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Related discussion at WP:NORN

There is now a discussion at WP:NORN here about the related article 2021 Canadian church burnings Elinruby (talk) 19:00, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Why are you at the noticeboard all the time instead of talk pages. Are taking the time to see if other sources verify this information? It seems overly complicated all the time. Moxy🍁 02:39, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reference formatting

@Nikkimaria:, why is having inconsistent reference formatting in the article preferable over having a consistent reference style? -- Cdjp1 (talk) 21:41, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Cdjp1, your edit appeared to introduce more inconsistencies than it solved - could you elaborate on what specifically you see as inconsistent in the current format? Nikkimaria (talk) 21:45, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Referring to sources as both a news item in one reference and a website in another, having both "author=" and "first=/last=" for authors, having multiple different date formats, having "access-date=" and "accessdate=", same for archive-, having "|", " | ", and "| ", as just some of the examples. -- Cdjp1 (talk) 21:52, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Could you clarify what you mean by the first example? Nikkimaria (talk) 22:05, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

When citing articles from a news site, in some instances they have been referenced using the "cite web" template, where in other instances they use the "cite news" template. I'm going to submit an update where all the references are formatted in the same way, can you let me know if the edit is acceptable? -- Cdjp1 (talk) 17:16, 8 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Again, that edit seems to introduce more inconsistencies rather than fewer. I've resolved all of the issues you mention. Nikkimaria (talk) 01:25, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Nikkimaria what inconsistencies does it introduce? -- Cdjp1 (talk) 09:14, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Looking at this edit, you have locations added for some citations but not others of the same type; wikilinks added on some but not all entities of the same type; and |pages= used for a single page. Unlike things like parameter spacing or aliases, these have a visible impact on the reference format for readers. Nikkimaria (talk) 00:12, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This article uses Canadian English, so by extension all date parameters in references should be per Canadian standards which appears to be YYYY-MM-DD. TarnishedPath^talk 09:17, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Canadian articles can use either dmy or mdy, per MOS:DATETIES. Nikkimaria (talk) 00:12, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Residential school graves

"Ongoing efforts since 2021 have identified thousands of possible unmarked graves on the grounds of former residential schools, though no human remains have been exhumed and maybe over stated as explain in the 2023 book Grave Error: How the Media Misled Us (and the Truth About Residential Schools) by C.P. Champion and Tom Flanagan 2604:3D09:1583:7700:2993:DC8E:58CB:53B6 (talk) 17:27, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What of it? We discuss this issue in this article, and in more depth in Canadian Indian residential school gravesites. The book you mention is privately published and is likely not anything we can use as a reliable source. Meters (talk) 19:32, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]