User talk:Ground Zero/Archive 6

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Queen's University

Hi could you help with editing, cleaning up, and expanding of the Queen's University article and the various sections. Zipperfly 04:50, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

One Nation and Red Toryism

You claim to be a "child of the '80's." And a Red Tory. Yet you seem ignorant about Disraeli, Sybil, George Grant, John Farthing and their influence on Canadian Conservatism. Given that Red Tories proper became functionally alienated from the PC Party in the 1980's it would seem that your ability to command the facts on these issues is suspect. You seem unaware of Christian & Campbell's seminal work on Canadian Ideologies and Parties. And yet you would delete references to such realities merely because you "have never heard of them." Yet you are probably only about 30 years old. So how could you have "heard" of them? I met George Grant and Senator Eugene Forsey. Did you? I spent the 1970's and 1980's in the PC Party as part of the Red Tory faction. I have been to parts of the Hill that you have never "heard" of. I have been in Joe Clark's office. I knew Senators and MPs - of all parties. I met Trudeau, Broadbent, and Diefenbaker. Just because YOU have not "heard of" something does not mean that it is false. You may wish to consider the fact that you MAY be unread and underexperienced in the matter at hand. Have you considered that as fact? TrulyTory 14:13, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

TrulyTory

Do you think TrulyTory might be ArmchairVexillologistDon? I have a real sense of deja-vu here. HistoryBA 00:42, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

I resent the implication here and I DEFY you to prove the assertion. I do not engage in subterfuge in any way, shape, or form. How dare you make such an accusation? Trace my ID if you want. I am who I am, and have never "been" anyone else in Wikipedia. The arrogance is appalling. TrulyTory 05:31, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
TrulyTory: I have responded to this on my talk page. Ground Zero: You may wish to post your warning to TrulyTory on his talk page. If we have to go to a Request for Comment to deal with his violations of Wikipedia policy, we will need to show that at least two of us have warned him on his talk page. HistoryBA 20:07, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

I apologise if my comments were harsh, and I withdraw the statements that give offence. However, I would ask that people not set themselves up as omnipotent experts and revert perfectly good edits on the basis that they "had not heard of them before." This seems as patently unfair and harsh as the things that I am being accused of. Cheers. I would also politely ask that people refrain from engaging in false rumour-mongering over my identity. I have never misrepresented myself or engaged in such subterfuge in this database. TrulyTory 18:06, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

UCC

I would agree with lifitng sp. It would seem that the minor points have been sorted; where the school is, etc. As you say it will need watching. I'll be on for the next 2 days from midnight to noon EST. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 23:24, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Heads up

Which article are you referring to? (please reply on my page, otherwise I might miss your response). Homey 18:54, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. I was away from WP for a few days, and I probably won't have much time over the next month or so to devote to WP, but whenever it pops up on my watchlist I'll be sure to check the diffs. Mindmatrix 19:12, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Stephen Harper

He added the source after I had begun the process of reverting it, so I didn't see it. My bad. --Rory096 21:11, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Resolving conflicts

You're most welcome. Been a pleasure to meet you - what forbearance! I hope everyone works together. See you round. ॐ Metta Bubble puff 00:06, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Adminship

Thanks for removing vandalism from the Malta site. I am contesting for an adminship - wonder if you could vote -- [[1]]. Take any stand you believe is best. Maltesedog 20:48, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Linking

Nice idea on the unlinking of every link. That might be a little too much, but I think the article needs a lot more unlinking; there's just too much blue on the screen making it difficult to read; especially in the history section. -- Jeff3000 00:18, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Help

The situation on the article Red Tory has rapidly deterorirated into a bunch of reverts...could you please provide some assistance?_Thanks.Habsfan|t 17:19, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Don't worry about it. Don't ever hesitate to ask if you need anything from me.Habsfan|t 21:26, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Northwestern Ontario

To be honest, I'm not entirely sure that the Northwestern Ontario situation belongs on Proposals for new Canadian provinces and territories, because it isn't a proposal to create a new province, merely to transfer the region from one existing province to another. I'd be open to discussing an alternative way to handle it, but I don't think it really belongs in that article as currently constituted, which is why I originally listed it in the secession article. Bearcat 02:54, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Fair enough...I added an "Other boundary changes" section, and put Northwestern Ontario under there. (This also enabled me to add the occasional calls for Maritime union.) Bearcat 03:12, 6 April 2006 (UTC)


Erroneous Revert

My apologies to you. I accidentally reverted your effort to de-Wikify the Stephen Harper article, when my intent was to revert the previous edit, which had added all sorts of unnecessary links to the article. I agree wholeheartedly with everything you say on the Harper talk page. HistoryBA 14:34, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

I'm calm

Hi, thanks for sticking up for me, I was very angered by the low blow, I felt the comment was very condesending, and it had nothing to do with spelling mistakes. Now that I have shown my teeth, i'm ready to let it go. --Cloveious 03:46, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Same-sex marriage in Canada

I have nominated it for peer review. Ardenn 07:03, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

New afds

Just thought I'd let you know: someone is reopening the "minor candidates" debate.

