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Revision as of 04:59, 3 December 2010

WikiProject Toronto


This WikiProject is an attempt to organize articles about Toronto, Ontario into a coherent format.

Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to provide information in consistent format for articles on places in Toronto, Ontario. It is also a first test of the format established for Wikipedia:WikiProject London, to allow for some feedback before the template is copied for use for other cities.

Parentage

The parents of this WikiProject are the WikiProject Cities and the WikiProject Canadian communities. The Toronto project will probably generate a simpler template than the London project.

Descendant Wikiproject

The descendant of this WikiProject is the WikiProject Toronto Blue Jays, which itself is also a descendant of WikiProject Baseball, and ultimately descended from WikiProject Sports.

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Other

Participants

Our hope is to recruit authors of Toronto, Ontario, Proposal for the Province of Toronto, and related articles about the city and the surrounding regions.

Structure

Places are most neutrally defined by their ecological characteristics. This is particularly easy for cities as most of the ecology is man-made. A bioregional structure is suggested, with each river (Don, Humber, etc.) and its watershed providing the basis for articles on settlement and history. The modern place-names and political boundaries will be discussed in terms of how much they respect or disrespect boundaries which nature always, by definition, respects. Toronto is an interesting city on which to test this structure, as it has many rivers, a rich set of open ravine parks, and an extensive sewer system, all of which takes water from Lake Ontario (via pumps or rain) and sends it back to there. It is thus an extremely simple watershed.

Note: Any other structure is likely to yield to definition conflicts. See bioregional democracy for a discussion of why watersheds tend to be the most neutral boundaries for definition of place.

Motivation

  1. Toronto is probably the world's most diverse large city, as over 50% of its population of 2.5 million were born in some other country (than Canada). Like London, it is structured as a set of urban villages that have not quite lost their character or total control of street life, and each of these neighbourhoods needs an article in the Wikipedia, in the language that is spoken by its inhabitants, and which appears on its signs. Chinese, Italian, Polish, Greek, Indian and other communities are each associated with specific districts, which require articles in at least English, and in those languages.
  2. Toronto has sufficient cultural treasures to be worth visiting on any visit to North America. Some of these, including the Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario Science Centre and Royal Ontario Museum, are innovative and notable for their collections, and their public activity in education. Toronto is also a prominent centre for the study of library science and classification systems—the Robarts Library at the University of Toronto has some 1100 of these schemes in its collection. Articles on Toronto itself are most likely to motivate the participation of categorization scholars who work in these institutions.
  3. Toronto retains electric streetcars, has an extensive subway and semi-automated light metro network, and is experimenting with diesel-electric buses—probably the most technologically diverse transit system in North America, and so a testbed for transport technologies.

Naming conventions

  • Places: as [[Queen Street West, Toronto]] with a redirect from [[Queen West, Toronto]], or a disambiguation page if there is more than one place or thing with this name.
    • Rationale for doing things this way round: many places have been named after places in London, including many places in Toronto, where this habit is simply out of control. There are many Queen and King Streets in Canada and Australia, and figuring out how to disambiguate them all effectively is going to be very necessary. So let's do it early.
  • All TTC stations: as [[Spadina TTC station]]
  • Cities: as their former official full names but recognized as part of Toronto (their current status), i.e. [[Borough of East York, Toronto]], [[City of North York, Toronto]], etc.

Framework

To do:

  • Auto-generate articles to create a trellis of linked pre-stub articles about places in Toronto, probably based on the phone book or a tour guide available in electronic form.
  • Hand-edit to merge with existing content, and to fill in the correct Toronto city name for each of these place articles.
  • The few places that actually are not in Toronto, but one of the surrounding regional municipalities, should be renamed, and the links to them fixed.
  • All mention of the 'Greater Toronto Area' must be purged, as this term is ambiguous, has no official status, nor any historical role.
  • There should be an article on each of the Toronto postal codes, cross-linked to the articles describing the places in that postal district, mean income, etc. Statistics Canada will have this.
  • Articles on notable Toronto tourist attractions such as Rogers Centre should be put in the same format as other Toronto place articles.

Substance

Done:

  • Articles on Toronto and an index article for the List of neighbourhoods in Toronto partially exist. Is it right to call them "boroughs"? Only five (East York, York, North York, Etobicoke, Scarborough) were known by that name (All but East York were promoted to 'City' before amalgamation). Boroughs were invented for Ontario to act like New York boroughs: municipalities in a Metropolis with the exception of the main municipality, which remained a city (City of Toronto). With Toronto losing a level of government in the 1997 amalgamation, all this disappeared.

To do:

  • There should be an article on all six Toronto historical cities, using the borough's official name (usually "City of X, Toronto") with no mention of Ontario (as these cities are no longer legally recognized by Ontario, "East York, Ontario" simply does not exist). Each such city article should have a list of localities within that city at its end, using the naming conventions above.
  • Every locality needs at least a 500-character stub article, built on top of its framework article. See the list of geographical stub articles.
  • All areas of historic importance need substantial articles.
  • Every Toronto subway and RT line should have an article of the same level of quality of the East London Line article for example, but the list of stations should be the same quality as the London Central Station (though a red link). Do not waste energy on this topic that should be saved for other issues, e.g. water and power systems, that are less visible but are actually more interesting.
  • Cuisine of Toronto; see Talk:Cuisine of Toronto
  • Articles on all the past Mayors of Toronto.

Mentioned in WP:DYK:

Featured lists:

Featured articles:

Good articles so far:

Completed lines in detail:

(discussion formerly here has been moved to Talk:Toronto Subway and RT)

Associated pages:

External resources:

Templates

  • {{WikiProject Toronto}}...First of two templates that may to be placed on talk pages of Toronto, Canada related articles (only one template needed)
WikiProject iconToronto NA‑class
WikiProject iconThis article is within the scope of WikiProject Toronto, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Toronto on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.
NAThis article has been rated as NA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
  • {{WikiProject Canada|toronto=yes}}...Second of two templates that may to be placed on talk pages of Toronto, Canada related articles (only one template needed)
WikiProject iconCanada: Toronto NA‑class
WikiProject iconThis article is within the scope of WikiProject Canada, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Canada on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.
NAThis article has been rated as NA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
Taskforce icon
This article is supported by WikiProject Toronto.
  • {{Toronto}}..To be placed at the "bottom" of Toronto related articles.
  • {{portal|Toronto}}...To be placed in the "see also" section of Toronto related articles if appropriate


Volunteer recognition

  • This is for outstanding contributions to Canadian related pages on Wikipedia.
    The Canadian Content Award


  • To present the Maple Leaf award for contribution to Canada related articles and projects:
    {{subst:The Maple Leaf Award|type=silver|Reason or purpose for granting this award.}}
A Barnstar!
The Silver Maple Leaf Award

Reason or purpose for granting this award.
Code Result
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Toronto/Userbox}} Usage

Photos without articles

Photos of potentially article worthy Toronto subjects that the photographer is unable, or uninterested, in the creation of these articles.

Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org
  • Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
  • Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
  • Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
  • Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

External watchlist