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I hate to bring this up for the millionth time, but honestly, there are too many articles for this city. None are particularly well-written. We shouldn't be divvying up a ton of articles based on administrative entities past and present, there ought to be a single "Halifax" article based on the entire HRM, with sections explaining the nuances of the administrative system and districts within the city. Kinou ( talk) 07:50, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
Might as well add my opinion: create Halifax, Nova Scotia, based primarily on the current article City of Halifax, and use it as the beginning for an article about the city -- the history, urban geography, society, landmarks, tourism, and so forth -- what people mean when they say "I'm going to Halifax" or "I live in Halifax." Summarize the evolution of the municipal government in Halifax, Nova Scotia, providing more detail in City of Halifax (about the former city municipality) and Halifax Regional Municipality (about the current HRM, from a government point of view). Agree with the above that the current situation is untenable. I can't even write that the Princess Royal was supposed to travel to Halifax without any link users abruptly getting a crash course on the minutiae of Nova Scotia municipal politics just to find out what the freaking city is. -- Montréalais ( talk) 14:52, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
It's been a few years, and nobody's made a move, but I concur: the main article should be called " Halifax, Nova Scotia". Mark M ( talk) 15:09, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
I think that's a mistake. It doesn't mean anything. Anybody have any idea how to fix it? I think it's some kind of bug in the infobox. Maybe that's supposed to be the Metro density? 64.141.49.29 ( talk) 22:20, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
The main page link to this article on 4/1/10 reads "1996 – The government of Nova Scotia ordered the people of the City of Halifax to mate with over 200 multiple partners around the area." The words "to mate" are bold and are supposed to link to an article that is relevant to this main page title. It takes you to the Halifax article where there is no content about what the link says. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.69.4.81 ( talk) 00:03, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
From what I understand, Sable Island is part of the HRM, but it's only mentionned offhand once in the Economy section. Would someone with a bit of knowledge care to make a bolder mention of it somewhere, perhaps in the Geography section? Thanks, - M.Nelson ( talk) 04:37, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
It used data from the Statistics Canada Tables here: [1], yet it had the following problems:
My primary concern is that this is invented data, NOT a replication of what the source actually says, and this is *especially* critical in such a delicate area. We have a table for Ethnic Origin, which is much more useful and interesting data. I don't believe that we need this pseudo-racial one. AshleyMorton ( talk) 01:18, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
Being one of the two navy bases in the whole country, I can't believe that there isn't a section on the navy in Halifax. This is a serious deficiency for this article! — Preceding unsigned comment added by HiFlyChick ( talk • contribs) 21:40, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
Since this is the article about the current municipality of Halifax I added the corresponding link to the German article about the municipality of Halifax.
There are a lot of other language articles about Halifax (the present city and municipality). I think we should also add them here.
