User talk:Bearcat

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Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Canadian transportation law

Category:Canadian transportation law, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mike Selinker (talk) 15:48, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Various Alberta place stubs

Hello. Because you commented on my mass deletion discussion on 9 January 2010, I am inviting you to the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Various Alberta place stubs discussion. 117Avenue (talk) 03:23, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

Steve Dacri

Hello Bearcat, Thanks for checking in on the Steve Dacri article. I'd appreciate any additional feedback and suggestions. Thanks! Pattymooney (talk) 21:13, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

BrianStock Music Festival

Hello Bearcat, You recently deleted the previously mentioned page. I see now that the problem was advertising and or self-promotion. My intentions were not to spam, but only to contribute to the encyclopedia. I would like to salvage the article and re-write it according to Wikipedia's standards. If you could help me find the information on the removed page so I may alter it, and not have to start from scratch that would be most appreciated. Thank you. (Bgluck (talk) 21:24, 7 March 2011 (UTC)) Hello again, Thank you for your advise. As for my email adress I knew that was a no-no thats why I edited it out soon after making it visible. Anyway, Im fine with the outcome of this. But in the fututre, to create a page I got from your message that the festival would have to be documented by a reliable source. Say could this be a local newspaper? I would like to contribute this to wikipedia, foloowing the rules when it is ready to be. Thanks. (Bgluck (talk) 05:39, 11 March 2011 (UTC))

BLP, ethnicity, gender

Wikipedia talk:Biographies of living persons#Include "ethnicity, gender," to match all other guidelines

Wikilawyers have been trying to drive through a wording loophole in BLP, saying ethnicity and gender of EGRS doesn't apply to living persons, simply because the two words aren't in the policy. (Apparently, they think it should only apply to dead people.) I remember you as having been very involved in years past.

They also are trying to remove the notability and relevance criteria for EGRS, but that's another fight for another day, I'm simply too busy to watch two fronts at the same time.
--William Allen Simpson (talk) 15:12, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

The Fox Brothers

Bearcat, could you please help me here in this situation. I seem to be having an issue with the editors in the abovementioned article. They do not seem to understand that they cannot remove the deletion tag from the page and they continue to write the article in a Press Release format. I foresee this getting into a edit war of sorts and would like to avoid that at all costs. Could you look at this and see if you could help me. I tried to revert the edits to replace the deletion tag but I can't seem to figure out why its not working for me. I dont know if I am having system problems. Thanks for your help! --Canyouhearmenow 22:40, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

Your recent edits to the Marc Dalton article

Hi Bearcat, I do not believe we have met previously. I'm puzzled by your recent reverts to the Marc Dalton page, which I just stumbled across in the Recent Changes. The editor could well be a SPA or nearly, as they have only edited on one other topic in 2007, but how is the addition of a photo "vandalism"? Also his material about the recall effort appears to be sourced, so why is the article "not the place for this"? I have never heard of this politician and know nothing about any of this, and so am truly a neutral party. As it stands I'm quite confused, and frankly at a loss to understand your edits and edit summaries. Please enlighten me, as I notice you are an experienced editor indeed. Thanks, Jusdafax 07:50, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

Renaming Categories

Hey Bearcat, Can you possibly nominate this category for renaming?:

• Category:College marching bands in Canada

it's members are all university bands not college; obviously set up by a US user. The parent is Category:College marching bands. I believe the other child Category:College marching bands in the United Kingdom is also problematic. Argolin (talk) 04:04, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Well Done!

Excellent work with your categorisation! Keep up the good effort! A Very Manly Man (talk) 07:21, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of Kathryn Hens-Greco for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Kathryn Hens-Greco is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kathryn Hens-Greco until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article.--DThomsen8 (talk) 12:24, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Categorization of my Articles

You recently put a template on my articles saying that they weren't in a category. One, the Youth Energy Summit, should be in a category of green energy if that category exists. The other, Darn Cold Croquet, should be in the category of sports. I don't know how to find a list of categories, or if there are any subcategories that are more specific. I also do not know how to put an article into a category. Can you please tell me how to do that? It would be nice if you could explain it, then I could do it myself, so I would be able to make better edits in the future.Ryan Vesey (talk) 12:07, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Category:St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

Should politicians be added to this list or not? Newfoundlander&Labradorian (talk) 15:40, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

UNLIKELY BROTHERS EDIT

THANK YOU! I DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO ACCESS TITLE TO CORRECT.

Nell 16:45, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Message From AvidExposure

I'm trying to reach out to you regarding the deletion of an article KDrew that you did. I understand that you are from Canada and are aware of the Canadian artist who shares the same name as the New Jersey artist. The article has reference with printed publications which follows Wikipedia's guidelines. Why was it deleted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Avidexposure (talk • contribs) 20:12, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Deletion of Taleeb Noormohamed

Regarding the deletion of Taleeb Noormohamed, you stated that being an unelected candidate in a future election doesn't make a person notable. I understand where you're coming from but would like to be able to add more in order to show that this individual is duly notable. I thought I had sufficient information on his other work to show that he is in fact someone of importance, but could add more to state it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fudge786 (talk • contribs) 08:24, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

merging and renaming unorg. areas

Hi Bearcat, in view of your extensive experience with Canadian topic articles, I would like you to comment on the merging and renaming issue at Wikipedia talk:Canadian Wikipedians' notice board#Unorganized areas in Ontario. Thanks. (BTW, how do you manage to do so many edits per day???) -- P 1 9 9 • TALK 02:23, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

professional titles in bio article names

Hi, thx for your correction on 3-15-11 (Dr. Ferdinand Maack -> Ferdinand Maack). It wasn't typo, I just didn't know. (I'm new.) I thought I could easily find "professional titles are not allowed on biographic article names of persons" or some such thing on WP:HELP, but ... nope! (Just curious, is there a specific convention I'm missing, or is it found in the "Bill Clinton instead of William Jefferson Clinton" simplicity guideline I was able to locate? Thx! (And thx again for your correction.) Ihardlythinkso (talk) 10:43, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

Got your answer, just wanted to thank you for the explain. (Thx!) Ihardlythinkso (talk) 09:44, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

Wikilove guest post?

Dear Bearcat,

I am gathering stories about what people love about wiki editing and culture; things that make them smile; great collaborations they've had that have the wiki spirit. Not necessarily mediawiki or wikipedia. (one of my favorite personal examples is someone who went around tagging everything with 2d barcodes that linked to a webpage where he would write about it... during the initial surge of enthusiasm about cellphone barcode-readers)

Would you be willing to write a guest post for a blog about this?

Warmly, –SJ+ 19:38, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

Talk:Zecharia Mayani

Hi. Your input would be helpful at Talk:Zecharia Mayani.   — Jeff G.  ツ 22:32, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

Grande Prairie

Hi. I was just going through some backlinks after you moved Grande Prairie. Could you please delete Grande Prairie City Council (Alberta)? I must not have realized that the one in Texas was spelled different, when I created it. Thanks, 117Avenue (talk) 00:10, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

Verma and other tips

Thanks for the tips, I appreciate it :) - Pictureprovince (talk) 13:04, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

Levack, Ontario (Onaping Falls)

Well how about deleting your "notable persons" section from "Onaping Falls" entry. Do we really need to know about atheletes? Really? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mikerhum (talk • contribs) 15:25, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

notability: Line Spectra

Hi, For the notability in question for the Line Spectra article, following the wikipedia guidelines for notability for musicians :

10.Has performed music for a work of media that is notable, e.g. a theme for a network television show, performance in a television show or notable film, inclusion on a notable compilation album, etc. (But if this is the only claim, it is probably more appropriate to have a mention in the main article and redirect to that article. Read WP:BLP1E and WP:BIO1E for further clarifications) 11.Has been placed in rotation nationally by any major radio network.

Those two criteria are met as the band has a song which was included on an episode of a notable television show: Degrassi. As well, the band was placed on rotation nationally (US and Canada) on CBC Radio 3.

Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.70.235.198 (talk) 20:42, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

Please see reference #6 in the article. It is an article from a local print newspaper which mentions the song being included in an episode of Degrassi. It is a print newpaper which mentions the song being included in the television show. Two of the references on the page are from print newspapers #2 and #6. This should be evidence that the band has garnered media coverage, but more can be added.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.70.235.198 (talk) 16:03, 23 March 2011 (UTC) 

Deletion of Darn Cold Croquet

You deleted my article, Darn Cold Croquet, without adding a speedy deletion tag or a proposed deletion tag. This gave me no chance to justify reasons that the article should remain. Wikipedia does not tell its users to be bold in deleting pages. I believe the page should stay because it is a variant of croquet with sources. Wikipedia has a limitless amount of space, and removing the article adds nothing to Wikipedia while leaving the article up adds information for the percentage of users who are interested in the topic. Thank youRyan Vesey (talk) 05:00, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Bob Long (municipal councilor)

Would you please consider undeleting this article? I am not the original page author.

• You applied WP:POLITICIAN, which is a notability criterion, to speedy deletion criterion A7, which is not intended to judge notability. This was inappropriate. Being an elected politician *is* a credible claim of significance for A7 purposes.
• WP:POLITICIAN in any case does not rule out a local councillor being notable, if they meet the WP:GNG.
• There is a credible argument based on press coverage that this individual might meet the GNG.

Cheers,

Thparkth (talk) 11:07, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for restoring the article. You have mischaracterised my remarks above at AFD. I have not asserted that this gentleman meets the GNG; I have asserted that there is a credible argument that he might.

Cheers,

Thparkth (talk) 00:18, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

Use of Uncategorised on stubs

Hi, re this edit - please note that since the article is tagged as a stub, it should be given {{uncategorized stub}} instead of {{uncategorized}} - both the wording and the categorisation are different. Thanks. --Redrose64 (talk) 16:00, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

2003–04 Manchester City F.C. season/FA Cup Fourth round replay

Wikipedia does not do "subpages" of articles. If it's meant to be a template, then it has to be moved into template space; if it's just meant to be a portion of another article, then it has to be pasted and merged back into its parent article. But if you want it to stay where it is, then it has to be either categorized or tagged as uncat, because there's an absolute obligation to clear every page off the uncategorized articles list, with no exceptions — so as long as it's on my list, I have to do something with it. Every single page that's standing on its own in articlespace has to function and be treated as an article in its own right, period, no exceptions. Bearcat (talk) 03:13, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

My latest edit to that page hopefully takes care of this issue to your satisfaction. Mancini's Lasagne invite to Harry ^Talk 01:06, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

I admit it - I'm confused ...

