Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Vancouver/Archive 1

message: *Buchanan-Hermit™..CONTRIBS..SPEAK!. 22:21, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Support covering the GVRD as part of WikiProject Vancouver

message: * Dogbreathcanada 02:59, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Against covering the GVRD as part of WikiProject Vancouver

message: I think it's a good idea to work on the entire GVRD, but Vancouver pages should take priority as that was the Project is about. Maybe even make a seperate template for GVRD items. Zhatt 01:34, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I thought about that too, and that might be something that will happen, I think. Helps to minimize confusion, right? --Buchanan-Hermit™..CONTRIBS..SPEAK!. 01:38, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

text: Partial agreement. See my comment in the "Against" section for my full opinion. --Dogbreathcanada 03:00, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That might work as well. There are many possibilities here, as you can tell. And that idea is a good one. --Buchanan-Hermit™..CONTRIBS..SPEAK!. 04:46, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

text: Especially with regard to historical issues, transit and transporation, and personalities it may be hard to distinguish clearly between Vancouver and the GVRD, though I agree that focus should be on Vancouver when possible. Fishhead64 23:16, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

text: A suggestion:  bug co-op housing people such as myself.  You draw on a pool of often over-educated civic-minded busybodies.  I'll pass on this project to those in my co-op; maybe it'll help.--Gilded Lily 23:21, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: I give up. I wanted to add more photos along the right-hand side of the main project page but apparently this screws up the formatting in Firefox (my primary browser) by jumbling up the entire page's [Edit] buttons all together into one (so that they look like this: "[Edit] [Edit] [Edit] [Edit] [Edit] [Edit]" at the end of the article or section). So yeah... I give up. If anyone can figure this out, feel free to fix it. I've thrown everything I could at this problem. Argh. --Buchanan-Hermit™..CONTRIBS..SPEAK! 04:21, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: One way to do it is to intersperse the "Image" links throughout the article instead of bunching them at the top. You might consider this cheating. Usgnus 00:38, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Check out Bentall Centre (Vancouver) for the kludgy way to make the [Edit] links appear in the proper places in Firefox. Usgnus 22:32, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Oooh, that's cool. :-o Buchanan-Hermit™..CONTRIBS..SPEAK! 02:22, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Firefox formatting for main page

message: Based on the tag I saw on Vancouver International Airport I just updated List of airports in the Vancouver area. Can someone who knows about the area make sure I added all of them to the list. The full list of airports is at :Category:Airports in British Columbia and the full list of heliports is at List of heliports in Canada. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 06:08, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Is Delta Heritage Air Park the same as Boundary Bay Airport? --Buchanan-Hermit™..CONTRIBS..SPEAK! 06:21, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No it's not so I just added it. All the airports in the :Category:Airports in British Columbia are different. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 06:43, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

text: CXH is definitely the IATA code for Vancouver Coal Harbour. The old coordinates were definitely for Coal Harbour, British Columbia near Port Hardy. --Usgnus 16:53, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Airport assistance

message: I created Vancouver School Board as a redirect to School district 39, British Columbia. I think it's best to work with the original article, since it's in a naming format already used for other BC school districts. --Dogbreathcanada 08:34, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Good idea. The current SD 39 page needs some work though. :) --Buchanan-Hermit™..CONTRIBS..SPEAK! 09:08, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh yeah, there's no doubt about that. But best to direct the work to the right article, rather than split work across two articles. --Dogbreathcanada 09:51, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: School district 39, British Columbia

message: I've created a new NavBox for Vancouver neighbourhoods, to bring some sort of unity to all the areas. --Buchanan-Hermit™..CONTRIBS..SPEAK! 01:14, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Vancouver Neighbourhoods NavBox

message: Voice your thoughts here. I'm staying out of it, as I'm neutral on the issue. --Buchanan-Hermit™..CONTRIBS..SPEAK! 01:30, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Vancouver biographical stub template proposed for deletion

message: ===SkyTrain===
With the Olympics approaching, I want to begin work on creating station articles, but before I do that, I want to ask for some help.  I've never been able to figure out how to redirect, and I was wondering if someone could get "Sky Train" could redirect to "SkyTrain."  This screws me up every time...and I live here!  Tx! Fishhead64 21:14, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. For redirects, you do this: #REDIRECTname of page. --Buchanan-Hermit™..CONTRIBS..SPEAK! 21:19, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

text: For the 95 B-Line, TransLink Annual Report 2005 (PDF) page 14 (page 16 in the PDF). Both the 91 and 95 B-Lines were mentioned in documents produced during the Vancouver UBC Transit Plan process. -- Usgnus 22:35, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks! Sir Studieselot 04:43, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Transit 

message: With the Olympics approaching, I want to begin work on creating station articles, but before I do that, I want to ask for some help.  I've never been able to figure out how to redirect, and I was wondering if someone could get "Sky Train" could redirect to "SkyTrain."  This screws me up every time...and I live here!  Tx! Fishhead64 21:14, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. For redirects, you do this: #REDIRECTname of page. --Buchanan-Hermit™..CONTRIBS..SPEAK! 21:19, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: SkyTrain

message: In List of bus routes in Greater Vancouver (before I created this account), I changed the B-Line section to 90-99 because in 2007, the 135 route will be converted to a B-Line and in 2009, the 43 route will be converted to a B-Line. The tentative numbers for these two routes will be 95 and 91 respectively. So even though there are no 90-96 B-Line routes right now, I saw no harm in changing the section titles ahead of time.  I'm not really defending what I did so much as explaining. I'll just be more patient and wait until the new lines are announced (or at least confirmed).
Oops, I wasn't signed in for my last edit. I hope it's okay that I changed the Skytrain section to a more general Transit heading. Forgot to sign before. Usgnus 00:07, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: For the 95 B-Line, TransLink Annual Report 2005 (PDF) page 14 (page 16 in the PDF). Both the 91 and 95 B-Lines were mentioned in documents produced during the Vancouver UBC Transit Plan process. -- Usgnus 22:35, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks! Sir Studieselot 04:43, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Bus Routes

