Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Toronto/Archive 2

AfD
Lake Shore Boulevard Bailey Bridge and Old Finch Avenue Bailey Bridge have been listed for deletion. If anyone cares to comment the discussions are at Articles for deletion/Lake Shore Boulevard Bailey Bridge and Articles for deletion/Old Finch Avenue Bailey Bridge. -Arb. (talk) 23:00, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Shish taouk
I just started an article on Montreal-style shish taouk, and I would like to know whether this dish is as well-known in the rest of Canada as it is in Montreal. Should I expect to see shish taouk joints in the food courts of major Toronto malls? --  Blanchardb - Me•MyEars•MyMouth - timed 17:35, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Try to find evidence of this in Toronto publications first.  Johnny Au   (talk/contributions) 19:36, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
 * You might be able to search the eye, Now, Toronto Star, Toronto Sun or Toronto Globe archives. All of these regularly cover food in Toronto. I think the likelihood is low. Although shawarma has been readily available in Toronto for decades, I don't know of any advertisement of any particular style. Shawarmas are generally advertised as exactly that. Alaney2k (talk) 20:59, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

Scope includes Markham?
Hi team - I note that Markham, Ontario has a WikiProject Toronto banner - but should it? If the scope of this project is Toronto proper, it should not. On the other hand, if Markham should be included, the scope of this project ought to be amended. PK T (alk)  15:33, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't think all articles related to Markham should be included, but I think that Markham, Ontario itself is OK for inclusion. As is Mississauga, Brampton, etc. as they are part of the Greater Toronto Area. But I am open to other opinions on this. –xenotalk 15:36, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
 * In another note, is Canada's Wonderland part of WikiProject Toronto, given that it is a major attraction within approximately ten kilometres from the city's boundary? If it is, then Vaughan should be part of this WikiProject.  If not, then Markham should not be part of this WikiProject.   Johnny Au   (talk/contributions) 03:32, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I would say yes, and yes, Vaughan should be part of WikiProject Toronto per my comments above that the major cities in the GTA should be included (but not the sub-articles of those cities). –xenotalk 15:24, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Street Names
I've noticed that the chart of street names in the York, Upper Canada article is in need some corrections and references. Armed with my trusty Appendix C of Toronto: No Mean City, I'll be tackling this task.

Does anyone need help with things like renamed streets, street name origins, or referencing them? Talk me and let me know. The appendix has streets up to 1900, so most of downtown can be covered. AlexRussel (talk) 23:24, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

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k-os
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Don Valley Village page
A few of the "landmarks" listed as being in Don Valley Village are actually outside the boundaries given (Sheppard-Finch; 404-Leslie): - Zion Methodist Church, which is on the north side of Finch Avenue (and therefore in Hillcrest Village) - Seneca College Newnham Campus, which is also located on the north side of Finch Avenue - North York General Hospital, which is south of Sheppard Avenue, and therefore in the Henry Farm neighborhood - Cummer Park Fitness Centre, which is considerably north of Finch (even north of the light-purple shaded area that is in Hillcrest Village) and on the west side of Leslie Street, which means it probably belongs in the Bayview Woods - Steeles neighborhood (and the wiki page for that neighborhood also includes this facility) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.59.184.226 (talk) 20:50, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Please do feel free to be bold and fix this error yourself =) –xenotalk  20:52, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Category:Metro Toronto
has been nominated for a rename at. The suggested rename adds clarity for those not familiar with what Metropolitan Toronto was. Mayumashu (talk) 09:00, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Degrassi: The Next Generation
nominated Degrassi: The Next Generation 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 "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. 117Avenue (talk) 03:31, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Merging with WikiProject Canada template?
I have made it possible to add an article to the Canada and Toronto articles at once using  . It can be used along with other Canada projects, for example  {{ {{WikiProject Canada |toronto=yes |music=yes |nl=yes | class=start |importance=low }} </tt> for a band that moved from Newfoundland to Toronto. You can still use the existing {{WikiProject Toronto}} template if you want to use a unique importance rating or use the map= or photo= parameters, but in general it's useful to share the work between projects. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 03:10, 31 March 2010 (UTC)


 * This is no good, it adds a second importance rating for Toronto, meaning an article ends up in two different importance ratings, one based on WPCANADA standards, in a WPTORONTO category, and one for WPTORONTO. 76.66.192.73 (talk) 10:53, 31 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Let's centralize this and discuss at Template talk:WikiProject Canada. – xeno <sup style="color:black;">talk 13:10, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Straw poll
Hi, WikiProject Toronto. I'd like to do a straw poll to see if and how you would like to allow tagging of your articles using a merged template. The Canada template is kind of a top-level catchall template that allows all Canadian WikiProjects to be added to talk pages at once with a standardized setup.

If the option is allowed, it would let users add articles to both this project and WikiProject Canada using <tt> </tt>. This is also how articles from projects like Canada Sports and Canada Roads are done, so you would be able to add articles to multiple projects using something like <tt> </tt>.

The projects would share a class rating, but WPToronto would have it's own importance rating using <tt>|toronto-importance=</tt>. Optionally, it could be set to default to WPCanada's importance if there is no Toronto importance and put the article into the additional category Category:Toronto articles with inherited importance. It would also show the Toronto portal on the template, though we're still looking into exactly how that would look.

My questions to you are: Thanks for your input! --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 16:03, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) Do you want to allow users the option of tagging WPToronto articles using the WPCanada template?
 * 2) If it is allowed, would you want it to default to the WPCanada importance rating when there is no Toronto importance rating (assuming that you can track which articles have inherited importance)?


 * Comment The default WPCANADA importance rating will rate almost every city article as "low importance", which is useless in categorizing the importance of city articles. 76.66.192.73 (talk) 04:50, 2 April 2010 (UTC)


 * For the record, the current setup allows, but does not require, Toronto articles to be tagged jointly with WPCANADA, but always uses separate importance scales for the two projects. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 17:53, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

List of attractions in Toronto
FYI, List of attractions in Toronto has been prodded for deletion by someone. 70.29.208.247 (talk) 05:50, 13 April 2010 (UTC)


 * That someone is SimonP, known as Simon Pulsifer in real life, and is one of the best known editors of this project. He knows that the article should be deleted, since the template is more comprehensive and useful, and I agree with him. Thank you. <font face="Old English Text MT"> Johnny Au   (talk/contributions) 15:19, 13 April 2010 (UTC)


 * FYI, someone deprodded it. 70.29.208.247 (talk) 10:25, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons
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Wrong date of demolition
I can't stand stubborn ignoramuses.

