MyWiki:WikiProject Education in Canada

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Education in Canada. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page.

This is the 2nd-generation WikiProject to focus on Education in Canada. The previous project has been archived. The corresponding talk page has also been archived.

Scope

The original scope of this project was to handle all things related to education in Canada. However, time has shown that some contributors to this project are currently more inclined to work on K-12 articles, and school boards, rather than college and university articles.

In short:

• elementary schools
• middle schools
• secondary schools
• CEGEPs (Quebec)
• school boards

While templates and some conventions will be used from WikiProject for Colleges & Universities, we still maintain that in Canada, Universities and Colleges are part of our Education system.

Similar or Related WikiProjects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Colleges and Universities
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/High schools/other list#Canada
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/High_schools/CA

Task forces

The higher education task force is defunct and has been archived.

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Achievements

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Featured articles

File:Featured article star.svg Canadian Indian residential school system (promoted August 20, 2017)

File:Featured article star.svg Eric A. Havelock (November 6, 2006)

File:Featured article star.svg Harold Innis (June 2, 2008)

Featured lists

File:Featured article star.svg List of Athabasca University people

File:Featured article star.svg List of University of Waterloo people

File:Featured article star.svg List of Wilfrid Laurier University people

Good articles

File:Symbol support vote.svg Craigflower Manor and Schoolhouse

File:Symbol support vote.svg École L'Odyssée

File:Symbol support vote.svg Dalhousie University

File:Symbol support vote.svg Marie Smallface Marule

File:Symbol support vote.svg McMaster University

File:Symbol support vote.svg Queen's University at Kingston

File:Symbol support vote.svg School District 53 Okanagan Similkameen

File:Symbol support vote.svg University of Toronto

Naming conventions

Names of school boards or school districts

School boards typically have a single official name, and the articles are typically named as the school board. One province -- British Columbia -- has a uniform naming convention, which is discussed on the list of school districts in British Columbia. For other provinces, look through the lists, look through the list of categories, or directly into Category:School districts in Canada.

Names of schools

The school naming conventions guideline was rejected by the community, but still contains some ideas that may help. Also note the new proposal for US schools at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (U.S. schools). Once that proposal is accepted, we'll submit a similar proposal to cover Canadian schools. Below are the guidelines we've used so far when naming schools articles:

Abbreviation	Expanded
BTI	Business And Technical Institute
CI	Collegiate Institute
ES	Elementary School
HS	High School
Jr	Junior
MS	Middle School
Mt	Mount
PS	Public School
Sr	Senior
SS	Secondary School
St	Saint

1. If the school board's web site and the school's web site differ in the name of a school, prefer the one that people commonly use. Schools at times will be known under a slightly different name than the official or legal school name. Consider whether or not a redirection page is necessary.
2. Expand all common abbreviations in the school's name. For example, a school known as Main Street HS would be turned into an article called Main Street High School. See the table on the right for examples of common abbreviations often found in school names.
3. Proper names may or may not be abbreviated depending on how the name is commonly used. Two opposite examples:
   • Use A. Y. Jackson Secondary School instead of Alexander Young Jackson Secondary School.
   • Use Pierre Elliott Trudeau High School instead of P. E. Trudeau High School.
4. Abbreviations in the school name -- such as A. Y. Jackson -- contain periods after the letter and a blank space after each period. For example:
   • Use A. Y. Jackson Secondary School instead of A Y Jackson Secondary School.
   • Use A. Y. Jackson Secondary School instead of A.Y. Jackson Secondary School.

Names for categories

There are several small inconsistencies in the naming of categories used by the Education in Canada project, but if you'd like to propose a new category, look through the existing comprehensive list of categories to see how other provinces or territories are using categories.

Names for navboxes

Each school board navbox is a new template that needs a unique name. When you need to create a new navbox, look through the list of existing Canadian education navboxes to see how they're named. Typically, we've been using the school board name or the school board abbreviation, immediately followed by the word Schools.

Names for templates

Some of our templates (such as {{Infobox Education in Canada}}, and {{Navbox Education in Canada}}) are named after the project's name, Education in Canada. However, we have just as many templates where the name does not contain Education in Canada: {{Canadian School District}} and {{Canada-school-stub}}. See the section below which discusses the templates regularly used in this project.

French names

Institutions shouldn't be renamed. Use the name of the school or school board, as it is commonly known. Note that this also affects capitalization in the article title, since French dictates that articles and adjectives in a name are not capitalized. For example:

• Use École élémentaire catholique des Pionniers, not École Élémentaire Catholique Des Pionniers, nor Catholic Elementary School Of The Pionneers.
• Use Conseil scolaire de district du Centre-Sud-Ouest, not Conseil Scolaire De District Du Centre-Sud-Ouest nor School Board For The Central-South-West District.

