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Template:WPCanada Navigation This page is a notice board for things particularly relevant to Canadian Wikipedians or Wikipedians interested in Canada. Add any Canadian related articles in the appropriate list or sublist. Create a new sublist if an appropriate one does not exist yet. Please remove articles from this notice board once they have been dealt with appropriately.

Requested articles

Articles requested to be created.

Articles to improve

Articles that need to be expanded or cleaned up in some way.

Discussion

Discussion about Canadian related Wikipedia matters.

Style guide

Summary of current conventions and writing styles for Canadian articles.

Members

List of wikipedians who frequent this notice board and a list of Canadian meet-ups.

References

Websites, books and other resources that you can consult to help you write articles.

Useful links

Quebec wikipedians' noticeboard
Quebec collaboration of the week
Wikimedia Canada, a soon-to-be charitable organization, meant to support and implement the causes of the Wikimedia Foundation locally.

Current events/topical articles

Ontario NDP leadership convention, 2009
Human rights complaints against Maclean's magazine - currently being heard by the BC Human Rights Commission. Reggie Perrin (talk) 22:55, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Braidwood Inquiry into the post-Tasering death of Robert Dziekanski needs copy editing, expansion and updating. Reggie Perrin (talk) 16:20, 20 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Portal:Current events/Canada is in sore need of interested editors. It is seriously out of date and should be retired unless some editors want to adopt it. DoubleBlue (Talk) 15:17, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Requests for peer review

Please add new requests to the top of the list.

Wikipedia:Peer review/Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan/archive1
Wikipedia:Peer review/Military history of Canada/archive1 Demote review
Wikipedia:Peer review/Canada Day/archive1-Closed achieved B class
Wikipedia:Peer review/CNR Radio -closed Achieved C class
Wikipedia:Peer review/Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission-closed no ratings no talk page banners
Wikipedia:Peer review/Saskatchewan Highway 11/archive1
Wikipedia:Peer review/Saskatchewan Highway 1
Wikipedia:Peer review/Saskatchewan Highway 58/archive1
Wikipedia:Peer review/Calgary Flames Achieved FA
Wikipedia:Peer review/Highway 6 (Ontario)/archive1 (archived) Achieved B class
Wikipedia:Peer review/Geography of Newfoundland and Labrador/archive1 (archived) Achieved A class
Wikipedia:Peer review/Prince George, British Columbia/archive1 {archived} Achieved B class
Wikipedia:Peer review/Elk (Cervus canadensis) (archived) Achieved FA
Wikipedia:Peer review/Yellowknife, Northwest Territories/archive1 {archived} Achieved B class
Wikipedia:Peer review/Battle of the Plains of Abraham/archive1 (archived) Achieved GA class. Oct 2007 help with new tag please.
Wikipedia:Peer review/ZeD/archive1{archived} Achieved B class
Wikipedia:Peer review/Calgary/archive1 (archived) Achieved GA class.
Wikipedia:Peer review/Lethbridge (archived) Achieved FAC Nov 2007
Wikipedia:Peer review/Winnipeg/archive1 (archived) Achieved B class was GAN failed GA
Wikipedia:Peer review/List of ice hockey teams in Alberta (archived) FL
Wikipedia:Peer review/Calgary Hitmen (archived) Achieved GA class.
Wikipedia:Peer review/SkyTrain (Vancouver)/archive2 (archived) Achieved FA
Wikipedia:Portal peer review/Vancouver (archived) Former Feature Portal
Wikipedia:Peer review/Scarborough, Ontario/archive1 (archived) Achieved B class

Featured article or list candidates

Please link new candidates at the top of the list.

Did you know section candidates

Please link new candidates for Wikipedia's Did You Know section towards the top of the list, starting with the most recent article created/expanded date first. See Template talk:Did you know for current article nominations. Expansion and cleanup of candidate articles is also encouraged. Please add nominated or featured Did You Know? articles to the Did You Know? section of the Canadian Portal.

