Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Vancouver/Archive 3

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

many vancouver plaques up for deletion
See Possibly_unfree_files/2012_October_22 for many Vancouver-area images up for deletion -- 65.92.181.190 (talk) 07:34, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

Talk:Compass Card
FYI. In ictu oculi (talk) 14:11, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Doesnt seem like a problem. Mkdw talk 23:49, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

Wikimedia Cascadia
There has been a little bit of activity at the Wikimedia Cascadia page at Meta, along with its associated talk page. If you have any thoughts on this proposed organization, I am all ears (as I know others are as well). Feedback? Interest? Questions? -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 16:14, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

In memoriam
It is with a heavy heart that I pass on the news that one of our local Wikipedians, Franamax, has passed away. Condolences can be left at his talk page here. The Interior (Talk) 22:01, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I was very sad to learn of his passing. Late, since I haven't been back here in awhile, but if anyone would like to add their condolences. Fran was an active participants for most of our conversations and after a battle with lung cancer passed away on November 25. Mkdw talk 22:15, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

Category:WikiProject Vancouver
Category:WikiProject Vancouver is in Category:Vancouver and should be removed from it. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 21:49, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Done. The Interior  (Talk) 21:55, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Article for Metrotown neighbourhood
(Cross-posted from Talk:Burnaby)

I've been working on a draft for the Metrotown neighbourhood at my sandbox, and I think it's almost ready for launch. There are a few things that I think need to be discussed (in particular the article title), so please head over to the talk page for the current Metrotown article to share your thoughts. - Hinto (talk) 18:12, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Great job....looks ready for main space.Moxy (talk) 18:28, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

Vancouver GA
Anyone around interested in making Vancouver a GA article again? Mkdw talk 05:38, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm in. I was thinking about organising a Meetup at Vancouver Public Library this month, this would be a great project to work on there.  I was thinking a Sunday afternoon, either the 13th or 20th.  What say you?  The Interior  (Talk) 19:05, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia Day is in January and it would be great to commemorate it. When you set a date post a WP:GEONOTICE or ask me to do this and see who else appears.  Blue Rasberry    (talk)   15:58, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Great. I think it would be a good idea to spread the word and hit up some talk pages. We'll set a date when everyone is back from holidays. Mkdw talk 09:10, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

The Drop (sculpture)
Anyone interested in collaborating on the article for this sculpture in Vancouver? This should be a pretty easy article to get to Good status. I will likely continue working on the article on my own even if no one else wants to pitch in, but I thought I'd extend a request in the spirit of collaboration! Feel free to jump right in or leave a note on my talk page if interested! -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 22:18, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Per Talk:The Drop (sculpture), we could do with help form a local, to locate the sculpture on a map and extract the coordinates, please. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:50, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

Metro Vancouver vs Greater Vancouver
See Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_January_25 where the discussion on whether to use "Metro Vancouver" or "Greater Vancouver" is going on -- 70.24.246.233 (talk) 14:45, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Joe Fortes image deletion?
Someone want to take this on?Skookum1 (talk) 07:18, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

New pin maps
Hallo. I've created Template:Location map Canada Vancouver Richmond, Template:Location map Canada Vancouver Downtown and Template:Location map Canada Vancouver City. They'll all work for pin. Feel free to change the infoboxes to feature them for building articles. Hope they're useful.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld  12:11, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

