Wikipedia talk:WikiProject New Brunswick/Archive 1

New Brunswick discussion from WikiProject Council/Proposals

 * Description : This WikiProject, as a subproject of WikiProject Canada, would help to bring together all pages realting to the province of New Brunswick. There are a lot of pages that need cleaning up or updating.


 * Temporary Project Page: User:Yvesnimmo/WikiProject New Brunswick WikiProject New Brunswick


 * Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
 * 1) Yvesnimmo 14:41, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) John Carter 14:31, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

This WikiProject is up and running.
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Proposed standardization of importance rankings
Hello, WikiProject New Brunswick. The other Canada-related wikiprojects have been merging their talk-page templates so that articles can be added to WikiProject Canada and to other Canada-related projects at once. This should help all of the Canadian wikiprojects spread awareness about each other and co-ordinate improvements and assessments. We would like this objective to include WikiProject New Brunswick. Under this system, an article about a New Brunswick musician (for example) would look like this:

This template uses the same assessment criteria for all listed projects; so if WikiProject New Brunswick were to integrate with the other Canada-related projects, you would have to change your importance-ratings scale to standardize with that of WikiProject Canada. This would mean that your only top-importance article would be New Brunswick and your only high-importance articles would be major topics like Moncton and History of New Brunswick. Would you, the regulars in this project, be open to thus changing your importance ratings? --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 21:23, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Available auto location map
Location map New Brunswick will add a map of New Brunswick with a dot placed automatically using geo coordinates.

It can also be used with, such as in Saint-Quentin, New Brunswick.

The preceding code will produce the map at right.--Qyd (talk) 00:52, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Dutch Occupation of Acadia
A requested move has been initiated to move Dutch Occupation of Acadia to Nova Hollandia, per name given to territory occupied by the Dutch. 70.55.87.54 (talk) 03:12, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

List of waterfalls of Canada
Please help to fulfill the dynamics of this list, List of waterfalls of Canada, and fill in any red link missing waterfall articles and their respective images. Kind Regards SriMesh | talk  01:09, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

File:Maritimes.png
Image:Maritimes.png has been nominated for deletion. 76.66.196.218 (talk) 05:16, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Francophonie?
Does anyone think there should be a WP:WikiProject Francophonie? It would be like WP:WikiProject Commonwealth that handles the British Commonwealth.

See Talk:Organisation_internationale_de_la_Francophonie_(OlF) for the discussion.

76.66.197.30 (talk) 07:54, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

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Portal:New Brunswick
Merry xmass!!...........Please add it to your watch list..will add more content soon!!! Moxy (talk) 23:10, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

New Brunswick articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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Two Solitudes (Canadian society)
FYI, has been nominated for deletion. 76.66.200.95 (talk) 05:47, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Maritimer English


The article Maritimer English has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * A search for references found no published (gBooks) support for this article, fails WP:N and WP:V

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Nomination of Maritimer English for deletion
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pronunciation needed
Hi,

Can anyone confirm that Apohaqui, New Brunswick is pronounced AP-ə-hawk ? (that would mean that the last vowel would be that of haw rather than hah! for those who make that distinction.) It's been tagged for a long time, and I've done my best with the respellings I've found online, but I can't be sure.

Thanks, — kwami (talk) 08:06, 6 February 2011 (UTC)


 * The first pronunciation is the correct one; pronouncing it ap-a-hock-kwee is purely humourous. It looks like somebody was playing games with the English author, or it could be their typical scholarly butchery of anything even looking foreign. The hahk could be mistaken for hack by someone unfamiliar with it, so I changed that.
 * I lived next door to the place for years. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 00:09, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

