Wikipedia:WikiProject Education in Canada
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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Education in Canada. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page.
This is the 2nd-generation WikiProject to focus on Education in Canada. The previous project has been archived. The corresponding talk page has also been archived.
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[edit] Title
WikiProject on Education in Canada
[edit] Scope
The original scope of this project was to handle all things related to education in Canada. However, time has shown that some contributors to this project are currently more inclined to work on K-12 articles, and school boards, rather than college and university articles.
In short:
- elementary schools
- middle schools
- high schools
- CEGEPs (Quebec)
- school boards
While templates and some conventions will be used from WikiProject for Colleges & Universities, we still maintain that in Canada, Universities and Colleges are part of our Education system.
[edit] Similar or Related WikiProjects
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Colleges and Universities
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/High schools/other list#Canada
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/High_schools/CA
- Education in Australia
[edit] Participants
Anyone can participate. Some people also advertise a specific area of interest. Of particular interest is geographic location, in case someone needs a picture of a specific school.
If you add {{Participant|Education in Canada|image=Apple-book.svg}} to your user page, you will then show up in Category:WikiProject Education in Canada participants.
Active members:
Username | Joined | Location | Knowledgable with templates | Provinces and territories of interest | Other notes | |
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Rob | November 2005 | Calgary | sorta | Alberta+ | Mainly taking/uploading pictures of Calgary schools lately. | |
Dylan | December 2006 | Edmonton | Kinda | Alberta | Mainly the creation of pages for existing Alberta schools. | |
Stephane Charette | February 2006 | Kelowna, BC | yes | BC, ON | interested in French-language schools (but not currently participating on Wikipedia due to WP:SCHOOL and WP:SCHOOLS3...) | |
Usgnus | March 2006 | BC | yes | BC | interested in schools that intersect with Wikipedia:WikiProject Vancouver | |
EverettColdwell | April 2006 | NS | ||||
Chabuk | May 2006 | Montreal, QC | Somewhat | ON, PQ, AB | interested in universities and colleges | |
zeChinaman | May 2006 | ON | no...would like to learn | ON | education in hamilton...i think | |
cpastern | June 2006 | only a little | working on colleges and universities, organizing lists/categories etc. | |||
Buchanan-Hermit | June 2006 | Yes. | BC | I'm based out of Richmond, BC, but I am interested in working on public schools in the Greater Vancouver Regional District (particularly with providing photos of schools -- see my userpage for some school pics without articles). | ||
Deenoe | July 2006 | Ottawa, ON | Yes | ON, PQ | I live in Ottawa, Ontario and I go to École secondaire publique De La Salle and I wish to pass my knowledge on the surrounding schools of my area and to help the project. | |
mmn100 | July 2006 | Norfolk County, ON | Yes | ON | I would like to help with schools in Norfolk County, Ontario. | |
PKT | August 2006 | Holland Landing, ON | Just a bit | ON | Interested in developing York Region and Essex County, grew up (smirk!) in Windsor. | |
lovelaughterlife | September 2006 | Barrie, ON | A little | ON | Interested in developing Simcoe County Schools | |
Code E | October 2006 | Dartmouth, NS | Not yet, soon hopefully | NS | Interested in developing articles that deal with schools in the Dartmouth area, possibly taking pictures. | |
Phoenix2 | October 2006 | Lethbridge, Alta. | Yes | AB | ||
Smcafirst | January 2007 | Markham, Ontario | Some Knowledge | Knows a lot of schools in York Region (Mostly elementary and a few high school, since I grow up in York Region. | ||
Vvuser | March 2007 | Ottawa, Ontario | No, however willing to learn. | Ottawa, Ontario | I would like to expand articles that already exist or start articles. | |
Yvesnimmo | April 2007 | Moncton, New Brunswick | Sort of. | New Brunswick | ||
Xtreme racer | May 2007 | Peterborough, Ontario | Knowledge | Peterborough, Ontario | I wish to improve some of the current Peterborough education articles, add pictures of the schools, and make new articles for the many schools not mentioned that exist in Peterborough | |
~~Annoymous24~~ | November 2007 | Vancouver, British Columbia | average | British Columbia | interested in schools that intersect with Wikipedia:WikiProject Vancouver. I'm also maybe the youngest member on this list with the age of 14. | |
