Talk:Northwest Territories

Reordering

I have ordered and grouped the sections in a way that seems consistent with a majority of the Province articles. I intend to do the same with the other 9 plus territories unless someone disputes this. On a factual note, I observe three different figures regarding the areal size of NWT in the article. Perhaps someone knowledgeable could take a look. Verne Equinox (talk)

Area of each of the five administrative districts of Northwest Territories

I would like to know the area in water, in land, and in combined of each of the individual administrative districts of Northwest Territories. Onehundredhundredking (talk) 16:24, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

Names

The names are getting removed because they are unsourced and can't be given context in the infobox or first sentence. Some of the names, Denendeh, may only cover part of the territory. Nunatsiaq does not appear to be used outside of Nunatsiaq News and Wikipedia. Putting them in the first sentence or the infobox gives the impression that they are official names. The only official alternate name is Territoires du Nord-Ouest as shown here.

Other issues are linking French and English languages along with two links to the Slavey language. The first are unnecessary as common terms. Neither NT or NWT redirect to this article so they don't need bolding. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 14:24, 12 June 2021 (UTC)

Dispute about Infobox content

An issue has come up: should the infobox to this article contain the field "government_type", filled in with "Parliamentary system with consensus government". Since this issue affects all ten provinces and the three territories, a Request for Comment has been started on the Canadian Wikipedians Notice Board. If you are interested in this issue, please come to the Notice Board and contribute to the discussion. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 01:18, 3 July 2022 (UTC)

Time zones in the N.W.T.

I am not certain where an article about time zones could be built in Wikipedia: as a subsection of the N.W.T. main article, or as its own article.

From information at Timeanddate.com, I have ascertained that until 29 April 1979, the area that now is part of the N.W.T. since 1999 had two time zones. With some exceptions, the area west of longitude 120°W was using Pacific Standard Time, as was Ulukhaktok (Holman). The exceptions west of 120°, using MST, were Deline (Fort Franklin), Tulita (Fort Norman), Fort Good Hope, Tungsten (occupied since 1961 and beyond 1979) and the Canol Camp (occupied 1942-45) across from Norman Wells, thus producing an irregular boundary. However, these five exceptions should not be considered definitive, as the "official" record may have not prevailed over local preferences.

Is this worthy of inclusion in the N.W.T. article? GBC (talk) 03:27, 5 March 2023 (UTC)

I lived in Ulukhaktok from 1975 until 1996 when I moved across the island to Cambridge Bay. The only place in the undivided Northwest Territories that was in Pacific time was the Tungsten, Northwest Territories area. Prior to the 1999 division of the NWT places in the Keewatin Region, Northwest Territories were generally on Central time. Places in the Baffin Region, Northwest Territories were generally on Eastern time. Places in the Kitikmeot Region, Northwest Territories, as well as the remaining regions were on Mountain time, with the one exception noted above. There were no local preferences for a different time zone in the NWT. Today, Tungsten is still the only place in the NWT that has a different time zone. Do you have a link to where you found that on timeanddate.com?

I've just remembered that there was a summer fly-in fishing camp in the southeast NWT that may have been on Central or Eastern time as their connections were from the south. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 13:44, 5 March 2023 (UTC)