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Metrotown

I've been working on a draft for the Metrotown neighbourhood in Burnaby, BC at my sandbox, and it's almost ready for launch. I'm not sure if the neighbourhood gets primary usage for the name, since the Metropolis at Metrotown mall is often referred to simply as "Metrotown" (and indeed currently occupies the Metrotown article title), so I've been trying to solicit opinions at Talk:Metrotown (with notices at WT:VANCOUVER, Talk:Burnaby and WT:CANADA), but so far IMO there hasn't been enough people chiming in for a consensus to build.

Should I try to involve more users in the discussions, or should I just be bold and request the mall article be moved to Metropolis at Metrotown and start the neighbourhood's article at Metrotown? Thanks. - Hinto (talk) 03:21, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

Great, that's just what I needed a furry revising my article. Can't I request a different editor, you know just like you can with doctors? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Huysmanii (talk • contribs) 18:13, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Page Deletion

Canadian Pharmacist of the Year seems notable to me, especially with the other sourced material in the article as well; why did you feel the need to speedy delete without an Afd or any notification? Outback the koala (talk) 22:41, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Would you consider userfying the article at the very least so I can improve it? Outback the koala (talk) 22:43, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

NASA Federal Credit Union

Thanks for explaining, I thought people were doing it by mistake because they were all done using AWB. Thanks for clarifying. Kinkreet^{~♥moshi moshi♥~} 10:29, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

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Category:Canadian record label compilation albums

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Unprotection request for 2019 AFC Asian Cup

I would like to request unprotection for the page 2019 AFC Asian Cup. You protected it indefinitely about a year ago: [1], but I would like to make edits due to recent announcements about the tournament. For details, see Talk:2019 AFC Asian Cup#Edit request on 16 January 2013. Chanheigeorge (talk) 10:04, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

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Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 2012

BTW, do you have a take on why a certain number of film awards lists have been created with the year at the end, per Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 2012. It's more than just this award and more than one editor creating them, it seems to me. It seems pointless, except in places where the year at the end is some kind of recognized proper noun. Any views on this? Shawn in Montreal (talk) 18:04, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

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I have unreviewed a page you curated

Hi, I'm Shadowjams. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Lynn Beyak, and have un-reviewed it again. If you've got any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thanks, Shadowjams

Disregard that... this page curation interface is odd at times. Shadowjams (talk) 00:40, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

David Wells

I see you are doing updating for the new senators. I've updated List of current Canadian senators, but since there is no article for David Wells, I had to guess. I went with David Wells (politician). If you do indeed create an article for him and use something else, please update the link or let me know what the new one is. Otherwise, I'll get around to creating it in an hour or so (I have to make dinner). If you want to dump some of the work on me, just let me know what to do. -Rrius (talk) 23:42, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

I created Victor Oh and, as you can see from the link above, Wells. I finished off the provincial and alphabetical lists and Canadian Senate seating plan, 41st Canadian Parliament, and List of senators in the 41st Parliament of Canada. I updated the infoboxes at Senate of Canada (someone else got the table in the body) and Parliament of Canada. Someone else tried to update Party standings in the Canadian Senate, and I fixed it. As far as I can see, all we need is List of current Canadian senators by age, which I won't bother with until we have dates of birth for the five. -Rrius (talk) 02:15, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

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Proposal on Lists of Notable Drew University People

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Unprotection of Gazi Mahabubul Alam

The article was protected back in April 2012 for persistent vandalism. A user made an edit request for the page of January 31, which has still been unanswered. It's been about 10 months, do you think it would be okay to un-protect it now? Thanks, AlexB531 (talk) 23:04, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Oh, I came to you because on the protection request page it said "If you want an existing page unprotected, please try to ask the protecting admin first before making a request here." That's why I came to you first. Thanks for unprotecting it though. AlexB531 (talk) 16:38, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

I understand, thanks. AlexB531 (talk) 22:16, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

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Question...

