Talk:Grade
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[edit] Grade as slope
About 6 lines up from bottom, Grade says
- in geography and railroad engineering, a percentage ratio of elevation differential to distance: see grade (geography)
Perhaps grade (geography) used to discuss material, about what grade is in a topographical sense, similar to what appears (now at least) at Slope. (I'm a newbie, so maybe there's a way i haven't found to see what grade (geography) said before it became a redirect to Topography.)
I don't understand enough of the implications of rearranging the links to just go ahead and edit them, but since Topography provides context without discussing topographical grade directly, and Slope has two sentences that do discuss it directly, i'm tempted to replace the grade (geography) link on Grade with a link to Slope. (Note that since Slope and Topography already link to each other, this stretches the path from Grade to Topography only by one link.) I am resisting that temptation until instructed or more experienced.
In any case, i'm going ahead and editing in the term "grade" (and "gradient") on both Slope and Topography, rather than leaving the reader to guess at why the link (either link) from Grade is appropriate.
What a difference a month makes. I'm less clueless and bolder by now, and i'm not sure whether my recent edits of these pages follows those original thots or not. But that work will speak for itself, & this note is just to say that whatever isn't done that i discussed above is no longer under consideration by me. And (of course) i'm sure what i've done is less than definitive; i'm looking forward to seeing someone do it right (or just even better than my better-than-before effort). --Jerzy 20:55, 9 Oct 2003 (UTC)
[edit] Grade as specification of gradations
I can't picture it very well yet, but i think most of the portion of the dab in or subordinate to the first bullet point, namely the portion discussion the senses used in education, sports, and telecommunication, could be refactored into a separate short article with a title like "Specification of gradations". This would discuss:
- ordering the graded people or other items relative to one another as the core purpose
- use of ranges (the range from B+ to B-, for example) to facilitate coarse and fine views of the same grade)
- addition of pseudo-grades, like I for incomplete and W for withdrawn, that violate the principle that every pair of grades can be described as one being "higher" than the other, without inconsistencies resulting.
--Jerzy(t) 21:33, 2004 May 9 (UTC)
- I generally agree that a separate article (or articles) could be created from that section. The long paragraph of text doesn't fit in a disambig, and will ultimately either need to be moved to a separate article, or will need to be significantly trimmed down. Also, I'm surprised there isn't an article that covers the whole VF=very fine, VG=very good, P=poor thing, since it's used across several subject areas. --Interiot 21:35, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
