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[edit] Welcome

Hello Heqs, and welcome to Wikipedia! Here are some recommended guidelines to help you get involved. Please feel free to contact me if you need help with anything. Best of luck and happy editing! CobaltBlueTony 01:56, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Airport security

The version you reverted back to has a problem with the end of the India section. Maybe it needs some edits instead of reverts. Vegaswikian 21:17, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing that out. I've fixed the last sentence of the India section. Heqs 21:58, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Peter Warren.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Peter Warren.jpg. However, the image may soon be deleted unless we can determine the copyright holder and copyright status. The Wikimedia Foundation is very careful about the images included in Wikipedia because of copyright law (see Wikipedia's Copyright policy).

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Please signify the copyright information on any other images you have uploaded or will upload. Remember that images without this important information can be deleted by an administrator. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me, or ask them at the Image legality questions page. Thank you. Stifle 01:11, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Yes, it's a copyvio and a mistaken upload. I removed the invalid license tag and tagged it for speedy deletion (with explanation) about 15 minutes after I uploaded it. [1] I'm not sure why you replaced the speedy deletion tag with the no license tag instead of just deleting the image! Please, someone just delete it. Heqs 01:34, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
It's gone. Stifle 20:34, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. Heqs 03:26, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User talk talk:Kittenmarks

This page was speedyily deleted as there is no User talk talk: namespace. I'm not exactly sure how you ended up there, and the error may have to do with the source of a protected page. The page User talk:Kittenmarks was protected by Raul654, as show in the protection log. You should address questions as to it's protection to them, or at Requests for unprotection. — xaosflux Talk 04:06, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

When you click on "Discuss this page" on a protected User talk: page, you are editing a new User talk talk: page. This would seem to be a rather serious bug. Heqs 14:41, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
Perhaps this has something to do with it? Too funny. heqs 09:09, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Soviet partisan

Sorry about deleting your link there in a rage of anti-censorship fight. I saved your edition as control if need for ruther reverts occurs :((. AlexPU 11:04, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

No prob, I wasn't sure at first what was going on there. Not a biggie. heqs 11:08, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Genocide category at Extermination Order (Mormonism)

Hi Heqs. I clarified why the order should be categorized under genocide, per your removal comments. According to Genocide, genocide is "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: "Killing members of the group; Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part"

The extermination order resulted in at least 60-100 people killed, about the same amount raped. Babies brains were "dashed out" and my great grandfather's eight year old son shot at point blank range so he wouldn't "grow up to be a dammed Mormon," and other teenage boys were killed similarly. To me, such an order was given with the "intent to destroy" a [religous] group" or at least "cause serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group" to force them out of the state of missouri, qualifies as genocide, although i was not the original author of the statement.

I can sympathize with your being personally connected to atrocities such as these, I really can. Nevertheless, I urge you to provide specific citations of credible sources in line with WP's policies (such as Wikipedia:Verifiability) when quoting specific facts and numbers such as these in articles.

Having re-read the article, I did find that information not clear in the article, and clarified. You made a great point, and I clarified and added back the category, and the article still needs more work. If you disagree with the category again, let's discuss on the talk page of the article, and thanks for bringing it to my attention. -Visorstuff 13:41, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

I'll respond here for the time being, and provide rationale on the talk page for any further edits. I think it would be wise to cite the use of the term genocide in the article before categorizing it there. To be sure, the order was genocidal in nature, I'm just not sure that freely applying a literal interpretation of the CPPCG definition is always appropriate. heqs 15:23, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Draft dodgers in Canada

Hey, I saw from your posts on Talk:Canada that you seem to know something about the effect of draft dogers in Canada. I also noticed that (far too sparse) History of Canada (1960-1981) makes no mention of it. How can I encourage you to write something? -- TheMightyQuill 13:31, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

I'll see if I can add a little something. It's true that some of those subarticles are really lacking. Cheers. heqs 13:43, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
I just noticed Canada and the Vietnam War, which should be useful. Thanks for your help. -- TheMightyQuill 14:25, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
Yeah, I'm going to add a bit of stuff to that one as well. Hey, you know what some of these History subarticles need, are some really great intros that sort of tie the decade or period together... heqs 16:05, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
Actually, I guess that would be pretty redundant. heh...I've been staring at this wiki too long. heqs 16:14, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
Excellent, thanks for your help. I'm not sure it would be redundant, but it would be kind of untrue. I separated the main history article into periods relatively arbitrarily, so trying to tie the period together would give a false sense of "connectedness" between events that aren't necessarily related. -- TheMightyQuill 16:22, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] CoW

Hi, I went down that route but it does not help - the IBC article does not cite any source for the figure as well. Even if it was, it ought to be better to copy the link to source between articles instead of expecting the reader smart guess (or at least I think so ;)). -- Goldie (tell me) 09:19, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Hi, http://www.iraqbodycount.net is the source. All one has to do is check their site. This should be fairly obvious to the reader. heqs 09:59, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] CHMJ

Thanks for the tweaks! --Ckatz 18:49, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for adding the history, I was hoping someone would do that. I noticed you changed some of the dates to "30 May 2006" style. I normally use the North American style on "North American" articles, ie. "May 30, 2006" as suggested by Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers). Not a big deal though. heqs 19:00, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
I took a look at the MOS again... in Canada, I think it's a bit ambiguous as to what the "standard" is (although that's a different matter from Wiki standards, this of course being an international project.) I'm used to the day-month-year flow, so that's what I tend to use, marked up so as to autoconvert based on user preferences. (You may already know this, but 01 June in Wiki markup will display as June 1 if that's how the viewer configures their settings.) As with you, not a big deal. --Ckatz 20:40, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
BTW, if you're interested in info on broadcasters, here are a few links I'm finding useful while editing the radio station articles: Canadian Communications Foundation and Northwest Broadcasters --Ckatz 20:40, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
Yeah, I just started Template:Vancouver AM with a little help from the Northwest Broadcasters site. heqs 20:54, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
Glad you did - I've been meaning to get to that for a while. (Having seen your work, I went and activated the "Vancouver AM" tag I left commented out in the CHMJ article.) --Ckatz 21:17, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Notice of arbitration