Regards, Kmw2700 ( talk) 03:06, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
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The collage is a problem - it only reflects landmarks of the urban core. At the very least shouldn't an image of the Peggy's Cove Lighthouse be included? If someone knows how to make changes to collage would you consider this suggestion.-- Hantsheroes ( talk) 12:13, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
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Hi all. I deleted a table of statistics this morning, and here's why:
Then, without addressing the concerns (truncated, I know) that I put in the edit summary, my edit was reverted. The edit summary for the reversion claimed that the source was "reputable", which it is, but its statistics about Pickering are still not relevant for Halifax, and the statistics for Visible Minorities and Aboriginal Identity are not the same thing as Ethnicity. Please see the discussion that took place 3 years ago (above). I believe that this was done in good faith, but I still believe that it was incorrect. So I reverted it, and started writing this explanation. Before I could finish, it had been reverted again. So - I'm going to delete this material again, now that I've explained why I believe that it cannot be included. I understand that some will say "then make it better", but I believe I did several years ago when I included the "Ethnic Origin" table further down the same section. This data is really just manufactured, and in my opinion neither it, nor anything closely similar can be included. AshleyMorton ( talk) 14:48, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
Strangely if you add up the english scotish and irish you dont get a logical number. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.173.144.213 ( talk) 13:45, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello, I suggest adding the following link under "See also": Destination Halifax. ReegieD ( talk) 21:56, 20 November 2013 (UTC) ReegieD (Nov. 20, 2013)
I propose someone add " Destination Halifax is a not-for-profit society fulfilling the role of destination marketing organization (DMO) for 201 communities within the Halifax Regional Municipality. It is a partnership between the Halifax Regional Municipality, the Hotel Association of Nova Scotia, the Province of Nova Scotia, and participating industry members. Its mandate is to dramatically increase tourism expenditures on a year round basis. The organization is responsible for promoting to both business and leisure travelers from external markets. The organization’s priority is sales and marketing programming directed to audiences in the domestic, cross border and international markets." ReegieD ( talk) 22:02, 20 November 2013 (UTC) ReegieD (Nov. 20, 2013)
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Consensus is to move to Halifax, Nova Scotia. J04n( talk page) 13:38, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
Halifax Regional Municipality → Halifax, Nova Scotia – The Regional Municipality have now had their say on this. Effective today, the name for all but the most formal legal processes is to be simply "Halifax". Here's the Municipality's "rebranding" site: [4]. Here are two news reports from local media: [5], [6]. Here is the report from the staff with the recommendation within it [7]. This has long been the accepted way to refer to the location in general, if not the formal Municipality. Even at that, it can be seen that most organisations ignore the "...Regional Municipality" outside of the most formal situations - the way people don't usually call it the "Commonwealth of Virginia" - they just call it "Virginia". Here's an example of that - the 2011 Census results, when searching for "Halifax" in Nova Scotia: [8] We can see that the Population Centre is called "Halifax", the Census Metropolitan Area is called "Halifax", and the Census Division is called "Halifax (Regional Municipality)". The airport is the "Halifax Stanfield International Airport", not the "Halifax Regional Municipality Stanfield Airport" [9]. Once (if!) this is accepted, I (and I'm sure others) will go about fixing the other required changes, such as the opening text, etc. Finally, this would much better meet every one of the Wikipedia Article Title guidelines: Recognisability, Naturalness, Precision, Conciseness and Consistency. AshleyMorton ( talk) 03:18, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
Okay, so the first edit conflict under the new title! The "hatnote" (the little italicized text at the top that helps people find other relevant articles) has had at least three versions over the last 24 hours or so, and some people (me included) who seem to have strong opinions on the issue. Here's my summary of the different versions:
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Why is there edit warring going on over this issue while it is being discussed here? Saffron Blaze ( talk) 22:06, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
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To be honest, I don't think that this removes any of the weight of the previous opinions supportive of "a", above, but please speak up if you disagree. Most notably, I'm going to try (again) to contact the author about this. This author seems to have lots of desire to improve articles about Halifax, and lots of energy. I would love to collaborate with him/her. However, this specific issue, about the importance of General Service Areas, and definitions based on previous boundaries, is getting in the way. I hope that he/she will join the discussion here so that we can actually work together on this kind of stuff! AshleyMorton ( talk) 02:49, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
