Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Education in Canada. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.
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WikiProject Education in Canada
We're aiming to improve articles on Schools, Universities and Colleges in Canada, plus assorted other related articles.
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The article should start with a good introduction, giving the full complete official name of the college/university, detail about location (in suburb, downtown, where?), founder and founding name, and affilation with any larger university system, if applicable. Give other names for which the university may be known (e.g. Cal, and bold them, too). Also, add a few facts about the college/university that make it unique.
Next, there is a table about the college/university. A template for the table can be found at the bottom of this page.
Sections of the article:
There are many examples of how to use the Template:Infobox_Education_in_Canada, where most fields are purely optional.
Select examples include:
Generally the organization/sections for schools should be similiar to what's given for colleges, however some details, such as student union activities, won't be of as great interest to readers. And in most (not all cases) the campus won't be large/unique enough to warrant a separate section. Also, with schools there is no need to repeat all of the most obvious details that apply to every school (for instance it's a given that a school teaches math, so it doesn't always need to be mentioned). In addition to the normal sections (see above), it's normal to include an infobox of details. This avoids harming the flow of the article by reciting statistics and details such as street address. It also, lets people quickly determine if an article is relevant to them, without reading it through. To the right is an example, which is not a standard, and should be adjusted to fit the province, and school. Some, but not all, school articles use templates for this.
Categories An example of a category hierarchy for Ottawa, Ontario, Canada is as follows:
Country
Province
City
Types
Schools
Generally, terms in category names should be consistent across the country, and then the category description should mention the local term, and local meaning. For instance with K-12 schools the terms "Elementary, Middle, and High schools" are used consistently in category names for all provinces, even in provinces where other terms like "Primary, Junior high, and Secondary" are more often used.
If standard names are used, then Template:Schools in jurisdiction can be added, to ease navigation (this template is not specific to Canada).
Often, the pattern for creating category names is obvious, only effects new articles, and one can go ahead and add them easily. However, caution should be taken when creating new sub-categories that involve moving articles out of existing categories. Specifically, categories for schools in a particular city may cause difficulty for those who don't know which city to look in for an institution. School district boundries often differ from municipal boundries, and there are overlapping/parellel boundries of different types of districts. Before making any change that could make it harder for somebody to find an article, please consider discussing the change first.
School names: Normally the full official name as given by the school and/or school board is used in the article title, and bolded as the first term in the article. Such as Canterbury High School. Alternate/common names/nicknames/abbreviations should then be given shortly afterwords.
Please see Wikipedia:Naming conventions#School names or Wikipedia:Schools#Article name for rules on selecting a school article title (Canadian schools should follow the same rules as elsewhere).
Universities and colleges: University of Ottawa, Athabasca University (names as advertised.)
No classification of this project has been defined.
Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.
This category is related to WikiProject Education in Canada. If you wish to add a subcategory to it, it is suggested you please propose it here prior to creating the category or template. |
Please feel free to list your new Education in Canada-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.