Wikipedia talk:WikiProject History of Canada

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Historians?
Ian MacPherson (historian) was just tagged with the Wiki Project Canada History banner. This wikiproject doesn't seem to have a scope posted (or at least, I missed it, but I wouldn't think historians would be included in the project. The Canadian Education project would seem more fitting, though they focus on primary/secondary rather than post-secondary schools. There isn't yet a Canadian Biography wikiproject. Just thought it was something worth discussing... - TheMightyQuill (talk) 20:33, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for History of Canada
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Looting of Battleford
Proposed merger of Looting of Battleford into the history section of Battleford, Saskatchewan please comment if you have an opinion one way or t'other. Kind Regards SriMesh | talk  16:05, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

first cinema in Montreal/Quebec/Canada/North America?
 70.55.86.100 (talk) 07:30, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

British Columbia gold rushes
I just expanded this; it had had no lead on it and had only been a list and should always have been more; a "short" historical precis is so far completed, more or less, on the Queen Charlotte, Fraser and Cariboo Rushes; I don't have the energy to tie together all the minor gold rushes into a short narrative but intend to do so soon; many of them need much fuller writeups or new articles, particularly the Stikine and Cassiar rushes. More citations to come, sorry can't do inlines, working from memory not books on hand. I'm thinking that History of the British Columbia gold rushes, might work better and there hsould be a parallel History of mining in British Columbia (is there a History of mining in British Columbia article already? Not sure...) because coverage of gold mining is often impossible without discussion of silver, galena and also even coal; the mining industry is one industry; there's also a need for articles on teh "silver rushes" particularly the Silvery Slocan....anyway g'nite, it's 2:31 am; I never did get to the passage I had framed in mind when I started writing it, maybe it'll still be fresh tomorrow....see Talk:British Columbia gold rushes for further comments.Skookum1 (talk) 06:32, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Siege of Fort St. Jean → Siege of Fort St. Johns
Siege of Fort St. Jean → Siege of Fort St. Johns has come up on WP:RM. 76.66.200.131 (talk) 13:31, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Burning of the Parliament Buildings in Montreal
Translated it from the French. Lots of red links still. Many things left to be done to improve it, but it is a start. :-) -- Mathieugp (talk) 15:22, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Robert Giguère
Hi, If you really have an interest in this page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gigu%C3%A8re) and similar pages, I strongly suggest you get acquainted (and eventually intervene) with this link: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Demande_de_restauration_de_page#Robert_Gigu.C3.A8re.C2.A0.28d.C2.A0.C2.B7.C2.A0h.C2.A0.C2.B7.C2.A0j_.C2.A0.C2.B7.C2.A0.E2.86.B5.29

In short, Utilisateur:LPLT in the French Wikipedia eliminated the french version of the page 3 hours after I posted the first draft of it.

What do you think if I cite page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability ? it is important to not just consider whether notability is established by the article, but whether it readily could be. Remember that all Wikipedia articles are not a final draft, and an article can be notable if such sources exist even if they have not been added at present. Merely asserting that such sources exist is seldom persuasive, especially as time passes and actual proof does not surface. If it is likely that significant coverage in independent sources can be found for a topic, deletion due to lack of notability is inappropriate unless active effort has been made to find these sources. For articles of unclear notability, deletion should be a last resort.

This guy apparently has not read that, nor the french version. He is on a rampage to eliminate all biographical pages he judges are only of a genealogical nature and his list includes the English page on Robert Giguère, and possibly more pages YOU care about.

Thanks for your support, Alainr345 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alainr345 (talk • contribs) 20:36, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

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Pierre Du Gua de Monts
Someone looking for a challenge should improve this article. It appears the name used took precedence over actual editing and checking facts. Cheers! --Stormbay (talk) 22:59, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

FLRC: Territorial evolution of Canada
nominated Territorial evolution of Canada for featured list removal here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks; editors may declare to "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here.

