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The current article does not have any structure and is simply a wall of text ordered chronologically. This is not really helpful for the reader and it would be beneficial to organize the article into sub-sections and summarize older information, see WP:NEWSPAPER and WP:TOOMUCH. I suggest a grouping either by month/week or similar to other more developed articles like 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Washington, D.C. or 2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United States into Timeline, Government response and socio-economic impact. Best -- hroest 16:43, 19 March 2020 (UTC)
Some of these may be useful depending on unfolding events. Oceanflynn ( talk) 19:20, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
Hinshaw's daily updates are delivered daily at c. 3:00 PM. Alberta Health's Info for Albertans, and Cases in Alberta are also updated daily. In this article the infobox, lead, timeline, statistics are updated after these official sites are posted, with new information on number of tests conducted, confirmed cases, recoveries, deaths, number of patients in hospital, in ICU, number of community transmission cases, and data on changes with the Zones in the section Geographic distribution. Because the address to the Alberta Health sites remain the same, while the content is constantly changing, I am creating Internet Archive urls via https://web.archive.org/ and adding these as well. Similar Wikipedia pages on the 2002 coronavirus pandemic, are creating tables and graphs that include all the data. They can be really cumbersome to maintain, and visually difficult to read and inelegant, as compared to the efficient and readable graph/chart created and maintained by User:Diannaa. Oceanflynn ( talk) 19:54, 22 March 2020 (UTC)
I added several sentences from this article to update the 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Canada article. Oceanflynn ( talk) 21:08, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
What is the purpose of the above section? It looks like a "See also" section, mostly linking to articles already linked the body of the article (which is an WP:OVERLINK infraction). I suggest deleting the entries in favour of moving the external links that are within the five references to actual bulleted external links in the "External links" section, which is what that section is for. If need be, embed an "Official sites" subsection within the "External links" section. Cheers, Hwy43 ( talk) 21:57, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
Some content I added in the ABTraceTogether section of this article, I have also used in the COVID-19 apps article in the List of countries with official contact tracing apps > Canada Canada section. Oceanflynn ( talk) 19:41, 10 November 2020 (UTC)
There’s a significant number of anonymous edits from downtown Calgary IPs. There’s also a lot of uncritical information presented when the government has come under extreme criticism by scientists and the media, none of which is reported here (especially around the ABTraceTogether app).
Is someone checking if these anonymous edits are coming from government sources? That would be a great violation of Wikipedia Conflict of Interest rules. 2604:3D09:6C80:1FD0:A918:18B6:6CD1:2E84 ( talk) 02:20, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
The original article was created from a sandbox on March 2020. There was a call for reorganization early on; see for example hroest. As part of the re-organization, a new article was created on September 20, 2021, Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Alberta, as a fork from this one. Large quantities of content from this article were moved to the Timeline. For full attribution of these earlier edits see the history of this article.
The good faith additions by User:50.66.157.255 read like an Alberta public health government webpage. Oceanflynn ( talk) 20:31, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
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The current article does not have any structure and is simply a wall of text ordered chronologically. This is not really helpful for the reader and it would be beneficial to organize the article into sub-sections and summarize older information, see WP:NEWSPAPER and WP:TOOMUCH. I suggest a grouping either by month/week or similar to other more developed articles like 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Washington, D.C. or 2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United States into Timeline, Government response and socio-economic impact. Best -- hroest 16:43, 19 March 2020 (UTC)
Some of these may be useful depending on unfolding events. Oceanflynn ( talk) 19:20, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
Hinshaw's daily updates are delivered daily at c. 3:00 PM. Alberta Health's Info for Albertans, and Cases in Alberta are also updated daily. In this article the infobox, lead, timeline, statistics are updated after these official sites are posted, with new information on number of tests conducted, confirmed cases, recoveries, deaths, number of patients in hospital, in ICU, number of community transmission cases, and data on changes with the Zones in the section Geographic distribution. Because the address to the Alberta Health sites remain the same, while the content is constantly changing, I am creating Internet Archive urls via https://web.archive.org/ and adding these as well. Similar Wikipedia pages on the 2002 coronavirus pandemic, are creating tables and graphs that include all the data. They can be really cumbersome to maintain, and visually difficult to read and inelegant, as compared to the efficient and readable graph/chart created and maintained by User:Diannaa. Oceanflynn ( talk) 19:54, 22 March 2020 (UTC)
I added several sentences from this article to update the 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Canada article. Oceanflynn ( talk) 21:08, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
What is the purpose of the above section? It looks like a "See also" section, mostly linking to articles already linked the body of the article (which is an WP:OVERLINK infraction). I suggest deleting the entries in favour of moving the external links that are within the five references to actual bulleted external links in the "External links" section, which is what that section is for. If need be, embed an "Official sites" subsection within the "External links" section. Cheers, Hwy43 ( talk) 21:57, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
Some content I added in the ABTraceTogether section of this article, I have also used in the COVID-19 apps article in the List of countries with official contact tracing apps > Canada Canada section. Oceanflynn ( talk) 19:41, 10 November 2020 (UTC)
There’s a significant number of anonymous edits from downtown Calgary IPs. There’s also a lot of uncritical information presented when the government has come under extreme criticism by scientists and the media, none of which is reported here (especially around the ABTraceTogether app).
Is someone checking if these anonymous edits are coming from government sources? That would be a great violation of Wikipedia Conflict of Interest rules. 2604:3D09:6C80:1FD0:A918:18B6:6CD1:2E84 ( talk) 02:20, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
The original article was created from a sandbox on March 2020. There was a call for reorganization early on; see for example hroest. As part of the re-organization, a new article was created on September 20, 2021, Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Alberta, as a fork from this one. Large quantities of content from this article were moved to the Timeline. For full attribution of these earlier edits see the history of this article.
The good faith additions by User:50.66.157.255 read like an Alberta public health government webpage. Oceanflynn ( talk) 20:31, 2 April 2022 (UTC)