Wikipedia talk:Canadian Wikipedians' notice board/Archive 5

message: Can we add a line to the infobox to indicate whether a party is actually registered or not? It's a bit silly that the Freedom Party of Canada infobox has nothing to indicate that the party has never run a candidate and is not even a registered political party. fullsome prison 04:55, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If the Freedom Party is the only outlier, surely it might make more sense to just strip it of its infobox?  If there are others, I can look in playing with some of the conditional fields... the active/defunct stuff might be the logical place to do it. The Tom 05:25, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Political party infobox 

message: Could somebody please help keep an eye on the Warren Kinsella and Mark Bourrie articles.  The articles are currently being watched by an army of IPs (and in the past several troublesome users -- including sockpuppets and one which claimed to be Bourrie, another named MarkBourrie).  The articles are basically uneditable right now -- everything is quickly reverted.  Some of the users have been very troublesome on the talk pages as well.  The troubles, especially at the Kinsella page, already were too much for one good admin, Crzrussian, to deal with.  The problems are apparent with the Pierre Bourque (journalist) article also, although I haven't even begun to deal with that one myself yet.  I don't think the problem needs an admin so much as a few vigilant eyes to watch it.  Thanks.  --JGGardiner 22:57, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Update: another editor requested an IP be blocked and it resulted in semi-protection of the Bourrie article.  So this isn't quite so critical for the moment.  --JGGardiner 15:53, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Request for comment/help

message: The above article has proven to be controversial. We've done a significant re-write to remove the more controversial parts, although this article will never please everyone. Please take a look and leave comments on the talk page, if any.  Deet 02:10, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Status of religious freedom in Canada]]

message: The page's title and the page itself makes it clear that "This page is a notice board for things particularly relevant to Canadian Wikipedians". This however, is not how things should be done on Wikipedia. Wikiprojects and other community pages are meant for project use, not for congregating based on country of origin, political persuasion, eyecolour or whatever. A proper focus for this page would be articles related to Canada and people who are interested in them, regardless of where they come from. Zocky | picture popups 23:52, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Umm, this is not a vote, so I'm not sure why the bolding. Anyway, those should obviously be changed too. Zocky | picture popups 00:29, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I disagree, that seems to be the consensus if they're all named like that. Ardenn 00:31, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Not nearly all are named that. Please continue the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Regional notice boards#A uniform naming scheme. Zocky | picture popups 00:47, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move to [[Notice board for Canada-related topics]] or similar 

message: I question some of the cities included on the list. Vancouver City does NOT have over 1MM, it has more like 600,000 (2001 stats have it as 545,671 people). I doubt that Edmonton is over 1MM, since the 2005 population of Edmonton was 712,391. If it's actually metropolitan or regional districts being counted, I think that should be made more clear; because in fact individual mayors (like those of Edmonton and Vancouver) are not mayors of cities over 1MM, they are mayors in districts over 1MM.--Anchoress 04:26, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed.  Presently, there are only two Canadian cities with populations over 1 million: Toronto and Montreal.  Calgary will join that group, likely at the next civic census, but after that, it will be a while before a fourth city is added. Resolute 01:01, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cities with more than 1MM residents? 

message: I was wondering if it would be alright I make SVG images of the various flag proposials that are listed in the book "I Stand For Canada" that were trying to change the Canadian flag in the 1940's and 1960's? User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 03:45, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Flag of Canada]] 

message: I've been helping out at Special:Cross-namespace links by deleting signatures from articles. I'm just wondering: Is there a policy/guideling/anything about this? Some users seem to sign every article they create, usually at the bottom of the page. -Royalguard11Talk 05:22, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: WP:SIG says that articles are not supposed to contain signatures: "Edits to articles should not be signed, as signatures on Wikipedia are not intended to indicate ownership or authorship of any Wikipedia article." User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 05:49, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

text: I've been seeing a lot of this on pages. Where does it come from, because if it is a wikipedia thing it's going against WP:SIG policy. -Royalguard11Talk 23:48, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Signed Edits 

