User talk:Carlb

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[edit] Welcome to the Wikipedia

Welcome, newcomer!

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ClockworkTroll 02:15, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Nice pic

"scarberia" - awesome. :) The two pix look pretty good. Krupo 06:44, Oct 28, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome, and invitation...

Hi Carlb...I see you're pretty new around here, so welcome, and thanks for contributing some lovely photos! You may also be interested in checking out Wikipedia:Canadian wikipedians' notice board, where a group of us are trying to more effectively coordinate Canada-related articles. Bearcat 19:24, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC) fr:user_talk:carlb

I had to delete the material you erroneously inserted in the Watertown, New York article. You made a common error in thinking that the page related to the City of Watertown. In addition much of your inserted material did not belong in ANY Watertown article because it related to other entities in Jefferson County, New York. Please be more careful in the future. Stepp-Wulf 04:08, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Tough call - Fort Drum isn't within Watertown, New York city limits but it's the largest employer in the area, so a description of the region would be incomplete without at least a link to it. --carlb 16:45, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)--66.102.74.221 16:38, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
In any case, Watertown, New York now seems to merely redirect to Watertown (city), New York, with that article's intro containing any disambiguation as to Watertown (town), New York. --carlb 23:37, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] sockpuppet pic

Thanks for the sockpuppet pic! Every time I run into a SOLLOG sockpuppet who has the image on their talk page I giggle, definately makes RC patrol more enjoyable. --fvw* 00:41, 2004 Dec 28 (UTC)

[edit] Centennial penny

[edit] Image:Carlb-penny1967centennial-01.jpg

Image deletion warning The image Image:Carlb-penny1967centennial-01.jpg has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. If you feel that this image should not be deleted, please go there to voice your opinion.

It's just too blurry to be of any value. Do you have a better pic? --Robojames 17:42, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

  • I have the coin itself here, but if the pic has already been removed from any articles (it was taken for Canadian Centennial) not much point in changing it. --carlb 00:14, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Bringing Wikipedia to Toronto

I've been working on a bid to bring Wikimania 2006 to Toronto. I have contacted KMDI, an institute at the University of Toronto. They are very interested in partnering with us, and can get us a full range of U of T facilities for free. With this offer I think there is a very good chance of bringing Wikimania 2006 to Toronto. The only thing we currently lack are people willing to help out. I'm willing to do much of the work, but for the time being I am in Ottawa and having some people on the ground in Toronto will be necessary. We also need a number of people willing to assist at the actual event, likely the first weekend of August 2006. If you are interested in helping out sign up at Wikimania 2006/Toronto. Preliminary bids from various cities need to be made by Sept. 30, 2005, at which point a committee will choose which city gets to host the event. The number of people willing to help will certainly be an important consideration. - User:zanimum

[edit] CKWS

The source for the digital channel info was Industry Canada's broadcasting database. The station isn't broadcasting a digital signal yet to the best of my knowledge, though. Kirjtc2 03:09, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] In case you're interested...

You were listed on the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Ontario page as living in or being associated with Kingston, Ontario. As part of the Wikipedia:User categorisation project, these lists are being replaced with user categories. If you would like to add yourself to the category that is replacing the page, please visit Category:Wikipedians in Kingston for instructions.--Rmky87 01:52, 10 October 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Wiki for Engineering

Engineering Wiki is a wiki entirely dedicated to collecting information about Engineering. The Engineering Wiki is in early development stages at the moment. We invite you to help devlope this wiki.

[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!--DarkEvil 17:11, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Did this ever get off the ground? I remember some discussion on this, briefly, then dead silence... --carlb 12:52, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Why so few Wikipedians are engineers?

I am trying to understand why there are so few Wikipedians who are graduate engineers. Once I get a grasp on that, perhaps I may be able to formulate some ideas on how to attract more experienced engineers to become Wikipedians. It would be very helpful if you would respond to these a few questions:

  • Are you a university graduate engineer?
  • Please indicate in which of these engineering disciplines you obtained your degree:
    1. Aeronautical or aerospace engineering
    2. Bioengineer or biological engineering
    3. Chemical engineering
    4. Civil engineering
    5. Electrical engineering
    6. Environmental engineering
    7. Mechanical engineering
    8. Petroleum engineering
    9. Other
  • In what year did you obtain your degree?
  • What attracted you to participate in Wikipedia?