Hi! I filled an arbitration request concerning the usage of "liberation" in WP articles. If you are interested in, please add your name to the list of the involved parties and type your statement.--AndriyK 20:18, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] CFD "Designated terrorist organizations" underway

I thought you may be interested,

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Count Iblis 23:06, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Category:Organizations accused of terrorism is up for deletion. Thanks, Ramallite (talk) 18:18, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for adding that information regarding the names of the totem poles in the images I took of Thunderbird Park[2][3][4][5]. I did not know those details. Keep up the good work! HighInBC 14:25, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for taking the great pictures! heqs 14:32, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re:User:Heqs/Lithuanian resistance during World War II

That's great! From my experience moving an article to mainspace as soon as possible is a good idea: others would be happy to help, and one can hardly know when his 'will' to work on an article will run out.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 21:50, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Expanded, and moved to main. heqs 05:51, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Very excellent links concerning the Latvian non-German cooperation article. Dr. Dan 16:04, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jewish partisans

Thanks much! Please fix the image license, I just copy-pasted it from another USHMM image. And of course feel free to improve the article. Cheers. ←Humus sapiens ну? 03:10, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Joining on the thanks -- your latest Edit summary helps me understand the internal organization of the article and its various links. -- Cheers, Deborahjay 14:09, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stawamus Chief Edit

I'm afraid I have to disagree with your recent edit of the Chief page. The additional blurb you added to the opening sentence crowds the text and is redundant. If the reader progresses only a few sentences farther into the text, they will see me cease to refer to the mountain as "Stawamus Chief", switching to the more informal "the Chief".

I think people will get the idea.

I thought I would give you an opportunity to respond rather than just simply clobber your edit...

--Psi4ce 15:01, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

I disagree that it crowds the text or is redundant. Commonly used alternate names should go in the lead. If it's not declared in the lead, it's not clear to readers why you start referring to it as "The Chief" part way through (they may assume that's it's nickname, on the other hand, it might just seem like an informal tone is being taken for no particularly valid reason). See Wikipedia:Lead section. heqs 15:12, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi; I realize the context of what you're saying, and it's a common problem in BC articles, and I imagine in those about other jurisdictions/cultures as well; the local argot is used and written so casually that we don't realize the assumptions we're making (expecting other people to know what we mean) or the vagueness of some of the references; e.g. Stawamus Chief -> The Chief; North or West Vancouver -> North or West Van; Vancouver Island -> The Island; Fraser Canyon - "The Canyon"; similarly "The Shuswap", "The Cariboo", "The Kootenay(s)", "the Omineca" and so on (any of which can be appended with "Country", as in the Shuswap Country); see Talk:Lower Mainland for related problems.Skookum1 23:01, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
Well I still disagree. Your arguments about formal/informal do nothing to address the sense of style that I personally wrote into the article. I put a HUGE amount of effort into the Chief article, which I wrote myself almost entirely. The opening sentence in particular was a work of art. It was a little tribute to the mountain that I love and I know so well. I think my opinion carries a trump amount of weight here compared to someone who just quickly nips in and makes a casual offhand edit. I would respectfully ask that you revert it. If you wish I will enclose "The Chief" in quotations below at first usage to indicate the informal name. --Psi4ce 15:39, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
While I might be detecting a hint of sarcasm in your comments — "The Stawamus Chief is a colossal dome of granitic rock located adjacent to the town of Squamish, British Columbia" is a work of art? ;) — I'm not making arguments, I'm just pointing out the guideline at Wikipedia:Lead section (see especially the example given under "Bold title" - alternate names, even obvious ones, go in first sentence). This is a de facto standard on wikipedia. And, while I value your contributions, try not to WP:OWN the article. heqs 15:58, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
Whatever. --Psi4ce 13:24, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Hilarious. The Chief is less than 2500' high in a valley filled with 9000' peaks; the overblown hyperbole of "colossal" is almost as annoying as Vancouver's obsession with "world-class". Sure, if you're from Ontario or Saskatchewan it's "colossal" but it's not that remarkable in BC, even in the Squamish area; it's just highly visible and over-climbed ad nauseam. The Cayoosh Wall near Lillooet is over three times as high; and it's only the flank of a mountain, not an overgrown boulder by the seashore.Skookum1 18:08, 10 July 2006 (UTC) Calling it a work of art also reminds me of Whistler's bumpf about itself, claiming in its brochures and media hype to be "the most beautiful valley in BC"; which is utter crap if you even drive another twenty miles, or look around Squamish for that matter. A work of art? Really? Then what's Mount Garibaldi? The Judge? The Tantalus Range? Lots of works of art around there...I wonder if the art critics for the NY Times have noticed....overblown, self-congratulatory language is one of the most annoying parts of popular BC culture (speaking as someone born here and watching all the gee-whiz types show up).Skookum1 18:10, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

