User talk:PKT

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Hi there,

I noticed you added a {{cleancat}} template to Category:Greater Toronto Area. Before you added this, the category didn't actually exist - one of the quirks of MediaWiki, the software used for wikipedia, is that articles can be added to categories that don't exist, and will show up in that category. By adding the template, you created the category!

To answer your question from the category's talk page, no the category isn't necessary right now. We may use it in the future to organize other categories for the urban area, but we're not there yet.

Anyway, let me belatedly welcome you to Wikipedia. if you have any questions, feel free to leave a message on my talk page. Mindmatrix 15:03, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

That's a heck of a quirk - Category:Greater Toronto Area had 3 or 4 links to communities

I haven't had a look at yet!PKT 17:33, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Yes, quite a quirk...aside: would you object if I deleted the category? I'll de-link the three articles that still populate it. Mindmatrix 18:48, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

No objection at all from me! PKT 02:27, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks - I've deleted it. Mindmatrix 14:39, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Bradford 2 Duplicate content 3 Lists of mayors 4 Opera atelier 5 Cardinal Carter, or Ecole Renaissance? 6 Keeshonden 7 RE: Roads Project (From Smcafirst) 8 Palm Island, Queensland Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight 9 Invitation to a WikiProject 10 mayors of cities in Quebec 11 Ontario School Boards and Authorities 12 St. Charles College (Sudbury) 13 Barrie, Ontario 14 VIVA System map update 15 Lead Story section 16 One Night Only 17 Mr. T reference 18 York Region - Viva map 19 AfD nomination of Toronto Golf Club 20 Ontario Pork: AfD? 21 Edit Summary 22 Irani cafe 23 AfD Debate 24 Keeshonden 25 Your edit summary usage 26 Windsor, Ontario fire of 1871 27 Guelph, Ontario 28 Cameron Waterman, inventor of the outboard motor and famous resident of Grosse Ile/Downriver Michigan 29 Village Pump (assistance) : I have answered you there 30 ShepBot

[edit] Bradford

I marked this article as cleanup simply because it has so many one-sentence paragraphs, and includes some trivial information. The text simply doesn't flow from one idea to the next. Make whatever changes you think are necessary (I notice someone has recently added some background info). Could you also verify the bit about Portuguese ancestry, if possible?

In general, it would be preferable to include verifiable and relevant data, rather than prognostication or advertising. For example, one of the statements in the article is Geranium Group plans on building enough homes in the next 25 years to expand the town to 120,000 people. Bradford(south Simcoe), along with Guelph and parts of Durham region are designated as the next major growth areas for the GTA. This strikes me as advertising. Instead, if you find information from BWG's planning department about expected growth etc, that would be far better; there's no need to mention a specific developer. I hope this helps! Mindmatrix 13:14, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Duplicate content

Hi again! If you find articles, such as you did with Kleinberg, that duplicate content in another article (usually because the creator of the new page mis-spelled the title or isn't aware of naming guidelines), simply feel free to create a redirect to the appropriate article. Redirects from common mis-spellings are especially useful, since they silently guide the reader to the right place. Mindmatrix 15:49, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lists of mayors

Generally, if an article contains a series of related things, it probably belongs in a list. Naming standards for lists are List of XXX (see Naming conventions for all sorts of gory details). Note that you can have each of List of mayors of Markham, Ontario, Mayor of Markham, Ontario, and Don Cousens et al. You can categorize the individuals in Category:Mayors of places in Canada (I think this category is what you were looking for), or one of its sub-categories.

In any event, don't be shy about adding content. If you put it in the wrong place, it can always be moved, deleted, redirected, reformatted, or merged.

BTW: to link to a category inline in a talk page, simply precede it with a colon, like so [[:Category:Mayors of places in Ontario]], which renders as Category:Mayors of places in Ontario. That way, you can link to the category without include the talk page in that category. Mindmatrix 18:06, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Opera atelier

At the top of the page (assuming you use the standard CSS skin/theme) you should see a button labelled move. Once you click on it, it'll give you the current title, and request the desired new title and a reason for the move. If the destination article already exists, you'll receive a warning, otherwise the move will succeed. It'll also inform you to check articles that link to it, in order to update the links on those pages. Give it a try with this article; I'll fix up any mistake you make, though I doubt it'll be necessary. Mindmatrix 22:56, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cardinal Carter, or Ecole Renaissance?