The palm tree bandit strikes again
Can't remember how many times the same person has put in a pic of palm trees into the Vancouver article, and always as if it were the most notable thing about the climate/botany of the city; just now found out that one had been placed on the TOP (before the text) of the Climate of Vancouver article.... removed it here. Good god, it's not like that's the only exotic tree in Vancouver....Japanese cherries, rhodos and azaleas, monkey-puzzles and more are way more common. The fetish for palm trees is someone's little bandwagon; either someone transplanted from a colder eastern climate who's amazed by them, or someone local who's obsesses with "how special Vancouver is".....Can others please keep a watch out for this; one compromise solution I can think of, either for the climate of Vancouver or a broader article on Flora of Vancouver, would be to have a section on exotics....where the palm trees are just one among many. The WP:UNDUE weight this is always given by the person planting it has got to stop; I think it's an IP address user, this isn't serious enough to warrant serious measures like an ANI, but I hope others out there are mindful of this; it's something like WP:SOAP too,, like any repetitive mono-topical bandwagon.Skookum1 (talk) 02:29, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Needed List of heritage buildings in New Westminster
Please see Talk:New_Westminster. I'm hoping that the heritage-minded editors who built this list do a similar table-list for New Westminster. Queen's Park, New Westminster is not just the park, but also an official heritage district within the city, and so that article needs a split between the park and the neighbourhood; the neighbourhood is spelled without the apostrophe.Skookum1 (talk) 08:31, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

Columbia Street article needed
I just added it to the Columbia disambiguation page, and made a redirect from the redlink that resulted to New Westminster, but the content there should be split off an substantially expanded into its own article.Skookum1 (talk) 08:44, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

600x600VancouverStealth.png
image:600x600VancouverStealth.png has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.79.6 (talk) 12:08, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

UBC Law Army Huts.jpg
image:UBC Law Army Huts.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 06:33, 4 August 2013 (UTC)

Burrard Inlet Canoe.jpg
image:Burrard Inlet Canoe.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.131.217 (talk) 05:47, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

List of tallest buildings in Vancouver at WP:FLRC
List of tallest buildings in Vancouver has been nominated for demotion at WP:FLRC. It would be helpful if people at this project weighed in to help prevent the featured status being removed. Thanks. The Rambling Man (talk) 16:40, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

refining People from Vancouver category
I'm only at the B's and I'm exhausted...... the existing subcategories are bluelinked, I've added ones I think should be made, given what I've been seeing; some will not fit in the existing trees so they will be added last:

That's all for now but you get the idea; note that these new ones are based on the particular range of things I'm seeing....Skookum1 (talk) 06:13, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
 * ▼ Category:Actors from Vancouver‎ (2 C)
 * ► Category:Actresses from Vancouver‎ (134 P)
 * ► Category:Male actors from Vancouver‎ (131 P)
 * Category:Artists from Vancouver
 * Category:Animation artists from Vancouver (or "animators"?)
 * ► Category:Businesspeople from Vancouver‎ (35 P)
 * ► Category:Musicians from Vancouver‎ (186 P)
 * Category:Singers from Vancouver (maybe with pop and opera/classical and East Indian/Cantopop etc subcats)
 * Category:Instrumentalists from Vancouver (with subcategories as needed, e.g. guitarists)
 * Category:Composers from Vancouver
 * ▼ Category:Politicians from Vancouver‎ (1 C, 16 P)
 * MLA and MP categories should be subcatted here
 * ▼ Category:Vancouver city councillors‎ (1 C, 34 P)
 * ► Category:Mayors of Vancouver‎ (40 P)
 * ► Category:Sportspeople from Vancouver‎ (238 P)
 * Category:Sports broadcasters from Vancouver
 * Category:Sports journalists from Vancouver
 * Category:Radio journalists from Vancouver (maybe hotline hosts would be better given the roster)
 * ► Category:Writers from Vancouver‎ (117 P)
 * Category:TV and film writers from Vancouver
 * Category:Journalists from Vancouver
 * Category:Novelists from Vancouver
 * Category:Essayists from Vancouver (and/or scholars?)
 * Category:Poets from Vancouver
 * Category:Literary critics from Vancouver
 * Category:Publishers from Vancouver
 * Category:Lawyers from Vancouver
 * Category:Judges from Vancouver (Jurists?)
 * Category:Academics from Vancouver
 * Category:Scientists from Vancouver
 * Category:Economists from Vancouver
 * Category:Socialites from Vancouver (e.g. Patricia Buckley, Lara Dauphinee, Jackie Segal though some like the last-named would also be in the businesspeople categories and in philanthropist categories, once made.
 * Category:Show business people from Vancouver (subcat of business people)
 * Category:Stage producers and impresarios from Vancouver (whatever that hierarchy might be called)
 * Category:Film and TV producers from Vancouver
 * Category:Film and TV directors from Vancouver
 * Category:Film and TV writers from Vancouver
 * Category:Philanthropists from Vancouver
 * Category:Educators from Vancouver
 * Category:Notable military figures from Vancouver (whatever the appropriate name; note the Rod Bell-Irving article, which is an orphan and shouldn't be)

