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Saskatchewan in popular culture

Hello. As you know, it ended up being decided to delete the Saskatchewan in popular culture article. Although I voted for keeping it, I did understand the point of view of those who wanted to delete it. However, I thought the changes you were making in the last few days were really going in the right direction and I was expecting other people to take notice and engage in some kind of discussion about your changes. I was a little surprised that your efforts were ignored when the final decision was made. If more wikipedians had made an effort to offer suggestions about the way to improve it rather than being so ready to delete it, with your efforts and others it could have developed into something more legitimate and worthwhile. To be honest it was me who started the article and who maintained it for most of its history, and I see now that perhaps it was too trivial an article, but I wish I had gotten more constructive feedback earlier, and that more people had been willing to put in efforts like yours to steer it in the right direction before it was on the brink of deletion.

I don't know if you have any aspirations to start the article again from scratch, but if you do, let me know, and I would be happy to try to help explore different directions for the article to work towards a hopefully interesting, legitimate one. But if you're not interested in starting it again, that's fine too, because I do think it would be quite a challenge to squeeze a truly meaningful and worthwhile article on the subject--that's not to say it can't be done, but it would be a challenge. Or maybe it wouldn't be, but I personally don't have enough ideas by myself to think about undertaking it alone. I have some vague ideas about how the article could be reorganized by themes rather than by places and kinds of media, and I have some thoughts about what some of these themes could be, but by itself this wouldn't be enough. But maybe if we could round up a couple more people who would be willing to contribute ideas and experiment and explore different directions, or if we could get a discussion going on the discussion page, we might be able to come up with something satisfying for us and agreeable to the general wikipedia population. But, again, if you're not interested, I would also be happy to let the idea drop. Anyway, no matter what, thank you for your efforts on the last article. You can leave me a message at my user talk page if you would like to contact me about this. Thank you! Moisejp 09:09, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

• Hi, SriMesh. Thanks a lot for your note. I'd be happy to work on the article with you but am quite busy. But if we take it slowly I think that would be good. So do you have some initial ideas for what aspects of the subject, or what angle you think might work? I have one idea, but it is not at all fleshed out yet. I think we will likely need to do some discussion back and forth before we clarify at least a little concretely how to tackle the article, unless you have some brilliant, clear ideas already.
  For me, on the list of popular culture items in the last article, there were a number that seemed to find humour in the fact that Saskatchewan (and maybe Saskatoon and Moose Jaw) were funny-sounding, and also in the representation of Saskatchewan as a big vast expanse of land where there is nothing happening. For me that would be an intersting angle (at least for part of the article). The problem is in our article we wouldn't be able to just say that's the thinking of the people who made these references, we would need some quotation attesting to that effect, otherwise we would be guilty of original research. I don't know if you noticed, on the Saskatchewan page someone wrote a very, very short Saskatchewan in popular culture bit to fill in the hole where the link to the sub-article used to be, and the person wrote that "Both Saskatchewan and Saskatoon are frequently alluded to by comedians, due to the perception that they constitute inherently funny words." But somebody else deleted that part of it, presumably because it wasn't referenced. The only way I can think of that we could get around that problem would be to look hard for some references of people who have directly said that the sound of Saskatchewan is funny or that the vastness of the land with "nothing happening/nothing there" is funny.
  Anyway, that's my one idea so far. Again, I'm very open to other ideas as long as they seem doable and interesting. Let me know what kinds of things you are thinking of. By the way, tomorrow I have to go away for several days and likely won't be able to check my messages (have decided to leave my laptop behind) but I will check when I get back, in a week's time. Thank you. Moisejp 13:09, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

Regina neighbourhoods

A useful addition you have made. Could you perhaps correct the opening sentence you added, which appears to have a typo ("neighbourhoods of subdivisions")? And also provide a definition of "neighbourhoods," as it appears in the sense you use it to be a technical term of art? And also provide a citation for the list you have inserted? Thanks! Masalai 07:46, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

(I assume it is supposed to read "neighbourhoods or subdivisions," but still, could you perhaps indicate the source of the list and how "neighbourhood" is defined in the presumably more technical, defined sense that you have used it in inserting the list?) Masalai 07:48, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for formatting the list of neighbourhoods in a table; could you please also make the necessary adjustment so that the text which follows is outside it? Masalai 20:27, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

I have responded on the talk page for the "Regina neighbourhoods" article to your suggestion. Masalai

Oh, don't take it personally, SriMesh. "Contact the City of Regina planning department" is not really the answer to errors being thrown up; the answer is to correct the errors. There is no issue with the "neighborhoods" [sic] classification; the issue is what the definition of "neighbourhood" is. If it is from Stats Can then that should be explained. However, the matter remains that a complete list of such neighbourhoods doesn't seem useful information: the fact that there is a residential precinct styled Whitmore Park and another styled Normandy Heights and some dozens of others surely counts as trivia. But more to the point, what is your understanding of the "neutral point of view" policy and in what way do you consider that the sub-article violates it? And how does adding a complete list of "neighbourhoods" (however that is defined) ameliorate such violation? (Interesting, incidentally, that you use the term "you'se" for the plural of "you." Are you Irish?) Masalai 04:40, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Hello again, SriMesh. That is a wonderful, detailed response that you have put on my talk page, and thank you. Could I ask that you copy and paste (the appropriate parts, obviously) to the Regina Neighbourhoods talk page so that the other editors might enter into the discussion? But to answer you briefly, the anonymous editor who took such exception to the brief mention of the problems in the North Central precinct of Regina, and whose mighty objections indeed gave rise to the article, has now been permanently blocked. The discussion of other "notable" neighbourhoods and indeed the entire article was generated entirely by way of attempting to answer his or her problems with any reference to North Central's issues. There is a general consensus among habitual editors of Regina articles that apart from the half-dozen "notable" neighbourhoods which have been discussed (and perhaps not even them), there is very little that is noteworthy about Regina neighbourhoods and any discussion of them beyond what has already been generated would have to be trite and meaningless. Masalai 09:13, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Hi SriMesh. Hope you had a good Canada Day. I wanted to thank you for your contributions and echo Masalai's comment that urges you to not take this personally. Indeed, I concur with Masalai's concerns about Regina neighbourhoods. For whatever reason, the planners of Regina decided, in their wisdom, to develop faceless and drab subdivisions from about 1965. I think that the addition of any other subdivision to the article, with the possible exception of the so-called Transitional Area semi-neighbourhood, would be bumping up against WP:Relevance. Masalai has set the tone by addressing Regina neighbourhoods in a historical way -- however a strategy that we could adopt now is to add a few sentences that describe the present conditions of neighbourhoods. One more thing -- you are a registered Wikipedia editor and thus you are most definitely not an "Outsider to Regina" as you described yourself elsewhere. You are free to edit where you will, and judging by your excellent contributions elsewhere, you are most welcome! ^^ Mumun 無文 17:20, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

