Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Quebec/Archive 1

Welcome

Welcome to the new WikiProject Quebec. The creation of this project was made out of necessity and better organization for articles relating to Quebec. Please take this time to familiarize yourself with the new layout of this project. The purpose of keeping the project's mainpage under 37kb, many sections have been divided into subpages. To mark the occasion of this new WikiProject and its members, I have created a WP:Quebec userbox. Mkdw^talk 07:15, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

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Provincial templates update

Should the provincial templates be updated with the standard {{Navbox generic}} layout? Please comment at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Canada#Province templates. --Qyd 16:59, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Great!

I'm happy to see that this new project exists on the english wiki. I hope that there can be fruitful collaboration with the fr:Projet:Québec on the french wiki (I added yesterday the interwiki links). Cordially, Boréal 16:27, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Ottawa, Montreal

Ottawa and Montreal are up for renaming at WP:RM, discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Current Local City Time. They want them renamed to Ottawa, Ontario and Montreal, Quebec, even though these cities are obviously the primary meaning of Ottawa and Montreal. 70.51.9.156 06:17, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

city naming conventions

At Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (settlements), there is a discussion going on to make city names match the way Associated Press names them (thus introducing a significant US bias) 70.51.9.114 06:06, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

noticeboards

Quebec and Montreal should have noticeboards. 70.51.9.114 06:26, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

(Montreal should probably have a subproject...)

fr:Projet:Politique québécoise

Hello everyone. I hope you'll forgive a little bit of interwiki (non-commercial) advertising. A Quebec politics wikiproject has just been launched on the French wikipedia. Anyone who is interested in Quebec politics and feels sufficiently comfortable to contribute in French is invited to join and participate. dh ▪ 2¢ ▪ 07:42, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Quebec/List of Quebec-related topics

Hello. I'm writing to inform the members of this project that I have moved the article List of Quebec-related topics to Wikipedia:WikiProject Quebec/List of Quebec-related topics per discussion here. -- Black Falcon ^(Talk) 21:07, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Wikimeeting in Quebec City / Wikirencontre à Québec

Just to let you know that an informal wikimeeting was initiated in the french wikipedia to take place in Quebec City next week-end. All informations available on fr:Wikipédia:Rencontre#Québec, fin mai. Boréal 18:23, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Juste un mot pour vous informer qu'une wikirencontre informelle, initiée dans la wikipédia francophone, est prévue pour se tenir à Québec la fin de semaine prochaine. Les informations sont disponibles sur fr:Wikipédia:Rencontre#Québec, fin mai. Boréal 18:23, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Montreal night life

Montreal night life is being considered for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Montreal night life 132.205.44.134 00:33, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Category:Quebecers of French descent and Category:Francophone Quebecers up for deletion

User:Steam5 wants to collapse Category:Francophone Quebecers and Category:Quebecers of French descent into Category:French Quebecers. To me, this seems to show a profound lack of understanding of the Canadian reality... 70.55.90.138 04:22, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Category:Historical Quebec MNAs -> Category:Quebec MNAs

Category:Historical Quebec MNAs is up for merging into Category:Quebec MNAs at WP:CFD. 132.205.44.134 21:44, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Notable Quebec scientists

You will find lists of award-winning Quebec scientists at Marcel-Piché Prize and Léo-Pariseau Prize. Please consider creating articles for the red links on those pages. --Eastmain 20:27, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Montreal underground city hotels

Montreal underground city hotels has been WP:PRODed. 132.205.44.5 21:23, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Murals of the Dufferin interchange

Has someone taken images of the murals at the Dufferin interchange? If not, do so! We can't let they be gone without having images for the Commons! I was there earlier today and 2 of them are already almost illegible from the recent rains! Circeus 01:30, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

How to upload Coat of Arms for municipalies

I'm creating lots of municipality pages (see Maskinongé and Les Chenaux RCM pages) and I'd need some advice/help on how to upload coat of arms. What type of license is it ? and what kind of authorization is needed to upload it ? This is all very confusing to me. Thanks Lotheric 16:41, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

A specific drawing of a coats of arms is copyrighted. We can only use it under fair use. However, its blazon (its heraldic description) cannot be copyrighted, and any other drawing of the arms may be used. This is why flags we have drawn are normally okay (unless they include trademarks, which are a whole 'nother can of worms. Circeus 16:52, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

For the record, I don't think Wikipedia should call "coats of arms" arms that were not granted by the Canadian Heraldic Authority. Circeus 16:53, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, I'm not that good at drawing lol, I'll leave that to others ;) Lotheric 16:59, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

huge flag woohoo

Why is the flag in the {{Mauricie}} template so huge? Not that the flag's an ugly one, but it's taking up a lot of space. Is this happening with any other templates? --dragfyre 14:12, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

• Whoa, indeed. It's probably an error. It should be fixed. Lotheric 15:48, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
  • fixed Lotheric 12:57, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
    • fanx :D --dragfyre 13:56, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Template:Roads of Quebec

Another template for deletion by the same user arguing that templates inside templates are not good. See: the discussion--JForget 19:04, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Template

I've created this new user box template for being a member of WikiProject Quebec

This user is a participant in
WikiProject Quebec.

--JForget 00:39, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Parti Populaire des Putes

Is this group notable? Thank you--Victor falk 08:29, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Montreal's international airport high-speed access

Montreal's international airport high-speed access has been WP:PRODed 132.205.99.122 —Preceding comment was added at 20:08, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Quebec folklore, legends, stories

With the rich history of legends and ghost stories, we should be able to create quite a large category :) something like Legends of Quebec that would include legends, folklore, ghost and morality tales, I've heard so many in my childhood, it would be great to see them here.--Tallard 11:47, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Template merge with WikiProject Canada

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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) 19:53, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Category:Montreal commuter rail

Category:Montreal commuter rail has been nominated for deletion. 132.205.99.122 22:51, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Category:Island of Montreal municipalities

Category:Island of Montreal municipalities has been nominated for deletion. 70.51.10.91 (talk) 10:54, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Debra Arbec at AfD

Debra Arbec has been nominated for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Debra Arbec. 132.205.44.5 (talk) 22:47, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Hydro Quebec transmission system pictures and maps

I need pictures of HQ's AC 735 kV pylons (all four designs shown here) and the +/- 450 kV HVDC Quebec - New England Transmission line. A picture of a dual-circuit 315 kV power line and a map of the 735 kV transmission system would be nice as well. They will be used in Hydro-Québec's electricity transmission system. Cheers. _{Trance addict} 01:27, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Quebec nationhood discussion at the Quebec article

There is currently a debate on the Quebec article talk page about whether or not to include in the introduction mention that Quebecers have been recognized as a nation (both federal and provincial motions). Anybody who wants to voice their opinion on this (any opinion) are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Quebec. For those who want to review the discussion, it occupies several sections, most of the bottom of the page, in fact, as well as several recurring sections now archived. I believe a wider debate may help build a stronger consensus.--Ramdrake (talk) 14:15, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

