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Archives Game Warden Albert E. Farey, 1882-1932 Provincial Game Commissioner, A. Bryan Williams, described Game Warden Albert Farey as “a popular officer with a splendid war and peacetime record”. On October 3 rd, 1932, the Game Department suffered its second tragic loss in as many years when Game Warden Albert E. Farey, of Lillooet, BC, was shot and killed while inspecting an illegally possessed deer hide. Albert or “Bert” Farey was born in England in 1882. Farey immigrated to Canada in 1900, at the age of eighteen, and would eventually settle in the Lillooet area in 1920. His diverse experience as a big game guide, trapper, forestry patrol officer, Dominion Police Officer, and twelve years as a BC Provincial Police constable were a perfect fit for life as a Game Warden. Farey was also a decorated WW I veteran who had been wounded in action. Provincial Game Commissioner, A. Bryan Williams, described Game Warden Albert Farey as "a popular officer with a splendid war and peacetime record". As with Dennis Greenwood and William Floyd, the tragic encounter between Warden Farey and his killer, Frank Gott, had not been their first. In 1929, Farey had charged Gott for the illegal possession of a deer carcass, for which he was later fined a total of $25.00 (approximately $290.00 by today’s standards). As a result of this conviction, Gott would bear a grudge against Farey for the next three years, a growing enmity that would culminate in the Warden’s ruthless murder. On October 3 rd, 1932, Frank Gott had set up a hunting camp along the north fork of the Bridge River. With him were J. Thomas Dalton and 14-year-old Raymond Millar. Shortly after setting their camp, Warden Farey made contact with the three men. After a brief conversation with Gott, he decided to search the camp and its surrounding area. As a result of these efforts, Farey uncovered a bag containing a deer hide. However, the hide did not have the proper species tags affixed, which made its possession illegal. At some point during his questioning of Gott, as Warden Farey turned away to inspect the deer hide more closely, Gott fired two shots into his back, killing Farey instantly. According to Raymond Millar's testimony, "I saw Frank bring the rifle up about halfway and fire. Mr. Farey fell at the first shot". After shooting the Warden, Gott handed the rifle over to one of his companions and walked calmly into the bush. Following a two-day manhunt, Divisional Game Supervisor R.M. Robertson and Game Warden W.O. Quesnel confronted Gott at a crossing on the Bridge River. Gott refused to surrender and, ignoring several warning shots, was shot and wounded in the leg as he tried to escape. In a sad twist to an already tragic affair, Gott never stood trial for the killing as he died en route to the hospital from a combination of shock and advanced tuberculosis. Warden Farey's murder was overshadowed by criticism of the police manhunt, as many in the community viewed Gott’s death as unnecessary. Gott, seventy-six years old at the time, and a life-long resident of the Lillooet area, was legendary for his skill as a woodsman and big game guide. A decorated WW I veteran, he had dyed his grey hair and enlisted in the army at the age of sixty, serving with distinction as a sniper. Proud of his military service and wartime achievements, Gott was known to have worn his army cap long after the war had ended. However, many critics chose to ignore that he had shot a dedicated Game Warden, in cold-blood, with no chance to defend himself. While the local newspapers were keen to chronicle Gott's guiding expertise, outdoor skills and wartime achievements, scant attention was paid to the life of the murdered game warden. Game Warden “Bert” Farey was buried in the Lillooet cemetery. His funeral never even made the newspapers of the day.

March 2006 – June 2006

[edit] Musicals Infobox

Hello, according to your comments on the Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musicals/General page you have had some experience in infobox code. If you get a chance, could you take a look at the code on Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musicals/Template_sandbox as I believe it to have some formating issues (I'm not sure) and it is not completely wikified. There are a couple comments about it on the Template sandbox page (don't worry about removing any information yet as a consensus seems not to have been reached yet). Thanks so much for your help and I look forward to working with you. --omtay38 02:06, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Things in common

I'm following ICMP tunnel which led me to Image:DiagramNeeded.gif and then to Event monitoring. I'm thinking of cleaning up Event monitoring since the intro reads as a cross between link spamming and original research, when who do I see but you in the edit history from earlier this year cleaning up and wikifying. I have a feeling the two of us have more in common than simply WP:EiC. Anyway, somewhat related to all this, here are some possible issues I've run across tonight:

