Template talk:Infobox school/Archive Education in the United States

message: Maybe I'll try to fix that? I assume that the template is derrived from Template:Infobox Education in Canada?  j-beda 15:24, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, I think I fixed both the Province->State and postalcode->zipcode, and then I fixed the 10 articles that used the template to reflect the changes. j-beda 15:44, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: State vs Province?

message: It looks like none of the 10 articles that reference the template use the "website" field - should we get rid of the "website" field entirely in order to minimize the complexity of the template? j-beda 15:44, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: OK I removed the "website" field - hopefully I didn't break anything.  j-beda 17:35, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Never mind, there is one. Wow. Heh, I guess it's been a long day. Whitemage33 21:34, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: website vs url?

message: You'll most likely want to see the discussion over here as it affects this template.  --Stéphane Charette 01:29, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This seems to have just today affected , which I have used for several schools and school districts in California.  Yesterday I saw either an "Address" or "Location" label with the data I had entered below, today it is gone.  I think that this is a change for the worse and would urge that it be reversed.  Providing the street addess in a 30K article about a high school does not make WP a directory.  It provides useful information to many readers in a succinct and obvious manner.  Having the fields in the infobox template also encourages editors to enter the data there in a standard format.  Without the fields in the infobox, the same information is going to be entered into the text of the articles in varying sections, including the lead paragraph.  One other point--I've been using the street addresses to find the geo-coordinates so I could add the geohack templates to schools.  This is a big plus, I think, and is clearly sanctioned for localities.  See Tamalpais High School, Bolinas-Stinson Union School District, and Sausalito Marin City School District for examples.  The Sausalito Marin City District provides another reason to keep street addesses--the existing Bayside and MLK,Jr. campuses have each had two to four different names since the first school buildings were built on their sites.  The MLK, Jr. name has been used at both sites in different decades.  I've been working on that article for quite a few hours and I'm having some trouble being sure that I've linked the correct former school names with the current names, which is why I haven't posted them.  I may acctually have to use an old phone directory in a local library to tie former school names to a real physical address.--Hjal 07:36, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Fields to be removed

message: I've just added a coordinates parameter (and an hCard microformat) to this template. See Robinson Secondary School far an example of coordinates in use. i've asked User: The Anome if he may be able to convert postal codes to approximate coordinates by bot. Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 12:25, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Coordinates

message: Which infobox is standard in American high school articles? Infobox HighSchool seems prevalent, but I see Infobox Education in the United States quite a bit in high school pages, as well. They're largely the same, except that Infobox Education in the United States has a more organized and nicer appearance. Is there a rule or guideline as to which template to use? If not, would it be a good idea to make one or the other standard? Tserton 17:22, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: These should be merged. Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 17:28, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Standardization is good.  I think merging these 2 templates is beneficial.  (BTW, I just moved the merge tags to after "noinclude" since the merge text was appearing on every school article with an invalid link.) --Stéphane Charette 08:45, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Standard infobox?