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Thanks for the barnstar!

It's most kind of you. Of course, you caught me when I'm over three days late with the Doctor Who update! (I'll head over there and add New Earth right away, thanks to your reminder!) —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 05:10, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

No problem. Articles like that don't work if people don't keep an eye on them. And what's this about the new season of Doctor Who starting? Last year's episodes were a couple weeks behind on this side of the Atlantic; I guess they are this year too. Arctic Gnome 06:18, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
Yep; the first episode ("New Earth") aired in the UK last Saturday. I watched it with my family on Easter Sunday here in Connecticut, via means which I'd best not mention... ;-) I suppose that since Jesus wasn't averse to borrowing a donkey that wasn't technically his, he wouldn't object to a little time-shifted viewing. :-D
I'm not sure when Canada is scheduled to get the second series, but it's sure to be long before the programme airs south of the border — the US Sci-Fi channel just aired "Dalek"!. Lucky Canucks. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 06:25, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Regarding rvv made to Fast Food

Just wanted to let you know you reverted to an incorrect previous version. This may've been a result of an editing overlay, but I'm sure it was just a mistake. Make sure to use caution when reverting! Thanks for your contributions to the Wikipedia and happy editing! ••\\/\//esleyPinkha//\/\\•• 19:15, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Canada-athlete-stub template

Hi there. I thought you might like to know that the above template has been renamed by WP:SFD to {{Canada-sportbio-stub}} for consistency with the other sports biography stubs, just in case you wanted to update your user page. --TheParanoidOne 19:21, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Template request

Hi. I posted some suggestions for marking articles as 'fictional' in response to your question on the requested templates page. --CBDunkerson 00:33, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Regarding Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of religions once classed as cults...

Would you consider changing your vote to keep the information to a strong keep if it were merged with List of groups referred to as cults or expanded into a broader topic: "The Transition from Cult to Religion." That might make a very interesting wikipedia article. cairoi 17:34, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Canadian Prime Ministers religious affiliation

The Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA) which Harper is a member of is an Evangelical Protestant denomination. I have no proff if Harper actually is a member of the church, however, Harper was not raised in the United Church of Canada. In 1925, the Presbyterian Church in Canada and the Methodist Church of Canada merged into the United Church of Canada, however the Harper family remained in a Presbyterian only church while growing up in Leaside according to Lloyd Mackey's book, The Pilgrimage of Stephen Harper. SFrank85 18:13, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
Really, it is up to you if you want to put it back to the way it was. SFrank85 15:37, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Radio 2 & Radio 3

Hello. When you created the disambiguation pages for Radio 2 & Radio 3, it meant that over 100 articles are now pointing to those pages. Would you like to help disambiguating the articles so they point to their correct articles? I have already completely DABbed Radio 4. I find AWB invaluable. Cheers. The JPS talk to me 11:38, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Cheers. The temporary alternative would be to have Radio redirect to BBC Radio 2, and create Radio 2 (disambiguation). The top of the BBC Radio 2 page could then have Radio 2 redirects here. For other stations named Radio 2, see Radio 2 (disambiguation). This might be better until all the links point directly to their correct articles. The JPS talk to me 16:14, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

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Manual of style

You asked a question about date links in the Manual of style. In most cases, the date links are unnecessary and only put there by people that misunderstand date preferences. Feel free to remove unnecessary date links.

You may wish to make use of a 'Dates' tab in edit mode that will help with unlinking unnecessary date links. Simply copy the entire contents of User:Bobblewik/monobook.js to your own monobook. Then follow the instructions in your monobook to clear the cache (i.e. press Ctrl-Shift-R in Firefox, or Ctrl-F5 in IE) before it will work. It also provides a 'Units' tab. Regards. bobblewik 14:23, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

bold text

Just a heads up, if you want to remove bold text, you should just remove the font, not the word itself. By taking out entire words you are leaving nonsense sentences that look like vandalism. --Arctic Gnome 16:14, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Can you give me an example? I think I know what you mean, but I'd like to see for myself. Alphachimp talk 17:10, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
OK. I understand what you mean. I've been trying to go through Wikipedia and remove accidental clicks of Bold Text. In the process, though, I accidentally removed bold text that was actually use legitimately. Most of the time I went back and fixed the mistake immediately, but I guess that I missed the Canada article. Sorry about that. Trust me, though, it wasn't vandalism. Alphachimp talk 17:13, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