The author of this article has already been advised that the demolition year is inaccurate, but persists in at least this falsehood. The hotel was torn down in 1969, not 1960, and that can be verified at several URLs.

If the building was demolished in 1960, why do cars of much later vintage appear in photos of it on the Web?

Get your poop together, Bozo. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.231.178.203 (talk) 08:51, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Please do not attack other contributors and be more constructive in your comments. Thank you. <font face="Old English Text MT"> Johnny Au   (talk/contributions) 15:57, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

Legal Aid Ontario
I'd like to propose removing Legal Aid Ontario from the Wikiproject:Toronto group. While the head office is located in Toronto, Legal Aid Ontario is a provincial agency. Can anyone else weight in on their opinion of this move? Thanks, Lawyer in training (talk) 15:35, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

Second that. Not unique to Toronto. Bytemeh (talk) 04:49, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Toronto Chamber Orchestra
If someone could take a look a this article.. it really needs work. -- &oelig; &trade; 22:47, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
 * We might need to consult WP:CM and WP:WikiProject Canadian music for help. <font face="Old English Text MT"> Johnny Au   (talk/contributions) 02:08, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

DVP up for Featured Article
Just thought I'd inform this wikiproject that Don Valley Parkway has been nominated by myself for featured article status. Feel free to review and add your comments, opposition, etc. Cheers. -  ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ  <sup style="color:#3AAA3A;">τ <sub style="color:#3AAA3A;">¢  04:18, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

School Photos
If anybody is interested, I am willing to drive around and take nice shots of every Toronto school with an article without a photo. If anybody is willing to make a list of which schools need a photo, that would help make things easier for me. -  ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ  <sup style="color:#3AAA3A;">τ <sub style="color:#3AAA3A;">¢  04:20, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Five or six subway stations connected to PATH ?
I have a question. For people who use the subway of Toronto. We can read, on the article about PATH, on the section called "Major facilities connected to PATH", that there are five subway stations comprised in PATH system. When we look at the list, on the "TTC subway stations" item, there are six stations (Dundas, Queen, King, Union, St. Andrew and Osgoode stations). So, is it six or five ? Thanks. DeansFA (talk) 20:01, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
 * The answer is five, since the sixth station, Osgoode Station, is connected only to the Four Seasons Centre, which is not connected to the rest of the PATH system, though the connection between Osgoode station and the Four Seasons Centre is technically part of the PATH system. <font face="Old English Text MT"> Johnny Au   (talk/contributions) 02:02, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot for your answer :-) DeansFA (talk) 15:52, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

New Fort York - Incorrect Caption: "German Prisoners of War"
The article correctly notes: "During World War I, the barracks housed German, Austro-Hungarian, and Turkish citizens, who were interned there as enemy aliens." There is a plaque on the site referencing this shameful internment as well. It is my understanding that no prisoners of war were at this location during WWI. Yet, beside the Wiki article is a photo with the caption "German Prisoners of War at Exhibition." This caption should be corrected. Indeed, it is also my understanding that this very photograph shows Ukrainian Canadians who originally came to Canada from territories in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, invited by the Canadian government to help build and populate the young country. (see also "Grim history lurks beneath the new Exhibition Place hotel," The Globe and Mail, 4 December 2009, by Ian Merringer) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.27.147.181 (talk) 14:33, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

Do former municipalities belong to Ontario or Toronto?
I see that WikiProject Toronto provides an outline suggesting that the pages of former Metro Toronto municipalities (Scarborough, Etobicoke, North York, East York, and York) should be named as "City of municipality, Toronto". However, when checking the history of the Scarborough, Ontario page, apparently someone tried to move it to Scarborough, Toronto but it was reverted back, citing the guidelines of WikiProject Canada as reason. So which do we follow? What is the consensus at the moment about the titles of former municipalities? Peronally, I like the "City of municipality, Toronto" format as it can also be used for the Toronto (former) page to show that it is a distinct part of Toronto, rather than Ontario where doing so would seem like former Toronto is comparable with the current city of Toronto. Hope that made sense... EelamStyleZ (talk) 17:39, 12 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Toronto's situation is somewhat unique in that a majority of the area of the city was once occupied by individual villages, and these villages have had the space between them filled with the blob of suburbia. Many of these places, up until 1967, were unique villages of Ontario. If we change these to placename, Toronto, then we set up the need to do that across the province for all single tier municipalities. Dundas, Hamilton, Lindsay, Kawartha Lakes, Carleton, Ottawa, St. Thomas, Chatham–Kent, etc... -  ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ  <sup style="color:#3AAA3A;">τ <sub style="color:#3AAA3A;">¢  18:21, 12 August 2010 (UTC)


 * I've never seen anyone call it suchlike "Scarborough, Toronto" or "Etobicoke, Toronto". That's very peculiar. If disambiguation is needed, then I think the  makes more sense. I suppose "Scarborough (Toronto, Ontario)" might be a good middle ground for compromise, but I still prefer Scarborough, Ontario. – xeno <sup style="color:black;">talk  18:24, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Let us use a very ambiguous example: York. There are many places called York in the world. Even Ontario has more than one settlement called York. Instead of York, Ontario, the article should be renamed "York (Toronto, Ontario) or York (Toronto municipality, 1834-1998)," given that Toronto before 1834 was called York, Upper Canada. <font face="Old English Text MT"> Johnny Au   (talk/contributions) 19:38, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Either of those suggestion is better than "York, Toronto". – xeno <sup style="color:black;">talk 19:43, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the suggestions. But what's with the "(Toronto, Ontario)" rather than just "(Toronto)". I'm sure we agree that Toronto wouldn't need an "Ontario" specifier, just like any article that already has "(Toronto)" in it's name. Nonetheless, I also agree that terms like "Scarborough, Toronto" or "Etobicoke, Toronto" have never been used (or at least I haven't heard of them before), but it was just a doubt I had since the project page suggest a naming convention for former municipalities "as their former official full names but recognized as part of Toronto (their current status), i.e. Borough of East York, Toronto, City of North York, Toronto, etc.". But I have no problem with the current page names (i.e. Scarborough, Ontario or Etobicoke). EelamStyleZ (talk) 01:23, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

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Royal Ontario Museum
Some eyes at the ROM article would be helpful. There appears to be school project going on. A handful of new accounts are editing there using the same source within a day or two. Mind you, most of the edits have been fine. I reverted one POV edit but otherwise the edits can stand. I posted some welcome messages on their talk pages reminding them of core policies. It may be over at this point but I was hoping to get a few more editors to check in and make sure things don't get out of hand, WP:BITE as always. Thanks, <FONT COLOR="#000000">freshacconci</FONT><FONT COLOR="#B22222"> talk</FONT><FONT COLOR="#2F4F4F">talk</FONT> 14:45, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I will take a look at it. <font face="Old English Text MT"> Johnny Au   (talk/contributions) 01:27, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅ for now by copyediting and bypassing most redirects. <font face="Old English Text MT"> Johnny Au   (talk/contributions) 01:53, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

