Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ottawa/Archive 1

Naming Conventions

I disagree with some of the naming conventions. We should conform to general Wikipedia rules. There is no need for the article to be named "Sparks Street (Ottawa)" as there is o other Sparks Street in the world deserving of an encyclopedia article. The same goes for Cairine Wilson Secondary School. As to embassies I think it is always best to use their official names. The Russian embassy refers to itself as the "Embassy of the Russian Federation in Canada" not in Ottawa [1]. - SimonP 14:33, Apr 6, 2005 (UTC)

We're discussing that over at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Ottawa/General --Spinboy 17:09, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Ottawa Travel Guide?

I noticed in WikiBooks that there is an [Ottawa Travel Guide] page. Anybody on WikiProject Ottawa interested in making this slightly palatable? --RealGrouchy 20:10, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Sports

I've done some touching up to the Frank Clair Stadium (hope U of O and Carleton U Alumnus aren't upset with the Panda Bowl comments--I removed the "North Side Sucks" references) and Ottawa Civic Centre sites. Perhaps anyone with hockey background might want to describe the ECHL that played in the former arena in the early 1960s, and while just one concert at Lansdowne was mentioned (Rolling Stones 8/05), I'm surprised there's no reference to the Ottawa EX?? BTW, I might be interested in tackling a couple of the Church Histories, if anyone more local isn't interested

Bacl-presby 18:11, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

BTW, someone added the "Northside Sucks!/Southside Sucks!" to Frank Clair Stadium again--is that a real highlight of Ottawa Life?? I'm surprised the Jerry Springerish idea of the Renegade owners for women to take off their tops for a necklace at Renegade games wasn't included! Bacl-presby 22:38, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Just revised the entry to NHL Coaching wizard, Roger Neilson. When the "Roger's Place" opens at CHEO, I trust some revision can be made to CHEO's site. BTW, any local Ottawa feature apart from the Coaches Room at Scoatiabank Place and a AAA Peewee Hockey Division to be renamed after him?? (Park, Arena, Street?) Bacl-presby 23:37, 24 January 2006 (UTC)23:36, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Max Keeping

Added an article on Max Keeping. Would appreciate comments/changes. -- Samir ∙ T C 06:21, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Added article on Carol Anne Meehan. Ardenn 05:35, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

But who has information to to write one on JJ clark? cmacd 18:13, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Ardeth Wood/Jennifer Teague

Also added an article on Ardeth Wood. Appreciate any comments. -- Samir ∙ T C 07:35, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Certainly notable for local Wikipedians - not sure if others outside will say so. Anyways, I've mentionned it also in the Barrhaven article mentionning that it was similar to the Jennifer Teague case which could also be subject for an article if anybody from Ottawa agrees that her case will be article worthy (forget those outside Ottawa (we will tag the Wikiproject Ottawa on the article if needed). --JForget 01:07, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Peacekeeping Monument

Just added this, being surprised that it did not previously exist; any additions would be appreciated... Radagast 20:42, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Ottawa neighborhoods

I'm uncertain what neighborhood of Ottawa I'm classified as living in. Is Bell/417 considered Centertown West or Hintonburg? (Not sure where to ask this so please forgive me) Thanks. - File:Ottawa flag.png nathanrdotcom ^{(T • C • W)} 09:22, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

• Ottawa has many neighbourhoods, but no neighborhoods. :-) Skeezix1000 14:53, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Whichever. It was late and I was lazy. - File:Ottawa flag.png nathanrdotcom ^{(T • C • W)} 19:43, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

I'd say you live in either Centretown West or Little Italy, not Hintonburg --Someones life 18:59, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for clearing that up for me. :) - File:Ottawa flag.png nathanrdotcom ^{(T • C • W)} 19:43, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

You live in Centretown West for sure. My .02. I like putting it in -- Samir (the scope) धर्म 07:28, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

I put both on my userpage just to be sure :) — nathanrdotcom ^{(T • C • W)} 20:33, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

24 sussex

Hi there, not sure if this is the right place to ask or not, but it'd be great if someone in Ottawa could get a photo of 24 Sussex Drive from the front. cheers, Ouuplas 01:43, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team cooperation

Hello. I'm a member of the Version 1.0 Editorial Team, which is looking to identify quality articles in Wikipedia for future publication on CD or paper. We recently began assessing articles using these criteria, and we are are asking for your help. As you are most aware of the issues surrounding your focus area, we are wondering if you could provide us with a list of the articles that fall within the scope of your WikiProject, and that are either featured, A-class, B-class, or Good articles, with no POV or copyright problems. Do you have any recommendations? If you do, please post your suggestions at the listing of all active Places WikiProjects, and if you have any questions, ask me in the Work Via WikiProjects talk page or directly in my talk page. Thanks a lot! Titoxd^{(?!? - help us)} 18:29, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/New Edinburgh News

New Edinburgh News, a community newspaper in Ottawa, has been nominated for deletion. Have your say, and if you can help improve the article to better demonstrate notability, please do? Thank you! Samaritan 23:30, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Parliamentary cats

Everybody's favourite Ottawa feature, the Parliamentary cats now have their own article! I'd appreciate any help with the article over the next while, bring it up to a respectable level. If any of you could get a nice shot of their houses, I got back to Welland and realised all the photos I'd taken looked like crap :\ Sherurcij ^{(talk) (Terrorist Wikiproject)} 23:32, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Sparks street building

Hi, I need someone in Ottawa to do me a big favor. I would like some research done. I am currently working on a plan to expand Northwest Territories Legislative Building I would like to include the historical legislatures: ie: NWT Government House in Battleford the Territorial Legisalture in Regina. I also want to know which building the Territorial Government sat in, while in Ottawa. I know it is on Sparks Street. But I can't find anything relating to an address, or if the building still exists. I know there is still a government office on sparks street relating to the NWT, but I can't say for sure if it is the same one that the Legislative Council used. If someone in Ottawa could possibly use local resources to dig this information up I would be greatfull. --Cloveious 21:16, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

OC Transpo

Hello everyone, I'm new to this project but being an Ottawa native, I still am proud to be where I am from and continue to strive to help the community know more. That being said, I was reviewing many articles and had come up on the OC Transpo page and saw no mention of the 1999 incident. I've added some information of it and have tried to google more information but alas, an incident 7 years old is hard to come by information at this stage. If any of you have old articles saved up in regards to this, please post what you can. I will also be creating subpages of the victims once I am able to find pics that can be posted up for them as well. -- Eric B ( T • C • W ) 11:54, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Tulip Festival (Ottawa)

I've added some pics to the page that were taken this year. Saw this as a ToDo on the project page... hope more people can add some! -- Eric B ( T • C • W ) 03:50, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Feature on Ottawa Citizen

I'd just like to mention that there was an article about Wikiproject Ottawa on the Ottawa Citizen today (May 15, 2006) on the first page of the City section! --Dandin1 22:37, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Should I have warned everyone? :-D -- Earl Andrew - talk 00:11, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Here is a link if anyone is interested: [2] -- Earl Andrew - talk 18:25, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Bells Corners

I added to the article on the Bells Corners neighbourhood --ottawaowl

Rockcliffe Park

Is there any reason why Rockcliffe Park's page mentions that "[ma]ny ambassadors to Canada also live in Rockcliffe, including the ambassadors of Israel, Norway, the United States of America, and the Papal Nuncio."? There are dozens and dozens of residences of ambassadors here, so why were these chosen over all the others for enumeration? -- Lxl 20:24, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

It seems somewhat random. The United States is a prominent country and the Papal Nuncio has one of the most palatial estates, but Israel and Norway seem to be quite arbitrary choices. - SimonP 21:19, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

I agree regarding the seeming randomness. Perhaps a list of ambassadors' residences could be included (even though this does sound like overkill)? As far as "prominent countr[ies]" go, of which the US is clearly one, we could add Japan, Russia, India, Germany, Spain,.... -- Lxl 07:47, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Canadian city naming convention

To try to get a good consensus, I am posting at all Canadian regional wikiprojects: Wikipedia talk:Canadian wikipedians' notice board#Canadian city naming convention. Thanks! -- Usgnus 21:49, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Neighbourhood question

Hello, does anyone know what the neighbourhood south of Hintonburg is? The one between the Queensway and Carling west of the O-Train line. Thanks, -- Earl Andrew - talk 19:09, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

That's known as Civic Hospital.

Yep, I figured that. I just thought it was a weird name for a neighbourhood. -- Earl Andrew - talk 19:28, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Former resident

I currently live in Vancouver, but I spent the first 21 years of my life in Ottawa, and I'd be happy to contribute what I know.

Since I'm rather new to Wikipedia in general, I thought I should ask how best to go about that. Any suggestions?

-- Purplezart 08:41, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Sports and Recreation facilities

I was putting an Ottawan tag on the article on Donald jackson, when I noticed that his current occupation at the Minto Skating club was not mentioned. I did a dummy link in that article. And added the club under buildings.

