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visible minorities[edit]

I've changed the chart name from "visible minorities" to "ethnicities". I found it odd that only visible minorities were included and white/aboriginal were omitted. Wikipedia is suppose to be unbiased. Having a chart specially for people of certain colours is odd. There should be a chart that includes everyone. This accomplishes that. UrbanNerd (talk) 04:23, 15 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

What is more odd is that there is a record for those omitted in the source table yet it was never transferred to this table when created. The "Not a visible minority" record is missing from the end of the source table. The footnote for this record indicates this includes Aboriginals and others not considered to be members of a visible minority group. The footnote for the "Total visible minority population" record at the source table defines visible minorities as those, other than Aboriginals, "who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour." I recommend returning the table name to the original per the source table, and including the record you added under the title of "Not a visible minority (White & Aboriginals)" per the source table as supplemented by the source table's footnotes.

I agree the majority of the population should be represented to remain unbiased and be encyclopedic, and this would accomplish that while maintaining consistency with the source and using the proper term in the title that applies to the records within the table.

In terms of actual ethnicities, such a table should be based on StatCan's Ethnic origins series of data, which uses ethnicities instead of aggregations. Hwy43 (talk) 05:02, 15 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmm, I don't understand why the section needs to be named "visible minorities". The table lists more than just minorities. It should be just named, ethnicities, or something along those lines. What do you suggest ? UrbanNerd (talk) 02:50, 18 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure if you've read through the StatCan community profile page for Edmonton in detail yet or the other external links provided previously. There are numerous tables in the community profile. The name of the table at StatCan that is the source for this table is Visible minority population characteristics (see third-last from the bottom), hence the name of the section within which the table is located. Hwy43 (talk) 03:41, 18 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I just read the visible minority article. The term is exclusive to Canada. Hwy43 (talk) 07:30, 18 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned references in Demographics of Edmonton[edit]

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Demographics of Edmonton's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "2011censusABmunis":

From Edmonton: "Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), 2011 and 2006 censuses". Statistics Canada. 2012-02-08. Retrieved 2012-02-08.
From Edmonton Capital Region: "Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), 2011 and 2006 censuses (Alberta)". Statistics Canada. 2012-02-08. Retrieved 2012-02-13.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 17:16, 7 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Done Hwy43 (talk) 17:34, 7 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

does anyone know how to update this to the 2016 census?[edit]

does anyone know how to update this to the 2016 census?

Correction[edit]

Calculations are wrong for edmonton demographics. 2607:FEA8:6560:274D:51A0:EB5C:1305:5D17 (talk) 13:55, 12 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]