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[edit] postal address vs location
How should we handle the situation where the location and the postal address are different? The layout of "location" makes it look like a postal address, but there may be differences. We've just been discussing this at Sutton High School (London). Should there be a separate field for "Postal address if different"? Any thoughts? PamD 11:12, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
- This is still being discussed at Talk:Sutton High School (London). The Royal Mail no longer includes county in (any? most?) official postal addresses. The county which used to be included in some addresses, and may still be the preferred style of the school itself, may not be the local government area it is currently in (since 1965 in this case). I'd like to be able to show the school's preferred version of its postal address, as well as the fact of which borough it is in. The template doesn't help much. In an ideal world the infobox would display "postal address" and allow for a "town not in postal address" and "county not in postal address" for information. I don't know how or whether we could get to there from here. Perhaps introduce two new fields for "county-nonpostal" and "city-nonpostal", to be used where useful, and gradually move towards emptying the "county" field where it is not part of the postal address? Could "Location" then be changed to "Postal address" to reflect reality? PamD (talk) 16:05, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
- There are other areas where the county used in postal addresses by the school is not that of the location of the school - see http://www.ingleton-pri.n-yorks.sch.uk/prospect/details.htm where a school in North Yorkshire uses the Lancashire address of its post town. The official version of the address seems to be CARNFORTH and postcode - but the location of the school is North Yorkshire, and it is a long way from Carnforth. PamD (talk) 16:37, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Merge?
Would anyone object to me merging this into Template:Infobox School? --MZMcBride 02:28, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
- Trying it out on Sutton High School (London) at User:PamD/SHS - the small image of the logo gets expanded beyond its resolution, and the address being run on together manages to split the postcode onto two lines which looks pretty dreadful. I suggest the template needs a bit more work before UK school gets merged into it. PamD 08:56, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
- Strong objection. The template tries to be all things to everyone and therefore ends up overly complex. The UK template has just enough parameters to suit UK schools. --Cheesy Mike 09:22, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
- Strong objection. This template has been adopted by virtually all UK schools to meet specific UK requirements. Infobox School does not meet the requirements of UK schools and seems to be much better suited to American schools. Dahliarose 10:34, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
- Also strong object (see my comments on Template talk:Infobox Aust school private). This is one of the best school infoboxes we have and Template:Infobox School is inferior. This template works well for UK schools, so leave it be. Its way too difficult and rediculous to try and cater to the world in one infobox. Loopla 05:36, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Independent Schools Inspectorate
ISI have modified their website and it may now be possible to include the ISA report as a number in the infobox for UK independent schools, in a similar way to the ofsted report for state schools. Snowman (talk) 00:14, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Coordinates do not work! Can someone please fix this?
For Ivybridge Community College they do not work. I don't know if I’m doing something wrong or there's an actual error with the template. The coordinates currently on the article are not correct, so if you are going to fix it for me can you please find the correct coordinates (just type Ivybridge Community College on Google maps or Google earth). Bsrboy (talk) 16:46, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
- Suggest just taking the direction letters from the co-ordinate data as it is not expecting the N & W. Keith D (talk) 17:28, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
Done Occuli has fixed it. Bsrboy (talk) 17:31, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