Opinions requested
Outside opinions are requested at Talk:Toronto (former) as to how the article on the old city of Toronto should be titled. Please comment over there, thanks.--Kotniski (talk) 10:08, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Wards not Ridings
While editing the Rob Ford article I noticed that the Ward Two link was the link for Etobicoke North which actually has Ward 1 and 2, as well as nothing about munincipal elections. Should we start creating articles for wards? They have one here Ward 2, St. Louis City.205.189.194.208 (talk) 21:26, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Nope, since they often overlap with the existing neighbourhood article and the politics of Toronto is not the same as the one in St. Louis. <font face="Old English Text MT"> Johnny Au   (talk/contributions) 02:39, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Hmmmm, For example, St. Paul's (electoral district), doesn't seem to be in any of the neighbourhoods here Downtown Toronto. Further, there seems to be varying maps of wards by offices here, here,here, and here.  So what do we do?  Put, say municiple election results in, say, Ward 21 and Ward 22 in the federal riding article (St. Paul's (electoral district)) or provincial; or do we make seperate articles on such wards? And what of pre-1998 wards?205.189.194.208 (talk)
 * The wards sometimes match neighbourhoods, but just as often do not. However, there is no sense creating stub articles on each ward.  Given that every ward constitutes two wards, I would add a section at the end of the riding articles about the constituent wards.  --Skeezix1000 (talk) 16:19, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Which riding articles, the federal or provincial; and what about the seperate school and French ones?205.189.194.208 (talk) 23:47, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Sue Gardener in TO
There's a discussion at Meetup/Toronto about a chance for Torontonians to talk with Sue Gardener. This is a head's-up to WP:TO about it - Amgine (talk) 17:55, 19 January 2011 (UTC)


 * It looks like the meeting is on! The plans have been firmed up, and the event will be Sunday evening at the Linux Caffe from 6-8 pm on Sunday, Feb. 6.


 * If you have a moment, please add your name to the attendees list at Meetup/Toronto/February 06 2011! - Amgine (talk) 03:46, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

Roads in Toronto
There was recently an attempt to get rid of articles on roads like Bloor Street and Bathurst Street, and a debate has also broken out as to what those articles should include. To avoid conflicts like this in the future it would be good to have some discussion about what city roads should have articles, and what the content should be. I've thus tried to start one at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Canada_Roads/Ontario. - SimonP (talk) 00:23, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Floydian and I are reworking on the new main article. <font face="Old English Text MT"> Johnny Au   (talk/contributions) 01:02, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
 * You may want to load up all your DAB and redirect rules and tackle them in one foul swoop; there's undoubtedly a lot! -  ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ  <sup style="color:#3AAA3A;">τ <sub style="color:#3AAA3A;">¢  01:08, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Instead of automated tools, how about redirecting them to the appropriate section of the article? <font face="Old English Text MT"> Johnny Au   (talk/contributions) 03:14, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
 * That's what I have been doing (and I was also thinking of linking the roads with one another within the article so that you can jump from one to another). I meant the internal link in List of roads in Toronto. There's probably a bunch that lead to redirects or dabs. -  ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ  <sup style="color:#3AAA3A;">τ <sub style="color:#3AAA3A;">¢  05:22, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

Wrap roti
Looking for an image for the article, preferably goat, cut open, dalh visible, close up. I can't think of a place other than the roti shop by Honest Ed's. Cheers, Anna Frodesiak (talk) 12:19, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Please speak with the people at WikiProject Food and Drink. <font face="Old English Text MT"> Johnny Au   (talk/contributions) 22:36, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
 * But those guys are all over the world. I thought this would be a more focused place to post. Thanks though, I might do it anyway. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 04:31, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
 * That would be good, especially given that it is a dish from an "underrepresented" cuisine. Adding a picture would help with this problem. <font face="Old English Text MT"> Johnny Au   (talk/contributions) 01:55, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Starting a new article User:Ossih/Humberwood
Hey Guys! I am starting a new article on Humberwood,Scarborough, Toronto since that neighbourhood is not covered. I need some sources as I am not able to find any.I am collecting information at User:Ossih/Humberwood. I have uploaded a map. Please check f it is correct,Please contribute!Help would be appreciated! Thanks! Ossih (talk) 14:10, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Humberwood is in Etobicoke, not Scarborough. Humberwood is named after the Humber River, which flows along the eastern edge of Etobicoke. <font face="Old English Text MT">  Johnny Au   (talk/contributions) 21:53, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Ah! Sorry :P. Absent mindedness. I have created the page. Please check it out and comment here !
 * Ossih (talk) 11:48, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Assessing of articles
Fellow project members, we have not established any guidelines for the assessing of articles. Neither is the assessing being done frequently. I'd like us to do the following things: I'd also like to change the layout of the page because the WikiProject Canada page is much better. I also noticed that all of our awards are derived from WikiProject Canada. I suggest we create our own. Contact me! Ossih (talk) 15:07, 10 March 2011 (UTC) EDIT: I have extremely good news! As you can see, I have implemented the new layout :D. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ossih (talk • contribs) 16:11, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
 * 1) Set guidelines for assessing
 * 2) Create an assessing team
 * I like the new layout. I will be assessing articles, but sparingly, as I do not have much time to and most articles that need to be assessed have already been assessed. <font face="Old English Text MT"> Johnny Au   (talk/contributions) 00:28, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I made a small adjustment so that its all blue instead of having the clashing red and blue at the top. -  ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ  <sup style="color:#3AAA3A;">τ <sub style="color:#3AAA3A;">¢  00:33, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
 * It looks pretty good :D Ossih (Talk) 14:33, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I agree. <font face="Old English Text MT"> Johnny Au   (talk/contributions) 01:31, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Article class evaluation
Can anyone evaluate the current article quality class for Timeline of Toronto history? Thanks. EelamStyleZ (talk) 04:42, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
 * ✅ The article is now "start" class. <font face="Old English Text MT"> Johnny Au   (talk/contributions) 01:21, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

Brackets in city councillor infoboxes
The infobox for Toronto City Councillors currently reads: "Toronto City Councillor for (Ward #) Wardname" (See Doug Ford Jr. or Josh Matlow). Why are the brackets there? I find them confusing and/or distracting. If the ward # were after the ward name, the brackets would seem a little less out of place, but as it stands they are oddly positioned. Would there be any problem with "Wardname (Ward #)" or even "Ward #, Wardname")? Thanks --Padraic 16:32, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