To you:

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		For continuously working on Saskatchewan articles, improving articles, adding tags to nearly everything and guiding others in their editing, I give you this. Keep up the great work! JoeyETS 05:11, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

My most sincere apologies

I just was looking back and realized that on the Saskatoon Youth Orchestra discussion page I accidentally referred to you in the masculine. I would like to sincerely apologize for my ignorance, and for any other times I have made mistakes like that. I guess that's the danger of online communication. Once again, I am very sorry. JoeyETS 05:55, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Meetup

Hi! I' doing good, what about you? I'm little busy, so it may take some time to post the minutes (or simply "to do" plan). You've done an awesome job with the locater map! Try on a few pages to see it whether works well. The U of S template looks good too. Talk to you later. Cheers! --Victor D ^PARLE 07:20, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Be Bold is the magic Wiki phrase I was not able to recall that day!!! Have a nice day. --Victor D ^PARLE 18:34, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

I've added the to do list. If it receives your and User:Delzen's approval then I can transfer it to the main projects page.--Victor D ^PARLE 23:41, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Happy birthday Canada

Happy Canada day! Bonne fête Canada! --Victor D ^PARLE 08:44, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Regina North Central

We are discussing your insertions in this article on its talk page. Perhaps you would like to make your voice heard before we proceed with further editing. There is a small consensus that your suggestion is perhaps not especially well-advised. Masalai 06:58, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

July WP Saskatchewan Newsletter

I was wondering if you were going to get that started? Mr. C.C. 05:43, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

WP SKCN Banner

I made a banner, but when I added it to a new article I created on the Central Business District in Prince Albert it didn't show up in the WP SKCN articles category. Could you take a look at it an see what the problem is. I took the code from WP Sask banner. It can be found here:

Mr. C.C. 09:56, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

When I added the banner to the talk page, it didn't seem to show up. I added the article manually to the category. Mr. C.C. 17:17, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Everything is in working order. Now we can start adding the banner to the talk pages. Mr. C.C. 07:20, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Saskatchewan project

Thank you for the invitation. I don't know that I really qualify. The articles that I have either begun or substantially added to are, off the top of my head, Regina (and a range of sub-articles relating to history and development); Regina College (later the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus and later still the University of Regina); Regina RC Cathedral; Regina Anglican Cathedral; Gravelbourg Cathedral; Qu'Appelle; Indian Head; Fort Qu'Appelle; the Qu'Appelle Valley; the Fishing Lakes; the Diocese of Qu'Appelle; Michael Peers.... A rather limited sphere of interest and expertise, I think. Masalai 09:51, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Well, thank you again. I am still mildly sceptical as to what I might profitably add to the project but I shall keep your invitation under advisement. Have you also extended it to the other major contributors to the Regina articles? They are User:Mumun man, User:Kmsiever, User:Friesguy, User:BigNate37, User:Reginaguy and no doubt some others whom I have neglected to mention.

Before, however, you devote a great deal more time to elaborating on the list of Regina neighbourhoods that you have added, may I suggest that you wait for (or perhaps solicit) comment from the rest of the community of editors who regularly contribute to the Regina articles. As I mentioned before, the entire purpose of this sub-article in the Regina series was to accommodate the urgent objections of a now-banned editor ("Mayor Quimby," who was banned under that name and subsequently continued to edit anonymously) to the extremely mild and matter-of-fact observation that the North Central precinct of Regina is subject to problems of social and economic disadvantage and high rates of crime. As the author of much, indeed nearly all, of the article, I have no qualms about admitting that it is largely a boondoggle. The fact remains that Regina residential neighbourhoods are largely undistinguished, and there is very little of interest to say about any of them, which is not at all to criticise them; it is a bare statement of fact. Your mooted project of tracking Regina urban development policies through the years by reference to residential neighbourhoods is a vast one: it is more appropriately the subject of a PhD thesis than a Wikipedia article! Masalai 08:35, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Ian Balding

Is this becoming an article? Smokizzy (talk) 02:42, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

• YUP

Central Business District (Downtown), Prince Albert, Saskatchewan

Thanks so much for the information you have added. It could use more pictures, plus all the info in the info box added. I have never heard of the Chautauqua Street Fair. You should explain that to me if possible. Thanks again. Mr. C.C. 07:18, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

University of Saskatchewan

Thanks for the invite; I'll pass for now, but I'll do my best when necessary to revise articles dealing with your province; not much contact with the University. BTW, ditto on the Prince Albert input--I see PA's founder, James Nisbet needs some clean-up, too--I'll get to it. Noted that you made contributions to the U of S article, a new subarticle has been started...University of Saskatchewan Academics which is in progress. Will use its sections for the U of S template, until full college articles are written. Working on a push to get the U of S to A status then to Feature... Invitation if you want to help out... Bacl-presby 17:02, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Request for vote

I have review the first part of the University of Saskatchewan article and find that it is not ready for feature status. I did make some edits by add important missing links, but more needs to be done. Dbiel ^(Talk) 08:53, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

It seems that I did not understand your request. Now that I do, I have added my vote to the Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive for the article to be selected. As stated it could use the help and it is worthy of recieving it.Dbiel ^(Talk) 09:04, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

I noticed that College Building (Saskatchewan) was not in the list of building included in Gothic Revival architecture in Canada. I added a note to the talk page to see if it made sence to added it. SimonP was kind enought to added it so I have included a link to that page in the university article. I also left a note for him, thanking him for his contribution and asking if he might also vote infavor of the University article for selection in the Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive. Dbiel ^(Talk) 14:52, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Have you considered trying to contact the various editors of the multiple articles in Category:University of Saskatchewan that have not added their vote to the Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive? I did contact two editors that have interacted with my post and requested that they consider the article, but so far they have declined to do so. I think those who have edited University of Saskatchewan based articles in the past may be more receptive to the invitation. Good luck in your efforts, you are at least within striking distance. Dbiel ^(Talk) 15:01, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

I have noticed that the article has fallen off the list. If you wanted to try listing it again I would be glad to add my name to support it and I would guess that most of the other previous supports would be willing to do the same. Dbiel ^(Talk) 00:28, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

I am a bit suprised that you did not respond to by last post. Have you given up on trying to have the article accepted as part of the Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive? If not, I would suggest that you added it back again and leave notes on the pages of those that had previously supported it. I think that would give you a good chance of getting to the top of the list. Dbiel ^(Talk) 19:44, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. I wish you continued success in your endeavour.Dbiel ^(Talk) 01:25, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Gothic Revival architecture in Canada‎

Since I am not actively editing Gothic Revival architecture in Canada‎, I copied your comments from my talk page and added them to the article talk page so that they might be considered. Dbiel ^(Talk) 20:21, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Re: University of Saskatchewan