Hi. Regarding your move

• (Move log); 17:47 . . Bearcat (Talk | contribs) moved Sortname2 to User:Pdfpdf/Sortname2 [redirect suppressed] (sandbox pages belong in sandbox space)
  

I thought that had already been done. i.e.

• 22:59, 24 March 2011 (diff | hist) N User:Pdfpdf/Sortname2 ‎ (sandbox)
• (Deletion log); 23:16 . . JohnCD (Talk | contribs) deleted "Template:Sortname2" (G7: One author who has requested deletion or blanked the page)

I can't work out what's going on. Can you? Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 08:14, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

The page I moved wasn't sitting at the title Template:Sortname2 — it was at Sortname2 with no prefix. Bearcat (talk) 08:17, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

Riiight. So now I'm even more confused. How/when did Sortname2 get created? There's nothing in my http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Pdfpdf referring to Sortname2 ... Pdfpdf (talk) 08:24, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

When a page gets moved, all of the edits to that page in your contribution history "move" to the new page title too. According to the edit histories, though, you created the deleted template at 12:25, then db-tagged it at 12:28, and then created the page I moved at 12:29 — so my best guess would be that most likely you intended to create it in sandbox space but something went wrong and it got saved at the plain title "sortname2" for some reason. Bearcat (talk) 08:33, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

That's logical. Thanks for sorting that out. Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 08:38, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

Rabbi Pinto - Assistance

Notice you are very active - Would you mind reviewing Rabbi Pinto page ? A major feature story ran on Rabbi Pinto, the largest story ever written about him and the few editors who control the board didnt allow neutral entrees to be placed. Need assistance from curious non interested parties.

The article was syndicated and picked up by Globes a major Israeli paper, The Real Deal a major NYC real estate publication and others but entire chunks of article werent included. Can we have new eyes please ?

Would suggest adding: "Considerable questions have risen regarding Pinto’s organizations finances. A report by a leading New York Jewish newspaper has revealed a “contrast between the rabbi’s lifestyle and his reputation for modest living, and questions about the rabbi’s image as a business guru when his own not-for-profit faces financial problems.” The Forward stated: “The business troubles at Mosdot Shuva Israel could be seen as ironic, given Rabbi Pinto’s reputation as an adviser to businessmen, and particularly to real estate brokers.” 65.112.21.194 (talk) 13:31, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

To 'the' or not to 'the'

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The Weeknd

I see you speedy deleted the article for The Weeknd under category A7. I think you should have at least put the proposed deletion up for debate. As it happens I feel the subject is notable with 144,000 searches listed on google for the past week [1] as well as articles in mainstream media such as The Guardian [2], MTV.com [3], Pitchfork.com [4] and Vibe [5]. yorkshiresky (talk) 15:15, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for getting back to me, although I don't understand the offended tone you took about me posting on your talk page. I was only following the advice in WP:AFTERDELETE,. As it happens someone else has created an article which I believe meets the A7 criteria. Cheers. yorkshiresky (talk) 10:41, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Dominic Cardy

Hello. Is the term "proclamation" still incorrect? I haven't seen you active on Dominic Cardy or New Brunswick New Democratic Party leadership election, 2011 lately. 117Avenue (talk) 18:29, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Just ain't been around for a couple of days, that's all... Bearcat (talk) 18:33, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Okay, no worries. 117Avenue (talk) 18:59, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Deletion of page: Rob Forbes

Hello Bearcat,

I created the page for Rob Forbes as a personal bio. He is a well-known designer and entrepreneur in the design industry. We just checked the page was deleted. Please kindly suggest what caused the deletion. I would like edit the page according to your feedback and re-post the page if possible. However, I didn't keep a copy of the article. Is there a way to dig it out from Wiki?

Thanks,

--Sally Widdowson (talk) 19:39, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Deletion of In-Mold Decoration by Roller (IMR)

Hi Bearcat, I saw you delete the page of "In-Mold Decoration by Roller (IMR)" due to the reason of "unambiguous advertising or promotion." IMR is a widely used technology for surface decoration of plastic products. There is also a page of IMR in the Chinese version of Wikipedia. IMR is usually compared with IMF (In-mold Forming), IML (In-mold labling) as another type of in-mold decoration technology. Currently major IMR suppliers are mainly Asian companies such as Nissha printing, ETANSI, Sentien, etc. and one German company, Kurz. 70% of the world's notebooks produced by the top 5 brands such as HP, Acer, Lenovo, Dell, Asus, Toshiba are using IMR as their method for surface decoration. There has been lots of information of IMR in the Chinese and Japanese Web sites. However we haven't seen much information introducing IMR in English online content, which was the main reason why I wanted to create this page. I am quite surprised to the page being deleted because you think it's a "unambiguous advertising or promotion." Please reconsider having the page back or kindly advise whether there was any sentence that raised the concern of being "promotional." Thanks a lot.

Cjmungai (talk) 04:21, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Deletion of In-Mold Decoration by Roller (IMR)

I wouldn't agree that media coverage is always reliable (I was a reporter and I believe most of the reporters in the world would agree with me). Since IMR is a fairly new technology, I noticed that there has been wrong information in the Asian media because reporters don't have enough source about this technology. As you mentioned, this is a newly invented technology, so there has not been much information available, especially in English. In other words, for newly invented things that nobody has talked about before, how would you have "media coverage," not to mention "correct" media coverage to be the source? This should be an issue that Wiki has faced before and I believe that there has been a solution. I sincerely hope that this case can be equally treated.

In addition, what was written in the article was mainly the description of how the technology works. For all of the IMR suppliers, the principle is the same. The reason of using that animation was because it is so far the most straight-forward one and easy to understand. IMR is a technology that definitely requires pictures/animation for people to understand. Unfortunately, there has been no media that illustrate this technology in their coverage. Due to all the reasons above, please do reconsider have the article back. Thanks.

Cjmungai (talk) 16:19, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Deletion of In-Mold Decoration by Roller (IMR)

You cited G.11 as the reason why you deleted the page, meaning that this page is "exclusively promotional, and would need to be fundamentally... Note that simply having a company or product as its subject does not qualify an article for this criterion." However, there was 1) no company's name 2) no product's name in the article. Please note - IMR is a technology that many companies (such as Sentien http://www.sentien.com.tw/english/page_products_imr.html, ETANSI http://www.etansi.com/imr.aspx) are supplying and top NB brands are using. If you type in "IMR" and search on Google's Chinese or Taiwanese or Japanese site, you will see lots of news coverage, saying that Samsung, Lenovo, HP, acer, Toshiba, etc. are all using this technology. I hope all this coverage in Asia, where IMR's major suppliers and major NB's OEM/ODMs are located, does count as the "reliable" sources.

If your concern now is not the "advertising," but the notability as you mentioned in your previous reply, I believe that in Wiki's "notability" policy, it clearly states that "If an article fails to cite sufficient sources to demonstrate the notability of its subject, look for sources yourself, or: • Ask the article's creator or an expert on the subject[6] for advice on where to look for sources. • Place a "notability" tag on the article to alert other editors. • If the article is about a specialized field, use the "expert-subject" tag with a specific WikiProject to attract editors knowledgeable about that field, who may have access to reliable sources not available online. If appropriate sources cannot be found after a good-faith search for them, consider merging the article's verifiable content into a broader article providing context.[7] Otherwise, if deleting.

I didn't see you do any of the actions above but immediately deleted the article.

I am certainly willing to improve the article, but I can't agree with your reasons of deleting the page. I don't think you are being difficult, but I think you had a misunderstanding about this article and subject. I hope that our discussion helps to clarify some points and ease your concern.

Cjmungai (talk) 02:14, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

Please, consider slowing down on the speedy deletions

I see that you are very active in combating the torrent of newly-created junk articles. Speedy deletion is a necessary tool for dealing with these and I do acknowledge and appreciate your many contributions.

All the same, I think you might have succumbed to the (very common) temptation to over-use speedy deletion and apply it to articles that don't fit the deliberately-narrow speedy deletion criteria. This isn't any kind of formal complaint, and I'm not trying to persuade your talk page watchers, so I'm not including any links to examples here - let me know if you'd like specifics.

I see from your log that you regularly delete articles under A7, citing their failure to meet notability standards (WP:POLITICIAN,WP:ATHLETE etc) as the reason. But A7 is specifically not about notability - it's designed for articles that contain no credible claim of significance whatsoever. I know from personal experience that you have A7-deleted articles citing "notability" on an elected politician, even though there is an unambiguous consensus that being an elected politician - of any kind - is a "credible claim of significance" for A7 purposes.

Also you seem to be using A7 to delete articles that A7 can never apply to, since it is is specifically limited to individual people, animals, organizations and web content. This means that you shouldn't use it to delete articles about TV shows, or sporting fixtures, or even stuff that someone just made up. The prod/AfD process is well-able to deal with the volume of those articles, and there's no need for one admin's judgement to pre-empt the will of the community in those cases.

Finally I note that you occasionally depart entirely from the speedy deletion criteria, such as speedily-deleting articles about unreleased movies. There is no basis in deletion policy for this. WP:CRYSTAL is a great argument at AfD, but it is not a cause for speedy deletion.

In my opinion, when you delete things in ways that are outside deletion policy, you are not merely deleting without consensus - you are deleting against consensus, since the deletion process, and speedy deletion in particular, are the result of years of discussion and consensus building.

Please, do go back to WP:CSD and re-read the criteria. You may be surprised (as others have been) at how much more narrow the wording is than you might assume. In particular, you might like to re-read WP:NOTCSD.

Cheers,

Thparkth (talk) 03:36, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

(Moved from my talk page to keep discussion in one place - hope you don't mind. Thparkth (talk) 12:02, 30 March 2011 (UTC))

I think you may not fully realize some of the background issues involved in some of the cases. For instance, the only "TV series" that I can find in my recent deletion history were things called "Working Title", "Airplanes" and "The Deadline Prophecies", none of which were actually real TV series, airing on something called "NSD-TV", which isn't a real TV channel. NSD-TV is some random teenager's YouTube "channel", and all three of the "TV series" were non-notable, plotless three-to-five-second clips he uploaded there. Which, ultimately, means they are valid A7s, because they're web content — the fact that they claimed to be real TV series doesn't get them past A7, because the claims in question were neither credible nor verifiable.

As for the movie, I perhaps explained my rationale poorly, but at the time I saw and deleted the article, its sole cited source didn't actually support the existence of the film at all — and there actually is a bit of an underground movement on here sometimes of people creating articles about presumed future film sequels that haven't actually been announced by a studio (and several of which have failed to ever materialize.) So the onus isn't on us to necessarily give every article the benefit of the doubt; it's on the creator to provide at least one source which confirms that the film in question actually is in the pipeline.