{{Subdivisions of Quebec}}

• A discussion regarding the layout of {{Subdivisions of Quebec}}, please comment at [[Template

talk:Subdivisions of Quebec]]. --Qyd (talk) 16:02, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Québécois

Talk:Québécois: A number of issues centring on whether the word Québécois, used in French, may have an ethnic or linguistic rather than territorial meaning. Joeldl (talk) 06:00, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Notability

Is it possible to find some more sources of information on these topics; High Life Music, Mineminemine, RAFaL, Marielle Houle, Toronto-Montreal rivalry? It is tagged with a notability tag, and there are currently 31 articles in the scope of wikiproject Canada which are tagged with notability concerns, so I am contacting all the article creation editors to see if the quantity of notable articles can be reduced, and quality increased. For more help see this note. Kind Regards SriMesh | talk 18:08, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Stopping by

I'm glad to see this WikiProject still remains active 2 years after it was founded. Mkdw^talk 09:10, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Places in Montreal is at AfD

Places in Montreal has been nominated for deletion. 70.55.85.225 (talk) 05:11, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Disambiguation

While there are not nearly as many identical names are there once were (some have changed, some have merged), I think an agreed disambiguation system is necessary. My proposal is:

• Disambiguation first by region, not by MRC unless strictly necessary
  • I.e. "Saint-X, Estrie, Quebec" not "Saint-X, Le Haut-Saint-François Regional County Municipality, Quebec", not "Saint-X, Le Haut-Saint-François, Quebec" (because of not "Saint-Séverin, Robert-Cliche, Quebec").
  • Usage is split here, with all three forms are found, but none very common.
• When disambiguating by type, use only the short form (city, municipality, parish, village, township) rather than the full one, and place it before the comma. If one entity is significantly larger/well-known than the other, only disambiguate the smaller one
  • I.e. "Granby, Quebec" and "Granby (township), Quebec", but "Valcourt (city), Quebec" and "Valcourt (township), Quebec".
  • This is the system used for village/towns of New York state. The few cases with articles (all three here) currently use "City, Quebec (disambig)".

Unless there is disagreement about this, I'll put it on the project page and start disambiguating. Circeus (talk) 17:47, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Well, I went ahead and applied it everywhere. Hopefully it won't cause too many issues. Circeus (talk) 03:36, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

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Link to "Historica Heritage Minute" deleted from "External Links" section of "Louis-Joseph Papineau" article

I posted a link to the "Historica Heritage Minutes" feature on "Hart & Papineau" in the "External Links" section for this article. This link, and similar "Historica Heritage Minutes" links in other articles, were deleted the next day. These Historica "Heritage Minutes" are very informative mini-documentaries about interesting people and events in Canadian history. Can someone at Wikipedia please tell me why the links to the "Hitorica Heritage Minutes" sites were deleted from the Wikipedia pages on Papineau and from similar Wiki articles?

This is the URL of one the links that was deleted:

Hart & Papineau http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?id=10131

Elmridge (talk) 06:28, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

None of the links follow the guidelines in Wikipedia:EL Tedickey (talk) 11:14, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Hi,

Thanks for your note. I will check out the guidelines before adding additional links. Also, could you please identify the nature of the errors in the links that I entered previously - I would appreciate any specific advice you could offer in regard to the changes I should make to the format of the external links.

Regards,

Elmridge (talk) 19:50, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Category:Food in Montreal

Category:Food in Montreal has been nominated for renaming. 70.55.85.116 (talk) 05:47, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

Origin of the name "Québec" - l'Origin du nom du Québec

I am questioning the origin of the name "Québec" as outlined on the main profile found when searching Wikipedia. On the Wikipedia profile, it states that "The name "Quebec", which comes from the Algonquin word kepék meaning "(it) narrows".

During a recent trip to Great Britain I found a small village by the name of "Quebec" in the north, near Scotland. This can be verified with MultiMap.com. The name seems almost Breton to me, from Britanny (Bretagne). So I did another map search for the name Québec in France, and lo and behold the name appears as a small village just south of Le Havre on the English Channel (Le Manche).

I therefore contest the idea that the name is a North American native (autochtone) name. I do not believe that the British and French villages named their places after the province of Québec.

Mike

Magnanimously (talk) 23:23, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Then, you're wrong, at least for the one from GB. The one from GB was named after the canadian city because it was kind of founded in 1759, the year that GB conquered New France (and the City of Quebec). I'll be looking for the franch one, but as the streets from that place (seen on Google Maps) are named after famous quebeckers, I'm pretty sure it was named after Quebec City. Boréal (talk) 18:17, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

PS: All the serious historical books are giving the "it narrows" explanation; the St-Lawrence rive is narrowing at the site of Quebec City. Boréal (talk) 18:19, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

CmcgarryI don't know the place in the north of England but "bec" as is used in scotland meaning "stream" and comes from the Viking invaders of the 9th century. A place name is often corrupted from it's original spelling so could have started off life very differently. "Bec" is also used as name ending in Normandy for the same reason - Normandy was founded by Vikings.

The Quebec in Normandy is in fact a suburb of Honfleur from where Champlain sailed in 1608 to found Quebec. I haven't found any information on the origin of the name of the suburb but I suspect it was named after the Quebec in Canada. 40 kilometers South East of Quebec in Canada is a place called Honfleur.

Robotshop up for deletion

FYI, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robotshop. Banjeboi 21:36, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Category:Quebec communities with important anglophone populations

Category:Quebec communities with important anglophone populations has been sent to WP:CFD 70.55.84.212 (talk) 05:20, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Annie Pelletier at Pekin 2008

Annie Pelletier, plongeon commentator for SRC doesn't have an article, her CBC version, Anne Montminy does. 70.55.86.69 (talk) 11:55, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

There's a stub in french that could be translated: fr:Annie Pelletier. Boréal (talk) 17:34, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

La Belle at AfD

La Belle Province (restaurant) has been nominated for deletion. 70.51.11.210 (talk) 09:31, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Labatt Park (Montreal)

Labatt Park (Montreal) has been nominated for deletion at WP:AFD. 70.55.89.214 (talk) 07:40, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Quebec

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Laura l'immortelle

I need some help building this article. A 12-year old girl plagiarized a fanfiction and presented it as Laura l'immortelle, an original novel. I am writing an article about this case. Please respect Wikipedia:BLP WhisperToMe (talk) 20:47, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

La Presse

I've initiated a move request to move La Presse (Canada) to La Presse, since it's the most prominent newspaper of that name. 70.51.10.188 (talk) 09:24, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Vimont

I've initiated a move request to move Vimont, Quebec to Vimont and Vimont to Vimont, France, since the one in Canada is more prominent. 70.51.10.188 (talk) 09:24, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Two Mountains

I've requested a pagemove. Two Mountains → Two Mountains (electoral district), since English Montrealers refer to the lake, or the town, but not a long ago federal riding, by this name. 70.55.200.131 (talk) 11:51, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Les Enfants du sabbat

Hello, I wasn't sure where to ask this but this seemed as good a place as any. I am currently reading Les Enfants du sabbat by Anne Hébert in order to make an article on it here at English Wikipedia, and perhaps improve the French article too. You can see the beginnings of an article at User:LovesMacs/subpage2.

