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Could other editors please have a look at a new article,
Humanitarian crisis of family reunification in Quebec. The article's creator has made several lengthy edits to Canadian articles which would benefit from review by editors familiar with Quebec. Thank you.
Magnolia677 (
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Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a
"change X to Y" format and provide a
reliable source if appropriate.
Liu1126 (
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Not done: This requires a consensus that frankly I don't think has a snowball's chance in hell of passing. Good day—
RetroCosmostalk 22:44, 24 March 2024 (UTC)reply
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Update population from 40,528,396 (2023 Q4 estimate) to 40,769,890 (2024 Q1 estimate).
ZeusMinerva25 (
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Not done: please provide
reliable sources that support the change you want to be made.
Shadow311 (
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The reliable source is already in the article/infobox, it's the same source that's currently being used. No change of sources is being asked, just an update to reflect the source.
Canterbury Tailtalk 15:14, 27 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Please note the archive for the StatsCan source must be updated when we update the population; otherwise, it points to a version with the wrong population listed. Thanks. —
Joeyconnick (
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Do the "total area" and the "water" area include Hudson Bay? And do they include parts of the three oceans bounding Canada? If the latter are included how far from land do they extend?
Michael Hardy (
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Freshwater calculations only. That said we're one of the weirdos where our territorial claims are larger than our economic zone...
Exclusive economic zone of Canada. Moxy🍁 01:13, 28 March 2024 (UTC)reply
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It seems to me that the arrow for the population estimate should be increase neutral and a positive increase (green) for the census population.
ZeusMinerva25 (
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The arrow for the census population should be changed from neutral (grey) to positive (green). The population has increased, confirmed by the change from the 2016 census to the 2021 census.
ZeusMinerva25 (
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All country articles use grey arrows for the infobox population tables, whether there has been an increase or decrease in population
B3251 (
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Yes... that makes sense, as a population increase is not necessarily a positive change in all contexts. —
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I'm not sure either, but the current number is based on the OECD source so that may be a good choice, for lack of better alternative.
ASUKITE 17:41, 17 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Hi. I noticed that the demographics list of the Canadian population is missing (or was removed) from the top of the main page on Canada. Is there a reason for this? I remember it listed there not too long and is shown when you click on the "Canadian" link under Demonym. I think this is a good way to instantly understand who the Canadian people are so I think it should be included back in.
47.23.177.234 (
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Both Religion and Demographics have been deleted. I think it's a useful information, but regardless of what I prefer, not having them will make the article inconsistent with the rest of country articles.
LibIchtnatz (
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Canadian-Danish Realm Border
This was discussed last in February but I wish to bring it up again. Almost all country pages on Wikipedia have mentions of said nations bordering countries, or even just countries close by, in their lead. Exceptions include large countries like China and Russia with significant amounts of bordering nations, but both still mention the amount of countries bordered and provides a link to the their respective borders. The Canadian-Danish Realm border, though small, is still an international border between sovereign states that should be mentioned in the lead. It is also apparently the
third shortest land border in the world, which is notable.
Zinderboff(
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Problem we have is this is historically insignificant..... thus does not belong in the lead about a country. The lead is for significant facts and historical events...... not a laundry list. I would suggest the other articles need to be brought up to FA level as seen here.Moxy🍁 22:07, 4 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Having a border with another country isn't really historically insignificant, it is a present fact. The process of acquiring said border probably isn't notable enough for the lead but not the border itself. Fellow FAs
India and
Cameroon both dedicates most of their first paragraph mentioning all bordering countries, along with even maritime borders. When this was promoted to FA in 2006 this border wasn't a thing in existence, it is now. Canada is the only country article I have seen which lead doesn't mention all its bordering nations in some way.
Zinderboff(
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India is a horrible example of an article to fallow.... Best we don't simply have a laundry list of examples... since we list the ocean territories. I simply don't see the need to list all 10 countries..... this isn't a geography article. That said let's see what others say. Moxy🍁 02:50, 5 May 2024 (UTC)reply
One of the reasons that borders get mentioned in the other articles is that those borders have major political and trade significance. India has been at war with two of its neighbouring countries, China and Pakistan, and was involved in the Pakistan civil war that resulted in Bangladesh. There are also trade issues between those countries, through their borders. Russia borders several countries that once were part of the USSR and also has a major war on with one of its neighbours, which in turn has caused one of its other neighbours, Finland, to join NATO. The borders of these countries have a major role in the internal politics and external affairs.
The Canadian border with the Danish realm has none of those features. Hans Island is remote and unpopulated. There are no trade implications. That portion of Nunavut and Greenland have very low populations. There are no conflicts over the island that are likely to lead to war; the Whiskey War was a civilized trading échange of flags, whiskey and schnapps. Denmark and Canada are NATO allies.
A short border on an uninhabited island, distant from most population centres, with no trade implications, and no military threats, is not sufficiently notable to appear in the lead, anymore than the maritime boundary with France.
Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (
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Agree strongly with
Moxy... this is 100% not lead-worthy. It can be mentioned elsewhere in the article or in other relevant articles but given how remote and uninhabited the area where the border is located is, it is clearly not suitable to mention it in this article's lead. —
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Under the "Government and Politics" section, change "centre-left leaning Liberal Party of Canada" to "centre to centre-left leaning Liberal Party of Canada". This reflects the consensus in other articles that the Liberal Party of Canada is as much (if not more so) centrist as it is centre-left.
Thecolonpagesaretoocomplicated (
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No need...... explain in the following sentence. Moxy🍁 22:55, 20 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Error in table of "Largest metropolitan areas in Canada"
In the table titled "Largest metropolitan areas in Canada" there is an error: the column titled "Municipal pop." should say "Metropolitan pop.", as these are all populations of metropolitan areas.
I have, at least, made "Municipal pop." link to
List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada instead of to a list of lists (🙄) page because you're correct: we are listing the cities by the metro populations and not their municipal ones, otherwise Vancouver would not be number 3.
Happy if anyone who knows more template wizardry can jump in and improve the situation... am thinking we should maybe just change {{
Template:Largest metropolitan areas of Canada}} to not rely on the "Largest cities" template. —
Joeyconnick (
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