Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Newfoundland and Labrador

message: I found this website and there is a ton of information including all the now, existing communities. NFLD-Grand Banks Perhaps we could divide the article list into two sections, the one you want to work on of existing cities and then communities and a second of de-fucnt and dead (for use of a better word) communities. The lists on this website are quite extensive. WayneRay 21:28, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: All of the existing communities etc

message: Has anybody checked out the Music of Newfoundland and Labrador page?  I've been meaning to focus my attention on this article for a long time, but haven't gotten around to it.  As of now, it is absolutely atrocious.  I've added it to the "Pages that need the hand of an expert" section.  Crabbyass 15:06, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Newfoundland & Labrador Music

message: I noticed in the Census Division 8 that many of the names are not linked and they are linked incorrectly. Someone can go and make the proper links on all the names not in blue they will then be Bolded on the main article page. Thanks for the work on the other 2 Census pages. WayneRay 20:45, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed the census division page, but not the links on the List page. OzLawyer 23:44, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Bolded the Census Towns from the Divisions list, on the main article page and added three community photos  WayneRay 16:14, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Census Division 8 

message: I just saw the notice about this WikiProject on the Canadian wikipedians' notice board. If you need any help with school, college or university articles, give us a shout over at Wikipedia:WikiProject Education in Canada. And of course, we're always looking for more members. :-) -- Usgnus 21:39, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Educational institutions 

message: I used to deliver and subscribe to The Downhomer Magazine, here in London Ontariol, it was always full of histories and peoples and things, perhaps others here should be looking in there as well, I no longer have my past copies but the office has moved to St. John's if anyone is there doing this project. WayneRay 01:09, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: nfld history

message: *Provincial Stub Proposals - Should templates and stub categories be created for Alberta, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland & Labrador? (See related SFD discussion  regarding N.B., PEI, and Manitoba (plus the territories)). Agent 86 02:35, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: *Yes It would make life a bit easier to identify articles pertinent to NL that need work. IMHO, lets do it. HJKeats 02:47, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Newfoundland & Labrador stub and category

message: I have just about finished the Q and R lists of communities. This time I left out about 50 small settlements and places and only focussed on villages and towns. There are for instance 5 Round Harbour's so I may add all 5. I am still collecting photos of places. WayneRay 21:50, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Q and R Sections

message: === Suggested Project collaboration for July 2006 ===
Cabot rock monument
The mystery of Grates Cove rock bearing the name of John Cabot and his son. Refer to the following sites for reference material.
:*Article reference from Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador
:*The Grates Cove Tradition by Heritage Newfoundland and Labrador
:*Cabot Rock
Any takers? HJKeats 21:26, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Things to Do 

message: Cabot rock monument
The mystery of Grates Cove rock bearing the name of John Cabot and his son. Refer to the following sites for reference material.
:*Article reference from Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador
:*The Grates Cove Tradition by Heritage Newfoundland and Labrador
:*Cabot Rock
Any takers? HJKeats 21:26, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggested Project collaboration for July 2006 

message: While not totally communities related, I just cleaned up this above Category and added the missing subcategories and put the appropriate "articles" which shouldn't have been there, into their appropriate categories and left the section with only the Categories showing. I still have to go to the individual subcategories and make sure they have all of their appropriate Category links as well. I also added missing information related to St. John's, in the article on St. John's.  WayneRay 21:34, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[:Category:St. John's]]

message: FYI, Quidi Vidi Brewing Company has been listed for deletion. BoojiBoy 00:58, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Noting for posterity; result was keep on 4 August 2006.Vulcan's Forge 01:40, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Quidi Vidi Brewing Company]] 

message: I have cleaned up the Cat: Newfoundland and Labrador in the Commons and am starting on the Cat: Newfoundland in the Commons. I have created an article called List of communities in Newfoundland and Labrador to match our WikiProject name and am placing photos in there. Some of the articles and categories needed tidying up and I hope they are now better WayneRay 14:11, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I deleted the Commons Category = Cities of Nefoundland and Labrador because of the major Typo WayneRay 11:19, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Commons cleanup and links to here