~NeonFire372~ | December 2007 | Newfoundland & Labrador | Not really | Newfoundland & Labrador | ||
chamberlain2007 | April 2008 | Halifax, Nova Scotia | Good | Nova Scotia | None Really... | |
SriMesh | April 2008 | Saskatoon, SK | Average | Saskatchewan | Have created SK - education - school related articles, and helped raise one to GA :-) Have uploaded photos in this area. | |
StarryWorld | May 2008 | Ontario | Average | Ontario | Creating an education article about a school currently. | |
Skyezx | May 2008 | BC | Average | BC | Interested in public elementary&secondary schools and universities in the Vancouver area. | |
Jordan | June 2008 | Ontario | Can't design yet | Ontario | Interested in the government funding being split |
Inactive/past members:
Username | Joined | Location | Knowledgable with templates | Provinces and territories of interest | Other notes |
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Spinboy | October 2005 | has left Wikipedia | |||
TDS | October 2005 | ||||
Cam | November 2005 | ||||
CyclePat | November 2005 | ||||
Onishenko | December 2005 | AB | |||
Andy Shen | December 2005 | BC | |||
Ardenn | December 2005 | has left Wikipedia (as of Aug. 2006) | |||
Wakemp | May 2006 | BC | BC | K-12 Schools and Districts in BC |
[edit] Achievements
Education in Canada articles |
Importance | ||||||
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Top | High | Mid | Low | None | Total | ||
Quality | |||||||
FA | 1 | 1 | |||||
FL | 1 | 1 | |||||
GA | 3 | 1 | 4 | ||||
B | 1 | 5 | 30 | 44 | 80 | ||
Start | 2 | 73 | 446 | 2 | 523 | ||
Stub | 48 | 567 | 16 | 631 | |||
List | 1 | 18 | 31 | 50 | |||
Assessed | 1 | 8 | 174 | 1089 | 18 | 1290 | |
Unassessed | 1 | 378 | 379 | ||||
Total | 1 | 8 | 174 | 1090 | 396 | 1669 |
[edit] Featured articles
[edit] Featured lists
[edit] Good articles
- McGill University
- Lethbridge Collegiate Institute
- University of Saskatchewan
- Craigflower Manor and Schoolhouse
[edit] Naming conventions
[edit] Names of school boards or school districts
School boards typically have a single single official name, and the articles are typically named as the school board. One province -- British Columbia -- has a uniform naming convention, which is discussed on the list of school districts in British Columbia. For other provinces, look through the lists, look through the list of categories, or directly into Category:School districts in Canada.
[edit] Names of schools
The school naming conventions guideline was rejected by the community, but still contains some ideas that may help. Also note the new proposal for US schools at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (U.S. schools). Once that proposal is accepted, we'll submit a similar proposal to cover Canadian schools. Below are the guidelines we've used so far when naming schools articles:
Abbreviation | Expanded |
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BTI | Business And Technical Institute |
CI | Collegiate Institute |
ES | Elementary School |
HS | High School |
Jr | Junior |
MS | Middle School |
Mt | Mount |
PS | Public School |
Sr | Senior |
SS | Secondary School |
St | Saint |
- If the school board's web site and the school's web site differ in the name of a school, prefer the one that people commonly use. Schools at times will be known under a slightly different name than the official or legal school name. Consider whether or not a redirection page is necessary.
- Expand all common abbreviations in the school's name. For example, a school known as Main Street HS would be turned into an article called Main Street High School. See the table on the right for examples of common abbreviations often found in school names.
- Proper names may or may not be abbreviated depending on how the name is commonly used. Two opposite examples:
- Use A. Y. Jackson Secondary School instead of Alexander Young Jackson Secondary School.
- Use Pierre Elliott Trudeau High School instead of P. E. Trudeau High School.
- Abbreviations in the school name -- such as A. Y. Jackson -- contain periods after the letter and a blank space after each period. For example:
- Use A. Y. Jackson Secondary School instead of A Y Jackson Secondary School.
- Use A. Y. Jackson Secondary School instead of A.Y. Jackson Secondary School.
[edit] Names for categories
There are several small inconsistencies in the naming of categories used by the Education in Canada project, but if you'd like to propose a new category, look through the existing comprehensive list of categories to see how other provinces or territories are using categories.
[edit] Names for navboxes
Each school board navbox is a new template that needs a unique name. When you need to create a new navbox, look through the list of existing Canadian education navboxes to see how they're named. Typically, we've been using the school board name or the school board abbreviation, immediately followed by the word Schools.
