Template talk:WikiProject Canada/Archive 1

Archive 1

Archive 2

Parameters

I didn't like how I couldn't mention that an article was FA-class and List-class at the same time. So, I made a third grouping: type=Article, type=List, type=Template, or type=Cat. If you don't add one of these types on a page, it will not show a type, but it will still put the page in Category:WikiProject Canada articles. If you add type=list or type=template, it will put it in Category:WikiProject Canada lists or Category:WikiProject Canada templates and not in the articles category. --Arctic Gnome 02:29, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Can we have a list of possible parameters and switches (eventually as a "Usage" paragraph in the noinclude section of the template, such as in {{Vancouverproject}})? --69.19.14.25 05:01, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

That'd take some work. I'll work on it some other time. AQu01rius (User • Talk) 07:25, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Done. --Arctic Gnome 01:03, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Wierd categories

Can someone who knows about templates help me out with this. I added the option of adding cangov=Yes to the template, and the template looks fine after it's added. However, when I try to put the articles into the right category (for example Category:WikiProject Canada templates) the lable at the bottom of the talk page has the right category, be it article, template, or whatever. But when I actualy go to the category pages, the page is just placed in the general Category:WikiProject Canada rather than in the right type.

What in the template is making the category tag on the page not match up with what category it is put in? Look at Talk:Prime Minister of Canada. The page thinks that it is in Category:WikiProject Government of Canada articles, but it is realy in the general Category:WikiProject Government of Canada. Thanks. --Arctic Gnome 21:52, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

For the first part, I really don't see your problem. Can you list another example? Because for Talk:Prime Minister of Canada, the page IS supposed to be in Category:WikiProject Government of Canada articles according to this part of the code:

<includeonly>[[Category:WikiProject Government of Canada {{ #switch: {{{type|}}} | List | list = lists | Dab | dab = disambiguation page | Template | template = templates | NA | na = pages | Article | article = articles |#default = articles}}]]</includeonly>

Where Prime Minister of Canada is an article, so the code {{ #switch: {{{type}}} | automatically substituted its category to Category:WikiProject Government of Canada articles AQu01rius (User &#149; Talk) 22:48, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

It is supposed to be in Category:WikiProject Government of Canada articles, and at the bottom of the talk page it says that it is in that category. However, when I go to the category it isn't there, but it is in the general Category:WikiProject Government of Canada, even though that category isn't listed on the talk page. I've refreshed my browser and empied by cache, so it isn't just my computer. Something very odd is going on. --Arctic Gnome 23:00, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Talk:Prime Minister of Canada is definetly listed in Category:WikiProject Government of Canada articles. Have you tried to reboot? AQu01rius (User &#149; Talk) 23:38, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

The reboot didn't do it, but changing the talk page and then changing it back does. It tooks like my computer doesn't notice that a page has changed categories until I edit the template on the talk page for a second time after changing the master template here. I've been changing the capitalisation and changing it back, and that solves the problem. This is very wierd. I just added {{PAGENAME}} to the template so that they all won't be listed under "T", and I'm having the same problem; I have to edit the talk page a second time after changing the master template here before my computer notices the difference. Anyway, thanks for your help. --Arctic Gnome 00:28, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Type variable

This template has a variable "type", which allows the item to be labeled a temple/list/category. But it doesn't work if its assessed NA-class. See Talk:Lieutenant Governors of Nova Scotia for it working, and Template talk:St. John's landmarks for it not working. Any ideas? - Trevor MacInnis (Contribs) 01:05, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

• I saw that myself. I can't figure out what's wrong, and we may have to find an expert on templates. For now you can make it categorise templates properly by putting the "na" in lower case. However, this will mark the impartance as being unclassified, so you'll have to mark it as na as well. So, in full it would be WikiProject Canada|class=na|importance=na|type=template. --Arctic Gnome 19:34, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Order of provinces

Putting them west-to-east seems a bit arbitrary. I originally had them arranged according to their order of precedence, which is the only "official" order. Putting them in any other order seems to be WP:OR. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 02:29, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Sounds good, haven't realize the logic, thanks (although geography isn't OR, it's just a point of view). --Qyd (talk) 03:15, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

I'll switch it back. West to east is probably a more common system, but it seems to me that we should go with the official one. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 03:25, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

{{WikiProject Electoral districts in Canada}}

Should {{WikiProject Electoral districts in Canada}} be included as a sub-project here? or woudl it be part of the Government of Canada WikiProject? --Qyd (talk) 03:15, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

There are going to be several hundred articles in that topic, so I think it deserves its own wikiproject. I'll add that functionality to the template. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 03:23, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Territories sub-projects

Considering the low population in the Territories, I suppose it makes better sense to have just one wikiproject to cover all three territories. I directed the banner switches to Wikipedia:WikiProject Canadian Territories. --Qyd 02:20, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Should cities automaticly be added to provinces?