• Image:DiagramNeeded.gif
• Image:PictureNeeded.gif
• Image:IIH.png

Looks like this is starting to show up more in articles. Personally, I find it unfortunate since it makes the articles seem like they're in the middle of being edited. What do you think? --Stephane Charette 06:54, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

Thanks for the editing you provided on the St. Benedict Catholic Secondary School, Waterloo Region Catholic School Board template and page. Appreciate the help! --Ithinkhelikesit 17:48, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pseudoscalar

Hi, Why did you split the aticle on pseudoscalar ?? Both the physics and the math concept are one and the same thing -- mathematical pseudoscalars have odd parity. I'm reverting for now. linas 01:05, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

I reverted, and cleaned up the article to make it clear that this is not two different things being talked about, but is the same thing. linas 01:17, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Next time that you have any questions about physics or math, consider contacting Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics or Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics. In this case, it would have saved you the time and effort spent trying to sort out the various links to the article. More generally, I'd suggest that you refrain from editing articles on which you are not knowledgable. linas 01:54, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the recent post to WP:WPM about additive group, the answer may have been confusing but the results hopefully helpful. linas 16:01, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Musical templates

Thanks for your support of my musical theatre templates! I'm currently working on a Gilbert and Sullivan one, and hopefully I'll get around to Andrew Lloyd Webber today as well. After that, I don't know where to go, but it was good to know someone agrees. :) Daydream believer2 05:41, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Profile

I'm curious as to why you moved Profile (engineering) to the See also section when, by MoS:DP guidelines, it should be in the main section. --Usgnus 06:56, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

I reverted my edit and expanded on the various engineering uses of the term as the page only listed one of the four definitions previously, thus it didn't disambiguate the subject adequately.--Lordkinbote 07:20, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Peel logo

I reverted the logo change and put a bit more info on the logo over at Talk:Peel District School Board. Hope this makes sense. (Sorry, I just feel bad every time I have to revert something which otherwise should be a perfectly valid edit...!) --Stephane Charette 21:30, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Just wondering...

Right now, I can't seem to e-mail you using the "E-mail this user" link. Do you think you can add one? I've been meaning to ask you some things in a more private setting. Thanks. -→Buchanan-Hermit™/?! 00:09, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

I'll set one up and get back to you. --Usgnus 00:17, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Parks in British Columbia cat re change on Victory Square

Hi; saw your change to Victory Square's category; I'm surprised there's not a Vancouver parks cat; you'd think there would be; especially since GVRD-wide there's tons of them. My concern with the Parks in British Columbia category is that it's going to be huge once all prov, RD, fed and municipal parks are added in. Wouldn't a subcat hierarchy be more workable? Or are there not just enough park articles yet?Skookum1 02:34, 13 July 2006 (UTC) PS I know there's a provincial-parks cat, and there's only 10 or so federal parks (lots more fed-park proposals); but still between munis and RDs it's going to be a huge list...Skookum1 02:36, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Saw your response on my talk page and agree about not all parks being worthy; but even in the city of Van it's a list: Hastings, Queen E, Stanley, Jericho, Vanier, Pacific Spirit, China Creek etc, which have some history or other significance to them; and no doubt people will want their own neighbourhood greenspace added in, like that new insta-park at Homer and Davie, as we've seen with "invented neighbourhoods" (remember "Dickens"?); but I'm not the sort to leap in and invent categories because I don't know the existing hierarchies well enough. One little tidbit park comes to mind that's almost worth a blurb is that little creek just west of where Point Grey Road meets MacDonald; it was featured in the film That Cold Day In The Park ([[Robert Altman|Altman]'s first-and-worst, they say...); can't remember what it's called right now...