CJCurrie 05:25, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Fredericton-Fort Nashwaak

Thanks GZ for your minor but helpful edit :) I always getting very startled when I see those pages change because it is so rare than anyone but me goes near them!! :p - Jord 16:51, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

AfD

Hi Ground Zero, I noticed your supportive vote on Niki Ashton, and found a similiar AfD on an NDP candidate in the 2006 election that's already had one AfD vote to Keep. Right now it's hovering, and just needs your Keep vote. Please go here Thanks. CanadianElection 10:33, 20 April 2006 (UTC)


Don't remove redlinks from articles

Please don't remove redlinks from articles, they are there for a purpose. Removal of them might be considered vandalism. — Dunc|☺ 22:23, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

No, removal of redlinks may not be considered to be vandalism. Please review Wikipedia:Vandalism. Removing redlinks is not listed there as an example of what vandalism is. It does say, however:
Any good-faith effort to improve the encyclopedia, even if misguided or ill-considered, is not vandalism. Apparent bad-faith edits that do not make their bad-faith nature inarguably explicit are not considered vandalism at Wikipedia. For example, adding an opinion once is not vandalism — it's just not helpful, and should be removed or restated.
As I have indicated, my edits were unquestionably in good faith. Your accusation of vandalism is a violation of the Wikipedia policy on No personal attacks. I ask you for an apology, and that you be more civil in the future. Ground Zero | t 22:50, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Paul MacEwan

I'm familiar with him, and would be glad to contribute -- I'm busy with other things for the next few days, though. CJCurrie 22:12, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Crashing a private party

I hope that you will excuse my intrusion into Category:Canadian Wikipedia administrators. Regards, Ground Zero | t 20:21, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Tee hee. The Indians and Aussie had their own cats, I thought we should join along. Guess I should've looked for fellow Canuck sysops. -- Zanimum 20:52, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

x

Hi, please vote Restore on this article which was speedily deleted though it had 2 AfDs vote to keep. See [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review#Simon_Strelchik link]. Thanks. GSinclair 11:31, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Ottawa Rapid Transit

Good job cleaning it up, was going to go through it today and saw you did so, keep up the good work. -- Eric B ( T • C • W ) 14:59, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Harper Ads Redux

Mind checking out/helping the current situation on 2006 Liberal Party of Canada election ads for me? Thanks. Habsfan|t 03:20, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Hello ... and your feedback is requested!

Hello! I hope you're well. After an extended wikibreak – ha! – I'm ramping up here again. Apropos ...

Would you be able to peruse and edit (as needed) this list of Canadian provinces and territories by gross domestic product, which I just created? Merci! E Pluribus Anthony | talk | 22:48, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

TY! E Pluribus Anthony | talk | 01:09, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Feedback

Hi there, please offer feedback to election candidate article scheduled for deletion, and who has had 2 AfD vote keep:deletion review. Gsinclairr 02:38, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Judi McLeod

Hi Ground Zero. Would you be interested in contributing to Judi McLeod? SlimVirgin has been made mass edits to the page, some of which defy reason. In particular I'd like your thoughts on the discussion about McLeod's contributions to Frank Magazine. [2] Here's a link to the disputed paragraph. [3] I don't understand why Slim feels that "contributed" equals "worked for". Nobody claims McLeod worked for Frank Magazine. She contributed to the publication. I don't understand Slim's confusion. --Cyberboomer 02:20, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Adelle Davis

Greetings my friend :). It was my pleasure to have your assistance with the "Dogpatch USA" article, and I have a great deal of respect for you. If you have time, would you please review this article? Your opinions and suggestions would be greatly appreciated. --RogerK 03:33, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

For the record...

I answered your question about Social Credit and the 1968 federal election on my own talk page [4]... and I also changed my talk page guidelines to take into account those who, like you, prefer to avoid fragmenting discussions. — ABCXYZ (talk) 04:49, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Another mushroom pops up

Hey there. You're the resident fringe party guy around here, and I'm moderately absorbed in other stuff, so you might want to take a look at http://www.peoplespoliticalpower.ca/home/home.html. I can't really wade through it without getting a headache--seems to be equal parts CAP, FPNP and Raymond Samuels put in a blender. They have managed to get their signatures together, though [5]. I suppose the colour-finding game ought to begin sooner rather than later ;) The Tom 04:22, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

GD edits

You may want to add Howard Moscoe to your watchlist as well. GoldDragon has repeatedly inserted some trivial comments made by Moscoe about the Toronto Police Services, and seems oblivious to the fact that no-one else considers them significant.

