Wikipedia:WikiProject Canadian communities/Structure guideline

Transhumanist's Canada coverage chart

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to self: This chart indicates possible holes in articles covering Canadian topics. PKT(alk) 12:21, 17 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

University Enrollment data

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to self: https://www.univcan.ca/universities/facts-and-stats/enrolment-by-university/


NPP Awards for 2024

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The New Page Reviewer's NPP Barnstar Award

This award is given in recognition to PKT for conducting 135 article reviews in 2024. Thank you so much for all your excellent work. Keep it up! Hey man im josh (talk) 18:31, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

January 2025

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Information icon Hello. I have noticed that you often edit without using an edit summary. Please do your best to always fill in the summary field. This helps your fellow editors use their time more productively, rather than spending it unnecessarily scrutinizing and verifying your work. Even a short summary is better than no summary, and summaries are particularly important for large, complex, or potentially controversial edits. To help yourself remember, you may wish to check the "prompt me when entering a blank edit summary" box in your preferences. Thanks! Legend of 14 (talk) 19:01, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi - I have made over 250,000 edits on Wikipedia. No, I don't always leave an edit summary, but I generally do, at least in article space. I often don't use edit summaries on talk pages. I won't change this practice. Thank you, PKT(alk) 20:47, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

January 2025 NPP backlog drive – Points award

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The Reviewer Barnstar
This award is given in recognition to PKT for accumulating at least 50 points during the January 2025 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions helped play a part in the 16,000+ articles and 14,000+ redirects reviewed (for a total of 19,791.2 points) completed during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to help reduce the backlog! Hey man im josh (talk) 19:34, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Guild of Copy Editors 2024 Annual Report

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Guild of Copy Editors Annual Report

Our 2024 Annual Report is now ready for review.

Highlights:

  • Introduction
  • Membership news and election results
  • Summary of Drives, Blitzes and the Requests page
  • Closing words
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Adding class=redirect to banners

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Hey, there is no need to add |class=redirect to banner pages. In fact, that is unhelpful as the bot will then do another edit to remove it. The banners automatically know if their parent page is a redirect or not. If a page was just moved, a WP:Null edit is all that is needed. Gonnym (talk) 17:15, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Guild of Copy Editors April 2025 Newsletter

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Guild of Copy Editors April 2025 Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the April 2025 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since December. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. We extend a warm welcome to all of our new members. We wish you all happy copy-editing.

Election results: In our December 2025 coordinator election, Wracking stepped down as coordinator; we thank them for their service. Incumbents Dhtwiki, Miniapolis, and Mox Eden were reelected coordinators, and IQR and WikiEditor5678910 were newly elected coordinator, to serve through 30 June. Nominations for our mid-year Election of Coordinators will open on 1 June (UTC).

Drive: 55 editors signed up for our January Backlog Elimination Drive 33 claimed at least one copy-edit and copy-edited 611,404 words in 237 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.

Blitz: 14 editors signed up for our February Copy Editing Blitz. 10 claimed at least one copy-edit and copy-edited 46,749 words in 18 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.

Drive: 47 editors signed up for our March Backlog Elimination Drive. 28 claimed at least one copy-edit and copy-edited 479,172 words in 207 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.

Blitz: Sign up for our April Copy Editing Blitz, which runs from 13 to 19 April. Barnstars will be awarded here.

Progress report: As of 9:45, 12 April 2024 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 89 requests since 1 January 2024, and the backlog stands at 2,264 articles.

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Dhtwiki, IQR, Miniapolis, Mox Eden and WikiEditor5678910.

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New pages patrol May 2025 Backlog drive

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May 2025 Backlog Drive | New pages patrol
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Scout Exchange

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Hello @PKT

I saw that you once edited the article "Scouting in Kyrgyzstan." So I wanted to ask if you have any contact with Scouts from Kyrgyzstan? I'm a Scout from Germany and will be in Kyrgyzstan for four weeks in July with a group of eight other Scouts. We hope to meet Scouts from there. However, we don't have any contact details yet. Could you help?

Best wishes,

David 2A00:FBC:E1EC:798C:F53B:F101:3468:73E7 (talk) 09:41, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi - no, I don't have any such contact. I only made one edit, in 2012, to fix a small issue with a link in the article. Regards, PKT(alk) 10:42, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Ok. Thank you anyway. D2a0v0i5d (talk) 19:02, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. You're invited to participate in The World Destubathon. We're aiming to destub a lot of articles and also improve longer stale articles. It will be held from Monday June 16 - Sunday July 13. There is $3338 going into it, with $500 the top prize. If you are interested in winning something to save you money in buying books for future content, or just see it as a good editathon opportunity to see a lot of articles improved for articles which interest you, sign up on the page in the participants section if interested.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:47, 14 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Guild of Copy Editors' June 2025 Newsletter

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Guild of Copy Editors June 2025 Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the June 2025 newsletter, a quarterly-ish digest of Guild activities since April. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below.

