User talk:Maclean25

List class

Please stop bulk changing tons of article classes from their specific class to list. It is up to specific projects whether lists are rated as list class or on the scale, so many of your changes have been done in error and are having to be reverted. Thanks. -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 21:51, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Hello, Collectonian. I have noticed your work before and I understand you are a talented and experienced editor. I will stop moving the lists to the list-class. I can fix any errors but you may have to be more specific on where they occurred. maclean 23:40, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

The main one that I noticed is with Anime/manga project templates, such as at Talk:List of The Mysterious Cities of Gold characters [1] :) -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 23:48, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Yet another barnstar to throw into the closet, collecting dust with all the others

		The Original Barnstar
		For providing several articles that aided me in bringing the Jarome Iginla article to featured status. Cheers! Resolute 23:03, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Oranges

Hey maclean, I've made a few changes to the list - would you be kind enough to let me know if I'm heading in the right direction? Cheers! The Rambling Man (talk) 16:35, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks!

		The Guidance Barnstar
		Thanks for your help finding sources for The Time Traveler's Wife and The Historian! I really appreciate having sources appear in my inbox. :) Awadewit (talk) 16:23, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Novels - Coordinator Election

Hello. To begin, every member of WikiProject Novels will be getting this message (the joy of macros) so if you wish to get in touch with me, please post a message on my talk page. I would encourage anyone who so wishes, to stand in the Coordinator Elections. If you wish to stand, please do so by 23:59pm, June 27. Voting will the continue to 23:59pm, July 21. Can everyone please check-out the Coordinator Elections page. Also, the collaboration of the month is The Tin Drum, so if you have any spare time, please check it out. And I apologise to the seven of you for whom this will be a repeat message. Regards, Alan16 (talk).

Peace Country/Fort Nelson Country

HI; I gather from your work and previous comments elsewhere that you're from the Peace....as you probably know I started a geographic-category system for BC based on the "traditional regions" - Okanagan, Cariboo, Omineca etc. although in smoe cases I've just left it at Category:Northern Interior of British Columbia, or used the relevant mountain range as a category (e.g. for Thutade Lake, Category:Omineca Mountains will suffice as it's not really in the Omineca Country as such. I've put off for a while now creating Category:Fort Nelson Country (a term heard commonly enough in weather reports, no?) partly because I don't know where the division point with Category:Peace Country would be; somewhere around Pink Mountain I'd think. Also pondered Category:Liard Country but wonder if maybe Category:Alaska Highway Corridor might not work better....if either do. Also have pondered what to do with Fort Ware/Kwadacha and Mackenzie and can't qualify as Category:Greater Prince George (which is where I think I put McLeod Lake and Summit Lake...before Lake Williston came along, that area had been the "Finlay-Parsnip Country", focussed on now-vanished Finlay Forks). Also given your expertise in that area please note the creation of Rocky Mountain Foothills and the expansion of Monkman Provincial Park et al.....anyway your thoughts on the Fort Nelson/Peace distinction requested; for now things up by Fort Nelson, unless they're in th Rockies (e.g. Muncho Lake), I've just put in teh Peace category; I know that's not right - or is it acceptable from the perspective of Fort Nelsonites?Skookum1 (talk) 13:18, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

The administrative boundary between the Peace and the Northern Rockies/Fort Nelson area is the 58th parallel. However, the geographic boundary (using the watersheds of the Peace River and Liard River) would be a little south of that. I've heard of "Fort Nelson area" for the lack of a better description of the area, but I can't recall ever hearing "Fort Nelson Country", though I rarely pay attention to that area. "Liard Country" sounds better but I wouldn't be able to back that up with a reference. Technically, Fort Ware is in the Peace River Regional District, but being on the flip side of Williston Lake, it may as well be in the Stikine for all anyone cares. Mackenzie? Definitely not in the Peace. --maclean 02:58, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

