User talk:Chikinpotato11/Archive 3: September 11th 2006 – October 11th 2006

Your user page
You should probably take a look at the user talk page guidelines, because right now your user page doesn't seem to meet the rules (the movies on it also don't meet our policy on verifiability with reliable sources). Wikipedia isn't a free webhost, like Geocities is. --Core des at (talk) 22:31, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
 * It looks better now. In the future, if you want to work on articles in your userspace, you can create a subpage by going to, say, User:Chikinpotato11/(name of the article you want to start), and work on the article there. Then, when you're done, you can click the "move" button at the top, and move the article to (name of the article you started). That way your user page won't look all cluttered. Happy editing! --Core des at (talk) 22:49, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I can't really describe it any simpler than that, sorry. Try asking an admin for help. --Core des at (talk) 23:34, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

context
You are creating a number of "GPA in" articles. Will please start each article with a few words to say what the hell GPA is? -- RHaworth 07:09, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Why don't you just redirect them to "Grades in" instead? Its simple.--Chikinpotato11 15:11, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

A somewhat glib answer if I may say so: See also my comments at talk:GPA (disambiguation). -- RHaworth 17:01, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Every article should start with a sentence clearly stating the context of the article. In the case of these, that includes a link to grade (education) as I have now done to GPA in Germany. It makes all the difference. I would have liked to see you agree about that.
 * Redirecting (the term you should have used is "move"). The problem is that "grade" tends to mean just academic year rather than student performance so on balance, I have to admit that "GPA in ..." is probably better, providing you define GPA in the first sentence of the article.

In the best traditions of the Foreign Legion (march or die!), I have added prod tags to some of your context-free (i.e. I had no idea what they were about until I came here) "GPA in X" articles. Please don't assume that the readers know what a GPA is. I thought it had something to do with accountancy. If you can't be bothered to write a comprehensible article, as your answer to RHaworth above suggests, why should anyone else bother fixing them ? Angus McLellan (Talk) 23:42, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
 * i fixed the articles. are you HAPPY yet?--Chikinpotato11 22:59, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

No, of course not. You have not provided the back link to grade (education). You have not managed to use the words "secondary and university education" and indeed for each country you need to say whether the grades apply to schools or universities or both. Come on kid, pull your socks up, it is not that difficult. -- RHaworth 06:30, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

GPA Categories
When creating GPA articles, please be sure to add categories to them. This way other users can find information more easily. Each country relevant article you create should go in the relevant education category and Category:Student assessment and evaluation. If you need more information about how to do that, please ask me.Aelfthrytha 04:14, 10 October 2006 (UTC)