message: I merged the "General" discussion section of the WikiProject with the (empty) "Strategy" section, since the latter was gathering dust and one discussion section makes more sense and alleviates confusion. If there are any objections, feel free to speak up and we'll see what we can do. Thanks. :) Buchanan-Hermit™..CONTRIBS..SPEAK! 04:31, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merged

message: As there is a current discussion about the  template right now, I feel that it is appropriate to discuss the  template as well. Right now, it looks like vancouver-bio-stub will be merged with . Do you guys want to do the same with gvrd-bio-stub if that happens? (i.e. merging gvrd-bio-stub with ?) --Buchanan-Hermit™..CONTRIBS..SPEAK! 04:38, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You guys might want to keep a closer eye on it this time. The discussion has now turned into whether or not to kill the GVRD stubs too, effectively vetoing the consensus we as a WikiProject reached earlier. They obviously don't understand the political situation of the GVRD, and that cities like Richmond and Burnaby are not exactly considered to be "Vancouver" but more commonly as "Greater Vancouver." --Buchanan-Hermit™..CONTRIBS..SPEAK! 20:15, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Now they are doubting whether GVRD is the common name for the region. I'm fighting alone here, guys. I'd love to see more people back me up on this (that both GVRD and Greater Vancouver are common names for the region) because they are threatening to veto the consensus we reached earlier about having GVRD stubs... (I've requested a Vancouver-area admin as well on the Admins' noticeboard, just in case.) --Buchanan-Hermit™..CONTRIBS..SPEAK! 02:38, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, my two bits are that the GVRD is the "actual" Vancouver as far as the outside world goes; the City of Vancouver is really only a "ward" in a larger metro complex which the rest of the world knows by the name of the city.  But it's also hard to consider Maple Ridge and Langley as Vancouver, even if you can get away with that (figuratively) for Surrey, Richmond, Burnaby and even Delta.  In other contexts "Greater Vancouver" is used interchangeably with "Lower Mainland", which is actually the combo meal version of Greater Vancouver plus the Central and Upper Fraser Valley (Hope/Yale being the borderline of the Lower Mainland).  Why not just use "van" in the stub instead of "gvrd"?  GVRD is a whole can of worms; historically it didn't exist before a certain date etc.Skookum1 04:23, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: GVRD is used because it has set boundaries and is more undisputable. In any case, the category to be used now is . Guess those stub categorization guys dislike abbreviations... --Buchanan-Hermit™..CONTRIBS..SPEAK! 04:38, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Templates for biographical stubs: GVRD

message: I have created a NavBox for Vancouver Schools.  I had no idea that there were so many private schools in Vancouver!  If I am missing any schools or if you think we should remove any of those "alternative programs" that are listed under the "private schools" sections, please let me know, or just fix it yourself. Canuck89 06:43, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: ...and I thought here in Richmond we have a lot of elementary schools! Sheesh. Good job. :) Buchanan-Hermit™..CONTRIBS..SPEAK! 06:59, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Schools NavBox

message: I'm changing the category to "Greater Vancouver Regional District stubs" to prevent articles being listed both on the parent category and subcategories. If you have any objections, state your case here. Thanks. --Buchanan-Hermit™..CONTRIBS..SPEAK! 03:54, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changing category for GVRD stubs 

message: I wrote up the page for Sea Island.  I'm not in on this project, I live in Tennessee, but I saw Tawker's stub and was interested.  Let me know what you think and have fun with it.  "Sea Island" now needs a disambig page because there is also Sea Island, Georgia. Happy editing. TKE 18:34, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks okay. I expanded on it several days ago, but not bad for a non-GVRDer. :) Buchanan-Hermit™..CONTRIBS..SPEAK! 22:07, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it's safe to say it's no longer a stub. :-) Usgnus 22:10, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, and removed stub tag. Buchanan-Hermit™..CONTRIBS..SPEAK! 22:15, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Sea Island

message: I'm taking out "Airport Connector Bridge" because, according to the official Tourism Richmond map, it is officially called the Sea Island Bridge, which already has an entry in the NavBox. --Buchanan-Hermit™..CONTRIBS..SPEAK! 01:57, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, I believe Middle Arm = Moray as well. I've lived in Richmond all my life and I'm not aware of any other bridge besides the ones Usgnus just listed. Buchanan-Hermit™..CONTRIBS..SPEAK! 08:53, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm removing Middle Arm from the template Usgnus 02:03, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Bridges of Greater Vancouver template

message: The University of British Columbia article is the WikiProject Vancouver Collaboration of the Month as it has the highest number of "support" votes out of the nominees. (The SkyTrain has the same number of votes but it was nominated later -- for tiebreakers, it's first come, first serve). If you find a Greater Vancouver-related article you think deserves recognition, by all means nominate it. :) Buchanan-Hermit™..CONTRIBS..SPEAK! 07:56, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: All of the nominated articles are quite lengthy and full. Seems pointless to nominate them. Articles that require more, more facts, more depth, should be the articles that we nominate. The point of collaberation, in my mind, is to work on bringing more articles up to Wiki standards, not work on articles that are already up to Wiki standards. --Dogbreathcanada 09:26, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Oops, apparently I misinterpreted the "COTM" meaning as being the BEST article of the month... now I'm embarassed. [pause]. So... anybody want to vote in favor of de-COTMing the UBC article? Because now this is making them look REALLY bad... Buchanan-Hermit™..CONTRIBS..SPEAK! 08:43, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm just glad I finally got your attention on the issue. :) --Dogbreathcanada 09:28, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Good thing too, because I would've offended a LOT of hardworking people who have made good articles. I'm just really embarassed right now. I guess the only way to learn is to fall flat on your face. :) Buchanan-Hermit™..CONTRIBS..SPEAK! 09:41, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Collaboration of the Month: April 2006 

message: Now that we have collaboration articles and featured article squared away ...
Are Wikiprojects allowed to have Featured Articles? If so, should we set this up? Perhaps move the UBC article to "Featured Article" and quickly nominate a new Collaboration Article (be easier to have these things start on the first of every month anyhow). --Dogbreathcanada 09:33, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yea, they're referred to as "selected articles". deadkid_dk 11:28, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

