Wikipedia:WikiProject Political parties and politicians in Canada




 * This WikiProject is about individual political parties and politicians in Canada. For the structure of the Government of Canada, see WikiProject Governments of Canada.

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Political parties and politicians in Canada. 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.

Title
WikiProject on Political parties and politicians in Canada

Scope
The scope of this project is to create and maintain high quality articles on:
 * 1. Canadian federal, provincial, and municipal political parties;
 * 2. Canadian politicians.

Related WikiProjects

 * Electoral districts in Canada
 * Government of Canada

Discussion

 * General discussion
 * Proposals
 * Strategy

Naming conventions

 * Politicians: By regular name, such as Ralph Klein. If the name is in use, either use a middle initial, or set up John Kern (Canadian politician) and link from a disambiguation page.
 * All names should be in English.

Party colours
The colours used in tables to identify each political party are decided in accociation with WikiProject Political parties and politicians in Canada and are discussed here. The full colour list can be found at WikiProject Political parties and politicians in Canada/list of parties. Templates containing party colours can be found at Canadian party colour. To start a new line in a table with the party colour, use, where Jur is the jurisdiction (formatted in two-letter postal abbreviations). Note that all names of the historical Conservative Party and Progressive Conservative Party share the same colour, but the modern Conservative party has its own.

Assessment
Here is a list of suggested ratings of importance when tagging articles in the talk page:


 * Importance for parties
 * Top: None for this project. Top importance is reserved for articles such as Politics of Canada.
 * High: Parties that have held official party status federally or have been governments provincially
 * Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
 * Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
 * British Columbia Liberal Party
 * Mid: Some minor federal parties or parties that have held official party status provincially
 * Green Party of Canada
 * Alberta New Democratic Party
 * Communist Party of Canada
 * Low: All other provincial parties and very minor federal parties
 * Family Coalition Party of Ontario
 * Green Party of Nova Scotia
 * Canadian Union of Fascists


 * Importance for politicians
 * Top: None. The top importance is reserved for articles such as Politics of Canada.
 * High: Prime Ministers, Long-time premiers, and very important federal cabinet ministers
 * John Diefenbaker
 * Oliver Mowat
 * Mid: Other federal cabinet ministers, short-term premiers, federal party leaders, and very important provincial cabinet ministers
 * Jim Flaherty
 * Dan Miller
 * Low: Federal and provincial backbenchers, other provincial cabinet ministers

Goals

 * 1) Ensure every registered political party, past and present, has an article.
 * 2) Ensure every party leader, of a registered political party, has an article, even if they aren't elected.
 * 3) Ensure every current MP and MLA (or MPP, MNA, MHA as the case may be) has an article.

Projects

 * 1) Create articles based on red links at List of political parties in Canada.
 * 2) Expand articles listed at:
 * Category:Canadian political party stubs,
 * Category:Canadian politician stubs.

Tasks

 * 1) Add  to the top of relevant talk pages.
 * 2) Seymour Trieger - Second leader of the Green Party
 * 3) Trevor Hancock - First leader of the Green Party
 * 4) Place photos for all current MP's (at least) to their respective articles
 * 5) Place Infobox CanadianMP on all MP articles.
 * 6) Add Infobox Canadian riding to all current federal electoral districts and Infobox Canadian provincial riding to all provincial electoral districts. Some coding changes are necessary to make them useful on defunct districts, however. Review and improve formatting consistency issues between different ridings.
 * 7) Formatting improvements to Canadian federal parliaments - review and discuss proposed infobox template at CWNB/Parliament Infobox. Other changes to improve consistency may also be needed — all 39/40 Canadian parliament lists should have their member lists formatted in the same way, basic organization should be the same on all articles, etc.
 * 8) Develop similar template for all Canadian federal election articles. Again, review and improve formatting consistency issues.
 * 9) Develop similar template for byelection articles; actually adding Politics of Canada to each one is probably just overkill.
 * 10) Reformat lists in Category:Lists of Members of the Canadian House of Commons in wikitable format; List of Members of the Canadian House of Commons - Z is already done if you need a guide.
 * 11) Review redlinks in election, parliament, lists of members and "missing Canadian politicians" lists — there are numerous cases where we have three, four or five different redlinks at different name variations for the same person, and in some of these cases the person in question does already have an article.
 * 12) Not all election/parliament/legislative assembly articles currently include member lists or detailed election results. Add these whenever possible.
 * 13) An infobox is needed for Ontario census divisions.
 * 14) Creating a list of Canadian Baby of the House MPs

Adopt an article
Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and photography (where possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.
 * Example article: User:Example

Other subpages

 * List of

Stub templates
NOTE: ''Stubs are managed by the Stub-sorting WikiProject. Before creating a new stub, you should propose it at WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. See Stub for general guidelines on proposing stub templates and categories. DO NOT simply create new stub templates, as these will be deleted.''