A class project for Vancouver ecology and sustainability pages
The 25 students in my UBC UBC Human Ecology course (Biology 345) are planning projects that will create and/or improve Wikipedia pages about aspects of Vancouver ecology and sustainability. We'd like to make sure these are well integrated with the existing and ongoing Vancouver Wikipedia efforts. Please contact me about this. Rosieredfield (talk) 23:33, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

Point Grey now separate from West Point Grey
see Talk:West_Point_Grey. Anyone know for sure the name of the WWII base? I'm assuming it was CFB Point Grey but won't make that redirect until sure. The redirect if made, or a separate article on the base, which may be called for given enough material, should go in something like Category:World War II history in British Columbia or Category:Coastal fortifications in British Columbia or the like; for now there is Category:Forts in British Columbia which includes Yorke Island (Canada) but really that cat should be for things name "Fort FOO".Skookum1 (talk) 07:39, 3 May 2014 (UTC)

Prospect Point (British Columbia) created
In the course of populating Category:Headlands of British Columbia, I discovered that Prospect and Ferguson Points do not have their own article but only mentions in the Stanley Park article; Brockton Point I think does have its own article (hmm). Because of a hatnote at Prospect Point, which is in Antarctica, the wording there and the lack of a target-section named Prospect Point on the park article led me to create this; there's much could be added; for now it's a stub.Skookum1 (talk) 15:08, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

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AfC submission - 08/06
Draft:Roedde House Museum. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 17:46, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

Royal City Centre deleted by.....two people
See Wikipedia_talk:Canadian_Wikipedians%27_notice_board.Skookum1 (talk) 02:09, 11 August 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)

Queen Victoria Rock?
Does anyone know where this photo was taken? The notes only say it's from Canada, but it was taken in 1921 by Valient Vivian Vinson, who was reeve of West Vancouver between 1918 and 1922, so it's likely from the area. It looks a little like Siwash Rock to me, but a) I don't know it that well and b) it's hard to know what the surroundings would have been like in 1921. Thanks. - TheMightyQuill (talk) 09:14, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

RFC on Indo-Canadians in Vancouver
RFC at: Talk:Indo-Canadians: Should Indo-Canadians in British Columbia and Indo-Canadians in Greater Vancouver be separate or should the latter be merged into the former?

Another question: Would it count as WP:SYNTH to have a dedicated article on the Indo-Canadian population of Metro Vancouver? (Vancouver, Surrey, and other Vancouver suburbs) WhisperToMe (talk) 06:13, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Move request: Chinese_Canadians_in_British_Columbia to Chinese_Canadians_in_Greater Vancouver
Hello. I have submitted a move request for Chinese_Canadians_in_British_Columbia to be moved to Chinese_Canadians_in_Greater Vancouver. Another Wikipedian believes it is improper to have ethnicity-based articles focusing on a city, so he moved Chinese_Canadians_in_Greater Vancouver (I created this article with the intention of focusing on the Chinese community in Vancouver) to Chinese_Canadians_in_British_Columbia. My move request is here: Talk:Chinese_Canadians_in_British_Columbia. You are welcome to discuss whether it is proper to have an article focusing on a Chinese ethnic population of a particular city or metro area, or whether there should only be such areas focusing on prefectures/provinces/states.