It's also true that in some cases, two good Wikipedia contributors can look at the same article and come to completely opposite conclusions about whether it meets the speedy criteria or not. That doesn't necessarily mean either contributor acted wrongly, however; it just means that (as I did with Bob Long) the deleting editor should make a good faith move of restoring the article and taking it to discussion instead.

I guess I'd just ask you to consider that there can be a lot of reasons why something may not be as inappropriate a speedy candidate as it might seem — sometimes there are background issues that might not be obvious if you're not familiar with them, sometimes editors just explain their choices less effectively than we should (and gawd knows I've also sometimes accidentally selected the wrong criterion from the dropdown box for an article that was legitimately deletable under a different criterion), and sometimes there's just a valid difference of opinion. That said, you're still right that I have at one time or another made a perfectly good faith mistake, too — hell, we all have, gawd knows — but there are a lot of potential explanations, so it's certainly better to discuss them when you disagree. So thanks. Bearcat (talk) 07:09, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

As a non-admin I obviously can't see the content of the articles that have been deleted. Of course I agree that "TV series" only known to some guy's three friends on youtube certainly count as "web content" and so fall under A7. No argument there!

As far as the movie example goes, you are of course right about the tendency to create articles for movies that will maybe exist some day, and you're right to seek the deletion of those articles - but despite that, you are in my opinion wrong to delete them unilaterally. They are not one of the cases where admins are empowered to bypass the deletion process. Why not just prod or AfD them? This might seem like unnecessary process, and I do agree that there are (very rare) cases where a healthy dose of WP:IAR is required, but all the same, this is the consensus-based process the community supports. If people believe that too many no-hope articles are being sent to AfD, they will propose new speedy deletion criteria.

In my opinion the biggest issue is not TV shows or movies, but the notability standards you are applying to A7 deletions. Many good articles started out as questionable, unsourced stubs. We just don't require proof of notability to pass A7, only a credible indication that the subject might be notable, and that "credible indication" is a very low hurdle.

Speedy deletion is dangerous because it is, well, speedy, and because there is no real opportunity for discussion. Of course, it is absolutely necessary, but still, it is quite intimidating, particularly for new users. Even for me, a relatively experienced editor with a good understanding of deletion policy, it is quite a big deal for me to go to an admin's talk page and request the restoration of an article, with the implied complaint that the admin screwed up ;). I can only imagine that it is many times more intimidating for a new user who is unsure of the situation.

So in summary, I probably agree in principle with 99% or more of the deletions you carry out - it's just the mechanism that you are using, unilateral deletion outside of the speedy deletion criteria, that I find problematic. I certainly don't doubt your good faith.

Thparkth (talk) 12:02, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of Fred Clipsham for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Fred Clipsham is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fred Clipsham until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. Jezhotwells (talk) 08:24, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

NCB Radio Article Deletion

Hi. I note you deleted the article "NCB Radio". It's claim to significance is the fact it is the first- and only- community radio station for North Cornwall, and one of the pioneers of the method of combining a commercial style playlist with community presentation- the majority of radio stations playlists are chosen by the presenters themselves. It might be internet radio- but its certainly not three mates with a laptop and a £5 ASDA microphone- it is a proper setup. It is just as Notable as Radio St Austell Bay, despite the fact it broadcasts across the internet. Google NCB Radio Cornwall, you'll find a whole host of articles about the project on the This is Cornwall website. It needs to be verified better, I know that. Please bring the article back and let me know what needs doing to bring it to notability. I note a previous post here about deletion under A7 on a random guys youtube channel- that isnt notable. However a serious community radio station for one of the most impoverished parts of the UK, is. --84.13.249.87 (talk) 18:53, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

I'm willing to restore it to a sandbox page for you, if you let me know what your username is (you posted here as an anonymous IP number.) But what's needed to demonstrate notability on Wikipedia is the use of actual reliable sources, namely other media writing or broadcasting articles or stories about NCB. Bearcat (talk) 19:16, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

User is sotonfc4life --84.13.249.87 (talk) 19:17, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Done. User:Sotonfc4life/NCB Radio Bearcat (talk) 19:24, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Opsgear

It's not vandalism. The article was created as a piece of advertising, I stripped that out, and the creator is trying to reinsert that. There's no malice on anyone's part. DS (talk) 02:27, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Liberal leadership election navboxes

I don't know how we missed these: Template:Liberal Party leadership election, 1990 & Template:Liberal Party leadership election, 2003 117Avenue (talk) 01:55, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

Canadians

Is it possible to protect this page from IPs ect... every other day we are reverting.Moxy (talk) 02:16, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

2011 South American Under-17 Football Championship squads

Greetings,

Can you please unprotect this page so I may add it with the appropriate information? Thanks in advance. Digirami (talk) 09:31, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Vi-Clone

Hi. I see that you deleted the article about “Vi-Clone”. It is significant because: it has won prizes for innovation among others things; in 2008, Gartner named it in its predictions as the future of online customer service; and it has been covered by the media in 15 countries as well as all the television channels in Spain (including news channels). If there is anything else that we need to clarify, please let me know. I would appreciate it if you could bring back the article, please. Viclone (talk) 11:21, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

Catergories

When you came to the Pity the Nation page and put a notice there about there being no categories you could have just written Category:Books, not rocket science is it now. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Owain the 1st (talk • contribs) 13:19, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

Very sorry

Hi this is Grant Reynolds' manager. The man I hired to make the page got in touch with me told me that you deleted the article. I am sorry for his reaction, it was inappropriate in the least. Now to move forward. How can we keep the page up? What do we need to change to meet the rules and requirements? — Preceding unsigned comment added by GJR1995 (talk • contribs) 16:56, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

Hello Canadian buddy

I see you are a Canadian. So am I. You are pretty much the only Canadian Wikipedian I see. I originally came here to ask you if you could protect my user page. I dont really know how admins do it but could you please do it something like edit=autoconfirmed move=sysop. thanks. mauchoeagle 22:51, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Productions Multi-Monde

Was hoping to retry posting my Productions Multi-Monde entry up again. Last one was deleted due to lack of signifigance. It's a small documentary film production company based out of Montreal which still seems significant. Haven't been able to figure out what else is needed in order to keep it certified. Thanks for the help BurnsPMM (talk) 20:22, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Re:

Apparently you don't watch Murdoch Mysteries. You'd be surprised how many Canadian have guest starred over the four seasons. Too many to list above each season. Some of them don't even get on there, which makes it innacurate. GiantTiger001 (talk) 01:34, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Bearcat, is there still snow in Sudbury? The snow was almost gone and grass dry in Calgary and then it started snowing a few hours ago! But as to why i am here, you have managed to put yourself into a little mess by deleting Guest stars of Murdoch Mysteries and Guest Stars of Murdoch Mysteries a few days ago. As you might notice, one of these is not a red link (at least as of my writing this). Most every edit i have made to improve the articles about Murdoch Mysteries has been reverted as unnecessary or/and unasked for. Reference removal, delinking, article splitting, section blanking. I have tried explaining policy and rules and i even have linked to such at times despite my preference to not do so. Giving feature articles as example of appropriate format and content has failed even though GiantTiger001 actually is a bit of a regular contributor to Smallville.
I don't like tagging things because as reader i find clean up tags most annoying. I prefer to address the concerns rather than direct someone else to do it for me. I am about fed up with trying to improve Murdoch Mysteries. I could just apply a bunch of clean-up tags but i am not so sure we wouldn't end up disagreeing over whether the tags are called for because GiantTiger001 has said a few times that things were fine before i got involved with the collection of articles. Here are the main article and ep list prior to my first edits to them.
You might not be surprised at how many Canadians have guest starred in Murdoch Mysteries since it is Rogers' only prime time scripted programming that is 100% CanCon approved.
Any suggestions on what to do other than embrace it as a perpetual stub-class collection of articles? delirious & lost ☯ ^~hugs~ 08:52, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

CHOQ-FM

Thank you for your comments on my page. I created the Closed-circuit radio article, since the disambiguation page you linked to only talked about CCTV ;) Regarding CHOQ.FM, I edited it in the context of François Asselineau's Afd, a minor french politician who has been interviewed by various local radios. Their description page talk about the "Forces Avenir" award (?) and the Moquettes coquettes band (fr article, former AfD), I think there's ground for creating a few articles. Regards, Comte0 (talk) 10:32, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

A source can be gotten from his press book : [6], page 9. The french article survived AfD, therefore, I think I'll go and translate it later. Regards, Comte0 (talk) 10:57, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

Hong Kong

When you downsize a category and break it down according to countries, e.g., category:orbital roads, please create a category for Hong Kong and don't categorise Hong Kong articles into that for the People's Republic. Hong Kong is a dependent territory with its own administration, similar to that of Greenland, U.S. Virgin Islands, Bermuda, or Turks and Caicos. 58.153.96.209 (talk) 05:56, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

To my understanding all countries, including external territories, get their own categories. The reason that some articles related to the U.S. Virgin Islands or Greenland appear under the United States or the Denmark categories is that those articles are also related to the United States or Denmark. Otherwise they wouldn't be categorised as such.., and definitely not for topics such as orbital roads. And normally articles related to the Turks and Caicos Islands, e.g., would appear in the Caribbean or the Americas categories, and certainly not in the UK categories, if the number of articles is too few. They aren't Ontario, Saskatchewan or Yukon. These are external or dependent territories with their own administrations. Meanwhile, there are four orbital road articles for HK, instead of one. 58.153.96.209 (talk) 08:35, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

With due respect, if I read the edit history correctly, it was you who moved the four articles from category:orbital roads to category:orbital roads in the People's Republic of China. Since you're one of the most active users that spend great deal of time and effort in categorisation (which I appreciate a lot), I believe it is important for you to be correctly and sufficiently informed regarding the status and the international personalities of territories, and the usual practice to deal with them on Wikipedia. As I've said, when there aren't enough articles for a category, a Turks and Caicos topic would normally be stuck with that of Caribbean or the Americas (or the ultimate parent category for that topic, if there's no subcategories by continent or region), instead of that of the UK. You wouldn't categorise a Saskatchewan or a Yukon topic under a United States category just bcos there are too few articles to create a Canadian category, would you? 58.153.96.209 (talk) 08:51, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

I'm afraid it was you who moved all four articles.[7] And yes there are Hong Kong topics that are categorised under People's Republic of China's categories.., but that certainly doesn't apply for topics like roads. Examples of Bermudian topics that are categorised under UK categories include Bermudian passport and Category:Military of Bermuda. I'd be amused to see category:transport in Bermuda being made a subcategory of category:transport in the United Kingdom. 58.153.96.209 (talk) 09:56, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