Hall of Fame: Congratulations to Dhtwiki for their well-deserved addition to the Hall of Fame last month, and thanks to GoldRomean for the nomination.

Election news: Voting in the mid-year coordinator election ends at 23:59 on 30 June. Results will be announced at the election page.

April Blitz: 14 of the 25 editors who signed up for the April 2025 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited 92,769 words in 30 articles. Barnstars awarded are available here.

May Drive: 31 of the 54 editors who signed up for the May 2025 Backlog Elimination Drive copy edited 384,392 words in 216 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.

June Blitz: 10 of the 12 editors who signed up for the June 2025 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited 26,652 words in 13 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.

July Drive: Our July 2025 Backlog Elimination Drive will begin on 1 July and finish on 31 July. Barnstars awarded will be posted here.

Progress report: As of 02:30, 30 June 2025 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have completed 148 requests since 1 January, and the backlog stands at 2,270 articles.

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New message from Tenshi Hinanawi

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Hello, PKT. You have new messages at Tenshi Hinanawi's talk page.
Message added 12:08, 14 July 2025 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.[reply]

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Notice

The article Alexander Mackenzie High School has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

As you can see above, there is an unresolved additional citations tag from 2009. It has not been resolved because the subject does not have any WP:SIGCOV in any WP:INDEPENDENT sources. There are extensive mentions in the school's own website and the York Region District School Board's websites. However, those aren't independent. When scouring Google Books, all I could find were passing mentions. Some of these weren't independent sources, some were works of fictions (just with the same name as the subject), and others were lists. On Google Scholar, I could find unrelated works created by students of the school. On Google News, it was much the same as Google Books in the sense that I could not find significant coverage. Most were just passing mentions. Some notable examples: [1]; [2]; [3]; [4]; [5]; [6]. If we were to construct a page using these, I think it would violate WP:NOTNEWS and WP:INDISCRIMINATE. Does not meet WP:GNG or WP:NSCHOOLS, removing this without rationale will prompt me to use articles for deletion, so don't prolong the inevitable

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Nomination of Alexander Mackenzie High School for deletion

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New pages patrol September 2025 Backlog drive

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Hello

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Hi @PKT I thought you were worried because you sounded like I was going to be in trouble. Regards, ~Rafael (He, him) • talkguestbookprojects 21:33, 4 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Naaaahhh! Not from me! PKT(alk) 21:36, 4 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@PKT but the history said you made the reply. Oh wait you pretended you weren't from making another signature... ~Rafael (He, him) • talkguestbookprojects 21:38, 4 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Air Sandy for deletion

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Guild of Copy Editors – September 2025 Newsletter

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Guild of Copy Editors – September 2025 Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the September newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since June.

Election news: Project coordinators play an important role in our WikiProject. Following the mid-year Election of Coordinators, we welcomed GoldRomean to the coordinator team. Dhtwiki remains as lead coordinator, and Miniapolis and Mox Eden return as coordinators. If you'd like to help out behind the scenes, please consider taking part in our December election – watchlist our ombox for updates. Information about the role of coordinators can be found here.

June 2025 blitz: 10 of the 12 editors who signed up for the June 2025 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited a total of 26,652 words comprising 13 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.

July 2025 drive: 30 of the 54 editors who signed up for the July 2025 Backlog Elimination Drive copy edited a total of 379,557 words comprising 151 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.

August 2025 Blitz: 11 of the 17 editors who signed up for the August 2025 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited a total of 65,601 words comprising 25 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.

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Progress report: As of 06:43, 20 September 2025 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 222 requests since 1 January, and the backlog of tagged articles stands at 2,010 articles.

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Nomination of 2017 Red Deer municipal election for deletion

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Guild of Copy Editors – December 2025 Newsletter

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Guild of Copy Editors December 2025 Newsletter

Hello, and welcome to the December newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since September. If you'd like to be notified of upcoming drives and blitzes, and other GOCE activities, the best method is to add our announcements box to your watchlist.

Election news: The Guild's coordinators play an important role in the WikiProject, making sure nearly everything runs smoothly and on time. Editors experienced in drives or blitzes and in good standing (unblocked and without sanctions) are invited to nominate themselves or another editor (with their permission, of course) to be a Guild coordinator until 23:59 on 15 December (UTC). The voting phase begins at 00:01 on 16 December and runs until 23:59 on 31 December. Questions may be asked of candidates at any stage in the process. Elected coordinators will serve a six-month term from 1 January through 30 June 2026.

September Drive: 43 of the 63 editors who signed up for the September Backlog Elimination Drive edited 693,541 words in 265 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.

October Blitz: 14 of the 15 editors who signed up for the October Copy Editing Blitz edited 75,108 words in 31 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.

November Drive: 38 of the 65 editors who signed up for the November Backlog Elimination Drive edited 590,816 words in 240 articles. Barnstars awarded are posted here.

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New pages patrol January–February 2026 Backlog drive

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January–February 2026 Backlog Drive | New pages patrol

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