I was actually going to go ahead and copyedit all the colorful language out of The Chief article, but it seems someone is quite attached to it... heqs 18:14, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Quite a while ago I edited something out of either the Vancouver page or the North Shore Mountains page some descriptions of the latter that used "stupendous" or "magnificent" or whatever; Crown Mountain, an otherwise obscure snag in behind Grouse, was given a similar hyperbolic adjective, completely in disproportion to the relative scale of the Front Ranges to the main strike of the Coast Range; the word was "forbidding" or "spectacular" or "awe-inspiring" something like that, and frankly those mountains are basically forested crags and not much more; all you have to do is look at Robie Reid, which isn't much higher, or Judge Howay in behind ("the Judge" http://bivouac.com/MtnPg.asp?MtnId=1191), to realize what a silly comment any overblown description of the North Shore Mountains is; never mind the peaks of the Lillooet Ranges or anything from there to Bella Coola and beyond. Mind you, a lot of people who fabulize over the North Shore Mountains have never been/seen anywhere else in BC, so compared to Mount Royal or whatever the highest knob in Ontario is, no doubt they're "awesome"; that commercial for Bard On The Beach ranting about "with the most beautiful backdrop in the world" makes me gag, too; you can barely see the mountains for all the towers of the West End for one thing, but it's not like it's BC's best scenery, and certainly not the world's.Skookum1 07:22, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Aye, all this talk of mountains is making me itchy to get out a bit... might head up to Forbidden Plateau/Mount Albert Edward (that's about my speed right now) in August. heqs 07:35, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Getting out into the mountains? Yeah, I know what you mean, but I don't have a car or gas. Howza 'bout I show you around some high roads and trails around Lillooet-Bralorne?; nice thing up there is you can drive way up, and then hike the ridges. See Mission Ridge, for example, in bivouac.com; or the Clear Range, or China Head or Big Dog Mountain or, or, or....;-) Guaranteed good weather even if the Coast turns wet, too...Skookum1 08:08, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Check yer email. heqs 12:11, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

You know what? Screw you, your stupid flame war, and your holier-than-thou attitude. That includes you Skookum1. If this is what the Wikipedia community is like then from now on you can count me out. You can have my stupid article, and you can hack it to bits in any way you see fit. Satisfied now? You brought it on yourself. --Psi4ce 23:04, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Look Psi4ce, if you're even reading this, if you read the intro to Wiki you'd know that merciless editing is the nature of the beast; "stylistic" writing is a subjective context, and when the subjective context is as big as the "sea of mountains" that is BC, the Chief is only a big deal to climbers, and to the tourists who drive 99; sure it's an impressive rockface, but it's not all that special even if you think it is. This isn't a flamewar - if you want to see a flamewar to go to my own talk page ;-0 - this is just an explanation, originally, of why you can't just shift to the idiomatic "the Chief" and expect someone from somewhere else to "get it". Same as I can't just say "The Island" and have people know I was meaning Vancouver Island, or the North Shore and have people know I'm talking about NVan/WVan and not Oahu. There's far worse things in the world (and Wiki) worth taking personally than whether or not your "stylistic" writing about the Chief and wherever else should remain intact; this is Wikipedia and it CAN'T stay intact; or it wouldn't be Wikipedia....Skookum1 23:16, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Psi4ce: I'm sorry if I've offended you, or that you feel you've been flamed. I certainly wasn't trying to do that, but looking back at this discussion perhaps I could have said things a little differently. Really, this is not worth arguing over. Your contributions are important, and this would be no reason to leave WP. That said, it is true that you must be willing to let people 'edit your work mercilessly', and you should try to follow guidelines on things like format, style, tone, etc. heqs 16:05, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] {{cleanup-date}}

Instead of just blanket reverting my alteration, perhaps you should instead have spent a millisecond trying to figure out what I was doing... Your revert reinserted the ---- (horizontal rule) into the template, which is what was making everything below it show up in the lead of articles where the template is being used, substed or otherwise... at least for firefox users. I've gone back and taken the ---- out, which seems to have fixed the problem. As for the removal of the other stuff you reverted back in, I'm OK with that, and, truth be told, I have no idea how it ended up getting removed when I took out the ----. Tomertalk 09:18, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

The ---- was not causing the problem, it's purely cosmetic and I don't really care if it's there. The problem was that someone had blanked the last few lines of the code for no apparent reason, including the closing </noinclude> tag. Someone else had already restored it before your edit, and it's probably a cache issue that was making it seem like it was still busted. I just reverted to the the last stable version (unedited for over a month) that had valuable category information for a high traffic template. heqs 09:25, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
All's copacetic on the homefront. Tomertalk 09:54, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tibet

Thank you for providing this link http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=512172! I thought I was going crazy?! Some students used WIkipedia as a referance for info on Tibet and allkinds of pro-communist china views came up! I came here to witness it all with my own eyes! I tried to post some sort of warning that this "encyclopedia" is nothing more than a battle field for points of view, or the view of the admins, who in my case is a chinese nationalist just like you so kindly added! Thank you, thank you!Me 17:46, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi, you shouldn't have to look very far to find critiques of Wikipedia - but you'll probably find that Wikipedia itself is not the best place to engage in this criticism. There are plenty of other places for that, including the meta-wiki or the mailing list, and many external sites.
And I will just clarify that I did not call anyone a chinese nationalist - this is the edit you are referring to - I just provided a wikilink. heqs 18:09, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:70.81.117.175

Hi there. I've been following 70.81.117.175 for quite a while. It is my belief that their account that they refered to is User:Alm93. Just browsing this users edit history you can see a similarity, but the best proof is that Alm93 created and populated the Scandinavian Canadians category (example edit of populating this category, see their edit history around the same time for tons more edits adding people to the category) and the category got deleted by User:Lankiveil and then User:70.81.117.175 left this message on Lankiveil's user page refering to that category as "MY PAGE". Hopefully something can be done about this user, they've been making Wikipedia worse for at least half a year now. Tnikkel 08:22, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Would you be so kind as to add these comments to my request at Wikipedia:Requests for investigation? Thanks! heqs 08:27, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
Done. Tnikkel 08:30, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Service rifle and disambiguation of environment