If I'm listed as a member of any WikiProject Canada, I probably shouldn't be. Thanks for the info anyway. (ESkog)^(Talk) 20:29, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Univ of Sask template

Hi, I ran across this template a few days ago and left a comment on the talk page. Belatedly, it occurs to me that you haven't been looking at the talk page -- please go to Template talk:University of Saskatchewan and take a look at what I had to say. --orlady 02:47, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Fall Newsletter

I think that is a good idea. Did you propose it to him? If so, than we need to weight on a response. Did you get the July newsletter out? Mr. C.C. 05:18, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

I see you have made the July newsletter. Looks really good. It should be delievered. Mr. C.C. 05:28, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

I did add some stuff. I will add some stuff if I think of it. Mr. C.C. 04:30, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Request for help

We are approaching an edit war in the article Student over the inclusion of a particular photo being use to represent student pranks I was wondering if you would be willing to take a look at the article and the discussion on the discussion page and add your POV regarding the use of this particular image; if the article is better with or without the image. Thank you for your consideration. I wish you success in your drive to have University of Saskatchewan accepted as an article to benefit from the Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive. Dbiel ^(Talk) 04:56, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

This will be my last request, I was hoping that you might be willing to add your POV regarding the use of the image in question in article Student. We are no closer to a concensus than when we started. Any additional input would be helpful in attempting to reach a concensus. Thank you in advance. Dbiel ^(Talk) 04:05, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for taking the time to review and respond to the discussion in article Student I wish you continued success in your drive to get University of Saskatchewan accepted as an article by the Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive Dbiel ^(Talk) 23:21, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

WP SKCN Adopt-An-Article

Here is a new departmnet for WP SKCN. It is called Adopt-An-Article. The aim of the department is to get people to adopt an article and make it the best it can be and even elevate it to featured article status. So add articles to the list that adoption. Also you add items to the "To Do List" as well. Mr. C.C. 16:58, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter July 2007

SriMesh | talk 02:25, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Reply to your message on my talk page

Don't worry about it. Anyway, this is what I had in mind for the Newsletter:

Progress Report for WikiProject Saskatchewan Roads
Saskatchewan Highways 1-99: 62/62 have their own articles.
Saskatchewan Highways 200s: 18/18
Saskatchewan Highways 300s: 45/50
Saskatchewan Highways 600s: 64/82
Saskatchewan Highways 700s: 60/72
Saskatchewan Highways 900s: 64/64
Saskatchewan Numbered Roads: 1/3
Saskatchewan Named Roads: 1/177
Saskatchewan Range Roads: 1/14
Saskatchewan Township Roads: 0/14
I have only counted the listed roads here. There are definitely more roads in Saskatchewan, particularly in the Range and Township Road listings. I invite everyone interested to contribute to WikiProject Saskatchewan Roads. Ultraflame 15:57, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

That would be it. And for your question about how those two articles were not deleted, someone else actually removed the deletion templates from the articles. Highway 667, I assumed, was not deleted because the nominator was confused about Wikipedia's notability guidelines (the nominator did not know that highways generally meet notability requirements), and I guess Highway 956 was not deleted because there was more information that could be added, contrary to what the nominator stated - Apparently, he thought that "[there] isn't anything you could possibly say about it other than this" when talking about the 11 May 2007 revision (but just compare that revision to the current one).
Thank you. Ultraflame 15:57, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

North Sea

howdy, and thanks for your help on the North Sea. the references look great. the english article is now much better referenced than the german! there are still some sections from the translation that im going to be trying to work in somewhere which will be unreferenced (or, of course, youre welcome to do some of this if you see a good fit), but as of right now it looks much better than i had hoped. also its not so much that every section needs x citations, more that facts should be as easily verifiable as possible. i also appreciate all the other stuff youve been doing as the translated material (especially my sections) is still rather unpolished.

As for DYK, i suspect despite the growth it wont qualify, though i would love for more people to be taking a look at the article. so here's hoping! Jieagles 04:57, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Help - : Response at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check#North Sea Jeepday (talk) 16:06, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

indeed it is looking much better. from my point of view the major things that need to be done are

1. copyedit, especially for brevity to reduce size. im working on this at the moment, slowly.
2. branching off and summarizing of the history section, as well as possibly the coasts section and the natural resources section.
3. expand lead section to provide a good overview of the article. this is tough since there's such a variety of info and some of it is rather specialized.
4. possibly expand marine traffic section. ive done a very little bit of expansion with the cleanup. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jieagles (talk • contribs) 04:46, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Lead looks good, only problem is the quote from Mahan seems lost in the lead paragraph. That is a very important work, highly influential, examining important North Sea power struggles, and possibly helped lead to Germany's naval build up before WWI, the quote seems a bit out of place so im wondering where in the article a mention of Mahan might go and what sort of quote would be appropriate. what do you think? Jieagles 17:16, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Hey, id appreciate your thought and comments on my proposed summarization of the currently very long history section available here User:Jieagles/North Sea History. thanks Jieagles 22:40, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Hey again, i nominated North Sea for Good Article so there may shortly be peer reviews and fresh ideas for how to improve the article. So keep an eye on it if you can. thanks --Jieagles 23:14, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Archontology

Hi. You are one of only two editors ever to have linked to the article archontology (besides its original author), and so I'm writing to ask you whether you have any personal knowledge of this term. Have you ever come across it in any context other than the wikipedia? Many thanks, Doops | talk 22:05, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Re: Saskatchewan WikiProject Newsletter

Keep up the good work. I only have internet access a couple of times a month during the summer, this is one of the things I check up on. I will think about ideas for future student involvement. --Delzen 22:12, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

History of Rosetown

I am in favor of merging the History of Rosetown article with the Rosetown article. I started discussions with on both talk pages for those two articles. I wanted you to chim in with your thoughts. Mr. C.C. 08:05, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

I doesn't matter who does it as long as it gets done. Than just redirect the History of Rosetown article to the Rosetown article. Mr. C.C. 23:58, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Looks good!