message: Is this not already the naming convention? And shouldn't you discuss this on Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (city names), if you are trying to change policy? Adam Bishop 16:07, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This is for Canadian cities and Wikipedia:Naming conventions (city names) is broken down by country. There has never been a Canadian city naming convention established. Canada was lumped in with the U.S. because no one objected at the time.  I am trying to establish a guideline that reflects reality, since at least 4 cities in Canada violate the current one. --Usgnus 16:28, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There appears to now be a separate Canada guideline at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (city names). I think that the proposed guideline here is a little better fleshed out. Perhaps a note could be left at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (city names) advising others of this discussion. --Skeezix1000 17:41, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: I seen this flag in a few photos, but I wish to hear your comments before putting this image into wide use. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 00:42, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:Image:Flag of the Royal Canadian Mint.svg]] 

message: I have been working to get this article to featured status, with help from two other editors. Until recently the article's talk page was empty, so I don't think this article has had the scrutiny needed. I've posted a peer review request, and would greatly appreciate feedback, comments, or suggestions. Thanks. --Aude (talk contribs) 02:45, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps this page should also be nominated at Canada collaboration? Dl2000 03:10, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the the article is well beyond the scope of a Canada collaboration. Peer review is probably the best place for it right now. Mindmatrix 14:20, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Banff National Park - peer review request 

message: I've been sorting Ottawa-related stubs today, and came across a stub/category I didn't know about: :Category:National Capital Region stubs, using . Previously, I've used  to sort articles, which adds them to :Category:Ottawa stubs.
Do we really need both? I don't think so (we should just use Ottawa-stub), but I'd like to have other input into this. Mindmatrix 14:11, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, but I think it'd be better to simply re-word the  template to reflect the whole NCR region; that way, we only need to re-stub seven articles (compared to 233 if we use ). In short, use the Ottawa-area-stub wording on the Ottawa-stub template, then delete Ottawa-area-stub and its category. I'll do the work, I just want to make sure this is acceptable to everyone. I've mentioned this on the Ottawa WikiProject, and funneled the discussion here. Mindmatrix 21:53, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Good point.  Skeezix1000 23:17, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

text: Frankly, I have always thought the focus of the project should be on the capital region, and not be bound by jurisdictional/political boundaries.  It seems artificial and silly to say that our focus is on articles like Canadian War Museum, but articles such as Canadian Museum of Civilization are outside the scope of the project.  This is perhaps a larger discussion, pertaining to more than just the stub.  Skeezix1000 12:13, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Given the lack of enthusiasm for a broader discussion, and the recent nomination of  for deletion, I have implemented the change discussed above (minus depopulating  for the time being, so as to not be interfering with the process at Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion.  We appear to have had consensus for the change, and Ardenn, the sole dissenter, has left Wikipedia, so is no longer around to put in his two cents.  Skeezix1000 19:41, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: On a related point, I have proposed a minor rewording of the OttawaProject template at Template talk:OttawaProject.  Skeezix1000 13:07, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  deleted. See discussion at Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion/Log/2006/September/12.Skeezix1000 12:58, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Ottawa, National Capital Region, and stubs

message: I looked at this article today, and tagged it for deletion because it's very incomplete, only 1 article links to it, and frankly I think it's a level of detail that doesn't warrant its own article.  If you would like to either bolster the article or support my deletion suggestion, please go ahead. PKT 17:11, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Communities within Brampton, Ontario]] 

message: I noticed there was no link for Floral, Saskatchewan and thought this was the place to come for help. Gordie Howe was born there and is mentioned several times around his bio and other ice hockey pages. I'm not sure what templates you are using and honestly don't know that much about Floral, so I thought I'd post here. Would appreciate it if someone could help create this page. Thanks! - Schmackity 19:34, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject Ice Hockey needs your help! 

message: Are these and in particular, these protected areas in the sense of the article, Wikiproject, and stub type?  There's a massive number of them that have been created as nano-stubs, and some discussion over at WP:WSS/P as to the best way of sorting them.  Alai 04:14, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  BC parks, protected areas? 

