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Toronto was one of the Geography and places good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
February 9, 2006	Good article nominee	Listed
July 16, 2007	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
March 5, 2009	Good article reassessment	Delisted
December 30, 2018	Good article nominee	Not listed
Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on March 6, 2004, March 6, 2012, and March 6, 2014.
Current status: Delisted good article

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Frequently asked questions

Please change the mayor to reflect the results of the latest mayoral election.

We only change the mayor once the mayor begins holding office, which is generally a few days after the election.

Please change the population figure to the latest available figure. The City website shows this figure. Statistics Canada shows this estimated figure.

We only use population figures from the latest official census per WP:CANPOP. We do not accept any other source, not from the city, and not from Statistics Canada estimates.

Missing detail?

The lede is woefully inadequate without a mention of Toronto's ascendancy at the expense of Montreal. If not for the Québec nationalism, Toronto would still be the Second City. Glaring omission, and if I trawled the history, I bet it used to be there... 142.126.140.83 (talk) 00:42, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's already mentioned in greater detail in History of Toronto. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 13:23, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Less precipitation than rainfall?

I was looking at the weatherbox for the climate of Toronto here when I saw that it said that Toronto had less precipitation than rainfall in August and September (August had 71.9 mm of precip but 81.1 mm of rainfall, for example). This seems illogical because rainfall contributes to precipitation totals, and thus is a part of it. Can someone check this/check the resource? Antarctican2606 (talk) 15:26, 6 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 5 October 2024

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toronto indigenous name add citation https://guides.library.utoronto.ca/toronto Ifeltafuneralinmybrain (talk) 03:06, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Partly done: cited with https://digitalarchive.tpl.ca/internal/media/dispatcher/2128934/full. NotAGenious (talk) 08:17, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Simple spelling error

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Can anybody turn "Lakes Simcoe" into "Lake Simcoe" under the Quick Facts section? Over1BillionPagesOnWiki (talk) 13:33, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done "Lakes Simcoe and Couchiching" is grammatically correct as it refers to both Lake Simcoe and Lake Couchiching. By the way, the proper term for the "Quick Facts" section is the Infobox. By the way, you can now edit semi-protected pages yourself. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 16:16, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

However, I did correct a different spelling error in the infobox, or as you call it the Quick Facts section, albeit regarding the spelling of "statutory." Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 00:17, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Bordering a subtropical climate?

It looks like on February 8th at 00:48 user NameStuffs made a change saying that the climate of Toronto borders a humid subtropical climate (Cfa). Is this accurate? This seems to come on the heels of two edits made on January 31st by user 2607:fea8:5298:5210:8a7e:23c6:fcb4:c33d, who edited both the pages for Amherstburg (Ontario) and Windsor (Ontario) to also say that the climates there border a humid subtropical climate (albeit, to be fair, for Amherstburg its corresponding French-language article (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amherstburg) has mentioned it being subtropical for a while now, while its English-language article traditionally just had the chart but with no brief description at the top). All of this does seem a bit fishy to me, so I want to double-check with others to make sure this is accurate. Speyeker (talk) 19:52, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reverted edit as it is original research and warned user. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 00:45, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I explained my decision to include the information about the subtropical climate as when using the weatherbox data, the lowest mean temperature is -3.5°C, which when using the -3°C isotherm, makes Toronto, in my opinion, bordering a subtropical climate, as it's only 0.5°C away. I understand that that's just my opinion, and that the -3°C isotherm isn't the isotherm used commonly on Wikipedia.

However, I have seen other pages (Sofia, Pittsburgh, Windsor, and Yarmouth), reference the -3°C isotherm, and those same climates also are around 1°C away from the 0°C isotherm. Now that I think about it, it's kind of a stretch to say this, as Toronto doesn't use the -3°C isotherm to be subtropical, but I don't understand how it constitutes original research.

P.S: I'm not 2607:fea8:5298:5210:8a7e:23c6:fcb4:c33d. However, I considered Windsor's page when adding this for Toronto. NameStuffs (talk) 05:02, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think you hit the nail on the head there. "In my opinion". We need reliable sources that state that, not editors interpretations, synthesis and original research. Canterbury Tail talk 13:28, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. In my opinion = original research. @NameStuffs: It is important to read WP:NOR. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 15:11, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough NameStuffs (talk) 19:49, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]