I'm going to be adding city projects to this template, and I was wondering whether people think that adding an article to a city project should automatically add it to that city's province's project as well. The same goes for wikiproject Canadian football; if we add it to this template, should articles added to the Canadian football project automatically be also added to the Canadian sports project? --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 17:08, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

The difficulty would be the Ottawa Wikiproject, which covers articles related to areas of the National Capital Region in two different provinces. Skeezix1000 (talk) 14:41, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

I think I'm going to let provinces and citied be added separately. Some items might be important locally but not of any interest to a province-wide project. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 16:12, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Problem with the template

I don't know how to fix this problem, but featured lists for Education in Canada (and perhaps other wikiprojects) aren't sorted into a project-specific category like their FA counterparts. GreenJoe 18:50, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

The 1.0 assessment project does not recognized FL as an assessment category. Anything in WP:CANADA tagged as being FL will show up as such on the template, but will be categorized with the FAs. The only FL for the education project, List of Athabasca University people, will show up as an FA when the table is next updated. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 20:16, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

rating

Shouldn't each sub-project have a separate assessment of quality and importance? The overall quality may be higher than the quality in relation to a specific task force's purview, and the importance is definitely different. 70.55.88.176 (talk) 07:00, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Canadian Military History wikiproject

Someone should add a switch for military history

milhist=yes

And link it to Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Canadian military history task force

70.55.88.176 (talk) 07:30, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Expanding the template

I'd like to make a few proposals. First, I agree with the anon above that we need to have separate ratings for each sub-project, since the relevance within a specific project is much different from the subject's global relevance. I haven't thought about how to do this yet.

Second, we need a few new parameters:

• history=yes for articles related to Canadian history
• military=yes for articles related to the Canadian military
• biography=yes for articles related to Canadian individuals
• organization=yes for articles related to Canadian businesses, non-profits, NGOs, charities etc.
• redirect=yes to manage the many redirects to articles about Canadian subjects, instead of lumping them in with other sub-projects

Each would require a WikiProject to manage the articles within its scope. We could also have conditional tests for certain combinations (such as history=yes and military=yes providing a link to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Canadian military history task force.

As usual, comments are most welcome. Mindmatrix 23:01, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

I remember once seeing a project that had different importance ratings for each sub-project but do not recall which (WP India, perhaps) and it may be a good idea. It is still possible to rank the importance of things by simply their Canada-wide scale and then see the more important ones for each sub project but using separate sub-project importance scales would allow more breadth of scale within a sub-project. I guess that I'm a little concerned that adding sub-project importance scales will simply add another non-creative task. DoubleBlue (Talk) 23:44, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

As per my comments on the noticeboard, anotehr switch for aboriginal/indigenous would help out, although {{NorthAmNative}} already exists....as with the Geog switch, though, the Hist switch would be redundant with WPHistory, no? Or is tehre someway to combine WP/Workgroups by using these switches? Also worth noting that a geography or history articlde that might be high ratign in Canada wouldn't have a high rating in "regular" Geog/Hist WPs....not necessarily anyway, alhtough "high" etc should be reckoned on lcoal relevance, not whether someone in Arkansas or Ougadougou had heard of whomever/wherever (some here might remember the snotty comments about Dawson Creek's FA status...because they hadn't heard of the place or didn't think it was important...but who were they??.).Skookum1 (talk) 01:20, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

I think that the benefits of adding separate importance assessments to each project isn't worth the complexity that it would create. Even though different projects will view the importance of an article differently than WikiProject Canada, the existing importance ratings can still be useful for them by treating them as being shifted down one level, effectively giving the subprojects three levels of importance assessment. Articles like History of British Columbia or Gordon Campbell might be top- and high-importance respectively to the BC project while only being rated as high- or mid-importance respectively in the Canada project. Nevertheless, the BC project can still take advantage of these shifted-down rankings; a high-importance article is a priority for subprojects. Whenever I've been rating articles on behalf of a subproject, I haven't found the need for more than three levels of importance assessments. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 19:01, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

I agree. Aside: Some projects have parameters for B-level articles rating whether they meet specific criteria (refs, MOS style, etc.). We should investigate this also. Mindmatrix 17:30, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

