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Welcome to the discussion page of WikiProject Canada Discussion du Projet:Canada (Français) General info Main page (Templates) Discussion board (Deletions) Notice board (Alerts - Log) Featured content Vital articles Portal Members (Userboxes) Help & tools All project pages Announcements Article requests Articles to improve Cleanup listing Unreferenced BLPs New articles Popular pages Photographs requests Map requests Assessment log, stats, index Guidelines Manual of Style Manual of Style (Canada-related articles) Templates Project banner Infoboxes Stubs References Project category All WP:CA related pages Collaborators Education program Wikimedia Canada Commons Canada Project Future-class See also: Template talk:WikiProject Canada/Archive 2 § class=Future, and Wikipedia talk:Canadian Wikipedians' notice board/Archive 30 § Project-independent quality assessments Hello project members! Note that per WP:PIQA, all the class ratings are being harmonised across different WikiProjects so we would need to remove any non-standard classes like Future-class from your project banner. Would you like to keep track of future events in a different way, perhaps by using a parameter |future=yes which would then populate a category. Alternatively it could just be removed and then the articles in Category:Future-Class Canada-related articles would inherit the quality rating from other projects on the talk page. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 14:38, 9 October 2023 (UTC) Future-class has now been removed — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:34, 17 October 2023 (UTC) Requested move at Talk:Yaroslav Hunka#Requested move 3 October 2023 There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Yaroslav Hunka#Requested move 3 October 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. — MaterialWorks 19:52, 10 October 2023 (UTC) Indigenous history and treaty governance reference in geographic articles New editor so apologies if this note is in the wrong place or asks an overly obvious question. I started to edit a page for a lake in Ontario (Lake Joseph) that mentions the current uses and users, and the associations organized to represent the interests of the shoreline residents. It seems to me that there should also be some recognition that the land and waters have an indigenous history and traditional indigenous uses, and that the lands and waters are still governed today by multiple treaties with First Nations. I think that could be accomplished in a couple of sentences, and would provide more context for a reader regarding the lake in question. Is there a standard approach to this question or guidance for editors for how to reflect the indigenous information overlay to benefit the reader? WalkingUp (talk) 23:14, 16 October 2023 (UTC) So far as I know, there's no standard format. You could take a look at the articles on other lakes to see how the issue has been handled. For instance, check out the "Human history" section of Lake Ontario. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 23:23, 16 October 2023 (UTC) That's a very helpful model - thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by WalkingUp (talk • contribs) 23:36, 16 October 2023 (UTC) Wikimedia Canada is hiring a Program Officer Hello Canadian Wikipedians! Wikimedia Canada is hiring a Program Officer. The person will be responsible for implementing various programs identified by the organization: WikiClubs, Francophonie, Indigenous Culture and Knowledge, High-Impact Topics, Collective for Free Knowledge, and Research and Development. If you are interest, please find more info on our website. Deadline to apply: Oct. 29 - 5pm EST Bonjour les Wikipédiens canadiens ! Wikimédia Canada recrute une Chargée / un Chargé de programmes. La personne travaillera à la mise en œuvre de divers programmes identifiés par l'organisation : WikiClubs, Francophonie, Culture et savoirs autochtones, Sujets à fort impact, Collectif pour la connaissance libre, et Recherche et développement. Vous pouvez trouver plus d'informations sur notre site web. Date limite de candidature : 29 octobre - 17h EST SophieWMCA (talk) 13:17, 20 October 2023 (UTC) Finish the series {{Canadian premiers, 1850s}} through {{Canadian premiers, 2020s}} Hello, I began the timeline series of all Canadian federal/provincial premiers, and all the top-level viceroys, starting with {{Canadian premiers, 1850s}} and continuing onwards sporadically. Anyone who finishes the series (which currently also has entries for the 1920s, the 1930s, and the 2000s) within a timely manner will receive a barnstar. (Also ideal would be the extension of the series with {{Canadian viceroys, 1920s}}.) Thanks, – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 21:47, 20 October 2023 (UTC) 2023 PEI general election Hello. Are the results of the 2023 Prince Edward Island general election, now official? Just curious, as I'm planning on removing the 'preliminary' bits from the current MLAs' bios. GoodDay (talk) 19:10, 22 October 2023 (UTC) The Elections Prince Edward Island site lists Official Results; I haven't checked whether they match the Wiki article. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 20:14, 22 October 2023 (UTC) Somebody should certainly double-check the results listed in our articles against the official certified results to ensure that they match, but obviously an election that took place six months ago has had its results certified and officialized by now — that virtually always takes place within a couple of weeks, and the preliminary tag is because we tend to fill in the tables based on the unofficial media reportage on election day and aren't always prompt about checking them against the final numbers. Bearcat (talk) 15:15, 31 October 2023 (UTC) I've written down the official numbers from the Elections PEI website. Will begin implementing them, later today. GoodDay (talk) 15:42, 31 October 2023 (UTC) Implementation on templates-in-question, have been completed. GoodDay (talk) 16:37, 31 October 2023 (UTC) Nomination for deletion of Template:CanLawCase Template:CanLawCase has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. -- 65.92.244.127 (talk) 21:38, 22 October 2023 (UTC) About adding additional place name units/areas Greetings. I have a curious question. Is it somehow possible to add certain populated places or place name units/areas (depending on an article active on a current or former local level municipality within Ontario? For instance, the only source by far I could find is this: https://www23.statcan.gc.ca/imdb/p3VD.pl?Function=getVD&TVD=1346772&CVD=1346785&CPV=35&CST=01012021&CLV=2&MLV=4 It's from Statistics Canada. On there, the viewer can click on the 'SGC Code' link to take him/her to the assigned province(s), then to click on either of their assigned 'census divisions' (i.e.: counties or regional municipalities, etc.) and then to click on either of their assigned 'census subdivisions' (i.e.: municipalities, present-day townships, etc.). And once he/she clicks on a census subdivision's code, that could share some place names of the populated places associated with that census subdivision. Any thoughts or advice or feedback, etc.? Please lemme know when you can. jlog3000 (talk) 22:30, 26 October 2023 (UTC) I'm confused, and not at all clear on what you mean. Could you please be more specific about what you want to add to what, in what context? Bearcat (talk) 15:12, 31 October 2023 (UTC) Requested move at Talk:Wabasca, Alberta#Requested move 19 October 2023 There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Wabasca, Alberta#Requested move 19 October 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. estar8806 (talk) ★ 17:58, 27 October 2023 (UTC) FAR for Harold Innis I have nominated Harold Innis for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Z1720 (talk) 01:28, 6 November 2023 (UTC) Upcoming meetup Further information will be available at Wikipedia:Meetup/Toronto/Wikipedia Day 2024. Hopefully I'll get to meet more of my fellow Canadians :) Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 23:58, 12 November 2023 (UTC) PEI legislative assembly page, needs updating Howdy. Does anyone know how to update the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island page's - Members of the Legislative Assembly, Seating plan & Party standings sections? Jamie Fox resigned as a Progressive Conservative MLA, effective 11 November 2023 & so updates are required. GoodDay (talk) 02:05, 17 November 2023 (UTC) I've updated them successfully, accept for the Seating plan map. GoodDay (talk) 20:11, 17 November 2023 (UTC) Meetup/edit-athon in Ottawa Hello folks, the Rideau Rockcliffe Community Resource Centre in Ottawa has reached out to me to run an edit-athon/ Wiki tutorial on December 2. If anyone is interested in attending or would like to help me out, please sign up at Wikipedia:Meetup/Ottawa/Edit-athon 2023 or on their eventbrite page. Cheers! -- Earl Andrew - talk 18:33, 20 November 2023 (UTC) Looking to replace promotional content in Canada Goose article Hello! I'm a Canada Goose employee working as a COI editor to improve the company's article. This WikiProject being the go-to place for all things Canada, I figured I would stop by and ask for help. On the Goose Talk page, I've asked editors to review a new Products section that I have drafted. The purpose of this new section is to strengthen the article by providing concrete details about the goods that Canada Goose manufactures and sells. I'm thinking this section should replace the existing Marketing one, which has a lot of fluff about the company's branding that probably doesn't belong in an encyclopedia article. The Goose article has a "written like an advertisement" tag at the top, and I believe that cutting the Marketing section will at least begin to fix that problem. If anyone here would like to take a look at my Products draft, please use this link to view my Talk page post. If anyone has feedback, you can contact me below this post or take the discussion to the Goose Talk page. Thank you Canada Goose Isabella (talk) 16:47, 21 November 2023 (UTC) So you're getting paid to edit here, and you want us to help you do your job for free? Have I got that right? Hey, I get paid at my job, but I never expect people to come help me do my job for free. No thanks. I will, however, now start monitoring that article to make sure it remains NPOV and no trade puffery on behalf of your employer's marketing plans. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 16:58, 21 November 2023 (UTC) User:Mr Serjeant Buzfuz, thanks for replying. To be clear, I'm following the site's conflict of interest guidelines, which forbid me from directly editing the Canada Goose article. Those guidelines also stipulate that I'm supposed to suggest changes on the Goose Talk page and then let independent editors decide whether my suggestions are worthy of being implemented. So in short, yes, I do need help from volunteers. I completely understand if you don't want to provide that help. Please don't feel like I'm putting you or anyone else at this WP under obligation. My post above is simply a flare for editors who may be interested in working on the Goose article, which has been designated as in need of improvement. Again, I appreciate your concern. I hope you understand where I'm coming from, and that I'm trying to go about this whole thing the right way. Cheers! Canada Goose Isabella (talk) 15:11, 29 November 2023 (UTC) Source for old election data A while ago, I had moved a lot of election date into templates. Such as moving this to templates such as this. I was asked for sources of data. Where do I find them? </nowiki>Ebbedlila (talk) 20:02, 21 November 2023 (UTC) Also, how does one add references to a template? to avoid this type of edit? Ebbedlila (talk) 20:05, 21 November 2023 (UTC) Hey, there are a few sources for historical election results depending on the jurisdiction. A general source for provincial governments is the Canadian Election Database (https://canadianelectionsdatabase.ca/PHASE5/) created by Anthony Sayers of the University of Calgary. For federal elections, the Library of Parliament has a database with the results of each election by electoral district (https://lop.parl.ca/sites/ParlInfo/default/en_CA/ElectionsRidings/Elections?permalink=1243). For more recent elections (generally post 1980s) there will be official reports of the federal or provincial chief electoral officer (federal, BC) and some provinces have published historical materials (Nova Scotia, Electoral history of British Columbia, 1871-1986, Centennial series (Legislative Assembly of Alberta), 1869-2005: A century of democracy). For how to incorporate the source in the template, there is a source element for Template:Canadian election result (e.g., template:canelec) with "CANelec/source|hide=". An example you may look at is Template:2019 Alberta general election/Calgary-Buffalo which has a Elections Alberta source for results both digital and PDF report, and a source for expenditures. Hope this helps. Caddyshack01 (talk) 20:45, 21 November 2023 (UTC) Elections Canada has everything after 1996; that should be a good enough source for vote totals and names. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 21:54, 21 November 2023 (UTC) Government of Canada I see now that New Zealand Government, Australian Government & Government of the United Kingdom have updated infoboxes. Perhaps it's time for the infobox at Government of Canada to likewise be updated. Note, the 11 other Commonwealth realms don't have governemt pages. GoodDay (talk) 00:15, 27 November 2023 (UTC) Updated how? It would help if you would specify what needs updating. Bearcat (talk) 01:10, 30 November 2023 (UTC) The newer infoboxes are more stream-lined, smaller. New Zealand, Australia & the United Kingdom are using the "Template:Infobox executive government" style, while Canada is using the "Template:Infobox government" style. GoodDay (talk) 02:03, 30 November 2023 (UTC) Requested move at Talk:Royal standards of Canada#Requested move 21 November 2023 There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Royal standards of Canada#Requested move 21 November 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 16:32, 29 November 2023 (UTC) Rene Levesque's nationality There's a dispute at the Rene Levesque page, as to whether he was a Canadian politician. GoodDay (talk) 07:04, 1 December 2023 (UTC) I think it's safe to say that this is a mis-characterization of the dispute. But more input is certainly required. Newimpartial (talk) 19:51, 4 December 2023 (UTC) As I mentioned there. I'll be opening an RFC 'here', if the content dispute is still ongoing, in about a week's time. GoodDay (talk) 19:53, 4 December 2023 (UTC) We really do need more input. GoodDay (talk) 04:28, 2 December 2023 (UTC) Currency There is a discussion at Template talk:Currency#Canadian dollar doesn't match 4217 style about whether the Canadian currency should be displayed as CA$, Can$, CAD or something else when used in an international context (ie, when it could be confused with the US dollar, Australian dollar, etc). Please comment there, not here.  Stepho  talk  22:38, 1 December 2023 (UTC) Discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Langley City Centre station  You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Langley City Centre station. Joeyconnick (talk) 06:50, 2 December 2023 (UTC)