What genre would you say this is? I've read some of Hébert's work before, and it's not exactly conventional. I don't know if I would go so far as to call this book fantasy, though. Thank you. LovesMacs (talk) 00:47, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

List of waterfalls of Canada

Please help to fulfill the dynamics of this list, List of waterfalls of Canada, and fill in any red link missing waterfall articles and their respective images. Kind Regards SriMesh | talk 01:08, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Fjords of Canada

Can someone add any images to Fjords of Canada. Some may be relevant from List of waterfalls in Canada if the waterfall cascades down into the valley of the fjord. Check out the talk page of more items to help out with to fill out the article Fjords of Canada if you are familiar with the fjords of BC, Nunavut, Newfoundland and Labrador or Quebec. SriMesh | talk 03:28, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Terry Fox Drive

Why is Terry Fox Drive part of wikiproject Quebec? I live in Kanata and I'm 100% sure it's in Ontario. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kanata Kid (talk • contribs) 14:24, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Siege of Fort St. Jean → Siege of Fort St. Johns

Siege of Fort St. Jean → Siege of Fort St. Johns has come up on WP:RM. 76.66.200.131 (talk) 13:29, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

quebecpolitique.com

Hello. I'm considering asking a bot operator to systematically remove external links to the site www.quebecpolitique.com. For one thing almost all of these links (see the linksearch) are now pointing to missing pages (404s) so the links are pretty useless. In any case, this commercial website doesn't qualify as a reliable source: it's more of a blog than anything. More reliable information is readily available (and available in English which is a plus on this wiki) from either the website of the Directeur Général des Élections or the [website of the Assemblé Nationale. If anyone has a good argument for keeping these links, please speak now or forever hold your peace! (Cross posted on the Project on Canadian electoral districts) Pichpich (talk) 21:57, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Although the front page is now the blog, the site DOES compile an awful of information that is not easily (if at all) found elsewhere online. The blog itself is mostly a sort of aggregates of information found elsewhere, and as such I agree it is not a source, but for the rest I have found it repeatedly very useful. For example, the election results in Chauveau since 1867, which I'm pretty sure are not found elsewhere (the DGEQ only goes back in the 60s or 70s). I agree a good sweep to adjust to an apparent thorough redesign (not a good one at that, urgh...) and removal of unnecesary or inappropriate links is a good idea, but wholesale elimination of them is NOT. Circeus (talk) 03:46, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Chauveau results since the creation of the district in 1965. Reliable source. Before its creation, it was within the Québec (Comté de Québec) district. Results since 1867. Reliable source :-) The Assemblée Nationale website has it all now. Pichpich (talk) 14:46, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

(extra note: it's also a trivial task for a bot to automatically add a link to the assnat page of results) Pichpich (talk) 18:14, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Portal:New France

For your informations, I created this portal as the featured french portal. I need someone to check the intro translation because my english is basic. Thanks for your help! JF Lepage (talk) 04:14, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Québécois

Québécois has been proposed to be renamed Québécois (word) 76.66.195.159 (talk) 03:14, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Mount Royal

The Mount Royal article was moved around via cut-and-paste moving, and then it was corrrected via histmerging, so now we've ended up with the original Mount Royal article situated at Mount Royal, Montreal, and the Mount Royal (disambiguation) article sitting at Mount Royal. 76.66.198.171 (talk) 20:44, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

This is being discussed at Talk:Mount Royal as it has appeared at WP:RM. 76.66.198.171 (talk) 06:41, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Mount Royal was moved again, this time to Mount Royal Montreal, and then restored, per previous consensus on naming. 76.66.196.229 (talk) 08:04, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Robert Giguère

Hi, If you really have an interest in this page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gigu%C3%A8re) and similar pages, I strongly suggest you get acquainted (and eventually intervene) with this link: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Demande_de_restauration_de_page#Robert_Gigu.C3.A8re.C2.A0.28d.C2.A0.C2.B7.C2.A0h.C2.A0.C2.B7.C2.A0j_.C2.A0.C2.B7.C2.A0.E2.86.B5.29

In short, Utilisateur:LPLT in the French Wikipedia eliminated the french version of the page 3 hours after I posted the first draft of it.

What do you think if I cite page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability ?

it is important to not just consider whether notability is established by the article, but whether it readily could be. Remember that all Wikipedia articles are not a final draft, and an article can be notable if such sources exist even if they have not been added at present. Merely asserting that such sources exist is seldom persuasive, especially as time passes and actual proof does not surface. If it is likely that significant coverage in independent sources can be found for a topic, deletion due to lack of notability is inappropriate unless active effort has been made to find these sources. For articles of unclear notability, deletion should be a last resort.

This guy apparently has not read that, nor the french version. He is on a rampage to eliminate all biographical pages he judges are only of a genealogical nature and his list includes the English page on Robert Giguère, and possibly more pages YOU care about.

Thanks for your support, Alainr345 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alainr345 (talk • contribs) 20:42, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Ski-Doo

There's no article at Ski-Doo, as such a high profile Quebec product, it seems weird not to have one. 76.66.196.229 (talk) 08:03, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

I've adjusted the link so it now redirects to snowmobile instead. Circeus (talk) 17:12, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Why? The Ski-Doo is a BRP product. 76.66.196.229 (talk) 07:12, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Because it's also genericized trademark frequently used to mean "snowmobile". I sure didn't know until yesterday it was a Bombardier product (I thought it was just some random anglicism). Circeus (talk) 17:34, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

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LNI -> Ligue nationale d'improvisation

LNI has been nominated to be renamed Ligue nationale d'improvisation. 76.66.193.90 (talk) 07:05, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

List of Quebec national parks → List of parks in Quebec

List of Quebec national parks → List of parks in Quebec has been listed at WP:RM 76.66.193.90 (talk) 04:47, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

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Assessment of Lachine Canal

Lachine Canal is currently rated as "Low" importance. This seems odd to me, as it represents the industrial heartland of 19th century Canada. 76.66.201.179 (talk) 06:13, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Bombardier

• Bombardier → Bombardier Inc.
• Bombardier (disambiguation) → Bombardier

A rename related to Bombardier has been proposed at WP:RM, see Talk:Bombardier

76.66.193.69 (talk) 01:22, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Joseph-Armand Bombardier

Joseph-Armand Bombardier was requested to be speedily deleted, then proposed for deletion. I have removed the PROD request. 76.66.193.69 (talk) 04:43, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

mormon temple in Montreal

There is a Mormon temple in Montreal. Should the article belong to this WikiProject? LDS-SPA1000 (talk) 03:02, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Hydro-Québec (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

I've finished the translation of fr:Hydro-Québec. The article is now much more comprehensive (and balanced). WP:BOLD! Bouchecl (talk) 06:28, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Category:Quebecois cuisine

Category:Quebecois cuisine has been proposed to be renamed Category:Quebec cuisine 70.29.210.174 (talk) 04:37, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Marie Carmen

The article for this Quebecois pop singer was prodded. I removed the prod as it seems she has got a fair amount of press coverage, but most of it is in the French Canadian press, and my French isn't good enough to improve the article based on those sources - I put a news search on the talk page. Could anyone here take a look? Fences&Windows 21:56, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Propossed Merger of Montreal Expos and Washington Nationals

Since one of these articles falls under your project I just wanted to point you all to the discussion at Talk:Montreal_Expos#Merge_with_Washington_Nationals -Djsasso (talk) 03:50, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Featured List nomination for List of bridges in Montreal.

See Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of bridges in Montreal/archive1. -- Blanchardb -^{Me•MyEars•MyMouth}- timed 14:31, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Francophonie?

Does anyone think there should be a WP:WikiProject Francophonie? It would be like WP:WikiProject Commonwealth that handles the British Commonwealth.

See Talk:Organisation_internationale_de_la_Francophonie_(OlF)#WikiProject_Francophonie? for the discussion.

76.66.197.30 (talk) 07:54, 30 September 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.--Stoneacres (talk) 19:20, 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)

You're welcome.--Stoneacres (talk) 23:10, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Re seven CGNDB entries for Saint-Léon-le-Grand

Please see Talk:Saint-Léon-le-Grand,_Quebec#Seven_Saint-L.C3.A9on-le-Grand.2C_Quebec_placenames_in_CGNDB. Skookum1 (talk) 20:55, 17 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) 19:35, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

What is the Grand Sec d'Orléans, worth an article?

I was reading the article on Quebec cider, and it mentioned the Grand Sec d'Orléans. Is this some kind of Prohibition-related term? Or am I misreading it? Whatever it is, is it worth an article? MatthewVanitas (talk) 06:28, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

It is a cider product made by Cidrobec. To my knowledge, the product is no longer sold and Cidrobec has gone bankrupt. A 1975 TV advertising of the product (that you can watch on Youtube) made reference to the period when selling cider was illegal in Quebec. The slogan (in the ad) was "Bon comme c'est pas permis" meaning literally "Good like it's not allowed". If the quality of the product is to be accounted for, it is certainly not worthy of an article in any encyclopedia in the galaxy. But a lot of Quebecers who were teens in the 1970s and 1980s got drunk for the first time with this stuff because it was cheaper than beer. It is an interesting item from the point of view of culture. :-) -- Mathieugp (talk) 07:15, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Grand Sec d'Orléans and Québérac, sold in 1 gallon jugs. The headache :) Cheers anyway! Thanks for the smile. Bouchecl (talk) 07:28, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

The other Cajun/Quebecois unity flag (white, cypress tree, river)?

I was reading a book on Cajun culture maybe ten years ago, and it had a photo from the 1970s of a "Acadian diaspora" flag. I believe it was white, with a green tree (cypress?) and a blue squiggly line representing a river. Does anyone recall this flag, know if it's notable enough to have its own article, etc? MatthewVanitas (talk) 21:54, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

The best person I know about Acadian topics is active on fr:. Talk to Red Castle (he speaks English). Hope it helps. Bouchecl (talk) 22:42, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement

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Montreal Oil Refining Center

Montreal Oil Refining Center has been nominated for renaming, see Talk:Montreal Oil Refining Center

76.66.197.77 (talk) 05:17, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Category:National park of Canada - need Quebec input

I have nomed this cat for renaming here. Please contribute to the discussion. --Kevlar (talk • contribs) 00:42, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Concordia University

Someone stealthily moved Concordia University again, without listing it at WP:RM, even though it has had a few WP:RM discussions in the past.

• Concordia University
• Concordia University (Montreal)
• Concordia University (disambiguation)

It was previously noted that the one in Montreal is the most prominent, in past discussions.

70.29.210.242 (talk) 03:57, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

highway naming conformity

FYI, at WT:CANADA, there is currently a proposal to make all Canadian provincial highways named exactly the same way, following the way the US state highways are named.

76.66.194.32 (talk) 05:02, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Counties in Quebec

I've seen several articles about the counties in Quebec, e.g. Brome County, Quebec, written mostly in the present tense. I was under the impression that the regional county municipalities replaced the counties entirely, but I know that the continued existence of counties (albeit in the UK) has been contentious on Wikipedia in the past, so I thought that it is better to be safe than sorry. So my question is: does the subdivision of Quebec into counties still exist in any legal sense, or widely-accepted common parlance? fr:Comtés du Québec says that they still impact the way Quebecers think about the local geography, but is on the other hand quite adamant that the counties ceased to exist when the RCMs were introduced. //Essin (talk) 23:50, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Categories

A bunch of Canadian categories came up at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Speedy for renaming

Especially:

• Category:French Quebecers
• Category:Quebecers of French descent

70.29.208.247 (talk) 21:19, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

Quebecker

Someone went around and changed all the "Quebecer" articles to "Quebecker", violating WP:ENGVAR and not using Quebec English in the wording.

70.29.208.247 (talk) 21:36, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

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) 04:54, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

Template:Quebec English

FYI, {{Quebec English}} has been nominated for deletion. IT is an WP:ENGVAR template. 70.29.208.247 (talk) 04:28, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

Category:Quebec record labels

FYI, Category:Quebec record labels has been nominated for renaming. 70.29.208.247 (talk) 04:39, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Quebec Autoroute shields are wrong

The autoroute shields used on the articles, and residing on Commons are wrong. They have a red rectangle at the top of the shield, but the real shield has a representation of a viaduct and a divided roadway beneath it in white in the red rectangle.

See File:Quebec Autoroute 30.svg and http://www.mtq.gouv.qc.ca/portal/page/portal/Librairie/Images/Symboles/ecussons/r30.gif

76.66.193.224 (talk) 10:29, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

CFD nomination

You may be interested in voicing your opinion at current CFD nomination, as it also concerns Category:Cities and towns in Quebec. - Darwinek (talk) 11:35, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

Regional portals

I started working on portals for the 17 administrative regions of Quebec:

• Portal:Laurentides
• Portal:Estrie
• Portal:Quebec City [the city AND the Capitale-Nationale region as well]

If you feel like helping out... :-) -- Mathieugp (talk) 14:37, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

Some Gaspésie stubs

Hi everyone. I've started a few of these, and added a few images to the others. I am confused about municipalities in the infoboxes, and am hopeless with coordinates. I could use a bit of help fixing them up.

