Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Schools/Archive 6

message: We would be grateful for some input on the above guideline. The suggestion is that we follow the existing Wikipedia conventions for place names when disambiguating school articles. There are however so many inconsistencies in the existing policies that it is very difficult to decide on a consistent global policy for disambiguated school titles. There seems to be general consensus that schools in America and Canada should be disambiguated as Any High School (Municipality, State/Province). UK schools are currently disambiguated purely by place name, eg, Forest School (Walthamstow). We then however have schools in other countries where there do not seem to be any clear guidelines. For example, there is a New English School in Jubriya, Kuwait and another one in Amman, Jordan. There might well be other schools of the same name in other countries. Should these disambiguated by place name, by country, or by both place name and country? Dahliarose 09:55, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Wikipedia:Naming conventions (schools)]]

message: As part of my research for the above debate on naming I looked at [[Eton College" which starts off by telling you thats its name is "King's College of Our Lady of Eton beside Windsor". When you look on the talk page it says "Featured article star 	Eton College is a showcase article at The Schools Portal, as it has been identified as one of the best school articles on Wikipedia. ". It may have been a good article but it has few references. It would not get a high rating now.
===Proposal===
Replace the "EduFA" template so that it gives access to who is in the top 10? schools as examples of what good school articles are best
# People see what good schools look like
# Competition is good
# It updates itself as schools that fail to stay in the top 10 are not there
# We already have that list available
Victuallers 13:03, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't understand the complexities of templates but this sounds like an excellent idea. The Schools Portal page doesn't seem to have been updated for at least a year and as you say some of the articles in the list are very poor and also very badly referenced. Dahliarose 17:17, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Examples of good school articles

message: Replace the "EduFA" template so that it gives access to who is in the top 10? schools as examples of what good school articles are best
# People see what good schools look like
# Competition is good
# It updates itself as schools that fail to stay in the top 10 are not there
# We already have that list available
Victuallers 13:03, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposal

message: :I don't understand the complexities of templates but this sounds like an excellent idea. The Schools Portal page doesn't seem to have been updated for at least a year and as you say some of the articles in the list are very poor and also very badly referenced. Dahliarose 17:17, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: notes

message: Would anyone have any objections if I changed collaboration of the week to collaboration of the month? I seem to be the only person at present who is updating the list and once a month seems more than adequate. A week is not long enough in any case to allow people to have time to make contributions. Dahliarose 23:06, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've now changed the title. I'm not used to doing page moves so perhaps someone could do a double check that I haven't overlooked anything. All the links seem to be historical ones as far as I can make out. Dahliarose 10:40, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Collaboration of the week

message: I am a little concerned about the amount of fair use school logo images which do not have a fair use rationale included, such as the one with Perins School. One is required per Wikipedia:Fair_use_rationale_guideline and images can be deleted if they do not have one and should do. I am going to start adding fair use rationales to uploaded fair use school logos to prevent large numbers of school articles loosing their logo images, any help available would be appreciated. Camaron1 | Chris 20:47, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you have an example of a good Fair Use Rationale for use in school articles? DoubleBlue (Talk) 21:21, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There is already a bot which is going round threatening to delete logos within one week unless a fair use rationale can be provided. The goalposts seem to have been moved. Many people have uploaded logos at a time when there was no such requirement. It is however a fairly simple matter to add some standard words from a template on the following page Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline. Dahliarose 22:50, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

text:  You will find an example at The Petersfield School, The Sholing Technology College and also at SimCity Societies and British Airways as other projects have to do the same. Camaron1 | Chris 10:27, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use school logo images

message: Greetings! I just saw that List of high schools in Oregon was put up for deletion here. I don't see any discussion on the list of… article formats, yet I do see them for nearly every US state. Is there consensus on these articles? I didn't see anything in the talk archives, but I defer to a project member with more familiarity with the discussions here. Thank you. —C.Fred (talk) 01:20, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of... articles? 

message: I have given the project page a clean so the request lists are trimmed with old nominations removed and the FA/GA nominations are up to date. I have also split the participants list onto its own page as it was getting very long - apart from that it is the same as before. Camaron1 | Chris 12:02, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Project page clean