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Thank you for your tags to Flaming June (song). An "edit conflict" is always a surefire sign that some good samaratin wiki has caught the article before the creator has a chance to complete it. I'll add the links and references and remove your tags today. Encise 23:48, 5 July 2007 (UTC)Encise
[edit] Highway Shields of Ontario
Hiya. I've uploaded the three Highway shields (Highway 129, 144, and 407), and they are in the pubic domain as it has been over 50 years since the shield type was first made (March 1, 1930). I've also made them in Photoshop myself, and i have no issues with anyone using them for whatever reason they see fit. I highly doubt they are a violation of copyright. RingtailedFox • Talk • Stalk 17:37, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Academy Awards Wikipedia Project
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Hello. I noticed that your name was listed as a member of the Wikipedia Project for Academy Awards (at this page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Academy Awards). Are you still interested in, and involved with, this project ... or, in the Academy Awards topic in general? If so, I would like to ask you a question and to solicit your input, advice, and suggestions. Here on Wikipedia, I am most interested in, frequently contribute to, and tend to monitor and edit the various Academy Award articles -- of which there are many. That topic is essentially my primary interest here on Wikipedia. One day recently (about a week ago), I was reviewing / editing / proofreading the various Academy Award articles, as I do pretty regularly. Literally, as I was working on them, an administrator was deleting many, many of the articles -- I believe, seven Academy Award articles in total. I am sure that they went through the proper AfD process. However, I was unaware that they were even being considered for deletion (since they were not on my Watch List). As a result, I was not able to participate in any of the discussion or debate ... and all seven articles were ultimately deleted. The list of articles deleted is here (if you look under Item #3 on my "To Do List"): User:Joseph A. Spadaro/Sandbox/Page09. Needless to say, I am very upset about this and I sincerely feel that these are worthwhile articles, into which a lot of work was placed (by me and by you and by others). If I had my druthers, all seven articles would be un-deleted ... however, I am certain that Wikipedia hardly works that way (i.e., letting my druthers dictate the issue). So, basically, these are my questions to you. (1) Do you agree or disagree that these articles should have been deleted? (2) What, if anything, can I (or you or others) do about all of this? (3) Is there any way to fix this, or am I barking up a wrong tree, which will only result in banging my head against the proverbial brick wall? Will I be spinning my wheels, getting nowhere ... or can this situation change? By the way, the deletion debate is here: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of actors receiving six or more Academy Award nominations -- if you can call it a debate. I am really very upset about all of this. Please advise. PS: In a subsequent post, I can offer my specific reasons to un-delete these articles and to counter-argue the consensus reached at the debate. But, initially, I wanted to ask those (above) preliminary questions of you. Please reply at My Talk Page: User talk:Joseph A. Spadaro. Another PS: I initiated a preliminary conversation with the administrator who deleted the articles. You can see that conversation on my Talk Page under the "Academy Awards" heading. Before my next move with that deleting administrator, I wanted to seek your input and advice on the best way to proceed. Thanks much. Please reply at my Talk Page: User talk:Joseph A. Spadaro. Many thanks! (Joseph A. Spadaro 13:24, 6 September 2007 (UTC))
[edit] CFPL-TV
I know that CFPL is licenced to London... i was just saying that Kitchener is a major city within its signal area... RingtailedFox • Talk • Stalk 00:51, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] At ease soldier
First of all, I'm not on a personal mission to uproot the work you've done on the Mute Math article. I'm getting the feeling that you're taking my corrections a bit personal, and if they have offended you, let me apologize. Honestly, I think you and the other contributors have done a fine job in presenting the Mute Math story from the first time I came by. I only thought there were a few things that stood out as needing changes.
On the matter of the charts and singles, I am only appealing to your common sense and hopefully the part of you that is an actual Mute Math supporter as am I. I think it's quite clear when you hear issues articulated from the band themselves as substance… that takes precedent over anything second hand.
Remember, "Wikipedia has many rules. Instead of following every rule, it is acceptable to use common sense as you go about editing. Being too wrapped up in rules can cause you to lose perspective, so there are times when it is better to ignore a rule. If you use common sense when editing, you are unlikely to do anything wrong." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Use_common_sense).