First off, apologies for making an edit you'd already expressed unhappiness with. Grumpyyoungman and I were working on removing links to environment simultaneously, and I didn't check the history of Service rifle to see if anyone else had changed the page already, so that was my mistake. That being said, it's generally not encouraged to link to disambiuation pages (see WP:DPL: "ideally, Wikipedia articles should not link to disambiguation pages (with rare exceptions where the ambiguity of a term is being discussed); instead links should go directly to the appropriate article."). When it's the general term that's being used (as in this case) it's usual to either remove the link or to point to another more precise article (WP:DPL again: "when the link refers to a general meaning of the word, for which there is no relevant article, removing may be the most sensible option"). If you really want to keep the link on the basis of the disambiguation page having a useful definition, can I perhaps suggest changing to link to Wiktionary (Wiktionary:environment), as definitions are better provided by a dictionary than an encyclopaedia. This might all seem petty to you but a few of us actually spend our free time working on this kind of thing (god knows why) and it would be nice to get all the article space links cleared away from environment. --Daduzi talk 15:33, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Okay, I removed the link, not a big deal. The only problem I have with some of these "fixup" projects (it's a project right? not a policy or guideline?) is that it sort of assumes that the current state of the many dab pages is static and will remain. This is why I'm against militancy in "fixing" links, removing redlinks etc. Some should be fixed, but not all "imperfect" links should be eradicated, because the pages linked to are in a state of development and flux (all of Wikipedia is really, even the structures and conventions), and may satisfy the link eventually. heqs 15:44, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
I actually agree with you on that score, and try to keep that in mind when fixing dab links (I'll link to the most appropriate page for the context, even if that page isn't quite up to scratch yet and will sometimes link to pages that have yet to be created). I also try to avoid working on disambiguations where the vast majority of links are aiming at one meaning. That being said, it can be useful to point to more exact meanings since sometimes users might not know the exact meaning themselves (I recently fixed Chinese people which was a classic example of this) and there's a lot of links which are just plain lazy which create needless work for users (I recently finished Malay and most of the articles linking to it just pointed to it when they meant Malay people or Malay language). With environment there was no real way to change it from a disambiguation to an article as there's just too many varied meanings of the term, and so it was better to point links to the most relevant articles in the context rather than expecting users to guess. Anyway, it's done now and thanks for the help. --Daduzi talk 15:57, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks Heqs

Hey there; saw your defense of me this morning from whatever it is TravB is talking about; I had a look at my post on list of US military events and it's not particularly lengthy, though it does challenge some prized US shibboleths (my favourite word this week...). He's waiting "with a sense of dread" for me to respond ;-) LOL and you're right about "my behaviour outside Wikipedia" being a borderline personal attack; it's like HongQiGong's (should we call him "Hong" or would that be racist?) accusing me of stereotyping and racism while indulging in it himself (have a look at the thing about attacks on Chinese delivery boys in NYC). From what I can see at the US military events page, it's that I've crossed the line on US self-perceptions of their own history which are, as I said in that post, entirely false and mis-shapen; they're used to me at Oregon boundary dispute and the like and I got some pretty positive feedback for my efforts there to give both sides of the story; that I happen to like to lay out all the details, and type like a whirlwind (110+wpm), makes it seem like I'm trying to rant and rage; really I'm just being thorough and, well, see no reason to think in point form, especially when thinking in point form has caused so much problems in history and politics and all else today. Don't people have the ability to have complex thought patterns anymore or what? As for TravB, I think I've put stuff on his Talk page but he has this curious habit of "archiving posts after he's responded to them"; in other words, he hides them so you can't review his responses or make any further ones. Is that evasion or what? I feel like sending him a "yawn" but overall his post on my talk page is itself kinda lengthy and doesn't make much real sense. Pot kettle black, as we used to say in talk.politics.tibet. Yawn. I just got up and there's already a shitstorm in my inbox. One thing I've discovered about "my culture" - my BC upbringing - in recent months, is that folks in pre-repression BC (pre-Expo, pre-Solidarity) were noted for their outspoken-ness, and their devil-may-care attitude towards what other people want them to think/behave like. Jack Webster being the classic case, but I cut my teeth on Ma Murray and people like her, never mind the Grand Old Ladies and sundry old bastards in Mission who were my parents' society in the 1960s. Speak your mind and don't hold your tongue. I really should blog, I know, and it's surprising I haven't been accused of that in Wiki so far; but I'm not really blogging - now THAT would be a rant - so much as tangentifying on issues provoked by the pages in question. Anyway, thanks for the backup; and TravB, don't impute things to my "conduct outside Wikipedia" as if that were some kind of character judgement; you can look me up on www.thetyee.ca's comments forums (same username) or check my userpage for my interests and the kind of person I am. "Conduct outside Wikipedia" is a school-marmish scold, as if I had anything to be ashamed of. Hell, to be ashamed, first you have to have shame; I have none...I just have the truth (as with US military history events page).Skookum1 15:40, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cassiar disambig item

Hey Heqs. Just saw your Cassiar disambig work; this caught my eye:

The Cassiar Mountains in the Boundary Ranges of the Coast Mountains

I'll have to check, but if I'm not mistaken the Cassiars are part of the Stikine Ranges; here's the bivouac.com entry:

Location: The Cassiar Range is located in north central British Columbia and south central Yukon. The boundaries are Finlay River (south), Rocky Mountain Trench (east), Liard River (north), and Stikine Plateau (west). Holland defines the area around Mt Cushing, SE of Thudaka Pk, as belonging to the Swannell Ranges, and therefore to the Omineca Mountains, as has been charted here, but in some systems the entirety between the Finlay River and Dease might be naturally construed as the Cassiar Mountains.

OOops; no just checked; the Stikine Ranges are part of the Cassiar Mountains, not the other way around: and the Cassiar Mountains are in a grouping we "invented" named the BC Interior Mountains, which is everything north of the Fraser/Nechako Plateau and arbitrarily including a "tongue" down the inside of the Coast Range by Ootsa Lake, as far as the Pattullo Range; to the south of Eutsuk Lake.