Structure

For general guidance on article structure (not specific to Canada), see Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools#Structure.

Universities and colleges

We follow the format for colleges and universities as laid out at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Universities#Structure. However, we may deviate from this, or alter it to form our own structure. See the talk page for relevant discussion.

Elementary, middle, and high schools

1. always start with a standardized template; see {{Infobox Education in Canada}}, and schools that use this template for examples of how to use this template
2. create the relevant sections in the article; examples:
   1. History
   2. Academics
   3. Athletics
   4. Departments
   5. Staff (note: this should not be a listing of regular staff)
   6. ...need more examples of section headings
3. the article typically shouldn't need to link to other schools; instead, use the feeders field from the infobox, or the navigation bar at the bottom of the article
4. below any See also and External links sections, insert (don't subst!) the appropriate navigation bar; most schools should have a navigation bar linking together schools from the same school district (there is a discussion in progress as to what to do with very large or very small school boards where a navbox isn't a viable solution)
5. below the navigation bar, if necessary, insert (don't subst!) one of the appropriate stub template:
   • {{Canada-school-stub}}
   • {{Alberta-school-stub}}
   • {{BritishColumbia-school-stub}}
   • {{Manitoba-school-stub}}
   • {{NewBrunswick-school-stub}}
   • {{Newfoundland-school-stub}}
   • {{NovaScotia-school-stub}}
   • {{Ontario-school-stub}}
   • {{PrinceEdwardIsland-school-stub}}
   • {{Quebec-school-stub}}
   • {{Saskatchewan-school-stub}}
6. lastly, at the bottom of the article should be the appropriate categories (more on this below)
7. on the very top of the school's talk page, use the template {{WikiProject Canada|education=yes|[province menmonic]=yes|class=|importance=}}

School boards

1. always start with a standardized template; there isn't 1 single Canada-wide template to use:
   1. BC: {{Infobox BC School District}}
   2. All others: {{Infobox Canadian School District}}
2. school boards typically have a table of schools, and don't directly use the navigation bar; see examples from the list of Canadian school boards (e.g., School District 43 Coquitlam)
3. if necessary, insert (don't subst!) one of the appropriate stub template:
   • {{Canada-school-stub}}
   • {{Alberta-school-stub}}
   • {{BritishColumbia-school-stub}}
   • {{Manitoba-school-stub}}
   • {{NewBrunswick-school-stub}}
   • {{Newfoundland-school-stub}}
   • {{NovaScotia-school-stub}}
   • {{Ontario-school-stub}}
   • {{PrinceEdwardIsland-school-stub}}
   • {{Quebec-school-stub}}
   • {{Saskatchewan-school-stub}}
4. at the bottom of the article should be the appropriate categories (more on this below)
5. note that individual school boards typically shouldn't have categories to group the schools together; instead, use the navboxes to group schools together; this will need to be discussed for school boards with too many or too few schools to use a navbox
6. on the very top of the school board's talk page, use the template {{WikiProject Canada|education=yes|[province menmonic]=yes|class=|importance=}}

Lastly, most school boards -- as a service to the individual school articles for that board -- will provide a navbox to help users navigate from one school to another within the school board. See the standardized template {{Navbox Education in Canada}}, and the information below describing how to use {{Navbox Education in Canada}}. Note that navboxes likely wont work for school boards with too many or too few schools. These school boards will need to be discussed here and the project will be updated once we know how to handle these cases.

Logos

Logos of schools, teams, school boards, universities and colleges cannot be uploaded to Commons (Commons:Licensing:fair use clause), but can be uploaded to English-language Wikipedia as fair use provided the article in question is directly related to, or discusses, the logo being shown and a Fair use rationale is provided.

Schools

Elementary and Secondary School logos should be tagged as {{School logo}} and must have a Fair use rationale such as can be generated with {{Non-free use rationale}} and categorised with Category:PreK through Grade 12 public and private school logos.

This can be easily done using the template: {{subst:School rationale | Article name | source | copyright holder }} though the category is the more general Category:Academic institution logos.

School boards

School board logos should be tagged as {{Non-free logo}} and must have a Fair use rationale such as can be generated with {{Non-free use rationale}} and categorised with Category:Public and private school board logos.

Universities, colleges, and CEGEPs

Much the same as elementary and secondary schools, university, college, and CEGEP logos should be tagged as {{School logo}} and must have a Fair use rationale such as can be generated with {{Non-free use rationale}} and categorised with Category:University logos

This can be easily done using the template: {{subst:School rationale | Article name | source | copyright holder }} though the category is the more general Category:Academic institution logos.

