Wikipedia:Canada collaboration/Toronto

Toronto

As the country's most populous city, I believe it should have the status of Featured Article, and with all the pontential help the article would receive-with all the cities inhabitants and experts-it could be improved to be of the very best Wikipedia has to offer. Furthermore, being such an international city, Toronto is researched and known all over the world. Therefore, upgrading its quality to that of Featured Articles would not only benefit Canadians in their knowledge of the metropolis, but would also better reveal more comprehensive and exhaustive knowledge to the world.
(vote or comment)

Support:

1. Tom H. 05:41, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
2. S-Ranger 21:06, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
3. Qyd 01:09, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
4. Natkeeran 15:52, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
5. Spookane 11:14, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
6. Blackjays 22:16, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Comments:

I realize I posted this candidate very late, so if it does not become the collaboration of the month of September, I hope it could be for the month of October. Tom H.

• The Toronto article is already pretty extensive. What would you suggest needs to be done to it in order to bring it up to FA status? Captmondo 10:05, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

• Someone who knows how should just nominate it now, I think it would probably be approved as a featured article in its current state. Deet 02:46, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
• It's far from FA status, it requires a lot of cleanup. It probably is ready for Peer review (and it needs that). CCOM would be an intermediate step. --Qyd 01:09, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

There is a great deal of information about the City of Toronto that is not in the article due to the difficulty of finding free, public domain sources. The Toronto Board of Trade, many entities know much about the economy of Toronto (including its GDP, its contribution to Ontario and Canada in revenues generated; and plundered) and it needs to be on the page in the Economics and Politics sections, IMO. Population, rather vague descriptions of very significant industries in Toronto that affect NAFTA let alone the province and country, simply are not made clear in this article due to lack of participation by entities that hold copyrights and other restrictions and/or do not state the facts clearly and with verifiability, should be involved.

How else to get them to participate other than politely lobbying them, en masse, and adding incentives for them (how many hits does this article get per month?) is beyond me. I have tried and they are not interested -- as yet. --S-Ranger 21:16, 28 September 2006 (UTC)