Wikipedia:Canadian Wikipedians' notice board

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This page is a notice board for things particularly relevant to Canadian Wikipedians or Wikipedians interested in Canada. Add any Canadian related articles in the appropriate list or sublist. Create a new sublist if an appropriate one does not exist yet. Please remove articles from this notice board once they have been dealt with appropriately.


 * Discussion - Projects main talk page, where discussion about Canadian related Wikipedia matters take place.

Useful links

 * Quebec Wikipedians' noticeboard
 * Canada Education Program - Part of the Wikimedia Foundation's Global Education Program.'
 * Wikimedia Canada - The Canadian chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation.


 * WPCanada automated pages
 * Article alerts - Listing of deletions, featured & good article candidates, requests for comments, peer reviews and move requests.
 * Article log - Listing of "Moved (renamed)" articles and recent assessments.
 * Cleanup listing - List of articles that have multiple maintenance/cleanup tags
 * Unreferenced BLPs - Articles of living Canadians with no references. See BLPs
 * New articles - Newly made articles that may need project tag and/or assessment
 * Popular pages - Listing of the most viewed pages that should be improved (if need be) and watched over closely for vandalism.
 * WPCanada user generated pages
 * Requested articles- Articles requested to be created.
 * Articles to improve - Articles that need to be expanded or cleaned up in some way.
 * Members - List of Wikipedians, including admins (with locations) who frequent the Canadian notice boards and a list of Canadian meet-ups. See also Main "WPCanada" members list (no locations)
 * Policies and guidelines
 * Manual of Style - Summary of current conventions and writing styles for Canadian articles.

Current events/topical articles

 * Unistʼotʼen Camp
 * Catherine Galliford (currently a stub article) is the RCMP corporal who has brought forward allegations of extensive sexual harassment within the RCMP, and is now set to testify against the RCMP, on behalf of Pickton's victims and their families, at the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry.

Requests for peer review
The Manitoba Law Journal

Featured content candidates

 * Featured articles


 * Featured lists
 * List of municipalities in Nova Scotia (see FLC discussion)


 * Featured pictures


 * Featured sounds

Did you know section candidates
''Please link new candidates for Wikipedia's Did You Know section towards the top of the list, starting with the most recent article created/expanded date first. See Template talk:Did you know for current article nominations. Expansion and cleanup of candidate articles is also encouraged. Please add nominated or featured Did You Know? articles to the Did You Know?'' section of the Canadian Portal.

Candidates for deletion
''Please add new entries to the top of the list. See also WikiProject Deletion sorting/Canada.''

Requested moves, mergers and splits
Please add new requests to the top of the list. Please link to a discussion of the requested move on the relevant talk page


 * Courtneypark Library to Mississauga Library System (discussion)
 * Economic policy of the Stephen Harper government and Environmental policy of the Stephen Harper government merge into Domestic policy of the Stephen Harper government (discussion)

Cleanup projects

 * Elections Nunavut - Really needs sources added!
 * Das Echo - didn't tag it yet, but needs cleanup for refimprove and also clumsy language, evidently German idioms translated straight across; I'm wondering if it's an adaptation of the German Wikipedia article, though I haven't looked at that yet and my German's not good enough to analyze it that way. Has a bit of POV and peacock in it too.
 * Tara Teng - grossly overwritten and UNDUE, promotional, peacock, trivia and more; removing Crime, Sex Worker and other extraneous wikiprojects. Very much a "fan" article by its principal author.
 * Potlatch Ban - I've created the missing Potlatch Law, Anti-Potlatch Law...Reason this is here is that it's just a start, and there are a-stylistic caps and other issues, including no mention of the 1922 revisions to the law which made it more severe. Athabaskan Potlatch is a newer article, something of a POV fork (though OMR who created the first one admits it's mostly Kwakwaka'wakw in information; potlatching in different peoples was different, especially in the Interior), and full of bad geography/history but earnest, also in need of cleanup; both need expansion and more citations/further reading.  Placed IPNA and WPCAN templates, high importance on the first WP, mid on WPCAN, and history/politics/bc switches.  It's also an orphan, with only two or three articles linking to it, yet I know it's mentioned in other aboriginal history politics articles, just not linked there.
 * WikiProject Canada/Vital Canadian articles - Looking for a project? Notwithstanding the importance of the subjects, many of the articles on this list are in dire need of improvement.
 * Television in Canada looks like it may need a lot of work. Although I haven't read the whole article, so I don't know if it even deserves all those maintenance tags, but there's a lot of them. Anti-Quebec sentiment is pretty tagged-up as well. -- &oelig; &trade; 18:51, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Downtown Eastside - has cleanup tag already; rambling, mixed content, "article bloat", and the "organizations" section though in text comes off like a directory/commentary....and Chinatown/Gastown/Japantown content is jumbled up with content on what the common usage of the term means (vs. the city designation, which isn't just Hastings). Needs a chainsaw and de-directoryfying.Skookum1 (talk) 08:04, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
 * East Vancouver - added cleanup tag .... lots of uncited claims/statements, jumbled logic, unlinked linkables, rambling content, needs some de-POVing/editorializing.Skookum1 (talk) 02:07, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I made some expansions this morning by copying over material and refs from Wilson's article; issue remains whether it should be "Judi Tyabji" or by her current married name "Judi Tyabji Wilson"....still needs improvements, see talkpage.Skookum1 (talk) 20:43, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Articles in Category:Nuu-chah-nulth need cleanup after non-MOS expansion.
 * Dockside Green - sustainable development in Victoria, needs a lot of work.  Sources have been identified on the talk page, but have not been implemented in the article. See Talk:Dockside Green.
 * Canadian wikipedians' notice board/Cities - Per WP:NC, an incomplete review of which cities in Canada do or don't merit moves to their undisambiguated city names.
 * Canadian wikipedians' notice board/Missing municipalities - A list of incorporated municipalities in Canada which do not currently have articles. Note that at the present time, this project is only for incorporated municipalities, not unincorporated communities or neighbourhoods.
 * Canadian wikipedians' notice board/Missing Indian reserves - A list of Indian reserves in Canada which do not currently have articles.
 * Category:Canada articles missing geocoordinate data - Follow the instructions at Template:Coord to add co-ordinates to these articles.
 * Category:Unassessed Canada-related articles contains unassessed articles which should be updated with valid entries for class and importance parameters on the talk page WikiProject header.
 * I've updated the how to fix backlog banner to point to the Canadian /Assessment page not the WP Assessment. Also added the assessbacklog banner for those interested in this part of the cleanup and for the Walterbot cleanup list. Argolin (talk) 01:00, 6 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Cannabis in Canada Peter K Burian (talk) 00:09, 17 January 2017 (UTC)
 * I have done a lot of work on the cannabis article, but mostly edits and new content in the Legalization and Commodity sections. This article was written long ago, years before the Federal Government announced that it would be legalized. So, there is still a ton of content on old court decisions, for example. IMHO, these could still be mentioned as part of the history of cannabis, but do we need so much space devoted to them? Peter K Burian (talk) 00:09, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

