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Contents 1 NPOV Concern 2 No content in Category:CBC Radio 3 programs 3 Template:AB-FedRep 4 WP:OUTCOMES 5 {{Stub Category}} 6 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio programs -> CBC Radio One programs 7 Template:Infobox Canadian provincial riding 8 Brentwood Bay, British Columbia 9 {{Africa-road-stub}} 10 Orphaned non-free media (Image:Cica.gif) 11 {{CBC Series Dir}} 12 Pat Patterson 13 West Ferris 14 LGBT WikiProject Newsletter 15 Re: Frances Lankin 16 Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Southofwawa.jpg 17 Category:Settlements in Canada by province or territory 18 NL communities 19 Joan Beatty 20 Parker's Notch 21 Wallaceburg Page 22 Access (TV channel) page protection 23 Inquiry on the QINIQ page 24 Swallowing Shit 25 radio days 26 American Musical Groups 27 An Invite to join Canada Roads WikiProject 28 Schleifer 29 Belinda Stronach 30 Thanks for reading 31 Article naming 32 2nd in editing 33 Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Tva-logo.gif 34 Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Billblair.jpg 35 Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Chyktimmins.gif 36 Fair use rationale for Image:Lilies-dvd.jpg 37 This Magazine 38 Need help re uploading image 39 need some admin help= 40 Alberta candidates 41 Kent Hehr 42 THE GUINNASS 43 Alison Wheeler at AfD 44 cat sort 45 CKMA-FM 46 Smile from David Shankbone 47 AfD nomination of J Stalin 48 Thanks for the help with my article 49 CfD nomination of Category:Cities in New Zealand 50 AfD nomination of B.net 51 JD Glass article movement 52 ummm... thanks 53 LGBT WikiProject Newsletter 54 AfD nomination of Bill Alldredge 55 Wahnapitae 56 Edit conflict 57 Userboxes vs. Succession boxes 58 Image source problem with Image:Chilly Beach.jpg 59 Hoax articles on radio stations 60 Media of Toronto 61 Your response needed 62 Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Logo persona.gif 63 For your information 64 deletion nominee 65 Notability of David Wellington (director) 66 Cobden ANI 67 Foxtrap 68 Neighbourhoods in Canada 69 Orphaned non-free media (Image:Chilly Beach.jpg) 70 AfD nomination of List of campus radio stations 71 AfD nomination of Northern Ontario Business 72 Trois-Rivières 73 AfD nomination of Todd Palin 74 Hay River, Northwest Territories#Media and communications 75 Byelections 76 National Capital Region (Canada) 77 by-elections 78 charles Hastings 79 Chris Tindal 80 Categorisation by year of marriage 81 El-Farouk Khaki 82 Musical groups 83 Paco Vidarte 84 AfD nomination of Redding-Chico Metropolitan Area 85 AfD nomination of Mick Quinn (writer) 86 Espanola High School 87 Radio Templates 88 VF6783? 89 Neighbourhoods 90 Black Canadians 91 Belinda 92 Black Loyalists 93 Belinda and other Space cadets 94 REC Broadcast Query

[edit] NPOV Concern

Hello. Sorry to disturb you, I'm a new contributor to Wikipedia here and noticed you seemed to be a relatively experienced Canadian user. I was wondering if you could take a look at these articles:

Poverty in Canada

Economic impact of immigration to Canada

These are both written by the user deetdeet, and have largely been left alone, but draw sharply from a right-wing viewpoint, primarily drawing upon and re-iterating studies by the Fraser and C.D. Howe Institute. They may also violate the NOR and NPOV policies. I have nothing personally against either right or left-wing points of view, but feel perhaps these articles would benefit from sets of eyes on the other side of the spectrum to achieve more balance. You may know some! Thank you.Mft1 (talk) 13:24, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

		The Czech Ribbon of National Merit
		Thank you for categorizing articles related to the Czech Republic ≈Tulkolahten≈≈talk≈ 21:06, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] No content in Category:CBC Radio 3 programs

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[edit] Template:AB-FedRep

I disagree with your rationale for removing this. Don't undo good work just people people from other provinces haven't shown the same initiative. Kevlar67 (talk) 20:12, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

1. I don't get it. If these templates already exist for all provinces, why did you put all the effort into removing them from the Alberta MPs pages instead of adding them to the pages of MPs from other provinces?

2. It's not that I am unconcerned about other provinces, however, I only have so much time and effort to devote to WP and I draw the line at going through all 301 MPs and 199-odd Senators and adding a template to them. I did however add it to all Alberta MPs and Senators in the hope that this would spur other editors to follow suit for other regions. By taking the template off the Alberta pages you have undone that.

3. It has nothing to do with "ownership", I'm sorry if you read it that way. I just don't have the interest in expanding my workload to every single MP and Senator in Parliament. That being said, you are absolutely wrong to say it's my "responsibility" to do any work on here. It's a volunteer thing and I do only as much as I want and that's all. I hope that someone does work on Peter and Alexa, but do say it's my responsibility is presumptuous.