(31 July 2008) Elm Park, Winnipeg [1]
(27 July 2008) Smash Cut - featured 1 August [2] [3]
(26 July 2008) Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 21 [4]
(23 July 2008) Battle of Ontario [5] - added to Portal 32
(18 July 2008) Aldis Bernard - featured 23 July [6] - added to Portal 33
(3 July, 2008) George Zames - featured 10 July [7] - added to Portal 34
(2 July, 2008) Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario - featured 8 July [8] - added to Portal 35
(3 July, 2008) Martin Keamy - featured 7 July [9] - added to Portal 36
(3 July, 2008) Samuel Jarvis - featured 7 July [10] - added to Portal 37
(3 July, 2008) Tree: A Life Story - featured 6 July [11] - added to Portal 38
(27 June, 2008) Chichester, Quebec - featured 1 July -[12] - added to Portal 39
(25 June, 2008) Jan Dukszta - featured 1 July - [13] - added to Portal 40

Candidates for deletion

Please add new entries to the top of the list. See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Canada.

McGill Redmen Soccer team

Requested moves, mergers & splits

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Pacific Northwest Canoes → Pacific Northwest canoes; simple enough but apparently just using "move" doesn't relocate teh history correctly; cf. also War canoe....Skookum1 (talk) 15:03, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Ten Mile Point → Cadboro Bay, British Columbia. Ongoing discussion, lately challenged again by (sole) IP user....area in question is high-end residential, no cites available as to distinctness from Cadboro Bay (or general notablity) other than attestations....Skookum1 (talk) 22:31, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Canadians deported → Category:Canadians that have been deported. Discussion here. meco (talk) 06:55, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Discussion here on the following four move suggestions. 04:38, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
H.N.I.C. moved to H.N.I.C. (disambiguation), and redirect to Hockey Night in Canada. Dab page already exists, will require an admin (or at least I believe you still do). Discuss. -Royalguard11(T) 04:03, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Fête nationale du Québec (Saint Jean Baptiste Day) → ??? Please add your thoughts at Talk. 07:06, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
List of national historic sites of Canada → List of National Historic Sites of Canada (currently a redirect), because "National Historic Site" is a title/proper noun/name and not a generic usage; leaving it the other way leaves it open to interpretation, i.e. something someone considers nationally-signficant but isn't on the official list could be added; as with recent changes adding provincial and locally-recognized sites (which I just undid).Skookum1 (talk) 15:31, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Sťáťimc → Category:St'at'imc see Category talk:Sťáťimc
Category:Stó:lō → Category:Sto:lo for the same-but-slightly-different reasons as St'at'imc; see Category talk:Stó:lō.Skookum1 (talk) 15:33, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Stóːlō → Sto:lo for the same reasons, or at least change it to Stó:lō, same as the catname; one additional reason is this article name doesn't use the same special characters as teh catname does; if anything this should have the same diacriticals as teh category (which are at least similar and don't have that space, which we never seen in printed English). This re-opens the old Skwxwu7mesh issue also, and likewise while the article maybe can/should have the special charactrs, it's cumbersome to have it in the category name. If catnames redirected the way article names did, this wouldn't be so much of a problem, but it is a problem.Skookum1 (talk) 16:49, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Belcarra, British Columbia → Belcarra. See discussion. Dl2000 (talk) 03:17, 25 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Port Moody, British Columbia → Port Moody. See discussion. Dl2000 (talk) 03:11, 25 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Coquitlam, British Columbia → Coquitlam. See discussion. Dl2000 (talk) 02:26, 25 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Norwood Airport, this has been sitting with a merge tag since January and has gathered only two comments. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 06:45, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
2010 Winter Olympics - p.r. piece, very official-toned, no discussion of public controversies or other related news, big on talking about VANOC and associated politicians though....not quite prime for a POV tag, yet something definitely like spam, so definitely in need of de-promofying and additions of alternate views/perspectives/protests - in fact Category:Politics of British Columbia is almost warranted; a separate article is a possibility but woudl risk being a POV fork....Skookum1 (talk) 03:16, 15 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Callaghan Valley needs to have Whistler Olympic Park (which redirects to it) split off. See Talk:Callaghan Valley.Skookum1 (talk) 03:14, 15 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Regional District subcats such as Category:Communities in Squamish-Lillooet Regional District, British Columbia and Category:People from Okanagan-Similkameen need to have "the" inserted in their titles, and the needless comma-province address removed when present (as also with the main RD cats themselves- and in Okanagan-Similkameen's case "Regional District" should be added, in that case before the name), as in Category:Communities in the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District and Category:People from the Okanagan-Similkameen respectively. RDs are never referred to as stand-alone names and standard usage requires the definite article.Skookum1 (talk) 20:13, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Postscript to previous changes done (thanks) by Bearcat; apparently some RDs use the "Regional District of" as their official DBA name; TheTom has reverted most of those, although the catnames continue to be dominantly in the xx Regional District formula, when perhaps they shouldn't be; TheTom also noted that the most common usage to refer to RDs is by their acronyms, so maybe "People from the SLRD" and "People from the RDOS" are easier (if not obvious to non-British Columbians); we (wikians) do use abbreviations/acronyms in catnames, such as Category:British Columbia MLAs......Skookum1 (talk) 20:25, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Nk'mip Desert → South Okanagan Desert, Osoyoos Desert or Okanagan Desert; see Talk:Nk'mip Desert.Skookum1 (talk) 21:13, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Dawson Creek, British Columbia → Dawson Creek. See discussion. Mindmatrix 16:28, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- This needs an admin to review and close the debate. Mindmatrix 17:23, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ongoing projects