Might as well take the time now to invite you to sign up for the draft BC WikiProject at User:Buchanan-Hermit/WikiProject-Sandbox, where tonight I fielded the idea by Buchanan-Hermit that the model for project organization cooked up by the incredible Phædriel ♥ tell me for the Wikipedia:WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America (q.v. her revamp as of the last few days) be used to help coordinate what obviously will be a vast and complicated set of articles/issues and sundry; he wanted input from other editors but only he and me (he and I?) are signed up so far, and the project's not "gone official" of course; he's no slouch in the formatting department himself as the User:Buchanan-Hermit page demonstrates. But given that suggestion, it also seems a propos that maybe Phaedriel's layout be applied/adapted to the Vancouver WikiProject also; I know only a few people bit at those table formats I tried introducing, but if the project layout were made less unwieldy they'd work in just fine. Give 'er some thought and pls feedback; and also pls consider the BC Wikiproject, which I think it's high time for (esp. since OR, ID and AK have 'em going, and WA and AB aren't far behind)....Skookum1 09:13, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WP:EiC

Just wanted to know, if I want to be listed on the Participants page... Do I just go and add myself?

--Yongblood 03:51, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

• Thanks for the fast answer. Yongblood 03:55, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Signature

Do you know how to customize the signature?

--Yongblood No. Remember to use four tildes (~~~~) to sign so that there's a timestamp. --Usgnus 04:24, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] BTW re Education in Canada project

I don't have a copy so can't cite you a page ref, but FYI I was somewhat stunned while reading Francis Decker's Pemberton: History of a Settlement to discover that correspondence courses for elementary and high school were first introduced anywhere in response to pressure and ideas from parents in the Birken-Gates Valley (between Pemberton-Mt Currie and D'Arcy) in the first decade of the 20th Century. Not sure where that fits into existing education articles but if that's one of your WikiFields I thought you might like to know that. Turns out, as an unrelated aside, it was a farmer up there (but in the Pemberton Valley, i.e. the Lilloet River Valley) who was the first to recognize iodine as a cure for goiter (in cattle, originally).Skookum1 09:16, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. Very interesting. --Usgnus 14:18, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Regarding Category:Women

I think it was originally created as a category meaning women as opposed to men, not as opposed to girls. You appear to be changing it. Georgia guy 23:34, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

I disagree. I had to remove exactly 2 articles from each: Girl and Flower girl; Boy and Boy soprano. Besides, who's calling the kettle black [1]. --Usgnus 23:39, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Well, what do you think it was originally created for?? Georgia guy 23:40, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm not a mind reader. --Usgnus 23:41, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Now, here is a new problem: How would you categorize an article that is for female human beings regardless of age?? Georgia guy 23:57, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

In both Women and Children or in Humans, depending on the content. --Usgnus

[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 03:51, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Extraneous Links

You're right about extraneous links on diambiguation pages. When I added links yesterday, I not only didn't know about that policy, but I didn't notice that I'd added them before and that you'd removed them afterward. You're absolutely correct that you were following Wikipedia policy, and after following your link, I learned something I didn't realize before. I stand corrected, and thanks for your promptness. -- Skymasterson 11:41AM, 14 July 2006

[edit] Mission Bridge vs Mission CPR Bridge

Hey; saw your tweak. I know why it's necessary, but the usual and traditional name for it is "the Mission Bridge", now of course meaning the highway bridge; I went to MSS and the bridge (and its line-up) was a part of local life; I guess the official or official-Wiki name has to be Mission CPR Bridge; looks really weird, though, like the long-form Second Narrows Ironworkers Memorial Bridge vs Second Narrows or Ironworkers (as has come into vogue lately). Also I'm not sure it was always CPR; I think it was Burlington Northern; at least as far as Abby (from the border) but I'm pretty sure the track crossings/overpasses in Matsqui Prairie say "Burlington Northern"; or used to, anyway. Before the building of the Pattullo rail bridge (CNR, BNR or BCER I'm not sure whose) rail traffic from the US had to go through Mission via this bridge; I probably already said that in the article, though.Skookum1 19:32, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

I changed it to "Mission Railway Bridge". Both bridges are notable and deserve their own articles. Perhaps their naming can be tackled as part of the Wikipedia:WikiProject British Columbia. --Usgnus 00:03, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Help

I could use some help with Journalist (talk • contribs). He was assuming bad faith when I reverted the spam link at University of Toronto. Ardenn 03:09, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