1. Rivière-au-Renard, Quebec
2. Rivière-à-Claude, Quebec
3. Port-Daniel–Gascons, Quebec
4. Saint-Godefroi, Quebec
5. L'Anse-au-Griffon, Quebec
6. L'Anse-à-Valleau, Quebec

Many thanks for any help you can give. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 14:49, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

Wow. 56 participants. A month later, and not one edit. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 03:48, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Your entries are fine stubs. What is there to fix? They are already better stubs than their equivalents in French. :-) -- Mathieugp (talk) 14:58, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Well thank you Mathieugp. That's very kind. It was only the name town/village/etc. that I wasn't sure about. Thank you. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 15:38, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

To be one 100% sure of the type of municipality you can run a search for the place's name in this site: http://www.toponymie.gouv.qc.ca --Mathieugp (talk) 01:20, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

Need help with first patent holder

Hi, there are conflicting stories about the first patent holder, both in the US and Canada. See Talk:Samuel Hopkins (inventor)#Maxey: wrong_Hopkins for more details. John Vandenberg ^(chat) 03:07, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

Taking the pulse

Is there anyone still reading this page once in a while? The project looks pretty dormant these days... Bouchecl (talk) 01:07, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

It may be a sign that we are all too busy improving the encyclopedia's pages... or that the initial participants to this Wikiproject are no longer active and no one stepped up to replace them. The dormancy might just be a consequence of both.

As it turns out, I have recently done a few things more along the lines of content organization than content production: Portal:Estrie, Portal:Laurentides, Portal:Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, Portal:Quebec City. I am working on Portal:French language and Portal:Franco American at the moment. All these remain to be done (in fact translated): Portal:Acadia, Portal:Mauricie, Portal:Côte-Nord, Portal:Gaspésie, Portal:Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Portal:Bas-Saint-Laurent, Portal:Lanaudière, Portal:Outaouais, Portal:Montérégie, Portal:Centre-du-Québec, Portal:Nord-du-Québec. All these portals are sprung from WikiProject Quebec. -- Mathieugp (talk) 01:40, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Ça parle au yâble! Glad to see you're still hanging on. We're busy in different parts of the Alpha Quadrant! I'm still doing my beaver impression, building dams and spillways, measuring head, most recently at Daniel-Johnson Dam, Churchill Falls Generating Station (honorary member of the Quebec portal?) and Bersimis-1 generating station. Bouchecl (talk) 03:44, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Keep up the good work in that area. No one does it better than you do. :-) -- Mathieugp (talk) 13:02, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

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Quebec portal do-over?

I plan to increase my contributions on the English Wikipedia for a variety of reasons and I was thinking this portal needs some work. The French portal is pretty good and has been granted Good Portal status a few days ago. Should we replace the current portal with something based on the French one? Bouchecl (talk) 20:50, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

I have no objection personally. -- Mathieugp (talk) 04:57, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

np here but i would guess we should use English Wikipedia articles that have GA and/or FA status Category:FA-Class Quebec articles and Category:GA-Class Quebec articles. I hope to keep a few things the same like "Related portals" (all Canadian portal use it) and "In the news" (that we should change to WIKINEWS Quebec ,,if we can find someone to update it). Moxy (talk) 05:05, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

We should try to automate the portal as much as possible to reduce maintenance. Most of us Quebecers tend to hang out in French Wikipedia, and the burden of translating ourselves to English in real-time it too great. For the "Related portals", I am afraid we will need to use a Quebec-specific one eventually. When I am done with the portals of our 17 regions, it will be impossible to put them all under "Cities & Regions". I think it would make more sense in the long run to change "Cities & Regions" for "Main cities" or "Metropolitan areas" and add "Cities & Regions" to the "Related portals" of each province. What do you think? -- Mathieugp (talk) 14:41, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

i hope to have them all in one....we can make new rows but we will see..17 is alot..is there any missing now?...we could do ones for just Quebec that sounds ok to Moxy (talk) 14:56, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

I'm not sure we can keep is as is, considering Mathieu's comment. Five regional portals (Montreal, Quebec City, Laurentians, Estrie and Saguenay) would need to be moved under a new "Quebec regional portals" section (or something like that) with the 12 coming up in the near future. At first glance, an horizontal, rather than vertical layout, might be more practical, but I'm open to better ideas.

More questions: how do you feel about the layout, colour scheme and header (see Portail:Québec)? Bouchecl (talk) 15:49, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

i like the french portal....and yes we will have to rearrange the "Related portals" perhaps like Portal:United States/Related portals //my main concern is the isolation of the projects again ....we recently redid the portals so that Quebec was not all alone and was part of WP Canada as a whole like the rest of the projects. WP Q needs lots of help out of 5,376 articles only 9 are FA and 24 GA's.. were at the Alberta project they have 19 FA's and 27 GA's from 5,971 articles...basically i dont want to see the WP seemingly all by its self and not seen by the rest of the country with links that just go around and around with in Quebec. That said we could have 2 sections like we did at portal:Music of Canada and perhaps have all the Quebec regions with a special sub Related portals section but have the main Quebec portal still shown all the others in Canadian portals. Moxy (talk) 16:08, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Edit conflict. Re: your earlier comment on FA and GA. Yes, we only have 33 GA/FA so far, but there are some nice articles over there. For instance, consider my adaptation of my French FA, Hydro-Québec, for which I never bothered getting a label (I not even sure how it works over here). As far as I know, it's the most comprehensive article on a public utility from anywhere in the world on the English Wikipedia. Rated B-class. Daniel-Johnson Dam is pretty good (but missing a piece here and there) and James Bay Project will be much more comprehensive as soon as I'm done with it (it almost doubled in size with a few hours of work). And that's just me. I'm pretty sure other contributors have their own gems, some of which we're not aware of (Mathieu? ).

As for the number and depth of articles, that can be explained by the fact that most Quebec-based editors are more interested in contributing to their own language edition, for various reasons related to lack of knowledge, lingusitic skills, history and politics. But the reverse is true. The official count for the French language Canada-related portals (29,000 articles) is as lopsided as the count in English: for instance, the French-language Alberta portal has only 403 articles. BC (789 articles); New Brunswick (1,726 articles); and Ontario, (2,369) have better numbers; whereas Quebec's official tally currently stands at 17,250 (it's more like 20,000 but some Quebec topics are lost and hidden in nondescript Canadian categories, oblivious to Quebec-only contributors). Bouchecl (talk) 21:13, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, I'll have to learn how this article review thing works one day. I must have two or three potential FAs and some 10 GAs in English. Same in French. -- Mathieugp (talk) 22:38, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

I think showing the main pan-Canadian portals on Quebec's own "Related portals" is unobjectionable. Showing the exact same set of links on all provincial "Related portals" is more objectionable to me on top of being impractical design-wise. I do understand the need to avoid dispersion on multiple non-communicating WikiProjects. However, uniformity might not be the best way. For example, in French Wikipedia, we have set up a monthly newsletter (entitled Nouvelles franches d'Amérique) which is intended for all people interested in French America. -- Mathieugp (talk) 20:06, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

ok sounds fine to me ..your right they dont all need them all... so main Quebec portal will have the Canadian related portals and the rest (Quebec sub portals) will have only the local (regional/cities) ones....when this is done i will edit the main Canadian Related portal and subtract the Que regions (will leave cities ),and make a link to the Que region's related portal page. PS great to see you guys over here from french wiki,,good to have real french editors here//Moxy (talk) 20:19, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

ok So like i was saying ,,,is the way this test edit is set up ok ..the way it links to Portal:Quebec/Related portals by saying Quebec Regions...i dont want to exclude any were so i think this will help? you guys ok with it??Moxy (talk) 20:46, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Fine with me. Bouchecl (talk) 21:13, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Cool will change it up now as i see that Portal:Mauricie is missing and all alone :(....I will also change the Quec regions to {{Portal:Quebec/Related portals}} this way you only have Portal:Quebec/Related portals to update that will be seen in all.Moxy (talk) 21:30, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

