User talk:Dogbreathcanada

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[edit] My sandbox

Hi, thanks for fixing that up. My mistake. --Muchness 08:16, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Arbcom candidate userbox

Greetings. I've made a new userbox for arbcom candidates to show on their userpages so that visiters will know they're running.

{{User arbcom nom}}

If you'd like to place it on your userpage, feel free. Regards, – Quadell (talk) (bounties) 02:17, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. I shall add it. --Dogbreathcanada 06:03, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Canadian wikipedians' notice board

I would like to make you aware of Wikipedia:Canadian wikipedians' notice board. It helps keep users informed on Canadian-related Wikipedia activities. The notice board can provide valuable resources for contributing to Canada-related articles, accessing knowledgable and helpful Canadian editors, and participating in Canadian-specific aspects of the Wikipedia community. Also, please consider signing the members list at Wikipedia:Canadian wikipedians' notice board/members. -- maclean25 00:23, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. Will definitely join and add to my watch list. --Dogbreathcanada 01:28, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikimedia Canada

Hi there! I'd like to invite you to explore Wikimedia Canada, and create a list of people interested in forming a local chapter for our nation. A local chapter will help promote and improve the organization, within our great nation. We'd also like to encourage everyone to suggest projects for our national chapter to participate in. Hope to see you there! -- user:zanimum

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Eno-fruit-salt.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Eno-fruit-salt.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).

The copyright holder is usually the creator, the creator's employer, or the last person who was transferred ownership rights. Copyright information on images on Wikipedia is signified using copyright templates. The three basic license types on Wikipedia are open content, public domain, and fair use. Find the appropriate template in Wikipedia:Image copyright tags and place it on the image page like this: {{TemplateName}}.

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. You can get help on image copyright tagging from Wikipedia talk:Image copyright tags.

Done. I was unsure when I uploaded the image what license template to use. After checking some other product pages, I figured out which was the correct one. Thanks for reminding me. --Dogbreathcanada 02:50, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AFD for Image:Counterends.jpg

Hi, just to let you know that you placed the above image for deletion in the wrong location; in the future, these should go to Wikipedia:Images for deletion. I've already moved your nomination over there, so you don't have to worry about that. Hope this helps.--み使い Mitsukai 19:48, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Vancouver

Hello. I am Arnold (aka Buchanan-Hermit) and I am writing to invite you to join the newly-formed WikiProject Vancouver. It was created really recently and it's in need of new members and those who are willing to spread the word.

I'd love to see you there. :) Thanks for your time. --Buchanan-Hermit™..CONTRIBS..SPEAK!. 03:13, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Friendly notice

Hi. I've noticed you're creating a lot of articles. One thing I've noticed is that you put the subject of the article in bold and italics where as on the manual of style it says you should simply put them in bold. Could you change that for me? Bold is done '''like this''' Thanks. -- His Imposingness, the Grand Moff Deskana (talk) 07:55, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Arg. Time to download AWB. That will be a big pita to do manually. --Dogbreathcanada 07:59, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
I meant change in upcoming articles to avoid the problem having to be corrected by someone else. Thanks! -- His Imposingness, the Grand Moff Deskana (talk) 23:07, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] See note on so-called Talk:South Chilcotin Provincial Park

This is a personal bugbear of mine and I'm really serious about it; I'm from the Bridge River Country and tired of having people think that Gold Bridge and Tyax Lake are in the "South Chilcotin", which doesn't actually exist. The title of the page in question should be Southern Chilcotin Mountains Provincial Park. It's a mouthful, but it's the CORRECT NAME (even if the geography still sucks; Spruce Lake-Eldorado was such a much better name).Skookum1 23:37, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

When BC Parks changes their website, then I'd be happy to change the name to the designation you seem to prefer. Southern Chilcotin Mountains Provincial Park is the not the official name unless it's the name by which BC Parks refers to the park, which it isn't. The website refers to the area as South Chilcotin Provincial Park. They make no mention, ever, of Southern Chilcotin Mountains Provincial Park. Period. --Dogbreathcanada 23:57, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

The Original Barnstar
For your efforts towards articles related to Vancouver and British Columbia. Buchanan-Hermit™..CONTRIBS..SPEAK! 06:39, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
Thanks, but is the award mostly arbitrary? Are you the sole benefactor of the award, or is there a commitee? And what does 'Barnstar' mean? --Dogbreathcanada 06:50, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
I see. Barnstar. --Dogbreathcanada 06:52, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Barnstars. :) Buchanan-Hermit™..CONTRIBS..SPEAK! 07:20, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] CCOTW

See Wikipedia_talk:Canada_collaboration#Collaboration_Voting_Changes for discussion (I also boldly moved Your comment there from here). Cheers feydey 21:51, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: IUCN Categories for BC Provincial Parks

Re: Yes, it's a guess based on the park description. BC Parks (and AB, SK, MB provincial park authorities) are not affiliated with IUCN (Pdf of members, Canada at page 29), so there's no official designation yet. I try to stay as close as I can to the category descriptions in the World Conservation Union article. Qyd(talk)21:19, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Apologies

Apologies if I have disrupted your editing experience - I suspect that my edits have raised articles up in your watchlist, which I can understand is irksome. However, in fairness: (1) an article that would be enhanced by a photograph and which currently doesn't have one is effectively in need of a specific kind of improvement/cleanup; (2) while you may be well aware that there are particular articles here which could do with a photo, other people - perhaps in an ideal position to actually provide photographs - may not be; (3) listing all these article in the generic "requested pictures" page would clutter that page up beyond practicable usability (the use of a system for breaking down the requested photographs lists was discussed on the talk page for requested pictures); (4) the talk page can be easily de-cluttered once the request is fulfilled. The tag that has been added is important not because it allows users browsing the talk page to realise there was no photo on the main page (just in case they hadn't noticed...) but rather because it helps to generates a list of articles requiring a photograph at Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in British Columbia.

