User:CJCurrie
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I award you this barnstar for your tireless adding of content and for your thousands of contributions of exceptionally high quality and quantity. SimonP (awarded 28 June 2005) | ||
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I award you this Epic Barnstar, for your extensive, well-researched and well-written contributions on Canadian political history. Ground Zero (awarded 18 July 2005) | ||
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For your many contributions on Canadian politics and politicians, I hereby award you the Barnstar of National Merit. Bucketsofg (awarded 19 Feb. 2006) | ||
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For your tenacity and dedication to persevering with NAS in difficult circumstances, especially in reading a whole book! TreveXtalk 00:38, 28 April 2006 (UTC) | ||
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Great job on listing those RFC's. I appreciate all your work. Ardenn 04:46, 10 June 2006 (UTC) | ||
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For all the hard work on Canadian subject articles, especially the Joe Volpe article, I award you this Editor's Barnstar. AnnieHall(awarded 4 August 2006) | ||
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I award you this barnstar for consistently striving for neutrality and applying the rules of Wikipedia fairly. Good rolemodeling! YoYoDa1 (awarded 14 December 2006) |
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My contributions
Many of my contributions have addressed aspects of Canadian political history. These are the pages with which I've been especially thorough:
Politicians
Alberta
- Albert Ernest Archer (last checked for updates: 29 August 2009)
- Norman Jaques (last checked for updates: 24 July 2009)
Manitoba
- Reg Alcock (last checked for updates: 9 February 2008)
- Reg Atkinson (last checked for updates: 9 February 2008)
- Becky Barrett (last checked for updates: 21 July 2009)
- Andrew Basham (last checked for updates: 9 February 2008)
- James Beddome (last checked for updates: 1 June 2009)
- Bill Blaikie (last checked for updates: 1 June 2009)
- Rick Borotsik (last checked for updates: 9 February 2008)
- Rod Bruinooge (last checked for updates: 9 February 2008)
- Markus Buchart (last checked for updates: 9 February 2008)
- Chris Buors (last checked for updates: 9 February 2008)
- Drew Caldwell (last checked for updates: 9 February 2008)
- James Cotton (last checked for updates: 9 February 2008)
- Bev Desjarlais (last checked for updates: 9 February 2008)
- Gary Doer (last checked for updates: 2 July 2009)
- Steven Fletcher (last checked for updates: 9 February 2008)
- Jerry Fontaine (last checked for updates: 9 February 2008)
- Jon Gerrard (last checked for updates: 9 February 2008)
- George Hastings (last checked for updates: 9 February 2008)
- George Hickes (last checked for updates: 9 February 2008)
- David Iftody (last checked for updates: 11 August 2008)
- Bidhu Jha (last checked for updates: 23 June 2009)
- John Loewen (last checked for updates: 9 February 2008)
- Franco Magnifico (last checked for updates: 22 January 2009)
- Larry Maguire (last checked for updates: 10 February 2008)
- Jim Maloway (last checked for updates: 18 June 2009)
- Doug Martindale (last checked for updates: 10 February 2008)
- Hugh McFadyen (last checked for updates: 10 February 2008)
- Stuart Murray (last checked for updates: 10 February 2008)
- Holly Nelson (last checked for updates: 10 February 2008)
- Brian Pallister (last checked for updates: 10 February 2008)
- Darrell Rankin (last checked for updates: 10 February 2008)
- Daryl Reid (last checked for updates: 7 July 2009)
- Jim Rondeau (last checked for updates: 10 February 2008)
- Scott Smith (last checked for updates: 10 February 2008)
- Thomas Steen (last checked for updates: 17 June 2009)
- Lillian Thomas (last checked for updates: 7 July 2009)
- Shirley Timm-Rudolph (last checked for updates: 23 May 2008)
- Vic Toews (last checked for updates: 3 October 2008)
- Dan Vandal (last checked for updates: 9 January 2009)
- Rosemary Vodrey (last checked for updates: 7 July 2009)
- Ken Waddell (last checked for updates: 7 July 2009)