I wouldn't worry about it. You explained it, and it seems Journalist is handling it as well as can be expected. --Usgnus 03:27, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

I apologise if I acted too soon with the U of T page. From my end, it really didnt look like spamming. Anyway, thanks for the kind words, and for actually approaching me in such a respectful manner. Regards. Orane (talk • cont.) 03:46, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vancouver Wikipedians Meetup

Greetings, you're getting this spam (courtesy of Tawkerbot) because you were listed on Wikipedia:WikiProject_Vancouver. In short, we're trying to have a meetup and we'd appreciate it if you'd join our Yahoo Group setup to figure out a time/place that would work. You can find the group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vancouver_wikipedians/. If you have any questions feel free to make a post there or on the WikiProject page.

Happy Editing!

[edit] CFD

I have nominated Category:French language schools in Ottawa for deletion. Ardenn 18:26, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Double redirects

I'm pretty good with en-mass. --Polar Deluge 14:41, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

I hope the en mass isn't too en mass.  :-) --Polar Deluge 14:50, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Breaks

In regards to this, shouldn't we instead be putting the break into {{OCCSB}} versus going through all the schools to see if they need a line break? Note that at first glance, we may think an article does or doesn't need a break, but at a different resolution or if the browser window is resized, then all of a sudden we're stuck with some incidental overlap. $0.02. --Stephane Charette 18:38, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

That was quick. Thanks! --Stephane Charette 19:02, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Water airports

I see the problem. There is Coal Harbour, Vancouver and Coal Harbour, British Columbia. So Vancouver Harbour Water Aerodrome CXH/CYHC is at Coal Harbour, Vancouver and Coal Harbour Water Aerodrome N/A/CAQ3 is at Coal Harbour, British Columbia. It's quite clear if you review the google sat photo and the maps in the Water Aerodrome Supplement. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 17:12, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Sorry I got called away. Which is the better main name "Vancouver Harbour Water Aerodrome" or "Vancouver Coal Harbour Seaplane Base"? CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 17:47, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Participants

Too late...I am over halfway through the WikiProject participant category...BLAST! I hope that they won't mind a change to the template. EEK!
—Lady Aleena talk/contribs 00:12, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] BC Stubs

Pls see User talk:Agent 86#RE: another category of stub neededSkookum1 18:25, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Spam pic reverts

Do you think this warrants a block? It's, like, the millionth time this has happened. -→Buchanan-Hermit™/?! 04:06, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

If so, we should probably do it by the book (unfortunately). --Usgnus 04:17, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Students' Unions

Your proposed speedy renaming is fundamentally incorrect. A Students' Union is capitalised. (I've worked for them.) That is their formal name and a proper noun. Lowercased, it means an informal union of students. They are formal bodies with a formal name. Similarly your proposal re Students' Associations is wrong. That is their formal name, so a proper noun and capitalised. Wikipedia policy is to uppercase proper nouns, not lower case them. Your nominations are factually incorrect. I strongly advise you to withdraw the nominations.

Slán FearÉIREANN\^(caint) 23:28, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

• Hey, can someone point me to the place where the above-referenced discussion is going on? I personally believe that "students' union" should not be capitalised. (I've been the president of two.) To clarify, when we are talking about the name of an organisation (e.g. the University of Saskatchewan Students' Union), then it must be capitalised, just as one must capitalise "Corporation" in "Microsoft Corporation". However, when one speaks about, say, "tax cuts for corporations", one does not capitalise the word because, in that context, it is a common noun, not part of a proper noun. Thus, if one were to say that "Canada's students' unions lobbied against tax cuts for corporations," for example, then one would not capitalise, for the same reason. The distinction has nothing to do with the organization being formal or informal (again, the corporations who may be getting tax cuts are still formal bodies, they just don't get a capital "C" because their names are not currently involved.) However, this is not really the best place to be saying this - where is the right spot? AshleyMorton 23:49, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Centerville H.S.

I know that you go to Centerville High School because you are constantly editing it and talking in our discussion page. You have changed correct information numeorus times, however I thank you for not changing the new image of our school. Consent for use granted to wikipedia by Centerville City School District. I contacted them to verify that using image was alright. Thank you! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.65.92.121 (talk • contribs) 07:05, 23 July 2006.