Area of Nigadoo–Chaleur
Any ideas on where I might find the area of the Nigadoo–Chaleur provincial electoral district? The fed districts are easy, but the provincial ones seem to have a higher degree of difficulty to find information at times... - Wmcduff (talk) 11:10, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Found it through an e-mail to Elections NB, however, not citable. If anyone finds a citable source, it would be much appreciated. - Wmcduff (talk) 15:31, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:New Brunswick will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in New Brunswick's history, society and culture. 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) 23:40, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Request for cleanup assistance at List of city nicknames in Canada
This section of this list article needs cleanup. In particular, references based on reliable sources (not user-generated media such as blogs, forums, tweets, etc.) for the numerous of nicknames are required, as well as weeding out editor-derived/questionable nicknames from the genuine nicknames of widespread usage. I've cleaned up the Alberta section, and am looking to the members of the applicable provincial/territorial WikiProjects to help out with the other sections including this one. Thanks, Hwy43 (talk) 06:53, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
 * ✅ – expansion of the list with additional nicknames with references based on reliable sources welcome of course! Hwy43 (talk) 07:20, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

Proposal to redirect Canadian related project talk pages
Please see Wikipedia talk:Canadian Wikipedians' notice board.Moxy (talk) 17:40, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Requested move List of Local Service Districts in New Brunswick to List of local service districts in New Brunswick
See discussion at Talk:List of local service districts in New Brunswick. Hwy43 (talk) 21:00, 5 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Closed. Result was move as requested. Hwy43 (talk) 19:55, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

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Requested move Rural community to List of rural communities in New Brunswick
See discussion at Talk:Rural community. Hwy43 (talk) 07:29, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
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WikiProject X is live!


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NB geography question (Durham Centre)
Hello, northerly neighbors! I came across a puzzling redirect, Durham Centre, New Brunswick. I asked another user about it, who suggested I consult you to figure out the best course of action. Please reply here so we don't clog up his talk page. Thanks, BDD (talk) 17:17, 7 January 2016 (UTC)


 * In the eyes of StatCan, both Durham Centre iand Jacquet River are localities within the Village of Belledune. The Jacquet River article asserts it was a former municipality, but there are no sources confirming such. Perhaps we should have Durham Centre, New Brunswick redirect to Belledune instead based on the StatCan source above. By the way, the first paragraph in the History section at Jacquet River should be removed. It is unreferenced, unnotable trivia. Hwy43 (talk) 06:02, 9 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks. Redirecting to Belledune is probably the best course of action, though it would be good to expand that article to include the names of its localities. Without mention of Durham Centre there, the redirect could be confusing to readers. If there's a reliable list of Belledune's localities, I could add that information. --BDD (talk) 18:14, 10 January 2016 (UTC)


 * If you want to expand the Belledune article to include localities, you could consider taking the approach implemented at Alberta's municipal district articles. Here is an example from Rocky View County. All of those localities that don't have articles redirect to the applicable section of the article. Cheers, Hwy43 (talk) 19:17, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

Unreferenced elections
Most of the early campaigns at Category:Elections in New Brunswick are tagged as needing references. Does anyone have a source that these pages can be cited to? I've looked online and haven't found anything. - SimonP (talk) 15:58, 15 May 2016 (UTC)

New 10,000 Challenge for Canada
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Proposal to redirect all Canadian project related talk pages
Wikipedia talk:Canadian Wikipedians' notice board...-- Moxy 🍁 22:39, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
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How to present the political geography of NB
Wikipedia presents NB as having a hierarchy of Province -> County -> Parish -> Settlement.

This is a good reflection of how it was up to 1966, but doesn't work so well today.

Since 1966, parishes and counties are no longer relevant to governance. Yes the borders in the Territorial Division Act haven't changed much and are used for other purposes.

Today New Brunswickers live in either a municipality, Regional municipality, rural community, or local service district. There is no hierarchy within the province.

Layered on top of that is the Canada census subdivisions which generally follow the old boundaries, but have all sorts of exceptions. WP has 152 articles about NB parishes, most of which are confusing, and many of which are downright wrong. Generally, a parish is three things:
 * an historical division used before county councils were dissolved in 1966
 * often the same geo as an LSD that replaced it for local governance (but sometimes there are "holes" where there are other local government forms)
 * the federal census area.