- Linda West (last checked for updates: 7 July 2009)
- Russ Wyatt (last checked for updates: 7 July 2009)
Ontario
- Paul Ayotte (last checked for updates: 15 November 2010)
- John Baird (last checked for updates: 5 May 2007)
- Rick Bartolucci (last checked for updates: 27 July 2009)
- George Beatty (last checked for updates: 9 December 2009)
- Daryl Bennett (last checked for updates: 15 November 2010)
- Ken Black (last checked for updates: 9 December 2009)
- Marguerite Ceschi-Smith (last checked for updates: 28 January 2011)
- Michael Chong (last checked for updates: 5 May 2007)
- David Christopherson (last checked for updates: 5 May 2007)
- David Courtemanche (last checked for updates: 30 September 2008)
- Dean Del Mastro (last checked for updates: 3 September 2010)
- Ruby Dhalla (last checked for updates: 21 May 2009)
- Vic Dhillon (last checked for updates: 5 May 2007)
- Dwight Duncan (last checked for updates: 5 May 2007)
- Rick Dykstra (last checked for updates: 5 May 2007)
- Tristan Emmanuel (last checked for updates: 14 November 2009)
- Chris Friel (last checked for updates: 18 February 2011)
- Tony Grande (last checked for updates: 5 May 2007)
- Helena Guergis (last checked for updates: 5 May 2007)
- Jim Harris (last checked for updates: 5 May 2007)
- Ron Johnson (last checked for updates: 28 July 2009)
- Walt Lastewka (last checked for updates: 5 May 2007)
- Jeff Leal (last checked for updates: 21 September 2010)
- Judi Longfield (last checked for updates: 5 May 2007)
- Murray Markin (last checked for updates: 5 May 2007)
- Diane Marleau (last checked for updates: 27 July 2009)
- Brian Masse (last checked for updates: 5 May 2007)
- David Miller (last checked for updates: 5 May 2007)
- Peter Milliken (last checked for updates: 5 May 2007)
- Andy Mitchell (last checked for updates: 20 January 2011)
- Cheryl Moscoe (last checked for updates: 5 May 2007)
- Howard Moscoe (last checked for updates: 5 May 2007)
- Dave Neumann (last checked for updates: 12 November 2010)
- Anthony Perruzza (last checked for updates: 5 May 2007)
- David Popescu (last checked for updates: 27 July 2009)
- Sandra Pupatello (last checked for updates: 5 May 2007)
- Scott Reid, MP (last checked for updates: 5 May 2007)
- Tim Rigby (last checked for updates: 5 May 2007)
- John Rodriguez (last checked for updates: 27 July 2009)
- Raymond Samuels (last checked for updates: 5 May 2007)
- Bob Taylor (Ontario politician) (last checked for updates: 1 April 2011)
- Glenn Thibeault (last checked for updates: 27 July 2009)
- Joe Volpe (last checked for updates: 5 May 2007)
- Tom Wappel (last checked for updates: 5 May 2007)
- Brad Ward (last checked for updates: 13 November 2010)
Quebec
- Vincenzo Arciresi (last checked for updates: 12 October 2011)
- Jean-Martin Aussant (last checked for updates: 30 June 2011)
- Vittorio Capparelli (last checked for updates: 5 September 2011)
- Jean-Yves Desgagnés (last checked for updates: 20 August 2010)
- Éric Dorion (last checked for updates: 12 May 2011)
- Jean-Yves Duthel (last checked for updates: 5 October 2011)
- Joseph Facal (last checked for updates: 28 March 2011)
- Basilio Giordano (last checked for updates: 16 October 2011)
- Heather Keith (last checked for updates: 25 February 2011)
- Albert Khelfa (last checked for updates: 24 August 2010)
- Roger Lapointe (last checked for updates: 28 April 2011)
- Jacques Léonard (last checked for updates: 8 May 2011)
- Line Maheux (last checked for updates: 11 January 2011)
- Pierre Mainville (last checked for updates: 5 October 2011)
- Domenico Moschella (last checked for updates: 16 October 2011)
- Christian Ouellet (last checked for updates: 4 December 2010)
- Denis Paradis (last checked for updates: 8 December 2010)
- Pierre Paradis (last checked for updates: 11 January 2011)
- Benoît Pelletier (last checked for updates: 11 October 2010)
- Dominic Perri (last checked for updates: 11 October 2011)
- Robert Perreault (last checked for updates: 23 June 2011)
- Louis Plamondon (last checked for updates: 30 June 2011)
- Pierre Reid (last checked for updates: 10 February 2011)
- Maurice Richard (politician) (last checked for updates: 14 May 2011)
- Claude Sabourin (last checked for updates: 23 January 2011)
- Sylvain Simard (last checked for updates: 30 June 2011)
