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Mayflower (1886)

Hi! I think you may have added the clean-up to Mayflower (1886). I think the title should be USS Mayflower II - 1896 or something like that but, being new to Wiki, I don't know how to change it or have it changed. Do you? I opened a discussion at Talk:Mayflower (1886) which sheds some light on this. Thanks! I would do something more myself but don't know the clean-up system well enough. (Stormbay 03:59, 30 November 2005 (UTC))

Talk:Mayflower (1886)

Do you know who to direct a renaming request to? Should the title not be "USS Mayflower II - 1896". or somesuch thing? I find reference to such a ship built in 1896 (in Scotland) and decommisioned in 1904 to use as a presidential yacht for President Theodore Roosevelt. It had quite a history that would be a good article if that is the ship referenced in this article. I am uncertain how to proceed...(fairly new to wiki). I think the writer meant the above ship.

To confirm my guess, someone could try: http://www.sail1620.org/discover_commemoration_mayflower_namesakes.shtml for some backgound. Thanks a bunch if you can redirect or resolve.(Stormbay 23:25, 30 November 2005 (UTC)) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mayflower_%281886%29"

You can easily change the title for almost any article by using the "move" tab near the top of the page. To pick the correct title for this article, I think you'll need to read Wikipedia:Naming conventions (ships), and figure out whether or not a simple title like "USS Mayflower II" is too ambiguous (so I think the recommendation is to use the hull number as the next recourse). The page Mayflower (disambiguation) should have links to all the articles on ships named Mayflower. If you create a new one, change an existing title, or discover any new ones, you should update this list. When there are many articles with similar titles, we put links from each of the articles back to the disambiguation page. There are some handy templates for this purpose at Wikipedia:Template_messages/General#Disambiguation. (I've just added one to Mayflower (1886).) It looks like we have yet to create articles for several of the Mayflowers, so you have a pretty blank slate to add whatever content you think is appropriate. Oh, and feel free to remove the {{cleanup-date}} tag once you think the article in reasonable shape. I have no expertise on this topic, so I'll leave the content-adding and title-choosing work to you, if you're interested. Feel free to leave me another message if you have any questions. Thanks for your help, Beland 02:19, 2 December 2005 (UTC)


Hi, I noticed you made some recent edits to List of United States Navy ships, M with regards to this Mayflower ship. Well in doing so, you peeked my curiousity. And I went ahead and made a page for it, USS Mayflower (PY-1). If you are looking for more information on a ship that has been in the US Navy (at least prior to 1970s) I suggest you look at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/ Which is the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. There is alot of information there, and it is all public domain, so no worrying about copyrights. The other thing I wanted to let you know about is that I took your article Mayflower (1886) and redirected it to this new one I made. Thanks for sparking my interest, and let me know if you have any questions about navy ships. I'd be glad to help you out if you are interested in contributing more about such topics. -- malo (talk)/(contribs) 05:26, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

ship stubs

In response to your question on my talk page, Yes there are ship stubs:

There are the only ship related stubs that I am aware of right now. I hope this helps. -- malo (talk)/(contribs) 20:11, 3 December 2005 (UTC)


John Tanner

John Tanner (1760-1846)

(Stormbay 22:20, 10 December 2005 (UTC))

Welcome

Stormbay, welcome. I'm not very active on the project right now, but I check every few days for messages. If you have any questions, just let me know. As for the article title, its usually preferable to use something that indicates what the individual was notable for...Dates are therefore hardly ever the best disambiguation term for articles on people. The DoCB lists have them only because these names were taken directly from a dump of the DoCB article database I created and switched to wikipedia format. Regards, Fawcett5 05:01, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

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 17:11, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

RE: Category:Years in Canada

1736 in this category appeared to me to be missing so I was setting up the page and adding events. It probably exists and I missed it. Could you direct me to it? Thanks! (Stormbay 21:58, 5 February 2006 (UTC))

Sorry about that. I deleted it both as having no content and as being a repost of already deleted material. I have undeleted and added a hang-on notice so that other admins will not delete it. Thanks for notifying me! --M@thwiz2020 22:01, 5 February 2006 (UTC)



DoCB Initiative

Hi,

Unfortunately I do not know who is working on this project. Your best bet is to look at the history of some of the articles and you will see who has been contributing to them. --YUL89YYZ 23:32, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Hello. Thanks for your note on my page. I am not too sure what is going to happen to the DCB list, but I sure hope it is not deleted. I haven't been too active in that project lately, but my editing habits change every once in a while. Lately, I have been concentrating more on hockey. However, I am definitely watching the situation. If you did speak with a legal expert, please summarize your discussion in the appropriate section of the Copyright problem page. This might help prevent it from being deleted. -- JamesTeterenko 01:47, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

  • Hi Stormbay - at present I'm still waiting to hear back from the DoCB folks. THey have been aware for several months about the copyright issue, but have not yet taken a position. Could you please elaborate on the reasons you have found which indicate that they are not copyvios? Thanks. Fawcett5 18:53, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Edit summaries

Sorry about that. I've become rather lazy as of late about edit summaries, especially for edits where the edit summary would take me longer to type than the edit :). Qutezuce 20:52, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Greetings Stormbay, thankyou so much for the bio link you provided on Cheiro. It has helped flesh out the article a little bit; far more concise and accurate about an elusive character. Great job with the Irish bio stub too. User talk:Drakonicon Drakonicon 06:49, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

WP:BIO

Hi Stormbay, I recently came across your article on Thomas-Jacques Taschereau and I have to say I didn't immediately see the importance of the subject asserted in the article. A google search showed just 68 unique hits [1] which could indicate the subject is not encylopedic. It might be an idea to incorporate more information (the biographical link seems to contain lots) and make the notability of the subject clearer in the beginning of the piece. Hopefully this and other biographical articles you have created are or can be brought in line with WP:BIO, you're clearly an enthusiastic editor which is always great to see. Cheers, Deizio 23:17, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Fort Ellice

This was posted in the Winnipeg Free Press on March 27, 2006.

Mon Mar 27 2006

By Carol Sanders A provincial court judge will rule next month on whether the Rural Municipality of Ellice can expropriate the lush Assiniboine River valley land where riverboats used to stop with supplies for trails that opened the West.

"We've talked about it, talked about it for 20 years," said Reeve George Boucher.

