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Order of Canada

Thanks a bunch for reworking the Order of Canada page. However, I do wish to point something out to you. On the VAC website, the number of Members that are appointed yearly is 92. It has been listed before at 163, I think. I was wondering when any of that has been changed, and if so, then we should note it. I also would note that those who have been awarded the Order of Canada are eligable to use the Order motto and Order medal on their coat of arms, and we should show an example of an arms with those items on it. I also would show the different medals for the Officer and Member grades and the various suspension devices (the ribbon, the bow, etc). I am drawing ribbon bars for each one, though I do not know if those are used. I would also show the lapel pin worn by the people who are members of the Order. There is so much we can do with this article, we just need to put it into action. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 01:50, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Also, the trivia section will be incorporated into a new section about the creation of the Order. I just want to find the Act that created the Order, who did it, when it was endorse by the Queen or Governor General (if at all). I will also explain about the year of its creation was the 100th Year of the Canadian Confederation. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 14:49, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

lots of edits, not an admin

Hi - I made a list of users who've been around long enough to have made lots of edits but aren't admins. If you're at all interested in becoming an admin, can you please add an '*' immediately before your name in this list? I've suggested folks nominating someone might want to puruse this list, although there is certainly no guarantee anyone will ever look at it. Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) June 28, 2005 13:45 (UTC)

Salter Adrian Hayden

Thanks for catching my goofs. I have been editing too quickly. Ground Zero 5 July 2005 15:04 (UTC)

List_of_Companions_of_the_Order_of_Canada

Can you make a note to say which Companions are alive or dead, please? Zscout370 (Sound Off) 9 July 2005 05:51 (UTC)

Adminship?

Hi YUL89YYZ, thanks for helping recat the Canadian senator articles. By the way, I notice you are *way* overdue for an adminship nom... I would be pleased to nominate you, just give the word. Even if you are not particularly interested in admin duties, the rollback button is very convenient for dealing with vandalism....no reason why you shouldn't have it in your toolchest. Fawcett5 12:31, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

That's fine, although I'm not sure that there is a "spotlight" on admins - for me it pretty much amounts to having the convenience of the rollback button, and the ability to pull off more complex page moves. Let me know if you ever reconsider. Cheers, Fawcett5 18:16, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

Canadian orders and decorations

Just so you know, I've moved your Canadian Awards category to Category:Canadian orders and decorations, for two reasons: (1) it's a bit more precise, and (2) there was already a Category:Canadian awards without the capital a, which may have led to some confusion between the two. Bearcat 23:30, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

Elizabeth Bowles-Lyon, CC

Hi

Not that I know what I'm talking about, but I was very confused to see the late Queen Mother listed as a C.C. under her Christian, maiden name. She was once the Queen Consort of Canada, and she was in any event married, so I would expect her to be listed under her regnal name, or (if the Order of Canada has gone democratic) at least as Elizabeth Bowles-Lyon Windsor, odd as that sounds. As I say, though, I'm an American, so I am clueless. Could explain this to me please? Thanks, Xoloz 05:12, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

Although I understand your reasons, I did make the change, mainly because I think "Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon" is not as widely known a name, but also out of a concern for protocol. She's under "E" now, which is appropriate, I think. Sorry to nitpick. Xoloz 04:01, 16 August 2005 (UTC)


Bob Welch

I notice you erroneously added The Honourable to the Bob Welch article. Please remember that provincial cabinet ministers are only entitled to be referred to as "The Honourble" while they are in office. Once they leave cabinet, they cease to be "The Honourable". This is also true for provincial premiers, however, from time to time premiers are sworn into the Privy Council thus being entitled to use "The Honourable" for life. Others, such as Jean Charest, are privy councilors by virtue of having been federal cabinet ministers. Homey 21:32, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

Patrick Watson

Hi. I've just changed Watson's Order of Canada post-nominal back to O.C. -- he's an Officer, and as the article on the order says, that's the correct post-nominal. Cheers, Madmagic 18:24, August 31, 2005 (UTC)

Hi again. I've just double-checked the official GG's Order of Canada website, using the Search tool at [[1]]. My mistake was thinking that 'Officer' was the senior award; it's 'Companion' which is senior -- and since he has both, he should correctly be listed as a Companion -- as you had it. Sorry for my mistaken attempt at correction! :) Cheers, Madmagic 21:10, August 31, 2005 (UTC)