I wonder if some of the other sports clubs and faciflites might be worthy. (Bell Sensplex, Kanata Rec center, various currling clubs? cmacd 13:52, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Terry Kilrea on Vfd

Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Terry_Kilrea. It would be foolish to have this page deleted, no matter how much I detest his politics. -- Earl Andrew - talk 01:40, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Quite old but it goes beyond my mind that someone nominated this on AfD! Terry Kilrea is a candidate for the election, one of the top 3, he is an (libellous info removed by Joshuapaquin, see WP:BLP) member which makes him somewhat important in the race. It's his second try of being Chiarelli... Some people should do more research.. *Vote Munter.. Shameless plug :)* --Deenoe 02:11, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

move COM here to take it off main page

This is so far out of date, lets hide it here until someone brigs it up to date..

Collaboration of the Month

For the Ottawa Collaboration of the Month, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Ottawa/COTM.

	Ottawa Collaboration of the Month
Every month, an Ottawa-related topic, stub or nonexistent article is picked to be the Ottawa Collaboration of the Month. The current COTM is Canadian Tulip Festival for June, 2005.

cmacd 14:15, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Since This is aperently now dead, I have "been Bold" and moved it here..

• {{OCOTM}}
  

The article being discussed here is a nominee for Ottawa collaboration of the month. If you wish to add your vote on it, please go to WP:OCOTM.

• {{Ottawa COTM}}
  

	Ottawa Collaboration of the Month
Every month, an Ottawa-related topic, stub or nonexistent article is picked to be the Ottawa Collaboration of the Month. The current COTM is Canadian Tulip Festival for June, 2005.

cmacd 01:45, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Discussion on Canada notice board

Please see the discussion about deleting one of {{Ottawa-stub}} or {{Ottawa-area-stub}}. Thanks. Mindmatrix 21:52, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

OC transpo route articles.

I see that many of the OC transpo route articles have been proposed for deletion as being non-encylopedian.

I would say that I can see both sides of that issue, and do find the comment that someone made that they could not even determine where OC transpo was located as being a sign that the series is at the least in need of work.

On the other hand, if we are a city that is linked tith it's transit system, the transit links may be an important component of the overall package. I also personaly have the attitude that once an article is written leaving it around may allow someone to find a clue in whatever search they may have for information. That it the attitude that I would take.

Anyway, visit OC Transpo Route 118 and follow the link if you have any thought on the matter. cmacd 18:00, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Shopping Centres

Pretty soon, I'll possibly create articles for St. Laurent (article just started), Les Promenades de l'Outaouais and Carlingwood shopping centres as they are the major malls without articles so far. So far, Bayshore is very detailled (put will need to retrace the history of the mall), while Rideau Centre & Place d'Orleans have pages too.--JForget 23:11, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Could I also suggest the Kanata Centrum and Pinecrest Big Box plazas, that also represent some signifigance...on a recent visit to Kanata, found the "walk" reminisant of many a 1950s plaza that were covered over in the 1970s!! Bacl-presby 00:20, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

I've put Kanata Centrum and Riocan Marketplace in the list of Ottawa buildings or should say shopping centres that could be fitted for an article notably because of its importance for suburban residents and also the indication of rapid growth in Kanata and Barrhaven and need for closer shopping areas.. I doubt Pinecrest, despite its anchor tenant IKEA will pass since there is a lot less stores and services then the previous two and the fact that they are mostly home-improvement type stores (IKEA, Linen-Chest, Corbeil, Sears (decoration?) store, Michael's, etc). so i've put only the Centrum and the Marketplace for now. Now since Carlingwood will be saved from deletion (likely as their is only one in favor of deletion with a least a dozen in favor to keep tje article), I will probably start an article for les Promenades de l'Outaouais soon as it is the second largest in total space in the region. I think they are close to 200 stores (although lots of vacant space). Plus they just acquired the new Costco store last spring. --JForget 23:21, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Just created Les Promenades de l'Outaouais with some history info, although there could be more to be added especially during the early years of its existence, although i've did the history regarding the closure of the former Eaton and K-Mart and the expension and the new Costco--JForget 01:49, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Save Carlingwood from deletion

Someone, most likely not from Ottawa wants to delete this page please go to this talk page Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Carlingwood Mall to make this article stay as it is one of the most important malls. I've also put Wikiproject Ottawa tags in the talk, deletion and article pages. --JForget 21:39, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Vince Bevan

FYI : I created an article for Vince Bevan, but it's currently under Criteria for Speedy Deletion. The criteria is "Unremarkable person"... --Deenoe 14:02, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Saved the article from deletion ;) --Deenoe 14:13, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Mayoral milestone

As of today, there are now pages on every Bytown/Ottawa/new Ottawa mayor, including a string of succession boxes. Some mayor pages are stub-grade or could use extra detail, however. Then there are the former municipalities that could be filled in e.g. Nepean Township, Ontario Dl2000 18:30, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Pictures would be great too, for infoboxes. -- Earl Andrew - talk 18:34, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Articles for people requests

I removed Barkley Pollock and Jane Scharf from the article request list. They are not really big candidates, so I don't really see the point. --Deenoe 16:17, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Dr. Shiv Chopra

Greetings fellow members of WP:Ottawa. I just created a new article on Dr. Shiv Chopra. Dr.Shiv Chopra was a whistle blower in Public Service and if anyone has input, they can add :) --Deenoe 23:02, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Userbox

I've created a userbox for Project members:

This user is a participant in WikiProject Ottawa.

{{User WikiProject Ottawa}}

If you look in the page history, there are three versions; a basic "beige" and three different combinations of red & white. I'm starting a discussion on the talk page to vote on which one we should use, or if we should have several to choose from.

— Editor at Large ( talk) 20:13, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

You have to move the userbox to your user namespace. --Deenoe 20:30, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Proposed Move of Gatineau

• Gatineau, Quebec → Gatineau … Rationale: Gatineau already redirects to Gatineau, Quebec, and the name is unique so there is no risk of confusion with another city or town. The proposed move is consistent with the Canadian naming convention ("Places which either have unique names or are unquestionably the most significant place sharing their name, such as Quebec City or Toronto, can have undisambiguated titles"), and is in line with recent moves of Canadian cities such as Lethbridge, Saskatoon, Edmonton, etc. … Please share your opinion at Talk:Gatineau, Quebec. Skeezix1000 11:50, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
  • It has been moved. Skeezix1000 19:57, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Recent updates, articles and photos added.

Greetings. I'm fairly new at the wikipedia thing, but have begun adding Ottawa content, as well as adding in photos. I just discovered this project, and I'm happy to be part of the effort.

Recent updates include: Canada Dance Festival (text and photo), Ottawa Chamber Music Festival (text and photos), Ottawa Bluesfest (photos), Ottawa Dragon Boat Race Festival (photo), Julian Armour (photo), Michaëlle Jean (photo), Tulip Festival (Ottawa) (photo), and RA Photo Club (new article - text and photos)

I'm still getting a feel for how to best add stuff, so feedback and coaching most welcome.

Cheers, Binary Rhyme

Proposed move

• Frank Clair Stadium at Lansdowne Park → Frank Clair Stadium. Discussion at Talk:Frank Clair Stadium at Lansdowne Park. Skeezix1000 12:05, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

The project template

I've just done 34 edits where I added the {{ottawaproject}}. A LOT of articles related to Ottawa aren't put under the project. --Deenoe 02:12, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

CfR - Category:Settlers of the National Capital Region of Canada

...has been proposed for renaming. Discussion is here, in case you're interested. --HKMarksTALKCONTRIBS 04:40, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Project directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 18:33, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/OC Transpo Route 95

A user outside of Ottawa had nominated the articles of Routes 95, 96 and 97 for deletion. However, considering these are notable (which was not for the other previous deleted articles) due to service through a unique transit corridor the Transitway and serving various touristic areas across the National Capital Region, it is important to keep these three articles save or at least merged into the OC Transpo article.--JForget 21:09, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

I've stored copies of the three articles in my User Page as well, so if it's deleted, these articles will still be accessible from there. Should have did the same for the rest before.--JForget 21:17, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Wow, 95, 96 and 97 ARE notable. If we follow this way of thinking, we should remove Montreal's Subway, Toronto Subway, etc... --Deenoe 21:56, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

That's probably a signal that the articles on the 96 and the 97 will need expansion. I've did a massive expansion on the 95 before, but haven't done it with the two others. For the 96 and 97, I'll try to limit the description on the Lincoln Fields/Hurdman section for the two (as the 95 article covers it) while more concentrating on anything west of Bayshore for the 96 and the southeast transitway for the 97. I'll just wait for the results before proceeding to this expansion.--JForget 22:05, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

I've noted this on the project page, as well....don't let it happen, vote NOW!Bacl-presby 23:21, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Apparently, Proto just chopped a large section of the Route 95 section before the outcome.

Also, anyone had web sources on history of the route 95 maybe we should make it similar to this for exemple : [[3] --JForget 20:38, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

• Just rv; remove vandalism??