AWB

FYI, you're edit-warring with a bot due to differences in how you figure "uncategorized". VernoWhitney (talk) 11:56, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

Chimes Aviation Academy

Just out of interest you moved an article recently to Chimes Aviation Academy you may need to look at the deletion history which is being continually created despite a previous deletion discussion and it was protected against creation. The alternate name was probably being used to circumvent the create protection. MilborneOne (talk) 16:57, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

lol I wondered how it managed to get created again. :) Syrthiss (talk) 17:12, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for that Bearcat. MilborneOne (talk) 17:51, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

Why are you removing the WPUS banner from pages relating to the projects newsletter

I just noticed that you were removing the WikiProject United States banner from several pages that contains it and I was wondering if there was a reason fro that? --Kumioko (talk) 23:03, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

Sorry I meant category not Wikiproject Banner. --Kumioko (talk) 23:04, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

Ok makes sense. thanks for the explanation. --Kumioko (talk) 23:06, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

Amit Arya

Hello Bearcat. I can see that the article about "Amit Arya" was deleted. It it significant because: Dr. Amit Arya is very unique as he was born and brought up in Canada and also received all of his training in music in Canada as well. In my years of exposure to Indian Classical Music, I have never seen a vocalist who had so many accomplishments, prolific concerts and so much knowledge who was actually Canadian. His music teacher, the world renowned maestro Pandit Jasraj has publicly appointed him as his prime disciple in Toronto to carry his music forward. Please let me know if you need any more information and how to bring the article back. I could provide more references if needed. RSharma80 (talk) 19:37, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply. I definitely have quite a few independent references as you request. I would have to look them up. In the meanwhile, would you mind putting the article in the sandbox for now? Also, some of the articles are only available via print and not online. What do we do this in that circumstance? Could I show these articles to you somehow? RSharma80 (talk) 12:56, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

Absalom Greeley

Hi there, Could you give me your reasoning for deleting the Category:Political History of Ontario for Absalom Greeley. My thoughts are: he ran under the Reform banner, but was in reality, a Conservative trying to get into the Family Compact. That and his discreditable conduct, selling his party nomination etc make his interestingto the political history of Ontario for the period. He is also one of a small number of MPPs charged with a criminal offense. I don't mind the Liberal Party category in there, and its a bit of a stretch for Greeley. CJ_WeißSchäfer (talk) 21:47, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

University Work of Wikipedia

Hello Bearcat, My name is Jonathan Medeiros, I’m a graduate student and I’m doing a university work about Wikipedia. My work is about mass production of information in peer, and I'm using Wikipedia as an object of study. We developed a field research and wonder if you could answer.

1) Please list below in order of priority what else motivates you to contribute to Wikipedia.

( ) prestige in the community

( ) Contribution in the Science

( ) Recreation

( ) Self-realization

( ) Social Valuation

( ) Keep interconnectivity with other collaborators

( ) Strengthening staff - (The amount that the contributor gains acceptance or approvalof other members, strengthen social status in the community)

( ) Awards Archives (Ex: Barnstar)

( ) Increase the prestige of the world to Wikipedia

( ) Sense that all can share the benefits generated

( ) Other: _____________________________

2) List 1 to 5, where 1 is highest and 5 is lowest of important that you consider the following values ​​for Wikipedia. In the end, please explain what you consider most important.

a) AUTONOMY ( )

b) INDEPENDENCE ( )

c) LIBERATION ( )

d) CREATIVITY ( )

e) PRODUCTIVITY ( )

f) INDUSTRY ( )

g) BENEVOLENCE, CHARITY, GENEROSITY, ALTRUISM ( )

h) SOCIABILITY ( )

I) CAMARADERIE/FRIENDSHIP ( )

L) COOPERATION ( )

k) CIVIC VIRTUE ( )

Below is an explanation of each item:

AUTONOMY

Collaborators are free to act according to the targets set for them. They can feel free.

INDEPENDENCE

Collaborators will have independence and freedom of spirit.

LIBERATION

Collaborators have the freedom to work as and when they want, they can decide by themselves.

CREATIVITY

Collaborators has more freedom to explore creativity, because he does not have to follow orders that they are imposed.

PRODUCTIVITY

Collaborators are always pursuing excellence in their contributions.

INDUSTRY

The mass production of information opens new doors to creativity and the creation of productive practices, when compared to the industrially organized market

BENEVOLENCE, CHARITY, GENEROSITY, ALTRUISM

Collaborator does not want financial rewards, he assists in helping the communitythinking, the only reward is the reputation that he get with the collaborations they do.

SOCIABILITY

Make contributions with an open heart, thinking of the common good, which is for the community as a whole.

CAMARADERIE / FRIENDSHIP,

Collaborator help themselves to build something of value to everyone.

COOPERATION

Collaborators help themselves to build something of value to everyone.

CIVIC VIRTUE

Collaborators are arranged volunteers with common goals and promote cooperation between them.

Thank you very much for your attention, Can you send me a email with this answers? my email is jhoumedeiros@gmail.com

Thanks very much. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.64.241.23 (talk) 03:05, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

Category?

What Canadian category would you use on Edward Boxer, if any. He has a DoCB entry and was part of the British Navy in Canada for a time. I will watch at the article and learn. Thanks!--Stormbay (talk) 03:36, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

Naming conventions

Whoops, wasn't aware of that. My bad :P Thanks for the tip! Beepbeepbenji (talk) 22:44, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

Essay Tag

Hello. In August 2009, you tagged the article Communities That Care as reading like an essay. I am curious to know why you think it reads like an essay? The article does not present personal opinions. The article documents sound research on the Communities That Care program. Do you have any suggestions for how the article could be improved so that the essay tag can be removed? Thank you for any feedback. Preventionbetterthancure (talk) 17:32, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Jeffrey Altergott

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Guy Oliver

Just discovered this. No probs. I forgot to to remove them when I took a copy of the original to work on my version. I'll keep it in mind for future reference. Cheers TheRetroGuy (talk) 15:42, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

Timeline of Canadian elections

Would you like to comment on Talk:Timeline of Canadian elections#Removing colour-dependence? I don't know what happened to the users who brought it up to FL status, but you are the only other editor I have seen there. 117Avenue (talk) 22:25, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

Hello, I am trying to work on an entry for Sydney Imbeau that you previously deleted. I have added hyperlinks to other Wikipedia entries where she is mentioned. I am curious what else I need to do to make this page meet Wikipedias requirements. I can add more external resources if that would help. Thanks for your help! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Catimbeau (talk • contribs) 18:19, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Dan Harris (politician)

Hi! It seems you recently created an unreferenced biography of a living person: Dan Harris (politician). The community has decided that all new biographies of living persons must contain a reliable source that supports at least one statement made about the person in the article as per our verifiability policy. Please add references as soon as possible. Thanks! --LaraBot (talk) 00:13, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

Lysane Blanchette-Lamothe

Hi, thank you for your edits to this page! I appreciate your help with fixing it up and removing some invalid references and fields.

--American Vanquish (talk) 20:40, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

List pages

I was under the impression that list pages such as Liberal Party of Canada candidates, 2011 Canadian federal election were simply formatted differently from the earlier versions, and were not restricted vis-a-vis the amount of information that could be covered. I was active on Wikipedia when the 2008 election pages were restructured in the new format, and I simply took the approach of adding extra space when I wanted to create mini-biographical entries (e.g., some of the Quebec and Ontario entries for New Democratic Party candidates, 2008 Canadian federal election). Thus far, no-one has objected to this practice. (Btw, I should clarify that not all of the mini-biographies on the 2008 NDP page were created by me.)

I realize that these mini-biographies have never enjoyed universal support on Wikipedia and, frankly, I don't have as much of a personal interest in retaining them as was the case a few years ago. All the same, I'm not aware of any existing consensus to restrict/remove them. I wouldn't be against some change in the system, but I'm inclined to think that candidate electoral histories and short, CBC-style biographical entries (perhaps limited by word count) would still be broadly acceptable, even if the status quo ante has fallen out of favour. CJCurrie (talk) 02:31, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

Per my comments a few days ago, I'll note that I'm having increasingly mixed feelings about the "biographical detail" sections myself. I'll readily acknowledge that, in most cases, the information isn't of paramount importance for an understanding of Canadian political history. I'm also aware that providing too much information about living defeated candidates raises some questions related to WP:BLP. On the other hand, I'm still of the view that it's useful (whether for research purposes or a more generally defined "posterity") to keep some documentary record of these figures (e.g., age (if given), occupation, education, etc.) while avoiding excessive detail or anything that could be construed as invasive of the private lives of the persons in question. My recent additions to the 2011 pages were, as I'm sure you realized, intended as a test run for a "scaled back" approach.

I used to be fairly defensive about these articles; now, I'm much more willing to try to find a workable compromise. I'd still like to keep the better aspects of the old approach, while letting go of its more problematic side.

On a related point ... even if we discard the "biographical details" entirely, there's still the question of what to do with the electoral history sections. I don't think anyone doubts that this information is encyclopedic, even if the older tables make make for a rather awkward fit with the new formatting.

(Btw, I realize that many of the older lists need to be revamped, as do many pages of MPs, MPPs, and cabinet ministers that were created before WP came up with clear standards for citations. I already have a huge backlog of tasks on that front, of which the list pages are only a part.) CJCurrie (talk) 01:26, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

October 19, 2015

Hello. Users at the Canadian federal election, 2015 talk and deletion discussion pages are requesting third parties sources on the calculation for the date of the next federal election. I know that one newspaper was quoted in the first incarnation of this article (42nd Canadian federal election). Could you please look at the deleted page, and give me the URL referenced. Thanks, 117Avenue (talk) 07:29, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

Or don't worry about it, there's plenty out there now. Thanks anyways, 117Avenue (talk) 07:41, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

Ring of Fire deletion

Hello Bearcat - you recently deleted the article Ring of Fire (band) under the A7 criteria for deletion. I had previously declined A7 deletion of the article as the band includes two notable members who have their own Wikipedia articles, and they have released three studio albums, two on notable record labels. Not only are these criteria enough to put them over the threshold of A7, it meets WP:MUSICBIO points 5 and 6 for inclusion. Could you please restore the article, or do you mind if I do so myself? --Jezebel'sPonyo^{bons mots} 13:20, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

Streamlining categories

Thanks for the explanation. It certainly makes it easier to assign to categories if being in one puts an entry in all of its roots. The two examples you gave look straight-forward; for others, I'll look at what you've done in my articles. If you find duplicate cats in the future, feel free to remove them.George Dance (talk) 20:20, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of The Choir Practice (album) for deletion

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Nomination of The Choir Practice for deletion

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Help

I've been looking to see how I could get help from other participants to have a new introduction wrote for St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador but I'm unsure where to go to see if anyone is interested in helping. I don't know if you could help with the introduction or tell me what I could do to see if I can get someone who is interested. It's the only thing stopping it from being GA. Newfoundlander&Labradorian (talk) 02:07, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

Deletion of Crofton Orr page

Hi Bearcat. I was just wanting to know why you deleted this page? Something I'm doing wrong? Many thanks. Barnkess (talk) 02:23, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of List of The R3-30 number-one hits of 2006 for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article List of The R3-30 number-one hits of 2006 is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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NDP and socialism

I've long thought that this category is somewhat problematic; I'll review the entries soon.