I do not see what the big deal the area of where the former city was is a community today that is in Nova Scotia is a General Service Area that is nothing changed since Halifax the city was dissolved in 1996 the area is called Halifax Nova Scotia .It has nothing to do with municipal dogma etc it all to do with someones interruption with rules that they claim that the they are right . I read the rules too its states that you also the articles have to be verified .19960401 15:05, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi folks. This seems to fall broadly into the same category as a number of topics that have been on the go here a fair bit lately: the geographic point for the article. User:Vbond changed it to a point in the downtown core of Halifax, and then User:19960401 changed it back. I understand the arguments - one is about the concept of Halifax as a place, regardless of its municipal borders, the other is an identification of the centre of the municipality. Actually, I'm not as sure on this one as I was on the other ones. I offer, for consideration, three possible relevant maps, all from StatsCan. The Municipality [10], the Census Metropolitan Area [11] (which are effectively identical), and then the Population Centre [12]. I see several strategies:
I am leaning towards that last option (which might, for example, put the dot in the Narrows somewhere), but I would be interested to hear what others think. AshleyMorton ( talk) 11:49, 7 May 2014 (UTC)
Which coordinates to use (from: /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Geographical_coordinates#Which_coordinates_to_use)
National mapping agencies such as the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), Ordnance Survey (OS), and Geographical Names Board of Canada (GNBC) are reliable sources for coordinates. The GEOnet Names Server (GNS) database is not reliable. For other locations, the following points should be considered:
Since the article is referring to the administrative entity called the HRM it would seem the head office is the correct choice for Wikipedia. Saffron Blaze ( talk) 17:07, 7 May 2014 (UTC)
This issue has not been discussed in some time, and the present dop pin was not helpful to non-natives of halifax, and obviously wrong to those who know the area both officially and in local language use. I cited a FedGov database that noted that as the location for the capital of NS. I feel that is more than clear. If anyone has any new arguments other than those discussed above go ahead but the edit has stood for a few weeks now so I think it is fairly uncontroversial. (Edit: spelling) Iammemyselfb ( talk) 23:24, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
This article on Halifax ,Halifax Regional Municipality is becoming too much of an ad for Downtown Halifax -Great Halifax -whatever because some of these editors seam to know the instant when to write the sahttps://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/07/launching-a-privacy-policy-built-the-wiki-way/me propaganda whenever those three organizations . In fact one of has ties to and made a donation to Halifax Regional Council members campaian . hfxfail Wikipedia is not suppose to be an ad website or a propaganda outlet its suppose to be a encyclopedia . — Preceding unsigned comment added by Easternhfx ( talk • contribs)
I see in the infobox the metropolitan and municipality population figures are different. In the case of Halifax, isn't the municipality the only component of the CMA? So, wouldn't that mean the figures should be idenitical? -- Criticalthinker ( talk) 11:17, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
I propose merging Metropolitan Halifax into Halifax, Nova Scotia. Most of what appears in Metropolitan Halifax already appears in Halifax, Nova Scotia. A separate article seems unnecessary and, being made up of redundant content, makes maintenance more difficult. It causes unnecessary confusion – and a number of articles link to Metropolitan Halifax when there is no reason for them not to simply link to Halifax, Nova Scotia. The concept of the "urban area" can easily be explained within a subsection of Halifax, Nova Scotia – which is already the case (section 2.1). Citobun ( talk) 09:23, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
The infobox pictures do not represent the whole of the Halifax Regional Municipality it only represents the area of the downtown area of Halifax 142.177.130.26 ( talk) 13:22, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
During my last visit to Halifax I tried to add photos to some articles that didn't have any. But there are still many Halifax-related articles without photos of the main subject, or missing photos altogether. I've collected 50 below. Can any residents of Halifax help?
For anyone is unfamiliar with the process of contributing your own photos to Wikipedia, please see Wikipedia:Uploading images. In a nutshell, you must upload it to Wikimedia Commons, which entails releasing it under a free licence. Then you can add it to the article here on Wikipedia.
Once you add a photo, please strike out the article name in this list and leave a note if you like. Cheers,
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I have been meaning to do this for awhile. Maybe I will take a weekend to do this later this month or next. - DJSasso ( talk) 13:55, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
A couple more articles that need photos:
I will try to chip away at this next time I visit. Citobun ( talk) 05:42, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
In this paragraph:
"The urban core is home to several blocks of typical North American high-rise office buildings, however segments of the downtown are governed by height restrictions which prevent buildings from obstructing certain sight lines between Citadel Hill and Halifax Harbour. This has resulted in some modern high rises being built at unusual angles or locations."
What's so "unusual"? According to whom?
"Unusual" in this context is a weasel word. This sentence is essentially meaningless.