For full disclosure, both I and the Wikipedian who moved the page are together currently involved in an editing dispute regarding Indo-Canadians in Greater Vancouver and Indo-Canadians in British Columbia over whether the articles should remain separate or be combined together. You may see the pages of this dispute here: WhisperToMe (talk) 04:47, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia_talk:Canadian_Wikipedians'_notice_board
 * Wikipedia_talk:Canadian_Wikipedians'_notice_board
 * Wikipedia_talk:Canadian_Wikipedians'_notice_board
 * Talk:Indo-Canadians
 * Talk:Indo-Canadians_in_Greater_Vancouver
 * No_original_research/Noticeboard
 * Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_British_Columbia
 * Wikipedia_talk:Identifying_reliable_sources

This notification is contrary to guidelines and includes editorializing which falls under WP:POLLING.Skookum1 (talk) 07:13, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
 * WP:POLLING is about the collection of votes or deciding things by votes. The purpose of this message is to inform all interested parties by WikiProject. WhisperToMe (talk) 12:13, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Then I used the wrong wiki-cap title; WP:POLL maybe, the attempt to enlist sympathetic votes rather than simply stating the existence of the the discussion; your inclusion of the ancillary links is also a violation; for an admin, you sure aren't in habit of respecting things like that; not that lots of admins behave questionably.Skookum1 (talk) 05:24, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

Should there be a Vancouver-centric split of Chinese Canadians in British Columbia?
Should there be a Vancouver-centric split of Chinese Canadians in British Columbia?

See Talk:Chinese_Canadians_in_British_Columbia WhisperToMe (talk) 05:22, 25 December 2014 (UTC)

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Harej (talk) 16:58, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Apparently this project voted in favour of DMY against DATERET
I was not involved in the discussion so I'm opening it up again. First, the project has no jurisdiction over any articles, it's just a project. It can't make any proclamations about how a date format is to apply to all article in the project. Second, if you think I can, I'm opposed to an imposed DMY format. It's not used in the area. Walter Görlitz (talk) 19:30, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
 * We decided awhile ago to use DMY in 2009 and 2012. This is where the major editors of the region came together to build consensus. It's not the authority of the WP, but the authority of consensus building among editors. Walter insists he's insistent that WP:DATERET is a rationale that doesn't take into consideration consensus of editors. And DMY is used in the area so please don't speak for all Vancouverites or people from BC. Unless you can provide a source that states the DMY doesn't exist in Surrey. Mkdw talk 19:33, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Could you point me to that discussion please?
 * I don't speak for all Vancouverites, nor do I pretend to. Walter Görlitz (talk) 20:04, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
 * It's not in the archives and the second archive is labelled incorrectly. So please, show me where this decision was made by the whole project. Walter Görlitz (talk) 20:05, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Seriously. Where is this decision recorded? Who was involved in the decision? Walter Görlitz (talk) 14:50, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
 * As a side note, DATERET is the consensus of the entire community of Wikipedia and a decision of a project cannot overrule the greater community consensus, particularly when it's done in secret. All project decisions may be scrutinized by the greater community for compliance with the greater community's goals. Walter Görlitz (talk) 14:53, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Given the agreement between Walter (above) and I (my talk page) that this project's decision is contrary to the greater community consensus at DATERET, and that we are unable to locate the discussion(s) asserted to have taken place, I will be returning Greater Vancouver to its previous MDY format and will be looking at the other BC articles on my watchlist that may have been changed from MDY to DMY despite the predominant usage having been the former rather than the latter. Hwy43 (talk) 21:31, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I fully concur. Point me at any articles that you need help with. It appears I've volunteered to be a member of the project! Walter Görlitz (talk) 22:49, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I realize I made a mistake and it was actually at the Talk:Vancouver where the discussion about DMY or MDY was brought up. So I apologize for that mistake on my part and ultimately affects our discussion and my stance on the issue. I will go back and take a look at some of the other articles against WP:DATERET. I think for our benefit it would help me if we could agree in how you're both applying DATERET. If we use Edmonton as an example, it started with DMY and then later switched to MDY. This is where "evolved using predominantly one format" and "date format chosen by the first major contributor in the early stages of an article should continue to be used" are at oddst with one another. Let me know which part of the guideline you're prioritizing and I'll look back at some of the articles and apply it consistently. I've already flagged quite a few BC articles for example that started MDY and then switched to DMY later and for the majority of its lifespan and vice-versa. I think as Hwy43 stated, if the article has predominantly used one, it should be moved to that format for consistency and ahead of important as to what the first date was used. Mkdw talk 16:20, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I've started going back over the articles. I reverted my date changes to Abbotsford, British Columbia as it's clear that MDY was first used and predominantly used. There were a few that I was reverted on under the rationale of not following WP:DATERET, such as Coquitlam and Delta, British Columbia, but in looking at the articles, if following DATERET, DMY was first used and predominantly used. I've restored DMY in those cases and left comments on the talk page. Regards, Mkdw talk 18:23, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I assume that prose and references carry different weight. References, and many tools that create them, use the DMY format, and some use ISO 8601 format. Which of those were you looking at? Walter Görlitz (talk) 04:09, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Since the guideline doesn't say, I didn't weight any dates different whether they were references over prose dates or tool created. As the guideline states, date format chosen by the first major contributor. Most of the first date formats appear around 2007-2009 and don't use tools anyway. For example in the Delta, BC article, it was a reference: . The editor manually formatted and put in the reference (i.e. didn't use a template) as well as used the ISO version redundantly. I did look at which format was predominantly used as well and haven't touched any articles that were one format and then evolved using another until I could talk about it with you and Hwy43. I'm of the preference that predominantly evolved date should override first introduced date anyway. If you're seeking clarity over prose versus references, maybe it should be asked at the WP:DATERET page for comment since the guideline doesn't make that distinction. Mkdw talk 05:18, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
 * I will take that on. Walter Görlitz (talk) 05:35, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