Requests for comment
''Please add new requests to the top of the list. Please keep debates on the relevant talk page, and only use this section for a concise neutral description of the issue.''
 * Talk:Buffy Sainte-Marie - Discussion of how/where to place indigenous identity issue in the lead. --Rob (talk) 05:36, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

Requests for images
General requests for images: Wikipedia requested photographs in Canada
 * Margaret Trudeau
 * Guelph City Hall (the new one built in 2009, not the historic one which is now a courthouse)
 * Gerry Reid
 * Joan Russow
 * Alice Munro
 * Garden Island, Ontario

Requests for assessment

 * Live assessment requests are located here.


 * Canadian Freelance Union I have extended the entry to make it clearer what the union is up to, and have added citations. I will be adding a bit of a history-to-date section. Would like to remove the "stub" rating if possible.
 * ✅ Sixula (talk) 17:58, 20 September 2020 (UTC)

member of Parliament (sic)
I see various articles where the title of an MP is given as "member of Parliament", which makes no sense. If we are capitalizing proper nouns then write "Member of Parliament". If we are not capitalizing proper nouns then write "member of parliament" but what is the logic of capitalizing one word in member of parliament but not the other? 199.7.157.44 (talk) 23:48, 1 October 2022 (UTC)
 * The logic there is that Parliament is considered the proper name of an institution, and is therefore capitalized. Analogous constructions would be "citizen of Jamaica" or "headmaster of Hogwarts". Indefatigable (talk) 00:33, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
 * See MOS:JOBTITLES. Parliament is a proper noun, "member" is not. So unless we are using it as a (very long, non-modified) title before someone's name, e.g. "...the speech was given by Member of Parliament Chan", then it is not capitalized at Wikipedia. —Joeyconnick (talk) 18:53, 6 November 2022 (UTC)
 * So members of the House of Commons should be using the postnomials mP instead of MP? I put it to you that Member of Parliament is a proper (compound) noun. And reading MOS:JOBTITLES it would appear one should write: "Jim Peterson was Member of Parliament for Willowdale" as long as you don't use an article before "Member".Wellington Bay (talk) 23:22, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
 * No... acronyms are by convention allcaps... that doesn't mean each of their constituent words are. Do not apply initial capitals—or any other form of emphasis—in a full term that is a common-noun phrase just because capitals are used in its abbreviation from MOS:EXPABBR. —Joeyconnick (talk) 18:25, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

Donnelly Massacre
Would it be appropriate to include the event of February 4, 1880 in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_events_named_massacres#Before_or_in_1945 list? Although there is not a Wikipedia article per se, it is well-covered/referenced in the Black Donnellys article.  Aloha27  talk  13:46, 15 October 2022 (UTC)
 * I think so. You can link directly to the section of the article.  Regards,  PK  T (alk)  15:35, 15 October 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ Thanks!  Aloha27  talk  19:06, 15 October 2022 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Transportation in Canada § Requested move 14 February 2023
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Transportation in Canada § Requested move 14 February 2023. Joeyconnick (talk) 01:34, 15 February 2023 (UTC)