Talk:Oshawa

Pickering

I'm removing the excessive discussion surrounding the proposed Pickering airport. It belongs in an article on Pickering. Derekwriter 03:30, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

If the Oshawa Airport is doomed, especially for Just in Time deliveries for GM, there IS a relation!!Bacl-presby 16:05, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

The details of the effects of the automobile on society are also important to this city, however those details belong in an article on the Effects of the automobile on societies, not here. In the same way, a passing reference to the Pickering airport dilemma would suffice here. There was just way too much rambling info previously. Derekwriter 17:43, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Demographics

2006 CENSUS POPULATION

• "Metropolitan" Oshawa, population 330,594
• Oshawa 141,590
• Whitby 111,184
• Clarington 77,820

As corrected! Bacl-presby 18:55, 14 March 2007 (UTC) Bacl-presby 22:17, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Stephen Colbert Day

Shouldn't there be mention of the loss by the OHL Oshawa Generals to Stephen Colbert's team, and the Lord Mayor's promise to give Colbert his birthday as an official day? 70.51.9.114 05:54, 27 January 2007 (UTC)\

NO. Wikipedia states that if a city or other government declares a "Name Day" it is notable only for lifetime achievements in community service, not publicity stunts. Flibirigit 15:54, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Removed mention again. Perhaps this would be best suited to the Oshawa Generals page? Blotto adrift 21:04, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

See Talk:Oshawa Generals. It has been suggested to be moved to Mayor John Gray's page, or KX96 as a publicity stunt. Flibirigit 02:27, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

I know this will die down eventually, but several edits mentioning this have been reverted today. Perhaps this page needs semi-protection? Blotto adrift 02:55, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps after March 20th?? Bacl-presby 19:48, 11 March 2007 (UTC) And even now (after March 20) do we really care? Colbert never came to the 'SHWA....Bacl-presby 19:28, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Media

I'm pretty sure there is no point in adding this, but just to reference some things in the media section that have been changed a number of times over the last few days:

• CJKX-FM is licenced for Ajax, not Pickering. There is also a reference at [1]. And Pickering is spelled with a capital P.
• CHEX-TV is located in Peterborough. Yes, CHEX-TV-2 has studios in Oshawa, but their "head office" is in Peterborough.
• Please add a reference regarding this radio station 93.3 in GM Place.

Blotto adrift 21:33, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

A user has anonymously been vandalizing the page. Your facts are correct. Flibirigit 02:36, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Editing a Small-Town Page

Scenario; I started a Wikipedia page for Small Town X, On. (Formosa, Ontario)

Somebody has added an actual person to the page (ie; Dan Kuntz), as a 'Prominent Feature*', and written an article explaining how Man helps out at charities. I'm pretty sure Dan Kuntz is just your average joe. But, apparently everybody in town seems to know him.

-*Some other prominent features are a very old church and a brewery.

Should this sort of edit, with Dan Kuntz, be removed?

(This has nothing to do with Oshawa wikipage; I'd have posted on Formosa, Ontario, but nobody reads it.) JimmmyThePiep 16:49, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

I tend to think so. YOu could ask the person to make their case for notability, but in general, it's supposed to extend beyond the boundaries of the community, at least to some extent. See Wikipedia:Notability as well. What community is it? Hope this helps, Blotto adrift 23:07, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Okay, cool, thanx. I'll try and contact the guy who made the changes.

(I'm disinclined to mention the name of the page itself; the last time I drew attention to a page I was working on, the page was deleted. I still argue that the page deserved to exist, but the deleter thought it was irrelevant.) JimmmyThePiep 21:40, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Any pictures?

I think there should be some photos added if anyone should have any pictures of Oshawa since this way the article would be immensely improved. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sergiogr (talk • contribs) 20:54, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

City Politics

I think it important to have a section on Oshawa municipal politics. It is notable for example that Oshawa City Council has recently voted to implement a general vote for their election meaning that all local politicians will have constituencies twice the size of our Provincial and Federal Members. They implemented this system with a bylaw passed April 30, 2007 after having a plebiscite on the issue at the last municipal elections. Notable in this plebiscite was that city council failed to adequately inform the public about the issue and failed to define the terms used in the question. They also asked a question that was revised a number of times which skewed results toward a direction favoured by the politicians. More can be read about this issue at the site www.oshawaspeaks.ca. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.122.120.216 (talk) 12:42, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Added a basic section on Oshawa's city government. I don't know enough about the ward vs at-large debate to comment on it, but if content on that subject is to be added, it will need information from sources other than blogs - newspaper articles, city news releases, etc. Blotto adrift 19:34, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Notable People Problems

I'm having a couple of issues with the Notable People section.. were these Notable People born there? Lived there? Did they do something important there? We need a bit of clairification before that list begins. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.245.228.221 (talk) 20:16, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Rename page

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was move. Mindmatrix 13:38, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Rename: Oshawa, Ontario → Oshawa

