Portal talk:Schools/Archive 1

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Articles for deletion/West Side Elementary School

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Featured content
I will aim to update the featured content of the portal each week, but finding info for the Did You Know and as-of-yet uncreated In The News section may be more difficult. Any suggestion for any of these sections should be posted here on the portal talk page. Thank you. Harro5 11:02, August 20, 2005 (UTC)

I and many other wiki editors have been working on Clackamas High School and would love any input on what we could improve on to get it to featured status Guerberj 20:52, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

How about Scotch College, Perth for featured content? Hamedog 03:11, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Portal:Education needs attention
Portal:Education needs some significant cleanup. Perhaps someone involved in this portal could lead an effort to improve what could be considered the parent portal of this one. An ongoing commitment to maintenance would be nice but is certainly not required. The current version is so bad (and has been that way since May) that if I cannot find someone to take it on, I will submit it for deletion. 66.167.136.148 02:47, 11 October 2005 (UTC).

Ownership?
Worthwhile changes were made today by myself and others, however User:Harro5 removed them. Does he claim to have ownership over this portal? To me that's what it seems like.

All I choose to do was update the 'Features Picture,' add another article to the showcase, and add a new very warranted section 'Notable Principals' (other contributors to this page agreed with all my changes).

Harro5 please stop claiming ownership. It's a community site, and this portal needs community assistance. It is not yours.
 * All sections have recently been updated (as of last weekend). The notable principals section is designed to dispute a current AFD on Simon Gipson, and is not a useful section. Who are the "other contributors"? I manage this portal, and ask for suggestions on the talk pages as to what should be added next. Harro5 22:23, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
 * If all content was updated as of last weekend then perhaps you won't have a problem with us submitting the school photo (as done previously), for the featured photo in a couple of days (say 2-3). I am sure that the majority of members to this portal will agree. Secondly, as per Wikipedia policy, anyone who wishes to maintain this portal can. Thus, you do not have editorial control, and attempting to exercise this via suggestions on talk pages is insulting to other users. I, and I speak for everyone involved I think, will be willing to indulge you for a number of days at which time we will be adding the whole school photo. Also on a side note, Geelong Grammar and St Michael's are good articles to include in this section of the portal, and will be added again (you must have reverted that section by accident). Agree for the time being btw in regards to the 'Notable Principals' section, as ong as the AFD is on that article it should not be put here. Kind Regards Beyondcapricorn 06:18, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

New Showcase Article
I've touched up the PEA article a bit, and though there are still some conclusions to be reached (specifically about the Jargon section), I think its been brought back up to showcase article standards. In my opinion any advertisement like language is gone, as is what im able to find of the NPOV stuff.

updated article
Hi, I just updated Scotch College, Perth I was wondering if someone could check for errors, and if any are present please correct them thanks. Hamedog 13:57, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Showcase Article of the Month
I'm not changing it myself because I'm not sure about customs or standards this Portal usually holds itself to, but shouldn't the bolded Plano Senior High School be linked on the Showcase article of the month template? As far as I can tell, there's no way to directly link there - save for going down to boxes to the collection of all Showcase articles. -Rebelguys2 21:36, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Done. Thanks. Harr o 5 21:56, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Showcase nomination
Hopkins has finally been featured, so when you're updating Showcase Article of the Month there's a potential candidate out there, Harro... :D Staxringold 14:32, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
 * why are non featured articles appearing as "featured" in this portal? DanielT5 07:51, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

School is this week's COTW
School is this week's cotw. Davodd 03:17, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Good work
Good work in that Stuyvesant High School was a featured article on Wikipedia's front page. --ShaunMacPherson 02:59, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Portal
This portal hasn't been updated in some time ... suggest we need to be bolder. I have added a DYK and will do more. Is there anyone there ???? 12:36, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I am here. -- K u k i ni  hablame aqui 15:57, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Oh lets be bold. Ive changed the DYK and picture at the end of July. Can we meet here and discuss the next move? Victuallers 16:12, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
 * What do you have in mind? I do spend a good deal of time patrolling and improving school sites, but am open to a more organized approach. -- K u k i ni  hablame aqui 16:40, 9 August 2007 (UTC)


 * I've also been bold and changed the showcase article of the month as the other one had been there for some time. I was going to change the list of showcase articles but I see that approval is currently required by Harro5. We already have a list of school articles which have been identified as B class or above by the assessment team at WikiProject Schools/Assessment. Some of the articles currently listed on the portal page are not yet even at B class. Unless anyone objects I shall change the list so that it includes only those schools which are featured articles or good articles. It might be an idea too to have a rotating selection of B class articles. Dahliarose 11:56, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Featured School nomination
I'm not entirely sure where to nominate articles to be featured on this portal, so I'll do it here until I'm told otherwise. I would like to nominate Durham School of the Arts, as it is a very good, solid article and a current Good Article nominee -- Mr.crabby   (Talk)   01:27, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Infobox Aust school
I don't know why, but " Infobox Aust school " has a mispelled parameter -- the parameter is for "enrolment" instead of "enrollment"

Listing something under "enrollment" gets an error message. Example, see Warrandyte High School or edit at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Warrandyte_High_School&action=edit

Figured I should bring this up for discussion and fixing. Guroadrunner 14:42, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Did you knows
Got tired of seeing the same ones. I was Bold ... you can be too. Victuallers (talk) 09:02, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I just set up random selection sub pages for Did you know using Random portal component. Instructions to work it are on the sub page, Portal:Schools/Did you know. A new batch of Did you knows is selected whenever the portal's cache is purged. If there are any questions feel free to ask. ~ Eóin (talk) 21:39, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Schools Timeline?
Page Idea:

A visual timeline of all the different countries school systems by age... could be useful, perhaps?

80.1.122.42 (talk) 11:57, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Interesting idea, you might want to bring it up at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Schools. ~ Eóin (talk) 17:58, 19 June 2008 (UTC)


 * A page already exists for Educational stages. More input is needed for other countries from around the world. Dahliarose (talk) 20:57, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Showcase articles/images Selected article/Selected picture
I decided to be bold and have started changing "Showcase articles" to "Selected article" like the other portals. --Jh12 (talk) 20:23, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

List of oldest schools in the world to be deleted ?
I proposed deletion of the list, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_the_oldest_schools_in_the_world --89.27.217.18 (talk) 23:19, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Please Review: Campbell County High School (Alexandria, KY)
I just added some more information to the above article and I would like suggestions to improve this article even more. Please tell me what else I can add to make this article better.

Thanks Dockofusa (talk) 13:28, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

Selected picture up for deletion
Just so those working on this portal know, File:ShenandoahAcademy.jpg, which is listed at Portal:Schools/Selected picture/25, is up for deletion on Commons for lack of permission. This picture should not appear on a high profile page such as a portal with copyright issues outstanding, fortunately this image appears to be currently excluded from the random selection. I am not sure why "(c)" was added under the image given that copyrighted images are blanket prohibited from the portal space and Wikimedia Commons, even under fair use. CT Cooper · &#32;talk 10:34, 7 July 2010 (UTC)