Wikiversity talk:Naming conventions/Archive 1

Page Discussion Voting is below. Argh! I dropped in here to ask a specific question to find it subverted as a voting page. Maybe a good innovation for rapid creation of policy, if not we can take future voting back to the central policy voting page as various stuff is archived. Interesting experiment.! The intent of saying there will be no subpages confuses me:
 * 1. Are you saying the lesson space is reserved for main index pages of lesson plans and detailed treatment of specific material or issues (which can get lengthy) should be linked to in an alternate namespace?
 * 2. If I tackle creating detailed notes from an advanced physics books regarding the material which has lengthy multiple page examples (a typical problem set of 6 or 7 problems in physics at 400 level ran about 50 pages of hand algegra & calculus &esoteric assumptions) how do you want this handled?
 * 3. I hope this is not a reincarnation of Wikipedia's there can be only one article tendency/policy? A convenient way of keeping separate tracks of same topic is adding a suffix or prefix to each associated page. Surely we not trying to fan into single pages with links to only one from all lesson plans? Mirwin 00:06, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

If you think you have a better solution, feel free to replace the entire proposal. Messedrocker 23:54, 19 August 2006 (UTC) Yes, I didn't know where to put this... any ideas?--Rayc 01:22, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

=Voting= I guess this is as good as any place. I think there needs to be a vote on a couple of things.

Number of levels
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One
All school pages are considered equal, be it “engineering and technology” or “audio engineering”. No departments, no subschools. Just one level.

Two
Major school pages, like the ones listed on the browse page, will be given sort of a hub status. They will host any and all departments that belong to them and act as the coordination page for them. Whether or not they will host their own courses and/or research will be decided later.

Few
Major school page will be formed, and then the participants in each shall decided on how many levels each major school will have. For example Art might just have one (“Art” -> “Abstract Art” ), and engineering and technology might have three (“ engineering and technology” -> “engineering“ -> “electrical engineering” -> “Power  engineering”)

Many
Major school page will be formed, and when a new school is “created”, it will be placed by the creator into any school/department/subschool as they feel fit.

..(add others)

Major school name
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What should major schools be called?

Just schools
Put the major schools into the wikiversity schools category, and create subcats for there departments. All schools, major or minior, start with School:

Department
..(add others)

Minor school name
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What should minor schools be called?

Just schools
Put the minor schools into their subcats. All schools, major or minior, start with School:

Department
..(add others)

What should be names of the major schools
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