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I'm going to try and trim a lot of the fat from the article, shorten it, and rewrite some. Please don't mistake this for vandalism. [[Special:Contributions/72.1.195.5|72.1.195.5]] ([[User talk:72.1.195.5|talk]]) <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|undated]] comment added 14:58, 19 June 2009 (UTC).</span><!--Template:Undated--> <!--Autosigned by SineBot--> |
I'm going to try and trim a lot of the fat from the article, shorten it, and rewrite some. Please don't mistake this for vandalism. [[Special:Contributions/72.1.195.5|72.1.195.5]] ([[User talk:72.1.195.5|talk]]) <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|undated]] comment added 14:58, 19 June 2009 (UTC).</span><!--Template:Undated--> <!--Autosigned by SineBot--> |
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Why are you taking off the Cranial Implant addition on the RCMP site? This is accurate and true information about the RCMP and is not vandalism? |
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Revision as of 02:39, 20 June 2009
I have two requests for people coming here:
- If you intend to revert personal attacks could you please use the {{subst:unsigned|user name|date}} template instead.
- If you are here to complain about something I deleted could you please tell me the name of the article that you are talking about. If you do I will respond but if you don't I will ignore you.
Thanks.*Signpost
User:Paul David Wilson
Dear CambridgeBayWeather,
From what I understand, I'm unable to use my user page as an "article." If that's correct, how would I move my current work to an article? I currently have the code saved on my computer, so if I can't have my page moved, how would I create a new article about myself?
Right now, a lot of my sources are out of print. They were written about me in the 70's through early 90's, and they're all archived, if they even exist. Presently, how can I resolve the notibility issues? Or, is there something I can place in my article that says "soures pending?"
Paul David Wilson Pauldavidwilson (talk) 20:34, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
Arctic Cordillera vs. "Arctic Rockies"
Hi; would you please see Talk:Arctic Cordillera, the new section on the bottom re the sobriquet "Arctic Rockies". User:Black Tusk says "Arctic CordilleraZ" isn't official but I've seen it on an NRC page I think; situation is the CEC ecozone has different bounaries, and isn't a mountain range, and isn't/shouldn't be categorized the same way. I was wondering if you knew what usage is actually used by Nunavut or by the press in Iqaluit or Pang when referring to this range, if it's even referred to as one range (and not several). As one of teh only northerns ("Arcticians") in Wikipedia, hoping you can shed some light on this...Skookum1 (talk) 02:29, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
LSSP Corporation
When I search "LSSP Corporation" it says there was a page/article for it but that you deleted it. I was wondering why it was deleted. Thanks for your help.
Tibbs123
LSSP Corporation
When I search "LSSP Corporation" it says there was a page/article for it but that you deleted it. I was wondering why it was deleted. Thanks for your help.
Tibbs123 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tibbs123 (talk • contribs) 18:56, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
Your close of Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Abd/JzG
Thank you for your close. I should make some comments, though. The relevant process would be RfC, not RfAr. The file was already used in an RfAr, and so there is some concern about concealing evidence that was the basis for comments at RfAr. There are diffs, etc., in the discussion. I think you should edit the close to change RfAr to RfC. I had already offered to blank the page when the MfD was closed, but will ask an arbitrator for an opinion about blanking evidence presented to ArbComm. Thanks again. Your close is probably minimally disruptive for the moment, and certainly doesn't create any disruption.
Note, the history of edits on that page was in the process of being extended to the complete history of Cold fusion, that isn't done. This is just a pile of diffs with edit summaries. I may unblank to add more diffs, but will then immediately blank, within a minute or so. That way the most complete version of the file will be available for access. I will only do this to add pure evidence, not conclusions. (This allows me to use a permanent link in the negotiations I expect to precede RfC and hopefully to avoid it.) --Abd (talk) 22:37, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
- Normally I would reply on your talkpage but as I assume that there will be multiple comments on this so I would prefer to keep it all here. You are correct I should have said RfC. I didn't want to protect for two reasons. One was to allow anyone to be able to see which parts were used in the RFAR and also so that you could obtain the material easily enough. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 22:50, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
- Well, your prediction about comments didn't pan out.... I noticed a few minutes ago that you did delete the page; I've been working on the RfC as you saw from my Talk page response to you. I'd rather not rush the RfC "into print" until it's clean and complete, which will probably take me until tomorrow. I have created a new page with the name and a note about recreation, but if you could replace that note with the original page for another day, I'd appreciate it. The reason I replaced it with the note (which, because it contains no information about JzG other than the neutral name of the page, doesn't violate the sense of the MfD) is that there are people reviewing the RfC, considering certifying it, these are editors who previously expressed concern to me.
- I can, of course, simply provide a copy of the evidence from my own copy offline, when I file the RfC, but .... that page contained reference to the version from history that was provided to RfAr/Clarification, which is why the MfD was really quite inappropriate, this wasn't evidence compiled for use before ArbComm, it was evidence already presented to ArbComm, which may have influenced a decision. But I did not contest that because it was largely moot if the file was going to stay or come back anyway. --Abd (talk) 18:36, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
I owe you an apology. I am sorry
Hello CambridgeBayWeather.
I owe you an apology. I am sorry.
I felt "side-swiped" by your comments about the long-form name of the United States of America. I reacted rashly. I apologise.
Take care, and best wishes ArmchairVexillologistDonLives! (talk) 22:53, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
Discussion
Somebody left another obnoxious message in the white tiger article. This seems more like internet bullying and harassment (the last couple of messages) than constructive criticism aimed at improving the article. I don't want to dignify them with a response. I suspect some of them may object more to the subject than to the article. They want an article which reflects its lack of significance. Would'nt no article be even better? Most articles on white tigers refer to "white genes." It's just a simplified way of explaining things. As for white tigers being "significant only in popular discourse", the bibliography includes articles from scientific journals. He or she probably never read that far. Besides I did'nt realize that wikipedia articles had to be confined to topics of scientific significance. Do you think the article needs cleaning up and makes no sense? I was thinking that maybe the sections on white tigers in the wild and the historical references should me merged at some point. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.1.195.4 (talk) 20:28, 26 February 2009 (UTC) PS I have tried to say everything there is to say on the subject and include as many references as possible for those who are interested. I was'nt writing for people who are'nt interested.
User talk:7THGRADEPANTHERS
I figured we might be caught in the edit conflict; I just happened to see the deletion while I was checking on my dinner break. No problem at all. (If anything, when I saw the passwords this morning, I should have deleted them from the edit history and then left a welcome and a warning.) —C.Fred (talk) 23:59, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
- It does look like there were multiple people there this morning...before I left the warning. For now, I'm going to assume good faith that they either got their own accounts separately, or the creator of the account has changed the password...at least, until their actions prove otherwise. —C.Fred (talk) 00:24, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
Deletion of Patrick Christie Ink (Australian Artist)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Patrick_Christie_(Australian_artist)&action=edit&redlink=1
I actually do have a substantial amount of research, sources and references to write this article. I sat down to write it out last night and after just a few minutes, wikipedia.org went down so I didn't have access to the site for over 6 hours. It appears that during that time Rcawsey came by and marked the article patrolled and then you couldn't wait to use your delete button.