Wikipedia:Canadian wikipedians' notice board/Cities - Per WP:NC, an incomplete review of which cities in Canada do or don't merit moves to their undisambiguated city names. Bearcat
Category:Canada articles missing geocoordinate data - Follow the instructions at Template:Coord to add co-ordinates to these articles.

Requests for comment

Please add new requests to the top of the list. Please keep debates on the relevant talk page, and only use this section for a concise neutral description of the issue.

Talk:Bobby Orr#Spelling change request. A request to change the spelling from American to Canadian. 21:51, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
Talk:Carolyn Bennett - Should categories such as Category:Liberal candidates in the 2008 Canadian federal election contain incumbent MPs who run again, or only people who ran but weren't elected? Bearcat (talk) 14:25, 10 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Malibu, British Columbia - needs de-brochurization.Skookum1 (talk) 00:09, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Template talk:Canadian Rockies - various issues: criteria for communities, arrangement of ranges, design.Skookum1 (talk) 18:27, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Talk:Canadian federal election, 2008 timeline - A collection of events, but the article might be mis-named and perhaps merged into 39th Canadian Parliament. Might have been discussed a bit at Talk:Canadian federal election, 2008#Timelines and "Events since the 2006 election". PK T 18:00, 24 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Green Party of British Columbia - contributor has re-placed uncopyrighted party logo and requested assistance in determining its copyright status. Also the party logo so re-added is bumper-sticker style, about 700px wide; i tried to add switches to the table but apparently don't know the internal code to make it work; the effect is that of a billboard....Skookum1 (talk) 00:46, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've reduced the size; the #px switch actually needs to be inside the wikilinks. I'm not sure how to help on the copyright question, though. Bearcat (talk) 01:53, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Toronto → Should the infobox contain this image or this one? Bearcat (talk) 22:00, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Suggested cats: Category:Uninhabited localities in British Columbia and Category:Unincorporated localities in British Columbia. Please see Category talk:Unincorporated settlements in British Columbia.Skookum1 (talk) 04:48, 13 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Talk:A (TV system) → Between Image:A Logo.jpg and Image:A logo.svg, which rendition of the system's logo is more official and correct? Bearcat (talk) 04:17, 12 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Poverty in Canada. Debate regarding the prominence of LICO. On one side it is often quoted by media. On other StatsCan says it was never meant to be a poverty line.
Category talk:Provincial Parks of British Columbia - suggested by-region breakdown of the category; in its current form it's maybe useful as a quick look-up for parks by alphabetosis, but then so is List of British Columbia provincial parks. Provincial parks are a major clump within any RD or region cat at present, they could be subcats of those regions (but not RD cats, as explaiend in my exegesis).Skookum1 (talk) 18:51, 1 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Sault Ste. Marie language resolution - User:Norland123, a WP:SPA user, has repeatedly inserted unsourced personal commentary about Canadian bilingualism policy into this article — including a plain, uncited assertion that the Alliance for the Preservation of English in Canada was right all along about the rise of forced bilingualism. A few more watchlisters needed to help keep this under control. Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 17:43, 1 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Category talk:National Historic Sites of Canada re integrating the Category:Heritage sites in Canada and corresponding provincial heritage cats with the Historic Sites hierarchy.Skookum1 (talk) 13:01, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Talk:William Robinson (of Salt Spring). Other than the obvious problem with the title/disambiguation, there is a notablity concern from one visitor about this article. As i recall, though, this case is notable in Canadian legal history, and of late has become of interest in historiography because of John Lutz's work on him (the only cite so far); I added the Canada-law-stub because it's a legal case, but though I better post it here so someone can review the source article and the written one not so much to check for plagiarism but to check for actual notability; the intervenor is correct, not all murders are notable, but the legal cases attached to them may be....Skookum1 (talk) 22:07, 27 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Talk:Name of Canada - a new attempt to improve the section discussing the contentious issue of the meaning of "Dominion" in this article. 00:23, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