Let's face it; this is not an issue of facts or "an apparent attempt to rewrite history," but an issue of which facts are relevant to be presented on the bands behalf. If we are the gatekeepers, then we have certain responsibilities. The Mute Math guys are "living persons," and have a right to be presented in a manner that is congruent with how hard they work themselves on it. You and I both know that there are a ton of facts and back story that have been left out in this wikipedia article on the band that could be stated but aren't necessary. And I think the way you've maintained it (for the most part) is complimentary to the integrity of the band in context with what wikipedia is.
I've not changed anything as of now in hopes to hear back from you soon concerning the matter. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shiftycuervo (talk • contribs) 05:39, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] editing Mendelson Joe
D12000:
I wrote a Mendelson Joe piece that I think you erased. If so, could you explain why?
thanks Sibelius10. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sibelius10 (talk • contribs) 07:06, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] mendelson joe followup
thanks very much D12000 for your help and advice on my Mendelson Joe piece; could you plrase tell me what you meant by my restoring it to a talk page if I wanted to do further work on it?
I definitely want to redo it.
thanks,
Sibelius10 Sibelius10 —Preceding comment was added at 00:41, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Ontario Legislative Assembly lists
Thank you for the barnstar. --Big_iron (talk) 10:32, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Feist (singer)
Sorry, that was an accident. I'll try to be more careful. ThundermasterTRUC 15:15, 1 December 2007 (UTC) 08:30, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] WikiProject Canada Roads
To even begin improving the quality of our 1200+ stubs, it has been suggested that we get rid of all navigational templates. More broadly, we have to decide on various conventions; see WT:CANRD. –Pomte 21:05, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Re:About date formatting
What I change in date formatting is in the some Indian-related articles because some articles in Indian-related articles are in month-date-year instead of date-month-year like this: [1] and after I changed, the result is: [2]. My explanation is India use date-month-year instead of month-date-year because of British influence. And I will clear that I did not change a date formatting in American-related articles and I retain to month-date-year format. And I did not change a date formatting in British or Australian-related articles and I retain to date-month-year format also. Thank You.--Joseph Solis in Australia (talk) 06:40, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
- Apologies - should have specified the article in question: Gilles Grondin, a Canadian subject. Since Canada has no consensus on date formatting, dates on the Canadian-related articles should not be changed. American and British influences are in effect there; Quebec in particular (where Gilles Grondin is from) uses day-month-year order as standard due to French/European influence. As you rightly indicated, Australian, British, or Indian articles are best with day-month-year (International) format; articles associated with those nations are not a concern in this case. Dl2000 (talk) 16:57, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] DYK
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[edit] Canadian TV
Hi...when you get a chance, could you review {{CBC Series Dir}}, which you created about a year ago? I don't know if Queens changed their URL format or if there's an error of some kind in the template coding on our end, but it's currently producing invalid links that bring up "object not found" errors on the Queens site. Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 00:23, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Soldier of Fortune--company in infobox?
I placed this question on the talk page for the article Soldier of Fortune on 11 January, but after receiving no reply there, it occurred to me to track down the person responsible for the infobox via the edit history, and here I am. I have several issues, but freely admit that none of them are recent. In them, the name of the company is "Omega Group. Ltd." (indicating that, at least legally, the company is based in some British Commonwealth country) rather than "Soldier of Fortune Inc." as found in the article's infobox. Has the publication changed this in the years since my most recent issue--mind you, I have read much more recent issues than those I currently possess--or is this a mistake, perhaps thinking of the late 1990s syndicated TV adventure series in which the magazine had some sort of participation, SOF: Soldiers of Fortune, Inc. (for its second season the title was changed to Special Ops Force, since they had obviously been taking assignments for American intelligence rather than hiring out, but the acronym still applied)? Ted Watson (talk) 21:56, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
- Reply understood. I didn't know what "deprecated" meant, and the entry in the edit history I checked then, when you redid it, showed the previous revision to be really weird-looking, with no (readable, at least) info there, just the form. I assumed that state was what deprecated referred to. Given the presence of this name on their website, I'd have to agree that nothing less than a current issue to the contrary could justify changing it. Thanks. Ted Watson (talk) 19:43, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Odessa Filmworks
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[edit] AfD nomination of Kathy Shaidle
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[edit] Steve Scott (poet) up for deletion