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thread_title:  Project directory 

message: I was looking over your WikiProject and noticed you don't give any reference to other Canadian WikiProjects. I thought it would be a nice addition if you added a list since all of the other Canadian WikiProjects have created directories. Mkdwtalk 04:27, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Canadian WikiProjects

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)
thread_title:  Provincial templates update 

message: Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention.  Badbilltucker 21:50, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia Day Awards 

message: The Newfoundland and Labrador First Party article could do with some improvement and expansion, especially since it has been nominated for deletion here. Ground Zero | t 04:10, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Result was keep on 17 March 2007.Vulcan's Forge 01:57, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Newfoundland and Labrador First Party

message: Hello. I'm writing to inform the members of this project that I have moved the article List of Newfoundland and Labrador-related topics to Wikipedia:WikiProject Newfoundland and Labrador/List of Newfoundland and Labrador-related topics per discussion here. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 21:15, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Newfoundland and Labrador/List of Newfoundland and Labrador-related topics]]

message: Correct me if I missed something, but I've read all the articles about Newfoundland, Dominion of Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, and History of Newfoundland and Labrador, and I didn't see any mention of the controversial resettlement of the 1950's, 60's and 70's.  This is such an important part of our history...does it merit it's own page?  What do you guys think?  Or should we just mention it in the other articles?  A good reference would be here  -- Crabbyass 02:17, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe there should b an article about the subject. I know there are some wonderful pictures around that could do the article justice. Also the List of communities in Newfoundland and Labrador could be better laid out such that it would list which communities that were re-settled and those that were abandoned or otherwise just died out.--HJKeats 11:36, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Resettlement

message: I just checked and there is no current article about the Newfoundland Pine Marten;  Pine Marten links to the European Pine Marten and there is a link from there to the American Marten, of which ours is a subspecies.  Given that it's on the endangered list I think this would be a good candidate for an article. Also - anyone know the status of the breeding project at Salmonier?  The Nature Park web page is way out of date and lists the last update as December 2001.Vulcan's Forge 01:48, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Newfoundland Pine Marten

message: Please see Talk:Newfoundland (island)#Newfoundland redirect: Island vs Province and contribute to the discussion on what Newfoundland should redirect to. Lexicon (talk) 18:30, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opinions wanted on "[[Newfoundland]]": Redirect to the island or to the province? 

message: The list of Provincial Parks is way out of date, in both the List of Newfoundland and Labrador parks and the List of Canadian provincial parks.  I'd be interested in updating this and creating pages for the various parks.Vulcan's Forge 02:29, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Provincial Parks list 

message: I have just spend one weeks vacation on the west coast of Newfoundland and photographed quite a bit of the small coastal towns, post offices, lakes and Long Range Mountains. I have started adding the photos to the article List of communities in Newfoundland and Labrador, you can link there from our Wiki article by the same name. I will be adding more later and feel free to use them while expanding the communities articles WayneRay 14:16, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Commons Photos

message: I've added stubs for several smaller communities in central; they need some work. Most of them were put in the communities in NL category and have almost no information, but it's a start. We really need to focus on providing information on smaller towns just as much as the larger ones like St. John's. ~NeonFire372~ 17:13, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Articles for smaller communities 

message: More Commons photos have been updated and linked in Commons in the list of communities in Newfoundland and Labrador WayneRay (talk) 19:02, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Commons Photos

message: will add a map of Newfoundland with a dot placed automatically using geo coordinates. 
It can also be used with , such as in Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador. 