Talk:Heather Carter - Is Carter notable enough for an independent article rather than inclusion in Liberal Party candidates, 40th Canadian federal election? Creator has reverted multiple attempts to revert or delete it (by both me and other editors), alleges that any question about her notability is merely partisan politics, and has a WP:COI issue — a person with the very same name just so happens to also be on the Board of Directors list of the Liberal Party riding association in Carter's riding. But I'm stepping over WP:3RR if I deal with this any further. Bearcat (talk) 00:52, 20 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Talk:Thunder Bay, Ontario - Discussion to review primary vs. secondary usages on the dab page Thunder Bay and determine whether the city is a valid candidate for a page move. Most usages on the dab page are unquestionably secondary. Bearcat (talk) 01:38, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Talk:Solitudes - I found this by accident, looking in Category:Canadian naturalists (where it was mistcategorized) looking to see if there was an article on Ralph Edwards (naturalist) and found this article, which doesn't seem worth existing independently from Dan Gibson and has a bit of COI flavoru to it....Skookum1 (talk) 01:01, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Talk:Rick Dykstra - Should we reference Dykstra's vote on Iraq war resisters seeking asylum in Canada? CJCurrie (talk) 21:25, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
{{Intrawest resorts}} - is it normal for a company to have a template like this? Found it on the Whistler Blackcomb page, expecting to see a ski-area template....Skookum1 (talk) 22:41, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Talk:Lorne Calvert -- Dispute as to whether or not certain links are appropriate to the page. CJCurrie (talk) 02:52, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Talk:Markus Buchart -- Former leader of the Green Party of Manitoba. I'm currently involved in a slow-motion conflict with an IP who seems to object to one particular sentence. CJCurrie (talk) 03:02, 3 July 2008 (UTC) Could I please reiterate my request that someone intervene in this matter. I've asked my interlocuter several times to explain his actions; he hasn't yet done so. CJCurrie (talk) 00:00, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Sacred Headwaters. The title of this new article makes me uncomfortable for obvious reasons; it's a spin-off of the coal-bed methane sections at Tahltan and Iskut, British Columbia and is a citable title but obfviously a broad brush, inviting disambiguation huh? The coal-bed project proposal is in the Klappan Valley or Klappan Plateau (there is no Klappan River article yet, though should be as it's a major tributary of the Stikine); once such an article is created a merge of this Sacred headwaters one into it would seem to work, although the Sacred headwaters as described also include the Nass and Skeena headwaters; the article exists to highlight the coal-bed methane proposal, which is in the Klappan and not the Skeena or Nass, basins. Given this and similar articles or sections in need of becoming articles, Category:Environmental controversies in Canada and respective subcats seems like a good idea, if not quite by that name and I wouldn't know which hierarchy it would belong in. This article had not cats, I added a few, maybe there are other suitable.Skookum1 (talk) 15:34, 8 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Requests for images

General requests for images: Wikipedia requested photographs in Canada

Kwantlen University College
Monarchy in Canada and Royal visits to Canada: Image:POW-2.jpg, a Crown copyright image, has been deemed unusable under fair use because a free one can be found. --G2bambino 16:16, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Kim Campbell

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 ==Requests for comment==
 ''Please add new requests to the top of the list.  Please keep debates on the relevant talk page, and only use this section for a concise neutral description of the issue.''
+*[[Talk:Bobby Orr#Spelling change request]]. A request to change the spelling from American to Canadian. 21:51, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
 *[[Talk:Carolyn Bennett]] - Should categories such as [[:Category:Liberal candidates in the 2008 Canadian federal election]] contain incumbent MPs who run again, or only people who ran but weren't elected? [[User:Bearcat|Bearcat]] ([[User talk:Bearcat|talk]]) 14:25, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
 *[[Malibu, British Columbia]] - needs de-brochurization.[[User:Skookum1|Skookum1]] ([[User talk:Skookum1|talk]]) 00:09, 8 October 2008 (UTC)