The Mi'kmaq name for the city is "K'jipuktuk" (media source: http://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/local-organization-refers-to-halifax-by-mi-kmaq-name-1.2112417 ). This should be in the article in some way; suggestions as to how? DS ( talk) 21:02, 13 July 2017 (UTC)
° The Ecology Action Centre uses it on all of their press releases: [14] [15] ° So does Halifax Pride [16] ° Articles published the Halifax Media Co-op use it in their byline, and sometimes in their direct content: [17] [18] ° Mount St. Vincent University used it for an exhibition: [19] ° Several of the professors at NSCAD University use it to describe where they work: [20] [21] ° ADSUM, a local women's shelter uses it to describe where they are. [22]
Okay. Any more suggestions, comments, objections? DS ( talk) 20:13, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
I don't think the fact that a school board decides to announce unceded territory (the provided reference) counts as support for the fact that the territory is unceded - it only supports the fact that the school board has in fact decided something. I've been looking for a clear statement that this is unceded territory. The best I have come up with is this: https://novascotia.ca/abor/office/what-we-do/negotiations/current-status/ "The Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia claim Aboriginal title to the lands and waters of Nova Scotia and adjacent areas of the offshore, and maintain that they did not give up their land rights through treaty, voluntary cession, or otherwise." But this too does not support anything beyond the fact that "the Mi'kmaq ... claim ... and maintain...." Anyone have a better source? -- Richardson mcphillips ( talk) 23:57, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
I don't think we need to find proof that it is unceded, just a statement that someone with authority claims that it is unceded. I understand the absence of proof is not proof of absence, etc, but the government of NS does not state anywhere that this is unceded land. When I do a Google search "nova scotia unceded mi'kmaq land" I find the CBC, a school board, "activists", and Prof. Paul. I suggest the sentence be changed to "Halifax is located on land which many, including the government of Nova Scotia, acknowledge as land which the Mi'kmaq peoples claim to be unceded" Richardson mcphillips ( talk) 01:18, 26 August 2017 (UTC)
the SS Mont-Blanc, a French cargo ship carrying munitions, collided with the Belgian Relief vessel SS Imo; but /info/en/?search=Halifax_Explosion states The Norwegian vessel SS Imo collided with SS Mont-Blanc, albeit chartered by the Commission for Relief in Belgium.-- Manfariel ( talk) 11:31, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
The map is wrong. Halifax HRM extends to the Musquodoboit river only. The map shown in this article shows the legal boundary of Halifax COUNTY. Not HRM. Please fix this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.89.229.157 ( talk) 18:41, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
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The Halifax Regional Municipality is the capital of Nova Scotia, NOT Halifax. Halifax, Dartmouth, Bedford and Sackville are all the major centers that now make up the HRM. Halifax ceased being the capital during amalgamation when the HRM became the new capital. Gargramel ( talk) 14:03, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
From the current [6] source in the article, we can see that among the 25 largest municipalities in Canada, Halifax stands at 6th place in terms of fastest population growth between 2016 and 2021. Will it be okay to state so in the same sentence in the article? Latin Beau 18:33, 20 April 2022 (UTC)
I propose that the Wikipedia article about the history of Halifax and the HRM, currently found at Community of Halifax, Nova Scotia, should be moved to History of Halifax (former city) and the Halifax Regional Municipality. The name is a bit longer and clumsier than I would prefer, but it's more logical than the current name because it accurately reflects the actual page topic. Feel free to join the discussion. Carguychris ( talk) 17:09, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
i’ve read some of the above discussions and i understand that the usage of ‘halifax, nova scotia’ was appropriate for the time but is it really necessary to have ‘nova scotia’ as a denominator today? this city is surely the most prominent city to be named ‘halifax’, and i don’t think all the other articles about this city would cause any confusion name-wise MishchaytWiki ( talk) 19:35, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
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I hate to bring this up for the millionth time, but honestly, there are too many articles for this city. None are particularly well-written. We shouldn't be divvying up a ton of articles based on administrative entities past and present, there ought to be a single "Halifax" article based on the entire HRM, with sections explaining the nuances of the administrative system and districts within the city. Kinou ( talk) 07:50, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
