Talk:Sarnia, Ontario
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i am writing a paper on sarnia for a university planning class and was wondering if anyone could direct me to a website or contact number for planning officials in Sarnia —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.198.108.100 (talk • contribs) 2004-11-20T00:00:35
- Try here: [1] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.156.111.186 (talk • contribs) 2004-11-20T00:13:09
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[edit] Unnecessary Facts
I find the following facts about Sarnia completely inappropriate for this article:
- The Sarnia Golf & Curling Country Club is currently managed by Don Summerton.
- Why should anyone looking up information on Sarnia care who manages the Golf & Curling Club?
- Sarnia has a very active Computer Users' Group (SCUG) with more than 100 members.
- This fact seems to be an advertisement for the group.
If there are no objections, I will remove these facts. --Darren Lee 13:57, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Keenan Hollingsworth
I saw this kid Keenan vandalized on here...He's my cousin oddly enough so I'll have to talk with him about this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sarnya (talk • contribs) 2006-01-13T18:15:07
[edit] Lambton County
An anon editor recently edited this article to state that Plympton-Wyoming is the county seat of Lambton County, but both Lambton County, Ontario and List of Ontario census divisions say that Sarnia is the seat. Could somebody please provide a reference to confirm? Bearcat 02:20, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
- The County of Lambton Administration Building is located in Wyoming, ON. [2] I've added references to the fact in the Plympton-Wyoming, Ontario and Lambton County, Ontario articles. --Darren Lee 18:40, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Jen Bida?
Who or what is Jen Bida and why is it important enough to be mentioned so high in the article? Acsenray 22:32, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
- Anon addition that was put in the article about 20 minutes before you posted this. I've reverted it. Bearcat 23:19, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Michael Moore
The following does not make sense: "He interviewed residents outside the local Taco Bell, The Plaza beside it, the Famous Players' Lambton 9 movie theater and at a gun show in nearby Point Edward."
The Plaza beside it, beside what Taco Bell? If so, if you are looking at the Taco Bell from the street to the left is a Bank (CBIC) and right is an Adult Movie store. FYI. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.191.2.130 (talk • contribs) 2006-05-19T09:59:47
- The plaza mentioned is just to the right of the Taco Bell when looking from the street, with the Adult Movie store being on the left, and the CIBC still further left. The quoted information is accurate. tgok 12:45, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] James Doohan
You may also want to include James Doohan in your list of people from Sarnia, tho he was not born in Sarnia, he was raised there and did attend school. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Doohan —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.191.2.130 (talk • contribs) 2006-05-19T10:09:36
[edit] Communities
Please note that the communities list is only for communities that are within the legal boundaries of the City of Sarnia proper. Nearby communities which are incorporated as part of other municipalities, such as Point Edward, Camlachie or the Aamjigwaning First Nation, are not to be listed as Sarnia communities. Bearcat 23:06, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Jonathan P. Arnold
You may also want to keep this name up under the "People from Sarnia" section. He was only in Sarnia for his high school years, but among other things, was one of the few chosen to represent Sarnia at the World Scout Jamboree in Australia in 1987. While there, he wrote as a journalist for the Sarnia Observer filing stories on what he saw and experienced. He also was a member of the LSSAA Sr. Football team for NCIVS. He later went on to found a successful consulting company in Toronto (the "Acme Widget Company") after dropping out of Queen's University. Several years later, he returned to university and received both his BA and LLB in the same year. Since then he has been involved in the field of municipal law working on cutting edge files. Not as sexy as, say, Kim Mitchell or Platnium Blonde in terms of a whos who of Sarnia, but notable enough for this little burg.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Litig8t0r (talk • contribs) 2007-01-19T15:20:16
- I've read all of your appeals on whether this name is notworthy here, in the Tony Fox talk page and in a Labrador article as well. It sounds like you are Jonathan P. Arnold or know him personally. The problem with this that only you know these facts about him. There's no articles on him anywhere on the internet. If you did a google search for Kim Mitchell, you would get all sorts of hits. The guy has his own radio show! I'm a film editor myself and have had my name in the credits on almost every channel in Canada. Arguably, I'm as successful as Jonathon P. Arnold, but I don't belong on wikipedia. He is not notable and will not added as a famous person from Sarnia or any other community.--Sarnya 23:39, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Vandalism
This page has been getting a lot of vandalism lately. Is there any way we can try to protect it from unregistered users? Sarnya 21:58, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] "People connected with Sarnia" section
I think the list should be moved to its own page called "List of People from Sarnia" or something of the like. Either that or convert its contents into prose and integrate it into the article. --Darren Lee 03:32, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
- Been away from Wikipedia for a while... can't tell why this list is displaying improperly (ie: half of the list shows under "References") Anyone know how to fix it? Darren: Option C might be to segregate the list into categories: Arts, Sports, Politics... etc ?? Lyn (talk) 02:01, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
- No comment on whether to split the list out or not, but the reason the list was partially displaying under the references heading was that somebody had misplaced the ref tags for Alexander Mackenzie's gravesite location; the entire list after Mackenzie was inside ref tag #1. This seems to date back to an edit sometime in December; prior to that Mackenzie's gravesite in Sarnia's Lakeview Cemetery was listed separately from his primary entry on the list — somebody merged the two but screwed up the ref tags in the process. Bearcat (talk) 02:11, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