[edit] Names for templates
Some of our templates (such as {{Infobox Education in Canada}}, and {{Navbox Education in Canada}}) are named after the project's name, Education in Canada. However, we have just as many templates where the name does not contain Education in Canada: {{Canadian School District}} and {{Canada-school-stub}}. See the section below which discusses the templates regularly used in this project.
[edit] French names
Institutions shouldn't be renamed. Use the name of the school or school board, as it is commonly known. Note that this also affects capitalization in the article title, since French dictates that articles and adjectives in a name are not capitalized. For example:
- Use École élémentaire catholique des Pionniers, not École Élémentaire Catholique Des Pionniers, nor Catholic Elementary School Of The Pionneers.
- Use Conseil scolaire de district du Centre-Sud-Ouest, not Conseil Scolaire De District Du Centre-Sud-Ouest nor School Board For The Central-South-West District.
[edit] Structure
For general guidance on article structure (not specific to Canada), see Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools#Structure.
[edit] Universities and colleges
We follow the format for colleges and universities as laid out at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Universities#Structure. However, we may deviate from this, or alter it to form our own structure. See the talk page for relevant discussion.
[edit] Elementary, middle, and high schools
- always start with a standardized template; see {{Infobox Education in Canada}}, and schools that use this template for examples of how to use this template
- create the relevant sections in the article; examples:
- History
- Academics
- Athletics
- Departments
- Staff (note: this should not be a listing of regular staff)
- ...need more examples of section headings
- the article typically shouldn't need to link to other schools; instead, use the feeders field from the infobox, or the navigation bar at the bottom of the article
- below any See also and External links sections, insert (don't subst!) the appropriate navigation bar; most schools should have a navigation bar linking together schools from the same school district (there is a discussion in progress as to what to do with very large or very small school boards where a navbox isn't a viable solution)
- below the navigation bar, if necessary, insert (don't subst!) one of the appropriate stub template:
- lastly, at the bottom of the article should be the appropriate categories (more on this below)
- on the very top of the school's talk page, use the template {{WikiProject Canada|education=yes|[province menmonic]=yes|class=|importance=}}
[edit] School boards
- always start with a standardized template; there isn't 1 single Canada-wide template to use:
- BC: {{BC School District}}
- All others: {{Canadian School District}}
- school boards typically have a table of schools, and don't directly use the navigation bar; see examples from the list of Canadian school boards (e.g., School District 43 Coquitlam)
- if necessary, insert (don't subst!) one of the appropriate stub template:
- at the bottom of the article should be the appropriate categories (more on this below)
- note that individual school boards typically shouldn't have categories to group the schools together; instead, use the navboxes to group schools together; this will need to be discussed for school boards with too many or too few schools to use a navbox
- on the very top of the school board's talk page, use the template {{WikiProject Canada|education=yes|[province menmonic]=yes|class=|importance=}}
- Lastly, most school boards -- as a service to the individual school articles for that board -- will provide a navbox to help users navigate from one school to another within the school board. See the standardized template {{Navbox Education in Canada}}, and the information below describing how to use {{Navbox Education in Canada}}. Note that navboxes likely wont work for school boards with too many or too few schools. These school boards will need to be discussed here and the project will be updated once we know how to handle these cases.
[edit] Tasks
The following tasks have been identified but don't yet have an owner. Tasks are removed from this list not when the task is complete, but once an owner has been identified.
- AB school boards
- AB schools
- SK school boards
- SK schools
- MB school boards
- MB schools
- ON English-language school boards
- ON English-language schools
- QC school boards
- QC schools
- NB school boards
- NB schools
- PE school boards
- PE schools
- NL school boards
- NL schools
- YT school boards
- YT schools
- NT school boards
- NT schools
- NU school boards
- NU schools
- porting older existing school articles to the new format using {{Infobox Education in Canada}}
- Please help Celebrate the Anniversary of the U of S Talk Help to bring it to feature status !!! Reduce Red Links....Create necessary college articles...Upgrade Academics Talk
[edit] Wikipedia surveys
Add the item to the top of the category, with a brief explanation, and sign with five ~~~~~ tildes.
