User talk:Scotwood72

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[edit] Sections

Hi there. When creating sections you should use two equals signs. Although you can do "=See also=" the Manual of Style recommends not using them. Instead do "==See also==". Secondly, a "See also" section should only contain links to Wikipedia pages, use an "External links" section for any non-Wikipedia links. Happy editing. Tnikkel 10:34, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Statues

Nice photos. One small point: Sir John A. Macdonald spelled his name with a small "d." Masalai 04:13, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for this. My error has been corrected. By the way, I've enjoyed your article on Regina. You live here too? I could find no info on your User name! Scotwood72 19:33, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi there. Thanks for the compliment. Not everyone likes the photos but you can't please all the people all the time, eh. No, I don't live in Regina now, but spent the first half of my life there, went to the University of Regina and later taught there. "Masalai" is probably not something you would find anything on Wikipedia about; it's New Guinea Pidgin. (Spent several years there too.) Masalai 13:26, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Alberta_Legislature_At_Dawn_WS.jpg

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[edit] Page Blanking

On 22-Feb, you blanked Newfoundland & Labrador House of Assembly. Blanking pages is generally considered a bad idea. I was not sure if this was the result of a broken edit or if you desired the page deleted. If this was the result of a broken edit, you may wish to make the correct edits. If it remains empty, it will probably be deleted, but if that was your intent, please mark it with a {{db-empty}} tag to hasten it. You may also choose to redirect it to another article. If you have questions, please let me know. Thanks! -- JLaTondre 02:08, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Request for edit summary

Hi. I am a bot, and I am writing to you with a request. I would like to ask you, if possible, to use edit summaries a bit more often when you contribute. The reason an edit summary is important is because it allows your fellow contributors to understand what you changed; you can think of it as the "Subject:" line in an email. For your information, your current edit summary usage is 0% for major edits and 0% for minor edits. (Based on the last 150 major and 0 minor edits in the article namespace.)

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[edit] Category

Hi again. It seems a lot of the pages you are creating could be put into a category or two. Most of them seem to fall into Category:Official residences. You can put a page into this category by putting "[[Category:Official residences]]" at the bottom of the page (no quotes). Tnikkel 06:51, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Monarchy

What is the value of adding a direct link to the monarch's website? There's nothing specific there to Jamaica, Barbados, etc. The page already links to the Wikipedia article on the monarch - there's no point to this link. Guettarda 19:48, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Sorry if it sounded rude - it wasn't meant that way. I just meant that these links don't add anything that isn't supplied by existing internal links. External links (other than references) are something that should be added sparingly - that section tends to get out of control very quickly. Adding external links which duplicate internal links isn't a good idea. Guettarda 02:04, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
Please read Wikipedia:External_links and Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not. Basically, you should link to sources which complement the information in the article. You should supply external links to sites which expand upon the content of the article - for example, if they supply visual or multi-media resources which can't be added for copyright reasons, then a link is appropriate. If you feel that there is sufficient grounds to add a section about the role of the monarchy to the Jamaica article, then make the case at Talk:Jamaica and add the section. Once it is added, you could justify adding the external link for "more information". But if you cannot make the case to add a section about the topic to the article, then the link doesn't belong there. The simple fact is that the monarch warrants no more than passing mention in the main articles. The Queen has no role in the government of Antigua or Jamaica or Tuvalu. She appoints the Governor General that the Prime Minister tells her to appoint.
I find it amusing that you claim to know about the importance of the monarchy in Antigua or Tuvalu, but seem to think that the fact that I lived my first 9 years as a subject of the Queen, and even went to see her when she visited Canada for her Jubilee in 1976 gives me no understanding of the importance of the monarch. Guettarda 19:53, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
"Please answer my question and show me how to tell what level of 'admin' are you?" - I'm sorry, I don't understand what you are asking. Guettarda 20:55, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Poppy.gif

Roomba posted a delete tag on your recently uploaded Image:Poppy.gif I removed it as I believe it can be used for Wikipedia purposes, but the delete tag, might get put back at some time in the future. Cordially SirIsaacBrock 22:17, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. Perhaps we can find a useful place in Wikipedia that it can be used. I appreciate your help. Scotwood72 17:49, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
{{User Lest We Forget}} SirIsaacBrock 19:06, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
They are after your image again. It has to be used in an article or they going to delete it. I have been advised these types of images can no longer be used in templates. As punishment for questioning them they deleted my full template !! 22:18, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Spencerwood.jpg

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[edit] Image:Alberta Government House.jpg

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[edit] Image Tagging for Image:Soundstage.jpg

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[edit] Re: Template:User Cdn Armed Forces

Thanks for your numerous edits to the 'pedia. They are appreciated. Regarding the User Cdn Armed Forces template, I'd like to tell you a bit about the history of the User templates. The first User templates were the so-called Babel boxes, templates that created groups of users who knew various languages, both so they could communicate between themselves, and so others could identify them and contact them about the languages they knew. This was directly in service to contributing to articles - verifying interwiki links, translating articles, and other tasks like that. People liked the form of the boxes, and gradually expanded their use, first to musical instruments, then to the vast panoply of boxes we have today. Over time, the original focus of the boxes on identifying groups of users who had skills and abilities they wanted to use to contribute to the 'pedia was lost, and it came to be believed that the boxes merely expressed personal statements, not necessarily related to the 'pedia at all. However, the technical ability of the standardized, templatized boxes to identify and group users remained present, and potent. Unlike direct text, individually written by each user to express whatever personal statements they wish to express, User templates provide an automatic list of their users (via the Whatlinkshere feature). They have been used to contact only the members of the implied group, both as assumed allies, and as a hit list of intended victims to be harassed. As long as the boxes remained focused on the 'pedia, this, while sometimes unfortunate, still on the whole benefited the 'pedia, and only opened up the users to risks they intended to run. But the use of the User templates for purposes unrelated to contributing to the encyclopedia means that the group-forming possibilities of the boxes are and can be used for purposes utterly separate, and even opposed to the goal of contributing to the encyclopedia we are all trying to write here. That's why I proposed the changed wording that I did; a group of Users who want to work on our coverage of the Canadian Armed Forces is a good and useful thing, and something that the group-forming abilities of User templates can assist with. A group of users who merely appreciate the Canadian Armed Forces, but who may or may not make use of that appreciation in connection with the 'pedia is harmed by the group-forming abilities of User templates. I look forward to your response, either here, on my talk page, or on the talk page of the template itself. If I do not get a response within a week of posting this message, I will assume you accept the proposed wording change, and I will reapply it. Feel free to revert it again if I do, but I urge you to respond to this message as well. Thanks again for your work on the 'pedia! JesseW, the juggling janitor 18:56, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Baltej singh dhillon.jpg