Other than the absence of an "official" name for the Interior Mountains there's a specific hierarchy to all this in formal BC geography, by one S. Holland, who I used as the basis for the hierarchies within Bivouac; which I quit when the owner of the space kept on ditching tons of data work he'd enlisted me to do (unpaid) and revamping the system so even I couldn't find things I knew were in there; fuss, fuss, fuss and no real point other than fussiness; but I know I got the range hierarchies right and he hasn't messed with them (unlike the "prominence" hierarchies). The boundary of the Boundary Ranges is with plateau and things like the Tagish and Tahltan Highlands, which I've yet to create articles for; I've meant to "go at it" within Wikipedia to re-build the same data structure for ranges etc in BC, which is downright toponymic/taxonomical in its complexity, even with the plateaux. Similar debates concern whether or not the Cariboos are part of the Columbia Mountains or not, whether the Camelsfoot Range is part of the Plateau of the Chilcotin Ranges/Coast Mountains, and more...and Americans probably have a different definition of the Boundary Ranges, as also with the Cascades and whether or not the Cabinet Mountains and Salish Mountains are in the Rockies or not (they look to me like they should be in the Columbia Mountains, but it's their country so they can cut it up the way they want ;-0). Later.Skookum1 18:39, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

I will defer to your knowledge of these mountains. heqs 07:15, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Forbidden Plateau re List of haunted locations?

I guess we'd have to have more than the legend and your own "original research"; but I bet there's more if we scratched around a bit, maybe in the local paper archives. Victoria wasn't even on the list when I looked, despite having more hauntings-per-square-foot than anywhere in NAm (other than New Orleans maybe); I only added Craigdarroch, the Oak Bay Hotel and the Empress, but even the Ledge is haunted. But geographic-hauntings might have to be a special category/article; "cursed ground" or whatever is a whole thing in geomancy, not quite the same thing as a haunting. But the Forbidden Plateau strikes me as something along these lines, in terms of which cats in should be in, wake nah? ("wake nah?" is the Chinook equivalent to "n'est-ce pas?").Skookum1 20:39, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

"The Forbidden Plateau region of Strathcona has the origin of its name in Indian legend. The plateau was believed to be inhabited by evil spirits who consumed women and children who dared to venture into the area." [6]
"Slavery amongst the coastal tribes was common at one time and, for the most part, this was carried out by enemies attacking in canoes from the sea. When the Comox where threatened in this way they would send their women and children up to the Platea for safekeeping. But, on one occasion when they were under attack by the Cowichans, the women and children vanished without a trace and, since then, the Plateau has become taboo for it was believed that it was inhabited by evil spirits who had consumed those they had sent." [7]
Michael Dawson: Selling British Columbia: Tourism and Consumer Culture, 1890-1970 p. 164 p. 165 heqs 08:02, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Huge. Just added this to the List of haunted locations page and added two of your ref-links to the Forbidden Plateau page; not sure what to call the Dawson links there; wanna fuss with it some? Gotta go to bed...spent a lot of time with my BChistory forum notice and sundry for the evening; the demon of useless tasks has had me in his grip (see Phantom Tollbooth if you've never heard of the DoUT before.Skookum1 08:14, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Post-Confederation Canada (1867-1914)

I think it is correct that boxes belong at the end of an article, but I would like to check with you anyway if my edit was okay. I would have left the See Also section, but the box overlapped the External links section that I added.

Hm, I only made one minor edit on that article, anyway, very cool link you added: [8] heqs 08:08, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] BC & Pacific Northwest History Forum

Please see RE BC & Pacific Northwest History Forum re: Talk:List of United States military history events#Border Commission troops in the Pacific Northwest. If you think maybe I should also move some or copy some of my other stuff from NW history and BC history pages let me know; I never mean to blog, but I'm voluble and to me everything's interconnected; never meaning to dominate a page so have made this area to post my historical rambles on. Thoughts?Skookum1 03:54, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hey Heqs - need someone to adapt my Granddad's Bio

Looking for another editor to do my granddad's bio page

Not a vanity piece; Grandpa d.1916 was one of the founders of the Sons of Norway, was commissioner for Norwegian immigration and settlement in Manitoba, conductor of the Walker Theatre Orchestra, and served in the US Army Musical Corps during the Spanish-American War in the Phillippines. Concerned about the possibility of Norwegians not being seen as loyal Canadians, he was instrumental in organizing the Royal Canadian Viking Regiment - but died in Manitoba's first auto accident en route to the regiment's first muster in Portage La Prairie (in one of Manitoba's notoriously deep ditches); his was the first military funeral of WWI in Manitoba. His four sons and one daughter were all notable in their own right; my Aunt Lillian was the 1930 Miss Canada and pvt secretary to the County Clerk of Cook County, Illinois for many years (in other words, a Democratic Party socialite in Daley's Chicago), my uncle Alfred was Chief Factor (fur trader) of the Hudson's Bay Company until his retirement; uncle Odvar a senior engineer at Canadair/DeHavilland, uncle Harald the director/founder(?) of the Rotary and YMCA in Manitoba and a backer of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, who died in the first major passenger aviation disaster on Mount Slesse near Chilliwack. My father Endre (Andy), the eldest and the surrogate father for the rest, was a professional boxer, billiards champion and naval/hydraulic engineer at the shipyards in Quebec City and Halifax during the war, eventually winding up as a construction superintendent for the BC Electric Co.-cum-BC Hydro during the construction of most of the major post-war hydroelectric projects near Vancouver (Cheakamus, Wahleach and Bridge River, and the expansion of Ruskin Dam, where I was raised).