[edit] pls see new item on WikiProject BC sandbox

Re map standards for mountain range locator maps. Thoughts? Thx.Skookum1 17:11, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Okanagan Trail

Hi; saw you added the BC-geo stub to Okanagan Trail; I thought of it when writing the article; you'll see when more of it's done that it actually should be BC-hist (history) stub, but we don't have one of those yet. More on this later, it's hellish hot as you know and I need a shower...Skookum1 22:47, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Do you think it should be {{BritishColumbia-stub}} instead? That works for me. The {{Washington-stub}} category is going to be deleted any day now. --Usgnus 22:49, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

I'd rather we get a BC-hist-stub together, maybe...but not sure as to, for now, whether the general BC stub of a geo stub; it's a geographic piece only in a historical sense....and why is the Washington stub being deleted anyway? Too few articles? I note that Washingtonians don't seem to have been as busy on Wiki as OR and AK and even ID...or else they write complete articles, and leave fewer stubs dangling?Skookum1 23:36, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Too few articles, exactly. --Usgnus 23:38, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Koreatown, Vancouver

No problem with your edits. Whatever works best! -Sewing 01:08, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Categories for deletion

Yesterday I accidentally erased a whole bunch of content via this edit. Today I restored the content I erased. Since you were the person affected by this, please make sure that your votes are correct. My apologies for all the trouble.Balcer 13:15, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question on preferred name form, i.e. formal or usual

Hi; I'm about to start an article on Frank Gott/Francis Gott, a war hero and hunting guide from the Lillooet country who killed by a game warden as he was hunting out of season and then shot while trying to escape, dying of complications from the wound vs. his tuberculosis (which is why he was hunting; native cure is deer liver); he was of mixed parentage with a white father and so wasn't legally Indian and couldn't hunt whenever he wanted: http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/cos/100years/honour_roll.html (bio of Farey, the guy he shot). Anyway, he's usually known around town as Frank Gott, his legal name was Francis, as in the war registry/archive. Is it OK to use Frank Gott, or should I stick by the formalities? Also tricky because he's what we used to be comfortable calling a halfbreed but technically now is a Metis by the new constitutional definitions; but not according to the text on Metis, so I'll just say "mixed parentage" I guessSkookum1 19:10, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WP:MOS-T

Re your message: Ah, thanks. I should have looked a looked more carefully. Sorry about being a little rude. -- Gogo Dodo 20:24, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Democracy disambiguation

I was going to revert this back to mine, since your version merely moves the bulk below the useful ambig stuff, and deletes those that don't contain "democracy", which, despite what Bruce says, wasn't my reorganizing principal. But I notice you had made previous edits on the page to bring it in line with the MOS:DAB guidelines for links and things, so I'd rather try and convince you first. Could you take a look at my notes to Bruce at Talk:Democracy_(disambiguation)#Neutrality_dispute, especially the "Parliament" and "Freedom" disambig examples. I can't find any examples of a good disambig page that lists large numbers of articles of the "adjective noun" format under a disambig page for noun, where the articles aren't distinctly separate senses of the word (as in the "Freedom" case). Here, all the articles are under the general "Democracy" umbrella in the "political" (or whatever) context, and are they not direct disambiguation candidates for "democracy" under any Wikipedia usage I've seen so far. - David Oberst 22:15, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Since User:Wangi independently cut the chunk of links out, I thought I might as well revert to my version, which has slightly newer wording and formatting on some of the entries. Hopefully we can convert you to some version of this. - David Oberst 22:50, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

I was pretty sure we were paddling the same canoe, but just wanted to double-check. Thanks! - David Oberst 19:35, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Robert Cecil Palmer Secondary School

Are you aware of any other notable alumni besides Edison Chen to attend Robert Cecil Palmer Secondary School? Silensor 02:18, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Arthur C. Clarke quotation on Phoenix dab page

As I said in my edit summary when I added it to the talk page, it doesn't seem to actually violate any policy (including MoS) anyway. If it did I would probably consider it to be OK because of `break rules'. Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley _{talk contrib} 17:04, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Disabig - School Pages

