Wikipedia:WikiProject Ontario
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This WikiProject was formed to foster better articles on the Province of Ontario with a spirit of cooperation. This page and its subpages contain suggestions on formatting and layout of articles as well as to do lists for Ontarians.
Article alerts
[edit]Articles for deletion
- 04 Jun 2025 – St. Ilija Macedonian Orthodox Church, Mississauga (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Spookyaki (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
- 27 May 2025 – Randall Smith (composer) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by BD2412 (t · c); see discussion (0 participants; relisted)
- 27 May 2025 – Ontario Health (disambiguation) (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by 162 etc. (t · c) was procedurally closed (deleted) by Giraffer (t · c) on 31 May 2025; see discussion (4 participants)
- 23 May 2025 – List of Toronto Marlies head coaches (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Flibirigit (t · c) was closed as merge by Toadspike (t · c) on 31 May 2025; see discussion (3 participants)
- 22 May 2025 – J.M. Tory (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Bearcat (t · c) was closed as redirect by Eddie891 (t · c) on 30 May 2025; see discussion (4 participants)
Proposed deletions
- 29 May 2025 – Paul Vermeersch (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Roastedbeanz1 (t · c) was deproded by MediaKyle (t · c) on 31 May 2025
- 28 May 2025 – Michael Botterill (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Weirdguyz (t · c) was deproded by WikiOriginal-9 (t · c) on 31 May 2025
- 23 May 2025 – Arva Industries (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Janhrach (t · c) and endorsed by Bearian (t · c) on 23 May 2025 was deleted
Good article reassessments
- 25 May 2025 – Billy Talent (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA reassessment by Z1720 (t · c); see discussion
- 11 May 2025 – Toronto Argonauts (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA reassessment by Z1720 (t · c); see discussion
Peer reviews
- 22 May 2025 – Shawn Ashmore (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by FrodoMarsh (t · c); see discussion
Requested moves
- 02 Jun 2025 – Drury ministry (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Drury government by Legend of 14 (t · c); see discussion
- 02 Jun 2025 – Mowat ministry (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Mowat government by Legend of 14 (t · c); see discussion
- 02 Jun 2025 – Miller ministry (Ontario) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Miller government (Ontario) by Legend of 14 (t · c); see discussion
- 02 Jun 2025 – Rae ministry (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Rae government by Legend of 14 (t · c); see discussion
- 02 Jun 2025 – Kennedy ministry (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Kennedy government (Ontario) by Legend of 14 (t · c); see discussion
- 02 Jun 2025 – McGuinty ministry (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to McGuinty government by Legend of 14 (t · c); see discussion
- 02 Jun 2025 – Wynne ministry (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Wynne government by Legend of 14 (t · c); see discussion
- 02 Jun 2025 – Ford ministry (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Ford government (Ontario) by Legend of 14 (t · c); see discussion
- 02 Jun 2025 – Whitney ministry (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Whitney government by Legend of 14 (t · c); see discussion
- 02 Jun 2025 – Peterson ministry (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Peterson government by Legend of 14 (t · c); see discussion
- (4 more...)
