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[edit] Sault Ste. Marie

Hi there...just a quick comment about your Sault Ste. Marie-related edits. As you can probably imagine, there are separate articles for Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario and Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Because of that, Sault Ste. Marie without the state or province specified is just a disambiguation page.

So could you please make sure, when you're including a link to one of the Saults in an article, to specifically link to Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario or Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan (whichever applies) rather than just "Sault Ste. Marie"? If you don't want the province or state name to appear in the text, you can pipe it like this: [[Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario|Sault Ste. Marie]]. Thanks. Bearcat 08:24, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Alphabetical order, or order by number of votes?

Hi Sup, thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. I've noticed that you've been changing the order in which the results are presented from the current standard in a bunch of articles. I don't think that this is an improvement. I've started a discussion at Wikipedia:WikiProject Electoral districts in Canada/Election results to find out what other people think. I think it would be a good idea to develop a consensus approach among editors before making any more changes of this sort. Please join the discussion. Thanks, Ground Zero | t 13:42, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Hello again. The consensus was pretty clear in favour of keeping the order by number of votes approach, so I've changed the tables back. I do like your idea of using italics to denote incumbents, and have kept that in. I'm sorry that your work on this particular issue turned out to be in vain, but I hope that you continue contributing to Wikipedia. Regards, Ground Zero | t 17:58, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Flora of Canada

Hi Super cyclist - that's going to be one huge page when finished! Couple of grammatic points; first, the ligatures æ and œ are not used in scientific names, they are actually prohibited by the ICBN, see ICBN Article 60.6 "the ligatures -æ- and -œ-, indicating that the letters are pronounced together, are to be replaced by the separate letters -ae- and -oe-" (so I've removed them from the list); and second, the standard abbreviation for subspecies is subsp. (not ssp.). I've also taken out one or two introduced species (e.g. Ohio Buckeye is native only in the US) and added a few you'd missed - MPF 11:42, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the note; it seems the sources I'd used for Aesculus glabra are wrong (mainly because of too-small-scale maps, I suspect, but also e.g. [1], [2]), so I'll add it back in (and also add Ontario on the Ohio Buckeye page). On subdividing the page, either alphabetically, or (compare e.g. List of the vascular plants of Britain and Ireland) by taxonomic order. Whatever you think easiest. On ligatures, that may well be why the ICBN decided to exclude them (they aren't too easy on UK or European keyboards either!); even diaresis is optional and rarely used (Isoetes is far more often used in print than Isoëtes). I don't have a lot of info on non-woody Canadian flora (I'm more into woody plants), but here's a link that might be useful for the west coast: E-Flora BC - MPF 21:12, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Regarding the same articles, please note that the correct procedure for applying categories is to apply only Category:Flora of Canada — that category is already a subcategory of Category:Canada, Category:Flora by country and Category:Flora, and Wikipedia has rules against filing articles simultaneously in both parent categories and subcategories of the same parent. Thanks. Bearcat 21:40, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Aesculus glabra

Hi Chris - thanks for the note. Hard to know; I got the impression from reading it that its native presence in Ontario might be a recent discovery. Maybe go to the site and ask the rangers (if there are any!) for the evidence. On the flora list, it's looking good; couple of suggestions to make it look neater, one maybe put the links on the scientific names rather than the common names, second, use uniform capitalisation for the common names (either all capitalised [my preference], or none); the current mix doesn't look tidy; and last, the threatened tags could do with some punctuation between the names and the tag - MPF 22:02, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Drosera rotundifolia

