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[edit] List of universities in Canada

We're trying to figure out at List of universities in Canada if University Canada West should be included. Any thourghts would be welcome.

[edit] Snowbird (ornithopter)

Hello, I'm trying to create an article on the Canadian aircraft "Snowbird" that recently became the first human-powered craft to fly by flapping it's wings. See Wikipedia:Article Incubator/Articles for creation/Snowbird (ornithopter). It was rejected by WP:AFC because it was lacking sufficient background (See the talk page for the comment that accompanied the rejection). Would anyone like to assist me in building up the article to be able to be moved into articlespace? 76.66.200.95 (talk) 10:55, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

What has happened to the Snowbird since its flight? PKT(alk) 11:18, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
According to the official website, it is in storage, since it broke some linkages during its last flight. I didn't add that since it requires use of a primary reference, instead of secondary and tertiary references, which all the current references used are. 76.66.200.95 (talk) 07:00, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
See WP:PRIMARY for instructions on how to use primary references. (Carefully). -- Quiddity (talk) 19:47, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
It's been revised with some information from primary sources. 76.66.200.95 (talk) 10:43, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Sports: Women's soccer

Hey everyone, I am a new wikipedia member. I wish to work on the pages on the women's soccer. I began with the page of Laval Comets and Quebec City Amiral SC. And I modified the page of Amy Walsh a player of soccer whom I like very much. Also I opened a page for Maroua Chebbi. It was not easy for me because I am new member on Wikipedia. I wish to continue at the level of the other women's teams of Quebec ( Carabins, Rouge et or, Vert et Or ) and for Canadians women's soccer ( Ottawa Fury,Toronto Lady lynx, Vancouver Whitecaps Women, ...)

You can read 4 pages and say to me if everything is correct. I would like to know how to put photos on wikipedia pages.

I seeks for a bilingual wikimentor (English-French) to help me to understand better all the facets of Wikipedia. Tanks

bonjour vous tous. Je suis nouveau membre sur le Wikipedia. Une façon pour moi de mieux maîtriser la langue anglaise. Je me cherche d'ailleurs un parrain bilingue (anglais-français) pour m'aider afin de mieux comprendre toutes les facettes du Wikipedia. Merci --Charlesquebec (talk) 13:53, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

I maked important update on Ottawa Fury Women, Hamilton Avalanche ,Toronto Lady Lynx and London Gryphons --Charlesquebec (talk) 13:17, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Criticism of Nortel

FYI, Criticism of Nortel has been nominated for deletion. 76.66.200.95 (talk) 06:20, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Sports: Canadian Women's Hockey

Hello I made some updated by pages Montreal Stars and Canadian Women's Hockey League Only verify if everything is correct because I am new member on wikipedia . Tanks --Charlesquebec (talk) 15:54, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

Montreal Carabins Good evening, I redid all the page ( history of club, men soccer team, women soccer team and women hockey team) --Charlesquebec (talk) 01:33, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Place name spelling problem

Please help resolve an issue that has come up on the WP Help Desk. Is there an authorotative source for the spelling of Canadian place names? See Wikipedia:Help desk#Brights Grove, Ontario, thanks. Roger (talk) 10:42, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Variable importance?

Just doing some NB assessing and did the Atlantica Party. Is there a way to split the importance? I'd like to give it a Bottom for New Brunswick, as "claiming to be active also in New Brunswick" isn't even a Low in my opinion, but it needs a Low for the Nova Scotia project. Thanks for the help! - Wmcduff (talk) 14:15, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

I'm not aware that a different importance level can be given for NB as opposed to NS, but somebody else might know of a way. That having been said, the article is rated "low" for each of the provinces, which seems to be what you want according to your question. Importance ratings can be assigned for the cities of VAN, TOR, OTT & MTL if the article in question is assigned to the related Wiki sub-projects. PKT(alk) 18:40, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
It's kind of a moot point, as there isn't any such thing as a "Bottom" level of importance anyway — "Low" is the lowest importance class it's even possible for an article to have. Bearcat (talk) 01:27, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
Oh really? - Wmcduff (talk) 10:37, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
"Bottom" importance is currently used by only eight WikiProjects. It is not a standard feature across the whole of WP. Roger (talk) 12:41, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
I figured as much. I like the idea because I'm mildly OCD and it appeals to me, but just wanted to point out it does exist, and it happens to be on the NB Assessment page, so I figured it was fair game... - Wmcduff (talk) 13:44, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Canadian Forces Aerospace Warfare Centre

FYI, Canadian Forces Aerospace Warfare Centre has been nominated for deletion. 76.66.198.128 (talk) 05:13, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Military related articles up for deletion

FYI, a bunch of Canadian military related articles have been prodded for deletion. See:

76.66.199.238 (talk) 08:30, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

[edit] CFB Rivers

FYI, CFB Rivers has been prodded for deletion. 76.66.199.238 (talk) 05:47, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Winnipeg Centre

