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oil drop

Qyd,

I would like to use the beautiful oil drop image (Oil-drop.png) you created for a project, but I need a 300 dpi resolution image. Could you help me out with this please? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.61.34.247 (talk) 07:02, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

I'm afraid I deleted the image from my system long time ago, sorry. --Qyd (talk) 14:07, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

List of Alberta Highways

I have recently completed an extensive search for Alberta secondary highways using a Government of Alberta issued map, to complete the list for List of Alberta provincial highways#Secondary highway series. After which I have discovered that you have created a number of pages for highways that I could find no reference of. I think that you may like to be informed of the following changes:

Up for deletion are:

• Alberta secondary highway 502
• Alberta secondary highway 575
• Alberta secondary highway 745
• Alberta Highway 745
• Alberta secondary highway 788
• Alberta secondary highway 901
• Alberta secondary highway 940
• Alberta secondary highway 989

Redirected because I could find no reference of:

• Alberta Highway 502 to Alberta Highway 877
• Alberta Highway 788 to Spruce Grove, Alberta

Redirected because it appears their name changed:

• Alberta Highway 637 to Alberta Highway 29
• Alberta Highway 794 to Alberta Highway 44
• Alberta Highway 940 to Alberta Highway 40
• Alberta Highway 989 to Alberta Highway 986

Redirected to the former highways section:

• Alberta Highway 637
• Alberta Highway 745
• Alberta Highway 788
• Alberta Highway 794
• Alberta Highway 940
• Alberta Highway 989

I trust you are understanding of these changes. 117Avenue (talk) 06:52, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for the Barnstars! Kyle1278 02:50, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Former Alberta Highways

I have recently completed a list of former Alberta Provincial highways, and added it to the List of Alberta provincial highways#Former Highways. I am hoping that you could expand to this list, any highways that were before my time, and what year these changes were made. Thanks - 117Avenue (talk) 21:32, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Vancouver

		WikiProject Vancouver
		You have been invited to participate in Operation Schadenfreude to restore the article Vancouver back to featured article status.

- Mkdw^talk 20:35, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

File:Northwest-relief.jpg

Hey Qyd. Are you willing to add a more detailed description for the source of this image? "USGS data" is not a well defined source description and it remains an issue for File:Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province.jpg and File:NCVP seismic volcanoes.png because they are derivatives of that image. See Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province/archive1 for more. BT (talk) 01:03, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

USGS means United States Geological Survey; as a US government agency, all their products are public domain. And so is the file. Can't get more issue free than that. --Qyd (talk) 04:10, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

I know the meaning of USGS, I just did not understand how "USGS data" is a problem as a source description because USGS data is public domain. Where did the file originate from? BT (talk) 05:15, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

I downloaded the data, loaded it in a GIS program, set up colors, projection, etc and saved is as an image. I suppose I can say I created the file (hence, author=me).--Qyd (talk) 04:19, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

NPA

Please refrain from attacking reviewers at FAC, as you did here. Thank you, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:15, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

List of Communities in Alberta

Hi Qyd, I see you have some history with the above article and have also noted your past involvement with the List of Alberta Highways article. I wanted to give you a head's up that I am going to improve this article over numerous sequential edits such that it is consistent with the types of municipalities listed in the Municipal Government Act and the hierarchy of municipalities presented on the Alberta Municipal Affairs website (see http://www.municipalaffairs.alberta.ca/am_what_are_municipalities.cfm). I was thinking of the following municipal categories with the following municipal types within:

• Urban Municipalities (Cities, Towns, Villages and Summer Villages);
• Specialized Municipalities;
• Rural Municipalities (Municipal Districts aka Counties, Improvement Districts and Special Areas);
• Former Municipalities (those municipalities that have dissolved or amalgamated to become part of other municipalities);
• Unincorporated Comminities (Urban Services Areas to cover off Fort McMurray and Sherwood Park, Townsites to cover off Redwood Meadows on the Tsuu T'ina Nation, and Hamlets];
• Métis Settlements;
• Indian Reserves; and
• Other (Ghost Towns).

Everything will be verifyiable by various publications on the Municipal Affairs website. So, if you have any questions or concerns throughout the sequential edit process, please don't hesitate to contact me. Cheers, --Hwy43 (talk) 03:14, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

Sounds like a great plan, structure seems solid, best of luck with it, cheers. --Qyd (talk) 04:16, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

As I revamp this article, I now realize that the List of Cities/Towns/Villages/etc. of Alberta articles will also have to be revamped to ensure consistency and to minimize redundancy. I'll move onto these pages after the revamp of this article is complete. --Hwy43 (talk) 09:03, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

List of Alberta provincial highways

In regards to the names of Alberta Highway 742, the section maintained by Alberta Transportation is called Spray Lakes Road, as confirmed with this Google Street View. Smith Dorrien Trail/Smith-Dorrien Trail refers to the section formally maintained by Alberta Transportation, and shown closed in the Street View linked to on List of. 117Avenue (talk) 00:27, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

The name Spray Lakes Road is also confirmed by numerous maps on the Town of Canmore's website. I recommend exercising caution when confirming current street names using Google or other online map sites. Some of the names are incorrect (i.e., in Edmonton, James Mowatt Trail SW south of Ellerslie Road SW is incorrectly labelled as 111 Street SW by Google). This was coincidentally brought to my attention today by a city employee. Do either of you know the data source for road names used by Google and others? I suspect it is from the National Road Network (NRN) dataset distributed by GeoBase. I downloaded the dataset today and I confirmed that it incorrectly attributed James Mowatt Trail SW as 111 Street SW. --Hwy43 (talk) 01:12, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Not sure about Googlemaps, though Google lists the source as Tele Atlas. I found the name "Smith Dorrien Trail" on my maps, that use DMTI Spatial data. Navteq has it as "Smith Dorrien Spray Trl". By the way, DMTI Spatial has "111 St SW", as does Navteq. --Qyd (talk) 02:46, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the info. Now I wonder where Tele Atlas get its information from. Does DMTI Spatial provide the data for free or is it for purchase only?