Toronto-Montreal rivalry
Toronto-Montreal rivalry was nominated for deletion. Seems as though this should be a substantial article, considering the press harping on it from time to time. 65.95.13.213 (talk) 05:15, 22 May 2011 (UTC)

CN Tower Edge Walk
So the ticket for this new adventure goes on sale today. Time to update? SYSS Mouse (talk) 04:32, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
 * ✅ I added it into the CN Tower article. <font face="Old English Text MT"> Johnny Au   (talk/contributions) 20:54, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

Tasty 168
Hey, a new user recently created Tasty 168, about a chain of bubble tea shops that was founded in Toronto. It was flagged for speedy deletion, but I'm not sure it deserved it. I thought someone here might have a better sense than me about whether or not the chain meets WP:CORP and what the best sources are about it. I'll keep looking on my own as well, but any advice would be greatly appreciated. Meelar (talk) 20:09, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
 * It needs much more information stating its significance. <font face="Old English Text MT"> Johnny Au   (talk/contributions) 00:55, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

S.S Noronic
Is there any one out there that would know the price of the large brass plate with information about this ship. size, weight etc.... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.102.56.130 (talk) 02:05, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

Toronto area photo requests
Hi! I have some photo requests in the Toronto area. Would anyone mind taking some photos for articles?

Within Toronto:
 * Porter Airlines head office building - Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport Toronto, Ontario Canada M5V 1A1
 * Conseil scolaire Viamonde headquarters - 116, Cornelius Parkway, Toronto ON, M6L 2K5
 * Toronto Catholic District School Board headquarters - 80 Sheppard Avenue East, North York, ON M2N 6E8
 * Conseil scolaire de district catholique Centre-Sud headquarters - 110, ave. Drewry, North York (Ontario) M2M 1C8

Toronto suburbs: WhisperToMe (talk) 23:34, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Mississauga:
 * Second Cup headquarters - 6303 Airport Road Mississauga, Ontario L4V 1R8
 * Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board headquarters - 40 Matheson Boulevard West, Mississauga, ON L5R 1C5
 * Former Menu Foods headquarters - 8 Falconer Drive Streetsville, ON Canada L5N 1B1
 * Peel District School Board HQ - HJA Brown Education Centre 5650 Hurontario Street Mississauga, ON L5R 1C6 Canada
 * Vaughan: Cara Operations headquarters - 199 Four Valley Drive, Vaughn, ON L4K 0B

Luminato
In full disclosure, this is a note from a Luminato staff member, in reference to the below comment posted in 2009, as well as to edits required to the current Luminato Wikipedia entry. To the best of my knowledge, the original entry was not created by a Luminato staff member; Luminato, the organization, would prefer if some of the staff directory/advisory committee information was removed.

Luminato, would like to see a note about each year's Festival maintained in the entry, as well as an inclusion of the following year's Festival dates. Currently, an entry about the 2011 Festival (June 10-19, 2011) is missing, as are the 2012 Festival dates: June 8-17, 2012. Additionally, the Luminato staff listings that likely should remain in the entry involve Janice Price (Luminato's CEO) and Chris Lorway (Luminato's former Artistic Director). A note should be added to the current entry that Chris Lorway left his position at Luminato as of July 2011 to work with Lord Cultural Resources in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Luminato is currently searching for a new Artisitic Director to join the organization in the Fall of 2011. --70.52.121.214 (talk) 16:35, 17 August 2011 (UTC)Allison Saretsky, Interactive Marketing Manager, Luminato August 17, 2011
 * No need to double post here and at the article. --Skeezix1000 (talk) 20:43, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
 * We do not allow conflict of interest. <font face="Old English Text MT"> Johnny Au   (talk/contributions) 00:22, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Luminato is aware of Wikipedia's conflict of interest policy involving for- and not-for-profit organizations. We agree with suggestions that the current Luminato entry requires an update and clean-up; our organization will not interfere with updates and are looking to the Toronto WikiProject group for assistance. -- Allison Saretsky, Interactive Marketing Manager, Luminato. 11:22, 15 September 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.52.121.214 (talk)

Transit Task Force?
Would anyone be interested in starting a Toronto transit task force? By separating article into smaller task forces with those who are interested in certain Toronto related projects I believe we can improve many more articles in a more efficient manner. <font color="#967117">Tarret  ''<font color="#78866B">talk 19:12, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I agree that there should be a transit task force. However, I am not interested in initiating it at the moment. <font face="Old English Text MT">  Johnny Au   (talk/contributions) 02:01, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

WP Toronto in the Signpost
The WikiProject Report would like to focus on WikiProject Toronto for a Signpost article. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Multiple editors will have an opportunity to respond to the interview questions. If you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. -Mabeenot (talk) 01:51, 5 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:Toronto will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in Toronto'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) 21:25, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Scope and the suburbs
I looked at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Toronto - It seems odd to include the cities themselves, but not their contents. Usually metro-area projects include the things associated with the suburbs too. For instance it's common for major corporations and groups of people to move outside of the core/main city and into the suburbs, but they are still heavily associated with the core city. Articles about places and things about suburbs generally need the attention from the same pool editors who edit articles about places and things in the city limits. Because Toronto is not immensely large, population wise (2,503,281), like New York City is (8 million) and all of its suburbs are in the same territory, the Toronto project should also focus upon not only the municipalities, but also the things within. To compare, the main USA projects (except for New York City and Washington DC) cover the suburbs and everything inside. WhisperToMe (talk) 01:01, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
 * That can be done. An alternative is to create WikiProject 905. <font face="Old English Text MT"> Johnny Au   (talk/contributions) 03:16, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Another way is to expand the scope of the existing project. For WikiProject Houston we did not even have to change the name of the project. We just agreed "let's cover the whole metro area." In the minds of the general public they think of the suburbs as being a part of "Houston" anyway. WhisperToMe (talk) 19:30, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

Kennedy Commons Mall, York Mills Gardens, Chartwell Shopping Centre
Which categories on "List of malls in Toronto" would Kennedy Commons Mall (Kennedy Rd/Hwy 401/Progress Ave) and York Mills Gardens (Leslie St/York Mills Rd) Chartwell Shopping Centre (Brimley Rd south of Huntingwood Dr) be placed? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.237.244.218 (talk) 05:00, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

Toronto Meetup - May 25
I am looking to do a Toronto area meetup on May 25. Wikimedia Canada has received some interest from the Royal Ontario Museum to do a special tour of the Museum on June 8. My hope is to meet active Wikipedia editors in the GTA. If you're interested please contact me on my talk page. wmca:User:Alan.ca Alan.ca (talk) 20:56, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

Panzerotti image
The article needs one. Hungry?