Btw, I've issued a request for discussion on the Canadian Wikipedians' notice board about a dispute involving myself and another contributor on Talk:Thomas Mulcair. If you have a chance, could you look this over? CJCurrie (talk) 01:22, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

Start and end of terms for MP's

As a result of your edit(s) to Michael Ignatieff I took the liberty of correcting the article Anita Neville. Her article had the elections with Wikilinks as the Start and End of term. That is where I first saw that used, and thought it was the standard. Sorry for not checking with you first! lol --Skol fir (talk) 03:30, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

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Tracy Hamlin

Hello Bearcat I have modified the entry for Tracy Hamlin. This entry is for information on an American singer and was not intended for advertisement. Please review and approve for posting. Thank you.

Kids "R" Us

Hi Bearcat. I noticed you protected the Kids "R" Us redirect a while back. Do you think it can be unprotected now? Looks like the bad edits had all come from a single IP. 28bytes (talk) 22:21, 11 May 2011 (UTC)

File:Brian smith lrg.jpg listed for deletion

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Tag Team editing

I've reported you here on AN/I for your tag-team editing with DigitalC and CJCurrie a la your recent edits on Thomas Mulcair and Libby Davies. Feel free to disprove the charges. Sleetman (talk) 16:19, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

Your threat to editblock me

A la your threat to editblock me, I've reported you here. Miss, try to be a little bit more civil next time. Sleetman (talk) 19:01, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

Ahh... Can you do us a favor and stop replying to Sleetman on his talk page?

They're blocked, nothing's going to change that, and it's simply extending the drama.

Thanks. Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 20:55, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

Deletion of page: Katia Zuccarelli

Hello Bearcat, I recently created the page for Katia Zuccarelli. She is a well-known singer and songwriter from Toronto who has been featured on two international albums. I just checked, and it seems the page was deleted. Please let me know what caused the deletion. I would like edit the page according to your feedback and re-post the page if possible. I didn't keep a copy of the article, would there be a way to retrieve it? Thank you

Central Bathhouse Vienna Categories

Hallo,

thanks very much for the check of the categories, but there are others which are wrong, please look there.

thanks again! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.189.82.232 (talk) 23:06, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

Sunset Beach, Ontario

I have restored this article for now. Although there may be other places by the same name in Ontario, no one has attempted to write articles on any other, so there is nothing to disambiguate. Pointing the title to Sunset Beach does not help in any case, because there are no Ontario-related titles on that page. What would be helpful would be to determine with more specificity where this particular municipality is located, in order to be able to move the article to a more specific title when disambiguation does become necessary. Cheers! bd2412 T 01:25, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the background information, and for addressing the page. Cheers! bd2412 T 14:46, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of User Kjb40/Sandbox

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Corrected mistake

Thanks for moving JamesBWatson/Shonali Malhotra to User:JamesBWatson/Shonali Malhotra, which is of course where I meant to put it. JamesBWatson (talk) 19:11, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Charmaine Borg

The DYK project (nominate) 06:04, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Matthew Dubé

The DYK project (nominate) 06:04, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Laurin Liu

The DYK project (nominate) 06:06, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Jamie Nicholls

The DYK project (nominate) 06:06, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

Traduction pour fr:Kathy Dunderdale

Bonjour, est-ce que ce serai possible que vous traduit en français dans la page francophone de la première ministre de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador fr:Kathy Dunderdale celle de en:Kathy Dunderdale S.V.P.

Merci et bonne journée

204.237.12.81 (talk) 14:54, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

Traduction pour fr:Assemblée législative de l'Ontario

Bonjour, est-ce que ce serai possible que vous traduit en français dans la page francophone de l'fr:Assemblée législative de l'Ontario celle de en:Assembly legislative of Ontario S.V.P.

Merci et bonne journée

204.237.12.81 (talk) 20:51, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

Baie-Comeau requested move

Greetings, I am here to propse a requested move to rename the title Baie-Comeau, Quebec to the new title Baie-Comeau. You are welcome for comments at Baie-Comeau's talk page under "requested move". There's the link here. Talk:Baie-Comeau, Quebec#Requested move If you're free from editing, you can go to Baie-Comeau's talk page for you to decide to rename. See you at the Baie-Comeau's talk page. Steam5 (talk) 23:31, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

Sara Hall

Hello. Thanks for that clarification. I just took a look at the discussion page and all of a sudden it now has the contents of the discussion for the old Sara Hall article. What is the best way to proceed in fixing this. Thanks again. --MATThematical (talk) 18:03, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

Extended information and sorting arrows

Thanks for letting me know about this -- I hadn't even noticed that we were using sorting arrows for these templates. I can see how this is more than a bit problematic, though it's still not an insurmountable problem for having extended information (which could be stored in the footnotes section, linked from the "notes" column).

As to the electoral history sections, I take your point that text links could be more convenient, although this could still result in a lot of clutter when the candidate has run in multiple elections. CJCurrie (talk) 23:32, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

Your edits to the PEI NDP candidates page

I am Nick J Boragina, and I've posted bio information about myself on my website. Others edited it in. Is this not acceptible? Nickjbor (talk) 22:46, 19 May 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Mohill gaa

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The speedy was declined. Syrthiss (talk) 11:19, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Bearcat. You have new messages at Dodger67's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

I am unclear as to why you deleted a Canadian poet from the list of Canadian poets. Please reinstate published and award winning Canadian poet Oneal Walters. You had no appropriate grounds to delete him in the first place. You have now also deleted his wikipedia article. I am very unimpressed. Oneal Walters is obviously someone I know personally. I have one of his books and help publish his newsletter each month. Please reinstate the work I have done!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amalym (talk • contribs) 15:12, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

There was absolutely no bias to what was written. It was a factual piece of work. Once followed to the original bio written there is a list of publications. It is about giving a Canadian poet a place for fans to find him and add information.

So it would be ok if someone else interviewed him instead?

I have no less credibility. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amalym (talk • contribs) 18:20, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

I appreciate your well written responses but there is verification to include Oneal Walters in the list of Canadian poets. He was interviewed by and has been on the cover of Futureale Magazine, has 2 published books of poetry and has been published by other sources as well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amalym (talk • contribs) 23:29, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

Template:Music of Canada

{{Music of Canada}} For the life on me i cant make this image smaller!!! Its it just me or its it wayyyyy over sized - I do like the new layout, but think the portal should be last (its not realy a article and should be the last thing people see).Moxy (talk) 22:04, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

Ted Optiz

Hello,

In Regards to the Article on Ted Optiz I'm Just Trying to get the Article to reflect More than the fact He has been an MP for 3 weeks. Your Comments that I was using his website as a source is incorrect it was his Biography on the website of the Conservative Party of Canada. I Assume the Party does Background checking as to the claims of their Candidates. (It is illegal for someone to impersonate a military officer) or to claim/wear medals that they are not entitled to.

As far as you saying that you can't have lists (That you must write in all prose) of medals earned by military personnel or civilians for that matter is hogwash show me in the rules where it is specifically forbidden.

Thanks, Michael Drew (talk) 06:19, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

Yossi Sheffi article

Dear Bearcat, I want to thank you for reviewing my article on Yossi Sheffi (in the mainspace). I appreciate your taking the time to look it over and tweak it. I am curious about one thing, however: I noticed that the categories were removed from the article. If you could please let me know why this was done I would appreciate it, as this may be something I should know about for future articles. Also, since you have reviewed the article, is it possible for you to remove the "this is a new, unreviewed article" template from the top of the page? Thank you!Michael Leeman (talk) 16:26, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

Two Temple Place

A while ago you made changes to the article I had written on the above.

I have no objection to any alterations you may have made to the text but I had left several spaces so that when one looked at the article the images were laid out in an orderly fashion.

Now the images seem to be someone scattered about and the article looks clumsily put together. If you would be kind enough to have a look you will see what I mean or I hope that you will.

If you agree and can put the images back in the way they were laid out before I would be very grateful.

92.6.222.188 (talk) 15:44, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for your comments/suggestions. I will follow your suggestion re: gallery.

Weglinde (talk) 06:47, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

BEARCAT DELETED DMA GAMES FOR STRANGE UNKNOWN REASON

WHY WOULD YOU DELET DMA GAMES — Preceding unsigned comment added by Snowhihi (talk • contribs) 16:29, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

FYI

Hey, you had previously contributed a helpful edit to the article on the book Skipping Towards Gomorrah. Just an FYI that I have recently expanded the article with additional sourced information, you may be interested in it. Also, I recently created a new article by the same author, Savage Love: Straight Answers from America's Most Popular Sex Columnist. If you have any suggestions or ideas for additional secondary sources, please don't hesitate to stop by the articles talkpages. Thank you for your time, -- Cirt (talk) 18:40, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

From me to You

As the Member of Parliament please don't question when I took office, please look at the 'draft' profile on the Parliament of Canada website you linked to. Where it says "Years of Service" it currently says 25 days. Today is May 27th. Please STOP removing biographical information I am adding about MYSELF. I really don't have time to keep adding things OVER AND OVER again, nor do I currently have the time to pull out certificates, diplomas, etc scan them and add them. You and everyone else will just need to trust that I'm adding correct information, believe me its certainly in my own interest to do so and I'd be torn apart for not doing so. That being said I do appreciate the creation of the page in the first place (even though there used to be a page and it was twice taken down by others in the past year despite my efforts) and the addition of the electoral record, feel free to continue adding things that enhance the page. You've made a hefty contribution to Wikipedia and as a user it is definitely appreciated, regardless of my objections. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Backblastnet (talk • contribs) 04:34, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

Mike Sullivan and election term starts

I was using the House of Commons website for this, the Parlinfo site even says his term starts on May 2. BTW by your understanding of when a term starts, it would be June 2, not May 30 or May 31.--Abebenjoe (talk) 04:40, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

So here's the citation that I offered at the time, [8], and here's the link you added at the bottom of the article, [9]. They both agree his term starts on May 2.--Abebenjoe (talk) 04:44, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

The official House website dates aren't temporary, because when you look at the constituency profiles, they also list the previous E-days. If the format is when the House sits, then I will not perpetuate an error that someone else made, and will put the correct date, which I understand to be June 2, s per the House of Commons website [10]. So even if Sullivan is the only one with June 2, it's correct by your standards, or May 2, by the House of Commons standards. As a further example, the losing incumbents are not considered MPs on E-day, check the Constituency profiles for more proof.--Abebenjoe (talk) 05:08, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

From Government of Canada's website on when an MP is considered the member and when their term ends.[11]

3.4.2. When does an elected candidate officially become a Member of Parliament?

It is not entirely clear at what precise moment a successful candidate in a general election becomes a Member of Parliament. One possible date is the :date on which a returning officer declares elected the candidate who obtained the largest number of votes in his or her constituency. Another :possibility is the date on which the Chief Electoral Officer sends to the Clerk of the House of Commons the certified list of members elected to serve :in the House of Commons.

