Wikipedia talk:Canadian Wikipedians' notice board/Release versions

Moving discussion from Wikipedia talk:Canadian Wikipedians' notice board, since this is fairly specific in scope. Mindmatrix 15:12, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Please see this for a list of Canada-related articles (those tagged with WikiProject Canada). An S in the left-hand column indicates it is already selected for the Release Version of Wikipedia on DVD.

Omissions

• John Graves Simcoe (not tagged with Canadada WikiProject; top for Toronto WikiProject)
• Lake Simcoe - needs cleanup
• Arthur Erickson - needs significant expansion to qualify
• Toronto Star - widely distributed paper
• History of Toronto - needs some cleanup and sources
• History of Montreal - needs some cleanup and sources
• Whooping Crane - needs some cleanup and sources
• Wood Buffalo National Park - needs significant expansion to qualify
• Lunenburg, Nova Scotia - needs significant cleanup and expansion
• Bluenose - needs cleanup and expansion
• Rideau Canal - needs some cleanup
• Niagara Escarpment - needs some cleanup
• Oak Ridges Moraine - needs some cleanup
• Hazel McCallion - needs minor cleanup
• Pierre Berton - needs some cleanup and sources
• Norman Jewison - needs some cleanup and sources
• Atom Egoyan - needs some cleanup, expansion and sources
• National Film Board of Canada - needs some cleanup
• Atlantic cod - needs some cleanup, expansion and sources
• Inukshuk - needs minor cleanup
• Research in Motion and BlackBerry - needs some cleanup
• Canadarm, Canadarm2 and Dextre - needs some sources
• Roots Canada Ltd. - needs some cleanup, expansion and sources
• Stratford Shakespeare Festival - needs some cleanup, expansion and sources
• Insulin - though this is likely included from the Medicine wikiproject
• Pablum
• Standard time - it's a stub
• Electron microscope - needs some cleanup, expansion and sources
• CANDU reactor - needs minor cleanup
• Underground Railroad
• L'Anse aux Meadows

A couple of other suggestions:

• The Bloc Québécois is on the list, but Gilles Duceppe isn't.
• Of Canada's 40 largest cities, only the following aren't currently listed: Vaughan, Longueuil, Sherbrooke, Lévis, Guelph. All need some improvements. We have a fairly good, but not exhaustive, selection of cities below the Top 40 as well.
• Biographies of famous Canadians and ex-pats, such as John Candy, Martin Short, and Michael J. Fox, Ron MacLean, Don Cherry, Mordecai Richler, Marc Garneau, Roberta Bondar, Barbara Frum, Peter Gzowski, Bob McDonald (science journalist), Michael Ondaatje, Leonard Cohen, Margaret Atwood, Rick Mercer, Peter Jennings, Farley Mowat, Alice Munro, Rohinton Mistry, Emily Carr, Stephen Leacock, Guy Gavriel Kay, William Gibson, Robert Munsch, Jane Jacobs, Laura Secord, Agnes Macphail, Nellie McClung, La Bolduc, John Peters Humphrey, Louis-Joseph Papineau, Jean de Brébeuf, Martin Frobisher, Jeff Healey, Robbie Robertson, Bruce Cockburn. A good list of potential candidates is at Category:Canada's Walk of Fame. Also include Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Scientists et al include J. Dewey Soper, Henry Morgentaler, Wilder Penfield, Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, John Charles Fields, Tak Wah Mak, David Suzuki, John Tuzo Wilson, William Edmond Logan, Charlotte Froese Fischer, Steve Mann, John Charles Polanyi, Brian Kernighan, Nobel laureates, Sandford Fleming, Royal Society of Canada, Royal Canadian Institute, Emily Stowe, Jennie Kidd Trout, Charles Fenerty
• Television shows and other media, possibly including Corner Gas, Second City Television, Smith & Smith, Wayne and Shuster, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, The Kids in the Hall, CODCO, Air Farce Live, The Red Green Show, The Beachcombers, Due South, Polka Dot Door, Degrassi, Da Vinci's Inquest, E.N.G., The Nature of Things, Definition (TV series), Front Page Challenge, Bob and Margaret, Mr. Dressup, The National, The Raccoons, Theodore Tugboat, ReBoot, This Hour Has Seven Days, Under the Umbrella Tree, W-FIVE, The Fifth Estate, and Canada: A People's History. Magazines including: Shift (magazine), The Beaver (magazine), Harrowsmith, Maclean's, Toronto Life, The Walrus, Owl (magazine), Chickadee (magazine), Canadian Geographic, Adbusters, Chatelaine (magazine), Saturday Night (magazine). Radio: As It Happens. Other cultural references include Winnie-the-Pooh, Love You Forever, Loverboy, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Crash Test Dummies.
• Science and technology: Anik (satellite), Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, SNO+, SNOLAB, Montreal procedure, National Research Council (Canada), CAE (company), ATI Technologies, Nortel, Celestica, Maple (software), Open Text Corporation, Corel Corporation, IMAX, Kerosene, Canola, Goalie mask, Paint roller, Snowmobile, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, Canadian Light Source Synchrotron, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Geological Survey of Canada, Robertson screwdriver, Alkaline battery, Rechargeable alkaline battery, G-suit
• History and people: Hudson's Bay Company Archives, Oneida tribe, Mohawk nation, Iroquois, Mi'kmaq, Wyandot, Native American long house, Innu, Algonquin, Abenaki, Ipperwash Crisis, Lenape, Mississaugas, Cayuga nation. This list is not exhaustive; see Category:Aboriginal peoples in Canada for other entries. Others include: In Flanders Fields, Quiet Revolution, Rebellions of 1837
• Geography: Grand Banks of Newfoundland, Labrador Current, Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Canadian Prairies, Boreal Shield, James Bay, Great Slave Lake, Great Bear Lake, Welland Canal
• Other: Frontier College, Trivial Pursuit, Crokinole, Paris Crew, Cream soda, Intercolonial Railway, Canada Post, Postage stamps and postal history of Canada, Grand Trunk Railway, Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons, Constitution Act, 1867, Upper Canada Rebellion

Delete from list

• Simple Plan, Three Days Grace: neither seems to be among the most relevant articles about Canadian music and culture