How about a compromise? If I inform the necessary provincial wikiprojects (and the Canadian politics project) that they should work on the other 9 provinces and 3 territories can I put the AB ones back up? Kevlar67 (talk) 16:01, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WP:OUTCOMES

Thanks for your comments on the AfDs I've set up. My reading of WP:OUTCOMES has always been - and having re-read still is - that you need something extra, i.e. you must be the first woman, black, gay councillor elected or have had substantial national coverage because of your position. The only one I think there might be some doubt about is Margot James, and I don't think she was the first lesbian K&C councillor (and I've not found evidence one way or another). BlinkingBlimey (talk) 18:04, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Further to this I think WP:OUTCOMES needs some tidying and doesn't accurately reflect the precedents. I've started a discussion on the talk page and would appreciate your comments. Thanks BlinkingBlimey (talk) 11:15, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] {{Stub Category}}

The category parameter of {{tl|Stub Category} is supposed to be the corresponding permanent category, not another stub category. When there is not a corresponding permanent category, standard practice is to either make category be the parent category of what would be permanent category if it existed or to simply omit the category parameter altogether. I reverted your changes to the continental level radio station stub categories, but if you think simply omitting the category parameter would be preferable, I have no strong feelings there.Caerwine Caer’s whines 18:37, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio programs -> CBC Radio One programs

Hello there:

I see you have gone and made changes to a number of Canadian radio show articles all at one go, doing category changes from "Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio programs" to "CBC Radio One programs". In many cases this is fine, but the blanket change you seem to have done simply doesn't apply to all programs—specifically, to those programs that were broadcast prior to the introduction of the CBC Radio One network in 1997. While this may apply to some of the shows you have re-categorized (like The Irrelevant Show or Mr. Interesting's Guide to the Continental United States), this clearly does not apply to shows whose run ended prior to 1997, like Johnny Chase: Secret Agent of Space (1978 to 1981) or The Happy Gang (1937 to 1959!)

I don't know if there are categories for "CBC Radio" and "CBC Stereo" for shows prior to 1997, but perhaps there should be. (Keep in mind also that some shows were broadcast on both networks, such as Gilmour's Albums for example).

Cheers! Captmondo (talk) 20:55, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

SAN DIEGO READER EDIT? Hi, Bearcat, I'm not sure I'm leaving a message for you correctly. Please be gentle with a newby. Why did you delete the links to the newsgroups to which the San Diego Reader belong? The Reader is the #1 selling Alt weekly in the ENTIRE USA. Please reconsider your deletion of the external links to the alt weekly newsgroups since they are justified. unionpilot (talk) 15:41, 9 January 2008 (UTC)UP

[edit] Template:Infobox Canadian provincial riding

Hi - I fixed the problem you posted on the WikiProject Templates talk page oh so long ago. It needed an "if" parser function to check that the "image" parameter existed. Let me know if my fix causes any problems! --Brian Olsen (talk) 20:18, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

why did i get a message from you i didnt change anything? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.167.238.233 (talk) 22:49, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Brentwood Bay, British Columbia

An edit summary would've saved some confusion when you removed the category "Communities within district municipalities..." from Brentwood Bay. Just a quick "category about to be deleted" would've saved a couple of unnecessary edits, as from the point of view of someone coming to the article (rather than the CfD) there was no apparent reason for the category to be removed from it. Dethme0w (talk) 22:59, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] {{Africa-road-stub}}

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[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:Cica.gif)

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[edit] {{CBC Series Dir}}

This template was updated to omit the broken links, given the unlikelihood this will be repaired soon. The text groupings of programs is still accessible, so the other parameters remain valid for now. Dl2000 (talk) 03:09, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Pat Patterson

You've now got Pat in a cat and subcat. -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 17:56, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] West Ferris

Hi, West Ferris is a former municipality, and as far as I can tell, that makes it inherently notable and therefore deserves an article on Wikipedia. I have no problem redirecting short stubs to their parent municipalities, but this is ridiculous. -- Earl Andrew - talk 20:58, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

It does deserve a good article. I'm not sure why it doesn't. All of Ottawa's former townships have articles, and the smallest ones are about as big as West Ferris. -- Earl Andrew - talk 22:32, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure it was that bad of an article, but I can certainly add some more information on it. -- Earl Andrew - talk 22:36, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

• I think small community articles should remain so that they can be expanded. Murillo, Ontario doesn't have an article anymore, and the information that was removed when you created the redirect is hidden in its history. I don't see you creating those one or two articles listing all of the communities, you're just turning an entire article into a redirect without any prior discussion. You could at least merge the main points in that article into the article it's being redirected to. West Ferris and Murillo were both more than "This hole in the wall sucks ass. I has a gas station and graffiti." vıdıoman (talk • contribs) 22:51, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] LGBT WikiProject Newsletter