Exactly why I think using regional district categories as geographic classifiers is an absurdity and a fool's errand; Atlin in the Stikine Region? Port Renfrew in Nanaimo or Cowichan Valley, whichever it is? Yuquot/Nootak Sound and Bute Inlet in the same region? Other provinces which don't have county systems doo't even have region categories (Alberta, Saskatcehwan, Manitoba, Newfoundland & Labrador). What I think went on in the early days of wiki is that somebody was looking for something to equate to counties in BC and made a lot of wild assumptions, and also honed in on the idea that regions should have asbolute boundaries and no room for overlap; never mind that they'r complete politicail fictions, and only one of MANY ways of cutting BC up for administrative purposes; even the regional districts, though, are based on teh traditioanl regions, at least in name (Bulkley-Hechako, Columbia-Shuswap, Squamish-Lillooet etc). It's not just Fort Ware that's in the PRRD - so's Tatlatui Park and Thutade Lake. I'm slowly adapting the categories and purging RD articles of county-esque language (such as referring to a town as a "seat" of the regional district); I rewrote the lede to the main regional district article because it had so many wild equations to county-type powers; fire suppression, emergency services, even health and schools...somebody was cribbing from Coles Notes I guess. Avoidi9ng too long a digression, I note that most of the traditional regions tend to be defined by basins, though not always; the Omineca includes things in the Peace basin (e.g. teh Nation and Omineca Rivers, and I'm unclear if where the dividing line, or even the overlap, with the Nechako Country is....the Shuswa Country is the basin of Shuswap Lake except upstream from Mara Lake; the Shuswap River country is in "the Monashees" (I asked someone who'd lived up there...). The Boundary Country is eseentially the Kettle River and its tribs...though not their upper reachs, the Skeena Country though is really obvious, so pretty much is the Stikine Country except for bits of overlap such as at Dease Lake. I'll go with the Liard/Peace basin division, then, following your suggestion; things in the upper reaches of the Muskwa only need the mountain range category, though I guess I'd better make Category:Northern Rockies (Canada) as a subcat of Category:Canadian Rockies. The "country" system really only applies to settled areas, or partially-settled areas like the Cassiar, Stikine and Atlin; the deeper cores of the mountain ranges and coastline are just what they are. This has been condemned as original ressarch but it's all over materials written about BC, especially historically; to me, the classification-by-regional-district is original research as nobody else uses it but Wikipedia (and people who learn things from Wikipedia)...Anyway thanks, don't mean to rant just type too freely...for now I'm till doing "settlements in XXRD" but I'm uncomfortable with putting IRs and reserve communities in those, so there's things like Category:Settlements in the Chilcotin and Category:Settlements in the Similkameen as subcats of the settlements in RD cats....BCGNIS and CGNDB classify everyhing by land district, which while eminently citable is just as absurd as regional districts; Jervis Inlet is in the Lillooet Land District, for example; Moricetown is in the Coast LD, Range 3 etc...Skookum1 (talk) 03:29, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

Quest

Fine with those. Should I let the FAC sit until some other voices come in on the Usenet issue, or take any preemptive measures? ZeaLitY [ DREAM - REFLECT ] 21:52, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Got to work on the article and posted remaining references at FAC for further review. ZeaLitY [ DREAM - REFLECT ] 04:11, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

GimmeBot relegated the second FAC to the graveyard, so I restarted, but only added my last comments. I'll go notify Eagdylth as well. ZeaLitY [ DREAM - REFLECT ] 20:54, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Coordinator Election

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DYK for The Post-American World

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Warriors (novel series)

Thanks, not a problem, anywhere where it will get more eyes. Who then was a gentleman? (talk) 20:02, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

Novels banner

Thanks for adding the banners to appropriate talk pages. Just note that the official banner is {{NovelsWikiProject}}. Regards :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 09:37, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

I've noticed you switching them but I continued to use the WPNovels banner because it is just really easy to remember and type. But now that I have NovelsWikiProject written here, if I can copy&paste I will do so from here. maclean 15:39, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

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Talk:The_Post-American_World/GA1

Talk:The_Post-American_World/GA1 - it is close to passing and only a few minor things. When the above is corrected, I will be listing it under "Politics and government", as it is a non-fiction work discussing politics. Cheers. Ottava Rima (talk) 14:13, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

• Responded here. --maclean 19:23, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

From what I can see, the page reads cleanly and the sources check out. It is now a "good article". Ottava Rima (talk) 19:32, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

• Thank you for your time in reviewing. --maclean 19:39, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

• I'm sorry that it took so long before someone reviewed your page. Ottava Rima (talk) 19:53, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

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DYK for Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth

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Forensic and Medico-legal Aspects of Sexual Crimes and Unusual Sexual Practices

Thanks. This text actually describes the contents of the book in general. So in my humble opinion it would not violate any guidelines. It is like the preface of a book saying that E=MC², and we repeating it in a different context. Regards

B. phalloides

Thanks for that GAR, I enjoyed it! Now I must get to work and review someone elses... Sasata (talk) 04:56, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Excellent. You are an good editor to work with. If no one else does, I may pick up a few more reviews of your articles. Mushrooms are oddly kind of interesting. maclean (talk) 05:06, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

DYK for How the Scots Invented the Modern World

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Copy Edit

Hi, I was wondering if you have time to do a copy edit on Davenport, Iowa. I'm almost ready to renominate it for FA, and need some good copy editing. Thank you! CTJF83Talk 20:01, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

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Film noir

Thanks for the head's up. Sure, I'll approve the nomination. I'm especially interested to see what you believe is most in need of specific citation. Best, Dan.—DCGeist (talk) 20:25, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

• What should I do to help with the GA Review process?----occono (talk) 14:40, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
  • Okay, I'll try searching for Citations tomorrow. (It's late here now. :) )----occono (talk) 19:44, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
    • This is too hard for me, sorry.----occono (talk) 19:04, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks very much for your careful, insightful review of the article. It was a real pleasure working with you. All the best, Dan.—DCGeist (talk) 16:57, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

List of Knight's Cross recipients of the Waffen-SS

Thanks for the info. I removed the request MisterBee1966 (talk) 08:36, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Your resources request

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DYK for Who's Your City?

