User:Ivanvector/Articles

Highlighted content

• Canada jay: candidate for Canada's National Bird. My first attempt at promoting a good article; subsequently my first featured article co-nomination and first DYK credit. Was promoted as today's featured article on 2 July 2017, the day after Canada's sesquicentennial.
• List of national parks of Canada: a detailed listing of protected properties in Canada's national parks system. Today's featured list, 18 May 2018
• Ashbridge Estate: a pioneer home in eastern Toronto.
• Poutine: a Quebecois dish popular throughout Canada.

Did you know?

• ... that the grey jay builds its nests in late winter, while the forest is still deep in snow? 22 February 2017
• ... that descendants of the family who settled Toronto's Ashbridge Estate were still living on the same property over 200 years later? 7 March 2017
• ... that the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island banned automobiles for more than a decade starting in 1908? 20 May 2019
• ... that Canadian politician Above Znoneofthe chose his name so as to be placed last on alphabetical ballots? 8 November 2021
• ... that railway engineer Henry Ketchum earned the first diploma in civil engineering granted by the University of New Brunswick? 13 February 2023

New articles

• 1999 Highway 401 crash: a multiple vehicle collision which occurred near Windsor, Ontario. One of Canada's worst road disasters; seven people were killed.
• Above Znoneofthe: Canadian political candidate who legally changed his name so that there would be a "Znoneofthe, Above" option on Canada's alphabetical electoral ballots.
• Canada Highways Act: Canada's first federal funding for highway construction, led to development of the Trans-Canada Highway.
• Henry Ketchum: prominent railway engineer involved in many early colonial railroads in eastern Canada.
• Old Princetown Road: an historic colonial road in PEI.
• Prince Edward Island automobile ban: that time PEI banned cars, but later changed its mind.
• The Bog, Charlottetown: an historic African-Canadian community in PEI.
• Woodbine Building Supply fire: a significant arson that occurred in Toronto in 2001. One of the largest fires in Toronto's history.
• Brian Francis (Canadian senator): Mi'kmaq leader from PEI.

Significant contributions

• Debits and credits: fundamental accounting principles. Article has always been a mess, but I tried to help. Very surprised this is rated B-class.
• University of Chicago Law School: top-tier American law school. Contributed as part of attempting to mediate a dispute.
• R v Elliott: Canada's first trial for harassment over Twitter.
• Toronto mayoral election, 2014: Toronto's mayoral election in 2014.
• Double-entry bookkeeping system: the fundamental system underlying all modern accounting.
• James Sears: Toronto pick-up artist and neo-Nazi organizer.
• Jian Ghomeshi: former CBC Radio personality.
• List of Prince Edward Island provincial highways: does what it says on the tin.

Expanded redirects

• Emu and the Jabiru: an Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime myth.
• Mitch Martin: an Australian race driver; redirect previously pointed to Old School (film) as one of the main characters' names.

Translations

• Consumer Protection Act (Quebec): created as a result of a redirect discussion I think for the sole purpose of demonstrating some obscure point, probably about interlanguage links.
• Saltes Island: translated primarily from Spanish with help from other language wikis as a test of whether it was possible for wikidata's interlanguage feature to point to a redlink. Article was selected randomly.

Non-mainspace encyclopedia content

• Template:Prince Edward Island provincial highways, and many of the articles linked from it.
• File:Point Prim Light.jpg: photo of Point Prim Light Station, but the one in the article is better

Works in progress

Pages listed above are more or less stable and I'm not actively working on them, but of course improvements are welcome and the encyclopedia is never finished. These are articles and other content that I have ideas in my head for specific improvements and expansion, if I ever have the time.

• Cannabis in Prince Edward Island: development of the province's legal framework for the upcoming legalization of marijuana throughout Canada in 2018.
• Chignecto Marine Transport Railway: one of Canada's first megaprojects: a "ship railway" designed to transport marine vessels over 17 miles of the Isthmus of Chignecto; financing failed and the railway never operated. (c.f. Henry Ketchum, above)
• Miyata: a Japanese bicycle and motorcycle manufacturer.
• Victoria Hospital (London, Ontario): historic but now demolished hospital in my home town.
• Draft:St. Joseph's Health Care London: another hospital network in London.
• List of National Historic Sites of Canada: create a companion list for National Historic Sites of Canada, based on work on the national parks featured list.

Userspace essays

• Don't abuse the no personal attacks policy: explains itself.
• Drafts are cheap: based on Wikipedia:Redirects are cheap, a counterargument to the push to delete stale drafts.