Hi. I noticed your recent edit of Aurora, Ontario to remove mention of École Renaissance. I did a quick search and found this info:

• Construction schedule
• New website
• School board, with list of schools (skip past the elementary schools to find this one)

It seems to me that original statement was indeed correct, though I'm having a hard time determining if this is in the YCDSB, or if CSDCCS is a different board. The Ontario Ministry of Education listing suggests they are different boards, and different schools. However, the address for both is the same. Perhaps YCDSB split into a French and English boards...thoughts? Mindmatrix 17:35, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Blast! I had forgotten about the French/Catholic Board. I'll put Ecole Renaissance back into the Aurora article, but make it clearer which Board it belongs to....--PKT 01:36, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Keeshonden

You're absolutely right about this; hope you don't mind I then removed it from the page, trying to avoid clutter. Thanks for letting me know about this, and your perspective on the Keesie colored Poms! Keesiewonder 02:19, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

* Within AKC, the Keeshond is in the Non-Sporting Group.

this is already mentioned in the infobox. PKT 01:15, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RE: Roads Project (From Smcafirst)

Thank you for your feedback. I know my grammatical skills are poor, and I would definitely improve on that. I would make sure I spell check my articles. Thank you again for you suggestion. --The Geography Expert 23:18, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Palm Island, Queensland Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight

Hi PKT, I notice you have contributed positively in the past to the Palm Island article, I realise that you are Canadian and therefore probably not a member of WikiProject Australia :), however since you have shown an interest in this article I thought you might be interested to know that it has just been voted the Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight and therefore it will (hopefully) be significantly improved upon by many editors over the next two weeks. I invite you to help out if you have the time, I have started a to do list to get things started feel free to edit or add to the list or just help out where you can with the current items. Thanks, WikiTownsvillian 07:28, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Invitation to a WikiProject

Hi PKT,

Thank you so much for "cleaning up"after me for my spelling and grammar errors! I am here, on behalf of other members of WP:GHR, to invite you to join our WikiProject Golden Horseshoe Roads. We want to invite you to be our "clean-up counselor", which means that you may help us to wikify our articles, fix typos, and most of all grammars and spelling mistakes. We think that you are very capable of this position because you are proficient in correcting grammar mistakes and proofreading (according to your contribution). Furthermore, on your userpage (and from my own experience), I see that you know quite a bit of the Greater Toronto Area.

P.S. : If you do not know what the term Golden Horseshoe means, read its article. Also, the newsletter of this WikiProject will be delivered by mid-February (Myself, and Ilovevancouver90909, are busy with exams right now.) One more thing, we are currently working on regional roads, landmarks, and communities articles right now.

Please let me know if you have made your decision! We need your help!

--Smcafirst or Nick • Sign Here • Chit-Chat • Contribs at 21:19, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi again,

I don't mean to urge you or anything, but have you made up your mind whether or not you would like to join our WP:GHR? Please let us know if you do so as soon as possible, Thank You!

Smcafirst or Nick • Sign Here • Chit-Chat • Contribs at 21:50, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Declined, I would rather not commit to that role at this time...........PKT 14:45, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] mayors of cities in Quebec

Hi, I noticed you couldn't find the mayors for a number of municipalities. This has an updated list http://www.mamr.gouv.qc.ca/repertoire_mun/repertoire/repertoi.asp Just search for the municipality you want and look it up -- Earl Andrew - talk 05:31, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ontario School Boards and Authorities

Note to self: http://esip.edu.gov.on.ca/english/default.asp

[edit] St. Charles College (Sudbury)

The girls' school wasn't called Marymount Academy until the late 1990s, long after St. Charles was co-ed and shortly after St. Benedict's opened. Prior to that, it was called Marymount College. Bearcat 04:21, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Barrie, Ontario

Someone made edits to Barrie, Ontario, which you reverted. Not that I care, but just so I understand, why did you remove the changes (the person had added some media outlets)? Ccrashh 13:52, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] VIVA System map update

Done - thanks for pointing this out to me. David Arthur 19:23, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lead Story section

The "lead story" on the portal is from February/07, and it's currently September/07. I removed it and Mkdw reinstated it with the comment "Outdated sections aren't to be removed. Either update them or leave them so someone else can update it." Fine. Who knows how to do that? I have tried and I can't figure it out. PKT 23:18, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

1. Create a new article at Portal:Current events/Canada/News Feed/Archive/xxxxx (where xxxx is your article)
2. add <noinclude>{{archive}}</noinclude> [[Category:Current_events_Canada]] to the page you've created
3. write the article
4. change Portal:Current events/Canada/Lead Story 's transclusion to {{Portal:Current events/Canada/News Feed/Archive/xxxxx}} from {{Portal:Current events/Canada/News Feed/Archive/LS TSX}} (where xxxxx is your article)
5. update Portal:Current events/Canada/Archive to link to your article.