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Hello
Hello I am Moxy and i make portals. Recently there has been a change to the Template talk:WikiProject Canada, this has made me aware that you guys do not have a portal. Was thinking of making a portal for you guys if you think its something appropriate to have. And if you would like one ...what would be the main articles you would like to see appear in it.. For an example of what i do see --> Portal:Ottawa...pls let me know if you would like one!!!..Moxy (talk) 23:48, 11 May 2010 (UTC)


 * all done--->Portal:History of Canada...

History of Canada going to GA review soon
I am looking for comments and some copy editing if someone is willing of our History of Canada article before i bring it to GA review!...can leave comment at User talk:Moxy .. thanks Moxy (talk) 23:53, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

History of Canada articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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Absalom Greeley & Nathaniel Currie
Hi there, I'm kind of new to Wikipedia. Canadian pre-confederation history is my area of interest. I'm looking for some input into the articles Absalom Greeley and Nathaniel Currie (Ontario Politician). It would be great to get some pictures and I've looked all through the images on Wikipedia, but to no avail..alas! Any idea where I can get some. These are fairly obscure MPPs in the 1st Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Any other comments most welcome. Thanks CJ_WeißSchäfer (talk) 03:23, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

Discussion about an article title
Hi. People in this WikiProject might be interested in weighing in on a discussion over at Talk:British Canada (1763–1867). Cheers. -GTBacchus(talk) 23:15, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

Portal:History
Is up for FPOC. This is one of the highest (if not the highest) visibility portal on Wikipedia, I recommend commenting on it! Cheers, Res Mar 23:14, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:History of Canada will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in within Canadian history. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 20:36, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Just Published! Could someone rate this?
Hello,

I just published an article I've been working on for a week or so, Princess Theatre, Edmonton. I believe it's in the scope of your project. Would anyone be able to go over there and rate it for me?

--Rawlangs (talk) 06:07, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Big Dan Mine
Hello. Could someone please do a peer review for the Big Dan Mine article? The peer review can be found here. Thanks.  Volcano guy  22:29, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Proposal to redirect Canadian related project talk pages
Please see Wikipedia talk:Canadian Wikipedians' notice board.Moxy (talk) 17:42, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Laura Secord FAC
I've just nominated the Laura Secord article as a Featured Article Candidate. Any feedback or other input on the nomination would be much appreciate. Curly Turkey (gobble) 21:50, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Merge of Canada under British rule (1763-1867) and BNA articles
I just added mergeto/from templates to Canada under British rule (1763-1867) and British North America articles, as they cover the same content. Merge discussion is on the BNA page, which I think is the better title.Skookum1 (talk) 02:34, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Begbie re Hanging Judge and deletion of item on his page
An IP user has removed this and I think it's in the sources; it's commonly observed about him, the allegation that this is "unproven innocence" by the IP user is questionable. Even in the case of Klatsassine, he didn't want to hang him but had to because of the legal code. It needs restoration and citation, either from works like Scholefield and Howay or from the more modern books about him. Removing this is highly POV, in my opinion, and knowing quite a bit about him.Skookum1 (talk) 05:21, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

Canada History Portal Template
A question: why does the template for the History of Canada Portal use the Red Ensign? It was never Canada's official flag, and in fact the Maple Leaf has been Canada's flag longer than the version of the Red Ensign used in the portal: Maple Leaf from 1965 to present (48 years);  Red Ensign (1921 to 1965, 44 years). Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 18:04, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
 * I am not sure ...my guess is  that its historical in nature? When the portal was created I used File:Canadian Coat of Arms Shield.svg to match Template:History of Canada sidebar. Not sure when  or who changed it. We use the main modern flag in the CAnada portal..so we should use something different here......and it should be historical in nature I would guess. Any suggestions?-- Moxy (talk) 18:12, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Why does it need to be different from the Canada Portal? I'd think we should just use the Maple Leaf.  The difference is then in the wording on the portal, rather than the flag.  In addition to the short time that the Red Ensign was used by the federal government, there's also the fact that when reproduced at the small size in the portal box, it's not readily identifiable:  is it the Canadian Red Ensign?  the flag of Ontario?  the flag of Manitoba?  the flag of Bermuda?  The text is already the main way of distinguishing that portal from others. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 08:15, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

