Wikipedia:WikiProject Vancouver/COTM

Vancouver Collaboration of the Month
The purpose of this page is to establish an Vancouver Collaboration of the Month.

Rules:
 * 1) The article must have something to do with Vancouver or a municipality within the Greater Vancouver Regional District.
 * 2) The article with the most people supporting it will win. If there is a tie, the one that was nominated first will be the collaboration of the month.
 * 3) Nominations can stay up for 2 months, and then will be removed.
 * 4) The winner will be selected on or around the 27th of the month for the following month.

How to nominate:
 * 1) Place on the top of the talk page of the article you are nominating. It will produce:
 * 2) Place your nomination below, at the bottom of the list, with once sentence why you are nominating it. Please sign your nomination with four tides ~.

Cloverdale, British Columbia

 * Reason: Historical town with a legacy that continues into the present day. Current article is filled with Smallville stuff I added earlier -- hopefully there will be enough material there to remove the Smallville stuff (as it has more to do with the show than the town -- it's acting as filler right now).


 * Support
 * 1) Buchanan-H  e  rmit™ .. CONTRIBS .. SPEAK!  04:59, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Arabhorse (talk) 22:07, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 3) Smacg (talk) 22:50, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 4) KingRaven (&gt;$.$)&gt; (talk) 00:57, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Comments
 * I live here so I'll try to get more info on it - KingRaven (&gt;$.$)&gt; (talk) 00:10, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

Langara College

 * Reason: For a college of 23,000 students, it doesn't have a very long or good article.


 * Support
 * 1) Buchanan-H  e  rmit™ .. CONTRIBS .. SPEAK!  05:17, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Usgnus 05:20, 31 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Comments
 * There are fewer than 6,000 full-time equivalent students. Usgnus 22:42, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Rosette (singer)

 * Reason:Instead of always doing articles on a place or a building, how about a person from the Vancouver area? For a bit of a change...


 * Support
 * 1) Thankyoubaby 01:41, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

({who}}Skookum1 (talk) 20:31, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Comments

Greater Vancouver Regional District
Looking at the GVRD article and then looking at articles about other metropolitan areas, it seems that it can use some improvement. I compared it to the Orange County, California article and I have to say that the GVRD article looks a bit bare by comparison. For example, the GVRD article talks about the geography of the region but not much about the history -- ie. how the area started to populate, how it grew, how it's growing today, etc. Also, a "points of interest" section similar to the Orange County article would be useful. It might not be a bad idea to re-do the entire GVRD page altogether, based on most of the elements from the Orange County article (which was done quite well, in my opinion).
 * Reason


 * Support
 * 1) -→ Buchanan-Hermit ™ / ?!  23:23, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) -Bobanny 15:18, 20 October 2006 (UTC)Needs much expanding, and along with Vancouver is our raison d'etre. I'm guessing that if a structure like BH mentions above were started, a fair bit of content could simply be lifted from other vanproject pages to fill it out, and then fine tuned.
 * Comments
 * NB there is a Greater Vancouver article for the geographic region. Regional district articles should only be about regional governance, they shouldn't be use as geographic tableaux, they're not the same as county articles, no more than RDs are equivalent to counties (they're not) and shouldn't be treated/compared as if they were.  I oppose any expansion of a government article into a geographic-region type article.  Any expansion of this article should be about how RDs came into being and the political reason for that (WAC Bennett trying to forestall strong regional governments which had power to overturn/bypass cabinet powers/plans) and details of its corporate structure (regional parks) and the reasons for the expansion which led to the doing away with of the CFVRD and also DARD.  The board's politics, also, could be covered especially historically, as there's a fair bit of material out there on, for example, resistance by some mayors and communities to attempts to turn it into a regional metropolitan government (which is why the "Metro Vancouver" rebranding, intended to lay the groundwork for that, but it's a dead duck).  More later on other issues that could be covered; but again, RD articles are given too much UNDUE weight in Wikipedia as being of geographic, instead of only political, relevance.Skookum1 (talk) 20:02, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

Vancouver
I've done some work in trying to get this article featured. The history section needs a complete rewrite; it does not cite sources. There are some choppy sections such as the transportion and economy sections; they read like outlines. See the FA nomination and peer review for feedback this article has recieved.
 * Reason

Comment I'd like to withdraw my support. Alot of work has been done on the Vancouver article since it was nominated; still needs work, but the main points, IMO, have been or are in the process of being addressed.Bobanny 15:11, 20 October 2006 (UTC) Comment Vancouver is now a featured article.Canadianshoper 22:13, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Support
 * 1) Bobanny 00:00, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Comments
 * Comment if there's to be a COTM on this, a BIG issue is the de-postcarding of the images used, which are all steel-and-glass modernisms and tourist-monuments, and do not portray the city well, particularly there being no shots at all of neighbourhoods/housing and "culture icons" among same; good streetscapes of the Drive, maybe West 4th...and a better illustration of Chinatown than its pai-fang (gate) would be a streetscape of the street markets on Keefer and upper Pender in full swing. The history section, like the History of Vancouver article, also needs major work.Skookum1 (talk) 19:55, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

1994 Stanley Cup riot

 * Reason: Historical importance in Vancouver's history. Notable event. Currently an orphaned article with no real substantial content.


 * Support
 * 1) Luke! 11:47, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Bobanny 22:01, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Comments
 * there was a book published not long ago on riots in Vancouver history -- could be a possible avenue for expansion - turn it into a general Vancouver riots article.
 * I seen a show on Spike TV about riots, i can't remeber the name of the show but they featured the Vancouver Stanley Cup riots and the Montreal Canadiens riots.


 * I will grant that it might have been a "notable" event, to use the term loosely, but I fail to see how it is of any real historical importance. Agent 86 (talk) 10:52, 22 January 2011 (UTC)


 * In terms of riots it's certainly the largest, but I have my doubts as to whether it's a really historical event; though it did lay the groundwork/attitude for the increase in heavy police presence at public events.....but it's been like that since riots led to the end of the Sea Festival back in the '70s (early '80s?). Abstaining for now; I think there are other event of this kind that could use fuller treatment, as with the huge (peaceful) demonstrations of the Vancouver Peace Movement in the early '80s and likewise the Solidarity Crisis demonstrations of 1983 (the latter needs major expansion but sources are hard to get at because CanWest destroyed Sun/Province files in 1993, and the G&M doesn't have its Special BC Edition in its online archives).  I think a better choice of available articles would be Bobanny's piece on the demonstrations/martial law of the 1930s (can't remember its name right now).Skookum1 (talk) 19:51, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
 * "CanWest destroyed Sun/Province files in 1993" .. Whaat? Why?? -- &oelig; &trade; 00:57, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
 * The more things change... Who'd have thunk that it might be necessary for multiple Vancouver hockey riot articles? Agent 86 (talk) 03:42, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

Sports in Vancouver

 * Reason: Vancouver is very involved in sports, and always has been. The article has been rated high-importance by whoever ranked it. And it is very poorly done, and needs to be cleaned up.


 * Support
 * 1) Kaiser matias 23:58, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

I just had a go at basically re-doing the article with more info and some pics. heqs ·:. 15:28, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Comments

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