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[edit] Will be it be included under WikiProject Canada?
This is a great idea, but I have one question. I don't know the exact WP terminology, but right now, WikiProject Quebec is included under WikiProject Canada on Talk pages, all in a nice neat box, while WikiProject Montreal templates on Talk pages exist separately. It looks disorganized. See Talk:Victoria Bridge (Montreal) for example: it is tagged as being part of WikiProject Canada, Canada Roads WikiProject, WikiProject Quebec, all in one box, while the new WikiProject Montreal is separate and above. In time, will this be rectified? Shawn in Montreal (talk) 21:59, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
- Sure thing, I'll have to figure out how to harmonize it into the WikiProject Canada template. Only reason I made it separate was because the Toronto, Ottawa, etc WikiProjects all had separate templates. Here's a question: Do you think that articles should be both part of WikiProject Quebec/Canada and WikiProject Montreal? MTLskyline (talk) 01:22, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
- You'd know better than me. I just noticed that WikiQuebec was part of WikiCanada, so I just assumed the same logic should apply. But if other Canadian cities do it differently... there must be a good reason? Shawn in Montreal (talk) 01:56, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
- The process of integrating projects into the WPCANADA templates is ongoing; not everything has necessarily been done yet. It would probably be best to raise this at WP:CWNB to clarify whether city projects should be integrated or kept separate. Generally, though, I would think most articles don't need to simultaneously be flagged as both WikiProject Quebec and WikiProject Montreal; the Montreal one should suffice. Bearcat (talk) 22:16, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
- You'd know better than me. I just noticed that WikiQuebec was part of WikiCanada, so I just assumed the same logic should apply. But if other Canadian cities do it differently... there must be a good reason? Shawn in Montreal (talk) 01:56, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Neighbourhoods and streets
I also have a question about some of the neighbourhoods and streets in the To do list (as well as some of the redlinks to proposed articles, currently in the Montreal neighbourhoods template). WP:CANSTYLE states that articles on neighbourhoods still have to satisfy basic notability guidelinesl I'm not sure all of these would. Moreover, what is the policy on city streets? I can't find it. But I wonder whether all of the streets on this list are notable. thanks, Shawn in Montreal (talk) 23:28, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
- With regards to the neighbourhoods, I put all the neighbourhoods I can think of in Montreal on that list. Some are notable (Monkland Village, Cote-Saint-Paul and Saraguay are all well known and mentioned occaisionally in the press). Some of the proposals are just for more specific parts of neighbourhoods (Rosemont and La Petite-Patrie for instance. I'm not that familiar with that part of Montreal, but I believe that it is two neighbourhoods joined together to form the borough?) Financial District/Red Light District are not necessary (although there is a Red Light District article on the French wiki). Bois-Franc and Longue-Pointe I have seen written on old maps, but they may not even exist as neighbourhoods today (again not extremely familiar with those parts of town)
- As for the streets, some are defintely more notable than others. To determine what streets to include on the list, I looked at Google Maps and chose the streets in yellow (which are usually the major ones). Some are important streets in Montreal (Jean-Talon, Pie-IX, Papineau, Ontario), while others are merely important in their neighbourhood. Whichever streets (or neighbourhoods for that matter) you feel are unnecessary (I'm from the South Shore, so I am not too familiar with a lot of the streets on the list), just remove them. Cheers.MTLskyline (talk) 04:32, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
