Wikipedia talk:Canadian Wikipedians' notice board/Archive 30

French Canadian
A consensus was loosely reached on the Denis Villeneuve article several years ago that his nationality should be listed as "French Canadian". Why there and no other articles, I do now know. There has been the occasional removal of it in the past, but a bit of an edit war started over this term a week ago and hence, Talk:Denis Villeneuve was created. I find myself supporting the former consensus despite disagreeing with the idea of it Please weigh-in there.. Walter Görlitz (talk) 21:07, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
 * IMHO, it should be "Canadian". I'd be quite content, if we done away with "French Canadian, English Canadian, Native Canadian, Inuit Canadian, Italian Canadian", etc etc. GoodDay (talk) 21:09, 2 April 2022 (UTC)

IMHO, these nationalist (usually Quebec-related) pushing edits on Canadian bios are annoying & probably disruptive. For 'bleeps' sake, if the individual was born & lives in Canada? Then call them Canadian & leave it at that. GoodDay (talk) 22:28, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
 * If there's a previous consensus, link it or people will declare that it doesn't exist or doesn't apply. If that discussion can't be found, then an RfD might be called for. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 14:57, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
 * From MOS:ETHNICITY:
 * The opening paragraph should usually provide context for the activities that made the person notable. In most modern-day cases, this will be the country, region, or territory, where the person is a citizen, national, or permanent resident; or, if the person is notable mainly for past events, where the person was a citizen, national, or permanent resident when the person became notable... Ethnicity, religion, or sexuality should generally not be in the lead unless it is relevant to the subject's notability.
 * Based on the above, we shouldn't be using French Canadian to refer to nationality of francophone Canadians, we should just be using Canada. We can also use "from Quebec, Canada" if appropriate. Singularity42 (talk) 15:12, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

In the footnote of MOS:ETHNICITY, it says:

"There is no preference between describing a person as British rather than as English, Scottish, or Welsh. Decisions on which label to use should be determined through discussions and consensus. The label must not be changed arbitrarily. To come to a consensus, editors should consider how reliable sources refer to the subject, particularly UK reliable sources, and consider whether the subject has a preference on which nationality they identify by. A 2018 RfC on Spanish regional identity in the lead resulted in consensus to use the regional identity used most often in reliable sources with which the subject identifies most. For guidelines on naming conventions and sourcing Native American and Indigenous Canadian identities, see Determining Native American and Indigenous Canadian identities."

Building on this, we should consider how reliable sources describe the subject of an article, and how they personally identify.

For example, Gilles Vigneault is a Quebecois nationalist and obviously identifies more as Quebecois then Canadian. Jean Chrétien, while also Quebecois, is more commonly identified as Canadian. — WildComet talk 19:46, 4 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I can see Quebecois (rather than French Canadian) if that made sense in the circumstances of the particular subject and the reliable sources. That pretty much flows from Quebec, Canada being appropriate in some cases. Singularity42 (talk) 21:02, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Vigneault's intro should be changed to Canadian. But, I'm not going through all that headache again. GoodDay (talk) 21:23, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

Ongoing Merger Discussion - Member of Provincial Parliament (Canada) and Member of Provincial Parliament (Western Cape) into a generic Member of Provincial Parliament Page
Hi all. This may be of interest to the project. Someone has proposed merging the MPP (Canada) article with the MPP (Western Cape) article into a generic MPP page. You can find the merger discussion here if you want to participate. RoyalObserver (talk) 12:28, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

"ranks ____ in rankings of Canadian prime ministers" or "ranks ____"?
I have decided to find a solution for this dispute here rather than open an RfC (because I'd get a lot of non-Canadian responses, after all, an RfC is open to everyone).

On Jean Chrétien, it used to be "Chretien ranks highly among scholars and the public" until three editors changed it to "places highly in rankings of Canadian prime ministers"; two editors argued that it should mention "rankings of Canadian prime ministers" because people will know what article they're being linked to and that it may not be clear that "ranks" means "historical rankings of Canadian prime ministers.

This got me thinking. On all PM articles, should we mention "rankings of Canadian prime ministers" rather than simply "ranks ___ among scholars and the public"?  Ak-eater06  (talk) 22:41, 9 April 2022 (UTC)


 * As discussed previously on this page, the place to discuss wording of a particular article is to start on the Talk page of that article. That's what it's there for.  But apparently when you're on the losing side of a 3-1 debate on the article, you come running here.  Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 23:44, 9 April 2022 (UTC)
 * User:Mr Serjeant Buzfuz Maybe read again. I'm talking in general; that's why the title of this section doesn't refer to the Chretien article.  Ak-eater06  (talk) 00:00, 10 April 2022 (UTC)

New map link in infobox
User:Denelson83 has added--to the infobox of about 80 Canadian communities--a link to a National Topographic System map. The linked maps are frequently of little benefit. For example, at Fergus, Ontario, the linked map shows Fergus up in the left corner. At Glen Williams, Ontario, the linked map doesn't even show Glen Williams until the user zooms in (but if they knew where Glen Williams was, they probably wouldn't be looking for it on a map). Was there a consensus to add these links to the infoboxes of so many articles? Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 16:45, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I noticed that this morning as well. I don't think it's especially useful, but as long as the info added isn't wrong, I don't have a problem with it.   PK  T (alk)  17:58, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
 * This was done because those articles mention the NTS maps those communities can be found on. The links were added to show that those are the correct NTS maps.  In doing this, I discovered that the NTS map originally specified for Dawson City in Yukon was actually the map for Whitehorse, and I ended up correcting it. --  Denelson83  19:13, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Can you comment on the usefulness of the link from Glen Williams, Ontario? Magnolia677 (talk) 21:09, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
 * If all you're doing is adding a link to a topographic map, there's no need to clog the infobox with an NTS map link. Just add a link to the GNBC parameter, which is right beneath it in the infobox. Doing this provides readers with additional information about the geographic location, and also provides a topographic map centred right over the community.  Here is a link for Glen Williams, Ontario.  More for less. Magnolia677 (talk) 23:43, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I tried that, with CGNDB link, but that template is now in the process of being deleted. I will have to use cite cgndb instead if I want to take that approach again.  However, I would rather see the entire CGNDB added to Wikidata, and use Wikidata to fetch the five-letter key for each such feature. --  Denelson83  01:16, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Given how often CGNDB is down that's probably not feasible. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 12:43, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Well, there are data dumps of the CGNDB available, and I can certainly work through those. But mind you, if I was to do this, it would probably take me several months or even a couple of years to get through, as the CGNDB probably has upwards of a million entries in it.  In Newfoundland and Labrador alone, the CGNDB has over 33,000 entries. --  Denelson83  04:30, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
 * GNBC works fine; it was down for one day. There's no benefit to readers sending them to the NTS map site; it should not be in the infobox. Magnolia677 (talk) 11:10, 12 April 2022 (UTC)

We already have so many map tools and links. This is superfluous overkill. Moreover, the NTS map info is so archaic: it refers to the hardcopy paper maps. What is the value of that? IMO, the entire reference to NTS maps should be removed from the infobox. BTW, we had a similar discussion just a few months ago, see Wikipedia talk:Canadian Wikipedians' notice board/Archive 29. --  P 1 9 9  ✉ 13:15, 12 April 2022 (UTC)

FAR for Accurate News and Information Act
I have nominated Accurate News and Information Act for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Z1720 (talk) 14:54, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

Merger discussion - University of Windsor Students' Alliance and University of Windsor
Hi all. I proposed merging University of Windsor Students' Alliance with University of Windsor, the latter of which is mid-importance on our project quality scale. It's been 6 days, no feedback. You can join the discussion here: Merger proposal - University of Windsor Students' Alliance. I'll keep it open a bit past the 7 day mark, but if there isn't any additional discussion in the next few days I will proceed with WP:Merge due to no discussion. RoyalObserver (talk) 15:25, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

Assistance for the page on ICBC? (Insurance Corp of British Columbia)
Hi all,

If anyone has some time, can you please take a look at the article for ICBC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurance_Corporation_of_British_Columbia)? I've added some entries to it, updated the financial information, but I'd like to seperate some of the information into sections. Maybe a history section and one other section? I'm not sure; fairly new to this, but I wanted to improve the article a bit.

Also; there's an entry on there stating that ICBC planned to ban luxury vehicles from being insured with ICBC. I added an entry about what ICBC actually did with that (they just increased the premiums, they didn't ban them). Just looking for some feedback on how to make that section flow better.

Thanks!

Chuckstablers (talk) 21:33, 17 April 2022 (UTC)Chuckstablers


 * I made a few small edits to help you along including filling in reference details (WP:BAREURLS), adjusted the layout (MOS:LAYOUT), and added a photo. If you are looking to add details on the history of the ICBC, you can find scholarly articles through Google Scholar, or through the Wikipedia Library (https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/). You may also have access to scholarly databases through a university or public library. Make sure you cite/reference (WP:CITE) the articles you source information from. I have contributed to some Crown Corporation articles such as ATB Financial and the Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund if you want to use those as a jumping off point. Caddyshack01 (talk) 16:20, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

Re-direct no longer relevant
I think it's time we have 2021 Prince Edward Island Liberal Party leadership election deleted as a re-direct. GoodDay (talk) 01:22, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

I recommend people to comment on the discussion below
Talk:2017 Conservative Party of Canada leadership election Please state whether you oppose or are in favour of changing the infobox format in 2017 Conservative Party of Canada leadership election.

It goes against the rules a bit to post a random article on this noticeboard however I feel this is the best way to attract Canadian editors for consensus.  Ak-eater06  (talk) 20:10, 22 April 2022 (UTC)

Provinces with conservative party-based governments
Keeping in mind that Saskatchewan would likely be an exception. Should we abbreviate the conservative-based gov't parties, in each province's infobox, next to the premier's name? For example, many of such provinces show "PC", Quebec shows "CAQ" & Alberta shows "UCP". Or should we spell the party's name out. GoodDay (talk) 17:30, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I can't seen any advantage to doing so. All the Conservative parties have some adjective in their name and are commonly known by their acronym. I could be wrong about Alberta usage, though. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 19:21, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I had an objector at Manitoba, so figured I'd bring the matter here. PS - I agree, the acronyms are more familiar. GoodDay (talk) 19:38, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

, rather then keep removing the acronym at Manitoba, it would help if you'd join the discussion here. Still not certain why you're singling out Manitoba, among the provinces that have PC governments. GoodDay (talk) 20:06, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I reverted your BOLD edit at Manitoba because I saw it on my watchlist and noted that it was not an improvement. I'm not sure why you're insisting on edit-warring to restore it. As I've already noted, stylistic consistency between articles is not a requirement, and there are good reasons not to use abbreviations here, namely MOS and WP:AUDIENCE. Nikkimaria (talk) 20:15, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
 * We shall see what consensus is reached here, concerning this topic. GoodDay (talk) 20:18, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Actually digging a bit deeper into this... your consistency argument also makes no sense, because you're applying this rationale only to some of the Conservative governments. So if we want to pursue cross-article consistency, that is also in favour of not abbreviating. Nikkimaria (talk) 20:33, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
 * If we adopt your argument to (for example) all 50 US states, 5 territories &  DC? There'd be a tone of "(D)" & "(R)" acronyms being expanded. GoodDay (talk) 21:43, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
 * As already noted, between-article consistency is not a requirement per MOS, so potential poor practices elsewhere are not relevant to what is the appropriate solution here. And as already noted, if you were to argue on the basis of between-article consistency, that supports unabbreviation in the articles you mention to match what is done with non-conservative govts + Saskatchewan. Nikkimaria (talk) 21:49, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
 * We're in disagreement. Therefore this will require other editors, to decide the issue. GoodDay (talk) 21:51, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I would favour taking party affiliation out of that field. The premiers are listed there in their official role of Head of Government, which is notionally distinct from the party they belong to. Aside from the US, party affiliation doesn't appear in any of the country articles I checked. If it has to be there, it should be abbreviated where possible to avoid clutter (see e.g., Amazonas (Brazilian state), Victoria (Australia)).--Trystan (talk) 23:01, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Omit the party affiliation or spell out the name. The articles are aimed at general readers who might not know what PC or UCP are. Instant Comma (talk) 00:11, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Spelling out the names makes for an unpleasant aesthetic. If affiliation must appear, there are tooltips or status bar text showing the name of the page acronyms link to.
 * Removing affiliation entirely would get around the question of whether the Saskatchewan Party even has an acronym in common use. That does seem the better solution. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 13:57, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I agree with Trystan; the party affiliation should be removed entirely, because the person is listed in their capacity as a government official. It's not really a place, IMO, that we should be getting into the "politics" behind that. — Kawnhr (talk) 17:39, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

Robert Borden and "the government passes laws"
Is it incorrect to say that "the government passes laws", rather than "the parliament passes laws"? Ak-eater06  (talk) 03:03, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Not incorrect, particularly if there is a reliable source to support the claim, but the latter is what actually occurs. Walter Görlitz (talk) 04:01, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * User:Walter Görlitz I'm talking about this Canadian Encylopedia article in the first paragraph under the section "First World War", it says, "the Canadian government quickly passed the War Measures Act..." What do you think of this wording? Should it be used when editing Wikipedia?  Ak-eater06  (talk) 04:04, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * No need to ping me, this is on my watch list.
 * It was not only the government, in this case. If I recall, there were Quebec members of the sitting government who objected to Canada being brought into a British war, and members of the opposition who supported the decision to enter the war. So, the parliament did pass it. Walter Görlitz (talk) 04:08, 25 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Some useful guidance from Talk page guidelines:
 * The purpose of an article's talk page (accessible via the talk or discussion tab) is to provide space for editors to discuss changes to its associated article or WikiProject.
 * Discuss edits: The talk page is particularly useful to talk about edits. If one of your edits has been reverted, and you change it back again, it is good practice to leave an explanation on the talk page and a note in the edit summary that you have done so. The talk page is also the place to ask about another editor's changes. If someone questions one of your edits, make sure you reply with a full, helpful rationale.
 * Avoid starting the same discussion on multiple pages, which fragments discussion. Instead, start the discussion in one location and, if appropriate, advertise it elsewhere via a link. If you find a fragmented discussion, consider moving all posts to one location and linking from the old locations to the new. State clearly in edit summaries and on talk pages what you have done and why. (See Wikipedia:Content forking/Internal § Discussion forks.) Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 04:10, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * User:Mr Serjeant Buzfuz no point in posting Robert Borden's talk page as it is highly unlikely anyone will comment. Better to bring it up here.  Ak-eater06  (talk) 04:12, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * How do you know that, without first posting the question on the relevant Talk page, and waiting to see if people comment? So you can just decide to ignore the guidelines posted for all of the Wikipedia community?  The guidelines don't apply to you, I guess, especially if the editing on the page is going against what you want. And, even if it is the case that no-one there will comment, if you bring it here, you should tell people what has triggered the discussion, and where, and that you've been reverted, rather than just pose it as a general "what if...?" question without any context. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 04:28, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * And without leaving a note to tell the editors who have reverted you that you're going to raise the issue somewhere else on WP? Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 04:39, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Serjeant, you are in the minority here. As RandomCanadian wrote, it is common practice to bring it up on WikiProject talk pages. I've never seen anyone get so triggered by a question. Please reflect on your arrogance. Thank you.
 * P.S. also my original title for this section wasn't necessarily about Borden, it was in general too. Avoid jumping to the conclusion and reflect on your behaviour.  Ak-eater06  (talk) 05:28, 25 April 2022 (UTC)


 * When the government has a majority (or in this case, with the urgency of suddenly being at war), the difference between the legal fact the act is actually passed by Parliament and the practical fact that a government which has control of Parliament can pass the acts it wants is in effect almost purely academic. Looking at the Hansard for the time period in question, first reading was (I think, as usual) without controversy (it's Bill no. 2, "to confer certain powers upon the Governor in Council and to amend the Immigration Act"). Second reading was similarly unopposed. The bill was considered in front of the whole House the next day. There is not much report of any debate over it; a few technical questions here and there, but third reading is reported on later in the day without objections. There are no reports of any divisions over it. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 04:37, 25 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Saying the government passed a law is commonly understood in Canadian politics to mean “the government introduced a bill and successfully shepherded it through Parliament”. However, as we are writing for a general audience, I would support being more accurate and less colloquial. No reason not to say that Parliament passed the Act.--Trystan (talk) 13:12, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

In Canada, it becomes law if the bill is passed by the House of Commons & the Senate & signed by the governor general (on behalf of the monarch). Don't know if this helps any. GoodDay (talk) 21:43, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * As I was hinting at above, the difference between the legal fact the act is actually passed by Parliament and the practical fact that a government which has control of Parliament can pass the acts it wants is in effect almost purely academic. The Senate rarely rejects bills from the lower house, particularly in the period we're talking of; the governor general by convention almost never vetoes any bill (this has never happened in Canadian history); and of course this particular act seems to have been passed with all the urgency of wartime (and very little time was indeed spent reviewing it by Parliament, as the extracts from the Hansard quoted above show), so... RandomCanadian (talk / contribs)
 * Just chiming in to agree that writing that the "government passed a law" in a Canadian context seems like a very natural plain language way to write it and I don't think we need to overthink the procedural details. Dan Carkner (talk) 19:28, 26 April 2022 (UTC)

University of Toronto/Université Laval copyright?
Courtesy pings -, -

Today saw copyright alert on many prime ministers bios.starting around a year ago.....is the Dictionary of Canadian biography published by University of Toronto/Laval University copying our content or is it the other way around? Louis St. Laurent, - Robert Borden, - Wilfrid Laurier Moxy - 13:43, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I had a quick peek at Louis St. Laurent, and it looks like the longest pieces of similar text are quotations, at least some of which are from biographi.ca with suitable referencing. There does appear to be some copied text, such as "...program of economic reconstruction and more social welfare..." which are clearly copied from biograpi.ca, as Internet Archive has a copy of that page as of 6 September 2015 with the text, whereas the 22 August 2015 version of the Wikipedia file (ie - the latest version before the first archived copy of the biographi.ca page) does not contain the text. Mind  matrix  14:04, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * It's pretty common for universities, libraries and archives to stick generic copyright tags on their pages and photos. They're often meaningless. -  Floydian  τ ¢ 14:24, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * DCB isn't a generic university page - there is a valid copyright claim on the publication, and if we're copying from it inappropriately, we need to fix that. (I haven't checked to what extent we are). Nikkimaria (talk) 00:20, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Copyright tags are almost always meaningless - in Berne Convention countries, works are automatically copyrighted upon creation without the need for any copyright tag or registration. -M.nelson (talk) 19:05, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
 * thinking the main concern here is that we have an editor copy and pasting that we're not aware of. ..... If there is copyright vios we need to determine how prevalent this is and by whom. Moxy -Maple Leaf (Pantone).svg 19:45, 26 April 2022 (UTC)

User:Moxy interestingly enough I greatly expanded those three articles (as it says on my user page).  Ak-eater06  (talk) 20:07, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Just a fast look.... anyway you can go back and add summaries instead of mass copy pasting of quotes as per MOS:QUOTATIONS...non encyclopedic writing style? But is this the main problem....getting copyvio problems on many more then just these 3 artciles. Moxy -Maple Leaf (Pantone).svg 20:16, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
 * User:Moxy (sorry if I'm pinging you unnecessarily as you might have this board on your watchlist) I will modify the St. Laurent article in a couple of weeks...also keep in mind when I expanded that article in October/November 2021 my editing skills weren't that sharp. However, per Laurier and Borden, I see no problems; I never "copy and pasted" word-by-word (rather I modified the wording and wrote in my own words) and I would never plagiarize.  Ak-eater06  (talk) 00:06, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I think the problem goes back further then 2021..... but I see on your user page you just had this copy paste problem? Am I missing something because you seem to indicate that you can copy and paste at will from encyclopedias?There might be a lot to review here Moxy -Maple Leaf (Pantone).svg 00:13, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I literally said I never "copy and pasted" word-by-word in my above response...:P  Ak-eater06  (talk) 02:52, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

True North News - Reliable or not reliable?
People are citing True North a lot on 2022 Conservative Party of Canada leadership election. I removed all cites of it (due to them spreading misinformation occasionally) and got reverted.  Ak-eater06  (talk) 18:12, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Definitely not the best source.... OK for opinions. Are the supporting statements sourceable  by other means? Moxy -Maple Leaf (Pantone).svg 18:56, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't consider them a reliable source. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 04:06, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Depends on the context per WP:CONTEXTMATTERS, but use with caution. Also worth noting that for better or worse they have obtained a certain degree of prominence. One of their journalists is the host of the the May 30 debate.--Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 15:53, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

Redirects in Ontario
Your input is welcome at Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 April 26. Magnolia677 (talk) 08:40, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

Concerning edits
User:Black roses124 has appeared to make some concerning edits on Premiership of Justin Trudeau and Domestic policy of the Justin Trudeau government.

