Talk:School District 5 Southeast Kootenay

Format Comments requested

This page has the basic elements of a School District entry for British Columbia. I would like comments before I go ahead with the other 50-odd districts Wakemp 16:05, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

• Wikipedia:Infobox templates encourages the use of Infobox to start the name of any infobox template. Although many, many infobox templates do not follow this rule, I don't see any reason for us not to. -- Usgnus 16:15, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Wow, cool. Looks good. A few possible suggestions though.

1. Wikify the "regions served" in the template?
2. School names should all be wikified, with the word "school" attached to the end (as most school articles include "school" in the name).
3. Physically separate elementary schools from secondary schools?
4. I'm not sure all the external links to individual schools are necessary. If it was complete in other districts, (like surrey) it would be ridiculously long.

Thanks. -- TheMightyQuill 16:20, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

I agree with all of TheMightQuill's points. For #4, we could put the link next to the name in the list (see my edit to the page). -- Usgnus 16:36, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the comments, my thoughts

• change the template to reflect the standard for infoboxes
• the Region doesn't really mean anything yet so I wouldn't wikify. I would like a map on the list page that shows the regions, ultimately the list may be broken by regions if it starts to get to long.
• Didn't wikify the school names yet because I wanted to avoid colliding with articles for existing but different schools but this will need to be done
• I considered adding a collumn for links to external sites in the schools list as Usgnus attempted in his edit - QUESTION: should we do that? The current placement in External links was basically a placeholder.
• Regrding the breaking the school list elementary/secondary, there is currently no really good way to do this as many districts have one or more of elementary, middle school, Secondary, Jr secondary, Senior secondary or Elementary+Secondary and the grade ranges are all over the map.QUESTION: how do we subsort school names on the district page; possible variables are school name, school type, grades, location. Wakemp 17:42, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
  • The in-line links (not in a separate column) can be the placeholders. If you look at the categories for schools in Wikipedia:Education in Canada, you'll see that there are high schools (including junior secondary), middle schools and elementary schools (including primary). Of course, many school districts in B.C. do not have middle schools. To answer the question, I think it should be by town/city (ordered by secondary, middle, elementary) and then if there are enough schools in a city, subdivide by level (secondary, middle, elementary). -- Usgnus 17:54, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure I totally understand. You want to subdivide by city/town within the district page? And in major city districts like School District 36 Surrey, subdivide by neighbourhood? If you subdivide by level, K-12 schools would need a new section. There's no category for them anyway. -- TheMightyQuill 18:09, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

I've sorted the list as I believe Usgnus suggests (location, grade, name) this may not work for all districts but it is worth a look. Wakemp 18:34, 24 May 2006 (UTC)