Bringing Wikipedia to Toronto

I've been working on a bid to bring Wikimania 2006 to Toronto. I have contacted KMDI, an institute at the University of Toronto. They are very interested in partnering with us, and can get us a full range of U of T facilities for free. With this offer I think there is a very good chance of bringing Wikimania 2006 to Toronto. The only thing we currently lack are people willing to help out. I'm willing to do much of the work, but for the time being I am in Ottawa and having some people on the ground in Toronto will be necessary. We also need a number of people willing to assist at the actual event, likely the first weekend of August 2006. If you are interested in helping out sign up at Wikimania 2006/Toronto. Preliminary bids from various cities need to be made by Sept. 30, 2005, at which point a committee will choose which city gets to host the event. The number of people willing to help will certainly be an important consideration. - SimonP 16:33, September 6, 2005 (UTC)

Order of Australia

I have some dificulty with you putting all Order of Australia winners in the category "Members of the Order of Australia" as this is one of the classes of that order and could create misconseptions for readers of those articles. Xtra 03:31, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

Huguette Labelle

Yes, she's a Chancellor, and a recipient of the Order of Canada, but there's nothing in the article that makes her stand out or noteworthy. --Image:Ottawa flag.png Spinboy 22:04, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

Court Templates

Hi YUL, do you think there is a way to tone down the court templates so that they don't become Tfd bait? They are especially obtrusive now when there is more than one of them on a page, and they are, in my opinion, much larger than they need to be.... Fawcett5 00:58, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

These look a bit better now, but I think the main problem is that each individuals name gets repeated a number of times, and so it takes up an awful lot of space. What about having two columns of four rows, and just listing each member along with the dates during which they served? I'd have a shot at it myself, but my html table layout skills are pretty lame. BTW, I too think that these could be useful templates if the layout issues can be resolved.. Cheers, Fawcett5 17:09, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

You may have a point, although I admit I still don't really like these templates. The Oliver Wendell Holmes ones are as big as the article itself. There is rather a lot of tempting red ink though, lets see what can be done about that... I've got a start with Robert Sedgewick (jurist). I'll probably go after the ones with DoCB entries first. Cheers, Fawcett5 21:31, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

"Emmigrate" is not a word

Sir: I regret to inform you that "emmigrate", "emmigrant", etc. are not English words. I found some busy-work today by fixing this typo throughout Wikipedia. Your name shows up repeatedly when I ask the question, "Who spelled this wrong to begin with?" I also see that various other people have been editing your articles to fix up the spelling of this word. Um, could you please adopt the standard spelling? Thanks! jyavner 06:43, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Emigrate is, in fact, a word. It means to leave a country, basically, the only difference between emigrate and imigrate is point of view. For example, if a Cuban leaves for the US, then he would be an emigrant from a Cuban point of view and an imigrant from an American point of veiw. However, it only has one "M", if that's what you're speaking of.

905: The Soap Opera

You'll love this, I think...the last anon user (different IP number than the others) to cast a vote in the Alan Shefman AFD did it immediately after an edit to Josh Cooper, a losing Conservative candidate in the 2004 election in Thornhill.

Wanna take a wild guess who Cooper's Liberal opponent was?

If you said Susan Kadis, you win!

I think we can revert that "abandoned" crap now. Bearcat 10:21, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

Category:Cities with significant Arab Israeli populations

Hi YUL: Please see the Vote for Deletion (cfd) for Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2005 December 4#Category:Cities with significant Arab Israeli populations. Thank you. IZAK 12:25, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

John Harvey

Hello, thanks for adding more info.

I think the proper way to name is the persons name "John Harvey (Colonel)" rather than "Sir John Harvey". This way it goes on the "John Harvey (disambiguation)" page.

Cordially Battlefield 21:26, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

User categorisation

You were listed on the Wikipedia:Wikipedians by alma mater page. As part of the Wikipedia:User categorisation project, these lists are being replaced with user categories. If you would like to add yourself to the category that is replacing the page, please visit Category:Wikipedians by alma mater for instructions. --Cooksey 22:00, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

WikiProject Jewish culture

Hi YUL89YYZ/Archive 2, I was wondering whether you were interested in joining and developing a new WikiProject. While the more-established WikiProject Judaism focuses on relgious aspects of Judaism, this project intends to look at Jewish literature, music, theater, language and history, among other aspects of culture. If you are interested in helping to edit and review these articles, please join! jnothman talk 06:03, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Stephen Courtauld