The bilingual RM nestled near the Saskatchewan border has wanted to develop the storied site of Fort Ellice on the Assiniboine River and turn it into a tourist attraction.

"The riverboats used to come up the river and unload their cargos there in Fort Ellice." From there, the goods would be shipped overland up the Carlton and Pelly trails.

It's only in the last five years that the municipality really started pushing to get the site, have it designated as historic, then develop its tourism and economic-development potential, said Boucher.

He said the owners of the 288-acre property haven't been willing to negotiate a deal. He said the province has tried five times to intercede but hasn't been able to get a response. "Now there's just a big sign that says 'no trespassing,'" Boucher said.

Owner Arthur Fouillard would be willing to part with 100 acres, not 288, said his son, Marcel Fouillard. He said the municipality has taken an all-or-nothing approach to acquiring his 85-year-old father's pasture land just south of St. Lazare.

"They showed up one day and wanted Dad to donate land. Then, last April, they served us with an expropriation notice. We had no time to consider their offer."

Marcel Fouillard said community groups have been using his dad's land for sports days and ball games and the senior has never received so much as a thank-you note.

They've offered to sell 100 acres that include some graves at Fort Ellice and a stone cairn, he said. A mediator backed that plan but the municipality rejected it, Fouillard said.

Boucher said the RM has big plans for the 288 acres and budgeted $10,000 a year for the next five years to develop the site and expects other levels of government to provide matching funds.

Fort Ellice was owned by the Hudson's Bay Co. and provided essential products for the settlers of the area. The Assiniboine River served as the principal transportation route. "It was an RCMP depot at the time of Prohibition," said Boucher.

The fort settled by Scottish people became obsolete when the railway pushed west, and the rail town of St. Lazare flourished with an influx of francophones, Boucher said.

"So many people like historic sites... Once we get it, we'll have tourism like you wouldn't believe." A provincial court judge in Winnipeg is expected to rule April 11 on the RM's plan to expropriate the land.

Boucher said the picturesque site is nestled in the Qu'Appelle Valley area and populated with bald eagles.

"It's one of the most scenic spots you'd ever want to see."

carol.sanders@freepress.mb.ca

jdobbin 02:13, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Underpopulated (Year) in Canada categories

I've replied to your comment at User talk:SeventyThree#Underpopulated (Year) in Canada categories. {SeventyThree(Talk) 20:57, 30 March 2006 (UTC)}

Clanwilliam

If there is a community of the same name (and it is not incorporated, as I would assume that it isnt) is should be at Clanwilliam, Manitoba (community) as a dab. The RM is good where it is. Thanks :) --curling rock Earl Andrew - talk 02:17, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

DCB copyvios

Hi there. I have not heard anything more about the DCB lists. I see that the Copyright problem page has been blanked out, so maybe it isn't an issue anymore. -- JamesTeterenko 01:15, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

RE: Secretly Canadian

hi, here is secretly canadian's official website: http://www.secretlycanadian.com

i don't have much other info about the label, other than a Songs: Ohia album was their first release.

Shamrox 08:35, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

RMs etc

I myself am unsure about the best way to disambiguate communities from RMs. The measures that I took were so that no links to communities were linking to RMs of the same name and vice-versa. I did not intend them to be the end all and be all of naming RMs/communities, but rather a stop gap measure to disambiguate that could be changed later on by someone who had more knowledge of the area than myself. So I am very open to discussion on the best way to do it and then we can do whatever moves/link changes that need to be done to make all of the relevant articles consistent with that system. Qutezuce 03:30, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Whoever created List of rural municipalities in Manitoba decided to link all the RMs in the form "<name of RM>, Manitoba". Now this leads to problems because there are also communities with the same name as an RM and communities are also linked in the form "<name of community>, Manitoba". So what I had done was to append "(rural municipality)" to any link for RMs that conflicted with communities. Almost all of the cases was of existed community articles and links on the "List of rural municipalities in Manitoba" pointing to them, but there was one or two with the other way around: an existed RM page with a conflicted community name that either didn't exist or was in some other location (I think it was Gimli and/or Dauphin).
So this leaves two systems: name both RMs and communities by "<name>, Manitoba" and disambiguate when necessary by adding "(rural municipality)" or "(town)" (village, etc) to the name. Or name communities by "<name>, Manitoba" and name RMs by "Rural Municipalty of <name>". One potential problem with the later system is that there could be RMs in different provinces with the same name.
This is a wider issue then just Manitoba, maybe the editors of other provinces have already come to a solution, or perhaps they should be invovled in the discussion. Qutezuce 03:47, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
I really despise naming any article "Rural Municipality of....". The problem is, I want to keep CSD's in Canada standardized. This means the name of the CSD followed by the province. Having "rural municipality of" is a tad redundant. To disambiguate, put rural municipality in brackets. Now, when a community by the same name as an RM is in a different RM, I would recommend having a main dab article with links to either entity. Eg. Clanwilliam, Manitoba (community) and Clanwilliam, Manitoba (rural municipality). Let's keep some consistency :) --curling rock Earl Andrew - talk 05:40, 21 April 2006 (UTC)


reply to Stormbay's comment on my talk page Regarding people searching for the RMs: redirects can be created for all of the RMs with the name "Rural Municipality of ...". This will allow people searching to find the RMs as you suggested. Qutezuce 23:15, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Springfield

I replied to your comment on Talk:Springfield, Manitoba and also outlined what I propose for standard naming conventions. Let me know what you think. Qutezuce 04:41, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Did you get a chance to read what I wrote on Talk:Springfield, Manitoba? Is that an acceptable solution to you? I'd like to hear your comments so that we can standardize on one system. Qutezuce 04:40, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Name it what it is

Kamouraska Regional County Municipality, Quebec is an example of a naming convention in the PQ. What is wrong with that type of naming? In my opinion, nothing. (perhaps a little cumbersome, but, accurate). Stormbay 22:09, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

DoCB Initiative

Thank you for the comments and thank you for your contributions to Canadian topics in Wikipedia. I have mainly been doing early Canadian political figures lately and DoCBO is a very useful resource. I am not sure of the current status of the DoCB Initiative. The project page is at Wikipedia:Canadian wikipedians' notice board/Dictionary of Canadian Biography. --Big_Iron 12:02, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Roland-Michel Barrin de La Galissonière doesn't seem to be there like you noted on my talk page, although he is under "B" in the on-line Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Must have been some glitch when Fawcett5 created the list. Feel free to add him & verify, or not, as you see fit. Luigizanasi 00:54, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Peter Fisher