The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter

The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter! Issue XII - December 1, 2007 Ms Julie is .. unavailable .. this month, so Isaac and Gopher have stepped in to put this newsletter thing together. We may not be as funny as you're used to, but if you'd like a free drink, come see me at the bar. That might help. Maybe. And no, there aren't any flashing lights or fancy pictures this month - I'm still recovering from a whopping hangover. Julie's recovering too, but that's a story I'll let her tell. Two New Featured Articles (and...) Emma Goldman was promoted to Featured status on 2007 December 27. If you don't know Ms. Goldman, she was a Lithuanian anarchist. Aren't many of those around, really, so having one of our very own is special. She'll be dancing the Cha-Cha on the Promenade deck later tonight. Ann Bannon was promoted to Featured status on 2007 December 3. Faithful readers may remember Moni moaning that we didn't mention this promotion in the last newsletter. Happy now? Ludwig Wittgenstein seems to have been dropped from the vaunted roles - he was downgraded to "B class" on 29 December 2007. What a way to end the year! Let's see - we started December with 35 FAs. We added two and dropped one. So somewhere there's a missing FA - has anyone seen one lying around? Jumpaclass Contest winner The winner of 2007's Jumpaclass competition is Fluffball70 (talk · contribs)! Congratulations, Fluffball! Despite strongly being urged to select Love Boat as the next WikiProject Collaboration, she has chosen LGBT Symbols as her prize: please contribute to its improvement - or enter the competition for this year! Ze Portal The marathon efforts of Dev920 against her astonishing abilities of procrastination continued this month, and she managed to update the Portal's main articles. Whether she will finally beat her procrastination pixies in submission and update the biographies remains to be seen, but Jeffpw has leapt to the rescue and taken it upon himself to do all our lovely news. Friends, lend us your goodwill and your eyeballs, and mosey on over to see all Jeff's hard work. Also, back in October 2007, Allstarecho and Benjiboi worked diligently on the "WP:LGBT Random Quote" and "WP:LGBT Random Picture" sections of the portal. They added many new quotes and pictures but, and yes here's the cat's meow friends... you can now use these on your own user pages! To add the "WP:LGBT Random Quote" to your own userpage, use: {{Portal:LGBT/Quotes}} And to add the "WP:LGBT Random Picture" to your own userpage, use: {{Portal:LGBT/Pics}} If you'd like to see it in action, check out Allstarecho's userpage for both in action and Benjiboi's talk page for the Quotes in action! The long, slow race toward FP status continues... Bisexual Awareness Month Folks in Utah are celebrating Bisexual Awareness Month. For our own wikicelebration, Alison suggests we try to bring Bisexuality at least up to good article status. Working on the Utah article would be encouraged, but do it stealthily - they don't like us to be *too* open. A cunning plan In a move sure to bring her fame and fortune at last, Dev920 (talk · contribs) has proposed that an FA buddying system be set up, to help nudge frightened tikes who also happen to write killer ass articles over that initial first FAC hurdle. Anyone interested in shepherding duties, or anyone interested in being made to lie beside still waters (handcuffs are optional), do drop Dev an RSVP so she can start battering those darned pixies... New members Let's give a big Love Boat welcome to all our new members: Mike1981, RAShippy, CoppBob, Altairisfar, Dureo, LessThanClippers William P. Coleman, Grrrlriot, Queer Scout, Kentucky1333, Melty girl, Phenominus, Avazina, Dfeuer, and Lycanthropiclion. We're glad to have you all aboard! New task-force? Zigzig20s has mentioned a desire to work on .. desire. Specifically literature by and about LGBT desire. To facilitate "LGBT Literature" taskforce, there will be shuffleboard and lesbian fiction on the foredeck later in the afternoon. Signup if you're interested. To stop receiving this newsletter, or to receive it in a different format, please let us know here. If you have any news or any announcements to be broadcast, do let Your Cruise Director know.

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[edit] Re: Frances Lankin

Ah, thank you. My problem was not the application of the Infobox itself, but how to re-size an image within one - Image:Frances-official-4.jpg is too large to fit. Morgan695 (talk) 00:30, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Category:Settlements in Canada by province or territory

I'm not sure that it's the correct name for the category. A settlement in Canada has a defined meaning. For example Detah, Beaver Creek and Bathurst Inlet are all settlements but Cambridge Bay is not. I would have thought that Category:Communities in Canada by province or territory would be the more correct term. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 06:32, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

I see what you mean. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 06:39, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Why does it need the word "Indian". Both Cambridge Bay and Ulukhaktok were legally settlements before they became hamlets in 1984 but neither has an Indian population. Enterprise is a settlement in the NWT with a minority aboriginal population. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 06:50, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Whoops. It turns out I was replying to this but you had expanded it. Sorry. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 17:17, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] NL communities

Hi Bearcat; It's great to see others, such as myself, trying hard to organize the many varied communities in the province. I noticed the category Ghost Towns for some of the communities. Would it be possible to devise a set of categories that could better explain the status and circumstances of the many communities that exist and once existed in the province? These are only suggestions but it may shed some light on the reasons for the categories. Some communities were abandoned, others were resettled, and still others amalgamated with neighbouring much larger communities. Others were just summer fishing stations that were frequented in summer and dormant in winter. Then there are incorporated municipalities and un-incorporated municipalities. What do you think of suggestion to create categories to reflect some or all of those categories? --HJKeats (talk) 17:02, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I agree its much easier to start from an orderly listing. Not sure about Round Harbour, as with many bays around the coast a lot of them had similar place names, I hesitate to guess how many Salmon Cove's there are. Maybe you could ask the originator of the article Wayne Ray! I guess my biggest pet-peeve with the communities is the list, I'm going to take a copy offline and work out an acceptable listing. Do you know if you can have more than one alphabetical TOC on the same page? --HJKeats (talk) 20:38, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Joan Beatty

Yeah, that was a brain fart. Thanks for catching it. Sarcasticidealist (talk) 21:57, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Parker's Notch

The name of the article appears to be original reasearch. On the other hand the article might be useful as part of the NWT or Nunavut history articles or under a different name. I think the original creator may have been scared off though after the deletion of Parker's notch as nonsense. Using Google Earth with the boarders on and going to 65°26'6.47"N 110°31'51.91"W gives a possible notch. Then I looked at the last line of the deleted article above and checked out Victoria Island (Canada) and found there are two possible claimants for the notch. I assume that John Havelock Parker is the person referred to in this case. The book is valid but is not availabe at Google books. I've left a message at User talk:YK Times#Parker's Notch to see if he knows anything and I'll stick a copy in my sandbox just in case, along with a note for the creator. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 23:04, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