If you would rather not answer these questions on your Talk page, then you may respond on my User talk:mbeychok page. Or you may respond to me via Wikipedia's email which I have enabled on my User:mbeychok page.

If you would rather not respond at all, that's fine also. Regards, - mbeychok 04:28, 4 May 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Image Tagging Image:Carlb-hwy401-to-404-407.jpg

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[edit] Uncyclopedia image

Hey I found this image whilst browsing on Uncyclopedia and thought that would be ideal for the wikipedia article on the bulletin, can you remember the source for it? (xposted to your uncyclopedia page).--Nilfanion (talk) 21:17, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

It had appeared in one of the news reports made during the days or weeks after Katrina. That report had interviewed one of the people at either the National Weather Service or National Hurricane Center (sic) after the fact, with the forecasting agency stating that this warning was 'a good product'. Unfortunately I can't find the original news site in any of the external links on uncyclopedia:Catrina or uncyclopedia:Hurricane Katrina now. If the news media were merely reprinting the federally-issued warning, I presume this can be used as copyright status "a work of the US federal government" - whichever news site posted the .jpg is not the original author in any case. --carlb 00:12, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] License tagging for Image:Veterans Commemorative Park 416-Kemptville.jpg

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[edit] Image:Veterans Commemorative Park 416-Kemptville.jpg and Image:Featherston.jpg

Status on these two images is that I shot both of them myself on August 22, 2006. If anyone wants a copy of them for any purpose outside Wikipedia, please contact me directly. --carlb 18:43, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sockpuppet image

Just thought you'd want to know; your sockpuppet image is currently on the front page of Slate online magazine at www.slate.com.--Pharos 22:38, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hello. I created a baby stub for the article benzethonium chloride.

Free free to jump into the contributions with this benzethonium chloride stub. Good Luck. BenzethoniumChloride 06:44, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Highway 401 plaque

Would you be able to tell me where this plaque is located? The text on the plaque says somewhere between Hwy. 2 and Ivy Lea. I'm most interested. Thanks! - Yoho2001 06:44, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

There is a pair of rest stops (providing one set each of Wendy's, Tim Hortons, Standard Oil for traffic in each direction) near Mallorytown. These are part of the 401 highway, located near km 680 - just east of Mallorytown Road (km 675). The plaque is permanently affixed to one of these buildings; IIRC the eastbound Timmy's.
The section of road in question (between Interstate 81 and Brockville, Ontario, km 661-687 on the 401) was constructed last because an original - later abandoned - plan intended that the current 1000 Islands Parkway routing be used for the 401 in this section. The Parkway was built on a 401-sized right of way, but the extra two lanes worth of space ended up as a lengthy pedestrian and bicycle trail once the 401 was ultimately routed slightly further inland. --carlb 03:50, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Redirect

Your redirect from failure to George W Bush was funny. So I deleted it. Do not vandalize the Wiki! --Defender 911 10:37, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Um, what exactly makes this "my" redirect? Article history indicates an anon-IP which traces to

inetnum: 129.215.0.0 - 129.215.255.255
netname: EU-NET-B215
descr: Edinburgh University local area network
country: GB
# (cur) (last)  10:35, 18 May 2007 Defender 911 (Talk | contribs) (3,518 bytes)
# (cur) (last) 05:39, 18 May 2007 129.215.45.78 (Talk) (3,548 bytes) (←Redirected page to George W. Bush)
# (cur) (last) 05:38, 18 May 2007 129.215.45.78 (Talk) (3,547 bytes) (←Redirected page to George W. Bush)
# (cur) (last) 02:22, 18 May 2007 Bobo192 (Talk | contribs) m (3,518 bytes) (Reverted edits by 66.60.175.55 (talk) to last version by 24.9.56.47)
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# (cur) (last) 21:05, 17 May 2007 24.9.56.47 (Talk) (3,518 bytes) (→Criteria for failure)