Keep up the good work. Your additions/changes to Pat Fiacco look wonderful! Mumun 無文 12:30, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Sports in Sk

I'm afraid that's not really something I'm qualified to comment on. Masalai 06:34, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

I did some major updates on the Sports page. I didn't include references for most of them as unfortunately, the majority come from first hand experiences. By that I mean I was at the games/events or I've had conversations/emails with those involved. Its a little amusing that some of the references on that page refer to pages I've created myself, but hopefully this is what you were looking for. Shootmaster 44 09:55, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

I'll take a look at it and see if there's any help I can provide, but I'm not hugely familiar with Saskatchewan sports — the edits I've done on SK sports articles have mostly been categorization improvements, to be honest (e.g. reclassifying things into "Sport by city" subcats, etc.) Bearcat 18:14, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

No problem. I'm honestly surprised you can find as many references as there is. Being a huge sports fan here in Saskatoon has helped me develop my interest. As you've no doubt noticed my edits are a little Saskatoon-centric, since I've never paid major attention to teams, leagues etc. that haven't had franchises in Saskatoon. If there's references you can't find, let me know and I will dig through my collection of books, programs, scoresheets etc. and see what I can find. Shootmaster 44 03:43, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, but I'm not familiar enough with the topic to really contribute to the text. I only did some little changes to the layout of the article. If you (or a group of editors of this article) need some help in this direction, I'll be willing to help (although it might take some days before I have the time to work through the main text. For everything else, feel free to ask, but I'm not sure if I will be able to help. Regards. Malc82 21:42, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

An Invite to join Saskatchewan WikiProject

Hi, you are graciously extended an invitation to join the Saskatchewan WikiProject! The Saskatchewan WikiProject is a fairly new WikiProject. We are a group of editors who are dedicated to creating, revising, and expanding articles, lists, categories, and Wikiprojects, to do with anything Saskatchewan.

As you have shown an interest in Sports in Saskatchewan we thought you might like to take an interest in this growing WikiProject.

Please assist with any ongoing requests

You might like to take an extra interest in our To Do list

Another project dedicated to Saskatchewan is the Saskatchewan Roads and Highways Wikiproject

Also, a descendant project for Saskatchewan is the Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods

We look forward to welcoming you to the project! SriMesh | talk 18:38, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

Invitiation Template

If you want to re-design inner workings of the template than go ahead. I took the idea from WikiProject Novels and used their perimiters when I created it. Mr. C.C. 06:06, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Bethune, Saskatchewan

The Bethune, Saskatchewan article has no categories on the main page of the article. What categories do you suggest? Plus it could use a lot of information as it has none. I was thinking about poking around the Bethune site for something to add to it. Mr. C.C. 06:33, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

I added what information I could from the Bethune official site. Mr. C.C. 07:02, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

St. Louis, Saskatchewan

I have been thinking about this article for such a long time now and I have thought about what I could do to spruce up the article. I know it needs wikifying with the map, infomation, organization of information and whatnot. I will put it up for adoption in the Adopt-An-Article departmant of WP:SKCN. Mr. C.C. 07:02, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Saskatchewan Portal

I have thought about it and we should discuss this further with the rest of the WP: Saskatchewan members about a Saskatchewan portal. What do you think? Mr. C.C. 07:05, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you very much for the help you gave me regarding Iowa Hawkeyes football from 1889 to 1899. I am currently working on it in my sandbox so check it out if you have time. I'm also considering integrating 1898 and 1899 into a new article titled Iowa Hawkeyes football under Alden Knipe. Again, many thanks for the help and have a nice day! DanThaMan17 19:12, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

August WP SK Newsletter

Thanks for your message. This is what I have in mind this month:

Red links to Saskatchewan roads
When looking through some Saskatchewan Highway articles (especially those containing intersection lists), you may notice that there are red links to potential Saskatchewan road articles (especially Range and Township Roads). However, many of these roads do not appear on the List of Saskatchewan provincial roads. If you happen to read over any highway articles, and you notice a red link to a road that does not appear on the provincial roads list, please add the road's name to the appropriate section on that list. Eventually, I believe that we will have a list of all known Saskatchewan rural roads. Thank you. Ultraflame 01:35, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Noticeably shorter than last month's note, but this is good for the road list. Thank you again. Ultraflame 01:35, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Xena, Saskatchewan

This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have perfomed a web search with the contents of Xena, Saskatchewan, and it appears to be very similar to another wikipedia page: Template:Saskatchewan Communities. It is possible that you have accidentally duplicated contents, or made an error while creating the page— you might want to look at the pages and see if that is the case.

This message was placed automatically, and it is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article and it would be appreciated if you could drop a note on the maintainer's talk page. CorenSearchBot 03:20, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

I have replied stating that I had used the substitution template which is what the robot compared it to. So they were identical, till I filled in the substitution outline for Xena.SriMesh | talk 03:44, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Saskatchewan Issues

• Invitiation Template

Well, I tried to have to have it work like the WP: Novels. There are probably a few bugs to work out.

• Bethune, Saskatchewan

I see it has been expanded more, which is good. Any information that could expand the article is a good thing.

What about categories on the main article page?

• St. Louis, Saskatchewan

Great job on Wikifying it and whatnot. But the mayor is not who the article says it is. I believe, if I am not mistaken, the mayor St. Louis is Emile Lussier. I know him.

Also, that other ways to cite stuff it good as well.

About the St. Louis ghost light and train article should be in the St. Louis article unless it has sufficent information in it to keep it it's own seperate article. If it doesn't have enough information to keep it it's own article than merge it and re-direct that article to the St. Louis article.

St. Louis re-directs to St. Louis, Missouri. I suggest using the St. Louis as the disambiguation page. Agreed? Mr. C.C. 07:16, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

• Saskatchewan Portal

More input from other WP: Saskatchewan members is welcomed. But I say it's good for the all things Saskatchewan.

• Sports in Saskatchewan

Great job in making an article for sports in Saskatchewan. I am interested in professional wrestling. So I don't know if that should be added to that article.

I will try and add information where able. Mr. C.C. 07:16, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

• Saskatchewan Articles

I don't know much about the University of Saskatchewan, so I haven't been too involved in that area. But I can contribute where able.

• August Newsletter

I have seen the newsletter expanded. But of course it's not necessarily done. I can add more stuff to it where able and necessary.

• List of communities in Saskatchewan

I was looking at the list and I seen there was a list of ghost towns and I clicked on one and there was an article on Govenlock, Saskatchewan, but there no infomation on it. I was wondering if there is any place to find information on that ghost town.

I found information and I think it's expands the article quite nicely. Also, can you look at the citations? I am asking because they look wonky in the notes section of Govenlock article. Mr. C.C. 07:16, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

On the Crichton, Saskatchewan article there is a starting of a sentence... "Back in the day" which sounds unencyclopedic. I will change that.

Also expanding other ghost town articles and not just Uranium City.

Is Uranium City and actual ghost town? Last I heard, there were people living there. Mr. C.C. 07:16, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Mr. C.C. 05:58, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Regina and southern Saskatchewan

That sounds like a terrific idea. I would of course be more than delighted to collaborate with anyone and everyone who has ideas to contribute to southern Sk articles. Have you also involved the other frequent contributors to these articles? There has been a recent infelicity as a result of a somewhat less-than-courteous intervention by an overseas contributor and regular contributors seem to have withdrawn somewhat from regular editing, which seems a pity, but perhaps they can be persuaded again to join in. Thanks again for alerting me. I appreciate it! Masalai 10:25, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

SK Articles created ... a combined answer....

