Wikipedia:WikiProject Vancouver
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Introduction
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Workgroups related to the WikiProject Vancouver:
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This WikiProject aims to organize, improve the quality, and provide accurate information in an established, community-driven, Wikipedia standard for Vancouver, Metro Vancouver, and Vancouver-related articles. The importance of these articles for new users, research, education, and the pursuit of accumulated knowledge will be accomplished through our efforts in providing a consistent format and standard to our articles. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to participate, please follow the instruction on the Member's Page.
Scope and motivation
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This project covers articles relating to Metro Vancouver, such as (but not restricted to), Anmore, Barnston Island, Belcarra, Bowen Island, Burnaby, Coquitlam, Delta, the City and Township of Langley, Lions Bay, Maple Ridge, New Westminster, the City and District of North Vancouver, Pitt Meadows, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody, Richmond, Surrey, University Endowment Lands, West Vancouver and White Rock.
- Vancouver is the largest city in British Columbia, Canada.
- Vancouver is Canada's third-largest metropolitan centre.
- Vancouver was the host city for the 2010 Winter Olympics and 2010 Winter Paralympics.
- Vancouver hosted the World's Fair in 1986: Expo 86
- Vancouver has been consistently ranked among the top five "World's Most Livable Cities".
- Vancouver is North America's largest television production centre and third-largest film production centre.
- Vancouver is North America's fourth largest port.
- Vancouver is the 4th largest cruise ship terminus in the world.
- Vancouver contains both the wealthiest and most impoverished neighbourhoods in Canada.
Structure
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Five Point Plan
[edit]Redesign and reevaluation recommended. Please see the talk page.
Other things you can do!
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WikiProject Vancouver | |
| You have been invited to participate in Operation Schadenfreude to restore the article Vancouver back to featured article status. |
Naming conventions
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[edit]Collaboration of the month
[edit]Peer review
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Add
[edit]- Suggest a new Did you know...
- Suggest a new Quote
- Write a one line Vancouver News story.
- Write a requested article.
- Write us Feedback.
Featured content
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| Article | Date of promotion | Main Page featured article |
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| Joe Sakic | December 3, 2007 | November 12, 2008 |
| Trevor Linden | May 22, 2008 | February 11, 2012 |
| List of Vancouver Canucks players | May 25, 2008 | — |
| List of Vancouver Canucks head coaches | July 26, 2008 | — |
| List of Vancouver SkyTrain stations | October 25, 2008 | — |
Article alerts
[edit]Good article nominees
- 09 Jul 2026 – Figure skating at the 2010 Winter Olympics (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Bgsu98 (t · c); start discussion
Good article reassessments
- 18 May 2026 – Coquitlam (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA reassessment by Bgsu98 (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 28 May 2026 – Draft:Vote Vancouver (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Liamnevard (t · c)
- 01 May 2026 – Draft:Chris Ferguson (producer) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by N0nuun (t · c)
- 17 Jul 2026 – User:Swapnil1297/sandbox (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Swapnil1297 (t · c) was moved to Draft:Canada Super 60 (talk · edit · hist) by Timtrent (t · c) on 18 Jul 2026
Related WikiProjects
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The following is a list of other Wikiprojects which focus on a specific topic within the scope of Canada.
 | Some Canadian WikiProjects fall inactive or semi-active These projects are retained for reference that apply to a subset of Canadian articles. It may be best to direct questions to Canada's Wikiproject talk page |
- Provinces/territories
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- Canadian Topics
- Politics
- Entertainment
- Canada-related tasks in other projects
Other city WikiProjects:
Awards
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The Canadian Content Award
This is for outstanding contributions to Canadian related pages on Wikipedia. Evrik 13:31, 24 March 2006 (UTC) |
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The Silver Maple Leaf Award
Award for editors that contribute to Canada related projects and topics. |
Resources
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External Websites:
Tools
[edit]- 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
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| Directories and reports | |
 Culture and the arts | |
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 History and society | |
 Science, technologyand engineering | |
 Wikipedia assistanceand tasks | |