I've never heard of this either, but it nonetheless seems to be fairly believable. I'll check around with some people and see if they've heard anything about it. -YK Times^talk 00:10, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks folks. I agree it looks too believable to delete outright. I starting to get a little concerned about the amount of articles deleted as nonsense when they are not patent nonsense. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 00:31, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

That makes sense if it's the southern one of the three. The two on Victoria Island would have probably come out of the earlier Inuvialuit land claims anyway. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 00:42, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wallaceburg Page

Thats cool I like it at the top of the page better. However, it makes the rest of the page seem uneven and leaves a large blank space? If you know how to fix that it would be helpful. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wallaceburghistory (talk • contribs) 20:46, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

I like the recent change. I agree it makes the sub-titles more organized. There is still a large blank space though because of the info box. I am not sure how to fix that. It occurs right after "Wallaceburg History" and the Baldoon Settlement

Also I will be adding references shortly. I just wanted to have something their for a community meeting later tonight.

Cool thanks man. Hopefully it is just my computer. Thanks for your help. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wallaceburghistory (talk • contribs) 21:01, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Access (TV channel) page protection

It looks like the issues on this page are solved, can you take a look? The IP editor hasn't resurfaced but I think it's all straight regardless. Thanks. Franamax (talk) 02:49, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Inquiry on the QINIQ page

I wanted to thank you for your feedback today and assistance with the content that I have added. I am new to Wikipedia and just getting the hang of it. I do have one issue. Someone deleted my content under QINIQ. I had the content in excellent shape and regretfully had reworked a lot of it without saving a back up. The person that removed it said something about me needing to getting permissions and warned of copyright bots. I find it incredible that after all this work and following the instructions and complying with everything you asked me to do that someone else would just go in and delete without any warning or opportunity to comply. Is this standard practice? I am a bit frustrated over my investment in time being tossed out with the click of a button.Charwalker (talk) 00:51, 30 January 2008 (UTC)Charwalker

[edit] Swallowing Shit

Somebody who actually listens to these jokers? 142.162.193.68 (talk) 19:56, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] radio days

Can you take a look at CNR Radio and Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission and tell me what you think? Thanks. Reggie Perrin (talk) 22:42, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] American Musical Groups

Hi there. I notice you have been recategorising bands under Category:American musical groups. This is actually only meant to be a parent category, and should not be used to specifically categorise bands. I recently spent a huge amount of time emptying this category by finding more specific categories for the 5000+ articles listed there. So if you could use a more specific category than American musical groups, that would be great. Cheers Nouse4aname (talk) 09:00, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

So does that mean that you will be going back through to add more specifc categories? It seems this AWB is creating more work than it is removing! Nouse4aname (talk) 09:13, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Cool! I had started doing some manually (I like the old fashion way), but I guess I don't need to carry on now...Cheers Nouse4aname (talk) 09:15, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I put National Intercollegiate Band under "musical organizations", L'Altra under electronic and pop music groups (genres from MySpace site), and I created American Latin musical groups for Smokey & Miho, although I'm not really sure if this was the best move...I'll see if I can think of a better place, or maybe just populate that category with any relevant groups I come across. Nouse4aname (talk) 10:10, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

I have just taken the time to read your profile page, and realised from one of your Barnstars that you clearly knew what I told you in the first post above! Hope I didn't offend you! I was just quite shocked at seeing so many articles appear overnight in the category that I have been trying to keep empty for a month now! Maybe one day I'll start using semi automated software/bots etc to speed things up... Nouse4aname (talk) 10:15, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] An Invite to join Canada Roads WikiProject

Thanks for the note!  :-) Will get right on fixing that. Silly old thing. SriMesh | talk 01:40, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Schleifer

Hi, Bearcat. Thanks for this making the category tag more explicit [1]. I knew Category:Music was too broad, but I just didn't know what the right subcategory was. --Uncle Ed (talk) 03:24, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Belinda Stronach

Another user who thinks Belinda Stronach is a PC-member social democrat is editing again (I'm guessing it's the same person), this time as User:DavidThomas467. Seeing as telling this person they're wrong directly isn't working, can't we just ban them or something? Morgan695 (talk) 23:46, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for reading

Hi, Bearcat, thanks for reading. I am a sociological researcher who really interested in wikipedia and wikipedians. The amazing result of contribution in wikipedia has inspirited me a lot. Would you mind to discuss with me about wikipedia and wikipedians, from which i would like to give people a whole view of wikipedians who have contributed in wikipedia volunteerly. and i also want to focus on the incentive mechenism of wikipedia. I really appreciate if you can accept my online interview. thanks again. or if you are ok, please contact with me through email. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikizeyi (talk • contribs) 14:07, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Article naming

I'm working on creating an article for a neighbourhood in Thunder Bay and was wondering how it should be named. "Current River (Thunder Bay)" "Current River, Thunder Bay" or "Current River, Thunder Bay, Ontario"? vıdıoman 16:38, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Current River, Thunder Bay, Ontario it is. Thanks. :) vıdıoman 18:18, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 2nd in editing

Are you an administor? If you didn't know, you are 2nd in editing as of January 20th. See here. Basketball110 _{i'm not yik ginlyùn} 02:00, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Great. Basketball110 _{i'm not yik ginlyùn} 23:55, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

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Bearcat, I added the template, but couldn't complete it because I didn't know your source for this. Mindmatrix 01:44, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] This Magazine

