User talk:Prototime/Archives

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Meelar (talk) 21:11, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Education stages

1. Remember to mark your edits as minor only when they genuinely are (see Wikipedia:Minor edit). "The rule of thumb is that an edit of a page that is spelling corrections, formatting, and minor rearranging of text should be flagged as a 'minor edit'."
2. Why change the template to use an unusual terminology that isn't reflected by the articles to which it points? --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 20:51, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Ah, I see that you've been inserting in various articles the terminology for wehich you've argued and which the consensus was against. Please stop this. Also, don't change British English to U.S. English unless there's good reason. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 20:52, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

The problem is that, in this country at least (as well as in Australia, new Zealand, and most others to the best of my knowledge, as the World Bank agrees; see also this journal), "tertiary education" is most commonly used to refer to all education past secondary — Colleges of F.E., undergraduate courses, graduate courses, etc. The "tertiary education" article now reflects that, and the lack of an article on undergraduate education is a minor problem; we need something (it may be that there's already a suitable article under some other name). --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 10:36, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Having found even more evidence (which is at Talk:Post-secondary education for the use of "tertiary education" simply to mean "[[post-secondary education" (in many countries, as well as the OECD and the World Bank), and no evidence against, I've merged the two articles, and made Tertiary education a redirect. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 11:13, 15 April 2006 (UTC)