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Alberni Street (Vancouver)
Is the street notable? A series of similar pages has been deleted.Xx236 (talk) 11:28, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Not particularly. There might be some historical significance but not in the amount that would warrant a stand alone article. Alberni Street currently is not a major road in Vancouver. Mkdw talk 22:59, 19 May 2016 (UTC)

Vancouver maps
Another editor has created two Vancouver locator maps to use in Vancouver-related infoboxes:

I encourage project members to replace less helpful maps with these more detailed ones. Thanks! --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 23:14, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Do you mean in replacement of maps like File:Stadtgliederung_Vancouver_2008.png? Some of the words on the above two maps (such as some street names) aren't even legible? If the only goal is to indicate neighbourhoods, then the 2008 map does a better job it. Mkdw talk 23:29, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
 * I believe OP means that we can use those maps for location map templates to replace the less detailed maps like the ones on the Science World (Vancouver) article currently. _dk (talk) 00:35, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

New here - anyone else around?
I have been talking to the walls over at wp: WikiProject Ottawa since 2009, so hope to have better luck here, but without attracting the wrong elements :-)

Anyway, I have tried slowly putting in some sorely needed edits at Homelessness in Vancouver, but my edits, which are pretty benign (I think?), are being reverted by two editors. I know other editors are watching this happen, but no one will step out and say anything one way or the other.

Anyone here willing to tell me what is going on? Ottawahitech (talk) 15:47, 2 January 2017 (UTC)please ping me
 * Are your edits sourced and neutral? Have you discussed your edits on the article's talk page? Once your edits are clear to the other editors, you will likely have an easier time with them. However, if they are showing ownership of the article, you could request that they edit in a more cooperative way. Walter Görlitz (talk) 19:48, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Based upon the edit history for, you have both been involved across a number of other articles such as Amanda Filipacchi, Canine cancer detection, Bill 28 (British Columbia), and many other articles. I think you have an interaction issue here as it's clear your dispute is clearly with each other and not about the content. WP:ANI or WP:DR may be able to provide you recourse. Mkdw  talk 23:19, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
 * I first encountered Ottawahitech when he commented on a Signpost report and subsequently changed the adjective "female" to "women" in Amanda Filipacchi's article based on an idiosyncratic belief that it is somehow derogatory. Of course I looked to see if he was doing this anywhere else and discovered several problematic edits. My attempts to discuss issues on his talk page have gone nowhere. I have no doubt that Ottawahitech has only the best intentions, but he seems to have difficulty working collaboratively. If he took Walter Gorlitz's advice of ensuring that his edits were sourced and neutral, and was willing to discuss them, I am sure we would have no problems. World&#39;s Lamest Critic (talk) 21:00, 3 January 2017 (UTC)


