Wikipedia:WikiProject Newfoundland and Labrador

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[edit] Introduction

This WikiProject is for those Wikipedians who wish to further the extent of information on Newfoundland and Labrador related subjects on Wikipedia. Please add your name to the list below if you would like to join this project, and feel free to clean up this page, as it is only a very preliminary outline.

1 Introduction
2 Participants
3 Pages we need
4 Current focus project
5 Pages that need work
6 Pages that need the hand of an expert
7 Project tags
8 Templates
9 NL-related lists
10 NL-related categories

Newfoundland and Labrador articles		Importance
Newfoundland and Labrador articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FL			1			1
	A		1				1
	GA			2			2
	B	2	6	15	14		37
	Start	1	9	93	120	2	225
	Stub	1	3	33	335	1	373
	List		1	15	6		22
	Assessed	4	20	159	475	3	661
	Unassessed				1	15	16
	Total	4	20	159	476	18	677

[edit] Participants

¢hocolatier - give 'er! 23:50, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
Lexicon 16:56, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
HJKeats 17:21, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
WayneRay 19:21, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
Rodney Boyd 18:06, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
Zippo 18:10, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
Jeremiad 18:59, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
AshleyMorton 16:34, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
Mícheál 19:32, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
Crabbyass 15:02, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
EternalEx 19:14, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
Terryrandell 13:42, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
Iainsona 14:22, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
Cillas001 00:09, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
Tybalt1212 18:57, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
shorlin 17:24, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
Dheffern 17:13, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
ChrisReid 17:13, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
Vulcan's Forge 02:19 5 June 2007 (UTC)
MattyK14 11:12 July 13 2007 (UTC)
~NeonFire372~ 16:57, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
Arrowhead2006 (talk) 02:47, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
Qyd 17:42, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
sirkevinalot 16:26, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
Buffhistorian (talk) 01:11, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
Mdavidbaird 17:44, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
Reggie Perrin (talk) 16:40, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Pages we need

The 3 census divisions left out of the 10 which do not yet have pages (added Division 4 --shorlin 17:25, 24 October 2006 (UTC))
All census-defined areas:
- unorganized census subdivisions
- towns (see List of communities in Newfoundland and Labrador and Statscan)
- census agglomerations
- regions
- Indian reservations
NL corporations
NL people (see List of people of Newfoundland and Labrador)

Comment (IMHO) The practice of placing a list of names in provincial articles should not be allowed. It's fine for a small community whereas it is part of the province as a whole. With that been said, I propose that the notable people be stricken from the articles on Newfoundland and Newfoundland and Labrador and instead put a lot more effort into cleaning up the List of people of Newfoundland and Labrador to accommodate the province and world renown individuals that played an important part of our heritage and development. --HJKeats 15:21, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Comment Lists have been removed and the elements linked to the categories or moved to the List page as noted. The categories themselves still need cleanup and organization in some hierarchy. I'm not sure about the separate list page though; the 3 categories linked (see below) will cover the province as a whole and both the mainland and island parts of it as subcategories. So the List of people of Newfoundland and Labrador would be mostly redundant - excepting those people who are not from the province but who have touched or affected it in some way. In which case it should probably be renamed.--Vulcan's Forge 02:40, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

- Politicians
- Celebrities
Newfoundland Military History
- 166 [Newfoundland] Field Artillery Regiement (WW2)
- 59 [Newfoundland] Heavy Artillery Regiment (WW2)
- 125 [Newfoundland] Air Force Squadron
- Lieutentent Andrew Bulger (Hero of the War of 1812: Newfoundlander)
~~A referenced and NPOV page on the Newfoundland Tricolour~~ done.

[edit] Current focus project

I propose that we concentrate our efforts to the ensuring an excellent article related to Cuper's Cove. HJKeats 21:42, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
For a number of reasons:

The first official sanctioned colony in the New World,
The first colony for Newfoundland,
The birthplace of the first recorded English born child in Newfoundland and Canada.
400th anniversary in just 4 years from now, August 2010.

[edit] Pages that need work

Fish, Food and Allied Workers Union new article
Leader of the Opposition (Newfoundland and Labrador) - Who was Leader of the Opposition from 1969 to 1972 while Frank Moores was Tory leader but didn't have a seat in the House of Assembly?
Newfoundlander
Newfoundland Rangers
Royal Newfoundland Regiment needs more history from 1795-1914
Henry Medley needs more rounding out
Corner Brook needs more information and a citation or two.
Census Towns are now bolded on article page and need expanding.
The List of communities in Newfoundland and Labrador article is proposed to be due for a make-over. Please visit the talk page entitled Refinement of list here.
Twillingate could use some more citied information.

[edit] Pages that need the hand of an expert

[edit] Project tags

{{WikiProject Canada|class=|importance=|nl=yes}} can be used to tag the talk pages of Newfoundland and Labrador articles that are part of this project, producing:

Canada Portal

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Canada and related WikiProjects, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to articles on Canada-related topics. If you would like to participate, visit the project member page, to join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.

This page does not require an assessment on the quality scale.

This article is part of the Newfoundland and Labrador WikiProject (Discuss/Join).

{{nlfocus}} is for the article chosen as the improvement drive collaboration, giving:

This article is the current improvement focus of WikiProject Newfoundland and Labrador. Please help improve it to featured article standard.

[edit] Templates

{{Infobox Settlement}} — All settlements in Newfoundland and Labrador should use {{Infobox Settlement}}. This infobox provides a consistent look between the various types settlements in Newfoundland and Labrador like St. John's and to settlements in the other parts of Canada like Saskatoon, Toronto, Montreal, , and Edmonton. The default "settlement_type" is city, but it can be changed to reflect any type of settlement, like counties, towns, villages, etc. {{Infobox Settlement}} also has a super imposable dot map feature that allows a map to be used with any settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador.
{{nlfocus}} — to tag the improvement drive article
{{Newfoundland-stub}} - for stubs on Newfoundland and Labrador (other than geography stubs)
{{Newfoundland-geo-stub}} — for stubs on places and geography