Talk:Guide to Schools

Purpose and task outline for book
I originally intended to create a guidebook that others and other resources for young people that might expand in any direction involving information about schools. Jimmy Wales email of March 7, 2006, that we were subject to deletion if not more of a textbook changed my course.

My own contributions to the Appendices will be primarily information for people looking for schools and other resources that provide special services for young people with behavioral and emotional problems. (That was initially intended to be the entirety of the book) I will write some pieces for the Textbook chapters, but the only one I have the knowledge to fully develop will be on special needs. Contributions of others will be important in all areas.

Others may expand this in other directions.

To know about me, see http://www.familylight.com. I would encourage other contributors to be consistent with the format I establish or to add to it. I am not suggesting that others should not innovate -- that would be going against the purpose of wikibooks. What I am asking is that we can maintain some consistency in how the data is listed.

Tom Croke Frog One 00:23, 30 October 2005 (UTC) revised Frog One 18:35, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

If you want to add a school to Appendix A
Contributors, please read!

If you wish to add a school, please do as follows for sake of consistency: (I personally prefer that you log in first, but that is not required.) If you think you can improve this procedure, it is your privilege to do that under the rules of Wikibooks, but lets hope for a sense of collaboration among the contributors. As time passes, I am sure there will be improvements on this suggested approach. I encourage contributors to be familiar with the existing procedure before improving upon it.

BEFORE YOU START Decide where your entry link will go. I am suggesting that every school or treatment resource have its own module, so the question is, where does it link? If you are adding to a category of school that is not well developed, I suggest putting it on the main page under the heading for that category. Once a category develops ten or more links, I suggest creating a link for that category to separate module for that category with the template substituted in the module. To add a separate module for a category: step 1: Click on the edit symbol on the right side of the screen slightly above the name of the category you are working with. step 2: Change the name of the catgory to a link. If the Category is "Regular Schools," substitute "Regular Schools" where it currently says "Regular Schools." If there are other symbols, such as quotation marks, leave them in place outside the brackets. Step 3: Click on "Show Preview"  This should produce exactly what was there before except the name of the category is now in red rather than black. If that is not true, click on "cancel" and start over. If that is true, click on "save page." Step 4: Now click on the category, now in red. This will bring up a page with a notice that says, "You've followed a link to a page that doesn't exist yet." The title of the page will be "Guide to Schools/Regular Schools" In the upper left corner of the space below enter. Click on "Show Preview." You should see the standard list of states organized by region. If not, click cancel and start over. If so, click on "save page." Step 5:Go back to Main Page. Now move the links already under your category to their proper location on the newly created page, whose name should now show in blue on the main page.

To add a school:

Step 1: Open the edit or edit this page, then go to the place where you want to add the school to the site. Enter the following:  You must do this exactly. If not, either what appears on the page will be wrong or the link will not appear correctly. Example: If the school you want to enter is "Gateway Academy" then your entry will be Gateway Academy

Step 2: Click on "Show Preview" and see if this shows correctly. The name of your school should now appear in red -- not blue -- in the proper location. Look for Gateway Academy. If it does not appear that way, click on cancel, and start over. If it looks as it should, except that the name of your school is in red, not blue, click on "Save Page."

Step 3: Now click on the link in red that you just created. This brings you to a page with "Guide to Schools/" at the top, and a notice that says "You've followed a link to a page that doesn't exist yet." In the box below, enter in the upper left corner and click "show preview"  Our template outline for a school description should have appeared. If so, click "Save page." If not, click "Cancel and start over"

Frog One 03:05, 1 November 2005 (UTC) Further revised, Frog One 15:44, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

NPOV
Wikibooks requires that all contributions to these pages keep to a neutral point of view (NPOV). There will be disagreement between contributors and readers will sometimes benefit from knowing about it. Hopefully contributors who see something they don’t agree with will not edit that out but enter a comment of the form, “some people believe X and others believe Y.” That keeps it neutral, but the alternative points of view are made visible to readers. Frog One 02:08, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Templates
Templates in use in this book are listed below, plus a "template sandbox" to allow contributors to experiment with Templates. Keep in mind that anything you leave in the Template Sandbox may be erased. Frog One 23:24, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

Talk/template sandbox

Dangling modules
Guide to Schools/States by Region  Frog One 14:47, 21 November 2005 (UTC)