Template talk:Infobox Education in the United States

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[edit] State vs Province?

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)

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)

[edit] website vs url?

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)

OK I removed the "website" field - hopefully I didn't break anything. j-beda 17:35, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fields to be removed

You'll most likely want to see the discussion over here as it affects this template. --Stéphane Charette 01:29, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

• Arrrggghhh... {{strangling, choking noises}} I've been using this template, even replacing other templates with it, without having noticed this warning until I got whacked by the change. Please change it back. I just posted this rationale at Canada:

This seems to have just today affected {{Infobox Education in the United States}}, 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)