Some potential plagiarism, biased sources, and questionable expansion of both articles...

This user also has a history of warnings here User talk:Black roses124.  Ak-eater06  (talk) 22:31, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGNDB)
If you click on http://www4.rncan.gc.ca/search-place-names/search where does it take you? To the English or French site? How about reference #1 at Ward Hun Island? The whole Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGNDB) was down some weeks ago but I'm getting the French language site using the English link and the French search page using the reference. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 08:20, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
 * The link redirected to https://toponymes.rncan.gc.ca/search-place-names/search, so it came up en Francais. There is a link in the top-right to change to English, although the URL appears to remain the same.  As for your other question, the article you named is a redlink so there's nothing to test.  Regards,  PK  T (alk)  11:59, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
 * OK. Thanks. I was getting the French site but it should be going directly to the English version, which it was last week. The link should have been Ward Hunt Island but at least I know it's not my browser. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 14:10, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like and turns it into something like
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from cite web, cite journal and doi.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

- &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:00, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Woohoo
Just here to give a shoutout to my Canadian Wikipedians User:Kelapstick and User:Ponyo! Sunday I will see Canadians in real life for the first time, at the Godspeed You! show in Birmingham, AL. Eh! Drmies (talk) 22:33, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Congratulations,, your life is about to be enriched in ways some people only dream of. For the true Canadian experience, follow-up the show with a plate of poutine and a Pilsner. Not just any Pilsner, it's gotta be this one.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 15:47, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
 * User:Ponyo, thank you--I'll see about that. We have a local restaurant that sometimes serves poutine; I'll OD on atorvastatin before and after. Drmies (talk) 16:05, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Possible paid editing at Taleeb Noormohamed
I think the Taleeb Noormohamed article was raised here during the last election. He ran for the Liberals in Vancouver and the media picked up on his practice of buying and selling homes (more than 40 since 2005). That has been the most controversial element in the article until a few weeks ago when several editors started puffing the article and trying to minimize the flipping allegations (apparently, three of the houses were his primary residence from 2011 through 2021 and the implication is he paid the appropriate taxes on the remainder, although no indication on the houses between 2005 and 2011). Many of the editors have been WP:SPAs and focused on Liberal MPs while some have been IP editors both for and against the subject. I managed to get new editor protection on the article yesterday and then spent a bit of time cleaning it up today, but would greatly appreciate a few more eyes on the article and a handful of editors to review the content. Walter Görlitz (talk) 19:09, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you to those editors who have improved the prose and contents of the article. Walter Görlitz (talk) 16:50, 20 April 2022 (UTC)


 * I've noticed similar smells-like-paid-editing at other Liberal politicians' pages like Joyce Murray and Anita Anand. One hallmark tends to be photos that are clearly the work of a professional photographer being uploaded as "own work", which is typically grounds for deletion on Commons (unless proper permission from the photographer/copyright owner is provided), as well as classic promotional content highlighting all of their political accomplishments (often by the same account which uploaded the photos). -M.nelson (talk) 17:09, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

Discussion which could benefit from Canadian input: Primary topic for Mount Royal station
See discussion at Talk:Mount_Royal_Station. The proposal is to make Mount Royal (disambiguation) the main page for Mount Royal station. There are four Mount Royal stations which have Wikipedia articles, two of which are in Quebec, and two of which are in Baltimore, Maryland (USA). The Baltimore article which is currently the main topic is a university building which was repurposed from a train station in the 1960s; the other Baltimore article is about the currently operation train station. Given that the Quebecois places are already the primary topic for Mount Royal, Mount Royal Avenue, and Mount Royal Tunnel rather than the respective Baltimore places, it seems likely that Mount Royal Station does not meet the notability requirements to remain the main topic for this article name. --Middle river exports (talk) 04:13, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

Images for Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II
Can anyone post free images of the Platinum Jubilee banners lining the streets near Parliament Hill in Ottawa, for the article: Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II?  Peter Ormond &#128172;  07:10, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

Anyone know if it's allowed to cite Canadian Encyclopedia on Wiki?
I recently got my edit reverted after I cited Canadian Encylopedia...then I found out Canadian Encylopedia says here: "Canadian Encyclopedia says: © COPYRIGHT OF THIS WEB SITE BELONGS TO HISTORICA CANADA. The use for study and research by students and teachers is encouraged. The commercial reproduction, storage or transmittal of any part of this site is forbidden, without the permission and proper acknowledgement of the copyright owner. Copyright of visual materials resides with the copyright owners described in the credits."

I don't understand. I've been citing this source a lot and never once got reverted for copyright reasons. Has anyone else cited Canadian Encyclopedia and got this problem before? Does anyone know if it's allowed to be cited?  Ak-eater06  (talk) 13:27, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
 * It is fine to use. Copyright doesn't mean we can't cite a souce. Most sources are copyrighted. It just means you can not reproduce or plagerize its contents.--Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 16:07, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Copyright doesn't ban citing the Canadian Encyclopedia; it bans copying and pasting the Canadian Encylopedia's text directly into a Wikipedia article. Bearcat (talk) 16:35, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
 * User:Darryl Kerrigan and User:Bearcat I recommend you check out User talk:Ak-eater06 and Sphilbrick's take for why you can't cite it as a source.  Ak-eater06  (talk) 19:06, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Sphilbrick didn't say that it can't be used as a source - they allege that you committed a copyright violation by copying or closely paraphrasing it (WP:Close paraphrasing can still be a copyright violation). Editors raised a similar concern just above at Wikipedia_talk:Canadian_Wikipedians'_notice_board. Please see WP:FIXCLOSEPARA for instructions on how to paraphrase properly. -M.nelson (talk) 20:16, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
 * User:M.nelson He said "The short answer is that means we cannot use it."  Ak-eater06  (talk) 21:30, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
 * The context makes it clear that "use" means copy or closely paraphrase. Instant Comma (talk) 22:09, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
 * The thing I would be mindful of in the WP context is- are you taking text exactly as written in an overly generous huge chunk. I've used that source for example to expand upon the National Capital Region article, (under Further reading) and have not had the issue you've explained. CaribDigita (talk) 01:58, 7 May 2022 (UTC)

Discussion at Categories for discussion/Log/2022 May 3
You are invited to join the discussion at Categories for discussion/Log/2022 May 3, which is within the scope of this WikiProject. — DaxServer (t · m · c) 10:28, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Something to keep in mind. Correct me if I'm wrong doesn't Canada have separate Federal constituencies as well as provincial constituencies? This change seems to argue that provincial and federal are exactly the same areas? CaribDigita (talk) 01:45, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I do not know the structure of the politics in Canada. In this discussion, I raised to rename from "Defunct Candaian X" to "Former X of Canada" where "X" can be federal or provincial and is the same as the existing one and I didn't change anything apart from that. If you're aware of the structure, perhaps you could provide more details? Thanks! — DaxServer (t · m · c) 10:13, 7 May 2022 (UTC)

File:Canadiens Francais. Venez avec nous dans le 150ieme Bataillon C.M.R. Aider a la victoire du coq Gaulois sur l'aigle Prussien, 1915. (50186381413).jpg
FYI, someone at WT:MILHIST has requested help with this file on Commons. -- 65.92.246.142 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 00:54, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

Kimble Ainslie
Has anyone from this WikiProject ever heard of Kimble Ainslie? He's listed as being Canadian and it appears that the article has been unreferenced since it was created back in 2005 (there's one primary-type source embedded citation about halfway through the article). Googling him comes up with a few hits, but not much that seems to resembles significant coverage. -- Marchjuly (talk) 06:21, 17 May 2022 (UTC)

Photo request: Fountainhead Pub in Vancouver, BC
Seeking photo(s) for the Fountainhead Pub entry, if anyone's able to help. Thanks! --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 00:28, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I have a friend who lives a block from it who I could ask... are you looking for a broad exterior shot or..? --Dan Carkner (talk) 02:35, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I think that'd be most helpful. Thank you! --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 21:51, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto) that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 20:13, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

Taleeb Noormohamed - many new edits
We are once again seeing the Taleeb Noormohamed page being bombarded with edits from accounts that seem to only focus on him, adding claims with dubious or non-existent sources. This seems to happen at this page every couple of months. I've tried to edit it in line with the MOS as best I can, however, I thought other editors may want to review recent activity or keep an eye on it as well. — WildComet talk 02:35, 5 June 2022 (UTC)

Inuit or the Inuit
Looking for opinions and comments at Talk:Inuit. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 06:28, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

Recognition of aboriginal title
This article Port of Saint John has a statement "The Port of Saint John lies within Mi'gma'gi, the Mikmaw Nation ancestral stewardship region and greater Wabanaki Confederacy ancestral governance area", which has lived happily on the page since 2019. A week or so an IP address removed it, claiming it was filler. Not so. It is the new reality. I reverted it, but the anon editor has returned (slightly different IP address). Would like some guidance, assistance. Do I allow the revert to stand? I would like to stop an edit war before it escalates. Verne Equinox (talk) 19:20, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
 * I would have an issue with the statement because it is (was) unreferenced. If a solid citation can be found, then it can be reinstated.   PK  T (alk)  19:32, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Agreed. There are well-referenced Indigenous claims, and... less well-referenced claims.  I think there needs some independent reliable sources for a statement like that in the article.  IP challenged it, and the response now is to provide sources. Singularity42 (talk) 19:36, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Here we get in to a legal/political issue that is beyond my ken. I'm standing down. Thanks for the comments. Verne Equinox (talk) 21:50, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
 * The statement looks just plain wrong, given that the Saint John River basin was the territory of the Wəlastəkwewiyik. Maybe whoever first added it confused it with St. John's, to which the Mi'kmaq do have (or had) a land claim. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 23:51, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
 * It would be fine if supported by proper sourcing, but is not acceptable without sources — especially given the point that it's much more likely to be Wəlastəkwewiyik than Mi'kmaq territory. Land acknowledgement is an issue that can impact how we write about topics, obviously, but even a land acknowledgement still has to be written neutrally and sourced reliably, as opposed to just sitting there as an unsourced and contextless assertion. Bearcat (talk) 17:31, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

Disambiguation nation
Wanted to ask for some input because we're about to run into a multiple-article renaming mess.

In the process of creating redlinks for the newly elected MPPs in last night's 2022 Ontario general election so that their new articles could be started, I temporarily disambiguated the new rep for Scarborough Centre as David Smith (Ontario MPP) for lack of an immediate better idea — but this isn't an ideal title, as there are also David William Smith and Dave Smith (politician) to consider. And even worse, Dave is an incumbent MPP who will be sitting alongside David-from-Scarborough-Centre in the new legislature.

I don't think the Dave vs. David distinction is sufficient, because some people might very well assume that Dave's article was at David too and thus erroneously link to the "Ontario MPP" title — but I don't think disambiguating them by riding is the best option either, because that would require Dave's article to be disambiguated as the em-dashed "Peterborough—Kawartha MPP". Obviously we can do that if we absolutely have to, but it's better avoided if at all possible. David William is probably fine, but I think the other two need clearer and more unambiguous titles to minimize any possible confusion.

So I wanted to ask for some opinions about how we can improve their disambiguation. Are we stuck with dabbing them by riding, or does anybody have a viable alternative to suggest? Bearcat (talk) 16:26, 3 June 2022 (UTC)


 * In these situations, I prefer to disambiguate by geography. Perhaps using "Toronto politician" (he was a trustee on the TDSB after all, not just an MPP) vs. "Peterborough, Ontario politician" would suffice? -- Earl Andrew - talk 18:10, 3 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Per WP:NCPDAB, birthdate is also an option. — Kawnhr (talk) 18:13, 3 June 2022 (UTC)


 * We don't have the birthdates of either politician, plus I think they should be avoided as much as possible. People are more likely to differentiate by geography than year of birth, as people aren't going to know someone's year of birth as well. -- Earl Andrew - talk 18:16, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
 * I think Earl Andrew's suggestion is pretty good. I thought about disambiguating using birthdates, but they appear to be of similar ages, and we only have the birthdate of the one in Peterborough—Kawartha and not the other.   PK  T (alk)  15:31, 4 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Okay, since there hasn't been any new input in almost a week, would it be fair to say that we have a consensus to go ahead with "Toronto" vs. "Peterborough" as their new disambiguators? Bearcat (talk) 17:35, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Toronto vs Peterborough sounds good to me. — Kawnhr (talk) 18:27, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Okay, done. Thanks for the input, y'all, both pages have now been moved and I'm cleaning up the inbounds. Bearcat (talk) 18:33, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

"Negotiated" or "successfully negotiated"?
Would like some input here on William Lyon Mackenzie King. I'm talking about the fourth paragraph of his lead; there is a sentence that says, "...and successfully negotiated Newfoundland's entry into Confederation". Should we omit the "successfully" part or does it make it clearer to understand?  Ak-eater06  (talk) 21:57, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I think "successfully negotiated" is fine in this context.  PK  T (alk)  23:40, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm not clear what "successfully" adds to the sentence. Instant Comma (talk) 00:26, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
 * To be fair, it is possible to negotiate something that still doesn't actually happen, either because the negotiations collapsed or because the proposal was agreed to in principle but then not actually implemented for some other reason. So there might be ways to phrase it differently if the wording irks you, but the question of whether the negotiations actually led to the desired result actually happening or not is the distinction people generally intend when they say "successfully negotiated". Bearcat (talk) 18:55, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

Monkeypox
I noticed that Canada is one of the high-case countries without an article, ( 2022 monkeypox outbreak in Canada is a redirect ), while a lower case count location has 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United States. -- 64.229.88.43 (talk) 01:26, 12 June 2022 (UTC)

Harry Crerar
I have Harry Crerar up for review at WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Harry Crerar.Reviewers sought. Hawkeye7  (discuss)  09:57, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

Not sure what happened
So I guess we have some work to do. Instead of taking the time to merger or improve the articles they were simply redirected. So what we are stuck with is redirects to a title that has not been used by us since 2007 as since then its called "Latin, Central and South American origins". Do we go back and do the articles over again? Odd no Canadian content editors involved. Anyhone else see this bundled or did it sneak by us all? odd out of 200 pages they just picked Central and South American peoples. Moxy - 13:25, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Guatemalan Canadians

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 * I don't remember any notice here, which is one of the places it should be. Does Wikipedia have any guidelines for reversing deletions when appropriate project pages aren't notified of the discussion? G. Timothy Walton (talk) 15:26, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Not sure why it was not listed at WikiProject Deletion sorting/Canada..some sort of tec error I guess. A notice would have been nice considering it was a bundle after the fact. This articles can easily be expanded  WP:DEL-CONTENT...was just lazy deletion over fixing the small problem....not even a move of data with section redirects WP:ATD-M.  Notability is not a problem. I say we simply go one article at a time and expand them. What I find odd is  that is was just this subset of pages...as in South Americans....That said side talk at Talk:Hispanic and Latin American Canadians Moxy -Maple Leaf (Pantone).svg 18:13, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
 * It was listed in WikiProject Deletion sorting/Canada for the entire duration of the time it was open, per this diff in that page's edit history. No special notice is required to be given about a deletion discussion on this talk page beyond a deletion discussion already being listed in the Canadian deletion sorting log — it's your responsibility to monitor the AFD sortlogs from time to time (which you can easily do by clicking on the "Deletion talks" tab at the top of this page, so it's not even hard to find). But it isn't anybody else's responsibility to give out special notifications above and beyond standard process, and there's no evidence at all that standard process wasn't followed. Bearcat (talk) 20:00, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Correct only Guatemalan was there ...not the bundle of others. Moxy -Maple Leaf (Pantone).svg 11:23, 17 June 2022 (UTC)
 * They were all batched into the same discussion. The "bundle of others" was there, because "Guatemalan" was the bundle. Bearcat (talk) 12:04, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

