Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Canada/Archive 1

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[edit] duplicates noticeboard

This is a good start, but it mostly duplicates the much better established Wikipedia:Canadian wikipedians' notice board. - SimonP 21:44, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

  • True, but there are advantages to projects over notice boards. Assessment and collaboration are two of the big things a WikiProject can easily do that a notice board can't. Badbilltucker 18:08, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question

Have you put the project on the Wikipedia:Community Portal section for new WikiProjects yet? It can't hurt. Badbilltucker 18:08, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Project directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 18:30, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Modification

I'm afraid I haven't added all the featured articles, etc. yet. Hope someone else can do that. Badbilltucker 21:04, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] extra categories

There are sub-categories for Canada-related articles by importance and Canada-related articles by quality. But there are also empty sub-categories for Canada articles by importance and Canada articles by quality. Can someone with admin power get rid of one of the sets, please? --Arctic Gnome 23:14, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

When you spot something like that, just put {{delete|Reason here}} to notify the admnistrators. AQu01rius (User • Talk) 05:33, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Assessment and Wikipedia:WikiProject Government of Canada

The Assessments for Wikipedia:WikiProject Government of Canada and WP:CANADA are merged; that creates some confusion, as the importance scale has different criteria and priorities. Shouldn't they be split? --69.19.14.27 19:41, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Germany has just created a task force which has a different set of importance criteria than the main project. The project could probably copy what was done there in creating a few variations in the banner to accomodate the difference. If figuring out how to do so is difficult (I don't know, I haven't checked), let me know and I'll see what I can do. Badbilltucker 21:01, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
After creating the Government of Canada template, I noticed that none of the other Canada workgroups had an assessment scale, so I replaced all of the {{CanGov}} templates with a cangov=yes tag on the {{WikiProject Canada}} template. Now none of the workgroups have their own assessment scale, which I don't see as a problem. It works well for both WikiProject Canada and WikiProject Government of Canada to list, for example, Government of Canada as top importiance, Canadian House of Commons as high, Minister of the Environment (Canada) as mid, and 7 Rideau Gate as low. --Arctic Gnome 18:54, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
Assuming we mark Ministers's as mid, I'd assume we would still mark a Ministry itself as High. Deet 00:14, 4 December 2006 (UTC) I've moved the discussion of importance calibration to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Government of Canada. Deet 00:39, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Current Events Canada

I just created the Current Events Canada Portal. If you wouldn't mind taking a look at it, contributing, adding to it. I think it could easily become a featured portal. Mkdwtalk 09:32, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dispute

See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Canada/Workgroups GreenJoe 20:11, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Feature list candidates

You may be intereted to know that no less than five Canada-related lists are currebntly Featured List candidates, and your votes would be welcome. Tompw (talk) 15:28, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The banner

Can I add that banner to some articles about Canada that I know don't have it, notably the communities on Vancouver Island, as they are part of Canada, and most of them are rather small and/or stubs. Kaiser matias 04:05, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

I think if it's an regional specific article, you should add the banner of that region (i.e. WikiProject Vancouver) AQu01rius (User • Talk) 05:18, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, I found the BC WikiProject (didn't even know it existed), so I'll utilse that. Kaiser matias 06:54, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Canada-related articles by quality...

Wondering... how are the quality measures generated? I'd be interested in doing this for a few other projects I'm working on. :) Nephron  T|C 05:51, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Well, we use the standard assessment system used for most of wikipedia, but there are a few project groups that modify or expand this system for clarification within their subject. JQF • Talk • Contribs 17:25, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Canadian topics template

I can't quite figure out if the Canada Wikiproject is behind Template:Canada topics, but I'd like your comments either way. I'm a little skeptical as to its value, or at least its scope. I'm not sure who is going to jump from an article on New France to an article on Canadian hip hop. Will any and all elements of Canadian culture end up included in this template, and then have it included in their article?

I think it makes sense to have this kind of thing at the bottom of the Canada article, to clean up the See Also section, but I'm not sure its of any value at the bottom of every Canada related page from history to hiphop. - TheMightyQuill 07:42, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Province templates

In short: should the provincial templates be updated with the standard {{Navbox generic}} layout?

The provincial navigation boxes have been harmonized/consolidated in January 2006, see discussion.

The {{Navbox generic}} layout allows the boxes to collapse (automatic by default, can be customised), and has direct shortcuts for view/edit/discuss. The content would be identic, but a little compacted, and would fall in line with other navigational boxes.

Please share your thoughts. --Qyd 23:04, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

It won't be identical, as the flag will show up centered, not in the left-hand corner. That, I think, is the only thing that's a problem. It looks much better with the flag in the corner. └ OzLawyer / talk ┐ 12:49, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
Yes, the look would be different, only the content (links, groups, title, even bar color) would be identical. The present layout is well thought and looks good, but stands out (lower width, whitespaces) between other navboxes, compare St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador or Victoria, British Columbia to Winnipeg. --Qyd 15:32, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
I say no! I have two big objections to using {{Navbox generic}}. The first is that is asthetically not good (background colour on group capations, everything's all left-aligned, no control over width). The second (more important) is that the show/hide fetaure *still* causes problems with many people's browsers, including my own. I'm generally in favour of standarising the content and format of the nav-boxes, just not with {{Navbox generic}}. Tompw (talk) 00:19, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
The general alignament can be set (right, left or center), the width of the group can be somehow forced (with "br" tags; line spacing can be also controled with "span" tags, but the syntax gets ugly). Nothing can be done about grup color (short of substituting the master template, something that would break user acessibility). Regarding browser issues: are you using the default monobook skin? Thanks. --Qyd 01:33, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
Yes I am... (though any such template should work in every skin, especially the default one). I also meant width of the box itself, though I know that's not an issue here (unlike say {{Canada}}). I felt it important to draw these issues to people's attention.
Also... when I said that it's a good thing to standardise the content and layout, I meant where there is overlap.... there will obviously always be things that are applicable to certain templates. Tompw (talk) 13:49, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Well, 3 editors say nay, so I'm going to drop it. --Qyd 05:20, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Turned out they were converted anyway by someone else. I'm going to list them here for comparison. --Qyd 16:52, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