[edit] Requested moves
[edit] Requests for comment
- Northern Secondary School - Please put this on your watchlist and try to clean-up the POV on New Field and Electron microscope funding priorities controversy
- Talk:Concordia University - Discussion on a disambiguation page. 18:21, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
- Talk:Queen's University - Discussion on edit war regarding inclusion of sentence "Considered one of Canada's leading universities...." - pm_shef 19:17, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
- Cole Harbour District High School - Please read over and review it. I rewrote it, and am happy to improve it if it needs anything more. - Matt Chamberlain
[edit] School articles at risk of being deleted
Note Wikipedia:Schools/Arguments for some interesting reading, with arguments for and against school articles on Wikipedia.
Check Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Canada and Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Schools for AfD discussions and WP:PRODSUM or Category:Proposed deletion for Proposed deletions. The following three articles have received tags for notability concerns which should be addressed so they are not prodded for deletion
- Holy Trinity Catholic High School (Simcoe) has two tags one for notability and the other for neutrality. The talk page mentions that the school was in the news but no citation was available for it. Can someone refine this article or merge it into a school district or municipality please as per Wikipedia:Notability (schools) - Notability issues too highSriMesh | talk 01:27, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
- Society of Graduate and Professional Students at Queen's University needs someone to again give notability for this society. - Notability issues too highSriMesh | talk 01:27, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
- Espanola High School needs both references and notability issues addressed, else merged into school district of the area. - Notability issues too highSriMesh | talk 01:27, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Cleanup needed
School articles that need somewhat more than the usual amount of TLC. Remove the article from this list once it has been cleaned up.
Article | Date listed | Problem |
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2008 | ||
Westmount Secondary School | March 22, 2008 | clean-up pov and unverifiable clubs & events; refs but not inline |
January 2007 | ||
CyberARTS | January 8, 2007 | cleanup |
November 2006 | ||
Saint Michael's School (Simcoe-Walsh) | November 29, 2006 | expand, needs infobox |
M.M. Robinson High School | November 27, 2006 | cleanup, cite, needs infobox |
King David School, Vancouver | November 14, 2006 | infobox, expand |
Sir John A. Macdonald High School (Upper Tantallon, NS) | November 11, 2006 | Out of date and missing information |
October 2006 | ||
Kingswood Elementary School (Nova Scotia) | October 28, 2006 | needs expansion, templates |
September 2006 | ||
École élémentaire La Source | September 25, 2006 | copyedit/voice/pov, cites needed, templates needed |
Wellington Catholic District School Board | September 8, 2006 | reads like a religious advert |
August 2006 | ||
R.D. Parker Collegiate | August 2006 | infobox, expand |
Villa Maria | August 2006 | infobox, wikify |
St. Pius X High School (Ottawa) | August 2006 | infobox, expand |
St. Peter High School (Ottawa) | August 2006 | infobox, wikify, expand |
St. Mark Catholic High School (Ottawa) | August 2006 | infobox, expand |
St. Joseph's Catholic High School (Windsor) | August 2006 | |
St. Augustine Catholic High School | August 2006 | infobox, expand |
Senator O'Connor College School | August 2006 | infobox, expand |
St. Theresa of Lisieux Catholic High School | August 2006 | infobox |
St. Joseph's High School (St. Thomas, Ontario) | August 2006 | infobox, copyedit, wikify |
Chaminade College School | August 2006 | infobox, general cleanup, NPOV? |
Highland Junior High School (Toronto) | August 2006 | infobox, layout |
Holy Trinity Catholic Secondary School (Oakville) | August 2006 | infobox, copyedit, |
Athol Murray College of Notre Dame | August 2006 | wikify, tone |
Collège Notre-Dame (Sudbury) | August 2006 | infobox, wikify |
July 2006 | ||
Lincoln Alexander Public School | July 17, 2006 | disambiguation page, yet somehow not... |
Hastings & Prince Edward District School Board | July 19, 2006 | convert to new infobox format |
Limestone District School Board | July 19, 2006 | redlink cleanup; reformat; needs infobox |
District School Board of Niagara | July 19, 2006 | cleanup; needs infobox; animated logo probably should be removed |
Montreal West High School | July 25, 2006 | cleanup; cite; needs infobox |
Notre Dame Catholic Secondary School (Burlington) | July 25, 2006 | cleanup, convert to infobox |
Notre Dame Catholic Secondary School (Toronto) | July 25, 2006 | cleanup , convert to new infobox |
Paris District High School | July 26, 2006 | cleanup, cite, |
Port Dover Composite School | July 26, 2006 | cleanup, cite, |
Caledonia Centennial Public School | July 26, 2006 | cleanup, reformat, cite, recat, |
North Ward School | July 26, 2006 | cite (bomb threat?), convert to new infobox |
Teeterville Public School | July 26, 2006 | needs infobox, figure out correct contact info because of sister school confusion: Windham Central Public School |
Walsh Public School | July 26, 2006 | needs better neutral POV rewrite; WP:cite will result in removal of many trivial 'facts'; |
Windham Central Public School | July 26, 2006 | figure out correct contact info because of sister school confusion: Teeterville Public School |
Ridley College | July 26, 2006 | cleanup; convert to new infobox |
St. Michael's College School | July 26, 2006 | expand; rename to Saint Michael's College School; cleanup; convert to new infobox |
Francis Libermann Catholic High School | July 26, 2006 | cleanup, POV tag; |
Mary Ward Catholic Secondary School | July 26, 2006 | cleanup; convert to new infobox |
B. C. Muslim School | July 28, 2006 | infobox added, needs expansion |
[edit] Logos
Logos of schools, teams, school boards, universities and colleges cannot be uploaded to Commons (Commons:Licensing:fair use clause), but can be uploaded to English-language Wikipedia as fair use provided the article in question is directly related to, or discusses, the logo being shown and a Fair use rationale is provided.