I intend to recreate at least the articles on Mexican, Colombian, and Salvadoran Canadians, the three largest groups whose articles were redirected. In my opinion, it was a very strange discussion and close: it only focused on whether Guatemalan Canadians should have their own article, but the rough consensus they did not was then used as a reason to redirect all the other articles as well, even though Guatemalan Canadians are one of the smaller subgroups of Latin American Canadians. Reliable sources certainly exist for the three subgroups I've mentioned. Cobblet (talk) 01:36, 17 June 2022 (UTC)
 * That's fine, but do make sure you're actually citing real sources, and not just recreating articles as poorly sourced as the deleted versions were. Bearcat (talk) 15:25, 19 June 2022 (UTC)

Template:Canadian federal election, 2021
The Template Jihad continues. Could somebody with the proper technical knowledge see if there are actually any pages using these results templates other than the election articles? I'd like to move the info into the articles and get it over with. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 02:59, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

Harper being the second longest prime minister from a right-of-centre party - notable or not notable?
See this discussion for context.  Ak-eater06  (talk) 15:47, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

Canadian Institute of Actuaries
There's an old edit request at Talk:Canadian Institute of Actuaries from 2019 that was made an IP who declared WP:PAID that doesn't ever appear to have been answered. The edit request was not really formatted as such which might partly explain why nobody ever responded. Perhaps over the years, the changes requested were incorporated, but no corroborating sources were cited in the request. There's also been another recent expansion made by another PAID-declared editor as well that probably also need some assessing. This time, sources were cited in support but they seem to be mostly to the subject of the article's official website. The editor who made the expansion does seem to be trying to do things in accordance with relevant policies and guidelines, but it still might be good for others to take a look at the changes that they made. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:36, 23 June 2022 (UTC)

Harper government
I am thinking of creating a brand-new article of Harper's tenure. I've just realized that ~80% of the content from Domestic policy of the Stephen Harper government, Foreign policy of the Stephen Harper government, and Environmental policy of the Stephen Harper government cover the first three years (2006-2008) of Harper's tenure. This is highly embarrassing and imagine being a reader wanting to find info on what he did in his second and third terms only to realize there is barely any content. My plan is to copy and paste a small amount of stuff from the three articles, add it to my new article, and add a load of content relating to his second and third term. After, I'll redirect the three articles to sections of my article. It will also be more organized to have everything in his tenure in one article (and I'll ensure it won't be extremely long as I'm taking out the excessive detail from the domestic, foreign, and environmental articles). What do you guys think?  Ak-eater06  (talk) 08:18, 28 June 2022 (UTC)
 * What's the normal method for other multiterm PMs? G. Timothy Walton (talk) 14:31, 28 June 2022 (UTC)
 * User:G. Timothy Walton there is Premiership of Pierre Trudeau and Premiership of Jean Chrétien; they were created because their PM section took over half of their article.  Ak-eater06  (talk) 17:03, 28 June 2022 (UTC)
 * If you can write a better article than what we have now, go for it! — Kawnhr (talk) 17:09, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

Formatting problem at Monarchy in Saskatchewan
The infobox at Monarchy in Saskatchewan has a formatting error that I don't know how to fix. Under the coat of arms in the infobox, the caption is: "Arms of Her Majesty of the Queen in right Saskatchewan". Grammatically, it should read "Arms of Her Majesty the Queen in right of Saskatchewan". However, I can't find where that caption is located; I think it's tied to a template somehow, but I don't know where. Could someone more knowledgeable in wiki-mark-up than me (admittedly, that's a pretty low bar to jump) take a look at it? Thanks. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 16:43, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
 * I think this would be the right place to ask: Template talk:Infobox monarchy. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 17:45, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
 * For now, I've updated this use of the template to just use the title of the arms article (based on looking at how the equivalent articles for Canada and Alberta do it). There does appear to be an error with a misplaced 'of' in the Infobox Monarchy template; I will follow up on that when I get a chance.--Trystan (talk) 17:51, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 18:46, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

Short Description of Prime Ministers
An issue has come up about the short description for Prime Ministers. Since it affects all of the PM pages, I thought I would raise it here. The other editors involved are and. There are two issues. One is, should the order of the PM be in the short description? For at least a year now, we've had "1st Prime Minister of Canada", "2nd PM", "3rd PM", and so on, up to the current PM, who just has "Prime Minister of Canada". The second issue is whether the dates should be in this format "(1867–1873)", or "from 1867 to 1873". Thoughts? Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 21:21, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
 * My preference on the first issue is to keep the order of PM in the short description, as I think it is helpful and relevant for a short description, providing quick context.
 * My preference on the second issue is to use the parentheses, because it is shorter, which is one of the goals of the Short Description. The SD Guidelines recommend around 40 characters.  With the order number and the parenthetical dates, the first 9 PM Short descriptions (except for Macdonald and Meighen, with two terms) come in precisely at 40 characters.  For the rest, starting with the 10th PM, it's normally 41 characters, except for King and Trudeau Sr because they had more than one term.
 * I've no preferences. All I ask, is that they're all consistent. GoodDay (talk) 21:24, 2 July 2022 (UTC)


 * I edit short descriptions quite a lot on Wikipedia. Dates defining the term in office should not be specified with parentheses per WP:SDDATES: In biographies, care should be taken to distinguish between dates defining a lifespan and those defining a period in office: lifespans should normally be specified by '(birthyear–deathyear)', and periods in office by 'from startyear to endyear'. The phrase "Prime minster from Canada from #### to ####" only violates the 40-character principle on brevity by 2 characters in the case for Canadian PMs. On the ordinal is where I believe the brevity guideline comes into play. Adding 11th to a description, for example, adds an additional 5 characters (more than 12% of the recommended 40) to the length, bringing us to 7 over for the 11th prime minister. I also seriously doubt the usefulness of counting, especially when countries have their own systems (double-dipping PMs in Canada are not counted twice, but double-dipping US presidents are. Finally, someone on Volodymyr Zelenskyy's talk page made a great point about ordinals in short descriptions: [The phrasing '6th president of Ukraine since 2019'] would indicate there have been five other presidents since 2019, and Zelenskyy is the sixth. The short description "11th prime minister of Canada from 1930 to 1935" could be interpreted that there were 11 different prime ministers during that period. To summarize, respect SDDATES and don't use ordinals. Thrakkx (talk) 21:44, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

Waterloo, Ontario
Would anyone like to help me work on the article Waterloo, Ontario? Some sections are in bad shapes, but I've been cleaning it up. The main issues were a bunch of lists that should be prose: only ones left are in the Attractions and Economy sections. Another issues is lack of due weight. For example, the Recreation and Library sections were previously lacking before I added to them. Currently, the sections Media, Post-Secondary, Ion rapid transit, Sports, Attractions and 20th and 21st centuries need expansion. The sections Geography and Economy need c/e, structure and sourcing. I need to look at Services and Education more closely. The dream would be bringing the article to GA: I think it's doable.

Essentially, another pair of eyes would help. All help appreciated, thanks! — PerfectSoundWhatever  (t; c) 02:36, 8 July 2022 (UTC)

Deletion sorting for each province/territory
Not long ago, there was only separate Deletion Sorting for 3 or 4 bigger provinces - though they were hardly necessary given that Canada isn't a particularly busy area. Then some more were added which seemed excessive - but almost never used. Now there are 13 - some created by User:Curbon7 - some of which have never been used in the year they have been around. Why do we need all these sublists? It only makes it more difficult to check. I think we should roll ALL of these back into the Canada sorting - with the possible exception of Quebec and Ontario, which usually have at least some traffic (though they'd hardly overwhelm the main Canada list). Currently most of these are empty, and all but one of the others has only one entry (one has two). Thoughts? Explanations? Nfitz (talk) 19:56, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
 * I certainly never thought it was necessary for all thirteen Canadian provinces and territories to have their own dedicated deletion sorts — yet again, that seems like it was most likely motivated by "if the US has separate deletion sorts for each state, then Canada automatically has to do it the same way on principle", but yet again, it hangs up on the question of whether Canada needs that or not, because we're a smaller country with fewer Wikipedia articles to begin with, and there are just never so many Canadian-related articles at AFD at any one time as to overwhelm the utility of a single Canadawide list. As noted, many of them have never been used at all, and even before the set was completed last year even some of the ones that already existed (e.g. Nova Scotia) already weren't all that widely used to begin with. Across all 13 of them combined, there are just five articles being listed on them right now, of which one is double-sorted as both Canada and Quebec simultaneously, meaning that merging them all into one national list would only add four discussions to the national list rather than five.
 * I'd agree that they're mostly unnecessary, and should mostly be rolled back up to the Canada-wide list. Ontario and Quebec are more defensible on past traffic than most of the others, though I'm not convinced that they're needed; there still just aren't enough articles involved to make splitting them off an urgent necessity either. Bearcat (talk) 17:01, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Zap 'em, for all reasons outlined above. The subcategories were created by a well-meaning editor in Florida, but they're not useful in our context.   PK  T (alk)  17:22, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
 * I support zapping, as the "well-meaning editor from Florida". Didn't realize how useless it would be lol. Curbon7 (talk) 15:17, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
 * I concur. Zap 'em. Masterhatch (talk) 15:30, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
 * I've zapped them, per this discussion; they all now exist solely as redirects back to the main Canadian list. Bearcat (talk) 17:24, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

Bloc Quebecois
We've a problem with an edit-warring IP, over at the Bloc Quebecois page. GoodDay (talk) 18:29, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

Geographic typo errors in reference to Canada
There is a common error throughout Wikipedia which needs to be corrected. It should even be made standard when writing articles about Canada. When people make reference to a geographic location they forget to put in the Province. I repeatedly see things like, "Toronto, Canada" or "Calgary, Canada." The irony of this is that no one would ever say "Chicago, United States" or "Los Angeles, USA." But for some reason everything seems to be "city, Canada." We have Provinces!!! Therefore it is "Toronto, Ontario" and "Calgary, Alberta." These errors are geographically, typographically end politically incorrect. And of course it's the Americans that do it most of the time. Drsrwatkins1956 (talk) 04:16, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
 * I tried it with Kingston, Ontario, but somebody changed it back. Short of hunting down every instance, there's not much we can do. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 04:23, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
 * "City, sovereign state" is best. Wish the American & British place pages would adopt the same. GoodDay (talk) 04:36, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Canada has Kingstons in five different provinces. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 05:26, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
 * A link will direct a reader there. GoodDay (talk) 05:35, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
 * No, that goes against WP:EASTEREGG. Links should be as transparent as possible and not require users to click (or hover over) them to understand what is being referenced. — Kawnhr (talk) 14:37, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Well if we're going to add a province/territory, to clarify a place. May we still include "Canada"? GoodDay (talk) 14:56, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Of course. Plenty of times I've heard even Canadian sources refer to [place], [province], Canada even for major cities. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 16:53, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
 * If only I could convince the British editors to do the same, with the "United Kingdom" ;) GoodDay (talk) 16:59, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
 * The English do seem to excel at linguistic atrocities. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 21:22, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
 * I know it. Ohhh boy, I know it. Heck forbid, if it's put next to "England", "Scotland", "Wales" or "Northern Ireland". GoodDay (talk) 21:25, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Naming conventions (geographic names) suggests that both "City, Province" and "City, Province, Canada" are valid formats (see #5 under General guidelines). WP:CANPLACE says to default to "City, Province, Canada", though in some international listings "City, Canada" may be used.--Trystan (talk) 18:29, 24 July 2022 (UTC)

2022 visit by Pope Francis to Canada
Can this get some expansion?  Peter Ormond &#128172;  20:01, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
 * I have added some background and an overview of today's events. Thanks for creating the article and bringing it to our attention. Yee no   (talk) 04:52, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your contributions. These are greatly appreciated!  Peter Ormond &#128172;  12:51, 27 July 2022 (UTC)

Monarchy of Canada
May need some additional input at Monarchy of Canada, concerning whether the country's royal family should be described within the article, as "Canadian royal family" or "Royal family". GoodDay (talk) 16:01, 25 July 2022 (UTC)

PS: Would appreciate additional input, concerning how the "Monarchy of Canada" page, should link to Succession to the Throne Act, 2013, in the aftermath of the Supreme Court of Canada's dismissal of appeals. Here is the discussion-in-question. GoodDay (talk) 16:35, 30 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Already here you are falsely presenting the Supreme Court's indifference toward an appeal as relevant to whether or not Wikipedia readers should have direct access to more information on a subject that's broader than one act of parliament. As noted at Talk:Monarchy of Canada, you haven't even read the section you're trying to disconnect the "Succession and regency" section from. -- ₪   MIESIANIACAL  18:01, 30 July 2022 (UTC)
 * I did read the section. GoodDay (talk) 18:03, 30 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Did you? Because you were asked twice and you didn't reply either time. If you have read the section, you must be aware it contains historical facts, other court cases, opinions and observations from a decade or more ago, and the like, all related to the broad topic of royal succession in Canada. Not the Succession to the Throne Act, 2013. To the broader topic of succession to the Canadian throne . Since you say you're aware of that, you can now explain why that information should be cut off from the royal succession section of Monarchy of Canada. You've been asked to explain that, too, and, similarly, have evaded answering. -- ₪   MIESIANIACAL  18:16, 30 July 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm not going to discuss the page linkage with you 'here'. GoodDay (talk) 18:20, 30 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Evidently you're not going to discuss it anywhere. -- ₪   MIESIANIACAL  15:35, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Discussion is at the "Monarchy of Canada"'s talkpage. GoodDay (talk) 15:39, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Not any discussion you're a participant in. -- ₪   MIESIANIACAL  15:58, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Concentrate on the content dispute at the page-in-question, please. GoodDay (talk) 16:01, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Concentrate on responding to points raised and questions asked in the dispute resolution instead of deflecting with refusals, "I didn't hear that", red herrings, and non-squiturs. -- ₪   MIESIANIACAL  16:08, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
 * This has long passed the point it belongs here. Shoo! G. Timothy Walton (talk) 20:26, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
 * This battle has been persisting for over a decade. Similarly prefer to keep it raging elsewhere. 20:45, 31 July 2022 (UTC)

Formal request
Would WP:CANADA members, please give their input at the discussion-in-question, at the Monarchy of Canada page? Concerning the page's link to the Succession to the Throne Act, 2013 page. GoodDay (talk) 16:15, 31 July 2022 (UTC)

A new page, covering the challenges to the 2013 succession act
What would be the views on creating a page, that deals with the constitutional issues, concerning the succession to the Canadian throne? Having looked over the Perth Agreement & its enactment in March 2015. Canada was the only realm (AFAIK), where significant challenges were made to 'how' its parliament handled the issue. In this case, challenges were made that the Succession to the Throne Act, 2013 was unconstitutional. It's an option that's been brought up at the Monarchy of Canada page. GoodDay (talk) 14:41, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
 * The page Succession to the Throne Act, 2013 does talk about the issue already. If you're planning to add a lot of content, you'll eventually hit a point where splitting off a sub-article would be warranted. —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 14:49, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
 * True, it's covered in the Act page. But recently, some of the info was removed from that page, while info was recently added to the Monarchy page. I figured a page, concentrating only on the challenges to it, would cut down the size of the two related pages. If required, we could include info going back to 1936, which is kinda a background for those challenges. GoodDay (talk) 14:53, 2 August 2022 (UTC)


 * You continue to confuse two different topics. Constitutional "issues" (you mean debate and events) concerning succession to the Canadian throne include the challenges to the Succession to the Throne Act 2013, but the challenges to the Succession to the Throne Act 2013 are not themselves the only constitutional "issues" concerning succession to the Canadian throne. -- ₪   MIESIANIACAL  14:51, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Indeed, include all background info on the matter, which goes back to 1936. Had the Supreme Court of Canada 'ruled' the 2013 Act as unconstitutional? It would've held up the enactment of succession changes in the United Kingdom and the rest of Commonwealth realms. The events of 1926 in Canada, caused a ripple effect across the British Empire, which led to big changes in 1931. Our country came 'very close' to causing another ripple effect, again. It deserves its own page, IMHO. GoodDay (talk) 15:07, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
 * It's not clear what you are trying to say. Your header to this section proposes the creation of a separate article that deals with the challenges to the Succession to the Crown Act 2013. The challenges to that act are not the entirety of the history of succession law in Canada. Why would the full history of succession law in Canada be moved to a sub-article specifically on the challenges to one act of parliament? You are, again, confusing challenges specifically to the Succession to the Crown Act 2013 with the entire topic of succession law in Canada. -- ₪   MIESIANIACAL  15:16, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
 * We can name such a page "Challenges to the succession to the Canadian throne" or any other name. It doesn't have to be limited to the 2013 Act & would cut down the size of the Monarchy page. GoodDay (talk) 15:19, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Putting aside the question of whether or not there's enough content to warrant a stand-alone article on challenges to succession law in Canada, you said right at the top here that this proposed article would "[deal] with the constitutional issues, [sic] concerning the succession to the Canadian throne." Let me try this way to put the third time I'm saying this: the challenges to the Succession to the Throne Act 2013 are included in all the debate and actions concerning succession to the Canadian throne, not the other way around . It thus makes zero sense to put all the debate and actions concerning royal succession since at least 1936 in an article specifically on the handful of legal challenges mounted against two or three laws over the past 15 or so years. -- ₪   MIESIANIACAL  15:36, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I've made my suggestion, which can be fleshed out by anyone. It will either be accepted or rejected. Better to know now, then go ahead & make such a page, which could end up being deleted or re-directed. GoodDay (talk) 15:45, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

Ryerson University
User:Horatio Bumblebee has changed all categories and links to "Ryerson University" to "Toronto Metropolitan University", on hundreds of articles, mostly biographies. This is problematic because most of the people associated with the university attended "Ryerson", and the sources in their articles state they attended Ryerson. There was a discussion at User talk:IJBall. Should these edits be reverted? Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 09:49, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Looks like User:Gilgul Kaful has already reverted. Magnolia677 (talk) 09:52, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I agree this is problematic and needs to be reverted. --Gilgul Kaful (talk) 10:01, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Horatio Bumblebee made a point at User talk:Geraldo Perez, stating that the university has had several names through the years. Magnolia677 (talk) 10:04, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
 * This is actually the institution's fifth name. It began as the Ryerson Institute of Technology and has subsequently been the Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, Ryerson Polytechnic University, Ryerson University, and now Toronto Metropolitan University. This means that previously, people who were alumni of Ryerson Institute of Technology or Ryerson Polytechnical Institute were still listed under Category:Ryerson University alumni (despite the fact that the institution only became a university in 1993). Presumably because it's the same institution but has just changed its name. If the argument is that alumni should be listed specifically under the name the institution had at the time they graduated then you need five categories: Category:Ryerson Institute of Technology alumni, Category:Ryerson Polytechnical Institute alumni, Category:Ryerson Polytechnic University alumni, Category:Ryerson University alumni, and Category:Toronto Metropolitan University alumni.