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{{Nunavut}} is still a bit different. --Qyd 16:52, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of Nunavut general elections

Could someone please do an assesement of List of Nunavut general elections? I've contibuted too heavily to be objective enough to do myself. Tompw (talk) 00:23, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Canadian rock

Hi, I am currently interested in setting up a Canadian Rock wikiproject and I was told to ask and see if it could be a subproject of Wikiproject Canada. There is a temporary project page here and at this point, there hasn't been a lot done because there hasn't been a lot of interest (yet) and I have also been busy recently. Thanks for the time, Scorpion 21:45, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Sounds like a good idea. That link goes nowhere though. Also, are there any similar projects that might serve as a model? Bobanny 21:52, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
I think I fixed it. And no, there is no similar project for other nations, at least not for multiple genres. I have considered expanding it to Canadian music, but I'd like some other opinions, especially from an administrator. -- Scorpion 21:54, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 21:47, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Notice

NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT the scope of WikiProject Ottawa is being debated. Your input is requested. Thank you. GreenJoe 20:15, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Peer review request

A peer review request has been placed for Winnipeg.

A peer review request has been placed for Lethbridge.--Qyd 05:32, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Canadian car articles

Per List of vehicles sold in Canada but not the United States, I am looking for help on expanding vehicles that were sold in Canada only. If anyone can help me I'd appreciate that. --SunStar Nettalk 18:13, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Huge Issue Not Adressed

There was recently some unpleasantness over the issue of the terms White Canadian and European Canadian. I'm not here to re-hash the arguments over the pages that were set up for those terms. But I am concerned about their use in other Canadian-history articles. I belive when talking about "caucasian" settlers moving from Ontario and Quebec to Alberta, to differenciate them from First Nations, we should call them White settlers, not European. European should be reserved for people who came directly from Ireland or Ukraine or Germany. Can we and should we have a common standard on this issue for Cnd History articles? Kevlar67 01:15, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Canadian Forces

Category:Canadian Forces is up for merging with Category:Military of Canada, which is odd, since Category:Royal Canadian Air Force and Category:Royal Canadian Navy are not being considered, even though CF is a force structure just like the RCAF, RCN, and CA it replaced. see Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2007_January_18#Category:Canadian_Forces

70.51.8.140 07:36, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal

Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal are up for renaming at WP:RM, discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Current Local City Time. They want them renamed to Ottawa, Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Montreal, Quebec, even though these cities are obviously the primary meaning of Ottawa, Toronto, and Montreal. 70.51.9.156 06:16, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vancouver BC, and cities in general

At Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (settlements), there are two discussions going on:

  1. to make city names match the way Associated Press names them (thus introducing a significant US bias)
  2. to make Vancouver a dab page (wasn't this handled already?)

70.51.9.114 06:06, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Financial services in Canada

Currently, we only have financial service articles on Banking in Canada and List of mutual fund companies in Canada (both of which I started). Currently the category structure is:

Category:Economy of Canada
Category:Banking in Canada

I propose:

Economy of Canada
Financial services in Canada
Banking in Canada
Mutual funds in Canada
Insurance in Canada
Investment brokerage in Canada (or Wealth management or whatever)
(etc)

Do you think this is the right approach, or will it demote banking too far down? Deet 04:00, 2 February 2007 (UTC)


I think it's needless categories. I think you can put those all under Economy without the need for the "Financial Services" category. GreenJoe 04:45, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
How does it compare to other countries? We are supposed to make these types of cats easily comparable to other countries. Kevlar67

[edit] List of mayors in Canada

There are some of us who have discussed the fact that the List of mayors in Canada is overly long and would be easier to maintain if split into provinces. Do you agree? Disagree? I'm not sure how much discussion should take place before undertaking the task, so all opinions would be appreciated, at the article's talk page. PKT 23:46, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

It's long all right, and it could even get longer, but I don't know if splitting in by province will help. Maybe do that and on the main page just show the mayors of the top 10 largest muncipalities by province, and links to the provincial sub-articles. Kevlar67 03:02, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

A related point and question - in travelling through the various towns/cities I found several infobox formats for municipal data, some of which are badly broken (especially in BC). Do we have a preferred version? PKT 21:48, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Canadian Heraldic Authority

Canadian Heraldic Authority has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 17:16, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] parserfunctions for Infoboxes

I have made substantial logic changes to {{Infobox City Canada}} and {{Infobox Town Canada}} to convert the ugly old style CSS hacks to parserfunctions. I tested them with a few pages and it looks to work, but be on the look out for potential problems. TheDJ (talk • contribs • WikiProject Television) 00:35, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 2007 Canada Games

2007 Canada Winter Games have just started. Can people do updates for it? Ccccccccccc 06:40, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] James Beveridge

Hi guys. I would like some help regarding this person. He is a Canadian film producer and seems to have produced many documentaries. He doesn't have a wikipedia article. Could someone find something about who he was, and whether he passes wikipedia's notability test? It is written somewhere that he was the co-founder of the national film board of canada. Could someone verify that? Thanks. - Aksi_great (talk) 08:48, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Go for it. Google his name, and see what material you find. Don't be shy about starting the article. PKT 16:22, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Help Request

I'm currently working on the Portal:Current events/Canada. It's a WP:FPC at the moment. I've had very little contact with this WikiProject as most of my Canadian work I've done on my own. However, I'm now at a point where I desperately need some help. I noticed awhile ago that the articles 1993 in Canada to 2007 in Canada already existed when I started on my work for the portal. Since the Canadian current events portal now has daily content posted I have started the creation of articles such as February 2007 in Canada.