There is a question that we consider you to be an expert for Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Canadian music#What genres can be considered Canadian?.Moxy (talk) 02:06, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Hwy 99 "scandal"

Yes, understood, the article has changed since I think it was me who added it long ago, same with The Interior's removal of the same from Seton Portage. Scandalous goings-on not called that by the "reliable" sources are hard to quantify/cite; some material has gone missing from this article, ranging from Nahanee's death after her arrest to the land deals surrounding Eagleridge and elsewhere (including the Premier's personal buy-up of land in the corridor before the upgrading was announced; but that's par for the course on any nearly BC highway for 50 years and more; right back to 1858 in fact)....and also as part of the Olympic cost overruns (far more than the Fast Ferries Scandal; see my recent notes on that talkpage; not really a scandal but citable as one because of the partisan media's use of the term, but which don't discuss their giveaway to political friends as a scandal, even though THAT's the real scandal. Anyways some of what's in teh political scandals articles may have whitewashed content, or content long since removed, as was the case wit the POV fork on the Olympic Controversies section-cum-article (now "cleansed" of local political issues as "unimportant" by the sports people who took over the Fork, and others who dismissed alternative news outlets about corruption and overspending as "fringe sources" even though including names you and I would easily recognize as credible. Highway 99's scandals are complex and largely unexplored in the media; and must remain, it seems, outside of Wikipedia also....Skookum1 (talk) 16:13, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

Analysis Situs (book)

Many thanks Bearcat for fixing up my categories. It's the first time that I have tried to create them and I think I understand better after your intervention how to do it.--NfrHtp (talk) 07:41, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

Robert Henry Lindsay

Is a Canadian artist of note. I am recreating the page. BE PATIENT kanuk — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kanuk (talk • contribs) 01:45, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Simsub

I would agree that the citation of the Vancouver Shaw Cable glorious Detroit affiliates was weak. I am uncertain how the sourcing of the channel availability here, by reference to the company providing the service, might be improper.

Still, one must be grateful that the material describing the availability of the pure unmatched stations was allowed to remain.--70.71.24.87 (talk) 14:17, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

The rule on Wikipedia is that references need to be to media (newspapers, books, etc.) that are independent of the subject being discussed — so, for example, a newspaper article (e.g. a TV critic's column, etc.) that talks about the cable channels that Shaw carries in the Vancouver market would be an acceptable reference, but a PDF from Shaw's own website of its own channel lineup is not. That's not because Shaw's own channel lineup is likely to be inaccurate, but because it's not coming from an independent source.

Strictly speaking, the material is not under factual dispute; given that the PDF does exist, the information can be plainly seen to be correct even if the link isn't suitable for direct inclusion in our article as a footnoted source, so the statement can't be removed from the article just on the basis of lacking a reference. It might well be too trivial for inclusion, but that's another question that has nothing to do with this one. Bearcat (talk) 14:38, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

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Category:Eidolon albums

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Ecce Homo (The Hidden Cameras album)

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Buddy Valastro redirect

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help adding a Canadian Artist page ?

hey there, I saw you edit music pages and I was wondering if you can help add a Canadian artist page? they meet the notable requirement and I have all off the require info together with reference links. Let me know your thoughts, thanks in advance, MO, battlesantiago @ gmail . com 01:27, 25 February 2013 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.117.121.145 (talk)

Since I don't know who the artist is that you're talking about or the quality of the references you're to provide, I really can't provide too much immediate help. Your best bet is to either submit it through the WP:AFC process, or to register a username on here and create the page in your own user sandbox. Bearcat (talk) 01:22, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

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Dab pages

Dab pages such as [Lyall (name)]] don't need a category. Cheers. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 06:13, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Help editing, formatting, and uploading pictures

Hi Bearcat,

I chanced upon your user space by searching the history of a page you edited, Ernie and the Emperors. I am creating a new article in my user space about the debut album of band that Ernie and the Emporer evolved into. I have a good deal of information already there, but I could use some help from an experienced user like yourself.

I have a fairly new account, and I'm not able to upload pictures. Mostly, I'd like to add a picture of the album cover, and possibly a picture of the back track listing from the original LP. The best pictures I have found are at the following site: musicmp3sbp.org/covers/a_giant_crab_comes_forth.html

Also, while I am confident about the information compiled, I could use organization. I am sure there are easier and better ways of displaying information, and I would like to make sure it is up to Wikipedia standards before I submit.