I think "left-wing" is a bit clearer than "progressive" which is a fairly amorphous term in the Canadian context that has been used by everyone from Tories to Communists to describe their politics. (Progressive Conservative to Labour-Progressive) Point is This Magazine is clearly a journal of the left (ie to the left of liberalism) which isn't necessarily implied by "progressive". Reggie Perrin (talk) 04:35, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Need help re uploading image

I'd like to add this flag to the article on the Fisherman's Protective Union but I'm completely clueless about the rules regarding what images can and can't be uploaded and the process that's involved. Do you have any suggestions? Please see Talk:Fisherman's Protective Union. Thanks. Reggie Perrin (talk) 09:22, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] need some admin help=

I recently found that a college radio station I'm a part of has a wikipedia page and I put a few minor edits/updated an article. The next day I noticed a bunch of cleanup tags. I got help from another user on how to clean up the article and found secondary outside sources. Today the wiki user who posted the cleanup tags put a request for deletion, he keeps insisting it should be deleted but no one else has made an argument for deletion. the article isWFAL. I would appricate a quick look at it, I don't want to get this article deleted. I was just trying to add some updated and additional info.--Sbkbg (talk) 03:56, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

he got some general advice from other editors about the tags and was warned not to remove them on his own. He has a clear COI which he has already stated. He is trying to claim that an article written by the Boweling Green University press is enough to satisfy notability and other issues with the article. I have repeatedly pointed out to him that sources need to be independent of the subject The Boweling Green University Press is not a reliable source for information regarding The Boweling Green University radio station. I have pointed this out to him several times and he keeps escalating the argument. The simple fact is that since he has a COI he should not be removing tags from the article. Ridernyc (talk) 04:04, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

I've also given many more sources then most of the college radio stations on Wikipedia. The information I've contributed has had no issues with COI, here's the 3 things I've added to the page- 1) link, 2) souces, 3) The station has numerous shows during the day and also carries BGSU and local high school sporting events. and; The station is primarily used for students wishing to persue jobs in the radio and communications industry to gain first hand knowlege and experience on operations of a radio station and shows. All I wanted to do is provide accurate data to enchance the wikipedia article. I have kept bias out of the article as you will see. --Sbkbg (talk) 06:12, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

And no mater how many people point out that your sources fail to satisfy policy you keep telling them they are wrong. Three sources are not independent and one source is a wikipedia article. You also keep ignoring the fact that you work for the Radio Station therefore you should let someone else deiced if notability is met. Two other editors have pointed out the issues with sourcing in the articles AFD, and two other editors have pointed out that you should not be removing tags. You just refuse to listen to others. Ridernyc (talk) 06:14, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

I read you post for merge and actually wasn't even looking for it but I found some more info. Although the sation is not licenced by the FCC it is affiliated with the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System here's a link[2] Also I think there was a bad piece of info on the page WFAL I don't believe the radio station is micro power, that would make it pirate and commercial radio stations aren't pirate. it could have been considered micrpower when it first started in a dorm before the university made it a real station, but that term wasn't formed until the 1990s. --Sbkbg (talk) 07:16, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Alberta candidates

Hey Bearcat - sorry, it had somehow escaped my notice that we consolidate candidates by party/election in provincial elections the same way as we do in federal elections. There are also deleted candidate articles at the following locations, if you care; if not, I'll try to merge them in as appropriate later: Deron Bilous, Travis Chase, Beth Gignac, Christina Gray, Tianna Melnyk, Patricia L. Robinson, Tim Stock-Bateman. On another note, how do we deal with candidates who have run in multiple elections? Do we include them in only the most recent one, or do we copy/paste content from article to article? Sarcasticidealist (talk) 22:32, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

...although obviously under GFDL we can't do that if the article has already been created.

We could if we included a link back to the original page in the edit summary, per WP:MERGE, no? Sarcasticidealist (talk) 22:40, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Bearcat, will you be having bios for all 82 candidates for Liberal Party candidates, 2008 Alberta provincial election? Will you just be mentioning the names of the others lacking content (from the former stand-alone bio)? Or will you make them all this long. Multiplied by 82, that's going to get big. In the future, consider starting a conversation before moving so much content around. Also, why is the merge to the province/party/election level instead of to the riding/election level? There's only 7 candidates for Calgary Buffalo in 2008, which is much more manageable than 82, if you're going to include full bios for everybody. Parties vary massively in how many candidates they have (e.g. 1 to 83) but ridings generally have less of a range, allowing a consistent approach. --Rob (talk) 01:53, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Kent Hehr

Bearcat, when you wish to delete something that doesn't meet a speedy criterion, go to AFD, don't abuse your admin powers to do a speedy. Just because you have the power, doesn't meen you're free to use it to do whatever you wish. The fact my request to get history undeleted, caused the newer content to also be deleted, is appalling. Also, biographical information doesn't really belong in "list of candidate" articles. If somebody runs in multiple elections, do we just copy the same pre-election content to each and every list. That's rediculous, and unencyclopedic. --Rob (talk) 22:43, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

You ignore the fact, that there's an arguement for retention, that goes beyond being a candidate. You still haven't justified the absurdity of including multiple bios in a single massive list article. What's odd, is you seem to support having a biography in the encyclopedia, but you just don't want it on a separate page, where it actually makes sense. You instead want to toss it in a composite article, and then re-copy it to other composite articles, if he runs again. Being paralyzed is significant in a bio article (if it's covered independently), but is rather irrelevant in an article about an election. --Rob (talk) 22:50, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] THE GUINNASS