To cut to the chase, these articles need to be inserted into pre-existing Canadian related articles. Would you all now start inserting [[2007 in Canada|2007]] rather than [[2007]] when linking future articles relating to Canada? The same for the months. Thank you, Mkdwtalk 09:13, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Peer review

A new Peer review request has been placed for Calgary, see Wikipedia:Peer review/Calgary/archive1. --Qyd 18:30, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Request for images

The Canadian National Vimy Memorial - Previous images were found to be copyvio, and now the article is left with a photo of a coin and a newspaper image of Hitler's visit. Skeezix1000 16:47, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Consolidating rating and talk page banners

To simplify the rating system and to reduce the banners on talk pages would the members of this project consider using the {{WPCities}} banner with a subgroup option for the Canadian city articles? The WikiProject Biography does this for politics, arts & entertainment, etc. It just seems redundant to rate all city articles with more than one project. Alan.ca 11:38, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Canadian of English descent vs English-Canadian

Someone renamed English-Canadian as Canadian of English descent, when the English Canadian article talks about english speakers. There's now a Requested Move discussion as well, to make the move official. 70.55.88.134 03:42, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bilateral relations discussion

I would like to invite you all to participate in a discussion at this thread regarding bilateral relations between two countries. All articles related to foreign relations between countries are now under the scope of WikiProject Foreign relations, a newly created project. We hope that the discussion will result in a more clean and organized way of explaining such relationships. Thank you. Ed ¿Cómo estás? 18:54, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rating of Pierre Trudeau article

Someone or some folks from Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada rated the Trudeau article A-Class on the quality scale. On the other hand, Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography has rated it B-Class. I would like some dialogue as to the reasons for these ratings. I am familiar with the rating scale and find that, as good as the Trudeau article is in some ways, its lack of references does seem to fit more with a B-Class rating rather than A-Class. I am working on editing the article and adding citations, but suggest that we hold off on the A-Class rating for now. Thoughts? Please discuss here Sunray 22:00, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

A-class is only given if the article is certified as "completed". Doesn't seem to be the case here, I have reverted it to B-class until the article is submitted for A-class review. AQu01rius (User • Talk) 22:54, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, mate! Sunray 00:18, 9 April 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Saskatchewan WikiProject

Hello. A new WikiProject about Saskatchewan has been started as an attempt to better organize information in articles related to the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. If you would like to participate, you can edit Saskatchewan articles, add Saskatchewan content, or visit the project page, where you can join / edit the project and/or contribute to the discussion. WikiProject Saskatchewan - SriMesh|talk Julia 03:29, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed move of Canadian French

Hello! A move of the article Canadian French has been requested. Since this may have implications on other articles, additional editorial input is appreciated. There's been a lot of discussion, and apologise in advance for prolixity. :) Merci! Corticopia 12:08, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 2006 Census counts?

Has there been any systemic effort to update Canadian pages with the 2006 Census population counts? - David Oberst 20:50, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Montréal-Mirabel International Airport FAR

Montréal-Mirabel International Airport has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:52, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Parliament FAR

Parliament of Canada has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here.

An important page folks. Marskell 08:54, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Niagara Falls FAR

Niagara Falls has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. V60 干什么？ · 喝掉的酒 · ER 4 00:29, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] History of the petroleum industry in Canada, part one - naming advice

The article series on the History of the petroleum industry in Canada (History of the petroleum industry in Canada, part one, History of the petroleum industry in Canada, part two, and History of the petroleum industry in Canada, part three) feels a bit construed with regards to the naming standard. Any ideas on how to improve the situation would be appreciated. Please leave your comments at Talk:History of the petroleum industry in Canada, part one. --rxnd ( t | € | c ) 11:11, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Canadian demographic sidebar

Can someone take a look at this and comment? I intend to add it to all the Canadian demographic related pages. --The Dark Side 22:22, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Montreal landmarks template

I don't know whether this is the right venue to raise this our not, but I'd like to add additional categories to the Montreal landmarks template Template:Montreal landmarks. Right now there's so much under Buildings that could be broken down, say, into Museums and attractions; Place of Worship; Sports venues, to name just three. How do people feel about this? Shawn in Montreal 18:45, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

You may want to also bring this up at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Quebec. As for hiding some of the lists in your template, you may want to try this template out: Template:Collapsible list. —MJCdetroit 19:54, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Montreal night life

Montreal night life is being considered for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Montreal night life 132.205.44.134 00:33, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Quebecers of French descent and Category:Francophone Quebecers up for deletion

User:Steam5 wants to collapse Category:Francophone Quebecers and Category:Quebecers of French descent into Category:French Quebecers. To me, this seems to show a profound lack of understanding of the Canadian reality... 70.55.90.138 04:22, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

It does show a profound lack of understanding. French people living in Quebec or whose forebears came here only recntly (less than 100 years ago) are certainly not condidered by anyone in the know to be in the same category as the Quebecois themslves ... I mean really would anyone even consider merging articles titled 'English speaking Americans' and 'Americans of English descent'? --Paulalexdij (talk) 22:02, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox Canadian budget

