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Canadian law
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low Total
Quality
Featured article FA 1 1
Featured list FL 1 1
A 2 2
Good article GA 1 1
B 1 13 23 21 58
Start 23 102 150 275
Stub 7 50 225 282
List 4 4 35 43
Assessed 1 49 181 432 663
Unassessed 11 196 207
Total 1 49 192 628 870

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Canadian law. 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 help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

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This WikiProject's scope is all areas of Canadian law, from federal constitutional law, to provincial law and municipal bylaws, to expand the amount of information on these laws on Wikipedia. We will also strive to include case law, and various court rulings.

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[edit] Requests

  • I've started an article on the Ontario Municipal Act but it needs attention from someone more knowledgeable about the subkect. Robbie dee 21:34, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
  • ASAP Support from fellow Wikipedians is needed to argue for the inclusion of PC Valérie Gignac and Mark Bourque on Wikipedia. Recent articles are being considered for deletion. CelebritySecurity 19:35, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
  • ASAP Research and links related to first nations policing services in Canada.
  • The page "Ontarians with Disabilities Act" refers to legislation of the Harris govt that is now essentially outdated and replaced with entirely new legislation, the AODA. Something needs to be done. The ODA is still interesting as a historical first attempt but it's quite irrelevant now. Rmalhotr 05:48, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
Irrelevance is in the eye of the beholder. I believe history plays an important role in everything. The evolution of a law should remain within the "rédaction" of an encyclopedic writting. Though your sources may no longer be, "as available" to the public as you may wish, at some point these documents where published. Your sources should remain (If they are government sources a simple 5$ application to access for information will reveal when the changes occurred to the website. But you may want to check www.canlii.ca. --CyclePat 06:47, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
  • There are a lot of articles in Category:Canadian aboriginal case law. It would be great to have a main article to link them together. - TheMightyQuill 02:35, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Important cases needing articles (perhaps this should be a sub-page?):
    • Sandra Lovelace v. Canada

[edit] Participants

Please add your name to the bottom of the list.

  1. Image:Ottawa flag.png Spinboy 16:49, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
  2. PullUpYourSocks 17:49, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
  3. CanadianCaesar 21:24, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
  4. Dyslexic agnostic 20:52, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
  5. Hurricane111 00:29, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
  6. Vasile 16:11, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
  7. CelebritySecurity 19:05, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
  8. Ardenn 19:11, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
  9. Alex756 05:57, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
  10. somody 15:43, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
  11. OzLawyer 14:41, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
  12. DoctorMud 16:25, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
  13. -- Robocoder (talk | contribs) 00:16, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
  14. Andrew Morritt 03:17, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
  15. pbryan 08:30, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
  16. Markdsgraham 20:18, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
  17. Padraic 00:41, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
  18. MBueckert 19:21, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
  19. Tyciol (talk) 01:41, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Things You Can Do

  1. Tag related articles talk pages (at the top) with {{CanLaw}} or {{WikiProject Canada | canlaw=yes}}.
  2. Come up with a potential list of missing articles that need to be created.
  3. Re-tag related stub pages with {{Canada-law-stub}}.
  4. Adopt an article: Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced. Example article: User:Example
  5. Develop common standards and formats for pages on Canadian law.
  6. Expand the number of articles on Canadian law.

[edit] Project guidelines and strategy

  • /Strategy - future plans for the Canadian law project
  • /Policy - general policy for writing articles related to Canadian law
  • Cleanup discussion

[edit] Templates

[edit] Infoboxes

{{Infobox WikiProject Canadian law }}


[edit] Stub templates


[edit] Talk Page template

{{WikiProject Canada |canlaw=yes}} will add the article to both this project and to the general WikiProject Canada. It also allows the article to be assessed.

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Canadian law
This article is part of the Canadian law WikiProject (Discuss/Join).

[edit] Volunteer recognition

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


[edit] Resources

[edit] Categories

[edit] Wikipedia articles on WikiProject Canadian law

[edit] Wikipedia namespace and Meta-Wiki articles on WikiProject Canadian law

[edit] New Wikipedia articles related to WikiProject Canadian law

Please feel free to list your new WikiProject Canadian law-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.

[edit] WikiProject Deletion sorting

Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting is a new effort that attempts to classify various articles nominated for votes for deletion by major categories. The WikiProject Canadian law-related articles at VFD are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Canadian law.

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