- Frank Venneri (last checked for updates: 4 September 2011)
- Robert Zambito (last checked for updates: 16 October 2011)
Saskatchewan
- Maurice Vellacott (last checked for updates: 5 May 2007)
Political parties
Manitoba:
- First Peoples Party (last checked for updates: 10 February 2008)
- includes Una Truscott and Lyle Morrisseau
- Independent Native Voice (last checked for updates: n/a)
- Manitoba Labour Party (last checked for updates: n/a)
Ontario:
- Freedom Party of Ontario (last checked for updates: 31 January 2007)
Electoral divisions
Manitoba:
- Point Douglas (last checked for updates: 10 February 2008)
Leadership conventions
Manitoba:
- New Democratic Party of Manitoba leadership conventions (last checked for updates: n/a)
List pages
Manitoba:
- Communist Party candidates, 2003 Manitoba provincial election (last checked for updates: 10 February 2008)
- includes Cheryl-Anne Carr, Aaron Crossman and Glen Wreggitt
- Independent candidates, 2003 Manitoba provincial election (last checked for updates: 10 February 2008)
- includes Didz Zuzens
- Green Party candidates, 2003 Manitoba provincial election (last checked for updates: 10 February 2008)
- Libertarian Party candidates, 2003 Manitoba provincial election (last checked for updates: 10 February 2008)
- includes Jim Weidman
To do: Fix Stephen Probyn article, which is more than a bit propagandistic in its current form (8 Janurary 2009).
Other countries
I've also written some articles on politics and politicians outside of Canada. I haven't been as thorough with these pages as I have with the Canadian pages listed above (i.e., I haven't filled in every red link), but I'd like to think I've been fairly comprehensive all the same:
- Italy
- Vittorio Coco (a Canadian journalist who has sought election to the Italian Senate)
- Basilio Giordano (a Canadian journalist who has served in the Italian Senate since 2008)
- Augusto Sorriso (who sought to represent Italian citizens living in Canada)
- Renato Turano (who represented Italian citizens living in Canada from 2006 to 2008)
- Saint Lucia
- Neville Cenac
- Cyprian Lansiquot
- Keith Mondesir (who was, at one time, a Canadian)
Notes on style
When I started writing Wikipedia articles in 2004, I didn't take a systematic approach to article style. I take this matter more seriously today, and I'm trying to ensure that the articles I write are basically consistent.
This means, of course, that I'll need to make stylistic changes on several articles I've already written. This is an ongoing process.
Capitalization
When I started on Wikipedia, I wrote articles in what is sometimes called "up style" (i.e., capitalizing as many names as possible). I'm now inclined to go with "down style" instead, wherein capitalization is used only when necessary.
In "down style," titles are (usually) only capitalized when used as part of someone's name. For instance, one would write "and then Premier Gary Doer did such-and-such" but "Manitoba's premier, Gary Doer, did such-and-such" or "Manitoba premier Gary Doer did such-and-such."
For a while, I was using a strange combination of "up" and "down" styles (e.g., "minister of Finance"). I've now decided that isn't quite appropriate, and that I should use "down style" more consistently.
Note that this only applies to capitalization in sentences.
Here's how I'm dealing with ambiguous cases:
- minister of Indian Affairs and northern development (I tried using "Indian affairs," but it just doesn't work -- capitalizing the anachronistic and offensive (in this context) term "Indian" in isolation only draws attention to its anachronistic and offensive character)
- First Nations
- Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (the ministry is capitalized, the ministerial title is not)
- government acts, bills, and programs are capitalized (e.g., First Nations Governance Act and Municipal Rural Infrastructure Fund)
- in most circumstances, the subjects of articles will be capitalized when they first appear in the article text
- Bachelor of Arts degree in History/Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry (but, a history or chemistry degree); lower case will be used when the precise name of the subject is unclear
- Toronto city council
