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A scholarship for Canadian post secondary students is now open for applications. I have created a poster to advertise it. Wondering if those from Canada can place it around their respective Universities? Have also recently had published this paper [1] in an effort to get more medical students involved. If this is effective we at [Wikimedia Canada http://wikimedia.ca/wiki/Main_Page] will hopefully look at branching out to other subject areas (other than medicine) and other countries / languages. Applications are found here[2]Doc James (talk ·contribs · email) 18:14, 13 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Proposed deletion of Canadian student's law article
It looks like this article has been deleted. The potential of someone referring to it for legal advice (mentioned in one of the Talk comments) freaked them out. I didn't get a chance to look at this article--is there any point in trying to follow the various recommendations and make it into a viable article? Assuming a copy can still be accessed, that is. Connie L Crosby (talk) 06:45, 18 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I can make the deleted text available (send me an email request) for review. If you want to use the actual written text in another article then the author information has to be preserved for GFDL/CC-BY purposes and I would have to seek some advice on how to do a proper history merge. Franamax (talk) 15:55, 18 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
That would certainly work, yes. FWIW, I believe to do a history merge you would delete the target article, move the article to be merged to that title, then undelete the revisions. I think undelete and redirect would be the best answer though. Resolute19:52, 18 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I think it's unnecessarily complicated to try merging article history from a deleted article. Just add the relevant material to the Copyright law article. PKT(alk)20:16, 18 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The first quesrtion to be answered is: is anyone voluteering to review and merge the material? If not, there's no problem at all. If so, I'm happy to provide the text, but insofar as actually using any of it verbatim, I'm relatively familiar with licensing and attribution requirements and spotting violations of same, so yeah, let's take the complicated (and right) route. If you wish to make the review, don't worry about the technical details, I can sort that stuff out. Franamax (talk) 20:45, 18 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Seeing that I have incorporated a number of companies including Wikimedia Canada using content I have found on Wikipedia and other areas of the internet being freaked out about people using Wikipedia as a legal source is strange. Many physicians (50-70%) use Wikipedia as a medical source. But that is a different matter... Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 19:57, 18 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
On the off-topic issue, I can confirm that one of my sisters (thus, 50% of practicing doctors 'cause not the other sister) has questioned me quite closely about how exactly Wikipedia works and how reliable it is, for the practical reason that she does include it as one start point for her research on any particular topic - and yes, there eventually are real-life clinical outcomes involved, but luckily MDs are trained to evaluate conflicting information. When we got to the part where she asked "if someone puts in something incorrect, who fixes it?" and I said "I do" - well, she thought about that for a while. :) Franamax (talk) 20:58, 18 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Are the United Empire Loyalists the same as The Loyalists of North America? The articles seem to cover the same topic, with the UEL article being the older of the two. The latter seems to have been a graded school report that has been uploaded onto wikipedia (see Talk:The_Loyalists_of_North_America). My knowledge of Canadian history isn't great so I wanted to see the opinion of this project. Does it warrant its own article once improvements have been made or should it be merged/deleted? Cheers Del♉sion23(talk)12:59, 1 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I've redirected the (utterly useless, reads like a poor 7th grade essay) new article to the proper target. → ROUX₪11:14, 2 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Per my comment at Talk:The Loyalists of North America, I don't think that's a good idea. This term is not associated with the United Empire Loyalists (per the google test listed there returning 6 hits, all of the Wikipedia), and the UEL are not the only people who could be construed as loyalists from North America. 76.65.128.90 (talk) 13:06, 2 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Quote: "This is a duplication of topic of United Empire Loyalist". Should an article on any other loyalists (the French? what on earth are you rabbiting on about there? ) be created, the redirect can be undone. → ROUX₪14:19, 2 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I have nominated Order of Canada for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Brad (talk) 01:01, 6 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Request for input - linking to Commons from a general template
I've tried a "restart" which will hopefully have a little less personal invective. The best way to avoid mano-a-mano confrontations is to have lots of eyes and input on the topic, so hopefully some people can have a look at the substantive issue. The "new" discussion is here. Franamax (talk) 19:38, 18 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I added the page to my watchlist, removed an addition they made today about the flag, and my removal has been reverted. We might need to protect the page - what do you think? PKT(alk)19:25, 20 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The user 207.134.7.126 (talk·contribs) who is adding the Facebook flag violated WP:3RR. I've issued a warning to their talk page, and reverted the page back to the version without the flag. Perhaps a block should be requested for user:207.134.7.126 ?