 * However, please see this article: "Once the university lands on a new name, all alumni can have their parchments and records reissued, the school said.


 * The university said that while the process for reissuing documents has not yet been finalized, it will likely resemble the procedures established in 2002 when Ryerson Polytechnic University became Ryerson University.


 * According to the school’s website, the fee to reissue a graduate document is $70, although officials tell CTV News Toronto that final decisions for reissuing have yet to be made." So this means not only do you have to research when someone graduated and what the institution was called at the time - but you also have to determine whether the individual received a reissued diploma that made them a graduate of Ryerson University instead of Ryerson Polytechnic University or TMU instead of Ryerson University etc.


 * It makes more sense to simply recognize the name as part of a continuum of names. Horatio Bumblebee (talk) 11:13, 3 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Also, why was Maple Leaf Gardens removed from Category:Toronto Metropolitan University buildings when it is partly owned by TMU and is the site of its athletic facility? Horatio Bumblebee (talk) 11:19, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
 * All the previous names were Ryerson XXXXX, with XXXX evolving as the descriptive status of the university grew or when they dropped Polytechnic from "Polytechnic University" to just "University". There is absolutely no need to change the name on past graduates. --Gilgul Kaful (talk) 11:25, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Ryerson was only given university status in 1993. Certainly becoming a university is a more significant transition than changing a name in that a post-1993 alumni would have earned a full-fledged university degree and a pre-1993 alumni would have only been entitled to a certificate or diploma. Horatio Bumblebee (talk) 11:32, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I added TMU buildings to Maple Leaf Gardens, so it now has both. --Gilgul Kaful (talk) 11:27, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
 * What sense does it make to have both Category:Toronto Metropolitan University buildings and Category:Ryerson University buildings when, at least until TMU builds a new building, they are the exact same thing? Horatio Bumblebee (talk) 11:43, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Also, as quoted above, the university is reissuing its degrees under its new name so this means individuals who graduated from Ryerson University or Ryerson Polytechnic University etc may have Toronto Metropolitan University degrees and thus, if you opt for having discrete categories, would be TMU alumni even if they graduated prior to the name change. Horatio Bumblebee (talk) 11:37, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

I see you are removing current faculty members of Toronto Metropolitan University from the category Category:Toronto Metropolitan University faculty. What is the reason for doing that? Horatio Bumblebee (talk) 12:33, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

Stan Dragland
Just a heads-up to everybody that twice in the past three days, our article about Canadian poet Stan Dragland has been edited to claim his death. The first time, it was done with no sources at all, and the second time it was with an unreliable source ("SNBC13.com") whose "news stories" mostly seem to consist of people dying, people not dying despite rumours, and "celebrity net worth, wiki bio, source income, salary, earnings, nationality, age" crap -- and meanwhile, on a Google News search I can find absolutely no real media reporting Dragland's death at all. Certainly at least a Newfoundland media outlet like VOCM or The Telegram would report his death if it were true, but it would also likely crack the CBC and the Globe and Mail too, but there's absolutely no trace of any such thing being reported by reliable media.

So this is most likely to be a death hoax, but just a heads-up to everybody to be on the lookout over the next couple of days just on the very slim possibility that it's actually true and just hasn't been properly publicized yet. I've applied a week of protection to the article to put a lid on this in the meantime, but even if his death is fake news the article may still need monitoring once that expires — so it would also be appreciated if a few willing editors could add it to your watchlists. Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 19:30, 5 August 2022 (UTC)


 * A press release from his own employer — who can obviously be trusted on this — has now been provided. It's still not an ideal source, and could still stand to be replaced with a proper media obituary if and when one turns up, but it's far more trustworthy than anything else that had been tried as of when I posted the initial comment yesterday. Bearcat (talk) 21:18, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

Inconsistencies in pages
Seeking input here concerning Ottawa & here concerning Quebec City, as these pages info are inconsistent with Rideau Hall's & Citadelle of Quebec's leads. GoodDay (talk) 13:43, 7 August 2022 (UTC)

Provincial infoboxes content
Question: Should the "government type" & "government body" parameters be included in or excluded from the infoboxes of the provinces and territories. GoodDay (talk) 19:41, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

Survey

 * Neutral - As long as we're consistent across all the provinces & territories on this matter? I've no preference for either inclusion or exclusion. GoodDay (talk) 19:40, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
 * (Invited by the bot).    I think that it's best to have it in, but that doesn't mean mandate it. It's important, succinct info. Sincerely, North8000 (talk) 21:31, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep. Next what? Should we remove the capital city, or the whole infobox?  Peter Ormond &#128172;  23:52, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Permitted but not mandated, per North. This effort by the OP to make changes solely for the sake of consistency without rationale as to why edits are actually improvements is not appropriate. Nikkimaria (talk) 00:26, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep. I agree with GoodDay that we need to be consistent across all provinces and I agree with Peter Ormond that it's an important piece of info that should be included. Masterhatch (talk) 10:40, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 15:27, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep, per Masterhatch. Removing application of informative parameter that is consistently implemented across all other jurisdictions without rationale is disruptive. "Previous was sufficient" is not rationale to exclude whatsoever. It is subjective "I don't like it" opinion of an article owner. Hwy43 (talk) 22:38, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
 * A change was imposed across multiple articles and edit-warred in during an ongoing RfC - that's disruptive. In the absence of a rationale as to why this ought to be considered a key fact and mandated, we fall back to excluding unnecessary content and determining appropriate parameters at the article level. If other commenters are able to do what the OP explicitly would not and provide a justification as to why the proposed change improves these articles, great. Nikkimaria (talk) 00:02, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
 * government_type has been applied to all provinces but Manitoba since the end of 2020 at minimum. If you felt so strongly about these parameters being unnecessary, then why has no fuss been raised by you at the other provincial articles? Your edit summaries are routinely useless and absent of rationale, especially on articles that you own. Despite others including rationale in their edit summaries at Manitoba for parameter inclusion, why must it come to this to finally get the rationale that you hang your hat on? You have battlegrounded others in the past on MOS:INFOBOXPURPOSE or MOS:INFOBOXUSE, which IIRC have been previously interpreting incorrectly or farfetchedly stretched to match your own position to maintain control of Manitoba, Winnipeg, and the like. You narrowly avoided a topic ban on infoboxes in 2014 by desysopping yourself as an admin and pleading to be given a chance to take corrective actions in your habits. Alas many of your habits persist eight years later. Hwy43 (talk) 03:08, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep. Concise and relevant information. Consistency across provincial and territorial infoboxes is helpful to the reader, who is likely to move from article to article, and may misinterpret arbitrary differences in how the information is displayed as having some significance. There is no reason to adopt a different standard for some provinces and territories than for others.--Trystan (talk) 23:17, 3 July 2022 (UTC)

Discussion
I've deleted the "government type" & "government body" parameters from the rest of the provinces articles, per 's deletion at Manitoba. Makes no sense to have 'one' province being different from the other nine. GoodDay (talk) 05:09, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

Moments ago attempted to 'restore' those parameters at (only) British Columbia. Why can't we have all the provinces (there's only 10 of them) in sync, on this matter? GoodDay (talk) 05:25, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Oh sorry, I forgot to check the Manitoba article. Patachonica (talk) 05:41, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

, are you wondering about 'this' topic? GoodDay (talk) 18:52, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Deleting it from every provincial article’s infobox template because one editor in Manitoba doesn’t like it there is about the lamest rationale I have ever witnessed. Hwy43 (talk) 19:34, 2 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Yes, having a quick summary of the type of government strikes me as exactly what is normally found in the infoboxes. I've poked around on this page and the Manitoba page you refer to, but I've not found any discussion of the issue, so I'm going to add it back to the Saskatchewan infobox, which is where I noticed a deletion. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 19:33, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
 * I recommend that you add it back to all of them & not just Saskatchewan. Furthermore, I recommend that you open an RFC on the matter here as to whether or not to include/exclude for all the provinces. GoodDay (talk) 19:36, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
 * It was on  all 9 of 10 provincial articles so a consensus to include existed so the onus is on the dissenter to open that discussion on whether to exclude. Hwy43 (talk) 19:40, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
 * I've opened an RFC on that matter. In the meantime, I hope we can keep all the provinces consistent. Now, everyone has a platform to give their input. GoodDay (talk) 19:45, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

(Invited by the bot). I think that it's best to have it in. It's important, succinct info. Sincerely, North8000 (talk) 21:31, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Hello Would you place your position above, in the survey :) GoodDay (talk) 21:42, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

Well &, I told ya he was gonna ignore you both & revert back to his version at Manitoba. He's not gonna stop 'reverting'. GoodDay (talk) 23:33, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm female, and you need to self-revert. If you want to have an RfC, let the RfC run rather than edit-warring your proposal in. Nikkimaria (talk) 00:26, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
 * It's up to Mr Serjeant Buzfuz, since he's the individual who made the additions to all the provinces & territories infoboxes. PS - Glad you finally decided to participate in this discussion. GoodDay (talk) 00:33, 3 July 2022 (UTC)


 * I had a small hesitation over whether everyone would agree with this (thinking Quebec, indigenous territories...) but c’mon, it’s an infobox entry, which should reflect the simplest enunciation of the de jure situation. I say this as someone who once argued that Quebec does indeed have a national anthem. This is a silly argument and I cannot think of a good reason to delete the attribute for any province. Elinruby (talk) 23:37, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Hello . Would you state your position in the 'survey', too? GoodDay (talk) 17:05, 22 July 2022 (UTC)

Ottawa Good Article Nomination
Hello folks. I just brought the Wikipedia page for Ottawa through the Good Article Review process, and it was just rejected. (See Talk:Ottawa/GA2#Status of the review) for more info. Both the reviewer and I agree that the article is very close to the standard of a good article, and they recommended that I ask members of this project page to undergo some more revisions and bring up the quality before another shot at GA status.

This was my first GA review as a nominator and I found it took a lot out of me, so if there is someone who wants to shepherd this article through the final steps, it might be an interesting project, and I'd be happy to collaborate if someone wanted to split work. The main complicating factor is there are a lot of edits being made by an IP address right now, they're good edits but my reviewer found it difficult to review with the amount of change, especially as I was only making edits in reply to the reviewer's comments only once or twice a week.

If you want to reach out to my talk page for more info, or reply here for a more public discussion, happy to provide more context or add to discussion. Kwkintegrator (talk) 04:05, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
 * FWIW, as I mentioned on the talkpage of the article. There is no mention (unless I missed it) of the Canadian monarch being an official resident of Rideau Hall. GoodDay (talk) 04:10, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

Infobox of the Prime Minister
We're going to need input concerning this office's infobox. -- GoodDay (talk) 21:16, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm curious: why do you say we're going to need input? -- ₪   MIESIANIACAL  22:23, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
 * To settle whether the flag & coat of arms, should be included or not. I do hope whatever is decided? that it'll be applied to the 13 infoboxes of the provincial/territorial premiers. GoodDay (talk) 22:32, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
 * There are already editors involved in the settling. Other opinions are welcome; but, we don't need them. Let the dispute process play out.
 * As to applying something across numerous articles: that'd be best as a separate discussion and probably somewhere like here. -- ₪   MIESIANIACAL  22:38, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

Provincial/territorial premiers, etc
Seeing as the Canadian flag & Coat of Arms are not in the infobox of the prime minister's page & other federal office pages? In 'bout 24 hrs, I'll begin 'deleting' the Provincial/Territorial flags & Coat of Arms, from the infoboxes of the premiers & other provincial/territorial office pages. Just doesn't look presentable, with inconsistency across all these Canadian (fed/prov/terit) gov't office pages. GoodDay (talk) 20:28, 16 August 2022 (UTC)

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Scott Moe's birthdate
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QC vs KC
I suspect there is going to be an upcoming conflict about this, so I'd like to get some thoughts here. Members of the Queen's Council hold the post-nominal letters of QC in Canada. Now that Canada has a King, new members of the now-King's Council will receive the post-nominal letters KC.

Is it expected that those who currently hold the letters QC will now have to change and use KC, or is KC only going to apply to new appointments to the King's Council? I suspect those appointed during the Queen's Council will continue to hold QC. This will impact many articles. – Handoto ( talk ) 00:43, 9 September 2022 (UTC)


 * I'm afraid you're confusing two different things: the Queen's / King's Privy Council for Canada, the name of the formal body composed of federal Cabinet ministers (past and current), and the honorific of QC / KC, for members of the legal profession.  Members of the Privy Council receive the postnominal "PC", for "Privy Counsellor".  That will not change.  The honorific  "QC", short for "Queen's Counsel", is given to some lawyers and does change automatically to "KC" for "King's Counsel".  See for example this media release from the Government of Saskatchewan:  Public Notice: Effects of Succession on Saskatchewan Courts, September 8, 2022:
 * The term "Queen's Counsel" changes automatically to "King's Counsel," and the abbreviation "K.C" replaces "Q.C." The succession does not affect existing appointments as Queen's Counsel or seniority at the bar. There is no need for existing patents of appointment to be re-issued. There is no change to the French abbreviation - the title "conseiller du roi" remains correct, as does the abbreviation "c.r."
 * Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 01:16, 9 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the reply. I definitely don't think I'm confusing the Queen's/King's Council and the Privy Council. I understand those are two different things and the Privy Councillors always uses the letters "PC", but I didn't ask about that. Lawyers that receive the honour from this point on will receive the letters "KC" instead of "QC". My question was simply those who currently hold "QC", will they continue to do so or does it now change to "KC" for everyone? The public notice linked just mentions the name and its abbreviation changes, but that current appointments are not affected. – Handoto ( talk )
 * Then I don't understand your post at all. You linked to "Members of the Queen's Council".  There is no such thing as "the Queen's Council".  If you're not referring to the Privy Council, I don't know what you're referring to.  You also referred to "new members of the now-King's Council", which also does not exist in Canada;  there is no "King's Council".  And, the media release answers your question, will those who currently hold "QC" continue to do so?  The media release states:  "The term "Queen's Counsel" changes automatically to "King's Counsel," ".  The term changes, so the abbreviation changes.  There is no need to re-appoint anyone. The name of the honorific has changed. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 03:03, 9 September 2022 (UTC)


 * There's no "council", in the sense of an organized body, for QCs or KCs to be members of — they're counsel as in a person who gives (legal) guidance and advice, in a similar sense to how you might go see a counsellor (rather than a councillor) when you're struggling with depression. The designation does just automatically change from QC to KC, but it's just a qualification (like "M.A." or "Ph.D.") rather than a membership. Bearcat (talk) 14:37, 10 September 2022 (UTC)

Changing from "Her Majesty" to "His Majesty"
Should everything be change to reflect that there is now a King and not a Queen? Or should should some some things be left as is to reflect the sources. I'm asking about things like this where the Indian Act still says "Her". ~I'm not going to run around looking for things to change but if I come across something a consensus is good to have. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 10:20, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
 * I would say that if it's quoting or referrring to a particular source which uses Queen, we keep it as is. For example, both the Constitution Act, 1867 and the Constitution Act, 1982 refer to the Queen.  Since those are the terms used in the Constitution, we should use them when quoting those particular passages. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 12:37, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Agreed. For example, the reference to "the Queen" in the Constitution Act, 1867 is Queen Victoria, and the document uses "Queen" throughout.  So context is important for deciding when to change something from "Queen" to "King", etc.  Not everything should change. Singularity42 (talk) 13:34, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
 * I agree about directly quoting legislation using its exact wording. However, if we are describing the effect of a law in our own words, it would be appropriate to refer to the current monarch (e.g., "The Constitution Act, 1867 vests executive power in the King.") For non-constitutional statutes, it is likely that the federal and provincial governments will amend everything in the near future to update all references to the monarch.--Trystan (talk) 00:38, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

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List of members of Canada's Sports Hall of Fame
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Discussion of a proposed name change re Halifax
See here for the discussion: Talk:Nova_Scotia Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 02:11, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Actually, most of the discussion appears to be here: Talk:Community of Halifax, Nova Scotia.  My mistake. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 02:14, 19 October 2022 (UTC)

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Canadian Indian residential school system
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Mass charts being added all over
We getting copy pasting of data in chart spam all over rmaking articles  non accessible  ..., overloading articles with tables that have  too much detailed statistical data and no context is  against policy. We need to get a handle on the mass chart additions all over see if we can turn some into WP:Prose. ie European Canadians and Immigration to Canada and South Asian Canadians. Moxy - 14:46, 30 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Who's making these mass additions? GoodDay (talk) 14:51, 30 October 2022 (UTC)
 * opps for got to ping ...my screen reader just cant do it on these pages..making them a huge accessibility problem. Basically a scrolling nightmare to get to any prose text.. Should just link to these charts that are being copied from stats Canada...as they are overwleming articles Moxy -Maple Leaf (Pantone).svg 14:55, 30 October 2022 (UTC)
 * That is some serious overkill on the charts. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 15:12, 30 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Duplicating the same charts from stats can in my view falls under Copying text from other sources. Moxy -Maple Leaf (Pantone).svg 15:27, 30 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Which specific charts have been copied from Statistics Canada? On the immigration page specifically, I just added in all the numbers and percentages based on the text data from Statistics Canada on the sourced pages. For the proportion one, it was based on annual immigration numbers and the Statistics Canada annual population estimates. If the images being too big is the main problem, I can shrink them.

