Template talk:Infobox school/Archive education in Canada and Talk:Leah Cairns: Difference between pages

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If I'm not mistaken, Leah broke her back being thrown from a horse, not a car accident.

Can anyone comfirm?

She definatley broke it in car accident.

Some examples of the completed template

Goes to show how memory plays tricks on you.

Actor Noah Hathaway who played Boxey in the original Battlestar Galactica series broke his back when he was thrown from a horse and stepped on (during the filming of NeverEnding Story in which he played Atreyu). Maybe you mixed these two up?

*[[Featherston Drive Public School]]

==URL==

Where in the template info box do you think the URL link for the schools website should go ??

:I think we should follow [[Template:Infobox School]] or [[Template:Infobox School2]]. <span style="white-space:pre"><span style="background-color:#4080FF">&nbsp;[[Image:Ca-on-sb.gif|20px|Flag of Scarborough, ON, Canada]]&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color:#FFD700">&nbsp;[[User:UTSRelativity|UTSRelativity]] ([[User talk:UTSRelativity|Talk]])&nbsp;</span></span> 06:23, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

::Why do we have three templates for one subject ?? [[User:Battlefield|Battlefield]] 12:42, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

:::There is another WikiProject working on the other templates. Personally, I don't see why we should duplicate the effort. We can have our infobox for our other information. <span style="white-space:pre"><span style="background-color:#4080FF">&nbsp;[[Image:Ca-on-sb.gif|20px|Flag of Scarborough, ON, Canada]]&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color:#FFD700">&nbsp;[[User:UTSRelativity|UTSRelativity]] ([[User talk:UTSRelativity|Talk]])&nbsp;</span></span> 17:41, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

==New Template==

This template was re-written tonight. The previous version was not a template that could be used directly from articles since some fields were not even "fields" but simply static text (city, province, contact information) that had to be [[WP:SUBST]] and then edited within the article. This new version is really a template, with most fields optional, yet should have exactly the same "look-and-feel" as the previous version. For further discussion on the use of this and related school/education templates, please see the discussion at [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Education in Canada]]. --[[User:S charette|Stephane Charette]] 12:16, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

:To prepare swapping out older templates and hard-coded infoboxes in several Canadian school articles, I've added the following optional fields to the template:

# colours

# motto

# affiliation

# mascot [[User:S charette|Stephane Charette]] 08:28, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

== URL to the school's profile at the school board, or directly to the school? ==

In regards to the URL provided in the infobox, I propose that the official school profile from the school board's web page be provided, instead of a URL directly to the school web server. This is for the following reasons:

# not all schools have a personal web site, especially when it comes to primary schools

# some schools have student-run sites which are not "official", even though the URL may make it look official

Especially due to #2, I think only the official sites should be linked from the infobox. Of course, "external links" at the bottom of the article can always be used to link to any other school- or student-run web site.

To pick a recent example, [[A. Y. Jackson Secondary School (Toronto)]]:

* URL from the school board is: [http://www.tdsb.on.ca/scripts/Schoolasp.asp?schno=3432 http://www.tdsb.on.ca/scripts/Schoolasp.asp?schno=3432]

* URL that looks official but is actually run by some students who attend the school: [http://www.ayjackson.ca/ http://www.ayjackson.ca/]

--[[User:S charette|Stephane Charette]] 03:29, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

== School number ==

The school number field can be found with:

* [http://sbinfo.edu.gov.on.ca/schfind.asp Ontario schools]

* [http://www.achievebc.ca/spt/searchform.html BC schools]

(Please add the other provinces/territories to this list as official sources are found.)

--[[User:S charette|Stephane Charette]] 19:21, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

==A few notes==

I just noticed that if you include a motto, but don't have an image, then the motto is not displayed to the user when the template is rendered. A quick perusal of the code seems to indicate that ''motto'' and ''image'' are considered one structure. (See [[King City Secondary School]] for an example.)

Also, the text fields are formatted with no padding between cell borders and the text, which makes it difficult to read entries (headers and text for principal, school type, colours etc).

Finally, we shouldn't automatically include the category. Schools should be placed in the most specific category appropriate (eg - ''High schools in Ontario''), instead of a generic catch-all like ''Schools in Canada''.<font color="#8b4513">[[User:Mindmatrix|Mind]]</font><font color="#ee8811">[[User_talk:Mindmatrix|matrix]]</font> 18:22, 15 April 2006 (UTC)