I propose to bring clarity by giving some historical context and explaining the relationship between the three entities mentioned above. All three should be documented and there's seldom enough material for three articles. So I propose covering them in the same article, if possible.

The lead of List of parishes in New Brunswick explains the situation well and this should be brought to the parish articles.

Many of the articles have confusing infoboxes where a map is given that includes the entire 1966 parish, but gives the population now used by census Canada which is not the same. Simple example at Sackville Parish. The red blob should have a great big hole in the middle where the town of Sackville lies. This is contradictory.

An example of the unsuitability of parishes for describing the divisions of NB is Grand Manan Parish. It originally comprised Grand Manan Island and its surrounding islands. When the Village of Grand Manan was incorporated, it included the main islands and all of the surrounding islands except White Head Island. So now Grand Manan Parish (census & LSD) is limited to WH Island and does not include Grand Manan Island. Or look at Deer Island. We have an article about the island and another for West Isles Parish which are about, er, the same place. According to the article the West Isles LSD is often referred to as the Deer Island LSD.

Trying to impose a rigid hierarchy and nomenclature on something that just isn't that logical and systematic is counterproductive. Let's try to describe the situation as we find it:
 * there's a place called White Head Island, it's administered as Grand Manan LSD, its pop. is X
 * there's a place called Grand Manan, it's a village, its pop. is Y
 * there's a place called Deer Island, it's administered as West Isles LSD, its pop is Z --Cornellier (talk) 15:31, 15 June 2020 (UTC)


 * A solution that was suggested a couple of years ago was to have LSD articles be subsections of the parish articles unless the LSD straddles the boundaries between parishes. This results in approximately sixty fewer articles than going with articles specific to each existing LSD, one hundred and fifty less if former LSDs are given articles.
 * Which is a better solution - an article giving the history of Grand Manan Parish, its intermediate villages and LSDs, and its current division into one village and an LSD, or trying to make the history of the parish fit into the articles for the village of Grand Manan and the LSD of White Head Island, the latter of which would require only two or three paragraphs without the parish history?
 * Then there's the unmentioned example of Saumarez Parish, which before the formation of the regional municipality of Grand Tracadie-Sheila contained more LSDs than any other parish. Or Shippegan Parish, which today contains more than a dozen LSDs. More than a dozen LSD articles or one parish article with a subsection for each LSD, most of which would be one paragraph?
 * Deer Island or West Isles Parish? West Isles Parish originally included Campobello and Grand Manan parishes and still contains many now-uninhabited but formerly populated islands besides Deer Island. Which takes precedence, a single island article for Deer Island or a single article for the parish or a single article for the LSD? The LSD seems the worst of the three.
 * A systematic rewrite of the each parish article seems the most economical way to properly described the development of municipalities and LSDs along with the parish's history seems the simplest solution, given Wikipedia's existing practice of giving each current incorporated municipality and quasi-municipality its own article. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 02:44, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
 * In my experience, the older the province, the more complicated the hierarchy due to more time to evolve. I appreciate your effort in describing the problem and your willingness to take this challenge on. Based on your attention to detail observed elsewhere, you are the right person to lead the charge. If you do proceed, please consider adding the improved articles to WikiProject Canada/The 10,000 Challenge. We need help moving the chains towards the end zone in a very lofty (and arguably disproportionate) goal for the Canadian WikiProject. To elaborate on Timothy's last comment, I believe the consensus within Canada is articles can also be created for those census subdivisions (CSDs) that are also municipal equivalents, so long as the article is properly sourced and contains substantive information beyond simply that it exists. As options are considered in this discussion, I would be curious to know what the implications would be on articles for the 148 CSDs that are parishes. Would there be any casualties among existing parish/CSD articles? If so, how many of those are properly sourced and contain substantive info, and how many are unreferenced three or four line stubs? Cheers, Hwy43 (talk) 05:58, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

Based on our discussions I've done some research into how this new info and understanding could be applied. I used Charlotte County as a model. All correspond geographically to CSDs unless noted. Found out something new: LSDs are grouped into Regional Service Commissions. Everything in Charlotte is in the Southwest NB RSC unless noted. And the SWNB RSC includes the following in York County: McAdam LSD, Manners Sutton LSD, Village of Harvey, Village of McAdam.

