Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Newfoundland and Labrador

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Contents 1 Getting organized and assigning tasks 2 Open letter to Town of Happy Valley-Goose Bay 3 All of the existing communities etc 4 Newfoundland & Labrador Music 5 Census Division 8 6 Educational institutions 7 stubs 8 nfld history 9 Newfoundland & Labrador stub and category 10 Q and R Sections 11 The Humber Region 12 Things to Do 12.1 Suggested Project collaboration for July 2006 13 Category:St. John's 14 Quidi Vidi Brewing Company 15 Commons cleanup and links to here 16 Electorial Districts 16.1 Useful Links 17 Project directory 18 Canadian WikiProjects 19 Provincial templates update 20 Wikipedia Day Awards 21 Newfoundland and Labrador First Party

[edit] Getting organized and assigning tasks

Looking for suggestions here... Next step is to identify an area where we can all pitch in and apply our skills to the creation and editing of NL related topics and articles. WayneRay is very busy creating stubs of the numerous communities in the province. My suggestion is to complete that task with all of our help. HJKeats 19:48, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

While WayneRay has been creating a large number of articles, he's working with wildly out of date information. Having the populations of communities 50 years ago isn't that useful. If we could work on the communities listed in the last census, that might be better. I'd really like to choose a collaboration article, though, one single article we can all work on, and therefore really be working together. Maybe one of the other cities in NL: Corner Brook, or Mount Pearl, or perhaps a community in Labrador, since I assume they're very sparsely documented on Wikipedia. OzLawyer 00:55, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Yes it is old but I thought it would be a start to the really large number of dead red links = no articles. I have only done two letters so far and added new ones. Shall I stop? If we are only going to have existing villages and hamlets and cities, then the whole list should be cleaned right up? I only put the populations because after I left NFLD in 1966, the outposts and small communities were moved into the larger cities and I felt it was nice, historically, to know early and diminishing populations. Please advise. WayneRay 01:09, 11 June 2006 (UTC)WayneRay

Well, I'm not the "boss" here--you can do as you wish. And I wouldn't say that these smaller communities should not be included--it would be great if we put them all in eventually. NL geography would be the best documented on Wikipedia, for sure, if that was done. I would, however, say that the current communities--those defined by the province and Statscan, and included as census subdivisions--should be done first. In fact, if we can figure out what existing communities those on your list are now a part of, that would be very useful for inclusion in the articles. The 2001 census numbers for each town are available here, and a map showing which census division each town is located in, which can be used for reference for noting geographic location, can be found here. I realize that this is a very large project, and unless we get hundreds of participants (not likely), it's going to take a long time to get it all up. But if we organize it well, we should be able to start making an impact. OzLawyer 02:32, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Ok go look at the A section and see if this detracts from the article. I initialed the Census Towns in that section so it shows those you think should be worked on, or maybe they could be at the head of the alpha list?? Let me know WayneRay 03:30, 11 June 2006 (UTC)WayneRay

Making a note of which are census-designated places is good. I would go with bolding census places and italicising non-census places, though. Then it will be very easy to pick them out from the list. OzLawyer 13:51, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

All Census towns are now bolded WayneRay 16:31, 24 June 2006 (UTC)WayneRay

Shall we put it to a vote then for this occasion. Rather than ask for suggestions on what area/community to vote on (there are so very many) let's choose from one of the three cities and a Labrador town, Corner Brook, Mount Pearl, St. John's or Happy Valley-Goose Bay! HJKeats 16:52, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Happy Valley-Goose Bay gets my vote. Labrador places are in need of contributors. I'm unfortunately not going to be able to contribute a whole lot these next couple weeks--I really have to focus on getting an articling job. But here's an image to start off the HV-GB cleanup (if others choose to go with that effort):

And don't forget to put the {{nlfocus}} template on the talk page of whatever article you decide to work on. OzLawyer 14:02, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

My vote goes to Happy Valley-Goose Bay too. Labrador articles in general need a nice bit of work. Jeremiad 15:31, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

HVG gets my vote also. Let's shoot for 'Feature Article' status HJKeats 15:45, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

I'll take this as the decision, then, and put the improvement focus tag up. OzLawyer 23:49, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Open letter to Town of Happy Valley-Goose Bay