I've thrown together a dirty infobox and used it on 2006 Canadian federal budget and 2007 Canadian federal budget. Can someone skilled in templates clean it up? Thanks. Vagary 06:26, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox for First Nations

Template:Infobox ethnic group is currently being used for some US tribal sovereignties, eg: Navajo Nation. It's a bad fit for Canadian First Nations, where key statistics are things like government structure, establishment date, area, population, etc. I've thrown Template:Infobox country up on Tsawwassen First Nation, Kwantlen First Nation, Semiahmoo First Nation, and Squamish Nation just to see how it looks (there's precedent for using Infobox country on non-countries, eg: Wales, Hong Kong, European Union). I think it's a step in the right direction, but this project should work with WP:IPNA to customize the template. Vagary 20:45, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Tsuu T'ina Nation 145, Alberta uses {{Infobox Settlement}} MJCdetroit 14:56, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
I converted Tsawwassen First Nation to use {{Infobox Settlement}} in this edit. It seems to work out a little better than Infobox Country. MJCdetroit 16:08, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Historical Quebec MNAs, Category:Historical Ontario MPPs, Category:Historical New Brunswick MLAs

Category:Historical Quebec MNAs, Category:Historical Ontario MPPs, Category:Historical New Brunswick MLAs are up for merging into their parents at WP:CFD. 132.205.44.134 21:44, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Montreal Expos

[edit] X-Post from WikiProject U.S. (Trans-Border Canadian Regions)

"The U.S. Regions project is on life support, so I'll raise this here and at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_United_States

Did anyone bother to consider how readers and editors in countries bordering the U.S. would respond to the inclusion of part(s) of their country as a U.S. region? (For instance, the inclusion of the {{USRegions}} template in the Pacific Northwest article.)

I am going to revert edits by Anon IP 71.146.50.237 because they appear to have been made to demonstrate a point. Otherwise, the article will need to be merged with Northwestern United States. After which, the whole process is likely to repeat.

Modifying or removing the template from "Other designations" will prevent disruptive editing and accusations of U.S.-centrism. It would be no more acceptable to have a Regions of Canada or Regions of Mexico (only) template on these pages.

I'm not in a big hurry to move on this, so feedback is welcome before I do.

.s

X ile 18:24, 5 July 2007 (UTC) - Talk


[edit] Portal:Current events/Canada

I recently updated/made-over the Canada current events page. Love it? Hate it? Please let me know. Morgan695 06:16, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Saskatchewan in popular culture

Saskatchewan in popular culture was WP:PRODed by someone. 132.205.44.5 00:09, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

It is now at WP:AFD for deletion. 132.205.44.5 19:05, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] TfD nomination of Template:Politics of Nova Scotia

Template:Politics of Nova Scotia has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. Tompw (talk) (review) 22:46, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Canadian businesspeople biographies and Canadian Business Hall of Fame

http://www.cbhof.ca/laureates.cfm includes a list of notable Canadian businesspeople who have been named to the Canadian Business Hall of Fame. Many of them already have Wikipedia articles, but if you have an interest in writing biographies of those who do not yet have articles, you might want to take a look at the list. As well, information on other notable Canadians can be found at http://www.rca-arc.ca/en/about_members/index.asp for members of the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts and http://www.rsc.ca/index.php?page_id=92&lang_id=1&news_id=48 for new members ("fellows") of the Royal Society of Canada. --Eastmain 18:23, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

et http://www.rsc.ca/files/media/newfellows/ --Eastmain 18:49, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New Brunswick project proposal

There is a proposed subproject dealing with content related to New Brunswick at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#New Brunswick. Any parties interested in working with such a group should indicate their interest there. Thank you. John Carter 14:50, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Canadian Medicare in Quebec

I need some advice about which division of the Canadian Medicare operates in Quebec.

Which term should be used by Template:Infobox Hospital ? David Ruben Talk 23:35, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

assurance maladie - sickness insurance ; would be the plan
RAMQ - would be the government organ that administers it
assurance maladie should not be a redlink, RAMQ or Régie de l'Assurance Maladie du Québec should be the proper link. Assurance Maladie is just too generic. What does FRANCE call it? 70.51.8.150 06:43, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List Class

I'm not sure if anything can be done about this, but the template considers all Canada-related articles rated "List class" as "Unassessed articles" in the system. This may be something with Wikipedia itself (in order to allow it to recognize Featured Lists) but I thought I'd bring it up. Cheers, CP 04:49, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Canadian Football League

This project seems to be inactive. I'm not sure whether you'd want to try to revive it, join it with your project, or whatever. Just letting you know. John Carter 23:30, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

P. S. You might be interested in Wikipedia:WikiProject Canadian music, as well. John Carter 23:43, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Portal:Current events/Canada

Is the Canadian Current Events portal ever updated? It's over a month out of date. 132.205.44.5 01:00, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Does anybody know how to update it? I can't figure it out. PKT 12:56, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
Mkdw reverted back to a version that works, which is probably a good move except that the lead story currently showing took place in February. How do we get this updated and maintained? PKT 14:44, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
Can we change the lead story? It's from FEBURARY. 132.205.44.5 22:50, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
There seem to be two portals doing the same job one is at Portal:Current events/Canada the other is at n:Portal:Canada can they be merged? the one on wikinews seems to be updated regularly with wikinews articles, wherase the current events portal on wikipedia seems to have lapsed. I don't think two news portals doing the same thing are needed. SriMesh | talk 19:58, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
That's across two different Wiki's. It couldn't be merged. The WikiNews portal is for all news written as articles at wikinews on Canada. The WP portal would be for short blurbs. Though there is duplication of work, but not everything is written up at WikiNews. 132.205.99.122 (talk) 21:43, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Canadian

Is it appropriate for Canadian to redirect to Culture of Canada? Wouldn't it make sense to redirect it to Canadian (disambiguation) instead? Or better yet, move Canadian (disambiguation) to Canadian? - TwoOars 08:39, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Christmas trees

Hey all. I have been working on a series of articles in my user space related to Christmas tree farming, one of the daughter articles that spun off is Christmas tree production in Canada (title isn't set yet), the article is still in production but I had a few things I wanted to pass by here, as I am not Canadian.