Bacl-presby 21:20, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

I've just posted in the Canadian Public Transportation Forum (Ottawa area) [4], a group of transit fans to see if anyone has sites that can contain history about the Transit Routes 95, 96 and 97 (including an older version of route 96) When the info is out, the changes will be drastict. I'm think essentially the utility of the route along with its history and recent and future changes as well as key destinations along its way along with an infobox just like it was done with route 99 before it was canned The older versions would still exist in my user pages, but will add also new details there except the photos if any.--JForget 03:17, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

I've just completely wrote back the full OC Transpo Route 96 article concentrating more on history rather then description. It is much more encyclopedic now? --JForget 02:53, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

My oh my... Bloody hell yes! Good job! Deenoe 12:21, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

The 95 and 97 articles also got the same faith, although early history will need some more extensive research though as it is mostly just recent history. Added also communities served by the three (including future ones)--JForget 20:56, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

• AfD Decision.....Keep....(see discussion)Bacl-presby 18:33, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Ottawa Roads - delete request and missing sources

Not only is User:Proto (from Wales, UK) seeking to toast the route 95/96/97 articles, but also threw in a delete request on Trim Road. Perhaps more reasonable was Proto's sources tags on Riverside Drive and Airport Parkway - we should indeed drop some sources into the Ottawa roads/streets articles. Dl2000 00:05, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Definitely with the urban sprawl underaway routes such Trim, Limebank, Albion, the Airport Parkway and Earl Armstong will definitely be notable in the future due to high volume of traffic, urban development and in some cases used by the O-Train if they don't canned the projects. I've mentionned in the talk page that if deleted Trim will likely be re-created afterwards in a year or two.--JForget 20:31, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

I agree, I can do roads articles fairly well if you want any help people! --SunStar Net 20:34, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Hugo Girard

I was amazed to see that despite being a World Champion in the Strongmen Competiton and is one of the major contributors to the development of this sport in Canada, he didn't have an article. Well no more, I've just launch a new article about him. Go take a look and do any additions or corrections if necessary. I will probably check afterwards about additionnal detail especially an update on his return and rehab situations. I know he had a serious foot injury in 2004 that force him to miss most of 2005 and 2006 --JForget 20:16, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Steve Desroches & Shad Qadri

With the newly created articles of the two new faces on council, every councillor for the next term has an article now.--JForget 15:31, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Gatineau councillors

Would it be appropriate if we have the chance to create pages for member of the Gatineau City Council? No councillors actually in office have a web page. Only former councillors Lawrence Cannon (a Conservative MP) and Marc Bureau (current mayor of Gatineau) have articles.--JForget 18:49, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

All 17 current councillors now have articles, although will need some expension in many of them (maybe you can help me on that). A new category has been added (Category:Gatineau councillors). I have also added an article on former Gatineau mayor Robert Labine.--JForget 00:14, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Ottawa Roads

I also noticed that several semi-important roads have no articles yet. Since some may not be article-worthy, I've redirected some of them to articles of other routes (ex:Vanier Parkway & River Road with Riverside Drive, St. Patrick Street with Beechwood Avenue and Pinecresr Road with Greenbank Road. Some brief description of the roads that are redirected are mentionned in the article that it is redirected. I wondering if it's a good idea to do it that way.--JForget 19:08, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Schools in Gatineau

I have also noticed plenty of articles on schools (even primary ones) in Ottawa and I was wondering if it would be necessary to create articles about schools in Gatineau, at least the High schools (i.e Mont-Bleu, L'Erabliere, Nicolas-Gatineau, etc. Please feel free to comment about that here on my talk page Thanks!--JForget 01:42, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

• Certainly the high schools deserve articles. The elementary schools only deserve one if there is something special about them. - SimonP 14:13, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
  • All high-schools are notable, but the Wiki policy states that we add them if they have been established since more than a 100 years, or have a special concentration. For the primary schools, as far as I know, there's only Pierre Eliott Trudeau, first school in Ontario to be named after him. --Deenoe 14:38, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

I haven't really plan on doing the elementary schools, that would be ridiculously long. No, I will just do the high schools. I've seen that St-Alexandre also had an article which I haven't detected until I've made my run with the Ottawa Templates. So it would be at least 7 articles on high schools to do. The CEGEP de l'Outaouais article would be in dire need of a major expansion. Although it won't be probably for at least a couple of weeks or not before I finish my exam week, that will be next week. I have possible major plans for new articles related to Gatineau. I have plans to do also articles on major neighborhoods such as downtown Hull (or Old Hull), Le Plateau, Mont-Bleu, Limbour, Wychwood, Pointe-Gatineau, etc since there have been a trend like this for the Ottawa neighborhoods. There would be at least a good 12-15 of them that would warrant an article. Then afterwards, there would be 17 articles on the councillors in Gatineau.I don't think there is a need for additionnal road articles except maybe one or two (probably Buckingham's main street would be one).--JForget 18:48, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

I've created articles for Saint-Joseph, L'Erabliere, Le Carrefour, Du Versant, Nicolas-Gatineau, De l'Ile & Mont-Bleu. Hormidas-Gamelin doesn't seem to have a website just yet (maybe I can search more later). I've also created article for the Commission Scolaire des Portages-de-l'Outaouais & Commission Scolaire des Draveurs school boards. I'm just following the trend of Ottawa. Yep there will be some stuff to add in the future. Some of their websites are just having a lack of details.JForget 02:14, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Categorization

I've seen that Prescott-Russell template categorized the pages in a category, so I added this to the category. The talkpages, to appear, have to be edited and resaved. --Deenoe 03:06, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Improper CILV-FM edits

The page for LiVE 88.5 FM is being improperly and repeatedly edited by an anonymous IP - see Talk:CILV-FM for summary of the problems. The recent changes go as far to claim the page to be "edited by station representatives" (apparent WP:COI/NPOV violation). It's something of an edit war, but project members are encouraged to revert any out-of-WP-policy edits on the page. Dl2000 02:57, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

New template from Eva Avila

I recently created this new template in honor for our latest and hometown Canadian Idol.

See:User: JForget/Eva Avila --JForget 01:05, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

According to the photo image page, it's under a fair use licence and is currently under threat of deletion. You'll need to replace it with something that's free-licenced. Dl2000 18:37, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Capitol Cinema (Ottawa)

“ was the largest and most impressive movie theatre ”

Any one care to cite the most impressive bit? -- Zanimum 16:29, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

As no citiation came forward, that part was deleted as POV. Dl2000 01:54, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Terry Kilrea's picture

Looks like the pricture of Terry that was on the page has been deleted for not being fully credited. The only one I have of him was from when he was about 8. anyone have a good replecement cmacd 18:48, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Google Earth#Wikipedia_and_Panoramio_mashup

I'd highly recommend starting to use these geotags on everything, like this {{coor title d|43.558509|N|79.712452|W|type:landmark}}. Literally everything, except people, should have a tag, so it shows up on the map. Historic events, malls, office buildings, whatever there's an article on. Even something "non-locational" like OC Transpo Route 95 should be marked, perhaps at Fallowfield Station. I've done all the article in Brampton and Mississauga, and it wasn't too too time consuming. -- Zanimum 20:05, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

After downloading Google Earth for the first time I was blown away at how great it looks to have Wikipedia articles showing up by default. I added coordinate tags to almost 50 different Ottawa articles, I think most Ottawa-related stuff will now show up in Google Earth. --Padraic 02:37, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

O-Train and its expansion project cancellation

Okay, I've visited most articles that have mentionned the O-Train and its project and modified verb tense and mentionned its cancellation. --Booyah! 21:57, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Micael Poters warplane collection

Their was a Spitfire as a featured picture today, and so I went though the article and did not find Mr. Potters plane listed as an "operational spitfire", Do we have anything on his collection? it is housed in gatineau, but he is an ottawa business person. The articles on all the planes in his collection should point back to the collection. cmacd 13:44, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 21:56, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Template for Ottawa Roads

Does it some modifications before I proceed on putting it on all Ottawa roads articles? Thanks!--JForget 17:35, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

1. Title should be more like "Ottawa, Ontario roads" as "arteries" may not make it clear to many readers this is about roads;

2. Title should embed a link to List of Ottawa, Ontario roads;

3. Template seems a bit "tall" with much space to the sides - would a 2-column approach look better?

4. Would a functional grouping by road class (provincial, city freeway, arterial road, major collector, federal road, etc) be better? (see List of Ottawa, Ontario roads) It seems more difficult and arbitrary to find particular roadways by "Avenue", "Drive", "Street" , etc.

