Talk:List of governors general of Canada/Archive 2

Archive 1

Archive 2

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[1] Why was the citation needed placed? No edit summary. No reason parameter supplied. Walter Görlitz (talk) 02:39, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

Because there's no source for that individual being a viceroy. Nixon Now (talk) 04:10, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. It wasn't clear wether it was the subject's name or position. Walter Görlitz (talk) 05:21, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

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Requested move 9 July 2019

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The result of the move request was: Moved  — Amakuru (talk) 10:50, 17 July 2019 (UTC)

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List of Governors General of Canada → List of governors-general of Canada – This article discusses the plural group of governors-general, so is not a proper noun - lowercase per MOS:JOBTITLE Mauls (talk) 09:35, 9 July 2019 (UTC)

• Support. Consistent with MoS, and Canadian RS overwhelmingly use lowercase, as can be seen with a google query like site:theglobeandmail.com "governors general" or site:cbc.ca "governors general". Looks like the Globe and Mail use a hyphenated form, and CBC and the Toronto Star do not, and Maclean's uses a mix. So I would lean slightly toward the unhyphenated List of governors general of Canada. Colin M (talk) 16:44, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
• Oppose. "Governor-General" is capitalised, and this carries through to the standard plural.

A review of every instant to "governors" at Governor General of Canada#References conflicts with "Canadian RS overwhelmingly use lowercase". This article is derivative of that one, and this article doesn't have a good representation of reliable sources, but fits the trend. Colin M overvalues newspapers as reliable sources. The best sources to use are the sources used by the article, or in this case parent article. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 01:17, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

• All of those instances occur in contexts that are using title case. e.g. "Role and Responsibilities > Former Governors General > The Right Honourable Ramon John Hnatyshyn". This does not imply that "Governors General" should be capitalized in running text any more than it implies that "Responsibilities" should be. Colin M (talk) 19:32, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

• Support per MOS:JOBTITLE. We do not rely on 3rd-party sources for style guidance; see WP:SSF for an explanation of how reference to how things are styled by outside sources is misleading. —Joeyconnick (talk) 18:28, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
• Comment. You may first want to check out Category:Governors-general. (Notice hyphen usage in almost all of these.)
  

Please also see:

 • List of coats of arms of Governors General of Canada

 • List of awards named after Governors General of Canada

 • List of Governors-General of Australia

 • List of Governors-General of New Zealand

The outcome of this does not matter to me, though I support usage of the hyphen for Canadian gg's as Australian and New Zealand gg's use it, as well as consistency used throughout. Best, --Discographer (talk) 20:23, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

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Requested move 18 October 2019

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The result of the move request was: moved. (non-admin closure) –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 16:12, 9 December 2019 (UTC)

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List of governors-general of Canada → List of governors general of Canada – There is no hyphen in Canadian usage; see Governor General of Canada#Spelling of title. MOS:COMMONNAME --₪ MIESIANIACAL 15:01, 18 October 2019 (UTC)

• Support - as the 'dash' is kept out, in Canada. GoodDay (talk) 02:44, 24 October 2019 (UTC)

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Additional column for "occupation" or "previous service"

List of governors-general of Australia includes a column listing the occupation of each Governor-General prior to holding office and, similarly, President_of_Ireland#List_of_presidents_of_Ireland has a column for "previous service" which lists the position each president previously held (eg Senator, Minister of Arts, Professor, Chief Justice) and I believe similar columns exist in other, similar lists. Would something like that be useful in the List of governors general of Canada? Sowny (talk) 02:34, 13 September 2020 (UTC)

Charles Metcalfe correction

IP edits tend to get reverted, so just a note my edit to Charles Metcalfe is legit and can be confirmed by checking his article. His year of death was listed as 1844, yet he continued to serve as Gov-Gen until 1845! His correct year of death was 1846. 70.73.90.119 (talk) 14:28, 20 January 2021 (UTC)