[edit] Schools
Elementary and Secondary School logos should be tagged as {{School logo}} and must have a Fair use rationale such as can be generated with {{Non-free use rationale}} and categorised with Category:PreK through Grade 12 public and private school logos.
This can be easily done using the template: {{subst:School rationale | Article name | source | copyright holder }} though the category is the more general Category:Academic institution logos.
[edit] School boards
School board logos should be tagged as {{Non-free logo}} and must have a Fair use rationale such as can be generated with {{Non-free use rationale}} and categorised with Category:Public and private school board logos.
[edit] Universities, colleges, and CEGEPs
Much the same as elementary and secondary schools, university, college, and CEGEP logos should be tagged as {{School logo}} and must have a Fair use rationale such as can be generated with {{Non-free use rationale}} and categorised with Category:University logos
This can be easily done using the template: {{subst:School rationale | Article name | source | copyright holder }} though the category is the more general Category:Academic institution logos.
[edit] Teams
In the same way as school and university logos except the appropriate category is Category:Academic sports logos.
[edit] Pictures
[edit] Uploading pictures
Ideally, every school article should have a free image. If you have a digital camera image to contribute, please upload it to Commons, use a free license such as Dual-licensed under the GFDL and CC-By-SA-2.5, 2.0, and 1.0, and assign it to a sub-category under Commons:Category:Schools in Canada so other editors may easily find it regardless of what language Wikipedia is being used.
Please note that we cannot use pictures that were found on web sites! This includes pictures from the school board, newsletters, blogs, the Ministry of Education web site, or the school's web site. The copyright for these pictures is typically held by the person who took the pictures or the web site hosting the pictures. Instead, take a brand new picture to ensure it is free.
Also note that logos cannot be uploaded to Commons. See the section above on logos.
[edit] Pictures needed
School articles that are more than just stubs, yet lacking a decent picture and/or logo, can be listed here. Thanks to anyone living nearby who can contribute a digital picture.
Province | City | School | Requested |
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BC | Port Coquitlam | Terry Fox Secondary School | Stephane Charette |
ON | Alliston | Banting Memorial High School | Stephane Charette |
ON | Barrie | Eastview Secondary School | Lovelaughterlife |
ON | Barrie | Barrie Central Collegiate Institute | Lovelaughterlife |
ON | Barrie | Barrie North Collegiate Institute | Lovelaughterlife |
ON | Mississauga | Cawthra Park Secondary School | Stephane Charette |
ON | Mississauga | Clarkson Secondary School | Décartes |
ON | Toronto | A. Y. Jackson Secondary School (Toronto) | Stephane Charette |
ON | Toronto | North Toronto Collegiate Institute | Stephane Charette |
ON | Whitby | Donald A Wilson Secondary School | Ô |
ON | Goderich | Goderich District Collegiate Institute | lilthor11 |
ON | Toronto | The York School | Cardamon |
ON | Toronto | York Mills C.I. | Nathaniel Tang |
[edit] Pictures without articles
Start the article, use the picture, and then remove it from the gallery:
Bishop Grandin High School (Commons), Calgary |
Bishop O'Byrne High School (Commons), Calgary |
Captain John Palliser Elementary School (Commons), Calgary |
Central Memorial High School (Calgary) (Commons), Calgary |
Chinook Park Elementary School (Commons), Calgary |
Dr. E.P. Scarlett High School (Commons), Calgary |
Henry Wise Wood High School (Commons), Calgary |
Holy Family Elementary School (Calgary) (Commons), Calgary |
Jack James High School (Commons), Calgary |
James Fowler High School (Commons), Calgary |
Our Lady of Lourdes School (Calgary) (Commons), Calgary |
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St. Angela School (Calgary) (Commons), Calgary |
St Jean Brebeuf Junior High School (Commons), Calgary |
Sainte Marguerite Bourgeoys (Commons), Calgary |
|
Simon Fraser Junior High School (Commons), Calgary |
Sir William Van Horne High School (Commons), Calgary |
University Elementary School (Calgary) (Commons), Calgary |
[edit] Templates
[edit] School infoboxes
- Individual schools normally use {{Infobox Education in Canada}}. There are many examples of this template being used.
