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Would like some input here on William Lyon Mackenzie King. I'm talking about the fourth paragraph of his lead; there is a sentence that says, "...and successfully negotiated Newfoundland's entry into Confederation". Should we omit the "successfully" part or does it make it clearer to understand? Ak-eater06 (talk) 21:57, 6 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Has anyone from this WikiProject ever heard of Kimble Ainslie? He's listed as being Canadian and it appears that the article has been unreferenced since it was created back in 2005 (there's one primary-type source embedded citation about halfway through the article). Googling him comes up with a few hits, but not much that seems to resembles significant coverage. -- Marchjuly (talk) 06:21, 17 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Seeking photo(s) for the Fountainhead Pub entry, if anyone's able to help. Thanks! ---Another Believer (Talk) 00:28, 23 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

In the process of creating redlinks for the newly elected MPPs in last night's 2022 Ontario general election so that their new articles could be started, I temporarily disambiguated the new rep for Scarborough Centre as David Smith (Ontario MPP) for lack of an immediate better idea — but this isn't an ideal title, as there are also David William Smith and Dave Smith (politician) to consider. And even worse, Dave is an incumbent MPP who will be sitting alongside David-from-Scarborough-Centre in the new legislature.

I don't think the Dave vs. David distinction is sufficient, because some people might very well assume that Dave's article was at David too and thus erroneously link to the "Ontario MPP" title — but I don't think disambiguating them by riding is the best option either, because that would require Dave's article to be disambiguated as the em-dashed "Peterborough—Kawartha MPP". Obviously we can do that if we absolutely have to, but it's better avoided if at all possible. David William is probably fine, but I think the other two need clearer and more unambiguous titles to minimize any possible confusion.

So I wanted to ask for some opinions about how we can improve their disambiguation. Are we stuck with dabbing them by riding, or does anybody have a viable alternative to suggest? Bearcat (talk) 16:26, 3 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]