I understand why you two responded the way you did to the stub you found. Just wanted to let you know it was because of technical problems with the site.
I will develop the article on my userpage sandbox and then publish the full article when it is done to ensure technical problems don't create another roadblock.
Bio-wright (talk) 12:25, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
New York-JFK or Newy York City-JFK
New York is a State.
New York City is a City served by John F. Kennedy International Airport,LaGuardia Airport.
It makes more sense to put the city's name instead of the State's name. (Druid.raul (talk) 04:53, 27 February 2009 (UTC))
Indefinite semi-protection Stratus cloud
Hey there! I was wondering if it was possible to place a semi-protection on that article. Looks like too many idiots feel bored looking it up for their geography tests, and prefer vandalising the page a bit. It's the one page on my watchlist with the single most acts of vandalism, usually by anonymous editors. Trigaranus (talk) 10:38, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
criticism of advertising
wow, are you really way up there? your suggestion sounds good to me. i've been thinking about it myself but gave it a low priority because the original advertising article is very poor in my view. if you plan to proceed, at least the main issues of criticism should remain listed. Sundar1 (talk) 13:06, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
Waits for audience applause, not a sausage
Bluebottle! Totnesmartin (talk) 13:16, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
Discussion II
Thank you again. Thanks for all the help. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.1.195.4 (talk) 20:32, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
white tiger
I'm going to go ahead and delete the sentences which are confusing. Please don't mistake this for vandalism and put it back. If I repeated myself in the article I was'nt aware of it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.1.195.4 (talk) 15:18, 28 February 2009 (UTC) I will also see if I can improve the article when time permits. PS I just discovered changes made so that the original meaning of a sentence has been completely altered. This may not be deliberate vandalism, but it has the same effect. I can't continuously reread the article to stay on top of this. I just don't have time.
Is there a reason you changed the format back? MrKIA11 (talk) 21:11, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
- Why do the archives have to be in that format? MrKIA11 (talk) 15:06, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks
Thank you for the advice ill use the {{clear}} instead of the lines thank you again.Kyle1278 (talk) 16:08, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
Miscellany for deletion
Thanks for the suggestion. I included the redirects as part of the general nominations for the AMA, since they were in use as separate pages when the AMA existed. Wikiwoohoo (talk) 16:24, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
Random comment
what the fuck i do not get it —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jeanlucnoah (talk • contribs) 20:08, 2 March 2009
white tiger (again)
I just skimmed through the article and only found one more bit of vandalism. It does'nt seem to be in bad shape after all. I was thinking of trying to trim some of the fat off it, but the individual sections are'nt all that long, and you did'nt have any issue with the length, so maybe I'll leave well enough alone. It seems to be holding up quite well, contrary to what I thought, and thanks to wikipedia's efforts to repair vandalism. I will still try and improve it. Maybe I will attempt to shorten it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.1.195.4 (talk) 20:42, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
Thank you very much with your assistance.
CambridgeBayWeather,
Thank you very much with your assistance. I inserted footnotes on the article. Hopefully, it will boost the “independent reliable sources” because it is factual and the same time to recognize the “notability” because the long list achievement.
Given that the article is met, I want to upgrade from User to Main namespace. Any suggestions?
Paul David Wilson 20:22, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Paul_David_Wilson —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pauldavidwilson (talk • contribs) 20:22, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
white tiger
Am I crazy or has this person reproduced the entire wikipedia article and claimed to be its author? http://www.geocities.com/jaffacity/White_Tiger_Amneville.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.1.195.4 (talk) 21:12, 6 March 2009 (UTC) PS: Including the bibliography.
Bruninho and his array of IP socks
Hi, I got your 3RR message. But I hope you can look at the edit histories of Thierry Henry and Cesc Fabregas and appreciate that user:Bruninho and his IP socks have been belligerently forcing home edits that breach the wp:mos. These breaches have been explained to the user and on Henry's talkpage, to no avail. How should this be dealt with then. Chensiyuan (talk) 01:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
Gazelle. The Palestinian Biological Bulletin
If he did reproduce the entire white tiger wikipedia and claim credit for writing it, is there anything which should be done about it? Does it matter?, —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.1.195.4 (talk) 15:39, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
Wikipedia: Re: white tiger
None of the categories really fits this problem and I don't see who I should contact. It just seems to give me more and more options as I click on, without telling me who to e-mail. I know anybody can reproduce the article, but can they claim they wrote it? Would you give me the e-mail address of the person I should speak to please? I can't spend any more time on this today. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.1.195.4 (talk) 16:27, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
Dubai Airport
Hi CambridgeBayWeather. I think you misunderstood the edit of the importance section. SempreVolando summarised it into a paragraph, and did the same thing on the Frankfurt Airport article. I think its quite good, that it summarises it it out. Please bring the info back. It is not duplicating the same information as it is concentrating on the importance of dubai airport. (MoHasanie (talk) 20:16, 7 March 2009 (UTC)).
Lists of parks
Hi Cambridge Bay Weather,
List of parks in British Columbia isn't a duplicate of List of British Columbia Provincial Parks; the former list includes all parks in the province (regional parks, provincial parks, and national parks), while the latter is restricted only to parks which are specifically designated as "provincial parks". Would you mind if I reverted your redirect of the more inclusive list?
Neelix (talk) 01:22, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Map of Nunavut
Dr. Blofeld (talk · contribs) has been changing the locater maps of not just Nunavut but Alberta, and Saskatchewan. The ones of Alberta and Saskatchewan are not bad but the Nunavut ones are horrible like this one Sanikiluaq, Nunavut i think someone needs to talk to him about the maps mostly the north ones. Cheers Kyle1278 (talk) 22:28, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- OK thank you for the help.Kyle1278 (talk) 23:24, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
The Saskatchewan and ALberta ones are not bad? They are miles better than the horrid maps we had before. The maps for Canadian places really need sorting out.
File:Canada geopolitical map trim.jpg is a terrible map to use for a pin map. It looks as cluttered as anything. I agree it would be better to get a blank map of Canada, preferbly svg which shows province divisions. What I don't like is the way Kyle and yourself self "reported" me as if I am some sort of nuisance and am degrading "your articles". Dr. Blofeld White cat 10:23, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
- Ever thought of copying the French version of that location map? It's reduced to the necessary information, no interfering legend, flag or coats of arm what's completely needless for a location map, not too colourful, every pin can be seen, even by colour-blind users, and as you can see at the French page its accuracy is almost 1 i.e. perfect. This map is used in French and German WP as a location map and has the same style like most of the other location maps. --NNW (talk) 10:52, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I had actually picked that map as first choice which is EXACTLY what is needed for these articles but due the fact I couldn't find the map coordinates I couldn't use it. If you see the Dutch horrid map a lurid yellow colour you'll see I actually tried to improve it. I know it was not a good map but I was just trying to get something on track with a blank map. If we can use the map you linked as I had originally intended and can find the coordinates I would be happy to see this map in all the articles on places in Canada. In my view if we could ciombine a territory locator map with a national locator this would greatly improve things I think. Best regards. Dr. Blofeld White cat 13:54, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
- I asked an user from de-WP to fix the template. It's a little bit difficult because this map has got a special projection so I cannot do it myself. Spreading discussions are quite horrible in my opinion. In de-WP discussions stay where they were begun, a better way I think, much easier to follow. :-) --NNW (talk) 17:04, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Nunavut_location_map.png/280px-Nunavut_location_map.png)
No it would need to be something like right. The quality is not good enough of those I checked initially. I've cropped this, finding the coordinates for it to work is a major obstacle though. Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:13, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
Well we've asked one or two "expert" in the coord adding field to look into it. Hopefully something can be done. If so theres so reason why we couldn't make deriratives of it providing the coordinates can be found from each region and create decent maps by area. Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:42, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
My prying eyes have successfully ended up finding the correct coordinates. It was under our eyes all of the time. Believe it or not our dvg map was based upon the map you had been using, this is why the projection is identical in shape. Aargh however at present the coordinates still seem off. Dr. Blofeld White cat 19:44, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
Maykovich (talk · contribs) Needs to be blocked he has created that page and contiunes to remove the tag and is sock puppeting with about 5 other accounts and IPs. [1] Kyle1278 (talk) 03:53, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
Coretta Scott King
Following is a source "proving" that Coretta Scott King's death was indeed premature.