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[edit] Fair use image use

Please stop adding images tagged with fair use tags to any portion of Wikipedia outside of the main article namespace, such as you did here. This is a direct violation of Wikipedia policy as set out at Wikipedia:Fair use criteria item #9. If you have any questions about this, please feel free to ask. Thanks, --Durin 00:49, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Okay, there is something I don't understand and I would like your polite help in explaining it to me. (I say polite because some admin have been far from this.) Why are some images I put in a userbox not allowed, when very much the same has been included in others? For example, a picture of Queen Elizabeth II was deleted, but other boxes have Martin Luther King. Why is a logo produced by the Canadian government accepted in one (armed forces logo or flag) and not in another (maple leaf and poppy)? The policy page doesn't explain this problem that people keep telling me about. I really don't understand and no one will give me a straight answer. Please help me! Scotwood72 08:30, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Royal Saskatchewan Museum photo

I note that the photo you have provided for the article is identical to the one on the Museum's own website. What is its copyright status, and is it available for this purpose? If not I am afraid it will have to be deleted unless the Museum will grant permission for its use. If so, I wonder if other photos on their website are also available. Can you get back to me on this? Thanks. Masalai 00:27, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Tell ya' what! I'm going out tomorrow (weather permitting) and taking my own picture of the museum that you will be welcome to use as you please. Hopefully this will solve any problems. Scotwood72 08:33, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Userboxes

I reformatted the userboxes tables on your userpage into wikicode. Hope this helps. — Nathan (talk) / 04:05, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Can they be in such a way that you scroll up and down rather than left to right to see them all? Scotwood72 16:30, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] License tagging for Image:Rsm.jpg

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[edit] Image:Conexus arts centre.jpg

Hi. I noticed you tagged the image as being PD because it was a work of the U.S. government. Why would the Sask. government use an image from the US government for a building in Saskatchewan? Or even why the US government would have any interest in taking such a photo. RedWolf 22:34, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Possibly unfree Image:Soundstage.jpg

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[edit] Possibly unfree Image:Conexus arts centre.jpg

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Oops. Have you noticed that this picture is now marked for deletion? Any chance of replacing it with a picture that doesn't have copyright issues? I will be in Regina in October and can take a photo then but Regina isn't at its best in October.Masalai 22:23, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

I can try and get one before then, weather permitting. Scotwood72 22:32, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of Canadian Privy Council Cases

Have you ever thought about writing some articles on criminal,constitutional,civil & Dominion-Province relations cases from Canada that were appealed all the way to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council? Those cases that were appealed from one of the provinces should be listed by province such as in List of Nova Scotian Privy Council cases or List of Newfoundland Privy Council cases,etc. - (202.180.98.221 02:25, 2 September 2006 (UTC))

[edit] WikiProject Heraldry and vexillology

Since you are interested in flags and emblems I would like to inform you that the WikiProject Heraldry and vexillology has just been created. Why not take a look? I hope you can join.Inge 20:15, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sylvia Fedoruk image

Hello,

I found your image Image:Sylvia Fedoruk.jpg which is a great shot of her and the Order of Canada badge, but im afraid you've taged it incorrectly. Only works of the United States government are in public domain. Works of the Canadian Federal Government (or in this case more likely the Provincial Government of Saskatchewan) are protected by what is known as Crown Copyright or copyright which is help by the state. This (at least in works by the federal government) can be used under fair use and there is a tag (something like Canada-Politician-Photo) to cover them. I tried searching collectionscanada.ca for this image but no luck. Do you have the exact link it came from ? Many of the items on collectionscanada.ca have copyright held by the National Archives which is allowed for use for any purpose which makes them essentially public domain, and it would be great if we could find out for sure on this one. Please answer on my talk page Dowew 02:21, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Inaccurate fair use rationale for Image:UgandaHouse.jpg

Image:UgandaHouse.jpg is not an album cover. Please provide a proper fair use rationale, otherwise the image might be tagged for deletion. ||| antiuser (talk) (contribs) 07:05, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

I haven't found a proper template for a postcard, but if you intend to use the image in a specific article, you can use {{Fair use in|ArticleName}}, provided there are no free alternatives available. See Fair use on Wikipedia for more info. Thanks. ||| antiuser (talk) (contribs) 07:21, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:UgandaHouse.JPG

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[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Chorley Park.jpg

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[edit] Your page is very well organised.

No complaint, I admire your page.

[edit] new RFC

You may be interested to know that an RFC has recently been initiated regarding Fair use images of Canadian politicians. Many images of Canadian public figures are about to be deleted, including ones you have uploaded. Please feel free to participate. - Mcasey666 04:23, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Lise Thibault.jpg listed for deletion

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