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SoWhy 13:29, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

I guess you get a lot of these

		The Copyeditor's Barnstar
		But I really wanted to show my appreciation for the in-depth reviews you gave to the 2009 Giro d'Italia articles. I had intended to get 2009 Giro d'Italia up to FA after passing GA, and your fine review gets it a lot closer already than I'd have thought possible. Thanks so much. Alex finds herself awake at night (Talk · What keeps her up) 02:08, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Reba McEntire

I addressed your issues in the GA review. I also added a print source to verify the chart positions and Grammy wins. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Many otters • One bat • One hammer)} 20:46, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

Talk:Encyclopedia of Chicago/GA1

It seems like you only had one concern at Talk:Encyclopedia of Chicago/GA1, which has now been addressed.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 02:15, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

How the Scots Invented the Modern World

I passed the above article. It was a good read. I liked it. I left only one suggestion at Talk:How the Scots Invented the Modern World/GA1. Cheers. Ottava Rima (talk) 03:18, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

Isiah Leggett

Yeah, that's it. I must have just forgotten the template. Sorry. Geraldk (talk) 23:43, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

Constitution Act, 1867 vs. BNA Act in John Edward Brownlee

Nice catch. My constitutional law prof'd have my head if he saw that. Steve Smith (talk) 00:05, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Er, actually, I take that back. The Constitution Act, 1867 didn't actually exist until 1982, so in that article BNA Act is correct. Steve Smith (talk) 00:07, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

• I was aiming for the links, rather than the name. BNA Act redirects to British North America Acts, whereas the Constitution Act, 1867 article is actually about the document in question. -maclean (talk) 00:29, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

• Right so. Using British North America Act, 1867, which redirects to the correct article, seems to be the solution. Thanks for your work on this article so far, by the way; it's been very helpful, and I look forward to reading your comments. Steve Smith (talk) 00:33, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

You may be disappointed with my comments. So far I don't have anything to say except fro the article is passing all the GA criteria as far as I've read. --maclean (talk) 19:34, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Re:Etau

Hi there - The JMA released their best track information on Etau and have downgraded it to a tropical storm. Whilst the primary author has updated the infobox he has not yet corrected the MH.Jason Rees (talk) 16:04, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Four Award

As a past WP:FOUR awardee you may wish to comment at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Four Award.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 19:27, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

Talk:Market Forces (The Spectacular Spider-Man)/GA1

I've taken care of the review comments there. Feel free to continue it. The Flash ^{talk} 16:32, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Article requests

Hi, Back in July you posted a request at Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request#Review of Books for some articles related to The Post-American World. I can provide those if you still need them; just drop me an email. Dr pda (talk) 21:12, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

I've just emailed them to you. Let me know if you don't get it. Dr pda (talk) 05:02, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Acquainted with the Night (book)

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Cato June FAC

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Vancouver

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Peer Review

Maclean25: I just prepared my first article in my user sandbox (link in User Page), and I was hoping you could kindly give it a quick peer review. Thank you /User:RickardA /User talk:RickardA —Preceding unsigned comment added by RickardA (talk • contribs) 22:12, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

• Looks like a good start. I think you can put it in the mainspace at Takanoyu Onsen. --maclean (talk) 06:19, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

• Maclean25: Thank you! RickardA (talk) 00:07, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Ping

I have sent you an e-mail. --Tenmei (talk) 07:13, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs

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User:Dweeebis/Sandbox

In December 2008, Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2008 December 8#SPoT Coffee was closed as allowing your userspace draft to be restored to the mainspace. Having looked through the draft, I believe that it's ready to be moved. Best, Cunard (talk) 22:58, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Ed Blake

Hey, thanks for passing this. Since you reviewed it quite quickly, i thought I'd let you know about User:Wizardman/GA incentive, where if you have an article or two that you think should be reviewed at GAN, I'll gladly take a shot at it to help reduce the backlog. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 23:16, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Did the Ed Blake review qualify for the incentive? If so, please take care of User:Jack1755's nominations in Royalty. maclean (talk) 01:35, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

AfD HMCS Discovery

Wondering if you might have sources that would improve the article referenced here. --KenWalker | Talk 19:23, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

Belated thanks!

Sorry to disturb, but I just wanted to say thank you for your nice message on my talk page re passing Talk:Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester/GA1 the other day. I was a bit distracted by an unforseen development. I also restored a sentence in the article to your version, of which I mistakenly believed there was a third way, when it was the old one ... Thanks again and cheers! Buchraeumer (talk) 03:09, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Twice Through the Heart

Thanks for carrying out this review. I believe that I have fixed all the issues. I have itemised the cases where I have acted differently from your recommendations as Talk:Twice Through the Heart/GA1.--Peter cohen (talk) 14:16, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

And thanks again for passing it. BTW, that's a nice array of featured and good content you have on your user page.--Peter cohen (talk) 19:51, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Twilight Zone: 19 Original Stories on the 50th Anniversary

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Re:Hedi

No problem - it took me a while to understand how to process it.Jason Rees (talk) 16:23, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

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Saltspring Coffee is notable?