 * 1) Grab your camera and 3 bucks
 * 2) Get to your local pizza joint
 * 3) Order one, take a photo
 * 4) Cut it in half, take a photo
 * 5) Wait around 45 minutes for it to cool
 * 6) Eat it
 * 7) Upload the photo to commons

Thanks! Anna Frodesiak (talk) 06:52, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
 * This does not belong to this WikiProject, since they are also commonly found well outside of Toronto's sphere of influence. Please post it in the Food WikiProject or the Italy WikiProject instead. <font face="Old English Text MT"> Johnny Au   (talk/contributions) 02:46, 1 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Johnny, with due respect, that makes no sense to me. Posting here provides the best chance of getting the image. Best wishes, Anna Frodesiak (talk) 02:51, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I know. I posted this to show that though you can get a quicker response here, they are more relevant in the Food and Italy WikiProjects. If that were the case, then the Panzerotti article should be given the WikiProject Toronto tag in its talk page (and eventually, it may become clogged with various WikiProjects of various North American cities with large Italian populations). <font face="Old English Text MT">  Johnny Au   (talk/contributions) 03:10, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

image:Vcmerrifield-photo.jpg
File:Vcmerrifield-photo.jpg is also needing sourcing and authorship. -- 76.65.128.252 (talk) 10:19, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

Quality Assessment - Importance
I'm wondering if there's a Project Toronto page explaining how to evaluate article importance. All I've found are the categories grouping Toronto articles by importance. Is the scale similar to the Project Canada Importance Scale? -A.Roz (talk) 00:37, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Probably. <font face="Old English Text MT"> Johnny Au   (talk/contributions) 01:14, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

Design Exchange museum - changed focus & exhibition strategy
Good morning, In full disclosure, I am an employee of the Design Exchange museum in Toronto, ON, Canada. We've noted that the Wikipedia page entry for the museum was nominated for deletion in August 2012 and we're glad that's not the case - very glad. In fact, the museum has embarked on a new plan and focus as a design museum, which brings exciting, groundbreaking exhibitions and shows from around the world and Canada.

The new positioning statement for the museum is below. We understand and respect that the organization itself does not adjust or edit the Design Museum's Wikipedia entry; should there ever be an opportunity by the Commons / Wiki Editors to update the Design Museum's entry here, this would be much appreicated - as it reflects the museum's new focus.

"As of March, 2012 the Design Exchange has taken a revitalized strategic direction and refined mandate - to promote the relevancy and experience of design to as large a number of people as possible, the DX will now be exclusively a Design Museum. Covering off the various design disciplines including fashion, architecture, interior and industrial design, digital design and more, exhibitions and programming will explore designers, products, projects or themes that have broad public appeal and reflect popular contemporary culture. Newly appointed President, Shauna Levy, leads this new direction offering renowned traveling exhibits from prestigious cultural institutions across the globe, a new city-wide cultural component, a greater focus on educational experiences for the public, including youth and adults, and a rollout of programming that will extend across the country."

38.122.185.12 (talk) 15:45, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

image:Toronto 1996 Olympic bid logo.jpg
File:Toronto 1996 Olympic bid logo.jpg is in the cleanup category for missing source, does someone know the source of this? -- 76.65.128.252 (talk) 10:12, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
 * It has been deleted. <font face="Old English Text MT"> Johnny Au   (talk/contributions) 01:55, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
 * No source has been found as of yet. <font face="Old English Text MT"> Johnny Au   (talk/contributions) 02:56, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

Project banner
On the project page, we are told to use the |toronto= parameter using WP Canada's banner. If this is correct, why does this banner exist? Griffinofwales (talk) Simple English Wikipedia - Come and join! 01:19, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
 * The WikiProject Toronto banner was used before the |toronto= parameter was implemented. <font face="Old English Text MT"> Johnny Au   (talk/contributions) 03:20, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I have deleted the template because it's been 7 days after it was tagged. Could you replace the templates (now it's redlinked) with the new parameter? See this for the list of pages it was on. --Bsadowski1 00:53, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
 * The banner is now a redirect. <font face="Old English Text MT"> Johnny Au   (talk/contributions) 00:14, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Hello there we have been talking about this at Template talk:WikiProject Canada. We seem to have a bit of a problem. The original Toronto template should not have been deleted until the conversion was done. You will see at WikiProject Canada/Assessment that not all of the sub templates and there corresponding pages have been converted yet.  Not sure how the original TO template got deleted without taking  into account it would leave a red template link (I would guess this was a small oversight that now leaves the project minus 6000+ pages). We should  reinstate the old template ASAP so the projects gets its pages back and assessments are not lost (hope it not to late). The deletion of the template would/should only take place after an appropriate substitution is found and implemented - we should never blank out a projects tracking system without a new one in its place.  Would also like to point out that the relevant projects were never notified of the deletion request, thus the projects was not able to voice its concerns about this happening. Moxy (talk) 00:41, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Old banner reinstated/restored with history intact. --Bsadowski1 00:53, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅ Wow very nice  - Thank you for this fast action Bsadowski1. I believe we have had many pages  were the old template has been replaced - anyone know if the assessments  were carried over or should we be doing a mass revert of those edits to get back  assessments? As projects assessments is more important then the right banner. Moxy (talk) 00:59, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
 * A while back I found some historical figures that had a Toronto template and no Canada template. For each of them I replaced the Toronto one with the Canada one and copied Toronto's assessment when it existed. If someone were to do a mass replacement of this template with the Canada template, they would have to make sure to do the same.  It shouldn't be too hard to program: replace  with  .  —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 00:32, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

Good. <font face="Old English Text MT"> Johnny Au   (talk/contributions) 01:21, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Update
All uses of the Toronto banner have been replaced. Does anyone object to it being deleted now? —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 23:40, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
 * No objections. --Skeezix1000 (talk) 16:40, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Hold off. There is some discussion at WP:CANTALK about implementing a separate banner for WP:OKANAGAN, even for Canada-related articles.  If that's the case, I believe we should maintain this banner and start using it.--Skeezix1000 (talk) 19:57, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Go ahead with deletion - all there is - is the same IP for years that has complaimed. I don't understand thoses that dont even participate or maintaine projects talking  up a storm.Moxy (talk) 20:31, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I seem to have offended Moxy somehow. My view is that we should be looking to establish a separate banner.  If all banners for WPCANADA are not consolidated, then in my opinion this project could benefit from the exposure of having its own banner.  --Skeezix1000 (talk) 20:28, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Template: WikiProject Toronto
WikiProject Toronto has been nominated for deletion. WPCANADA has replaced your banner with its own (see the discussion further up this talk page). -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 06:10, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