The others don't require articles, although maybe Aunt Lil and Uncle Alf might wind up on lists (Miss Canada, Chief Factor), but Grandpa's alone is quite the bio - I have a newspaper bio, transl. from Norwegian, and some family bits; and some great pictures (he was a professional photographer also): but I don't feel right doing the editing and initial draft; too close to original research/personal brag or something like that. I saw you'd edited the Norwegian-Canadian page, albeit just providing reference links, but I see from your talk page you've done a number of bios and was wondering if you'd care to have a look at the full bio and see what you could condense it to; or if you know another editor who specializes in this kind of thing.Skookum1 01:16, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Okay, I'll have a look, can't promise anything tho. I saw the info you posted on User talk:Jack O'Lantern. Btw, just to be clear, I never edited Norwegian-Canadian. heqs 11:33, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Nah; it was because I know you've done bios; nobody had done much on Norwegian Canadians, other than an IP address type. Mad Jack/Jack O'Lantern got back to me last night and said he'd have a go at it, so no need for speed, and thx anyway.Skookum1 16:36, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] BC Stubs

Pls see User talk:Agent 86#RE: another category of stub neededSkookum1 18:28, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Well, I support your Wikiproject BC, it would make sorting out stuff like this a lot easier... heqs 18:00, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
Great! - please sign up at User:Buchanan-Hermit/WikiProject-Sandbox#Participants. With you that makes four that have signed up; not sure how many it takes for a "launch".Skookum1 18:33, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
Heheh, I'm reluctant to actually "sign up" cause I'll feel obligated to work on it, when I probably won't have time, make a section for "supporters" (think I've seen this before) or "boosters" and I'm your #1 cheerleader. heqs 18:49, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

I'll add a "Supporters" section (those who support the project's creation but are not willing to dedicate a lot of time to it, or some phrasing to that effect; suggestions?).Skookum1 19:35, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

"Supporters and Fans" section created at Draft WikiProject BC - click on User:Buchanan-Hermit/WikiProject-Sandbox#Supporters and Fans There ya go Heqs; ya wanna post a notice on WikiProject Vancouver about it; I've been asking there too much and so far only User:Usgnus has gone for the bait; maybe there's others like you who think it's a good idea but are unwilling to devote more time, too.Skookum1 07:39, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Minor nitpick: I'd suggest dropping the complex table formatting and hometown column for the participants/supporters section, and go with a simple layout like WikiProject Vancouver, might be a little less intimidating for new signups. On the hometown thing, you know that much about me and I'm not paranoid about it, but I normally would opt not to declare that to the masses. (Adding a column or note for comments/remarks might be a good idea, where the person can offer a general comment or say where they're from/their areas of expertise/interest, etc). heqs 08:09, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] CBC Almanac thingy (reply to Heqs)

I was contacted by Mark Forsythe in relation to a planned CBC book on the Gold Rush and the Founding of the Colony; awkward as I'm planning my own focussed on the Lillooet Country, which was the other focus to the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush. Yale usually gets all the press, and somehow Barkerville/Cariboo is often given in badly-written Canadian/BC histories as having had something to do with the founding of the colony - more like bankrupting it, actually, because of the immense expense of the Cariboo Wagon Road; which led us into Confederation as a way to keep solvent. Anyway, Forsythe wants to pick my brains on the matter; I'm trying to see about a research position with the Holy Mother Corp, although as you know I'm not anywhere near as p.c. as the CBC ideological stylesheet goes; but maybe I can get myself a rabid-BCer hotline show or something ;-) (they let Rex Murphy on the air, doncha know, and he's nowhere near the common-Canadian way of thinking IMO); I've had an idea for a while to do heritage/history pieces on BC in French so I'll field that today too, if I ever get out of here. There's a fair bit going on with the sesquicentennial or whatever it's called (150th Anniversary); as in the Centennial of 1858, Lillooet and the Douglas Road gets submerged into the larger provincial celebrations/hype, even though nowhere else - other than Yale and New Westminster and small places in the Fraser Canyon and Douglas Road areas are the only places the date actually applies to; I'm going to see what I can do about that through the BC 2008 Committee; and through getting Forsythe/CBC to open their eyes about the reality of the gold rush and its times; rather than the romance, and the revisionism by ethnohistorians that's become all too commonplace (as well as nauseous). More on this later; I'm cooking lunch and have to go.Skookum1 19:35, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

The thing about Rex Murphy on the radio, at least from what I've heard on Cross Country Checkup, is that he pretty much switches off his "commentator" self and sounds positively bland... anyway, good luck with those ninnies at the ceeb. heqs 19:50, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
To me, that thing he does on the CBC Sunday show is Canada's answer to Bill Reilly/FoxNews; garbage, taking the extreme-nasty position, ranting away as if it sounded clever/quippy but close to demagogery.....Skookum1 20:09, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stub Tips Thank You

Hegs--Thank you for pointing out that stub tips should be at the end of articles.--P Todd 06:20, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Max Havoc: Curse of the Dragon (2004)

You asked me what was controversial about the movie, well, the movie itself is not very controversial I think (although I have yet to see it), but there has been much controversy about the fundings that the producers raised for the movie, especially since many Guam investors have felt ripped off, since the movie is nothing more than, well, an Albert Pyun movie, and they paid like 800,000 US dollars to have it made.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by KnatLouie (talk • contribs) 15:55, 22 July 2006.

Pyun didn't produce the movie, he directed. If the controversy is over funding, or defaulted loans or whatever, that's an issue about the producers, not the director (re your edit to the Pyun article). If it was criticized for being a bad film, then we could add that to the article, I would think. heqs 16:10, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Although he was tecnically not listed as a producer on Max Havoc: Curse of the Dragon, film director Albert Pyun played an active and pivotal role in getting money from the Guam Government for the film. Pyun also made promises to local Guam businesses that in exchange for services and money he would produce commercials for them. He has yet to deliver any finished commercials to said businesses. There is also a series of Guam Visitors Bureau spots that Pyun promised to make and didn't and a documentary about Guam for the Travel Channel that never got made. All these were promised by Max Havoc producer John Laing AND Max Havoc director Albert Pyun.

This is all well documented by Guam media.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.244.9.210 (talk • contribs) 02:04, 26 July 2006.

- forgive me, I'm new to this. Haven't got the hang of it yet and not even sure how to sign name.

No problem, just add four tildes ~~~~ after your comment. heqs 02:12, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Granddad's article

Hey: here's the result: Endre Johannes Cleven; too many in-line comments and I've got to get some more material/cites. Probably a little stilted-sounding yet, I dunno. Did my best with Mad Jack's draft, had to put some things back in (e.g. Musicians' Union) but overall I hope it's good. Might try and scan a sharper copy of the image and have a nicer one of him and Grandma anyway.Skookum1 16:52, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

I did a general copyedit (stray periods, minor wording stuff) and posted some questions on the talk page. heqs 03:56, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fraser Canyon War re Native American Wars category

The category's right, of course; I've just disputed the name of it (see Talk:Indian Wars and Talk:Native American wars as "Native American" isn't an adequate/correct term north of the 49th. But what else to call them; maybe "Amerindian" wars but if you look at Native American name controversy it's a bit of a cesspool of conflicting correctnesses; the federal government's (ours) websites use "Amerindian" by the way, because amerindien is one of the usual terms in French; it's the only place I see that commonly in Canadian webspace, in fact. Anyway, yeah, that's probably the best category; even though it really WAS part of the Indian Wars as it was an American-organized campaign, though including Europeans (Ger-Fr) (D.J. Hauka and a thesis in 2002 by a Dan Marshall, UBC maintain it was an extension of the Yakima War).Skookum1 17:57, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

I mainly just rushed it into the best cat I could find (thought it deserved a better cat than "Canadian politics stubs") or whatever, but yeah, I see what you mean, I won't pretend to be able to sort it out. heqs 03:58, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Newcastle Island Photos

Noticed your improvements to Newcastle Island article and mention of photo. I have uploaded two aerial shots I took myself in case they might be edited into something useful for the article. They are at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Im006732.jpg and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Im006733.jpg kgw 05:10, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Cool, I think the second one shows the location pretty well. Suggestion: when you upload images to Wikipedia, give them a descriptive name rather than Img002475 or that type of thing. heqs 08:32, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] pls see new item on WikiProject BC sandbox

Re map standards for mountain range locator maps. Thoughts? Thx.Skookum1 17:13, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

My knowledge of maps/mapping in general is pretty basic, I can usually read them, that's about it. :P What you've started looks good to my eyes. heqs 02:52, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
Btw, if you're interested in tweaking a map, imo the main map used in the Canada article Image:Map Canada political-geo.png (see my note on the image's talk page) should reflect the fact that the northern marine boundary is disputed by the U.S. and many European countries (if not the EU itself - seem to remember something about an EU statement re Canada's claims), as it is right now it's just copied straight off a Cdn Gov't website and is a little on the make-believe side. heqs 06:36, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
Went over your changes to the BC/PacNW Forum and wound up putting subheadings where you'd only had bullets before; we should do that with all articles, I think, so the index page works as a directory. I've been meaning to assemble available maps and make a */Maps subpage, and hopefully can borrow a design from User:Phaedriel or User:Buchanan-Hermit to make a good portal page; time, time, time...(and coding skills).Skookum1 16:19, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
Do you mean an actual Wikipedia:Portal? heqs 16:36, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
No; see Phaedriel's revamp of Wikipedia:WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America and User:Buchanan-Hermit's user page.Skookum1 16:54, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
Ah, I see, you mean a well formatted set of pages. ;P heqs 16:58, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Talk:Jogaila

Hi there. Despite a whopping victory for the name Jogaila on the previous vote, the Polish users have got upset and called yet another vote. They want to get it moved back to the old unpopular name Władysław II Jagiełło. If you are interested in stopping this, you'll need to cast your vote again. Sorry for all this tediousness. Regards, Calgacus (ΚΑΛΓΑΚΟΣ) 03:46, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

No, I'm not wasting anymore time on that nonsense. Good grief! heqs 09:35, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Hey Heqs, I know how you feel. However, if you voted for option "Leave the page where it is permanently" that'll make it more likely that none of us will have to waste any more time with stupid polls on that page. Calgacus (ΚΑΛΓΑΚΟΣ) 10:59, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks, but I've made my statement about it under comments- it's a joke. heqs 11:03, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Beginning of conflict

Hi,

I see different narrations about the beginning of conflict in the article 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict.Please look at these [9] , link title, [10],[11]. Indeed there isn't any agreement about what has happened. So we should write all of the narrations in the articles equally and we can't judge which one is correct.--Accessible 12:15, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jewish partisans

Hi, Just to note you I have put some extensive quotes from book about Polish-soviet partisan war in Nowogrodek region relating to Jewish partisans. Since until 1989 official version wass that Soviet partisans were heroes, I doubt there are any similar texts in the west, since only in last 15 years historians can write books about such controversial topics. Hope you will enjoy the reading. I will prepare the paragraphs reflecting the POV in the book later Szopen 10:31, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Crass

Yay, now there are two of us on the Wikipedia Soundtrack who like Crass. Cool. The Ungovernable Force 05:44, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

I love Best Before 1984. heqs 19:26, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
I've got Christ – The Album/Well Forked But Not Dead and I've heard most of The Feeding of the 5000 and Yes Sir, I Will. The Ungovernable Force 06:30, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Way to much Israeli Proganda

Israeli reports can not be trusted as has been demonstrated by thier claims and high censorship levels.