Please don't put national categories on the disambiguation page. The only categories that page should be in are Category:Lists of ambiguous human names and Category:Disambiguation; when there's an article about the Canadian historian, that will be filed in Category:Canadian historians. Bearcat 22:09, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

seven years' war

why did you remove the unreferenced tag? that page needs more citations and references. I re-tagged the article for now. PMoney 07:01, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

  • Go for it PMoney! If it needs doing, do it! Thanks for your input! Stormbay 18:30, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Lenni Lenape on Aamjiwnaang: A Canadian Community Under Seige

Stormbay: You commented on an article: "Aamjiwnaang: A Canadian Community Under Seige." There was further discussion with your in-put on the article. I tried to reply to everyone BUT in my page. Is this right - will discussion continue in my page or do I have to go to other pages???? One other problem I have is, someone flagged my story as lacking NPOV, but never put in why or supplied examples from the piece. No name accompanied the "flag." Any help in this regard will be useful, thanks. Lenni Lenape. (User:Lenni lenape)

CCOTW

You showed support for the selection of a Canada Collaboration.

This month None was selected for improvement.

We hope you can contribute.

Hebrew Sibyl

Stormbay, you removed in this article reference to Wives aboard the Ark. Inadvertantly I guess? Regards.--Connection 11:37, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your back-edit. Regards.--Connection 20:58, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Alessio Tramello

Not everyone is knowledgable enough about the subject to fix or expand it, however they may be knowledgeable enough to point out obvious errors in the way its written. Not knowing enough to expand, doesn't preclude them from cleaning up or requesting clean up.--Crossmr 19:26, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Bio-stub

Hi Stormbay. You are exactly right. If correctly formed, a stub template will always be shown as one of the items in the category it "controls". Sometimes WP:WSS (the stub sorters) place the template as the first item in the category to make everything look a bit prettier. I've done that now. The former layout of the stub template was not in line with WP:STUB, but this is what the template was supposed to have looked like. Unfortunately a lot of stub templates become messed up because people don't follow WP:STUB so cleanup is a pretty common task as a stub sorter. If you're interested, you can find more information at WP:STUB. Happy editing. Valentinian (talk) 23:57, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Charles-François Baillargeon

Hi, I just wanted to let you know that I've moved your question to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Catholicism and replied there. Thank you. —Mira 02:44, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Baillargeon

Thank you for replacing the redirect. If there are any categories of Catholic Encyclopedia articles that you'd be interested in then please let me know. JASpencer 19:02, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Catholic Encyclopedia Articles

If you want me to seperate out Catholic Encyclopedia articles that relate to Canadians I'd be glad to do so. There's a whole slew of them - especially missionaries, Quebec Statesmen and bishops. JASpencer 21:20, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

The Catholic Encyclopedia article is simply aiming at having a Wikipedia article for (almost) every CE entry. You'd probably be better of going to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Catholicism. JASpencer 22:28, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Enforce inclusion of categories

Hi, I've made a proposal to change the software to prevent mainspace pages from being saved unless they contain a category. Since you've done a lot of work at User:Bluemoose/Uncategorised good articles, which would be affected by this proposal, I'd appreciate your thoughts! bd2412 T 23:36, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

'Bot edit on Colin Campbell Ferrie

Thanks for pointing that out. As far as I can see the actual bot edit is fine: I think it must be a coding problem with the new template. (Also my own stupid fault, it must be said...) Alai 18:24, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

RE: St Joseph's College, Darjeeling

Thanks for your message. I have no idea if The Principal is a Father with the Jesuits. I do not know about the school much, just created the article from available online sources. However I happen to know one alumnus of the school. I may ask him to clarify. You are welcome to change. Basically the problem is I have very little idea about Christian denominations/orders (I am not even sure if these nouns I am using are correct in this regard). Thanks a lot. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 10:35, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Charles de la Tour

Thanks for the thanks.

Kenneth McKenzie

Thanks for the heads-up. I must have been sleep-deprived the day I created that page, for there were a couple of other articles I worked that had similar dumb errors, despite the fact that I was diligently trying to do a very thorough job of providing REFs for everything I said.

Good luck on the other Ken McKenzie. Lemme guess. Was he by chance the one who introduced hereford cattle to Manitoba? There were SO many Kenneth McKenzie/MacKenzies for some reason, that it's sometimes hard to figure out who was who. And most of them look to have lived interesting lives. ClairSamoht 04:07, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

James Louis O'Donel

No problem. Regards, Rodney Boyd 18:22, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Uncategorized good articles

Thanks for the note. It's good to know that people are working as a team. One thing I'd like to suggest though is to put living people into Category:Living people and the appropriate birth/death year categories as well. Cheers. --Rajah 05:11, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the compliment. To tell the truth though, I am categorised out for now. :) Garion96 (talk) 02:31, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

DOCB categorization

Hi...just a couple of notes about the categorization of your DOCB articles:

  1. We're trying to keep Category:Canadian people itself empty of individual articles; everybody should be filed in one or more of its subcategories instead of directly in the parent. So could you please use appropriate subcategories, such as Category:Canadian businesspeople, Category:Canadian historical figures, etc., instead of directly applying "Canadian people"?
  2. Where the birth and death dates are known, could you add "(YEAR) births" and "(YEAR) deaths" as categories as well? If either or both isn't known, you should also add Category:Year of birth unknown and/or Category:Year of death unknown.

