Talk:Freshers' Week

message: *Support - the articles are unsourced and with POV. A combined, cleaned up article is the way to go. I suggest calling it College fresher events. BlueValour 22:23, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  For a draft of the merged article see: User:NHSavage/University Induction. Please feel free to edit this and use to make a merged article or ignore as you see fit. we have to decide whether to use the term college or university for starters. (my preference is for university as i think college is quite US centric).--NHSavage 22:57, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  OK, I am happy with University. BlueValour 23:27, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I support the merge, but do not agree with the term "University Induction Week". Wikipedia:Naming_conventions (events) states that the most common name is used even if it presents a Point of View (this is similar to naming conventions for other things, such as the use of Germany over Deutschland.). This is to aid search engines. This is probably bad research, but "Orientation Week" gives the most amount of ghits out of the three (I think Frosh Week is starting to fall out of favor in North America, and Orientation Week is used with Frosh Week), so Orientation Week should be used. However, this does not mean that Orientation Week-style events in countries other than those already in the three articles should not have a section (this solves the systemic bias implications) ColourBurst 23:43, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This seems fair enough. Its not that critical as long as the redirects are in place.--NHSavage 19:45, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

text: *Also, the United States section now has to be split up because it mentions things specific to Canada.  ColourBurst 23:52, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

text: **True. I added the header for Canada but don't know much about what would go under which of the two countries' headers (unlike Australia and NZ). Grutness...wha? 01:55, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

text: The re-organisation looks good. I think we should proceed with the merge quickly and then imporve the article further.--NHSavage 19:45, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: We need to agree on a title - are you OK with Orientation week and should it be Week or week ? BlueValour 00:44, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: FWIW it's usually with a lower case "w" in New Zealand and (I think) in Australia. I'm certainly happy enough with that title - is it an understood term in the US and UK? Grutness...wha? 03:54, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This is the problem, in the UK it is a term that would never be used - Freshers or Induction are the terms used here. But if it is used in the US and Oz I'm prepared to live with it. BlueValour 03:59, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It has been used in Canada (not sure about the U.S., but I'd imagine it's the same).  Both Frosh week and Orientation week are used.  ColourBurst 06:56, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Sounds like Orientation week is a reasonable choice then, and as long as there are redirects from the other names it shouldn't be too much of a problem. Grutness...wha? 07:01, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

text: So you're just going to ignore Britain altogether? Induction week should make sense to everyone -  probably even some of the more intelligent Americans. 130.246.132.26 13:04, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: More people use "Orientation week" than "Induction week".  Using induction week despite this is contradictory to WP:MOS, the Wikipedia style guide.  There have been many debates on this, and the answer is always "the most used name is used for the title", even if it carries POV implications.  You want to complain, go to the Wikipedia:Village pump (policy).  ColourBurst 15:11, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge