Quebec notable

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I stumbled across this profile while connecting a Canadian soldier.

There are two Quebec Notable categories, how do know which one to put the profiles into? I have put both on the profile.

Do he deserve more categories?

And I never know how much of the wikipedia bio to “copy” to wikitree.
WikiTree profile: Charles Fitzpatrick
in The Tree House by S Stevenson G2G6 Pilot (245k points)
I generally assume that if you put someone in a Notable sub-category, you don't need to put him in a higher level category.  If you want the Notable sticker, you can add it anyway.  Also,  I usually include the 1st paragraph of the Wikipedia article because that usually gives the highlights of why the person is important.  If you're good with words, You can use that as a start point for a bio.

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I would never copy the Wikipedia bio.  While it may be technically allowed, it is just as easy to summarize in your own words.  If you do copy and paste, use quotes and cite the source.
by Amy Gilpin G2G6 Pilot (214k points)
+5 votes
You're not supposed to copy any of the Wikipedia article.  They have a different licencing policy than WikiTree:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Copying_from_Wikipedia
by Ros Haywood G2G Astronaut (1.9m points)
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Because he was English-speaking, use the Quebec Notables (without the é).

I add categories for where a person was born, and usually where they died (unless they lived somewhere else, and happened to die in some other place, either because they were on a trip, or because they were taken to a hospital in some other town, or something like that).

If I find the same occupation for the person in at least two records (marriage, census, death, etc.), then I add a category for that.

If somebody served in the military, I try to find the unit(s) in which they served, and add categories for each.

If I find a source saying that they graduated from a particular university, college, or even high school, I add a category for that, too.
by Greg Slade G2G6 Pilot (669k points)
Is there a category for Quebec Universities and Colleges? In either language?

Ah. I see what happened. Nobody linked upwards from [[Category:Canada, Education]] to [[Category:Canada]]. Fixed now.

In English, what you're looking for is [[Category:Quebec, Colleges and Universities]].

Thanks!

There's only McGill?  Odd.
I've noticed that the colleges and universities categories haven't been very well developed. At least in Canada. Possibly because, while a lot of Wikipedia articles about British notables are happy to tell you that they graduated from Oxford or Cambridge, and articles about American notables will tell you that they graduated from Harvard or Yale or whatever, when they're talking about Canadian notables, Wikipedia editors don't seem to consider the information that Ferdinand Grubstake graduated from Cape Breton University worth including.
Would the category name be Laval University or Universite de Laval ?
Since instruction is in French, I'd use Université Laval, and put it into the French language hierarchy (which I haven't looked at, but I trust that there is some similar category for Colleges and Universities in Quebec).
actually, use Québec throughout, no matter the language stream, that is the correct name for the province.
Université Laval - ya, really weird there's no category for that one, considering it's age and very many Québec Notables studied there.

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