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[edit] Fire up?

Is there any interest in forming a wikiproject focused on Canadian geography? The subject seems vast and interesting. There are currently a lot of wikipedia pages about rivers, mountains, lakes, islands, etc, that could benefit from attention conferred by a wikiproject. --Qyd (talk) 15:03, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

I made the page because so many articles on Canadian landforms are untagged. I'm going to ask a bot operator to put the {{WikiProject Canada}} tag on them, but I probably won't spend a huge amount of time with the project after that. However, I guarantee that this will interest someone eventually. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 15:42, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
I will AWB-add the banner on some pages (I'll only tag pages that already have a class rating, so that no un-assessed articles are added to WPCANADA). --Qyd (talk) 17:34, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
I don't understand the reluctance people have to add many unassessed articles to the project. The way I see it, it's better to have them tagged and unassessed than to have them hidden somewhere out there in wikipedia's depths. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 18:11, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
I find it that if there's a lot of articles in an unassessed category, editors will not even start the assessment. If there's just a few, chances are higher that they eventually get assessed. --Qyd (talk) 16:26, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Notability

Is it possible to find some more sources of information on this topic Seton Portage Historic Provincial Park and Stony Lake (Manitoba)? It is tagged with a notability tag, and there are currently 31 articles in the scope of wikiproject Canada which are tagged with notability concerns, so I am contacting anyone to see if the quantity of notability concern articles can be reduced, and quality increased. For more help see this note or the article talk page for a current discussion. Kind Regards SriMesh | talk 19:33, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

I'll come up with some more info on the Seton Lake park - I'm from there, long ago, and have been meaning to write Dozier's Way, which was the horsedrawn wooden railway ("BC's first railway") connecting the two lakes of the portage...it's a dowdy little park, mostly a gravel lot next to the tracks with an old caboose; but it's the only heritage commemoration in that area, which was vital to the Douglas Road, the first major publicly-funded route into the Interior.Skookum1 (talk) 14:46, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Reservoirs as structures?

I just queried User:Darwinek as to why he'd put Category:Buildings and structures in British Columbia on Nechako Reservoir; see his replies on my talkpage; I told him on his I would bring it here for discussion. To me, a dam, a powerhouse, a diversion tunnel - those are structures; a reservoir is man-made but being aqueous isn't a structure. I think the answer's obvious, just wanting corroboration before removing the cat; there'd be too many reservoirs, just in BC, in teh B&S cat if that were the case.....Skookum1 (talk) 14:46, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox for straits?

I've worked on a lot of articles about navigable waterways between landforms (strait, channel, passage, sound, firth). Currently, there is no Infobox for this geo feature. I asked about it awhile ago at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Geography#Infobox for straits?, without response. Any comment here? --Rosiestep (talk) 23:58, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Kinda like it, but it would be a complex infobox; some sounds are actually fjords, or networks of them; the Strait of Georgia of course also is the Gulf of Georgia, or rather part of it to be more precise; Queen Charlotte Strait is pretty much a sound, the Dixon Entrance is both a strait and a sound...we also have some instances of "canal" (Portland Canal and Hood Canal) in this region, and iolets - mostly really fjords, like teh "canals", out the ying-yang.Skookum1 (talk) 21:54, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Clarence Islands

This is a new article, self-nom for Template talk:Did you know#Articles created/expanded on May 27. Any improvement (e.g. map, photo, etc.), especially during the 5 day DYK? article review period, is appreciated. --Rosiestep (talk) 00:45, 28 May 2008 (UTC)