In any case, section 128 of the Constitution Act, 1867 requires MPs to swear or affirm allegiance to the Queen before taking their seats in the House of :Commons. The swearing in is normally done by the Clerk of the House of Commons prior to the opening of Parliament. It occurs on an individual basis at :the convenience of the MP.

All MPs (not just the newly elected) must be sworn in.

5.1.1 What is the status of Members of the House of Commons following dissolution?

After dissolution, and the issue of writs for a general election, there are legally no Members of the House of Commons.

There is no clear authority for the preceding statement; however, the Parliament of Canada Act provides in section 69:

For the purposes of the allowances payable under sections 55 and 63, a person who, immediately before a dissolution of the House of Commons, was a member thereof shall be deemed to continue to be a member of the House until the date of the next following general election.

The above “deeming provision” in the Parliament of Canada Act is solely for the purposes of salaries, some additional allowances and benefits, and certain other services.30 It does not imply that a former Member retains that status until the date of the next general election.

The conclusion that dissolution terminates the office of Member of the House of Commons is supported by J. P. Joseph Maingot. He describes the circumstances in which a person ceases to be a Member of the House of Commons, and states that these include a warrant for the issue of a writ for the election of a new Member.31

The implications of a person’s legally ceasing to be a Member of the House of Commons can be seen outside of Parliament. One significant implication involves the Privacy Act, section 8(2) of which provides the following exemption from the provisions of the Act:

8(2) Subject to any other Act of Parliament, personal information under the control of a government institution may be disclosed …

 (g) to a member of Parliament for the purpose of assisting the individual to whom the information relates in resolving a problem;

In other words, personal information may be disclosed to a Member of Parliament. This exemption makes sense in terms of the constituency work that is an inherent part of a Member’s job. The Treasury Board Secretariat has addressed the question of what happens after dissolution. Its information notice entitled “Scope of Paragraph 8(2)(g) of the Privacy Act upon Dissolution of Parliament” states:

Upon dissolution of Parliament, members of the House of Commons lose their status and title. Consequently, personal information under the control of a government institution can no longer be provided to them pursuant to paragraph 8(2)(g) of the Act. Furthermore, this paragraph cannot be invoked following the election until the new members of the House of Commons have been sworn in.

Former Members of Parliament may obtain information about an individual who has requested their assistance with the consent of the individual. In special circumstances, institutions may consider disclosing personal information to former Members pursuant to sub-paragraph 8(2)(m)(ii) of the Privacy Act which permits disclosure “where in the opinion of the head of the institution… disclosure would clearly benefit the individual to whom the information relates.” Note that subsection 8(5) requires that institutions notify the Privacy Commissioner of the disclosures made under paragraph 8(2)(m).32 --Abebenjoe (talk) 05:21, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

So MPs, and this is how I've always interrupted it, and it seems that is also how the House of Commons sees it, lose their status as MPs when the Parliament is dissolved through the dropping of the writ, the term ends there. So, the argument goes that E-day is the day that the new MP starts, with the swearing in only a formality. But since we are dealing with Westminster rules, they are conventions and not really written down rules. That is why the HoC website cites E-day as the first day of the term. June 2 second will be used mostly to swear members in, though members of the cabinet are already sworn in. As an aside, the Prime Minister never ceases to be the Prime Minister when parliament is dissolved, unlike his cabinet and fellow MPs.~--Abebenjoe (talk) 05:30, 27 May 2011 (UTC)--Abebenjoe (talk) 05:30, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

Recent Page Deletion

You recently deleted a page called 'The University of Syndey Feud'. You also did this without notifying me. Would you please restore the page so as to allow me to make appropriate amendments? It is most certainly not intended to be an attack article. Sealbag (talk) 05:01, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

Borys Wrzesnewskyj

Did you delete all of the YouTube-sourcing for Borys' article? Those were factual references. Why delete them if folks cannot verify them?

Even if they're video from the CBC. CTV, or CPAC from Parliament Hill in Ottawa?

CTV News: Polish Government Delegation Tragedy, 10 April 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebp6HmNs61Q

"Bloody Harvest: Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in China", 16 November 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB5O9Lk99HI

I can't understand censoring references to these independent news outlets. That makes no sense. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Uketubestrilka (talk • contribs) 21:25, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

Greetings and... opinion

Greetings Bearcat. I see that you've popped in at Systagenix Wound Management and I'd like your opinion as to its notability. I proposed the equivalent article at Wikipedia in Spanish for Speedy Deletion because of blatant advertising and it was deleted. The creator of the article there, who has also made the recent changes here, has just left me a note referring to the article here and I've just had a look and am not particularly impressed. Please check out the Revision history. Feedback? Cheers! --Technopat (talk) 22:02, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

Jim Chapman (Canadian)

Hey Bearcat, I noticed that you "speedy deleted" Jim Chapman (Canadian) because it was already as per a deletion discussion. The text of the article is largely the same as before, but the reason for deletion no longer applies. The original was deleted because "All of the sources cited either fail 'trivial mentions' or WP:SPS." I researched for days, and found dozens of non-trivial secondary sources, including the globe and mail, london free press, and a program on the discovery channel. I feel that, even if this does not end up being enough to keep the article up, it should be enough to warrant a new deletion discussion. If the problem is not enough secondary sources still, there are more, theyre just more difficult to find. For example, he was interviewed by the BBC at one point. Please let me know. Goodbucket (talk) 00:13, 30 May 2011 (UTC) It has been pointed out to me that the problem might be that most of the new sources are not web sources. If this is the case, I do not know how to proceed, since I do not own the rights to the newspapers in question. I do, however, have physical copies of each of them, if that would help. Thanks, Goodbucket (talk) 01:11, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of Pop Montreal for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Pop Montreal is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pop Montreal until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 07:02, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

Janis Babson Nomination for Deletion

Hello Bearcat.

I am the creator of this article. The article was created because in doing research on organ donations, I came across this child who still after a half century, through her life story in the two books, has inspired countless others to donate organs upon this own deaths. The article is not nor was it ever intended to sell books.

I am attempting to get valid references on the book rewrite in 2011, however, the only sources I have currently found are sites that sell it. It is not my intention, nor the intention of Wikepedia to support commercial enterprises. I also intend to do some additions to the article with further references concerning her continuing notability.

My main concern is not having the article deleted until I can complete this work. I placed this article for review was it was still in my pagers for editing, but after several days of not a single input or suggested improvement, I moved the page. I note that a relative of the child has posted on the edit pages, however, this article is not about her family, but her contributions, past and present.

I need you assistance is either giving more time or moving it back to an edit status rather than a completed article if that is what it takes.

Thanks. Bobm217 (talk) 03:28, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Douglas Gaard Willmore

Hi Bearcat, you speedy deleted the same content as Doug Willmore, so I'm asking you to have a look at this. The author is a single purpose account who's redirected his talk and user pages to this article, so I don't even know how to leave them a warning. Looks like a promotional account, likely conflict of interest. Thanks, 99.156.70.138 (talk) 00:45, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

Much appreciated. 99.156.70.138 (talk) 00:58, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

Sirius Canada & XM Canada

Please note that these two companies have not yet announced that they have merged. CRTC approval has been given but no announcement of actual merger made. Conditions are still outstanding to be met and until they make a formal announcement they are still two separate companies. Canterbury Tail talk 11:34, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

Help Please

Hello Bearcat,

I am new to Wikipedia. Recently you deleted an article that I was drafting. It said that in 7 days, I would have a chance to edit to make corrections, otherwise, the article would be deleted. However, my article was deleted within 30mins+- of the alert before I could even have a chance to make any corrections. I then edited the article and re-posted but now it's deleted again. Please help me by teaching me how to post an article that honors this person, Doug Willmore, who makes such a huge difference and has such an impact in this world. Thank you. Appreciate your help and I look forward to learning from you. Thank YOU!

Newby to Wikipedia, Mickie Tagle modified by Franamax (talk) 14:31, 3 June 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.23.9.121 (talk) 14:11, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

Thank you.

Hi Bearcat,

Thank you for the feedback. I got it. What would qualify him as notable?

Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.23.9.121 (talk) 03:58, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

Categorization per WP:Category

Hi Bearcat, I've reinserted most, but not all of the categories you lopped off of Volta Laboratory and Bureau, which was almost completely responsible for the development of the phonograph industry after Edison abandoned his own invention. Besides their work on the phonograph, the Volta Associates were responsible for a wide array of other very notable discoveries, inventions and achievements, such as the first modern form of optical telecommunications on which all fibre-optical communications are based on (about 60% of all telecommunication transmissions today), all of which merit categorization per WP:Categorization which states amongst other things:

• Each article should be placed in all of the most specific categories to which it logically belongs. [emphasis is mine]
• Categorize articles by characteristics of the topic, not characteristics of the article....
• It should be clear from verifiable information in the article why it was placed in each of its categories. Use the {Category unsourced} template if you find an article in a category that is not shown by sources to be appropriate, or the {Category relevant?} template if the article gives no clear indication for inclusion in a category.