Thanks. Keep up the good work. Bearcat 06:20, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Every article

Was sitting lose in the Canadian +cat so I moved them to people. LindaWarheads 00:42, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Lybster

I think that Patrick Sinclair deserves a separate article. --Big_Iron 10:36, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Thomas Temple

Hi Stormbay. Thanks for your message. Yes, it makes sense to link Sir Thomas Temple in the List of Acadian governors for now. I will research it further. Best Wishes. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc 20:04, 12 October 2006 (UTC) (talk)

Hi Stormbay. I moved your note in the List of Acadian governors in the table to the discussion page: Talk:List of Acadian_governors --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc 20:01, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, Stormbay, for your kind note. I really was unclear as why the person wanted a "speedy deletion" saying Sir Thomas Temple was not noteworthy ! Perhaps because at the time he looked at it, I had only entered a few lines, and saved it and then typed some more later. Gladly, it was resolved. Sir Thomas Temple was an amazing historical figure for the colonies. Bests. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc 12:44, 14 October 2006 (UTC) (talk)

Thomas-Pierre-Joseph Taschereau

He was actually a member of the Legislative Council, not the Legislative Assembly. I've got that list on my "to do" list. There weren't ridings for the council and, at that time, people were appointed, sometimes until they died. I've only put links for the Taschereaus from the Canadian Dictionary of Biography; there are quite a few more. --Big_Iron 21:12, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Legislative Council of Lower Canada

The members of the Legislative Council for Lower Canada, which was created by the Constitutional Act of 1791, were first appointed in 1792. Before that, there was a Legislative Council for the Province of Quebec (1763-1791), so he was probably a member of that earlier council and then later named to its successor. --Big_iron 21:49, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Michel de Sallaberry

I've added the "{{prod}}" template to the article Michel de Sallaberry, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not and Wikipedia:Notability). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree, discuss the issues raised at Talk:Michel de Sallaberry. If you remove the {{dated prod}} template, the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. TheMightyQuill 07:53, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Jean-François Hubert

The reason I created the link was in case another article was created pointing to him. If you wish to create a stub then go ahead. JASpencer 17:58, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Paschal Sirois-Duplessis

You are correct; that should be 1797. See also [3]. Thank you for spotting that. --Big_iron 09:21, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

MJ Heney

Thanks for fixing up the Heney listing. I glad to have the help as I am a Wiki newby. I will not be doing further C DofB work. I did Heney since I am a GGnephew, as close as anyone comes since he had no children. His legacy helped pay for my college education.

hof —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.197.248.143 (talk) 17:21, 17 December 2006 (UTC).

Edward Greive(s)

I am inclined to leave it alone for the moment. There is another DoCB bio [4] (his father-in-law) where he appears as Edward Greive and his biography at the Assemblée nationale du Québec [5] also spells his surname Greive. I will check some other references, though. Sometimes, multiple spellings were used for the same person's name, even by the person themselves. --Big_iron 12:42, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Commius/Comnios

Thanks for the heads-up about the duplicate article. I've imported the movie reference and set Comnios as a redirect. --Nicknack009 21:39, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Fort Richelieu

There's no way to nominate a page on another langwiki for translation here; the translation process here pertains only when an article gets incorrectly posted to en: in its original language. The only real way to have an article from another Wikipedia translated here is to either do it yourself, if you can, or, if you don't know enough French to take it on yourself, to suggest it to someone (like me) who might be able to take it on. I'll take a look at it. Bearcat 00:00, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Okay, there's a basic stub there now. It ain't much, but the French article ain't much either. I did manage to find a few references to flesh out some details, though. Bearcat 00:22, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

re John Covert

RE John R Covert b Pittsburgh 1882 d NY 1960 I understand was a traditional painter until he visted Europe where he studied in Munich/Paris during heyday of Cubism and on his return changed his style to abstract reliefs ,he then became disllisioned,destroyed much of his work and went to work for a steel company.He founded the Soceity with Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia.Hope this helps your research.His work Brass Band is in the Yale Art Gallery,New Haven Ct. Rgds (ichthys58) ENGLAND —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ichthys58 (talk • contribs) 13:32, 7 February 2007 (UTC).

re John R Covert

Hi ,further to my messag yesterday herewith a google link that might be of further help.Have a good day.Rgds ichthys ENGLAND http://www.psupress.psu.edu/books/titles/0-911209-58-1.html —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ichthys58 (talk • contribs) 09:51, 8 February 2007 (UTC).

Re:Tag removal

As noted in edit history, I translated this article from pl wiki. It is unreferenced, but I should have added a note on the source especially after seeing the tag - alas, it was after midnight and I didn't think clearly (fixed now). That said, while I am a big fan of demanding references, I usually don't bother placing tags other then prods on stubs - they are usually in need of quite a few tags by defnition.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk  21:22, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

If you can find any info about Mikhail Kovalov to expand this stub it would be great. I created the article to get rid of the red link at Soviet invasion of Poland (1939) (which I think is close to a GA status).-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk  22:32, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Woking

It's wonderful to have a Canadian interested in the trivia of Surrey. History of Woking page is so awful it will be a delight to look at it and see if I can increase Woking Palace article. SuzanneKn 21:52, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Fort St. Charles

I didn't realize that. Thanks for the heads up. Kevlar67 20:08, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Mason-Dixon Wrestling

yo Stormbay.If you're interested in Mason-Dixon Wrestling,check out MasonDixionpro.com. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Cocky kid in da house (talk • contribs) 22:57, 26 March 2007 (UTC).

Sorry about that...

I "accidentally" reverted your last change to Freemasonry. That'll teach me to test scripts without reading them first. :-) --SarekOfVulcan 01:33, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Canadian Missionaries

The purpose of these pages is to list out all the articles that appear in the Catholic Encyclopedia that don't appear in Wikipedia so that people with interests in, say Canadians, can be aware that there are subjects that they could easily do articles on. JASpencer 09:04, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

1st Council of the Northwest Territories

Hi,

I was actually planning on doing that this weekend, its amazing since all those were red links when I started that page ages ago! My goal is to get a biography stub for every past and present Alberta and Northwest Territories MLA done by the end of the year.--Cloveious 03:29, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Just a thought while I am on the subject, I have had a difficult time with Northwest Territories data, vote returns from 1952 to 1987, I am also missing the names of a lot of Northwest Territories MLAs from 1921 to 1940, I haven't yet found good information on who was elected in the 1987 election. I also have almost no information on who was elected in or vote returns from by-elections during the period from 1952 to 1999. --Cloveious 03:41, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Review of Scientific Instruments

Thanks for the reminder on Review of Scientific Instruments. I got called away mid-edit --Kkmurray 15:46, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Which one is this?

