image:Nova Scotia Logo.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 07:57, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
The Outline of Nova Scotia is the latest addition to the collection of outlines on Canadian Provinces.
Wikipedia outlines are multipurpose. First and foremost, they are conceptual maps of their respective subjects, identifying what topics belong to the subject, and showing how the topics are related to each other (what belongs to what). This helps familiarize the reader with the subject, and helps him find what he needs, even if he didn't know that to start with.
Outlines also serve as tables of contents to Wikipedia's coverage of their respective subjects, because most of the topics are also article titles, which are linked. This helps with navigation. Once a reader finds what he needs, one click, and he's there.
This outline has been given a good start, but it is incomplete. Many essential topics are missing. It needs more links.
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Please make this the best outline on Wikipedia. Here are the most closely related ones:
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Nova Scotian editors may want to weigh in at the current AfD on Sunnyside Mall.
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Kimberly_McAndrew - August 12, 1989 - Age 19 - Missing - Halifax - The 19-year-old vanished from a busy parking lot on Quinpool Road after leaving work at the Canadian Tire store a little early. Police have never been able to figure out what happened to McAndrew or how she left the parking lot. I would like to add her to the List_of_people_who_disappeared_mysteriously It was deleted....This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person and why the subject is important or significant. I would like to have help getting this article back up on the site. [[1]] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jbignell (talk • contribs) 20:29, 3 August 2013 (UTC)
Was surprised Wikipedia:Meetup/Halifax/Keshen Goodman editathon wasn't mentioned here when I saw a poster for this and was like hmmm I didn't see anything in Wikiproject Nova Scotia about this. So I thought I would mention it here since its in like 2 days. -DJSasso (talk) 17:09, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
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Category:Municipal districts in Nova Scotia, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Hwy43 (talk) 08:19, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
You are invited to comment at Talk:Region of Queens Municipality, Nova Scotia#Requested move 7 January 2017. Hwy43 (talk) 15:34, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
Hello all, and particularly Plasma east, Earl Andrew, Homestramy20, Canadaolympic989 and WayeMason as the applicable article creators and applicable non-blocked previous article movers of:
Rather than copy and paste the entire discussion, I request that you review the comments on my CfD at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2017 January 7#Category:Municipal districts in Nova Scotia and then comment below on my unofficial move proposal. I'm trying to gauge the level of controversy, if any, on a proposed move of the above five articles to the format of Foo, Nova Scotia (district municipality).
As a short summary, as I learned through collaboration with Mattximus on the FLC nomination for List of municipalities in Nova Scotia, the official legislated municipal status types in Nova Scotia are "towns", "regional municipalities", "county municipalities" and "district municipalities" (not "municipal districts"). From what I can glean, usage of municipal district appears to be an error on Statistics Canada's part that perpetuated itself onto Wikipedia as perceived common usage. I can't explain why StatCan has erred, but I can speculate it has something to do with the verbose official legal name format legislated to district municipalities (i.e., they all must be officially named "Municipality of the District of" Foo). So what is the general feeling on the following potential moves? Again, please see the CfD for greater detail to support my short summary above.
If there is overwhelming opposition, I'll consider simply not putting in the effort into a formal requested move. If there is overwhelming support, I may ask if this discussion would be a satisfactory alternative to a formal requested move of the five articles and then the applicable category. Cheers, Hwy43 (talk) 04:10, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
Based on the above feedback, I believe both WayeMason and Mattximus are proposing the following for all 12 district municipalities:
If correct, I can support this. Due to all the possible variants of the names of these municipalities, determining the common name for all 12 would be quite difficult and surely the results would be inconsistent. There is precedent for erring on the side of official legal name elsewhere in Canada where common name is ambiguous (see the names of the articles listed at List of municipal districts in Alberta, List of rural municipalities in Saskatchewan and List of rural municipalities in Manitoba as three examples). This also assures consistency among the article names of all 12. Thoughts? Hwy43 (talk) 22:50, 15 January 2017 (UTC)
@Mattximus and WayeMason:, with the two formal move requests now complete, I've reopened the CfD for Category:Municipal districts in Nova Scotia at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2017 January 30#Category:Municipal districts in Nova Scotia. Cheers, Hwy43 (talk) 03:32, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
You are invited to comment at Talk:Chester Municipal District, Nova Scotia#Requested move 16 January 2017. Hwy43 (talk) 06:28, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
You are invited to comment at Talk:St. Mary's, Nova Scotia#Requested move 16 January 2017. Hwy43 (talk) 06:28, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
So there is no article on J.D. Shatford. Anyone want to help on that? Crazy to me, just crazy! :) WayeMason (talk) 23:45, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
Category:Municipal districts in Nova Scotia has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. You are encouraged to join the discussion on the Categories for discussion page. Hwy43 (talk) 03:36, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
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Hello, looking at Colchester County, it is not always clear which of these things the article is about:
I mention it here rather than on the Colchester County talk page because I wish to understand how NS WP pages relate to actual local governance. It seems that the district municipalities have a separate page from the county page, but that the county municipalities do not. And county municipalities are absent from List of communities in Nova Scotia although the government seems to consider district and county municipalities as functionally the same e.g. here which states, I paraphrase: "There are three types of municipalities: Regional, towns, and county or district". --Cornellier (talk) 10:13, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
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It's only today that I noticed the article Keltic Lodge and templated it as an advertisement, but it's been that way for a decade. The article cites no independent sources. For improvement, or for AfD? -- Hoary (talk) 08:20, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
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I propose that the Wikipedia article about the history of Halifax and the HRM, currently found at Community of Halifax, Nova Scotia, should be moved to History of Halifax (former city) and the Halifax Regional Municipality. The name is a bit longer and clumsier than I would prefer, but it's more logical than the current name because it accurately reflects the actual page topic. Feel free to join the discussion. Carguychris (talk) 17:12, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
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You're invited to look at Halifax Explosion in popular culture and then weigh in with your opinion at Articles for deletion/Halifax Explosion in popular culture
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A discussion is taking place, which may effect provincial/territorial politician bio leads. GoodDay (talk) 20:15, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
Would appreciate input at this RFC about Levesque. GoodDay (talk) 21:08, 12 December 2023 (UTC)