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Please do NOT upload those pictures to the english wikipedia. Just use them as if they were there. You will save yourself a lot of copyright hazzle. -- Agathoclea 16:18, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Just use the filename that is used on commons. If that filename is not on enwiki it will check on commons. Agathoclea 19:59, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

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Lengths of science fiction movie and television series on AfD

Hey, Arctic gnome. I thought you might be interested to know that Lengths of science fiction movie and television series is up on AfD. The discussion is here. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 23:16, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Hey, greetings from Vancouver

Queen's University? Wow, nice.

I answered to your question in Template talk:WikiProject Canada. We can work together to solve whatever problem there is. AQu01rius (User • Talk) 22:53, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Move Request of The Harper cabinet

I have split the survey into two options: 28th Canadian Ministry, and 28th Canadian Cabinet, just to make the survey easier to read, and make sure everyones being understood. It would be appreciated if you would continue to participate. -Royalguard11(Talk·Desk·Review Me!) 04:15, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Assessment for WPCANADA

Just want to remind you that {{A-Class}} is a very high rating, it's near {{FA-Class}}, and should not be accorded lightly. Only a few of the articles you assessed as such deserve the rating, and those should go throgh GA-review and peer-review first (that helps to smoothen out the articles too). I suggest more conservative rating. Otherwise, thanks for the effort put in WP:CANADA. Cheers. --Qyd 16:01, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Sure, assessment is subjective (it's the reason why I told you about this instead of just changing the assessment). I wouldn't consider A-Class some lists (like List of Canadian Leaders of the Opposition), articles with abundant red links (List of Canadians by ethnicity), poorly formated articles with stubby sections (like Quebec), articles with very few references (Supreme Court of Canada, Conservative Party of Canada (historical)), articles with large trivia sections (John A. Macdonald). There are other elements that downgrade artilces (bulleted lists instead of prose, incomplete coverage of the subject, etc). Peer review, Good Article review and Featured Article review help a lot to improve the articles, and that's the reason why I suggest going through those stages before according A-Class status. Cheers. --Qyd 04:56, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

According to the general assessment criteria, "A-class" is only given when the article is considered completion. So just give B-class for now, and submit them through GA review as mentioned by Qyd if they are very well referenced. Cheers! AQu01rius (User • Talk) 19:26, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

List of Nova Scotia general elections

Following your comments, I've done some work on the List of Nova Scotia general elections, and replied on its WP:FLC page. Tompw 14:32, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Help

I'm a bit confused about the use of the templates. In Talk:Kelowna Accord I used the CanGov template. Should I instead have used the WikiProject Canada template with the CanGov parameter turned on? I want to get my understanding right before I run around tagging too many articles. Thanks. Deet 21:08, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Talk:Deputy Prime Minister of Canada

Hello, (Answering your question, on dupty minister). See Deputy Minister, not sure if DPM has his/her own deputy minister. GoodDay 00:21, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Stephen Harper Copyvio

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39th Canadian Parliament

Sorry about my mistake. When the House of Commons convened for the Holidays, I assumed that meant the first session was concluded. Sorry for the inconvenience. GoodDay 19:11, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Election timelines as a featured topic

Thanks for your comments on the above. My original plan was to nominate the federal, provinical and territorial lists together, but as more work has been done on the non-Federal lists, I was going to nominate those first. Good idea about the pre-Condfederation ones - they should definately be included. The main difficulty is finding sources on the net.

I'm wondering what to call the topic... I was planning on "Canadian provinical and territorial elections", but you're right, this would include articles on individual elections... I'm inclined towards just "Timeline of Canadian elections", but this doesn't feel quite right. Any thoughts?

While I remember: do you know of a potential reference for New Brunswick, PEI and Yukon lists? I haven't been able to find anything online, so I was wondering if you knew of any useful books/websites that could be used as references. (The orginal editor used a book from the library, which they don't know the title of).