LSD

All correspond to the old Parish with the exception of the villages, towns, and rural communities listed below, and where noted. Village, Town or Rural Community
 * Bayside (in Saint Croix CSD)
 * Beaver Harbour
 * Clarendon: part of RSC 11 in neighbouring Sunbury County
 * Dennis-Weston (eastern half of Saint Stephen Parish)
 * Dufferin
 * Dumbarton
 * Fundy Bay (southern part of Saint George Parish)
 * Grand Manan (historically bigger, now White Head Island)
 * Lepreau
 * Pennfield excl. Beaver Harbour
 * Saint Andrews
 * Saint Croix
 * Saint David
 * Saint George
 * Saint James
 * Saint Patrick
 * Saint Stephen
 * West Isles (historically bigger, now Deer Island)
 * Western Charlotte (was part of Saint James Parish, contains two CSDs, "A", and "B")

Blacks Harbour, Campobello Island, Grand Manan, Saint Andrews, St. George, St. Stephen

As I commented over at List of municipalities in New Brunswick, Infobox settlement should be populated with settlement_type as one of Village, Town, City, Regional municipality, Rural community, county, parish, LSD, or unincorporated settlement. government_type can take the same values except unincorporated settlement, parish or county.

Sources
 * SW NB Service Commission
 * Environment and Local Government
 * List of Communities in each RSC
 * RSC 11 contains a map showing the RSCs layered on the counties and parishes --Cornellier (talk) 16:48, 17 June 2020 (UTC)


 * I found the list header confusing. This seems like an excellent example of why one should check the most original source first - in this case Regulation 84-168, which lists all the LSDs, as well as the 2016 Census.
 * Beaver Harbour is part of Pennfield CSD (BH is a DPL)
 * Chamcook is both a DPL and the entirety of the Saint Andrews Parish CSD
 * Deer Island is the only populated island in the West Isles CSD and LSD, but there are numerous uninhabited islands
 * Western Charlotte (DPL) also forms part of the Saint Stephen Parish LSD


 * The Regional Service Commissions have been around since the start of 2013 but nobody's gotten around to doing an article (mea culpa). They took over the functions of the solid waste and regional planning commissions but are in no way municipalities. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 00:22, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

Let's break this down. I've been using this source for Regulation 84-168. Do you have a different source?
 * Beaver Harbour is part of Pennfield CSD (BH is a DPL)
 * According to this Statistics Canada (statcan) page BH is a LSD and Designated Place. The hierarchy is shown as BH being a child of NB. Maybe I don't fully understand the difference between a designated place and a CSD, but this seems to contradict the statement that "Beaver Harbour is part of Pennfield CSD". Regulation 84-168 8.1 says this "8 In Charlotte County, local service districts are continued as follows: (a) that area of Charlotte County known as Beaver Harbour in the Parish of Pennfield described as follows for fire protection". The LSD is in the old parish, but that doesn't mean the CSD is also, AFAIK.


 * Chamcook is both a DPL and the entirety of the Saint Andrews Parish CSD
 * I omitted Chamcook, statcan doesn't list it and does list Saint Andrews Parish as a Census subdivision. According to the map on the last page of the SNBSC Annual Report Chamcook is a separate LSD. Statcan shows the hierarchy like this: Canada -> New Brunswick (Province) -> Charlotte (County) -> Saint Andrews (Parish).