And you're done. 132.205.44.5 02:47, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] One Night Only

Thank you for informing me of the speedy deletion of One Night Only (Indie pop band). ''I Am The Master Of All Thunder'' (talk) 11:29, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mr. T reference

Hi! The problem you had with the reference was trying to put template code in the <ref> tag. Normally, to use this format you need to enter:

"<ref>{{citeweb |url = xxx |parameter2 = |etc }}</ref>"

The consensus for dates currently appears to be the format YYYY-MM-DD. All the best TINYMark (Talk) 00:48, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] York Region - Viva map

The GO Transit web site lists the peak-time Newmarket ‘B’ service as using a stop on Yonge Street at Murray Drive, which is just 300 m from Henderson VIVA — or am I misinterpreting this somehow? David Arthur (talk) 22:45, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

The B only stops at the few points listed in the GO schedule though, correct? David Arthur (talk) 01:21, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Hmm... if that’s the case, perhaps I’ll change the label to just ‘GO coaches’ and leave off the B service. —Preceding unsigned comment added by DavidArthur (talk • contribs) 14:35, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AfD nomination of Toronto Golf Club

I have nominated Toronto Golf Club, an article you created, for deletion. I do not feel that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Toronto Golf Club. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. - Jameson L. Tai ^{talk ♦ contribs} 11:23, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ontario Pork: AfD?

Since you suggested it [1] and since I know little about Canada, Ontario, or pork, do we want to AfD Ontario Pork? -- Writtenonsand (talk) 13:58, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

I did the AfD, and the article survived after a user improved it, and another user moved it to a proper title.^{PKT (talk) 13:13, 19 December 2007 (UTC)}

[edit] Edit Summary

Hello. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary, which wasn't included with your recent edit to Talk:University of Lethbridge. Thank you. --GJ (talk) 18:40, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Hello. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary, which wasn't included with your recent edit to Talk:List of Concordia University people. Thank you. GJ (talk) 23:26, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

I have been updating talk pages from Category:Unassessed_Education_in_Canada_articles. There were almost 1,000 of them when I started. In the interest of time, I haven't added edit summaries when there is next to nothing on the page to begin with. ^{PKT (talk) 13:12, 19 December 2007 (UTC)}

[edit] Irani cafe

I am a new user of wiki pages. I do not know the procedure to de-orphone the article.I would be very happy if you could do it or guide me to it.As may be seen, I have also added all the internal links as also external links in the Article. Thanks User:Nvvchar--Nvvchar (talk) 12:35, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AfD Debate

Can you please take another look at this AfD debate as it has been fleshed out a lot since your Delete vote and certainly satisfies a number of the WP:BAND criteria. Many hours have been wasted on this already which could have been spent on improving this resource. Michaeljohnsfans (talk) 10:14, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

No, he's still not notable, unless he reaches the American Idol finals. PKT (talk) 15:38, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Keeshonden

Hello Peter,

My name is Mike. I am a new member of the Keeshond world, and I will be adopting my own conformation Keeshond from Nightwind this June/July. I learned that this was your username from the Keeshond talk pages. I definitely consider Keeshee to be one of the "greats", along with Ruttkay, Chandray, etc. It is truly a wonderful kennel. I was talking with Debbie of Nightwind, and Keeshee came up because some of your wonderful dogs are in her lineages. I was disappointed to learn that you had stopped breeding some time ago. You guys were actually one of the kennels I had considered, along with Foxfair, Bonnyvale and Nightwind, until learning that you don't breed anymore. I see that your website hasn't been updated for a while. I had been wondering, what made you stop breeding? Are you still active in the Kees community, and do you currently own any Keeshonden? It really is a pleasure to meet you, knowing all that you and your wife have done for the Keeshond community. Keeshee is truly deserving of high praise, considering all that the program has done for the breed.

Mike MAP91 (talk) 03:37, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Hello again Peter,

Thanks for the information. I definitely think you made the right choice, and I would have done the same thing in your situation. The Royal Conservatory is such a great school. I play the Alto Saxophone, and my music teacher said it is like the Juilliard of Canada. It is nice to hear you still have 9 (!) Keeshonden. I'm sure that you are never cold at night, even in Canada :). It must be very rewarding to have bred and shown a BIS female. That is quite the accomplishment. Do you still show? I will be attending the Capital Keeshond Club's Harrisburg, PA specialty this April. I am really looking forward to seeing how everything works, as well as seeing all the different Keeshonden and their handlers. What I really look forward to is the trip to Ohio. It really brings me to that proverbial pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, which is my puppy. I feel that this is really bringing me to a new milestone in my life, as well as initiating me into a lifetime of rewarding experiences. It is nice to have learned a little more about Keeshee, as my puppy will most likely have some Keeshee blood in him/her. Now I know the full story of the Keeshee program. It is also nice to have spoken to an experienced Keeshond breeder and fancier like yourself. Take care, and stay warm up there in Ontario!