message: :I've noticed that certain Canadian women who are married are named in articles with their first nae followed by her maiden name then her married surname. Is this some naming convention adopted by Wikipedia that I am not aware of? NorthernThunder 17:28, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know if there's a clear convention on this; I've seen "First Maiden Married", "First Married (née Maiden)", "First Married" followed only by a much later inline reference to her maiden name, and "First Married" with no maiden name reference at all. I think to an extent it depends on the individual circumstances. Bearcat 02:19, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: WP:MOSBIO just says "[i]t is common to give the maiden surname of women better known under their married name..." but shows an example of how to write this rather than a hard-coded format. Therefore there could be variants such as "Firstname Marriedname (born Firstname Maidenname 31 November 1900 in Somewheresville, Pickaprovince)" , or "Firstname Marriedname (née Maidenname)". Dl2000 03:03, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Women's names

message: :*I'm an American, using AOL Canada in a state that borders Canada, does that count?--64.12.116.69 14:45, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Are you interested in Canadian related content, or just frequent this board? -Royalguard11TalkMy Desk 17:09, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  IPs 

message: The article on Quebec has been heavily vandalized lately. Several accounts have been blocked. If you look at the history () almost every second edit is a rv. It might need some more watching for a few days. -Royalguard11TalkMy Desk 21:52, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, maybe the next month will do. The editor keeps coming back. The article is sprotected right now, but that means we'll just wait 5 days then it'll all start up again. Hopefully more people will watch the article and help out. -Royalguard11(Talk·Desk) 04:42, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Article is fully unprotected again. Expect more vandalism to come. -Royalguard11(Talk·Desk) 03:39, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandal Alert on [[Quebec]] 

message: Another kick at the can for this one; it's going to need some cleanup and review. For one thing, I've confirmed that the population claim of 11,500 (which represents a virtual doubling of the community's population in the past five years) is being sourced by an Embrun resident's personal web page; I can't find a single reputable government/statistical source which validates the claim. The article also repeatedly refers to Embrun as a city (which it isn't) and to the nearby hamlet of Forest Park as a "vassal community" (which isn't a term that even exists with the intended meaning in English; it means a community of slaves, not a satellite community.) Needs a few eyes on it to fix things up. Bearcat 07:40, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Embrun, Ontario]]

message: Do you think these are a good idea? Should they be extended to the rest of Canada? Biruitorul 02:16, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, I don't think it would be a bad idea. We'd just need to make sure that all the article actually exist (which wouldn't be to hard to make stubs) -Royalguard11TalkMy Desk 01:09, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think many of them do exist, but I will watch out as I create them. Also, if anyone else wants to help, please do. Biruitorul 03:50, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Template:ABLG]] , [[Template:AlbertaElections]]

message: The Correns are editing their own article. I've tried to get them to make comments on the talk page as per Wikipedia's autobiograhy rules. They have provided useful information that should be considered by neutral editors. Deet  00:58, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Peter and Murray Corren]] 

message: I don't know how disruptive others would consider this to be, but an anon at 142.66.38.44 has been adding links to Mapleleafweb to various pages' external links. Upon checking WP:EL, there doesn't seem to be a policy violation, but I'd like an external opinion... Radagast 02:20, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Anon adding mapleleafweb links

message: The politicians are now fully moved over to Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Canadian politicians.
But there are two duplicated sections that do not involve politicians per se. These should instead be moved out of the missing Canadian politicians page:
:Legislative Bodies: Propose to move the Ontario and Nova Scotia legislatures to the respective provincial request subpages (NS and ON) - pointers from the main request page and the missing politicians page can be done.
:Courts: Propose that this small list can be kept only on Wikipedia:Canadian wikipedians' notice board/Requests.
Concurrence with these proposals? Dl2000 00:08, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Politicians are merged - now 2 different duplications to resolve 

message: An anon editor whose IP resolves to the National Library of Canada (which pretty much eliminates any doubt as to the anon's identity) is blowtorching Rachel Marsden's article again, this time based on a blatant and/or self-serving misunderstanding of Wikipedia's biographies of living persons template as failing to permit any negative material at all, not just stuff that isn't properly sourced. We're going to have to monitor this one again, guys. Bearcat 17:38, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Mark Bourrie's at it again

message: After all this talk of Flin Flon straddling the provincial border between Manitoba and Saskatchewan, today I stumbled across Creighton, Saskatchewan, which is apparently a community in Saskatchewan located along the border immediately adjacent to Flin Flon. So I'm forced to ask: does Flin Flon qua Flin Flon actually spill over into Saskatchewan, or have we been falsely conflating Creighton with Flin Flon? Bearcat 21:30, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: According to google maps, the towns are about 4.4km from "downtown" Creighton, Saskatchewan to downtown Flin Flon (so about 6 minutes). They're practically the same place (It's almost like Edmonton/Sherwood Park). -Royalguard11(Talk)(Desk) 23:12, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Geography question