Hi just saw your removal of the notability tag, and I don't understand your edit comment "again". yes, I see all the references, but those are local-news and also industry-media, partly based in th company's own press releases. I know of a chain of candy shops that once had four outlets in Merritt, Lillooet, Hope and Princeton, and they had some press copy in local papers - does that make them notable? This page has been conflated and expanded by a COI contributor who has also taken out stuff "not submitted by the company". e.g. this edit. Also see User_talk:Ctremewen#COI_on_Saltspring_Coffee.Skookum1 (talk) 16:36, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

See also the edit comment re a deleted section titled "Controversy" this edit which Cmtremewen also deleted, with the blatantly COI edit comment "This page is assigned for a company description and historical background as placed here by the company itself".Skookum1 (talk) 16:52, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

• I basically don't understand what you want notability warning tag to accomplish. If you don't think it is notable, then nomitate it for deletion (as the tag instructs you to do), or propose another action like merger, redirection. --maclean (talk) 17:15, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

Oh, I didn't notice that in the tag; which I'd been misunderstanding to mean to launch debate on whether something is notable or not, but I see the place to do that is an AfD, which I'll do.Skookum1 (talk) 19:01, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

I just tried to start an AfD but because of its previous AfD that's what I get on "this article's entry"....how do I relist it?Skookum1 (talk) 19:14, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

The instructions are here: WP:AFDHOWTO. Just like the first time but put in a "2nd" parameter. maclean (talk) 18:44, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

I didn't get to that because of ongoing page-load problems due to a really slow connection (REALLY slow), and dozens of other pages I monitor/edit and other parts of my life, but just now I had a look at Cmtremewen's blanking of my warning on their talkpage so took it to the Conflict of Interest noticeboard; - see Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard#Salt_Spring_Coffee_Co._and_User:Cmtremewen. Should I wait to see if an admin will launch the 3rd AfD and whatever other action, or would you tend to agree with me now that this page is problematic in its instigation and ownership by someone from the company - who thinks that people not FROM the company should not be editing the page? :-| Skookum1 (talk) 01:57, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Blanking a warning on your talk page is an acknowledgment that you know it was there, so don't worry about that. I would like to see how the Noticeboard deals with this. His actions do seem to point to an affiliation with the company. maclean (talk) 02:26, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

His words baldly state that....Skookum1 (talk) 03:10, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Talk:Twilight Zone: 19 Original Stories on the 50th Anniversary/GA1

I completed the GAN, and I placed it on hold pending one small prose error I found that needs you to correct. See Talk:Twilight Zone: 19 Original Stories on the 50th Anniversary/GA1 for details. –MuZemike 23:33, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Independent Review Request on Stephens City, Virginia

Hello, I am awaiting an official peer review, but was told by a FAC delegate to get as many people looking at the page as possible. The page just received GA status today. At your earliest convenience, could you take a look at the Stephens City, Virginia page and review it (placing it on the page's talk page or mine is fine) independent of the official peer review. I would open to any and all requests during the review. Thanks...NeutralHomer • Talk • 01:23, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

GA nomination

Yeesh Thanks. How silly. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:11, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

Done (and Question)

I have finished up with the changes you suggested I make to Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass in order to get it ready for a GA review. Though I did have a question on one of your points on the talk page. Could you go take a look at it? And, please let me know if you think there's anything else I need to change or add in the article. Silverseren^C 21:13, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

• I've finished with your new set of things. Go take a look? Silverseren^C 17:03, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Juwan Howard/archive2

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GA review for 2010 PapaJohns.com Bowl

Thanks for your review of the GAN for 2010 PapaJohns.com Bowl. I believe I've addressed all of your concerns; please review and let me know. –Grondemar 15:43, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

I have finished the review and made notes on the GA review page. --maclean (talk) 21:26, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks again, I believe I've addressed all of your new concerns as well as the one left over. Let me know if there's anything else I need to take care of. –Grondemar 05:43, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

Do or Die GA review

Hi Maclean, thanks for your review, I think I've addressed all your concerns. Cavie78 (talk) 20:23, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the review! Cavie78 (talk) 09:17, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

Zaculeu GA review

Hi Maclean - many thanks for the review of Zaculeu - it was helpful and constructive! Best regards, Simon Burchell (talk) 19:24, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

The Story of Marie and Julien GA review

Wow, you do a lot of these GA reviews! Thanks for taking on another. I'm not hugely familiar with what makes a fair use justification acceptable, so I may well have fallen the wrong side of that rule. I thought that image was quite central to the plot and showed the aesthetic of the attic room, and it was an image used in promotion of the film too, but if it doesn't add understanding then it can certainly go. I've removed it, and instead I've add a couple of screenshots showing the use of lighting in the attic room to indicate the 'correct' placement of objects as Marie prepares her suicide room (Image:Story of Marie and Julien lighting.jpg). I think the fair use justification for this new image is OK - what do you think? Fences&Windows 20:48, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

p.s. Great to see that you wrote a good article about the inspiration for my username! Fences&Windows 20:51, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

