Talk:Frosh

This page is too American in POV. Can anyone write something about other countries? I just made the stub "orientation week" which got redirected here (quite rightly) but I feel like this page doesn't cover the content that "orientation week" could. "Frosh" is a N.American specific term whereas "orientation week" could cover all national systems including other organisations with simillar activities such as the army. Witty lama 15:23, 20 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

P I find it ironic that someone would say that, since I'm the person who originally made this page, and I'm Canadian.

Likewise, this is the American English portion of Wikipedia. Therefore, the majority of readers will be interested the American POV. Other cultures should be included, but should not take priority.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.158.24.33 (talk • contribs)

You are incorrect, this is "en.wikipedia" not "am-en.wikipedia". It is English, of all nationalities. - BalthCat 05:48, 25 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I stand corrected.

I don't think think this page is too American. I added a link to an article about Freshers' Week in other countries. User:Awis 21:08, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've never heard the term "Frosh Week" before. At my university Frosh is used as a gender-neutral term for freshmen. The term for the first week before classes is "Orientation" (it's an American university).user:topkai22 23 August 2006

Maybe this article should move to Orientation week. /Yvwv 14:56, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Why? Frosh is a term used for the new students, well past the first week. - BalthCat 16:47, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That's exactly why - this article should about the first week, orientation week, not the term for a first year student. That info should go under freshman. Frosh should redirect to Orientation week, not the other way around.

Frosh is used at SDSM&T to identify a first year student before they run around the track durring the homecoming football game, when they become freshman proper.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.158.24.33 (talk • contribs) .

Severe Problems

Several, Notable Problems I am considering nominating this for AfD, but am hoping something will be done to fix the problems so I'll briefly hold off. However, this article suffers from several major problems:

1. Absolutely no references, no citations. As such, it currently appears to be primarily original research, which is not allowed. The article needs to have sources at the bottom and in-text citations.

2. I attended two undergraduate universities while earning my BA and am now in Grad School. None of these three schools which I attended referred to this by this name, rather it has been called at all three Universities "Orientation Week."

3. Continuing off of problem two, in my experience the term 'frosh' actually is a pejorative term for freshmen in general, whether in high school or in college.

4. Given all this, this article needs to be merged into Orientation Week, it needs to be fully cited, and it needs to give a wider range of meaning to the term.

--The Way 05:57, 31 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please see Talk:Freshers' Week, new draft and other discussions.--NHSavage 19:57, 31 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

As above, hold off the AfD since a new combined article is in preparation, to which your contrbutions are welcome. BlueValour 23:27, 31 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bad redirect

I'm changing this redirect from orientation week to freshman. Orientation week is only occasionally referred to as "frosh" as an abbreviated form of "frosh week" or "freshers' week". "Frosh" here is a slang term for freshman—and that is the meaning it holds 90% of the time the word is used (google it). It doesn't make any sense to redirect "frosh" to orientation week. It'd be like redirecting "electric" to electric guitar without any mention of electric being an adjective that describe something related to electricity.--71.105.214.225 (talk) 10:31, 12 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]