message: Is there such a place as Franlyle, Manitoba? Can't find a reference for it on Google, in MapArt or at StatsCan's census data site. I'd have thought little of it, except for the eyebrow-raising claim that the community was founded by a Russian settler with the decidedly non-Russian name "Franklin T. Demers". (C'est Québécois, ça!) It's also noted as the birthplace of a Christian music "star" named "Motzarella", who also fails the Google test. Bearcat 05:55, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: A newspaper database search turned up nothing.  I'm thinking its a hoax.  CJCurrie 06:03, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Best to delete it. Although StatsCan isnt as good as it should be. Try searching for Bountiful, British Columbia. -- Earl Andrew - talk 07:49, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

text: There's no mention of it in the Atlas of Canada either, nor is it listed in the Manitoba Intergovernmental Affairs and Trade database. I'm going to speedy delete this as a hoax. Mindmatrix 15:35, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Geography question #2

message: I'm categorising currently missing Catholic Encyclopedia articles, I've created a category for Canadians which I'll be adding to over time.  Take a look. JASpencer 21:37, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Catholic Encyclopedia 

message: I recently merged two overlapping templates to create this:
Major national, provincial, and territorial conservative parties ([ edit]):            	                                                	
Former PC wings forming the government:                                                	Former PC wings forming the government:         	Former PC wings forming the government:
Canada - Alberta - Prince Edward Island Newfoundland and Labrador - Nova Scotia - Yukon	                                                	
Former PC wings forming the official opposition:                                       	Former PC wings forming the official opposition:	Former PC wings forming the official opposition:
Manitoba - New Brunswick - Ontario                                                     	                                                	
Third parties represented in legislatures:                                             	Third parties represented in legislatures:      	Third parties represented in legislatures:
Action démocratique du Québec - Alberta Alliance                                       	                                                	
Other major right-of-centre parties:                                                   	Other major right-of-centre parties:            	Other major right-of-centre parties:
BC Liberals - Saskatchewan Party                                                       	                                                	
However, this hasn't stopped the reocurring problem with some editors very strongly opposed to considering the BC Liberals or the Sask Party to be either 'right of centre' or 'conservative'.  I think it is very clear, as both of these parties solidly represent the right-wing of their respective provinces political spectrum.  If you can take 10 seconds and add some insight to the situation, that would be splendid.  Myciconia  22:50, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Consensus & discussion needed! (politics template) 

message: An anonymous poster has written that Doug Ford, the father of Toronto city councillor Rob Ford and himself a former MPP, died of cancer two days ago.  Can anyone confirm or deny this?  CJCurrie 15:43, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Unfortunately confirmed: (Etobicoke Guardian obit) 206.191.1.3 22:16, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Doug Ford

message: Each one of these, except for Ontario's, has been pulled. Does anyone know why this was? More importantly, might someone be able to recreate these in properly-licensed versions? Biruitorul 03:48, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Lieutenant Governors' flags

message: The DYK section featured on the main page is always looking for interesting new and recently expanded stubs from different parts of the world. Please make a suggestion.--Peta 01:59, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: DYK

message: There is a small discussion on the matter of merging of census articles related to Canada into a main North America article. Initially the merge was made with no merge notices and with no notification to editors of those articles. See ,  and . --Kmsiever 13:13, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merging Canada census pages into one large North america one

message: Didn't even know that it existed. So, is it redundant to the notice-board? Or should we all go and join up? -Royalguard11(Talk·Desk) 02:31, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada]]?