In response to myself, there's already a class=redirect parameter setting, which may obviate the need for a separate "redirect=yes" parameter. Mindmatrix 17:30, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

The Military History Canadian task force covers current military as well. 76.66.193.90 (talk) 12:02, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Sub-sub-projects

I am in favour of this unified banner/assessment for Canada-related projects. I wonder (and have not decided) how far down we should drill. The addition of WikiProject Canadian football is what leads me to consider this. Of course, Canadian football, Grey Cup, and such would be part of WPCanada but are articles about certain rules, certain players, etc., really part of WikiProject Canada? Because a sport is invented and mostly played in Canada does that mean all the articles about that sport are Canada-related? Should just articles that share WPCFL and WPCanada have merged banners and others of pure football interest have only WPCFL? Looking for thoughts. DoubleBlue (Talk) 20:03, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

The merged template should only be used for projects which are entirely within the scope of WPCanada, so if WPCFL is not, I'll undo the merger soon before too many articles get tagged. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 21:08, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

I would say that articles like Three-minute warning (football) or Ricky Williams are within the scope of WPCFL but not WPCanada. DoubleBlue (Talk) 22:28, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Wikiprojects and departments of provinces

This is a sandbox showing a version of the template helping out a province wiki - sub - project. ... ie Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods WikiprojectUser:CBM/Sandbox2 and the results are here... User:CBM/Sandbox and the explanation here.... explanation If this coding does work it means every province can have a workgroup identical to the Canadian nation wikiproject, which will mean sports articles, community articles can be worked on both at a local and national level!!! With just using the existing template!!! Saskatchewan has quite a few sports enthusiasts, I know, but with the Vancouver Olympics coming up, perhaps the wikiprojects out there (Vancouver or BC) would like a department on sports set up at a local level with assessments in this manner as well. SriMesh | talk 04:53, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

At a cursory glance, the code looks all right to me and the test page puts the articles in the proper categories. If there aren't any objections, I recommend testing it out. --Jh12 (talk) 15:28, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

{{editprotected}} Code at {{WikiProject Canada}} is to be replaced with User:CBM/Sandbox2 - — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jh12 (talk • contribs)

Done. - Trevor MacInnis (Contribs) 16:54, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

{{editprotected}}

• I just realized we goofed ever so slightly. Instead of putting everything into "-importance Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods-related articles" to match the class assessments, we put everything into "-importance Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods articles". The categories have to match for the Editorial Team bot to count the importance categories. See the Project statistics.

Towards the bottom of the template, the following change needs to be made:
Old:

}}{{#ifeq:{{{class|}}}|NA|| {{#switch:{{{importance}}}
 |Top |top=[[Category:Top-importance Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods articles|{{PAGENAME}}]]
 |High |high=[[Category:High-importance Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods articles|{{PAGENAME}}]]
 |Mid |mid=[[Category:Mid-importance Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods articles|{{PAGENAME}}]]
 |Low |low=[[Category:Low-importance Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods articles|{{PAGENAME}}]]
 |#default=[[Category:Unknown-importance Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods articles|{{PAGENAME}}]]
}}}}

New:

}}{{#ifeq:{{{class|}}}|NA|| {{#switch:{{{importance}}}
 |Top |top=[[Category:Top-importance Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods-related articles|{{PAGENAME}}]]
 |High |high=[[Category:High-importance Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods-related articles|{{PAGENAME}}]]
 |Mid |mid=[[Category:Mid-importance Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods-related articles|{{PAGENAME}}]]
 |Low |low=[[Category:Low-importance Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods-related articles|{{PAGENAME}}]]
 |#default=[[Category:Unknown-importance Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods-related articles|{{PAGENAME}}]]
}}}}

Many many thanks, --Jh12 (talk) 22:58, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

 Done You're welcome. :) PeterSymonds (talk) 00:33, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

{{editprotected}} Recent changes placed an extra blank line below the banner, looks bad inside {{WikiProject Banner Shell}}, can someone figure that out and fix? thanks. --Qyd (talk) 14:19, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Looks like another extra enter key per Talk:Westmount, Quebec. Thanks for spotting these; they get lost in the code sometimes. At the bottom of the template, please change:

Old:

}}}}
}}}}
</includeonly><noinclude>{{pp-semi-template|small=yes}}

New:

}}}}}}}}</includeonly><noinclude>{{pp-semi-template|small=yes}}

Thanks a bunch for the help, --Jh12 (talk) 15:58, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Should be good now. --- RockMFR 19:46, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Bug