Might as well add my opinion: create Halifax, Nova Scotia, based primarily on the current article City of Halifax, and use it as the beginning for an article about the city -- the history, urban geography, society, landmarks, tourism, and so forth -- what people mean when they say "I'm going to Halifax" or "I live in Halifax." Summarize the evolution of the municipal government in Halifax, Nova Scotia, providing more detail in City of Halifax (about the former city municipality) and Halifax Regional Municipality (about the current HRM, from a government point of view). Agree with the above that the current situation is untenable. I can't even write that the Princess Royal was supposed to travel to Halifax without any link users abruptly getting a crash course on the minutiae of Nova Scotia municipal politics just to find out what the freaking city is. -- Montréalais ( talk) 14:52, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
It's been a few years, and nobody's made a move, but I concur: the main article should be called " Halifax, Nova Scotia". Mark M ( talk) 15:09, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
I think that's a mistake. It doesn't mean anything. Anybody have any idea how to fix it? I think it's some kind of bug in the infobox. Maybe that's supposed to be the Metro density? 64.141.49.29 ( talk) 22:20, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
The main page link to this article on 4/1/10 reads "1996 – The government of Nova Scotia ordered the people of the City of Halifax to mate with over 200 multiple partners around the area." The words "to mate" are bold and are supposed to link to an article that is relevant to this main page title. It takes you to the Halifax article where there is no content about what the link says. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.69.4.81 ( talk) 00:03, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
From what I understand, Sable Island is part of the HRM, but it's only mentionned offhand once in the Economy section. Would someone with a bit of knowledge care to make a bolder mention of it somewhere, perhaps in the Geography section? Thanks, - M.Nelson ( talk) 04:37, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
It used data from the Statistics Canada Tables here: [1], yet it had the following problems:
My primary concern is that this is invented data, NOT a replication of what the source actually says, and this is *especially* critical in such a delicate area. We have a table for Ethnic Origin, which is much more useful and interesting data. I don't believe that we need this pseudo-racial one. AshleyMorton ( talk) 01:18, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
Being one of the two navy bases in the whole country, I can't believe that there isn't a section on the navy in Halifax. This is a serious deficiency for this article! — Preceding unsigned comment added by HiFlyChick ( talk • contribs) 21:40, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
Since this is the article about the current municipality of Halifax I added the corresponding link to the German article about the municipality of Halifax.
There are a lot of other language articles about Halifax (the present city and municipality). I think we should also add them here.
Regards, Kmw2700 ( talk) 03:06, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
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The collage is a problem - it only reflects landmarks of the urban core. At the very least shouldn't an image of the Peggy's Cove Lighthouse be included? If someone knows how to make changes to collage would you consider this suggestion.-- Hantsheroes ( talk) 12:13, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
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Hi all. I deleted a table of statistics this morning, and here's why:
Then, without addressing the concerns (truncated, I know) that I put in the edit summary, my edit was reverted. The edit summary for the reversion claimed that the source was "reputable", which it is, but its statistics about Pickering are still not relevant for Halifax, and the statistics for Visible Minorities and Aboriginal Identity are not the same thing as Ethnicity. Please see the discussion that took place 3 years ago (above). I believe that this was done in good faith, but I still believe that it was incorrect. So I reverted it, and started writing this explanation. Before I could finish, it had been reverted again. So - I'm going to delete this material again, now that I've explained why I believe that it cannot be included. I understand that some will say "then make it better", but I believe I did several years ago when I included the "Ethnic Origin" table further down the same section. This data is really just manufactured, and in my opinion neither it, nor anything closely similar can be included. AshleyMorton ( talk) 14:48, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