Asian Institute Logo.jpg
image:Asian Institute Logo.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.76.126 (talk) 08:45, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
 * It is obviously copyrighted. I support the deletion of the image. <font face="Old English Text MT"> Johnny Au   (talk/contributions) 00:28, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Flooding in Toronto, 2013-07-08
If you wish to mention yesterday's flooding in Toronto in an existing or new article, this photo may be useful: File:Flooding in Dufferin Street underpass beneath railway tracks, 2013-07-08.JPG <font face="Times">Eastmain (talk • contribs) 08:32, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
 * ✅ I have added the image in the Dufferin Street article. <font face="Old English Text MT"> Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 00:42, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

Don Mills Aerial Shot 2 (1957).jpg
image:Don Mills Aerial Shot 2 (1957).jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.92.181.39 (talk) 05:12, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

Don Mills Aerial Shot (1957).jpg
image:Don Mills Aerial Shot (1957).jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.92.181.39 (talk) 03:48, 29 September 2013 (UTC)

RobFordCrackHouse.jpg
image:RobFordCrackHouse.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 04:55, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
 * An uncensored version exists. <font face="Old English Text MT"> Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 01:36, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
 * It's not being used at Timeline of Rob Ford video scandal, the one under deletion discussion is. -- 76.65.129.3 (talk) 05:35, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Both are now the same image. <font face="Old English Text MT"> Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 00:55, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

Split of "List of Mayors of Toronto"
It has been proposed to split the List of mayors of Toronto article. See the discussion on the talk page. Alaney2k (talk) 06:48, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Got it. <font face="Old English Text MT"> Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 02:53, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

FAR
I have nominated Paul Kane 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.--Jarodalien (talk) 07:18, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

Hero Certified Burgers
I have nominated that article for deletion, as it looks like an advertisement and is mostly re-written by one person. <font face="Old English Text MT"> Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 01:52, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
 * It survived. <font face="Old English Text MT"> Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 00:24, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

Toronto Jets S.S. Pauline (1978).pdf
image:Toronto Jets S.S. Pauline (1978).pdf has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.129.3 (talk) 05:33, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
 * That is not an image. <font face="Old English Text MT"> Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 00:06, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

WorldPride 2014
WorldPride 2014 will be held in Toronto this year, replacing Pride Week (Toronto) events for one year. Is there someone who might be interested in organizing an edit-a-thon, or even a photography project, during the month of June in conjunction with Wiki Loves Pride 2014? Even just offering a photograph LGBT culture in Toronto would be a huge help and benefit to Wikipedia! Please let me know if you have any questions. -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 16:02, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
 * I would love to, but I am very busy unfortunately. Perhaps someone else interested can help. <font face="Old English Text MT"> Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 00:27, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅ partially by Ground Zero. <font face="Old English Text MT"> Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 00:41, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

Undue weight at Toronto District School Board
I think there is undue weight to controversies at Toronto District School Board WhisperToMe (talk) 15:22, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

Referring to Toronto subway lines
Some editors are replacing Toronto subway lines anmes with their numbers in the text of various articles. there have been two proposals to rename the subway line articles; both were rejected. See Talk:Yonge–University–Spadina line.

The TTC is using both the line number and the line name on their Subway/RT page. TTC information makes it clear that they are adding numbers to the names, not phasing out the names. At the end of this video, Chris Uphold of the TTC says this unambiguously. And this news release says: "Subway lines are not being renamed; rather, applying line numbers and colours already in use to existing line names...."

Replacing the descriptive name with the undescriptive number does not improve the clarity of the article. I am inviting other editors to dsicuss this to try to stop the edit war. I propose to add the following to the project page:
 * To improve clarity of the information for readers, TTC subway lines should be identifed by their descriptive names (e.g., Yonge-University-Spadina; Bloor-Danforth) or by their numbers and names (e.g., Line 1, Yonge-University-Spadina; Line 2, Bloor-Danforth), but not by their numbers alone.

Comments? Ground Zero | t 19:02, 22 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Perhaps the time has come to revisit the subject of renaming the line articles to include the number. This is now in widespread use and, in my opinion, we should use what the TTC has implemented. I resisted this when it was first brought up, since there was only minimal evidence of using numbers on a trial basis. Secondarywaltz (talk) 15:00, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't object to including the numbers. The problem I have is with the editors who want to replace the descriptive names with the uninformative numbers. Ground Zero | t 15:41, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
 * The only way to refer to each rapid transit line would then be to link, without piping, directly to the article tile. This would remove any doubt. Thus 1 Yonge–University–Spadina (or similar) would always be used, just as at http://www.ttc.ca/Subway/Yonge_University_Spadina.jsp the TTC now does. Secondarywaltz (talk) 16:11, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
 * But by WP:COMMONNAME, Wikipedia articles should be named by what people are going to search for, rather than by an organization's official preference. Are people expecting to find the article at 1 Yonge–University–Spadina? Ground Zero | t 16:56, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I said "or similar". This is a discussion? Secondarywaltz (talk) 20:55, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I feel strongly that under WP:COMMONNAME, the article title should just be the line's name. Wikilinks and article text can clarify the number. Radagast (talk) 18:30, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
 * As I said above, when it was suggested before, I resisted the inclusion of the number. But, since those extended names are so clumsy, the common name is fast becoming the number. It has suprised me in how quickly people have adapted. Are you aware that TTC announcements now normally only use the line number? Secondarywaltz (talk) 20:55, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Perhaps we can move them to the line numbers, since the public is transitioning to line numbers very quickly. <font face="Old English Text MT"> Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 02:40, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia readers are? Really? I find that unlikely. Our concern here isn't subway riders (there's limited access to Wikipedia while riding the subway anyway), but Wikipedia's international audience. I still think that "Bloor-Danforth" provides a lot more meaning than "Line 2" to a Wikipedia reader. Ground Zero | t 09:32, 1 October 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) 22:48, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Toronto transit system -- proposal to rename the article
Comments are welcome at Talk:Toronto_rapid_transit. Ground Zero | t 17:48, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!


Hello everyone!

You may have received a message from me earlier asking you to comment on my WikiProject X proposal. The good news is that WikiProject X is now live! In our first phase, we are focusing on research. At this time, we are looking for people to share their experiences with WikiProjects: good, bad, or neutral. We are also looking for WikiProjects that may be interested in trying out new tools and layouts that will make participating easier and projects easier to maintain. If you or your WikiProject are interested, check us out! Note that this is an opt-in program; no WikiProject will be required to change anything against its wishes. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!