The preceding code will produce the map at right. --Qyd (talk) 22:13, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Available auto location map 

message: Currently there are 282 incorporated municipalities within the province as can be seen from the Department of Municipal Affairs official list, as found here. Then there are many communities that once existed but came under the Resettlement Act of 1965 and eventually de-populated. Many of these communities can be found here.  Then there were communities that existed only as fishing stations for many years and finally became abandoned and while still others were permanent settlements but they too were abandoned for various reasons. A 1965 compiled list can be found 
here.  Certainly every one of these communities will, at some point in time, have an article created for and about them.  Hence my suggestion to make some subtle changes to the infobox  to account for the uniqueness of these communities.  Wikipedian Neelix has kindly agreed to run a script to incorporate the infbox into all of the existing community articles. But before this is done we would like to get a consensus from everyone concerned to make changes to the infobox. Initially I would like to suggest the addition of field name to include “status“ of the community which can be populated with terms like abandoned, resettled, amalgamated, etc.
Please express your opinion and offer suggestions. --HJKeats (talk) 00:58, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I have had a go developing a standard template and applied it on the Town of Bay de Verde. If everyone is in agreement, this could be the standard template for all communities in the province. --HJKeats (talk) 13:13, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

text: has quite a few customizable blank fields that can accommodate these specific needs, there's no need to alter the template, just use its features. Here are a few usable fields:
|blank_emblem_type      =
|blank_emblem_size      =
|area_blank1_title        =
|area_blank1_km2          =
|population_blank1_title        =
|population_blank1              =
|blank_name             =
|blank_info             =
|blank1_name            =
|blank1_info            =
|blank2_name            =
|blank2_info            =
|blank3_name            =
|blank3_info            =
|blank4_name            =
|blank4_info            =
|blank5_name            =
|blank5_info            =
|blank6_name            =
|blank6_info            =
Many more parameters can be customized, depending on where you want the field placed. --Qyd (talk) 02:30, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request to modify the template {{tl|Infobox Settlement}} to accommodate the uniqueness of the Province 

message: Can someone help me with Leader of the Opposition (Newfoundland and Labrador)? I got stuck at 1972 as I can't find who was the Leader of the Opposition from 1969 to 1971 when Frank Moores was Tory Party leader but didn't have a seat in the House of Assembly. Also, does anyone know who was Opposition leader between October and December 1977 when Bill Rowe didn't have a seat? Reggie Perrin (talk) 21:39, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opposition leaders 

message: I think that the St. John's article should be a major focus for improvement on this project. It was just rejected for featured article status this week based on some very rational reasons. As the primate capital of NL theres no reason we shouldn't be able to work together to improve the article. 
I just expanded the lead-in paragraph (may need proofing) and tried to give a well sourced into to the (1) geography and importance, (2) population, (3) history, and (4) modern status. As one of the reasons it was rejected.
While I realize there are a lot of other cities that deserve just as much attention, I really think that the St. John's article should be one of the most important tasks/achievements for this project... Its the capital of pretty much all forms for the province, likely one of the most viewed pages, and its only B status. 
There is a lot of good and acurate information in the article, but there is NO citations. The only citations in it are the ones I just added to the lead-in. Maybe we can work on the paragraphs one at a time and get this page to the quality it deserves...
Mdavidbaird (talk) 14:44, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  St. John's Article needs work 

message: I have been working on several alphabetical listings to fill in even small amounts of information in the article page and placing a template in the Talk pages. You will notice the Red links are disappearing and the Blue's are finally taking over. WayneRay (talk) 19:59, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: [[List of communities in Newfoundland and Labrador]]

message: Since the article was rated (start-class) by the project, it has changed a lot. Maybe it's time for a reassessment? NeonFire (talk) 12:29, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I have upgraded it to B Class WayneRay (talk) 12:54, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reassessment for [[Twillingate, Newfoundland and Labrador]]? 

message: I was workin on the Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland and Labrador article and came across the gent. After looking about I found that the only mentions of the man were Wikipedia, mirrors and the town's web site, and they can't even spell the name of their major employer. Turns out Harold Northcliffe was in the area on the behalf of Alfred Harmsworth who had a younger brother Harold. Now about the time Harold Northcliffe was checking out the place Alfred got a promotion, to Baron Northcliffe. So does anyone know if the two Harolds are the same person? CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 03:06, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Never mind. I just found this and they were the same person. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 03:35, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Harold Northcliffe, man of mystery or government spy? 