There was an appointed Legislative Council for the Province of Quebec (1763-1791) established by the Quebec Act. There was no elected assembly. This was all changed in 1791. I haven't seen an article on that topic. There is an article on the Legislative Council of Quebec which was established in 1867. --Big_iron 10:01, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Citing DOCB

Hi, Stormbay! I'm Steve. I'm also working on the project to create articles for everyone in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Based on Kevin's comment here, which I think is on the ball, I've been trying to cite DOCB as a source in all the articles I write based on it. In fact, I've gone back though every article I created with it under "External links" and changed it to a reference. I'm mentioning this to you because you've reverted this work of mine twice now! I know you're just trying to make all the articles conform to a standard, but I do actually have a method to my madness! Stevecudmore 08:26, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Upper Peninsula War

Don't worry about it — it isn't in article space. It already got shitcanned as a hoax last Tuesday — all you saw is that somebody kept it as a user subpage for the humour value. Bearcat 00:03, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Oh, wait, sorry. You were looking at a title with the word "The" in it — what got deleted already was Upper Peninsula War (same article) without the word The. Consider it gone. Bearcat 00:04, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

ACC Sunday Night Hoops

No prob at all -- I wouldn't know what to do if I ran across an article on a Canadian university athletic conference's TV package myself. Perfectly fine to tag for cleanup and leave a message for people who know the subject. Thanks! VT hawkeyetalk to me 00:16, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Lackawanna Trail High School

You tagged Lackawanna Trail High School for speedy deletion as not notable. I did a bit of searching on Google, and found some good references and a notable alumnus. I think the article is fine now, so I removed the speedy tag. --Eastmain 03:05, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Speedy Delete Halloween, Alaska

You recently removed the {{db-band}} tag from the Halloween, Alaska page. That's OK, but please explain why. I've left my thoughts on the talk page Talk:Halloween, Alaska. Thank you. Senordingdong 18:29, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Dauphin

He probably isnt notable, but the article does assert that he is, so I sent it to prod. If it is removed from prod, and nothing substantial can be added, it can easily be deleted at afd. DGG 21:46, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Done. Thanks for the heads up. Eusebeus 22:48, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

COI Templates.

Hi, I'm sending you a message because of your involvement with the Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2007_May_18#Template:COI_and_Template:COI2 discussion. The result of the TfD was no-consensus, but there was a significant expressed consensus for editing the templates to bring them into line with good practice. Unfortunately this has not happened, and the templates have been left pretty much in the state they were before the TfD. Would you like to assist in bringing these templates in line with good practice? --Barberio 16:46, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Holly Walsh (Candian Politician)

The article on Holly Walsh (Candian Politician) borders on non-notability status. It really doesn't warrant an article at this stage unless more content can be applied to Walsh. Before this article, I thought Massey Drive was a section of Corner Brook with a unique identity. I would suggest a section in the Massey Drive article noting current mayor would be sufficient to establish her identity as mayor. --HJKeats 14:33, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Sociotype

*laugh* Um...I have about as much knowledge on the subject as you do, actually. I'm at a complete loss as to what to suggest. Bearcat 07:16, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Ian Randall Wilson

I wonder if you could explain why you've tagged this article as lacking reliable sources. Ibar88 15:37, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

French spellings

I generally try to spell French names correctly. The official policy on this subject is Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(use_English). French accents are part of the Latin alphabet but the policy states that the use of accents is a disputed point, with most favouring their use but no current consensus. So, as far as I can tell, there also isn't any policy about removing accents from article titles. Another factor might be what spelling is most commonly used to refer to that person.

I would not treat such a change as vandalism; it is best to start with the assumption that the person had good intentions. I noticed that some existing redirects were not updated so that there is now a double redirect for Michel Bégon de la Picardière. That suggests that the person who moved this article might be inexperienced. Because the article has been moved, it can still be found by someone searching for that person using either Michel Bégon or Michel Begon. If you wish to pursue this issue, you could start by contacting the person who moved this article to see why they feel that the other spelling would be preferred.

By the way, it is my understanding that currently the sorting for categories does not deal properly with accented characters, so I use the unaccented form for category names, for example [[Category:1667 births|Begon, Michel]]. I think that this happens for technical reasons rather than a matter of policy. --Big_iron 10:23, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Glen Eira College

Thanks for the feedback. I agree with you. I'll look around and see what I can add in the next couple of weeks. If I can't find anything of interest, I might get rid of it. Icarus78 00:19, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Re: Whinney Banks

Hi Stormbay. The main reason I removed the speedy is because there is no speedy criterion for removing settlements on the basis of lack of notability. Some areas are indeed so so small/non-notable that they are deleted (usually through AfD) or merged into larger areas. I don't think there are any general guidelines, but the main question is usually whether it is possible to get enough material to write an article on the subject. Whinney Banks does seem less significant to me now than when I first looked at it, and there may be an argument for deletion/merging, but I think it would be good to get some local input. It is described as an area within a ward, but wards have varying significance from city to city, and Whinney Banks has been listed as a suburb at Middlesbrough for quite some time, while the ward isn't. Hope this helps, JPD (talk) 09:10, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

1st Multinational Conflict (fictional war) and others

Thanks for catching that! There were also two other related articles to be tagged for speedy deletion. This particular editor has been troublesome in re-creating these article, then attempting to remove the speedy tags. Keep an eye on him. Realkyhick 23:55, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Pickled egg

I restored the Pickled egg article back to a version from January, when it was a disambig page. I think that should solves the copyvio and notabilty problem :O). FlowerpotmaN·(t) 00:08, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Trois-Rivières

Per your edit to Laviolette, I just wanted to point out that Trois-Rivières is a dab page, not an article about the city in Quebec. So just a reminder that you need to link directly to Trois-Rivières, Quebec. Thanks. Bearcat 21:08, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Copyright maintenance

With regards to User:CocoaBeachBoy's cut-and-pasted articles, I did prod most of the military bios he created yesterday, as I took them to be non-notable outside the context of the US military. Some were blatant copyvios, and I deleted those on sight. However, I believe that it is WP's policy to accept some copy-and-paste jobs that originated from the public domain, such as US government (military) sites. (See WP:COPY#U.S._government_photographs.) Feel free to do as you see fit with the remaining batch however. Thanks Gilliam 22:04, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

George Winner

Hi there. With regard to the verified tag on George Winner, I had to note that the article is sourced and verified. See "^ a b New York Times, His Aura Faded Now, Spitzer Faces Bolder Enemies, by DANNY HAKIM, July 23, 2007.", "^ a b c New York Post, GOP PUTS HEAT ON ELIOT'S $5M LOAN, by FREDRIC U. DICKER, July 23, 2007.", "^ Associated Press, State Senate GOP Seek Spitzer Loan Records, July 23, 2007." along with the official biographies at the Senator's campaign website and the New York State Senate website, so the tag doesn't apply. Thanks for checking out the article! Mrprada911 19:35, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Turtle Mountain (company)

Hello, Just saw your question wondering whether you consider the page on Turtle Mountain (company) to be notable. I encourage you to please visit www.turtlemountain.com. Turtle Mountain is a reputable national company that manages two successful brands, and the company's dairy free ice cream products can be found in grocery stores across the country, including Safeway and Albertsons. I was also just in a Wal-Mart in Seattle last weekend and saw some of their products. Why is Turtle Mountain not considered notable of a wikipedia page to you?

