User talk:Joshuapaquin

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Hello Joshua, welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Drop us a note at the new user log so that we can meet you and help you get started. If you need editing help, visit Wikipedia:How does one edit a page. For format questions, visit our manual of style. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the village pump. Again, welcome! ugen64 17:16, Mar 20, 2004 (UTC)

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[edit] CISV

Hi Joshua, I am Isam, from Jordan, a CISV member as well, I was happy that someone enriched the CISV article :) I wish you a great stay in Wikipedia. -- Isam 20:44, 20 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your reasoned contribution to the Warren Kinsella article. HistoryBA 01:04, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] invasion of iraq cleanup

No problem. Thank Evercat too. Taco Deposit | Talk-o Deposit 20:04, Oct 30, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Ottawa Wikipedia Meetup

Hey, just a quick note to let you know there is an Ottawa Wikipedia Meetup coming up this Saturday @ 2pm. If you can make it, please drop by the Meetup website and RSVP. If you can't, join up anyway, so you can find out about future Ottawa Wikipedia Meetups! --Spinboy 22:07, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Easter Warning

I thought it was funny too, but it still doesn't belong in Wikipedia. Academic Challenger 05:37, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] New Wikiproject

Hi there, just a quick note to let you know that we've started a new wikiproject! WikiProject Ottawa aims to expand the amount of articles in Ottawa, and of the articles that are there, take them from stubs to something worthy of being a feature article. We hope you'll stop by and sign up! --Spinboy 03:55, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] City of Ottawa

Good start! I look forward to reading the entire article! --Spinboy 23:28, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Landsat images

Landsat is operated by NOAA, a branch of the U.S. Government, therefore Landsat images are automatically public domain. Denelson83 04:08, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] John Manley

Hi Joshua. Thank you very much for your kind introduction, and I just wanted to tell you I did some substantial editing to the John Manley page. I think it is significantly better organized this way, but I would appreciate your thoughts on it as well. --Scimitar

[edit] cleanup of list of Star Wars planets

Could you please be a little more specific in your notation? The list works perfectly fine from my viewpoint. What would you suggest?

Cobaltbluetony 20:27, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] NFTY

Hey Joshua.. would you like to do me a favor? On the NFTY article, a new user (GimbelJeremy) has been editing the text with content directly from the NFTY website (see: http://nfty.org/whatisnfty/index.html). I realize that, while the info is correct, it doesn't adhere to Wikipedia's NPOV policy and comes across as an ad. Not to say the info can't be used, just needs to be re-worded to Wiki standards.

This is one time when I can't be a 'whistleblower' as I actually have known this user in real life, and couldn't make the reverts without looking like an asshole. --Hersch 17:08, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I know Jeremy too, but am not so worried about looking like an asshole. I'll get to it soon. -Joshuapaquin 03:59, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Page moved

Just a note that per Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/List of interesting Google Maps satellite images that page has been moved into your userspace at User:Joshuapaquin/List of interesting Google Maps satellite images - SimonP 02:27, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Members of the House of Commons

Re: Monte Solberg, the Category:Members of the Canadian House of Commons was removed because Category:Members of the Canadian House of Commons from Alberta is already a subcategory of that. Wikipedia has an explicit policy against simultaneously filing articles in both a category and a subcategory of that same category. Bearcat 00:08, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] MiniProject: URJ Camp info box

Hey Joshua... was wondering if you wanted to work on a mini project. I was thinking that the articles about the URJ camps need some work, and in some cases, need to be created as well. Interested in getting them up to par? And maybe creating an infobox to go along with them? --Hersch 19:37, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

Sounds good - count me in! I'm a staff member at Kutz right now, actually! Regarding the logos, I'll e-mail the URJ youth division webmaster Scott Hertz to see if we can get some reasonably hi-res versions. -Joshuapaquin 19:40, July 14, 2005 (UTC)
Hey Joshua, did some work on the URJ camps articles today and now each and every one of them has a page. Now it's up to us to add logos and everyone to flesh them out to complete pages. Mind if I start going on an infobox/template? Any ideas for included statistics aside from the obvious? Shabbat Shalom, bud.. --Hersch 14:14, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] American-Born Confused Desi

I saw you submitted this to speedy deletion. In fact you were looking at a vandalised version of the article. I reverted to a non-derogatory, non-vandalism version from the history. - Mgm|(talk) 08:47, July 17, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing. I think you can understand why I was so surprised by the content! -Joshuapaquin 18:22, July 17, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Google Maps subpage

A discussion was made between me and Adam Bishop about this subpage being linked from Google Maps. The decision was that it will not be included in any part of the article. Do not attempt to put the link back in without discussion. You may discuss further matters on my talk page or contact the admin, Adap Bishop about this.

