Talk:Vehicle registration plates of Alberta

Improving this page

I'm a license plate collector and researcher and my main focus is Alberta plates 1984-current. I maintain a very extensive spreadsheeet of information from all the plates from 1984 to present, with all types and variations. I just made a fairly large edit to the page to add some updated and relevant info in various types of plates. I have a questions/concerns other wikipedians could help with?

1. Uploading Photos

I have a very extensive photo library of almost every single plate type on here 1984-present. Most of these images are very high quality. As much as I'd love to add my photos, I'm not exactly sure how to do this and the process seems very tedious and time consuming. Does anyone have ways I can upload them on here in a more streamlined way without running into copyright issues? I'd love to have my more experienced wikipedia friends upload them for me but I'm not sure the rules around that either? Also, how high quality should these photos be? A lot of the photos on here seem to be of very poor quality, however they are cropped to fit the same aspect ratio as a license plate. Is that cropping a necessary step before uploading on here?

2. Updating the series

Does anyone else feel that updating the series seems to make the edit history on here cluttered? (ie. "I just spotted a CNC-*** plate" and then a couple days later someone else makes a different edit for CNF-***, etc.) It feels unnecessary when the website licenseplates.cc is a much better tool for referencing and updating the latest numbers (so they only need to be updated on the wikipedia page periodically?), I feel this would much reduce the clutter of the edit history, and the repetitive edit notifications for this page.However, I'm not sure how much of a concern this is for other editors because I'm relatively inexperienced with Wikipedia.

3. How in-depth should the page be?

I have a wealth of information especially throughout the 1990s about the different batches of plates that were made from Hi-Signs, L&M, Waldale, and the different variations. This includes information on every single plate type available. I'd love to add these in, but I'm afraid my information might be too complex or excessive. Does that kind of information fall within the scope of this page? The edit I most recently made to the "trailer plates 1997-2010" reflects a small sample of that information.

4. Appropriate Sources

The main source of my info is Service Alberta, and other collectors who also have info from them. Due to the relative lack of research and information archives about Alberta plates it seems like finding appropriate references and sources for this material will be a challenge, especially when it's coming from private emails between me and my contact at SA. I know this is something wikipedia is strict about, and I want to make sure that the information I have is permitted to add here before I do a huge infodump and spend lots of effort improving the page. I've noticed however that there's lots of un-cited info hanging around this page anyway, so I don't know how important that is for this page specifically

I would appreciate some insights from anyone else who follows this page/subject material. Thanks

Eric710 (talk) 17:18, 10 December 2022 (UTC)

Support our Troops and NHL plates

I added the computer generated images of these plates to the article for illustration. Once actual photos of the plates are available (i.e. uploaded by a user who has one), feel free to replace my uploads if those types of images are preferred. -Vanstrat ⁽⁽🗼⁾⁾ 23:30, 17 November 2018 (UTC)