http://newyorkbeacon.com/News/article/article.asp?NewsID=6592&sID=3
Thanks, Edythe B. Bagley —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.23.42.218 (talk) 07:19, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
- That could be used to indicate that Andrew Young felt her death was premature.
Wikipedia/GFDL
The thing is I don't really represent wikipedia and why should he listen to me? What if he does'nt comply (re: white tiger)? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.1.195.4 (talk) 19:47, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
jaffacity@t-online.de
OK I sent him an e-mail asking him to comply with Wikipedia/GFDL. You were correct that at the end of the article he put the word wikipedia in brackets. Is that all he needs to do? The first three paragraphs he must have written himself, or I assume that he did, about the French zoo. I'm not sure how to sign my messages to you. I screw it up every time. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.1.195.4 (talk) 20:12, 10 March 2009 (UTC) 72.1.195.4 (talk) 20:24, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
white tiger
He actually did put the word wikipedia at the end of several sections, so maybe he's got it covered. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.1.195.4 (talk) 20:22, 10 March 2009 (UTC) 72.1.195.4 (talk) 20:23, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
Wikipedia/GFDL
I guess he has created a derivative version by adding three paragraphs. I have'nt recieved a reply from him regardless. 72.1.195.4 (talk) 18:21, 11 March 2009 (UTC)PS Thanks again.
Keeper of all things Nunavut related
As the keeper of all things Nunavut related, I thought I would inform you I converted Nanisivik to a DAB page rather than a redirect to the (former) community, as the mine is of equal notability as the town and vise versa, included in the DAB is the airport. --kelapstick (talk) 18:33, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
- Also I created Nunavut Midnight Sun Marathon, I couldn't find any sources about its claim to be the northern most marathon in the world though (my wife had a shirt that said it was, but I suppose that would be original research), if you have anything to add, please do.--kelapstick (talk) 19:34, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
- Nice work finding the national teams of Nunavut, Quebec and PEI, as I put on the AfD, the PEI page says they represented PEI in the Island Games, but the 2007 Island Games page says they didn't participate in soccer (the 2007 games website says they participated in 5 sports out of 14). Interesting the Quebec and Nunavut pages were created by a user with a history of inappropriate soccer team pages such as Hawaii and Caprivi Strip, while the PEI was probably a good faith mistake by a long time editor who works on soccer team articles (User:Calapez has been here since 2006). Again nice work and thanks for catching that category for me.--kelapstick (talk) 23:04, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
deletion: List of airports capable of accommodating the Airbus A380
Sir, Why did you delete this article List of airports capable of accommodating the Airbus A380 ??????????????????????????????
I worked hard on it. There is no reason for it to be deleted.
True references are lacking, but I don't know everything.
These will come as article develops.
What you just did looks more like vandalism. I checked carefully if there are any similar articles, but there weren't. That's why I created this article.
Einsteinbud (talk) 19:04, 12 March 2009 (UTC)Einsteinbud
List of airports capable of accommodating the Airbus A380
Sir, I checked. This article does not exist, neither it ever existed. As you mentioned, I checked what you said to me.
This is NOT A RECREATION OF DELETED MATERIAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why are you doing that to me? You could have sent me a message before deleting it!!! You just VANDALIZED my work!!!
Do you realize that it takes time to write an article and to make research on the internet to improve its quality? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Einsteinbud (talk • contribs) 19:14, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
List of airports capable of accommodating the Airbus A380
So why couldn't you have created a redirect?
I did not find a single article that mentions which airport are able to accomodate the A380!!!
It is not today that i decided to create this article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Einsteinbud (talk • contribs) 19:19, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
List of airports capable of accommodating the Airbus A380
Just because articles related to that have been deleted, you feel you have to do the same?
I know you are just doing your job, but since this article never existed, neither under a different name, I created it.
Have you no respect for somebody elses work? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Einsteinbud (talk • contribs) 19:22, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
List of airports capable of accommodating the Airbus A380
I checked. This article does not exist UNDER WHATEVER NAME YOU COULD THINK OF!!!. Please undo your vandalism.
--Einsteinbud (talk) 19:27, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
List of airports capable of accommodating the Airbus A380
Please, just give me give me the link of 1 article that discusses this topic.
YOU PROVIDED ME THIS LINK [2]
That article doesn't exist either. What are you then making up?
If you can provide me 1 article that discusses List of airports capable of accommodating the Airbus A380, or anything DIRECTLY RELATED TO THIS, I will then accept your deletion.
OTHERWISE, I'LL JUST CONSIDER IT AS PURE INTENTIONAL VANDALISM!!!
--Einsteinbud (talk) 19:30, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
List of airports able to accommodate the A380
I just think that you have no respect for human beings. Your job as an Admin is to make improve WikiPedia, not to ruin it !
--Einsteinbud (talk) 19:35, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
List of Airports able to accomodate airbus A380
Sir , I hear your point.
Apparently, 11 or 12 articles with a relatively similar name have been created in the past.
But I (and many people i know) believe this article should exist. May you should also delete the article List of A380 orders and deliveries?
If an article should be created and there is no privacy problem what so ever, then it does not matter how many people have been fighting in the past because of a similar article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Einsteinbud (talk • contribs) 19:39, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
List of airports capable of accommodating the Airbus A380
Sir, You can make out of this world a hell with all the legal tools i could ever think of. But one can also be nice. That's what wikipedia is for.
If you really intend to improve wikipedia, then undo the deltion of List of airports capable of accommodating the Airbus A380.
I am student and I have 3 finals in the next 3 weeks.
I have absolutely no time to go through your time consuming procedures!!!
sincerely, Einsteinbud
--Einsteinbud (talk) 19:45, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
List of airports capable of accommodating the Airbus A380
I see "Please discuss the matter first with the admin. It will be resolved faster"
Why do you do this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Einsteinbud (talk • contribs) 19:47, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
Icy lakes
I've placed a question at the science reference desk (header "Pressure ridges in ice") about ice formation on lakes, and Deor suggested that I ask you. Could you look at this when you get a chance, and while you're at it, look at the other picture to make sure that I'm correct about it? Nyttend (talk) 03:50, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
Eccles...right?
