Wikipedia talk:WikiProject North America
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Missing topics list
[edit]My list of missing articles about places in North America is updated - Skysmith (talk) 20:26, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
BC–AD –> BCE–CE — is it time to change the Archaic period? (discussion)
[edit]A discussion about changing the era dating style at Archaic period (North America) is underway at Talk:Archaic period (North America)#Era (times are changing). Please join. – S. Rich (talk) 16:23, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
Would people be interested in joining a wikiproject on improving and creating articles about oral tradition? Wikipedia's coverage on this appears to be very poor Kowal2701 (talk) 19:02, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
DST and time zone names
[edit]I see articles such as Central Time Zone claiming that there is the concept of a shared 'central' time zone across multiple jurisdictions:
The North American Central Time Zone (CT) is a time zone in parts of Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America, and some Caribbean islands.
This is misleading, easily goes out of date and unsupported in sources. Given that DST transition dates weren't the same in MX (for the areas that abandoned DST), you end up with a situation, between transition dates of the jurisdictions, where cities that Wikipedia claims are both on 'Central' time would have differing UTC offsets. Cross-border time zones are a fragile concept that only coincidentally is true as long as legislation doesn't change. And it is synthesized by editors.
Observe how es:Tiempo de la montaña is *also* referred to as Pacific Time. I would be very surprised to see Mexican legislation actually having synonyms like this.
So what are we gaining here? My proposal is to stop saying that Mexican or Canadian cities use any of the US time zone names like Central/Mountain/Pacific. We can say that, as of legislation in year XXXX, an offset coincides in a given winter/summer. That's a statement that won't go out of date. And there should be a separate article for Mexican Central time, just like there is a separation between Time in Saskatchewan and UTC-5. It's not the same, it just happens to be the same for most places, according to current legislation. --Ysangkok (talk) 15:48, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
Requested move at Talk:Re·ac·tor#Requested move 7 July 2025
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There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Re·ac·tor#Requested move 7 July 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPathtalk 09:20, 14 July 2025 (UTC)
Canada has an RfC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Coleisforeditor (talk) 15:26, 31 July 2025 (UTC)