Why is part of this page blue, but not the rest?
Is there a reason for it, or just some quirk in the coding for the page that I'm missing? Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 21:15, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

Nova Albion-in-BC theory being met with dismissal on Talk:New Albion despite sources
Cross-border and shared-history articles with competing USian and "BPOV" (British Point of View) issues I've seen before re Oregon Country and the various Columbia River/region and border dispute articles; it's been much in evidence re Nova Albion, the article for which is in the USian 'official' form of New Albion. Please see Talk:New Albion as to the legitimacy of the theory and who says what about it that the Point Reyes advocates/aficionados style as "rubbish" and a "fringe theory". I'll leave it at that, other than to direct you to the article's history to see my additions which were trashed and sneered at.....this is not an insignificant topic in terms of BC history or its significance in general; but USPOV is having none of it. Not in Wikipedia, that is.Skookum1 (talk) 17:11, 26 May 2014 (UTC)

Leaflet for Wikiproject History of Canada at Wikimania 2014
Hi all,

My name is Adi Khajuria and I am helping out with Wikimania 2014 in London.

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• Wikimedia thematic organisations, Wikiwomen’s Collaborative, The Signpost The deadline for submissions is 1st July 2014 For more information or to sign up for one for your project, go to: Project leaflets Adikhajuria (talk) 12:16, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

expansion/split of history section of the Victoria article proposed
Not that I have time to work on it, but please see Talk:Victoria,_British_Columbia and also the new further readings on Richard Blanshard and Colony of Vancouver Island.Skookum1 (talk) 08:10, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!


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Move proposal: Disambiguate Burning of Parliament (British) and Burning of the Parliament Buildings in Montreal
There is a proposal to move Burning of Parliament to Burning of British Parliament and Burning of the Parliament Buildings in Montreal to Burning of Canadian Parliament. Please take part in the discussion at Talk:Burning of Parliament. Curly Turkey ¡gobble! 15:16, 8 May 2015 (UTC)

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New Wikipedia Library donations
Hello all, I wanted to let you know of some recent donations we just opened up at the Wikipedia Library, including Canadian portal WP:Erudit. Please sign up for the accounts if you think you can use them. Cheers, Nikkimaria (talk) 00:04, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

Turn of the century Yukon photographs
Hello there. I just finished uploading a collection of photographs by Eric A. Hegg to Commons. The photos are from around the turn of the century (1900), and a lot of them were taken in the Yukon or British Columbia, and might be of interest to you guys. Images that need to have their categories checked are at commons:Category:Images from the Eric A. Hegg Photographs Collection to check, and a list of all the images is available at commons:Category:Images from the Eric A. Hegg Photographs Collection to check. Hope they are useful. BMacZero (talk) 16:07, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

Template:Infobox_folk_song
You are welcome to discuss the newly created Infobox folk song and its future here. --Tamtam90 (talk) 07:32, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

RfC
An RfC has been posted at Talk:Jacques Goulet. Your comments are invited.- MrX 🖋 22:29, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
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Archival photos from Canadian Museum of History
Hello, I am working on uploading images from the archival collections of the Canadian Museum of History, my employer. Images uploaded so far are tagged with the category Images from Canadian Museum of History. We're just doing small batches for now, uploading once a week. Please feel free to use these images in articles as useful! Oh, and if anyone knows how to add source URLs in the image summary, please contact me. We'd love to add permalinks into our catalogue, as LAC does with their images (and NARA and Library of Congress) The Raven&#39;s Librarian (talk) 17:40, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