Your long and hauntingly familiar signature has been bothering me for a week or more. It's from The Goon Show - right? Enter Eccles - waits for audience applause - not a sausage. SteveBaker (talk) 02:36, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
Cardiff Airport
Hi there, I've put the flag situation up for discussion on Talk:Cardiff Airport. Please don't revert anymore until the matter has been settled there as it could cause an edit war. Thanks Welshleprechaun (talk) 18:43, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
Saint Pierre and Miquelon national football team
Hiya, while Saint Pierre and Miquelon is an overseas territory of France in the Americas, such French territories do have national football teams, and all are CONCACAF members (excluding St Barth). The link reference does mention the SPM-Belize match, take a review. Cheers. Jcmenal (talk) 22:19, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
Delete
Can you please delete these pages i have created i marked them bcuse i do not think i have put enough information and i would rather have them deleted now than waiting days. Cheers Kyle1278 (talk) 23:41, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
- Canada-Moldova relations
- Bermuda–Canada relations
- Canada-Algeria relations
- Canada-Comoros relations
- Bolivia-Canada relations
- Canada-Madagascar relations
- Canada-Suriname relations
- Canada-Yemen relations
- Canada-Somalia relations
- Canada-Republic of Macedonia relations
Well thanks anyway. Cheers Kyle1278 (talk) 16:08, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
Southampton
Sorry, I didn't realise I was breaking other references, but my point is could you not just have altered the changes you had a problem with, rather than revert the whole of the changes I made? I assume when some people have recurring references within the same article they just point back to the 1st occurence, rather than put the full ref in again - which means if you want to delete a reference you have to check there aren't any other uses of it.Eldumpo (talk) 09:32, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your last message and for making the changes - I will be aware now of deleting references.Eldumpo (talk) 10:05, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
Cardiff Airport
I was not aware of the others. If there are more, then I feel that a similar action is justified. For most airports, this information is clearly not encyclopedic and should be put into wikitravel if it is needed. Thanks for the pointer. Vegaswikian (talk) 19:30, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
No Problem
My pleasure, keep up the great edits, cheers SpitfireTally-ho! 11:12, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
You reverted my edit. I didnt add anything to the article. I just merged the info. I then named the YT link where Matt says he bought dinner. Please advise. Thanks. 70.108.102.252 (talk) 02:26, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
I removed this which is unsourced gossip and thus violates WP:BLP. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 02:29, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
This is the article when YOU edited it on 17March. The info was already there. So y r u blaming me 4 it? All I did was merge info. Y do u call it unsourced gossip now? I hope redpen hasnt bought u off as well.
Anyhow, I just added sources. 70.108.102.252 (talk) 03:37, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
I have noticed this on many articles about Canada's northern communities. The way the infobox look off i'm just wondering if there is anyway to make this look better or eliminate the problem completely. Cheers Kyle1278 05:01, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
- What i mean by it was the infobox looks more wide than it should be i think its the location map but i'm not 100% sure it could also just be my computer, ill look it up on my other computer and see if its just this one.--Cheers Kyle1278 18:11, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
- OK i don't think its a major problem or anything just through i would bring it up.--Cheers Kyle1278 18:27, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
MacDonald Cartier International Airport Editing
I have noticed you have undone some of the updates to this page, including an award that had a source linked to it as well. Also, you removed my list of secondary tenants on the grounds of the airport. I would like to know why, as I am an employee with one of those tenants, and can assure you that all information was most accurate. In future, do not edit information in an area where you yourself may not be sure of the details. Especially when it has factual evidence.
198.103.96.11 (talk)O-Man613 —Preceding undated comment added 15:00, 31 March 2009 (UTC).
MFD
Hi, mate. Cheers for your help. Sorry if I mucked up the process. Anyway, you've sorted it now. Thanks. AustralianRupert (talk) 00:44, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
- Think of today's date (although hopefully if i did have the wrong links you corrected them). Simply south (talk) 09:20, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
- De meeste landen het schijnt dit, volg zien het belangrijkste artikel. Don' t alle landen die het hun klokken vooruit op dit ogenblik zetten? Gebruiker: Eenvoudig zuiden Dit is misschien het slecht vertaalde Nederlands. Evha gaodo arlpi lofos yda! 12:45, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
Personal attack from User:C1k3
Hello. I am contacting you because I see you already warned User:C1k3 about personal attacks. Today this person threatened me on my talk page with, "I'll revert your shit till you supply a satisfactory rationale for including Ed Wood in the Francis Dec article."[3] (though he did remove "shit"[4] two hours later). More generally he seems to have WP:OWN problems, trying to control any mention of Ed Wood on Wikipedia, refusing to discuss meaningfully at Talk:Francis E. Dec, hiding all his actions under minor edits, and apparently intent on edit-warring. I wondered if you could you provide some help or an uninvolved outsider's view? Regards, — The Little Blue Frog (ribbit) 17:41, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
white tiger discussion
I removed an abusive message addressed to someone other than myself.72.1.195.4 (talk) 19:55, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for that revert
Thank you for reverting that bit of vandalism to my userpage, much appreciated, cheers SpitfireTally-ho! 15:01, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
Questionable Edits
Hi. I'm concerned at a growing list of very questionable edits made by 69.208.77.69 - a new user. I don't want to get into an edit war so if possible I'd appreciate your view. Thanks David T Tokyo (talk) 23:00, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks for your advice, appreciated as always. I'll contact the user directly and discuss his edits. David T Tokyo (talk) 06:09, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
As much as I agree with the version of Umar and Umar at Fatimah's house you reverted to, this is borderline content dispute. I say borderline because while some points have been raised, there is also constant attack on me and my religious group. So... just be careful not to get drawn into this. I wish I wasn't in it in the first place. --♥pashtun ismailiyya 02:36, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
- Mm, I've been arguing that this excessive deletion is not the way to fix this article. But that gets mainly personal and religious insults thrown at me. --♥pashtun ismailiyya 02:46, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
- I've noticed that, good job! On the other hand, I've become the virtual face of Islamic heresy on Wikipedia. If you're Sunni, I'm behind Shi'a propaganda on Wikipedia. If you're ithna'Ashariyya Shi'a, well, as one user put it, "Please the Ismaili vandal is not shia he is Ismaili who vandalize both shia and sunni article to golrify the Ismaili faith". Once I had this user stalk me for a month reverting every edit I made. The only Muslim religious group on Wikipedia which hasn't expressed outright hatred of me are the Ahmadiyya, probably because we're in the same shoes. --♥pashtun ismailiyya 03:18, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
source
A source was provided to you some time ago documenting that Coretta King's death was indeed premature. My concern is growing as to why this has been failed to be recognized. Edythe Bernice McMurry Bagley. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.254.43.234 (talk) 07:36, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
- It's not sourced and it's POV. Use the article talk page to put your point across. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 07:39, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
Deletion request.
