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Spilling over from a discussion at Talk:School district 36, British Columbia, I must say I find the BC school board naming conventions...hmmm...unfortunate. If I'm moving to Vancouver for example -- or for the rest of the world not living in Vancouver -- it it unlikely I would know to search for School district 39, British Columbia. More than likely, I'd search for "Vancouver school board". As it turns out, the actual article is called Vancouver School Board, and the "school district 39" is just a redirect page, which demonstrates how the numeric titles are not helpful. Before the rest of these redlinks get filled in, shouldn't we drop the numeric school board designation and use the names that people would likely use to search for information? (I'm also using this article to compare ease-of-use between BC school boards and Ontario school boards.) --Stephane Charette 21:38, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
Here are some of the proposals so far, including a new one:
and the existing standard from this article is
School District | Main Office | Region | Communities Served |
School District No. 23 Central Okanagan | Kelowna | Okanagan/Mainline | Kelowna, Rutland, Westbank |
School District No. 27 Cariboo-Chilcotin | Williams Lake | Northeast | 100 Mile House, Williams Lake |
School District No. 28 Quesnel | Quesnel | Northeast | Quesnel |
School District No. 35 Langley | Langley | Metro/Coast | Langley, Langley City, Fort Langley, Aldergrove |
School District No. 36 Surrey | Surrey | Metro/Coast | Surrey, White Rock, Cloverdale |
Wakemp 17:55, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
It doesn't look like any require the British Columbia disambig Wakemp 20:27, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
revised look:
School District | Main Office | Region | Communities Served |
---|---|---|---|
School District 5 Southeast Kootenay | Cranbrook | Kootenays | Cranbrook, Fernie, Sparwood |
School District 6 Rocky Mountain | Invermere | Kootenays | Kimberly, Invermere, Golden |
School District 8 Kootenay Lake | Nelson | Kootenays | Nelson, Creston, Salmo |
School District 10 Arrow Lakes | Nakusp | Kootenays | Nakusp |
School District 19 Revelstoke | Revelstoke | Okanagan/Mainline | Revelstoke |
School District 20 Kootenay-Columbia | Trail | Kootenays | |
School District 22 Vernon | Vernon | Okanagan/Mainline | Vernon, Lumby |
School District 23 Central Okanagan | Kelowna | Okanagan/Mainline | Kelowna, Rutland, Westbank |
Should we use wiki markup for easier maintenance? -- Usgnus 21:38, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
School District | Main Office | Region | Communities Served |
---|---|---|---|
School District 5 Southeast Kootenay | Cranbrook | Kootenays | Cranbrook, Fernie, Sparwood |
School District 6 Rocky Mountain | Invermere | Kootenays | Kimberly, Invermere, Golden |
I propose that we rename the five existing districts to the new standard and, if necessary, use redirects. -- Usgnus 22:39, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
I've put the old links on the current list for now, there appear to be multiple links an redirects around the current articles so some clean up is required Wakemp 22:45, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
All the pages have been moved to the new standard except Vancouver School Board and Conseil scolaire francophone de la Colombie-Britannique. We have at least a basic article for SDs 5-64, 73, 79, and 93 (My thanks to Usgnus,Stephane Charette, and TheMightyQuill) QUESTION:I thinkg Vancouver should be moved but CSF likely warrants a unique treatment. Wakemp 17:48, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
What is the purpose of this column? Is it to help readers find the appropriate school district or is it to simply list the legal municipalities? Deep Cove is currently be part of the DNV, but listing it may be useful, especially if it has its own article. Besides, if we remove communities just because they are part of another city or municipality, we'll have to remove Cloverdale, Aldergrove, Fort Langley, Clearbrook, Matsqui, Ladner, Tsawwassen, Queensborough, Rosedale and possibly more. -- Usgnus 07:37, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
And Clearbrook is apart of Abbotsford It's now a neighbourhood.RebaFan1996 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.78.209.64 (talk) 03:08, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
To all that may wish to contribute to the pages on BC Schools and School districts; There are lists of all schools and district information at the Ministry of Education site These two ASCII files are easily manipulated in excel or a text editor to produce lists of school and districts. Current update is as of January 16, 2006 for the 2005/06 school year. For the district infobox see the comments at Template:BC School District. For historical data on BC Schools and districts check The Homeroom @ Malaspina College. Also check Wikipedia:WikiProject Education in Canada for additional details on what people are editing. Wakemp 21:12, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
Any idea what the copyright deal is for a school district logo? The {PreK12-logo} tag doesn't seem to apply. Thanks. -- TheMightyQuill 16:53, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
Would be nice if the Changes subsection had references to cite. --Stephane Charette 05:21, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
We have independent schools in BC that operate outside of the school districts? With the addition of Meadowridge today in the external links (not the appropriate place, but I guess we'd need at least a stub to move it elsewhere), I'm thinking we may need to start a new section or a new page. --Stephane Charette 18:06, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
The regions should correlate to how the districts organize themselves into regions. For example, recent edits have changed the region of some Vancouver Island districts to 'Greater Victoria' even though SD61 IS greater Victoria. This creates unnecessary confusion. A standard reference should be used for region which isn't defined by the tastes of editors, but by those who have already tasked themselves with defining School District regions. I would suggest regions be the BCSTA branch regions which according to their website are as follows:
British Columbia School Trustee Association Branch Structure (effective June 30, 2008) FRASER VALLEY SD33 (Chilliwack) SD34 (Abbotsford) SD35 (Langley) SD42 (Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows) SD75 (Mission) SD78 (Fraser-Cascade) KOOTENAY BOUNDARY SD05 (Southeast Kootenay) SD06 (Rocky Mountain) SD08 (Kootenay Lake) SD10 (Arrow Lakes) SD20 (Kootenay-Columbia) SD51 (Boundary) METROPOLITAN SD36 (Surrey) SD37 (Delta) SD38 (Richmond) SD39 (Vancouver) SD40 (New Westminster) SD41 (Burnaby) SD43 (Coquitlam) SD44 (North Vancouver) SD45 (West Vancouver) SD93 (Conseil scolaire francophone)* NORTH WEST SD50 (Haida Gwaii/Queen Charlotte) SD52 (Prince Rupert) SD54 (Bulkley Valley) SD82 (Coast Mountains) SD92 (Nisga'a) NORTHERN INTERIOR SD27 (Cariboo-Chilcotin) SD28 (Quesnel) SD49 (Central Coast) SD57 (Prince George) SD59 (Peace River South) SD60 (Peace River North) SD81 (Fort Nelson) SD87 (Stikine) SD91 (Nechako Lakes) OKANAGAN SD19 (Revelstoke) SD22 (Vernon) SD23 (Central Okanagan) SD53 (Okanagan Similkameen) SD58 (Nicola-Similkameen) SD67 (Okanagan Skaha) SD73 (Kamloops/Thompson) SD74 (Gold Trail) SD83 (North Okanagan-Shuswap) SOUTH COAST SD46 (Sunshine Coast) SD47 (Powell River) SD48 (Howe Sound) VANCOUVER ISLAND SD61 (Greater Victoria) SD62 (Sooke) SD63 (Saanich) SD64 (Gulf Islands) SD68 (Nanaimo-Ladysmith) SD69 (Qualicum) SD70 (Alberni) SD71 (Comox Valley) SD72 (Campbell River) SD79 (Cowichan Valley) SD84 (Vancouver Island West) SD85 (Vancouver Island North) *SD93 (Conseil scolaire francophone) represents the entire province, but is based in Richmond.
--Dmurchie (talk) 07:16, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
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