Hi fellow NL Wikipedians, I shall be sending an email letter to the Town of Happy Valley-Goose Bay apprising them of our current collaborative project to write about the town. I shall include it here for you all to review and suggest changes to ensure it says what we wish to get from the town. That would be a critical look at the article, suggestion for topics, some input to the topics and pictures if they wish to have them included in the article. Please read it and make suggestions to its content. FYI - The click here statements will have hypertext links embedded in the document

Mrs. Sheppard;

My name is Hayward Keats and I live in St. John’s. For the past year or so I have been writing articles in Wikipedia pertaining to Newfoundland and Labrador and its history, including events, places and its people.

Wikipedia, as may or may not know, is an online free encyclopedia that has grown exponentially to include over 1 million articles in the English language over the past few years. My interest is to create articles of interest to the province and those who wish to know of the province and its historic and colourful history. I would welcome anyone to participate in the creation of new articles and to edit existing articles as necessary.

Lately, a group of us who have an interest in creating articles about Newfoundland and Labrador have formed what is termed a Wikiproject. You may have a look at the current status of this project by clicking here. The group has agreed to write quality articles and as a start we have chosen Happy Valley-Goose Bay to collaborate on.

An article has been started for Happy Valley-Goose Bay and you may view it by clicking here. Please have a look at the article and give me your feedback and opinion. The article will require a great amount of work yet to bring it up to Wikipedia standard for feature article status, a goal we have set to get us working together.

Please help us in creating a very informative article about Happy Valley-Goose Bay and its history. If you so desire you may forward any pictures you feel would lend to the article content. I would also recommend that you or any of the residents of the town to become interested in Wikipedia and lend a hand to this article or any others that is of interest.

Yours Sincerely;

[edit] All of the existing communities etc

I found this website and there is a ton of information including all the now, existing communities. NFLD-Grand Banks Perhaps we could divide the article list into two sections, the one you want to work on of existing cities and then communities and a second of de-fucnt and dead (for use of a better word) communities. The lists on this website are quite extensive. WayneRay 21:28, 11 June 2006 (UTC)WayneRay

[edit] Newfoundland & Labrador Music

Has anybody checked out the Music of Newfoundland and Labrador page? I've been meaning to focus my attention on this article for a long time, but haven't gotten around to it. As of now, it is absolutely atrocious. I've added it to the "Pages that need the hand of an expert" section. Crabbyass 15:06, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Census Division 8

I noticed in the Census Division 8 that many of the names are not linked and they are linked incorrectly. Someone can go and make the proper links on all the names not in blue they will then be Bolded on the main article page. Thanks for the work on the other 2 Census pages. WayneRay 20:45, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Fixed the census division page, but not the links on the List page. OzLawyer 23:44, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Bolded the Census Towns from the Divisions list, on the main article page and added three community photos WayneRay 16:14, 21 June 2006 (UTC)WayneRay

[edit] Educational institutions

I just saw the notice about this WikiProject on the Canadian wikipedians' notice board. If you need any help with school, college or university articles, give us a shout over at Wikipedia:WikiProject Education in Canada. And of course, we're always looking for more members. :-) -- Usgnus 21:39, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] stubs

Empty articles are misleading - they conceal the fact (shown by red links) that an article is required. Do not create Green's Harbour, Newfoundland and Labrador until you are ready to give it some useful content. -- RHaworth 07:47, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks but again you and others fail to see the big picture, there is a Wiki Project that about 9 of us are working on. I agree with you however about incomplete articles but this is different,

Wikipedia:WikiProject Newfoundland and Labrador & the one you found my photo on: List of communities in Newfoundland and Labrador are being worked on piece by piece, some are supplying articles , some are supplying and working on links, I am working on photos, and others are doing what they can with support etc. I have completed the A, T, U and most of the B Lists with , for right now, small amounts of information OR A PHOTO, to get things going. I know you are trying to help but there is a bigger picture, Thanks for your input, I will post this conversation on the Talk pages and see what others think. WayneRay 16:31, 24 June 2006 (UTC)WayneRay

You won't prevent other admins deleting empty stubs, so if you want to advise other memebers of the project of image uploads, keep a small <gallery> here. -- RHaworth 20:26, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] nfld history