 * I don’t have an interaction issue neither with user: SportsMedGuy nor with User:World's Lamest Critic, they have an interaction issue with me. If you take the time(you are probably too busy?) you will see that in every single case you mentioned above, I contributed content to those articles, and they followed me and reverted my content contribution, not the other way around which you seem to be implying?...AND YES Homelessness in Vancouver IS a content issue, for me. Ottawahitech (talk) 12:19, 5 January 2017 (UTC)please ping me
 * You need to stop stalking me. You've posted 3 times on my talk page wanting me to identify myself, I reverted you once on the page in question now you claim it is a conspiracy? Leave me alone and stop harassing me honestly. I don't know you except to know you are pushing an agenda on Wikipedia. Now I am getting e-mails about you putting my name on random pages? SportsMedGuy (talk) 13:26, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
 * many editors revert your edits. If you feel that I have treated you unfairly, I apologise and encourage you to take it to WP:ANI as suggested above. World&#39;s Lamest Critic (talk) 15:36, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Literally means the same thing. The very word "interaction" means two way. No one was imparting blame. Why would I recommend DR or ANI as a means of recourse if I was implying you're to blame? So you can report yourself? Obviously there's a problem (not saying with whom) but whatever, whoever, it shouldn't be resolved here. Mkdw  talk 18:23, 5 January 2017 (UTC)


 * No there is no problem, as long as others continue to take action on Homelessness in Vancouver and other related content. It looks like the problem HAS been resolved because of this posting on this wikiproj! Ottawahitech (talk) 19:58, 7 January 2017 (UTC)please ping me

Help needed again - Homelessness in Vancouver

 * Another one of my edits at Homelessness in Vancouver has now been reverted by User:SuperMarioWikiEditor. Help/suggestions would be appreciated. Ottawahitech (talk) 16:49, 19 January 2017 (UTC)please ping me
 * Why have you decided to ignore my post on your talk page and instead mention my name here. I reverted your edit because it just summarized an non-important section of a news article. Wikipedia is not a place to put talking points from every news article you find, they aren't deserible sources. Also your refusal to engage in discussion is troubling, why do you keep posting my name on various pages and ignoring my attempt to discuss my revert? This seems like you are trying to game the system to obtain someone who supports your position in order to use it as justification for your actions. This is troubling since this is a collaborative community and appear to take everything as either a personal attack (you have said there is a move to silence you) or as an attempt to discriminate against female editors or topics. SuperMarioWikiEditor (talk) 19:48, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

This WikiProject is believed to be semi-active?
If you click Project page at the top of this page you will see a box that says: This WikiProject is believed to be semi-active, but one would not know it judging from the activity right now? Is there a way to get more editors here interested in building content? Ottawahitech (talk) 13:39, 6 January 2017 (UTC)please ping me

AfD: LGBT culture in Vancouver
LGBT culture in Vancouver has been nominated for deletion, if project members wish to help improve the article or participate in the AfD discussion. Thanks! --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 23:35, 10 June 2017 (UTC)

Parq Vancouver draft
Hi everyone! Just wanted to let you know that I currently working on a draft article for Parq Vancouver. As always, help is greatly appreciated! The draft is located at Draft:Parq Vancouver. Thanks! Daylen (talk) 18:10, 9 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I will head there and have a look. Kaisertalk (talk) 23:38, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

Deletion discussion for and
Also in the discussion: . Dawynn (talk) 12:07, 26 September 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  08:00, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Vancouver municipal election, 2018
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Vancouver municipal election, 2018. Joeyconnick (talk) 18:02, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Vancouver neighbourhood categories
I've created and populated  Category:Coal Harbour, Category:Kitsilano, and Category:West End, Vancouver. Please feel free to add and remove entries appropriately. Thanks! --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 05:49, 6 March 2019 (UTC)