I don't even know if you're able to view my user space. If not, how would I allow you to see and edit? I would greatly appreciate any help you can offer me! Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thisisastackup (talk • contribs) 21:07, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

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Gloucester Candlestick

A more careful look would have shown that the whole end of the article had been removed by mistake. Never mind. Johnbod (talk) 20:26, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

full protection of Romesh Wadhwani

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Thanks for formatting help with links

Just a quick thanks for your help in formatting links on my recently created Jennings Bryant page. That page is the first I'd done, so learning the coding structure has been a bit of a curve. I've taken note of your formatting shortcuts/preferences and will use that style in the future. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lighterninja (talk • contribs) 14:23, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

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Thank You

Thank you for adding the list of CLGA national portrait collection inductees (I really ought to send you a kitten or three). Your Persimmon Blackbridge article is a thing of beauty. Now I should put my money where my mouth is, muster my reliable sources, and start articles for the inductees who are missing from Wikipedia. I hope their status as part of the national portrait collection will keep them from being rejected for notability SeMelmoth (talk) 22:06, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

SH template

As you may remember, I'm of the opinion that dross of wiki coverage on this person is already far beyond reasonable limits, but this template's addition of a "family" line just strikes me as absurd, given that none of them have articles nor are ever likely to. Shouldn't that whole line get ditched rather than just unlinked? If it's not a link, what is it doing in a template?Skookum1 (talk) 09:30, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

AWB

This edit seems a bit hasty. Just letting you know. Brightgalrs (/braɪtˈɡæl.ərˌɛs/)^[1] 17:30, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

You're one of my fave wiki editors- thanks for all you do!

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Adrian Dix article

I just had a look at it as someone had made a minor good faith edit to the infobox which I reversed; I tried to fix a particular line about the back-dating "scandal" which had loaded word in it like "duplicity" and "hefty severance package which was publicly funded" - which are major BC Lib talking points about him and very overblown, also part of a current attack-ad campaign........the bit about his leadership race also seems skewed......but there's nothing else here; for a guy about to become Premier in May (unless Jesus Christ shows up to take over Christy's job) it's a pretty thin article, and what was there seems to have been largely provided by his critics. I know you're an NDP guy but in a different province so no COI-agenda intended here; but I suspect this article is going to be a busy place in the next couple of months and, though there's no grounds yet, is going to need at least a semi-protect. I'll keep an eye out for more "slander edits"....Skookum1 (talk) 05:35, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

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Category correction

Thanks! I appreciate the explanation Randolph.hollingsworth (talk) 23:27, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Regarding house categories

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Daniel Stupich article needed

I've been browsing MLAs named on British Columbia general election, 1952 and found Lorenzo_(Larry)_Giovando, the provincial Tory who defeated Dan Stupich by elimination ballot; such a well-known name in NDP circles I'm surprised there's no article on him yet. Knowing you're an NDP guy, figured you might want to write him up. Unless he's already extant as Dan Stupich, which is how he's usually known.Skookum1 (talk) 04:35, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

How did I get here? What?

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Sorry about that, I'm really not quite sure how I ended up posting that here... I think I messed up somewhere while using Stiki. Frozen4322 : Chat 04:50, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

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Naheed Nenshi article

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Removed PROD on Don Bleu

I've removed the bio PROD on Don Bleu since he does have sourcing now. Whether or not he's notable beyond that is still slightly in question. I see where he won a regional Emmy and was inducted into a regional hall of fame, as well as received some coverage and hosted a few shows on television. This sort of puts his notability into enough question where I'd say he could potentially pass, but it's still light enough to where I'm not exactly solid on his notability. I've seen people argue against regional Emmys and other local-type coverage. I'm going to leave it for now, but I won't argue if you bring it to AfD. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 05:34, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
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A bowl of strawberries for you!

Thanks very much for improving the Canadian band pages that I created! —Anne Delong (talk) 13:22, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

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Politician infoboxes?

