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An Invitation from the Philippine Wikipedia Community

Hello folks,

The Philippine Wikipedia Community will be holding its 1st Meet-up in Cebu City (the fourth one in the Philippines) on June 23-24, 2008. This coincides with the first Philippine Open Source Summit also to be held in Cebu, and which the Philippine Wikipedia Community is a Implementing Partner in. We invite you to join us in this event. If you are in the IT or IT-enabled services industry, this would be a great opportunity to network with leaders from the 4th best outsourcing city in the world. This is also a good excuse to visit our beautiful beaches :)

If you're interested in joining the Wikipedia meet-up, please join our discussion. To register for the Open Source Summit, please contact CEDF-IT. If you would like some assistance with local accomodations, you may email User:Bentong Isles.

The Philippine Wikipedia Community
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Undeleted Commons:WikiProject Canada

Well after much controversy, the Commons:WikiProject Canada is back up again to see what can be made of it.

Isaac Brock nominated for FA review

Isaac Brock has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here.

Rename proposal for the lists of basic topics

This project's subject has a page in the set of Lists of basic topics.

See the proposal at the Village pump to change the names of all those pages.

The Transhumanist    09:54, 4 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Military history of Canada

Military history of Canada has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here.

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme

As you may have heard, we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level. The new description is available at WP:ASSESS.

  • The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
  • The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
  • A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.

Each WikiProject should already have a new C-Class category at Category:C-Class_articles. If your project elects not to use the new level, you can simply delete your WikiProject's C-Class category and clarify any amendments on your project's assessment/discussion pages. The bot is already finding and listing C-Class articles.

Please leave a message with us if you have any queries regarding the introduction of the revised scheme. This scheme should allow the team to start producing offline selections for your project and the wider community within the next year. Thanks for using the Wikipedia 1.0 scheme! For the 1.0 Editorial Team, §hepBot (Disable) 22:12, 4 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

List of radio stations in Quebec

Hello there! I've been creating radio station articles for Quebec and in Canada as well. The most recent radio station article I created was CHDO-FM at the Dorval Airport near Montreal. You may notice that most radio stations in Canada have articles as of July 2008, however, there are quite a few red links left in Quebec and I may not complete them all since I find it hard at times to try and gather all the information on the uncreated radio station articles in Quebec. I'm sure someone out there who knows the radio stations very well in Quebec can help out and finish off creating the articles? Thanks and take care! :-) User_talk:Webfan29 04:00, 8 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like they are almost done by now. On a side note, can't a bot be persuaded to do this? Gary King (talk) 07:56, 18 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Science and technology in Canada

Much help needed cleaning up Science and technology in Canada --Allemandtando (talk) 15:04, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It certainly looks a lot better now – great job! Gary King (talk) 07:55, 18 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Link to "Historica Heritage Minute" deleted from "External Links" section of "Louis-Joseph Papineau" article

I posted a link to the "Historica Heritage Minutes" feature on "Hart & Papineau" in the "External Links" section for this article. This link, and similar "Historica Heritage Minutes" links in other articles, were deleted the next day. These Historica "Heritage Minutes" are very informative mini-documentaries about interesting people and events in Canadian history. Can someone at Wikipedia please tell me why the links to the "Hitorica Heritage Minutes" sites were deleted from the Wikipedia pages on Papineau and from similar Wiki articles? This is the URL of one the links that was deleted: Hart & Papineau http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?id=10131 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Elmridge (talk • contribs) 15:28, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like User:Tedickey reverted them all, thinking they were spam. He probably thought this as you had added the links to several articles all at one time. My suggestion is to leave him a message on his talk page explaining the links - that they are documentary links from a non-commercial website, and that you feel they are a useful addition to the article. Their removal is likely only a misunderstanding resulting from several links to one website being added at once. Regards, Resolute 15:53, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Automate Deletion sorting to Candidates for Deletion

I was just over at the Australian Wikipedians' notice board, and noticed that they have set up a bot to automatically update their candidates for deletion section from the deletion sorting. Is there support to automate this process here as well? I believe we could request Maelgwnbot to perform the task. - DigitalC (talk) 23:38, 14 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, that would be nice to have. I say go for it. Gary King (talk) 07:54, 18 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Robotshop up for deletion

FYI, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robotshop. Banjeboi 21:36, 17 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Quebec communities with important anglophone populations

Category:Quebec communities with important anglophone populations has been sent to WP:CFD 70.55.84.212 (talk) 05:23, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject notification bot

There is currently a proposal for a bot that would notify WikiProjects when their articles have entered certain workflows, e.g. when they are nominated for deletion or for Good article reassessment.

The question is whether a relevant number of wikiprojects would be interested in using such a bot. You can find details of the functionality, and leave your comments, at the bot request page.

I am posting this message to the 20 largest WikiProjects (by number of articles), since they would be the most likely users. Thanks, --B. Wolterding (talk) 12:07, 22 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Environmental issues in Canada

I have created a stub Environmental issues in Canada page. Previously it was redirected to Environment of Canada. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 22:02, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Date style and formatting

There is an ongoing campaign by an editor to remove date autoformatting throughout WP, trying to go beyond the spirit of MOS:DATE. One of the latest incidents of this recently appeared in Talk:Order of Canada#Proposal to remove date-autoformatting.