Warm thanks for your kind words as to my contributions to articles on Regina and other southern Sk communities. I vastly appreciate your comments. (There are times when unkind and impolite words in this forum rather discourage one from contributing further, as I am sure you well know from your own experience with Wikipedia.)

I am more than delighted to contribute to the Sk project in any way I possibly can. (Let us hope that knockers whose "contributions" consist only of wholesale deletions of text without any discussion and demands for citations as to matters of common knowledge might take a more positive attitude!)

One question which perhaps could be investigated: I note that several Wikipedia articles contain extremely enlightening screen-saves of Google satellite maps. Does anyone in the Sk project know what the copyright status is of these images and how Wikipedia can legally use them? Virtually any article on a Sk community could be enormously improved by adding such images, but obviously one does not want to violate copyright.

Kind regards, and again my deep thanks for your kind words. (I trust it is more than amply clear that I do not purport to "own" in Wikipedia terms the articles on the various Sth Sk communities I have contributed to.) You encourage me to contribute further. Masalai 12:01, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

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Govenlock

I have a two questions about the references:

1. Why are there redlinks where the date is?
2. Why are to references and they point to the same reference?

Mr. C.C. 05:01, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

DYK - Sports in Saskatchewan

On 9 August, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Sports in Saskatchewan, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Circeus 20:57, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Newsletter

I don't have anything else to add off the top of my head. Mr. C.C. 05:39, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Regina and southern Saskatchewan

It is wonderful that several Reginans and southern Saskatchewanians now want to sign on and contribute their information as to the Regina and S. Sk articles. The more the merrier. I hope that you have also made overtures to the other recent regular contributors to these articles. Many have been somewhat scared off by recent discourteous interventions by a certain nosey parker in Brisbane, Australia (of all places) and her partisans in Sweden (huh?) and perhaps the new project will encourage interested parties to return to Wikipedia. Masalai 12:17, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks and Thanks and Thanks

Thanks for the note. Thanks for the support re northern Sask new entries. Thanks for the newletter entry. I will keep working on these things and hope others will join in. Fremte 14:18, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods

I need to you to respoond to a couple of discussions I posted. Mr. C.C. 04:43, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Please also comment on Wynyard as well. Mr. C.C. 05:45, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Cleaning Up References/Footnotes/Notes

Here is a good way to make the reference list in the notes from stretching a page. It inputs a scroll bar so you have to scroll up and down to see all the references.

<!-- ----------------------------------------------------------
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Footnotes for a discussion of different citation methods and how to generate footnotes using the<ref>, </ref> and <reference /> tags
----------------------------------------------------------- -->
<div style="height: 220px; overflow: auto; padding: 3px; border:1px solid #AAAAAA; reflist4" > {{reflist|3}} </div>

See The Simpsons Movie for an example of it's use.

Mr. C.C. 06:42, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

DYK

On 11 August, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Syādvāda, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--DarkFalls ^talk 07:15, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

August Volume 1, Issue 3 Newsletter

WikiProject Saskatchewan August Volume 1, Issue 3 Newsletter

Delivery

Instead of posting a full fledged, you can still post a link so I still have easy access to it. Mr. C.C.Talk 08:02, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Sports article

Please have a look at my question here. Thank you. Biruitorul 00:35, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

September 2007 Newsletter

I started adding stuff the September newsletter. Mr. C.C. 06:32, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Canvassing

Please see WP:CANVASS. The message you have been adding : Noticed you were a member of Wikiproject Canada - Education.... Celebrate the Centennial University of Saskatchewan Anniversary in the year 2007. Would you please go to Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive and vote for this University of Saskatchewan article!!! Tell any and all other editors / U of S students you know who wiki to vote also please!!! Please help Celebrate the Anniversary of the U of S University of Saskatchewan Academics Talk Please help to bring the article to feature status " is very close to a violation of this policy. its fine to ask for help in improving it. It's not fine to ask other people to vote for it, though you can say that it has been listed. But particularly, you should not ask to recruit people to join WP for the purpose of supporting the article. Please read WP:MEATPUPPET. DGG (talk) 19:57, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

I didnt think you did it in bad faith, therefore I just said this so you;d know. Incidentally, there is no rule against asking people not in WP to join if you do it elsewhere than on WP. The more the better, actually. DGG (talk) 02:14, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Saskatchewan barnstar for AFC work

By all rights, this should go to User talk:70.65.80.72. He provided the original text, I just did some secretarial work and minor copy-editing. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 04:03, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

The WP:AFC process

If an unregistered user wants to create an article, he can't. This is to prevent spam and other abuse. Instead, he adds his suggested article to the Articles For Creation page. Registered users can copy these submissions to new articles. In order to comply with the spirit of the GFDL, the editor doing the copying is supposed to put the original submitter's IP address in either the first version of the article, the edit summary, or both. I usually put it in the edit summary. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 04:19, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Newsletter

Being I was the founder of the original road projects, I probably appeared. Keep sending them to me. Thanks for clearing it up.Mitch^contribs 00:52, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

WP: SKCN Talk Page

Please respond to the WP: SKCN talk page. Thanks. Mr. C.C. 07:22, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Saskatchewan Highway 620

Just to give you a heads up, you invited this highway article to join the Saskatchewan WikiProject. --Son 05:09, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

New Section On Front Portal Page

Where has that section gone to on the main page of the portal? It was there, but now it's not. Mr. C.C. 05:38, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

It was on the front page of the portal and even if the other sections are random, the news section is not there. I liked the news section on the front page of the portal. Mr. C.C. 06:02, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Manitoba Portal

Thanks for adding more. I though I would have to search on my own more. I know that I am a Canadian Citizen From Winnipeg, Manitoba. I may try to put more details later on. User:Virtue account —The preceding signed but undated comment was added at 22:13, August 20, 2007 (UTC).

Time for a Barnstar...

		The Original Barnstar
		For your work on Sask. related articles. Well done. -- Phoenix2 (holla) 21:08, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Re: French Good Job Awards

Hi SriMesh,

Where do you find the French wikipedia awards for a good job?

Où trouvez-vous les récompenses françaises de wikipedia pour un bon travail ?

It's been a little while since I've been involved in this particular project and even then, I was mostly involved in the Wikimedia Canada project and not the WikiProject Canada. In order to help you out, I fixed the interwiki links between the english and french projects. I hope this will either help you find what you're looking for, or maybe find some people better able to answer your question than I am.

Ciao,
Stéphane Thibault 22:26, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Portal Additions

I for the most try to sum up some of the article. Other times it's a bit harder. I know this from doing news reporting for pro wrestling sites. Plus you always source your information.