Can you delete my December 2008 archive? It doesn't have enough comments worth keeping. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Eugene_Krabs/December_2008 - Eugene Krabs (talk) 22:53, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
Resurrection
Sadly, the lock you initiated on the article "Resurrection" has preserved the 02:13, 7 April 2009 revision in the "Resurrection of Jesus" section which should not have been permitted to survive even as long as it did. This addition contains incomprehensible sentences, unsubstantiated and disputed claims and a patently false claim.
The false claim is that "[t]he word Easter is not from any accurate textual translaltion, as it was placed into the bible by the Roman government during their inaccuate translation concerning the resurrection."
The word "Easter" is used in the King James translation (exactly once), however in the Latin Vulgate the word used in this place is "pascha" (Passover) not Easter. But the KJV was issued by the Church of England and thus had absolutely nothing to do with the government in Rome. A small sample of popular English translations found no other versions using the word "Easter" in any verse.
Anyway, I hope that you (or anyone else) will excise the 02:13, 7 April 2009 addition as soon as the lock is removed if I forget about it (and I likely will). Hopefully my rant does not irritate you too much. I needed a release since I was denied the release of simply editing the offending passage away.
Yeyui (talk) 05:24, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
I've been getting endlessly bashed by a new user on Talk:Umar who doubts my WP:good faith and a myriad of other things. I am not going to bother with the article anymore, but if you could at least help assure him I was trying, since you've known for a while (used to be Enzuru) I'd appreciate it. --♥pashtun ismailiyya 18:13, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks, I appreciate it. --♥pashtun ismailiyya 19:22, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
- Some new editor has come to further bash me on Talk:Umar! Looks like I'll need to lay low for a while and edit other articles; confrontation about this is way too stressful considering half my points are ignored and then I am called a liar. My goal wasn't even to keep the article in its current state, it was to stop the blind deleting of sources. --♥pashtun ismailiyya 21:16, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
Link removed from Antarctic Fur Seals
I'd like to understand why you removed the link I added to antarctic fur seals. I think the audio (and pictures) are a useful resource for the page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by SoCalArt (talk • contribs) 21:21, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
About Pashtun
"You may not agree with what Pashtun Ismailiyya is saying but I can assure you that she is working in good faith. Any editor that is not will, after a while, tend to get blocked and I see that she has not been blocked at all."
- Hi Cambridge. You may believe that about her and of course it might be in a way true that she wasn't blocked before. However do consider that her user id is three months old and her User page shows she migrated from another deleted id. Additionally, if you check her user page you will find her contributions are ALWAYS around Shia beliefs and sectarian related articles, this is one of the few broad subjects she interfered with. But most importantly, her own admission in her note above at 03:18, 6 April 2009 that she is considered by almost everybody to be the voice of heresy. On what basis then are we supposed to take in her good faith? Most importantly, by what right does she insist on setting the rules and dictate who gets to improve or delete what and how?!
- As far as Umar's page is concerned, the reverts were focused on a religious claim that is specific to her self-professed sect, she preferred to keep a statement of fact regarding her beliefs and a well-known false reference to other people's beliefs along with bad grammar, spelling mistakes, and a generally lower level article than to let the statements get represented as claims of her sect alone, which is the truth. Additionally she edited the sentences herself and added new baseless references that I now found out FOR SURE from friends who had the bookds that the reference does NOT EXIST. Moreover, later claimed she wasn't the one writing them. I have no doubt that she had no good faith in this matter and I'm not interested in disputing that. Writing and editing articles however will answer to the higher standards of the majority, and as you can see the majority is against her by her own admission. Like I repeatedly said, the stories believed by some Shia are there on the page, but noone will be allowed to manufacture a twisted statement that suggests legitimacy or validation from mainstream scholarly field.
--Sampharo (talk) 04:09, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
International news
Thanks, I'll look into those. Who then was a gentleman? (talk) 22:30, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
Those links look good, thank you. Who then was a gentleman? (talk) 02:03, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
Carnildo's bots
Hi, I noticed you asked the same question to Carnildo about his bots hiding images instead of completely removing them. I posted here about it. Maybe it can get changed. Garion96 (talk) 22:32, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
Suggestion needed
Hey how have you been? I would like to know how many edits have had you made when you became an administrator, how long did you have that account? Im just curious, please write backe =)....-House1090 (talk) 04:49, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
condolences
In such a small community, I cannot but imagine that the aircraft tragedy will have affected people you know. My thoughts are with you. BrainyBabe (talk) 09:07, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
Question 2
Hey sorry to bother you so much but I want to contribute to the spanish wikipedia do you know how I can do that? Do I have to create a seprate account? House1090 (talk) 22:33, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
- OMG thank you so much!! you have been a great help, I almost creayed a diffrent account on the spanish wiki, but decided to ask you first (did not want to get in any more trouble). Thank-You
itzzHouse1090duhh 23:00, 18 April 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by House1090 (talk • contribs)
Re Chance (muskox)
Re Chance (muskox) I think you misunderstood my point. All the references are from one Canadian news source. I meant that I doubted the muskox in question met the standard for notability if even (ie as a minimum) news sources from the US next door had failed to pick up on the story. As you evidently still love the little guy, I am content to withdraw from the question of deletion, although the article could be improved upon I feel. --Elen of the Roads (talk) 23:13, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
- I'll leave it for the time being. After all, there's the whole of four sentences in the article. I've seen worse.--Elen of the Roads (talk) 22:57, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
Greater Los Angeles Template to become Los Angeles Area Template?
Hi there user Amerique and I are have a big discussion on wheather the Greater Los Angeles Template should become the Los Angeles-Orange County Area Template. I am for the move because the G. LA template is missing alot of cities of the IE (it is missing more than half), and also there is all ready an IE metropolitan area template (that includes all its cities and towns, that I have well organized). The LA-OC area has none and there is very little to no information about that area. Please see the talk page of the Greater LA Area by clicking here to solve that problem or at least leave your thoughts, Thank-You and itzzHouse1090duhh (talk) 23:46, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
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Hello. I noticed your recent edit to the Glasgow Prestwick Airport article removing the flags from the busiest routes section. Why? Skinsmoke (talk) 16:02, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
It's as per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (icons). Either remove them, they don't really help and are just decoration, or as per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (icons)#Accompany flags with country names add the country name and that looks worse. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 16:06, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
Problem now solved (see Glasgow Prestwick Airport). Skinsmoke (talk) 16:29, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
User:jasepl
Hey there, I saw that you have had contact with the user in question. How would you rate his edits? He seems to be undoing several logical edits...--Rsrikanth05 (talk) 17:09, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
- I see. Thanks. I was referring tpo some of his other edits. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 17:28, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
- Aaah..don't bother, I don't give a crap about that article anymore. I did my best. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 17:45, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
Yellowknife Attractions, Part II
Hello, CambridgeBayWeather! I have JUST gotten back on Wikipedia after a few months and I just wanted to tell you that I was ACTUALLY able to visit Yellowknife, NT over Christmas vacation and I LOVED IT! The Canadian North is an AMAZING place and I enjoyed ALL THREE WEEKS THERE! I will have photos, soon, if you are interested. In fact, I LOVE Yellowknife so much that I will be coming back up there this June! Thank you for ALL of your advice and suggestions for me last summer, as I REALLY appreciate it. Thanks again!