I have not reinstated Discovery and invention controversies, Office equipment, and Bridgeport, Connecticut which are only peripherally mentioned in the article. Best: HarryZilber (talk) 14:33, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

Antilope

Please be more careful with your AWB edits; "Antilope" was correct on List of mammals of Pakistan. Ucucha 20:17, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

I replied on my talk page. Ucucha 20:50, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

Thank you and more Questions/Requests

Hi Bearcat,

Re: Doug Willmore aka Douglas Gaard Willmore Article

I posted a message for you yesterday but I can't find it today. Please accept my apology if this is a duplicate.

I got your reply to my questions/requests. I can't find that communication either so I'm going off memory. Please let me know if I missed anything. Here's my reply and additional questions/requests.

Thank you for your comments. I totally got your view. Yes, you are correct. The content you saw were a collection of content found on the Internet (accompanied by url links as the source of the content). My second action item was to interview folks about Doug Willmore. After which, I plan to draft up content based on my research and interview. Once I've completed the first draft, my plan was to request for feedback from folks for accuracy and appropriateness of the content. Now, that I know of you, you'll be one of those folks I'll be asking for feedback, if you are available and willing.

Next, I totally got what you are saying about the content you saw sounding promotional. I totally get it. Thank you for your feedback.

I also completely get what you are saying about how simply stating that someone makes a difference and is worthy and honorable of a Wikipedia article from someone (unknown) like me is not enough to justify an article page.

Who would be the person in charge of saying who is notable for a Wikipedia page or not?

After Doug, I’d also like to create article pages for numerous other folks: 1. Doug Willmore’s father, at the age of 27, was the youngest hire of President John F. Kennedy’s to his cabinet. His father started the first Graduate (and still is the largest Grad school to-date in the nation) for Federal Employees. He taught to the likes of Bobby Kennedy at this Graduate school as well. There’s a lot of history in Doug Willmore’s history as well that I’ll be researching next. 2. Once I have permission from these folks, I’d also like post articles about two Mayors and perhaps a few City Councils. 3. I’m gathering information about a female journalist during WW2 in a third world country.

It seems like you said that a City Manager does not warrant an article on Wikipedia or certain City Managers are not notable of a Wikipedia page article. Is that accurate? If yes, who gets to say if Doug Willmore is notable or which certain City Managers are notable? And who gets to say whether the rest of the folks I wish to create articles for (as I listed above) are notable and worthy of a Wikipedia page?

Thank you for your help. Appreciate it.

Mickie Tagle c.310-745-4800 Mickie.tagle@gmail.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mickietagle (talk • contribs) 18:54, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

Formatting Canadian electoral district articles

I am soliciting opinions on how percentages should be shown in electoral district results tables here: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Electoral_districts_in_Canada#Formatting_results_tables. Your opinion would be welcome. Regards, Ground Zero | t 02:22, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

Wrong

Hi, I feel this edit relatively wrong, I mean, something doesn't seem to be on its place: your edit link here. Thanks. --TudorTulok (talk) 07:08, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

P.S. Uncategorized tag but after you removed Category:Romanian Composers which was right, not enough categories would be the right tag.

You are right! Sorry for misunderstanding. Thank you for clarifying.--TudorTulok (talk) 04:51, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Pronunciation

How do you do a pronunciation of someones name on Wikipedia? I noticed someone put [SHOO] after Ted Hsu name which I didn't think the format was right, and if it was it should have been SHOE. Newfoundlander&Labradorian (talk) 12:00, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for the category tag and improvement Bearcat. [12]. I added some categories and will search for more possibly relevant ones. Lam Kin Keung (talk) 04:38, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Hey, thanks for your help with Yourofsky's page

I completely forgot to add categories. Didn't even think about it. Thanks for adding the tag, I added some now! Sentient Planet (talk) 10:13, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

ANI Notice

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Mjroots (talk) 16:58, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

More specifically, WP:ANI#Speedy deletion of Jim Chapman (Canadian) (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 17:48, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Comment about some of your category changes

I noticed that you were removing a couple of categories that seem to be incorrect. I noticed you removed People from Texas from several articles stating that the article already had a subcat. Saying that I am a Texas State judge or a Texas lawyer, IMO, is different than saying I am from that state. I could be a Judge in Texarcana but live on the other side of the border in a different state. Not a huge deal to me but I think it might rub some people the wrong way to see that particular catetgory removed. --Kumioko (talk) 15:16, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

Ninth (album)

Good catch on the correct spelling of "Crème de la Crème", that is indeed how it's listed on the CD cover. I originally cut and pasted the track list from Amazon, where it's incorrectly spelled as "Créme de la Créme". iTunes has the same incorrect spelling. Robman94 (talk) 22:47, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

Well, for what it's worth, I hadn't actually seen the CD cover yet (didn't even know the album existed until I saw the article, because embarrassingly I haven't actually paid much attention to his last few albums) — but I'm familiar enough with French spelling to know that the word crème has an è in it instead of an é :-) Bearcat (talk) 00:26, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

Right, but just because that's how it should be spelled doesn't mean that's how the artist spelled it, as they are known to use their "artistic license" to change things like that. When I saw your change, I double checked at Amazon and then iTunes and I was thinking I should revert it, but then I went to my car to check the CD sleeve and sure enough, Peter used the correct letter and Amazon/iTunes got it wrong. If you got put off by albums like Dust then it might be time to come back, as Ninth is a return to form. Amazon is streaming the album here. He's also a lot more comfortable with the Bauhaus legacy now, so you might also want to check him out in concert if you get the chance. I saw him play in Chicago a few months ago and he was in great form. Robman94 (talk) 01:09, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

It's not that they put me off, so much as they passed right by without my even knowing that they existed. In my defense, the radio stations I was listening to at the time weren't playing him and the whole MP3-blog thing hadn't really taken off yet — and he was one of the artists who just kind of fell off my radar for a while because I just wasn't finding out about it when he had a new album. Bearcat (talk) 01:29, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

To be honest, I lost track of him for a while after the Deep album, and I lost track of all music pretty much over the last 10 years (raising a family, etc) but after I recently got back into going to gigs, I saw him play in Chicago where he previewed the album, so I was pumped to buy it the day it came out. If you check out the Amazon stream, I'd be curious to know what you think of it. Robman94 (talk) 01:36, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

Edit to Kyle Mosher (don't file user sandbox pages in articlespace categories)

Not sure what you mean by this: (don't file user sandbox pages in articlespace categories) for the article "Kyle Mosher" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Goodartistscopy (talk • contribs) 00:17, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

Category change in threeasfour article

threeASFOUR are three fashion designers who comprise the company. They operate in the same manner as fashion designers who happen to be one person. The group of the three actively design high fashion apparel, and show collections as do other fashion designers. The category fashion designers should be readded to the article page, and the category clothing companies of the United States should be deleted. The category high fashion brands should be added to the page. Could you please consider reverting your recent edit to categories in this article, and add the category high fashion brands. Thank you for your consideration. Doc2234 (talk) 12:04, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

• Thank you for your response on my talk page. I have two concerns: 1. threeASFOUR’s business is fashion design. They are not a clothing company. If used in the article, the category clothing companies of the United States would mislead the reader as to the nature of threeASFOUR’s business. They are professional designers and design clothes and sell them to individuals and stockists, clothing retailers. Typically, they contract out the fabrication of the apparel. As I said, the reader would get the wrong impression, concerning what threeASFOUR does. 2. There is no category for fashion design firms, or houses. Although most fashion designers are established as individuals, there are a few occurrences of partnerships. In the category for architects, many more firms are typically formed through partnerships and larger corporations. There is a category for architecture firms. Would it be worthwhile to create a category for fashion design firms or houses? It would not be highly populated. What do you think? Doc2234 (talk) 00:43, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Joliette, Quebec requested move

Greetings Bearcat, I am going to propose a requested move from the article Joliette, Quebec to the new title Joliette You are welcome to participate for a discussion on my propose new title Jolette at Joliette, Quebec's talk page here. Talk:Joliette, Quebec#Requested move I will see you at the talk page. Steam5 (talk) 03:32, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

Editing and Deleting Thomas Keeper

You recently deleted a page on Thomas Keeper. I am not the original author but I have re-written a draft on him and I want to make sure it is now acceptable. The last post was deleted because you said it was advertising. I just want to make sure this one is fixed. Can you please take a look at my draft? I would appreciate your feedback. Thank you!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kmoffitt/Thomas_Keeper Kmoffitt (talk) 17:52, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

Deletion of Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu

Hi Bearcat,

You are correct to guess WP:COI. Let me know the right way to declare it.

In regards to the deleted page, is this the right place to start a discussion about it?

My thought was that, in addition to the various news articles, in various languages, related to the failed candidacy, there were also numerous news articles related to other environmental activism.

If it were only the candidacy, I would acknowledge that Wikipedia policy would say not notable. But when there are newspaper reports over the course of years on more than one event, my reading is that crosses the line to WP:SIGCOV.

Bobagem (talk) 20:13, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

Newbie question: Is there a way of conducting a conversation where we are both writing on the same page? Awkward that my side of the conversation is on your page and yours on mine.

Re: Notability. There were a great many news articles that extended beyond Toronto. The CCAMU articles related to Eastern Ontario. Uranium mining affects First Nations, and thus qualifies, in a way, as "international". The Sunshine Walk articles came from numerous cities on the way from Toronto to Kingston to Ottawa. This would be my answer if WP:N said anything about "international", but it does not. It says

• "address the subject directly": check
• "reliable sources": newspapers, check
• "independent of the subject": check

Re: COI. "Editors with COIs who wish to edit responsibly are strongly encouraged to follow Wikipedia policies and best practices scrupulously." I agree that there were not enough separate, independent sources documenting Howarth's notability. As a newbie, I'm the recommendation to disclose COI now that I now of it. I agree that WP:COI adds a layer of suspicion to my interpretation of the rules. But I believe that I am following Wikipedia policies and best practices when I assert that Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu is notable on the basis of newspaper articles about her from more than one city in relation to more than one newsworthy event.

Bobagem (talk) 00:01, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

You state that notability is a quality of how an article is written, not a quality of the topic of the article. WP:N says otherwise: "Within Wikipedia, notability is an inclusion criterion based on the encyclopedic suitability of an article topic." My understanding is that an article can fail to demonstrate notability for a topic that is in fact notable. That's getting a bit off topic, though, as I believe that the article did establish notability.

The Sunshine Walk event involved two people walking from Toronto to Ottawa (and one on bike). Adriana was one of those two people. The articles, from several cities, are about her -- it isn't a case of being tangentially mentioned.

Media coverage during the election included two radio shows that were specifically focused on her (Voces Latinas and Radio Canada International), and a couple of articles that focused on "underdogs" fighting apparently unwinnable battles. So again, they aren't articles about "here are your four candidates in this riding", but rather "here is an interesting candidate".