OK to use Vancouver Archives photos
Good news everyone. FYI, we can use media from the City of Vancouver Archives, copyrighted by the City of Vancouver, on Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia, according to this discussion. Cheers, Clayoquot (talk &#124; contribs) 18:48, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

Proposed meetup April 14
Hi everyone, please see this post about a proposed meetup in Vancouver. Cheers, Clayoquot (talk &#124; contribs) 01:34, 30 March 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)

Next meetup on June 9, more to come
Hi everyone. We had a really good chitchat session - with no action items! - in April and at least a few of us would like to get together informally every six weeks or so. Please see and watchlist Meetup/Vancouver if you're interested. Next meetup will be on June 9. Cheers, Clayoquot (talk &#124; contribs) 23:32, 23 April 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)

Category:Vancouver articles discussion
Feel free to contribute to this discussion: Categories_for_discussion/Log/2020_March_14. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:48, 20 March 2020 (UTC)
 * There was no consensus and therefore no change from that discussion.
 * Now please see follow-up suggestions at Categories for discussion/Log/2020 April 14 . – Fayenatic  L ondon 10:00, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

Peer review page update
Hi all, I've boldly updated your project's peer review page (WikiProject Vancouver/Peer review) by updating the instructions and archiving old reviews.

The new instructions use Wikipedia's general peer review process (WP:PR) to list peer reviews. Your project's reviews are still able to be listed on your local page too.

The benefits of this change is that review requests will get seen by a wider audience and are likely to be attended to in a more timely way (many WikiProject peer reviews remain unanswered after years). The Wikipedia peer review process is also more maintained than most WikiProjects, and this may help save time for your active members.

I've done this boldly as it seems your peer review page is pretty inactive and I am working through around 90 such similar peer review pages. Please feel free to discuss below - please ping me in your response.

Cheers and hope you are well, Tom (LT) (talk) 23:48, 9 November 2020 (UTC)
 * , Thanks. What does peer review entail? And, are GA reviews a subset of peer reviews? If there is appetite for a GA review -- I would like to request one for John Turner. Ktin (talk) 02:23, 10 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the ping. Anyone can request a peer review of any article at any time and you can go to WP:PR to learn more about that. A GA review is like a "step" in the development of an article where it has to meet certain criteria to get to that point. To learn more about that process, the criteria and how to nominate your article, see WP:GA. --Tom (LT) (talk) 02:27, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

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

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

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

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

- &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:02, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

New land acknowledgement userbox
Hi, I created the userbox below and thought some project members might be interested in using it. Cheers, Clayoquot (talk &#124; contribs) 00:48, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

Request review of Absolute Software Corporation edits
I work for Absolute Software Corporation, and in the past year I have been trying to gradually improve this article, adhering to Wikipedia's own quality standards. I have tried to use a light touch, removing low-quality references, adding new higher-quality references, and removing statements that are poorly referenced, focus on small details that are years out of date, and the like.

I have hoped and expected that uninvolved Wikipedia editors would review my work, but there has been little substantive review to date. I of course appreciate the efforts of Wikipedia volunteers, and that there are many articles to work on besides this one. But I hope one or more editors can take a look now that I have proposed (on the article's talk page) a replacement for the existing "Products and services" section, which at present has only two footnotes, and which does not accurately express the range of products offered, focusing exclusively on the "Persistence" technology. I proposed a replacement with stronger sourcing on the talk page.

I also hope to propose changes to the "Partnerships" section, which (appropriately) has a quality banner. It is also thinly sourced, and it is not an accurate reflection of the role partnerships have played in Absolute's business model.

I hope someone would be willing to review the proposed "Products" section, and consider my proposed changes to the "Partnerships" section when I post them. -Karenarlenereynolds (talk) 18:38, 13 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi . The best way to get attention would be to make an Edit Request on the article Talk page using the instructions here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Simple_conflict_of_interest_edit_request . I noticed that someone else has suggested posting to the Administrators noticeboard, which is a terrible suggestion. Edit Requests, not noticeboards, are the way forward here. Good luck! Clayoquot (talk &#124; contribs) 18:31, 16 October 2022 (UTC)