Edit: Additionally (whether it be on the immigration or ethnic group pages), if the charts and tables are too overwhelming for one page, perhaps it could be solved by creating other page(s) dedicated specifically to statistics? Van00220 (talk) 18:54, 30 October 2022 (UTC)
 * That's how it's done with the election articles, which also generate large numbers of charts and tables. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 19:25, 30 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Probably a good idea then. Was planning on making future expansions to the "sources of immigration" section which will add a ton more tables on top of what there already is. New page title could be "Canada Immigration Statistics" (as suggested by ), or something similar. Van00220 (talk) 19:39, 30 October 2022 (UTC)

I don't think this level of detail is useful - we should be providing an encyclopedic summary of important information, but we don't have to provide the readers with every bit of information that we find (WP:INDISCRIMINATE). We can leave an external link to StatsCan if readers desire statistics. -M.nelson (talk) 09:20, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Sometimes the trouble is a lot of the old Statistics Canada data (ex. censuses) is extremely hard to read and/or not very accessible... all the info is still on very long photocopied documents, of which nothing has been transferred online, onto a webpage yet as the modern data is. It that case, I think it is useful to source and show the stats since they are greatly more accessible and easier to read on a wiki page. Van00220 (talk) 19:15, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
 * What Wikipedia is not (policy) "Excessive listings of unexplained statistics. Statistics that lack context or explanation can reduce readability and may be confusing; accordingly, statistics should be placed in tables to enhance readability, and articles with statistics should include explanatory text providing context."Manual of Style/Tables (guideline) "To provide encyclopedic value, data should be put in context with explanations referenced to independent sources. Prose is preferred in articles as prose allows the presentation of detail and clarification of context, in a way that a table may not. Prose flows, like one person speaking to another, and is best suited to articles, because their purpose is to explain.".... Moxy -Maple Leaf (Pantone).svg 22:18, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Seems like an easy fix then... data on all the graph charts can be transferred over into a table to conform with the policy -- with Statistics Canada (or any other) sources at the top of the table. Will fix this on the immigration page sometime within the next few days. Should I also create a new page and transfer all the statistics over? Van00220 (talk) 22:47, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
 * ?? So your plan is to covert to prose? Or just move the uncontextual data spam? Not sure your understanding what is being said here by all.  I am thinking mass removal of the data spam that is making these articles unaccessible..... as per What Wikipedia is not..... that said the policy does state "the statistics can be split into a separate article" like our junk statistics dumping article Demographics of Canada  that is like a index for all the main articles on the topic despite it being unaccessible and a data overload page. Moxy -Maple Leaf (Pantone).svg 23:30, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Following this: "Statistics that lack context or explanation can reduce readability and may be confusing; accordingly, statistics should be placed in tables to enhance readability, and articles with statistics should include explanatory text providing context. Where statistics are so lengthy as to impede the readability of the article, the statistics can be split into a separate article and summarized in the main article." -- Specifically referring to the Immigration to Canada page here: Stats that are currently represented in the graph charts can be moved to a new article, and transferred into a table. Furthermore, the section you have put a note on can also be in the new page. Context and explanation will be the title of the table(s). Van00220 (talk) 00:29, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Furthermore: regarding all the ethnic group pages that have graph charts --- should I proceed and remove them? Van00220 (talk) 00:55, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
 * , following your recommendation on the Immigration to Canada page, I have proceeded to remove the charts and transfer all remaining statistical data into a new page -- Canada immigration statistics.Van00220 (talk) 05:09, 3 November 2022 (UTC)

Would be best to undo all the mass additions of these charts. GoodDay (talk) 23:42, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Seconded. They should not have more than a handful of charts with a relatively limited amount of data. Dan Carkner (talk) 16:09, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Related talk Village pump (policy). Moxy -Maple Leaf (Pantone).svg 02:55, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

New Page Suggestion: David Mulroney (Former Canadian Ambassador to China)
Find it a bit odd that this page does not yet exist and wondering if we could please start a conversation about whether this is something that would be warranted. Thanks, MarcusLeland (talk) 00:28, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Sure, as are the redlinks at List of ambassadors of Canada to China. The title should be David Mulroney, unless there is another person by that name that warrants a WP article. Mind  matrix  01:38, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia does not deem ambassadors to be automatically notable just because they exist(ed) — the notability test for an ambassador is not "any ambassador who existed automatically gets an article as a matter of course", but hinges on the amount of reliable source coverage about his work in media that can or can't be shown to establish that he would pass WP:GNG. I don't know enough about David Mulroney's diplomatic career to know whether he would pass that test or not, so I defer to other people on that — but it certainly isn't the case that he would automatically be eligible for a Wikipedia article just because he was an ambassador, and would depend on the extent to which media have or haven't covered his work as news. Bearcat (talk) 16:36, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

French translation for federal department
There is a content dispute at Talk:Environment and Climate Change Canada, regarding French translations in the lead sentence. Your input would be appreciated. Magnolia677 (talk) 22:05, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

Premierships of Stephen Harper and Justin Trudeau
What do you all think of having an article for Stephen Harper titled "Premiership of Stephen Harper, first and second terms", and another one for "Premiership of Stephen Harper, third term". Also I propose doing the same for Trudeau, having an article titled "Premiership of Justin Trudeau, first term" and "Premiership of Justin Trudeau, second and third terms".

I believe this way is more organized, rather than having a separate article for domestic policy, foreign policy, etc. Also, it meets Article size.  Ak-eater06  (talk) 05:39, 12 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I'd named them "Prime Ministership...", to avoid confusion with the provincial/territorial premiers. GoodDay (talk) 16:50, 12 November 2022 (UTC)
 * That was my reaction as well, but I googled the phrase and realized there are already Premiership of Stephen Harper articles and Ak-eater06 may be talking about how to reorganize them and not so much about the use of that title. I searched it in google books and it is indeed a phrase used in some Polisci books. But personally as someone who has followed Canadian politics closely for years it's not a phrase I have ever encountered until now; is it really the Common Name way to describe it? --Dan Carkner (talk) 16:52, 12 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Strictly speaking, premier and prime minister are strictly interchangeable terms for the head of a parliamentary government. Canadian English follows a usage convention of reserving the title prime minister for the federal leader while referring to provincial leaders as premiers to minimize confusion — but that's a specifically Canadian way of using those words, not a standard feature of their basic definitions. For instance, you can refer to Rishi Sunak as the "premier" of England, and Élisabeth Borne as the "premier" of France, and François Legault as the "prime minister" of Quebec (and, in fact, in French you have to refer to François Legault as the premier ministre of Quebec, not because Quebec is getting any special treatment but because the French language doesn't have separate terms for those positions at all, and every Canadian provincial or territorial premier is always a premier ministre in French.) And the other added complication is that there isn't any such word as "prime ministership" at all — if you want to talk about the person's term in office as a thing, the word for that is always "premiership" regardless of whether it would be more normative to have used "premier" or "prime minister" as their job title. So, yeah, it sounds a bit odd to the Canadian ear, and it's true that it isn't a term we would encounter every day, but it's not an error. Bearcat (talk) 15:30, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Just to add another data point to the interchangability of premier and prime minister, many provincial leaders styled themselves "prime minister" in the past. Ontario only started using premier in the 70s. — Kawnhr (talk) 15:47, 14 November 2022 (UTC)


 * "...of England"??? GoodDay (talk) 16:10, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Do prime ministers really have terms? They are sworn in just once and stay in office regardless of elections until someone else takes over. I think year ranges would be better. Indefatigable (talk) 16:25, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
 * They don't have a term. They're appointed & remain in office, until they resign, die or are dismissed. GoodDay (talk) 16:35, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Concur with Indefatigable and GoodDay; a PM only has more than one term if they are defeated and come back:  Macdonald, Meighen, King and Pierre Trudeau.  Better to use year ranges. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 01:43, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

CBC Television
I've updated the CBC Television page, as best I could. But that page needs a major upgrade. Not to mention related pages Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC Sports, etc. GoodDay (talk) 06:28, 27 November 2022 (UTC)

Party name change
Note: The British Columbia Liberal Party has changed its name to either British Columbia United or British Columbia United Party. Will an RM be required? GoodDay (talk) 22:03, 16 November 2022 (UTC)

Nevermind, the party members voted for it, but it hasn't been officially changed yet. PS - Wish these things weren't announced, until they're final. GoodDay (talk) 22:44, 16 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Whenever it does occur, a RM shouldn't be necessary, per WP:NAMECHANGES. — Kawnhr (talk) 23:18, 16 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Saw this the other day..... I take it they're not aware of the history of this name. The majority of people think of South Africa not in a good way. Moxy -Maple Leaf (Pantone).svg 02:01, 23 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Is this "British Columbia United" or is it "BC United"? The news reports seem to show it rebranding from "British Columbia Liberal Party" to "BC United"... ;; this new name makes me think of the Union of the Mainland Colony with the Vancouver Island Colony ;; and the union of BC with the Confederation of Canada -- 65.92.246.191 (talk) 08:19, 1 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I suspect the name will be "British Columbia United Party", commonly styled/abbreviated "BC United", but we'll have to wait until the change is actually made. — Kawnhr (talk) 15:29, 1 December 2022 (UTC)

Notability of Political Spouses
An article was recently created for Anaida Poilievre. She is a political staffer, and also happens to be the wife of Pierre Poilievre. I note that we have an article about Sophie Grégoire Trudeau but not about the spouse of Jagmeet Singh for what that is worth. Perhaps some one should create one. Perhaps not. I am aware of WP:POLITICIAN, and that we require "significant press coverage" for politicians. Usually, we ignore "routine" coverage. How should we apply this to political spouses, if at all? Anyway, I have started a conversation on the talk page. For what it is worth, we have articles about many past prime-ministerial spouses (eg. Laureen Harper, Sheila Martin, Aline Chrétien). It seems less common to have an article about the spouse of a leader of the opposition. There are no articles about the spouses of many leaders of the opposition like Erin O'Toole, Andrew Scheer, and Michael Ignatieff. It seems there is an article about Janine Krieber spouse of Stéphane Dion but that seems to be due to her notability as a political scientist or perhaps her run for local council. Anyway, if anyone has any insight into how we have/should deal with the notability of Canadian political spouses it would be appreciated.--Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 22:49, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I'd limit it to spouses of the governors general & the prime ministers. GoodDay (talk) 23:20, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I'd limit it to only those people notable in their own right, per WP:NPOLITICIAN and WP:NOTINHERITED. Sophie Trudeau is a notable media personality and philanthropist in her own right, and was before she and Justin started dating. There's nothing in Anaida Poilievre's bio that establishes notability - she's a run-of-the-mill political staffer and has a blog that doesn't even merit a redlink, and the link we have for it leads to a page that doesn't load. That's a long way off from meriting an article. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 23:35, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I created the article. She meets WP:GNG due to the multiple sources with significant coverage about her. If someone passes WP:GNG that's all that is needed, no specific guideline places a higher bar. WP:NOTINHERITED is misunderstood here, it just says not to create an article just because of someone's status, but it doesn't prohibit it. Every member of the royal family's notability is inherited, they are not excluded, they just need to pass the bar from significant coverage, not because of their role alone. <span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;background-image:linear-gradient(90deg,black,purple,blue);color:transparent;background-clip:text;-webkit-background-clip:text">CT55555 (talk) 00:23, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
 * The sources used in the article are quite poor despite their provenance. For example, Who is Pierre Poilievre's wife? What you should know about Anaida Poilievre at CTV News literally regurgitates claims by the subject without any shred of fact-checking (eg - "According to her speech on Sept. 10, Poilievre was born...", "According to Poilievre’s unverified LinkedIn profile, she studied..." etc.). The National Post article is a little better, but does the same thing at times. The CBC article exists only because she is a politician's wife (she was targetted by Jeremy MacKenzie); most women threatened in this way would barely get a mention in local papers, if at all. The second CTV News article also exists solely because she is a politician's wife. And the Penticton Herald piece is local journalism sourced from New Canadian Media (is that an RS?). I don't know if these collectively constitute the subject to be notable, but the WP article is bereft of any personal accomplishments other than being a political staffer who owns property and has a family, none of which generally convey notability. She may technically qualify for an article, but only as a loophole in GNG. I personally think she does not currently merit an article, but may in the future. Mind  matrix  01:18, 3 December 2022 (UTC)

Not notable. The spouse of the prime minister is one thing, the spouse of an opposition leader is another. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 21:17, 3 December 2022 (UTC)

The spouse of the prime minister is notable because she has a public role; the spouse of any other politician, party leader or not, is notable only if she has done notable things on her own, such as Janine Krieber being independently notable in her own right as a political scientist. Bearcat (talk) 17:30, 4 December 2022 (UTC)

Office holder RFC
An RFC is being held, which may concern Canadian officer holder lists. Your input would be appreciated. GoodDay (talk) 02:54, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

Infobox legislation
I've updated the infoboxes at Civil Marriage Act and An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code so that they no longer contain fields stating "Enacted by: House of Commons" and "Enacted by: Senate", but instead correctly state that they were enacted by the Parliament of Canada. In order to keep the first/second/third reading dates in each chamber, it is necessary to manually add the chamber name to the reading date. If anyone has a more elegant solution, it would be appreciated. I've raised the issue at Template talk:Infobox legislation. So far other articles I have checked that use the infobox correctly state "Enacted by: Parliament of Canada", but I've only checked a small fraction.--Trystan (talk) 15:26, 5 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for doing this, Trystan. I noticed that the template wasn't working properly yesterday and tried to fix the display, without success.  You're quite right;  only Parliament enacts a law;  the Houses each pass a bill.  I think we need a Canadian legislation infobox, instead of trying to fit it into the current one.  For example, the committee always shows as coming after 3rd reading.  That is not correct.  Committee is normally between 2nd and 3rd reading, and in some cases, committee can come before second reading. The template seems designed for the US usage, where committee is the reconciliation process between the different versions of bills passed by the Representatives and the Senate. As well, the infobox should be flexible enough to accomodate legislative stages for Quebec legislation:  the National Assembly does not use the "reading" terminology.  As far as I know, the other provinces and territories all still use the "reading" terminology.  I lack the technical skills to create a new template, but I could certainly assist in deciding what fields should be in the template, and the terminology to be used. I will leave a similar comment at the "Template Talk".  Is there also a place where we could post a request for a completely new template, which works accurately for Canadian legislation? A template wiki-factory? Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 17:38, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

The Infobox legislation template template has now been updated to resolve this issue, so long as the date_passed field is completed (and, for federal legislation, the date_passed2 field). For provincial legislation, if the legislature field specifies the legislature (e.g., Manitoba Legislature), the enacted_by field contains the legislative assembly (e.g., Legislative Assembly of Manitoba), and the date_passed field is completed with the date of third reading, it should display correctly.--Trystan (talk) 19:27, 8 December 2022 (UTC)

A tad off-topic, but 'sometimes' having two pages that are quite similar, can be confusing. Examples: 66th General Assembly of Prince Edward Island & Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island. This (I suppose) is mostly do to the provincial legislatures having changed from bicameral to unicameral, over time. GoodDay (talk) 19:47, 8 December 2022 (UTC)

Ambiguous start/end date for ministry — which to use?
Bit of an odd situation with the transition period between the Horgan ministry and the Eby ministry, and I was hoping for community input on what to do.

So, John Horgan formally stepped down as premier on November 18, and David Eby was sworn-in that day. However, Eby's cabinet wasn't sworn-in until December 7.

Now, when a party changes its leaders mid-parliament, it's not unusual for the premier to be sworn-in days before their new cabinet, with their predecessor's cabinet remaining in place, and for the gap is simply ignored. For example, Ujjal Dosanjh was sworn in as premier on February 24, and his new cabinet was unveiled on February 29; which means that, for those five days, Dan Miller's cabinet appointees were serving under Dosanjh. But look at the Legislative Library's publications: it counts Feb 24 as the date the Miller ministry ended,(1) and, while noting that Dosanjh briefly retained Miller's cabinet in the introduction section, it does not include them in the actual list of Dosanjh's cabinet ministers. (2)

Simple enough. But the situation with Horgan and Eby is awkward, due to the unusually long time between Eby being sworn in and unveiling his cabinet (three weeks). Here, the Legislative Library publications use Dec 7 as the end date for the Horgan ministry — even though the man himself had stepped down by that point!(3) Meanwhile, the Eby ministry's publication follows the lead of Dosanjh ministry, but uniquely, also includes an appendix that lists those holdovers.(4)

So which date should Wikipedia use for when the Horgan ministry ended and the Eby ministry began: Nov 18 or Dec 7? Dec 7 seems to be 'official', but as it is unambiguous that Horgan ceased to be premier on Nov 18 (and thus part of cabinet), it creates the oddity of the Horgan ministry existing longer than the man himself was part of it. Nov 18 thus makes more sense to me, on the basis that a ministry ought to end on the resignation of its leader and begin on the ascension of a new one, but of course that does create a large gap that we'd have to maintain (ie: make sure well-meaning editors don't add the holdovers to the page, or say that a minister held a post under both Horgan and Eby, etc) Obviously, either way there should be something in the article to explain the situation, but which date should be paramount? — Kawnhr (talk) 22:39, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I'd recommend Nov 18, as that's when the cabinet head was sworn in. The ministry is named after the premier. PS - I do understand the confusion, though. Usually, a new cabinet is sworn in on the same day as the new premier. GoodDay (talk) 22:55, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I agree with GoodDay. The new ministry starts when the new First Minister is sworn in.  The new First Minister may keep the ministers from the former Cabinet for a while, but they hold office on sufferance from the new First Minister. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk)

RFC Metis Ontario
Pls see Talk:Métis Moxy - 14:59, 10 December 2022 (UTC)

18 Canadians Who Made Us Feel Better About The World In 2022 - Chatelaine
Here's a link to an article in Chatelaine magazine about some Canadians who received The 2022 Doris Anderson Awards. They all seem notable, but some of them might not have articles yet. https://www.chatelaine.com/rankings/doris-anderson-awards-2022/ Eastmain (talk • contribs) 22:21, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

Additions to infoboxes of lieutenant governors
I've noticed that has recently added to all 10 lieutenant governor pages' infoboxes, a bit about "Monarchy in right of province". Perhaps those additions should've been discussed 'first'? GoodDay (talk) 21:01, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I agree. I also think that the additions are factually inaccurate.  There is no reporting requirement for the Lieutenant Governors to the monarch.Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 21:13, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I also agree. The position represents the King, acts on the advice of the Premier and Cabinet, and can be removed with cause by the Governor General. "Reports to" is, at best, a gross oversimplification of a very complicated set of relationships.--Trystan (talk) 03:40, 16 December 2022 (UTC)

Since there's no objections? I'll revert the edits-in-question. GoodDay (talk) 03:43, 16 December 2022 (UTC)

dit name
Can someone point out the equivalent article to dit name on French Wikipedia? Thanks. -- 65.92.246.191 (talk) 08:04, 1 December 2022 (UTC)
 * There does not appear to be one. The French term is nom-dit but there is no corresponding article. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 23:46, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
 * FWIW the usage of dit is mentioned at fr:Pseudonyme, but not the nom-dit as such.—Odysseus 1 4 7  9  00:04, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Though that is a completely different usage. "Samuel Clemens dit Mark Twain" (nom-de-jure dit nom-de-guerre) and not "Forename Surname dit Lastname" as in our article dit-nom. -- 65.92.246.191 (talk) 21:34, 17 December 2022 (UTC)

Do MPs retire or resign, when they chose not to complete their term
& myself seem to be in disagreement on whether MP Dave MacKenzie is retiring or resigning. I explained to him that senators retire, where as members of the House of Commons resign. GoodDay (talk) 00:51, 17 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I have no opinion on the legal, political, or constitutional issue. I note only that the cited source on the relevant page says that he is retiring. GoodDay pointed me to another Wikipedia page to support the argument that McKenzie is resigning. The sources cited on that page also say that he is retiring. I ask only that the material in the article reflect the cited sources. Instant Comma (talk) 01:08, 17 December 2022 (UTC)

The other Wikipedia page I've pointed to is By-elections to the 44th Canadian Parliament, which (like the other by-election to parliament pages) sites death or resignation, as the cause of a vacancy. GoodDay (talk) 01:10, 17 December 2022 (UTC)
 * The second paragraph of that article cites one source on MacKenzie's situation (note 5). It says that he's retiring. I would add that it is particularly important that material reflects the sources in biographies of living persons. Instant Comma (talk) 01:26, 17 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I just spent a few minutes doing some basic research. There is a piece of legislation called the "Members of Parliament Retiring Allowances Act." So, at least from the point of view of the Parliament of Canada, MPs can retire. Instant Comma (talk) 01:29, 17 December 2022 (UTC)
 * But they have to resign to collect that pension. GoodDay (talk) 01:35, 17 December 2022 (UTC)
 * But they are retired. As the sources say. So there's no reason to change "retired" (what the sources say) to "resigned" (which the sources do not say). Instant Comma (talk) 01:38, 17 December 2022 (UTC)
 * You & I disagree on this matter. GoodDay (talk) 01:42, 17 December 2022 (UTC)
 * We do indeed. Instant Comma (talk) 01:49, 17 December 2022 (UTC)

Technically, everyone that retires resigns in some way; this seems like an argument against using normal language simply because someone's an MP.

