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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 The previous project has been archived. The corresponding talk page has also been archived.

Title

WikiProject on Education in Canada

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.

Parentage

Parent project: Wikipedia:WikiProject Education
Parent category: Category:WikiProject Canada

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}} to your user page, you will then show up in Category:Participants in WikiProject Education in Canada.


Active members:

Username Joined Location Knowledgable with templates Provinces and territories of interest Other notes
Rob November 2005
Stephane Charette February 2006 Kelowna, BC yes BC, ON interested in French-language schools
Usgnus March 2006 BC yes BC interested in schools that intersect with Wikipedia:WikiProject Vancouver
EverettColdwell April 2006 NS
pm_shef May 2006 Thornhill, ON Somewhat ON, PQ, AB interested in universities and colleges
Wakemp May 2006 BC BC K-12 Schools and Districts in BC
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).
Yongblood July 2006 Ottawa, ON I wish. 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.


Inactive/past members:

Username Joined Location Knowledgable with templates Provinces and territories of interest Other notes
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


Naming conventions

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.

Names of schools

There are several guidelines to help name school articles. They are:

Abbreviation Expanded
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
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Proper names may or may not be abbreviated depending on how the name is commonly used. Two opposite examples:
  4. Abbreviations in the school name -- such as A. Y. Jackson -- contain periods after the letter and a blank space after each period. For example:
  5. In case an article already exists for a different school with the same name, the location of both schools should follow the names in parentheses. For example:

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.

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.

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}}, {{CanEd}} and {{Canada-school-stub}}. See the section below which discusses the templates regularly used in this project.

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:

Additional information

Additional naming conventions for school articles are discussed at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (schools).

Structure

For general guidance on article structure (not specific to Canada), see Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools#Structure.

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.

Elementary, middle, and high schools

  1. 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
  2. create the relevant sections in the article; examples:
    1. History
    2. Academics
    3. Athletics
    4. Departments
    5. Staff (note: this should not be a listing of regular staff)
    6. ...need more examples of section headings
  3. 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
  4. 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)
  5. below the navigation bar, if necessary, insert (don't subst!) the stub template {{Canada-school-stub}}
  6. lastly, at the bottom of the article should be the appropriate categories (more on this below)
  7. on the very top of the school's talk page, use the template {{CanEd}}

School boards

  1. always start with a standardized template; there isn't 1 single Canada-wide template to use:
    1. BC: {{BC School District}}
    2. All others: {{Canadian School District}}
  2. 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)
  3. if necessary, insert (don't subst!) the stub template {{Canada-school-stub}}
  4. at the bottom of the article should be the appropriate categories (more on this below)
  5. 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
  6. on the very top of the school board's talk page, use the template {{CanEd}}
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.

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.

  1. AB school boards
  2. AB schools
  3. SK school boards
  4. SK schools
  5. MB school boards
  6. MB schools
  7. ON English-language school boards
  8. ON English-language schools
  9. QC school boards
  10. QC schools
  11. NB school boards
  12. NB schools
  13. PE school boards
  14. PE schools
  15. NL school boards
  16. LN schools
  17. YT school boards
  18. YT schools
  19. NT school boards
  20. NT schools
  21. NU school boards
  22. NU schools
  23. porting older existing school articles to the new format using {{Infobox Education in Canada}}

School articles at risk of being deleted

Note Wikipedia:Schools/Arguments for some interesting reading, with arguments for and against school articles on Wikipedia.

The following articles need immediate attention because they've been marked for deletion. Remove from this list articles that are no longer at risk.

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.

Logos

Schools

School logos should be tagged as {{PreK12-logo}}. (Prior to this logo template, most school logos were using either {{Logo}} or {{logo|Academic institution logos}}).

School boards

School board logos should be tagged as {{Schoolboard-logo}}.

Universities, colleges, and CEGEPs

Universities, colleges, and CEGEPs should be tagged as {{Univ-logo}}.

Pictures

Uploading pictures

Ideally, every school article should have a free image. If you upload a free image (public domain or free license), please upload it to Commons, and assign a sub-category under Commons:Category:Schools in Canada (or whatever is appropriate), so other editors may easily find it (regardless of what language Wikipedia their in, and regardless of whether the school has an article yet).

Picture 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.

Templates

School infoboxes

School board infoboxes

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:
  1. Examples of working navboxes can be found in Category:Canadian education navigational boxes.
  2. The master template contains some usage information in case the previous examples are not clear.

Talk pages

  • The top of talk pages for schools, school boards, universities, colleges and templates should have {{CanEd}}

School and school board stub templates

For schools and school boards in the 10 provinces, use the following stubs:

For the territories and 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.

College and university stub template

Category pages

  • The top of category pages should have {{WPEIC-cat}}.

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, 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 hiearchy 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.

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

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
Student council members are rarely notable enough to warrant mentionning 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 {{CanEd}} 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


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