text: Sounds good. Let's wait about three days to see if there's any objection to this idea. Buchanan-Hermit™..CONTRIBS..SPEAK! 21:15, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

text: Meanwhile, I've removed UBC as COTM -- I guess we'll see if there's a clear-cut winner in the next few days or so, for COTM. Vancouver General Hospital is "winning" so far; that's my personal choice. Buchanan-Hermit™..CONTRIBS..SPEAK! 21:49, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Selected Article of the Month 

message: Apparently, WikiProject Vancouver is the largest WikiProject dedicated to a Canadian city. We actually beat out Toronto by a huge margin. Just a little interesting tidbit. :) Buchanan-Hermit™..CONTRIBS..SPEAK! 03:10, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: *brings out the beer* deadkid_dk 03:20, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

text: How was this measured? Curious. --Dogbreathcanada 05:01, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  By number of participants. That's how I measured it. By number of articles, I have no clue... Buchanan-Hermit™..CONTRIBS..SPEAK! 05:11, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

text:  I just did a quick count -- the WikiProject has around 260 articles for Vancouver proper. I haven't counted the GVRD article total yet. Buchanan-Hermit™..CONTRIBS..SPEAK! 07:24, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject Vancouver's size 

message: A&B Sound, electronics retailer founded in 1959 in downtown Vancouver (Xm2631 21:28, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: A&B Sound

message: CHAN-TV, Vancouver's first privately owned television station. Presently 
known as Global BC (Xm2631 21:28, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: CHAN-TV

message: As of 2005, the official name is Spanish Bank and is no longer Spanish Banks. I've updated the wikipedia pages I could find. —This unsigned comment was added by Usgnus (talk • contribs) .
Vancouver Courier article on the name change. Usgnus 19:48, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Erg.  Another instance where officialdom is trying to lead public language/culture by the nose.  What the heck was wrong with "Spanish Banks"?  And who uses "Spanish Bank" other than the stylesheet of a national media monopoly's local neighbourhood gladrag?Skookum1 21:15, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, the article is just reporting on the change and one person's reaction to it. The change is coming from the Vancouver Park Board. See the first link above. Usgnus 21:53, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

text: As long as there is a redirect from the commonyl used name, and a note in the article about the common name of the area. Spanish Banks. --Dogbreathcanada 21:31, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There is no article for Spanish Bank(s) yet. Usgnus 21:53, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

text: If the consensus is to revert to Spanish Banks and include, where appropriate, a note about the official name, that works for me. Usgnus 21:53, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Spanish Bank

message: I realized that we should probably have a welcome template for new WikiProject participants, to gain some sense of community, so I created . I wrote it up relatively quickly, so if you can think of ways to improve the template, go ahead by all means. I just want to find some way of welcoming the WikiProject's newcomers. :) Buchanan-Hermit™..CONTRIBS..SPEAK! 05:15, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Welcoming new WikiProject participants

message: I disagree about adding British Columbia to every new island by default. If you look at List of islands of Canada, you'll see that very few islands list the province or other disambiguation name. See also Wikipedia:Naming conventions (places). Usgnus 23:24, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Another way to look at it is to consider islands as geographical entities, like rivers or mountains. Would we say Thompson River, British Columbia or Mount Robson, British Columbia? Then why would we say Barnston Island, British Columbia instead of just Barnston Island? Usgnus 23:32, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

text: I was thinking more along the lines of avoiding future disambig. links. Sea Island is a prime example of such a situation I wish to avoid. Or maybe I'm going overboard here... Buchanan-Hermit™..SCREAM!!!.... 08:09, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

text: I say we deal with them when they come up. deadkid_dk 08:30, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. Let's not change any existing article (unless necessary), but how about for new ones we add the "British Columbia" if needed only. Many times, there's either only one island of that name, or one island is much more significant than the other (e.g., Bowen Island). Usgnus 20:20, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Islands 

message: Hello. I'm a member of the Version 1.0 Editorial Team, which is looking to identify quality articles in Wikipedia for future publication on CD or paper. We recently began assessing articles using these criteria, and we are are asking for your help. As you are most aware of the issues surrounding your focus area, we are wondering if you could provide us with a list of the articles that fall within the scope of your WikiProject, and that are either featured, A-class, B-class, or Good articles, with no POV or copyright problems. Do you have any recommendations? If you do, please post your suggestions at the listing of all active Places WikiProjects, and if you have any questions, ask me in the Work Via WikiProjects talk page or directly in my talk page. Thanks a lot! Titoxd(?!? - help us) 06:43, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team|Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team]] cooperation

message: Copyright addition to article by Wayne Ray 1991 WayneRay 22:17, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Bloedel Floral Conservatory additions

message: This ongoing discussion and development of the transit station template has been moved here to reduce the growing size of the main talk page. --Ckatz 23:28, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: "The next station is..." templates

message: Since it's the 27th of the month, I've updated the COTM template for May. The new COTM is Vancouver Art Gallery. :) Buchanan-Hermit™..SCREAM!!!.... 20:02, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  COTM for May 

message: I'm currently upgrading some of my old cell phone pics with digital camera-quality ones (which will also be made available on Wikimedia Commons). Stay tuned, and don't panic if some pics start changing. :) Buchanan-Hermit™..SCREAM!!!.... 07:28, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Note about some of my Vancouver-area pics 

message: I propose merging the B-Line article into either Coast Mountain Bus Company (preferred) or List of bus routes in Greater Vancouver. — Usgnus 22:28, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  B-Line 

message: After creating a couple of elementary school pages, I've realized that perhaps we should have a single page for all of them or just include them in the VSB page. The high schools in general have enough information for their own pages. As you may already know, some people think no schools should have articles. --Usgnus 19:44, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Elementary Schools 2

message: I just replaced the text of the article Westham Island Bridge as it was a copyvio of this page. If there's anyone on this project who is in charge of the bridge articles, they might want to check the others to see if similar copyvios have occurred. 23skidoo 02:42, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Bridge article was copyvio