If they're leaving working life, they're retiring. If they're off to another job, they're resigning. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 05:28, 17 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Still have to resign, in either situation. GoodDay (talk) 05:30, 17 December 2022 (UTC)

We should follow the sources - doing otherwise is original research. -M.nelson (talk) 22:53, 17 December 2022 (UTC)

Links to disambiguation page King's Bench
Could you help to disambiguate some of the links to King's Bench? Many of the articles, shown on this list are Canadian, sometimes to current Canadian provinces but some to Upper Canada or Lower Canada and I am not expert enough to know where the links should go. Options include: Any help with sorting out these out so that readers arrive a the right article would be appreciated.&mdash; Rod talk 22:03, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Court of King's Bench of Alberta, the superior trial court of the Canadian province of Alberta
 * Court of King's Bench of Manitoba, the superior trial court of the Canadian province of Manitoba
 * Court of King's Bench of New Brunswick, the superior trial court of the Canadian province of New Brunswick
 * Court of King's Bench for Saskatchewan, the superior trial court of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan
 * Court of King's Bench of Quebec, a historical trial court in the British colony of Quebec
 * Court of King's Bench of Quebec, the prior name for the present-day Quebec Court of Appeal of pre-Confederation Canada East and modern province of Quebec

Watchlisting request
On two separate occasions in 2022, anonymous IPs have edited our article about the 2021 film Drinkwater to add "Mike Drinkwater" as the name of a cast member in, and/or writer of, the film. As one can probably guess from the film's title, however, this is actually just the name of the film's lead character rather than a cast or crew member involved in the production. However, both times slipped my notice initially and were only caught and reverted months after the fact, and the article appears to only have one other watchlister, so I wanted to ask if a few willing Canadian editors could help keep an eye on this in the future. Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 00:31, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I just added it to my watchlist. Cheers! Masterhatch (talk) 03:56, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

Shroom House, Vancouver
Anyone aware of sources to add to Shroom House about the Vancouver location? --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 16:12, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

Iglunga
Does anybody have any suggestion as to what to do with Iglunga? Apparently in 1957 it was renamed Iglunga Iglungayut but according to the CGNDB neither name is correct and they don't have the current name. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 22:21, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Any chance the Nunavut-Department of Culture and Heritage "retired" the name in 1979 as a former settlement and moved the name to the nearby | Iglunga Island? Iglungayut is listed as a settlement, but Iglunga as merely a locality, and it was moved to "Previously Official" status on 1979-08-21, the same date the  Iglunga Island became an official Island name. Meters (talk) 22:48, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
 * If it was retired it had to be someone other than the Nunavut-Department of Culture and Heritage as it didn't exist then. The link to the "Nunavut-Department of Culture and Heritage" on the pages at CGNDB are useless as they are circular redirects. The other thing is what is meant by "Decision date"? It could mean either some department in the government of the Northwest Territories and/or the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources renamed it or did they just find out about it.
 * And I realised last night that there may be some confusion over the word used in the article, "settlement". It probably does not mean settlement in the way that Pangnirtung is a settlement. It could be a area that people went to because of in a particular season the fish, seals, caribou or some other game passed through. It may have never been a year round place at all. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 17:42, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

Rogers Monday Night Hockey
There is a discussion opened at Talk:Rogers Monday Night Hockey that might be of interest to you, and I would invite your comments. Regards,  PK T (alk)  16:20, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

Disambiguation of links to Woodland caribou
Could you help to disambiguate links to Woodland caribou? There are over 40 articles with links shown in this list. Any help to sort out which should go to Boreal woodland caribou or Migratory woodland caribou or both (using the format at WP:INTDAB) would be great.&mdash; Rod talk 16:58, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:TVOntario
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:TVOntario that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 23:21, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

Premierships of Stephen Harper and Justin Trudeau (II)
I'm asking again (since last time I didn't get a response).

What do you all think of having an article for Stephen Harper titled "Premiership of Stephen Harper, first and second terms", and another one for "Premiership of Stephen Harper, third term". Also I propose doing the same for Trudeau, having an article titled "Premiership of Justin Trudeau, first term" and "Premiership of Justin Trudeau, second and third terms".

I believe this way is more organized, rather than having a separate article for domestic policy, foreign policy, etc. Also, it meets Article size.  Ak-eater06  (talk) 06:19, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Recommend using the title "Prime Ministership" rather then "Premiership", since the later tends to be associated with provincial/territorial gov't leaders. GoodDay (talk) 06:24, 29 December 2022 (UTC)


 * I would oppose, since prime ministers don’t serve terms, unlike presidents, and I think this terminology would be inaccurate and misleading. Harper was sworn into office once and once only, in 2006, and held the position continuously until his resignation in 2015. Trudeau was sworn in once, in 2015, and has held the office continuously to this date. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 07:25, 29 December 2022 (UTC)


 * I would also oppose, since their terms were continous, it's far less confusing to a random member of the public than if say they want to see what Harper did in 2012 and it isn't even mentioned in the first article -CanadianScotNationalist — Preceding unsigned comment added by CanadianScotNationalist (talk • contribs) 16:09, 29 December 2022 (UTC)


 * "Prime ministership" isn't a word. Unfortunately, whether you like it or not, "premiership" is the only word that exists in English for what "prime ministership" would mean if it existed. Bearcat (talk) 14:28, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

GAR notice
Edmonton has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 19:08, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

Graham Farquharson article up for deletion discussion
I figured I would post a notice here, the article about mining executive Graham Farquharson is being looked at for deletion in AfD. I get a sense he's notable, but the article is a mess as it stands; can someone come over to AfD and perhaps give an honest opinion about notability for this person? I don't find much for sourcing, but what I did find (including the Order of Canada) leads me to believe he's notable. Oaktree b (talk) 03:42, 13 January 2023 (UTC)

Lieutenant Governors in Legislature Infoboxes
This infoboxes for provincial legislatures were recently updated to include a field for (eg) "Sovereign: Monarch of Canada in right of Alberta". I think it is a good addition to recognize that the Crown is a constituent part of the legislatures, but would suggest we use the wording "Vicegeral representative: Lieutenant Governor of Alberta", or something similar. Practically, the specific LG article is a much more relevant target than an article on the monarchy in Canada generally. More fundamentally, we should reflect specifically how the Constitution Act, 1867 and other acts that established provincial legislatures defined them: (eg) "There shall be a Legislature for Ontario consisting of the Lieutenant Governor and of One House, styled the Legislative Assembly of Ontario." (By contrast, Parliament consists of "the Queen, an Upper House styled the Senate, and the House of Commons.")--Trystan (talk) 15:08, 6 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Good point, we should follow the language used in the constitution. —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 16:33, 6 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Except the courts have interpreted the language of the Constitution as meaning that the monarch is just as much part of the provincial legislatures as the federal Parliament. The Lt Govs are the monarch’s representatives, just like the Gov Gen is the monarch’s rep in Parliament. In both cases, the monarch’s representative gives Royal Assent in the name of the monarch, not as a power of their own office. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 03:47, 15 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I'd rather we deleted the monarch from the provincial infoboxes, as the provinces are not sovereign states. Wish the same would be done to the Australian states, United Kingdom's constituent countries & territories, etc. GoodDay (talk) 16:39, 6 January 2023 (UTC)
 * If we don't mention the crown-in-parliament, those infoboxes describe the legislatures as simply unicameral or bicameral, and omits the fact that the constitution specifically says there are three bodies of Parliament and two bodies in provincial legislatures.
 * I'd also recommend 'removing' the monarch from the infoboxes of the Canadian provincial premiers. As well as the Australian state premiers, the UK's three first ministers (Scotland, Northern Ireland & Wales), etc. I just find it 'might' be a tad confusing for less familiar readers, having the monarch in infoboxes of non-sovereign states. GoodDay (talk) 17:14, 6 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I’m afraid I disagree. The job of an encyclopedia is to explain as accurately as possible the state of affairs. We shouldn’t be dumbing down articles. We should be doing our best to make the articles as accurate and informative as possible, especially for difficult subjects. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 03:52, 15 January 2023 (UTC)

Pre-Confederation nationality question
Maybe a silly question but I can't logic it myself this morning. When writing a biography of a person born in what is now Canada but before Confederation, but who lived through Confederation and is known for things both before and after, how do we describe their nationality? I have written "Canadian" but I'm not sure that's right. In case it matters the person in question is Henry Ketchum, who was born in New Brunswick in the 19th century and whose family were Loyalists, but I'm also not sure that English nor American are accurate, and I haven't seen it written in any sources (yet, still researching). Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:39, 15 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Legally, he would have been a British subject when born, and continued to be so after Confederation. When I'm working on a pre-Confederation bio, I often just put in the lead that "Smith was born in Town X, in [name of province], in Year" and don't try to nail it down much more.  "British North American" is accurate, but clumsy.  You could also use the names of the provinces, New Brunswick in this case, Lower Canada, Upper Canada, Province of Canada (again sort of clumsy sounding to modern ears).  Each of them referred to themself as a province, by the way, prior to Confederation, not as a colony. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 17:22, 15 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks, that's good advice. Of course it's not strictly necessary to include a nationality if it's not significant to the person's notability, which in this case I suppose it's not. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 17:54, 15 January 2023 (UTC)
 * For the case of someone who was active both before and after Confederation, I'm comfortable using "Canadian", even if most of their activity was pre-Confederation. For example, I would say that Joe Howe and Francis Hincks were Canadian, even though the bulk of their political activity, and probably the more significant,  was pre-Confederation. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 19:30, 15 January 2023 (UTC)

GAR for Montreal
Montreal has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:27, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

Prohibition on the Purchase of Residential Property by Non-Canadians Act
Not sure if I should put in a formal RA or if this message will suffice, but there really should be an article about this.

I collected some possible sources at my sandbox, here.

Additionally, here is the actual code from the government.

Cheers! BhamBoi (talk) 04:59, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

Edit war at Template:Conservatism in Canada
Anyone feel like helping me out at Template:Conservatism in Canada? Some editor is adding a bunch of random names without discussion/consensus and I've reverted him twice but he keeps reverting me. I've cited WP:BRD but he doesn't care.  Ak-eater06  (talk) 17:01, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Recommend WP:ANEW. -- GoodDay (talk) 17:14, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Reverted with a warning. I must point out though that they have tried to discuss on the talk page and you have not engaged, and you're at 3RR yourself. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 17:25, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

Shaughnessy Golf & Country Club
I have a juicy bit for you Canada-oriented editors. The article contains a sentence and a half about where the land came from and how it was acquired--there is a fascinating story to tell there, as I gather from this and this, and especially this, but I do not have the knowledge (or access for that book) to write it up properly. As far as I can tell that very "sale" is worth an entire article, but it certainly warrants more coverage in the article. I'm hoping one or more of you (? ?? will pick this up. I'm sure there's news coverage too, but I haven't looked for that yet. Thank you so much, Drmies (talk) 23:54, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
 * It's considered a landmark case, so could indeed be the topic of its own article. The Wikipedia Library holds material that could be used to build the article; search the case name "Guerin v. The Queen" in the HeinOnline law collection, for example.-- Ponyo bons mots 22:02, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

Proposed change to Canadian communities structure guideline
Your input at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Canadian communities/Structure guideline would be appreciated. Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 12:21, 25 January 2023 (UTC)

Request for comment on a relevant article to this WikiProject
Please see Talk:Kaktovik_numerals for issues related to display of characters and accessibility. ―Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 11:03, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for 39th Canadian Parliament
39th Canadian Parliament has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 14:41, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for John Edward Brownlee
John Edward Brownlee has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 17:43, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

FAR for Ed Stelmach
User:Buidhe has nominated Ed Stelmach for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:02, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

AFD on ship built 1822 in Quebec
Please consider participating at Articles for deletion/Constantia (1822 ship). --Doncram (talk,contribs) 00:47, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

Seeking clarification on status of PQ members, concerning the Quebec national assembly
Looking at the Oath of Allegiance (Canada), National Assembly of Quebec & Parti Quebecois pages. There seems to be confusion as to whether the "3" PQ MNAs are actually MNAs. The first page seems to say they're not MNAs. The second page seems mixed as to what their status is. Meanwhile, the last page, seems to suggest they are MNAs. GoodDay (talk) 19:26, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

Note - I checked the Quebec national assembly website & it lists the 3 PQ members as MNAs. GoodDay (talk) 19:31, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Based on the sources I looked at, it appears that they are MNAs, but cannot take be seated in the legislature without taking the oath. This is similar to how Louis Riel was elected multiple times, never took the oath or sat for safety reasons, but is still officially an MP. . Since the National Assembly has repealed the oath to the Crown starting the next sitting, and have unanimous consent not to eject MNAs if there is a court challenge, the situation should be resolved later this month anyway.. -- Patar knight - chat/contributions 01:47, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I've made some changes to the Quebec National Assembly, PQ & 43rd Quebec Legislature pages, to bring them in line with the Oath page. Since, their MNA status is kinda in limbo, until the next sitting. GoodDay (talk) 20:19, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

Been looking for sources. Haven't found any updates on their status. GoodDay (talk) 01:07, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Glen Park, Toronto
An editor with knowledge of Toronto neighbourhoods may wish to join the discussion at Articles for deletion/Glen Park, Toronto. Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 12:14, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

Template:Edmonton–Drumheller train map
FYI has been nominated for deletion. There apparently is missing a main topic article, and lack of use in the community articles -- 64.229.90.199 (talk) 05:44, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

Jennifer McKelvie
There's a discussion concerning McKelvie's status, upon John Tory's resignation as Toronto mayor, tomorrow. Further input would be appreciated. GoodDay (talk) 22:33, 16 February 2023 (UTC)

Canadian party colour
FYI, has been nominated at TfD for merging; however there seems to be an incompatibility with the merge target? -- 64.229.90.199 (talk) 06:24, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Merge proposal closed; no consensus:  Templates_for_discussion/Log/2023_February_10 Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 16:59, 19 February 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton Park
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton Park that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. UtherSRG (talk) 13:08, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

Canada's grand railway hotels
Anyone understand why Canada's grand railway hotels was moved? Talk:Railway hotels in Canada Moxy - 17:21, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Check the history - it was moved on Feb 15th, and the edit comment is, "Tsc9i8 moved page Canada's grand railway hotels to Railway hotels in Canada: Comply with naming conventions. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_titles#Use_nouns. Also, not all structures included qualify as "grand.""  PK  T (alk)  17:42, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Pls come to talk. Moxy -Maple Leaf (Pantone).svg 18:31, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

Translation needed at René Lévesque
Hi, the size of the René Lévesque English article is nowhere close to the size of its French one. Lévesque was an important figure in Canadian history and particularly the Quebec sovereignty movement, and I think it would be great if there are a few editors who are fully bilingual and are willing to translate content from the French article to the English one, sort of what a few editors did with Maurice Duplessis a few months ago.

