Talk:University of Toronto Schools

message: This section is completely retarded. It takes up more than half the article, and noone who doesn't already know about it by being a student would ever have any interest. This is an encyclopedia, not a slut parade.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.231.24.38 (talk • contribs) 
:I think there's some value in discussing the house system—it is, or ought to be, an important part of student life. But I agree the present coverage is probably more verbose than necessary. Neilc 02:46, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: House System

message: There were a couple of alumni added whose adherence to Wikipedia's Notability criteria (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_notability_criteria) wasn't obvious.  Should someone wish to add them back in, suggest you start by creating an article about them, seeing whether the article sticks, and linking to them here if it does. AnotherBDA 19:58, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Notable Alumni

message: An anonymous user (72.136.22.220) changed "two Nobel Prize winners" to "Canada's only two Nobel Prize winners" -- but Canada appears to have had at least 18 Nobel Prize winners (see eg http://www.cric.ca/en_html/guide/nobel/nobel.html).  So I changed it back.  If UTS's two Nobels are the only two winners of a particular kind of Nobel prize, then say that. --AnotherBDA 01:20, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Nobel Prize Winners

message: The article was a bit promotional-sounding and kinda messy, so I cleaned it up.  Note that the Chapnick-edited history has a few pages summarizing each decade.  If anyone had it and wanted to summarize a paragraph for each decade, that'd fix things up. AnotherBDA 07:47, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Tone

message: The admissions section refers to the Class of 2013 and the Class of 2014 which seem highly suspect. Could there be other strange things in this article?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.30.202.22 (talk) 22:03, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Class of 2013 = students who are, as of this academic year, in grade 7 and entered the school in September 2008. There are few other ways to refer to any particular body of students other than using their graduating class year. Pandacomics (talk) 05:14, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Class of 2013 and Class of 2014 ???? 

message: On the first paragraph of the main body, we have: "The first stage consists of a multiple choice exam, with approximately 500 participating; those who pass this test in the top percentiles (usually 200 students) are invited back for a second written exam and an interview. Ultimately, 110 candidates are chosen from more than 1000 applicants each year." 
Does this mean that of the 1000 applicants, only 500 are admitted into the first stage? If so, then that's not really the 'first stage'. Even if this is not a contradiction, perhaps it should be clarified.
:The problem is that the number of applicants varies each year.  Several years ago (I don't remember the exact year), there were 1200 applicants to grade 7, while more recently the number has lowered to between 500-600.  As well, the admissions process has changed; the first stage used to be a UTS-created multiple-choice test. Now, the first stage of admissions to UTS is the SSAT, while the second stage includes mathematical problem solving, a 20-minute interview, and a review of the written sample from the SSAT. UTS Grade 7 Application Procedure Onessun (talk) 17:14, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Contradiction?

message: IP addresses in the ranges 142.150.32.* and 142.150.33.* are IP addresses of computers specifically at this school. 142.150.33.178 17:49, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Note to editors

message: In the information box at the top of the page, the word enrollment is not capitalized. Does anyone know how to fix this? Firebat08 (talk)  —Preceding comment was added at 01:30, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Template Error

message: This concerns POV tag cleanup.  Whenever an POV tag is placed, it is necessary to also post a message in the discussion section stating clearly why it is thought the article does not comply with POV guidelines, and suggestions for how to improve it.  This permits discussion and consensus among editors.  This is a drive-by tag, which is discouraged in WP, and it shall be removed. Future tags should have discussion posted as to why the tag was placed, and how the topic might be improved.  Better yet, edit the topic yourself with the improvements.  This statement is not a judgement of content, it is only a cleanup of frivolously and/or arbitrarily placed tags.  No discussion, no tag.Jjdon (talk) 00:41, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV tag 

message: I believe that these two sections should be deleted. They are completely unverified, trivial to the average layman, and non-notable. They are encyclopedic. If anyone objects, please revert me and reply here. --Patar knight - chat/contributions 23:03, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  House events and Grade-specific events 

message: This article should not be on Wikipedia.  This is an advertisement, is linked from the school's website, and has undoubtedly been written mostly by their staff.  Ex: "Almost every student participates in at least one club and they have a great time."  I don't know much about how Wikipedia works but I do believe advertisements should not be here, and that is simply all that this article is.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.64.1.252 (talk) 12:50, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, feel free to be bold and remove that part, cause that sentence would be blatantly written from someone's point of view. Good call. Pandacomics (talk) 13:46, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Advertisement 

message: In the last revision I edited, I found duplicate named references, i.e. references sharing the same name, but not having the same content. Please check them, as I am not able to fix them automatically :) 
* "p39" :
** Advani, With Pardonable Pride: The University of Toronto Schools, p.39
** Advani, With Pardonable Pride: The University of Toronto Schools, p.44
DumZiBoT (talk) 23:33, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bot report : Found duplicate references ! 

message: 1) This is not their real cheer. 
2) The reference is fake. 
I don't really think that this is important at all. 
Jobjams (talk) 02:02, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Crawford Cheer