A fact from Two-room school appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 March 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the US government once mailed rural school districts scale models from which carpenters could construct actual two-room schools?
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This article is very interesting and informative. However, shouldn't the title be Two room schools in the United States? There's no information about anything related to anywhere other than the USA. Is that because this is only a USA phenomenon? Or because there's been no research into anything else? Either way, the title seems to violate WP:CONCISE. 174.254.192.137 (talk) 04:35, 17 February 2021 (UTC)Reply
I agree. This problem seems to be a never ending one. Apparently the United States is the centre of the English-speaking world and Wikipedia must therefore reflect such. I've slapped a WP:GLOBAL tag so hopefully someone who knows more about the subject from other parts of the world can contribute. UaMaol (talk) 04:49, 17 February 2021 (UTC)Reply
There is one mention of a two-room school in Canada. That is all I could find searching online from within the US. I certainly did not exclude info from other countries. One room school is 15 years old and mostly about the US also. Without sources, not much can be done. There is probably just more US info digitized and easily available online. MB05:06, 17 February 2021 (UTC)Reply
There might be a problem with confining the article name to the U.S. only, as many institutions, i.e.churches, colleges, etc, are really the product of Western culture overall. Recommend moving the title to Two-room schools in the West. This would allow for examples of such schools in Canada, France, Italy, England, Mexico, etc, and of course cover those in America. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 23:46, 23 February 2021 (UTC)Reply
I've found a couple examples of such schools that exist outside of the US (one in Ontario and one in Timor-Leste), in addition to the one in Quebec that's already listed. The article could definitely stand to incorporate more material about these structures in other countries, but I think that for now it may be reasonable to remove the tag. @UaMaol: thoughts? jp×g19:27, 7 March 2021 (UTC)Reply