message: Anon IPs have been continually making some really weird edits to Lorne Saxberg's article for the past few months, almost since the day it was created. This has so far included unimportant trivia about the fact that his partner was a Canadian he met in Tokyo (partner unnamed and therefore unverifiable), links to blog entries detailing specific sexual encounters he's rumoured to have had (unverifiable and inappropriate), categorization as "2006 AIDS" (whatever that's supposed to mean), a trivial link to the hotel in Thailand where a memorial ceremony was reportedly held for him (and not even to a page sourcing that claim, just to the hotel itself) and now most recently a newspaper article about his body being flown to Bangkok for the autopsy (for which the anon wrote up their summary as though this just happened today.)
I've kept on top of the mess so far, but I'd like to ask for a few people to keep an eye on it with me; I'm genuinely not sure what this bullshit's all about. Bearcat 06:19, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Lorne Saxberg]]

message: The Governor General's Award nominees are out later today. I've created the template in advance at 2006 Governor General's Awards so whoever gets to it first can just fill in the nominees rather than having to do it all from scratch. That said, since I'm still awake at 4 a.m. I sincerely doubt I'll be that person — but hey, just think of me as a team player or sumthin'... Bearcat 07:50, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: GG nominees

message: With the recent deletion of the :Category:Celebrities by nationality tree (including its :Category:Canadian celebrities subcat), we're going to have to find some alternate categorization for the following:
* Star Wars kid
* Walter Gretzky
* Signy Hildur Stefansson Eaton
* Robert Baldwin Ross
* Manuela Testolini
* Dick Assman
* Mike Rowe
* James D. Nicoll
The whole point of the category in the first place was so that there would be some way to properly categorize "people who aren't famous for anything easily categorizable, but are notable nevertheless", but that argument didn't prove terribly convincing to the overlords of CFD — so now we have a dilemma on our hands. Any ideas? (And no, just shoving them directly into :Category:Canadian people isn't a good idea unless we really can't help it at all.) Bearcat 06:58, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Categorization

message: Nobody has editied this in months. Would anyone mind if I change the "selected article" or the "Selected picture" or even the "Did you know..." on that page? Or should we find some way to !vote about that? -Royalguard11(Talk·Desk) 00:45, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That is a good idea.  Be bold, replace them.  If anyone has a strong objection to your choices, it can always be changed.  You could also perhaps canvass for ideas for future selected articles, etc. Skeezix1000 11:44, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: By using the forbidden "what links here" on the Canada userboxes? Or worse, the category? It's been Ottawa for a while. I think I'll change it to Horseshoe Falls. If anyone disagrees, this is a wiki. -Royalguard11(Talk·Desk) 01:06, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Upkeep of [[P:CANADA]] 

message: I think this can be best described using diffs, so here ya go:
* Golden Horseshoe: one, two
* Greater Toronto Area: just this one
*Places in New York: one, two, three, four, five, six, oh my, WP:OR?
* Toronto: un, deux, not really citing a source, and this
Do you see what I mean? By the way, it seems to be happening in Montreal/Ottawa, Vancouver and Winnipeg too, but not at this scale. Some of the user's edits are fine, but others are simply population and metropolis-boosting. Mindmatrix 01:21, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, I've noticed an ongoing tendency on Wikipedia to inflate population figures by a personal estimate that isn't sourced to any actual census data. I'm not exactly sure what we can do about it, since every time a population gets reverted to the last legitimate census, somebody comes along and starts inflating it again. It's not just one user; this is an ongoing problem on a lot of articles. Bearcat 22:27, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: In this case, my primary concern is the definition change of Golden Horseshoe to include parts of New York, then modifying Toronto-related articles to reflect that re-definition. I agree that the inflated population numbers are nothing new to Wikipedia, of course. Anyway, it seems the user is no longer making such changes, instead saying only that the Golden Horseshoe and Western New York have close links. Mindmatrix 14:38, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: The ever-expanding metropolis that is Toronto

message: I want to put an image on Don Atchison (as he was just re-elected mayor). I've found an image here on the cities website, but can wikipedia use it, and what is the licensing (I'm guessing fair use, but does it fall under Canadian politicians)? -Royalguard11(Talk·Desk) 01:39, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The licensing would be determined by what type of license the city released it under, so the best thing to do would be to contact them for clarification of their usage permissions. It would certainly qualify as fair use regardless, but Wikipedia discourages fair use images except as a last resort; we strongly prefer images that can be used under public domain, Creative Commons or GFDL. Bearcat 21:32, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need Some Image Help 