Winnipeg Centre electoral district is listing as having the second lowest income, after Vancouver East. However, Winnipeg North has income lower than Winnipeg Centre and higher than Vancouver East. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.33.10.73 (talk) 15:44, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

When I hear "Winnipeg Centre", I think of Winnipeg Center (CZWG), the Winnipeg Air Route Traffic Control Center ... 76.66.203.138 (talk) 06:51, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Ontario municipal elections

Just a heads-up to everyone: with the close of polls just two hours away, I've placed a 24-hour semi-protection on the highest-visibility pages (i.e. Toronto municipal election, 2010 and its subpages, Ottawa municipal election, 2010 and Ontario municipal elections, 2010) to hopefully keep a lid on the typical vandalism and other assorted nonsense that typically accompanies election results night. Established users will still be able to edit the articles; only unregistered IPs and newly-registered users are locked out.

I've left lower-visibility topics (smaller cities, etc.) unlocked for the time being; however, if you notice any apparent vandalism taking place on any of those articles, please consider locking that page down as well (or requesting that an administrator lock it down if you can't). Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 22:15, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

Hi, I need some help with a dispute at Talk:Timiskaming District municipal elections, 2010 -- Earl Andrew - talk 22:49, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Canada

Tempers ran a little high at Canada - please take a look and discuss at Talk:Canada#northern_North_America to help everyone reach consensus. Casliber (talk · contribs) 20:13, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Discussion at Talk:Plymouth

There is a discussion at Talk:Plymouth, requesting that it become a disambiguation page. I don't believe that the English city is the primary topic, as Plymouth, Massachusetts (including Plymouth Colony) and Plymouth (automobile) are more well-known in the U.S. and Canada. OSX (talk • contributions) 21:57, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Someone was counting up the votes recently, and seems like Devon is getting the upperhand. I personally think that shows regional bias, unless Canada and the USA don't count for anything in figuring out English usage. 76.66.203.138 (talk) 12:44, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Lists of curling clubs

FYI, the list of curling club articles for seemingly every province and territory of Canada have been nominated for deletion. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of curling clubs in New Brunswick . 76.66.203.138 (talk) 05:20, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

[edit] CSTC HMCS Acadia

FYI, CSTC HMCS Acadia has been nominated for deletion. 76.66.203.138 (talk) 05:36, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Due South fans ...

Hi all

Can anyone help with refs and more info on Ramona Milano (played Francesca Vecchio) ?

I have had the article rescued from deletion and put in a bit of info but wondered if anyone out there might have more relevent refs, as I am not in that part of the world, or might be able to put some more detail in there.

thanks Chaosdruid (talk) 02:15, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Invitation to help with WikiProject United States

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Hello, Canadian Wikipedians' notice board! We are looking for editors to join WikiProject United States, an outreach effort which aims to support development of United States related articles in Wikipedia. We thought you might be interested, and hope that you will join us. Thanks!!!

--Kumioko (talk) 03:21, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:List of Canadian WikiProjects, portals and main articles

I have gone ahead and made a page similar to that used by the US and Ozzie projects to navigate projects, portals and main pages
Pls see Wikipedia:List of Canadian WikiProjects, portals and main articles and update edit etc.. at will (its a new page). I have linked it up on our project page and portal template.Moxy (talk) 05:11, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

I have removed the outlines garbage. We shouldn't be encouraging such a ridiculously useless duplication of content. → ROUX ₪ 09:53, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Military history of Canada during World War I

FYI, Military history of Canada during World War I has been requested to be renamed. 76.66.203.138 (talk) 05:32, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Need some assistance...

A user has been creating a new article about Thornton, a community within the municipality of Essa, Ontario. Initially he created an unreferenced stub written in the style of a tourist brochure ("list of local attractions", etc.), so I redirected it back to the municipality; then he recreated the same article but "referenced" it to the Statistics Canada census profile of Essa as a whole (which, as those of you who've ever worked with the Stats Can website know, provides basic demographic numbers for a municipality as a whole, but contains no verifiable information at all about any individual communities within the municipality) and to the individual web pages of specific entities that happen to be listed in his text, such as the fire station and the library and the junior hockey team — but it's still fundamentally a brochure rather than a neutral, properly referenced encyclopedia article.

Could somebody take a look at it and make a judgement as to whether there's a salvageable encyclopedia article to be cobbled together, or whether it should just go back to being a redirect again? I fully support properly written and properly referenced encyclopedia articles about individual communities, of course — but so far, this just ain't either one of those things. Bearcat (talk) 06:51, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Heres a ref for the Trans Canada Trail bit, if you go with salvage (I think you should, I've written articles on smaller places!) From the Essa township website. The Interior(Talk) 07:02, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
So have I — but four photos with no descriptive text, from the township's own website, doesn't constitute "substantial coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the topic", which is the bottom-line criterion when it comes to evaluating whether an article is properly referenced or not. Bearcat (talk) 07:09, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
Yes, it's not great. Apparently "Ontario Place Names 2007 David E. Scott" has an entry on Thornton, maybe an Ontarian can look it up. The Interior(Talk) 07:11, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
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