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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
- 11 Feb 2026 – Onaping Falls Huskies (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by 4meter4 (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 09 Feb 2026 – North Bay Trappers (1962–1982) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by 4meter4 (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
- 09 Feb 2026 – Nickel Centre Native Sons (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by 4meter4 (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 06 Feb 2026 – Ministers without portfolio in Ontario, 1993–1995 (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by 4meter4 (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
- 04 Feb 2026 – The Mercurymen (Canadian band) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Bearcat (t · c); see discussion (2 participants; relisted)
- 04 Feb 2026 – Oak Ridges Dynes (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by 4meter4 (t · c); see discussion (3 participants; relisted)
- 21 Jan 2026 – Drayton Entertainment production history (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by BrechtBro (t · c); see discussion (11 participants; relisted)
- 04 Feb 2026 – Northern Wildcats (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by 4meter4 (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 11 Feb 2026; see discussion (2 participants)
- 02 Feb 2026 – Tyler Stewart (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by 162 etc. (t · c) was closed as redirect by Fade258 (t · c) on 09 Feb 2026; see discussion (5 participants)
- 26 Jan 2026 – Nepean Creek Park (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by 4meter4 (t · c) was closed as redirect by Extraordinary Writ (t · c) on 10 Feb 2026; see discussion (5 participants; relisted)
Proposed deletions
Categories for discussion
- 15 Jan 2026 – Category:Deaths from pneumonia in Ontario (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Johnpacklambert (t · c); see discussion
Templates for discussion
- 25 Jan 2026 – Template:History of Toronto (talk · edit · hist) was TfDed by MediaKyle (t · c); see discussion
Redirects for discussion
- 05 Feb 2026 – Frugal folk hero (talk · edit · hist) →Rob Ford was RfDed by JayCubby (t · c); see discussion
Good article nominees
- 21 Jan 2026 – The Weeknd (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by RTSthestardust (t · c); start discussion
- 29 Dec 2025 – Jared McCann (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by XR228 (t · c); start discussion
- 01 Dec 2025 – 27th Vanier Cup (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by TBJ10RH (t · c); start discussion
- 09 Oct 2025 – Ivor Wynne (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Flibirigit (t · c); start 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
- 27 Jan 2026 – University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Temerty Faculty of Medicine by RapidDweller (t · c); see discussion
- 04 Feb 2026 – Bilal Baig (talk · edit · hist) move request to Zaiba Baig by DrPersephone (t · c) was closed to Zaiba Baig (talk · edit · hist); see discussion
- 31 Jan 2026 – Yonge–Dundas Square (talk · edit · hist) move request to Sankofa Square by Zochaian (t · c) was moved to Sankofa Square (talk · edit · hist); see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 01 Feb 2026 – Groupe Média TFO (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to TFO by RA0808 (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be split
- 07 Dec 2025 – 2011 Super Outbreak (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by CrazyC83 (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 09 Feb 2026 – Draft:James Arnett (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Mkaram99 (t · c)
- 04 Feb 2026 – Draft:Killing of Jahvai Roy (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by User6987777777 (t · c)
- 20 Jan 2026 – Draft:Tanner Evan Bergsma (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by EmmanuelRabie (t · c)
- 26 Jan 2026 – Draft:Fei-Fei Liu (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Wikiwriter4095 (t · c) was accepted to Fei-Fei Liu (talk · edit · hist) by Gilgongo (t · c) on 08 Feb 2026
- 05 Jan 2026 – Draft:Société d'histoire de Toronto (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Toronto Frenchie (t · c) was declined by Guninvalid (t · c) on 10 Feb 2026
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 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality | Importance | ||||||
| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
| 5 | 21 | 21 | 47 | ||||
| 2 | 3 | 7 | 12 | ||||
| 3 | 1 | 4 | |||||
| 5 | 35 | 250 | 290 | ||||
| B | 4 | 33 | 184 | 701 | 922 | ||
| C | 1 | 29 | 308 | 2,707 | 3,045 | ||
| Start | 1 | 22 | 1,005 | 16,569 | 13 | 2 | 17,612 |
| Stub | 1 | 199 | 12,095 | 36 | 2 | 12,333 | |
| List | 1 | 12 | 59 | 755 | 11 | 838 | |
| Category | 4,532 | 4,532 | |||||
| Disambig | 54 | 54 | |||||
| File | 171 | 171 | |||||
| Portal | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Project | 18 | 18 | |||||
| Redirect | 42 | 5,066 | 5,108 | ||||
| Template | 1,018 | 1,018 | |||||
| NA | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Other | 8 | 18 | 26 | ||||
| Assessed | 7 | 109 | 1,817 | 33,156 | 10,939 | 4 | 46,032 |
| Unassessed | 9 | 2 | 4 | 15 | |||
| Total | 7 | 109 | 1,817 | 33,165 | 10,941 | 8 | 46,047 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 177,588 | Ω = 5.18 | |||||
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.
- Akaza: I mainly write about shipwrecks on the Great Lakes.
- Alan.ca
- Arthurcurrie (talk · contribs)
- Basser g
- Bearcat
- Blacknail
- Bolonium
- CaptainActualist
- ConicProjection
- Deconstructhis
- Deenoe
- Dhastings
- Dreamafter
- Ducio1234
- Earl Andrew
- FellowWikipedian
- Freshacconci
- 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
- A. B. (talk · contribs) - happy to write finance-related articles
- CanadianHerodotus (talk · contribs) Geography and history of Ontarian small towns if needed
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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linked pages | ||
{{Template:User WP Ontario}}
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linked pages | ||
{{Template:User WP Ontario
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linked pages |
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.
| Some Canadian WikiProjects fall inactive or semi-active because they have a lack of interested editors or they simply have served their initial purpose of establishing an organizational structure, content assessment system, layout and navigational aids. These projects are retained for reference because they contain topic-specific considerations of the many site-wide policies and guidelines that apply to a subset of Canadian articles. See Reviving WikiProjects. It may be best to direct questions to Canada's Wikiproject talk page. |
- Provinces/territories
- Canadian Topics
- Politics
- Entertainment
- Canada-related tasks in other projects