First, will there be a need for Canadian English? If so, can someone here go through when I am done and make the proper changes, I admit my knowledge in this area is limited and I don't care one way or the other. Second, does anyone know any good web resources for Christmas tree statistics in Canadian agriculture, nationally? by province? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks. IvoShandor 10:03, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Also the article(s) will be in desperate need for photos of Canadian Christmas tree farms (remember the articles this holiday season!). Not just straight shots of the farms but also shots of people interacting with the farms at the choose-and-cut operations. Thanks ahead of time. IvoShandor 13:19, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Persistent editor

Just an FYI, some anon IP (actually, he just recently registered as a user), continues to add questionable content to this article under the scope of this project [1]. Check the last good version (which I actually reverted). I'm approaching 3RR and the new user isn't exactly vandalizing, so I'm going to let him be tonight. But you might want to take a look at the recent changes and make adjustments. Just an FYI. Thanks DigitalNinja 03:39, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] I am this "persistant editor"

As an FYI, just as anyone on Wikipedia has the ability to make small adjustments on pages, or even create entire articles, I have used that priviledge to make some minor adjustments to the Culture of Canada article. If one reads the article as it was before 11 September, one would find quite a lot of erroneous or badly written information. The changes that I have made are the following: I reworded certain parts of the "American influences" section of the article. Some information given in that section was not completely accurate and tended to paint Canadian culture as nothing but a mere immitation of American culture. Albeit the influence of the U.S. is quite apparent in Canada, this is not an article entitled "How Canadian Culture is influenced and dominated by American culture" Perhaps someone should think about creating such an article if they feel the need to do so. Secondly, I reworded the introduction to the article. I have read several complaints about how the introduction is badly written, therefore, I decided to reword it in a more literary style. If one reads other articles about culture in other nations, the introductions usually present the entire topic and give a short sum up of what will be discussed. This article began by saying how much Canadian culture was "american". Now, I am sure that to some, this may have a slight ring of truth, but I find it a bit shameful that we cannot produce one article about Canada, without constantly mentioning the United States. Perhaps I am wrong, but the articles on Austria do not make constant mention of Germany. The articles on New Zealand do not make constant mention of Australia, and the article on Switzerland does not constantly allude to France, Italy or Germany. If some people feel the need to constantly describe Canada by referencing the United States, well, I suggest that they create articles pertaining to that topic. Thank you!

[edit] Give me a reason

I stumbled across 2007 reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada (I forget how), and similar pages :

It seems pretty unclear what a reason is in this case. Could someone possibly add something to reason (disambiguation) so it is clear, and maybe at the top of the above pages. Or maybe the pages should be moved to e.g. 2006 cases of the Supreme Court of Canada. Thanks for helping out in advance. --Montchav 16:28, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

  • Egad. This sent shivers down my spine when I saw this wonky set of titles. Usually the courts refer to "decisions", "judgments" or "orders". Case law is clear that one appeals from "judgments" or "orders" and that one does not appeal from "reasons". Now, I know we're talking SCC here so there are no further appeals (bye bye, mon JCPC), but I think those principles would apply in creating a title better than this. It's funny - the decisions of the individual justices in the US Supreme Court are much more pertinent and politically relevant than what the decision of a SCC justice would be, yet I have been unable to find any such equivalent articles for the US SC. In fact, I wonder if these even qualify as articles. They seem to be statistical or analytical pieces based upon primary research. Agent 86 18:10, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Louis Riel

Louis Riel has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here.

Speaking of the resistance movement; when I eat beans, I eat them for the Northwest Territories. By the way, I don't sign me comments, Sinebot does. Why you ask? I work in base 4. So when I've put the required number of tildes down, it looks like I haven't put any tildes down. Sinebot over here! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.143.236.33 (talk) 07:42, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] FAR notice

Canadian House of Commons has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. --RelHistBuff 07:05, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Victoria Cross (Canada)

Can someone from here have a wander over to Victoria Cross (Canada) and assess its importance. It has just passed its FAC and the ?? on the talk page just need filling in. Thanks. Woodym555 19:00, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] PPAP talk-page banner to WP:CANADA banner

Some of you may want to weigh in on a debate about whether to replace all usages of the {{PPAP}} banner with the {{WikiProject Canada}} banner with the "ppap=yes" parameter so that articles are classified in both projects. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 16:24, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tagging of disambiguation pages

What is the proper way to tag disambiguation pages for WikiProject Canada? The instructions at Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada/Assessment#Quality assessments indicate that the type parameter should be set to Dab or Disambig, which will place the page in Cat:Disambig-class Canada articles. However it appears that category was deleted a year ago, so I suspect these instructions are outdated. --Kralizec! (talk) 04:43, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

As part of an article assessment drive for WikiProject Ships, I just tagged all of the Canadian Forces Maritime Command ship disambiguation pages with the {{WikiProject Canada}} project banner as well as our normal {{WikiProject Ships}} and {{WPMILHIST}} banners. Since I could not find explicit instructions on how to handle dab pages under WikiProject Canada, I went ahead and used one of your previously tagged articles, Summit Series (disambiguation), as a template, and assessed each page as having a class of NA and skipped the importance, type, and workgroup parameters. Please let me know if you have any questions, issues, or if I screwed it up. --Kralizec! (talk) 20:00, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ontario elections collaboration on Wikinews