message: I'm just wondering, how many people here would be willing to contribute to a British Columbia portal? -→Buchanan-Hermit™/!? 04:26, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I also remember someone suggesting a BC WikiProject. That might be something to think about too -- WikiProject Vancouver would have some brethren from the rest of the province. :) -→Buchanan-Hermit™/!? 04:40, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It was me.  I can't see why not.  As it is there's all kinds of stuff getting put on the Vancouver page that's at least Lower Mainland in scope/context, if not beyond; and myself I'm not big on Vancouver-obsessing, possibly because I'm born and raised here and not as infatuated with it as people who've chosen to live here.  BC is a lot more than Vancouver, and there's a lot to be put into and organized for Wiki.  I've mostly been over in the Indigenous Peoples of North America project, the project page for which y'all should have a look at in terms of sweep and consensual organization and collective gathering-power.  Tables of articles needed, articles in need of review, pretty perspective discussions on how to organize this or present that, we're even managing to overturn the prevailing American perspective on subjects like the Indian Wars (see Talk:Indian Wars and look towards the bottom).  There's Project Alaska, and Project Oregon - no Project Washington or Project Alberta yet, but what say we beat them to it?Skookum1 05:59, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: *Ahem* :) -→Buchanan-Hermit™/!? 06:02, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

text: I'm working on my WikiProject Sandbox right now, making a test page for a possible BC project. I'm wondering, is there a photo of the Ogopogo "statue" in Kelowna available for Wikipedia use (not fair use)? -→Buchanan-Hermit™/!? 15:33, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

text: I would be interested. --Usgnus 16:58, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  BC portal? 

message: I made a possible opening page in my WikiProject Sandbox. Felt like playing around with the idea but I think there's potential here. Feel free to modify that page. -→Buchanan-Hermit™/!? 15:58, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I like the look of Wikipedia:WikiProject Oregon. It seems less intimidating than Vancouver's. --Usgnus 17:01, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm, interesting. I'll experiment with that format later tonight if I get the chance. You're right, it's less intimidating. -→Buchanan-Hermit™/!? 17:54, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't like everything about it (task like font size is too small, relations should be lower down), and I like a lot of what's in Wikipedia:WikiProject Vancouver, like the gallery and other images and the motivation section. --Usgnus 18:11, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

text: For some reason WP:BC redirects to Wikipedia:New contributors' help page. BC=Beginning contributors, perhaps? --Usgnus 18:42, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, I did a little tweak on that. I'm gonna leave the page in my Sandbox for everyone to develop the Wikiproject before formally launching it. -→Buchanan-Hermit™/!? 18:46, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

text: Then add your sig to the new Supporters and Fans table (or didn't I ask that already; OK, OK, not meaning to be impatient....)Skookum1 08:00, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Possible WikiProject BC

message: I'm planning on going through the local radio station articles and reworking them to standardize certain aspects, mostly in the opening paragraphs. Before I begin, any preferences here on how to handle station history? The question comes to mind from looking at the Jack FM article. Jack FM adopted the CKLG call sign for marketing purposes, but the article has an extensive history of the old CKLG-AM (730 kHz) and its successors. Meanwhile, the article for MOJO 730 doesn't mention CKLG-AM's history at all. I feel that the best approach is to have each article represent a particular frequency, with the name being (as at present) the current call sign and band. Thus, the article for CKLG-FM would be about Jack FM in the present, with historical information about its predecessors on that frequency (CJAZ?), and any appropriate references to other influences (CKLG) and details. This would also be the best way of ensuring we don't lose historical information about defunct formats and stations. Thoughts? --Ckatz 06:24, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Further to this, the proposal above would keep the articles in line with the Radio Stations WikiProject (which I've just learned about). --Ckatz 06:38, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Vancouver radio stations

message: There was a tie for the new COTM for June 2006. I hope nobody minds, but I went with the Cloverdale Rodeo over the Vancouver Intl. Film Festival for COTM for June, mostly due to timeliness. -→Buchanan-Hermit™/!? 18:44, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: New COTM for June

message: The following sample tables are copied from Wikipedia:WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America and are recommended for transferring the list on the obverse page into, to provide systematic coordination of various articles needing writing or review.  I don't have time or I'd transfer some of the things listed in "Tasks" into tables like this, with each of the sections overleaf forming one table maybe (or by any theme, actually; e.g. parks and protected areas, industry and commerce, population and ethnography, geography and so on.  Just above the tables on the Indigenous project page there are also a visual cataloguing of all the stubs related to the project.Skookum1 16:36, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've put example expansions of this table concept on WikiProject-BC Draft/proposal page.  I'm holding back on applying these to the "tasks" section on the project page overleaf until I hear from other participants in the project if they like the idea or not; some lists on the draft BC wikiproject page get quite long, so over there in the case of the Rivers section I've put that list/table on the talk page of the BC Rivers category page; and could do the same with mountain ranges, lakes, communities etc., all of which will be big lists when done.  Here I'm thinking of the neighbourhoods, parks, civic bios and so on; same idea as the current task list, just gives it more organizational coherence.  I think.  Thoughts?Skookum1 20:58, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Sample Tables for project strategy/coordination

message: (See "Status" column just above)
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Status                         	Cell Color                     	Meaning of Status
Needs opinion                  	#FFFFFF                        	This article has not yet been classified into the categories above.  Please help by classifying this article.
Not started                    	#888888                        	The article hasn't been started yet. You can help by creating it.
Stub                           	#FF5555                        	The article is either a very short article or a stub that will need a lot of work to bring it to A-Class level.
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B-Class                        	#FFFF66                        	The article is "almost there" but it may be missing one of the following: references, balance of content, NPOV or an important section.  Alternatively, the English may need a comprehensive rewrite to make it flow.
A-Class                        	#FFDCF8                        	The article provides a well-written and complete description of the topic, as described in How to write a Great Article. It includes a well-written introduction to the topic, and an appropriate series of headings to break up the article. It should have sufficient external literature references, preferably from the "hard" literature rather than websites. It should be well illustrated, with no copyright problems.
FA                             	#00CC00                        	Reserved exclusively for articles that have received "Featured article" status, and meet the current criteria for featured articles.
: I agree with classifying the articles, and doing it by category. I also agree that each larger category needs its own page: geography, history, government and politics, education and research, etc. These should be tied in with the task list. -- Usgnus 18:01, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Codes and meanings

