller (talk • contribs)

Style discussion underway

FYI

 – MOS discussion within the scope of this project

A discussion about the style of the academic course names is underway at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Titles#Names of academic courses. Ibadibam (talk) 23:14, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Talk:Archbishop Mitty High School

I am trying to initiate a discussion at Talk:Archbishop Mitty High School, but the prime IP involved in the content dispute (mostly school cruft) keeps edit warring. My web access is very limited these days and I would appreciate some eyes on the article. Thanks. John from Idegon (talk) 03:36, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

Suggestion - Examples for Template:Infobox school/doc

Here is a suggestion. I have added a list of examples for Template:Infobox school/doc. The examples were added for the following reasons:

• To help reduce confusion of understanding how the template can be used.
• Help make users have an actual representation and usage of what information to include in infoboxes.
• Some examples follow guidelines or standards and actual usage by schools
• The idea was from Template:Infobox UK school/doc which had some examples listed in a table.
• Also consider the amount of parameters and fields that makes the template confusing. If a user misunderstands on how to use the parameters and fields for a particular school of a country that affects on how the information can be used correctly. Editor of 3000 (talk) 03:54, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

I'm not entirely sure what's going on here, but I think we should have a discussion before making any major changes to the documentation. Being bold is great, but this is ultimately a collaborative project and so when there's disagreement, all editors should be willing to discuss it until consensus is reached. That may take some time. CT Cooper · talk 15:26, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

Suggestion: Adding section for FIRST Robotics?

I, and thousands of others, can speak from experience when I say that FIRST is at least as formative, and important to local culture, as art/music programs, which I know that you (collectively) endorse sections for.

Unfortunately, at the moment it is not part of the standard to add this sort of section. Worse still, it fits under none of the current categories:

Not athletic, because despite being a very sport-like competition, it involves little physical labor (during the competitive aspects)

Not music, for obvious reasons.

Not co-curricular, because the teams are often loosely associated with the school, simply because the school cannot pay for the entire program (and in many/most cases does not pay for anything but the head mentor).

Not curriculum, because it is almost never taught as a class (though there are exceptions).

So you can see the conundrum that many face, upon both wishing to be recognized, and being a significant part of the culture (in some places for more than a decade), but having a general lack of awareness from the larger community (as in outside the town).

Is there any way that we can work towards including this in school articles?