message: This is somewhat related to the discussion above at "The ever-expanding metropolis that is Toronto".  I see that the leads to the Ottawa and Montreal articles now refer to a Montreal-Ottawa Corridor with a population of 5.7 million.  I guess the idea is that population figures are more impressive if you combine nearby CMAs, but is the Montreal-Ottawa Corridor a recognized urban conglomeration?I know that there is a recognized Quebec-Windsor Corridor, which is a somewhat different concept, and then there's the Calgary-Edmonton Corridor, which I have always thought was an absurd concept but at least Statscan and the media have made reference to such a thing.  The same editor who gave us the Montreal-Ottawa corridor also created Lower Mainland-Vancouver Island and Windsor-Detroit.Skeezix1000 22:15, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Corridors (Two cities are better than one)

message: Does the notice board need the section "Disambiguation pages" (sub-heading of "Disambiguation issues")?
The Canadian content seems to be correctly represented on each of the pages listed there today.   PKT 18:08, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Eh? What are you talking about? I don't see "Disambiguation issues" on WP:CANADA. -Royalguard11(Talk·Desk) 01:13, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The subheading is on the articles to improve subpage. As to the question itself, I added the section because these need to be monitored on an ongoing basis to ensure that people aren't making new wikilinks to the wrong pages; the fact that they're all okay at this particular time isn't really the point of the exercise. Bearcat 00:40, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguation pages 

message: Hello, List of cities in Canada is in need of some direction. Currently it is not defined what is a city and which places have a big enough population to remain on the list. A proposal has been made at [] as it is proposed that only cities above a population of 10,000 should be included. In drastic need of repair is the Quebec section which is over-populated. This list needs to be not only useful for Canadians, but for users worldwide (and to educate our neighbours to the south who don't know much about us). Please check out the talk page and post your opinion to get this list into great shape. Thank you, Bobo is soft 01:45, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of cities in Canada 

message: I've been working on the article Newfoundland referendums, 1948 for quite some time now, and I was hoping to get some photographs. There are some at this site. Template:PD-Canada says that it's public domain if it's created before January 1, 1949. Most of the photos were taken in '47/'48, but some of them look like they've been published in books, and the books are of corse copyrighted. Do the photo's fall under Template:PD-Canada then? I know that they're all pre '49 because the referenda's were in late '48. -Royalguard11(Talk·Desk·Review Me!)
:Well, I've gone and uploaded a couple pictures now. Then I stumbled upon this page, which says they are in the public domain. That's luck I guess. -Royalguard11(Talk·Desk·Review Me!) 18:53, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image Question Deux 

message: I have started the article on Sick Heart River, by John Buchan which I think qualifies as a Canadian novel. Comments please. --MacRusgail 12:04, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''Sick Heart River'' 

message: *sigh* Does anybody have any ideas how we might be able to stop the inevitable flood of people changing articles to make it appear as if newly elected municipal election candidates instantly become the incumbents? Bearcat 11:15, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think what we really need are templates that can be viewed at editing time only, just above the edit box. We could attach them to municipal articles suggesting they not be changed until the mayor-elects are sworn to office. Since we can't do that, perhaps pre-emptively adding HTMl comments to articles wherever mayor/council information appears would be best. Mindmatrix 14:14, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Well, there's at least one article (Greater Sudbury) where I did that and somebody still erased it and wrote in last night's winning mayoral candidate in as the current incumbent. Bearcat 19:10, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: We seemed to get through Saskatchewan Elections pretty well in October. I guess more people editing from Ontario. -Royalguard11(Talk·Desk·Review Me!) 22:53, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, it might possibly help if the template had a "mayor-elect" parameter that could be left blank and wouldn't appear if it was blank.  On the other hand, I don't think that would totally solve the problem and it might be best to just put up with the fact that the article won't be accurate for two or three weeks every few years. Canadiana 20:22, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Election hell

message: Why is there nothing being done about these missing pictures? NorthernThunder 07:11, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: What do you suppose can be done at this point? Even "fair use" isn't being accepted as a rationale any longer, if even the faintest outside possibility exists that a GFDL-compatible image might be possible to obtain. Never mind that unless somebody starts actively stalking people, I don't see how that possibility can be construed as realistic in most cases...at this point, if even the remotest possibility exists, the fair use photo goes. We're pretty stuck, IOW. Bearcat 03:44, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing Canadian politicians pictures 