message: Hi all: I just fleshed out the Hastings-Sunrise neighbourhood page, and I thought I'd make a few suggestions for some standard info to add to all the neighbourhood pages. I am not putting this here as an alternative to doing it myself ;-), but I don't see myself doing it all any time soon.
I suggest that all the articles include the following:
*Provincial electoral district info
*Federal electoral district info
*Statistical info
*And a link to the City's neighbourhood page in the links section (same link as above)
Anyone else have any ideas of standard additions for all neighbourhoods?
--Anchoress 10:57, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vancouver neighbourhoods standardisation 

message: To try to get a good consensus, I am posting at all Canadian regional wikiprojects: Wikipedia talk:Canadian wikipedians' notice board#Canadian city naming convention. Thanks! -- Usgnus 21:51, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Canadian city naming convention 

message: I'm going ahead and write the first paragraph of RC Palmer Secondary School in Richmond. Is it okay if I start now? The reason is I'm from that school anyways... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Curriegrad2004 (talk • contribs) 
:By all means, go ahead. I suggest copying over one of the other high schools in Richmond and changing the information. -- Usgnus 16:37, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Damn, you figured out my method of writing school stubs... ;) -→Buchanan-Hermit™/?! 18:31, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  RC Palmer Secondary School 

message: *History: creation of the district, oldest schools, amalgamation with Point Grey, taking over the U-Hill schools.
*Trustees: who they are, how they are elected, how long they serve, the schools they are assigned to.
*Areas: the district is divided into four areas, each with its own superintendent. Schools are  in a given area (perhaps list schools by area, with the elementary feeders grouped to the high school). Links to boundary maps. Separate areas for French immersion.
*District programs: French immersion (including expansion), Mandarin immersion, mini schools, IB, Montessori, etc.
-- Usgnus 00:39, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vancouver School Board content ideas 

message: May I join this Wikiproject? Sir Studieselot 22:12, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Of course, you don't need to ask. Add your name to the list. :) -→Buchanan-Hermit™/?! 06:10, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Participant 

message: Just updated the COTM: this month, it's Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. :) -→Buchanan-Hermit™/?! 07:05, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  July COTM 

message: I tried changing the lists into graphs where you can type the status of articles but it didn't work, instead, it made the whole section blank so I changed it back.  How do you make it work? Sir Studieselot 03:56, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Graphs 

message: I created a page for the Vancouver municipal election, 2002. Take a look and see if you can improve it. Geedubber 02:01, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Vancouver municipal election, 2002]]

message: Is there an article about the Asiatic Exclusion League riots in Vancouver? I'm almost certain it would be here but apparently I can't find it. Perhaps the article uses a different name? -→Buchanan-Hermit™/?! 05:44, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm.  That's odd, I thought there would have been, given the coverage of Chinese history in Canada (sloppily written and "shoddily facted" though it has been); The riots, in their time, were known as the Anti-Oriental Riots, and in a historical phrasing would be the Anti-Oriental Riots of 1907; whichever would be the better title.  There are no other Wiki pages by that name, i.e. for other cities.  Good resource materials for a blow-by-blow account (so to speak) are Alan Morley, Vancouver: Milltown to Metropolis, James Morton, In The Sea of Sterile Mountains: The Chinese in British Columbia, Maj. J. S. "Skitt" Matthews, Early Vancouver (there's his own account, plus various eye-witness reports within the personal memoirs E.V. is full of), and details in various Vancouver Sun articles which may be searchable on-line; the recent stuff by Ian Mulgrew is a crock but Stephen Hume's and others are quite detailed, if not always impartial.  The CCNC account on their website ]is sketchy and a-factual, like most of their historical jigglings.  If you can't find Morton and Morley let me know and I'll type-copy 'em and put them in my BC & Pacific Northwest History Forum sandbox area, which ultimately will have various history resources, esp. from out-of-print books and public-domain historical maps; it's also a place for me to put my sundry a-cyclopedic ravings on Vancouveritis (sangria-fueled or otherwise) and similar stuff; (Early Vancouver I don't own anymore as I was in need of groceries and it was worth a hundred bucks; the full set is in the City Archives, what's in print - and rare but in VPL and elsewhere - is only the first two volumes, but it does include his main account of the Riots; btw he also has a full table of Musqueam/Squamish placenames which should be incorporated into the Vancouver pages somehow; love the name for Jericho Beach - Eeyulshun, which if I remember means something like "soft sand squishing through your toes").  I also recently wrote a partial account of the Riots for a Comments Forum on Tyee Books; they're offline due to some technical problems so I can't dredge the link right now, but once they're back up look for a Terry Glavin book/review by Charles Campbell, called Monkey Wrestles With Madness at http://thetyee/Books/ - my point with the explanation there, by the way, is that despite the popular Canadian myth/image of BCers being racist, the riots in 1907 (like those in 1885) were perpetrated largely by recent arrivals from Eastern Canada; BCers throughout the early period, as you'll find in both Morton and Matthews, were much more pragmatic as well as fractured on the issue of Chinese labour and immigration (which was THE issue in early politics, and it's not as simple as boiling all of it down to "racism" - read Morton, is all I've been saying lately, and give your head a good scratch).  Not relevant to Vancouver but to this discussion I had occasion to look up the Cumberland Strikebreaking Riots of 1910, which were anti-Chinese as much as anti-Dunsmuir (Dunsmuirs being an old BC family and, like other local wealth, always pragmatic about cheap Chinese labour); Cumberland was once the West Coast of North America's second-largest Chinatown; mind you, so were Barkerville's and Lillooet's and Yale's in their day, too.....Skookum1 16:47, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is there an article for this? 