Teams

In the same way as school and university logos except the appropriate category is Category:Academic sports logos.

Pictures

Uploading pictures

Ideally, every school article should have a free image. If you have a digital camera image to contribute, please upload it to Commons, use a free license such as Dual-licensed under the GFDL and CC-By-SA-2.5, 2.0, and 1.0, and assign it to a sub-category under Commons:Category:Schools in Canada so other editors may easily find it regardless of what language Wikipedia is being used.

Please note that we cannot use pictures that were found on web sites! This includes pictures from the school board, newsletters, blogs, the Ministry of Education web site, or the school's web site. The copyright for these pictures is typically held by the person who took the pictures or the web site hosting the pictures. Instead, take a brand new picture to ensure it is free.

Also note that logos cannot be uploaded to Commons. See the section above on logos.

Pictures needed

School articles that are more than just stubs, yet lacking a decent picture and/or logo, can be listed here. Thanks to anyone living nearby who can contribute a digital picture.

Province	City	School	Requested
BC	Port Coquitlam	Terry Fox Secondary School	Stephane Charette
ON	Alliston	Banting Memorial High School	Stephane Charette
ON	Barrie	Eastview Secondary School	Lovelaughterlife
ON	Barrie	Barrie Central Collegiate Institute	Lovelaughterlife
ON	Barrie	Barrie North Collegiate Institute	Lovelaughterlife
ON	Mississauga	Cawthra Park Secondary School	Stephane Charette
ON	Mississauga	Clarkson Secondary School	Décartes
ON	Toronto	A. Y. Jackson Secondary School (Toronto)	Stephane Charette
ON	Toronto	North Toronto Collegiate Institute	Stephane Charette
ON	Whitby	Donald A Wilson Secondary School	Ô
ON	Goderich	Goderich District Collegiate Institute	lilthor11
ON	Toronto	The York School	Cardamon
ON	Toronto	York Mills C.I.	Nathaniel Tang

Templates

School infoboxes

• Individual schools normally use {{Infobox Education in Canada}}. There are many examples of this template being used.

• Post-secondary schools normally use {{Infobox university}}, and post-secondary student associations use {{Infobox student association}} or {{Infobox students union}}.

School board infoboxes

• At the moment, there are 2 school board infoboxes:
  1. {{BC School District}} is specific to British Columbia
  2. {{Canadian School District}} should be generic enough for all other provinces and territories
• See the section above for additional information on setting up a school board article.

School board navboxes

• School boards normally provide a custom navigation bar based on {{Navbox Education in Canada}}. These school-board specific navboxes are then usually placed at the very bottom of the school articles. Creating a new navbox entails creating a new template, named after the school board, which then uses {{Navbox Education in Canada}}. It is easier to point to examples, rather than to describe the process:

1. Examples of working navboxes can be found in Category:Canadian education navigational boxes.
2. The master template contains some usage information in case the previous examples are not clear.

Talk pages

• The top of talk pages for schools, school boards, universities, colleges and templates should be tagged with the banner
  {{WikiProject Canada|class=|importance=|education=yes|[province mnemonic]=yes}}

School and school board stub templates

For schools and school boards, use the following stubs:

• {{Alberta-school-stub}}
• {{BritishColumbia-school-stub}}
• {{Manitoba-school-stub}}
• {{NewBrunswick-school-stub}}
• {{Newfoundland-school-stub}}
• {{NovaScotia-school-stub}}
• {{Nunavut-school-stub}}
• {{NorthwestTerritories-school-stub}}
• {{Ontario-school-stub}}
• {{PrinceEdwardIsland-school-stub}}
• {{Quebec-school-stub}}
• {{Saskatchewan-school-stub}}
• {{Yukon-school-stub}}

For non-specific articles, use {{Canada-school-stub}}.

Use of the stub automatically places the article in Category:Canadian school stubs except for {{BritishColumbia-school-stub}} and {{Ontario-school-stub}} which populate Category:British Columbia school stubs and Category:Ontario school stubs respectively. When the other provinces have sufficient numbers of stub articles, separate categories may be warranted.

College and university stub template

Both colleges and universities may use {{Canada-university-stub}}.

University ranking template

University articles may use the {{Infobox Canadian university rankings}} template to summarize information about rankings of Canadian universities.