I have replied at Talk:The Story of Marie and Julien/GA1. I did noticed your userpage while I was searching 'what links here' with the Fences and Windows article. --maclean (talk) 02:27, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

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The Chetwynd is a small town in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in northeastern British Columbia, Canada. Situated on an ancient floodplain, it is the first town encountered after emerging from the Rockies along Highway 97 and acts as the gateway to the Peace River Country. The town developed during the construction of infrastructure through the Rocky Mountains in the 1950s, and was used as a transshipment point during the construction of hydroelectric dams in the 1960s and 1970s and the new town of Tumbler Ridge in the early 1980s. Home to approximately 2,600 residents, the population has increased little in the last 25 years but is significantly younger than the provincial average. Chetwynd has dozens of chainsaw carvings displayed throughout town as public art and is home to the weekly newspaper, the Chetwynd Echo, and a Northern Lights College campus. Nearby, there are four provincial parks, two lakes, and several recreational trails. Highways 29 and 97 intersect in town with Highway 97 connecting it to Prince George and Dawson Creek and Highway 29 to Tumbler Ridge and Hudson's Hope. Its economy is dominated by the primary industries of forestry, fossil fuel extraction, and transportation. (more...)

Explaining Handbook of Religion and Health

Thanks for your assessment just now of Handbook of Religion and Health. I was wondering if you could put on its talk page a sentence or two or three about what changes you saw as needed in order for it to make class B? Is it primarily more description of content, or do you see other issues? Many thanks -- Health Researcher (talk) 02:18, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

• Responded at Talk:Handbook of Religion and Health#B class check list --maclean (talk) 02:48, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Many thanks, that is very helpful! Health Researcher (talk) 03:57, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Congrats!

Congrats on getting Chetwynd, British Columbia to FA and TFA status. Good to see more smaller town articles being moved to FA. :) There is just one more step in your "journey" with the article though....WP:DYK. Since you have taken it from new article, to GA, then FA and now TFA, it wouldn't hurt to give DYK a go. Let me know if you are able and I will nominate you for a FOUR award. :) Take Care...Neutralhomer • Talk • 06:33, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. It was a surprise to see it as the TFA; I'm scrambling to update it. I created the article early in my wiki-career, before I knew what DYK was, so I think it is too late for that. But I do try to get my new articles now through DYK. --maclean (talk) 06:48, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Never too late for DYK. There have been articles that have gone from FA to DYK, so give it a shot. :) Again, congrats! :) Take Care...Neutralhomer • Talk • 07:10, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Great article! Chetwynd on the main page, had to do a double take. The Interior(Talk) 07:43, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. I'm glad you recognized it. I wonder how many British Columbians are aware of Chetwynd's existence. --maclean (talk) 08:03, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Probably not too many outside of the Peace, but I spent a great summer there treeplanting. Seeing a small-town article get the feature-length treatment is what's great about this place. The Interior(Talk) 11:00, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

A Short History of Progress edits

Hi there Maclean, I will try to keep this short. I noticed your rewrite and you did some good work (and a lot of it too) and thanks for that: plenty of review references also. Although I actually prefer the original but this is probably a matter of style and preference. The good side is that now the original is defunct and no longer published at Wikipedia I can effectively take it back for myself at least by fact although I know not really by law. I am going to move on from Wikipedia into my own blog... Things have a habit of getting dumbed down here particularly into mediocre and ineloquent English. It is a bit cookbookish now: section by section of the Author's book... Also I don't actually like the Background paragraph style as this should go into the Author Bio page otherwise you would have repeat it for ever Article for every book by that Author!? Hence the downside of a cookbook or templated approach. Question: are foootnoted references to say comparison with other Authors considered original Research? Also I couldnt find your original ref online but Martin Scoresse does not appear on Cinemaginaire's page for the film as an executive producer - given his preemminence I would pretty much take this as indicating that he is no longer associated with the project? Also although you keenly summarized/precis some of the quotes (particular the first intro one) there were a few bits (perhaps cut down) I would still like to see in the article particularly from his concluding remarks "an ice age hunter gather, clever but seldom wise" etc and the last Easter islander bit as they are muost poignant and expressive rendered thus in the authors own words than in a cookbook summary of the book. (I had this same difficulty once summarizing Nietzsche for an essay and in the end largely used the authors own words: how can one after all precis Nietzsche!) Please don't be offended. Maybe we should collaborate a little as I have no doubt that we will get a better result than either of us would otherwise on our own. Respond here or at my User Mattjs discussion page. (I rarely log in any more but will do so to check.) I will check back here in a few weeks or so (maybe longer) and make a few changes above after your feedback. Regards 122.148.41.172 (talk) 10:15, 15 November 2010 (UTC) (Now i'm off to print and save an older copy of the original Article (and largely mine) for myself ;-))