message: I am working on an article for the Student Price Card due to the fact that it's pretty common to see the logo on shop doors now around most of the shopping malls. The article needs serious clean up and contributions. If you can help, please do so. Thank You Spyco 09:05, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: HELP REQUIRED FROM ALL WIKIPROJECT VANCOUVER MEMBERS

message: I just through-wrote this from memory over morning coffee and be adviwsed it's just an outline in spots.  There's various comment-outs that I'll refer/change to later but if someone else knows the details raised, feel free to jump right in and make the changes.  I realize now I forgot to put in a section on the Great Fire of 1898 which is a requisite part of the history, so will dig some stuff and pix up later about that, as well as pix of Govt House, the Pen, and a city map; almost thinking a History of New Westminster article will eventually be required; but then we're still working on History of Vancouver and History of British Columbia, so let's leave well enough alone for now....Skookum1 19:02, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Major expansion of [[New Westminster, British Columbia|New Westminster]] page; please add/emend/edit 

message: Is this category for teams in the whole GVRD, or just Vancouver proper?  Noted the SFU Clan are listed, so I'm thinking the New Westminster Salmonbellies and Coquitlam Adanacs (when and if that gets written) should be in the same cat; or should they be in the Sport in British Columbia cat?Skookum1 22:21, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Put them in :Category:Sport in Vancouver. --Usgnus 23:49, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thx; did anyway, but good to get confirmation.Skookum1 00:31, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

text: Ditto what Usgnus said. Unless someone thinks it should say "Sport in Greater Vancouver" or something. Should be fine the way it is right now. -→Buchanan-Hermit™/?! 02:59, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question re Sport in Vancouver category 

message: Please see Talk:New Westminster, British Columbia#Historical photos issues.Skookum1 00:31, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Historical photos usage issues/idea 

message: Dawson Creek, British Columbia is up for a featured article review. Detailed concerns may be found here. Please leave your comments and help us address and maintain this article's featured quality. Sandy 21:27, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Dawson Creek, British Columbia]]

message: I updated the COTM -- it's the Port of Vancouver with the most support votes for August.
-→Buchanan-Hermit™/?! 17:05, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  August COTM 

message: I've just added the transit table, and I can't get the text to show. I'm not to used to wikicode table syntax...Selmo 03:27, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Oddd... I've tried a few things (in preview) with no success. I'm wondering if there's something in the code of the Skytrain Stations template that's mucking up the box. When I replaced the "Skytrain" template with the "Schools" template, the table formatted correctly. Any code whiz-kids willing to take a look bugs in the template code? --Ckatzchatspy 04:24, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That was weird. It should be all set now. --Usgnus 05:54, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need help 

message: I've benn cleaning up some of these articles. Most of them require a few grammatical corrections. Selmo 22:26, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Millenium Line station articles 

message: I think we should leave things the way they are and not use TransLink for disambiguating. --Usgnus 01:15, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  WP Vancouver naming conventions 

message: See Talk:Vancouver (disambiguation)#Requested move. --Usgnus 05:11, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Survey and discussion is closed and now being archieved. Mkdw 06:59, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vancouver move? 

message: * Greater Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia → Greater Vancouver Regional District … Rationale: There is no other Greater Vancouver Regional District in the world. Per WP:NAME, use the best-known, simplest, unambiguous title for the article. Greater Vancouver Regional District already redirects to Greater Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia. … Please share your opinion at Talk:Greater Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia. — Usgnus 01:05, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  GVRD, BC to GVRD? 

message: * Davie Village, Vancouver, Canada → Davie Village … Rationale: Davie Village already redirects to the article. Why do we need such a long name? … Please share your opinion at Talk:Davie Village, Vancouver, Canada. — Usgnus 02:09, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Davie Village 

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

message: Please see discussion "Name Dispute" at Talk:Pacific Northwest.Skookum1 00:36, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Vancouver/BC as part of [[Pacific Northwest]]

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

message: Hi all! I'd like to do some work on the DTES since I live and work in this area. I'm also part of a team of researchers who specifically observe and study the people of DTES. I want to present it accurately and unbiased of course. I would love the opportunity to help out with this specific part of Vancouver. There is so much history here and landmark events we'd be remiss not to include it. It is indeed the poorest postal code/area of all of Canada and there are a lot of unique 'firsts' and individuals here. OneWomanArmy
:Hi OneWomanArmy. I also live and am doing research related to the area. I've heard the "poorest postal code" claim for years, and wonder if it can be verified. I believe someone once told me that the postal code boundaries had been tweaked at one point and that claim no longer holds. There's also been a lot of yuppies moving into the new condos sprouting up in the 'hood, (revitalization? gentrification?) and it would be interesting to know how the demographics are changing, especially since the city writ large will change a lot in terms of development leading up to the olympics. I've also heard that there are more social service organizations per square foot here than anywhere else in the country. That wouldn't surprise me either. Bobanny 17:06, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Nice to meet you Bo. Well, it's definitely the poorest area of the entire country. That CAN be proven. I'm holding in my hand the 2005 report from Vancouver Coastal Health. It's about 30-something pages regarding the health and social profile of this area. I believe they release one every year. Out of all of BC the DTES (designated as Community Health Area 2)has the highest percentage of people who have Grade 9 and under. There's a lot of interesting stats in this report.OWA 03:00, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Downtown Eastside 

message: Over at WikiProject Organized Labour we recently set up an assessment department which gives us a tool for keeping track of how we are progressing. I see from the conversation above that you have started in this direction. If the project is interested, I would be willing to set up a similar department here.
In addition to providing details about article status, it also includes the project in the larger efforts taking place at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team.--Bookandcoffee 17:40, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: sounds good to me, and I can't imagine anyone would object. Make it so, No. 1.Bobanny 17:17, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm going to start on this over the next day or so. Now would be a good time to voice any concerns. :)--Bookandcoffee 18:45, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: assessment department