A notice is also on the talk page of the subpage. • Thorpe • 19:42, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Google Maps

Thanks for your kind words. I freely admit to having a self interest in this. (And made the same admission on the GM talk page.) I moderate at one of the sites currently linked in the article (Google Globetrotting). I want the link to stay. The arguments for wiping out all the links are hard to counter when the list is large, and I see the main way to avoid such a wipe as being keeping the numbers of links way down. TexasAndroid 21:21, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Google Maps link

Hi, I see you removed the link from Google Maps to the list page in my userspace. I'm curious to know if there was any discussion or voting on this - in conversations on the topic before, I've taken the position that this link (a) helps prevent people from recreating the list on the Google Maps page, which had become a problem, and (b) can be clearly distinguished from a Wikipedia article if placed in "External Links". I'd like to hear your comments here or on my own talk page. Thanks! -Joshuapaquin 13:21, July 26, 2005 (UTC)

The link was in the "See also" section which is for links to other wikipedia articles. Looking at the vfd discussion for the page, the decision was to move it from main space to your user space, so it seems inappropriate (to me) to have it linked to in the See also section . I suppose you could move it to External links section. --Kurando 08:39, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Reform Vandalism

Hi, I'm Zargulon from the UK, nice to meet you. I notice an anonymous IP just edited Reform Judaism in a way that looks like vandalism. I am going to revert it but I'm not an administrator or seasoned contributor, so I might get eaten for breakfast. Just telling you in case you were interested in helping out..

[edit] Google Maps

Could I get you to weigh in on the current discussion on the GMaps talk page? I've got a very annoyed anon who wants his link to stay, and is ready to delete the Google Globetrotting link simply because of it's connection to me. Any assistance/commentary would be appreciated. TexasAndroid 16:50, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] University of Ottawa

Okay I agree for the "world renowed". How about for the "premier" we put " one of the premier" in north america or Canada's "premier" instead -Anakinskywalker 19:44, 24 October 2005 (UTC)


Haha nice Ottawa Rocks! I'm actually from Nepean, but you know same thing. I know that it is the “largest bilingual university in North America”, as in terms of student population, how about that?

I also see that you go to York, that’s awesome. I wanted to go their but went to Concordia instead because TO is too expensive for me. But most of my good friends are attending York.

-Anakinskywalker 16:20, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

"Largest bilingual unviersity in North America" sounds great to me. I'll take your word for it that it's true, but others might want a citation.
Ha, Toronto's expensive for me too, but I try to make up for that by living in residence. I did a year at Carleton and wasn't thrilled... that's why I'm here now. -Joshuapaquin 00:49, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
Please join the discussion at Talk:University of Ottawa in order to express you view on this issue. I definately agree with the use of "largest", as it is a concrete fact that can be measured through population or size. Hope the rest of discussion goes as smoothly! -Nameneko 00:52, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Request for comment

I put in an RfC in regards to Anakinskywalker. --Image:Ottawa flag.png Spinboy No ads on Wikipedia. 00:44, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Anakinskywalker

He was blocked for 24 hours for violating 3RR. --Image:Ottawa flag.png Spinboy No ads on Wikipedia. 01:39, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Google Maps

Your subpage was put in the External links of Google Maps. Now, I remember having a discussion about this a few months ago. It is not and external link since it is within the Wikipedia project. The link has been removed from the article. -- Thorpe talk 18:03, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Er, I don't think that's the right course of action. We've been discussing these things on the relevant talk page, and it seems that those who have participated in discussion feel that there is some inherent value in having the link on the page -- it is a collection created by the Wikipedia readership itself. However, while it is not "off-site", I think it's fair to say that the subpage is in fact not part of the Wikipedia project since it is within a user page. So it really doesn't belong in the "See Also" section either, because it isn't held to the same standards (e.g. NPOV) that one would find in the rest of the project. So I'm going to put it back in for now, and let me know if you have further objections. -Joshuapaquin 19:37, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Neoconservatism/ Adbusters

Thanks. -- Jmabel | Talk 06:16, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Re-Protection

Hey could you please ask for re-protection or can we do something about "Hipocrite". Even though the University of Ottawa page is still in dispute, and in Negations to fix some small wording, "Hipocrite" is deleting and changing huge amounts of the sections of the article before settling the dispute. He is also causing lots of problems on other pages, accusing others of NPOV and pushing his beliefs on to others agressively. Thanks!