There is urgent need to collaborate on the Ontario election coverage article (also see, Results of 2005 British Columbia, Canada General Election) on Wikinews. Any help is appreciated from editors on Wikipedia. FellowWikipedian 17:38, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Montreal's international airport high-speed access

Montreal's international airport high-speed access has been WP:PRODed 132.205.99.122 —Preceding comment was added at 20:08, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Stephen Harper and other Canadian PM bios

Hello WikiProject Canada. There's a discussion at the 'Harper' page, concerning inclusion or exclusion of Elizabeth II and the Governer General (Michaelle Jean) in the PM's topInfobox. Your opinons there, would be appreciated. GoodDay 19:19, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

This is actually more a matter of whether or not the section for "monarch" in the infobox template should be filled on all Canadian PMs back to Robert Borden, and solely the "governor general" section from then on back. The discussion, specifically, is going on at Talk:Stephen Harper#Infox -- include GG and monarch? --G2bambino 21:16, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Having all projects able to use {{WikiProject Canada}}

Just so you all know, I'm part way through a drive to make it so that all sub-projects of WP:CANADA can use the {{WikiProject Canada}} template to add articles to both this project and the subproject; using the same assessment parameters for both. I already have the WikiProjects Government of Canada, Parties and politicians, Canadian law, Education in Canada, Canadian TV shows, and Canadian Music included. My end goal is something like {{WP Australia}}, where you can add all subprojects to one template, and as a result the Australia master project has over 40,000 articles. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 21:52, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Well the other projects I know of include Wikipedia:WikiProject Alberta, Wikipedia:WikiProject British Columbia, Wikipedia:WikiProject Manitoba, Wikipedia:WikiProject New Brunswick, Wikipedia:WikiProject Newfoundland and Labrador, Wikipedia:WikiProject Nova Scotia, Wikipedia:WikiProject Ontario, Wikipedia:WikiProject Quebec, wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan, Wikipedia:WikiProject Vancouver, Wikipedia:WikiProject Ottawa, Wikipedia:WikiProject Prescott-Russell, Wikipedia:WikiProject Toronto, Wikipedia:WikiProject Canadian football, Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads, Wikipedia:WikiProject Electoral districts in Canada, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Degrassi. Good luck. It would be nice to have one banner function for all of them, though. John Carter 22:27, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
I've cleaned up the template so that I mostly have to do a couple copy-and-pastes to add a project (plus alerting the porject itself about it). I'll keep updating it over the next few weeks and they should all be included within a month. The big task then is the phase-out of the old templates so that eventually everything is included in this project. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 22:39, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

I have also listed here all of the 3,556 articles using templates that are now outdated and should eventualy be changed so that they all become part of this project. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs)

Can a robot switch these templates?SriMesh | talk 19:46, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
I have been trying to write a bot to do it, but I'm now thinking that it might be easier (and require less bureaucracy) to use an auto wiki browser instead. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 20:00, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
This was exactly going to be my question - thank you...Can Wikiproject SK be added as syntax code like the workgroups? I will change the wikiproject SK accordingly. Also some wikiprojects have used robots to help place banners on articles within categories. Can I do this with SK categories, and add the CA template with a robot, if the syntax is approved in the CA template? See notes regarding projects and robots in the SK newsletter. SriMesh | talk 19:37, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
I had always intended to eventually include the provincial projects in the template using the parameters "SK=yes", "ON=yes", etcetera. This would take a bit of time as it requires changing the template, setting up categories for the assessments, announcing the change, linking to the assessment table, writing importance criteria, and setting up a bot or auto wiki browser to change all of the outdated templates. I should be able to get around to it in a couple weeks if no one beats me to it. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 20:00, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
A quick update; there are now 16 Canada-related projects that can use the {{WikiProject Canada}} template, and 3 that have completely replaced their old template. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 06:14, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hamlets

Can someone tell me why Swalwell was erased 10 times? There are many other hamlets which are here just fine. But since it was erased i also removed it from Kneehill County. Wikicanuck 16:22, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

That was pointy, restored. If it looked anything like the other stubs of hamlets from that area, it was probably deleted because of the poor content (too general category (Canada), unsorted stub tag, nano-stub, etc). ---- Qyd (talk) 16:47, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Parliament Hill - > Parliament Hill, Ottawa

There is a request to rename Parliament Hill because a place called Parliament Hill, London is named after a girls school Parliament Hill School, and the nominator says the London hill is quite famous. 132.205.99.122 (talk) 19:53, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Commonwealth realm monarchies & List of Canadian monarchs

Hello Project members, we need your help at those two articles. At Commonwealth realm monarchies there is a dispute over the existance of Monarchies in the Canadian provinces articles - should they be deleted? And at List of Canadian monarchs there is a dispute over the terms Kingdom & Dominion - which should be included? Your input(s) would be appreciated. GoodDay (talk) 16:49, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Prince Edward Island

A new wikiproject is off the ground, WikiProject Prince Edward Island is devoted to articles about PEI. If you have an interest in this maritime province, and the development and standardization of its articles, please check it out / join up. SriMesh | talk 04:16, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template:2002 Olympic Gold Medal Hockey Team

Template:2002 Olympic Gold Medal Hockey Team has been nominated for deletion at WP:TFD. 132.205.99.122 21:45, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Project divisions?

