Talk:First grade

message: 'First Grade' is also a term used in rugby league in Australia and New Zealand to mean the first team of professional rugby league teams. There should be a section on this in the article probably as the use of this term is quite widespread. JoelUK (talk) 23:22, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: If you think it's important, just put it at First grade (rugby). Georgia guy (talk) 23:43, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it's worth mentioning. I wouldn't say it is worthy of its own article though, it's just the term used and doesn't really carry any special history. It can't really be linked to first team as First Grade refers to the level of competition the first team is playing in. It also might not be appropriate to linked to National Rugby League, the current first grade competition in Australasian rugby league, as the term is in wider use than I first thought and is apparent in the player stats for Australian rugby union players pages and perhaps elsewhere. I might have to think about this for a bit and come back to it. Do you still favour a new article? JoelUK (talk) 18:45, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Rugby League

message: Wouldn't it be a good idea if this was to talk about the first year of education in the countries where it is called 'first grade'? The general information could be moved to an article with the title Educational year 1 or something. Just an idea. Joshua Issac (talk) 14:30, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Variations in different countries 

message: This article (along with other the articles in its series) does not strike me as being particularly noteworthy. I have already proposed Fifth grade for deletion, and will most likely propose this one for deletion as well should the deletion of fifth grade go through. Ekips (talk) 22:55, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The valid reason for its inclusion is that the essentially US terminology is not used and not understood in some other English speaking countries. The details of what first graders do is of less consequence than the fixing of their ages.--SilasW (talk) 18:43, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

text: That is precisely the reason I looked this article up. However I think it probably would be tidier if that search redirected to a page called for example "Grade School System", which outlined what the term meant and listed the age range (and perhaps learning goals) of the grades. Sergeirichard (talk) 15:49, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability 

message: I just did a little cleanup on this article and it struck me how odd it is. The article is named 'first grade', inherently a topic bound to the US, but it contains a load of weird bullet points about other countries, specifically the ages at which children are in that country's 'first grade', even if there isn't a direct equivalent in that education system. Plus, the relevant content is unreferenced. Is this actually an article worth having? -- Pingumeister(talk) 18:11, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  What a weird article. 

message: Much of the content about the specific countries is already covered in the first grade article. There is no reason why they should be separate, even if they have a separate name. "Year 1" is mentioned in the first grade article and that is a more complete article. For not all the countries in the first grade article are called "first grade" either. - CHAMPION (talk) (contributions) (logs)  04:48, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: See the two comments above.  It would be inappropriate to merge this article with educational "Year One" because the numbers do not correspond in the main usages.  Would it not be better to redirect to general articles about educational grades and years where a less confusing comparison can be made?  Separate articles for each school year seem unnecessary. Dbfirs 08:04, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge with [[Year One (education)]]