Leslie Nielsen is from Saskatchewan. I thought he was from Saskatoon, but from Regina. I am wondering if Joni Mitchell is from Saskatchewan as well as I heard she was. Do you know exactly where. I looked on her article, but found no mention of it. Mr. C.C. 05:37, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

I thought it was Saskatoon, but it didn't say on Wikpedia article. Thanks for finding it. Mr. C.C. 04:44, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Chameleon (Anglo-Canadian Band)

Thanks for your note. Actually, the article is not at Afd, it is only a prod tag which gives 5 days and anyone can remove the tag if improvement is foreseen. So, by all means, if you think the article will soon meet standards for inclusion, remove the tag. I won't contest. Have a great day. ♫ Cricket02 05:34, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I'd probably toss all of it into a longer article on Terry Cottam; the band itself has very little notability that I can see. Bearcat 06:19, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Newsletter

Thank you for your message. There is a bit of a situation relating to the Saskatchewan Roads WikiProject, and the situation would greatly affect what I may say in the September newsletter. I am not sure when the newsletter will be delivered, but I will write a note shortly after the situation clears up, at the latest. Ultraflame 02:55, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of University of Saskatchewan

The article University of Saskatchewan you nominated as a good article has passed , see Talk:University of Saskatchewan for eventual comments about the article. Well done! GreenJoe 18:08, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

I missed one or two things, but it's not a big deal, and the article is better off now. Good luck. GreenJoe 02:49, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Memorial Gates (University of Saskatchewan)

A tag has been placed on Memorial Gates (University of Saskatchewan), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add {{hangon}} on the top of the article and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. GreenJoe 18:44, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

A favour for WP:CANADA

Hi, I noticed that you're one of the few active members of WP:CANADA. I hate to bother you, but I was wondering if I could ask you a favour? I've cleared out all of the backlog of unassessed articles (quality wise) except for two that I contributed to significantly myself: John Babcock and Eric Peterson. I was wondering if you could assess them for me to avoid a conflict of interest. They've been rated by other Wikiprojects, and I suspect you can give them the same ratings with low importance. If you could do this favour, all WP:CANADA would have at least a quality assessment (I think I'll take a break before I start assessing unassessed importance articles though!). Cheers, CP 20:48, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the assessment, and especially the cookie! (Us grad students don't get too many of those!) I had to slightly edit your comment though, to fix my talk page, I hope you don't mind. Anyhow, if you need some help with WP:SK, let me know! Should I tag Peterson as part of WK:SK? He was born there, went to university there, got an honourary degree there, stars in a popular show set there etc. Oh, and I think you may have gotten Thorbergur Thorvaldson's birth date wrong, unless he happened to be 142 when he died. Haha. Cheers, CP 14:44, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Why, I'm honoured by the barnstar, thank you! I shall continue to do my best to live up to it! Cheers, CP 15:37, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

SED Systems

A {{prod}} template has been added to the article SED Systems, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice explains why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. If you endorse deletion of the article, and you are the only person who has made substantial edits to the page, please tag it with {{db-author}}. GreenJoe 16:04, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Newsletter

I regret that I am very busy with school at the moment, so I will be unable to contribute to the WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter this month. I wish that I could, given that there is so much to say for the past few weeks on the Saskatchewan Roads project. Thank you for your understanding. Ultraflame 01:22, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

DYK

On 13 September, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article E. K. Turner, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Carabinieri 16:39, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Hello

Hi! You've done a very good job on Sask articles (sports, etc). Kudos on getting U of S article GA status! Hope we can make it to FA status. Thank you again for helping out! I'm terribly busy with school and job and will probably not be able to contribute significantly to Wiki soon. Cya soon. --Victor D ^PARLE 05:30, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

DYK

On 14 September, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Peggy McKercher, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Carabinieri 11:24, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

DYK

On 14 September, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article F. H. Auld, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

----ST47Talk·Desk 18:30, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

On 16 September, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Vera Pezer, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--D_arkF_alls ^talk 05:38, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

RFC/USER discussion concerning (ThreeE)

Hello, SriMesh. Please be aware that a request for comments has been filed concerning ThreeE's conduct on Wikipedia. The RFC entry can be found by "ThreeE" in this list, and the actual discussion can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/ThreeE, where I would appreciate your participation and comments. — BQZip01 — ^talk 12:05, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

U. of Saskatchewan

In return for creating Syadvada, I helped to edit University of Saskatchewan for about an hour. I actually did this a couple months ago, but I forgot to tell you, though I've ben meaning to get aroung to it. Sorry for any inconvenience! --Qmwne235 15:40, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

ThreeE

I wouldn't say a truce has been reached. He still insists he's right and is opposing any actions that involve keeping a single "offending" phrase. Would appreciate your feedback. — BQZip01 — ^talk 03:50, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

October Newsletter

Well, I made an update regarding the newest member of WP:SKCN. So I will see what I can do in regards to an update for that section. Mr. C.C. 05:32, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

GA Review for article on Tom Hawkins

Hi, thanks for taking the time to review the article I put up for nomination.

Having gone over the points semi-automated peer review:

- I don't believe there is an issue with the lead. It is both concise, well-referenced, and provides an adequate summary of the article in total.

- I'm not sure what issue (if there is one with the links) is apparent, but please do kindly point out any suggestions.

- No available images of use as of now.

Hope to hear from you soon.

Thanks Boomtish 06:14, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Re-edits

I've touched up (or rather, touched-down) the lead of the article, as per the above suggestion. And no, I didn't place the article under the Wikipedia:WikiProject Sports. I'm assuming I should...

Cheers Boomtish 08:33, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Ryan White

Hi SriMesh, thanks so much for looking at the Ryan White article. I made a bunch of fixes and I hope I addressed both your and the bot's suggestions. Left a comment on talk. Please let me know if you have any further suggestions. Thanks! --JayHenry 19:59, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

I rewrote the lead section to Ryan White. Please suggest any further improvements (or if it's simple fixes, do of course feel free to make them yourself if you'd like!) If there are other issues than just the lead section you'd like me to work on, please let me know. Thanks so much for your input. --JayHenry 22:24, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your help with this review! If you ever think of anything else that would improve the article, do let me know. It's always a pleasure to find a sharp reviewer... hopefully we have a chance to work together again. Cheers! --JayHenry 17:16, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Vincent-Marie Viénot de Vaublanc

• I started to propose this article in good article nomination but there was no reaction. Therefore i have proposed this article in FAQ. Aymeric78 22:38, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

thank you for your comments Aymeric78 10:20, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

ArticleHistory

FYI,[1] when passing GAs, pls see the instructions at {{ArticleHistory}}. Thanks, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 00:41, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

The banners are an extra (unrelated); what caused the articlehistory error was the empty fields on the second set of parameters. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 02:18, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Dyson Sphere

I have provided a preliminary review of the article Dyson Sphere to achieve good article status by addressing manual of style technicalities via a semi automatic peer review which is easy to install BTW if you wish to use it. With the error tags of citation needed the article could be quick failed please address this ASAP! Remove the statements or provide citations requested in the two separate places. The good article template shows the progress of the good article review to date. I have requested a second review regarding the scope and coverage of the article's information. Good luck with your article. SriMesh | talk 21:17, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