Categories

Beware of subcategories. There are several subcategories that already exist within the Education in Canada scope that unfortunately break the pattern you'd expect. For example: If I choose to view the category called Category:High schools in Ontario, you'd think that would show me all high schools in Ontario. Alas, that is not the case, because some high schools in Ontario are instead categorized as Category:High schools in Hamilton, Ontario, Category:High schools in Toronto, Category:High schools in Ottawa, or Category:Education in Niagara Region. The good news is this situation only exists in Ontario -- none of the other provinces or territories have broken the categories down to cities or regions.

For this reason, editors of Education in Canada are urged to resist the temptation to create new subcategories based on boundaries finer than province/territory. At the very least, please discuss on the talk page prior to creating such categories.

A full hierarchy listing of the categories that make up Education in Canada is available as a subpage (due to the size). Within this subpage are some notes indicating several places where categories are missing or where we currently have categories that don't really belong in the Education in Canada project.

Lists

Some of the existing lists will be very difficult to keep up-to-date as new schools open, or even due to differently-spelled wikilinks which could result in multiple articles on the same school. Unless we can somehow come up with an automated way to ensure the lists are regularly updated, we should probably consider deleting some of these lists:

See also: Category:Lists of schools in Canada

• List of schools in Canada
  • List of colleges in Ontario
  • List of educational institutions in Toronto
  • List of English catholic schools in Ottawa
  • List of English public schools in Ottawa
  • List of French catholic schools in Ottawa
  • List of French public schools in Ottawa
  • List of French public schools in Eastern Ontario
  • List of Manitoba School Divisions and Districts
  • List of Nova Scotia schools
  • List of Ontario school boards
  • List of Quebec art schools
  • List of schools in Quebec
  • List of Saskatchewan school divisions
  • List of school districts in British Columbia
  • List of schools in New Brunswick
  • List of schools in Ottawa
  • List of Waterloo Region, Ontario schools

• List of universities in Canada
• List of colleges in Canada
  • List of CEGEPs
    • List of colleges in Canada's Territories
  • List of private universities in Canada
  • List of law schools in Canada
  • List of business schools in Canada
  • List of Canadian university leaders

Decisions from previous discussions

Somewhat like a list of frequently-asked-questions, here are some decisions that were made in the past which are likely to come up again with newer articles.

Problem/Decision/Solution	School/District/Talk page	Date	Other notes
University Presidents are inherently notable.	AfD	October 5, 2005
Post-secondary student newspapers are notable.	AfD	February 10, 2005
Incidents such as hazing that meet WP:V merit inclusion in an article.	Talk:McGill University/Archive 1	December 17, 2005
Student union articles (for post-secondary schools), should use the most common name, not the legal name.	Talk:University of Alberta Students' Union	January, 2006
Individual dorms are not inherently notable.	AfD	February, 2006
Faculty associations are not notable.	AfD	February 10, 2006
Student council members are rarely notable enough to warrant mentioning in the school articles.	David and Mary Thomson Collegiate Institute	May 19-28, 2006
The infobox's URL field should link to the official school web site, or to the school's page on the school board web server. Use the External links section of the article to link to a 3rd party or student-run web site.	A. Y. Jackson Secondary School (Toronto)	March 2006
BC's school districts will be named "School District ## Name"; see Talk:List of school districts in British Columbia. Note this is not universal across Canada (e.g., list of Ontario school boards).	List of school districts in British Columbia	May 2006
School boards with more than X or less than Y schools cannot use navboxes (they could, but the navboxes look somewhat ridiculus); the solution is to...? (See the project's talk page for discussion.)	Calgary Board of Education, or TDSB	June 2006
The common English spelling for Québec's CEGEP is CEGEP. (Not CÉGEP, nor Cégep, nor ...)	Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Education in Canada	May 31 2006	However, also consider French names.
Templates such as {{Infobox Education in Canada}}, {{Canadian School District}} and even {{WikiProject Canada|education=yes}} which is used on talk pages should never be subst:. (This allows us to use what links here, or to roll out template changes without having to re-edit hundreds of articles.)	Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Education in Canada	June 1-4 2006
The WP:FN method of referencing information (combined with things like {{cite}} described at WP:CTT) is a great way to cite external references.	Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Education in Canada	June 8 2006
Affiliate/federated colleges are not in themselves degree-granting institutions, and thus don't merit separate inclusion in templates or lists.	Template talk:Ont Uni	August 7, 2007
Historic university or college buildings are notable.	AfD	August 11, 2007
Fees of a University or College don't merit inclusion in an article.	Talk:Kwantlen Student Association	August 19, 2007
Student union executives don't merit inclusion in an article about the union unless they're notable outside of those activities and have a Wikipedia article already.	University of Alberta Students' Union	August 19, 2007

WikiProjects

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