Rallybrendan2006 (talk) 23:55, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
- Thank you for replying so promptly! I should have photos up by the end of next week. And yes, I heard it gets to a mild temperature in June, compared to the bitter cold (which I love) of winter. Thanks again and take care until then (the photos)!
Copyvio material
There is quite a bit of material on Christopher Hitchens that was clearly stolen from here: [5] I have tried to communicate this reasoning in my edit summaries to that page, but Prospider and a automated bot do not seem to be getting the message as I have now been accused of making "POV" changes to the page and vandalism (by the bot). I would appreciate it if you would intercede here. 96.241.20.150 (talk) 03:08, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
Reverts
No problem, although it looks like I missed one where he hit you twice, and I only went back once...d'oh! --kelapstick (talk) 20:44, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
Arctic Cordillera again
Saw your "not in Quebec" edit comment, though maybe I missed the context of what was taken out; the spine of the Torngats is the Labrador-Quebec border isn't it? Anyway as you previously noted the term "Arctic Cordillera" seems to have been invented by the Ecozones of Canada crew, I'm not sure there is a "proper geographic toponym" for the whole grouping. Nonetheless there seem to still be distinctions between the ecozone and the mountain range(s), though maybe those are just mapmakers glitches. My main issue is that this one article, out of several in the ecozone series, shouldn't be also in a mountain range category hierarchy if it's an ecozone definition. Ecoregion/ecozone folks are "into original research", like the way Boreal Cordillera and Montane Cordillera had been written as if the Rockies and the Cassiars the Selwyns didn't have proper names and only the ecozone name mattered; that was my problem with Arctic Rockies which is why I took it out. Invent a name as something like a slogan, then cite a page using that slogan in passing as if it were "sometimes used" when in fact it's not used by anyone else. Bascially a self-referential citation and I see way too many of them on ecozone/ecoregion pages. Like they're inventing a whole new geography, without any reference to the older one......they've even renamed the Canadian Shield and the Great Barrens, or created parallel/overlapping definitions using similar names. Talk about muddying the waters, sheesh....Skookum1 (talk) 14:40, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
Lee Jeans Wikipedia Page
Hi,
I have made several edits to the Lee Jeans page, per the Lee company. I'm confused as to why my edits keep getting taken down. I'm in no way writing biased or incorrect information. I'm only trying to document additional information on the history of the company to better inform our customers.
Please let me know what exactly is wrong with the content/soures that I'm including. I would really like to add additional content and cannot understand why it's being taken down immediately.
I'd like to be informed of the issue, so that it can be resolved and you don't have to continue to monitor our site.
Thank you very much.
Melina Childers —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.81.240.241 (talk) 21:43, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
Bay infobox
Hello CBW; hope the spring thaw is bringing some cheer your way. I was wondering if you've had any recent experience with the bay infobox? In the last few days, I've added it to almost all of the Nunavut bays and found an issue with "settlements" not showing up. It's not a problem for most of these articles as the bays are uninhabited, but for Resolute Bay, Frobisher Bay, etc. it'd be nice if the entered community name appeared in the infobox. I'll take the question to Wikiproject Geography if you aren't aware of a quick fix. --Rosiestep (talk) 01:51, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
- It's typical springtime here: mild temp/sunny/cloudy/rainy/shades of green everywhere... lovely.
- Thanks for solving the mystery: replace "settlements" with "cities"! And I agree the bay infobox I've been using (i.e. not {{infobox bay}} which is really "infobox lake") would benefit with expansion to include the infobox island parameters you suggested (province/state/region), plus some of the infobox lake parameters (max-depth, volume, shore, frozen, islands).
- Oh yes, that Sadlermiut article sounds interesting! I'll keep an eye on uphere.ca in case the article gets added. If you ever see it elsewhere, such as a pdf link, would you let me know? Thanks!
- Btw, the Resolute Bay#Mapping feature is an excellent addition. I'll start using it, too. --Rosiestep (talk) 17:54, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
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CambridgeBayWeather, I award you the long overdue Guidance Barnstar not only for your "mystery solved" assistance with the Bay Infobox, but for pointing me to the Mapping feature, and Up Here magazine... all in one fell swoop. You are the kind of wikipedian we can count on for guidance when popping in with a question, so cheers to you! Rosiestep (talk) 15:58, 8 May 2009 (UTC) |
Clarence Whistler
Nice entry on Clarence Whistler. I added a few things. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.169.94.114 (talk) 01:36, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
RFA thank you
My RFA passed today at 75/2/1 so I wanted to thank you for your participation in it. Special thanks go to GlassCobra and FlyingToaster for their nomination and support. Cheers! --Rosiestep (talk) 02:42, 12 May 2009 (UTC) |
Hi,
Thank you for your response, and I understand your concern. We're only trying to include additional information on the history of Lee to better serve our customers. We're citing outside resources. I believe I included three and are only including factual information. Can you please explain to me how this is different than the Levi Strauss & Co page? They have historical information that is surely added from their PR agency or internal people at Levi. I don't see how their information would be less biased than ours.
Would it help if someone from Lee Jeans (and not Barkley) uploaded information? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.81.240.241 (talk) 15:16, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
Holly Combs
Hi
Was this revert a mistake, and you only wanted to revert this one edit? Apparently the anon had trouble getting the reference to work, which is why they removed it again. FWIW, from a glance I can't verify that fact anywhere but on the topic's website, but I didn't look very hard.
Cheers, Amalthea 10:59, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
Please stop asserting that Winnipeg is the coldest city in the world with over 600,000 population. Simply becuase Environment Canada made the assertion does not make it true. Information in this format should be true not simply inserted because it is sourced whether it is true or not. It is even debatable whether or not EC has the credentials to be relied on as a professional weather agency. It certainly is not nearly up to par with the national weather services of the US or UK or even Australia, for example. --142.161.184.205 (talk) 18:56, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
blocking request
hi, sorry i didn't knew that policy. Any ways this is the user who is continuously vandalizing wikipedia article Umar. He is being invited by me [6] for discussing the issues here [7] he just ignored it and said not a single world in reply and kept vandalizing the article adding POV stuff removing material from the article and just messing around. here [8] you can check his edits and continuous reverts by other users inviting him for discussion in the discussion forum. he have also neglected wikipedia three revert policy.
I request that this user's ip address should be block. Mohammad Adil (talk) 20:17, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
Canadian elections
Hi CambridgeBayWeather, yes, I also did many of the other provinces' electoral districts too - that's when I noticed that there's already a template at Template:Election box! All that work and to realise there's already one...! JulieSpaulding (talk) 12:15, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
- Oh, I didn't know that, sorry. Thanks for tweaking the box... unfortunately many of the 'XProvince Votes 200X' from the CBC don't have the 'spoiled ballots' numbers. JulieSpaulding (talk) 12:27, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
- So you noticed my failure at using 'if'? :) JulieSpaulding (talk) 12:48, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
- Yes, I also made some attempts, modelled on WikiProject Biography's similar template. JulieSpaulding (talk) 13:07, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
- So you noticed my failure at using 'if'? :) JulieSpaulding (talk) 12:48, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
The article Umar I
hi, the article that i was working on in my sandbox here [9] is almost complete, i had already told the users in the discussion forum about this work in progress [10], and they have been waiting for it to edit it and add some more info in it, although for some reasons it got late, but now is in its finishing states and will be completed in few days. The article Umar as you know is locked, it need to be unlock for this new and comprehensive article. So whats the procedure ? and is there any way to get rid of that User:Frank1829, he is violating all rules his attitude is childish and he pose a permanent threat to the quality of article by adding his bias shia views in the general views of the artcile, i had already told him that shia views, as they are actually views on religious status of Umar can be added in the section "shia views" as sunni views of Umar's religious status has been added ( in my version of the article ) in the seperate section "sunni views". But still he keep on making hue and cries and keep on threatening that he's gonna stay there and will do with article what he want !