Mike MAP91 (talk) 01:07, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Your edit summary usage

Hi there. When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labeled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:

The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.

Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the edit summary field. If you are adding a section, please do not just keep the previous section's header in the Edit summary field - please fill in your new section's name instead. Thank you. - Milk's Favorite Cookie 01:25, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
My response: Hi Milk - yes, I know about Edit Summaries - I use them most of the time. Check my contributions. I am working through Ontario-related articles and adding a lot of missing project tags. In the interest of covering ground and increasing volume, I am not adding Edit Summaries to each and every one. Thanks for the visit.

Sure! Don't worry about it! Just a friendly reminder! Also:

- Milk's Favorite Cookie 01:37, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Windsor, Ontario fire of 1871

I agree that references are desirable for this historical episode. Here's a few. None of them all that suitable for Wikipedia, which is why I didn't list them.

http://www.walkerville.com/postcards/postcard-sample.pdf see p. 24

http://209.202.75.197/digi/chi/timeline.asp?Lang=english

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9803E2DF1439E43BBC4B52DFB667838A669FDE&oref=slogin (mentioned in the headline only; note that the Windsor fire occurred 4 days after the start of the fires in Chicago, Peshtigo, Wisconsin, Holland, Michigan, Manistee, Michigan, and Port Huron, Michigan.

http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1524.htm (one sentence, paragraph 8)

http://www.windsorpubliclibrary.com/branches/museum/exhibits.php (I'll bet if you contact the museum they could give you a suitable reference.)

http://www.jewishwindsor.org/page.html?ArticleID=30899 (see 3rd paragraph)

http://travel.canoe.ca/Travel/Canada/Ontario/2005/09/11/1220389-sun.html (2nd paragraph ) WolfmanSF (talk) 16:25, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Guelph, Ontario

I notice you hesitantly rated this article a "B" -- I just spent a while cleaning it up, so we can safely say it's firmly out of "start" range. Just thought you'd like to know... --Padraic 16:11, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cameron Waterman, inventor of the outboard motor and famous resident of Grosse Ile/Downriver Michigan

I saw that you recently removed Cameron Waterman's name from the list of "Famous Downriver Detroit Residents or Natives" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downriver). Grosse Ile historians consider Waterman to be one of the most significant inventors who has ever lived in the community (he is noted in Grosse Ile's Wikipedia article). Waterman's invention was a major innovation in boating and is arguably the most commercially successful invention to come from Grosse Ile or any other Downriver community (http://www.escapewatercraft.com/PDFs/Detroit_Free_Press_021005.pdf). During the 100th anniversary of his invention in 2005, the Grosse Ile Historical Society featured an exhibit of his early outboard motors which was attended by the public. According to Wikipedia's guidelines, it seems that Waterman's invention makes him worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia. What is the basis of your objection to including Waterman on the list of "Famous Downriver Residents or Natives"?Mhistory (talk) 06:50, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

I don't believe Mr. Waterman is sufficiently notable. When I encountered the list, his name was a redlink, although he had been added to the list in June/06. I got only a few Google hits for him, and quite frankly his name is not well known, in fact I'm not convinced he meets the guidelines of Wikipedia:Notability (people). Now, that having been said, you are free to add his name back, but unless there's more material to establish Mr. Waterman's fame somebody else might one day take his name off the list again. PKT (talk) 13:22, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for explaining your reasons for the removal. Wikipedia's standards for "notability" of "creative professionals" include: "The person is regarded as an important figure or is widely cited by their peers or successors" and "the person is known for originating a significant new concept, theory or technique." Waterman's invention of the outboard motor is widely recognized among boating enthusiasts and historians as being very significant, so I believe the case can be made that he meets Wikipedia's standards for "notability," but I'll put him back on the list and we'll see what others think. The fact is that Wikipedia's standards for "notability" are rather subjective in many articles that apparently have passed review. For example, I think few, if any, serious historians and sociologists would in general consider professional wrestlers and porn actors to be notable members of society or encyclopedic, but many people are listed in Wikipedia for these dubious accomplishments. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mhistory (talk • contribs) 16:38, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Village Pump (assistance) : I have answered you there

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[edit] ShepBot

For some reason the article is under Category: Miamisburg, Ohio. Thanks for pointing it out. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 15:15, 1 June 2008 (UTC)