• The "Civilization is a Pyramid Scheme" External Link is an example of the sort of stuff that gets trampled on: it must have become a dead link but obviously no one bothered to search for a replacement until now.122.148.41.172 (talk) 10:41, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

It actually would be better to discuss this where it is most appropriate: i.e. on the Article's "Discussion" page I usually do so but most of the trampling followers on many of the pages I have edited do not...122.148.41.172 (talk) 10:41, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

• Thanks for building up and maintaining the article over these past few years. My re-vamp is intended to add additional perspectives from outside sources. I used the standard WP-book format: Background (where the book came from, at what point in the author's career it was written, etc), Content, Style, and Repection. You're right that the writing can come off as cookbook-ish (I call it 'matter-of-factly' or structured). On the Scoresse involvement, the last mention of him was in the May 2010 news article referenced but he doesn't seem involved anymore. If you find the time, please do continue editing. I'm sure we will be able to produce something better if we are able to correct each other. maclean (talk) 14:29, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Hey Maclean25, there is quite a bit of detail you deleted out of the original article that could go back in. The only debate is over the number and extent of quotes: sure I had a lot of them, but given Wright's use of rhetoric the only way to get any appreciaition of that is through judicious quotation. You will notice in Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy and Thus Spoke Zarathustra quite a few more quotes than we have. So two questions: Firstly, the Wright's concerns and exhortations quotes like before but in the smaller neater text boxes; and, Secondly how much detail in the description from the original article to go back into this one. In a number of places the old text elaborates where as the new text doesn't really say very much in the Synopsis about the actual book text!?: all the article is in Background, Style, and Publication and Reception? Have a think about it and maybe look back at the old Synopsis to see how much useful review has been deleted in the new version. Regards Mattjs. 122.148.41.172 (talk) 12:45, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

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Maclean25 has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, so I've officially declared today as Maclean25's Day! For being a great person and awesome Wikipedian, enjoy being the star of the day, Maclean25! Signed, Neutralhomer A record of your Day will always be kept here.

For a userbox you can add to your userbox page, click here. Have a Great Day...Neutralhomer • Talk • 05:03, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

Congrats on your awesomeness, and thanks for the nomination to have this honour bestowed upon me. Mindmatrix 15:31, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

Yah, I was just thinking about how long we have been here. Almost 5 years now? About time the youth started appreciating us old-timers. maclean (talk) 01:19, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

Warren County, Indiana

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Novels Improvement Drive

Just a question: how recent do some of the improvements have to be. I just recently changed The Hunger Games trilogy from Stub to Start, and then it was reassesed at C. Thanks, Glimmer721 ^talk 16:07, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

The intent is to motivate (or provide a push) to editors to created/improve articles, so anything that is a result of that 'push' (in January) could be listed on the Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Collaboration page. Thanks for adding to the Improvement Drive. maclean (talk) 18:16, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

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HI Maclean25, thanks for reviewing our article, Rebecca Harding Davis, our group has gone through and hopefully fixed all the mistakes with citation etc. Genesse23 (talk) 21:09, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

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Explanation of Kristubhagavatam quality assessment

Hello Maclean25, Thank you for your quality assessment of Kristubhagavatam, here, in which you rated it class C. To help with further improvements, I was hoping you might put a few remarks on the talk page HERE about what specific features the article lacks that could enable it to become a class B article. Hopefully this will not require much time for you to do, because I see from your contribution log that you performed your original assessment amazingly quickly (it seemed to me), on 12 Feb 2011 between two other edits at 19:07 and 19:08, in less than a minute! Many thanks in advance -- Health Researcher (talk) 17:08, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Thank you, Health Researcher, for building the article; that is what should be appreciated (I just merely added one letter to the talk page). As you mention, my assessments are quick overviews, not in-depth analysis. As requested, I will provide a more in-depth review on the talk page today. -maclean (talk) 17:59, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Hello Maclean25, many thanks for all your thoughtful suggestions for improving Kristubhagavatam! Please have a wonderful day and week! -- Health Researcher (talk) 00:07, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Quality assessment for Mantram Handbook

Hello User:Maclean25, and thanks for your rapid quality assessment of Mantram Handbook. When or if you get the time, I would be interested in your appraisal (e.g., added to the book's talk page), of what changes/fixes you think the article would need in order to qualify for the next higher quality level, i.e., B-class. (NB: Though I've so far only partially implemented your suggestions for Kristubhagavatam, the remaining suggestions you offered are like precious money in the bank that can be turned to when next addressing the article!). Many thanks -- Health Researcher (talk) 18:45, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

