Wikipedia talk:Userboxes/Education

message: Just as I said at Wikipedia_talk:Userboxes/Location#code_example, I don't think the example code I added is a great idea, because it doesn't allow for the insertion of categories with which users at the same school can find each other.
Until there is a good category-enabled userbox template creation tutorial (which is as yet beyond my ability because I am just learning templates), the example code is better than people not finding their schools. --James S. 19:08, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  example code 

message: The current system seems a bit too convoluted for ease; having such tiny, broken-off pages for all the different education-by-places subpages isn't very efficient. Why not merge these into the much more well-developed individual locations, like Canada and Brazil? Then we could simply provide links and say "go to the Location pages for area-specific education templates". Wouldn't that be easiest? -Silence 04:38, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Location-specific education templates

message: I'd like to create a userbox like the University of Newcastle for the University of Melbourne, including "the angel" (as the arms are often called) which is shown on the page about the Uni.
Unfortunately I cannot work out how to do it. Can anyone assist?
Avalon 03:20, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Help please?

message: It seems like there's a distinct lack of boxes for students studying particular degrees or studying at particular universities. I'm a Wikin00b; can anyone comment/help out??Leon... 03:43, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  If you make a Template for your school, please make the appropriate entry in the Wikipedia:Userboxes/Education by region. Please help us to improve the catalog.--- Louie 16:33, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Students? 

message: for those of us currently enrolled in high school, how bout boxes for AP classes? Tobias087 07:39, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  more students 

message: Noticed that the BFA is missing from the University Degrees section. Someone want to put together a template for it so it shows up? Teliis 10:04, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Nevermind, figured out how to make userbox templates (took a while to dig that up) and went ahead and added it in myself. Enjoy the BFA artists of the world! Teliis 19:41, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  BFA Missing 

message: Perhaps this would be very useful as it can limit wiki time!
Banana.Girl 12:00, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: boarding school

message: Wonder why there are "favourite subjects" userboxes but no "major" userboxes? I realize "major" might be a U.S.-only term, but surely "favourite subject" is not British English for what you specialize in? --Lukobe 07:36, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: As you say, "major" is American jargon. "Favourite subject" looks British because of the spelling; yet the label is broad enough as to include majors, minors, areas of concentration, specialization, or interest, hobbies, and plain curiosity. I think the current label does the job---and though I speak mildly Virginian, I like British spelling too ;-) Louie 20:09, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Fair enough :) --Lukobe 01:01, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  majors 

message: I just did a little rearrangement of the education userboxes by qualification/schooling, following some guidelines proposed by HalfDome. I'd like to get some feedback. Some work to be done, but the plan is basically as outlined. Louie 16:24, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Louie, I like what you've done.  I moved the generic degree boxes as you requested.  I verified what the degrees meant, and it turned out that a couple more were generic than I thought originally.  I made a couple other changes that seemed to me to make the page better:  Made category heading be "Institutions By Location".  Made a slight reorganization to section 2.  Added the word "Subject" to the student-subject userboxes.  And I put IQ outside of the degrees area.  I think they all make the page better organized and easier to use, but feel free to revert if you disagree.  Cheers, HalfDome 14:55, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  New arrangement 

message: I've noticed there doesn't seem to be a userbox for Debate so I've created a policy one.Maegereg 01:28, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Debate

message: Chi Phi brothers of Wikipedia rejoice, for I have made my first userbox.  Now, all I need to know is how the heck to put this on the main page and not screw everything up. I'm a relatively new Wikipedian. Can anybody offer a hand? Thanks! bwowen T/C 05:01, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Chi Phi

message: I'm slightly lazy and can't make userboxes if all of the entire universe was on the line, so could someone make userboxes that show the user hates a certain class?  --Ihitterdal 00:55, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hate userboxes 

