Wikipedia:WikiProject Nova Scotia

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Nova Scotia. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

The current focus of development is the Cape Breton Regional Municipality.

Goals
This WikiProject's main goals are:
 * 1) Concise and detailed articles about every notable subject relating to Nova Scotia.
 * 2) Optimal topics navigation, including full coverage in Wikipedia's navigation subsystems (outlines, lists, categories, etc.), and relevant links between Nova Scotia articles, including pertinent side bars and navigation boxes.
 * 3) High quality and comprehensive coverage for all counties, towns, and incorporated municipalities in Nova Scotia, as well as related sub or specialty pages.
 * 4) Nova Scotia articles of Featured Article (FA) status.

Tips
'''To get an article to featured article status, make sure to follow these steps to ensure all articles we submit to Featured article candidates meet the FA criteria. All of these apply to almost any good article, so keep them in mind when editing even outside of Nova Scotia articles. The suggestions are:'''

Structure
This section is about the structure of Wikipedia's overall coverage of Nova Scotia throughout its pages and links.

Navigation structure
Top-level Nova Scotia navigation pages include:
 * Nova Scotia (includes infobox and navigation boxes)
 * Outline of Nova Scotia
 * Category:Nova Scotia

Other pieces of the navigation system include:
 * Nova Scotia-related lists
 * Nova Scotia templates
 * Infoboxes on Nova Scotia-related articles
 * See also sections of Nova Scotia-related articles
 * Outlines of counties, cities, etc. (not yet created)
 * Nova Scotia category pages

Articles
See also: Naming conventions

Following Wikipedia standard, article titles should relate to the best-known name in most cases. It has become standard that communities and place names in Canada be followed by the name of the Province, thus Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia. Redirects should be created for commonly used nicknames, and for place names without the province following the name, where possible.

Structure

County Pages

Articles for Nova Scotia Counties need to have the following:
 * Inclusion or upgrade to NS Counties sidebar template.
 * Removal of county direction finder at bottom of page, in lieu of adjacent county section of template.
 * Inclusion of data from Statistics Canada
 * Check the Stats Canada Webpage for correct household income (most data currently on page is actually average individual income).

Town/Municipality Pages

Articles for Nova Scotia Towns/Municipalities need to have the following:
 * Inclusion or upgrade Infobox Settlement template.
 * Inclusion of data from Statistics Canada where available.

Format Here is one suggestion on how to begin:


 * Sherose Island (43º32'00"N, 65º35'57"W) is a small Canadian island located off the South Shore of Nova Scotia.


 * The island is located in the Barrington Passage, a small strait in Shelburne County and measures approximately 2 km long and 0.5 km wide. It is connected to mainland Nova Scotia by a short causeway.

If you are only able to get a few details for a particular article, please add the appropriate stub at the bottom of the page.

Ensure that appropriate county and HRM community categories are added, as detailed below.

Meetups
None pending.

Past meetups
 * Meetup/Halifax/ArtAndFeminism/NSCAD (March 7, 2015)
 * Meetup/Halifax/Keshen Goodman editathon (March 19, 2016)
 * Meetup/Pier21 (April 2, 2016)

Hierarchy definition
No classification of this project has been defined.

Requested images

 * (none at the moment)

Images without articles
Images of buildings in Nova Scotia which do not yet have articles, but potentially could.

Online

 * NovaStory - a partnership between NS libraries and communities
 * The Atlas of Canada - Toporama
 * NS Open Data Portal
 * NS civic address locator
 * NS Electoral District Information
 * Members of the NS Legislative Assembly
 * NS 2013 election results
 * Nova Scotia archives
 * NS Historical Newspapers
 * NS community museums digitized
 * History NS county boundaries
 * NS Interactive Maps & Apps
 * Protected areas map
 * 2016 census search
 * Category:Lists of historic places in Nova Scotia
 * List of designated places in Nova Scotia

Infoboxes
All settlements in Nova Scotia should use Infobox settlement. This infobox provides a consistent look between the various types settlements in Nova Scotia and settlements in the other parts of Canada like Toronto, Montreal, St. John's, and Edmonton. The default "settlement_type" is city, but it can be changed to reflect any type of settlement, like counties, towns, villages, etc. Infobox Settlement also has a super imposable dot map feature that allows a map to be used with any settlement in Nova Scotia. Click on the examples below for different types of usage.

For use with the Counties of Nova Scotia
 * Example: Lunenburg County

For use with the Towns in Nova Scotia
 * Example: Lockeport (also see the example to the right)

For use with the Villages of Nova Scotia
 * Example: Havre Boucher

For use with the Communities - Areas of HRM
 * Example: Dartmouth, Nova Scotia

Navigation boxes
Politics of Nova Scotia
 * Nova_Scotia_politics

Subdivisions of Nova Scotia
 * Subdivisions of Nova Scotia

Stub templates

 * Basic stub - NovaScotia-stub


 * County/Municipality stub - HalifaxNS-geo-stub


 * Geography stub - NovaScotia-geo-stub

Talk page template
The tag should be added to the top of the talk page of all articles maintained by this WikiProject.

Adjacent communities
The template Geographic Location (8-way) should be added to each community for easier navigation.

Categories

 * Category:Nova Scotia
 * Category:Halifax, Nova Scotia
 * Category:History of Nova Scotia
 * Category:Conflicts in Nova Scotia

Useful tools

 * Main tool page: toolserver.org


 * Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
 * Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
 * Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
 * Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.