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Contents 1 References section 2 FLRC: Territorial evolution of Canada 3 Flags in Infobox settlement 4 Conservative Party of Canada leadership convention, 2004 5 List of Canadian diplomats source 6 One for the music contingent 7 Kraft Dinner move request 8 Canadian request for article 9 Killer Whale - featured article review 10 Mass naming change for electoral districts

[edit] References section

Not sure if this is OK on talkpages, but quoted items above have reference tags, so:

[edit] FLRC: Territorial evolution of Canada

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[edit] Flags in Infobox settlement

I've been adding infoboxes to articles about Ontario communities in the past few weeks. I've noticed that some of these are "updated" by replacing entries such as "Ontario" with a template {{ON}} which adds a flag preceding the word (compare Bramalea, Ontario to Wallaceburg, Ontario). Frankly, I'm opposed to this, but figured I'd ask for other opinions. The reason for my opposition is because the flags :

• add nothing of value (province and country are already mentioned)
• add visual clutter
• reduce legibility, and increase the amount of time to parse the infobox

Can anybody add further comments in support of opposition to the use of these flags. Mindmatrix 17:53, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

I've never really understood the rationale for including the flag icons in infoboxes (I agree with all of your reasons, not to mention many flags are virtually unidentifiable at that scale). However, I understand there have been some fairly epic battles over the subject in the past. The current guideline is at WP:MOSFLAG. --Skeezix1000 (talk) 18:37, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

It's correct that we're not supposed to be using flags in infoboxes like that. I know some people think it makes the box look prettier, but as Skeezix pointed out there's an actual policy explicitly saying not to do it. Bearcat (talk) 00:02, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Conservative Party of Canada leadership convention, 2004

I oppose moving that article back to Conservative Party of Canada leadership election, 2004. But, I welcome additional input at that article's talkpage. GoodDay (talk) 20:38, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] List of Canadian diplomats source

It seems that diplomats individual histories on the Foreign Affairs website can no longer be directly linked to. How can we best get around this to provide the best and most direct link? NorthernThunder (talk) 07:29, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Can you clarify what the problem is? I can get to T.J. Arcand's posting history (par exemple) in one click. What "individual histories" did there used to be, and how did you used to get to them? Franamax (talk) 09:15, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] One for the music contingent

Bit of a problem at The Slew that could use some help cleaning up. There is a genuinely notable band by this name, a multinational electronic project that's inclusive of Canadian electronic musician Kid Koala — however, the article as written is problematic: I can't tell whether somebody accidentally conflated two distinct bands that happened to have the same name, or whether somebody invented a fictional backstory for the real band. Any chance that somebody from the Canadian music project could help me source it up properly? Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 21:11, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Kraft Dinner move request

FYI. There is currently a move request to move Kraft Dinner to Kraft Macaroni and Cheese. Because of regional usage of the term, I suspect there is interest in members of the this community to know the move is proposed. --Labattblueboy (talk) 06:35, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Canadian request for article

I would like to ask for an article about a living person: Diane Urquhart (Canada AM - Nortel Abuse of Employment Insurance System) but I cannot figure out where to best place my request. I wonder if anyone here can help? Ottawahitech (talk) 03:25, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

I'm not sure if she is sufficiently notable for an article - are there any sources about Diane Urquhart? Has she won any awards or had her work discussed? If so, you could look at Wikipedia:Articles for creation and maybe Wikipedia:Requested articles, but probably AFC. You will need sources to show notability. AFC looks to be a pretty active project. Franamax (talk) 09:06, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Killer Whale - featured article review

I have nominated Killer Whale 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) 19:51, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Mass naming change for electoral districts

Based on what I deem to be an inappropriate source added during this edit, User:K.d.stauffer has renamed many district pages by changing em dashes to en dashes, which may cause problems for many Quebec districts. I don't think the source provided (A Guide to Authors: A Guide for the Preparation of Geological Survey of Canada Maps and Reports from NRC) is authoritative for this, so we should probably revert these changes, but I wanted broader input about this. Mindmatrix 17:34, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

By the way, the articles moved so far are in that user's list of contributions (of course). Mindmatrix 17:36, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

These dash issues and MOS:DASH being used for page names, I think, is rather horrible. They should just use the standard ASCII character, then there would be a simple representation and no need for arguments between which version of what should be used in the article title. 76.66.197.17 (talk) 02:05, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

In this case, though, Elections Canada uses both en and em dashes in order to distinguish placenames within an electoral district name. For example, Haute-Gaspésie—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia and Lotbinière—Chutes-de-la-Chaudière in Quebec both use em and en dashes. If there's a better way to deal with those, then we can certainly consider an alternative format. The article renaming by that user has broken many links, and was only applied to a subset of electoral districts, resulting in significant inconsistencies in Wikipedia coverage of Canadian electoral districts. Mindmatrix 18:32, 2 January 2010 (UTC)