Anakinskywalker 01:12, 06 January 2006 (UTC)

Sorry but if you have time and could look at this and give your two cents aswell it would be great. Also, why did you blank you Adminship page? I find the you have been balanced and fair when resolving disputes, and examine both sides fairly. You contribute positively to the site and I would Support you. Thanks again!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Ann_Duggan

Anakinskywalker 02:20, 06 January 2006 (UTC)

Stop coddling POV warriors, Mr. Paquin. Hipocrite - «Talk» 14:50, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
We are writing an encyclopedia. I do not intend to compromise about NPOV on an article about a University. If you can make AS feel that he's being taken seriously while at the same time not reinserting debunked spin and blatent falsehoods into the article, best of luck to you. I see what the POV warrior in question did to the last two people who tried to fix "his" article, and I do not intend to be the third. AGF does not mean Ignore Bad Acts. Hipocrite - «Talk» 16:35,

6 January 2006 (UTC)


[edit] VOTE

Hey Joshuapaquin, I'm hoping that you can vote on the sections rewrites are appropriate enough. I have listed them under "Hiprocrite, it's time to get down to business" and "All right..." from 1-7. Vote on they seem acceptable please. Thanks!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:University_of_Ottawa

Anakinskywalker 05:15, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Nuh-uh. No way I'm wading into this mess. -Joshuapaquin 05:57, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] John Paul Manley

All I can say is that it seemed like a good idea at the time. Now that he's a political player again, it just seemed stupid. CJCurrie 23:02, 25 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!--DarkEvil 14:43, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User Dispute RfC

So enterprising of you Pm_shef. I wonder where you get this drive to fight your father's fights.

I see you are following Bearcat's request of not being involved in Vaughan politics very closely. And how the admin user:Bearcat is enforcing that npov rule. It must be WikiHeaven. VaughanWatch 00:09, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Voting icons

Hi. This section located on this page was a past debate on which the voting templates were decided not to be used. I didn't know whether to interpret it as the templates should not be created again in the template namespace, or whether the icons or a user-namespace could be an alternative. You can be the one to figure it out. For now, here's what you requested! → J@red  19:20, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sens page protection

Hey, no problem. Much easier than blocking the little SOB's ;-) --curling rock Earl Andrew - talk 20:00, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Doubled-up userpage

Hi Joshuapaquin!

Thanks for informing me about my f**ed-up user page. I just realised userboxes aren't all that great and deleted all of the non-babel junk.

Cheers and thanks!

--NorkNork Questions? fnord? 20:56, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kettleby copyvio

Oddly enough, it was simply random chance that I found it. I saw the book sitting on a library shelf and decided to inspect it. One of the chapters was titled "Kettleby", so I just had to look. As I started reading, I thought to myself this looks familiar. So here we are! :-) I hope this puts an end to that particular situation. Mindmatrix 01:19, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to VandalProof!

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Joshuapaquin! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof from our main page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page. AmiDaniel (talk) 08:07, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

Hi Josh. Thanks for the recognition. It can be frustrating when editors revert, demand consensus, and then disappear, only returning to revert all the edits that have happened while they were gone before vanishing again. How can Wikipedia get anywhere like that? Only by the patience of seasoned pros like you! Keep it up! —Joel Bastedo 16:20, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

PS — Actually, while on the subject, can this sort of thing continue indefinitely? I mean, there's no point in editing the article, since even spelling and grammar corrections all disappear as soon as a critical mass of allegedly POV edits is reached; then the article gets turned back to what it was a week ago. It's like Groundhog Day!