I need to eat something but I'll be back tonight to work a bit on it. I plan to work on a userpage first (in order to avoid unnecessary disruptions to the live page). Feel free to comment as I go along, here or on my Talk page. Bouchecl (talk) 22:20, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Work in progress

As Moxy probably noticed, I'm currently working on porting the French layout on Portal:Quebec. I just hit a snag, but I'm currently working on the issue (I need to find a way to work around the /Box-header and /Box-footer sub templates used in conjunction with {{Random portal component with nominate}}). I'll keep you posted, but I won't be done tonight as I foolishly hoped a few hours ago. I'll keep you posted. For the time being, the construction site is located in one of my user pages. Bouchecl (talk) 01:36, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

I still have to write a number of DYK, find some English quotes and create a broader index of topics. If you have a minute, feel free to comment on the prototype. Bouchecl (talk) 22:54, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Good job! It already looks great! Are you translating the DYKs or did you find a stash of already-in-English ones? I can help with translation if needed. A couple things I can see so far:

1) I would not favour two separate "Related portals" blocks. I would favour incorporating a row (or column) for Canada, History of Canada, Geography of Canada, Aboriginals of Canada, Politics of Canada, etc., right into the Quebec-specific Related portals block. This is what I meant above when I wrote about "showing the main pan-Canadian portals on Quebec's own "Related portals"".

2) I am discovering just now that there already is a Portal:Quebec at Wikinews! I think we should use it. I do not know if it is ready to feed Wikipedia though.

3) Since it is likely many people interested in the portal will know some French, it might be good to feed in news from the Francophone Wikinews Page:Québec as well. This one actually seems to be alive.

4) I vote for replacing [[File:QC-flag-contour.png]] with this [[Image:Blue fleur-de-lis.svg]] everywhere in the portal.

-- Mathieugp (talk) 00:08, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

I have exactly 3 or 4 of everything set up by Moxy as a starting point.

• For the DYK, add them here
• Selected articles, I need help here. I've put 6 and I plan to move the biographies with the selected articles. But we need 25-30 (Selected from FA, GA and B-class) to make it interactive. Let's try to keep a 50-50 split between the two. As far as articles are concerned, let's also try to strike a balance between 18th century warfare and contemporary Quebec. And let's also try to bring a more balanced and less Montreal-centric vision of Quebec (because as of now, Quebec coverage here is Montreal, a series of GPS coordinates in infoboxes and hockey players).

Go for it! Bouchecl (talk) 00:55, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

Défrichage

Now that we seem to have somewhat reactivated this portal, how should we go about it?

1. Write the Top topics (economy, culture, education, health care, environment, energy, forestry, mining, geography, law, sports, music, television, etc.),
2. broaden the base (batch creation/translation of thousands of articles from fr: )
3. polish a few hundred articles (FA, GA, FL, B and C-class)
4. fix biographies

Re-doing the portal helped me see the possibilities of starting over... almost from scratch. That's exciting. Bouchecl (talk) 01:37, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

I think do what you think is best....So far i have seen nothing but outstanding edits and decisions on your part. So pick a topic and I will follow and help were i can. PS i am/have been working on getting History of Canada to GA level have failed one time...but will get there soon...i am asking because is there any history from Quebec you think is missing? (will be asking this of all Canadian projects in my efforts to get missing info since i am getting it to GA then FA level over the next 5 months or so)Moxy (talk) 04:07, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

Two Solitudes (Canadian society)

FYI, Two Solitudes (Canadian society) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) has been nominated for deletion. 76.66.200.95 (talk) 05:46, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

Quebec national soccer team

Does anyone have any information about it? The article is rather sparse. Is the title even correct? Balcer 20:37, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Bonjour Balcer. There are teams of Quebec in the categories of age (U14, U15, U16, and a joint team U17/U18 ). Both at the boys and at the girls. This for Canadian competitions as the Cup Quebec-Ontario

read The Coupe Quebec-Ontario Cup is a new competition developed by both The Ontario Soccer Association and la Federation de Soccer du Quebec http://www.ontariosoccer.net/Competitions/Quebec-Ontario-Cup.aspx and http://www.canadasoccer.com/nationals/viewArtical.asp?Press_ID=4511

--Charlesquebec (talk) 15:36, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

Women's soccer in Quebec

Hey everyone, I wish to work on the pages on the women's soccer. I begin with the page of Laval Comets and Quebec City Amiral SC. I have to end these 2 pages. And I have to modify the page of Amy Walsh a player of soccer whom I like very much. It was not easy for me because I am new member on Wikipedia. I wish to continue at the level of the other women's teams of Quebec ( Carabins, Rouge et or, Vert et Or).

You can read 3 pages and say to me if everything is correct

bonjour vous tous. Bienvenu aux critiques pour ces 3 pages. Je suis nouveau sur le Wikipedia anglophone. Une façon pour moi de mieux maîtriser l'écriture de la langue anglaise. Je me cherche d'ailleurs un parrain bilingue (anglais-français) pour m'aider à mieux comprendre toutes les facettes du Wikipedia. Au plaisir de partager avec vous Merci --Charlesquebec (talk) 20:27, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

new page for Maroua Chebbi --Charlesquebec (talk) 23:09, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

I seeks for a bilingual wikimentor (English-French) to help me to understand better all the facets of Wikipedia. a Bilingual wikimentor because my English language is very summary and I am here on English wikipeda to learn better to write the English language. I possess no political belief, and no religious belief. It does not interest me. I am only fascinated by sports . Women's soccer and Women's hockey first of all. Tanks, merci. --Charlesquebec (talk) 12:47, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

Stadacona & Habitation

We might want to improve Stadacona, the village that Jacques Cartier visited, where Samuel de Champlain built l'Habitation. It's a rather short article at the moment. We're also missing an article on l'Habitation. Habitation is a redirect and there is no Habitation (disambiguation). 76.66.200.95 (talk) 07:52, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

Sports: Women's Hockey

Hello, bonjour à tous, I made some updated on this page Montreal Stars. A great women's hockey team in Montreal. Only verify if everything is correct because I am new member on wikipedia . Tanks --Charlesquebec (talk) 15:57, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

Sports: Montreal Carabins

Montreal Carabins Good evening,bonsoir à tous I redid all the page of Carabins de l'Université de Montréal ( history of club Carabins, men soccer team, women soccer team and women hockey team) --Charlesquebec (talk) 01:43, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

Battle of Quebec (sports)

We seem to be missing the "Battle of Quebec" in sport. There are articles on it for Battle of Alberta and Battle of Ontario. (Battle of Quebec is a disambiguation page)

76.66.203.138 (talk) 13:54, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Bécancour,_Quebec_(community)

Hello, my friends: A group of us are working on clearing the backlog at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Articles_lacking_sources_from_October_2006. The article in the above header has been without sources for the past four years and might b e removed if none are added. I wonder if you can help find one or two good references. Sincerely, and all the best to you, GeorgeLouis (talk) 22:39, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Collaboration with the Wine Project on Quebec wine articles?