For the Timeline of Canadian elections article, I'm considering including federal elections (probably as a double-width column)... what do you think? Also, many thanks for all the work you've put in on that article - it's really helped it sparkle. :-)

Tompw (talk) 11:36, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Enceladus

Not a problem. I had just learned about the whole featured topic thing (not that it isn't a bad idea) and I remembered that article and wondered why it wasn't there (since it's pretty good). But it makes sense there would be a nominating process. Daniel Case 03:25, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Alan.ca

That person has no intention of giving up his crusade to delete the image. He seems to have a vendetta against Stephen Harper especially when he's using an outdated page to make the case for his argument. ViriiK 21:45, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

I have nothing against the Prime Minister and in fact like the photograph. I want to clear up the copyright and until this can be done, the image should not be used. There must be a photograph somewhere that doesn't have this kind of copyright baggage. Alan.ca 23:27, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
I would get involved in this discussion and not get involved in the revert war any further. :: Colin Keigher (Talk) 00:00, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Copyright issue, officephoto.jpg

  • Note: despite what this user says, I am not a new user. I don't believe that I was participating in an edit war. The discussion seemed to have created a consensus against Alan's view. He, evidently, disagrees. --Arctic Gnome 08:17, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

I see that you're new to wikipedia and I don't want to be responsible for making your experience displeasurable. On wikipedia, we try to be careful about not violating copyright. In fact, the founder Jimbo Wales, has made a formal statement that we are to seek out free use images. In the case of this photograph, we have two sections of the same web site asserting different copyright. In this case, we need to make certain that one or the other is removed. Failing that, permission from both listed copyright holders would be appropriate. The ideal solution would be for a wikipedian to snap a photo of Stephen Harper and release it as their own work under a free license. You're not helping anyone by continuing this revert war with me. You're simply flooding the edit history of both the Stephen Harper article and the history of the image. This makes it difficult for future editors to make sense of the edit history and it will not achieve anything for you. Please be patient, let the admin staff review the deletion request and copyright information. Alan.ca 23:26, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Please sign your vandalism warnings

Hey, Arctic.gnome. Thanks for keeping an eye on vandalism of articles. Please sign your vandalism warnings. It makes it easier for other vandalism watchers if you leave a visible timestamp so they don't have to check the History for it. Bishonen | talk 17:39, 19 December 2006 (UTC).

Ammends?

Are we able to make ammends? I'd like to join in on the Canadian wikiproject. Alan.ca 07:46, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Boulevard du Temple

Hi Artic gnome. I was wondering, per your comment on featured picture candidates, if this is one of your websites? | AndonicO Talk | Sign Here 19:53, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Timeline of Canadian elections

Many thanks for your considerable input into the Timeline of Canadian elections list, which has now made Featured List status :-) By the way, what was your source for PEI having 25 elections prior to joining the Confederation? It would be nice to get them listed at General elections in Prince Edward Island (pre-Confederation) or similar. (Although listing pre-Confed elections seperately causes problems of its own... see Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of New Brunswick general elections...).

Anyway, thanks once again for your contributions. Tompw (talk) 01:26, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

This user helped promote Timeline of Canadian elections to featured list status.

FT color

Hi, I was using the table at the top of Wikipedia talk:Colours. I'll mention at WP:FC now. :) —Quiddity 19:03, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

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Thank-you!

Many thanks for your award of The Society Barnstar - it's nice to know ones work is appreciated. (Though it's only ten featured lists and one failure rather than fourteen). Thank-you once again :-) Tompw (talk) 20:09, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Missing article

This article: Scouting in Prince Edward Island you put two tags on with ratings does not exist?????? Rlevse 16:12, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

That's a rather backwards way of doing things. You should at least create an article stub. We have an article request list on our project. Until there's at least a stub, I'm taking off the Scouting tag.Rlevse 19:58, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Saffron image

Whoops... mistake on my part, now fixed. Tompw (talk) 17:51, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

redirecting you

Sorry for redirecting your Monarchy article; I checked out the other provinces' articles and now see where you are going. Good luck! Cmprince 00:43, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

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Saskatchewan electoral history

I found fairly comprehensive information here in the Saskatchewan Archives website, They also have old electoral maps at the archive itself, but not online for early Northwest Territories elections from 1881 to 1905 and for Saskatchewan, at some point I would like to bring the district maps online. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Cloveious (talk • contribs) 20:18, 21 January 2007 (UTC).