Also I'm not saying the entire French article should be translated (as there is a lot of excessive detail on his early life) but the Premiership section needs expansion.  Ak-eater06  (talk) 23:21, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

Identifying a mountain
The lower photo here is described as "Cathedral Peak—Canadian Rockies" along the route of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Does anyone know where this would be? Is it now known by a different name? - Jmabel &#124; Talk 01:30, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
 * It's Cathedral Mountain (Yoho). Indefatigable (talk) 02:24, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

Saskatchewan Air Ambulance
Does anyone know if the Saskatchewan Air Ambulance are owned by SaskBuilds? The have the four Beech 200 aircraft. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 03:37, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

Statue of John Deighton
I have no idea what to think about all the recent changes to Statue of John Deighton. Are any project members able to take a look? --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 03:19, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

Prime Ministers & Opposition leaders
Hello. I think we need to do something about the confusion of departure dates of prime ministers & opposition leaders, were changing of status from one to the other or vise versa, occurred on the exact same date. My major concerns (for now) are List of prime ministers of Canada, which I had to fix up & Leader of the Official Opposition (Canada), which is a tad messy. GoodDay (talk) 03:56, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

Can anything be done about the formatting of this page?
Prior to the new look, there was a Table of Contents at the top of the page. Now, with Table of Contents reduced to a pop-up in the new look, there's a huge white space at the top, beside the archives box to the right. Can anything be done so that the entries start at the top of the page and there's no huge white space? It looks to me like amateurish formatting. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 00:31, 4 March 2023 (UTC)
 * I will take a look..... I'm going to wait a few weeks see if all this gets rolled back. Moxy -Maple Leaf (Pantone).svg 02:59, 4 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 16:10, 4 March 2023 (UTC)
 * ...Better?? Canadian Wikipedians' notice board/TOC . Moxy -Maple Leaf (Pantone).svg 19:38, 4 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Way better! Thanks.  Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 20:03, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

WP:CIII "task force"
As this Noticeboard is listed as considering the B-Grade article Charles III as Top Importance, dropping by to notify you of an attempt to organise some sort of effort to improve it at least one quality notch. 109.255.211.6 (talk) 04:29, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

RFC concerning general & party elections
An RFC is being held, concerning the leads of general & party elections. GoodDay (talk) 16:18, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

Template talk:Canada topic
Please see Template talk:Canada topic. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 18:09, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Curtis Joseph
Curtis Joseph has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 00:19, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

fairly recent move of King Street (Toronto) to King Street, Toronto
Regarding the edit here... my impression was the "Name, City" format was more for Canadian neighbourhoods, per MOS:CANNEIGH, and that "Name (City)" was the de facto standard for articles about streets/roads/avenues/etc.

Thoughts/comments? Am I crazy? I can't find any guidance on it. Looks like in the US articles it's more "Road_name (City)", which is also the format generally used in BC's Lower Mainland where I'm from (e.g. Broadway (Vancouver) and Main Street (Vancouver).

I would prefer "(City)" for roads because otherwise I expect an article like King Street, Toronto to be about a neighbourhood "King Street" because of MOS:CANNEIGH, not about an actual street. Joeyconnick (talk) 01:59, 19 March 2023 (UTC)
 * You're absolutely correct. I've moved it back. -- Earl Andrew - talk 03:48, 19 March 2023 (UTC)
 * I agree there should be a way to let readers know just from the article title that this is a street. However, adding parentheses does not seem to be the common naming method, see Queen Street, Toronto, Queen Street, Hamilton, Ontario, and Queen Street, Ottawa. Magnolia677 (talk) 11:37, 19 March 2023 (UTC)
 * TBF, those were all moved in November, so it's not long standing practise.-- Earl Andrew - talk 17:08, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

FYI has been nominated for deletion -- 65.92.244.151 (talk) 05:02, 20 March 2023 (UTC)

"President of Canada" listed at Redirects for discussion
The redirect [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=President_of_Canada&redirect=no President of Canada] has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at until a consensus is reached. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 19:06, 20 March 2023 (UTC)

Can any talented editor do an image for the coat-of-arms of the Province of Canada?
The article for the Province of Canada has been using the British coat of arms since forever in the infobox. However, I recently came across an image for the Province's coat of arms, on a coin that was issued by the Canadian Mint: https://www.mint.ca/en/shop/coins/2019/10-oz.-pure-silver-coin---great-seal-of-the-province-of-canada-1841-1867---mintage-900-2019 Is there any talented editor who could produce a drawing of the coat of arms that we could use on the Province of Canada page? Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 12:36, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
 * That's the great seal, which is different (usually) to a coat of arms. But, still, it would be a nice addition to the article. It's also depicted here. -- ₪   MIESIANIACAL  00:47, 17 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes, noticed I used the wrong term shortly after posting, but didn't think I should change what I'd said. It's quite complicated, being a combination of the seals of Lower Canada and Upper Canada.  There is a much simpler drawing on the cover of the Careless book on the union of the Canadas, which does purport to be the arms of the province, similar to the seal.  However, I've not tracked that version down to any actual contemporary usage.  For example, the Province of Canada statute books use the royal arms, not the Careless version. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 02:13, 17 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Just a thought, perhaps "Heraldry" might be a better alternative name? CaribDigita (talk) 06:11, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

POV at David Johnston
Hi, all--Trouble is starting to bubble at David Johnston. Discussion is open here; but, it's not looking promising at the moment. More voices--especially those of experienced editors--are needed. ₪  MIESIANIACAL  00:35, 17 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Agreed. It is getting more urgent to have more experienced eyes on this article, at 2019 Canadian Parliament infiltration plot and at related articles. We may be getting to the point were articles may need to be semi-protected for a period.--Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 17:45, 23 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes, there are a number of highly partisan editors pushing non-neutral POV like the editor above, Darryl Kerrigan, who need to be sanctioned and topic-banned. See the contribution history of the users in the linked talk page section. 206.45.2.52 (talk) 20:55, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

Chinese Election Interference
Some experienced eyes at 2019 Canadian Parliament infiltration plot would be helpful. Perhaps this article needs to be renamed, or merged somewhere. It seems a little scattered at the moment. I would appreciate any suggestions.--Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 00:13, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
 * This ties in with what I've raised below. -- ₪   MIESIANIACAL  00:54, 17 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Agreed. It is getting more urgent to have more experienced eyes on this and related articles. We may be getting to the point were articles may need to be semi-protected for a period.--Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 17:22, 23 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Well, it has now devolved to disruptive editing and vandalism by IP and new editors who are refusing to discuss on talk. Help please.--Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 20:44, 23 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Request page protection: Requests for page protection .... PK  T (alk)  20:50, 23 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Some eyes on Trudeau cash-for-access scandal might also be helpful. I am about to remove a bunch of non-notable names.--Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 00:57, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

high schools or secondary schools?
The terms high school and secondary school are both used in reference to Canadian educational institutions and I think some standarization would be useful, especially in terms of categories. For example, we have Category:High schools in Canada, Category:Catholic secondary schools in Canada, and Category:Alumni by secondary school in Canada. FWIW, the article high school redirects to secondary school. Thoughts?--User:Namiba 21:55, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
 * I can attest that both terms are used by Canadians ("secondary" might be more common in official usage, but "high" is more common in everyday speech), and I suspect that any attempt to impose one or the other as a standard across-the-board usage would fail as miserably as "should Canadian date formatting be standardized as MDY or DMY" did. Bearcat (talk) 17:59, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Agreed. Both are in common use. No need to attempt to force standardization on something that isn't. Meters (talk) 18:12, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

past mayor election information
Thought I post it here. Where do I find prior election information for mayors? Was hoping to find the raw numbers for Ian Arthur and his mayor wins in Vaughan, Ontario. Thanks in advance. Ebbedlila (talk) 02:24, 31 March 2023 (UTC)
 * 2022 York Region municipal elections; the series links all the way back through 2010. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 02:44, 31 March 2023 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style § Conflicting styles for names of laws (which concerns MOS:CANLAW)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style § Conflicting styles for names of laws. —Joeyconnick (talk) 02:58, 31 March 2023 (UTC)

Content dispute over at David Eby
Hi, there's a content/editing dispute over on Talk:David Eby that could benefit from some outside eyes. Thanks! — Kawnhr (talk) 21:25, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
 * This is, I'm afraid, still going on. Can we get some more input? Do I need to escalate this somewhere? — Kawnhr (talk) 16:58, 4 April 2023 (UTC)

Should the article on George Prévost be re-named?
I don't know if this requires a formal RFC or not, so I thought I'd bring it here. George Prévost was the Governor-in-Chief of British North America from 1811 onwards, and Lt Governor of Lower Canada.
 * When the article was begun in 2005, there was no accent on the e:
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_Pr%C3%A9vost&oldid=3093007


 * On May 17, 2005, the name was edited in the lead line to be "Prévost", by editor A. Lafontaine, who was eventually blocked as a sock-puppet of banned editor DW:
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_Pr%C3%A9vost&direction=next&oldid=13840197https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:A._Lafontaine


 * On June 5, 2008, the page was moved to "George Prévost", and a redirect created to "George Prevost" by editor Commuood, apparently to comply with the use of "Prévost" in the article:
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_Pr%C3%A9vost&oldid=217313744

The difficulty is that I can't find any references other than in Wikipedia that refer to Prevost with an é:
 * Dictionary Canadian Biography: http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/prevost_george_5E.html
 * Encyclopedia Canadiana: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/sir-george-prevost#:~:text=Sir%20George%20Prevost%2C%20soldier%2C%20administrator,siege%20of%20Qu%C3%A9bec%20in%201759
 * Encyclopedia Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sir-George-Prevost-1st-Baronet
 * London Gazette, 1805, even though diacriticals are used for other names on the page: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/15874/page/1597
 * Dictionary of National Biography: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Prevost,_George_(1767-1816)
 * Canada, Federal Heritage Designations: "Prevost, Sir George National Historic Person": https://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/dfhd/page_nhs_eng.aspx?id=14255

It's true that according the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, his father, of Swiss descent, did spell his name "Prévost", but absent any reference to George Prevost spelling his name that way, I think the article should be re-named "George Prevost" and the link to "George Prévost" should be changed to a re-direct. Thoughts? Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 23:29, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I agree it should be renamed without the accent per WP:COMMONNAME. If the sources spell it George Prevost, then Wikipedia should too. Masterhatch (talk) 00:09, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
 * A quick Google check shows the accent mostly (entirely?) showing up on pages that plagiarise from Wikipedia. I expect whoever changed it to Prévost made an assumption. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 00:31, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Remove the accent. GoodDay (talk) 01:40, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I'd have to agree with removing the accent. This is, of course, a common tension when it comes to French-language names — should we spell the name the "traditional" French way on first principle, or should we check the sources to find out which spelling the person actually used? — but Wikipedia consensus per WP:CANFRENCH has long been the latter rather than the former. It's quite clear in this case that the anglicized (i.e. unaccented) form is the one that is actually used in reference to George, who was a US-born British Army officer rather than a québécois, so the fact that it's technically spelled with an accent in French takes a back seat here. Of course, the accented form should be retained as a redirect, however. Bearcat (talk) 18:43, 25 January 2023 (UTC)

Either way, the resulting article should mention the other spelling in its first sentence (eg, "George Prévost (also spelled "George Prevost")", should it be decided to keep the diacritic). FWIW, I see a lot of articles in several languages that use diacritics, and in this case I have no opinion either way. Regards,  PK T (alk)  19:04, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I disagree about including the accented spelling in the first sentence of the article because it isn't also spelt that way in the sources. If it was a mix--say 30% of sources use the accent and 70% don't-- I could agree about including the accented spelling in the first line but that's not the case. Simply put, the accented spelling is not an alternate spelling for his name. Masterhatch (talk) 21:16, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I agree with Masterhatch on this point. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 02:43, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Finally got around to fixing this. Removed the é from the article, except the reference to his father. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 17:17, 4 April 2023 (UTC)

St. Jean de Brebeuf Catholic High School
Could a few of you keep an eye on St. Jean de Brebeuf Catholic High School, as it has been getting some unsourced additions in the past month or so. Mind matrix  00:58, 5 April 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅ Added to my watchlist.  PK  T (alk)  10:16, 5 April 2023 (UTC)

Project-independent quality assessments
Quality assessments are used by Wikipedia editors to rate the quality of articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a class parameter to WikiProject banner shell, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to WikiProject banner shell, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass WPBannerMeta a new custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 20:50, 9 April 2023 (UTC)

Irving Family cluster of articles
Irving Family (New Brunswick) just came through AfC and has raised some questions about how best to handle the articles on the Irvings and their companies to avoid accidental content-forking (something that appears to already be happening, from my quick skim of them). More input on the discussion would be very welcome at Talk:Irving Family (New Brunswick). Thanks! -- asilvering (talk) 15:58, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

Category:Anglophone Canadian people
FYI has been proposed to be merged into  ; see Categories for discussion/Log/2023 April 9 -- 64.229.90.172 (talk) 05:56, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

RfC input request
Opinions and suggestions would be appreciated on a tangentially Canadian topic at Talk:British royal family. Thanks. ₪  MIESIANIACAL  03:33, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

New article: 2023 Old Montreal fire
I've started 2023 Old Montreal fire but I don't have time to give it the attention it deserves right now. If you do, I think it is an important event worthy of coverage in our encyclopedia.--User:Namiba 13:16, 30 March 2023 (UTC)
 * I went ahead and added some details to the page in form of an infobox with image. I got the basics, however someone can expand it once more info emerges on the disaster. PascalHD (talk) 17:16, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

BC United
The British Columbia Liberal Party officially changed its name to BC United today. A fair amount of work may need to be needed to update the article and related pages/templates. I presume we would leave leadership contest pages as the name the party had at the time, not change it. Thanks--Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 00:40, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Recall and Initiative Act (British Columbia)
Following unsuccessful recall attempts in the provincial ridings of Peace River North and Vancouver-Point Grey, it may be time to create a full article on the history of B.C.'s Recall and Initiative Act. At the moment, information on the Act is split among at least four articles: I listed a few sources at Talk:1991 British Columbia recall and initiative referendum. Mathew5000 (talk) 21:16, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Recall election
 * Initiative
 * 1991 British Columbia recall and initiative referendum
 * 2011 British Columbia sales tax referendum

Should this page be part of the wikiproject ? (Caribou herds and populations in Canada)
Hi,

I was wondering if this Canadian mammalian distribution of Caribou was relevant to this wikiproject ? If so, could it be assessed ? Gimly24 (talk) 22:17, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Another attempt at deletion of Duncan Cameron images
see here Moxy - 04:21, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

RfC at Charles III
Hello--There's an open RfC Talk:Charles III that welcomes input. ₪  MIESIANIACAL  17:49, 28 April 2023 (UTC)

Freedom Party of British Columbia
Flagging this article for attention. There is a new party going by this name, and attempts have been made to rewrite this article to that effect. It could benefit from some more page watchers to keep an eye on COI and to discuss possible article splitting. -- asilvering (talk) 23:06, 28 April 2023 (UTC)

"Native name" in infobox
A discussion at Template talk:Infobox settlement may be of interest to editors. Magnolia677 (talk) 16:31, 29 April 2023 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs
There are currently 169 unreferenced BLPs of people from Canada. It's important that all content in BLP articles are cited to reliable sources, and any help in adding citations is appreciated. A full list of unreferenced BLPs from Canada can be found here. Thebiguglyalien ( talk ) 17:25, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm tackling a bunch, mainly politicians, writers, musicians and film people whose names I recognized on sight. It's worth noting that a lot of the articles in the overall batch are sports figures, most commonly ice hockey but also some in other sports, so people who are more experienced in writing sports-related articles might be better placed to tackle those than I am. Bearcat (talk) 16:01, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
 * I've additionally also caught at least two cases where the article actually did have references, so the "BLP unreferenced" tag merely needed to be changed to "BLP refimprove". Bearcat (talk) 18:35, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
 * It's a shitshow is what it is. There are a bunch of false positives, and there are also hundreds if not thousands that are still untagged. And yes, I'm gathering that the sports side of Wikipedia has a questionable track record with sourcing and mass creation of unsourced articles where even the established editors overlook sitewide norms. Thebiguglyalien  ( talk ) 19:32, 3 May 2023 (UTC)

Hello - I agree with Bearcat, that total has to be understated by a lot. What I don't see is what tags combine to add an article to the list. Can somebody please advise, so that can add those tags where necessary? Thx,  PK T (alk)  21:09, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Adding adds it to Category:All unreferenced BLPs, and then PetScan looks at the categories to update the list. I've set up a bunch of topical lists at WP:Unreferenced BLP rescue that update whenever the BLP unreferenced tag is added.  Thebiguglyalien  ( talk ) 21:28, 3 May 2023 (UTC)

Ontario Legislature videos
I would really appreciate anyone who would like to help transfer videos from the OntarioLegislature YouTube channel over to Wikimedia Commons, they are suitable and licensed under Creative Commons. I have got a start on it, but there are years worth of videos and I cannot possibly do it all by myself. I have the Categories ready to go, can find it here on the Commons. I have been using the video2commons tool to help speed things up, which I also recommend using. If possible try to add the names of the politicians who speak in the videos. I believe some have the names in descriptions and others don't. Any questions/confused, feel free to ask here. Thanks PascalHD (talk) 00:58, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Question. Is there actually value to doing this rather than just adding an external link in the rare instance that we need to reference one? It seems like a lot of work, and a lot of storage, for little gain. What's the value proposition here? <b style="color: Blue;">Canterbury Tail</b> <i style="color: Blue;">talk</i> 01:13, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Additionally what does the YouTube T&Cs say about downloading videos for non-personal purposes. I know the actual video licenses are compatible, but is using YouTube to download actually within their T&Cs? It's been a while but last I checked you could only download from YouTube for personal use the non-copyrighted stuff. <b style="color: Blue;">Canterbury Tail</b> <i style="color: Blue;">talk</i> 01:35, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Such files related to Government activities which contain political figures are certainly within the scope of the Commons and can serve a useful purpose (Example: . Having a few videos of an MPP speaking is of value. I probably won't upload every single video, it's not worth my time - & your points are valid. Also, YouTube content is allowed at the Commons per COM:YOUTUBE. PascalHD (talk) 02:32, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

Template for Reasons of the Supreme Court - comments requested
Right, thanks to, I've been able to put my comments on the Talk page for the template for the reasons of the SCC, at Template_talk:SCCOpinionKey. I would invite comments from anyone who is interested. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 14:46, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

Where is the Talk page for this template?
I'd like to comment on this template: SCCOpinionKey  However, I don't know where its Talk page is located? Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 02:37, 6 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Template_talk:SCCOpinionKey. Nikkimaria (talk) 02:49, 6 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Thanks. Someday I may understand wiki code better.  So any time a template is inside double curly braces {, if I change it to square brackets and put template_talk in front of the name, it will take me to the template page? Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 13:52, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Typically yes, or if you put  before the name as I did above you can access the page with the normal talk, history etc links. Nikkimaria (talk) 00:32, 7 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 01:37, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

Vancouver municipal elections
The pages for Vancouver's municipal elections (2022, 2018, 2014, etc) are awkward, because the election infobox combines the results of the mayoral race with the council race: the candidates, vote total and percentages all match the mayor's election, but then there's also seat counts reflecting the party's seats on council. True, the mayor is an ex officio member of city council, but I think this is just confusing. The 2022 page actually goes on to include tables that lay out the council standings, which makes you wonder why the mayor results is doing double-duty to begin with, and the 2014 page is even weirder: Adriane Carr, as de facto leader of the Greens, shows up in the infobox even though she didn't run for mayor, on the basis that her party has council seats. It's a mess.

