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December 1

School day

I was very surprised not to find an article for this. "School day" is a word used here in the US to distinguish a day that you'd go to school from, say, a holiday or a weekend day. I thought it might redirect to some formal thing like Academic day or some Wikipedic shit, you know, but instead School Day redirected to School Days (song). There's no information on just "days you go to school" on Wikipedia? There's got to be some extensive history or something on the subject, right?

Shouldn't there be an actual article for this? Or at least mentioned on the School Days disambiguation page? If a full article for it should exist, I wouldn't make it, at least not yet. There's academic year for instance. PseudoSkull (talk) 01:16, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

What sort of content do you think an article about School Day could have? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 02:08, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

• This is the reference desk. If you need help creating an article there are other venues, and you can do it on your own. Considering your user page and edit history, it seems you have the general idea, so go ahead and create the page if you have the WP:RS to prevent it from being deleted as not notable. Academic year does exist, have you improved that? You might also just create a wiktionary entry, if one doesn't exist. In any case, it is not our place to give opinions on whether a specific article should be created. μηδείς (talk) 02:09, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

I suspect that you won't find enough to make a Wikipedia article that won't be deleted, but over at Wiktionary, it could go in Wikt:day#Related_terms. Alansplodge (talk) 09:52, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

I think the reference you need is WP:NOTDIC. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 11:01, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

That's the one! Alansplodge (talk) 12:14, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

This term rates a dictionary entry, not an encyclopedia article. Our sister project Wiktionary didn't have this term, but it should have, so I've created it. —Steve Summit (talk) 23:52, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

Thanks Steve Summit, an alternative meaning in the plural and sometimes run into a single word (in the UK at least) is "the period of your life when you were at school" [1]. Not sure how we can connect that to your Wiktionary entry? Alansplodge (talk) 09:49, 2 December 2017 (UTC)

There has been an entry for wikt:schooldays for nearly ten years. Is there significant usage of the two-word form (other than the plural of your new entry)? I think your new entry should probably just be an alternative form of wikt:schoolday, but I'm not sure which is more common, or whether "school day" is just a sum of parts. Dbfirs 10:59, 2 December 2017 (UTC)

I didn't notice wikt:schoolday and wikt:schooldays. You're right, they're the same term as wikt:school day. I'll merge. —Steve Summit (talk) 13:25, 2 December 2017 (UTC)

The OP doesn't seem to be asking about "schooldays" (which would include those holiday times off from school), but rather about the concept of a specific "school day" - like, what happens during the average day at school. Though it would help if the OP would come back here and clarify. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 14:36, 2 December 2017 (UTC)

We could have an article comparing the structure of a typical school day in various countries. I think that might be of interest. One problem is that there is a lot of variation within each country. Dbfirs 16:37, 2 December 2017 (UTC)

In America, it would vary from state to state, from school district to school district, and maybe even from school to school, as well as variances between public and private schools. Since the OP first trashed Wikipedia itself and then hasn't returned to address the questions here, the question looks like trolling. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 16:41, 2 December 2017 (UTC)

Work day redirects to a "Working Time" article, and Business day is an article.

On the face of it, it does not seem absurd that "School Day" should redirect to Academic Year, or similar. (Perhaps also "School Calendar"?)

ApLundell (talk) 20:44, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

Academic year, actually. And that's a good idea. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 20:51, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

Gregory Porter

Why does he wear that silly hat?149.254.234.142 (talk) 21:56, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

Presumably, he likes it. What business is it of yours? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 22:11, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

Anyone who actually reads the article will find - "when asked 'What's with the weird and wonderful hat?' Porter replied: 'I've had some surgery on my skin, so this has been my look for a little while and will continue to be for a while longer.'". Tevildo (talk) 22:16, 1 December 2017 (UTC)