Proposal to redirect all Canadian project related talk pages
Wikipedia talk:Canadian Wikipedians' notice board...-- Moxy 🍁 22:39, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

Wrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror National Historic Site
I just created a stub for this historic site as I had a couple of photos to add to it. I am not normally a contributor to Canadian content on Wikiepdia so I am not sure what date format to use, what infobox etc, and whatever other consensus may apply to such an article. So I would appreciate anyone more familiar with the norms of articles of this type to do fix my mistakes and hopefully add more content. There are quite a number of sources out there. Thanks Kerry (talk) 07:24, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

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WikiProject History needs people
Hi everyone. I am the new coordinator for WikiProject History. we need people there!! right now the project seems to be semi-inactive. I am going to various WikiProjects whose topics overlap with ours, to request volunteers.


 * If you have any experience at all with standard WikiProject processes such as quality assessment, article help, asking questions, feel free to come by and get involved.


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we welcome your input. thanks!! --Sm8900 (talk) 20:46, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

Notice of move discussion: 2011 Canadian federal election voter suppression scandal → [[Robocall scandal]]
I have proposed this article be moved to its redirect Robocall scandal. The discussion is taking place here.--Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 22:09, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

new article about history of uranium mining in Bancroft, Ontario
Hi everyone, I wrote this article which just got approved, I thought some of you might enjoy it, it's mostly about the history of uranium mining in eastern Ontario https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_mining_in_the_Bancroft_area CT55555 (talk) 19:12, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

historical reputation of John McDonald
Yesterday I added this quote on the historical reputation of John A McDonald and it got reverted by Ak-eater06, who said it needed approval here. It's a Maclean's summary of their survey of 117 historians and experts. survey of 100+ historians and experts and provides a consensus view of his achievements and negatives.
 * According to historians Norman Hillmer and Stephen Azzi, a 2011 poll of 117 historians and experts voted Macdonald as the "second best" Canadian prime minister behind only Sir Wilfrid Laurier . He was "praised as the country's creator. The first prime minister, he built a transcontinental railway, championed immigration, secured the West for Canada, and developed a Canadian manufacturing sector with his National Policy of high tariffs. He held together his diverse party and led it to six election victories, a Canadian record. In retrospect, these accomplishments overwhelm Macdonald's many failures: his inability to maintain harmony between English- and French-speaking Canadians, his mishandling of the Metis and First Nations issues and, in the phrase of University of the Fraser Valley historian Barbara Messamore, the 'demonstrable corruption' of his government. Several of our respondents specifically mentioned Macdonald's alcoholism and the Pacific Scandal, in which the Conservative party received hundreds of thousands of dollars from entrepreneurs who won the government's approval to build the national railway. Most of our analysts nevertheless agreed with historian Dean Oliver's assessment: 'Macdonald was a flawed but magnificent man who created a party, a country, and an identity, one great scandal (and a couple of fingers of strong drink) at a time.' [ref]Norman Hillmerand Stephen Azzi, 'Canada's Best Prime Ministers' Maclean's, 20 June 2011 Vol. 124, Issue 23. [/ref]" Rjensen (talk) 20:07, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Pinging User:GoodDay.  Ak-eater06  (talk) 20:25, 11 December 2021 (UTC)


 * I'm not really supportive of adding office performance ratings to bios of politicians. Reckon, we'll have to see what others views are on this matter. GoodDay (talk) 20:30, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
 * All our biographies of major political figures include their achievements and failures, as seen by reliable sources.  the "ranking 1-2-3 is a journalistic feature but it has long been in the article and is still in the lead.  Rjensen (talk) 00:41, 12 December 2021 (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}

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Project-independent quality assessments
Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate 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) 14:37, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

Discussion at Content assessment
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Good article reassessment for Wildrose Party
Wildrose Party 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. Z1720 (talk) 15:44, 26 January 2024 (UTC)