Do you not know that Israel claims Hezbollah did it and that the UN Secretary-General is racist? By the way the Israeli foreign ministry has asked for volunteers to serf the net and launch a cmpaign to protect Israel. Here is the link.

http://uruknet.info/?p=m25177&hd=0&size=1&l=e

read this on by Wikipedia has an unusually large amount of vandalizing editors deleting facts that are incriminating for Israel...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2289232,00.html

this site is filled with evivence http://angryarab.blogspot.com/ —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.196.164.190 (talk • contribs) 21:18, 29 July 2006.

[edit] Changes in AP story on July 12

Putting this here for future reference: Talk:2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict/Archive12#Changes in AP story on July 12. heqs 05:07, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of vegetable oils

It would be nice if you could revisit your objections to this nomination, as yours are the only ones still standing and the nominator seems to have addressed them already. I would like to promote this list before the end of the day. Thank you! -- Rune Welsh | ταλκ 12:34, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Of course, but as of this writing the nominator has addressed few of my objections. heqs 15:49, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of vegetable oils

Thanks for the congrats. Just wanted to explain the "crossfire" comment. Before the changes to the refs, I had formatted them essentially exactly like they would have looked using {{cite web}} with a publisher entry - but I'd done so "by hand". Some of the reviewers didn't like the way they looked (you can take a look at a version before the conversion to cite.php), so I converted to cite.php, in such a way that they'd look cleaner.

My goal with the review has been very simple - get it over with, hopefully successfully. So I followed the recommendations, and changed them all so that it looked cleaner. If I'd gone back and put in publisher fields, they would have ended up looking exactly like they did when I started... and we would have been back to what other reviewers had considered messy. At that point, I kind of threw in the towel and asked for a consensus - which I would be happy to follow. Hope that's clearer.

I confess that my first impression was that you were being a little harsh. Then I sat back, looked at what you were actually recommending, and decided that almost all of it was pretty reasonable. So... thanks for helping make the article stronger. --Waitak 11:29, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lawrence Tynes

You added Lawrence Tynes to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers players category. I don't recall him playing for the Bombers. Tnikkel 22:29, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

My mistake. heqs 22:38, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Talk:Provisional Government of Lithuania

Hey, thanks for the laugh re: your page move mishap with Talk:Provisional Government of Lithuania! Just one of those days, eh? Let me know if there are any more problems there.  :)—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Wknight94 (talk • contribs) 01:19, 5 August 2006.

Yep, asleep at the wheel. :p Thanks for fixing that mis-move. heqs 01:45, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Canadian Football League punt returners and Category:Canadian Football League kick returners

Is there a need for both categories? Almost everyone in one will belong to both, so do we really need two seperate categories for that? Tnikkel 09:18, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Well, I'm only about 20% of the way through all the CFL players with articles, and there are some who only did one, or did both but only did one for a significant amount of time. I'm being a little bold here with the CFL cats, but there was an obvious dearth of categorization for CFL players. We can always delete a category later (with bot-assisted article edits if necessary). FWIW, I haven't gone nearly as specialized as Category:American football players by position, which has seperate cats for each OL, DL, LB, and DB position. Btw see also my comment at Category talk:Canadian Football League. heqs 11:02, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
To clarify, I would not necessarily be opposed to deleting the PR category. heqs 11:08, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
I think I would be in favour of having one category for punt and kick returners. Punt returners and kick returners are more similar than defensive tackles and defensive ends (both of which we currently put into defensive lineman). If we go to finer grained categories like the American ones then we can split them up, but we'd also have to add a third category "Canadian Football League missed field goal returners".
As for the name, what about "Canadian Football League kick/punt returners"? Tnikkel 20:36, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
As far as I know, missed field goal returns fall under kick returns (field goals are placekicks after all). Also as far as I know, PR and KR are distinct positions just like DE and DT are, even if most that do PR also do KR. I really don't know what the best option is at this point - I'd be happy to leave it for now - but by all means feel free to take it to WP:CfD (I will not vote against a delete or merge...) or see what others think. heqs 22:47, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
IMO, the position of punt returner and kick returner are pretty much the same thing. The only difference is a punt returner is a specific type of kick returner (one who retrieves 3rd down punts). From what I have seen in the few years I've watched CFL football, the return man does both duties of returning kickoffs and punts, in some cases maybe one more than the other! Maybe it's just me, but I haven't seen a return man do one exclusively over the other! Maybe there is, but I haven't noticed him ... but it just seems too insignificant to point those people out with their own categories, considering the vast majority of kick returners retrieve both kickoffs and punts in the CFL! Hence my proposal to merge the "CFL punt returners" Category into the "CFL kick returners" Category page! Just the name "Kick returners" embodies all kick returners, be they punt returners, kickoff returners, or missed FG kickers! Amchow78 09:03, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:70.81.117.175 and User:Alm93

I added a comment to the RFI page about this guy. The RFI page doesn't seem to be generating any action from anyone other than you or I, how do we get this IP and account banned for a very long time? Tnikkel 20:45, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks - yeah - not much happening in terms of admin reaction at RFI... unfortunately I do not have time to pursue this further right now, will be on a wikibreak for the next few days. I would suggest maybe filing a checkuser and/or long term abuse to establish that Alm93 is the ip that is on long term block for long term vandalism and at least get him on a long term block as well. As for undoing the damage, not sure if a bot could help with that or not... anyways, mega good on you if you can pursue this further. heqs 23:20, 5 August 2006 (UTC)


[edit] WikiProject Lacrosse

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Thanks --MrBoo (talk, contribs) 02:15, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Another Vote

Hey. Hallibut and all are campaigning to get Jogaila moved to a Polish name. Since I noticed you've previously taken an interest, I'm posting this so you don't miss the vote. Just so you know, there is a vote at Talk:Jogaila. Regards, Calgacus (ΚΑΛΓΑΚΟΣ) 14:56, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for kind words

I really enjoy this. Take care. Flying Penguin

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