message: Well, there's the start. Two important notes:
# the red-linked Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Vancouver articles by quality statistics on the project page is normal. It should be updated by the bot at 0300 UTC after which it will be a nice little assessment infobox.
# Wikipedia:WikiProject Vancouver/Assessment#Importance scale needs to be updated. I deliberately left the Organized Labour text in the scale as an example - but I don't spend enough time at this project to be well qualified for writing new criteria. This should be done soon, so people know how to rate articles.
I've tagged a handful of articles to make sure things are working, and I'll check in over the next few days. --Bookandcoffee 22:08, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: started

message: I was thinking that we should do a Vancouver portal. What do you guys think? -- Selmo (talk) 21:40, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Portal 

message: As far as I can tell, images are considered public domain if they were taken prior to 1923 (US) or are older than 50 years plus the life of the author (Canada). Seems to me that this means a lot of old scanned photos from City of Vancouver Archives, Library and Archives Canada, McCord Museum, BC Archives, VPL Special Collections databases are fair game here. I understand the value of striving for original photos on Wiki, but we can't really go back in time to get the photos we want for articles with significant historical content. These archives don't seem to address the issue head-on on their websites as it relates to Wiki's purposes, but why would they when they want to control usage of these photos and have people buy them. I've already added an old photo to Deadman's Island (Vancouver), but was previously only linking to photos. Unless someone knows that this is somehow a violation of something or other, I want to eventually add old photos to certain articles to enrich them, using this tag:  If anyone else wants to do this, note Wiki's guidelines, adding the link and details on the photo's page, etc. Also see the discussion here: Talk:New Westminster, British Columbia#Historical photos issues. I'm pretty sure that the non-profit angle won't work, not because Wiki's a for-profit project, but because it's not a registered non-profit society or charity with "the Man" in Victoria. Anyway, if anyone knows of a reason why such images would get deleted, let me know, so I don't waste my time. thanks, Bobanny 21:39, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Historical Photos

message: The Wikipedia:WikiProject Vancouver/Assessment Department was recently set up - but the  still needs to be updated. It is currently just a copy from WP:UNION and completely irrelevant. If no one wants to update it I’ll just blank the criteria next week some time.--Bookandcoffee 19:50, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: {{tl|Vancouver importance scale}}

message: I nominated HongCouver for deletion. Go here to express your support. (Or disagreement, if you really must). After 5 days, the Lords of Wiki make the call to delete or keep.Bobanny 20:24, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Anyone who wants to get their 2 cents in and hasn't, the time is almost up. So far 8 people say delete/merge, and 2 say keep. Bobanny 21:14, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: HongCouver article for deletion

message: Now that the project banner refers to individule cities, perhaps we can create task forces for each one. -- Selmo (talk) 01:01, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Task forces? 

message: Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory.  This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you.  B2T2 18:32, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've reviewed our Vancouver Project entry in the directory. Looks good. Mkdw 22:08, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Project directory 

message: The talk pages up until November 2, 2006 for WikiProject Vancouver have now been archived in Archive 1.<BR>
Mkdw 23:08, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Modified. AQu01rius (User • Talk) 01:51, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Archive 1

message: ===Upgrade Nomination===
* Sam Sullivan requires its web references to be formatted using  before being moved to the A List.
* John Turvey requires a picture before being moved to the A List.
** I added some photos and spruced up the text and formatting for L. D. Taylor; I think it's ready for the A-list.Bobanny 23:39, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Upgraded, though it could use some more references and section specific citations. Mkdwtalk 08:46, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: People

message: * Sam Sullivan requires its web references to be formatted using  before being moved to the A List.
* John Turvey requires a picture before being moved to the A List.
** I added some photos and spruced up the text and formatting for L. D. Taylor; I think it's ready for the A-list.Bobanny 23:39, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Upgraded, though it could use some more references and section specific citations. Mkdwtalk 08:46, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Upgrade Nomination

message: ===NavBox===
*WikiProject Education has some excellent school related templates (Navigational Templates, Info Templates, School Templates). Mkdw 23:24, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Schools

message: *WikiProject Education has some excellent school related templates (Navigational Templates, Info Templates, School Templates). Mkdw 23:24, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: NavBox

message: King George Skytrain Station.
For me the current article fails to capture the true history of King George Station.  When originally constructed, the station, like Gateway, was to be at the center of a large condominium project, including a number of residential towers connected by town homes.  When the station was completed this project was underway.  Today, just east of the station, off East Whalley Ring Rd., there is a single tower connected to a line of town homes.  However, like Gateway, the project was suddenly terminated before the start of 1996.  For years the tiny showcase structure remained on the gone-to-seed lot, displaying the weathered artists’ rendering of this forgone project.  Only in 2005, with the commencement of the Infinity project, has the site’s potential been realized, now in conjuncture with the Central City Shopping Center.  The project, however, remains contained to the square of block bordered by King George Highway, 100 AVE, East Whalley Ring Road, and Fraser Highway, whereas the original King George project extended east of the Ring Road.
As to the line’s possible extension to Guilford to ease traffic, if the twinning of the Port Mann Bridge project goes ahead, a project which calls for Light Rail service over the new bridge from Coquitlam to Surrey, further extension of the Expo Line in this direction is questionable, unless Translink proposes a grandiose circular linkage between the two lines.
Mchelada 21:47, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Stubs

message: ===Active/Inactive List===
Our participants list is becoming quite extensive. In some other city WikiProjects I have seen them do a week week roll call and then have two categories for their participants. Active and Inactive. We may want to consider doing this soon. Langara College 18:49, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Might be a good idea. Mkdwtalk 02:25, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Work has begun on this new system. Mkdwtalk 01:08, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggestions

message: Our participants list is becoming quite extensive. In some other city WikiProjects I have seen them do a week week roll call and then have two categories for their participants. Active and Inactive. We may want to consider doing this soon. Langara College 18:49, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Might be a good idea. Mkdwtalk 02:25, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Work has begun on this new system. Mkdwtalk 01:08, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Active/Inactive List

message: ===Template===
I realized that we should probably have a welcome template for new WikiProject participants, to gain some sense of community, so I created . I wrote it up relatively quickly, so if you can think of ways to improve the template, go ahead by all means. I just want to find some way of welcoming the WikiProject's newcomers. :) Buchanan-Hermit™..CONTRIBS..SPEAK! 05:15, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Welcoming New Members

