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editA userbox is available at User:Qyd/User WikiProject Canadian Territories (per Wikipedia:Userbox migration, I created it in user space). Use {{User:Qyd/User WikiProject Canadian Territories}} on your user page. --Qyd 22:33, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
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I was working on the above article when I noticed that the references say he was appointed to the Territorial Court of the Northwest Territories, see http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic43-4-404.pdf or Google books (the first hit) and not the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories. I am guessing that the current Supreme was renamed from the Territorial. Anybody know for sure? If so then the two court articles need fixing. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 23:21, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
My understanding is that these are two separate courts, please see http://www.nwtcourts.ca/Courts/Courts.htm. NWTResearch (talk) 23:01, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
- That's correct. When Parliament created the superior court for the NWT in 1955, it called it the "Territorial Court" and Sissons was the first judge of that Court. I've recently edited the Supreme Court article to explain the evolution of the court. I'm not sure when it was re-named the Supreme Court of the NWT - when I track that point down, I will add it to the article. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 14:31, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
This is a 2008-02-13 new article, self nom, for DYK?. Thanks in advance if you have an image or can improve it in some other way. Rosiestep (talk) 02:47, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
- Fyi, it got on today's DYK?. Rosiestep (talk) 00:13, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
Inuit folklore?
editHi there, we're looking for more info on Polar bear folklore from the far north..anyone who has any folklore material and references is welcome to add it to the polar bear article. much appreciated. Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 03:50, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
- Just to clarify do you mean material that would fall under Inuit mythology such as The Woman and her Bear? Or do you mean material that would be covered by Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit such as polar bears that are found inland are more dangerous than polar bears on the ice? CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 05:56, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
- Well found. I guess the second would be best placed in an interaction bit on dangerousness. This is fascinating. Both are very useful and thanks for the heads up. I am in Australia where there aren't any polar bears and the climate is a bit different. I have to run now but will look into this further today :) Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 20:46, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
- The problem is sourcing. The hungry bears is from the elders but I haven't seen it written down anywhere. This might be of interest but I'm not sure that everything is a reliable source but the method is correct. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 05:18, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
- Well found. I guess the second would be best placed in an interaction bit on dangerousness. This is fascinating. Both are very useful and thanks for the heads up. I am in Australia where there aren't any polar bears and the climate is a bit different. I have to run now but will look into this further today :) Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 20:46, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
Images
editI think the WP:LAKES images suggestion to include at least one photo in each article is valid for most of this project's articles, too. I'll await discussion here before I start adding the "reqphotoin" template to a batch of this project's Talk pages, or adding it to To do. --Rosiestep (talk) 19:51, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
This is a new article, self-nom at Template talk:Did you know#Articles created/expanded on May 27. Any improvement (e.g. map, photo, etc.), especially during the 5 day DYK? article review period, is appreciated. --Rosiestep (talk) 00:49, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
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Arctic Portal and WikiProject?
editWould anyone here be interested in helping me start Portal:Arctic and Wikipedia:WikiProject Arctic? Drop a note on my talk page if you are interested, or if there are any objections. Please also let me know if I've missed any existing projects? I'm notifying Wikipedia:WikiProject Greenland as well. Please let me know if you know of any other WikiProjects centred on Arctic areas. Carcharoth (talk) 22:10, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
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Could time zone information to added to these pages and to the template page? I often am looking to know which of the three time zones a particular community is in. For example, CLyde River has a decent stub article but no time zone information. Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.33.115.212 (talk) 03:50, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
- The time zone can be added to the page. There are two ways of doing it. In something like Clyde River a sentence could be added saying what zone it is in. The other way is to add an infobox such as the one that can be seen at Yellowknife. This has spaces for several types of information. One of these is the time zone. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 16:03, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
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 01:11, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
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 03:30, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
Please check out the Council of Keewatin GAR request at the Canadian wikiproject notice board.... SriMesh | talk 02:39, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
Western Pacific Cordillera was renamed from a US only title, and Pacific Cordillera was prodded because the editor said the US based article was the same topic, instead of merging the articles. I've deprodded it, because the newly renamed article is US centric, so the Canadian centric article shouldn't be deleted until the US article is no longer a US article. I have problems with the title "Western Pacific Cordillera", since this Cordillera is on the edge of the Eastern Pacific, not the Western Pacific, which would be Japan. 76.66.198.171 (talk) 16:57, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
Western Pacific Cordillera