Talk:David Yates/GA2

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Pattern Recognition is a novel by science fiction writer William Gibson published in 2003. Set in August and September 2002, the story follows Cayce Pollard, a 32-year-old marketing consultant who has a psychological sensitivity to corporate symbols. The action takes place in London, Tokyo, and Moscow as Cayce judges the effectiveness of a proposed corporate symbol and is hired to seek the creators of film clips anonymously posted to the internet. The novel's central theme involves the examination of the human desire to detect patterns or meaning and the risks of finding patterns in meaningless data. Other themes include methods of interpretation of history, cultural familiarity with brand names, and tensions between art and commercialization. The September 11, 2001 attacks are used as a motif representing the transition to the new century. Critics identify influences in Pattern Recognition from Thomas Pynchon's post-structuralist detective story The Crying of Lot 49. The novel is Gibson's eighth and the first to be set in the contemporary world. Like his previous work, it has been classified as a science fiction and postmodern novel, with the action unfolding along a thriller plot line. Critics approved of the writing but found the plot unoriginal and some of the language distracting. The book peaked at #4 on the New York Times Best Seller list, was nominated for the 2003 British Science Fiction Association Award, and was shortlisted for the 2004 Arthur C. Clarke Award and Locus Awards. (more...)

Formatting Canadian electoral district articles

I am soliciting opinions on how percentages should be shown in electoral district results tables here: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Electoral_districts_in_Canada#Formatting_results_tables. Your opinion would be welcome. Regards, Ground Zero | t 02:27, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

GA review

I've started the review for Enemies & Allies. -- James26 (talk) 21:22, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

Great. I can provide (email) you any of the offline references you wish to see. If you come across any other sources I can incorporate into the article please let me know. maclean (talk) 21:35, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

The sources seem fine. My main issues were the ones I mentioned earlier in the review. -- James26 (talk) 00:46, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

Knowle West, Bristol

I have nominated this for peer review at Wikipedia:Peer review/Knowle West, Bristol/archive1 as I would like to take it to WP:FAC. Any comments that would help achieve this will be most welcome. Jezhotwells (talk) 22:41, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

City at the End of Time

Hi, thanks for the Booklist review you emailed me. I'll probably be adding some more to the article later (it's currently at T:TDYK), so I'll keep this review in mind. But of course you're welcome to add to the article yourself if you want to. —Bruce1ee^talk 06:47, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks!

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Peer Review

I noticed that your are one of the peer review volunteers for geography. Can you do a peer review on Wikipedia:Peer review/New York City/archive2. thanks, OpenInfoForAll (talk) 15:07, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

The Ash Garden

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That was nice of you to give Astrocog the barnstar for reviewing Blair Waldorf, and to make the comments that you did. Cheers. -- James26 (talk) 23:44, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

Reservation in India

Thank you so much for choosing the article "Reservation in India" for review. I am working on it with one of my classmates on the article for a class at Mills College and all your reviews are appreciated. Thank you and hope you find the article interesting. Kkhari29 (talk) 18:41, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for adding to the article. I have left some notes on the review page which can be addressed at anytime. maclean (talk) 07:55, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

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I don't see what the advantage is of replacing the cover image. The image parameter of Template:Infobox book states "prefer 1st edition - where permitted" and the File:Payback Atwood.png image is from the first edition. maclean (talk) 22:41, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

You are, of course, correct. The balloon/tack cover does seem to have been released first (at least in the US). My preference for the other cover is aesthetic; it just feels more like Atwood to me. I believe the other cover is the first edition released in hardback, but I wouldn't want to jeopardise a future FA and in any case would defer to your judgment. Cheers, Gobonobo ^{T C} 00:00, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Winter: Five Windows on the Season

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Your GA nomination of Soon I Will Be Invincible

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Lists/GA

Thanks for the information. I'm just a little confused by it all. Why are some: Sanctuary (season 2) allowed as GA but others are "featured lists"? Also, shouldn't the previous article I nominated be listed as "list class" and failed on the same grounds? 90210 (season 3). New to all of this, but any help would be greatly appreciated! Jayy008 (talk) 14:59, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

Ah, right. Thanks so much for all of your help. As a final note, in your opinion, all individual television seasons should be list-class? I'll make the changes now. Jayy008 (talk) 15:30, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Object permanence GAR

Hi there! I came across your comments about GA reassessment at Talk:Object permanence/GA1. I see the article still has the GA icon despite lacking a full review, and was planning on removing the icon until I saw your note. Was this brought to GA reassessment and I missed it, or did you decide it should stay listed? I just want to make sure it is not inaccurately listed as a good article. Thanks, Ruby 2010/2013 04:48, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

I did an individual reassessment and removed the icon here. It was later re-nominated and passed. See Wikipedia talk:Good article nominations#Object permanence maclean (talk) 04:54, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

GA review for Learning to Read

Thank you for your review of this article. I appreciate the care you took in specifying the weaknesses in the article. I am a bit surprised by the clear expectation many contributors have that articles on language processes should cross writing systems. My preference would be to specify a writing system. That will give me food for thought. I wanted to express my appreciation for the review and in general for the way that Wikipedians are welcoming student editors and writers. This is an excellent experience for them in terms of writing for the general public. Paula Marentette (talk) 04:03, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Rebecca Harding Davis article