- If we call consensus, i fear it will be a waste of time, i really tried to conclude the issue by posting this post [11], by his reply [12] was really disappointing and it really pissed me off, though i avoid personally attacks but i fear i broke that rule in my recent response. So whats the solution in your opinion ? we really are in need of a third party.
Regards. الله أكبرMohammad Adil 15:44, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
- please check my reply here [13]
regards الله أكبرMohammad Adil 01:46, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
Suspected sock
Hello CBW. Just a heads up on Talk:Umar, I have a feeling that one User:Marcus Dyer is a sockpuppet of User:Frank1829. There's a few indicators, but the most convincing factor is the novel and quite strange appeal he makes re: the Arab league which was first forwarded on the page 30 mins prior by Frank1829. Also claims of racism and general tone similarities between the two. ITAQALLAH 02:08, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
weather.com
Like mikevegas, I once ran a small weather data site and in order to so I had to download all of the original source data from the GHCN database as well as a few other smaller ones from around the world. This website is no longer online. However, the experience of running the website gained me the ability to tell good climate data from bad, and I am of the opinion that much of the data on weather.com is bad, in most cases likely because of errors made by whichever employees were assigned the task of copying it over from the various sources. I can do my best to demonstrate this if you are interested. I have always been interested in improving the data on Wikipedia by sourcing it directly to a reliable source such as NOAA, but since the data on NOAA is not organized in a user-friendly manner, I have never dared to even begin for fear that my edits would be reverted. I'm posting here to ask you if you think it would be a worthwhile effort to pursue this endeavor nonetheless and if so how best to go about seeking approval. Soap Talk/Contributions 20:32, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
- Replying to your comment on my talk page: thank you for the quick response. I realize that with me jumping into the middle of this discussion and having no history editing Wikipedia articles about climate, some people may think I am just trying to replace one COI with another and that I might be affiliated with weatherbase.com or some such thing. I assure you this is not so. I really don't think linking from Wikipedia would generate much ad revenue anyway since the person browsing the article has already seen the data and isn't likely to ever browse to the weather site unless they want more data. Anyway, regarding the $20 dataset that NOAA seems to be selling, I say go for it, but be aware of the disclaimer: The data are provided in large files with a fixed length record format. They can be read by software written by the user according to the format specifications outlined in the documentation files. The data files may also be opened by any ASCII-compatible application that can handle large data volumes. I suspect this is the same dataset I was able to obtain for free about a decade ago, and consists of many extremely large (>30MB) text files without so much as line breaks to simplify reading. As they say, if you want to use this data, you'd probably have to write a program yourself just to read it. When I was building my website I decided to open each data file in a Unix terminal window and manually adjust the terminal width to get the info to line up properly. Moreover, the data is entirely in Fahrenheit even for non-US cities, and no conversion is provided. It's possible, however, that they've touched things up a bit since then and that's why they've put a price tag on the data now. Soap Talk/Contributions 02:44, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
Hello!
Hello, CambridgeBayWeather, how and what are you doing today? --Ericthebrainiac (talk) 15:48, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
Template loop
You had a template loop on User:CambridgeBayWeather/Sandbox. The thing is that you can't call a page on itself. I neutralsed it. Then I tested your template on the Wikipedia:Sandbox and it works nicely. Good luck. Debresser (talk) 13:53, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
Emirates
CambridgeBayWeather, can you tell me if there is any need of making improvements to the Emirates Airline article? (MoHasanie (talk) 15:23, 7 June 2009 (UTC)).
CambridgeBayWeather, I have gotten rid of 4 kilobytes of unsourced information, and information that was not that important, bu the article still seems a bit too long. I would like to create a new article for the Rivalry section and also the Busines Model ection, but i do not know what to call it. (MoHasanie (talk) 13:37, 8 June 2009 (UTC)).
CFB Edmonton
Hi, just wanted to point out that with this edit you introduced non-commercial reproduction content from http://www.army.forces.gc.ca/cfb_edmonton/history.html. According to the licence, http://www.forces.gc.ca/site/notices_e.asp, and Wikipedia:Non-free content the material can't be used on Wikipedia. Cheers. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 00:22, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
- Hi Alan. Thanks for the message. Something is weird here. I spent a lot of time writing this section from various sources. I know the rules.This website has obviously copied their text from Wikipedia. I have never, ever copied/pasted material from any source. BCtalk to me 01:27, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
- OK no problems. I figured that it was just a mistake as the licence on the Government web sites can be unclear. I'll contact the webmaster when I get home and have email access and see what they say. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 01:37, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
- I wonder if they will even remember what their sources were. I've kept all my original sources/links and copies of the actual articles I used for my major edits to CFB Edmonton and most other WP articles I've been involved with (and http://www.army.forces.gc.ca/cfb_edmonton/history.html web site was definitely not one of them). I suspect this kind of problem is going to crop up more and more as Wikipedia gets older and more and more Wikipedia articles are being used on other web sites. It's certainly nice that someone likes my writing well enough to lift it and place it on their web site - a government one no less. I would like to replace my edits though, since the edits were originally mine. Cheers. BCtalk to me 02:39, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
- OK no problems. I figured that it was just a mistake as the licence on the Government web sites can be unclear. I'll contact the webmaster when I get home and have email access and see what they say. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 01:37, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
Picture deletion
Hello CBW, i would like to know if you could revert my picture. I uploaded a "newer" pic of: File:San Bernardino International Airport Logo.JPG but it's actually worser than the older version, could you change it back? itzzHouse1090duhh (talk) 04:29, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
Indian Settlements/Villages re "Indian Reserve" vs. "Indian reserve"
Hi; re our previous discussions at Talk:List of Indian Reserves in Canada, the parallel/newer and now veruy long discussion at WPCANTALK's noticeboard and "Indian Reserve" is now on the WPCANTALK discussion page, nad it's long and involved and full of time-consuming details; I won't reprise it here but mentioned your points about governance and land-incorporation in the Territories and figured might as well drag you into the discussion, if you'd care to - Wikipedia_talk:Canadian_Wikipedians'_notice_board#Indian_reserve_and_capitalization; you can probably only read the last third or half rather than the whole thing if you want...or even the last eighth, there was a lot of going in circles...and as always when I'm involved, lots of tangents.... ;-).....Skookum1 (talk) 12:43, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
SBD airport logo
Yea it took me a while but I got it but thanks for taking a look. itzzHouse1090duhh (talk) 20:00, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
H1N1
I heard on NPR the other day that the H1N1 outbreak was especially bad in Nunavut. When I heard it, I thought that you lived there and after checking your userpage once more, I see that you do indeed. Just wanted to drop you a note to say that I hope you're doing well and staying healthy. Live long and prosper, Dismas|(talk) 01:41, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