message: I realized that we should probably have a welcome template for new WikiProject participants, to gain some sense of community, so I created . I wrote it up relatively quickly, so if you can think of ways to improve the template, go ahead by all means. I just want to find some way of welcoming the WikiProject's newcomers. :) Buchanan-Hermit™..CONTRIBS..SPEAK! 05:15, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Template

message: *Vancouver has been nominated several times to become a featured article but has never been approved for various reasons. This project seems to be winding down and I think it would be a good objective to try and get Vancouver to be a featured article. Mkdwtalk 12:43, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. We just recently made it through the Good Article hurdles, and I don't believe this article is far from Featured Article quality (see (Detroit and Seattle for examples of featured cities). It's mostly technical things that need to be done, IMO.Bobanny 15:19, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The article mainly requires changes to its citation format. Many of the citations should be chaged to . Langara College 18:29, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Vancouver seems to be facing a lot of trouble pertaining to the Flora section. Would anyone be able to improve this secton accurately? Lily Towerstalk 10:12, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The biggest remaining weakness that I can see is not enough citations in certain sections, and as far as I can tell, that's all that's wrong with the flora section.Bobanny 17:41, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Vancouver has many citation formating problems in general that could be fixed. A date retreived and using  would be the final area needing improvement. 142.35.144.2 00:06, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

text: These are all done now.Bobanny 09:56, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

text: The citations are the most important thing. The quality generally, in my humble opinion, is very high in all the other areas, and I think this review process has done wonders for the article. Thanks everybody, Bobanny 06:37, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. This project has been very beneficial to this project and the article itself, along with several other Vancouver related articles that have been improved. Thank you for your continued patience in regards to the reorganizational efforts ongoing to this project. Mkdwtalk 00:31, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Every who helped should get a barnstar some other WikiProject award. -- Selmo (talk) 00:12, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/Vancouver|Featured Article]]

message: Congratulations to all those who put forth their efforts on making the article Vancouver a featured article. On November 22, 2006 the article officially became a featured article. The success and attempt brought this project back together. We did it! Mkdwtalk 00:05, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Every who helped should get a barnstar some other WikiProject award. -- Selmo (talk) 00:12, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Congratulations

message: * As a part of the WikiProject reorganization the Collaboration concept was not able to motivate and organize people as its intension. I feel that this Five Point Plan should be the basis of decision for the future of the project. It will allow our participants to see the direction of the project, the tasks at hand, and allow for completion of one article before moving on. I noticed that the WikiProject London does not have a collaboration section, but a Showcase in replacement. Mkdwtalk 20:02, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The discussion page prior to this one I was finding to be highly ineffective for new-comers as questions and content was being asked and posted multiple times over. Some form of organization will be needed. New posts are indeed hard to find but posting them at the bottom goes back to the initial problem of having repeative content. Ideally I would like to stay away from having multiple discussion pages for individual topics as that is even worse than scanning a single page for new content. Unless we have a means to automatically highlight new content from the last 24 hours, we will need to have someone overlook the discussion page and organize and monitor new content on a daily basis. We could also reduce the amount of sections on this page to Admin, WikiProject, Assessment, Help Requests, and Misc. Mkdwtalk 09:08, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment/Suggestion

message: I'm trying to get Vancouver on Wikipedia's main  page as one of their 'Today's Featured Articles. You can view its nomination and show your support if you wish at Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/requests#Vancouver. Mkdwtalk 09:40, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/requests#Vancouver|Today's Featured Article]]

message: Our entry in the WikiProject Council Directory is complete and up-to-date. Mkdw 23:26, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: WikiCouncil Directory

message: The article HongCouver went through a deletion review. On October 30, 2006 the review ended and a final decision was made; delete. You can find the full details of the review here. Please do not edit or contribute further to the deletion review as it is closed and being kept for archival purposes only. Mkdw 23:29, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: HongCouver

message: I thought our WikiProject should have a userbox that had a picture of Vancouver like some of the other WikiProjects out there so I made:<BR>
<BR>
Mkdw 23:47, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: New UserBox

message: I'm curious as to what exactly is a Vancouver Landmark, as this navbox applies? Tourist attractions, heritage buildings, common Vancouver perceptions, etc? I'm not really too sure here. Luke! 06:34, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yup. I suppose it could be subjective, but it's generally those really obvious Vancouver things, that when you see them in a movie, you say, "hey, that's Vancouver!" But would something not-so-touristy, like the safe-injection site count? I dunno...Bobanny 07:19, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Vancouver Landmarks Infobox 

message: Hi guys! I am a Wikipedian from Burnaby :) I just did some massive formatting work on the Project page. I added a sidebar, and organized informations into it.
For the talk page, I created a section for every month and moved appropriate talks into it. Then I setted up the automatic page archival bot. AQu01rius (User • Talk) 03:17, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for your help. I have repaired the last of the links on the sidebar that were leading to the China template and resized the box to match accordingly. Mkdwtalk 09:03, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  New look 

message: The article on the 1997 Rachel Marsen sexual harassment case at SFU was recently speedy deleted, and is now up for deletion review. You can add comments here: Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2006_November_17#Marsden-Donnelly_harassment_case. Kla'quot 08:33, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Now it's on AfD: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marsden-Donnelly harassment case Kla'quot 06:36, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deletion review of Marsden-Donnelly harassment case 

message: I think our project banner is too fat (can't think of other words :P). Can I trim it? AQu01rius (User • Talk) 00:52, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Project Banner 

message: Our list of participants and how long this WikiProject has been operating has become fairly lengthy. I will be making a list based upon the edit history of this discussion, the main project page, and various other significant articles in the past month of names of people still edting and on the participants list. Users in the inactive list are users who have not made a contribution to Wikipedia in general for several months. However, to save me some time, you can also just post your name on this roll call. The participants section on the main wikiproject page will list all the active Vancouver WikiProject Members. A new page of inactive, on leave, and former WikiProject members will be created and linked under the participants section. Mkdwtalk 08:50, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: ROLL CALL - All Read