Apologizes to the editors on WP:CANADA who will see a similar invite
Hello! For 2011 the Wine Project is doing a new Wine Improvement Drive where each month we focus on an area of articles that relate to a particular theme. In January, we are are ringing in the New Year with New World wine, with a focus on the wines of the Northern Hemisphere-Canadian wine, American wine and Mexican wine. I am going by related projects to see if there is any interest in collaboration between this project and the wine project on the subject of Quebec wine? Some suggestion on potential article creations include History of Quebec wine, the red links on Vintners Quality Alliance as well as individual appellation articles from the regions listed on Quebec_wine#Wine_regions such as Eastern Townships wine (similar to the American Viticultural Areas where each wine region gets its own article). Another idea would be creating articles on notable wineries such as La Vitacée, Vignoble de L'Orpailleur and Vignoble Les Arpents de Neige, etc. On a smaller scale, there are Quebec wine related articles that could use some help with clean up or expanding beyond a stub such as the articles on the grapes that are important to the Quebec wine industry-such as De Chaunac, Seyval Blanc or others listed in Quebec_wine#Grape_varietals. And, of course, of HUGE help would be the upload of free use photos of Quebec wineries, wines and wine regions to Commons that could be used to better illustrate Quebec wine articles. If you're interested in helping, please drop a note at the Wine Project's talk page with the article you're interested in helping with. Thanks and have a great New Year! Agne^Cheese/^Wine 22:55, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

Bye bye mon cowboy

Bye bye mon cowboy (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) was prodded for deletion. I deprodded it, but it needs some work. 64.229.101.119 (talk) 06:27, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

La Soirée du hockey

La Soirée du hockey is rather bare (and so is the french version fr:La Soirée du hockey) so it would be nice if someone could improve this... the French version doesn't contain information on French radio broadcasts, and the English version doesn't contain much information. As the French version seems to cover info from the English HNIC article... how much of it is about LSDH and how much is HNIC is in question, the list of commentators is clearly French though. 65.95.14.96 (talk) 02:42, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Réforme Marois

An idea for the english Wikipedia is an article about the Réforme Marois WhisperToMe (talk) 05:08, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Commission scolaire au Québec

The French Wikipedia has fr:Commission scolaire au Québec - Does the English have an equivalent? WhisperToMe (talk) 00:59, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

There's no school boards in Quebec article or Quebec school boards... but we have several articles on individual boards in Quebec. 64.229.100.45 (talk) 04:57, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

Fort Carillon

There is a discussion at Talk:Fort Carillon about Fort Carillon and Fort Ticonderoga and the need to have separate articles on the two (co-located, but temporally separated forts). 64.229.100.45 (talk) 04:54, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

Proposed merge

It is suggested that this article Winter Stadium (Montreal) be merged into CEPSUM Stadium . It is my feeling: I know very well the CEPSUM and the campus of Université de Montréal. The Winter Stadium (Montreal) probably does not merit his own article, and such content as is appropriate should probably be merged into the CEPSUM Stadium article. I invite discussion, --Charlesquebec (talk) 13:04, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

New province outline

Toward the goal of having a complete collection of outlines on Canadian provinces and territories, Outline of Quebec is under construction. It is the third outline on a Canadian province.

For comparison see these further developed outlines:

• Outline of British Columbia
• Outline of Saskatchewan
• Outline of Canada

For the entire set outlines, see Portal:Contents/Outlines. The Transhumanist 12:14, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

Naming discussion: Québec Capitales → Les Capitales de Québec

Readers of this page may be interested in contributing to the discussion at Talk:Québec Capitales#Requested move. Cheers. -GTBacchus^(talk) 18:21, 2 July 2011 (UTC)

Ideas for new articles and templates

Hi! I found two things (an article and a portal) in French that don't yet have English versions:

• fr:Piché, entre ciel et terre
• fr:Portail:Cinéma québécois

Would anybody be interested in developing these? Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 01:57, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

The English title for Piché: entre ciel et terre is Piché: The Landing of a Man, according to TVA Films. 76.65.128.132 (talk)

Would it be Portal:Quebec cinema or Portal: Quebecois cinema ? (provincial or ethnic?) 76.65.128.132 (talk) 06:53, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Archiving is broken

ClueBot III is archiving to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Quebec/Archives/ 1 which isn't showing up in the archive list or the archivebox. Normally, this should be Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Quebec/Archives/1 or Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Quebec/Archive 1 (which would autolist in the standard archivebox)... 76.65.128.132 (talk) 06:51, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month

Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Quebec will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in Quebec'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) 23:45, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Encyclopædia Universalis

With the cessation of Britannica's print edition, I thought it would be a good idea if some people could improve the Universalis article from being a stub? 70.24.245.141 (talk) 06:57, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

SNC Lavalin

For those interested, discussion is ongoing at: Wikipedia_talk: Canadian_Wikipedians'_notice_board # SNC_Lavalin_scandal Ottawahitech (talk) 12:54, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

Quebec infoboxes

Let's gain consensus on some formatting issues in Quebec municipal infoboxes:

• Coordinates: I propose to use the ones as published by the Commission de toponymie du Québec, in degree and minute format (not decimal).
• Census, MAMROT, and topographic info should be at the appropriate fields or inline with paragraphs (example) and not become an external link section within the infobox (example). Needless clutter IMO; the infoboxes are becoming just a dumping ground and substitution for adding real content.

If there are other formatting issues to be resolved, let's discuss these as well. -- P 1 9 9 • TALK 18:04, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

• The {{infobox settlement}} template has a coor_pinpoint field, and many pages already fill this with the street address given at the MAMROT page (usually the address of city hall or the main municipal building, an example is here) It appears in the top right corner, under Coordonnées. We can very easily convert that street address to a precise latitude and longitude in a matter of seconds using, for instance, Google Maps, and it is interesting to do so because this makes the coord external link a launching point for Google Street View or aerial view exploration of the area that is, almost by definition, the heart of the municipality (near the town hall). The coordinates given by the Commission de toponymie are often only specified to within one minute of arc, which is about 1.8 km... some village municipalities are actually smaller than this. A user clicking through the link might end up viewing a farmer's field on the map rather than the center of activity of the municipality.