Any idea why the FA Class link in Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Canada-related articles by quality statistics leads to the empty SK category instead of the Canada one? --Qyd (talk) 02:36, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Not sure; I'll check it out and also request additional assistance. --Jh12 (talk) 03:10, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

It looks like WP 1.0 bot depends on the subcats of Category:Canada-related articles by quality to determine which categories are the "by quality" categories for the project. Until a few minutes ago, Category:FA-Class Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods-related articles was in that category when it shouldn't have been, and the bot was apparently picking that up and using it as the category for the table. It seems to be fixed now. Anomie⚔ 11:42, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

I haven't double-checked the code, but this was almost certainly the problem. The bot assumes there is only one category per quality rating inside Category:Canada-related articles by quality. In order to get articles to count both as Canada-related FAs and as SK FAs, you need to make sure the articles are put into Category:FA-Class Canada-related articles and Category:FA-Class Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods-related articles. I think Anomie has fixed this now. — Carl (CBM · talk) 12:40, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Many thanks for all the help. I wanted to wait until the bot went through both projects. Everything looks good now. --Jh12 (talk) 08:49, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

subproject assessments

This needs importance options for the subprojects. As it is, I keep seeing "low" for things that look like they should be high or top importance for some of the subprojects. 76.66.193.90 (talk) 12:03, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

New version

I'm working on an updated version of this template using {{WPBannerMeta}} in the /sandbox. Any comments/suggestions welcome. In particular, I'd like to know whether all the quality classes (e.g. Template, Category, Redirect, etc.) should be used for all the subprojects as well? At the moment a lot of these categories don't exist. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 16:14, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

The new version is finished and ready to be implemented. As I didn't get an answer to my question I have decided that, of the extra classes, Template and Category seem to be well used so I have supported them. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:52, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

I haven't inspected the changes yet, but I just noticed a small quirk in a recent edit. I added community=yes to Talk:Black's Corners, Ontario, but it doesn't show up in the banner, nor do any of the categories show up. Yes, I checked the spelling. Mindmatrix 14:34, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Actually, it's a bigger quirk. All the community-related categories are empty; see, for example Category:Start-Class Canadian communities articles. Mindmatrix 14:36, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Good point! Temporary insanity on my part, I think. Should be fixed now. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 14:45, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick fix - the categories are now being (slowly) populated again. Mindmatrix 14:58, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

As this project doesn't use taskforce-specific importance ratings, it's probably pointless to display the importance on every taskforce. Shall I do something about that? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 14:48, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

We've had discussions about implementing sub-project ratings for quite some time, but nobody was willing to do the work for it. It'd be nice to have. (Coincidentally, I've had a related discussion about this at Talk:Lethbridge#Importance rating in banner.) You can suppress their display for now, though I'd like to see an importance rating show up somewhere in the banner. Mindmatrix 14:58, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Sure, the main one will still be there. It's just the repeated statements in the taskforces that could go. Of course, as soon as you add specific importance ratings, they will all go into the Unknown categories for each subproject ... unless you do something clever like WP:MEDICINE has done, whereby the general importance is used if a specific one is not defined. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 15:05, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

By the way, what's your take on the quality classes which this project uses? Due to the way the banner works, every subproject needs to use the same ones. I've used Category and Template for the moment - this can be changed. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 15:14, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

If you're referring to Redirect, Portal, Project etc., I recently added them from a request at WP:CWNB, and then updated a few banners accordingly. It'd be nice to filter out some pages from the main quality categories, but we don't necessarily need all of them. I'd certainly like to see the "redirect" class retained, as we have thousands of such "articles"; as long as the others are filtered out of the main classes, I don't much care how they're handled. Mindmatrix 23:30, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Problem is that for each additional class, 25 categories have to be created. (One main one and one for each of 24 subprojects!) At the moment it is placing redirects in NA-Class. Do you want want to create the Redirect-Class XXX articles categories? Another thing: I notice that a lot of the categories are classified as NA-Class rather than Category-Class. If you wish, we can force these into Category-Class, by adjusting the namespace detection in Template:WikiProject Canada/class. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:28, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

I'll bring some of these questions to WP:CWNB. Regarding your last point: the "Category-Class" hierarchy was just created in late May for the Canada WikiProject, so we had been using a quality rating of "class=NA" for anything that was not an article. We'll go through the list and update accordingly, but it'd be handy to have a temporary filter for that until we've sorted things out. Looking at that code, it seems like a straighforward change. Oh heck, I decided to change it myself... Mindmatrix 15:41, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