(I'm currently in the early stages of expanding said page, btw.) CJCurrie 22:11, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

I disagree on CJCurrie's repeated attempts to downplay/trivialize them, in light of how he included similar material on David Miller, the latter which blows several right-wing slip ups out of proportion in order to make them relevant. Since Howard Moscoe is a short article, he can balance it out by adding lots of material, rather than trying to make excuses to get rid of the comments. GoldDragon 16:42, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

I'm having trouble wrapping my head around the issues here, so I apologize to both of you for not weighing in. Ground Zero | t 12:05, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Marijuana Wiki

Hi there,

I saw your contributions over at the Marc Emery article, and thought you might be a good person to talk to about this.

I've started a Marijuana wiki (aka The Sticky Wiki) which I think you might be interested in. I'm hoping you can help me get started with this project. Whereas lots of articles about weed get speedy-deleted on Wikipedia, they would be totally cool over at MarijuanaWiki. But really I want the site to be more of a marijuana community than merely an encyclopedia.

To give you an example, I want to have city guides about where to score, find pot-friendly cafes, marijuana events, and what represents a good price in that city. Etc. (You can check out the featured article: "Toronto" to see what I mean). I also want to have grow diaries and marijuana blogs. All in all, basically more communal than encyclopedic.

I am in need of admins/moderators, and people experienced with MediaWiki to help build policy, categories, and templates, etc. If you'd be interested in helping me with this project, the URL is MarijuanaWiki

Thanks for your time and consideration. Hope to see you there!

-- nsandwich 23:43, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Liberal attack ad

Thanks for resolving the edit war. Before you intervened, debate between Habsfannova and myself was getting pointless since it was a "he-said she-said" type of thing.

Regarding accidentally undoing grammar changes, etc., it does get frustrating with recent politicians. Although a Red Tory ideologically, I feel I often have to play the role of the right-wing in order to balance out left-wing bias. So the long-running conflict with CJCurrie over Stephen Harper, Ontario Harris gov't, Toronto municipal politicians (David Miller, Howard Moscoe) is a case in point.

BTW, you might have heard of a user GroundZero (AKA Brazil4Linux) that myself and several others were involved in an edit war with beack in Dec 2005 over Ken Kutaragi, he was banned because his sockpuppet was too close to yours. GoldDragon 14:19, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Siroky

Thanks for working on this. I wanted to make sure he was gone before changing it myself! CJCurrie 01:25, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Nova Scotia Party

I think we could do it, but was the Nova Scotia tartan part of their logo? --curling rock Earl Andrew - talk 01:38, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Loung Ung

Greetings again. Requested peer review for this article. If you have time, would you please review it? Thanks again for your expertise. --RogerK 05:59, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

  • I'll try to take a look. Ground Zero | t 12:05, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Blaenau Gwent

No problem. It took me a few seconds to figure out what he'd done it was so pointless :-) —Whouk (talk) 21:04, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Springbok Club

I do not always agree with your political comments, but I applaud your policing efforts on this crackpot group (membership about 10) run by a total crétin who most people, indeed most right-wingers, do their level best to avoid. Harvey, who virtually is the 'club', is a self-publicist. You cannot begin to imagine the chronic embarrassment of speakers who turn up at Harvey's 'meetings'. 86.137.204.101 12:37, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

AfD Nomination List of visible minority and aboriginal candidates in Canadian elections

I've nominated the article List of visible minority and aboriginal candidates in Canadian elections for deletion under the Articles for deletion process. We appreciate your contributions, but in this particular case I do not feel that List of visible minority and aboriginal candidates in Canadian elections satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion. I have explained why in the nomination space (see What Wikipedia is not and Deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of visible minority and aboriginal candidates in Canadian elections. Don't forget to add four tildes (˜˜˜˜) at the end of each of your comments to sign them. You are free to edit the content of List of visible minority and aboriginal candidates in Canadian elections during the discussion, but please do not remove the "Articles for Deletion" template (the box at the top). Doing so will not end the discussion. Ardenn 04:55, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Vaudreuil-Soulanges

Check Elections Canada, [6] It makes sense if you think about it, because Vaudreuil-Soulanges is a county in itself, and uses just a short dash in its name. --curling rock Earl Andrew - talk 03:11, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

3RR

Please see Wikipedia talk:Three revert rule. I've proposed a policy change that I'd you to look over. CJCurrie 03:37, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Saskatchewan Party

Could you please add this page to your watchlist. Some partisans don't appear to understand NPOV. CJCurrie 23:39, 25 June 2006 (UTC)