User talk:Vulcan's Forge

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Hello, Vulcan's Forge, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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[edit] NL Topics

Hi; I have noticed you are contributing a few articles/edits to NL related articles. Maybe we could collaborate on a few topics to create a few more interesting articles of the province, its history, people and culture. --HJKeats 19:07, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Categories

Please don't add Category:People from Newfoundland and Labrador to articles that are already filed in a subcategory such as Category:People from St. John's. Wikipedia discourages this type of duplicate categorization. Thanks. Bearcat 20:48, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

The way they should probably be used is that if a person is from St. John's, they go in the city category; Corner Brook also has a separate city category of its own. If they're from elsewhere in NF, then they go in the Newfoundland category, and if they're from somewhere in LB, then the Labrador category. It's also permissible to create new city categories for other places (Gander?) if there are enough people from there to warrant one — but don't do that for every individual outport that has just one or two famous people, because categories with only one or two entries don't tend to survive the CFD process.
The pre-Confederation category can be added to anybody for whom it's appropriate — it doesn't duplicate the St. John's/NF/LB categories, but it should replace the general Newfoundland and Labrador category if that one's on the article. An occupational subcategory such as Category:Newfoundland and Labrador writers or Category:Members of the Canadian House of Commons from Newfoundland and Labrador also replaces the general category, but it can be added alongside any appropriate subcategory.
Most of the other provincial people categories are broken down by census divisions, so it might be better to replace the Newfoundland category with smaller regional groups such as Avalon, Humber Valley, etc., but it'd be for you guys, not me, to decide whether that's worth doing or not. (And it would most likely be pointless to break the Labrador category down any further, FWIW.) Bearcat 21:26, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Commons Photos

I have just spend one weeks vacation on the west coast of Newfoundland and photographed quite a bit of the small coastal towns, post offices, lakes and Long Range Mountains. I have started adding the photos to the article List of communities in Newfoundland and Labrador, you can link there from our Wiki article by the same name. I will be adding more later and feel free to use them while expanding the communities articles WayneRay 14:16, 14 August 2007 (UTC)WayneRay

[edit] New 'patrolled' new pages feature

This page should answer your question(s). Starting a few days ago, pages in yellow at Special:Newpages haven't been marked as 'patrolled'. After you created the page, another editor marked it as patrolled (in theory, to see if it's been patrolled, and who by, you can just go to the page History, then click the "View logs for this page" link near the top--since I had moved it, I had to do one further step of re-capitalizing the M in the field and clicking the Go button again), which is supposed to mean either, A) it's fine as is, B) it's basically OK, with any initial issues taken care of or at least tagged, or C) it isn't appropriate for Wikipedia and has been marked for deletion. The idea, as I understand it, is to avoid multiple New Pages Patrollers from having to look at each new article, each evaluating the same issues/criteria for that article. Ravenna1961 (talk) 04:27, 19 November 2007 (UTC)