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[edit] Welcome

Hello, Pmbcomm, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on your user page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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[edit] History of Petroleum Industry in Canada

Looking good already! Well done. Bubba hotep 10:44, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Petroleum industry

 Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia! You recently added an external link to Blogspot in an article. It has been removed because the link pointed to a non-encyclopedic source. Please refer to Wikipedia's policy on external links for more information.
--Veinor (ヴエノル(talk)) 01:33, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "History of Petroleum Industry" articles

First of all: you've done a great job on the History of the petroleum industry in Canada... May very well be a featured article one day.

As for the History of the petroleum industry in North America article, I left my comments on its talk page. GregorB 12:42, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] History of natural gas liquids industry in Canada

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as History of natural gas liquids industry in Canada, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a direct copy from http://languageinstinct.blogspot.com/2006/08/richness-of-discovery.html Copyright 1998 Amoco Canada Petroleum Co [1], and therefore a copyright violation. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted.

If you believe that the article is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL), you can comment to that effect on Talk:History of natural gas liquids industry in Canada. Then you should do one of the following:

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It is also important that the text be modified to have an encyclopedic tone and that it follows Wikipedia article layout. For more information, see Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! --Interiot 19:57, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

As I have explained elsewhere, I own the copyright for this article. I am donating one chapter of one of my books to wikipedia. The text of the entire book is available online in my blog at languageinstinct.blogspot.com. Please do not pull this text. Thank you.Pmbcomm 21:10, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jack Tafari

Hi, sorry about the delay answering. I have responded on my talk page. – Bubba hotep 08:44, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

I will also comment on the problem with the above article (which has now been deleted) on my talk page aswell. Bubba hotep 08:48, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Charles R. Stelck‎

  • Hame of Fame. Thanks for fixing that crazy typo. Clerks 15:45, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Canadianpetroleumhistory

I fixed up that template last night and just wanted to touch base with you; looks like you were able to get it into the article without a problem. Contact me if you need anything else. Best of luck and happy editing! --Merovingian ※ Talk 15:55, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Okay, I fixed that.  :) The problem came from the link in the template; it was a redirect and that messes up the title in template on the article. --Merovingian ※ Talk 00:26, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] History of the petroleum industry in Canada

I left a comment on Talk:History of the petroleum industry in Canada. In essence, the changes are great; they both solve the previous problem and lift the standard of the article. Thanks! --rxnd ( t | € | c ) 06:35, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Well, six months ago I noted that it looked "like a very promising article". Glad I was correct about that one. A series of articles now. Great work... GregorB 21:38, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

It's excellent. Well done. Truly what the real spirit of Wikipedia is about. – B.hotep u/t• 19:34, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] In recognition of your great work

The Original Barnstar
In recognition of your hard work and perseverance over the months on making a raw, but nevertheless interesting, article into a great article. Well done. – B.hotep u/t• 19:37, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] RE: Barnstar

Thank you very much, although I will be the first to admit that your contributions were crucial. --Merovingian (T, C, E) 20:29, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Natural gas

Hello... I thnk we're reverting each other due to edit conflicts. Let's take it to the talk page and resolve it there. Thanks. --Ckatzchatspy 22:05, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Test

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[edit] Lightmouse and year-links

For your information, Lightmouse has a long history of year-link stripping, and has carried on a campaign of it despite many complaints and even threats of blocking. See the history of his talk-page for more on this. (Inconveniently, he does not keep talk-page archives any more, or if he does there is no ready access to them from his talk-page.) -- Lonewolf BC 17:44, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Why?

Hi. Why did you undo my edit? --John 04:24, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

I would like people to use the template whether they are at the beginning or end of the story. Also, sulphur is spelled with ph in Canada. Check the Oxford Dictionary of Canadian English. Sorry. You spent a lot of time on this, I know. 04:27, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
Nope. See Sulphur#Spelling. Please sign your posts by typing ~~~~. --John 04:30, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WP:OWN

I just read "I am voluntarily contributing a chapter of one of my books to Wikipedia." Please urgently read WP:OWN. Thank you. We don't need to display a template twice on one page, it is overkill. --John 04:28, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Stuff

I really appreciate your work with Wikipedia. I know that I don't own anything on this document, and I welcome improvements from other people, like yourself. However, I also have the capacity to make judgements of my own, and in this case I want to use Canadian spelling and I think articles of this length -- about 5000 words each -- can use the template twice without it being overkill.

Best regards04:33, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. I appreciate very keenly the variety of spellings in English. As a chemistry teacher though, with nearly 20 years experience teaching in Scotland, I have to say I think you are wrong on the spelling issue. IUPAC standardised on "sulfur" a good many years ago. (Personally I was against it, but they didn't ask me.) On scientific articles (which these clearly are), Wikipedia uses "sulfur" as it is an international project. By the same logic the light metal is always spelled aluminium (not "aluminum"). I appreciate the good work you have done, and am glad that you realise you grant others the right to change your work when you edit here. However if we cannot agree between the two of us,the next step will be to centralise the discussion and let others have a say.--John 04:55, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
Concur. Tyrenius 06:38, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sign

As a courtesy to other editors, it is a Wikipedia guideline to sign your posts on talk pages, user talk pages, and WikiProject pages. To do so, simply add four tildes (~~~~) at the end of your comments. Your user name or IP address (if you are not logged in) and the date will then be automatically added along with a timestamp when you save your comment. Signing your comments helps people to find out who said something and provides them with a link to your user/talk page (for further discussion). For further info, read Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines. Thank you. Tyrenius 06:38, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Almost right. It's 4 tildes, not 5! [2] Tyrenius 14:09, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] History of the petroleum industry in Canada (frontier exploration and development)

I have added several "clarify" tags to the article as the meanings are unclear. The words that need explaing are "spudded", "tight hole" and "jackup rig". Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 07:12, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. The unclear words are something I noticed a while back and not a particular problem just for that article. We all tend to write about what we know and use the jargon/slang that we are used to and forget that others don't always understand them. I noticed it because I am guilty of the same thing in airport articles. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 07:52, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
I just did this. I'm not sure how the layout looked to you but I've viewed it on 3 different monitors/computers and what I get is 4 sections in the opening; the map on the left with the table of contents next to it, then the opening section and the template on the right hand side. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 14:46, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
That looks fine on this one so it should work OK on most then. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 16:20, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:HRAJack Tafari.JPG

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[edit] Energy policy of Canada

I have already reverted to your last edit of this article, after studying the edit history. A large deletion by an editor with a redlink userpage is usually not a good faith edit, but yours was. Sorry. Edison (talk) 00:18, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] JACOS

Hi. There is a new article about Japan Canada Oil Sands Limited (JACOS). This article is quite messy and currently nominated for deletion. However, I think this article is worth to be improved. I hope you could help as you have more knowledge about the subject.Beagel (talk) 07:53, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] A Regional Chronology of Operas, Composers and Librettists

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[edit] Edit summeries and preview

Hi, I noticed that when you edit you often don't use edit summeries. These help other editors follow what is going on to an article, and is more transparent (some editors leave out a summery when they have something to hide... not something I've seen you do, but it's another reason the summeries are nice). Also, if you're going to make many small tweaks, like in History of the petroleum industry in Canada where you moved the {{Canadianpetroleumhistory}} template about 10 times, you should really be using the preview button or the sandbox, so that the edit history doesn't get cluttered. Thanks, NJGW (talk) 12:55, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:SamsaraFoundationlogo.jpg

Image Copyright problem

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