5. Should include link to Ottawa, Ontario numbered roads.

Dl2000 19:25, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

I've Reclassified the roads in four categories. Probably the classification of certain roads may be disputed, but go to Template:Ottawa Roads if any want to change either the style or the classification of one particular road. I've also added links inside the template to the list of Ontario provinicial highways, the list of numbered roads in Ottawa and the NCC.--JForget 20:55, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Wikiproject Ottawa templates in Gatineau articles

User:GreenJoe has been proceeding on deleting the Wikiproject Ottawa template on Gatineau articles, but the template itself specifies that the project includes articles within the National Capital Region and that according to the article National Capital Region (Canada) it does includes Gatineau as well as Cantley, Chelsea and other surronding areas and the templates thus must be kept. I've sent him a message in regards to that.--JForget 19:03, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Does not. The project name says Ottawa, not Gatineau. See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Ottawa/General. GreenJoe 19:15, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Then if it's the case we would have to remove "National Capital Region" in the Ottawa Project template--JForget 19:25, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

I already did. GreenJoe 19:28, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

That's a somewhat unilateral move, GreenJoe. The template did refer both to Ottawa and the National Capital Region, so was in fact, correctly applied to those articles. If you have issues with the scope of the template or the wikiproject, the better approach would have been to have raised it here, because some editors might not agree with your proposed solution. Personally, I believe Ottawa and Gatineau are both in the same metropolitan region and both form the National Capital Region, so it seems logical to have them subject to the same template and Wikiproject. Perhaps the image on the template and/or the name of the Wikiproject need changing. That would be my approach, although others may disagree. That's why consensus should be achieved before making such significant edits. Skeezix1000 19:44, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

You never achieved consensus. You made a similar unilateral move. I went and checked. GreenJoe 19:45, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Besides, this change affects not just the stupid template, but the entire project and really, you should have discussed it here, not on some template talk page, and gave plenty of notice. GreenJoe 19:48, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Not clear what you are talking about. Even if you have problems with other editors, that does not entitle you to ignore WP:CON. Please engage in discussion before you go making significant changes, as not everyone necessarily agrees with your wholesale edits today. Skeezix1000 19:50, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Your little change affects the entire WikiProject Ottawa, by changing the scope to include Gatineau and the NCR. You say it affects just the template. YOU ARE WRONG. It affects the project. You really should propose this to be re-named to WikiProject NCR if that is what you want. The founder himself told us that the scope was mean to just be Ottawa. GreenJoe 19:52, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

As for WP:CON, you too are guilty of ignoring it. You never got consensus to change that template. GreenJoe 19:53, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

I have always (mostly) put that based on what was said on the National Capital Region Article (and actually I have probably forgot a few towns). We can have a debate over this, but most users (including I) will say that it includes areas that are mentionned in the NCR article.--JForget 20:00, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

My last edit to the template conformed with WP:CON. Before making any unilateral edit, I raised the issue on the talk page, and posted notice of the issue on both Wikipedia:Canadian wikipedians' notice board/discussion and Wikipedia:WikiProject Ottawa/General. I waited two weeks, nobody objected, so I made the edit. In other words, I did not make a unilateral change, and I gave other editors the opporunity to comment or object.

In any event, what I may have done, or may not have done, is not relevant. What "the founder" may or may not have told you is irrelevant. What is relevant is WP:CON, and if you want to make significant changes, esp. when there are other editors who seem taken aback by them, then allow for there to be a discussion first.

Oh, and welcome back Spinboy. Skeezix1000 20:12, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

I think we should have a debate over this. No one contributed to the last one on the template talk page. GreenJoe 20:08, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

WP:CON simply requires that the opinions of other editors be solicited, not that they actually comment. The fact that you chose not to comment does not allow you to unilaterally reverse a previous process. And, yes, thank you, there should be a debate before NCR or Gatineau os excised. Skeezix1000 20:15, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT the scope of WikiProject Ottawa is being [debated]. Your input is requested. Thank you. GreenJoe 20:14, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

The official "What is the scope" debate

The issue: Does this WikiProject include Gatineau and the other areas of the National Capital Region, or not? I vote no. GreenJoe 20:12, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

I don't see why not. -- Earl Andrew - talk 20:25, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

I would disagree with the proposed change to the template, and would suggest that the scope of the Project logically includes both Ottawa and Gatineau. The area is one metropolitan region, and forms the National Capital Region. It seems silly to have a project that includes the National Gallery of Canada, but ignores that Canadian Museum of Civilization that is barely a stone's throw away. It's one urban area - let's have one project. Skeezix1000 20:37, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

The debate is here because that is what is on users talk pages. GreenJoe 20:38, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Fine, let's move everything then. Skeezix1000 20:40, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

My new toy of joy

Fellow Wikipedians, I am proud to announce that I am now an owner of a Digital Camera : Panasonic DSC-FZ7, close enough to a SLR. Which means, I can now take pictures for Wikipedia. When I get a second (weekends, March break, summer vacation), I will probably go throught the list of articles needing pictures and clear it. Enjoy! --Deenoe 14:01, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Awesome. Look forward to seeing the pictures. -Joshuapaquin 19:41, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

A bot?

I don't know if the interest is here.. but I was thinking.. would you guys like a bot to categorize and stick a template to Ottawa-related articles. (Instead of having to categorize the article, and add the temple to the talk page, just having to add the article name to a list) If the interest is here, I am willing to code it. (If you need any other bot, you still can ask for it.. I might be able to do it) --Deenoe 02:39, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Elgin Theatre (Ottawa) cited in Metro

For those with access to Ottawa's Metro free daily, today's issue (11 January 2007, Sir John A. Macdonald's birthday), on the top of page 3 has a factbite on the Elgin Theatre, source is credited to Wikipedia. The PDF of the online edition [5] might disappear tomorrow morning, though. Dl2000 23:48, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

should we have biographies!

I have worked on Paciocco an Ottawa prof., Should we allow people to be part of the category:WikiProject Ottawa? --CyclePat 18:25, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Yes, of course... Well I am not sure.. if they actually have a link with Ottawa, for sure.. Like an artist who comes from Ottawa.. or a politician from Ottawa.. or a police chief :p --Deenoe 19:44, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Wikimeet

How did it go? Did you take pictures? Sorry I couldn't come. --Deenoe 11:43, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Not bad. Only myself, Simon and User:Dl2000 showed up. We were looking for you! You missed your chance to meet Simon, he'll be gone as of Sunday.

And no, pictures weren't taken. I'm really getting frustrated with organizing meetups as not enough people ever show up. -- Earl Andrew - talk 07:14, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Sorry :( If I would of been there, I would of brought my camera and taken pictures of us... 4... :p.. All I can say I guess is.. nice try.. :( --Deenoe 16:15, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Photos needed - Trip downtown tomorrow

I'm finishing school early tomorrow. As a result, I will be chilling downtown with ma homies. I intend taking a few pictures if needed. Question : Is the Canadian Police Memorium, behind Parliment Center block, accesible during winter? How? Thanks. *Please if there is really urgent pictures, ask them here, now, and give me a rough location* --Deenoe 21:56, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Vernon White

I am planning on writing a stub on him soon.. BUT.. There is already a Vernon White.. so what do I put in the parenthesis after his name? Police chief? --Deenoe 01:52, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Nevermind, the article has been created... I'll create a disambiguation page soon... --Deenoe 01:53, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

I got WP:BOLD and brought Vernon White (police) into the wiki-world. However, feel free to set up the hndis/disambig page. Dl2000 01:58, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Brian West (Radio Announcer)

Since he was a former announcer for The Bear I though I could pass this message here as his article is under deletion here--JForget 01:08, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Bridlewood

Hi everyone! I am the project's newest member to sign up. I've done a little bit of copyediting work on some of the Ottawa road articles, and did a fair bit of fleshing out of Bridlewood. I'd appreciate it if someone could give it a look and let me know if there is anything problematic. Specifically, I think that some of the online sources I've included are rather weak, so I'm hoping someone has some stronger sources to include. In any case, I'm glad to be here and look forward to editing with you in the future!--Xnuala (talk) 01:24, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Parliament FAR

Parliament 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. Marskell 08:57, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Doors Open event

Photographers take note - next weekend (2-3 June 2007) is the Doors Open Ottawa event [6]. This would be a good chance to get some inside images of various places. Toronto's Doors Open event this past weekend resulted in new material, such as the photos for the Lower Bay subway station. Dl2000 03:33, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Maybe we could do a Wiki-meetup in conjunction with it? -- Earl Andrew - talk 03:45, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

I would definitely be interested in participating!--Xnuala (talk)(Review) 23:57, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Any other interest? If someone would like to meetup with me and take some photographs, just drop me a line on my talk page. -- Earl Andrew - talk 19:18, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

More 2007 events

A few more events coming up for possible article photo ops:

Westfest 8-10 June 2007

• Musicians
  • Kathleen Edwards - already a photo, but stage scenes would be good
  • Lily Frost
  • Shanneyganock - potentially notable band
  • Jason Collett already has photo, but the more the merrier
  • The Golden Dogs currently a fair-use pic
  • Hunter Valentine - ditto
• Writers
  • Frances Itani
• Hosts/broadcasters
  • Alan Neal
  • Lucy van Oldenbarneveld
  • Adrian Harewood
  • Jerri Southcott

Canada Day

Artists appearing on Parliament Hill this year: [7]

• Corb Lund (currently fair use photo)
• Delhi2Dublin
• Eva Avila (currently album cover)
• Leslie Feist (photo exists, but more could help)
• Gregory Charles
• Jay Knutson
• Josée Lajoie
• National Circus School/École nationale de cirque
• Nikki Yanofsky
• Shaye (currently fair use photo)
• Sierra Noble
• Tanya Tagaq Gillis
• Tomi Swick
• Tribal Rhythm

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Embassy of Belgium in Ottawa

While all users voted for keep, maybe I can still pass this message here to assure the article to be kept see: [Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Embassy of Belgium in Ottawa]--JForget 00:00, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

OC Transpo Routes

OC Transpo's site mentions that black routes runs all day, generally seven days a week. However, not all routes are running all day long like the 6, 123, 141, 165, 181. Maybe I though that we should add a section with regular off-peak routes that does not run 7 days a week or all day long. That would probably include routes 6, 101, 123, 127, 141, 164, 165, 178 and 186 (and probably a few more. The color would be gray just like the bus stops (although they have stripes on the flag as well)--JForget 16:35, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

Lebreton or LeBreton?

