Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Electoral districts in Canada

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Weird format for Nova Scotia MLA List tables in articles
Hello, in most Canadian electoral district articles, the table for the list of MLAs are sorted in the order from the first MLA to last (e.g. at the top, you have MLAs from the 1st assembly and at the bottom, 43rd), but in Nova Scotia's provincial ridings' articles, they use most recent on the top to least recent (e.g. 43rd at the top; 1st bottom). I feel like maybe we should change the order of that so it is more consistent with the federal articles? Nova Scotia also still doesn't use wiki table style. I might create an NS-MLA template. — Eric0892 (talk) 00:35, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

En-dashes and em-dashes
All of the riding articles seem to use the em-dash in their titles (where applicable). However, in Canadian writing style, these are all supposed to be en-dashes. A few of the articles have redirects from the correct title to the wrong one. Example: Ville-Marie–Le Sud-Ouest–Île-des-Sœurs redirects to Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Sœurs. Will the project fix this? Urhixidur (talk) 15:43, 20 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I just noticed this and came to ask the same question. I moved one article to the correct en dash (also per MOS:DASH) and then realized that all of the articles listed at Ridings in Quebec appear to use em dashes when they should use en dashes. Is there any reason for this apparent deviance from Wikipedia's Manual of Style and the Canadian style guide linked above? – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:29, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Follow-up: I found this brief discussion in this page's talk archives from 2011, with previous discussions farther down the page from 2006. I am not persuaded by any of these ancient discussions that provinces' mixed forms of punctuation use should somehow cause us to deviate from the accepted site-wide style described in MOS:DASH, most specifically at MOS:ENBETWEEN: In compounds when the connection might otherwise be expressed with to, versus, and, or between. All of these em-dash-joined titles should be moved to use en dashes instead of em dashes. – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:43, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Elections Canada uses em dashes, which is why we've been using them. I think the only justification for moving them would be based on WP:COMMONAME, but I'm not entirely convinced by that at this point. Anyway, if they are to be moved, we'll need community consensus and this should not be done piecemeal (we've already seen the disaster that that was recently). Someone will need to get a bot going. -- Earl Andrew - talk 13:37, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Elections Canada is inconsistent. On this page, they use "--" (two hyphens), unspaced, between the names, not em dashes. We can't count on them for style, and we can't use "--", so MOS:DASH, Wikipedia's own style guide, should apply. You are right that we might need a bot; I count 628 articles with incorrect em dashes in their names. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:26, 27 June 2024 (UTC)