User talk:Cherry1000

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[edit] Welcome!

Howdy, Cherry1000, and welcome to Wikipedia!

Thank you for your contributions; you seem to be off to a good start. Hopefully you will soon join the vast army of Wikipediholics! If you need help on how to title new articles, see the naming conventions, and for help on formatting pages, visit the manual of style. For general questions, go to Wikipedia:Help or the FAQ; if you can't find your answer there, check the Village Pump (for Wikipedia related questions) or the Reference Desk (for general questions). There's still more help at the Tutorial and Policy Library. Plus, don't forget to visit the Community Portal. If you have any more questions after that, feel free to ask me directly on my user talk page.

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Be bold in updating pages! You can find instantaneous help any time simply by typing {{help}} anywhere on your own user or user talk page.
You can find me at my user page or talk page for any questions. Happy editing, and we'll see ya 'round. 

 Joe  I 21:47, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Please stop exagerating and making things up.

Look, I appreciate your enthusiasm but, for crying out loud, county seats or shire towns are usually DECLARED. They are recognized in some official way. The fact that Halifax Hall is in the community of Halifax is meaningless. HRM doesn't even consider that part of downtown a part of Halifax or peninsula planning and administration, its a part of the "capital district" which includes the downtown of Dartmouth.
It could be argued that it should be called the seat, but as an avid observer and participant in HRM politics I have never ever ever heard this referenced in any way. The fact that you want it to be called that simply is not good enough, and FURTHER it is extremely bad wiki since it has NO basis in fact. It is very common to try and apply logical frameworks and organize the data in appealing and sensible ways, but please stick to verifiable facts and common usages, rather than creating things to fit your framework or preconceptions. WayeMason 02:05, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox

Hey there. Peace. Okay? I love that you are putting the info box everywhere! But why are you not using the callable box? Why are you hard coding it? It makes it really hard to change them later? I thought that someone else had been hard coding them, so I am following you around changing them all to the infobox template. Can I suggest that we both divide the work, move all the towns and villages to teh infobox template, and then we should have a dialog abotu what other formating and information changes we want to make to the template? Yours in good wiki and all that WayeMason 23:26, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

I also did a bit of formating on the county and town infoboxes. Template:Infobox_Town_of_Nova_Scotia now says "Incorporated Towns and Municipalities" so you can use it on the Municipal Districts as well. I will go to the SNMR website tonight and get the list of Incorporated Towns and put them all on the Nova Scotia subdivisions template. Cheers WayeMason 23:49, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
Can you tell me why you have not been using the templates on pages like the Dartmouth page? Why are your infoboxes custom? Thanks WayeMason 01:42, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dog?

Hi. What's the point of adding "dog" if it's just gonna be blank everywhere? I'm inclined to remove all of em, but I'll give you a chance to explain. El_C 21:12, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Every Porvince has one--Sonyuser 21:13, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

So why are you leaving em blank? El_C 21:15, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Are you sure that every territory and province has a dog as a symbol? I think that it might be an "symbolic animal". If you look at List of Canadian provincial and territorial symbols almost every one of the territories and provinces has an animal but only Nunavut and Nova Scotia have dogs. I checked and was unable to find any references to symbolic dogs with other territories and provinces. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 11:25, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

If you check the Nova Scotia article I found a way around it.--Sonyuser 12:40, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

I didn't mean the template I ment Quebec, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and New Brunswick. Though some may be reverted by now. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 18:56, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Parrsboro, NS

Thanks for the help with that page.

Cheers (Psyklek 20:20, 30 March 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Help with RFC

Hello there, sorry for the form-letter post.... I am writing you because your edits of Halifax, Nova Scotia, like a half dozen others, since January, have been reverted by one user, Lonewolf BC.

I have recently lodged a Request for Comments on the Talk:Halifax, Nova Scotia page. I and several other editors have had a running dispute with user Lonewolf BC. The RFC is This is a dispute about whether it is accurate to continue to refer to the area of or approximately coinciding with the boundaries of the City of Halifax, which became a part of the rural/urban Halifax Regional Municipality in 1996, as a city.

Basically, as I say on the RFC, we all agree that this is no longer a City, but to use former City's boundaries when describing the current urban area as a "city" (note the lower case) is at best arbitrary and at worst a fabrication. The city is now a continuous area that wraps the harbour, from Portuguese Cove (outside of the city of Halifax to the west and south) to Cole Harbour (outside of the former City of Dartmouth to the east). People now refer to the entire urban area of Halifax Regional Municipality as 'the city' and 'Halifax'.