message: Now to work on improving other Newfoundland city/town articles. NeonFire (talk) 10:38, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Twillingate - 3rd Newfoundland and Labrador-related good article :) 

message: Again, various contributors have changed the article a lot since it's last assessment (start-class). NeonFire (talk) 10:42, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland and Labrador]] reassement? 

message: I started created reasonably-started stubs for many of the red-linked articles on Music of Newfoundland and Labrador.  Every single freaking one of them has been marked for speedy deletion.  Last week, I did dozens of articles in a similar manner for Trinidad and Tobago, and NONE of them were marked for speedy deletion.
I am a big fan of NL music, and hate seeing red-links, but the speedy deletion BS has p'd me off, and I'm done trying. Bwilkins (talk) 13:25, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Hang on -- I removed those speedy delete tags.  However, you need to get some referencing in place ASAP, as per WP:RS.  In future, please have all of your sources in the article before you post it.  Thanks! Ecoleetage (talk) 13:43, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: I give up already!

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message: I just looked through a 1968 copy of the Gazetteer of Canada: Newfoundland and Labrador and realized that our list of communities in Newfoundland and Labrador doesn't list anywhere near the number communities listed there.  I started adding some, but I quickly realized how long that would take, so I decided to check here to make sure I'm thinking about this properly.  List of communities in Newfoundland and Labrador states, "Newfoundland and Labrador at Confederation in 1949 had nearly 1450 communities."  Obviously, not all 1450 are listed.  Is that what we're striving for?  Is the idea to create an article for every one of those 1450 communities and to list them all on this list?
Also, it seemed to me that more than 1450 communities were listed in the Gazetteer, though I could be wrong.  Is anyone familiar with that publication who might know whether or not all the listings are actually communities as opposed to... land formations or something? Neelix (talk) 19:54, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I have a unpublished manuscript concerning all the postal stations in NFLD and Labrador, I am slowly filling in all the listings and there are tons more in my manuscript than is on this list. You are right there. Some were just 1 or 2 houses while others were only on the CNR Line and later vanished. WayneRay (talk) 20:26, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[List of communities in Newfoundland and Labrador]] 

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thread_title:  New articles feed 

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thread_title:  Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Newfoundland and Labrador 

message: hello, i like to know what is the relationship between Thomas Skinner and Thomas Skinner, Jr..
can't be major Skinner's father since he lived well beyond 1818. so i think Thomas Skinner may be major Skinner's uncle whom he mentioned in his autobiography as a military officer, but not his name.
thanks,--chanakal (talk) 03:08, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thomas Skinner, Jr. 

message: Hello all... 
An image used in the article, specifically :Image:Hillsfromfar.jpg, has a little bit of a licensing issue.  The image was uploaded back when the rules around image uploading were less restrictive.  It is presumed that the uploader was willing to license the picture under the GFDL license but was not clear in that regard.  As such, the image, while not at risk of deletion, is likely not clearly licensed to allow for free use in any future use of this article.  If anyone has an image that can replace this, or can go take one and upload it, it would be best.
You have your mission, take your camera and start clicking.--Jordan 1972 (talk) 21:29, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image needs replacement - [[Clarenville, Newfoundland and Labrador]] 

message: Please help to fulfill the dynamics of this list, List of waterfalls of Canada, and fill in any red link missing waterfall articles and their respective images.  Kind Regards SriMesh | talk 01:10, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: [[List of waterfalls of Canada]]

message: Can someone add any images to Fjords of Canada.  Some may be relevant from List of waterfalls in Canada if the waterfall cascades down into the valley of the fjord.  Check out the talk page of more items to help out with to fill out the article Fjords of Canada if you are familiar with the fjords of BC, Nunavut, Newfoundland and Labrador or Quebec.  SriMesh | talk 03:29, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Fjords of Canada]]

message: Hi.  Will anyone clear on the geography of the area please see my question on Talk:Cape Bauld?  Thank you.  - Hordaland (talk) 19:06, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Newfoundland 