In any case, the coordinates display in two places: "inline" within the template (next to the coor_pinpoint street address, and again in the "title" space, at the top right corner of the page. If it was considered helpful, we could specify these separately, so that only the "inline" display is higher precision (to pick out city hall), while the "title" display could have reduced precision, to only within a minute of arc. This involves some duplication though. -- P.T. Aufrette (talk) 21:15, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

Any use of Google maps should check the streetview, I have noticed that Google Maps is sometimes inaccurate, when I check the streetview, it is a few blocks off. 70.24.244.198 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 11:01, 4 April 2012 (UTC).

Census, MAMROT, Toponymie external links

The example given was Lawrenceville, Quebec. These external links are invariably referenced as primary sources in many if not most of the articles about Quebec municipalities. I think they're useful for general readers too, and not too much onscreen clutter. -- P.T. Aufrette (talk) 21:15, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

Montreal Flood of 2012

Is there a Montreal Flood of 2012 article? We have one for Montreal Flood of 1987, and the Tuesday 29 May 2012 rain event was an extreme rain event and flash flood, being only the second time the Metro's been shut down due to rain, major innundations, and many floodings.

70.24.251.208 (talk) 08:37, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

I commented at Wikipedia talk:Quebec Wikipedians' notice board, perhaps we can centralize discussion there. — P.T. Aufrette (talk) 14:53, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

Request for cleanup assistance at List of city nicknames in Canada#Quebec

This section of this list article needs cleanup. In particular, references based on reliable sources (not user-generated media such as blogs, forums, tweets, etc.) for the numerous of nicknames are required, as well as weeding out editor-derived/questionable nicknames from the genuine nicknames of widespread usage. I've cleaned up the Alberta section, and am looking to the members of the applicable provincial/territorial WikiProjects to help out with the other sections including this one. Thanks, Hwy43 (talk) 06:55, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Quebec articles needing translation from French Wikipedia?

I was looking to translate some articles to occupy my time. However, I would like to translate articles that relate to Québec specifically. Perhaps I'm not looking in the right places, but I haven't been able to find such a category and instead have to run through hoping to come across something I recognize as being about Quebec. Does such a list exist? If not, can we create one so that in the introduction we may have "Translate an article..." as well? - Sweet Nightmares 19:45, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

I don't think there is a specific list but you can probably find a few things to translate by looking at the red links in the lists of Category:Quebec-related lists. Of course some of these red links don't exist on fr.wiki either but you have a decent chance at finding articles that you're actually interested in translating. For instance Jutra Award shows that some of the best film, best actor/actress and best director winners are missing on en.wiki but all of them exist in French. Pichpich (talk) 20:05, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

Kirkland, Quebec

Recently, a user has added a "Controversy" section to the article about Kirkland, Quebec. Third-party opinions might be useful at the talk page. — P.T. Aufrette (talk) 04:15, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

Quebec premiers

FYI, there is a discussion on the formatting of Que premier bio articles at WT:CANADA -- 76.65.131.248 (talk) 03:59, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

l'Habitation

Habitation - I just noticed that there's no article on Champlain's Habitation. There's a nice one on the French Wikipedia: fr:Habitation de Québec -- 70.24.186.245 (talk) 13:29, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

Montreal municipal parties

NOTE, there's a query at WT:CANADA about Montreal political parties. -- 70.24.247.127 (talk) 06:30, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

Southern Quebec location map

I have created a template location map for Southern Quebec: Template:Location map Canada Southern Quebec. Since the bulk of the population lives in the south, this map may be helpful to provide greater detail where needed (just like the Southern Ontario counterpart). See examples of use at Coaticook, Quebec, and Fassett, Quebec. -- P 1 9 9  ✉ 16:08, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

Internet URLs of old Quebec school boards

I'm having trouble trying to find the internet URLs (if they existed) of the pre 1998 school boards:

• Commission scolaire Jérôme-Le Royer
• Commission scolaire Sainte-Croix

I was able to get URLs of the CECM and the Montreal Protestant School Board. Does anybody have an idea of what publications might state those URLs? WhisperToMe (talk) 17:31, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

"History of Quebec"

We don't have a {{History of Quebec}}, it seems that such a template would be useful, similar to {{History of Canada sidebar}} or {{History of Ontario}}

conversely, it could be formatted like {{History of Canada navbox}}

-- 76.65.128.43 (talk) 03:54, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

"Adopt an article..."

The target for "Adopt an article" appears to be nonexistent. What is it supposed to point to? - Sweet Nightmares 02:40, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

Cleanup listing! Yay!

I successfully got WikiProject Quebec added to Svick's WikiProject cleanup listing! As such, we can now use the following tasks template:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Cleanup : Articles needing cleanup Disambiguation : Articles with links needing disambiguation Expand : Articles to be expanded Geographical coordinates : All articles needing coordinates in Quebec Merge : Articles to be merged NPOV : NPOV disputes in Quebec Orphans : Orphaned articles in Quebec Photo : Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Quebec Split : Sections to be split, Articles to be split Stubs : Quebec stubs Update : Wikipedia articles in need of updating in Quebec Verify : Wikipedia articles needing factual verification Other : clean-up listing for Quebec

However, I'm not quite sure where to put it, so here it is. A list of all tagged articles under the scope of WikiProject Quebec can be found here. - Sweet Nightmares 20:28, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Great. Thanks. Feel free to put it somewhere on the project page. Bouchecl (talk) 21:31, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

I have forwarded your call to arms on the Quebec village pump on frwiki. Bouchecl (talk) 21:40, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Template:Location map Canada Southern Quebec

I would appreciate a bit of input here regarding the new map being used in infoboxes of cities in the core of the province (e.g. Longueuil). Maybe I'm off-base, but I think a larger map would be more useful. What are your thoughts? - Sweet Nightmares 14:06, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Camoplast

Greetings! I have recently relisted a requested move discussion at Talk:Camoplast#Requested_move, regarding a page relating to this WikiProject. Discussion and opinions are invited. Thanks, Tyrol5 [Talk] 00:32, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

Category:Cœur de pirate

Category:Cœur de pirate (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.250.103 (talk) 01:27, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

Cœur de pirate discography

The Cœur de pirate discography is currently at FLC. Please leave comments and feedback to get this discography to Featured List status. – Underneath-it-All (talk) 18:56, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

Canada Census Mother Tongue Language Trends

For municipality articles in Quebec, I have recently devised an infobox for Canada Census Mother Tongue Language Trends (like the population trends usually found on the same pages). An example can be found here: Dundee, Quebec. Can I please request user group feedback on wether or not this would be a valid addition to page content? Thanks all! Gordalmighty (talk) 21:02, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

I don't see any reason to be opposed to it; more information is usually better. Great work! - Sweet Nightmares 21:19, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

WP:FRMOS

Is there any reason why Saint-Léonard, Quebec is at St. Leonard, Quebec when we have Sainte-Geneviève, Quebec? In ictu oculi (talk) 02:46, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

I requested a move at Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests. - Sweet Nightmares 19:22, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia ad

How do you guys feel about creating a Wikipedia ad for our project? I wish I knew how to make a gif! - Sweet Nightmares 16:57, 30 November 2013 (UTC)