- Post-secondary schools normally use {{Infobox University}}, and post-secondary student associations use {{Infobox Canadian Student Association}}.
[edit] School board infoboxes
- At the moment, there are 2 school board infoboxes:
- {{BC School District}} is specific to British Columbia
- {{Canadian School District}} should be generic enough for all other provinces and territories
- See the section above for additional information on setting up a school board article.
[edit] School board navboxes
- School boards normally provide a custom navigation bar based on {{Navbox Education in Canada}}. These school-board specific navboxes are then usually placed at the very bottom of the school articles. Creating a new navbox entails creating a new template, named after the school board, which then uses {{Navbox Education in Canada}}. It is easier to point to examples, rather than to describe the process:
- Examples of working navboxes can be found in Category:Canadian education navigational boxes.
- The master template contains some usage information in case the previous examples are not clear.
[edit] Talk pages
- The top of talk pages for schools, school boards, universities, colleges and templates should be tagged with the banner
{{WikiProject Canada |class=|importance=|education=yes|[province mnemonic]=yes}}
[edit] School and school board stub templates
For schools and school boards, use the following stubs:
- {{Alberta-school-stub}}
- {{BritishColumbia-school-stub}}
- {{Manitoba-school-stub}}
- {{NewBrunswick-school-stub}}
- {{Newfoundland-school-stub}}
- {{NovaScotia-school-stub}}
- {{Nunavut-school-stub}}
- {{NorthwestTerritories-school-stub}}
- {{Ontario-school-stub}}
- {{PrinceEdwardIsland-school-stub}}
- {{Quebec-school-stub}}
- {{Saskatchewan-school-stub}}
- {{Yukon-school-stub}}
For non-specific articles, use {{Canada-school-stub}}.
Use of the stub automatically places the article in Category:Canadian school stubs except for {{BritishColumbia-school-stub}} and {{Ontario-school-stub}} which populate Category:British Columbia school stubs and Category:Ontario school stubs respectively. When the other provinces have sufficient numbers of stub articles, separate categories may be warranted.
[edit] College and university stub template
- Both colleges and universities may use {{Canada-university-stub}}.
[edit] Category pages
- The top of category pages should have {{WPEIC-cat}}.
[edit] Categories
Beware of subcategories. There are several subcategories that already exist within the Education in Canada scope that unfortunately break the pattern you'd expect. For example: If I choose to view the category called Category:High schools in Ontario, you'd think that would show me all high schools in Ontario. Alas, that is not the case, because some high schools in Ontario are instead categorized as Category:High schools in Hamilton, Ontario, Category:High schools in Toronto, Category:High schools in Ottawa, or Category:Education in Niagara Region. The good news is this situation only exists in Ontario -- none of the other provinces or territories have broken the categories down to cities or regions.
For this reason, editors of Education in Canada are urged to resist the temptation to create new subcategories based on boundaries finer than province/territory. At the very least, please discuss on the talk page prior to creating such categories.
A full hierarchy listing of the categories that make up Education in Canada is available as a subpage (due to the size). Within this subpage are some notes indicating several places where categories are missing or where we currently have categories that don't really belong in the Education in Canada project.