I just looked at Navteq, MapQuest, Yahoo Local Maps, MSN's Bing Maps and Google Maps/Earth. All of them show Spray Lakes Road from Three Sisters Drive to Alberta Highway 742's approximate terminus near Ken Ritchie Way (just outside of the town limits), after which all of them refer to the road as Smith Dorrien Spray Trail. I believe this part of the road was once designated Highway 742 as well but has since been decommissioned (I notice that Google still applies the highway number to the road). Canmore has published a map of Highway 742 showing its routing through Camore and its terminus. I presume the name Spray Lakes Road officially ends either at the town limits or the terminus of the highway.

I checked all of these online maps for 111 Street/James Mowatt Trail as well. All of them do not yet show the road's recent deflection/realignment in a southwesterly direction just south of Ellerslie. Perhaps James Mowatt Trail will appear when their respective bases are updated with the deflection/realignment. --Hwy43 (talk) 05:59, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Yes I am aware that Google maps have errors, which is why I love having Street View now, to see the road signs. In the 111 Street, Edmonton article I have it ending at Ellerslie Road, making James Mowatt Trail an entirely different street. I also admit in Terwillegar Drive that the location of the transition from Terwillegar to 170 Street SW is unknown. 117Avenue (talk) 00:16, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

AfD nominations of non-hamlets

Please be advised that the following articles have been nominated for deletion at Articles for deletion/January 9:

• Bonanza, Alberta
• Carcajou, Alberta
• Keg River, Alberta
• Loon Lake, Alberta
• Morley, Alberta
• Peerless Lake, Alberta

These short articles were created with the assumption that they are hamlets. After a recent review of which settlements are actually hamlets, it was found that these community are not currently registered by Alberta as a hamlet, if it they ever were. I nominated them for deletion as they are short, and not notable. 117Avenue (talk) 01:05, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Please be so kind as to withdraw the nominations; these are distinct communities, even if not classified as hamlets by Municipal affairs. They are first nations communities, and are not under provincial jurisdiction. --Qyd (talk) 01:13, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Hi Qyd, it appears that all will be resolved as keeps instead of deletions. I just wanted to apprise you of my comments on User talk:117Avenue#Mass deletion of Alberta settlements, User talk:117Avenue#Bearberry, Alberta, and User talk:117Avenue#College Heights, Alberta, if you hadn't noticed already. If you notice that one or more of the 110+ communities actually end up being deleted, please advise as I'd be curious to know why. Cheers, --Hwy43 (talk) 06:50, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

Wow, amazing insight; you got good sources! Good job! --Qyd (talk) 13:57, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

Hamlets of Alberta discussion

Hi Qyd, I recently posted three topics of discussion on talk:Hamlets of Alberta. Since you were the first architect of the article, I would like your input on the second and third topics when you have a moment. Also, a review of the first topic may provide you some insight on the recent nomination to remove numerous Alberta community articles. I'm in support of these articles remaining for reasons too numerous to mention (some of which you've already touched upon). --Hwy43 (talk) 05:16, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

List of Alberta municipal districts

Hello again, I see you were also the originator of the List of Alberta municipal districts article. With the recently completed improvements on the List of communities in Alberta to ensure consistency with Alberta Municipal Affairs, I would like to propose two options for the improvement of this article:

1) move the article to a new List of Alberta rural municipalities article so that the article presents all three types of rural municipalities (municipal districts, improvement districts and special areas) within, and delete the Specialized municipalities section and any other references to specialized municipalities throughout the article, so that the article is solely about rural municipalities, and not about both rural and specialized municipalities, or

2) delete the Other types of municipalities section in its entirety and any other references to special areas, improvement districts and specialized municipalities throughout the article so that the article is only about municipal districts, and not about municipal districts, other forms of rural municipalities and specialized municipalities.

Under either option, I propose the creation of a new List of Alberta specialized municipalities since the number of municipalities under this municipal status is anticipated to increase in the future, or just rely on the List of communities in Alberta article's Specialized municipalities section.

Under the second option, I also propose reliance on the List of communities in Alberta article's Special areas and Improvement districts sections since the number of municipalities under each of these municipal statuses is not anticipated to increase or decrease in the foreseeable future.

Thoughts/suggestions? --Hwy43 (talk) 05:46, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Would work either way. Good job! --Qyd (talk) 05:53, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Abitibi

Hey...I saw that you contributed to the Abitibi page and was wondering where you got information on Abitibi's beginnings. Any way you can point me to some source material? I am specifically looking for information on Abitibi's profits and losses during the first half of the 1900's. Anything you can pass on would be very helpful.

Thanks,

Daniel Doss dgdoss@gmail.com