On your moves for Schools, I have no problem with the long(South Park Elementary School, Victoria BC) or the short version(South Park Elementary School, Victoria). The only issue I saw is that the short heading may not be that helpful especially on disabiguation pages. Edgewater Elementary School (Edgewater) - where the school name and the town name are the same or South Park Elementary School (Victoria) where the town name is also subject to disabig. That is why I used the long version in mine. Please move as you see fit. Wakemp 20:11, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Highland High School

Sorry, I didn't notice that they were already sorted by state. I guess it might make more sense to sort them by state, then city. I'll leave that call up to you. ~ Zophar 22:54, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Paraguay-writer-stub‎;

Hi, Thanks for the fix to this. Dlyons493 Talk 00:27, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Victoria High School

I noticed that you had deleted allmost all of the content on the Vic High page as a copyright violation. I admit I did crib heavily, but it was not a cut and paste job. Most of what was left from the original was either commonly used terminology "Oldest high school north of San Fransisco and West of Winnipeg", "two room log cabin" (both of which are part of the common story for the school) or purely factual information (dates, class size and composition) I had changed around a few sentences, added some more information from other sources, confirmed much of the information from other sources and removed stuff that didn't seem important to me.

I am planning on re-adding it back in with a little bit more editing. If you have any problems with it please notify me. Thanks -- Webgeer 06:09, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

That whole first paragraph was taken mostly from their article and then edited. I justified this to myself in that it was pretty much just dates (most of which I was able to confirm from other sources), but it did leave a few phrasings in there that were unique, and I probably should have done a better job of editing it. I have now edited that paragraph more, removed some less important features -- although I am having second thoughts about removing the class composition as that may have been unusual to have so many girls going to high school. I hope the results seem reasonable to you. -- Webgeer 06:43, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Iain Black

Got you note about having added the copyright stuff back in. I see what you mean. I did it following the instruction on the template as it came up as an edit conflict when I went to save some edits I was doing. Guess I messed up . . . . . . I will re-editthe temp page I added to take out the article content but before I mess up further, is that the right step at this point or does it just mess thngs up worse --KenWalker | Talk 06:48, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

• Thanks for the note, wasn't taken as harsh, clear cut perhaps, but on point. Just learning here and this little process has been interesting to follow. Cheers, --KenWalker | Talk 07:02, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

• • I thought I would move the content from the temp page back to the article page but the copyvio template there says not to delete it. At what point can the template come off and the content (which I think now it not copyritevio) go back? Not sure what the process is. I see the template says not to edit the main page for the moment. Or is it a situation where the content of the temp page just gets moved back after a week. KenWalker | Talk 03:31, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank You!

Thanks for your editing help on the Parkdale School page! I'm a newbie.--Kimbalee1 20:00, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Banks

FYI, I'm adding the other big 5 templates. See Template:TD. Regards, Deet 03:40, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

On second thought, I should have named it Template:Toronto-Dominion Bank. I see TD has many meanings on Wikipedia. I'm going to move it. Deet 03:45, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nice going on the dab athletics edits

i've been trying to do some too and recruited cydebot, but you are being very productive. i'll try and help some more too. David D. (Talk) 18:50, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stubsense

I've seen several references to stubsense -- can you provide a link where I can find out what it is? Thanks! --Stephane Charette 17:31, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Requested move: San Francisco, California -> San Francisco

Please vote at Talk:San Francisco, California. Thanks. --Serge 18:08, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Augusta

Augusta, Georgia, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Augusta). "Augusta" redirects here. For other uses, see Augusta (disambiguation).

in other words, Augusta currently rd's to Augusta, Georgia. Try it! Bolivian Unicyclist 17:04, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

What I don't understand is why it's a counter-example for moving Augusta, Georgia to Augusta being non-controversial

Oh, I see. I think it'd be controversial because of the long list of dab entries, most particularly the presence there of the Roman Augustae and Augusta, Maine, a state capital. If Augusta had the population of Atlanta and fewer competing dab entires: yes, ok, maybe. But not as things stand. The topic cropped up on the settlements convention talk page, couple of comments there murmuring about how Augusta, Georgia, getting the rd isn't entirely correct. Bolivian Unicyclist 23:46, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Help with move: Albion Ferry