I think I addressed most, if not all, of the concerns on the talk page. Could you have another look at the article and tell me if I missed anything? —Disavian (^talk/_contribs) 04:33, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Your auto peer-reviewer script says "Per Wikipedia:Context and Wikipedia:Build the web, years with full dates should be linked; for example, link January 15, 2006." - I can't find a full date that hasn't been linked. —Disavian (^talk/_contribs) 17:58, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Your recent edits

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Thanks it was getting late - usually this is done. SriMesh | talk 02:16, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Semi Automatic Peer Review

Another peer review this time a Semi Automatic Peer Review has been done to help this article achieve GA. Good luck. SriMesh | talk 02:55, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the comments and help. I'll be getting to the changes next week, but I've just been so busy. Hopefully I can get this thing up to snuff! --Jdcaust 18:41, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

One Rincon Hill

I noticed that you are reviewing One Rincon Hill. I think per the quick fail criteria, this article should be quickfailed because it does not meet the stability requirement. Future events, buildings etc. etc. are almost always disqualified from for stability reasons until they are complete. Hope all is well with WP:SASKATCHEWAN, by the way. Cheers, CP 04:32, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Once you have declared your intent to review it is allowable (and perhaps even advisable) to make changes to the article to move it up to GA status, especially minor ones (a lot of times I do minor changes because it's easier to fix them than to explain to the editors what needs to be done). The onus for doing the major changes, however, should be left to the editors or the nominator. Of course, there's a lot of leeway for deciding what constitutes a "major" change. The only thing that is frowned upon is editors reviewing articles that they have made substantial changes to before the nomination. So if you fail an article, but then work on it substantially after the fail, it's probably best to let another reviewer review it. Cheers, CP 14:37, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

I also noticed now that the articles Ryan White, Michael Mukasey, Jaime King and New Jersey Route 55 have been marked "under review" by for almost two weeks. Might I suggest that you either decide to pass, fail or put on hold the articles or remove the "under review" notice so that others may review the articles? Cheers, CP 16:48, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

RE: Canada

Hi there. Thanks for your comments. As well, you might want to weigh in on the applicable polls on the Talk:Canada page (three, currently) regarding this. Thanks again!

The Editor's Barnstar

		The Editor's Barnstar
		I noticed that your edits dealing with Canada related articles were impressive and so I've decided to award you this Editor's Barnstar! Wikidudeman (talk) 19:46, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

"Semi-automated" peer reviews

Please discontinue your use of these "semi-automated peer reviews" in conjunction with reviewing for Good Article status. They are not geared towards the Good Article criteria, and often are more geared towards very basic manual of style issues only. While they certainly have their use, I believe that including these reviews in conjunction with good article nominees can be very confusing to editors.

I also personally find use of these semi-automated scripts a general "cop out" by the "reviewer" to avoid actually providing a serious review on the article. If you want to use the scripts, then it would be much, much better if you would just make the minor changes to the grammar, spelling, and/or wording yourself, instead of posting some very ambiguously-worded and unhelpful "list" of issues to the article, letting editors try and go through the article and make all of these suggested changes. Dr. Cash 05:04, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Singapore Stone: Automated peer review

Hi, you recently placed a "weasel words" tag on "Singapore Stone", apparently based on an automated peer review. This article previously underwent a previous automated peer review, and I have already taken into consideration the suggestions made there. As to the alleged existence of weasel words, I don't think there are any that haven't been backed up by citations. The Singapore Stone possibly dates back to the 10th or 11th century, and it just isn't possible for the experts writing about the artefact to be more certain about many aspects of it. It appears that the basis for the claim by both the previous and the present automated peer reviews is that the phrase "it has been" occurs in the article. I did a search for the phrase, and it only appears once in footnote 16, not in the main article. I'd argue that that is hardly an excessive use of weasel words.

If you have identified other weasel words or problems with the article, kindly indicate what they are on the article's talk page within the next three or four days so that they can be attended to. Otherwise, I or another editor will proceed to remove the "weasel words" tag and request that the article be reassessed for Good Article status. Thanks. Cheers, Jacklee 19:33, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

I note that you've removed the "weasel words" tag on reviewing my request. Thanks very much. Cheers, Jacklee 21:34, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the Prehistoric Fish List feedback

Thanks for the pointers regarding list formatting, but I had intended to do a lot of formatting work anyway. ;) Like at some of the other lists I made:

• List of ammonites
• List of brachiopod genera
• List of trilobites
• List of acanthodians
• List of eurypterids
• List of xiphosurans

It'll take forever, but I'll try to get all the new lists formatted and looking spiffy. :D Abyssal leviathin 03:22, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

thanks for keeping me on the list, I will start working on SK again soon.

--Eternalsleeper 02:41, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Klaas-Jan Huntelaar sources

Hi, I hadn't noticed your comment on Talk:Klaas-Jan Huntelaar before, so I only just replied now. Cheers, JACOPLANE • 2007-10-30 22:41

Louis Riel

I see that you contributed to Louis Riel FAR by adding citations. Some citations are still missing from the article. If these citations are added I will close the FAR as keep. Joelito (talk) 19:38, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Award

The Silver Maple Leaf Award For your efforts to cover Saskatchewan and Canadian Prairies topics, as well as for your work on WikiProjects, I hearby award SriMesh this silver maple leaf. --Qyd (talk) 13:35, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Re: Template:WikiProject Canada

Hello there you have made some comments regarding the aforementioned template. There are some Wikiproject Canada Workgroups such as Law, Political parties and politicians, etc, who have added syntax to the Canadian template, rather than creating their own assessment template. None of the provinces have done that - may they? Out of 10 provinces and 3 territories only 3 provinces have their own assessment template, 6 provinces including SK do not do assessments, 2 work groups do their own assessments, 6 workgroups include syntax with Canada wikiproject, and 3 cities do not do assessments, and Vancouver does theirs. note Is it ever that a province would add their wikiproject as a syntax code to the Canada wikiproject? I am involved more with SK wikiproject than the other provinces. Is it OK to have a wikiproject banner that supports the structuring of articles without assessment, and just add the CA banner for the assessment process? Or should the SK wikiproject change their banner for the talk page to include assessment? I have added this query to the newsletter also - trying to consolidate articles and such for SK. Kind Regards SriMesh | talk 19:37, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