Please see the wikipedia entry for "Tofutti", a competing brand of soy-based ice cream. Tofutti has had its own page up for months, and Turtle Mountain is a larger company with wider national distribution than Tofutti.

I'll look forward to your response. Thanks for your time.

Windhaven image

You seem knowledgable and interested in Windhaven for some reason. I'm having trouble figuring out it I can or cannot legally add an image for the windhaven article. After visiting the "upload file" page my impression is that I may not upload a file from a generic image search. What acceptable/typical options does that leave for upload an image of the Windhaven cover?

windhaven image2

oh, right. that was from me.

Jta9qd 03:30, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

you're from canada so how do you no anything about Grace Dieu manor school!

Apparently you claim Grace Dieu manor school dosn't exist!!! YOU ARE WRONG. I went there!!!!!! Look on the following website

wwww.gracedieu.com

It is a real school and it does exist. It is a british private school LOCATED in ENGLAND. not Canada!!!!!!!! Get your facts right then delete pages, anyway i'll just do the page again if it gets deleted!!!!

Please get your facts right in the future!!!!

Thanks!

C. Barry McCarty

I removed the speedy on this one, being a college president is at least an assertion of notability. I agree with you, I think he isn't notable, you may wish to {{subst:Prod}} it. Thanks for keeping WP clean. :-) Carlossuarez46 21:01, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Tagging of Visiting Scholar

I recently removed a speedy delete tag that you had placed on Visiting Scholar. I do not think that Visiting Scholar fits any of the speedy deletion criteria because it is a page about a concept, not a specific person or group of people. Therefore WP:CSD#A7 does not apply. I request that you consider not re-tagging Visiting Scholar for speedy deletion without discussing the matter on the appropriate talk page. DES (talk) 22:29, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your note. The above is my standard message when i remove a speedy tag. The comments about not re-adding the speedy are intentionally made light "I request that you consider not re-tagging". I have encountered several cases where a user did re-tag after a tag had been removed, and so i use this msg when I remove tags from an editor I haven't personally interacted with before. If I know the editor, i normally don't include the re-tagging bit. I use this msg quite a lot while patrolling the category of pages tagged for speedy delete. Can you suggest improved wording that would indicate that tags should not be re-added without discussion to those who may not realize this, without offending those who would never do anything of the sort, given that there is no easy way to tell the two apart in advance. Any suggestions would be welcome. DES (talk) 23:15, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
Fair enough. Note that if you are unsure what speedy tag, if any, fits, {{prod}} is a wonderful thing. Note also that if you find an incorrect speedy tag and remove it (anyone may do this) you too are free to use {{Speedy-Warn}}. DES (talk) 00:07, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

RE: Turtle Mountain (company)

Thanks for the prompt response. In response to your belief that the product lists should be "seriously shortened," I can only refer you to the following wikipedia articles for evidence that full product/flavor lists are common practice on wikipedia:

I also believe such lists are important in order to provide the most complete and full information about an organisation to our wikipedia readers.

I agree that the page should elicit more 3rd party reference sources, and I would bet those will come as more readers and visitors to the wikipedia site have an opportunity to edit the page and provide information. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Olephill2 (talk • contribs) 11:40, 26 July 2007

IMO The sourcing is weak, but I thinmk it is notable. The tone needs work. I have removed some of the more baltently advertising aspects. I have commetned on the article's talk page, which is really the proper place for such discussion. DES (talk) 21:40, 26 July 2007 (UTC)


Bobby Tamkin

Changed article on Bobby Tamkin to a US-drummer-stub. As well, I cited references and provided external links. He is also a composer who has done feature film scores. I hope someone who knows more will add to this. I'm new to Wiki. Do you think this will suffice for the time being? Thanks.

CSD on Effluvium

I've removed the CSD tag you placed on this article because the reason you gave was not a CSD criteria. Issues such as encyclopediacness or similar (!) are best hashed out at an AfD, not subject to the quick, obvious decision that CSD is intended for. The article also could be a proposed deletion candidate, as it is currently just a dictionary definition. Natalie 00:00, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

The word Effluvium ,,, We found 23 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word effluvium

[6]

Very sorry maybe it should be in "wikitionary" or something like that,,, but I don't know where/how to add to wiki dictionary.

But anyway ...I think a small definition of the term is the minimum of an Encyclopedic entry.

List of shipwrecks in 1966

I see that you have put a warning about the need for sources on the page List of shipwrecks in 1966. The reason why there are no sources listed is that all of the information displayed on the page is sourced from other wikipedia article pages, which is where the source information is listed.

Also why have you put a nobility warning on the page as the main wikipedia article SS Heraklion doesn't have any problems concerning notiblity, the reason why I have included it on the page about shipwrecks in 1966 is because many people died in the disaster and would consider it a very notable incident.

Could you please repond to my talk page User talk:Dreamweaverjack if you want any further information about this article. Thanks, Dreamweaverjack 02:31, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Hey There

Those articles you mentioned are definitely CSD material, they fit A7 perfectly, there's no assertion of notability whatsoever on any one of them. Its funny, there's been a recent influx of articles about non-notable shopping centers, I tagged a bunch that were listed on AfD for Speedy Deletion and they were all gone within five minutes. I say tag them all {{db-corp}}, as well as any other mall articles you come across that only list the stores they contain. In general, malls and shopping centers are typically not notable unless they've received substantial non-trivial press coverage or they're Mall of America or something like that. Rackabello 06:03, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

  • Interesting, now I nominated several more which were all declined, the rationale being that malls don't fit under A7.... weird, because malls are theoretically companies in them of themselves which clearly fit under {{db-corp}} I guess its hit or miss and has to do with the interpretation of the reviewing admin, it may not be because the article you tagged is inappropriate for CSD. Keep tagging though! Rackabello 15:44, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

rue Jarry

Well...it has a Montreal Metro station, a major urban park and the original home of the Montreal Expos on it, so I'd have to deem it notable enough. The article could definitely use some expansion, though. Bearcat 23:11, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Rod booker

