Talk:COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec

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Thanks for making this page. Mackinaw (talk) 17:43, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

• I'm sorry I can't help here, more. But I have placed an interwiki link from the French article on the pandemic in Canada, in the section on Quebec, so that may draw some interest from readers at frwiki who are conversant in English. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 18:30, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

March 24th cases

March 24th had 1013 cases, NOT 1040. Why are my fixes from 1040 to 1013 being reverted back to 1040? See https://web.archive.org/web/20200324220312/https://www.quebec.ca/sante/problemes-de-sante/a-z/coronavirus-2019/situation-coronavirus-quebec/ for confirmation. Humanoid (talk) 21:59, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

Hi there, thanks for taking the time to double-check the historical numbers. There are two main retroactive changes to the total count for Quebec. Firstly, March 21 deaths originally reported as 5 and later down-revised to 4 as the presumed COVID+ case turned out to be COVID-negative. Secondly, March 24 had a data input error. The number of cases for Chaudière was incorrectly input as "14" instead of "41", which is why the real total cases is 1040 and why the row adds up to a delta of 412. You were looking at reference #12 in isolation without considering reference 13 https://web.archive.org/web/20200325220706/https://www.quebec.ca/sante/problemes-de-sante/a-z/coronavirus-2019/situation-coronavirus-quebec/

1. L’augmentation observée pour la région de Chaudière-Appalaches n’est pas une réelle augmentation du nombre de cas en 24 heures, mais plutôt attribuable à une erreur de transmission de la donnée en date du 24 mars (le nombre était plutôt de 41 et non 14)

Given that the number error was a data-input error, we have not considered a footnote necessary to explain the discrepancy. There was in fact originally a subnote on the Canadian page for both of these errors that got removed eventually as they were not considered notable enough: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3A2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic_data%2FCanada_medical_cases&type=revision&diff=947647530&oldid=947645644

I'm going to move the above-named citation from the March 25 row to the March 24 so that the citation is more clear. I'm also going to revert your changes tonight after you've had the chance to read the message here and respond. If you disagree with the numbers after reading the above links, we can discuss it with the other editors.

--Gau Choob (talk) 22:40, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation! I will put it back to 1040 myself. Humanoid (talk) 22:44, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

This note needs to be put somewhere, in case others come later and notice the contradiction. Humanoid (talk) 22:53, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

Why remove the map of Montreal?

I understand that we don’t need to show the exact numbers in a table, but why remove the map? — [ kentronhayastan ] 14:29, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Cases by region numbering

Is there a reason for the formatting/ordering of this section? Do the numbers have significance? Also we do not include wikilinks in section headings. ViperSnake151  Talk  19:13, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

Spacing

Is there way to add spaces between the % change bracket and the number of cases on the "COVID-19 cases in Quebec, Canada" graph? The second the province hit 5 digits in cases, the bracket started overlapping the amount of cases (April 8 and onward) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fornico (talk • contribs) 00:09, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

Dates

I believe all the dates on this page are off by 1 day. The cases, according to the official government site is 1 day behind the date that we are displaying here. I believe the confusion is that they are mentioned the following day by the prime minister, but I believe we should follow the date provided by the official government. Consider this for a moment: as it stands, it looks like there were 16,798 cases on April 17, but in truth, April 17 is not yet over, and that number of cases is actually for April 16. — [ kentronhayastan ] 17:53, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

I think that to avoid confusion the date should be the date of reporting (the updates go live on the government website at about 1 PM local time each day); since the "time" accuracy of the information at this point is pretty much a moot point (testing always presents some form of time lag, and the assumed under-reporting of cases does not help - retroactive changes, such as those on March 23 or on April 16, should be proof enough of that...). I also think that is how the numbers are most commonly presented in the press... Though, to be fair, the government website isn't clear on the matter as the cited origin of the information is from the previous day 18h00 while the information is presented "as of (current day) 13h15"... 107.190.33.254 (talk) 02:59, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

Manual of style on English Wikipedia

These vary from the French Wikipedia so I thought I'd let contributors know about: WP:CITEFOOT, MOS:CITEPUNCT, MOS:QUOTEMARKS and MOS:PUNCT. Happy editing, —PaleoNeonate – 09:00, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

April 19???

Numbers don't add up for Apr 19, someone put the wrong values for the regions in the template chart [1] — Preceding unsigned comment added by FornicoP (talk • contribs) 18:22, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

@FornicoP: Then you should be bold and fix it! Also, don't forget to sign your comments. 107.190.33.254 (talk) 18:35, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

2020 coronavirus pandemic in Montreal

Bonjour Wikipedians from Quebec, So the largest city in the province of Quebec is Montreal. I hope anyone will create article titled 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Montreal, The proposed article will be titled as 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Montreal will be focused on the pandemic specifically within the city of Montreal, Quebec including the nearby city of Laval, Quebec. The propose article will include how many active cases, how many deaths, how many recoveries and how many overall cases within the city of Montreal. The IP number 45.73.109.22 from Gatineau, Quebec has made a requested article to be created as an article and the sister article to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Quebec. I will by happy for anyone's reply for the requested article to created and will be only focused on the city of Seattle. Thanks for your time. Come back some other time. 2001:569:74D2:A800:E8A7:C78A:4BC8:6B88 (talk) 06:53, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

Oppose I do not think a separate page for individual regions/cities is necessary. As of right now, the section for Montreal has about 600 words; all of it in a very Wikipedia:Proseline manner. I am sure someone could take the time (maybe once things settle down?) to reduce this to a more proper format, but then it would have maybe half the words; hardly enough for an independent article. In any case; basing this on the suggestions from WP:SPLIT; the current amount of text in the article (i.e. just over 20k characters; despite the size of over 140kb; most of which seems to be taken up by the various charts at the bottom...) does not justify a split. 107.190.33.254 (talk) 13:37, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

Can the copyedit tag be removed?

After reading this, I don't think this article really needs any copy-editing. Would it be safe to remove it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Applemonkey496 (talk • contribs) 18:08, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

I've been slowly going through it and adjusting wording here and there, but I don't think I've seen any comprehension-inhibiting mistakes. With that said, I think there's still some improvements that can be made. Not sure if it's enough to warrant a CE tag though. So unless someone else disagrees, I'd say you can remove it. - Nsophiay (talk) 22:06, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

Quebec province or city?

This article must differentiate between the province of Quebec and the city of Quebec, as it is not clear which is being referred to. My suggestion would be to state 'Quebec City' when the city is the topic.