[edit] Re: your email

I am responding via talk to protect my name b/c this is becoming ugly. I am extremely interested in the those things you received that you mention in your email. Please send me another email detailing exactly what was said and done. More likely than not, this will be used in a WP:RFAR proceeding. I am also going to fwd your email with RadioKirk. - CrazyRussian talk/email 05:18, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

OK, never mind, I guess. Anyone I know did this? Probably not... - CrazyRussian talk/email 06:17, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
Not a wiki user, as far as I know. -Joshuapaquin 06:19, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ignatieff

Hey JP,

Thanks for pointing out the wikipedia policy on the biographies of living people. I've quoted it on the Iggy talk page, but wanted to thank you personally for (hopefully) putting an end to the idiocy. Much thanks, eh? 198.20.40.50 22:54, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

No problem. And thank you for joining in the work on this page; the foibles over the last few weeks have ranged from horrific to hilarious, and it's good to have reasonable people like you around to avert total disaster. :) -Joshuapaquin 23:19, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Indeed. Commendations on your insisting on policy. Please keep me posted. You might find this of interest:

I strongly suggest that users pay careful attention to Sarah Ewart's words, because I am backing her 100%. I am not going to explain it. She already has. If anybody is in further need of explanation, please see the edit warning box on Talk:Michael Ignatieff. Sarah Ewart, in my previous experience, as here, is an experienced editor with a very sound grasp of policy and the best interests of wikipedia to the fore. Violations of policy on Michael Ignatieff and its talk page will result in a block without another warning.

Tyrenius 07:01, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
Awarded to Joshuapaquin for standing up for policy on Michael Ignatieff in the best interests of Wikipedia.  Netsnipe  (Talk)  14:12, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Terry Kilrea

The source about Terry Kilrea being part of the KKK is old... And I cant retrieve, and I remember before 2003 Election he just gotten out of prison for beating up a black priest.. But I understand why you did it, no prob :) --Deenoe 03:35, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] External Link Removal

Hello Joshua! Nice to see someone who contributes so much to Wiki. Could you please tell me why the external link under 'Canadian Politics' , 'Humour, Harper Valley' was removed? I've made external humour links elsewhere that were removed but the best editors could come up with was that humour doesn't have encyclopedic content. I'm afraid if this were the case much of Wiki would have to be cleaned up as there are humour links included on many subjects. Thank you!

Thanks for the inquiry. Wikipedia:External links sets forth the general principles of what is appropriate to link to.  :Unfortunately, I don't see "Harper Valley" as meeting any of the criteria in "What should be linked to" or "Links to be used occasionally". It is, however, a blog, which should "normally be avoided" by the same page.

You raise a good point that many pages do have humour links. I would, as a general statement, be opposed to those links as well. I doubt, however, that you will find many of them among Featured Articles. I do not monitor the entire Wiki for such things; that's well beyond my capability - but Politics of Canada is on my watchlist, and when I see counterproductive edits I will challenge them. -Joshuapaquin 04:56, 3 September 2006 (UTC)


Thanks for your response Joshua. .9 of 'what should normally be avoided states: 'Blogs, social networking sites (such as MySpace) and forums should generally not be linked to unless mandated by the article itself.'

The key words are 'unless mandated by the article itself'. Given that Harper Valley is political commentary using humour as a genre this complies with mandate.

I would interpret "unless mandated by the article itself" to mean an explicit reference within encyclopedic body text. Let's say a piece on Harper Valley somehow made a significant difference in Canadian politics - that would do it. But Harper Valley contributes no information value to the article whatsoever, so I don't see it as 'mandated' in any way. -Joshuapaquin 05:26, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

'What should be linked to' 5. says, 'Sites with other meaningful, relevant content that is not suitable for inclusion in an article, such as professional athlete statistics, screen credits, interviews, or online textbooks.'

As Stephen Harper and Canadian Politics is the focus of Harper Valley, this becomes meaningful, much as political cartoons are meaningful content to newspapers. Humour is an oft forgotten art form that does contribute to information value, it directs a reader to the attention of current events. As Harper Valley links to various newsites on important articles concerning events shaped and led by Stephen Harper and the current government and it's affects this becomes historiacl content, an imortant aspect of encyclopedic reference. I believe these points override your interpretation. If you don't agree, let's put it to the Wiki Gods to make a ruling.