Hi Bearcat, I just read message you left at User talk:Oafp#MPPs and wanted to say that the info was also useful to me as it touched on a discussion I had with that editor a couple of days ago. As you have seen, he has done a lot of good work lately and I have tried to help him by cleaning up the links and such, but I do have a question I'm sure you can help me with. Should the infobox list the party that the former and succeeding MPPs represented after their name? I took a look at other MPP and MP articles and for the most part I didn't see this being done so when cleaning up, I removed those wikilinks from the infobox, but I thought I would ask just incase I was wrong in assuming this. Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks. Cmr08 (talk) 04:21, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks Bearcat, I appreciate you getting back to me. Cmr08 (talk) 02:22, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Support IP/SPA ban

Given what's gone down on Adrian Dix and the heat I've publicly taken for it (since made more heaty in the newer version of the Sun article; see the exchanges between Sunciviclee and myself on the talkpage) I'm fully in support of the proposed ban on IP users and SPAs......where is the discussion so I can "support"?Skookum1 (talk) 08:31, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

In similar context (and though we seem to disagree on details of how to edit that page; but no matter), I likewise think that the articles by User:Sunciviclee perhaps deserve some kind of on-wiki censure. The second one in particular was totally out of line. --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 19:21, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

Other than Adrian Dix, mostly Talk:Adrian Dix, he's only edited the Nazko and Boston Bar articles and maybe on other. His userpage is a violation (but then so is mine, but a long-standing exemption because of my complex bio/interests). Where he's editing/"contributing" isn't an article about the Sun itself so technically isn't COI.......but he's definitely a SPA and only joined Wikipedia to try and twist/research dirt on it......and though my userpage has always been honest about my political leanings and I often admit to a COI because of my blogging activities and recuse myself, at least I admit it unlike the SPAs whose actions/edits he claims in the Sun were "restored" when in reality what replaced them was totally new and properly Wikipedian....and while I can out myself, it's not right for another user to do so, especially not on a front page where I'm being portrayed falsely, now, is it? What's the WP: about not taking stuff to the media/outside of Wikkipedia....and considering he's using the Dix talkpage to attack me for opposing the Sun as a "reliable source" when he himself has written a very distorted and twisted-facts article suggests that this should maybe also go to WP:RS as a case in point about why MSM aren't the reliable sources they're held to be. He said in his article that a complaint about me was made on the COI board; certainly one of the SPAs whose actions he was defending/justifying in his article wanted that, but there is no such section (despite his "reliable" newspaper article saying there is) nor was there any notification on my talkpage as is supposed to be the case.....his lecturing me on how to spend my time and saying my focus is only on political leaders and BC Rail is laughable; anyone who's around Wiki for long knows how extensive and wide-ranging my contributions and edits are....yes, a reprimand is called for, but doesn't seem appropriate that I start it.....how odd to have someone start an ANI, if it happens, on my behalf....LOL. He's trying to wiki-lawyer and wiki-cop without even knowing how the place works......I wonder if he'll report on his own being dragged in front of the "courts of wiki"....Skookum1 (talk) 17:02, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Singling out an editor because he was policing SPA activity as if partisan (which they definitely were) and then exposing him in public with false information strikes me as an extraordinary case....some of my friends were impressed but they noted that despite the nice bio in the first version of the first article, it was very much targeted to "get me".......backfired in the real world, I probably have more friends now than I do (powerful) enemies, which I've had in abundance since the BC Mary blog was in full swing and also bc of my troll-stomping at HuffPo and elsewhere.....the latest version of that first article, and the second article which allows no comments, are both decidedly more skewed and biased against me.......and he dares to shoot his mouth off about me being POV and tells me I am spending too much time defending myself against his lies....he sounds just like a troll, really, and in the real world IMO he is, he just gets a column and a salary for it......about the BC Rail trial being among the reasons Campbell was forced to resign (by his caucus, and apparently his wife because of the purported gf having to take the stand...) was in public media, can't remember which; I'll ask kootcoot ('House of Infamy') if he remembers where....there was a caucus revolt underway about all that, the HST and the low/hostile polls were only part of the story.... in his paper and the rest of the MSM, they insist it was just the HST....but then they insist that BC Rail wasn't newsworthy until blog coverage kept it in the public eye and they were forced to cover the trial; even then they didn't do so fully and only cursorily, then spent a lot of column space participating in a bench/RCMP/Crown defamation of Dave Basi, who had been forbidden to speak up in his own defence by the illegal plea deal....Sunciviclee is I think just naive and making excuses for his employer because that's....his job. He doesn't really know anything about such things other than what his editors/publisher give him to think/write.....Laila Yuile tells me he's quite approachable, and he wanted me to call him, but considering the sandbagging his articles have turned out to be, I think it's pretty obvious he's not to be trusted.Skookum1 (talk) 17:22, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