Thanks so much for your feedback on the GA nomination of the RHD article. Since I'm the teacher of the SFSU class, and since the article is a student project, I can't really make any edits. However, I can guide and nudge - - and I'll point the RHD student group to some additional sources etc. As a scholar of American literature, with a speciality in working-class lit - - I can assure you that Life in the Iron Mills is regarded as a pioneering work in American realism. This judgment of Life in the Iron Mill is so ubiquitous that it's almost become common sense - - and hence not something that's argued or even addressed explicitly. Likewise, I can't think of one literary critic who wouldn't agree that Life is Davis's most significant work - - though folks are trying to recover and re-value her other work. In any case, I'll point the students to some general treatments of the book that laud its importance for American realism and its status w/i Davis' resume.

Again - -thanks for the time and labor! You've really helped the students - - who are now getting very excited about contributing to Wikipedia and the elusive grail of GA status! Profhanley (talk) 15:36, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

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CU Class Project

Hi. I am in Jayzzee's class. Thank you for your great intro to Wikipedia.Kasob (talk) 15:05, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

As Kasob said, I'm currently in Jayzee's class, and thanks for the intro! Reading over your user/talk pages, I see that you're from Northern BC. I'm from Fort Nelson, so...it's always nice to meet another Northerner around here! Matthew.murdoch (talk) 16:38, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for participating and giving editing a try. I've never made it to Fort Nelson, I tend to go south, rather than further north, when I got time. maclean (talk) 20:41, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

HI! I am also in Jayzzee's Psychology class and looking forward to editing on Wikipedia! RaeD09 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 19:13, 23 January 2012 (UTC).

Hello on-line ambassodor. I am also in Jayzzee's personality class. I look forward to editing articles on Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Owleye769 (talk • contribs) 19:35, 26 January 2012 (UTC) Owleye769 (talk) 19:52, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

New Gibson book

Hey Maclean. I've started an article for Gibson's new nonfiction collection, Distrust That Particular Flavor. I'm going to try get it to DYK, but time's running short. I know you're well versed in things Gibson, if you want to help out, please do. I think I'm going to do a "Background" section first, maybe talk about Gibson's reticence about non-fiction writing. I haven't read it yet, but the reviews have a lot of notes about the individual pieces. We could do a run-down of a few notable ones. Lots of sources out there, new ones appearing daily. Anyways, best to you, The Interior (Talk) 22:02, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

I don't actually have much interest in Gibson. I read Pattern Recognition at random (it was one of a couple books I got from a dollar bin of closing business and I only vaguely knew who Gibson was) and developed the WP article as a curiosity (my own personal book report). Regardless, I will try to give this new article a boost where I can. I have added a list of references to use [2]. maclean (talk) 07:53, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for the refs. I got it nommed with just hours to spare. Would like to expand it a bit more with a "Reception" section, and maybe flesh out the existing sections. Cheers, The Interior (Talk) 21:31, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

Controversies in Science (Wikipedia:Canada Education Program Ambassador)

Student check in

I remember that there was somewhere that my students need to check in (or sign ~~~~) to declare that they are part of my course. Do you know where that is? And will it work retroactively in accumulating stats (they started editing Wikipedia two days ago).Areil314 (talk) 23:29, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Responded on your talk page. maclean (talk) 00:28, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

End of humanity

Hi Maclean25, a few other editors and I have been working on Voluntary Human Extinction Movement and I'm trying to get it up to GA or maybe even FA standards. I saw that you got The World Without Us up to FA, I recall reading our article on the book a few years back and finding it very interesting. Do you think you could take a look at Voluntary Human Extinction Movement and give us some feedback about possible issues/ways to improve the article? That would be much appreciated, thanks. Mark Arsten (talk) 02:20, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

Online Ambassador, Spring 2012

Hi, Maclean25! As you may know, the Wikipedia Education Program has instilled a new set of standards that courses must meet to officially join the program for the semester. As you can see, one of the requirements is that at least one ambassador or professor is a Wikipedian, as this should give students more access to helpful information about contributing to Wikipedia and creating good content. You are listed on the Online Ambassador page; are you still interested in remaining active this semester? Some of these classes will have to remove themselves from the program should they fail to meet these standards, but we would like to ensure that new students are receiving proper support during the editing process. Please let me know if you are still interested in mentoring these students this semester and/or visit the Online Ambassador talk page to select a course that still needs an Online Ambassador. Thank you! JMathewson (WMF) (talk) 19:47, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for volunteering to be an Online Ambassador

Hi Maclean25: Thanks very much for volunteering to be an online ambassador for my environmental history class. The students are just getting organized into their teams now and I'm sure they will be in touch with you in the following weeks. They are newbies to WP and will appreciate your help - as will I (I'm a newbie too). --Greentina (talk) 05:29, 9 February 2012 (UTC)