Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Schools/Assessment/Archive 1

message: We need some dedicated assessors who will grade requested articles for assessment. Maybe we can make a section with the names of the dedicated assessors. --EvaGears 03:10, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree and have added the section Adam McCormick 05:35, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dedicated assessors. 

message: As a matter of curiosity could someone please advise on the criteria used for assessing the importance of school articles. I note that Reading School has been assessed as being of low importance despite being the tenth oldest school in England and one of the best-known grammar schools in the country. It also has no fewer than four listed buildings so is of architectural importance too. I can only think that all schools are considered of low importance in encylopaedic terms. Do any schools get rated with a higher level? If so, on what grounds? Dahliarose 00:36, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Importance grading of school articles 

message: I note that the Architecture Project categorise all their articles according to quality. I think it might be useful if we could do the same thing for school articles but I'm not sure how we got about doing it. The architecture articles seem to automatically go into a category once they've been assessed.
See:
:Category:Architecture articles by quality
Dahliarose 22:45, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Creation of new category of assessed school articles

message: I thought it might be helpful as a reference point to include here a list of school articles from other encyclopaedias. Presumably all these schools should be considered as of top importance for Wikipedia.
===Microsoft Encarta 2004 edition===
*City of London Freemen's School
*City of London School
*Dame Allan's Schools
*Downside School
*Dulwich College
*Eton College
*Dundee High School
*Durham School
*Gordonstoun School
*Haberdashers' Aske's School
*Harrow School
*High School of Glasgow
*Joffrey Ballet School
*King's School, Canterbury
*Marlborough College
*Millfield School
*Roedean School
*Rugby School
*Sherborne School
*Shrewsbury School
*St Paul's School Which one? Adam McCormick 00:52, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: All of these now have ratings with High importance Adam McCormick 01:15, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

text: I'm not familiar with the submission process for articles in encarta, but I'm not particularly sure that it should dictate the importance to this project. This should still be very useful though. Thanks! Adam McCormick 19:14, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

text: There is a Wiki policy that this pedia should contain at least a super set of all other pedias, sorry lost the place where I read it. So I think this is why these are seen as top priority. Victuallers 22:46, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know about top, but in light of that fact, high priority. I'll ignore K for a bit and get to work. Adam McCormick 05:32, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The relevant page is Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles. There is also a list of missing schools articles Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/High schools though it seems somewhat dubious (it was compiled by journalists at facebook.com) and is probably not a helpful guideline. Dahliarose 22:38, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

text: I'm pretty sure that it's the UK edition of the encyclopedia...Adam McCormick 00:51, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: School articles in other encylopaedias

message: *City of London Freemen's School
*City of London School
*Dame Allan's Schools
*Downside School
*Dulwich College
*Eton College
*Dundee High School
*Durham School
*Gordonstoun School
*Haberdashers' Aske's School
*Harrow School
*High School of Glasgow
*Joffrey Ballet School
*King's School, Canterbury
*Marlborough College
*Millfield School
*Roedean School
*Rugby School
*Sherborne School
*Shrewsbury School
*St Paul's School Which one? Adam McCormick 00:52, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: All of these now have ratings with High importance Adam McCormick 01:15, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Microsoft Encarta 2004 edition

message: *Eton College
*Harrow School
*Summerhill School
:I'm not familiar with the submission process for articles in encarta, but I'm not particularly sure that it should dictate the importance to this project. This should still be very useful though. Thanks! Adam McCormick 19:14, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There is a Wiki policy that this pedia should contain at least a super set of all other pedias, sorry lost the place where I read it. So I think this is why these are seen as top priority. Victuallers 22:46, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know about top, but in light of that fact, high priority. I'll ignore K for a bit and get to work. Adam McCormick 05:32, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The relevant page is Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles. There is also a list of missing schools articles Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/High schools though it seems somewhat dubious (it was compiled by journalists at facebook.com) and is probably not a helpful guideline. Dahliarose 22:38, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

text: I'm pretty sure that it's the UK edition of the encyclopedia...Adam McCormick 00:51, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Encyclopaedia Britannica Concise CD-Rom edition

message: I recently changed the subheadings for the last few days of assessment summaries in March 2007.  I can think of reasons for listing work on specific days, but don't the signature timestamps sort of do that anyways?  I don't mind keeping the monthly summaries -its good to be able to compare work done over that length of time on a monthly basis. Any thoughts or comments?  SkipperClipper 03:47, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Mostly it's just so that we can find them easier, I started doing it because eighty-ninety summaries make it hard to find a specific one or to locate a specific day, this also allows editors to get to the most recent dates from the top quickly. Adam McCormick 05:11, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Assessment Summaries 

message: I'm going to go delete MOST of the completed Assessment Requests from this page. I'll leave some so folks can see progress is made on the list is added. However, I see no reason for keeping the full list. If people want to see the assessments that have been done, there are other venues, including on this page.  I don't really see the need to archive this work either. If you feel I am in serious error here, please revert.SkipperClipper 16:02, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Just go ahead, it's a bit overdue. Adam McCormick 16:39, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clearing Assessment Requests 

message: After reviewing the assessment logs of March I noticed that this rather important India University article has had its WikiProject Schools template replaced with that of WikiProject University. I think that is right, it is a university article, but I thought I better let everyone know. Camaron1 | Chris 18:57, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This article has also been sifnificantly improved since I reviewed it. I believe I did this review befor I understood that Schools didn't include Universities, oh well. Adam McCormick 19:10, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Article that has moved projects

message: Just for fun what about Annandale High School — Preceding unsigned comment added by Victuallers (talk • contribs) 
: Well that is one of the best school logos I have seen! By the way, I added the article to the WP Schools Project, it has not been assessed yet however. Camaron1 | Chris 20:51, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  This article has now been assessed. Camaron1 | Chris 16:21, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: "Best" picture

message: After completing an assessment request I noticed a lot of school articles with Template:M-DCPS have been assessed by . The problem is a lot of them seem to be have been over assessed in importance, with most been "Mid" and quite a few "High" such as New World School of the Arts. I think they are going to need reviewing - I might later leave a note on this users talk page on assessment procedure. Camaron1 | Chris 19:55, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think we should make it clear to this user now that simply placing an assessment really isn't enough. The quality rating also need some work. I'll give it a more thourouly later unless you beat me to it. Adam McCormick 06:37, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I have left a friendly note on this users talk page on the issue. I am now planning to re-assess all those article as part of my next set of assessments if nobody objects. Camaron1 | Chris 14:08, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Articles that need reassessing