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Following the talk that took place within the Maps of Alberta regions talk section and the finding a lot of articles about the unofficial regions of Alberta has been created from former unofficial regions created by Travel Alberta for promotional purpose and not even census regional units, I have the following proposals about them:
What do you think? Please help me to decide what to do with those articles. :) --— Foldo Squirrel ( nuts?) 18:29, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
I've been wondering what to do with the stub categories as well. It would be nice to keep them grouped by region, but if regions can't be used for even this, census divisions can be used. I'm not sure how they would break down, if 19 categories are too many, I think 7 categories would work. They would be 1-5, 6, 7-10, 11, 12-14, 15, and 16-19. Transferring them would be a lot of work though, over 800 articles would have to be inspected for census division, and edited. 117Avenue ( talk) 01:50, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
Thinking about the regions: we are going to have to remove regions from Alberta municipal infoboxes, I guess. Isn't it someone with Auto-Wiki Browser (or a bot) here that could do that? Foldo ( talk) 16:49, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
This is a consolidated two-part proposal to move the following 70 (68 existing and 2 former) rural and specialized municipality articles to their common, undisambiguated names. See the subsections that follow the below for a description of both parts of the proposal. If there is no consensus to move these from within our provincial WikiProject community, I will open a more formal RM. Hwy43 ( talk) 07:34, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
Entries 1 through 35 are already at their
common name (before the provincial disambiguator). They are also at their official
legal names (before the disambiguator). All the bluelinked targets are redirects to the current article names. There are no other articles on Wikipedia that could contend for their undisambiguated names. In fact I could only find four articles that start with the common name (i.e., "Foo County"), all of which are redirects (
Lacombe County municipal by-election, 2011;
Lethbridge County Airport;
Rocky View County municipal by-election, 2012; and
Yellowhead County municipal by-election, 2012).
It is therefore proposed that they be moved to their common undisambiguated names.
Hwy43 (
talk)
07:34, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
Entries 36 through 70 are neither at their common nor official
legal names. Rather, they are at a short form name format applied by Statistics Canada. The StatCan short form names of these municipalities definitely are not their
common names.
Note: It is presumed StatCan applies this format to simply enable
alphabetical sorting of municipalities by the given component of their official legal names (i.e., "Barrhead County No. 11" rather than "County of Barrhead No. 11").
Unlike urban municipalities where usage of the given name is more common that the official legal name (e.g., "Foo" rather than "City/Town/Village/Summer Village of Foo"), rural and specialized municipalities are rarely referred to by "just" their given names (e.g., referring to the "County of Forty Mile No. 8" as simply "Forty Mile" or "Forty Mile No. 8" is not widespread). Their official legal names are by far more common than the StatCan short forms and would also meet the
article naming criteria.
Finally, using the official legal name format for non-urban municipalities is consistent with what is done for rural municipalities in Manitoba (see
Category:Rural municipalities in Manitoba) and those
improvement districts of Alberta that have their own articles (specifically
Kananaskis and Nos.
9,
12 and
349). Also see the following upper-tier municipalities from Ontario at their official legal names:
It is therefore proposed that all of entries 36 through 70 be moved to their official legal names. If moved, the same set of moves should be considered for the countless rural municipalities in Saskatchewan. Hwy43 ( talk) 07:34, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
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See discussion here. Hwy43 ( talk) 17:37, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
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) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
![]() | This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 1 | ← | Archive 3 | Archive 4 | Archive 5 | Archive 6 | Archive 7 |
Following the talk that took place within the Maps of Alberta regions talk section and the finding a lot of articles about the unofficial regions of Alberta has been created from former unofficial regions created by Travel Alberta for promotional purpose and not even census regional units, I have the following proposals about them:
What do you think? Please help me to decide what to do with those articles. :) --— Foldo Squirrel ( nuts?) 18:29, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
I've been wondering what to do with the stub categories as well. It would be nice to keep them grouped by region, but if regions can't be used for even this, census divisions can be used. I'm not sure how they would break down, if 19 categories are too many, I think 7 categories would work. They would be 1-5, 6, 7-10, 11, 12-14, 15, and 16-19. Transferring them would be a lot of work though, over 800 articles would have to be inspected for census division, and edited. 117Avenue ( talk) 01:50, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
Thinking about the regions: we are going to have to remove regions from Alberta municipal infoboxes, I guess. Isn't it someone with Auto-Wiki Browser (or a bot) here that could do that? Foldo ( talk) 16:49, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
This is a consolidated two-part proposal to move the following 70 (68 existing and 2 former) rural and specialized municipality articles to their common, undisambiguated names. See the subsections that follow the below for a description of both parts of the proposal. If there is no consensus to move these from within our provincial WikiProject community, I will open a more formal RM. Hwy43 ( talk) 07:34, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
Entries 1 through 35 are already at their
common name (before the provincial disambiguator). They are also at their official
legal names (before the disambiguator). All the bluelinked targets are redirects to the current article names. There are no other articles on Wikipedia that could contend for their undisambiguated names. In fact I could only find four articles that start with the common name (i.e., "Foo County"), all of which are redirects (
Lacombe County municipal by-election, 2011;
Lethbridge County Airport;
Rocky View County municipal by-election, 2012; and
Yellowhead County municipal by-election, 2012).
It is therefore proposed that they be moved to their common undisambiguated names.
Hwy43 (
talk)
07:34, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
Entries 36 through 70 are neither at their common nor official
legal names. Rather, they are at a short form name format applied by Statistics Canada. The StatCan short form names of these municipalities definitely are not their
common names.
Note: It is presumed StatCan applies this format to simply enable
alphabetical sorting of municipalities by the given component of their official legal names (i.e., "Barrhead County No. 11" rather than "County of Barrhead No. 11").
Unlike urban municipalities where usage of the given name is more common that the official legal name (e.g., "Foo" rather than "City/Town/Village/Summer Village of Foo"), rural and specialized municipalities are rarely referred to by "just" their given names (e.g., referring to the "County of Forty Mile No. 8" as simply "Forty Mile" or "Forty Mile No. 8" is not widespread). Their official legal names are by far more common than the StatCan short forms and would also meet the
article naming criteria.
Finally, using the official legal name format for non-urban municipalities is consistent with what is done for rural municipalities in Manitoba (see
Category:Rural municipalities in Manitoba) and those
improvement districts of Alberta that have their own articles (specifically
Kananaskis and Nos.
9,
12 and
349). Also see the following upper-tier municipalities from Ontario at their official legal names:
It is therefore proposed that all of entries 36 through 70 be moved to their official legal names. If moved, the same set of moves should be considered for the countless rural municipalities in Saskatchewan. Hwy43 ( talk) 07:34, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride 2014, a campaign to create and improve LGBT-related content at Wikipedia and its sister projects. The campaign will take place throughout the month of June, culminating with a multinational edit-a-thon on June 21. Meetups are being held in some cities, or you can participate remotely. All constructive edits are welcome in order to contribute to Wikipedia's mission of providing quality, accurate information. Articles within Category:LGBT in the Americas may be of particular interest. You can also upload LGBT-related images by participating in Wikimedia Commons' LGBT-related photo challenge. You are encouraged to share the results of your work here. Happy editing! -- Another Believer ( Talk) 20:51, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
See discussion here. Hwy43 ( talk) 17:37, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
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) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)