Note: To receive additional notifications about WikiProject X on this talk page, please add this page to WikiProject X/Newsletter. Otherwise, this will be the last notification sent about WikiProject X.

Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

March 2015 Art+Feminism event in Toronto
Hi Toronto Wikipedians! I am reaching out to see if anyone in Toronto would be interested in helping out with editing training for a Meetup/ArtAndFeminism edit-a-thon taking place at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto on Sunday March 8th. We would appreciate any assistance in securing at least one experienced Wikipedian in the Toronto area, and I'd be happy to put you in touch with the organizers if you are able to help out. More information about the Toronto event can also be found here. If interested, please reply on wiki or by e-mail at thepwnco.wiki@gmail.com. Cheers! -Thepwnco (talk) 22:24, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

Scotiabank Theatre
Hello. I would first like to point out that I am not from, nor do I live in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, however I do live in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Anyway, as I was recently browsing, I came across a page (as seen in the link in the title above) that is in need of updates but which has been labeled within the scope of WikiProject Toronto. According to the page's edit history, it was only created as of this year. Given the fact that Scotiabank Theatre is a brand within Cineplex Entertainment, I would think it would be wise to consult the adminstrating editors of that company's page regarding this matter, but in terms of bringing it to your attention, I felt that I should inform you that this Scotiabank Theatre page is presented as though it were exclusive, when in actuality, it stands as merely one of eight locations across the country under the Scotiabank Theatre brand. Therefore, I feel it is advisable to either rename the page Scotiabank Theatre Toronto to more aptly describe the location while maintaining the page's exclusive nature, or pass off the page to the administrating editors of the Cineplex Entertainment page, or work in consultation with said editors to ensure that the page is revamped to incorporate information regarding the other seven Scotiabank Theatre locations in Canada (namely Vancouver, Edmonton, Chinook, Saskatoon, Montreal, Halifax and St. John's). Thank you. <font style="color:#FF0000;background:#0000CC;"> Snake <font style="color:#0000CC;background:#FF0000;"> Chess <font style="color:#000000;background:#00FF00">5 06:54, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
 * That should be done, once we get a consensus. <font face="Old English Text MT"> Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 01:36, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Makes sense to me, but are the other theatres sharing the name notable themselves in any way? Given that the existing article is only stub-tier, it may be better to simply expand it out to cover the other locations as well instead of moving it to Scotiabank Theatre Toronto. // coldacid (talk&#124;contrib) 02:58, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

Photos request
Hello Torotono, soon will be the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. For this i am trying to generate a list of all related memorials. Two of them are located in Toronto (this and this). I would really appreciate if some photographer from Toronto could make photos of them and upload them to Commons. At best it should be several photos of the object from different angles including from the backside and also possible details like plaques, inscription etc. Thank you very much in advance, --Aschroet (talk) 07:02, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

Osterhout Log Cabin
Does anyone know the coords? I think it's around here. Many thanks for any help you can offer. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 04:23, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

Humber River Regional Hospital
Hey folks. Just came across this article; someone repping the hospital has been trying to insert press release material into it. I've reverted and tried to educate, but I can't babysit the article. It's not a very good article at all - if anyone's bored, it might be a good project. Tony Fox (arf!) 19:55, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

move discussion relisted
Greetings! I have recently relisted a requested move discussion at Talk:X2 (film), regarding a page relating to this WikiProject. Discussion and opinions are invited. Thanks, Yashovardhan (talk) 16:33, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia for Peace Berlin 4.-18. July 2017
-- Earl ysp atz '''<font style="background:#F9FD00">Talk 11:19, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

Naming convention for TTC stations
The naming convention described here for TTC stations has been superseded by the new naming convention. The project page should be updated to reflect that. (In fact the convention listed on this page was never implemented, as can be seen by trying to follow Spadina TTC station.) Set theorist (talk) 16:28, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

Gail Kim
Gail Kim, an article that you or your project may be interested in, 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. Mateusz Konieczny (talk) 09:35, 12 November 2017 (UTC)

Controversial merger proposal
Per WP:PM, I am notifying the talk page of this appropriate Wikiproject to get knowledgeable people to comment on it. It has been proposed at Articles for deletion/Burano (building) that McLaughlin Motor Car Showroom be merged into Burano (building) (assuming the latter article is kept). I think that the content in the McLaughlin Motor Car Showroom article can easily be explained in the context of Burano (building), and the Burano (building) article is of a reasonable size that the merging of McLaughlin Motor Car Showroom will not cause any problems as far as article size or undue weight is concerned. Jack N. Stock (talk) 02:08, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
 * A belated update: both articles were kept after excellent collaboration. Please add to either of the articles if you see any reliable sources with additional information. Jack N. Stock (talk) 06:05, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.

Portals are being redesigned.

The new design features are being applied to existing portals.

At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template Transclude lead excerpt.

The discussion about this can be found here.

Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.

Background
On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.

There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.

So far, 84 editors have joined.

If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.

If you have any questions about what is happening with portals or the Portals WikiProject, please post them on the WikiProject's talk page.

Thank you. &mdash; The Transhumanist  07:58, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Replace Template:WikiProject Toronto
I think that the code on Template:WikiProject Toronto should be replaced with

This code allows it to uses Template:WikiProject Canada with the Ontario and Toronto parameters on, as a article that relates to Toronto also related to Ontario and Canada. – BrandonXLF   (t@lk)  21:33, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

Please help me with Joan kelley walker
HI, I need help cleaning this article submission up so it can be submitted again. Can someone please edit the sources for me. I don't know what else I can do to get it to be accepted. I need actual help

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Joan_Kelley_Walker RealityTVfanatic (talk) 10:59, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

GO Green
There is an ongoing discussion on what the "new" primary shade of green used by GO Transit actually is. I invite additional input. -- Natural  R <sub style="color: #000000">X  20:38, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

Article about York Entrepreneurship Development Institut
Hello dear colleagues! I am new to creating articles from scratch. Although earlier I repeatedly anonymously improved already existing articles. I noticed that there are almost no articles about Canadian and especially Toronto based business accelerators and wrote one. Could you help me with its improvement and review? And maybe French translation...

Sorry if this is not the right place for such requests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:York_Entrepreneurship_Development_Institute --Jedi2be (talk) 21:09, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

A new newsletter directory is out!
A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.
 * – Sent on behalf of Headbomb. 03:11, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

Deer Park (Toronto Neighbourhood)
Hello! Within Deer_Park,_Toronto there is a new Business Improvement Area called the "Yonge + St. Clair BIA" - link here. Not sure what the conventions are for neighbourhood names, but not sure how many people refer to the area as Deer Park? Also the local subway station is "St. Clair".