List of Quebec Premiers

Great Job of updating the list!!! You scooped me! hihihi :)

If I Had $1000000

I have reverted your edit to Barenaked Ladies as, while I agree that the song has had numerous names in text, the name of the article that is being linked to is If I Had $1000000, and it's silly to link to a redirect when one is knowledgable of the article's proper name. Thanks for being bold, though. JPG-GR 04:16, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Children of the Prime Ministers of Canada

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Hi, they put Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Parents of the Prime Ministers of Canada on AfD as well. -- Earl Andrew - talk 17:13, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Lengths of PMs time in office

I think we might be adding them up differently. Feb 5, 2007 was his 365th day in office, but that is still not a complete year. There are 365 days in a year, but when it his 366 days, then it is a complate year, starting a new year. Feb 6, 2007 was Harper's one year in office, Feb 7 was Harper's 1 year and one day. SFrank85 23:32, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

The dates for the prime ministers' terms in office now don't agree: the date in the information boxes vs. the date in the articles. Examples are Trudeau (June 29 vs June 30) and Mackenzie King (Nov. 14 vs Nov. 15). If you change one date in each prime minister's article, should you not change all the dates for each article ... for consistency? Que-Can 05:30, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the update Arctic.gnome. I think we can agree that the page is now correct. SFrank85 21:11, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
I still think the days for Harper is wrong (not total days). There are 365 days in one year. Once you hit 365 days in a year, it is now a new year, but the last day of the first year. February 6 is Harper's first year, but according to this, his first year anniversary was on February 5, which is wrong. SFrank85 15:08, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
OK, thanks for claering it up with me. We shall use your system. SFrank85 17:35, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership convention, 1914

Re the article you created called Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership convention, 1914, the first Ontario Conservative leadership convention did not occur until 1920. Please see Ontario Progressive Conservative leadership conventions. Sixth Estate 07:20, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Please note there were also no leadership conventions in 1930 or 1948. Please see Ontario Progressive Conservative leadership conventions. Sixth Estate 07:30, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

And also there were no Liberal Party of Ontario leadership conventions prior to 1919, nor was there one in 1942. See Ontario Liberal leadership conventions. Sixth Estate 23:47, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Prime Minsters of Canada, departure dates

I've fixed the dates (Mackenzie to Martin), when these PM resigned & their successor's were sworn in. My source? Prime Minsters of Canada by Jim Lotz (c.1986). As for Campbell, Chretien & Martin, CBC News made it quite known, when these respective PM's resigned and their successor were sworn in (the resignation & swearing in occured on the same date; give or take a few hours). This notion that a defeated or retiring PM resigned a day before his/her successor was sworn in, is the wrong notion (the only execption were the 19th & early 20th century PM's). GoodDay 23:20, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

I've added 2 more external links to List of Prime Ministers of Canada to back my edits. Furthermore, I have a 'Funk & Wagnalls' Encyclopedia set that backs my edits. Also, in 1984, 1993, 2003 & 2006, while watching CBC news (Canada's leading News channel), they distinctively announced the outgoing PM's resignation occuring earlier on the same day as the incoming PM's being sworn in. Finnaly, I think Jim Lotz did research, before he wrote his book.GoodDay 23:51, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
I removed one of the External Links (which I added, earlier), it was inconsistant (it actually had Campbell leaving office Oct 25, 1993 -Election Day). I'm signing out for the night. As we have conflicting sources, I suggest we have a Rfc for all PM of Canada pages & the List article. An 'Edit war' wouldn't be good. GoodDay 00:06, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
Hello, Artic.gnome, I've just signed in. Do you think we should have an Rfc on this topic, seeing as we have conflicting sources for the dates? GoodDay 18:38, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
Agreed. GoodDay 20:09, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

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Free content on Wikipedia

Hi,

This is very late reply to what you asked two months back on Wikipedia talk:Mirrors and forks. You asked how could Wikipedia allow its content to be freely used by anyone, even to make profit for themselves. A number of people answered your query, but in the end you looked unconvinced. I chose to reply to your page itself as you might not be watching the said page till now. Hopefully in the two months, you would have understood more about our philosophy, but if you haven't here's my sincere attempt.

