Talk:Taki House, Govt Sponsored Multipurpose School for Boys

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Dear schoolmates, friends and wikipedians, It will be great if you can collaborate in expanding the article on this school personally important to many of us and notable in many ways in objective encyclopedic sense as well. If you are a seasoned wikipedia editor go ahead and directly edit here. But if you are new and not confident of editing, feel free to try out new changes in my sandbox where currently I am keeping a temporary replica for this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dr.saptarshi/sandbox If you need guidelines of how to write article about a school you may refer here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Schools/Article_guidelines#Other_sections

Thanks and regards, Dr.saptarshi (talk) 08:21, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

Name of the School ?

Which of the following is the best name for this article?

1. Taki House, Govt Sponsored Multipurpose School for Boys'
2. Taki House, Govt Sponsored Multipurpose School (Boys')
3. Govt Sponsored Multipurpose School (Boys'), Taki House
4. Taki House, Govt Sponsored Multipurpose School for Boys
5. Taki House, Govt Sponsored Multipurpose School (Boys)
6. Govt Sponsored Multipurpose School (Boys), Taki House

Please comment and discuss. --Dr.saptarshi (talk) 07:53, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

I think it doesnt have to be exactly what is written on top of the gate. But it should be easily equated with whatever is written in Certificates. GSMS is a nonspecific term. So the specific Taki House should come first just like we most of the time we mention in our conversations --Dr.saptarshi (talk) 09:12, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

• According to the Wikipedia policy WP:COMMONNAME the article title should be the name most commonly used for the school in English-language reliable sources. It should probably not contain an abbreviation -- spell out "Government" -- unless the abbreviation is how the school is overwhelmingly referred to. DES ^(talk)_{DESiegel Contribs} 17:09, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

Wikiprojects: Schools/India/West Bengal/Education

Importance score confusions on wikiproject templates

I had initially prematurely copied the wikiproject templates above from Hindu School which received a low importance ranking on the wikiprojects mentioned on its talk page.. Given the historic importance of Hindu School and given that our school was a started much later in 1965 ie only about 54 years old, statistically speaking, it would probably receive somewhat lower ranking than Hindu. But I wonder how to assess importance of a school? It might possibly include number of years of existance or number of students, academic or extracurricular performances, and most importantly social impact of the school and its people.. etc.. I was thinking of putting it arbitrarily at "low" till it is corrected.. But I think it is a bit demoralising to watch such rank unless objectively justified.. Moreover the ranking here has nothing to do with actual rank of the school.. This is the only place where wikipedia actually indulges in original research or subjectiveness.. So the importance assessment of Hindu school may have been either a misjudgement or a oversight by the wikiproject volunteers.. Its possible that Hindu school should have been high on importance and Taki could get a mid rank.. may be ? So I reverted my own edit of this talk page and kept it as unassessed for now--Dr.saptarshi (talk) 08:36, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

The standard for importance ratings of schools is as follows:

* Top-importance - It is expected that at least one article from each country should be in this category. Countries with higher populations will necessarily have more schools of top-importance. Top importance schools will usually have a long list of notable international alumni or important national alumni (e.g., prime ministers, presidents, senior royalty, Nobel prize winners). They will often have received substantial national or international media coverage as evidenced by inclusion in TV programmes, books, e.t.c. They will be the most notable schools in their particular country, and they are also likely to have articles in foreign-language Wikis.

• High-importance - Such schools will usually have a long list of notable alumni. They are often amongst the oldest or highest performing schools in their particular country. They will have received substantial media coverage and multiple sources will be available to aid the expansion of the article. Schools which feature in other encyclopedias such as Microsoft Encarta or Encylopedia Britannica are included in this category if they are not already of top importance.
• Mid-importance - Such schools will have a few elements of more general national interest (e.g. a few particularly noteworthy and important alumni or significant awards).
• Low-importance - Low importance schools are of vital interest to their communities but have no national or international recognition or importance. Nearly all primary/elementary schools and middle schools will fall into this category, as will the majority of high/secondary schools.
• ??? - This is the default setting and should also be used for articles which have been assessed but have not had their importance established.

However, i wouldn't worry about this scale too much. Most readers don't pay much attention to it, and there is little effort to coordinate importance ratings across articles. DES ^(talk)_{DESiegel Contribs} 17:16, 26 June 2018 (UTC)