Done. And looks like you're being nominated for adminship (see top of this talkpage). I know you said you don't want to be one, but I still think you should consider it. :) -→Buchanan-Hermit™/?! 04:55, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

Were you bored?! Thanks for finishing it off. Questions:

• Do you think I should go through and sort the US ones as well? I'm thinking nearly 100% of the ones from here should instead be moved into here.
• How did you know what was left to do? I had broken it down alphabetically, tracking what was left on my user page. Just curious if you'd seen that or if you went through the whole list again.
• Do you use some other wiki tool to make the job easier, or just a normal web browser? At the rate I was doing it (Firefox /w multiple tabs open) it would have taken me another week of staying up a few hours after the kids are in bed. (Maybe I spend too much time reading the articles instead of just fixing the category...!) --Stéphane Charette 22:59, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Talal Mansour

Qatar is not in Africa. Punkmorten 12:54, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Help disambiguating

Hello, you commented on Talk:Athletics regarding the movement of that page, and so I was hoping you could help with the large amount of disambiguation that is now needed because of the move. All the wikilinks to Athletics must now be disambiguating to one of the more specific links. Please see Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links. The list of articles linking to Athletics can be found at Special:Whatlinkshere/Athletics. Regards. -- Jeff3000 00:35, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion of comment

Sorry about that. Somehow my comment got doubled up and I screwed up in trying to repair that. JoshuaZ 05:03, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Disambiguation Talk Request

This is a form message being sent to all WikiProject Disambiguation participants. I recently left a proposed banner idea on the WikiProject Disambiguation talk page and I would appreciate any input you could provide. Before it can be approved or denied, I would prefer a lot of feedback from multiple participants in the project. So if you have the time please join in the discussion to help improve the WikiProject. Keep up the good work in link repair and thanks for your time. Nehrams2020 21:46, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Canadian city naming convention

Since you were involved in helping develop a separate Canadian convention, I thought you would like to know that some editors have proposed merging the American and Canadian conventions and dragging Canadian city names once again into their endless debate over the appropriateness of the "City, State" form. The fun is at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (settlements)#Proposal: U.S. to adopt and merge with Canadian convention. Skeezix1000 11:46, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Vancouver

This is an important message being sent out too all participants. We are currently recalling our list of participants. Any one who is inactive in the project will be moved to the "inactive" list respectively. See Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Vancouver#ROLL_CALL_-_All_Read|the project talk page for more details]] -- Selmo ^(talk) 20:40, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] BC history/heritage stubs? road stubs?

Came here because I saw you were the most recent person to work on [:Category:British Columbia geography stubs]]. I just sat about reviewing Cariboo Road and saw it has a Roads in Canada stub; it and other major items in the offing, and already around, could use a common cat; geog and politican stubs are all there is right now. Occurred to me while writing this that Skookum and similar "BC culture" articles could be given these cats if the "heritage" term is used, instead of "history". Prepping to write the Omineca, McDame, Big Bend, Rock Creek, and Wild Horse Creek gold rushes up soon, so all would fit in one of these; hsitory's not just about the pols, of course. "Heritage" could also be useful for things like quiggly hole, and even Chinook Jargon.Skookum1 08:21, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] CHICOTW GAonhold

TonyTheTiger 23:21, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] TfD nomination of Template:Classical work infobox

Template:Classical work infobox has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. — Turangalila (talk) 15:23, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

	Wikipedia:WikiProject Chicago/Chicago Collaboration of the Week
AT&T Corporate Center is the current Chicago COTW In the past you have edited Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. It was the CHICOTW in the recent past. It has been placed on Good article on hold status thanks in part to your efforts. See its GA review and help us raise it towards the good article and eventually featured article classification level. The article was given good article on hold status on February 2, 2007. It will be reevaluated in between 2 and 7 days from this date. Recall that during its tenure as CHICOTW we achieved the following Improvement. See our CHICOTW Improvement History.
Contributing editors: AKeen, L Glidewell, NatusRoma, TheQuandry*, TonyTheTiger.
	Good article nominee/Good article on hold