message: I've added short descriptions to the list for how city status is conferred in Ontario and Quebec, the two provinces I know enough about to write that up. Could I ask someone who's knowledgeable about municipal governance in the other provinces and territories to assist in adding a brief summary to each province's subsection? Thanks. Bearcat 03:44, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Alberta's done. --Kmsiever 16:00, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[List of cities in Canada]]

message: Canadian editors may wish to review the situation at this page.  User:SlimVirgin is arguing that references to Marsden's youthful indiscretions should be excised, through a logic that seems somewhat dubious ().  
Use caution: tempers are running high, and threats of de-sysoping have been made.  CJCurrie 04:35, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Rachel Marsden]]

message: Well, it only took us about 30 edits (and stepping on each others toes a dozen or so times), but Stéphane Dion is now fully updated (I think) thanks to the hard work of many editors. Let's just make sure that everything reads the same across the board now. Good job wikipedians! -Royalguard11(Talk·Desk·Review Me!) 23:26, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Liberal Party of Canada leadership convention, 2006]] 

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

message: If anyone here ever watched Popular Mechanics for Kids, I've got Tyler from the show agreeing to an interview for Wikinews. He's since appeared as the recurring drummer character in Instant Star and supporting roles in tons of TV movies. I'm trying to figure out some questions to ask, and want some ideas from the community. If you've got any ideas, give me a shout at user talk:zanimum.  --  Zanimum 20:54, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Tyler Kyte]] interview 

message: Hello:
I think that Canada needs to change their citizenship by descent policy.  I am a 31 year old male who was born before Canada allowed dual citizenship.  I am actually for dual citizenship. However Canada has a policy that I think is guilty of discrimination by both age and date of birth. 
My father before he died was eligible for citizenship by Canada's newest citizenship law.  He was born in Massachusetts like me, however his father was born in Canada.  Now comes what I think is discrimiatory.  For 2nd generation descendants, they have to be born after Feb 15th, 1977 and be under 28 years of age.
 
My brother and sister are younger than me and are both under 28. They are therefore of both date of birth and age, where if my father applied for citizenship, then both my brother and sister could have also applied for citizenship the same way as my father, by heritage.  But at my age and date of birth I don't qualify. I myself was born before Feb 15th, 1977 and am 31.  My parents split up when I was a child, and did not find out about my heritage until I was 29.  Therefore it is possible that people might not find out about their heritage until it is too late.
 
It is one thing if only first generation descendants were allowed to apply for citizenship, and if all second generation descandants were not able to apply.  However it needs to be where everyone of a generation should be able to apply or not at all. 
Chris M McLeod 16:18, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You should probably find an immigration forum website to discuss issues like this. There are many U.S. laws that don't make sense also (try rebalancing your RRSP while living in the U.S. -- the SEC won't let you because it's not managed by a U.S. broker). But non-citizens don't get a vote and so don't get much of a say. That's life. Deet 01:32, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citizenship by Descent

message: Need a quick clarification from somebody who's knowledgeable on the subject, because I'm running into a bit of an issue with conflicting sources: is the Highway 11/Highway 71 route from Shabaqua to Kenora designated as part of the TCH? Most sources say yes, but I've also seen sources that don't have it designated that way, so I thought I should double-check before asking Qyd to update it on his TCH map graphic. Thanks. Bearcat 02:53, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: One could consider the current edition of the Official Road Map of Ontario to be sufficiently authoritative . The map labels separate branches of the TCH between  Kenora and Thunder Bay: 17 and 11/71. See also a Transport Canada (federal government) backgrounder, which indicates 11/71 were designated by Ontario outside the original Trans-Canada Highway Act. Dl2000 03:33, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Trans-Canada Highway]]

message: I created a JS a while ago that is similar to  at User:Royalguard11/canadadel.js. The difference is that it points to Wikipedia:Canadian wikipedians' notice board#Candidates for deletion instead of Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Canada. If anyone would like to use it, just add to your monobook.js , which adds a tab at the top. -Royalguard11(Talk·Desk·Review Me!) 18:06, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  To help with Canadian Deletion sorting.. 