May I enquire why you removed his Knighthood? Best wishes, Lion King 21:54, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

I do beg your pardon, I must have clicked the wrong user name! Be Lucky, Lion King 12:55, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Got it! I clicked your name on the Eltham page, by mistake. Best wishes Lion King 15:07, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Sap -> Tree sap

Hi YUL89YYZ - there's a problem with this disambiguation - sap is found in all plants, not just trees; disambiguating to tree sap is resulting in some references to sap of plants which are not trees being linked there. I'd suggest moving the tree sap page to plant sap. Any thoughts? - MPF 21:01, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

sap (plant) - yep, no problem. Do you want to or shall I? - MPF 21:09, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks, and please, yes! I've also just made plant sap a redirect to sap (plant) in case there's any links to that anywhere - MPF 21:20, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Redirect on G. Wallace McCain page

You spelt REDIRECT wrong... I fixed it for you!

Can't tell you how many times I've made that mistake... haz (user talk) 11:20, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Fair use images

I notice that you have a lot of fair use images on your user page (according to this report, 143 of them on User:YUL89YYZ/images/DVD covers). You should know that, in accordance with Wikipedia:Fair use#Fair use policy, you can't display these images on user pages. I suggest that you either remove them from your user page, or write the link like so: [[:Image:Somefile.jpg]] (note the colon at the front) so as to link to the image without displaying it. --bainer (talk) 01:16, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

I have also commented mine. --YUL89YYZ 18:20, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for that. The reason is a legal one, otherwise I wouldn't be interfering in user pages. WP:FU offers a pretty good treatment of the rules on this subject, if you haven't read it yet it's really helpful. --bainer (talk) 22:24, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Derek Blackburn

Just a quick reminder...when you want to link to Sault Ste. Marie, could you please remember to use the disambiguated title Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario? Gotta keep in mind that there's also a Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, so the undifferentiated Sault Ste. Marie is just a dab page. Tanx muchly. Bearcat 04:31, 2 February 2006 (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 15:14, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

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Mop?, again

Have you re-considered adminship? I'd be happy to nominate you if you've changed your mind... have appreciated your edits, BTW. -- Samir ∙ TC 09:40, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Image:AlanBeddoe.png

Could you please check what's up with that image? We either need to figure out some other licensing tag, or show that the image is indeed pre-1949. Thank you. Lupo 15:28, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Not so fast! This is not under Crown copyright. I've found more about the photographer, who worked as a professional protrait photographer until 1949. So, unless he took the image in that year, it would indeed be in the public domain in Canada. Now, to show that it also was in the public domain in the U.S., we need to show that it was taken before 1946. Maybe we still have a fighting chance... Lupo 16:16, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

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DoCB Initiative

I notice that you have done some work involving Dictionary of Canadian Biography — DoCB Initiative. Is there much interest in the project and do you know others working on it? I've done some articles/stubs and am interested in communicating with others who are active. Thanks! (Stormbay 23:00, 1 March 2006 (UTC))

Thanks for the dates

I'm grateful for your contributions to the articles I started. I created a whole lot, mostly about distinguished scientists, and I'm gradually filling them out, but you've saved me quite some time. - Newport 13:02, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Donald Summerville

I noticed you updated this article with a birth year. It would be useful to cite your source as this could lead to further updates by other editors. Atrian 17:32, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, I know about the city archives and problems linking to their website. Atrian 19:36, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Albert Fish

No problemo. :) --Fang Aili 說嗎? 20:40, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

William Bishop

Good eye on William Bishop. I should have checked for dupes. —Viriditas | Talk 01:52, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Orthodox Rabbinical Biography Collaboration of the Week

Hi YUL89YYZ, I've created an Orthodox Rabbinical Biography Collaboration of the Week. I'd love to see your comments, improvements, amendations and nominations, preferably all on the discussion or the actual page there. Many thanks, Nesher 16:47, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Nichola Goddard

Just wanted to thank you for your help fleshing out the Nichola Goddard article, much appreciated. Sherurcij (talk) (Terrorist Wikiproject) 21:07, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Deleting Camp Miriam

Hi, since you were involved in the article, you may want to see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Camp Miriam (2nd nomination), best wishes, IZAK 12:57, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Dr. Froggie

Just wanted to thank you for your additions to her article. She's one of my favourite academic clinicians. Cheers -- Samir धर्म 09:56, 7 June 2006 (UTC)