Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Canadian communities/Structure guideline

Guideline start

I started a sketch of a guideline, adapted from the section headings from Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities/Guideline. Please feel free to adjust, improve, detail. --Qyd (talk) 03:08, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Notable Citizens?

Is it appropriate to include lists of notable citizens in articles on communities? If so, where should this information be included in the article?--Ducio1234 (talk) 21:48, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Why no Etymology section? (Origin of the name of the town)

The structure for USA cities - WP:City structure - includes etymology AND Notable People. Why does this one not include those topics?

Etymology If there is sufficient material on the origin and meaning of the settlement's name to justify a section or subsection header, then it may be titled as Etymology (most common), Toponymy, or Name (least common). Etymology is a branch of linguistics that deals with origin and historical development of names and reconstructing their meaning where possible. It may be a distinct section rather than dealing with the name within the history section. When there is a section, it is either a sub-section of History or a distinct section placed above the History section.

Peter K Burian (talk) 19:14, 30 April 2017 (UTC)

For the vast majority of Canadian community articles, the name origin is presented within a single sentence up to a short single paragraph. Right now, this guideline suggests name origin in the lead. We are aware however that the lead should be a summary of contents within the article, so for it to be briefly mentioned in the lead it needs to be presented with a bit more detail elsewhere within the body of the article. The origin of a community's name is part of that community's history. Thus, it should be presented within the History section. If it amounts to no more than a paragraph, I see no need to nest an Etymology subsection under the History section. Hwy43 (talk) 23:42, 30 April 2017 (UTC)