Obviously this should be untangled, but there's a few ways to do it. One is to make the infoboxes explicitly about the mayoral election specifically: removing the seat counts, removing the notices about how many seats are up on the council, school board and park board. Or, since these pages are containing the results of all the municipal elections in Vancouver, we could switch to a layout like on the 2022 page — putting the mayor race in a table too. Or, maybe it's time to have separate pages for mayor and the rest of the municipal elections, a la Toronto (2022 mayor, 2022 municipal). What does everyone else think? — Kawnhr (talk) 20:15, 2 May 2023 (UTC)
 * One of the key problems is that historically, Wikipedians have never put nearly as much effort into adding very much substance to Vancouver municipal election articles beyond tabling the election results themselves. The main reason that Toronto started spinning off separate sets of "mayoral" and "city council" election articles was that merged Toronto municipal election articles were starting to get too long and needed that for size control — but I'm hard pressed to identify any of the Vancouver municipal election articles as being "too long" at all. For instance, of the three articles you listed, 2022 is the only one that gives the mayoral election anything more than two lines of text and a results table, and even then it still doesn't give the mayoral election enough space that splitting would become the obvious solution to a size issue. So the basis for splitting off separate mayoral election articles would be if people were prepared to start putting a lot more work into making Vancouver municipal election articles longer and more substantial than they are — if that isn't the case, then establishing a consensus standard for what should or shouldn't be covered in the infobox, and applying it across the board, would have to be the preferred solution. Bearcat (talk) 13:56, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
 * I see, that makes sense. Maybe one day we'll do something more for the mayoral races, but at least for me, today is not that day. So with that in mind, I saw that the 2023 Paraguayan general election uses an infobox similar set-up to the 2022 and 2018 pages but with greater care at keeping everything separate. Would anybody object if I were to reformat Vancouver's pages to follow this? — Kawnhr (talk) 00:38, 8 May 2023 (UTC)

Slow edit warring
Wanted to ask for some input on a situation. Our article on musician and actor Maxwell McCabe-Lokos has been repeatedly edited by an WP:SPA who persistently removes the statement that he was known by the stage name "Age of Danger" when he was in the band The Deadly Snakes, with the edit summary that he's "removing incorrect information". But it isn't incorrect, it's properly sourced and can be reinforced by literally dozens of other sources calling him "Age of Danger" in that era, and I can't even conceive of any reason why it would be remotely controversial to anybody since there's nothing negative or BLP-sensitive about a simple acknowledgement of a musician's stage name.

For the moment, I've had to place the page under full protection, but obviously this isn't ideal, and I should lift it as soon as feasibly possible — but since this has happened repeatedly over the course of two years, and the editor in question has already passed autoconfirmed status and wouldn't be stopped by lower levels of protection, I'm not sure how else to make it stop. Does anybody else have any ideas? Bearcat (talk) 04:43, 10 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi Bearcat - You should use the vandalism templates (personally, I'd start this guy at level 2, but it's up to your judgement) and go to the higher levels the next time(s) he does what he does. Swearing at him in the edit summaries does nothing, as you've seen.   PK  T (alk)  12:00, 10 May 2023 (UTC)
 * I think indefinite full protection was overkill, especially as you are Involved admins|involved in that article. I blocked from that page and removed the protection. If they use socks to edit then let me, or another admin, know and I'll protect it. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 15:15, 10 May 2023 (UTC)
 * By the way they are not extended confirmed so you could have used extended confirmed protection. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 15:19, 10 May 2023 (UTC)
 * For an extra set of eyes, I have added the page to my watchlist. <b style="color:#9E0508;background:#FFFFFF"> Aloha27</b>  talk  18:14, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

Deprecated language in honours lists
There is a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Orders, Decorations, and Medals/Archive 7 about whether citations should be updated to today's language, eg changing the 1980 "For service to the disabled." to "For service to disabled people." Members of this Wikiproject may have a view: please comment there. Pam D  07:02, 11 May 2023 (UTC)

Discussion started at Category: Canadian King's Counsel
It's here, in case anyone is interested. Category talk:Canadian King's Counsel. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 23:12, 13 May 2023 (UTC)

Category:Former electoral districts of Northwest Territories
Last month moved Mackenzie River (N.W.T. electoral district) to Mackenzie River (Northwest Territories electoral district) as seen here. Saying "full name per style on other articles". This is true of Category:Former provincial electoral districts of New Brunswick, Category:Former provincial electoral districts of Nova Scotia, Category:Former provincial electoral districts of Prince Edward Island, and Category:Former provincial electoral districts of British Columbia. However, in Category:Former electoral districts of Northwest Territories they all, where necessary, use N.W.T.

So my question is should theses be moved to another name or remain where they are? This is not an official move request but an attempt to see what others think. Some possibilities are NWT, NT, Northwest Territories, and, depending on the date, North-West Territories and Northwest Territories. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 13:48, 14 May 2023 (UTC)
 * I'd use the full name, for consistency with other provinces & territories, and also to disambiguate Northwest Territories from North-West Territories, Northwest Territory, and North-Western Territory, all of which may use the initialism N.W.T. and may have had electoral districts. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:19, 14 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Agreed with Ivanvector, it's better to spell the names out than to just use initials....  PK T (alk)  15:38, 14 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Also, if initials are used, it would need to be NWT and definitely not N.W.T. per MOS:ABBR: we don't use periods in initialisms and acronyms. —Joeyconnick (talk) 16:05, 14 May 2023 (UTC)
 * My vote is for the full (period-appropriate) name to be used. Rowing007 (talk) 16:21, 14 May 2023 (UTC)


 * If our goal is to distinguish it from the federal riding of the same name, shouldn't it be Mackenzie River (territorial electoral district)? —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 15:23, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

Does the Liberal Party of Canada endorse CANZUK as party policy?
Claims at and in related article at. Anyone interested and/or knowledgeable about this is welcome to join the discussion at Talk:CANZUK. Meters (talk) 21:11, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
 * I don't think the reference is a clear endorsement, but I'll wait until other editors give their opinions before removing the statement...... PK T (alk)  22:07, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

DYKs
FYI, tomorrow (20 May) is the first day to make Did You Know nominations to appear on the Main Page for Canada Day 2023. If you have an interesting article you can create/expand or GA promote in the next five weeks, consider nominating it. – Reidgreg (talk) 13:50, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

Main Deli Steak House
Should have the name of this restaurant as it appears on the sign in front of the restaurant in the article? (which also happens to be the official name) It's been deleted as being a contravention to "common name" (what that means I don't know, since WP:COMMONNAME is an article page name policy and not an article content policy)

-- 64.229.90.172 (talk) 05:42, 21 May 2023 (UTC)

Mass renames of Hamilton Ontario elections by User:JamesLucas-A
Someone had renamed quite a bunch of pages of election pages related to Hamilton Ontario. Idk if this is really necessary or best use of adding a comma, but I thought I put it here for others to look at because there were a lot of pages renamed. I dont know if it is appropriate. Ebbedlila (talk) 21:42, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
 * anyone can tell me if these moves are appropriate? Ebbedlila (talk) 23:41, 14 May 2023 (UTC)
 * They were moved back. Apparently this has come up before. -- Earl Andrew - talk 13:40, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
 * —as noted in the edit summaries, the comma is required by grammar as outlined at MOS:GEOCOMMA. With that said, no one really likes having article titles chock full of commas—myself included. Whenever possible I favor other approaches. One recent example I rather like is my of 1835 New Brunswick, New Jersey tornado to 1835 Middlesex County tornado, which is shorter and more accurate in addtion to removing the MOS:GEOCOMMA violation.
 * I’ve been mulling the Hamilton election articles for something like seven years, and I’ve never come up with something better than the double-comma. Dropping ‘Ontario’ would be simplest, but Hamilton is not sufficiently well known for that to be appropriate. Reordering the titles (e.g., 2010 municipal election in Hamilton, Ontario) would be my personal preference, but that would require a larger discussion since it bucks the 2018 consensus and arguably introduces a tiny but non-zero amount of ambiguity. If you think that line is worth perusing, though, I’d certainly be game for such a conversation. —jameslucas ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄  02:24, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

looking at the history of multiple of the pages, you got reverted multiple times for renaming the pages, by citing MOS:Comma. Does the MOS apply to titles of pages? Ebbedlila (talk) 14:43, 17 May 2023 (UTC)
 * —yes, MOS:GEOCOMMA applies to titles as a consequence of WP:CRITERIA. As for reverts…I’ve made well over 20,000 edits including a significant number of moves enforcing MOS:DATECOMMA and MOS:GEOCOMMA, so of course some get reverted. Most reverts are done in passing by editors who didn’t bother consult the MOS links and never respond, but a handful have lead to constructive conversations and alternate solutions such as the one I floated above. In the case of these particular articles, there’s actually a mix of two things going on. Some of the pages were indeed moved back when an anonymous editor improperly requested the action as a non-controversial technical move, but some of the pages (more, I think) were moved as part of an unrelated (and much needed) effort to apply consistent naming across the set of related articles, and the commas were lost incidentally.
 * As I said last time, there are multiple ways to avoid MOS:GEOCOMMA violations, and while I don’t see any as being viable for this set of articles without greater discussion, I remain open to to such a course. On that note, I’m not a regular at this notice board, so if you would kindly use re or u to alert me to any future replies, that would be helpful. Cheers. —jameslucas ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄  15:22, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

Statue of Egerton Ryerson (again...)
Can editors take a look at recent changes to Statue of Egerton Ryerson, please? --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 15:41, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
 * I have reverted the IP User edits as uncited and have left a message on the IP talk page. I've added the Statue page to my watchlist. Regards, <b style="color:#9E0508;background:#FFFFFF"> Aloha27</b>  talk  15:50, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
 * There is no doubt in my mind that the new IP User is a sock of indeffed User Friendsofegertonryerson. <b style="color:#9E0508;background:#FFFFFF"> Aloha27</b>  talk  15:54, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

National Post
An IP has been editwarring at National Post over the paper's ownership, trying to discount or completely bury the paper's status as a Postmedia Network publication on the grounds that Postmedia's partial (but not total) ownership stake by an American hedge fund is somehow the most salient fact about the ownership of the NP. However, as I've already been involved in reverting at least once, and am not interested in letting this consume my day, I wanted to ask for some further assistance. Bearcat (talk) 12:59, 24 May 2023 (UTC)
 * I'll put it on my watchlist. — Kawnhr (talk) 13:41, 24 May 2023 (UTC)
 * IP User is at 4rr by my count. 3rr notice has been placed on that user talk page. <b style="color:#9E0508;background:#FFFFFF"> Aloha27</b>  talk  14:06, 24 May 2023 (UTC)
 * For clarity, the same user is edit warring at Postmedia Network, where I've already reverted twice and also provided proof contradicting the user's claims. Mind  matrix  16:56, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

Maryanne Oketch nominated for deletion
The article about Survivor 42 winner Maryanne Oketch is nominated for deletion. Your input there is welcome. George Ho (talk) 02:25, 1 June 2023 (UTC)

Why are there three very short articles about the wildfires?
This discussion about how to coordinate among the articles about the wildfires may be interesting to folks in this project: Talk:2023 Canadian wildfires - Fuzheado &#124; Talk 17:13, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
 * A merge request has been started . - Fuzheado &#124; Talk 17:54, 7 June 2023 (UTC)

The Maple Leaf Award
I've started a discussion on the Maple Leaf Award talk page about redesigning the Maple Leaf Award, given that the bronze award doesn't exist even though it's being given out on the 10k challenge. I've also redesigned and vectorized the small ribbon designs: Template talk:The Maple Leaf Award Aknell4 (talk · contribs) 01:32, 11 June 2023 (UTC)

Is Christopher Ingvaldson notable?
Came across Christopher Ingvaldson earlier today after an edit to West Point Grey Academy. Does he pass the notability guidelines? My thought is no, because all he has to his name is an amateur sports career and a criminal charge… and even then, the articles cited are quick to emphasize his connection to Justin Trudeau more than anything about him. I'd nominate it for AfD but I just did some editing of the page to remove a BLP violation (about Trudeau), so I might be a bit too involved and wanted to get opinions first. — Kawnhr (talk) 16:59, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm inclined to the "no" side as well. It's not at all clear that this would pass WP:PERP, for starters. I've gone ahead and listed it for AFD, at Articles for deletion/Christopher Ingvaldson. Bearcat (talk) 01:08, 15 June 2023 (UTC)

CCGS John Cabot
Is the John Cabot that fished up Pisces III in the Rescue of Roger Mallinson and Roger Chapman in 1973, the same one that is in the search fleet for the 2023 Titan submersible incident ? If so, it probably should have an article written up. -- 64.229.90.172 (talk) 08:17, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

HBC, the HBC or The HBC?
I am finishing up an FAC for Abishabis, and a question has come up about how to use the acronym of HBC (to shorten the Hudson's Bay Company). Should it be HBC, the HBC, or The HBC? Wikipedia's article uses them interchangebly, so does Canadian Encyclopedia, and I couldn't find a history section on The Bay's website where HBC would be referred to. Your thoughts are appreciated. Thanks! Z1720 (talk) 18:12, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Define the acronym within the article - that is, where it says "the Hudson's Bay Company" in the second sentence of the article, add (HBC) immediately afterwards, so that a reader can realize that all following appearances of "HBC" refer to the company. Personally I would avoid "the HBC" in either form.   PK  T (alk)  18:21, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
 * That was removed in the FAC because HBC did not appear again in the lede. However, HBC is introduced in the first paragraph of the body. Z1720 (talk) 13:08, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
 * I find that the HBC is natural for me. Definitely not The with a capital. Generally, company initialisms created before roughly WW2 are more likely to include the, and later creations have no article: "the CPR" but "CP" (with no the). "the CBC" but "CTV". Indefatigable (talk) 18:29, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
 * My initial thought was that either way is fine, but after looking at the page in question, just "HBC" (eg, ) hits my ear as odd. I think "the HBC" sounds much more natural (definitely don't capitalize the, though). — Kawnhr (talk) 19:22, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Agreed. Using "the HBC" seems better.  For most of its history the company was known as The Hudson's Bay Company, and then until very recently it was "The Bay". HBC is a very, very recent development (particularly when considering the long history of the company). Also a bit confusing with the legacy of HSBC/HBC, ie Hongkong Bank of Canada, not that there is anything we can do about that.--Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 22:38, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks everyone for their opinions. I've changed most instances to "the HBC" unless grammatically incorrect to do so. Z1720 (talk) 13:09, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
 * "HBC" has a long history as the logo for the Company. It was used on their company flags at their posts, on a defaced Red Ensign.  Peter Newman, in his history of the Company, mentions that in the 19th century, "HBC" was jokingly explained as meaning "Here Before Christ", referring to the longevity of the Company in the north-west.  I think "HBC" and "the HBC" are both completely appropriate, depending on the sentence context. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 03:21, 23 June 2023 (UTC)

Chung Chun Rice Dog
The restaurant chain Chung Chun Rice Dog (30+ locations in Canada) was established in Seoul, but has been described as Canada's first Korean hot dog brand and "a spinoff of a Canadian brand". Perhaps the company is now based in Canada? I'm struggling to describe the evolution here, if any project members are familiar with the company's operations in Canada or wish to help with a little research project. Thanks! --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 02:27, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
 * For the record, I wouldn't generally look to Daily Hive as a particularly authoritative "media of record" kind of source. It's usable, but it's not generally on the high end of the best possible options and I almost always avoid it unless I really can't find anything more solid. To be fair, international restaurant chains in Canada are often (although not always) operated by a Canadian company that franchised the name from another entity, so Chung Chun in Canada and Chung Chun in Korea could possibly be two different companies rather than a Korean company that moved to Canada, although "Korean company that moved", "Korean company that later got bought out by Canadians" and "Daily Hive was just wrong about where it started and the other source got led astray by Daily Hive" are obviously all still in the mix of possibilities pending better sourcing. That said, I have made one minor wording change; especially given the unresolved question here, I don't think it's all that critically important for the article to describe Mohcinut as "a spinoff of a Canadian company" instead of just as "a spinoff of Chung Chun". Bearcat (talk) 14:36, 24 June 2023 (UTC)

Erika Casupanan nominated for deletion
The article about Erika Casupanan is nominated for deletion. Your input there is welcome. George Ho (talk) 23:08, 24 June 2023 (UTC)

MEVC peer review
I've nominated the Mount Edziza volcanic complex article for a peer review; comments can be left here. <i style="color: red;">Volcano</i><i style="color: black;">guy</i> 19:20, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

Online News Act
Someone should write an article about this recently passed piece of legislation (Bill C-18), given how tech giants reacted to this. TagaSanPedroAko (talk) 22:05, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Also someone should add developments related to Bill C-18 in Portal:Current events.TagaSanPedroAko (talk) 22:12, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

Discussion at Content assessment
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Content assessment, which is within the scope of this WikiProject. &#x0020;This WikiProject received this message because it currently uses "Current" and/or "Future" class(es). There is a proposal to split these two article "classes" into a new parameter "time", in order to standardise article-rating across Wikipedia (per RfC), while also allowing simultaneous usage of quality criteria and time for interest projects. Thanks! &#8212;CX Zoom[he/him] (let's talk • {C•X}) 21:39, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

Uranium mining in the Bancroft area (Ontario)
This article is being reviewed for consideration as a Featured Article. Currently, to pass, it needs at least one more editor to do a source assessment. If anyone is willing to help, you can do so here:

Featured article candidates/Uranium mining in the Bancroft area/archive1 (talk) 13:25, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

Canadian Citizenship Test
Could some of you add Canadian Citizenship Test to your watchlist, as it tends to attract spam links. I usually catch and delete them quickly, but there are days I don't edit WP or plain 'ol miss it. The most recent spam link has survived on the article six months until I noticed it today. Thanks. Mind matrix  16:09, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Added to my watchlist. — Kawnhr (talk) 16:24, 6 July 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:1877 Great Fire of Saint John, New Brunswick
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:1877 Great Fire of Saint John, New Brunswick that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. EggRoll97 (talk) 00:41, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

Bastille Day in Canada
Reading, I was surprised at no mention of Montréal or even Québec. Perhaps someone local might contribute? Joyeux quatorze juillet! —[ Alan M 1  (talk) ]— 15:26, 14 July 2023 (UTC)