Strangely if you add up the english scotish and irish you dont get a logical number. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.173.144.213 ( talk) 13:45, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello, I suggest adding the following link under "See also": Destination Halifax. ReegieD ( talk) 21:56, 20 November 2013 (UTC) ReegieD (Nov. 20, 2013)
I propose someone add " Destination Halifax is a not-for-profit society fulfilling the role of destination marketing organization (DMO) for 201 communities within the Halifax Regional Municipality. It is a partnership between the Halifax Regional Municipality, the Hotel Association of Nova Scotia, the Province of Nova Scotia, and participating industry members. Its mandate is to dramatically increase tourism expenditures on a year round basis. The organization is responsible for promoting to both business and leisure travelers from external markets. The organization’s priority is sales and marketing programming directed to audiences in the domestic, cross border and international markets." ReegieD ( talk) 22:02, 20 November 2013 (UTC) ReegieD (Nov. 20, 2013)
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Consensus is to move to Halifax, Nova Scotia. J04n( talk page) 13:38, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
Halifax Regional Municipality → Halifax, Nova Scotia – The Regional Municipality have now had their say on this. Effective today, the name for all but the most formal legal processes is to be simply "Halifax". Here's the Municipality's "rebranding" site: [4]. Here are two news reports from local media: [5], [6]. Here is the report from the staff with the recommendation within it [7]. This has long been the accepted way to refer to the location in general, if not the formal Municipality. Even at that, it can be seen that most organisations ignore the "...Regional Municipality" outside of the most formal situations - the way people don't usually call it the "Commonwealth of Virginia" - they just call it "Virginia". Here's an example of that - the 2011 Census results, when searching for "Halifax" in Nova Scotia: [8] We can see that the Population Centre is called "Halifax", the Census Metropolitan Area is called "Halifax", and the Census Division is called "Halifax (Regional Municipality)". The airport is the "Halifax Stanfield International Airport", not the "Halifax Regional Municipality Stanfield Airport" [9]. Once (if!) this is accepted, I (and I'm sure others) will go about fixing the other required changes, such as the opening text, etc. Finally, this would much better meet every one of the Wikipedia Article Title guidelines: Recognisability, Naturalness, Precision, Conciseness and Consistency. AshleyMorton ( talk) 03:18, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
Okay, so the first edit conflict under the new title! The "hatnote" (the little italicized text at the top that helps people find other relevant articles) has had at least three versions over the last 24 hours or so, and some people (me included) who seem to have strong opinions on the issue. Here's my summary of the different versions:
a)
b)
c)
d)
Why is there edit warring going on over this issue while it is being discussed here? Saffron Blaze ( talk) 22:06, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
e)
To be honest, I don't think that this removes any of the weight of the previous opinions supportive of "a", above, but please speak up if you disagree. Most notably, I'm going to try (again) to contact the author about this. This author seems to have lots of desire to improve articles about Halifax, and lots of energy. I would love to collaborate with him/her. However, this specific issue, about the importance of General Service Areas, and definitions based on previous boundaries, is getting in the way. I hope that he/she will join the discussion here so that we can actually work together on this kind of stuff! AshleyMorton ( talk) 02:49, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
I do not see what the big deal the area of where the former city was is a community today that is in Nova Scotia is a General Service Area that is nothing changed since Halifax the city was dissolved in 1996 the area is called Halifax Nova Scotia .It has nothing to do with municipal dogma etc it all to do with someones interruption with rules that they claim that the they are right . I read the rules too its states that you also the articles have to be verified .19960401 15:05, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi folks. This seems to fall broadly into the same category as a number of topics that have been on the go here a fair bit lately: the geographic point for the article. User:Vbond changed it to a point in the downtown core of Halifax, and then User:19960401 changed it back. I understand the arguments - one is about the concept of Halifax as a place, regardless of its municipal borders, the other is an identification of the centre of the municipality. Actually, I'm not as sure on this one as I was on the other ones. I offer, for consideration, three possible relevant maps, all from StatsCan. The Municipality [10], the Census Metropolitan Area [11] (which are effectively identical), and then the Population Centre [12]. I see several strategies:
I am leaning towards that last option (which might, for example, put the dot in the Narrows somewhere), but I would be interested to hear what others think. AshleyMorton ( talk) 11:49, 7 May 2014 (UTC)
Which coordinates to use (from: /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Geographical_coordinates#Which_coordinates_to_use)
National mapping agencies such as the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), Ordnance Survey (OS), and Geographical Names Board of Canada (GNBC) are reliable sources for coordinates. The GEOnet Names Server (GNS) database is not reliable. For other locations, the following points should be considered:
Since the article is referring to the administrative entity called the HRM it would seem the head office is the correct choice for Wikipedia. Saffron Blaze ( talk) 17:07, 7 May 2014 (UTC)
This issue has not been discussed in some time, and the present dop pin was not helpful to non-natives of halifax, and obviously wrong to those who know the area both officially and in local language use. I cited a FedGov database that noted that as the location for the capital of NS. I feel that is more than clear. If anyone has any new arguments other than those discussed above go ahead but the edit has stood for a few weeks now so I think it is fairly uncontroversial. (Edit: spelling) Iammemyselfb ( talk) 23:24, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
This article on Halifax ,Halifax Regional Municipality is becoming too much of an ad for Downtown Halifax -Great Halifax -whatever because some of these editors seam to know the instant when to write the sahttps://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/07/launching-a-privacy-policy-built-the-wiki-way/me propaganda whenever those three organizations . In fact one of has ties to and made a donation to Halifax Regional Council members campaian . hfxfail Wikipedia is not suppose to be an ad website or a propaganda outlet its suppose to be a encyclopedia . — Preceding unsigned comment added by Easternhfx ( talk • contribs)
I see in the infobox the metropolitan and municipality population figures are different. In the case of Halifax, isn't the municipality the only component of the CMA? So, wouldn't that mean the figures should be idenitical? -- Criticalthinker ( talk) 11:17, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
I propose merging Metropolitan Halifax into Halifax, Nova Scotia. Most of what appears in Metropolitan Halifax already appears in Halifax, Nova Scotia. A separate article seems unnecessary and, being made up of redundant content, makes maintenance more difficult. It causes unnecessary confusion – and a number of articles link to Metropolitan Halifax when there is no reason for them not to simply link to Halifax, Nova Scotia. The concept of the "urban area" can easily be explained within a subsection of Halifax, Nova Scotia – which is already the case (section 2.1). Citobun ( talk) 09:23, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
The infobox pictures do not represent the whole of the Halifax Regional Municipality it only represents the area of the downtown area of Halifax 142.177.130.26 ( talk) 13:22, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
During my last visit to Halifax I tried to add photos to some articles that didn't have any. But there are still many Halifax-related articles without photos of the main subject, or missing photos altogether. I've collected 50 below. Can any residents of Halifax help?
For anyone is unfamiliar with the process of contributing your own photos to Wikipedia, please see Wikipedia:Uploading images. In a nutshell, you must upload it to Wikimedia Commons, which entails releasing it under a free licence. Then you can add it to the article here on Wikipedia.
Once you add a photo, please strike out the article name in this list and leave a note if you like. Cheers,
Citobun (
talk) 10:19, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
I have been meaning to do this for awhile. Maybe I will take a weekend to do this later this month or next. - DJSasso ( talk) 13:55, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
A couple more articles that need photos:
I will try to chip away at this next time I visit. Citobun ( talk) 05:42, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
In this paragraph:
"The urban core is home to several blocks of typical North American high-rise office buildings, however segments of the downtown are governed by height restrictions which prevent buildings from obstructing certain sight lines between Citadel Hill and Halifax Harbour. This has resulted in some modern high rises being built at unusual angles or locations."
What's so "unusual"? According to whom?
