Talk:British Columbia

British commonly abbreviated as BR; French: Britannique is the westernmost not newest province of Canada. Can keeping "British Columbia" YES! or can renaming "British" NO! Is upsetting Columbus Day the same problem, the Alamo two massacred Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie by like a million angry Mexicans.

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• Change "population_est" to 5683201
• Change "pop_est_as_of" to "Q4 2025"
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• In the phrase "With an estimated population of over 5.7 million as of 2025", remove the word "over". ~2025-41549-18 (talk) 21:38, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

 Done, but I changed 5.7 to 5.68 (my own edit, personally) NuggestNugtalk to me!contribs logsthey
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Change Lieutenant governor to Lieutenant Governor in infobox as it is standard for infoboxes in practice to fully capitalize offices. Also link "province" to provinces of Canada article as is standard in other articles. Proposal box included -

Quick facts British Columbia, Country ...

British Columbia
Province
Flag Coat of arms
Country	Canada
Capital	Victoria
Government
• Type	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy
• Lieutenant Governor	Wendy Lisogar-Cocchia
• Premier	David Eby
Demonym
Official languages	English (de facto)
Rankings include all provinces and territories

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Bokmanrocks01 (talk) 03:19, 23 December 2025 (UTC)

Does this article (or any place in Canada) need an "HDI rank"? Produced by the United Nations, this ranking has faced criticism. A consensus of editors have agreed that media-generated rankings are not reliable. Wondering if this should be include the HDI. Magnolia677 (talk) 19:26, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

Sorry... to clarify the question: if it's UN produced, that's not media generated, right? The UN isn't a media outlet. —Joeyconnick (talk) 00:11, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

Thank you. The UN is not a newspaper. Should the HDI ranking be included in provincial infoboxes. Magnolia677 (talk) 11:01, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

I'm surprised that this hasn't happened yet considering how vigilant Wikipedians typically are. I'm British Columbian and have specifically heard that the timezone is now MST, year-round MST, so GMT-7. I don't know why daylight savings and PST/PDT are still called the official timezone in the textbox, it's misinformation. Sharkthecat (talk) 05:06, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

Pacific Time (British Columbia) as currently linked is different to Pacific Time Zone. Possibly a more differentiated name will come into use as time goes on. CMD (talk) 06:37, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

I hope so, it's awfully confusing. PT isn't all that nice of an acronym when compared to MST or CST. Sharkthecat (talk) 06:42, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

What if we consolidated the “Most of province” and “Eastern” sections in the “Time zones” parameter of the infobox? Despite using different names, they’re still in the exact same timezone year-round as of last week. 2600 etc (talk) 19:08, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

This issue has come up with regards to the "settlement_type" field in the infobox. Should it read "Province" (no wikilink), or should "Province" be piped to "Provinces and territories of Canada": Province.

Joeyconnick and I have disagreed on this point, as the edit history shows, so I'm bringing it to the Talk page.

I think it's okay to link this way, and have pointed out that all the other articles on Canadian province and territories link to the "Provinces and territories article.

On the other hand, Joeyconnick believes that it's an example of MOS:EGG.

I agree with Joeyconnick that just because one article doesn't follow a guideline, that doesn't mean we can ignore the guideline. However, when we're looking at whether a guideline applies in a particular case, it is helpful to see how other editors have applied it, and whether they consider a particular practice to be a breach of the guideline.

So I went looking at other federations, and I've found that the articles for the states / province / federal units in other federations that I've checked all link to the general article on the states / provinces / federal units in that federation.

In addition to the other nine Canadian provinces and three territories linking to Provinces and territories of Canada, see these articles from other federations:

• US: infoboxes link "State" to U.S. state. For example, see California, Rhode Island, Alabama (pulled at random as examples; I've not searched all 50 states).

• Australia: infoboxes link "State" to States and territories of Australia. See: New South Wales and Victoria.

• Mexico: infoboxes link "State" to List of states of Mexico. See: Baja California and Yucatán.

• Germany: infoboxes link "State" to States of Germany. See: Bavaria and Thuringia.

• India: infoboxes link "State" to States and union territories of India. See: Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh.

• Brazil: infoboxes link "State" to Federative units of Brazil. See: São Paulo (state) and Ceará.

• South Africa: infoboxes link "Province" to Provinces of South Africa. See: KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga.

As mentioned, these examples of particular states / provinces / federative units are not meant to be a complete survey, but so far, I've not found one in any of these countries that doesn't link to the general article for that county.

I think that means that this type of linking is not considered to be a breach of Easter egg, in articles produced by a large number of editors, relating to several different countries. I don't think linking "Province" in the BC infobox is an example of an Easter egg.

Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 01:08, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

I can't see how this might run afoul of EGG. While not very long, Provinces and territories of Canada is the article which gives the overview of Canadian provinces. It is where you'd expect a "Province" link to go. CMD (talk) 02:10, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

I don't see this as a MOS:EGG problem, and i agree that Provinces and territories of Canada is an appropriate target. Meters (talk) 02:17, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

I agree. I don't see this as an Easter Egg either. Masterhatch (talk) 02:36, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

I agree this is not an MOS:EGG problem. The best target for a wikilink is Province (Canada). What does that redirect to? Provinces and territories of Canada. If it redirects to there it is not a surprise. Hwy43 (talk) 03:09, 4 May 2026 (UTC)