Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Vancouver/Archive/September 2006

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GVRD, BC to GVRD?

Davie Village

September COTM

The September COTM is Vancouver International Film Festival. -→Buchanan-Hermit™/?! 17:34, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Vancouver/BC as part of Pacific Northwest

Please see discussion "Name Dispute" at Talk:Pacific Northwest.Skookum1 00:36, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

UBC and addresses

I've been reading over a few UBC related articles, and I've noticed that the addresses use University Endowment Lands, though Canada Post uses Vancouver instead. Some articles like University Hill Secondary and Elementary use UEL as the city in the address, therefor could be misinformation. -- Selmo (talk) 03:20, 9 September 2006 (UTC)


Downtown Eastside

Hi all! I'd like to do some work on the DTES since I live and work in this area. I'm also part of a team of researchers who specifically observe and study the people of DTES. I want to present it accurately and unbiased of course. I would love the opportunity to help out with this specific part of Vancouver. There is so much history here and landmark events we'd be remiss not to include it. It is indeed the poorest postal code/area of all of Canada and there are a lot of unique 'firsts' and individuals here. OneWomanArmy

Hi OneWomanArmy. I also live and am doing research related to the area. I've heard the "poorest postal code" claim for years, and wonder if it can be verified. I believe someone once told me that the postal code boundaries had been tweaked at one point and that claim no longer holds. There's also been a lot of yuppies moving into the new condos sprouting up in the 'hood, (revitalization? gentrification?) and it would be interesting to know how the demographics are changing, especially since the city writ large will change a lot in terms of development leading up to the olympics. I've also heard that there are more social service organizations per square foot here than anywhere else in the country. That wouldn't surprise me either. Bobanny 17:06, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
Nice to meet you Bo. Well, it's definitely the poorest area of the entire country. That CAN be proven. I'm holding in my hand the 2005 report from Vancouver Coastal Health. It's about 30-something pages regarding the health and social profile of this area. I believe they release one every year. Out of all of BC the DTES (designated as Community Health Area 2)has the highest percentage of people who have Grade 9 and under. There's a lot of interesting stats in this report.OWA 03:00, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

assessment department

Over at WikiProject Organized Labour we recently set up an assessment department which gives us a tool for keeping track of how we are progressing. I see from the conversation above that you have started in this direction. If the project is interested, I would be willing to set up a similar department here.

In addition to providing details about article status, it also includes the project in the larger efforts taking place at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team.--Bookandcoffee 17:40, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

sounds good to me, and I can't imagine anyone would object. Make it so, No. 1.Bobanny 17:17, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
I'm going to start on this over the next day or so. Now would be a good time to voice any concerns. :)--Bookandcoffee 18:45, 14 October 2006 (UTC)