Hello, Bearcat. I would like to ask why you felt that the article THE GUINNASS didn't assert notability. If I recall the article correctly, it did indeed contain references to several accomplishments that could be considered to confer notability. I would like to ask you to please undelete the article, even if only so that we can have an AfD discussion instead of speedy deleting it. Powers ^T 15:12, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Alison Wheeler at AfD

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[edit] cat sort

I noticed in Amanda Billings (which I worked on previously) you changed the cat sort, here. Can I suggest, when you put a cat sort, you include the last name *plus* the first name (in case others have the same first name). Also, it's best to use the newer "DEFAULTSORT", as opposed to the older approach. It will ensure proper sorting for categories included in tags (e.g. stub tags). Thanks. --Rob (talk) 19:55, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] CKMA-FM

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[edit] Smile from David Shankbone

[edit] AfD nomination of J Stalin

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[edit] Thanks for the help with my article

Thanks for the quick revisions and for adding useful links. I'm completely new to the whole wikipedia scene and having someone so quickly help contribute to my first article is more appreciated than you know can imagine. If you have any advice on how I can further increase the effectiveness of my writing, I'm all ears. There are numerous other articles I plan on writing, but would rather make sure I get this one right first.

Either way, many thanks! And here's to the proliferation of information!

-user:soundgallery

[edit] CfD nomination of Category:Cities in New Zealand

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[edit] AfD nomination of B.net

An article that you have been involved in editing, B.net, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/B.net.

Your three edits were fairly minor^[3] but since you may be familiar with radio in NZ, your input at the deletion discussion would be helpful, especially if you can find a reliable source meeting the requirements of our Notability Guideline. I checked a while back myself and couldn't find anything. Thanks, --A. B. ^(talk) 13:31, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] JD Glass article movement

Hello!

Can you please let me know what kind of references are requested. I am in direct contact with the author, and the material was approved by her.

Thanks D. Vince —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dvince (talk • contribs) 18:54, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] ummm... thanks

Thanks for deleting my improper category on my userpage. I thought that was how I let people know I'm Canadian. Just another thought.. why didn't you just place the correct form in there instead of just deleting it without even commenting on my talk page?  Berg _{Drop a Line ޗ pls} 22:42, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] LGBT WikiProject Newsletter

The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter

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[edit] AfD nomination of Bill Alldredge

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[edit] Wahnapitae

moved from User_talk:CJLippert to here

The name of the First Nation is Wahnapitae, but the name of the the piece of land that constitutes their reserve is still Wanapitei. As you know, the geographic and political names of a First Nation don't have to be identical, and often aren't. I think probably the best resolution to this would be to move the article to Wahnapitae First Nation, however. Bearcat (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 22:18, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Not according to Indian and Northern Affairs Canada and Natural Resources Canada. It is Wahnapitae FN, Wahnapitae 11 IR, but Lake Wanapitei. But you correct about FN, IR and Settlement/Village potentially all having slightly different spelling variations from each other... and in some extreme cases, all three being totally different from each other. CJLippert (talk) 01:41, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Edit conflict

Could you please take a look at the conflict on Talk:Canadian_order_of_precedence#RFC and the related article Canadian_order_of_precedence. Reggie Perrin (talk) 23:44, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Userboxes vs. Succession boxes

This seems like something you'd know: for officeholders, who have succession details in their infoboxes, is it appropriate to include both an infobox and a succession box, or is one considered preferable? Or does it depend on the position (from what I can gather, cabinet positions seem to be more frequently indicated using succession boxes)? Sarcasticidealist (talk) 03:06, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Image source problem with Image:Chilly Beach.jpg

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[edit] Hoax articles on radio stations

Hi Bearcat, thank you very much for bringing this to my attention regarding the hoax articles on radio stations. If I happen to see any suspicious articles on radio stations whatever, i'll try my best to let you know. I'm pretty sure that User:Nathan Williams won't be doing it again...hopefully.

[edit] Media of Toronto

Note that I had reformatted the listing of Toronto and Other radio stations in the Media of Toronto article. I had relocated the Print section to below the TV and radio stations section. Please let me know if I had made any mistakes. I'am aware that CJKX-FM has a repeater in Toronto at 95.9 FM, the same frequency of the Ajax station. When I was in the Toronto area on my way for a two week vacation in Cuba in January, I stayed at the Marriott Hotel near the Toronto airport. I had brought my cd/radio walkman and I noticed that I couldn't receive that 95.9 FM and the 103.9 LGBT signals in my hotel room, just mostly the high-powered stations. For CIDC 103.5 Orangville, their signal was very poor. I noticed the 1280 CFBN signal is silent and note that I marked it as defunct. One other thing, I was checking out the CHIM-FM radio station site and on their main page under "Tune into Canada's Good News Network", they provide a listing of transmitters with locations.[4] I had notice 101.7 FM Toronto is listed there and I couldn't hear anything that signal either. Do you have any idea if there's anything broadcasting at 101.7 FM in Toronto area at present time? it's pretty close to CFNY's signal at 102.1 FM. I don't want to list that CHIM station on any articles yet, because I don't want you to think that this one is listed a hoax. Once again, thanks for bringing my attention regarding the hoax radio articles. Thank you, take care.

[edit] Your response needed

Hi, could you clarify here some things related your bug report? MaxSem^{(Han shot first!)} 09:51, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Logo persona.gif

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[edit] For your information

See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Cobden, Ontario. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 20:11, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] deletion nominee

[edit] Notability of David Wellington (director)

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For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. LukeTheSpook (talk) 01:49, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cobden ANI

I understand your point about grouping villages into municipal entities but I think those villages should have their own WP existence. Keep in mind that each of those towns has a potential WP contributor who may be motivated to contact the local historian.