I'd love to see all the classes supported; makes internal organisation, especially improvement drives, easier. I'm gnoming through the unknown- and NA cats to clean them up, and am using the classes--they default to NA now so no worries there, and will automagically (re)populate the appropriate cats if/when we enable the classes. //roux   22:08, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Edit needed

{{editprotected}} This bit:

{{#ifeq:{{{class|}}}|NA|| {{#switch:{{{importance}}}
 |Top |top=[[Category:Top-importance Canada-related articles|{{PAGENAME}}]]
 |High |high=[[Category:High-importance Canada-related articles|{{PAGENAME}}]]
 |Mid |mid=[[Category:Mid-importance Canada-related articles|{{PAGENAME}}]]
 |Low |low=[[Category:Low-importance Canada-related articles|{{PAGENAME}}]]
 |#default=[[Category:Unknown-importance Canada-related articles|{{PAGENAME}}]]
}}}}

Needs a new importance switch added to it, like so:

{{#ifeq:{{{class|}}}|NA|| {{#switch:{{{importance}}}
 |Top |top=[[Category:Top-importance Canada-related articles|{{PAGENAME}}]]
 |High |high=[[Category:High-importance Canada-related articles|{{PAGENAME}}]]
 |Mid |mid=[[Category:Mid-importance Canada-related articles|{{PAGENAME}}]]
 |Low |low=[[Category:Low-importance Canada-related articles|{{PAGENAME}}]]
 |#default=[[Category:Unknown-importance Canada-related articles|{{PAGENAME}}]]
 |na |na=[[Category:NA-importance Canada-related articles|{{PAGENAME}}]]
}}}}

Because right now all Category Talk pages of Canadian categories are showing up as 'unknown' importance, which makes cleaning out the cat a little difficult :) TIA. //roux   22:12, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Would you mind waiting a little bit? I'm working on a new version in the sandbox (see section above) which will sort out all these problems. I'll try and finish it within a day. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:39, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

 Done. Category:Unknown-importance Canada-related articles is emptying now. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:06, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Actually, I went through the category in the past few days to update the banner on all category talk pages appearing there, since most of them had incorrect banners anyway. Mindmatrix 14:11, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Ontario

Can someone change the image back to the old one? The current image for WikiProject Ontario is impossible to discern, so has no use whatsoever in indicating what the project it is supposed to represent is. There's a slightly recognizable Canadian flag next to a red blob. 70.29.208.129 (talk) 10:34, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

I've changed it. But maybe File:Flag of Ontario.svg would be even clearer? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:38, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

I'm not so sure, at the resolution these things are displayed at, the Ontario flag, Manitoba flag, and the old Red Ensign flag of Canada all look the same, because the crest in the centre of the field is not readily discernible. 70.29.208.129 (talk) 10:48, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods

Based on Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Saskatchewan_Communities_&_Neighbourhoods-related_articles_by_quality_log#June_5.2C_2009, the updated metabanner appears to have removed Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods, a subproject of Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan. Is there some way the subproject can be restored? --Jh12 (talk) 12:35, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

You're right. I missed that, as it wasn't mentioned in the documentation. Please check now, the categories should be repopulating again. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:14, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

It populated the quality categories, but not the importance. I think it's missing the line for importance that reads " |tf 5 importance=" i.e.

 |TF_5_QUALITY         = yes
 |tf 5 importance={{{importance|}}}
 |TF_5_ASSESSMENT_CAT  = Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods-related articles

--Jh12 (talk) 10:01, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, silly me copied the syntax from Canadian football which doesn't use importance!  Fixed — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:29, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for all the quick help --Jh12 (talk) 10:38, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Canadian football

I just recently noticed that Canadian football had been re-added to this banner. It had been decided above that, though a sub-project of Canadian sport, since not all Canadian football articles are Canada-related, it was not suitable for inclusion in this joint banner. Obviously some are and have both WPCFL and WPCANADA banners but it would be confusing to use this banner for Canada-related Canadian football articles and WPCFL for non-Canada related Canadian football articles. DoubleBlue (talk) 22:36, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

I think I used the documentation when I designed the new version of the template and it hadn't been removed from there. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 07:35, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

It can of course be removed, if desired, but I would have thought there might be an advantage for those articles which were within the scope of both projects? Of course, {{WPCFL}} needs to be retained for articles not related to Canada. Thoughts? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 07:43, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