I note with Wikipedia:WikiProject Prince Edward Island, there is now a dedicated group for each Canadian province. Is any thought being given to projects or task forces for Yukon, Northwest Territories, or Nunavut? If such was wanted, I could try (and maybe succeed) to create task forces or separate projects for them, and also adjust the banner accordingly. Just let me know. John Carter 21:42, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

No one has put together any wikiprojects for the territories, but it would be useful to at least set up a page so that we can add the North to categorization and assessment. I think we can make all three territories into one WikiProject Canadian North; making a group for each territory might be spreading an already limited pool of editors too thin. If we set up a basic workgroup page, someone might one day decide to turn it into a full project. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 23:58, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
It looks like User:Qyd beat me to it, with the creation of Wikipedia:WikiProject Canadian Territories. Good work, Qyd! John Carter 19:02, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
We also seem to be missing a WikiProject for Montreal (as Toronto and Vancouver have them) 132.205.99.122 (talk) 20:24, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ontario Pork needs your help

The stub Ontario Pork is currently basically adspam. Can this article be improved? -- Writtenonsand 18:50, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

I really don't think so. I would be inclined to put it up for WP:AfD. PKT (talk) 13:38, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
FYI, all. No activity in article since 3 December. You WikiProject Canada folks may want to AfD this. -- Writtenonsand (talk) 13:51, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
OK, nomination is done. PKT (talk) 15:04, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
AfD closed, result was keep, after DoubleBlue made improvements. The article was also moved to a more accurate name. PKT (talk) 23:36, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Canadian cabinet ministers tenure of office

We need to fix up those List of Minister of .. articles. Outgoing Ministers don't leave office the day before their successor in sworn in. See Minister of National Defence (Canada)#Ministers, for example. GoodDay (talk) 23:15, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Diefenbaker (wolf)

Diefenbaker (wolf) the fictional dog from Due South is up for deletion at AFD. 132.205.99.122 (talk) 20:23, 12 December 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Scrambles in the Canadian Rockies: Adspam?

Scrambles in the Canadian Rockies is currently a stub, possibly adspam. Should this article be saved or go to Afd? -- Writtenonsand (talk) 14:53, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] O Canada recordings

Not like we need any more recordings, but I am being sent a CD by Canadian Heritage. I need to know if the recordings on that CD, which are the same at [2], are in the public domain or not. If so, then I will make a copy of the recordings and make sure Wikipedia gets them. Can yall ask for me? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zscout370 (talk • contribs) 07:19, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Assesment requested

... for Transportation in Canada. It is listed as Start-Class on the quality scale, but I hope it has moved beyond that stage. Exit2DOS2000•T•C• 08:17, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

It is long enough, referenced, and makes good use of images; however, it does not use much prose, most of the stuff there is in the form of lists. It may need a bit more explanation in sentences before it can be B-class. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 15:49, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
More prose has been added to the article. Original submitter contacted. SriMesh | talk 00:15, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] PROD on chicken balls

Chicken balls has been prodded. 132.205.44.5 (talk) 23:38, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Sourcing. –Pomte 23:54, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Yukon stub types

A discussion for standardizing the names of the stub templates and categories relating to Yukon had been started on Stubs for Deletion. A second discussion on whether to remove the Category:Yukon politician stubs is also taking place. If that category is deleted (for being smaller than considered acceptable for a stub category), then standard practice would be to make {{Yukon-politician-stub}} feed into both Category:Canadian politician stubs and Category:Yukon Territory stubs (or simply Yukon stubs if the latter category is renamed.). Caerwine Caer’s whines 20:40, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Debra Arbec at AfD

Debra Arbec has been nominated for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Debra Arbec. 132.205.44.5 (talk) 22:47, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] British Columbia Topics

  • The Portal:British Columbia is not under construction any more!!! The news is delivered via robot, and all box sections rotate content, so the portal is always fresh. Please add new GA or feature articles, images, biographies, any DYK, quotations, etc etc if you wish.
  • Does anyone wish to have a peek at other provincial templates named Topics of {IE Alberta / Saskatchewan) and create a Topics of British Columbia template for use on the Portal instead of just a link to WikiProject British Columbia/List of British Columbia-related topics.
  • The Portal:Vancouver has come down from feature status due to inactivity, but there were some awesome articles, and images suggested in its heydey. I can change the format to rotational and robotic news entry so the content on the Vancouver Portal looks fresh with each visit if it is desired. See talk page. Let me know if the format is desired to stay the same or change to be similar to the BC Portal.
  • The Vancouver 2010 Winter Games is upcoming and news relating to the Games and venue sites... Vancouver Olympic Village and the Whistler Olympic and Paralympic Village can be now added to the above portals if wished.
  • Should there be a new rotating box section added to either BC or Vancouver portal in regards to the Olympics?
  • Please contribute to the above comments at Wikiproject BC.

SriMesh | talk 21:44, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Canada Portal Templates

Should the two portal templates should be merged? Canada portals by province and territory and Canadian Cities Portals Or should the templates be divided...cities only cities, and the provinces only provinces?SriMesh | talk 21:44, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Brand New Canada Provincial Portals

  • Portal:Manitoba is no longer under construction. Its next addition will be the news box section.--this has been added. The sections including the introduction rotate, and some sections have nominations and voting and some just rotate content.
  • Portal:Alberta has just newly been created and is not under construction but is still awaiting its news box section.--this has been added. Its next addition will be the news box section. The sections including the introduction rotate, and some sections have nominations and voting and some just rotate content.
  • Portal:Saskatchewan and Portal:Canada have new box sections with a help me section so new users know how to add content to a box template layout web page. Is this handy, or not? Should other portals have it or not? Portal:Saskatchewan has experimented with a Have a Question section, but it has not been necessary. SriMesh | talk 21:44, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Maybe with the The Vancouver 2010 Winter Games a new Have a Question section may be of assistance on the WWW. But would it be for Vancouver or BC portal or both?