What is the proper spelling of this area? Discussion at Talk:Lebreton Flats#Lebreton or LeBreton. Skeezix1000 17:47, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Sub-section for listing recently-created articles?

I was wondering if it would be good to add a sub-section in WP:OTT's main page which lists recently created articles related to our region, as I have seen this in other Wikiprojects, including the WP:METEO.--JForget 19:04, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Bluesfest/Mark Monahan merge

The Mark Monahan article is being proposed for merger into the Ottawa Bluesfest. Does Monahan have any notability beyond Bluesfest? Even so, his bio would need references and perhaps some NPOV cleanup. Dl2000 03:24, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Knoxdale Public School

I have nominated that article for Afd because it is just a local elementary school, but is there any elements that makes this school notable though?--JForget 02:33, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Designated heritage properties

In an effort to tally up all the properties in Ottawa which have been designated by the city, I've created List of designated heritage properties in Ottawa and a category. I can't seem to find a full list of said properties, so any help in adding would be appreciated. Padraic 18:02, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

The City is required by the Ontario Heritage Act to maintain an inventory of all of its designated properties. A quick check of the City website suggests that the inventory is, sadly, not online (unlike a number of other municipalities in Ontario). You might be able to review it in person, or maybe they'll email it to you. Immediately prior to amalgamation, the (former) City of Ottawa published a great book (Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee of Ottawa, Ottawa: A Guide to Heritage Structures, Ottawa: LACAC, City of Ottawa, 2000) that contained photos and descriptions of (then) every designated property within the boundaries of the (former) city. Obviously, the book is 7 years out of date, and it does not include other parts of the new city, but it would be helpful if you can get it at a library or something. Good luck. Skeezix1000 17:25, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Just to add: I see here that the local LACAC has Council authority to pursue publishing an updated second edition of Ottawa: A Guide to Heritage Structures, encompassing all of the new city. It's anyone's guess as to when it will be released. Skeezix1000 17:32, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the info, I will definitely get that book. As I noted on Talk:List of designated heritage properties in Ottawa, I've emailed the City's general info address. If I don't get a response, I may trying calling the Planning department. Padraic 18:46, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Best of luck. Rather than making a cold call to planning, try calling heritage itself at:

Heritage Section

Planning, Transit and the Environment Department

Planning and Infrastructure Approvals Branch

4th Floor, 110 Laurier Avenue West

Ottawa, Ontario

K1P 1J1

Telephone: 613-580-2424, ext. 13855 or 13474

Fax: 613-580-2756 Skeezix1000 19:44, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the book tip - I now have the LACAC book in hand. It lists 200 properties - if I were ever to get a hold of the new, amalgamated city listings, the list could get unwieldy pretty fast. I may divide it up by wards or something similar. Neighbourhoods would certainly be more recognizable by most people, I think, but they just aren't precise enough. Padraic 17:11, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Ontario elections collaboration on Wikinews

There is urgent need to collaborate on the Ontario election coverage article (also see, Results of 2005 British Columbia, Canada General Election) on Wikinews. Any help is appreciated from editors on Wikipedia. FellowWikipedian 17:34, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Merge proposals for local candidates

There have been several articles on local candidates that have been created but most of them does not satisfy WP:BIO, so I've suggested to merge Will Murray, Ric Dagenais, John Pacheco, Danny Moran, John Ogilvie (Canada), Gordon Kubanek and Tristan Maack to the list of candidates of the appropriate/respective parties for this recent provincial elections. You can give your say in each of those talk pages.--JForget 23:15, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Infobox for city council wards

I recently started Template:Infobox Ottawa ward, and while it looks good in Alta Vista Ward, I think it requires some more advanced template syntax to work for the rest of the wards. Anybody with that knowledge please feel free to jump in.--Padraic 15:46, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

TV Personalities

Should we add a list of TV personalities (including reporters, anchors, hosts, etc) into the Ottawa TV Stations articles such as CHRO, CJOH, CBOT, CHOT and CBOFT - following the trend of numerous US TV Stations (i.e WHAM-TV, WHEC-TV, etc.)--JForget 16:32, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

I've added the current list of personalities for the five major stations CBOT, CBOFT, CHOT, CHRO and CJOH as I did found list of anchors, reporters, etc for each of them - I've added some other names who are there (appearing) occasionally but not on the list (ie Brent Wallace for CJOH sports, Teri Loretto for CBC weather and also Cindy Demontigny which is not listed as reporter but does occasionally on CBOFT) or they are also for the case of CHOT appearing on the sister station CFGS. I would also like to add past personalities as well but I would need some help even though I remember some of them, like Peter Van Dusen formerly with CBOT, Brian Smith who was with CJOH before being murdered by Jeffrey Arenburg and also Peter Jennings. Are there any sites that does mentionned about past personalities.--JForget 02:03, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bob Chiarelli

This looks obviously a bad faith nomination but participate at the debate and notice how I voted.--JForget 02:24, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Images Requiring Articles

I was surprised to see that one of these was the Mackenzie King Bridge, I've started a short article, but could use some assistance, I'm no expert in Wikipedia.Andy Johnston 15:27, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Parliament Hill - > Parliament Hill, Ottawa

There is a request to rename Parliament Hill because a place called Parliament Hill, London is named after a girls school Parliament Hill School, and the nominator says the London hill is quite famous. 132.205.99.122 (talk) 19:54, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Fallowfield village

I've added an article on Fallowfield village. I have more information to add whenever I get done with renovations and find the time to add it in. Any comments on the article are welcome and encouraged. HeadSnap (talk) 18:28, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Arlington_Avenue_(Ottawa)

I proposed this article for deletion. It is about a side-street. Quaint, but not notable! Alaney2k (talk) 16:40, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

North American ice storm of 1998 GA Sweeps Review: On Hold

As part of the WikiProject Good Articles, we're doing sweeps to go over all of the current GAs and see if they still meet the GA criteria and I'm specifically going over all of the "Meteorology and atmospheric sciences" articles. I have reviewed North American ice storm of 1998 and believe the article currently meets the majority of the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. I have left this message at this WikiProject's talk page so that any interested members can assist in helping the article keep its GA status. In reviewing the article, I have found there are some issues concerning sourcing that may need to be addressed, and I'll leave the article on hold for seven days for them to be fixed. I have left messages on the talk pages of the main contributors of the article along with other WikiProjects. Please consider helping address the several points that I listed on the talk page of the article, which shouldn't take too long to fix if multiple editors assist in the workload. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Happy editing! --Nehrams2020 (talk) 02:10, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Merge proposal for West Ward Market Building (Ottawa) and First City Hall (Ottawa)

Please see the discussion at Talk:First City Hall (Ottawa)#Merger proposal. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 03:43, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Ottawa neighborhoods part of former cities and/opr townships

See:Wikipedia talk:Canadian Wikipedians' notice board#Requested moves - Ottawa neighbourhoods. A discussion at WP:CANBOARD is underway regarding titles of articles of some Ottawa communities mainly outside the Greenbelt.--JForget 23:11, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

{{Location map Ottawa}}

{{Location map Ottawa}} is now available. It displays a map of Greater Ottawa with a dot highlighting a location, when coordinates are given. It can also be used with {{Infobox Settlement}} using the "pushin_map" parameters. --Qyd (talk) 04:46, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

• Template renamed to {{Location map Canada Ottawa}} to follow naming conventions. Original name is a redirect. RedWolf (talk) 17:24, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Naming conventions

I disagree with disambiguating the roads. Wikipedia does not require disambiguation unless 2 or more subjects share the same name. A lot of the Ottawa roads' names are exclusive, and always will be. Example: Terry Fox Drive (Ottawa), which I tried to move to Terry Fox Drive, but it wouldn't let me, so I ended up blanking the page out of frustration. Someone has to fix this problem, and then move the required pages. --Pwnage8 (talk) 20:53, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Donna Upson

A user requested that I review the article on Donna Upson, a controversial former mayoral candidate in Ottawa, for WP:BLP issues. I've added sources where I can, but need some additional help ensuring that the article is properly sourced. Can anybody help out on this one? Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 13:36, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Photos of Orléans, Ontario

Anyone got any good photos that they could upload to the Commons for use in this article? Currently the only photo is one of a mall entrance, placed prominently in the infobox. Although there may be some small degree of appropriateness in using a shopping mall photo to illustrate a suburban community, surely we could do better. Skeezix1000 (talk) 15:18, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