I think it is needlessly confusing to have two templates for the project and have to follow a flowchart to determine which one to use. I think it would lead to many errors in use and needless effort in clean-up time. DoubleBlue (talk) 03:09, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Okay, I'll remove it. Shall we add a tracking category so we can find any articles using it? Just in case any get lost. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:18, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

I don't really think many use it. Is there any easy way to see if any articles are currently tagged with it? If not, don't bother. It will eventually be found. Thanks. DoubleBlue (talk) 20:43, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Task Force for city of Kawartha Lakes

{{editprotected|Template:WikiProject_Canada}}

|tf 4={{{kawartha-lakes|}}}
 |TF_4_LINK            = Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada/Kawartha Lakes
 |TF_4_NAME            = Kawartha Lakes task force
 |TF_4_NESTED          = Kawartha Lakes
 |TF_4_IMAGE           = Kawartha_Lakes_flag.svg
 |TF_4_TEXT            = This {{pagetype|{{{class|}}}}} is also supported
by the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada/Kawartha Lakes|Kawartha Lakes task force]].
 |TF_4_QUALITY         = yes
 |tf 4 importance={{{importance|}}}
 |TF_4_ASSESSMENT_CAT  = Kawartha Lakes articles

I am creating a task force for the topics regarding the city of Kawartha Lakes and everything it contains within (As it has a rich history with a lot of coverage by many publications), which will be about 100 articles or so by the end. I was wondering if I could have code added to the template in order to organize them by adding kawartha-lakes = yes into the template on talk pages? - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ ^τ _¢ 00:40, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

I suggest you add the required code to the /sandbox version and then raise an {{editprotected}}. There is a space for a new taskforce in tf_4. You should be able to work out the syntax by looking at the other taskforces. Let me know if I can help. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:52, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Ok, I put it there, filled it our in comparison to the others, but am having one small problem: What I put in the 'Text' parameter is coming out also as the link. Instead of linking to WP:WikiProject Canada/Kawartha Lakes (Which is what I specified in the 'Link' parameter), it links to WP:the Kawartha Lakes task force. Other than that I think its fine. - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ ^τ _¢ 17:34, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for the fixes. I've honestly never tackled this area of wikipedia before so forgive me for being lost. Since the page is protected, where do I put the {{editprotected}}? On this talk page, or on the sandbox's talk pages? (I'm going to assume above this discussion here) - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ ^τ _¢ 19:01, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

 Done Plastikspork (talk) 02:02, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Seem to be having a tiny problem with this... It does everything right, except that it isn't placing articles into the "Kawartha Lakes articles" category (Only into the importance and class categories). - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ ^τ _¢ 16:30, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

You need to create lots of categories. Have a look at Template:WikiProject Canada/sandbox for a list of some which need creating. Can you clarify your "problem"? Do you want every tagged article placed in Category:Kawartha Lakes articles as well? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 15:16, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Pretty much. The articles place themselves into the 'x importance Kawartha Lakes articles' or 'x class Kawartha Lakes articles', but not into 'Kawartha Lakes Articles'. I've created most of the categories using existing examples, but I'm not sure how to get the articles into a category (Short of going back through every single article and adding the category links to the bottom of the talk pages), but what I want in the end is a category that lists every article (on one page) that has the 'kawartha-lakes=yes' tag - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ ^τ _¢ 15:20, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

I've added this to the banner for you. (But I note that this category also needs creating...) No, you shouldn't add the categories manually, but using the template parameters as you did here. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 15:40, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Logo for Wikiproject NEwfoundland & Labrador

I've created an SVG flag map, can someone edit it in? Link: File:NewfoundlandandLabradorFlagmap.svg () Connormah (talk) 00:48, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

 Done Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 03:43, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

Project Logo

I've also created a SVG for the icon used in the template, it can be found here. Connormah (talk) 00:30, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

Looks good,  Done — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:23, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

Is it possible ?

Is it possible when people pick This article is also supported by WikiProject Canadian music. that the new portal appears??? Portal:Music of Canada ............Buzzzsherman (talk) 07:50, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

 Sure — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:38, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Tks you are the man!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Buzzzsherman (talk) 04:19, 10 January 2010 (UTC) I smell a barn star soon

Sorry to bug you But could you change the picture to ===> File:Tower-wireless-can.png Here..just since the flag is already used for the main Canada portal..and since we seem to have our own image i guess..sorry all my fault .. i was hasty in my decision!!! ....Buzzzsherman (talk) 23:26, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

 Done.... Again thank you for all your help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Buzzzsherman (talk) 20:45, 13 January 2010 (UTC)