Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Education in the United Kingdom

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Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

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Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Bradford College, England listed at Requested moves

A requested move discussion has been initiated for Bradford College, England to be moved to Bradford College. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 23:00, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

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Hidden project

I have to say this project is quite hidden. I wasn't aware it even existed until today. I wouldn't be happy to join, despite having a strong interest in English schools. I just couldn't subscribe to either the aims or the minimum standards. The aims seem to be focused on the survival of the project rather than the improvement of the 'pedia. And wrt standards I don't believe that requiring a school article to show GCSE results is a good idea. For a start they change every year. Secondly, not every school sits GCSEs - 6th Form Colleges, Independents, primaries, etc. And stating coordinates AND infobox as requirements seem to be overlapping requirements. Coordinates are part of the standard school infobox. If many of these issues were to change, i might be interested in joining up. CalzGuy (talk) 10:05, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

British overseas territories

I took the liberty of adding schools in Jersey, Guernsey, and British overseas territories (Gibraltar, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Montserrat, Anguilla, and BVI - plan to do Turks and Caicos too). I wonder what you guys think about adding schools in Hong Kong in existence prior to 1997 (schools established post-1997, of course, shouldn't be added at all) or schools in the former British Empire (British Raj, etc)? WhisperToMe (talk) 04:35, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

Gobbet

The page Gobbet contains a dictionary definition, which was copied to wikt:gobbet in 2007. I am considering PROD, since there is no encyclopedic content on the page at present. However, I notice that "Gobbet examination" is used in some programs, especially in history. Is there value in keeping this article in Wikipedia? Cnilep (talk) 03:53, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

As there appears to be multiple definitions, a possible alternative may be to create a disambiguation page with it. If that's not worth it, I agree that it appears better suited for a dictionary (WP:NOTDICTIONARY) unless we can find more to write about... —PaleoNeonate – 10:17, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

I don't see anything that a disambiguation page could point at. Meat is far too general and Butcher far too specific for the "small chunk of meat" sense. The nearest matches for the "chunk of text" sense might be Explication or Close reading, except that the former is specifically about analytic philosophy and the latter about literary criticism. Chunk is a disambiguation page, and nothing there matches either of these senses. I think deletion is appropriate. Cnilep (talk) 01:19, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

Elizabeth College (Guernsey) listed at Requested moves

A requested move discussion has been initiated for Elizabeth College (Guernsey) to be moved to Elizabeth College. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 23:45, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

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A new newsletter directory is out!

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St. Mary's High School, Newry listed at Requested moves

A requested move discussion has been initiated for St. Mary's High School, Newry to be moved to St Mary's High School, Newry. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 21:48, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

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Request for information on WP1.0 web tool

Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Hartpury College listed at Requested moves

A requested move discussion has been initiated for Hartpury College to be moved to Hartpury University and Hartpury College. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 16:00, 3 January 2020 (UTC)

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American School in England listed at Requested moves

A requested move discussion has been initiated for American School in England to be moved to TASIS England. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 02:00, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

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GCE Advanced Level listed at Requested moves

A requested move discussion has been initiated for GCE Advanced Level to be moved to A-Level. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 15:46, 12 June 2021 (UTC)

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RfC on including an image of a child wearing the Welsh Not

Hi all. There's an RfC here on including a CG image to illustrate the Welsh Not and how the device was worn by a child. Your comments would be appreciated. Thanks! Cell Danwydd (talk) 15:44, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

2020 UK GCSE and A-Level grading controversy listed at Requested moves

A requested move discussion has been initiated for 2020 UK GCSE and A-Level grading controversy to be moved to 2020 United Kingdom school exam grading controversy. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 22:07, 27 August 2022 (UTC)

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A-Level listed at Requested moves

A requested move discussion has been initiated for A-Level to be moved to A level. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 19:46, 13 May 2023 (UTC)

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Personal, social, health and economic education listed at Requested moves

A requested move discussion has been initiated for Personal, social, health and economic education to be moved to PSHE. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 21:26, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

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