User:Goh wz/Schools

Inclusion of schools in Wikipedia has recently been a controversial topic: which schools are worth being included in Wikipedia? Do schools have an intrinsic value like towns which should be given recognition and room for inclusion here in Wikipedia?

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• Moanalua High School — An excellent article about what used to be a non-notable school article threatened with deletion
  • Proposed Deletion of Moanalua High School
• School Articles Needing Evaluation — A proposed replacement for Wikipedia:Votes for deletion only used for school articles
  • Discussion: School Articles Needing Evaluation
  • Deletion Policy of Schools in Wikipedia
• Wikipedia:Votes for deletion
  • High Schools' Deletion Record
• Evaluation of Schools' Worthiness Model by Dpbsmith

Quotes

User:Dpbsmith
From: Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Bancroft_School
At: 17:21, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Seriously, it is funny. Don't lose your perspective on this. The biggest problem with the schools business is that people are getting intense about it. It doesn't matter that much. Everybody, just keep calling 'em as you see 'em, list them in VfD if you think they should be deleted, put in your votes in VfD, give short reasons, try gently to influence others. But don't anybody kid yourselves. A thousand stubs about non-notable schools simply doesn't matter much one way or the other.

1. Deleting them all is not going to alienate valuable contributors.
2. Deleting them is not a heroic act that is preventing a breach in a dyke that is holding back the North Sea.
3. Including them is not going to induce rich alumni to donate to Wikimedia.
4. Including them is not going to lower peoples' opinion of Wikipedia enough to matter. Almost nobody reads these articles. They just don't matter much. The only people who care about them are the people who contribute them and the people who argue about them in VfD. If you're spending too much time in VfD dealing with schools, go off and do something else. All be the same in a hundred years.

Template for Singapore schools

This is a template that I've customised for Singapore schools from User:Gerald Farinas.

-School Name-

Name	Add
Abbreviation	Add
School Code	Add (eg 3000)
Chinese Name	Add
Pinyin	Add
Malay	Add
Tamil	Add
Address	Add (eg 1 East Coast Road)
Country	Singapore
Town	Add (e.g. Bedok)
Established	4-Digit Year
Community	Urban
Type	Government -or- Government-aided -or- Autonomous -or- Independent -andthen- Primary -or- Secondary -or- Junior College -or- Centralised Institute
Religion	Secular -or- Religion
Students	Co-educational -or- Boys -or- Girls
Levels	Add
Colours	Colour 1, Colour 2, Colour 3
Motto	Add
Newspaper	Add
Yearbook	Add
Distinctions	Add
Website	Link
Email	Link

Used in:

• The Chinese High School
• Raffles Institution
• Temasek Secondary School
• Victoria School
• Raffles Junior College
• Raffles Girls' School (Secondary)
• Deyi Secondary School
• Springfield Secondary School

Please add to the list. Thank you!