Anyway, the bottom line is at least five people have tried to change the wording of the intro since January, and every time this one user changes it back. I have tried to come up with compromise wording, and he won't dialog. Right now wikipedia says HRM and Halifax are the capital of Nova Scotia. This article is now factually incorrect, in my opinion, and I need your help, please chime in. WayeMason 23:12, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] ==Thanks==

Despite what can only be described as a rocky start, I think we will get along fine! Sorry to be such a total overbearing jerk...

I am kinda counting on you for things like telephone exchanges and postal codes and such for the HRM template. If you have a second, check out Albro_Lake,_Nova_Scotia. The generic HRM infobox ALMOST works, but not quite. I think a new, really stripped down tag or box would be good, for each neighbourhood or village... what do you think? WayeMason 03:01, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

You know what would be great? If we could figure out how to call data from one template into another. What I mean is if we could make a list of Dartmouth neighborhoods on one template, and then call that template into the community template for HRM, so when I realize I spelt something wrong, I don't have to edit every single neighborhood in dartmouth's page, separately! WayeMason 22:42, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
Heya - have a look at the new Template:Infobox_HRM_Community_Neighbourhood I made all the data conditional, so if we have it it can go there, if we don't that is fine.... best example is here Waverley,_Nova_Scotia WayeMason 10:16, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Flag size in infobox

I made a change to your last edit of Rothesay, New Brunswick (diff). Flag size must be a number. Also, I'll add some blank fields to the infobox tomorrow unless someone complains. —MJCdetroit 03:36, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nova Scotia Infoboxes

Hi Sonyuser,
Thought I would drop you a line and let you know that I standardized the Nova Scotia Infoboxes to {{Infobox Settlement}} (aka Infobox City) to match most of the rest of Canada. I know that you are one of the main editors for articles in that part of Canada and have implemented those infoboxes along with Infobox Settlement. I think it makes good sense to have one infobox and look for all of Canada. Let me know if you have any questions. —MJCdetroit 20:19, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Ok --Sonyuser 20:50, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

FYI, I placed the infoboxes up for deletion. Here's the link if you want to contribute to the discussion.

Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2007_May_18#Template:Infobox_County_of_Nova_Scotia

—MJCdetroit 13:45, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Concerns about your username

[edit] My concern about your username

Hello, Sonyuser, and welcome to Wikipedia!

I hope not to seem unfriendly or make you feel unwelcome, but I noticed your username, and am concerned that it might not meet Wikipedia's username policy. After you look over that policy, could we discuss that concern here?

I'd appreciate learning your own views, for instance your reasons for wanting this particular name, and what alternative username you might accept that avoids raising this concern.

You have several options freely available to you:

Let me reassure you that my writing here means I don't think your username is grossly, blatantly, or obviously inappropriate; such names get reported straight to Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention or blocked on sight. This is more a case where opinions might differ, and it would be good to reach some consensus — either here or at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User names. So I look forward to a friendly discussion, and to enjoying your continued participation on Wikipedia. Thank you. -- lucasbfr talk 18:45, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Namely, the issue is that you are using a registered trademark on your username. -- lucasbfr talk 18:45, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Infobox edits

Hi Sony, I mean Cherry1000,
Your edit to Perth-Andover, New Brunswick was detected by a category that is set up to detect deprecated parameter names of {{Infobox Settlement}}. I am not sure where you got the syntax with the deprecated names in it but see the diff to see what was changed. Check out the table at Infobox Settlement for the new and deprecated parameter names. Regards, —MJCdetroit (talk) 04:36, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


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[edit] Elevations

I was curious as to where you found the elevations for places such as Cambridge Bay. The reason I ask is that the hamlet boundaries would include the Cambridge Bay Airport which is 27 m and might include Ovayok Territorial Park which is 183 m.

Also I noticed that you were putting in some coordinates for communities but using the older template. Check out Template:Coord and Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates#Parameters. The default is, I think, 1:300,000 but for smaller places you can set a scale of 1:20,000 to give a better view. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 17:48, 17 December 2007 (UTC) I get my elevations from Google Earth ,it looks like I got the wrong infromation from them for Cambridge Bay ,however based on the infromation about the park it should be 183m . and I use Google Earth also for coordinates using the "Coords for Wikipedia" tool and include the further information later . Thanks for the tip .--Cherry1000 (talk) 22:07, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Google Earth seems to be giving some very strange results for elevation. Mt. Pelly in the park comes out at 600 ft but a lot of the others seem to be wrong. For example my house and the airport should be about the same height 93 ft but both show as 3 ft. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 03:26, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

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