Wikipedia:WikiProject Toronto

Motivation

1. Toronto is one of the world's most diverse large cities, as over 50% of its population of over 2.7 million were born in some other country (than Canada). Like London, it is structured as a set of urban villages that have not quite lost their character or total control of street life, and each of these neighbourhoods needs an article in the Wikipedia, in the language that is spoken by its inhabitants, and which appears on its signs. Chinese, Italian, Polish, Greek, Indian and other communities are each associated with specific districts, which require articles in at least English and in those languages.
2. Toronto has sufficient cultural treasures to be worth visiting on any visit to North America. Some of these, including the Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario Science Centre and Royal Ontario Museum, are innovative and notable for their collections, and their public activity in education. Toronto is also a prominent centre for the study of library science and classification systems—the Robarts Library at the University of Toronto has some 1100 of these schemes in its collection. Articles on Toronto itself are most likely to motivate the participation of categorization scholars who work in these institutions.
3. Toronto retains electric streetcars, has an extensive subway and semi-automated light metro network, and is experimenting with diesel-electric buses—probably the most technologically diverse transit system in North America, and so a testbed for transport technologies.

Naming conventions

• Places: as [[Queen Street West, Toronto]] with a redirect from [[Queen West, Toronto]], or a disambiguation page if there is more than one place or thing with this name.
  • Rationale for doing things this way round: many places have been named after places in London, including many places in Toronto, where this habit is simply out of control. There are many Queen and King Streets in Canada and Australia, and figuring out how to disambiguate them all effectively is going to be very necessary. So let's do it quickly and early.
• Toronto subway stations: [[Spadina station]], or [[Lawrence station (Toronto)]] if further disambiguation is required, as per WP:CANSTATION.
  • [[Union station (TTC)]] is an exception, as there's the nearby [[Union station (Toronto)]]
• Cities: as their former official full names but recognized as part of Toronto (their current status), i.e. [[Borough of East York, Toronto]], [[City of North York, Toronto]], etc.

Framework

To do:

• Auto-generate articles to create a trellis of linked pre-stub articles about places in Toronto, probably based on the phone book or a tour guide available in electronic form.
• Hand-edit to merge with existing content, and to fill in the correct Toronto city name for each of these place articles.
• The few places that actually are not in Toronto, but one of the surrounding regional municipalities, should be renamed, and the links to them fixed.
• There should be an article on each of the Toronto Forward Sortation Areas, cross-linked to the articles describing the places in that postal district, mean income, etc. Statistics Canada will have this.
• Articles on notable Toronto tourist attractions such as Rogers Centre should be put in the same format as other Toronto place articles.