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Climate map shows that Niagara-On-The-Lake has a humid subtropical climate?

According to the edit history that map was uploaded by the user Mhecky on December 10th, 2021. Prior to that the climate maps did not show anywhere in Ontario with a humid subtropical climate. Is this accurate? Is Niagara-On-The-Lake actually subtropical, and if so, how come I can't find any other sources for this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Speyeker (talk • contribs) 22:54, 30 April 2022 (UTC) Speyeker (talk) 20:04, 1 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It is a hoax by Usee:Mhecky, who has vandalized and abused numerous accounts along with their sock User:Screendeemer. It has been removed and was completely a lie based on a source from a German site of a microclimate in Lake Ontario, not mainland Ontario. Lakersfan89 (talk) 20:11, 27 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

OK...however, the climate map of New York State (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_New_York_(state) ) does actually seem to show some Cfa/Humid Subtropical regions around the New York Niagara region directly adjacent to Ontario, and even the article on Youngstown, New York (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youngstown,_New_York) in that vicinity says it is a borderline Cfa/Humid Subtropical Climate. So even if Mhecky/Screendeemer was a vandal and this was a hoax, it does actually seem like there might be some evidence to support this. 66.23.38.130 (talk) 16:05, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Article preview error

When I preview this page by clicking on a link to it from another article, it has a mistake that says that Ontario is owned by Cal Raleigh. Could someone please fix this? I don't know how to edit previews. Image of the error: https://imgur.com/a/b65QWco MGJohn-117 (talk) 06:11, 23 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This was some vandalism that only lasted less than a minute. The preview will fix itself soon enough. Canterbury Tail talk 11:29, 23 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

indigenous

I don’t think indigenous should be capitalized. However, I don’t know what the MOS says, and I’m not going to change all 16 occurences. Humphrey Tribble (talk) 05:08, 5 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

In Canada when referring to the people it is capitalized by all government agencies and bodies, so it's a capitalized proper collective noun just like any other group of peoples. We capitalize French, German, Canadian etc and Indigineous is just a collective people group like those. If used just to describe someone or something native to an area, it's not a proper noun. Canterbury Tail talk 11:42, 5 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The Canadian Style of the federal government recommends capitalising "Indigenous", when referring to Indigenous peoples of Canada. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 14:54, 5 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Area of province

I don't understand the numbers given as the area of Ontario:

Area (2021 land)

• Total 1,076,395 km2 (415,598 sq mi)
• Land 892,411.76 km2 (344,562.11 sq mi)
• Water 158,654 km2 (61,257 sq mi)

The total area is greater than the land area plus the water area. Is there an error here? Hughdbrown (talk) 15:39, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The land figure is the only one given in the present source, and matches what that source says. The other two figures are from an older source which gives a different figure for land - so someone updated the land figure and didn't change the other two. I don't know if the water figure from the older source remains accurate. Nikkimaria (talk) 15:51, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Extremely serious omission

How could someone, in an article called "Ontario" in a supposedly "encyclopedic" project, have failed to include a useful map showing the primary administrative divisions and major settlements of the province of Ontario? Please fix. 98.123.38.211 (talk) 04:13, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Including the Haudenosaunee Confederacy in the history section

It'd be nice if this article touched more on the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. It probably deserves at least a short subsection. While the confederacy didn't encompass all of present-day Ontario, its largest territorial extent did encompass all of the most populous region of Ontario and it's generally a very historically significant element of the history of the region that continues to exist today. Meanwhile, it's not given much attention here and is largely grouped in with pre-history. 2001:569:FB27:9A00:7891:647B:318:EA76 (talk) 16:01, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I'm (somewhat) working on a rewrite of the History section, and rewrote the pre-history section a few weeks ago, but I'll see what I can do when I get to the other parts. I'm not sure if a subsection is necessary though, since the headers seem to be grouped by years. Maybe a paragraph or two? Idk I'll see how much coverage it needs when I start doing another rewrite. ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 16:29, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]