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The WikiProject Schools pages will help you to make excellent school articles. The project covers all articles about schools, special needs schools, school districts (US), regional school authorities (other countries), and related articles such as school, as well as institutions that use college or academy as part of their name, but are actually primary or secondary schools. It also includes further education schools and sixth form colleges, and vocational and job schools that do not award recognised degrees in their own right. It does not include universities.[1]

Project goals

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This project aims to improve the quality of school-related articles. Articles within the scope of this project should become far more substantial than stubs, and ultimately match the quality of featured articles.

By their nature, school articles are often targets for vandalism and promotional claims. Editors are asked to be as helpful as possible in removing irrelevant, inappropriate, or unsourced content.

Article guidelines and notability

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Article advice explains what school articles should contain, and provides a common page structure for consistency throughout the encyclopedia. Following the notability requirements will avoid school articles being deleted.

Article grading

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School articles are graded for quality based on the Assessment scale and for importance using the Release Version Criteria scale. For further information, visit the Assessment department.

WikiProject Schools articles by quality

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WikiProject Schools articles by importance

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Potential featured article candidates

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These are articles that could be candidates for Featured articles (FA). Such articles are particularly well-written and complete and must meet strict criteria. Please list an article that is close to this criteria so that editors can perfect it and submit it for FA review.

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Potential good article candidates

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These articles are possible candidates for Good articles (GA). They are reasonably well-written and complete but will need updating and the sources checking. Please list an article that is close to the criteria so that editors can improve them and submit them for GA review. Schools in bold are particulary impportant to our project. Many of the schools here are previous GA that have been demoted.

Requests, maintenance and monitoring

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Article requests

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The article requests department helps co-ordinate the creation of missing articles within the scope of the project. To request an article be created please visit Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools/Article requests#Requests.

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Image ‎Articles in need of emergency, short term attention

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Article alerts and deletions

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Listings of articles recently proposed for GA, FA, and deletion.
Deletions: Please note that many school articles can be rescued or redirected.
Details are updated daily by a bot. Click 'show' to view.

Image Participants

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Participants in this project are listed at Participants. If you wish to join our project and be of active help in maintaining the quality of Wikipedia school articles, please add your name to the list. If you wish, you can then also add the schools project userbox to your user page. This main page and the navbox on the right list some of the more urgent tasks; be sure to keep it on your watchlist.

Templates

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Use templates to further spread recognition of this project and create more consistent messages. They are explained and illustrated on our templates page. There's also a small one you might like to add to your own user page.

Infobox templates

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For full instructions on the use of infoboxes for schools, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools/Article guidelines#Infobox.

The list of all available school-related infobox templates is in: Category:Education infobox templates

Please be sure to use the correct infoboxes. Some English speaking countries have specific templates that provide parameters for the data points appropriate for their schools.

  • Most schools use the generic {{Infobox school}}, designed to be placed on articles about primary and secondary schools of all kinds, public or private.
    • Generally, elementary/primary[a], middle[b], secondary, 6th form, FE and vocational schools in Commonwealth countries (United Kingdom and its former territories) that have the word College in their name are not universities, and should not use a university infobox. Check the ages allowed to enroll at a school to be sure that the guidance here applies.
  • Most school districts use the generic {{Infobox school district}}, as do other local administrative bodies responsible for providing education to minors. Some U.S. school districts have custom infoboxes, though; consult their documentation page if you encounter one.
  • Do not create new school infobox templates. If you feel something on an existing template should be improved, please start a discussion on that template's talk page. If you feel a new infobox template is needed altogether, please start a discussion on the WikiProject Schools talk page.


Footnotes:

  1. ↑ Elementary/primary and U.K. prep schools do not normally meet the notability requirements for their own Wikipedia article and will generally be merged by an experienced editor to their respective school district (in the U.S.) or locality page.
  2. ↑ Most junior high/middle (U.S.) and prep (U.K.) schools (or other lower secondary schools) do not meet the notability requirements for their own Wikipedia article and will generally be merged by an experienced editor to their respective school district (in the U.S.) or locality page.

Recognized content

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Good articles

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Former good articles

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Did you know? articles

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Featured article candidates

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Good article nominees

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In the News articles

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Main page featured articles

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Main page featured lists

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Picture of the day pictures

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Level 2 vital articles

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Level 3 vital articles

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Level 4 vital articles

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Level 5 vital articles

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  1. ↑ Recognised degrees are generally bachelor, master, and doctoral degrees. This project includes polytechnics and vocational colleges that do not award degrees or which are affiliated to universities who issue the degree on their behalf. Colleges, universities, and other organisations that are authorised to issue their own degrees are covered by WikiProject Higher education.
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