I used to deliver and subscribe to The Downhomer Magazine, here in London Ontariol, it was always full of histories and peoples and things, perhaps others here should be looking in there as well, I no longer have my past copies but the office has moved to St. John's if anyone is there doing this project. WayneRay 01:09, 6 July 2006 (UTC)WayneRay

[edit] Newfoundland & Labrador stub and category

• Provincial Stub Proposals - Should templates and stub categories be created for Alberta, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland & Labrador? (See related SFD discussion regarding N.B., PEI, and Manitoba (plus the territories)). Agent 86 02:35, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

• Yes It would make life a bit easier to identify articles pertinent to NL that need work. IMHO, lets do it. HJKeats 02:47, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Q and R Sections

I have just about finished the Q and R lists of communities. This time I left out about 50 small settlements and places and only focussed on villages and towns. There are for instance 5 Round Harbour's so I may add all 5. I am still collecting photos of places. WayneRay 21:50, 9 July 2006 (UTC)WayneRay

[edit] The Humber Region

Hello All,

I have access to "mounds" of information on many of the towns in the Humber Region. I have been working with the Great Humber Joint Council, and I am working on Community Profiling of all of the member towns. So when this report is completed I will be updating all of those towns with the information I have acquired, this will include satellite images, lists of council members and things like that, maybe also contact information (but I am not sure). I have been exclusively working on the Pasadena, Newfoundland and Labrador page. So if you have any suggestions I am MORE then willing to accept them. Also if you need information just leave it on my talk page. If there is anything that needs to be completed from the area just leave it below and I will gather things.

Thanks, Terryrandell

P.S.: I forgot to log in...sorry about that.

Great work, Terry! OzLawyer

[edit] Things to Do

[edit] Suggested Project collaboration for July 2006

Cabot rock monument The mystery of Grates Cove rock bearing the name of John Cabot and his son. Refer to the following sites for reference material.

• Article reference from Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador
• The Grates Cove Tradition by Heritage Newfoundland and Labrador
• Cabot Rock

Any takers? HJKeats 21:26, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Category:St. John's

While not totally communities related, I just cleaned up this above Category and added the missing subcategories and put the appropriate "articles" which shouldn't have been there, into their appropriate categories and left the section with only the Categories showing. I still have to go to the individual subcategories and make sure they have all of their appropriate Category links as well. I also added missing information related to St. John's, in the article on St. John's. WayneRay 21:34, 23 July 2006 (UTC)WayneRay

[edit] Quidi Vidi Brewing Company

FYI, Quidi Vidi Brewing Company has been listed for deletion. BoojiBoy 00:58, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Commons cleanup and links to here

I have cleaned up the Cat: Newfoundland and Labrador in the Commons and am starting on the Cat: Newfoundland in the Commons. I have created an article called List of communities in Newfoundland and Labrador to match our WikiProject name and am placing photos in there. Some of the articles and categories needed tidying up and I hope they are now better WayneRay 14:11, 12 August 2006 (UTC)WayneRay

I deleted the Commons Category = Cities of Nefoundland and Labrador because of the major Typo WayneRay 11:19, 22 August 2006 (UTC)WayneRay

[edit] Electorial Districts

I think it is essential that we try to get some sort of thing up on each of the Electorial Districts. The information is out there it just needs to be put together. Here are a few Websites that I found useful.

[edit] Useful Links

• Boundaries Information
• CBC Coverage on 2003 Election
• Elections Newfoundland and Labrador

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Terryrandell (talk • contribs).

[edit] Project directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 18:32, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Canadian WikiProjects

I was looking over your WikiProject and noticed you don't give any reference to other Canadian WikiProjects. I thought it would be a nice addition if you added a list since all of the other Canadian WikiProjects have created directories. Mkdw^talk 04:27, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Provincial templates update

Should the provincial templates be updated with the standard {{Navbox generic}} layout? Please comment at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Canada#Province templates. --Qyd 23:09, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 21:50, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Newfoundland and Labrador First Party

The Newfoundland and Labrador First Party article could do with some improvement and expansion, especially since it has been nominated for deletion here. Ground Zero | t 04:10, 12 March 2007 (UTC)