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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

For the vast majority of Canadian community articles, the name origin is presented within a single sentence up to a short single paragraph, if presented at all. 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)[reply]

Historical population templates

The above on community articles provide excellent and succinct information on the most sought after demographic information on a community – population. It unintrusively and briefly provides historical population information so that our readers can quickly understand its growth path and trends over the years. If a community article's Demographics section is large enough to justify its own child article, it isn't justified to simply bury this in the child article where few will see it or where few will know to visit to find it. This type of historical info is a marquis supplement to the population counts from the latest or two most recent censuses in prose. Prose in place of tables or charts of more detailed demographics is understood especially if said tables and charts are in fact presented at the more detailed demographics child articles of community articles. Hwy43 (talk) 05:27, 23 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]