I'm not sure if you live in Ontario, I did until 14 months ago - the municipal consolidation that the Harris government kicked off in the '90's is a real sore point. I'm going to specifically not try to search City of the Kawarthas or Victoria County.

The disruption of socio-econo-geographic entities in that period was paralleled only in the regionalisation in the '70's - and maybe the Responsible Government stuff in the (18)30's. I really think we're better off addressing the actual places rather than (or as well as) the administrative groupings. How say you? Franamax (talk) 08:11, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

I think we crossed over in post timing, but seriously, can we get this off the admin page? Somewhere we can invite anyone who actually gives a darn about this? Subpage of WPP:Canada, whatever... Franamax (talk) 09:13, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Foxtrap

Hi Bearcat,

I need to apologize to you. I just recreated a redirect page that you deleted. I had forgotten that I had created the redirect page before, so when I saw that the page had been deleted, I assumed that someone else had created a page by that name that was gibberish and you had deleted it because of that, so I created it as a redirect that I felt was appropriate. Now that I realize that I was the one who had created the page in the first place, I understand that I should have started a discussion with you about it before recreating the page.

This being said, I do feel that the Foxtrap redirect should exist. If it has multiple meanings, then it should be extended into a disambiguation page, not deleted. If you disagree, I would love to have the conversation with you. Also, if you wish to delete any pages that I create in the future, please let me know so that I can be a part of the decision.

Thank you,

Neelix (talk) 12:03, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Neighbourhoods in Canada

I was wondering if you have any thoughts on Wikipedia talk:Canadian Wikipedians' notice board/Style guide#Neighbourhoods? Skeezix1000 (talk) 19:39, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] AfD nomination of List of campus radio stations

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[edit] AfD nomination of Northern Ontario Business

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[edit] Trois-Rivières

All of the Trois-Rivières, Quebec actual main article titles have made the most links than Trois-Rivières actual title. The move would've been back from Trois-Rivières to Trois-Rivières, Quebec. Steam5 (talk) 04:36, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] AfD nomination of Todd Palin

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[edit] Hay River, Northwest Territories#Media and communications

Can you have a look at this section, in particular the radio/tv bit. I'm having a bit of trouble reconciling List of radio stations in Northwest Territories, List of television stations in Northwest Territories and this. For example List of radio stations in Northwest Territories says that CKHR-FM (which is piped to CFMI-FM) is in Kakisa but the Hay River profile indicates that CKHR is a community station and lists CFMI as being from Vancouver, which it is. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 14:26, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the fast response. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 18:38, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Byelections

And who made up that definition? you? Wikipedia is not for things made up. The Bloc got less votes, so they can't be considered major then either. GreenJoe 02:21, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

I see no such standard anywhere. GreenJoe 02:25, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Per-vote funding. I replied on the article's talk page. GreenJoe 02:29, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] National Capital Region (Canada)

Hi, this database gives L'Ange Gardien as part of the Gatineau CMA. Just select "RMR" and then get the list of municipalities for the Gatineau CMA. Joeldl (talk) 01:54, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] by-elections

3 of the 4 by-elections are almost complete (Vancouver not- which I didn't touch) So actually I am confident that the order will stay the same. 74.15.27.140 (talk) 03:11, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Thats why its a current event, we're supposed to keep everyone updated. 74.15.27.140 (talk) 03:25, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

We're not up to the minute. Never did I say we were. The result is probable and its much different between a full on election and a couple by-elections. The same thing happened on the Presidential campaign pages. 74.15.27.140 (talk) 03:32, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

P.S- the next Canadian election is in the future but there is still a page for it as well. 74.15.27.140 (talk) 03:33, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] charles Hastings

You already did some work figuring out the two physicians named Charles Hastings; for the British one, there is now an article under the corret title, , but Sir Charles Hastings isup for prod--perhps you cn help straighten it out. DGG (talk) 17:17, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Chris Tindal

Do you think the Chris Tindal article should remain or be merged into an article on Green candidates? The article looks pretty thin and it doesn't look like there's much to his biography besides running in elections. Reggie Perrin (talk) 19:47, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Meredith and Khaki both have notable accomplishments outside of politics (at least I'd heard of both men before their candidacies were announced) and both were referred to in non-trivial fashions in news articles before they entered politics. Tindal doesn't seem to be notable outside of being a political candidate though I suppose his 13% share of the vote may make him a notable Green candidate. Reggie Perrin (talk) 01:24, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Categorisation by year of marriage

I am slightly surprised that Wikipedia does not have a category for year of marriages, as well as ones for birth and death - do you known the reason for this omission ? RGCorris (talk) 10:15, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] El-Farouk Khaki

Can you please take a look at El-Farouk Khaki in light of the concerns expressed by GreenJoe on the talk page? I'll try to do so as well - and compare the article to available sources. The phrases GreenJoe isolates need to be either rewritten or sourced/attributed. Reggie Perrin (talk) 19:09, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Musical groups

Do we really need Category:LGBT musical groups from Canada? We have no other country-specific "musical group" categories, and the Category:LGBT musical groups isn't nearly large enough to split. Thoughts? -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 21:48, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Paco Vidarte

