Talk:Outline of Canada

What does this list need?
This new list is still under development. Please take a look. If you spot anything that's missing, or can see ways it can or should be improved, please let us know here.

The Transhumanist 00:30, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

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Major rename proposal of certain "lists" to "outlines"
See Village pump (proposals).

The Transhumanist 00:30, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Rename proposal for this page and all the pages of the set this page belongs to
See the proposal at the Village pump

The Transhumanist 09:03, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Tips for developing country outlines
Instructions for developing country outlines is located at Outlines (while that section is complete, the page is a draft, and will be moved to the Wikipedia namespace when completed). The Transhumanist 21:45, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

A note concerning redlinks...
Many of the entries (and their links) are standard across all of the country outlines, to aid readers, especially young readers, in comparing countries to each other.

So if this country doesn't have any of a particular entry, like navies, please don't delete the entry. Instead, complete it with "none" (and a brief explanation as to why, for example, "- x is a landlocked country with no ports"). If the explanation exists in an article on Wikipedia, then click on the redlink and create a redirect to that location. See Redirect, WP:Section linking, and Help:Section.

Standard redlinks (article names) were also chosen based on how country coverage tipically expands. This makes the standard names for these subtopics widely available and easily accessible. So please do not remove those redlinks, for they will turn blue eventually. In the meantime, they can be redirected to the section of whatever article has the relevant information, if any. See Redirect, WP:Section linking, and Help:Section.

Thank you.

The Transhumanist 21:45, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

P.S.: To discuss the standard design of the country outlines, or of outlines in general, do so on the Outline of knowledge WikiProject talk page.

Guidelines for outlines
Guidelines for the development of outlines are being drafted at Outlines.

Your input and feedback is welcomed and encouraged.

The Transhumanist 21:45, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Please check and fix the government section
The government section needs to be checked for accuracy. The initial data placed in the government branches sections was generated by template, and the data didn't fit all countries.

So those sections need to be looked over, and fixed if needed.

Please help.

Thank you.

The Transhumanist 21:45, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

P.S.: If you'd like to help out with other tasks concerning Wikipedia's Outline of knowledge, please drop me a note on my talk page.


 * Please see my changes to the Government section on the BC Outline....(use edit history to see what I changed).Skookum1 (talk) 02:25, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Overlooking Pacific/Western Canada history
The second paragraph of the lede does what is usual in histories of Canada; ignoring the colonization and acquisition of the West; I'm not so much concerned about Rupert's Land, though it's certainly noteworthy enough to get a plug in that paragraph, so much as what could be inserted just after:
 * ''France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763 after the Seven Years War.

Which might go (and I'm too prolix to want to insert it):
 * ''On the Pacific Coast, imperial rivalry between Russia, Spain, the United States and Britain resulted via a series of treaties and border disputes in the consolidation of the Colony of British Columbia by 1866.

BC was created and explored separately and this shouldn't be glossed over. An old gripe, I know, but a valid one. The nitty-gritty are the establishment of the 140th Meridian (Alaska-Yukon border north of Mt St Elias) in 1825 (?) and the 49th Parallel in 1846; there's fussier stuff about BC getting and also losing chunks of teh North-Western Territory and getting screwed out of a big chunk of the Panhandle becaus of Ottawa's and London's indifference in teh wake of the Alaska Purchase, but that happened in 1898 so is out of "timeflow"/continuity in the position in the paragraph and is too complicated to bring up for an outline (if you're interested see the map with the green line on Talk:Alaska boundary dispute....Skookum1 (talk) 02:25, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Canada a federation or a confederation?
Under the "Geography of Canada" heading, Canada is listed here as a confederation. However, according to the pages for both confederation and Canadian Confederation, Canada is a not a confederation, but rather a federation -- an unusually decentralized federation, but a true federation nonetheless. Though "Confederation" is a commonly used term for both the event of formation of Canada and the collection of provinces and territories which comprise it (hence new provinces are described as "joining/entering Confederation", it's a misnomer as far as the more common definition of confederation is concerned. Should this be changed accordingly? Lambda(T) (talk) 00:03, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

Since I don't hear any objections to this, I'm going to go ahead and make this change. Lambda(T) (talk) 02:11, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

Quick explanation of Wikipedia outlines
"Outline" is short for "hierarchical outline". There are two types of outlines: sentence outlines (like those you made in school to plan a paper), and topic outlines (like the topical synopses that professors hand out at the beginning of a college course). Outlines on Wikipedia are primarily topic outlines that serve 2 main purposes: they provide taxonomical classification of subjects showing what topics belong to a subject and how they are related to each other (via their placement in the tree structure), and as subject-based tables of contents linked to topics in the encyclopedia. The hierarchy is maintained through the use of heading levels and indented bullets. See Outlines for a more in-depth explanation. The Transhumanist 23:52, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

“Prior to its entry, Newfoundland was a Dominion within the British Commonwealth.”
Didn't the Dominion of Newfoundland dissolve itself due to war debt? I’m pretty sure they went right from that “colony” stage to confederation with Canada, shouldn't that be stated? As it is right now I feel as though it implies right before confederation it was a dominion. Unbeatable101 (talk) 15:14, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

Good point. Have elaborated. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 15:30, 18 May 2021 (UTC)