Indeed, there is a fundamental disagreement here. I do not consider Harper Valley's content to be anywhere near the kind of topical relevance found in statistics, credits, interviews, etc. But of course, there are no Wiki Gods. There is only the article talk page. -Joshuapaquin 06:36, 3 September 2006 (UTC)


[edit] CBSA

Hi Joshuapaquin. Thanks. I've worked for the CBSA for awhile, so I'm trying to build the article into something more worthy of the second-largest law enforcement agency in Canada. Unfortunately, there are a slew of similar articles relating to the different governmental departments that require a lot more work, especially when compared to their American counterparts. I have some stuff that I've been working on for awhile that I will hopefully have ready to upload shortly. For the time being I think I'm going to focus my efforts on the CBSA page, and then start building peripheral pages from there. Once again, cheers. -Cfish039 01:47, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Editor Review

Hey, I've recently put myself up for the Editor Review process. With the (seeming) end of the Vaughan-gate mess, I've been back to normal editing for the last while and wanted some outside opinions as to what kind of job I'm doing; if I'm on the right track, if there's anything I can do to improve, etc. If you have some free time, I'd really appreciate it if you could take a look and leave me some feedback! Thanks. --Chabuk 03:25, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Federal election issues article

I don't understand how an article about a historical event can be obsolete. The 1867 election was also over a long time ago, but we still have an article about it. It doesn't go into the same level of detail and therefore does not require branching as the 2006 on does, and more's the pity for that. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we had in depth articles about the issues that determined the results of all of our elections? The article did need a thorough overhaul because it was written in the style of a current event. I have tried to update it to reflect the passage of time, but would appreciate someone else taking a crack at it. It is a worthwhile article that a lot of people have worked to build. Let's improve it further instead of trashing it. Regards, Ground Zero | t 02:33, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ignatieff

No problem. CJCurrie 01:31, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] CJPAC

  • Guess I should have checked if it was a copyvio. Sorry, didn't even realize it when I added the stubs. -- Chabuk [ T • C ] 18:18, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
  • I believe this edit proves it, anyways, someone else already blocked him. Thanks though! -- Chabuk [ T • C ] 18:36, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] URJ Campcruft

It's a mess, no? I've made a few passes in the past at removing the worst of it, but it keeps coming back in. It doesn't look like there was really any consensus on the talk page, other than perhaps that "all the detail is way too much":( Do you know if there's any larger WP guideline about camps? Or can we just say "AfD said it was way too crufty, so the details of each camp's age group's activites has to go."? DMacks 20:16, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Notice

NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT the scope of WikiProject Ottawa is being debated. Your input is requested. Thank you. GreenJoe 20:18, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Google Maps link removal

Could I get you to check out my comments at Talk:Google Maps#Link removal, and possibly restore the removed link? As I state there, I really should not do it myself, given my connections to the site, but IMHO it is still the best example of a link archive site out there and really should continue to be included. - TexasAndroid 14:06, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Armchair's article

Armchair keeps removing the "merge" tag from the Loyalist Six Colonies of the Nineteen Colonies article, can you do something about this? 64.231.49.211 20:49, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

I'm not an administrator, so there's not too much I can do. I'll try to keep reverting the page to keep the tag. -Joshuapaquin 22:05, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] William F. Buckley, Jr.

I see you added the conservative template to the Buckley article, in the fall of 2005. There is a user now who is insisting that labeling this conservative icon as "conservative" is somehow POV-pushing. Apparently he doesn't think Buckley qualifies as a conservative anymore, although he won't cite sources on the matter, just generalities. I say if Buckley doesn't qualify for that template, who does? But I wonder if you, knowing more about this than I, would care to weigh in on this somewhat bizarre debate? Thank you. :) Wahkeenah 17:30, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Twinkle

Thanks for the tips. I'll try that. themcman1 talk 13:28, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

  • It works fine now! Thx. themcman1 talk 13:39, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Toronto Meetup


TORONTO MEETUP NOTICE
Hello Joshuapaquin,

I saw you name on the Wikiproject Toronto page and I would like to inform you about a Wiki Meetup that is being organized. If you are interested, feel free to add your input on the Toronto Meetup talk page.

Regards,

Nat Tang ta | co | em

[edit] Dominion on Canada page (again)

I'd like this settled one way or another. Click here to comment. Thanks. --Soulscanner 09:32, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikimania 2009

Toronto Candidate City for Wikimania 2009
Support TORONTO in its bid to become the host city of WIKIMANIA 2009
Visit m:Wikimania 2009/Toronto for TORONTO's MetaWiki page and help build a strong bid.

-- Zanimum 15:59, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] In Remembrance...

Rememberance Day


--nat Alo! Salut! Sunt eu, un haiduc?!?! 23:40, 5 November 2007 (UTC)