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This WikiProject is an attempt to organize articles about Toronto, Ontario into a coherent format.

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[edit] Title

WikiProject Toronto

[edit] Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to provide information in consistent format for articles on places in Toronto, Ontario. It is also a first test of the format established for Wikipedia:WikiProject_London, to allow for some feedback before the template is copied for use for other cities.

[edit] Parentage

The parent of this WikiProject is the WikiProject Cities. The Toronto project will probably generate a simpler template than the London project.

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[edit] Participants

Our hope is to recruit authors of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Ontario, Province of Toronto, and related articles about the city and the surrounding regions.

[edit] Structure

Places are most neutrally defined by their ecological characteristics. This is particularly easy for cities as most of the ecology is man-made. A bioregional structure is suggested, with each river (Don, Humber, etc.) and its watershed providing the basis for articles on settlement and history. The modern place-names and political boundaries will be discussed in terms of how much they respect or disrespect boundaries which nature always, by definition, respects. Toronto is an interesting city on which to test this structure, as it has many rivers, a rich set of open ravine parks, and an extensive sewer system, all of which takes water from Lake Ontario (via pumps or rain) and sends it back to there. It is thus an extremely simple watershed.

Note: Any other structure is likely to yield to definition conflicts. See bioregional democracy for a discussion of why watersheds tend to be the most neutral boundaries for definition of place.

[edit] Motivation

  1. Toronto is probably the world's most diverse large city, as over 50% of its population of 2.4 million were born in some other country (than Canada). Like London, it is structured as a set of urban villages that have not quite lost their character or total control of street life, and each of these neighbourhoods needs an article in the Wikipedia, in the language that is spoken by its inhabitants, and which appears on its signs. Chinese, Italian, Polish, Greek, and other communities are each associated with specific districts, which require articles in at least English, and in those languages.
  2. Toronto has sufficient cultural treasures to be worth visiting on any visit to North America. Some of these, including the Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario Science Centre and Royal Ontario Museum, are innovative and notable for their collections, and their public activity in education. Toronto is also a prominent centre for the study of library science and classification systems - the Robarts Library at the University of Toronto has some 1100 of these schemes in its collection. Articles on Toronto itself are most likely to motivate the participation of categorization scholars who work in these institutions.
  3. Toronto retains electric streetcars, has an extensive subway and semi-automated light metro network, and is experimenting with diesel-electric buses - probably the most technologically diverse transit system in North America, and so a testbed for transport technologies.

[edit] Naming conventions

  • Places: as [[Queen Street West, Toronto]] with a redirect from [[Queen West, Toronto]], or a disambiguation page if there is more than one place or thing with this name.
    • Rationale for doing things this way round: many places have been named after places in London, including many places in Toronto, where this habit is simply out of control. There are lots of Queen and King Streets in Canada and Australia, and figuring out how to disambiguate them all effectively is going to be very necessary. So let's do it early.
  • All TTC stations: as [[Spadina TTC station]]
  • Cities: as their former official full names but recognized as part of Toronto (their current status), i.e. [[Borough of East York, Toronto]], [[City of North York, Toronto]].

[edit] Framework

To do:

  • Auto-generate articles to create a trellis of linked pre-stub articles about places in Toronto, probably based on the phone book or a tour guide available in electronic form.
  • Hand-edit to merge with existing content, and to fill in the correct Toronto city name for each of these place articles.
  • The few places that actually are not in Toronto, but one of the surrounding counties, should be renamed, and the links to them fixed.
  • All mention of the 'Greater Toronto Area' must be purged, as this term is ambiguous, has no official status, nor any historical role.
  • There should be an article on each of the Toronto postal codes, cross-linked to the articles describing the places in that postal district, mean income, etc., Statistics Canada will have this.
  • Articles on notable Toronto tourist attractions such as Rogers Centre should be put in the same format as other Toronto place articles.

[edit] Substance

Done:

To do:

  • There should be an article on all six Toronto historical cities, using the borough's official name (usually "City of X, Toronto") with no mention of Ontario (as these cities are no longer legally recognized by Ontario, "East York, Ontario" simply doesn't exist). Each such city article should have a list of localities within that city at its end, using the naming conventions above.
  • Every locality needs at least a 500-character stub article, built on top of its framework article. See the list of geographical stub articles.
  • All areas of historic importance need substantial articles.
  • Every Toronto Subway and RT line, should have an article of the same level of quality of, say, the East London Line article, but the list of stations should be the same quality as the London Central Station. Don't waste energy on this topic that should be saved for other issues, e.g. water and power systems, that are less visible but actually more interesting.
  • Cuisine of Toronto; see Talk:Cuisine of Toronto
  • Articles on all the past Mayors of Toronto.

Good articles so far:

Completed Lines in Detail:

(discussion formerly here has been moved to Talk:Toronto Subway and RT)


Associated pages:

  • List of places in Toronto, Canada
  • Toronto postal codes - exists but needs much more work
  • Subterranean Toronto
  • Subterranean rivers of Toronto
  • Hidden Toronto (What is the intended content here? -Radagast)

External resources:

[edit] Templates

[edit] Volunteer recognition

  • The Canadian Content Award
    The Canadian Content Award
    This is for outstanding contributions to Canadian related pages on Wikipedia.


[edit] Photos without articles

Photos of potentially article worthy Toronto subjects that the photographer is unable, or uninterested, in making articles on.

St. Peter's Catholic Church on Bathurst Street

The Louis B. Stewart Observatory

One of Mel Lastman's moose, ie Moose in the City

The arch on Yonge Street that must have a story behind it

Brennan Hall

The U.S. Consulate in Toronto

The remains of that ruined Church south of the Grange

Unknown historic downtown building

The Anglican Church of the Messiah on Avenue Road

St. George's Greek Orthodox Church

St. Helens Catholic Church

St Alphonsus Catholic Church

One of the nearly completed towers of the Residences of College Park

The Kelly Library at St. Mike's

Parkdale United Church

Parkdale Collegiate Institute

O'Keefe House at Ryerson University

Oakham House at Ryerson University

The Metropolitan Hotel

Holy Rosary Catholic Church

First Evangelical Lutheran Church

Bonar-Parkdale Presbyterian Church

Please note that the Nordheimer ravine picture has been relocated to Castle Frank.

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