message: In the section "language" in the Canada article it states:
"No provinces other than Quebec and New Brunswick have constitutionally official language(s) as such, but French is used as a language of instruction, in courts, and other government services in all of the majority English or Inuktitut speaking provinces and territories"
Since Quebec never officially signed the constituition it does not officially recognize english as a language. So is it correct to state this of both Quebec and New Brunswick when it is in-fact only true of Quebec?
:Note that the Charter doesn't actuallly say anything about Quebec. There are no constitutional protections for language in Quebec. But, Quebec is still bound by the Constitution and the Charter. The only "official" language per Bill 101 is the French language. That being said, Qubec is de facto bilingual, especially the Montreal area. -Royalguard11(Talk·Desk·Review Me!) 05:05, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recognizing Quebec as Bilingual 

message: This is more about the page itself, but would anyone object to EssjayBot II archiving this page for us? Lots of it is several months old. If we do, then the only thing I believe we need to decide is how long before archiving (like a week or two is probably good). Anyone object? -Royalguard11(Talk·Desk·Review Me!) 04:13, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, since nobody's objected, then I assume that we can continue (or that nobody cares). Does anyone object to a timeline of 2 weeks for archiving? -Royalguard11(Talk·Desk·Review Me!) 02:01, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd suggest a little bit longer than two weeks; say, a month. I can easily see — in fact, have seen — situations where a discussion may have concluded but would still need to be left "on the front page", so to speak, for longer than two weeks so people can review and consult it if needed. Bearcat 06:19, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Anyone object to a month then? -Royalguard11(Talk·Desk·Review Me!) 23:06, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, I'm going to ask Essjay to set up EssjayBot II to archive this page. The time frame I'll ask for will be a month after the last date stamp. -Royalguard11(Talk·Desk·Review Me!) 01:11, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The bot is now active; for some reason, it hiccupped trying to archive to archive 7 (which was almost at it's limit anyway) so I had it create archive 8. Everything else should be fine, if you notice any errors, please report them on my talk page. Essjay (Talk) 11:39, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Archiving, again 

message: Just a general comment - I have noticed that from time to time the AfDs listed under the "Requested moves & mergers" go a little bit beyond listing the Canada-related AfDs and stray a little too far into editorializing. I appreciate we're all trying to be fair in summarizing the point of the discussion in a sentence, but we should avoid any indication as to whether or not there is a reason to keep or delete an article. Agent 86 01:40, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. People should make their own decisions not based on whether it's Canadian-related or not. Just a small discription is good sometimes. The mergers and moves are often just the copy & paste from whatever reason was given on WP:RM. -Royalguard11(Talk·Desk·Review Me!) 02:11, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Requested moves & mergers

message: Can somebody help me figure out why the city infobox on Timmins, Ontario won't display the location map, even though it's got the correct filename in the correct template field? Bearcat 07:30, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Apparently the 250px thumb 250px-Ontario-timmins.PNG is broken. Other thumb sizes seem to work 260px-Ontario-timmins.PNG. Re-uploading the image might fix this. Another solution is to substitute the template, then change the thumb size. On a sidenote,  has grown so complex, it's hard to use, and documentation did not keep up with the template evolution.  is a good alternative. --Qyd 18:31, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: City infoboxes

message: Should the provincial templates be updated with the standard  layout? Please comment at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Canada#Province templates. --Qyd 23:09, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Personally, I really dislike the layout of the generic navbox.  Just because someone created a template and wikicode for it does not automatically make it better than the current layout. Resolute 01:01, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Provincial templates update 

message: I'm not happy about flags appearing in infoboxes on biographies but I'm willing to put up with them. However, I think we need to be consistent. So should Canadians have the flag in use at the time of their birth or the current flag? I think the one in use at the time but I think some people are not going to like seeing  the older flags. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 21:14, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with you but there seems to be no clear consensus on the matter. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 08:44, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I disagree. My understanding is that throughout the English Wikipedia flag icons used in this way are the current flag, not the flag at the time of birth of the individual in question. I can see arguments for both sides in the case of Canada, but what about the States, where the flag changed each time a new state was added, or the case of people born in the USSR, but of various nationalities? Also, my sense is that the flags represent nationality rather more than nation of birth, but I don't see that there is any hard and fast rule on the matter. Coffeehood 01:24, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: But how do you decide nationality. The one at the time of birth or the one at the time of death. Also, why would someone who was born and died before the current flag was in use have that flag, see Charles Tupper or John Abbott. I think it's a matter of historical accuracy. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 07:31, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flag icons