Steve Scott (poet) is up for deletion. He has had some role in the early history of CCM (work with The 77s, Charlie Peacock, etc). However, secondary references to support his notability seem lacking, which seems to be the main issue with the AfD. Dl2000 (talk) 04:23, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
- You may wish to check All Music Guide or Internet Movie Database to see if he's listed. Generally you can find information on one of these two sites that will help you meet the notability guidelines. Absolon S. Kent (talk) 04:31, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
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[edit] Bitter dino
Are you going to follow up on your merge proposal of the article Bitter dino?--Gavin Collins (talk) 09:45, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
- This has been followed up by prodding it, since there seems to be no interest in resolving the tagged issues on that article. Dl2000 (talk) 01:53, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
- I don't think this will work as the article has already been proposed for deletion, but I am almost certain AfD will. --Gavin Collins (talk) 02:55, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] TfD nomination of Template:Lifetime
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[edit] Your warning
Renee-db and 70.187.213.79 are single purpose accounts that were spamming books from a small press into various articles. As spam, they were reverted. There was an entire section about it on my talk page...right above your template warning. IrishGuy talk 01:09, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] DYK
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[edit] Canadian music charts
Thank you very much for posting the RPM main singles charts, I wondered if you plan to post the others RPMcharts (rock, country, adult contemporary, albums charts) and I also just created a main page of the list of number-one hits who included the CHUM-AM chart as well http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_number-one_hits_%28Canada%29 comment added by Sd-100 (talk • contribs) March 24 2008. —Preceding comment was added at 18:13, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] "uncategorised" disambigs
Oops, that was a case of bit-rot: the code that was checking for template-populated categories had been broken by some random change or other to MW rendering since the last run, so was failing to skip such cases. (I wasn't checking for the templates directly, since there's so darn many of 'em.) Should be fixed now, as of today's run. Alai (talk) 06:57, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] thank you...
I just wanted to thank you for your recent reversion / edit of the Jeff Healey page. He was a friend of mine and the defamatory comments were very upsetting.
Thank you again.
Rog9000 (talk) 05:29, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] serena ryder edits...
hey there - i guess i wasn't following protocol. i am a friend of serena's - the changes i was making were intended to rectify incorrect information. i was not citing sources other than conversation between her and i - her birthday is Dec 8 1982, not 1983, and although she grew up in millbrook, on, she was born in toronto, moving to millbrook around the time she was 1. i can't be bothered to find sources for these things - so i guess i probably shouldn't update wikipedia either! sorry to mess w the program ;-) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.235.144.21 (talk • contribs)
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Hello. I put in a reference to the Detroit News' Web site because I think it must be made clear to readers of this entry that the News'Web site is a seven-day-a-week operation that updates its Web site with stories (particularly hard news and sports) on Sunday, a day in which it does not publish a print product. Readers interested in information about Detroit need to know they can go to detnews.com SEVEN days a week to get the latest news. Please do not cut out this line. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.2.87.51 (talk) 21:48, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
The line I put in about the paper's Web site is not a joke edit. It's factual information about the paper's Web site, including its address. Please try not to be so snotty in your response. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.3.3.248 (talk) 22:45, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] K'naan
I have already explained my reason for reverting your edit on the K'naan page. Somalis are not classified as black in Canada because Canada classifies its population by ethnic group and not by perceived race. What's more, Somalis do not cluster neither genetically nor phenotypically (skull type, tooth size, prognathism, etc.) with blacks. It is therefore inaccurate to classify K'naan or any other Somali Canadian musician under the "Black Canadian Musicians" label. Causteau (talk) 23:54, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Clyde Gilmour DYK
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[edit] Congratulations!
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[edit] A PIECE OF MY MIND
YOU GOT IT. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mikierusso (talk • contribs) 18:23, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] HELP
Hi there fellow Sarah Slean Fan, I'm trying to reserect and eliminate ate ADF on the Nelson Chan Article (Director for 3 Sarah Slean Projects), but it's been quite a hassle, can you lend a hand Talk: Nelson Chan. --Oingoboing69 (talk) 00:24, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Rollback granted
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[edit] Space Command (TV series)
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