So wondering if your team you consider:


 * Potentially changing the name of the page to Yonge & St. Clair?
 * Adding the BIA boundary within the neighbourhood map, similar to how its shown on other neighbourhood pages? Here's a link to the boundary (PDF): https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2017/ed/bgrd/backgroundfile-106667.pdf — Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.59.171.36 (talk) 21:17, 24 July 2019 (UTC)

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
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.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:25, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

MfD for Wikipedia:WikiProject Toronto/Article Feedback
There is a MfD for the page WikiProject Toronto/Article Feedback at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Toronto/Article Feedback. – Brandon XLF  (talk) 07:54, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

Edit request
There is a edit request relevant to this WikiProject at Template talk:WikiProject Toronto. – Brandon XLF  (talk) 06:33, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi - I've marked this edit request so as to wait a couple of days to see if there are any other views on the issue.  As the Toronto transit task force looks inactive - are you intending to work in that area? Regards --Goldsztajn (talk) 10:59, 29 November 2019 (UTC)
 * , no I am not (at the moment at least), but the parameters are already present for the most part, so might as well document them. I've reopened the edit request. – Brandon XLF  (talk)

Metro Toronto borough mayors
In 1967, Metropolitan Toronto was reorganized and boroughs were created by merging various townships. As a result reeves were replaced with mayors. Most borough mayors have articles on Wikipedia but several are missing. I'm wondering if there's any interest in creating them?:
 * Etobicoke
 * 1967–1972 Edward A. Horton
 * North York
 * 1967–1969 James Service
 * 1970-1972 Basil Hall
 * Scarborough
 * 1970-1972 Robert White
 * York
 * 1967-1969 Jack Mould

45.72.245.7 (talk) 00:43, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

SARS
I noticed at Talk:Timeline of the SARS outbreak and talk:Severe acute respiratory syndrome, it is rated as "low-importance" for T.O.; is that correct? The current coverage for 2019-nCoV in government and media seems to indicate that it's rather more important to the history of Toronto than just low -- 67.70.33.184 (talk) 06:18, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

Casper TNG
Notable or not? Bearian (talk) 00:33, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

Discussion
A discussion which may be of interest to the members of this group can be found here. Beyond My Ken (talk) 02:25, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

Need help with historical Toronto elections
I've recently witten 1907 Toronto municipal election and 1908 Toronto municipal election and improved 1899 Toronto municipal election. Is there anyone with access to newspaper archives who could help with the following:

Sowny (talk) 16:25, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
 * 1900 Toronto municipal election
 * 1901 Toronto municipal election
 * 1902 Toronto municipal election
 * 1903 Toronto municipal election
 * 1904 Toronto municipal election
 * 1905 Toronto municipal election
 * 1906 Toronto municipal election

Pre-1967 suburban mayors and reeves
We now have articles for every suburban mayor (ie Scarborough, North York, East York, York, and Etobicoke) from the 1967 amalgamation/reorganization of Metro to the final amalgamation of 1997. I'm wondering which, if any, pre-1967 reeves or mayors merit an article (see List of reeves of the former townships and villages in Toronto and also List of reeves and mayors of East York, List of reeves and mayors of Scarborough, Ontario. List of reeves and mayors of Etobicoke, North_York, and York,_Toronto ). Before January 1, 1967 there was not only the townships of Etobicoke, York, North York, East York, and Scarborough but also the towns of New Toronto, Mimico, Weston and Leaside; the villages of Long Branch, Swansea and Forest Hill. I wrote an article on North York reeve Norman Goodhead since he was twice a candidate for Metro Chairman and there was a lot of information on him. Oliver Crockford of Scarborough also appears to be notable since he was the force behind the Golden Mile and Chris Tonks of York is notable because he was the focus of a major corruption scandal that made national news - and also remained in politics into the 1970s. This page on the reeves of mayors of Etobicoke has a little blurb on each reeve, William J. Gardhouse later became MPP for York West so he might be notable.

If many or most of these reeves and mayors are not notable in their own right I'm wondering if we can build up List of reeves of the former townships and villages in Toronto and the related pages about the townships so that there is at least a few sentences on each reeve or mayor on the page? Sowny (talk) 14:20, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

Index created
Hello, I edit many Ontario-related articles and am a member of WikiProject Indices. I was working on the Index of Ontario-related articles and felt that with the sheer number of Toronto-related articles on Wikipedia, it was justified as a scope for its own dedicated index, which I have created at Index of Toronto-related articles. I welcome any comments or contributions, as despite my best efforts I doubt I will be able to find and add all of the hundreds of Toronto-related articles on here. I hope you may find it useful. I've certainly been enjoying the process of finding and reading the wide variety of articles about the city. Julius177 (talk) 19:14, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

The Great Hall - Toronto ( Heritage Site)
Hi, Full disclosure: i work at The Great Hall, it's one of the main historic city landmarks in Toronto, although its 130 years old landmark and one of the main pillars on queen west since 1889, it is still not part of the wikipedia resource. I would be happy to provide any material needed, articles, news, updates, historical background etc.

Thank you.


 * There is a The Great Hall article now. I will archive this. Alaney2k (talk) 04:55, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

Oliver & Bonacini Restaurants
Hello. Full disclosure: I work for Oliver & Bonacini Restaurants in their marketing department. We would like to request an article for creation about the Toronto-based company and its founders, Peter Oliver and MasterChef Canada judge Michael Bonacini. Currently, Michael Bonacini is the only MasterChef Canada judge without his own Wikipedia page.

We would be happy to provide a wide variety of sources (newspaper articles, magazine features, etc.) to the writer. A key player in Toronto's food and beverage culture, O&B owns and operates 12 restaurants in Ontario as well as a handful of event spaces, including Arcadian Court and The Carlu.

Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rebeccaspence (talk • contribs)
 * This must be old. There is an Oliver & Bonacini article. I'll archive this. Alaney2k (talk) 04:59, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

Photos of cricket grounds
Hello WP:Toronto members. I'm just over from the Cricket Project. We're looking for editors to take pictures of cricket grounds which have hosted major matches at international/domestic level. Here are some cricket grounds in Toronto which we currently do not have photos for. It would be greatly appreciated if any project members living locally to these grounds were to dust off their cameras and take some photos! The two cricket grounds are about 3km apart. Thanks in advance. StickyWicket (talk) 08:47, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

The Dakota Tavern
I noticed there wasn't a page for the venue The Dakota Tavern so I've created a stub/start-class article for now. CaffeinAddict (talk) 03:53, 25 May 2021 (UTC)