Wikipedia:WikiProject British Columbia
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Introduction
This WikiProject aims to organize, improve the quality, and provide accurate information in an established, community-driven, Wikipedia standard for the province of British Columbia, Canada, and its related articles. The importance of these articles for new users, research, education, and the pursuit of accumulated knowledge will be accomplished through our efforts in providing a consistent format and standard to our articles. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to participate, please follow the instruction on the Member's Page.
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Scope and Motivation
- British Columbia is Canada's third largest province.
- British Columbia's largest city is Vancouver (Canada's third largest metropolitan centre).
- British Columbia has the largest and oldest trees in Canada.
- British Columbia has the largest fishing industry in Canada.
- British Columbia is Canada's third-largest generator of hydroelectricity.
- British Columbia is Canada's second-largest natural gas producer.
- British Columbia is the third-largest film and television production centre in North America (after New York and Los Angeles).
- British Columbia is Canada's main trade gateway to the Pacific, through ports such as the Port of Vancouver and Deltaport.
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Featured Articles
See also: Category:FA-Class British Columbia articles
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Structure
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Similar WikiProjects
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[edit] Related U.S. WikiProjects
- WikiProject Alaska
- WikiProject Oregon
- WikiProject Idaho
- WikiProject Montana
- WikiProject Washington
- WikiProject Eastern Washington (maybe defunct now because of WPWA)
- WikiProject Seattle
- WikiProject California
[edit] Overlapping WikiProjects
- WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America
- WikiProject Political parties and politicians in Canada
- Wikipedians for Local History
- WikiProject Mountains
- WikiProject Rivers
- WikiProject Lakes
- WikiProject Trains
- WikiProject Ships
- WikiProject Biography
- WikiProject Volcanoes
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To do
- Can we make British Columbia an FA (Featured Article)??
- Expand articles listed in:
- Category:British Columbia stubs
- Category:British Columbia geography stubs
- Especially those found in the lists at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/British Columbia articles by quality that are High or Mid importance but are still only Stub or Start quality.
- Stubs in Category:Provincial Parks of British Columbia.
- Organize list structure and add to list of needed articles:
- Check for and do needed articles at:
- Establish collaborations and improvements for British Columbia related articles
- For Photo Requests, add {{reqphotoin|British Columbia}} to the talk page. (see {{reqphotoin}})
- For Map Requests Use {{reqmapin|British Columbia}} on talk page of articles needing maps which will list maps needed at: Category:Wikipedia requested maps in British Columbia. As an alternative using {{coord|50|28|N|126|05|W|display=title|region:CA_type:waterbody}}, for example, as it appears on Johnstone Strait gives a link to map/sat images that is a reasonable alternative. See {{coord}} for more information. Also consider adding link to BC Government place name database using {{BCGNIS}} template.
- Assessments
- Review existing assessment of articles and reassess following WikiProject British Columbia/Assessment
- Clarify assessment criteria at WikiProject British Columbia/Assessment
- Add BC Project tag to remaining BC Highways. See note at Category talk:British Columbia provincial highways.
- Cleanup BC-STV.
- There are getting to be quite a few B Class articles in this project. The next step in the assessment process is to nominate these articles as Good Articles following the nomination process.
- Add BCProject template to articles within project scope following these steps. Use {{WikiProject Canada|bc=yes|class=Stub|importance=low}} following the assessment guidelines (importance = low, mid, high or top, class = stub, start, b, ga, a or fa). Here are some of the many BC categories (drill to sub and parent categories as well) where you can look for untagged articles and articles to expand:
BC | Provincial Parks | Prot Area Stubs | Parks | Settlements | Islands | SFU | UBC | UVic | UNB | Senators | People | Geography | Highways | Mayors of Vancouver | MLAs | Premiers | Islands | Victoria | Transportation | Elections | History | Fjords | Education | Nanaimo | Museums | Sports | Culture | Restaurants | Bridges | Tourism | Media | Cities | Victoria History | Lakes | Politics | People from Victoria | Hotels | BC Lions Players | Airports | Politicians | Explorers | Volcanoes | Visitor Attractions | Railway Stations | Organizations | Transit Agencies | Mountain Ranges | Pre-Confederation people | Companies | Private Schools | Lieutenant Governors | Law Enforcement | Mayors | MPs | Curlers | Trees | Natural history |Highways
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See also
- Wikipedia:Canadian wikipedians' notice board/British Columbia
- Portal:British Columbia
- Portal:Vancouver
- Current Events Canada Portal
- User:Buchanan-Hermit/WikiProject-Sandbox - an abandoned WikiProject sandbox on the same topic.
- List of British Columbia-related topics
- Category: British Columbia articles with comments
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Resources
External Websites:
- Province of British Columbia
- Legislative Assembly of BC
- BC Education
- BC Stats
- BC Archives
- Globe and Mail BC
- Travel Guide BC
- Travel BC
- Tourism BC
- Vancouver Island History, UVic
- Canadiana.org Archival Sources Online
- Dictionary of Canadian Biography
- Encylopedia of British Columbia (Subscription required)
- City of Vancouver Archives
- BC GenWeb
- Canadian Genealogy and History Links
- John Robson's Homepage History of exploration of NW of N America
