Portal:Vancouver/DYK/Suggest
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SUGGESTIONS for the Did you know... for the Vancouver Portal:
Did you know... of the Vancouver Portal must qualify within three criteria:
- relevant to Vancouver.
- interesting.
- relate to a category (transit, weather, history, etc.)
Consensus is built among the reviewers and nominators, and the DYK Director(s), Mkdwtalk and Selmo (talk), determine whether there is consensus.
[edit] Example (Category:Transit, History, Weather, etc.)
...that once upon a time...
...that ...
...that ...
References: (list sources) ===Discussion===
(signed)
[edit] Port of Vancouver
...that the Port of Vancouver is #1 in total foreign exports...
...that more than 910,172 people come to Vancouver via cruiseships every season...
...that 66% of exports from the Port of Vancouver are destined for Asia...
References: Port of Vancouver
Mkdwtalk 06:35, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Film
...Vancouver is North America's second largest film production centre and third-largest for US-based productions...
...that television celebrity and international sex icon Pamela Anderson was born in Ladysmith, British Columbia and moved to Vancouver in 1988.
...that television series Smallville, Supernatural, Battlestar Galactica, and The Amazing Adrenalini Brothers are all produced in Vancouver.
...that in the film industry in North America commonly refers to Vancouver as Hollywood North...
References: Reel West Productions, BC Film Commission
[edit] Law Culture
...that the statue of Christopher Columbus in the Hastings Park Italian Gardens was mysteriously erected in its present location after it was stolen from its original Clark Drive home and was missing for four months in 2000 ...
...that the statue, presented to the Italian-Canadian community by the City of Genoa in 1986, is dedicated to one of the most influential legal figures in Vancouver's history, Justice Angelo Branca ...
...that Branca became the youngest prosecutor in 1938, was the Canadian amateur middleweight boxing champion, earned a reputation for his pro bono work for downtrodden East Enders and as the leader of the Italian community, served as a Park Commissioner, won acquittals for 59 out of the 63 accused murderers he defended, all before he was appointed to the Supreme Court of British Columbia in 1963 ...
References: Angelo Branca, Official Hastings Park page
Bobanny 21:35, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
- I'm sure Vancouver Law has some other interesting facts. A couple more, not having to do with Angelo Branca preferrably, and it'll be ready to go in the rotation. Mkdwtalk 14:49, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
- I thought the idea was to lure readers to a single article, but if not, I only nominate the one DYK about the statue, because that's the one I find to be an interesting bit of trivia for the DYK, and without the other 2, it says more about the local Italians than law, which is more properly "culture".Bobanny 17:33, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