Lists

 * List of political parties in Canada
 * List of Canadian political families
 * List of Canadian politicians who have crossed the floor
 * List of Canadian politicians who have switched parties

New Wikipedia articles related to political parties and politicians in Canada
Please feel free to list your new political parties and politicians in Canada-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.

Articles to improve

 * Pat McGeer - this and other BC cabinet minister articles need improvement, either in citations or structure, succession boxes etc.; McGeer I'm singling out because of his past as an Olympic team member as well as a highly notable scientist and science activist (if a bit off-the-wall at times), as well as being one of the more, um, colourful Social Credit Miniwac-era cabinet ministers. I'll add ref-improve for now and look around for other similar "important figure" articles to make up a "to do" area; McGeer's article is "important" because it ties into so many other political and policy/development-oriented articles/topics, such as the Strait of Georgia bridge proposal.  The reason this is being added here now is an IP user just added another mention of another award given McGeer, but without citation (though true, so I didn't revert it); certain pages like his have a lot of "amateur" input that's in need of citation; a non-politician article in similar condition is John A. Cameron.Skookum1 (talk) 23:32, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Kevin Clarke & The Peoples Political Party - Similarly to John Turmel, Kevin Clarke has been a well-known perennial candidate, at least in Ontario, for a long period of time. Clarke and his political party have rather poorly-written articles with wishy-washy citation styles. The uniqueness of Clarke and his political organization aren't captured enough in these articles, and require much improvement, not just in terms of citations, but overall writing quality. Fulserish (talk) 12:46, 20 March 2022 (UTC)

Ongoing Wikipedia surveys

 * Candidates for deletion:


 * Requested moves:
 * Requests for Comments:

Keep an eye out for...

 * Saskatchewan Party - Seems to be a magnet for POV pushers.
 * Ezra Levant - I have tried to bring balance to the human rights case stuff, which has been plagued by attempts to remove context from Mr. Levant's interest in the Marc Lemire case. There seems to be an effort by one individual to insist on pointing out that Ezra Levant has "common ground with white supremacists" while insisting on leaving out Ezra's denials to this regard, and also disallowing the substantial support from various prominent advocacy groups (which I've sourced).  All of this is being reverted carte blanche.  I have admitted to being partial to Levant's side of the issue, but I must admit, I have tried very hard to provide two-sided/balanced information, even sourcing criticism.  If someone could review, that would be great.
 * Rick Nicholls - Recently ejected MPP in Ontario for not taking the COVID-19 vaccine, potential edit war brewing. Would love some more eyes on the article. CaffeinAddict (talk) 05:03, 28 August 2021 (UTC)

Question

 * If anyone knows, I would like to know the maiden name of Kim Campbell's mother. Hers is the only PM to lack such information on Wikipedia. --Curlingstub.png Earl Andrew - talk 03:48, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Please review

 * Jim Maddin - Another contributor believes that the current edit is biased. I disagree, but would prefer someone else to look it over.  CJCurrie 05:59, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Prime minister religions

 * The info boxes for each of the prime minister pages have their religion from the beginning to Robert Borden, and again from Pierre Trudeau to the end. I would find it useful to have that extra information there for easy access. KalevTait 09:39, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

NDP Support of Income Trust Tax Changes
I would like to add the following text to the article under the header: Conservative Minority Government.

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Jack Layton and the NDP continue to support the new proposed rules for income trusts introduced by the Conservatives October 31, 2006. The immediate result of the change in tax policy was a loss to Canadian investors of $20 Billion, the largest ever loss attributed to a change in government policy. According to the Canadian Association of Income Trust Investors some 2.5 million Canadian investors were affected by the change in Income Trust Policy

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 * The above information was reverted by CJCurrie and discussed here. I request further input from other Wiki users as to whether this insertion meets Wiki article guidelines.DSatYVR 13:57, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Why does Julie Couillard wikilink point to Maxime Bernier article
Julie Couillard wiki link point to Maxim Bernier article. Why?

Given Julie Couillard's widespread attention including involvement with Bernier, Bernard Cote and alleged involvement with Kevlar Corp and Federal contracts as well as alleged influence peddling perhaps she is deserving of her own page? DSatYVR (talk) 16:06, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Achievements
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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.