- Yeah, my sister is just flying back home from a month-long medical stint in Cambay, sounds like it's hitting Kitikmeot pretty hard (and Kivalliq, according to the CBC) Babies being medevac'ed and everything. The bigger worry seems to be what will happen next fall. Hope all is well, remember to eat lots of fresh fruit and vegetables to stay healthy (oh wait... :( ) As an alternative, try to age rapidly, it looks like those aged mid-40's and above may have already been exposed to a similar virus and have acquired immunity. Take care and have a good night! Oh wait, you don't actually have nights either right at the moment. ;) Franamax (talk) 03:04, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks guys, we seem to be OK here for now. It's kind of odd in that there appear to be no cases in the Qikiqtaaluk Region and I would have thought that Iqaluit would have seen some, [14]. The number of MEDIVACs hasn't been too bad, most of them originate from here with Adlair Aviation, but of course if they were in the day time then the patient could have been sent on a regular sked flight. Eat fresh stuff eh? I would if I had his money, milk at $7.49 and apples the same. Going to the health centre right now is interesting. They stop you at the door and ask a bunch of questions, are you coughing, have you been to Mexico, etc. Then you have to use hand sanitizer and if you are coughing they give you a mask. The last time I was there the doctor mentioned she had a brother on Wikipedia and now I know who. Cheers. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 05:27, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
hest edwards
what happened to my william hest edwards? it wasnt vandalism! its all fact. please explain. i am new to wiki. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Willyeddie (talk • contribs) 15:42, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
User:Richardc03
Hello. Can you check it, please? Continuing disruptive editing. Thanks. --Vejvančický (talk) 10:39, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
142.161.157.40 thinks I'm a bad person
I just simply can't believe that you are a meteorologist. You don't even understand the concept of average annual temperature. Having read over your talk page it seems that some of your edits are of a very dubious nature; in fact you have been accused of vandalism a couple of times. Please do not continue to downgrade the quality of Wikipedia. Many people have spent considerable amounts of time to try to improve this valuable source of information. What makes you think that it is acceptable for you to come along and destroy their work for no reason? Don't bother deleting this comment either. Leave it for others to see. I'll be watching what you're up to with your edits. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.161.157.40 (talk) 19:10, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
- If you think the comments currently visible here look bad try reading through some of the archived pages. You'll see that I'm much worse than you could even imagine. Just curious but was the last sentence supposed to be some sort of intimidation tactic? If so it's not going to work. I just ignore stuff like that. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 20:23, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
What are you stupid, or is your brain just frozen? Obviously the sentence means exactly what it says. I'll be watching what you're doing because I believe that you practice vandalism on a regular basis (as do others, according to your own talk page) and I've already reverted two of your edits. You're going around deleting statements which are sourced just because you don't happen to like them, and I caught you deleting commentary from a discussion page. You have no business doing those things. Leave well enough alone. This is an encyclopedia, and it is for the benefit of the general public. It is not your own fictional novel. --142.161.178.139 (talk) 02:25, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
- You really need to provide differences as to my vandalism, removing sourced statements and deleting valid comments from talk pages. Making vague statments isn't helpful. Also if you really think I'm vandalising then I suggest that you report it. But again rather than just making statements please remember to provide links and differences where I have done this. Thanks. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 09:34, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
Hey
Hey i'm just wondering whats it like to live all the why up in Cambridge Bay. The closest i have ever been was Yellowknife and it was in the middle of summer in the low 30's. Don't you miss the long hot summer days? And i have always wondered this to, do you get thunderstorms up there. Kyle1278 21:18, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
- Cool i would love to go up to Cambridge Bay one year always wanted to go farther north. The only people that have been up that far north is my dad (he was up to Clyde River), and my grandpa and he was past the Distant Early Warning Line he worked on it. And a quick message to the IP temperature dose not really bother me i just like to go anywhere around the world i love to travel, and i live in Edmonton so i have seen my fare share of winter weather, taken it dose get a tad cooler in Cambridge Bay. --Kyle1278 03:50, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
- I've never been to Clyde but my daughter went and she liked the place. As I said, we get one or two thunderstorms a year but not major ones like you see down south. The mosquitos are bad, that's true, and almost any place up here and also for places down south where they need to use control methods, but most people seem to be able to manage. Of course the amount of mosquitos depends on the amount of standing water and I'm lucky as the part of town I live in is dry so I don't have much problem but other parts especially on the edge of town do have a lot. Yep, prices in the north are high, again that's pretty much true anywhere you go in the Canadian Arctic that doesn't have road access. We do better than some of the smaller communites due to us being larger and having better airline services. Kugaaruk, Nunavut used to be one of the worst places for prices because the ice would not permit summer shipping but global warming and food mail has helped. There are, as the IP points out, no trees and of course that's true of anywhere above the tree line. But like others I find that the unobstructed views are one of the best things and don't enjoy the way the trees block them. It's one of those things, each person has different likes and dislikes. Of course it is cooler here overall than down south, as is the rest of the Arctic, but I recall that Edmonton can get some cold weather as well. One thing to remember is that many places in southern Canada can get temperatures that are almost as cold as here. There can even be cold spells that last for a week where you get Arctic type temperatures in Edmonton. A few years ago I went to Edmonton in February and had several days at -35 C while the temperatures at home where -25 C to -30 C. Of course another year I leave home, again in February which was at -40 C, and arrive in Edmonton on the same day and find the temperature to be +15 C. That was so long ago that we didn't have Internet to check the weather and just figured that the temperatures would be normal, mailed my parka home the next day. Do I think the place is horrid, of course not but others do and that's fine with me. Many people can't take living in the Arctic for one reason or another but then again there are many who do.Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 09:34, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
I've been to Cambridge Bay and it is an absolutely horrid place. You must have lucked out in Yellowknife because temps in the 30's there are somewhat unusual. In Cambridge Bay the average July maximum in just 12°C and eleven months of the year have daily maximums under 10° and six months have daily maximums below -15°C. During the very short summer the mosquitos are so bad that it is next to impossible to go outside. Thunderstorms are possible but do not occur with any frequency. There is absolutely not one tree. Everything costs triple what it would elsewhere. I couldn't wait to leave and would never return. There are many beautiful places in the Canadian Arctic, particularly the Western Arctic, but Cambridge Bay is most definitely not one of them. --142.161.178.139 (talk) 02:35, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
Nice sig
But only for those familiar with the playground. I'm afraid the kid that posted schoolteacher's bio, if he/she reads the talk page, would be puzzled by the sausage ending. Is it possible to have another standard signature just for such occasions? NVO (talk) 17:07, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
white tiger
I'm going to try and trim a lot of the fat from the article, shorten it, and rewrite some. Please don't mistake this for vandalism. 72.1.195.5 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 14:58, 19 June 2009 (UTC).
Why are you taking off the Cranial Implant addition on the RCMP site? This is accurate and true information about the RCMP and is not vandalism?
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