I'd like to reserve the title "Supercharger - name-of-location" for actual confirmed locations. For speculative / "promised" but not confirmed locations I'd like to use the naming "Possible Location - name-of-location". They can be renamed if construction actually starts. As we've seen, "promised" locations can and do disappear. A local example for me is the Renfrew, ON location. Sometimes it is a judgement call, e.g. if a town says they're working with Tesla to establish a site. Even having a building permit is not a guarantee! Sometimes there is construction activity but it is uncertain whether it's actually a Supercharger or, say, a Chademo site. I'm not going to be able to go through all of the threads in this section, so if you notice inappropriately named locations please flag them to me. Thanks - mod
Good idea. A few things left hanging though: Would you merge multiple threads into that model? (A request) Once a Supercharger site is confirmed, do you rename the speculative thread to the location thread, or maintain separate threads? (A question) Do you pull individual messages from the "Western Canada..." (etc.) threads? (A question) Is the jurisdiction involved just the Canadian threads or site-wide? I'm sure there are other questions that will come up...
Yes we generally try to merge topic that are duplicated. Yes it would be renamed when the site is confirmed. No I will not be extracting posts from the regional threads. I am trying it in the Canada section; if it works well I’ll recommend this to the other moderators.
@bmah is doing an amazing job on the California forum, but I think duplicating it here would take a great deal of work, and I don't know if you'd be able to keep it up to date.
I think someone who is frequently active in this sub forum should manage the name changes. I do like the California sub forum section
I suggested about a year ago that we start threads for all existing superchargers in Canada (and then probably have Marco link to them on supercharge.info) rather than have the info for some superchargers mixed in to hundreds of pages long threads such as "Western Canada superchargers." I was surprised that I got some blowback at the time for the suggestion. With only 107 active superchargers (and most of them already having threads), it wouldn't clutter the forum much and it would make information easier to find. It isn't going to get any easier to find that info when the next hundred superchargers open up. Now someone is starting threads for locations that merely have a pin on the Tesla map which we all know to be less than reliable. I personally don't think these threads should be started until there is at least a sign of construction or a permit is found. What I would suggest is a big thread, possibly a sticky, for supercharger location speculation like the ones you see on the California forum (for northern and southern CA). For Canada it should probably be split up along the lines of Western Canada, Ontario, and Eastern Canada. Maybe Quebec and Atlantic Canada could get their own threads, but there won't be too many locations so one thread might be fine. The idea being that most owners in BC don't really care about new superchargers in Nova Scotia and vice versa.
Speculation should only be in the relevant "Eastern", "Atlantic", "Western" and "Mid-Canada" threads (already pinned). Once, there is a permit, construction or open status, it should be its own thread. (I am not good myself at following that rule). Suggested naming convention (as a copy paste of california): Supercharger - Location Name (status) Status = open or permit or construction. But again, it really should be someone visiting this subforum often taking care of this.
Managing this forum is like herding kittens at the best of times, and I don't have as much time to devote to this these days. There are a bunch of things we could do, such as having a master index wiki thread. However, there is no point in even starting one unless somebody is going to commit to maintaining it. Speculation about supercharger locations rightfully belongs in the Eastern/Mid/Western threads. However, if there is speculation about a very specific location I don't have a problem with a separate thread being created to keep it all together... as long as it is labeled appropriately. Thus "Possible Location". No problem with creating a separate "Speculation" thread, if you want to talk about a specific region. The "Supercharger - " title should definitely be reserved for confirmed sites. Note, however, that we have seen confirmed sites disappear in the past.
So to sum up, one thread per pin on the Tesla Map and add a "(status)" to each place, including a "Speculation" or "planned" one when construction has been seen but not confirmed to be Tesla or no construction yet, but lots of gossip? All other threads can't include "Supercharger" in the name? I never visited the California forum, but this looks good to me. I also see the benefit of "Possible location - Location", but it would be delicate to determine when to rename it, and act on it.