SriMesh | talk 21:44, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] List of Yukon Territory-related topics

I nominated List of Yukon Territory-related topics for provisional deletion because it is my view that in its current form it does nothing a category does not do better, and the preferred term for the area is simply Yukon, not Yukon Territory. It was rejected for provisional deletion with a suggestion that it be moved to the Wikipedia namespace, maybe as a subpage of Wikiproject Canada. So, I ask you, do you want it or should I send it to AFD for disposition? Caerwine Caer’s whines 01:41, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Nevermind. My provisional deletion notice prodded one of the original authors to seek speedy deletion which was granted. Caerwine Caer’s whines 23:01, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] OpenBSD

Query: Why is the only Canadian operating system considered to be of the lowest significance to this Wikiproject? To me that is akin to listing other scarce resources as insignificant. Canadian owned brewers for example. 74.13.28.47 (talk) 18:29, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

What, no reasons? Not even someone calling me a nerd for thinking an operating system matters? 74.13.62.17 (talk) 17:07, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
Firstly, WP:Canada uses broad classes of importance rankings by category. Secondly, the issue of importance rankings has to do with how important the topic is to an understanding of Canada. We don't apply subjective evaluations about the importance of the topic by itself — importance is gauged within a very specific context. And finally, while OpenBSD does have some loosely-related Canadian aspects to it, it's in absolutely no meaningful sense a primarily Canadian topic. Bearcat (talk) 18:42, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Canadian PM infobox content

We've got a discussion going on at Stephen Harper, concerning those PM infoboxes. You're free to join the discussion. GoodDay (talk) 00:28, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] George Stamatis

At the article for George Stamatis, who seems to be a notable Canadian, there has been some recent edit warring and accusations of vanity and/or conflict of interest. I have blocked one user, but because of my unfamiliarity with the subject, I'm not sure what the best version of the article is and whether it should be reverted or not. Can someone who might be familiar with this topic please have a look? Thanks. -- Ed (Edgar181) 15:55, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] parks vs features in them

Hi; please see this discussion] and also at Chasm (disambiguation) where I say much the same thing. The issue is whether or not a separate article should exist for a provincial or other park when there is only the one feature/reason for the park to exist. I just expanded Chasm Provincial Park and Nairn Falls Provincial Park, which are one-feature parks; in other cases such as Marble Canyon Provincial Park there are two or more features contained in the park which could/should have separate articles (Marble Canyon and Pavilion Lake, which I'm about to write, and Chimney Rock also, which isn't in the park per se but is part of the canyon formation and the hillside above Pavilion Lake. Skookum1 (talk) 18:47, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] re Category:Valleys of British Columbia

Please see this discussion.Skookum1 (talk) 18:47, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Columbia Valley vs Columbia Country

Please see this discussion. I think I also went into it a bit on Talk:Columbia Valley and also on Talk:Slocan Valley. This relates to the previous Valleys of BC discussion.Skookum1 (talk) 18:47, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] List of Canadian inventions?

Gotta be done, no? I'm not usually into the nationalist stuff but it'd be a fun project. Iodized salt, pulley-style clotheslines, correspondence education...not just time zones and insulin, like some page or comment runs somewhere. Could be fun, I wouldn't know how to cat it, the three I've just mentioned I'd have to track down the refs and I'm not familiar enough with the usuals to even start; best in a table format (patent nos. might be available, and there'd be fields for inventor and owner etc.).Skookum1 (talk) 06:42, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Quebec

There's a continuing discussion at that article, concerning the inclusion of the 'Quebecois motion' in that article's lead. GoodDay (talk) 21:38, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Is there a way to "bot-omate" template placement?

I just discovered in Category:British Columbia school stubs that most entries in the category have no template at all; I just worked my way through the 'A' section, but it's pretty laborious; does anyone know enough bot programming to maybe automate/bot the placement of templates globally across certain categories (excluding, in this case, 'A', and any others that have the same template already, as some will). It would take a couple of days to work my way through just this one category; template being placed is {{WikiProject Canada|bc=yes|education=yes}}.Skookum1 (talk) 18:14, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

You could make a request at Wikipedia:Bot requests as per the instructions there for automatic placement of banners. John Carter (talk) 18:19, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Summit Series

Summit Series has been proposed to be renamed 1972 Summit Series. 132.205.44.5 (talk) 02:40, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Too much talk

I'm not sure if this is controversial or not, but I would propose that we merge Wikipedia talk:Canadian Wikipedians' notice board (NBT) and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Canada (WCT). It's not uncommon for Wikipedians to post the same message at both NBT and WCT, which suggests to me that there is some major duplication in roles. I understand that there is a theoretical difference between the two, in that WCT is the place to coordinate Wikiproject efforts whereas NBT is a more general talk page. In practice, however, there is very little difference between the usage of the two. I think Canadian Wikipedians, and Wikipedians interested in Canada-related articles, would be well served if WCT were redirected to NBT (first archiving old discussions, and transfering over any ongoing or recent discussions). It would ensure that don't end up with paralel discussions on the same topic on the two separate pages, ensure a bit more exposure for Wikiproject Canada efforts, and save everyone the effort of posting in both places.

Ironically, I have also posted this suggestion over at NBT. Let's keep the discussion over there, so that we do not end up with two separate discussions. Skeezix1000 (talk) 14:09, 18 March 2008 (UTC)