Talk:Federation Day

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AfD, if it still exists

"Federation day" is an extraordinarily non-unique term for this particular curricular event. How many nations have federations? How many of them have days of commemoration? How significant is this particular intramural student assembly? How likely is it that this parochial practice will need investigation in an international encyclopedia?

At best, this minor factoid could be folded into a subsection of "Wales"::"Education." Hithladaeus (talk) 02:25, 18 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I agree we shouldn't have this article by this name. AfD would be overkill IMO, merging and redirecting it to something suitable would be fine. But I'm having a little trouble finding something suitable. Federation of Maintained Schools in Wales (a name I got from reading the references) would be good, except there is no such article. I don't suppose you'd like to create it, User:Hithladaeus? No, me neither. The references (+ other pdf's on Google) are long, legal and dull. If you care, and if you can find something appropriate in Category:Education in Wales, please feel free to merge and redirect it yourself, if you remember how. If not, I can do it. See how I linked your username there? It should have given you an "alert" or "ping", a useful feature. See WP:ECHO. Bishonen | talk 09:15, 18 May 2015 (UTC).[reply]

I saw that, and being a person who thinks Ned Ludd was right, it made me feel as if I knew what Facebook users must feel. I see numbers and all sorts of things around my edit name.

I was going through "random article." There were many violations of Geogre's law that I hit -- articles about artists born in 1992 with one major show that list all their press blurbs. The other thing I hit was this sort of thing: ill considered naming. One of the most important distinctions on Wikipedia is "thinking about readers" versus "thinking about writers." If people only think about the joy and "rights" of people to write articles, then naming conventions go by the boards, but if we ask, with every article, 1. Who will seek this lemma? 2. Who will seek this information? 3. Is this information actually significant to the information sought? then we can obliterate a lot of junk like this. I'm not sure that this article would ever be searched in the search bar. Indeed, the affected population is so small that, outside of historical curiosity, one would assume that those searching the term know in advance as much as the article conveys. That's why I think AfD, if it exists, is the right way to go. It is, however, just an opinion of a newbie. Hithladaeus (talk) 18:27, 18 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]