"Unusual" in this context is a weasel word. This sentence is essentially meaningless.
The Mi'kmaq name for the city is "K'jipuktuk" (media source: http://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/local-organization-refers-to-halifax-by-mi-kmaq-name-1.2112417 ). This should be in the article in some way; suggestions as to how? DS ( talk) 21:02, 13 July 2017 (UTC)
° The Ecology Action Centre uses it on all of their press releases: [14] [15] ° So does Halifax Pride [16] ° Articles published the Halifax Media Co-op use it in their byline, and sometimes in their direct content: [17] [18] ° Mount St. Vincent University used it for an exhibition: [19] ° Several of the professors at NSCAD University use it to describe where they work: [20] [21] ° ADSUM, a local women's shelter uses it to describe where they are. [22]
Okay. Any more suggestions, comments, objections? DS ( talk) 20:13, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
I don't think the fact that a school board decides to announce unceded territory (the provided reference) counts as support for the fact that the territory is unceded - it only supports the fact that the school board has in fact decided something. I've been looking for a clear statement that this is unceded territory. The best I have come up with is this: https://novascotia.ca/abor/office/what-we-do/negotiations/current-status/ "The Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia claim Aboriginal title to the lands and waters of Nova Scotia and adjacent areas of the offshore, and maintain that they did not give up their land rights through treaty, voluntary cession, or otherwise." But this too does not support anything beyond the fact that "the Mi'kmaq ... claim ... and maintain...." Anyone have a better source? -- Richardson mcphillips ( talk) 23:57, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
I don't think we need to find proof that it is unceded, just a statement that someone with authority claims that it is unceded. I understand the absence of proof is not proof of absence, etc, but the government of NS does not state anywhere that this is unceded land. When I do a Google search "nova scotia unceded mi'kmaq land" I find the CBC, a school board, "activists", and Prof. Paul. I suggest the sentence be changed to "Halifax is located on land which many, including the government of Nova Scotia, acknowledge as land which the Mi'kmaq peoples claim to be unceded" Richardson mcphillips ( talk) 01:18, 26 August 2017 (UTC)
the SS Mont-Blanc, a French cargo ship carrying munitions, collided with the Belgian Relief vessel SS Imo; but /info/en/?search=Halifax_Explosion states The Norwegian vessel SS Imo collided with SS Mont-Blanc, albeit chartered by the Commission for Relief in Belgium.-- Manfariel ( talk) 11:31, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
The map is wrong. Halifax HRM extends to the Musquodoboit river only. The map shown in this article shows the legal boundary of Halifax COUNTY. Not HRM. Please fix this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.89.229.157 ( talk) 18:41, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Haligonians. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. feminist ( talk) 12:52, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
The Halifax Regional Municipality is the capital of Nova Scotia, NOT Halifax. Halifax, Dartmouth, Bedford and Sackville are all the major centers that now make up the HRM. Halifax ceased being the capital during amalgamation when the HRM became the new capital. Gargramel ( talk) 14:03, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
From the current [6] source in the article, we can see that among the 25 largest municipalities in Canada, Halifax stands at 6th place in terms of fastest population growth between 2016 and 2021. Will it be okay to state so in the same sentence in the article? Latin Beau 18:33, 20 April 2022 (UTC)
I propose that the Wikipedia article about the history of Halifax and the HRM, currently found at Community of Halifax, Nova Scotia, should be moved to History of Halifax (former city) and the Halifax Regional Municipality. The name is a bit longer and clumsier than I would prefer, but it's more logical than the current name because it accurately reflects the actual page topic. Feel free to join the discussion. Carguychris ( talk) 17:09, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
i’ve read some of the above discussions and i understand that the usage of ‘halifax, nova scotia’ was appropriate for the time but is it really necessary to have ‘nova scotia’ as a denominator today? this city is surely the most prominent city to be named ‘halifax’, and i don’t think all the other articles about this city would cause any confusion name-wise MishchaytWiki ( talk) 19:35, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
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