This headline on the April 11 article, the one that doesn't allow comments, says it all about the skewing of news content for POV-pushing, as the Sun and other Canadian MSM are infamous for - "NDP leader Dix at centre of Wikipedia editing controversy" which to the layman who glances at the paper makes it sound as if Dix himself is connected to the editing controversy.....I think I might make "WTF" my new wiki-motto. No doubt the headline and the spin is directed by editors above him, but this is a clear example of editorializing of news, and why the MSM should be reviewed, if case by case, at WP:RS; I can come up with a good 50 instances of major twisting by the Sun since 1980, and that's just from memory. Misleading, conflating, persecuting and more....they still insist that the NDPs mismanagement of the Fast Ferries was a scandal, and so the Wikipedia article is titled that way; but they never use that word for the sale of the ferries for 2% of their cost to party friends.......who'd bid 3 times as much before they were virtually given them...which was scandalous but the Sun never mentions it, while still allowing its columnists to tub-thump about them as an example NDP incompetence.....Skookum1 (talk) 17:49, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Here's a further example of non-RS behaviour where its subtext is that "Memogate" is a major election issue; it's not, though the Sun and the other POV-MSM have been trying to push it to get people to care; hasn't hurt Dix in the polls one bit. This is agenda-pushing clear and simple. Only the BC Libs and their sympathizers/supporters (i.e. the Suns owners and senior editors) are making a big deal out of it.....and wanting the election to hinge on it. Amazing huh? Nobody cares, everyone scoffs (that's the largest polling group in BC, "fuck 'em all" is the general opinion in BC of politics and politicians - and journalists; and there's polls to support that). The twisted world beyond the Granite Curtain makes Rob Ford's Toronto seem like Nirvana.....sorry to vent at length on you userpage Bearcat....I just feel safe around you xxxooo ;-). Hehe. But seriously, he hasn't responded to my calls for retractions though he sure shot his mouth off at me on Talk:Adrian Dix......I doubt his claim that he innocently looked up Dix's article and found the material missing that he wanted to be there; I'm sure he was put to it by one of his editors in respone to a phone call from the meatpuppet master behind the "I am not a Liberal" SPAs....WP:DUCK. He's not concerned at all with examining the attempts by Liberal supporters to whitewash the Christy Clarkand Gordon Campbell articles, now, is he?Skookum1 (talk) 18:00, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Pass Creek

We got a problem here Bearcat, Pass Creek (British Columbia) redirects to this page, which is a dab including Pass Creek, British Columbia (river) which obviously isn't the right title;I just tried to move it to its proper geo-dab but I can't because that already exists as redirect; the other entry for the community should bePass Creek, British Columbia, which is probably also a redirect vs what is listed as Pass Creek, British Columbia (settlement).Skookum1 (talk) 17:04, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

IP edit on Christy Clark

Is this an example of whitewashing, or just the removal of uncited material which seems to have been placed there in a "dirtwashing"? Not sure what to do, to revert it or not? For now going to link and de-smallcase British Columbia Teachers Federation which if there's not an article definitely needs oneSkookum1 (talk) 10:02, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

oh, there is a BCTF article; I corrected the lower-casing, I see an apostrophe still needs taking outSkookum1 (talk) 10:16, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

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May I ask a favor, please?

Hi Bearcat. First, I'd like to say thanks for your response to the comment by Desaderal (talk · contribs) at the village pump. I checked their contributions and it seems they only stop by once a month or so. So I left a message at their talk page just in case the thread is archived before they get back. But I thought it might be better if they had a comment from a veteran editor such as yourself rather than a dynamic IP like me. If you think it would do any good, would you stop by Desaderal's talk page and leave a comment? Thanks for the help and thanks for sticking with the project for so long. Kind regards. 64.40.54.118 (talk) 03:16, 15 April 2013 (UTC)