I don't have any other than Kettle Island in Orleans. Should we take a snapshot of main street? What may work best is a collage of several images. Suggest some locations and I'll stop by sometime soon. Alaney2k (talk) 17:39, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

That would be great! Thanks. I am not the one to suggest places, however, as I am Alta Vista and Kanata born and raised, and am not very familiar with the other end of town. Perhaps others could suggest good, landmark locations. In terms of collage, the article could stand to have two or three new images, but remember the discouragement against galleries in Wikipedia's image use policy. The preferred solution is to link to a category over at the Commons if there are more images than can be fit into the article. --Skeezix1000 (talk) 18:02, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Surely there's something more distinctive than the current photo, a branch of SportChek? That photo could be just about anywhere! --RFBailey (talk) 00:15, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Not much to Orleans, sorry. Alaney2k (talk) 20:13, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

I've added more photos to the article. The article needs more info about St. Joseph's, around which 'old' Orleans is built. Alaney2k (talk) 15:06, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Articles flagged for cleanup

Currently, 1225 articles are assigned to this project, of which 146, or 11.9%, are flagged for cleanup of some sort. (Data as of 14 July 2008.) Are you interested in finding out more? I am offering to generate cleanup to-do lists on a project or work group level. See User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings for details. More than 150 projects and work groups have already subscribed, and adding a subscription for yours is easy - just place the following template on your project page:

{{User:WolterBot/Cleanup listing subscription|banner=OttawaProject}}

If you want to respond to this canned message, please do so at my user talk page; I'm not watching this page. --B. Wolterding (talk) 16:07, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Transitway

I've made a couple of comments at Talk:Ottawa Rapid Transit (this and this) which project members might want to look at. Thanks, --RFBailey (talk) 23:29, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Image needs replacement

Hello all...

An image used in the Algonquin College article, specifically Image:Algonquin-name.jpg and also Image:Algonquin-sign.jpg, has a little bit of a licensing issue. The image was uploaded back when the rules around image uploading were less restrictive. It is presumed that the uploader was willing to license the picture under the GFDL license but was not clear in that regard. As such, the image, while not at risk of deletion, is likely not clearly licensed to allow for free use in any future use of this article. If anyone has an image that can replace this, or can go take one and upload it, it would be best.

You have your mission, take your camera and start clicking.--Jordan 1972 (talk) 01:17, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

redirects

I think you guys should have redirects from WP:Ottawa-Hull, WP:Ottawa-Gatineau, WP:Gatineau, WP:Hull. 76.66.198.171 (talk) 06:17, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Portal

Is there a portal for Ottawa-Gatineau? I tried Portal:Ottawa , Portal:Ottawa-Gatineau , Portal:Gatineau , Portal:Ottawa-Hull , Portal:Hull and didn't find any. 76.66.198.171 (talk) 06:17, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

OC Transpo (Legitimate Bloggers)

Similar to other transit systems in North America, including Toronto, Montreal and New York, bloggers have made significant contributions to overall citizens debate. In Toronto, local blogger Steve Munro (www.stevemunro.ca) is considered a major contributor to the transit planning debate in the City of Toronto. In Seattle, ideas generated in major blogs and discussion boards have often been cited in City Council for policy options. To some extent, legitimate blogs should be considered as a major source of news, policy options and opinion, and as such, links and citations to local blogs should be acceptable. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.26.28.70 (talk) 21:20, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Missing neighbourhood info for gov't buildings

I would like to know which neighbourhood the Pearson Building or 24 Sussex is in. The articles don't say. They give the street number and geo coordinates, but not being from the city that doesn't help me at all. I want to know the neighbourhood by name so I can see which neighbourhoods have what official buildings and vice versa. Something to put on the "to do" list. --Kevlar (talk • contribs) 02:09, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

That's a good question. I would say that 24 Sussex is in Rockcliffe (aka Rockcliffe Park), but that article doesn't say so (nor does it mention the Embassy of France in Ottawa which is right next door to 24). Maybe somebody with a good knowledge of the neighbourhood could figure that out and do the edits. As far as I know, the two closest neighbourhoods are Rockcliffe Park (across the street). Correction, 24 Sussex is in New Edinburgh.

The Lester B. Pearson Building would be considered to be part of Lowertown. I'll add both these to the articles. -M.Nelson (talk) 02:35, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Userbox

I find the project's userbox isn't all that visually appealing, and having red coloured text makes me think there's a redlink there. Could we perhaps change it from

this

This user is a member of WikiProject Ottawa.

to something like this?

This user is a member of WikiProject Ottawa.

If I don't get any response, I might just go ahead and be bold...... -M.Nelson (talk) 05:38, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Do it! I've had the same feeling as you for a while now. --Pwnage8 (talk) 23:39, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Done. Current:

This user is a participant in
WikiProject Ottawa.

-M.Nelson (talk) 01:11, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

NPOV problems at Gatineau Park

An IP editor has recently added a great deal of material to this article. Most of it is referenced, but to paper sources that are not easy to access and thus hard to verify. That problem aside the article is now very biased against the NCC and park management, which is unsurprising since the IP editor has indicated his connection to organizations opposed to the NCC and its policies. As it currently stands the article easily fails WP:NPOV and thus needs fixing. I would like to invite editors from this WikiProject to review what has been added, edit the article or at least add some comments to the talk page to assist in returning some balance to this article. - Ahunt (talk) 11:40, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Politics of Gatineau Park

This article was recently split from Gatineau Park so that that latter article would not become overloaded with the political story of the park instead of a physical description of it. I just wanted to point out the article's existence and invite editors on this project to participate in making the article more complete and keeping it balanced. - Ahunt (talk) 20:31, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Help needed on Gatineau Park articles

I would like advice/help in assessing what is going on on the Politics of Gatineau Park/Gatineau Park files. I have been blocked from editing for 24 hours because I broke the 3R rule. However, the reason I broke it was that two editors (Ahunt and M.nelson) were changing my contributions and edits, in a manner I feel to be arbitrary. Although it is clear that I broke the letter of the 3R rule, I feel these two editors have violated its spirit, by together reversing my work. Their changes do not affect the neutrality of the article. They have changed simple wording, and have removed a quote attributed to a reliable source.

Moreover, they claim I am in a conflict of interest because of my link to the "Gatineau Park Protection Committee." However, this is only an informal, on-paper group with no funding, no web site, no "personal" interest in the matter--in the sense that we are not in it for ourselves. Our interest is purely public, historical and factual. We have tried to provide all references requested. We consider ourselves to be experts on this issue, and as the COI Wiki rules say, "experts on trees are not discouraged from contributing to articles on trees," or some such formula.

Anyhow, any advice, help you might provide on this article, and/or the edits for which I have been "benched" would be appreciated.

As well, I would invite other editors to monitor what is going on on those pages, to prevent Ahunt and M.nelson from going totally arbitrary.--Stoneacres (talk) 19:17, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for reinforcing my request above for more editors to help out working on this article. The more people working on an article the better it gets! I hope some editors from this project will join us in working on Politics of Gatineau Park. - Ahunt (talk) 21:28, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Notification of WP:AFD nomination New Woodlands Preservation League

This article, which is within the scope of this project, has been nominated for deletion. Members of the project and other interested editors are invited to participate in the AFD debate at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/New Woodlands Preservation League. - Ahunt (talk) 15:17, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Notification of WP:AFD nomination Gatineau Park Protection Committee

This article, which is within the scope of this project, has been nominated for deletion. Members of the project and other interested editors are invited to participate in the AFD debate at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/New Woodlands Preservation League. - Ahunt (talk) 15:34, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Notification of WP:AFD nomination Politics of Gatineau Park

This article, which is within the scope of this project, has been nominated for deletion. Members of the project and other interested editors are invited to participate in the AFD debate at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Politics of Gatineau Park. - Ahunt (talk) 19:34, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

Universities COTM Nomination

Hello WikiProject Ottawa. I just wanted to let you all know that a university handled by your WikiProject, University of Ottawa, has been nominated for next month's WikiProject Universities Collaboration of the Month. If you'd like to take advantage of this opportunity, be sure to vote for the university. While you're there, consider helping improve one of our current Collaborations of the Month.

Happy editing! -Mabeenot (talk) 18:55, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Liberal Party of Canada leadership convention, 1968 - Featured Article Review

I have nominated Liberal Party of Canada leadership convention, 1968 for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Tom B (talk) 15:01, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

Pirate radio station CTOM-FM

Editing help would be appreciated at the mess that is Ottawa's newest pirate radio station, CTOM-FM. Not only is the article a mess, filled with original research and bad sources, but I'm wondering if it meets notability in the first place. Note that WP:BCAST discusses notability for radio stations, but is an essay, not guideline. -M.Nelson (talk) 06:57, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

The last word would probably go to WP:N: "If a topic has received significant coverage in reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject, it is presumed to satisfy the inclusion criteria for a stand-alone article." - Ahunt (talk) 18:43, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

What is the meaning of the strikeouts on the article page?

