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Vancouver Collaboration of the Month
Every month, a Vancouver- or Greater Vancouver-related topic, stub or nonexistent article is picked to be the Vancouver Collaboration of the Month.

The current COTM is Francesco Aquilini for March, 2006.
(Archived nomination discussion and suggestions for this article.)
Shortcut:
WP:VCOTM

Contents

[edit] Vancouver Collaboration of the Month

Collaborations

Core topics
Biography

Arts & entertainment

Alternative Music
James Bond
Novels

Games & sports

Baseball
Professional wrestling
Rugby union

Geography & places

Australia
India
Peru

Government & politics

Taxation
U.S. Congress

Religion

Anglicanism
Catholic

Education

Universities

Science & technology

Birds
Mammals
Mathematics
Medicine
Molecular and
Cellular Biology

Plants NEW!
Pharmacology
Robotics NEW!
Science
Space
U.S. Roads

Miscellaneous

Inactive collaborations

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The purpose of this page is to establish an Vancouver Collaboration of the Month.

Rules:

  1. The article must have something to do with Vancouver or a municipality within the Greater Vancouver Regional District.
  2. The article with the most people supporting it will win. If there is a tie, the one that was nominated first will be the collaboration of the month.
  3. Nominations can stay up for 2 months, and then will be removed.
  4. The winner will be selected on or around the 27th of the month for the following month.

How to nominate:

  1. Place {{VCOTM}} on the top of the talk page of the article you are nominating. It will produce: The article being discussed here is a nominee for Vancouver collaboration of the month. If you wish to add your vote on it, please go to WP:VCOTM.
  2. Place your nomination below, at the bottom of the list, with once sentence why you are nominating it. Please sign your nomination with four tides ~~~~.

[edit] Nominations

[edit] Cloverdale, British Columbia

Reason
Historical town with a legacy that continues into the present day. Current article is filled with Smallville stuff I added earlier -- hopefully there will be enough material there to remove the Smallville stuff (as it has more to do with the show than the town -- it's acting as filler right now).
Support
  1. Buchanan-Hermit™..CONTRIBS..SPEAK! 04:59, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
Comments

[edit] Langara College

Reason
For a college of 23,000 students, it doesn't have a very long or good article.
Support
  1. Buchanan-Hermit™..CONTRIBS..SPEAK! 05:17, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
  2. Usgnus 05:20, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
Comments
  • There are fewer than 6,000 full-time equivalent students. Usgnus 22:42, 11 April 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Rosette (singer)

Reason
Instead of always doing articles on a place or a building, how about a person from the Vancouver area? For a bit of a change...
Support
  1. Thankyoubaby 01:41, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
Comments


[edit] Greater Vancouver Regional District

Reason

Looking at the GVRD article and then looking at articles about other metropolitan areas, it seems that it can use some improvement. I compared it to the Orange County, California article and I have to say that the GVRD article looks a bit bare by comparison. For example, the GVRD article talks about the geography of the region but not much about the history -- ie. how the area started to populate, how it grew, how it's growing today, etc. Also, a "points of interest" section similar to the Orange County article would be useful. It might not be a bad idea to re-do the entire GVRD page altogether, based on most of the elements from the Orange County article (which was done quite well, in my opinion).

Support
  1. -→Buchanan-Hermit/?! 23:23, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
  2. -Bobanny 15:18, 20 October 2006 (UTC)Needs much expanding, and along with Vancouver is our raison d'etre. I'm guessing that if a structure like BH mentions above were started, a fair bit of content could simply be lifted from other vanproject pages to fill it out, and then fine tuned.
Comments

[edit] Vancouver

Reason

I've done some work in trying to get this article featured. The history section needs a complete rewrite; it does not cite sources. There are some choppy sections such as the transportion and economy sections; they read like outlines. See the FA nomination and peer review for feedback this article has recieved.

Support
  1. Bobanny 00:00, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
Comments

Comment I'd like to withdraw my support. Alot of work has been done on the Vancouver article since it was nominated; still needs work, but the main points, IMO, have been or are in the process of being addressed.Bobanny 15:11, 20 October 2006 (UTC) Comment Vancouver is now a featured article.Canadianshoper 22:13, 13 March 2007 (UTC)


[edit] 1994 Stanley Cup riot

Reason
Historical importance in Vancouver's history. Notable event. Currently an orphaned article with no real substantial content.
Support
  1. Luke! 11:47, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
  2. Bobanny 22:01, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
Comments
  • there was a book published not long ago on riots in Vancouver history -- could be a possible avenue for expansion - turn it into a general Vancouver riots article.

[edit] Sports in Vancouver

Reason
Vancouver is very involved in sports, and always has been. The article has been rated high-importance by whoever ranked it. And it is very poorly done, and needs to be cleaned up.
Support
  1. Kaiser matias 23:58, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
Comments

I just had a go at basically re-doing the article with more info and some pics. heqs ·:. 15:28, 7 June 2007 (UTC)


[edit] To nominate an article

Click "edit" at right to add a nomination. Copy the template and paste it above this heading.

[edit] Archives

Archives of previous nominations at: /Archives