It's not my place to supervise university students in Edinburgh on the net; I'm halfway between Montréal and Toronto. --carlb 18:43, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Babel

Aren't you {{User pt-2}} or more? Matheus Wahl 16:15, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Sadly, no. I've had to depend very heavily on Babelfish to follow any of what's going on in Desciclopédia. I speak Canadian, but that's the extent of my linguistic "abilities". --carlb 05:03, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Status of H0A postal codes?

No, I don't know when the H0A FSA was retired. But I do know it's not in use now, because I get that information directly from the website of Canada Post. --  Denelson83  23:56, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Pentastar.jpg listed for deletion

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Replied here. --carlb (talk) 04:28, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Lotsofmoney11082004.jpg

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I was not the one who tagged this as a "fair-use image". This is a photo I'd taken myself, therefore pd-user, but someone else changed the tags (for whatever reason) because the image depicted coins as currency.
At this point, I shall not be uploading any further images to Wikipedia. --carlb (talk) 04:27, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Unciklopédia

Hi! Hungarian Unciklopédia don't working. Please help! Thanks: OsvátA (talk) 09:27, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

It's working. Thanks. OsvátA (talk) 10:32, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

It's a full chaos. 7 days are to be missing. Why? OsvátA Palackposta 18:08, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Federation of Astronomical and Geophysical Data Analysis Services

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[edit] Thanks...

Thanks for the tip that you had posted on my user tlk page... Time to transfer them to mu Uncyclopedia userpage, just in case... -iaNLOPEZ1115 · TaLKBaCK · Vandalize it 08:20, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rachel Marsden (4th nomination)

Then if you'd like we can discuss it here, or the articles talk page. An AfD can be closed after 6 or more express a keep or speedy keep rationale. This might be a good one to take to deletion review if you'd like. Although I wouldn't suggest it unless you're a hundred percent positive that the article should be deleted instead of kept. SynergeticMaggot (talk) 06:48, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] top ten wikipedias

Hi there. Since you comented on the discussion before, I would like to hear your opinion on this suggestion. Cheers, --Waldir talk 23:29, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Uncyclopedia

I apologize for my behavior here. I have been under a bit of WikiStress™ right now, and I clearly wasn't thinking straight. Seriously, the only problem I see with the article Uncyclopedia right now is that it needs a bit of copy editing. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps) 00:19, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] New channel 9 in Gainesville

In the article for WGFL, you have removed the statement that a new local station on channel 9 will be digital, accusing me of being crystal. If you bothered to check the source link following the first sentence of that paragraph, you would find a link to the new station's FCC records, which mentions that the new channel 9 will be a digital signal, and it was also assigned channel 29 for analog. If you followed the links and check the facts first, it would've gave you the answers. -- azumanga (talk) 23:28, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

What are your sources for the speculation that the analogue channel 29 CP will never be built? Has anyone from the station (or its owners) confirmed this, or is this just a guess based on the current state of US DTV transition? --carlb (talk) 23:34, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
Changed wording in main article to removed THAT aspect's crystal ball. -- azumanga (talk) 01:33, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] PLEASE...

  • ...DO NOT REMOVE valid templates from your talk page.
  • ...DO NOT REMOVE or CHANGE currently-used templates from television station articles.
  • ...DO NOT ADD TRIVIAL INFORMATION to television station articles.
  • ...ENGAGE IN DISCUSSION with other editors, especially before making significant changes to any article.
  • ...RESPECT CONSENSUS.

If you can not, or do not wish to, adhere to any or all of these requests, I'd kindly ask that you refrain from editing any television-related articles. This has gone on long enough. Rollosmokes (talk) 06:48, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] TfD nomination of Template:Infobox DTV

Template:Infobox DTV 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. — Rollosmokes (talk) 07:00, 9 June 2008 (UTC)