Hi I am new here and have a question - I see several aritcles (example OCTransp) with a strikeup across the name. Just wondering what this means? Ottawahitech (talk) 19:29, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Generally that means the article was created or topic was dealt with, although some catch-up may be needed. Dl2000 (talk) 03:41, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation. I have spent time this evening going thru the project page, and I must say I am very impressed. I had no idea there was so much Ottawa stuff on Wikipedia. My impression has always been that there is too little Canadian content on Wikipedia and that Canadians are treated as second class citizens at Wikipedia. I am glad to see an army here fighting for Ottawa! BTW where were you guys when this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ottawahitech#Proposed_deletion_of_Algonquin_Times happened? Ottawahitech (talk) 05:44, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Byward Market copyvio?

ByWard Market looks to be a pretty major copyvio; opinions would be appreciated at Talk:ByWard Market#Copyvio.3F. Thanks, -M.Nelson (talk) 22:47, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Orléans or Orleans?

See note at Talk:Orléans, Ontario#Orléans or Orleans. I personally prefer using "Orléans" throughout the article as that is the city's spelling, but the current consensus is the other way around. -M.Nelson (talk) 04:21, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Merging with WikiProject Canada template?

Moved to Template talk:WikiProject Canada § Cities

I have made it possible to add an article to the Canada and Ottawa articles at once using {{WikiProject Canada |ottawa=yes}}. It can be used along with other Canada projects, for example {{{{WikiProject Canada |ottawa=yes |music=yes |nl=yes | class=start |importance=low}} for a band that moved from Newfoundland to Ottawa. You can still use the existing {{OttawaProject}} template if you want to use a unique importance rating or use the map= or photo= parameters, but in general it's useful to share the work between projects. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 03:25, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

This is no good, it adds a second importance rating for Ottawa, meaning an article ends up in two different importance ratings, one based on WPCANADA standards, in a WPOTTAWA category, and one for WPOTTAWA. 76.66.192.73 (talk) 10:53, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

• Let's centralize this and discuss at Template talk:WikiProject Canada#Cities. –xeno^talk 13:11, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Straw poll

Hi, WikiProject Ottawa. I'd like to do a straw poll to see if and how you would like to allow tagging of your articles using a merged template. The Canada template is kind of a top-level catchall template that allows all Canadian WikiProjects to be added to talk pages at once with a standardized setup.

If the option is allowed, it would let users add articles to both this project and WikiProject Canada using {{WikiProject Canada |Ottawa=yes}} (or |Gatineau=yes). This is also how articles from projects like Canada Sports and Canada Roads are done, so you would be able to add articles to multiple projects using something like {{WikiProject Canada |ottawa=yes |music=yes}}.

The projects would share a class rating, but WPOttawa would have it's own importance rating using |ottawa-importance= or |gatineau-importance=. Optionally, it could be set to default to WPCanada's importance if there is no Ottawa importance and put the article into the additional category Category:Ottawa articles with inherited importance.

My questions to you are:

1. Do you want to allow users the option of tagging WPOttawa articles using the WPCanada template?
2. If it is allowed, would you want it to default to the WPCanada importance rating when there is no Ottawa importance rating (assuming that you can track which articles have inherited importance)?

Thanks for your input! --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 16:11, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

For #1, I'd prefer for the Ottawa Project banner include ontario and canada, not the other way around. That's the way I'd want to implement it. Most of the Ottawa articles are not that important to the rest of Canada, e.g. Bronson Avenue... ʘ alaney2k ʘ (talk) 18:04, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Maybe I don't understand your proposal, but it seems to me that that would just result in the same thing but without the standardization in appearance. The tag on Talk:Bronson Avenue is a good example of what I'm proposing. It's already part of the Ontario and the Canada Roads project, so under this system the Ottawa tag would go inside the Canada template after the Ontario tag and before the Roads tag. Optionally, the article could be set as mid-importance for Ottawa and low-importance for Canada in general. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 19:24, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

I would prefer the Ottawa first. As I stated, when an article is of little importance Canada-wide, it seems a waste of resources to have a Canada importance rating anyway. ʘ alaney2k ʘ (talk) 21:51, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

• Comment The default WPCANADA importance rating will rate almost every city article as "low importance", which is useless in categorizing the importance of city articles. 76.66.192.73 (talk) 04:50, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

• For the record, the current setup allows, but does not require, Ottawa articles to be tagged jointly with WPCANADA, but always uses separate importance scales for the two projects. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 17:53, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs

In case anyone is interested, we have a list of all Wikiproject Ottawa unreferenced BLPs at Wikipedia:WikiProject Ottawa/Unreferenced BLPs. There is talk about deleting all unreferenced BLPs, so it would be helpful if editors could take a stab at referencing those listed. Simply upgrading a {{BLP unreferenced}} to {{BLP sources}} may not be massively constructive to the encyclopedia, but it will take the article off the chopping block. -M.Nelson (talk) 03:40, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

O-Train

I have proposed moving "Ottawa O-Train" to "O-Train". Nobody involved in WikiProject Ottawa or editors of OC Transpo articles appear to be interested enough to comment. Has Ottawa been prorogued? Secondarywaltz (talk) 17:01, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Quebec English

See WT:CANADA for further discussion on whether Quebec English should be used on Quebec articles, or should Canadian English be used on Quebec articles instead of Quebec English. 70.29.208.247 (talk) 04:55, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

Hello!

{{Portal|Eastern Ontario}} I have upgraded coding in the --> Portal:Eastern Ontario (this is begin done to all Canadian portals) .. Pls add content about the Ottawa Valley etc .. it is set up for easy use!!.... All the best!!...Moxy (talk) 23:20, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

Update ...wow look what i found --> :) Portal:Ottawa...Moxy (talk) 07:01, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

More news -->{{WP Canada}} and {{ottawaproject}} will now show portal!!...Moxy (talk) 22:12, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of City Journal (Ottawa)

The article City Journal (Ottawa) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Fails WP:N and WP:V, a weekly urban newspaper that was published for single year before being discontinued

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{dated prod}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. JeepdaySock (AKA, Jeepday) 15:24, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

Ottawa articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release

Version 0.8 is a collection of Wikipedia articles selected by the Wikipedia 1.0 team for offline release on USB key, DVD and mobile phone. Articles were selected based on their assessed importance and quality, then article versions (revisionIDs) were chosen for trustworthiness (freedom from vandalism) using an adaptation of the WikiTrust algorithm.

We would like to ask you to review the Ottawa articles and revisionIDs we have chosen. Selected articles are marked with a diamond symbol (♦) to the right of each article, and this symbol links to the selected version of each article. If you believe we have included or excluded articles inappropriately, please contact us at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8 with the details. You may wish to look at your WikiProject's articles with cleanup tags and try to improve any that need work; if you do, please give us the new revisionID at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8. We would like to complete this consultation period by midnight UTC on Monday, October 11th.

We have greatly streamlined the process since the Version 0.7 release, so we aim to have the collection ready for distribution by the end of October, 2010. As a result, we are planning to distribute the collection much more widely, while continuing to work with groups such as One Laptop per Child and Wikipedia for Schools to extend the reach of Wikipedia worldwide. Please help us, with your WikiProject's feedback!

For the Wikipedia 1.0 editorial team, SelectionBot 23:26, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

Requests for comment

• Talk:University of Ottawa#Ann Coulter, regarding the weight of the March 2010 "Ann Coulter controversy". Moxy (talk) 04:29, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

Assessing articles

I modified Template:OttawaProject so that we can now add quality and importance assessments. Please start tagging all Ottawa articles, this will place them into the appropriate categories, and eventually will generate a fancy chart. --Padraic 15:01, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

I've assessed lots of bus stops and roads so far... :pepper 13:07, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

Naming controversy

There seems to be a problem relating to what the names of articles relating to Embassies are. On WP:OTTAWA, it states, "as [[Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Ottawa]] or [[Embassy of Iraq in Ottawa]] with a redirect from [[Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Canada]] or [[Embassy of Iraq in Canada]]", while User:Gryffindor (moved Embassy of Albania in Ottawa to Embassy of Albania, Ottawa: use comma or brackets for multiple places with same name but different locations, not "in" per established Wiki format). Should we use "established Wiki format" or the project guidelines? Thanks for any input. :.:∙:∙∙:∙:.:|pepper|:.:∙:∙∙:∙:.: 14:21, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

Bells Corners

Can this project step in at Bells Corners? There seems to be feuding political entities spamming their interests over there. Thanks. ccwaters (talk) 19:08, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month

Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Ottawa will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in Ottawa's history, society and culture. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 21:23, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Proposal to redirect Canadian related project talk pages

Please see Wikipedia talk:Canadian Wikipedians' notice board#Proposal to redirect Canadian related project talk pages.Moxy (talk) 17:42, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Wikiproject watchlist now working

The Wikiproject watchlist at the bottom of wp: WikiProject Ottawa is now working. Ottawahitech (talk) 15:14, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride 2014

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) 20:53, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal

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)

Problem in Manotick, Ontario

There is an obvious error in paragraph 2. The author got a date wrong--big time--and I don't have the local knowledge to correct it:

In the 1830s, a small settlement formed in the area of the newly constructed Long Island locks on the Rideau Canal, but no development was done in the area of present day Manotick. In 1859, when a bulkhead was constructed across the west branch of the Rideau River in the location of present day Manotick, entrepreneur Moss Kent Dickinson and his partner Joseph Merrill Currier obtained the water rights and constructed a 1980s stone mill, on the shores of the Rideau River. The working industrial heritage site features oak ionic columns and 64’ beams of white pine.

