Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Education in Canada

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Archive1	First-generation EiC project talk page, October 2005 to 6-June-2006 Project creation, what infobox template should be used, lists of schools that need fixing BC school district naming convention Navigation boxes (footers) CEGEP Proposal for re-writing the EiC project
Archive2	New EiC project talk page, 6-June-2006 to 16-June-2006 (with slight overlap into June 19) Infobox: getting rid of the "last update" field using WP:FN to cite external reference sources expanding abbreviations in article titles; proposal for Naming convention project section CEGEP/college organization within Quebec AfD for BC schools
Archive3	17-June-2006 to 12-July-2006 Exemplar articles (or lack thereof) Copyright template to use for school board logos School pictures without articles Colleges and universities Categories for schools need to be broken into smaller groupings Templates and structure/organization of articles on colleges and universities Peel District School Board and "school families" Stubs for schools need to be broken into smaller groupings
Archive4	13-June-2006 to 31-December-2006 Colleges and Universities categories Abbreviations in school names and article titles Captialization in section headings AfD's and elementary schools University of Prince Edward Island Lester B. Pearson School Board Grades for high schools in Quebec Should the infobox have fields for telephone numbers
Archive5	1-January-2007 to 31-December-2008 Very small collection of comments; not much activity these past 2 years

Navbox usage query: Template:Education by subject

Second opinion requested. The Template:Education by subject has been added to many many articles... ie What links here ...Education in Alberta and Higher education in Nova Scotia amongst other student unions and colleges which really are not subjects of education. The articles such as Reading education make more sense as subjects of education. SriMesh | talk 04:14, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

There has also been advise given at Adminstration incidents and the incident has been referred to Navigation templates talk page with a {{RFCstyle}} discussion startup. SriMesh | talk 00:32, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

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List of universities in the Canadian Prairies

I have nominated List of universities in the Canadian Prairies for featured list removal here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks, where editors may declare to "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here.--Kevlar (talk • contribs) 02:51, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Lists of universities of Canada

Several Canadian university lists have been nominated for a procedural Featured list removal here. After discussion at a couple venues, consensus emerged to delist these Featured lists and merge them into one large list, which will be submitted to FLC. Dabomb87 (talk) 17:35, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Categories for school districts in BC

Please note that school districts are not under regional district jurisdiction and have very different boundaries and are governed under another ministry. Schools and school districts should be classified by region rather than regional district, or by the municipality that they're in, if any (which constitute regions in their own way). Regional district categories are mistakenly used as region categories and should not be.Skookum1 (talk) 21:01, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

List of universities in Canada

I have nominated List of universities in Canada for featured list removal here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks; editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Rambo's Revenge (talk) 18:39, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Universities COTM Nomination

Hello WikiProject Education in Canada. I just wanted to let you all know that three universities handled by your WikiProject (Simon Fraser University, Université de Montréal, and University of Ottawa) have been nominated for next month's WikiProject Universities Collaboration of the Month. If you'd like to take advantage of this opportunity, be sure to vote for one of the universities. While you're there, consider helping improve one of our current Collaborations of the Month.

Happy editing! -Mabeenot (talk) 19:09, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Canadian-accredited schools abroad

I don't know if this is the best or correct place to bring up this topic, but I would like to bring to your attention this Canadian curriculum schools abroad. NorthernThunder (talk) 18:44, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement

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Concordia University

Someone stealthily moved Concordia University again, without listing it at WP:RM, even though it has had a few WP:RM discussions in the past.

• Concordia University
• Concordia University (Montreal)
• Concordia University (disambiguation)

It was previously noted that the one in Montreal is the most prominent, in past discussions.

70.29.210.242 (talk) 13:53, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

GA reassessment of Lethbridge Collegiate Institute

I have conducted a reassessment of the above article as part of the GA Sweeps process. You are being notified as this project's banner is on the talk page. I have found some concerns which you can see at Talk:Lethbridge Collegiate Institute/GA1. I have placed the article on hold whilst these are fixed. Thanks. Jezhotwells (talk) 04:57, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

Assessing redirects

I have started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Canadian Wikipedians' notice board#Assessing redirects about whether we want to keep tagging redirects as part of the project. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 20:26, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Education in Canada articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release

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School Addresses in infoboxes

Folks, somebody is trying to reopen debate about keeping school street addresses in Infobox education in Canada. The discussion is here. PKT(alk) 16:08, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

Renaming discussion taking place

I know this task force is very inactive, but just in case anyone happens to read this... There is a proposal to rename

• Category:Lists of people by university in Canada‎ to Category:Lists of people by university or college in Canada‎

This is taking place here: https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2012_October_6#Category:Lists_of_people_by_university Ottawahitech (talk) 15:50, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

History of education in Canada

There is a need for a History of education in Canada article and category. The The Evolution of Education Museum will fit in with that somehow. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 03:47, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

Fewer School Boards Act 1997 and 2013 Ontario Amalgamations

I am wondering whether we should not flag articles that refer to school boards that are now defunct due to the 1997 amalgamation for deletion? There is currently a proposal to look at amalgamating more boards this year. How will this affect current lists and articles? Genericplant (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 21:03, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

Leaflet for Wikiproject Education in Canada at Wikimania 2014

Hi all,

My name is Adi Khajuria and I am helping out with Wikimania 2014 in London.

One of our initiatives is to create leaflets to increase the discoverability of various wikimedia projects, and showcase the breadth of activity within wikimedia. Any kind of project can have a physical paper leaflet designed - for free - as a tool to help recruit new contributors. These leaflets will be printed at Wikimania 2014, and the designs can be re-used in the future at other events and locations.

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Comment on the WikiProject X proposal

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Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

School notability RfC

An RfC that is taking place at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#RfC on secondary school notability. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 21:39, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

New mailing list for Wikimedia Canada

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Proposal to redirect all Canadian project related talk pages

Wikipedia talk:Canadian Wikipedians' notice board#Proposal to redirect all Canadian project related talk pages...--Moxy 🍁 22:39, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool

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Specialist High Skills Major

Please, forgive the repost. This was originally posted to Talk:Education in Canada but I hope it might receive greater interaction if posted directly in the WikiProject.
I’ve come across multiple references to “Specialist/Specialty High Skills Major” while doing research for Canadian athlete bio pages. As I’m not Canadian, this designation is unfamiliar and there doesn’t appear to be any coverage on Wikipedia regarding what the major entails or it’s significance in the context of the Canadian education system, despite the large number of Wikipedia articles about Canadian secondary schools that use the phrase. Would it be appropriate to add some information about the “Specialist/Specialty High Skills Major” to Education in Canada or some other page? Or is it already present and I’m simply not looking in the right places? – Spitzmauskc (talk) 21:18, 24 September 2020 (UTC)

University Heraldry

Having completed an armorial of universities in Britain, I thought it was time to do one for Canada. This should be a much swifter process as the Public Register should have all the necessary information easily accessible so we don't have to hunt around for it. Robin S. Taylor (talk) 02:06, 27 August 2021 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources

Main page: User:Headbomb/unreliable

I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like

• John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14. (John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.)

and turns it into something like

• John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from {{cite web}}, {{cite journal}} and {{doi}}.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

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Merge of inactive education wikiprojects

I'm proposing to merge this and other inactive education-related wikiprojects to WikiProject Education. Please see the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Education#Merge of inactive education wikiprojects. – Joe (talk) 17:48, 18 July 2024 (UTC)