Hi Chris, The page so far is already a big improvement! I added a few more details and rearranged some sections (mostly in an effort to get the images to correlate, but I'm not sure if I was entirely successful). I removed your image: Image:Drosera_rotundifolia_rotundifolia_bunch,_Black_Fen.jpg, due to the fact that I have doubts as to the accuracy of the identification of this plant. As far as I can tell, the lamina is not nearly rotund enough to be Drosera rotundifolia, and as it is also too wide to be D. anglica, my best guess is D. intermedia. I think the location of your photograph falls within the range shown here. Your thoughts? Feel free to continue messing with the page, moving/deleting/adding pictures and text. Sorry if my changes disrupted what your admirable effort! --NoahElhardt 22:58, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi again - Looked in on here; I'm afraid the map is inaccurate in places (not your fault, the fault of the source!), I'll maybe have a go at re-drawing it in a day or two. Specifically, the UK distribution is badly off; it is fairly common and widespread in the northwest, but decidedly rare and very scattered in the southeast. I'd like to know how they devised the map; I strongly suspect it depends on the sources they used, with published distribution maps (e.g. Jalas & Suominen Atlas Florae Europaeae) for the well-botanised areas of western Europe and eastern North America, and then point herbarium specimen collection sites (the dots) for the rest of the range. Thus the map probably more reflects botanical mapping input than actual abundance of the plant, and it might be better not to distinguish between the red and pink. Any thoughts? - MPF 22:19, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Happiness Map.JPG

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[edit] A barnstar

		The Working Man's Barnstar
		For your extensive and painstaking work on Canadian riding articles to improve election results tables, and for not giving up when your first edits were not accepted by other editors. Ground Zero

[edit] Ridings templates

Great job with the Quebec regional riding templates. I like the improvement. Do you think you could do something similar for Ontario, where I've already created Template:Ridings in Ontario? —Cuivi é nen 02:25, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Changing scientific names..............

I noticed your shroom list - there are more bluelinks all teh time but a few have changed their names..

cheers Cas Liber 05:05, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Canadian ridings

Not a problem at all; you did all the work of making the maps! Mutual cyber high-five, or something. —Cuivi é nen 14:06, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Riding infobox

Wow, good work on the infobox. Just one favour to ask. Would it be possible for you to add municipal wards to the box? It would only be used for a few ridings, so it would need an "if" pramater, which I dont think I understand on how to add. -- Earl Andrew - talk 22:12, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

The problem is, Wards aren't the same as neighbourhoods. I'll have to check to see if anyone understands the if parameters. -- Earl Andrew - talk 05:18, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Pancake Bay Regional Map.gif

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[edit] Happy Planet map

The map is great, I just wonder if you could add (preferably as an inset/legend) an explanation of the order of colors from highest to lowest (green-blue-purple-yellow-orange-red, with grey N/A, right?), or how it corresponds with the numbers. Rigadoun (talk) 17:00, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cephalization

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[edit] Unblock, SVP?

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[edit] Your subpages

Are you tagging all of those subpages for deletion? Because I can cut out the middle man and just delete them all for you right now if you want, without you placing the speedy tag on each one. Save you some time. Kafziel ^Talk 13:54, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

I am deleting many, but not all, of the subpages. A little spring cleaning, if you will :) FUNgus guy 13:55, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Okie dokie. Well, I'll just follow behind you for a while then. Kafziel ^Talk 13:57, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Image:Steve_Butland.jpg

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[edit] Guelph,_Ontario_Mayor_Kate_Quarrie.jpg

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[edit] Scouting in Nunavut

Can you help render "Be Prepared", the Scout Motto, into Inuktitut syllabics? Thanks! Chris 21:05, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Not sure if this will help, but "prepare" is ᐅᐸᓗᖓᐃᖅᓴᑐᖅ. FUNgus guy 12:35, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Ridings in Greater Toronto

I was considering splitting this template into three - specifically, Ridings in Toronto, Ridings in South Durham and York, and Ridings in Brampton, Mississauga and Oakville - but as you created the original template I thought I'd ask your opinion. What do you think? Morgan695 00:56, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

If you think it would better organize ridings, go for it. FUNgus guy 22:19, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] U1

Is there a section of articles you would like to delete? It would save you some time, I think. jj137 ^♠ 03:15, 3 January 2008 (UTC)