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"Canada–Greenland border" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Canada–Greenland border and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 September 8#Canada–Greenland border until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. MB 20:34, 8 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sources for treaty ratification?

In edit (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hans_Island&oldid=1128925569) the text was changed from "the treaty will take effect" to "the treaty took effect" – however, no sources were added to substantiate the claim. Having done some searching of both the Parliament of Canada's and the Folketing's websites today, I have not found any evidence that either country has formally ratified the treaty.

As far as I am aware all four entities (the Parliament of Canada, the Danish Folketing, the Parliament of Greenland and the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut) must ratify the treaty before it officially comes into force.

I suggest the text be returned to future tense until the treaty is formally adopted by all parties (and authoritative sources are added to this page) Da.mappr (talk) 01:51, 19 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Treaty Ratification

The Parliament of Canada isn't normally involved in the Ratification of Treaties (See Library of Parliament Backrounder [1], it's an executive branch only thing, and Territorial Governments have nothing to do with them. So adding dubious to them being required for it to come into force. WanukeX (talk) 22:50, 29 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Right, found it, the treaty was tabled in the Canadian House of Commons on April 25th [2] under the standard procedure. Canadian Parliamentary Approval was not required. WanukeX (talk) 23:00, 29 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

History section should be moved to Whisky War

Information about the Whisky War is indiscriminately spread across the articles Hans Island and Whisky War. This makes it difficult for readers to learn more about the latter topic which most readers come here for.

To solve this confusion, I propose to move the bulk of Hans Island#History and disputed sovereignty to the appropriate places in Whisky War.

In addition, I propose to move the link to Whisky War further up in the lede (e.g. to the 2nd sentence), so readers can find it. Joe vom Titan (talk) 05:43, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]