 * Deer Island is the only populated island in the West Isles CSD and LSD, but there are numerous uninhabited islands
 * For the sake of brevity I left the inclusion of neighbouring uninhabited islands as implicit. I apologize for any confusion.


 * Western Charlotte (DPL) also forms part of the Saint Stephen Parish LSD
 * According to the map on the last page of this 2018 SNBSC Annual Report Western Charlotte is a separate LSD. Regulation 84-168 8.1 says this: "(c) that area of Charlotte County known as Western Charlotte in the parishes of Saint James and Saint Stephen and described as follows for fire protection, community services and first aid and ambulance services"


 * The Regional Service Commissions [...] are in no way municipalities. 
 * I mentioned the existence of RSCs but did not intentionally state that RSCs are municipalities. If my prose caused confusion, I apologize. Please let me know if you have suggestions for improvement. --Cornellier (talk) 12:53, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Sorry, when somebody states they've learnt something new six years after it happened (RSCs) it's too easy to assume they don't understand the minutiae.
 * West Isles is a perfect example of the dangers of relying on the implicit. A new reader unfamiliar with the material could surmise that Deer Island is the only part of West Isles. As with software design, assuming the user knows nothing and will conclude the opposite of the implicit is the safest course.
 * The census hierarchy is CD - CSD; LSDs are not CSDs. The LSDs, like all the submunicipal units, used to be listed as simply DPL. I'm old enough to have pored over printed census reports back when they listed unincorporated areas by community rather than organised governance areas; it colours my perception of others' expertise when they use different wording that I would choose. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 14:16, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

Administrative divisions of New Brunswick
This seems to be the article for the upcoming reforms. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 04:29, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Just noticed this after creating 2023 New Brunswick local governance reform. The reform itself generates too much content that would bloat the above article. The reform warrants the standalone list article just created similar to 2015 Manitoba municipal amalgamations, 2000–2006 municipal reorganization in Quebec, and 2002–2006 municipal reorganization of Montreal. Hwy43 (talk) 06:37, 29 May 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.

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2023 New Brunswick local governance reform
With the proposed names of the new local governance entities just announced, I created the above using 2015 Manitoba municipal amalgamations as the model. See its talk page for expansion plans and a request for a peer review. Other similar lists include 2000–2006 municipal reorganization in Quebec and 2002–2006 municipal reorganization of Montreal. Hwy43 (talk) 06:40, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

Archive?
This talk page is getting pretty long, should it be archived to make future navigation easier? B3251 (talk) 22:14, 26 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm surprised it's not automatic. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 22:48, 26 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I just setup Cluebot archiving, it should come within a few days or so to archive this page according to the tutorial page B3251 (talk) 20:18, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

Salisbury, New Brunswick
Would somebody mind keeping an Salisbury, New Brunswick? There's an editor there who made his account solely to right some wrongs about how the governance reforms were conducted. They've already been blocked once and I don't feel like trying to explain how a village election isn't considered notable enough to put on the page. I suspect they're a member of some sovereign citizen movement; they think a new council could overturn the amalgamation they blame on the sitting mayor. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 00:41, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

Newspaper Archives
Hey everyone, I wanted to make this to let any WP:NEWB members know that I have access to https://da.tj.news/, the Telegraph-Journal's newspaper archive, incase anybody would like for me to search for anything. I've been using it to expand upon articles a few times now and I don't mind helping out if somebody would like for me to look up something.

PSA: Just keep in mind that the search function is relatively broken, and searching with quotation marks (example: "Cranberry Sauce On a Plate") doesn't often work. I found a slight workaround that sometimes works by using "%22" (HTML encode for a quotation mark) instead of placing quotation marks around the words I search, but it doesn't always work and sometimes does not showcase all articles with that phrase. Otherwise, I am more than happy to help! B3251 (talk) 17:21, 3 June 2023 (UTC)