Should we address date formatting in WP:CANSTYLE? The Order of Canada talk generally seems to discourage removal of date autoformatting, and given that Canada uses variable date styles, autoformatting may be something we'd want to encourage for Canadian-related articles. Dl2000 (talk) 02:50, 29 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Do we really have to rebut a single-editor campaign project-by-project? Autoformatting offers the possibility for people to customize their viewing. Yes, that's only for registered users, but wouldn't we prefer that everyone in the world sign up to Wikipedia? For the immediate purpose, support adding to CANSTYLE a clause supporting (but not necessarily mandating) use of autoformatting, and maybe also addressing uniformity of date styles. Franamax (talk) 03:28, 29 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
No, I wouldn't prefer that everyone sign up to Wikipedia. Anyone can contribute, even without having an account. - DigitalC (talk) 04:37, 29 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Well, I take the point - but I didn't say forced to sign up. I was thinking more in the spirit of wouldn't it be great if we could get everyone to want to sign up! Nothing at all of Wikipedia should dissuade anyone from contributing, you're absolutely right - my point was more along the lines of the convenience for users who do have a login: autoformatting is not a horrible thing, it's easily copyable and can be fixed by those more wiki-knowledgeable. I'm commenting here on the initiative to remove autoformatting, not on any movement to require logins - I guess I wasn't too clear, I often tell myself to stop typing :) Franamax (talk) 04:48, 29 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Is it a "single-editor campaign"? It looks to me as if most editors of featured articles are going along with changes that User:Tony1 is suggesting. I find his list of "Disadvantages of date autoformatting" makes for a strong argument for removing all the date links. That Canada has varied date formats does not dissuade me. Paul Erik (talk)(contribs) 15:59, 29 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I don't see how this is a Canadian-style issue. MOS:DATE no longer makes a recommendation for or against wikilinking dates for the purpose of autoformatting. The next step is either to discuss on a case-by-case basis the usefulness of a particular date being wikilinked or to continue the evolution of MOS:DATE to be more clear on when dates should and should not be wikilinked. DoubleBlue (Talk) 16:34, 29 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I have to agree with DoubleBlue. There's nothing inherently Canadian about date autoformatting, so WP:CANSTYLE isn't really the place to state a uniquely Canadian position on it. Bearcat (talk) 17:10, 29 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I also agree with DoubleBlue. Canadian articles should follow Wikipedia style guides on this issue. There is no reason for us to be a distinct society when it comes to date formatting. For my part, date linking serves little purpose -- everyone understands both formats, and the links simply add clutter for everyone in order to cater to a very small population who are bothered by seeing dates in a different format. Ground Zero | t 15:45, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Canadian statutes

I was considering adding a complete list of Canada's statutes. I see no reason not to, however, as this is an exhaustive list, I wanted to get support from Canadian Wikipedians before I went ahead. NorthernThunder (talk) 03:13, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ghost towns

There is List of ghost towns in Canada, List of ghost towns in the Northwest Territories and List of ghost towns in British Columbia. There is also, Ghost towns in Alberta, Ghost towns in Manitoba, Ghost towns in Ontario and Ghost towns in Saskatchewan. So which is the correct title, "List of ghost towns" or "Ghost towns in"? To my mind list of seems the better choice as all of them are basically lists. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 18:56, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Lists of ghost towns would seem to provide an answer...time for name changes on the AB, MB, ON pages it seems. I've pondered making a similar name-change on British Columbia gold rushes but that may yet be a history article rather than a list (haven't had time/energy to work on it).Skookum1 (talk) 19:28, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
But what about Category:Ghost towns in Canada? CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 19:32, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I believe it has to do with what exactly the content is. If it's just a list of ghost towns, than it's List. If it's talking about the history of Ghost Towns in Blank, than it would be just Ghost Towns in Blank. Course all the pages are presented as lists, so they should be moved. Category:Ghost towns in Canada would be used for articles about the individual towns. JQF • Talk • Contribs 19:33, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
While we're ont he subject of ghost towns, I just wanted to comment that many on the BC list are still-extant towns, only greatly dwindled from their heyday; Lillooet and Hazelton are even incorporated communities and larger than they were "back then", but "back then" they were also a quite different pair of places; unincorporated but still-towns are Boston Bar and Yale. Some were never much more than promotional/speculational in nature, such as Volcanic City and Birmingham, others were transient gold and railway and logging camps, or ranches.....Skookum1 (talk) 20:11, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Important update to television station articles

I've just noted that Nelson Media, a directory of Canadian television stations which was an extremely common reference for our articles on television stations a few years ago (and whose webmaster basically folded it up soon after becoming a Wikipedian himself), has now been cybersquatted by a netspam company that's using it to sell masturbation implements. So, needless to say, any remaining links to Nelson Media as a reference in Canadian TV station articles need to be removed as soon as possible — not that I'm a prude or anything, but sex toys just aren't that relevant to Canadian television broadcasting (KinK and Bleu nuit notwithstanding, maybe.) I think I've got most of them already, but I'd appreciate it if somebody could do a quick spin through Category:Television stations in Canada just to make sure I haven't missed any. Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 21:13, 31 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

From the External links page it seems you got all the articles. It's just image sources that remain. I'm not sure how these image descriptions should be edited, as we need to specify a source. For a logo, I presume the station itself could be deemed the source. --Rob (talk) 21:29, 31 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Lake Muskoka South Water Aerodrome

According to the source it is 4 nmi (7.4 km; 4.6 mi) southeast. But southeast of what. Anybody have any ideas? Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 05:18, 2 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bala. Bearcat (talk) 12:00, 2 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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