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message: I am looking for useful tips on getting Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial up to GAN. I have completely re-written the article and it is nearly to an acceptable state. As a memorial, it is unique because it is a preserved battlefield park dedicated the the Newfoundland Regiment but contained numerous sub-elements. I need help;
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Any help would be appreciated.--Labattblueboy (talk) 12:44, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial]] 

message: I have tagged Cougar Helicopters Flight 91 with the Wikiproject tag, but I don't know enough about the assessment guidelines to set the assessment tags.  Anyone with assessment experience, please take a look and set the tags accordingly.Vulcan's Forge (talk) 03:38, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cougar Helicopters Flight 91 

message: On Commons I have reorganized and added files and new Categories to Newfoundland and Labrador. I have moved all files to appropriate sub-Categories and Gallery pages and put a Redirect on Category:Newfoundland redirected to Category:Newfoundland and Labrador. I have also added the entire original introduction to my book (article) at Ernest Harmon Air Force Base in the Talk section FYI. I also added a Commons link at Newfoundland and Labrador Route 463 and Route 340 and created a gallery page on Commons. WayneRay (talk) 21:53, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Wikimedia Commons

message: Just a heads-up to everyone here that in the process of cleaning up the fact that Wikipedia:WikiProject France/Saint Pierre and Miquelon work group had rather laughably been added to Wikipedia:WikiProject Caribbean, I've chosen to add it to this Wikiproject's category — while I know that as part of France rather than Canada it's not strictly a Newfoundland topic, it does have a closely interrelated history that WikiProject Newfoundlanders are almost infinitely more likely to be familiar with than WikiProject Caribbeaners. And given that it's a workgroup rather than a full Wikiproject of its own, putting it in a North American context means adding it to related WikiProjects — of which Newfoundland certainly makes far more sense than the Caribbean.
So just to clarify, I'm not suggesting that it is, strictly speaking, a Newfoundland topic — WikiProject France is the primary owner. But there is enough of an overlap of interest that WikiProject NL should at least maintain a connection to it somehow. Bearcat (talk) 16:30, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Addition

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message: *Added the anthem of the FPU to the FPU page, and since it references Coaker I have added a link to Coakers page pointing to that section of the FPU article. Rwoodford (talk) 19:25, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coaker and FPU 

message: *The Sept 11th page has one line just to link to Operation Yellow ribbon, can we add another line or two adding slightly more depth about Newfoundland's contributions? Rwoodford (talk) 15:10, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
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message: I am surprised that there has yet to be a picture of Premier Dunderdale uploaded, for her article. Do we have nobody from NL on Wikipedia who could maybe take a picture of her? NorthernThunder (talk) 03:54, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Premier Kathy Dunderdale 

message: I'm looking for an image. Can anyone help? Anna Frodesiak (talk) 06:30, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Newfoundland Highland forests]]

message: Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Newfoundland and Labrador will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in Newfoundland and Labrador's history, society and culture. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 23:41, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiWomen's History Month 

message: I've started a list at Wikipedia:WikiProject St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador/to do of articles within/under the :Category:St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador that should be added to this project.  When done, please remove from the list.  The list is not complete; I'll finish it later.  I'm still establishing the satistics table for the project.  Happy bannering.  Argolin (talk) 03:13, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of articles to add to this project 

message: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador has it's own discussion page now.  That may be why some would have found my post (directly above) odd.  I've also removed the stjohns=yes from the banner on this page.  Argolin (talk) 00:27, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Separate talk pages

message: This section of this list article needs cleanup. In particular, references based on reliable sources (not user-generated media such as blogs, forums, tweets, etc.) for the numerous of nicknames are required, as well as weeding out editor-derived/questionable nicknames from the genuine nicknames of widespread usage. I've cleaned up the Alberta section, and am looking to the members of the applicable provincial/territorial WikiProjects to help out with the other sections including this one. Thanks, Hwy43 (talk) 06:54, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for cleanup assistance at [[List of city nicknames in Canada#Newfoundland and Labrador]] 