[edit] Lists
Some of the existing lists will be very difficult to keep up-to-date as new schools open, or even due to differently-spelled wikilinks which could result in multiple articles on the same school. Unless we can somehow come up with an automated way to ensure the lists are regularly updated, we should probably consider deleting some of these lists:
- See also: :Category:Lists of schools in Canada
- List of schools in Canada
- List of colleges in Ontario
- List of educational institutions in Toronto
- List of English catholic schools in Ottawa
- List of English public schools in Ottawa
- List of French catholic schools in Ottawa
- List of French public schools in Ottawa
- List of French public schools in Eastern Ontario
- List of Manitoba School Divisions and Districts
- List of Nova Scotia schools
- List of Ontario school boards
- List of Quebec art schools
- List of Saskatchewan school divisions
- List of school districts in British Columbia
- List of schools in New Brunswick
- List of schools in Ottawa
- List of Waterloo Region, Ontario schools
- List of universities in Canada
- List of colleges in Canada
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- List of universities and colleges in Alberta
- List of universities in British Columbia
- List of institutes and colleges in British Columbia
- List of colleges and universities in Newfoundland and Labrador
- List of colleges and universities in New Brunswick
- List of colleges and universities in Nova Scotia
- List of universities in Ontario
- List of colleges in Ontario
- List of universities and colleges on Prince Edward Island
- List of universities in Quebec
- List of colleges in Quebec
- List of CEGEPs
- List of colleges in Canada's Territories
- List of private universities in Canada
- List of law schools in Canada
- List of business schools in Canada
- List of Canadian university leaders
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[edit] Decisions from previous discussions
Somewhat like a list of frequently-asked-questions, here are some decisions that were made in the past which are likely to come up again with newer articles.
Problem/Decision/Solution | School/District/Talk page | Date | Other notes |
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University Presidents are inherently notable. | AfD | October 5, 2005 | |
Post-secondary student newspapers are notable. | AfD | February 10, 2005 | |
Incidents such as hazing that meet WP:V merit inclusion in an article. | Talk:McGill University/Archive 1 | December 17, 2005 | |
Student union articles (for post-secondary schools), should use the most common name, not the legal name. | Talk:University of Alberta Students' Union | January, 2006 | |
Individual dorms are not inherently notable. | AfD | February, 2006 | |
Faculty associations are not notable. | AfD | February 10, 2006 | |
Student council members are rarely notable enough to warrant mentioning in the school articles. | David and Mary Thomson Collegiate Institute | May 19-28, 2006 | |
The infobox's URL field should link to the official school web site, or to the school's page on the school board web server. Use the External links section of the article to link to a 3rd party or student-run web site. | A. Y. Jackson Secondary School (Toronto) | March 2006 | |
BC's school districts will be named "School District ## Name"; see Talk:List of school districts in British Columbia. Note this is not universal across Canada (e.g., list of Ontario school boards). | List of school districts in British Columbia | May 2006 | |
School boards with more than X or less than Y schools cannot use navboxes (they could, but the navboxes look somewhat ridiculus); the solution is to...? (See the project's talk page for discussion.) | Calgary Board of Education, or TDSB | June 2006 | |
The common English spelling for Québec's CEGEP is CEGEP. (Not CÉGEP, nor Cégep, nor ...) | Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Education in Canada | May 31 2006 | However, also consider French names. |
Templates such as {{Infobox Education in Canada}}, {{Canadian School District}} and even {{WikiProject Canada|education=yes}} which is used on talk pages should never be subst:. (This allows us to use what links here, or to roll out template changes without having to re-edit hundreds of articles.) | Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Education in Canada | June 1-4 2006 | |
The WP:FN method of referencing information (combined with things like {{cite}} described at WP:CTT) is a great way to cite external references. | Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Education in Canada | June 8 2006 | |
Affiliate/federated colleges are not in themselves degree-granting institutions, and thus don't merit separate inclusion in templates or lists. | Template talk:Ont Uni | August 7, 2007 | |
Historic university or college buildings are notable. | AfD | August 11, 2007 | |
Fees of a University or College don't merit inclusion in an article. | Talk:Kwantlen Student Association | August 19, 2007 | |
Student union executives don't merit inclusion in an article about the union unless they're notable outside of those activities and have a Wikipedia article already. | University of Alberta Students' Union | August 19, 2007 |
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- Province of British Columbia (AchieveBC)
- For Machine readable School Data files, Source: BC Schools Book." Province of British Columbia, Ministry of Education
- BC Ministry of Education - Main Page
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