Wikipedia:Requested pictures is very crowded and fragmented (for instance, buildings are listed by country... then a range of structures, then a bunch of bridges from all over the world, then transmitter towers by country, then a bit later, various places listed by continent - this makes it very hard to find photo requests in a particular local area) and adding even a small percentage of Wikipedia articles requiring photos to that list would bloat it unimaginably. The talktag-and-categorize system is attempting to build up a more usable, "local", scaleable solution with the aim of making picture requests more effective: easier to browse through for our Wikiphotographers, easier to maintain than a list system (a very common problem is that lists get out of date: it's far easier to remove a talktag on an article once you either upload a photo or realise someone else has than to remember to check to see whether the article is on an image request list somewhere else, or to have to keep "sweeping" a list to make sure all the requests are still currently active).

I hope that this explanation is satisfactory. There was no intent to disrupt your Wiki-experience! If you are unhappy I shall impose a personal moratorium from adding British Columbian parks to the British Columbia requested photos category, though I can't speak for anyone else. TheGrappler 21:41, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

For what it's worth, I don't have editcountitis - you may be able to tell by the lack of an editcount box on my userpage and the fact that, as I state there, I do a lot of my editing while logged out. So, please assume good faith. :-) I also didn't deliberately pick stubs to tag - I guess there are more stubs than non-stubs needing photos, and I therefore was more likely to chance upon stubs. Again, that's not deliberate. (If I was looking to seriously bloat my editcount I could just sit down and work my way through the stub categories...) My intention during my recent binge was partly to get a feel for how many photo-lacking articles Wikipedia has, and partly because I needed to add a certain amount of articles to bulk up the system in order to build up the localised categories (no point making loads of localised categories with just 2 or 3 articles in them). There are not redundant taggings; they are an attempt to link a real need in those articles (they lack a photo and would be substantially improved if they had one) with the very limited number of Wikipedians in a position to fulfil the specific request, through the use of a localised category system. This is part of a system that has been discussed openly (linked from the Village Pump and found in relevant talk pages) in order to address the serious flaws in our current system. I can understand that you believe that the priority on a stub article should be expanding the stub not furnishing a picture. I agree, in fact. But the photo request is not a demand that a photo should be provided first, it is merely a useful cue for those who have the physical possibility of fulfilling it (a very limited number of Wikipedians in most cases - I have been able to write about many topics from afar but have only been able to provide photographs for a very limited local area - and therefore effectively communicating with these few is essential). I have seen quite regularly Wikipedians asking other Wikipedians "I'm going to visit X next week, does anybody know if we have some articles there needing photographs?" I want it to be easy for them to find the answer for themselves. Even listing stubs is useful - it may be that more substantive content is only added later but why should that be a barrier to finding a photo now, especially if we are relying on a chance photo-opportunity for a lone Wikipedian? Stub articles are often ones for which, if you didn't know there was an article needing a photo, you might not bother to take a photo of the subject, because it's not obvious that there will be an article for your photo to go in. Wouldn't it be handy for someone to be able to see which local parks have articles with pictures and which don't, so they can provide photos of the ones that don't? You may prefer people to expand the text rather than go out and take a picture, but the editing habits of other Wikipedians are their business alone, and the best it's possible to do is to help other Wikipedians to help in whatever way they feel able. In short: I am not attempting to inflate my edit count, I am not doing this unilaterally and without discussion, I am not ordering anyone to change the priorities for an article, the tagging has been specific and not redundant, and I would ask you to assume good faith. Still, I will respect your desire not to be watchlist-clogged if that will help. :-) TheGrappler 22:40, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Hello, just wanted to say that I support adding reqphoto templates - they serve the purpose of allowing photographers see where their work is needed, because all the needed photos appear in one category. Stamping an article "reqphoto" isn't that helpful as you point out - but stamping it "reqphotoin|British Colombia" is infinitely more useful, as any visitor to BC can either take photos deliberately with Wikipedia in mind, or check his photo collection afterwards to see whether any fit the bill. Worth a little clutter, I think. Stevage 18:42, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Request for comments on article naming

Talk:World Junior Ice Hockey Championships If you're interested. Thanks.
ColtsScore 09:32, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] John Deighton vs Jack Deighton

Hi. I see you're the only other editor who's worked on John Deighton. Please have a look at my changes, and also at Talk:John Deighton re preferred renaming and other details.Skookum1 23:31, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stub type for the Provincial Parks of British Columbia

I notice you've created a very large number of articles in Cat:Provincial Parks of British Columbia (if not all of them, indeed), most of them currently very short. You might be interested in expressing your opinion at WP:WSS/P as to how the stub-sort the BC-geo-stubs, these included, whether as BC-park-stubs, BC-protected-area-stubs, or by regional district (all suggested thus far). Alai 04:42, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

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