I'm actually the one who has been adding that functionality to the template and setting up assessment tables for the projects. I had always intended to eventually include the provincial projects to the template using the parameters "SK=yes", "ON=yes", etcetera. This would take a bit of time as it requires changing the template, setting up categories for the assessments, announcing the change, linking to the assessment table, writing importance criteria, and setting up a bot or auto wiki browser to change all of the outdated templates. I should be able to get around to it in a couple weeks if no one beats me to it. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 19:57, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Got your reply. It is cool that we are both thinking along the same lines, it seems just like I am a bit pokey - er. I can help with some of the set up work if that will help. I can't do robots as of yet, but I can make categories, tables, and pages if that helps with the set up. SriMesh | talk 20:17, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Some of that stuff already has bots set up to do it, the main job that will need to be done is replacing all the old templates. I'll see if I can at least get Saskatchewan done so that you'll have something to work on. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 20:21, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Done. You can tag Saskatchewan articles with {{WikiProject Canada | sk=yes}}. Your assessment table is here; it will be updated once every couple days. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 20:40, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Oh My Goodness! You are speedy! You are absolutely amazing even! I am still reading about the various set ups which have taken place with the work groups, and you are done! Hokey dinah! Thank you, thank you, thank you. Now another query which perhaps you can clarify. Before WP SK was set up, there was a SK roads wikiproject, which is now part of both WP SK and WikiProject Canada Roads. After WP SK was set up, then there was created a WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods. What should these two other WP projects use on their talk pages, in your humble opinion? I will start doing the modifications to the wikiproject, newsletter and talk pages. SriMesh | talk 20:58, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

I say we should wait and see whether the SK communities projects develops into something worthy of having its own category or whether it gets reabsorbed into something else. The Saskatchewan roads project was far more specific than it needed to be, and once I get roads added to the main template, those can be tagged as "roads=yes | sk=yes". The same may happen to the communities project, it may get absorbed into the general SK project or into a general "communities in Canada project" --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 21:04, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the award! I'm glad you appreciate my humble contributions. You can go ahead and switch those over, there isn't anything else I need to do with it. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 21:44, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of WikiProject Saskatchewan/New articles

Thank you for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and the page that you created has been or soon will be deleted. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the article (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the article's talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. -- WebHamster 00:44, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Added note on talk page of New articles. This page is awaiting a robot to run. Then it will look much better! SriMesh | talk 00:54, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

I've commented on the talkpage but I'll add it here too... You've created the page in article space, not wiki space. ---- WebHamster 00:56, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

It looks like a kind admin has moved it for you. PS you really do need to learn about how WP works before you start letting loose a bot on it! ---- WebHamster 01:08, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

• I have again moved WikiProject Saskatchewan/New articles to Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan/New articles. Why will you not accept namespace conventions? When you did this edit did you not think "if all the other links begin with 'Wikipedia:', I wonder if this one should also"? -- RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 10:26, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Northen pike (uk:Щука звичайна)

Hello, I've seen your request. I can help, but someone will have to fix my grammar and spelling.

I would start translating right now; but, first, it is the night over here, and second, I am translating some other articles too. Don't worry, I will translate the article in some days.

By the way, the literal translation of the article uk:Щука звичайна is Usual pike. Well, I will take it into account.

Thanks for your request!

A. Demidov (talk) 21:55, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

The English version is more expanded

Actually, the Ukrainian article contains not too much data. However, I noticed some things about pH and such, which are not included into the English version. But generally, there is the minor difference. I can translate it. Maybe, I should also provide the pictures from the UWP?--A. Demidov Talk 11:45, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

You can watch my work

I have the page User:Demidov2007/Translations. It is the page where I place the translated text to. You can inform me about mistakes I do, when there will be the label "DONE" after each finished section.

A. Demidov Talk 09:05, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Prince Edward Island

Thank you for the gracious invitation. I don't think that I will join for now although I do have some interest in things P.E.I. --Big_iron 12:34, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your well thought out comments on the Siddha Yoga talk page.

TheRingess (talk) 00:47, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

And thanks for your comments on Allah talk page. I appreciate it. --Aminz 07:02, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Qu'Appelle, Ft Qu'Appelle, Grenfell and Weyburn

Oops. This comment was supposed to go here and wound up on your user page in Wikipedia Commons instead.

The infobox in the Qu'Appelle and Ft Qu'Appelle articles look terrific, I must say. I'd like to add one to the Grenfell and Weyburn articles but I don't know how you went about creating the maps for the Qu'Appelle articles which show the locations. (Incidentally, though, you've got Qu'Appelle and the Fort rather nearer and to the north of Regina than they actually are.) You'll possibly have wondered why I went to so much trouble -- which might profitably have been spent on towns with more vitality -- over the Qu'Appelle article given that the "town" is nowadays little more than a village, and a waning one at that; but it has some historical interest well beyond its continuing admittedly marginal significance. Masalai 03:18, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Aw shucks. Why thank you! Masalai 04:44, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

And thank you also for the explanation of how to make a location map for Saskatchewan communities. Alas, it's slightly beyond me -- I did try. Might I prevail on your good nature somewhat and ask you to create one for Grenfell? (The only town I've worked on that doesn't have one yet.) Masalai 05:32, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks again. I think that the article on Qu'Appelle is almost getting to the point of being "all that is known, indeed rather more than is known" of Qu'Appelle, as they say of the lives of various Catholic saints who may or may not even have existed. I'll have to see what more I can dig up on Grenfell, Indian Head, Fort Qu'Appelle and a few other places in that part of the province that I'm reasonably au fait about. Masalai (talk) 01:33, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Elizabeth Quarshie

Just in case you're not clear, a deputy minister is actually a civil service position, not a political office. Elizabeth Quarshie is essentially one of the ministry's head bureaucrats, not a politician. Bearcat (talk) 00:00, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

PEI Portal Invitation

Thanks for the invite, but I only edit that article to update the population like I do for all Canadian provinces and territorties. Pieuvre (talk) 04:17, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Green

Just wanted to let you know that the pigments section has been prosified except for the bit about food coloring. I plan to add that tomorrow. Just don't close the GA Hold before then, thanks. Wrad (talk) 04:39, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

{{helpme}} Redvers, Saskatchewan when adding the Saskatchewan template locator map to the city infobox, the statement [[Image:|250px|none|]] shows up in the infobox. Is there a way to add the locator map without the extra line of text.

The problem seems to lie in {{Location map Saskatchewan}} when used at the "image_map" parameter in {{Infobox Settlement}}. You need specialized help for this - I would suggest posting a message on Template talk:Infobox Settlement. I hope this helps! --12 Noon 03:06, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Shaktism

New lead at the article. Please take a look.--Redtigerxyz (talk) 07:01, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

History of Shaktism

Thanks for reviewing Shaktism. If you have the time would you please review the daughter article of Shaktism - GAC History of Shaktism? Thanks. --Redtigerxyz (talk) 05:56, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Did it work?

I noticed your question at Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage#Make a periodic to do list.

Did you try it?

And did it work?

The Transhumanist 19:35, 19 December 2007 (UTC)