message: There is a page titled "Cupids Crossing". This is not an actual settlement, merely a part of the town of Cupids. I think that this page should be removed.(Forgive me if I have done something wrong here, this is my first post) Andrew9623 (talk) 22:45, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: It is neither fictional nor a town (incorporated town that is). According to StatCan, it is a named place within Cupids. NRCan also recognizes it as an unincorporated area/neighbourhood. Hwy43 (talk) 05:49, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fictional town in Newfoundland  

message: I was surprised to see that an article was not yet created for the Town of Fogo Island, which was formed in 2011 following the amalgamation of several communities on Fogo Island. There is already an article for the island itself, Fogo Island, Newfoundland and Labrador. I have just created a separate article for the town at Fogo Island, Newfoundland and Labrador (town). Your assistance is sought to expand the new article. Cheers, Hwy43 (talk) 07:29, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fogo Island 

message: Are Point La Haye, Newfoundland and Labrador and Gaskiers-Point La Haye the same place? PamD 09:49, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm pretty sure. Newfoundlander&Labradorian (talk) 15:45, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Point La Haye x2? 

message: :File:AllisonCroweNewfoundlandVinylalbumbackcover.jpg has been nominated for deletion. You might want to extract the map of Newfoundland, which should not be protected (creator of the map died 1708) -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 05:06, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: File:AllisonCroweNewfoundlandVinylalbumbackcover.jpg

message: The article about Newfoundland musician Kellie Loder has an ongoing featured article candidacy here. Any constructive comments you would be willing to provide there would be greatly appreciated. Neelix (talk) 03:03, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kellie Loder 

message: You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride 2014, a campaign to create and improve LGBT-related content at Wikipedia and its sister projects. The campaign will take place throughout the month of June, culminating with a multinational edit-a-thon on June 21. Meetups are being held in some cities, or you can participate remotely. All constructive edits are welcome in order to contribute to Wikipedia's mission of providing quality, accurate information. Articles within Category:LGBT in the Americas may be of particular interest. You can also upload LGBT-related images by participating in Wikimedia Commons' LGBT-related photo challenge. You are encouraged to share the results of your work here. Happy editing! --Another Believer (Talk) 20:52, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:Wiki Loves Pride 2014|Wiki Loves Pride 2014]] 

message: I just removed a PROD template from this, which had been unref'd since 2009.  The ref for the placename was easy to find, as there are ten such placenames in Newfoundland alone and more elsewhere in Canada.  None are listed as settlements, however, and I'm not sure where Deadman's Bay is in the regions listed on CGNDB.  I've left that mention, with a cite needed tag, and the categories as-is.  Why people feel the urge to PROD things for being unref'd instead of looking for a reference, is quite beyond me, but arm a monkey with a button, they will push it.Skookum1 (talk) 06:53, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[The Gut, Newfoundland and Labrador]] de-prodded 

message: Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comment on the WikiProject X proposal 

message: This is a notice about :Category:Newfoundland and Labrador articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. Iceblock (talk) 19:41, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expert attention 

message: Hello everyone!
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thread_title:  WikiProject X is live! 

message: : Outline of Canada  
:: Provinces of Canada:  • Outline of Alberta  • Outline of British Columbia • Outline of Manitoba  • Outline of New Brunswick  • Outline of Newfoundland and Labrador  • Outline of Nova Scotia  • Outline of Ontario (Outline of Toronto) • Outline of Prince Edward Island  • Outline of Quebec • Outline of Saskatchewan
Each outline provides a topical summary of its subject, as well as a bird's eye view of the subject's entire coverage on Wikipedia. Together they comprise one of Wikipedia's navigation subsystems. See Portal:Contents/Outlines.
Note that the only Canadian province without an outline is Newfoundland and Labrador. The Transhumanist 05:13, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Canada's outline coverage for its provinces is almost done 

