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Expo

The theme for Expo 86 was disputed in the Vancouver discussion. In case this discussion appears here, I wanted to explain why I have corrected the theme on the Expo 86 page. Although the general theme for Expo was "Transportation and Communications", the theme was expanded to include "World in Motion - World in Touch." See Expo Museum, [Canadian Encyclopedia, and Canadian Heritage site on expos. --Westendgirl 05:54, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Photos

Could somone elaborate on what they want photographed? I won't have any original pictures from Expo 86, but I can take pictures in vancouver Apfejes 22:39, 19 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- I would say any of the remaining elements from the fair - buildings, signs, etc. Unsigned comment by Themepark 03:07, August 22, 2006 (UTC)
- I have pictures from 1986. I will upload one or more once I have located them. In the meantime, I think it would be great to have something highlighting how Canada Place or BC Place is being used now (in contrast to it being part of Expo 86). I'll leave it to your imagination as to how that can be accomplished. Canadiana 13:08, 22 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  - I'm away for about a week, but when I come back, I'll go take a few shots - it sounds like fun. Apfejes 14:31, 28 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    - Well, I just checked and it seems none of the photos from my Expo 86 visit (I was 2!) are laying around. There seems to be some material on Flickr, but it all sucks IMO, but may be worthy of inclusion anyway. See http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=expo+86&l=comm&ct=0 for CC content that is not NC.--Ktims (talk) 09:36, 29 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Expo Robot would be a good photo to add... Pacific Place, the concrete road with concrete cars... the before it was redeveloped, during reconstruction, and after the Expo, when it was rebuilt again. 76.66.202.72 (talk) 01:38, 30 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

In the info for the original 1986 photo, the date says "September 21, 2007". This should be publicly editable. The date should be changed to 1986 (year only is fine, month and day would be preferable if known) 1779Days (talk) 18:04, 10 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

43 new photos added to Commons - most of the pavilions now have pictures. Please add to the article (perhaps a table of pavilions? or a gallery?) Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 17:23, 10 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Monorail

I heard recently that there is still a monorail station in the Plaza of Nations building, including a short section of track. There isn't much in this building so most people have no reason to go there and hence have no idea it's still there. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.232.127.117 (talk) 19:13, 23 February 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Cost

"The final cost of the fair ended up being CDN $8 million under budget." "Deficit : $311,000,000" Clearly, these two numbers don't add up. I'm marking for citations needed. Caulfield14 15:17, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"Germany"?

West Germany? or East Germany? I'm pretty sure the presence at Expo 86 was from West Germany.

70.73.4.197 13:43, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:Expo86logo.png

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Expo Lands article needed

Someone had in my watchlist said they'd redirected this link to this article, but I don't see it in the "what links here" and I've lost track of which article that was done in; I imagine what was done was a pipe to here, not a redirect. The term "Expo Lands" was used after the fair and is (more or less) synonymous with Pacific Place (Vancouver), which was the dba name for their acquisition/development used by Concord Pacific, who bought the lands from the BC government after ten years of them lying fallow and undeveloped, and would belong in the political scandals coverage due to various issues connected with the sale and the lands themselves.Skookum1 (talk) 23:06, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment

I changed the quality assessment of this article from B to C class today due to a lack of inline citations (indeed, there are a few "citation needed" tags still in the article today). PK T(alk) 16:53, 7 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Evictions

This section is far too long for an article on the fair, and unbalances the presentation. Yes, it's sad that unscrupulous landlords acted in an unscrupulous way, and sad that somebody died. But to spend as much time on that as on, for example, the legacy section, makes it seem as though the fair was built on death and discomfort; in short, the writer of this section is trying to re-fight political battles of the 1980s rather than give information about the fair. What the landlords did is ancillary to the fair itself. If somebody wants to write an article called "Hard Times in the Vancouver Downtown East Side, 1980s," then by all means go ahead; but to import a long digression on "evictions" into an article on the fair is absurd. The whole section should either be deleted, or shaved down to a sentence, and incorporated into "Backgrounds," which is where it belongs. Theonemacduff (talk) 23:38, 12 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]