Articles to be merged
- 01 Jun 2025 – Niagara Escarpment Commission (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Niagara Escarpment by Klbrain (t · c); see discussion
- 01 Jun 2025 – Ministry of Seniors and Accessibility (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act by Klbrain (t · c); see discussion
- 01 Jun 2025 – Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Act (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Oak Ridges Moraine Land Trust by Legend of 14 (t · c); see discussion
- 01 Jun 2025 – Oak Ridges Moraine Land Trust (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Act by Legend of 14 (t · c); see discussion
- 30 May 2025 – Cabinet Office (Ontario) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Government of Ontario by Klbrain (t · c); see discussion
- 07 May 2025 – Nepean Creek Park (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Greenbelt (Ottawa) by Bearian (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 17 May 2025 – Draft:Pier 27 (Toronto) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Thisisatestaccount1234567890 (t · c)
- 01 May 2025 – Draft:Harris ministry (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Papalopolis (t · c)
- 22 Mar 2025 – Draft:Serenity Cox (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by 2607:F2C0:E006:78:78D0:54C2:54A7:8E33 (t · c) was declined by Theroadislong (t · c) on 02 Jun 2025
- 14 Sep 2024 – Draft:York Region Athletic Association (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Compassionate727 (t · c) was declined by HilssaMansen19 (t · c) on 04 Jun 2025
Descendant WikiProjects
[edit]- WikiProject Ottawa
- WikiProject Ontario Roads
- Deletion sorting: Ontario
- WikiProject Ontario/Kawartha Lakes (now defunct, archived here)
Scope
[edit]Ontario articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
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5 | 20 | 21 | 46 | |||
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2 | 3 | 7 | 12 | |||
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3 | 1 | 4 | ||||
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5 | 36 | 247 | 288 | |||
B | 4 | 32 | 178 | 613 | 827 | ||
C | 1 | 29 | 291 | 2,467 | 2,788 | ||
Start | 1 | 23 | 984 | 15,868 | 10 | 3 | 16,889 |
Stub | 1 | 217 | 12,332 | 34 | 4 | 12,588 | |
List | 1 | 12 | 59 | 754 | 10 | 1 | 837 |
Category | 4,485 | 4,485 | |||||
Disambig | 36 | 36 | |||||
File | 160 | 160 | |||||
Portal | 1 | 1 | |||||
Project | 18 | 18 | |||||
Redirect | 3 | 4,610 | 4,613 | ||||
Template | 955 | 955 | |||||
NA | 1 | 1 | |||||
Other | 4 | 13 | 17 | ||||
Assessed | 7 | 109 | 1,791 | 32,317 | 10,333 | 8 | 44,565 |
Unassessed | 1 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 19 | ||
Total | 7 | 109 | 1,792 | 32,322 | 10,337 | 17 | 44,584 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 174,186 | Ω = 5.21 |
This project covers the creation and editing of articles related to Ontario, its cities, counties, geography, transportation, culture, history, and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Ontario in a fair and accurate manner.
Geography
[edit]This project should aim to provide an article about every locality in Ontario. Also, it should aim to provide feature-quality articles on the following cities:
- Toronto
- Ottawa
- Hamilton
- Mississauga
- Windsor
- London
- Kingston
- Kitchener, Waterloo, and Cambridge
- Guelph
- Sudbury
- Thunder Bay
- Oshawa
- Peterborough
- Hastings
- Burlington
Moreover, in-depth coverage of Ontario physical and political geography is desirable. All national and provincial parks, important geophysical areas, and geopolitical regions of value should have high-quality articles. For example:
There should also be some emphasis on creating/expanding articles about Northern Ontario and Eastern Ontario topics as well as economics/socio-economics and all of the above for:
- Golden Horseshoe
- Southern Ontario and the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor (Ontario section where it is called the Windsor-Quebec City corridor)
- Greater Toronto Area
Culture
[edit]Describing the cultural history and development of Ontario, as well as uniquely Ontarian facets of culture, is important to providing comprehensive coverage of Ontario. To include are:
- Demographics and social information
- Music of Ontario
- Art of Ontario
- Media in Ontario
- Festivals, parades etc.
- Unique events and colleges
- Museums of Ontario
Members
[edit]Active members
[edit]To join WikiProject Ontario, edit this section and add the Wikitext #{{subst:me}}
with your areas of interest to the bottom of the following list of members. Members should also place member identification on their user page.
- Alan.ca
- Arthurcurrie (talk · contribs)
- Basser g
- Bearcat
- Blacknail
- Bolonium
- CaptainActualist
- ConicProjection
- Deconstructhis
- Deenoe
- Dhastings
- Dreamafter
- Ducio1234
- Earl Andrew
- FellowWikipedian
- Freshacconci
- GreatLakesShips: I mainly write about shipwrecks on the Great Lakes.