Per WP:CANSTYLE and WP:PRIMARYUSAGE, the city seems to be the only use of the term that I can find. An internet search (excluding Wikipedia mirrors, and the terms Ontario, Canada, "Oshawa, ON", "Oshawa, Ontario" and Durham) returns about 700,000 hits, of which all hits in the first ten pages are businesses, clubs, sports teams and leagues, classifieds, and personal pages related to this city. The article Oshawa redirects here, and has about 100 other articles linking to it, all intending to link to this article. Mindmatrix 02:49, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

• Support as nominator. Mindmatrix 02:49, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
• Support per nom. DigitalC (talk) 04:22, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
• Support. No other Oshawa in the world, as far as I know. Bearcat (talk) 13:53, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
• Support as per nom. DoubleBlue (Talk) 14:54, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Nicknames define towns/cities

Many small towns/cities have nicknames which the locals and neighboring communities know it by.
Furthermore, these nicknames define a town/city as a unique place.

Oshawa has a few nicknames:

The Shwa (most commonly used by locals)

The Motor City (debatable as Detroit clearly holds this title)

The Schwiggity

Durham College in Port Hope - debatable

According to the article on Durham College, this college has a separate campus in Port Hope, in Northumberland County. I have a map of all of the town of Port Hope, and can find no Durham College on it, and I have not heard of a Port Hope campus. I doubt this information as the town is in Northumberland County, not Durham Regional Municipality. There is a chance, however, that the campus is very old, and was established before the creation of Durham R.M., at the time of Durham County. (Durham R.M. was created in the early 1980s, I believe.) Can anyone answer this question? --User:Crustaceanguy, June 29, 2009

It's right downtown... a Map won't show you that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.252.146.46 (talk) 16:04, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Communities of Oshawa

If an IP address can come onto a wikipedia page and delete an entire, well-researched section of the article on the basis that it isn't referenced (because the references didn't make it through an article overhaul some months back) without any prior warning (i.e. this section needs references--you can help!), and no one does anything, I quit. (NorthernFalcon (talk) 22:10, 3 November 2009 (UTC))

Oshawott Vandalism

People are vandalising this page by putting references to Oshawott, a Pokemon, in this page. Can someone do something about this please? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.3.15.161 (talk) 19:37, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Oshawa--19th century name change.

"Around 1760, the French constructed a trading post near the harbour location; this was abandoned after a few years, but its ruins provided shelter for the first residents of what later became Oshawa. Most notably, one of the fur traders was Moody Farewell, an early resident of the community who was to some extent responsible for its name change." Quote from Wikipedia article, History section, 9 Jun 2012.

What was Oshawa named before? Can't seem to find it in the article. Oldontarian (talk) 09:27, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

The City of Oshawa official history reports that "Oshawa" was the first name for the village, decided upon by the need to have the post office named.

In 1842, the inhabitants of the area applied to the Government for the establishment of a post office in the settlement. The application was granted but a name had to be chosen for the post office. After several meetings, the consensus was that the name Sydenham, by which the wharf was known, would be acceptable. Two visiting Indians were asked for their opinion of this name. They suggested the Indian name "Oshawa", the literal translation of which is "that point at the crossing of the stream where the canoe was exchanged for the trail". This suggestion was immediately accepted. In 1850, Oshawa was incorporated as a village with a population of approximately 2,000. In January of 1879, Oshawa's status was changed from a village to a town; at this time, Oshawa's population was 3,992.

http://www.oshawa.ca/tourism/history3.asp

Motto: Prepare to be amazed

A recent edit removed this motto and asked for a reference. I have undid the edit and added the City of Oshawa homepage as reference. The City of Oshawa home page is given elsewhere in the infobox. The giving of an additional reference is not necessary, really. Also, the motto placement in the infobox is too prominent, IMO. Perhaps we can get permission from the city to display their official logo? DonaldRichardSands (talk) 23:12, 6 October 2012 (UTC)

Councillor Nester Pidwerbecki

Hey guys, I guess Oshawa's Councillor Nester Pidwerbecki must be born in 1936 or something. Do you think I am correct somehow? Which city in Ontario was he born in before he moved to Oshawa? Can you guys make a page for Nester Pidwerbecki who's the oldest of the councillor of Oshawa? Later this year, he'll be 81 by the way — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.30.132.255 (talk) 21:30, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

I'm not to sure he is notable enough. z'L3X1 (distænt write) 02:13, 26 November 2017 (UTC) please ping me

Excessive crime ignored in the article

Oshawa has had a massive crime problem ever since the GM plant scaled down some years ago, and is only set to get worse now that the GM plant has shut down entirely. Why isn’t the downturn of the city mentioned at all in this article? It’s pretty stongly tied to Oshawa’s reputation in Southern Ontario. This article reads like revisionism. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.68.118.183 (talk) 14:14, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

Recognition as "automotive capital of Canada" is disputed

Various articles [1][2] (ironically, including the relevant Wikipedia article) describe Windsor itself or the Windsor-Essex region more broadly as "automotive capital of Canada." Additionally, the cited article's Web Archive link seems to display nothing, which may make it valuable to revisit this claim. 2806:2F0:9300:773D:5C3D:8989:15CF:7F9 (talk) 20:52, 8 November 2023 (UTC)