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[edit] Vancouver Meet Up

Wikimedia Vancouver Meetup

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[edit] MV Island Sky

The MV Island Sky stub article is up for deletion. Island Sky is a ferry currently under construction. Comments are welcome at the article's entry at the Articles for deletion page. — Bellhalla (talk) 21:07, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] PNW and Spanish PNW History Categories

I have just come across these categories:History of the Pacific Northwest and Spanish history in the Pacific Northwest. They have some interesting and useful articles that relate to BC. I think they should be added as sub categories in a suitable way so they show up in the category tree at the bottom of the Wikipedia:WikiProject_British_Columbia page. I thought a note here might bring them to the attention of the group. --KenWalker | Talk 06:35, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Online resources

Hi; just found http://www.archive.org's BC History collection; they also have a BC Biography section, which is how I first found them (looking for works by Howay); it's amazing what's here, and it's more searchable than historica.ca or other PDF-based sites (DJvu and other systems are used), though still not linkable by-page.Skookum1 (talk) 14:37, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bear Mountain, Uplands and Ten Mile Point

A number of Victoria-area articles have been written for promotional reasons and were/are heavy on promotinoal content. This is not so much of a problem in Vancouver-area articles becuase of the activity there of the Vancouver WikiProject and a greater overall level of Wiki inputting/editing from Vancouverites. Some of the Victoria articles ahve been around for a while but never got dealt with; in the course of investigating links off related articles I happened to find them and take a chainsaw to the advertising content, with Sunnymead-Broadmead being so bad it was speedily deleted. James Island (British Columbia) survived, and I think i was kind to Ten Mile Point, British Columbia. But on the talkpages at Talk:Bear Mountain (resort) and Talk:Uplands, Greater Victoria, I've been criticized for being too heavy-handed in chopping out the sales pitches and house-buyer brochure info..... I disagree although there are maybe elements from what I deleted that could be reworked into the article in a less sales-pitchy tone; and in Bear Mountain's case there's a "controversy" section which needs a neutral eye to de-NPOV it (and there's POV from both sides in it)); I don't ahve the stomach so that's one reason I'm asking for comment/input/edits from outside. I did my best to refer the complaint to WP:MOS etc but maybe others could be more diplomatic....here's athought; could we add a switch to the project template for "kind of attention needed", taht would disaply/rank like the class/importance/tpye stuff? So we could "flag" articles like this that need attention, though not a change of importance/rating.Skookum1 (talk) 03:37, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Please see also Talk:Cadboro_Bay,_British_Columbia#Merge_Ten_Mile_Point.Skookum1 (talk) 03:48, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] POV title Fast Ferry Scandal

Please see Talk:Fast_Ferry_Scandal#POV_title.3F.Skookum1 (talk) 13:45, 14 June 2008 (UTC)