Hi, While clearing out the CSD backlog I noted that you tagged the above article as CSD A1. The text at the time read "A MLB player in the 1990s". While not even a full sentence, this was not an empty article. You should remember that many new users tend to define things in a "dictionary style" which does not usually include full sentences. Read as "Rod Booker was A MLB player in the 1990s" this article makes a good stub start for this subject. I moved the article to the proper capitilization, corrected the style, added a bit of information I gleaned from following "what links here", tagged this as a stub, and removed your speedy tag. Dsmdgold 23:57, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Thomas W. Fuller

Good day! I noticed that you removed a source whose main topic is Thomas Fuller, this person's father, from the entry. I actually intended to refer to this article because it does refer to the son, Thomas William Fuller, and because I did refer to that content as well. Maybe it would have been better to make this connection clearer. Anyway, not a big deal; one could certainly make the connection back to this material by following the link to the article about his father. --Big_iron 10:34, 5 August 2007 (UTC)


AfD nomination of Shannon L. Jones

An article that you have been involved in editing, Shannon L. Jones, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shannon L. Jones. Thank you. --Dan027 08:05, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Machon Gold

I would like to know why you tagged the Machon Gold page as not citing any references? There is a reference cited at the bottom. Leppi 06:02, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scottish space school

Hi, following the rewrite of this article, with plenty of reliable sources to underpin notability, I should be grateful if you would revisit your recommendation at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scottish space school. TerriersFan 00:23, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. TerriersFan 02:37, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Brownea coccinea

Hi Stormbay - thanks for the note! The pics here certainly don't look like the pic at that site, but some others I found do look more similar (e.g. [7]). Unfortunately, I'm not familiar enough with the genus to tell for sure; the stamen length may vary a lot as the flower opens out. I'll flag it up on the WP:PLANTS talk page. - MPF 21:27, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

 ?

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=55993 http://psp.ign.com/objects/697/697654.html http://www.mobygames.com/game/dino-dinis-soccer http://play.tm/story/3954 http://www.ko-gathering.com/wiki/index.php?title=Dino_Dini_File_System http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_zd1up/is_200406/ai_ziff129750 http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=%22DINO+DINI%22&btnG=Search&meta=

30,000 pages on google for "Dino Dini" of which > 90% relate to the non-notable Dino Dini

Just FYI! :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dndn1011 (talk • contribs) 22:41, August 29, 2007 (UTC)

WCSD

For American stations, you can check them at http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/fmq.html for FM, or http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/amq.html for AM. If you lose track of those links, the {{fmq}} and {{amq}} templates — which should be on all American radio stations — link there, so another alternative would be to add {{fmq|WCSD}} to the article, save and then click on the link to see what comes up. It's almost a shame that the comparable Canadian databases aren't half as easy to use as that one is... Bearcat 06:27, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Speedy deletions

I noticed you tagged Betti Alisjahbana for speedy deletion. In my opinion, it does not meet speedy deletion criterion A7, as there is a claim to notability regarding her position at IBM. You may still nominate the article for a deletion discussion at WP:AFD. Cheers! --Ginkgo100talk 18:34, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Christian Bernard Singer

I will take it to Afd and see what others think. You're right, it's been around a long time with no improvements. The only real source is a small weekly paper (which as I recall was about his work as an arts administrator, not as an artist). I'll set it in motion tomorrow. Thanks. Freshacconci 01:58, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Profs

I cannot imagine a full emeritus professor at Stanford that would not be found notable at AfD, even if the article is inadequate. Of course you are welcome to disagree and contest it there, but even if you disagree, it's an assertion of notability and prevents a speedy as A7. DGG (talk) 02:08, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Notability

Noted that you've been helping out with notability sorting. Thanks for your help! I've noticed that several articles you've sorted still have the notability tag, which means that they still stay on the project's to-do list. Please make sure to delete this tag when you apply a new one. Thanks! Steve CarlsonTalk 08:15, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Hey, thanks for the quick reply. The tag looks like {{notability}} or {{importance}}. I still disagree with User:B. Wolterding's process, I think once we sort a page it becomes part of another process (deletion, expansion, etc), so we should get it off our list. Steve CarlsonTalk 20:50, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Speedy Request for British Balls

Hi Stormbay. I've declined the speedy request for the above as it does (barely) assert notability. It's borderline. I'd suggest you take it to WP:AFD rather than prod it. Let me know if you need any help. Thanks for your hard work. Pedro |  Chat  07:48, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Hiya. Taken to AfD for more opinion. Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/British_Balls refers! ta. Pedro |  Chat  14:30, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Speedy deletion

Regarding the article Aidan Burley, which you tagged for speedy deletion with the reason "it is an article about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content that does not assert the importance or significance of the subject", I wanted you to know that I have removed the speedy deletion tag. This article does not qualify for speedy deletion because the article asserts the importance or significance of the subject by stating that he is an elected councillor. While the article may qualify for deletion, it does not appear to qualify for speedy deletion. If you still want the article to be deleted, please use the WP:AFD process. Thanks! Stifle (talk) 18:12, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Removed prod from All Saints Senior Catholic College

I've added some information and removed the prod you put on the article, and I think it meets the objections you mentioned. Thanks for listing it at the Schools deletion sorting page. Cheers, Noroton 03:23, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Okuno Ryu

Wikisophically, I am an inclusionist - I would prefer that a marginal article remain so that someone could improve it. I removed Okuno Ryu from the karate page because it was decided a year ago on the talk page not to list all karate styles in the karate article. There were too many. I would suggest that you try adding Okuno Ryu to the Karate kata article.

The Okuno Ryu article itself is too general: most styles of karate train kata, most if not all have more than two kata, many styles have diverse techniques. For example, it is interesting that beginners are taught rolls, break falls: why? What attacks are trained that require these techniques for beginners? Under whom did Bernard Collins ( both titles should be removed to meet Wiki standards) study? And lastly, the Okuno Ryu article really needs more good quality references - it will live or die on that point alone.

Good luck! jmcw 08:06, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Write first, think later<g>. I will add these comments to the Okuno Ryu article talk page. jmcw 08:14, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

multiple incorrect speedies

  1. Neither computer programs nor books nor schools can be speedied as non notable, only the types of articles indicated at WP:CSD A7: people, groups, bands, web content, companies.
  2. People who are asserted to be presidents of significant companies do not fall under speedy, because such is an assertion of notability. see WP:CSD A7.