Wikipedia licenses its content under the GNU FDL license, which is a copyleft license. In short, this means that anyone can use the content for any purpose, provided they also license the content under GNU FDL with full text of the license, and acknowledges all the authors of the content. Full details of this can be found at Wikipedia:Copyrights. Also note that the top of the page says: "The Wikimedia Foundation does not own copyright on Wikipedia article texts and illustrations." Thus, Wikipedia is a place where you can license your contributions under the GFDL, but this doesn't make Wikipedia own the work done by you. The Wikipedia encyclopedia chooses to make the content freely available to anyone throughout the world, free from any kind of advertisements or other bounds. This moral high ground need not be taken up by anyone using GFDL content. Some may want to use the content commercially by making it a part of their own website, by selling CDs, etc. But whoever chooses to do this also understands that if s/he wants to make profit, there should be something that would distinguish him from Wikipedia. For example, if there is a Wikipedia mirror that contains lot of pop-up ads, and spam anyone who visits the site, there would be a good reason for someone to use that website rather than the plain-ol' Wikipedia. Also, making into CDs would require some effort on his own part. Add to the fact that anyone can copy his business model, so it would be difficult to operate such a business on supernormal profit. While the example I gave is good to give an understanding of how Wikipedia's content cannot be exploited beyond a certain extent, but in reality, Wikipedia did not start functioning with this hindsight. Wikipedia just wanted to make things freely available to everyone. The best way that this was possible was to use the power of the internet. The content is so free that the only thing we want to ensure is that it remains free even in the derivative works (that is why we expect our mirrors to be GFDL compliant). It is true many people who contribute to Wikipedia actually think that they still own the content. Another whooping majority thinks that the content gets owned by Wikipedia. Frankly, I believe that if everyone is made truly aware of how free we make our content (especially with regards to commercial redistribution), many contributors will stop contributing. But there are still many people (like me, of course) who believe in promoting freedom of knowledge. Thus we all contribute for the greater good of humanity (as a near perfect charity work). Looking at your userboxes, I find that your contributions are perfect charity as you release all your content to the public domain. This means that anyone can use the content originally created by you for any purpose, even without acknowledging you, and even if you wish they don't.

Hope this clarified your doubts. If you have any more outstanding queries, I will be glad to answer. — Ambuj Saxena (☎) 12:19, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

thanks for the comments

Jeff, thanks for the comments and the welcome to wikipedia. I really have no idea how to reply to your post on my "talk" page so I figured this is the way to do it. My apologies if I am totally wrong. cheers, ewen (Emackinnon 13:48, 27 February 2007 (UTC))

(numbers)

just curious, what do the numbers in brackets on the edit history page mean?


thanks. Emackinnon 12:25, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

thanks for your help jeff, i much appreciate it. cheers, ewen. Emackinnon 21:37, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi

Hi. Sorry if I seemed snappy on the Featured Topic Removal candidates in my attempt to clarify; I've been under a lot of stress lately, which is why I'm preparing for a wikibreak. — Deckiller 04:38, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Image:Ralph Klein.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Ralph Klein.jpg. I notice the 'image' page specifies that the image is being used under fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our first fair use criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed image could reasonably be found or created that provides substantially the same information. If you believe this image is not replaceable, please:

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The same for image:

  • Image:Pierre-Marc Johnson.jpg

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Image:Grant Devine portrait.jpg

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Featured Topic Viability

You seem to be someone who is very involved with WP:FT. I just received my first WP:FA this week. I am attempting to understand the prospects of a WP:FTC for

Featured articleCampbell's Soup Cans
Andy Warhol {{GAnominee|2007-03-31}}
The Factory
Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board

I am guessing I would have to leave the last one out of the topic. Would I have to research The Factory to site it or can this group be nominated if Warhol gets a GAC? TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio) 04:29, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

I am guessing you are saying if Andy Warhol is the topic The Andy Warhol Museum would need a true article and The Andy Warhol Foundation would need an article. In addition, The Factory, andAndy Warhol Art Authentication Board would need great improvement. However, Campbell's Soup Cans might make it with just the first three articles. TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio) 14:15, 31 March 2007 (UTC)