User talk:KenWalker/Archive Apr 2008
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Vancouver Island/South Coast cats
Hi Ken; went ahead and was bold: please see Category talk:Coast of British Columbia, new section.Skookum1 (talk) 19:31, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
- While I'm here, not sure what to do with Kyuquot , Tahsis, Zeballos etc- North Island, right? Or West Coast? Gold River I think of as North Island, but it's connectedd to Nootka Sound....as you'll see in the Coast cat talkpage I'm laos uncertain if "South Island" is apt for Courteney-Campbell River. Further discucssion on cat-talk page later, I'm hungry....Skookum1 (talk) 19:40, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
- Followup: went ahead and creatd Category:Northern Vancouver Island, Category:Southern Vancouver Island and Category:West Coast of Vancouver Island; both it and the SouthernVI cat will/should have Category:Strait of Juan de Fuca (pls see Category talk:Puget Sound). I'm still puzzling over a name for Ladysmith-Nanaimo-Parksville-Courteny-Campbell River - Category:Central Vancouver Island is a phrase usually meant to refer to the Island's interior (I'm gonna make a Category:Vancouver Island Ranges if there isn't one already, likewise its parent Category:Insular Mountains if it doesn't exist yet) but.....would it work for the Mid-Island? Category:East Coast of Vancouver Island seems a bit artificial and isn't the way we refer to that area, is it? As with the West Coast cat it obviously (to us) doesn't include those parts of the east coast of the Island that are "North Island". Any thoughts? I'm also going to go ahead and create Category:Gulf of Georgia just for the hell of it and also to enshrine that name, as I've done with the "Countries" of the Interior and North, partly because of the counter-Salish Sea bandwagon of mine but also because it's a good collective grouping for what's in Category:South Coast of British Columbia that's not in Category:Southern Vancouver Island or Category:West Coast of Vancouver Island. The Mid-Island/East Coast cat, whatever it's called, would be a subcat of that; NB I also created Category:Saanich Peninsula, which in addition to being in the Greater Victoria region cat (which is a suvbcat of SouthernVI) it can also be in the Gulf cat.....is this making sense?Skookum1 (talk) 17:14, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
- Bold is good. Central Island has an unfamiliar sound. Mid Island is in ordinary use and we do hear it called east but central sounds like someone from Ottawa was deciding. Overall, the answer is yes, it is making sense. Good to see you finding some wikitime, it is a better place with your efforts. --KenWalker | Talk 23:48, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
- Well, at least some people think so (see edit history and talkpage at Tillicum,which until we arm what i researched to the teeth can't be a disambiguation page). So would Category:Mid Island work (since that's what we say) or does it have to be Category:Mid Vancouver Island; also awkards huh? Mid-Island hyphenated? Also User:Pfly raised an interesting issue re Category:Strait of Juan de Fuca and Category:Puget Sound being water-body, not region, cat names; yes, but not, I told him; see Category talk:Puget Sound, towards the last few posts....Skookum1 (talk) 00:52, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
- Bold is good. Central Island has an unfamiliar sound. Mid Island is in ordinary use and we do hear it called east but central sounds like someone from Ottawa was deciding. Overall, the answer is yes, it is making sense. Good to see you finding some wikitime, it is a better place with your efforts. --KenWalker | Talk 23:48, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
- Followup: went ahead and creatd Category:Northern Vancouver Island, Category:Southern Vancouver Island and Category:West Coast of Vancouver Island; both it and the SouthernVI cat will/should have Category:Strait of Juan de Fuca (pls see Category talk:Puget Sound). I'm still puzzling over a name for Ladysmith-Nanaimo-Parksville-Courteny-Campbell River - Category:Central Vancouver Island is a phrase usually meant to refer to the Island's interior (I'm gonna make a Category:Vancouver Island Ranges if there isn't one already, likewise its parent Category:Insular Mountains if it doesn't exist yet) but.....would it work for the Mid-Island? Category:East Coast of Vancouver Island seems a bit artificial and isn't the way we refer to that area, is it? As with the West Coast cat it obviously (to us) doesn't include those parts of the east coast of the Island that are "North Island". Any thoughts? I'm also going to go ahead and create Category:Gulf of Georgia just for the hell of it and also to enshrine that name, as I've done with the "Countries" of the Interior and North, partly because of the counter-Salish Sea bandwagon of mine but also because it's a good collective grouping for what's in Category:South Coast of British Columbia that's not in Category:Southern Vancouver Island or Category:West Coast of Vancouver Island. The Mid-Island/East Coast cat, whatever it's called, would be a subcat of that; NB I also created Category:Saanich Peninsula, which in addition to being in the Greater Victoria region cat (which is a suvbcat of SouthernVI) it can also be in the Gulf cat.....is this making sense?Skookum1 (talk) 17:14, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
Discovery Passage map
The little atlas of British Columbia I was using labels it Discovery Pass, so I used that on the map. It was only when I was adding it to wikipedia that I saw the name was Passage not Pass. I doubled checked at BCGNIS and it says Passage too. But it was late so I left it as Pass for a later fix. I wondered if anyone would even notice. Good catch! I'll fix it when I get a chance. Pfly (talk) 15:49, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
Vancouver Meetup Invite
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Regards, Mkdwtalk 21:57, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
Sechelt Rapids
Hi, thanks for the maps comment. I know next to nothing about Sechelt Inlet, Skookumchuck Narrows, and Sechelt Rapids -- the perfect conditions for wanting to look into it. At least, I am vaguely aware that there is a Skookumchuck Narrows somewhere in Sechelt Inlet, and that in one part the tidal currents can produce whitewater rapids. I'd probably have guessed the rapids were called Skookumchuck myself. Your three-level description, rapids in narrows, narrows in inlet, is intriguing. I think I have the high resolution BC topo maps of the area, and already have some base map linework of the region ready for whatever. Hmm hmm.. Of course I also have a lot of Real Life looming, so who knows. I'm curious now, in any case. Pfly (talk) 22:54, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