- Justpossible
- KaleJade
- Kilgore89
- Ilikepie2221
- Laurel L. Russwurm
- Laverick Phoenix
- Loghead1
- Merenta
- Meszzy2
- Mindmatrix
- Mrjeremister
- Nat (talk · contribs · count · logs · email)
- Nerguy
- Nhl4hamilton
- north8000
- NorthOnt001
- ntb613
- P199 (talk · contribs)
- Particularlystatic (talk · contribs)
- Padraic (talk · contribs)
- Peter K Burian (talk · contribs)
- PKT
- Richard416282
- Ryan Williams
- S-Ranger
- Scutarus
- SFrank85
- Skittleys
- Skyllfully
- Smcafirst
- Staka
- SwagGangster (talk · contribs)
- Tyciol
- User:mrjeremister
- Handbook3
- Vaselineeeeeeee
- Verified Cactus
- User:Williamt.Estates
- User:Wiki-shield
- JamesNotJim (talk · contribs)
- Vamplex1999 (talk · contribs) 02:40:26, 12 February 2020 (UTC)
- Username6892 (talk · contribs) 00:09:41, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
- ClaudeDavid (talk) 18:21, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
- User:TheMadAgilist
- User:Eric0892
- User:Owen Delage
- Unbeatable101 (talk · contribs) 15:01:37, 7 October 2020 (UTC)
- Builder018
- Majidjalilian123 (talk · contribs) 07:50:10, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
- Gogobobo (talk · contribs)
- Clovermoss (talk · contribs)
- JFVoll (talk · contribs) 19:16:02, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
- OilyDoily (talk · contribs)
- IrateSpecialist (talk · contribs) 08:30:50, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
- ThethPunjabi (talk · contribs) 07:53:50, 2 March 2023 (UTC) Ontario Sikh & Punjabi diaspora related topics.
- ThatOneFilipinoExtremeist (talk · contribs) 18:15:08, 17 June 2024 (UTC) : A Dubai resident based in London, Ontario (helping out)
- March-ete (talk · contribs) Provincial parks and other protected areas
- MrTurkey1 (talk · contribs)
- Vinegarymass911 (talk · contribs)
- Legend of 14 (talk · contribs) 18:15:52, 20 May 2025 (UTC) Mostly Ontario provincial politics
Former members
[edit]Thank you for your help! Please move your username back to the active list when you can participate again.
- Gogreen11 :: Inactive since Apr 2007
- Shackpepe :: Inactive since Mar 2008
- Spookane :: Inactive since Feb 2007
Member identification
[edit]Members of WikiProject Ontario should place one of the following lines of Wikitext on their user page to add it to Category:WikiProject Ontario participants.
Wikitext | userbox | where used | ||
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[[Category:WikiProject Ontario participants]] | none | linked pages | ||
{{Template:User WikiProject Ontario}}
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{{Template:User WP Ontario}}
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{{Template:User WP Ontario
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For other Ontario user templates see Category:Ontario user templates.
Accessibility
[edit]A secondary aspect of this project is to ensure that some accessibility issues are solved. For example, an effort should be made to deliver spoken-word versions for articles with high visibility, such as Toronto.
Featured articles
[edit]Templates
[edit]Project banner
[edit]{{WikiProject Canada|on=yes}}
– template to put on Ontario-related talk pages
Infoboxes
[edit]- All settlements in Ontario should use {{Infobox Settlement}}. This infobox provides a consistent look between the various types settlements in Ontario like Toronto and Windsor and to settlements in the other parts of Canada like Saskatoon, Montreal, St. John's, and Edmonton. The default "settlement_type" is city, but it can be changed to reflect any type of settlement, like counties, towns, villages, etc. {{Infobox Settlement}} also has a super imposable dot map feature that allows a map to be used with any settlement in Ontario.
Stubs
[edit]Ontario-related articles may have one or more of the following stubs applied to them, as needed, in addition to, or in lieu of, Canada-specific stubs:
- {{Ontario-stub}} - basic stub for articles other than geographical articles. For Ottawa or Toronto specific articles, please use:
- {{Ottawa-stub}} - all Ottawa-related stubs
- {{Toronto-stub}} - non-geographical Toronto-related stubs
- {{Ontario-geo-stub}} - geographical articles; please use the most specific stub possible
Resources
[edit]- The US cities project WP:CITY
- Naming conventions
Related WikiProjects and Collaborations
[edit]The following is a list of other Wikiprojects which focus on a specific topic within the scope of Canada.
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- Provinces/territories
- Canadian Topics
- Politics
- Entertainment
- Canada-related tasks in other projects