It is true that the biographical details are quoted from Green Party websites. My understanding is that noncontroversial life-facts like that are okay even coming straight from the subject.

I'm feeling at a little bit of a disadvantage here because I don't have access to the article or the sources list. I'm pretty sure, for example, that I didn't have the link to the Radio Canada International program at the time, in which she's one of the headlines on an internationally broadcast Radio program.

Bobagem (talk) 03:38, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

Again, hard for me to discuss what percentage of links said exactly what when I don't have access to the article. Could I ask you the favor of sending me the deleted article?

There's a small chance I'll look at the references and think I want to escalate this discussion. But the greater chance is that I'll squirrel it away for some possible future date when Adriana's notability is less controversial.

Thanks for taking the time to engage in this discussion.

Bobagem (talk) 15:03, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

Hi Bearcat,

Could I get a copy of the deleted article?

I put a fair amount of effort into it, and should be able to reuse portions outside the Wikipedia.

Thanks, 160.109.98.44 (talk) 01:20, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

Launi Skinner deletion

Hi Bearcat: You recently deleted an article on Launi Skinner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launi_Skinner) citing A7 (notability). I would ask that you reconsider the deletion and reinstate the page. The article itself was written in a manner consistent with other notable male Canadian business leaders (e.g. Darren Entwistle). Ms Skinner is a notable Canadian businesswoman--one of the few to currently lead a Canadian financial institution (one of the five largest credit unions in Canada) as Chief Executive Officer and one who has recently/previously served as the highest ranking woman leader at Starbucks (see http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/fortune/0709/gallery.women_to_watch.fortune/4.html).

I would ask that you reconsider the deletion and help ensure that diversity and balance of the Canadian business leadership landscape be reflected in Wikipedia.

Communications gal (talk) 17:19, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

Indented lineHi BearCat: Thank you for your response to my inquiry. I would appreciate you restoring the article to my userspace while I work to address the issues you have brought up.

Appreciate your insights and assitance! Communications gal (talk) 23:20, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

Brome Lake

Greetings Bearcat. With this edit at List of cities in Canada, you opted to change the entry for Lac-Brome to Brome Lake. Notwithstanding that Brome Lake, Quebec is the name of it ville's article, as well as WP:ENGLISH, the StatCan source that feeds Quebec's list of cities uses "Lac-Brome". Any opposition to me changing [[Brome Lake, Quebec|Brome Lake]] to [[Brome Lake, Quebec|Lac-Brome]] per the source?
Note that there was previous discussion with another user on how to present the name of this community within the context of this list article. Please advise. Cheers, Hwy43 (talk) 05:02, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

What you did in your edit, which you've described in detail to me, is what I meant by "change". Pardon the brevity above.
I interpret your mention of "double-barrelling the list" as presenting both the English and French names, one of which being wikilinked, and the other not wikilinked but within parentheses. If this is correct, by no means am I suggesting it be reverted back to this format.
I'm inquiring if "Lac-Brome" should be used within the wikilink instead of "Brome Lake" due to the spelling used in the reference. If a reader wants to verify the population at the source, the reader won't find it due to its English spelling within the wikilink.
I liken this situation with using "Kitchener–Waterloo" as the name of the metropolitan area at Template:Largest Metropolitan Areas of Canada when the name of the CMA per the sourced population data is simply "Kitchener". Regarding this situation, see my inquiry here that has yet to yield a response. Your input on that discussion would also be appreciated. Hwy43 (talk) 04:43, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

I agree with your comments. Since you don't fundamentally object, I will change it (and only it) to [[Brome Lake, Quebec|Brome Lake]] (Lac-Brome) to allow navigation at the StatCan reference. Cheers, Hwy43 (talk) 05:04, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

Deletion of Theodore John Mieske IV

Thanks for the help Bearcat.

Category:Monopoly at Marven Gardens

I reverted your deletion of Category:Monopoly (game) at Marven Gardens, and left a note on the talk page. If it's as obvious as I think it is - we'll find out, otherwise I'm willing to be corrected. Sorry to revert you, but didn't you always wonder where "Marvin Gardens" came from when you played? Seems like a direct connection to me.Smallbones (talk) 03:04, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

Dominic Cardy

Could you please unprotect Dominic Cardy? It's been protected for almost two months and given that it's an article on a current party leader it really does need to be accessible for updating. Here are two recent articles that should be referenced: "NDP facing fissures over Cardy's leadership" and "Surging N.B. NDP tied with Liberals: poll". Vale of Glamorgan (talk) 05:26, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

Re: Template:Location map

Thanks for catching the bug in {{Location map}}. I was the last to edit the sandbox version, so it was on my watch. Boy that's embarrassing. See the discussion the the template talk page. –droll [chat] 07:17, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

Mont Bellevue Park

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Midlands

Bearcat - regards Made in the midlands and Made in the Midlands - you redirected the former (typo) to the latter but on searching, the Made in the Midlands still comes up with a version that is now out of date, how do I remove this and in place point to the Made in the Midlands page that you corrected? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Addisonc (talk • contribs) 14:29, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

- In response, - sorry it was just the page was appearing as there was a typo in the title so the browser was 'redirecting from a previous page' but its not happening anymore, it seems to have corrected itself or maybe a browser issue. thanks for getting back.

Nomination of V18 engine for deletion

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Mont Bellevue

Thank you for your input. It sounds like the most logical way to go. I like what you've done with the borough's article! I have one question though: do you still consider the park article to be a stub? --SweetNightmares (awaken) 21:03, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

That's true; I've noticed that unfortunately the French Wikipedia tends to be a lot less developed than the English one. Thanks again for your work! --SweetNightmares (awaken) 21:31, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

Outline of Quebec

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Please take a look at the outline to see if you can notice (and fill in) any missing topics. Pictures would also be nice (the rarer and the more interesting, the better).

Thank you.

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Problematic edit

Hi. Just for your information, this edit broke the article's references. Also, I think that stubs should have {{uncategorized stub}}, rather than {{uncategorized}}. Regards, —Tommyjb (talk) 05:49, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for edit summary note

I'll remember the two stub tag limit. I had wondered how it looked. Cloveapple (talk) 10:24, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

Deletion of page: Kieran Strange

Fairly certain she meets notability requirements for artists - with articles about her published in more than one credible news source over a period of several months indicating not a one-time moment of notability, and is likely to become even more notable as time progresses. The speedy deletion request was put in as I first created the page and was still in the process of building it. Please advise what makes the article not meet the requirements for inclusion on wikipedia - I felt I had explained why she was notable esp as one of very few un-signed artists to get a prestigious online nomination - as the article cited, she beat out Lady Gaga. Unicornkitten (talk) 11:54, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

Thanks..

I figured something was up but I didn't want to get into the details. I wanted to stop the tagging/warring by denying the csd nominations rather than just reverting. I have no opinion what-so-ever about the actual naming debate, those conflicts can be soul draining. Thanks! RxS (talk) 17:14, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

Suggestion

Thanks for all your work with WP:AWB, I'm very impressed by the number of articles you tag. I notice that you place the {{orphan}} tag on some articles where the possible categories are clear. It would be very nice if, instead of just tagging them with AWB, you could add some categories yourself. Thanks again for all your hard work. If there's anything I can help you with then do please ask. — Fly by Night (talk) 21:16, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

the fountainhead method

Hi bearcat You edited moved and then restored my page on the fountainhead method which was great. Unfortunately it has been deleted for being to promotional. Would you mind taking another look at it with the possibility of it being restored?

yours

gregjester. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gregjester01 (talk • contribs) 13:42, 27 June 2011 (UTC) Hi Bearcat thankyou so much for putting it in my sandbox, I have edited it, would it be possible to give it another look please yours gregjester

Changes to Muscular Dystrophy Canada Article

Hello,

I was just wondering why you removed the external links (Muscular Dystrophy Canada's Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and Flickr pages) from this article.

Thank you, --MusclesCanada (talk) 14:00, 27 June 2011 (UTC) EDIT: Thank you for the clarification. --MusclesCanada (talk) 18:09, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Saans

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Speedy deletion of The Isotopes

Hey Bearcat, would you consider undeleting my article "The Isotopes"? I now realize that it falls under the following - A7: Article about a group or club, which does not indicate the importance or significance of the subject. Would you give me a chance to add credibility to it, or help me solidify it into a credible article? At the very least, could you send me the article? Thank you. Cleitch (talk) 19:28, 29 June 2011 (UTC)Cleitch

Re: deletion of Kieran Strange

I'll point out she was also covered for her MUSIC in the Vancouver Sun, the Toronto Star picked it up, Roadrunner News, and World News - but you're right, she's probably not notable enough YET despite all that coverage in different countries. Thx for the clarification. Unicornkitten (talk) 09:41, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

Your block

Hey, I saw that IPs' edits before. I noticed they are editing at English Wikiquote as well. Specifically on that userpage. --Bsadowski1 08:54, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

Wall Street Article

You reverted the entire article without even putting a bias tag at the top? Are you serious? Your actions damage the credibility of wikipedia. Falconclaw5000 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 18:15, 1 July 2011 (UTC).

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Zoo Basel

You removed the link to visitor attractions Switzerland. Zoo Basel is with 1.8 million visitors the number 2 (TWO !!!) visitor attraction in Switzerland. Why did you remove this link? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.61.251.156 (talk) 09:52, 2 July 2011 (UTC)

References to hobby websites

Bearcat, I maintain a couple websites based on hobbies of personal interest. One of these is Alberta Population. The population data published on this website for municipalities and unincorporated communites come from primarily two sources – Statistics Canada federal census results and the Alberta Municipal Affairs (AMA) official population list (OPL) annual publication (consolidation of latest AMA-accepted municipal census results or federal census results for Alberta municipalities).
The pre-1996 federal census results were all compiled from hard copy StatCan publications, while the 1996-2006 results were all compiled from the StatCan website. The municipal census results for municipalities, up to 2010, were compiled from the OPLs posted on AMA's website.
A year ago, an IP user swept across Canada adding population history tables to articles for Canada's larger municipalities. Within Alberta, I followed the user's edits with "citation needed" tags, despite that I could add references to verify these tables from my own website. I didn't add references from my website as I was apprehensive that this may qualify as promotion or conflict of interest, or may contravene other WP policies/guidelines.
Can you advise whether adding inline citations from my website to verify uncited historic population tables would be a contravention WP policies/guidelines? Note that I receive no compensation of any means through maintaining this website. Cheers, Hwy43 (talk) 20:46, 2 July 2011 (UTC)

A pie for you!

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