User talk:Vegaswikian1

Welcome!

Hello Vegaswikian1, welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Our intro page contains a lot of helpful material for new users - please check it out! If you need help, visit Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on this page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Toddst1 (talk) 00:55, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

CFD for Category:Intelligence_gathering_legislation

Hi VW, I was hoping you'd reply to my question at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2008_June_22#Category:Intelligence_gathering_legislation. Cgingold (talk) 12:30, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

Harris

Hi. Could you visit Talk:Harris again and give your opinion re what title to move Harris to? --Una Smith (talk) 21:52, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Wrong move = airports in Vancouver area

Sigh. Your "more accurate name" has big issues (List of airports in the Greater Vancouver area), one of them being that some other editor will now come along and "corerct" it to "List of airports in Metro Vancouver", on the (mistaken) premise that "Greater Vancouver" means the regional district, which is now officially "Metro Vancouver" (a rebranding, hideously often shortened now to "Metro" as if a proper name and as if in common use). See the discussion on Talk:List of filming locations in the Vancouver area#Other_BC_locations_in_imdb.com about all this, although the ramifications are somewhat lessened when the subject is airports rather than film sets. Still, Abbotsford and Chilliwack airports, and Hope's and Squamish's if they're also on the list, have to now be removed/hidden as "Greater Vancouver" in the used-in-BC sense does not include Abbotsford and even less so Chilliwack; and in the "official" sense of Greater VAncouver=Metro Vancouver it definitely doesn't include them. The "Wiki standard" in all such cases is "in the Vancouver area", "in the Nanaimo area" and with good reason. If it is the regional district you're meaning to refer to, I oppose such use of regional districts as if they were useful geographic units; all official geographic-locator sources use Land Districts, none use the Regional Districts as points-of-reference. "Greater Vancouver" as a term pre-dates the GVRD/Metro Vancouver by several decades; but it didn't include Abbotsford or Chilliwack, though from the perspective of Los Angeles or Toronto perhaps it would have and still does. My main problem is that your new title is going to be interpreted as a reference ot the regional district, and someone else will decide "Metro Vancouver" is "more accurate", when "in the Vancouver area" or "in Vancouver and area" is more than enough descriptive, and also accurate and vague enough at the same tiem to include the airfields outside the GVRD/Metro Vancouver.Skookum1 (talk) 13:28, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

to underline my point, I've hidden Abbotsford and Chiliwack airports until the name is reverted. NB with the "in the Vancouver area" title Hope, Squamish and Agassiz airfields/strips can be added....Skookum1 (talk) 13:35, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

I'd have to agree with Skookum. Vancouver area is correct (the area around Vancouver), Greater Vancouver is not, since it implies the GVRD. Lower Mainland maybe, but "Vancouver area" is the simplest. This is a list of airports that people in Vancouver or any of its several surrounding cities and towns drive to when they want to fly somewhere. "area" correctly distinguishes from airports within the city itself. Franamax (talk) 20:21, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Category:Tyler family Renaming Proposal

I agree your proposal to rename Category:Tyler family which I created back in December, 2007, but disagree with the new name you are proposing, Please see the appropriate CfD discussion page for further details. --TommyBoy (talk) 10:15, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

Category:Buildings and structures completed in 2006

• About The Cathay, do you think we should add the above cat in the page? I mean, the building was built originally in 1939 and no doubt it was rebuild again in 2006 but I think the above cat is a bit superficial. Thoughts? --Dave ^{♠♣♥♦™№1185©♪♫®} 08:41, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

When I was creating the completed in tree, there was a discussion about completed and consensus was that multiple categories would be correct in certain cases. In the case you are raising, both dates probably should be there since only the facade remains from the old building. In doing the conversions, I'm mostly checking to convert a single category. Sometimes I pickup other changes, but I can't count on it. I'll add the older date to the article. This is my remote viewing account. You can generally get a faster reply by going to my main account (just drop the 1). Vegaswikian1 (talk) 08:17, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

• Thanks for clearing that up. Also, please try to keep our discussion centralised, I don't like to be chasing around links after links. --Dave ^{♠♣♥♦™№1185©♪♫®} 13:01, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

Live Oak County Courthouse (Texas)

I don't know if you're using a bot to correct categories, but you substituted a category on Live Oak County Courthouse (Texas) with a category about Residential Buildings. Obviously, a courthouse is not a residential building, so I'm correcting that. I mention this, because it's happened one other time. And if you are using a bot, maybe you could change the bot so it doesn't pick up courthouses as residential buildings. Thanks for all you do at Wikipedia.Maile66 (talk) 17:41, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

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