Hi!! Thank you for fixing my categories!! I´m quite a nebwie, so help is really appreciated!! (also where language is concerned, i´m not a native speaker ;-) ) Regards from Germany, Slieber (talk) 11:54, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] AfD nomination of Redding-Chico Metropolitan Area

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[edit] AfD nomination of Mick Quinn (writer)

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[edit] Espanola High School

Espanola High School needs both references and notability issues addressed, else merged into school district of the area. - WikiProject_Canada has notability issues very high Any help in this regards are much appreciated.SriMesh | talk 01:29, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Hello there, I noticed some of your changes at Notability listings, starting with Friends of Fiddler's Green (thanks). I also removed my first notability tag....on the Stony Lake (Manitoba) article of which I noted...the outcome of geographical features on this page. I am thinking Holy Trinity Catholic High School (Simcoe) notability tag should also be removed due to arguments also presented at the education section and Wikipedia:Notability (schools) Kind Regards SriMesh | talk 22:52, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Me again. Added some third party sources, info box and references about Espanola High School being in the news, so removed its notability and references tags.SriMesh | talk 00:13, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Radio Templates

sounds fair to me, my friend. I understand that RLQFM and RLQAM mirror the FCC at large, but they do offer rather detailed maps of signal coverage. that's why i thought they were significant in importance. :) RingtailedFox • Talk • Contribs 10:33, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] VF6783?

Again, I apologize for creating fake radio stations in the past, but that frequency is real, its used for a drive in theatre in Sussex, NB, I guess its just not licensed, but I guess those atricles don't need to be created. Nate, (Talk) 5:08pm, 3/25/08 —Preceding comment was added at 20:10, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Neighbourhoods

Thanks for your comment over at the Blossom Park article. I found the discussion annoying and disheartening, so stepped away for a couple of days -- it's helpful to see other comments suggesting that Earl's position isn't all that logical. He also reverted a number of article moves, without the decency of even bothering to comment on the talk page -- he doesn't appear to care what the guideline says, and seems to be making up rules as he goes (e.g. one page move he reverted on the basis that it's a "suburban community" - this is after he edited the article a few days earlier to remove all references to the word neighbourhood). If you have the time, and frankly the inclination, your thoughts on his moves of Fallowfield, Ontario‎, Barrhaven, Ontario‎, Bells Corners, Ontario‎, Ficko, Ontario‎, Blackburn Hamlet, Ontario‎, Kempark, Ontario‎, Gloucester Glen, Ontario‎, Honey Gables, Ontario‎ and Cedardale, Ottawa, Ontario‎ (this last one is esp. annoying, since he seems to have reverted it back to an unusual form of disambiguation out of spite). Skeezix1000 (talk) 11:38, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I agree. I've been trying to avoid edit warring with him, and engaging him in a discussion is pointless because it devolves into a ridiculous debate over maps and other nonsense (as in the Blossom Park article). I will post a request for comment on the notice board -- any other suggestions? Skeezix1000 (talk) 15:38, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Done (WP:CANTALK#Requested moves - Ottawa neighbourhoods. Skeezix1000 (talk) 23:16, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Black Canadians

The work you are doing on Black Canadians is much appreciated, but please could you consider using the edit summary? It makes it easier to track the changes that are made. Thanks. BrainyBabe (talk) 21:27, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Belinda

Sorry my bad I ment to press preview. Did not mean to press "save page". sorry Michaelm (talk)

[edit] Black Loyalists

Thanks for offering to look into the Black Loyalists. Frankly I have neither the energy nor the resources to challenge that editor directly. I appreciate your contributions. BrainyBabe (talk) 19:33, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Belinda and other Space cadets

I would guess that the BStronach who left a message for our friend is pulling his leg.

I'm thinking about the candidates question you raised and will get back to you. I think the real question is how does CJCurrie feel about it since he has done most of the work on those articles.

I am proposing to change the name of the SPACE article to be consistent with Wikipedia Style. I have explained at Talk:SPACE_(TV_channel)#Article_name_.28again.29. Please let me know if you have any concerns. Thanks. Ground Zero | t 19:04, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] REC Broadcast Query

Hi Bearcat, I would like to thank you very much for sending me this link the other day regarding the REC Broadcast Query for AM/FM and TV. It really helps me out if I can't find a specific callsign, etc. I noticed that long defunct radio stations (both AM and FM) are even listed in the query, including radio stations that aren't even yet given approval such as CFRM-FM-1 SUdbury, Ontario. As for AM entries, I did notice two new ones for Espanola, just west of Sudbury and I have no ideas of what these two AM frequencies 1240 and 1400 are going to be used for, however, the 1240 AM frequency was formerly used by the CBC Radio One network up until the early 1990's and for 1400 I believe this one was also formerly used by the CBC in Spanish, Ontario. 990 AM was formerly used by the CBC french network in Espanola, Ontario up until the early 90's, however, 990 AM isn't listed in the query for Espanola. So for now on, I can check out the query pages for information on radio and tv stations, where I can add the information on wikipedia. I noticed a radio station listed in the List of radio stations in British Columbia called "Treefrog Radio" at 89.1 FM in Denman Island without the offical callsign. I'm very uncertian if this station actually exists and I can't find any information about this station. I suspect yet another hoax? I hope all this hoax radio articles will stop! I see User Nathan Williams has been given countless warnings about creating hoax articles just recently, I hope this stops for good but he could start up again any day, any week, month or even like six months later...let's hope not! Thanks again for the REC Broadcast Query link, I really enjoy it! take care now :-) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.96.122.159 (talk) 21:29, 31 March 2008 (UTC)