message: Hi, Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada/The 10,000 Challenge is up and running based on Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge for the UK which has currently produced over 2200 article improvements and creations. If you'd like to see large scale quality improvements happening for Canada like The Africa Destubathon, which has produced over 1300 articles in 3 weeks, sign up on the page. The idea will be an ongoing national editathon/challenge for Canada but fuelled by a contest such as The North America Destubathon to really get articles on every province and subject mass improved. I would like some support from Canadian wikipedians here to get the Challenge off to a start with some articles to make doing a Destubathon worthwhile! Cheers.♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:26, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: New 10,000 Challenge for Canada

message: Surprisingly there was no article for the Dana Bradley murder case, so I've created one.  I've added a bunch of categories but there aren't many other links to the page.  If you can think of anywhere else this should be linked, or any other categories which should be added to the article, please do so.Vulcan's Forge (talk) 17:06, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Dana Bradley]] 

message: The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.
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thread_title:  WikiProject collaboration notice from the [[WP:WPPORT|Portals WikiProject]] 

message: On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace.  On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.
There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.
Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.
So far, 84 editors have joined.
If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.
If you have any questions about what is happening with portals or the Portals WikiProject, please post them on the WikiProject's talk page.
Thank you.     — The Transhumanist    07:49, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Background 

message: A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.
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thread_title:  A new newsletter directory is out! 

message: As discussed at WP:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, I expressed interest in merging WP:WikiProject St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador into this one. Firstly, the project is marked defunct and has been mostly abandoned since 2012. One of the options to WP:REVIVE a project is to merge it into another project with similar scope. Given the fact that Greater St. John's contains close to 40% of the provinces population, and is the capital city, there is a great deal of overlap. Plus, considering this WikiProject itself is marked as inactive, merging these together would give the best chance for the combined project to be revived. BLAIXX 22:11, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge in St. John's WikiProject 

message: Wikipedia talk:Canadian Wikipedians' notice board#Proposal to redirect all Canadian project related talk pages...--Moxy 🍁 22:39, 20 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal to redirect all Canadian project related talk pages 

message: Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.
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thread_title:  Request for information on WP1.0 web tool 

message: Anyone watching this page will be interested in this news from Memorial University, re a Wikepedian in residence Rwood128 (talk) 12:08, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for posting this, Rwood128! I am the Wikipedian in Residence. If anyone would like to know about upcoming edit-a-thons, please get in touch! We are having one in the Centre for Newfoundland Studies on Sunday, November 24, from 2pm-5pm about women's suffrage. If anyone here would like to register for the event, please let me know! Erna709 (talk) 18:02, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedian in residence at MUN 

message: Please come and make your voice heard at Talk:Eskimo#Racial slur?. Trying to discuss what, if anything, direction the article should take. I have notified all projects listed at the top of Talk:Eskimo. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 22:42, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comments requested 

message: I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like
*John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14. (John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.)
and turns it into something like
* John Smith "" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.
It will work on a variety of links, including those from ,  and .
The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.
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thread_title:  User script to detect unreliable sources 

message: If an editor has a source for place names in the Channel-Port aux Basques region, your input at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Osmond, Newfoundland and Labrador would be appreciated. Magnolia677 (talk) 16:35, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Osmond, Newfoundland and Labrador]] 

message: St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Steelkamp (talk) 15:55, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Good article reassessment of [[St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador]] 

message: You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Content assessment#Proposal: Reclassification of Current & Future-Classes as time parameter, which is within the scope of this WikiProject.  This WikiProject received this message because it currently uses "Current" and/or "Future" class(es). There is a proposal to split these two article "classes" into a new parameter "time", in order to standardise article-rating across Wikipedia (per RfC), while also allowing simultaneous usage of quality criteria and time for interest projects. Thanks! —CX Zoom[he/him] (let's talk • {C•X}) 06:44, 2 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion at [[Wikipedia:Content assessment]] 

message: A discussion is taking place, which may effect provincial/territorial politician bio leads. GoodDay (talk) 20:15, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rene Levesque 

message: Would appreciate input at this RFC about Levesque. GoodDay (talk) 21:09, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  René Lévesque RfC