If you question notability , use prod or afd. speedy is deliberately restricted in its application. There is considerable sentiment for removing speedy a7 altogether, which would be a shame, because so many articles do fall under it. I'd hate to lose it--my log shows I delete over a dozen articles a day-- but overuse of it does cause people to keep suggesting just that. DGG (talk) 21:24, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

I did not mean this as a general reflection on your editing or patrolling--far from it. I'd never blame anyone for not agreeing with me. But you'll find that a number of other admins are trying to at least get A7 a little more in order--and some decline speedies I would have deleted. I think it's good to at least keep to the specified types of articles, which is fairly clear-cut--what amounts to a assertion of notability is admittedly subjective, & it sometimes depends on recognizing the organization or whatever. For schools and books, I find prod usually works very well. Less than one in ten gets contested. I think alls well between us, and if I implied otherwise I apologize. DGG (talk) 01:19, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Destroying America

An article that you have been involved in editing, Destroying America, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Destroying America. Thank you.

(You added a PROD2, hence the notice.) --B. Wolterding 08:03, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Highways in Saskatchewan

Hello,

I was about to merge all the 6 highways on the January backlog into List of Saskatchewan provincial highways, after having received to response here. But I saw that you removed the notability tag on two of them. Would you object? --B. Wolterding 17:19, 18 October 2007 (UTC)


Notability of John Barss

Hello, this is a message from an automated bot. A tag has been placed on John Barss, by another Wikipedia user, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. The tag claims that it should be speedily deleted because John Barss seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait before possibly deleting John Barss, please affix the template {{hangon}} to the page, and put a note on its talk page. If the article has already been deleted, see the advice and instructions at WP:WMD. Feel free to contact the bot operator if you have any questions about this or any problems with this bot, bearing in mind that this bot is only informing you of the nomination for speedy deletion; it does not perform any nominations or deletions itself. CSDWarnBot 20:00, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Ursulines of Quebec

Two Wikilinkis still means "few", the orphan tag should have stayed... IP4240207xx 03:37, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Above & Beyond Children's Museum

I'm dropping you a note to say that I disagree with your prod to the article. You can take it to WP:AFD if you wish to pursuit it farther. Royalbroil 03:53, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of The Bomstein Agency

An article that you have been involved in editing, The Bomstein Agency, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Bomstein Agency. Thank you. Optigan13 02:52, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Added references to Esther Kellner

I added some references to Esther Kellner and removed the prod that you added. Regards, --Eastmain 15:13, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Southern Early Childhood Association

When you said The artcle lacks primary sources to assert its importance. did you mean secondary sources instead? Also the typo on art i cle. - Optigan13 07:33, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

  • I meant to say "independent primary sources". --Stormbay 00:11, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Freshly Squeezed Films

Freshly Squeezed Films probably should go for an AfD. I have not done one of these AfD proposals before, that is why I have not started it off. There are plenty of other things to do on Wikipedia. The article claims notability so we cannot just speedy del it, or prod. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 19:47, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

  • That puts us both in the same boat; it's not my thing either!  :-) Someone will take it on, I'm sure. --Stormbay (talk) 22:58, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Freshly Squeezed Films

An article that you have been involved in editing, Freshly Squeezed Films, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Freshly Squeezed Films. Thank you. Optigan13 (talk) 05:12, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Traces series merges

I was going to do a copy and paste series with those books, but it looks like we are going at it at the same time. So I'll lay off so we don't step on each others toes. - Optigan13 (talk) 05:32, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, nevermind, you did a redirect at Lost Bullet (novel) days ago. I'm going to proceed with the merge of those titles. - Optigan13 (talk) 05:46, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Jessica Kaplan

A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Jessica Kaplan, because another editor is suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. If you agree with the deletion of the article, and you are the only person who has made substantial edits to the page, please add {{db-author}} to the top of the page.

Mark Cousins (writer)

You can take it to AfD by following these instructions carefully: Wp:afd#How_to_list_pages_for_deletion. Tyrenius (talk) 02:38, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Prod

Bayley Scales of Infant Development has multiple hits in google Scholar and google Books, and is clearly one of the standards. Please check for sources before you prod articles as "un-sourced content appears non notable." DGG (talk) 15:02, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

  • I guess I prod them the way I see them; you are free to remove prods and, perhaps, improve the article. Cheers! --Stormbay 19:06, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Tesco Controls Incorporated

An article that you have been involved in editing, Tesco Controls Incorporated, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tesco Controls Incorporated. Thank you. --B. Wolterding 12:03, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Camp Chipinaw

You recently nominated the Camp Chipinaw article for deletion via prod. I hope you don't mind, but I changed the deletion method to AFD. I am a bit conflicted on how I feel about the article and I thought it would be best to gather a few opinions in an AFD debate. You can find the debate page at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Camp Chipinaw. Thanks! --24fan24 (talk) 21:08, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Mark Cousins (writer)

An article that you have been involved in editing, Mark Cousins (writer), has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mark Cousins (writer). Thank you. --B. Wolterding (talk) 16:21, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

prod notifications

I know it is not strictly required that your notify the author of an article when PROding it, but it is considered polite. it seems to me that it increases the chance of finding sources for notability or fixing the other problems. Perhaps it will soon actually be required, but at present, i can only urge you to show this degree of consideration & concern for improving the encyclopedia. The prod tag makes it semi-automatic. DGG (talk) 04:39, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Maia Morgenstern

I haven't immediately been able to cite for every statement in the article, but I believe I've addressed enough that your {{Primarysources}} is addressed. If you agree, please remove it. If not, please either comment at Talk:Maia Morgenstern so I know what you think needs to be addressed. Alternatively, remove the {{Primarysources}} and use {{fact}} tags or tag particular sections that you think have issues as entire sections. - Jmabel | Talk 19:04, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

karthago band

Those articles linked on the talk page of karthago band are mostly promoting a current concert of the band, and mostly contain tabloid-like information, so I don't feel they should be incorporated, or at least I don't feel an urge to translate such newspaper articles. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zslevi (talk • contribs) 12:17, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Prod warnings

When you prod an article, please remember to add a {{prodwarning}} to the talk pages of the article's author(s). Thanks. —dgiestc 20:55, 2 January 2008 (UTC)