Talk:Parti Rhinocéros

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Gawd, the article (and I assume the party too) is darn hilarious! XD --Andylkl 08:41, Mar 12, 2005 (UTC)

This article is awesome! Djadek 21:13, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Didn't the Rhino Party also promise to move Parliament to Churchill so that the hot air emerging therefrom might keep the Port open all winter (it's on Hudson's bay, so it freezes up for half the year)? I remember hearing that part of the party platform in the 80s, but I can find no reference on it....

Almost all candidates had their own platforms so it would suprise me to find a few bits that were known only in one riding or another.--Marc pasquin 02:42, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)à

This is almost unbelieveable.Canadianshoper 02:11, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge

Should the article be merged, since they do seem to be about the same party? Kerowyn 00:42, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

They are, and yes. Scott Paeth 07:15, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Per the article history, what happened was that a user moved the existing article at Rhinoceros Party of Canada to the French title, and then the following day a different user copied the text back into the original title without making any further changes. They weren't just two articles about the same thing; they were actually the same article at multiple titles. No merger necessary; I've just reimplemented the redirect (albeit from the French title to the English one instead). Bearcat 20:30, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

However, both articles have received a number of edits, so we're essentially working with two forks from that point. I looked at it about a week ago, and figured we could simply delete one, move the other overtop, delete that, and then selectively restore all but the move and copy-and-paste edits. I'm not certain if one can move an article overtop a deleted article, though. Mindmatrix 20:37, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Let me check into that. Bearcat 20:44, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Update: Although I see a few differences between the two, I don't see anything so massive that it couldn't just be cut-and-pasted back into the parent article. The edit history at the French title is still present, so we're not violating GFDL — just note in the edit summary that we're copying back a few changes whose history is available at Parti Rhinocéros. Bearcat 20:53, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Title

Wikipedia's basic rule is not necessarily "official name", it's "most common name in English". This is not a situation like Bloc Québécois or Parti Québécois, where the French name is used as is in both languages; this is a case where the French name and the English name were different from each other. Accordingly, per Wikipedia policy this article needs to be titled with the name by which the party is most commonly called in English. The French name can and should be mentioned in the article, but it shouldn't be the primary title. Bearcat 20:44, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Platform promises

I'm becoming increasingly concerned that some people may be padding the list with things that sound like they could have been, but never actually were, Rhino platform promises. Can anybody actually provide documented proof of the following?

1. reducing the speed of light because it's much too fast
2. paving Thunder Bay to make a parking lot for Toronto (and specifically, why did this replace the more easily verifiable promise to pave Manitoba?)
3. providing higher education by building taller schools
4. making all sidewalks out of rubber to prevent inebriated people from hurting themselves when they fall down
5. abolishing pumping oil out of the ground as that oil is there to keep the earth moving smoothly on its axis and if you withdraw the oil, the whole thing will grind to a halt
6. abolishing the environment because it's too hard to keep clean and it takes up so much space
7. adopting the British system of driving on the left; this was to be gradually phased in over five years with large trucks first, then buses, eventually including small cars and bicycles last
8. exploiting acid rain as an electrical energy source by placing dissimilar-metal electrodes in Canadian swimming pools in order to use them as batteries
9. making Canadians stronger by putting steroids in the water
10. putting the West Edmonton Mall on wheels and rolling it to areas of the country suffering from economic depression
11. annexing Greenland and creating a cartel with other northern nations in order to sell icebergs to the Saudi's, the cartel would be called "Icepec"
12. digging a canal from coast to coast, by hand, to reduce unemployment; and then, leveling the Rocky Mountains and using the canal to transport the material east to fill in the Great Lakes, in order to expand Canada's landmass (Note: I could be wrong, I suppose, but this one really sounds more to me like somebody's own weird attempt to replicate a Rhino-style promise than like something they ever actually proposed.)

There are even a couple of blog entries out there which list some of these very promises as unverifiable while confirming that some of the others were actually made by the party. Bearcat 05:55, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

I understand your concern, Bearcat, as it is would be likely that someone would add to this list in the spirit of fun. On the other hand, I think it is also likely that individual candidates added their own ideas to the platform as they went along. I doubt that the party required strict and unwavering adherence to a "grey book" of party policy. See this pdf of a campaign pamphlet issued by Judi Skuce, Rhino candidates in Beaches (electoral district) in 1984: Image:Judiskucepamphlet2.pdf. It seems to contain many of these ideas. By the way, do you know what the copyright status is of campaign materials? Are they fair use? Ground Zero | t 13:46, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

As long as we quote and cite, I'm confident they'd qualify as fair use in an NPOV article about the political party. Bearcat 21:34, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

I was wondering if I'd be able to post it on WIkiSource and link to it from here. Ground Zero | t 22:06, 17 May 2006 (UTC)