message: I'm looking for a picture of a face of a typical nerd (male or female), with glasses, a big grin on his/her mouth, waving his/her hand. This to make a nice looking userbox with "This user is White & Nerdy". :-P SietskeEN 14:37, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Image:Nerd.jpg is probably ideal for you, but would never get past the copyright nazis (I am surprised they allowed it to be used on the page Nerd).  You might just have to get a friend to dress up, photograph them and offer them immortality on Wikipedia. --Legis (talk - contribs) 16:12, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  White & Nerdy 

message: just another request. could someone please make a template for IB high schools/diplomas? would be greatly appreciated. I'm not very good at making custom userboxes, but if nobody replies to this i will attempt to make it myself.
Connör 23:36, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  International Baccalaureate 

message: Could someone create an "SAT" score userbox; it wouldn't have to be anything that fancy, just an SAT version of the current "ACT" userbox.LeeRamsey (talk) 03:13, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: SAT

message: So I noticed that the Taiwan page was moved to be under China...um, any thoughts on this from the peanut gallery?  The job seems only half-done, and by that I mean, you have to go to the China page, which then links to the separate Taiwan page.  Either the two Taiwan schools listed should be listed on the same page as China and Hong Kong (and then have the Taiwan page redirect to the China page), or they should be separate altogether (as they originally were).
Can anyone point me in the direction of any Wikipedia guidelines regarding how to handle this situation?  Perhaps something regarding rules about states where there are differences of opinion on de-jure / de-facto statuses, etc?  Maryamanda (talk) 17:16, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I also noticed this awkward situation, and I am personally for separate them.  If we really need to put them together, I would suggest using a rather politically-neutral term.  By all means, we need to fix this weird circumstances that Taiwan is put under China, yet there's another link directing to a Taiwan page. Tsungyenlee (converse) 04:57, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Taiwan 

message: I created Template:User_MIT_Apply for users going to apply for the Hack school (not a bad thing about the school, the hacks are the infamous acts the students play, like hanging pianos or spelling in "greenspeak"), and I was wondering where I should place it. Feel free to respond on my talk page if needed. Cheerz!~ DarkZorro 19:04, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Future Ed. 

message: This doesn't fit any of the existing boxes. It would be nice to have "Post Doctoral Fellow in SUBJECT". Or at least "This Wikipedian is a Post Doctoral Fellow at a university". Or maybe even "This Wikipedian is a Post Doctoral Fellow in SUBJECT at UNIVERSITY". I may have a go at making it later, but what do people think?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Oboler (talk • contribs) 10:44, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Post Doctoral Fellow 

message: *languages
**english: TOEIC, TOEFL
**italian: PLIDA (3 levels)
*networking: Cisco CCNA, CCNP, CCIE
Esteban Barahona (talk) 17:40, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  request for inclusion of another section: international certifications 

message: Why don't the "this user is in grade " have an area to insert grade?--F4M (talk) 16:12, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grades? 

message: I don't understand why both these userboxes redirect to Doctor of Philosophy. One of these userboxes should redirect to Doctorate, because both userboxes are not specifically for PhD's. Dumaka (talk) 13:15, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It fixed it.Dumaka (talk) 13:45, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Doctorate links 

message: May I request a userbox created for: This user's favorite subject is french? Abhijay Let's have a chat, my friend. 01:31, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request 

message: Based on the (quite old) conversation above and the more recent additions, this page needed a little organizing, so i have done so. There are still some areas that need cleaning up, I'm sure others can do better, but the degrees should be alphabetized, with and without subject included together, and some overlapping sections cleaned up. Hope it is clearer now! Protoclete (talk) 11:14, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Reorganized page

message: Someone has messed up, Wikipedia:Userboxes/Education.Catfurball (talk) 20:55, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Messed Up! 

message: I think Wikipedia:Template_limits is why userboxes at the bottom of the page are not displayed right (also the above mess-up)?  We need to split off another section.  Should it be `Students' or `Extracurricular activities'? CyreJ (talk) 13:21, 18 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Split off Extracurricular section. CyreJ (talk) 08:14, 11 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page is too big 

message: What's the policy on userboxes for alumni / students for particular schools? Example :Draft:Template:User UPM AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 17:26, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Userboxes of schools