It is not easy to advise anyone when a user finds problems like this. To maintain "Talk" on each page as a place to interact with WikiProject people would be far less time-consuming for the ordinary Wikipedia user. Oldontarian (talk) 05:53, 1 July 2012 (UTC) (aka Pat)

It should be "1860's": http://www.watsonsmill.com/Home.html --MaerlynsRainbow (talk) 19:42, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!

Hello everyone!

You may have received a message from me earlier asking you to comment on my WikiProject X proposal. The good news is that WikiProject X is now live! In our first phase, we are focusing on research. At this time, we are looking for people to share their experiences with WikiProjects: good, bad, or neutral. We are also looking for WikiProjects that may be interested in trying out new tools and layouts that will make participating easier and projects easier to maintain. If you or your WikiProject are interested, check us out! Note that this is an opt-in program; no WikiProject will be required to change anything against its wishes. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!

Note: To receive additional notifications about WikiProject X on this talk page, please add this page to Wikipedia:WikiProject X/Newsletter. Otherwise, this will be the last notification sent about WikiProject X.

Harej (talk) 16:56, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

@Harej: I have seen you post walls-of-text in many locations. Could you please summarize what WikiProject X is? Thanks. Ottawahitech (talk) 16:08, 31 October 2015 (UTC)please ping me

Ottawahitech, it's a project to make better tools available for WikiProjects, and it includes a new WikiProject design (you can see it on our prototype projects; see e.g. Wikipedia:WikiProject Evolutionary biology) and automated work lists. Harej (talk) 19:42, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

@Harej: I would be very interested in better WikiProject tools. What tools does WikiProject X offer? BTW thanks for pinging me. Ottawahitech (talk) 15:07, 5 November 2015 (UTC)please ping me

Hello, Ottawahitech, sorry for the delayed response. WikiProject X offers a template design for WikiProjects and automated worklists. You can see them in action on a handful of pilot projects; see WikiProject Cannabis for an example of both. Harej (talk) 14:30, 2 December 2015 (UTC)

@Harej: OK. Can you please list the new tools that ProjectX has made available? Ottawahitech (talk) 13:56, 6 December 2015 (UTC)please ping me

2016 Ottawa sinkhole nominated for deletion

The article 2016 Ottawa sinkhole as been nominated for deletion. Please visit the the deletion discussion for more details. Ottawahitech (talk) 19:11, 19 June 2016 (UTC)please ping me

Again. @Ottawahitech: Why are you not giving your opinion at the deletion nomination? Secondarywaltz (talk) 19:13, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

@Secondarywaltz: As I said I could write a book on the topic of wiki-deletions, but thanks for persisting. I find participating in Wikipedia:Deletion discussions extremely demoralizing, and as a volunteer I feel no obligation to participate in activities I do not enjoy. Do you agree? Ottawahitech (talk) 16:53, 20 June 2016 (UTC)please ping me

@Ottawahitech: You created the article, and your comments could help to sway others. Are you saying that you enjoy having your work removed? I have semi-retired from Wikipedia due to the idea that here the consensus of a few computer centric editors can overrule facts and knowledge from the real world. Thanks. Secondarywaltz (talk) 18:06, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

@Secondarywaltz: I doubt very much that anything I say would sway others to keep this article, quite the contrary. Ottawahitech (talk) 18:44, 20 June 2016 (UTC) ping me}}

@Secondarywaltz: I was looking at Category:21st century in Ottawa to see what other articles about Ottawa deserve an article on Wikipedia. and found 17 articles:

• 4 about eletions
• 5 about sports
• 1 about a murder
• 1 about a statue
• 1 about Occupy Ottawa
• 1 about O-Train (I believe I added this one recently)
• 2002 dismissal of Russell Mills (publisher)
• 2014 shootings at Parliament Hill, Ottawa
• 2 about sinkholes (one of which is a redirect I added recently)

Ottawahitech (talk) 12:40, 22 June 2016 (UTC)please ping me

Canadian or US $?

What is the convention for Wikipedia articles: If you knw please answer at Talk:Mitel/Archives/2016#Currency Symbol. Thank you. Ottawahitech (talk) 14:27, 7 October 2016 (UTC)please ping me

Help needed with template

See Template talk:WikiProject Ottawa#Default sort key for categories. Thanks in advance, Ottawahitech (talk) 13:59, 23 October 2016 (UTC)please ping me

Hot articles added

A new wikitool has been added to this wikiproject. See Hot articles. When it starts working it should look like this. Ottawahitech (talk) 12:42, 24 June 2016 (UTC)please ping me

Should be running now. Kaldari (talk) 18:11, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

@Kaldari: Looks like the Hot articles tool has the sniffles. See for example Samuel Genest which the tool says had 27 edits in the last 7 days, but it only had 5. Ottawahitech (talk) 14:24, 19 September 2016 (UTC)please ping me

@Kaldari: Just wanted to let you know that the Hot articles tool continues to have the sniffles. At the top of the list it says Jack Kitts had 20 edits in the last 7 days when in fact it is a new article with a total of 7 edits. Ottawahitech (talk) 12:03, 26 September 2016 (UTC)please ping me

Better formatting of the project page

Just wondering if anyone else here likes Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Metrics as much as I do? If so, do you know how we can achieve the same effect with our own Wikipedia:WikiProject_Ottawa#Hot_articles and Wikipedia:WikiProject_Ottawa#Article_assessment_table? Ottawahitech (talk) 21:43, 28 November 2016 (UTC)please ping me

Hot artice wishlist

@Kaldari: I use the hot article list often to see what is happening and who is active in Ottawa. It sure would be nice to add activity taking place when an article is nominated (see: article alerts). For example many of Ottawa's roads articles have been recently deleted, and at least one (Beechwood Avenue) is currently potentially on the chopping block, but since very few editors will edit a nominated article Beechwood is no longer on the hot list. I realize this may be difficult to implement, but it sure would be nice to add the edits made in the nomination discussion in determining the rank of an article on the hot list. Am I making sense to anyone?

Photo request

Is anyone able to get a better photo of the memorial statue to Baker that is some where in the Canadian parliament building than this one we currently have in George Harold Baker? If this is possible, I might have some other photo requests as well, so please ping back to let me know. Carcharoth (talk) 21:23, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

Guy Drummond statue

Sort of related to the above, the same sculptor (R. Tait McKenzie) did another statue to a soldier who died on active service in the First World War. This one was of Guy Melfort Drummond, son of George Alexander Drummond and Grace Julia Parker Drummond. It is a half-size statue (not life-size), and it was at one point held by the Ottawa Archives (the 'Dominion Archives'). I think this is what is now Library and Archives Canada. It seems to be difficult to contact them online. What is the best way to find out if they still have this statue, or have it on public display somewhere? Carcharoth (talk) 21:33, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject

The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.

Portals are being redesigned.

The new design features are being applied to existing portals.

At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template {{Transclude lead excerpt}}.

The discussion about this can be found here.

Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.

Background

On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.

There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.

So far, 84 editors have joined.

If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.

If you have any questions about what is happening with portals or the Portals WikiProject, please post them on the WikiProject's talk page.

Thank you.    — The Transhumanist   07:50, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

New Article Created

I've created a stub for the Plaza Bridge at Plaza Bridge (Ottawa), and removed the picture from the list of pictures needing articles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andy Johnston (talk • contribs) 17:32, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Airport Station (OC Transpo)

Is this really worthy of an article? It's not as if it's identifiable as a station, as is the case with, say, Billings Bridge or even Heron. I think the content could be covered in the article on the airport. Any thoughts? --RFBailey (talk) 01:51, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

The above comment is old as dirt, but apparently still relevant (and I happen to agree with it). Furthermore, nowhere on OC Transpo's website will you find "Airport" listed as a Transitway station, including the 97 map. It should be deleted altogether. Frankly, Ottawa Rapid Transit should be too, as it's a rehash of OC Transpo and covers systems entirely run by the latter.184.145.42.19 (talk) 00:00, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

Apologies for the bump, but I also agree. Would it make sense to extend this same notion to Stittsville station? It's just a stop on Shea Road at the Goulbourn Complex. Perhaps it could be merged into the Stittsville article? Just like the Airport "station" could be merged into the airport article? BigBenzino (talk) 19:19, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

A new newsletter directory is out!

A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.

– Sent on behalf of Headbomb. 03:11, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

Proposal to redirect all Canadian project related talk pages

Wikipedia talk:Canadian Wikipedians' notice board#Proposal to redirect all Canadian project related talk pages...--Moxy 🍁 22:39, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Portal:Ottawa for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Ottawa is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Ottawa until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the page. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:10, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool

Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)