Talk:1980 Quebec referendum

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I don't think federalists wanted the "status-quo". That is not what Trudeau promised.142.68.197.16 04:38, 3 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The background this article provides ("Long ruled by forces (such as the Union Nationale) that focused on affirmation of the province's French and Catholic identity within Canada, the province underwent a Quiet Revolution in the early 1960s." Misses a crucial piece of historical context about the linguistic divides in Quebec, and the way English speakers controlled the province basically until Levesque's government. I added a bit of that context while keeping it short to leave the majority of the information for the Quiet Revolution page. Vanilla hazelnut latte (talk) 23:02, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Capitalisation

I wasn't able to find out how, but could somebody please capitalise "Independence" and "Referendum" in the title?

--Tomdiepstrap 03:45, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

Article title (possible page move)

There is some question as to the appropriateness of the current article title, as well as the title of Quebec independence referendum, 1995. Centralized discussion at Wikipedia talk:Canadian Wikipedians' notice board#Quebec referendums. Regards.--Skeezix1000 (talk) 13:16, 27 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sovereignist or sovereigntist

The word is spelled two different ways in this article. We ought to be consistent, though neither adjective is common in English. We *do* have an article (at least a DAB page) on sovereigntism. Sovereignism redirects to that title. Unless there is objection I suggest we use 'sovereigntist' here to be consistent with our own article title. In French there is no problem; the word is souverainiste, as in fr:Mouvement souverainiste du Québec. EdJohnston (talk) 00:50, 28 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This has been discussed previously elsewhere — "sovereigntist" is indeed the standard English spelling across all dialects. The non-standard "sovereignist" variant exists in Canadian English precisely because the Quebec sovereignty issue pushes it into closer cohabitation with the French spelling than is normal elsewhere, but even in Canada "sovereigntist" is still the more standard spelling. Bearcat (talk) 16:20, 15 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move

It was proposed in this section that 1980 Quebec referendum be renamed and moved to Quebec status referendum, 1980.

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The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: No consensus, not moved (non-admin closure) DavidLeighEllis (talk) 01:02, 31 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Quebec referendum, 1980 → Quebec status referendum, 1980

Support The standard naming convention for referendums is - "Demonym subject, year". The new title is consistent with Saar status referendum, 1935, Puerto Rican status referendum, 1998, Mahoran status referendum, 1976, Bonaire status referendum, 2004 and many others. Please note that there is a parallel move request over at Talk:Quebec referendum, 1995#Requested move. Stephen J Sharpe (talk) 00:45, 23 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support per standard naming convention. Number 5 7 00:53, 23 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose rename to Quebec sovereignty referendum, 1980. I don't think it is appropriate to have the word "status" in the title of this article. This referendum was referred to as an "independence", "sovereignty" or "separation" referendum, although the official term used by the Parti Québecois was "Sovereignty-Association". À la prochaine fois: The 1980 Quebec Referendum René Lévesque speaks in New York about Quebec separation Nobody in Canada calls it a "status" referendum. -- Kndimov (talk) 16:03, 23 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Sovereignty is fine by me. Number 5 7 19:19, 23 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose No move is needed. The current title is sufficiently precise: there were no other Quebec-wide referendums in 1980. It is also the common name. Nobody calls it a "status" referendum. There is no need to name referendum articles in a systematic way worldwide. Indefatigable (talk) 23:13, 23 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- I agree that when people in Canada say Quebec referendum 1980 or 1995 nobody gets mixed up. As much as I agree with Indefatigable, Wikipedia does has a naming convention for such matters. The question is: is it a convention that may be broken, or is it a policy that must be abided by? I have a feeling it is the latter. And if it is the latter than we'll have to discuss a change in policy before leaving the page like it is. -- Kndimov (talk) 00:56, 24 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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