editI've initiated a move request for Western Pacific Cordillera, because this name does not appear to have ever been used to refer to what is usually called the Western Cordillera or Pacific Cordillera, and the scope of the article is more than just the western part of the Pacific Cordillera. Please leave your opinions at Talk:Western Pacific Cordillera 76.66.198.171 (talk) 00:10, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
Hey all. I'm working on improving the article on the Yukon Quest Sled Dog Race, and I was wondering if anyone has any photos of the Whitehorse start or Canadian elements of the race. All I have right now is a photo of the Whitehorse office, and would appreciate any help if it's available. Thanks! JKBrooks85 (talk) 12:47, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
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Origin of the name Eskimo
editFYI, Origin of the name Eskimo has been nominated for deletion. 70.29.208.69 (talk) 06:41, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
Activity
editIs anyone still quite active here? I'd love to maybe start a collaboration or something but nobody's posted on this talk page since July... JulieSpaulding (talk) 09:14, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
- I'm still here. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 09:40, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
- Me, too; and I'd be interested in collaborating. Do you have something in mind? --Rosiestep (talk) 04:08, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
- I don't know, but I think that it's important to get the territory articles (Nunavut, Northwest Territories, Yukon) and the territorial capital articles (Iqaluit, Yellowknife, Whitehorse) to featured article or at least good article status. JulieSpaulding (talk) 13:05, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
- Me, too; and I'd be interested in collaborating. Do you have something in mind? --Rosiestep (talk) 04:08, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
Hello! I have recently nominated the Northwest Territories portal for portal peer review. Someday I hope to help this portal get promoted to featured portal status. I would love it if you could join in the discussion at this page. Thanks! JulieSpaulding (talk) 13:36, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
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Portals
editTo expand of JulieSpaulding portal i have made the last missing one that this project covers...pls add it to your watch list!! Portal:Yukon and fill it with content at will!! ...Moxy (talk) 21:55, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
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Lakes and landforms
editHello all. I am working on some articles relating to the Northwest Territories. I just started a few lakes and am looking for images:
- Clinton-Colden Lake
- Nonacho Lake
- Aylmer Lake
- Hottah Lake
- MacKay Lake (Northwest Territories)
- Kakisa Lake
- Tathlina Lake
- Lac La Martre
Can anyone on the project help? Many thanks. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 18:16, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
Help in Inuktik
editWould anyone please find someone who knows Inuktik?
The Inuktik Wikipedia needs an article on en:First Air Flight 6560 - I know this is an important language since the airline has a page about the accident in Inuktik WhisperToMe (talk) 19:50, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
Request for cleanup assistance at List of city nicknames in Canada#Nunavut
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Proposal to redirect Canadian related project talk pages
editPlease see Wikipedia talk:Canadian Wikipedians' notice board#Proposal to redirect Canadian related project talk pages.Moxy (talk) 17:41, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
The Yukon, or not the Yukon
editI just reverted this on the Klondike Gold Rush page.....not sure what our standard is around here. The way I look at it, is with "the" is common usage, but the official usage and the often-standard "internal" usage preferred by many Yukoners is; my view of it is that when it's the "institution" of the territory, then the the-less usage applies; if speaking of it in geographic terms the "most common usage" is clearly with "the". i.e. "the Premier of Yukon said" or "at the conference, Yukon disagreed with the NWT and Alberta". A similar "proper" but awkward sounding usage applies with "Cariboo" and "Chilcotin" where you'll see those as the-less proper names, I can think of a couple of authors who write that way, e.g. Robin Skelton's "This is Cariboo!" as a title, and in Chilco Choate's books and maybe in Paul St Pierre's where you'll hear things like "he hadn't been in Chilcotin for a while"....but they also use "the Cariboo" and "the Chilcotin" in their writings too......I've heard simliar for Shuswap, Similkameen, Kootenays, even Okanagan without "the".....anyways open to debate on this, wondering if there's a style guideline about it; Yukon when speaking of the official entity, "the Yukon" is so normal and widespread (in sources, too) it's hard to know where to enforce the "no-the" rule that is now official, and is indeed an old in-Yukon standard; but I bet it's caused some bar fights up there, too....."'tis so, 'tis not etc.Skookum1 (talk) 02:12, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
- Haven't looked at the revert or read all of the above, but WP:THEYUKON may be of assistance. Hwy43 (talk) 06:44, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Eskimo.--Labattblueboy (talk) 04:06, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
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Canada's outline coverage for its divisions is almost done
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NWT Subdivisions navbox -> NWT Communities navbox
editI've noticed Template:Subdivisions of Northwest Territories is pretty crowded, including as it does every census division, mine site, historical fur trading post, and historical district of the NWT. This seems kind of extraneous for the NWT, which only has 33 inhabited communities. Here's the list. (This number is pretty unchanging and has some cachet in the territory - note the 33 pebbles in the legislative mace.)
As an alternative, I've created Template:Communities of Northwest Territories, which just lists all 33, sorts them by the administrative region they belong to, and italicizes the regional capital.
(According to MACA policy, correspondence is not to be directed to the administrative sub-offices in Hay River and Behchokǫ̀, so I'm not including them as capitals... not that the main MACA offices are at all impressive.)
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Photos needed from Whitehorse, Inuvik, Iqaluit and Yellowknife
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Comments requested
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