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for cleaning up my caregory boo-boo at Udinotti Museum of Figurative Art. I am on the road, working on my ancient laptop that does not show red links, can not get pictures, maps etc., and does not have a toolbar at the top of the page, and more. However you cleaned up after me and I just added a bunch of categories that should be in blue. Happy New Year, Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 00:12, 2 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Scotiabank Giller Prize

Why are social networking links considered inappropriate? Speaking from experience (managing web sites and social media properties for different organizations), if a social media channel is an official source of information from an individual or organization, and it might by design provide different content than the related web site, why wouldn't it be a useful external reference and source of information? VickiZ (talk) 17:54, 3 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Duly noted VickiZ (talk) 18:34, 3 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikilinking

Hi, and thanks for your work on the English Wikipedia. Just a short note to point out that we don’t normally link:

  • dates
  • years
  • commonly known geographical terms (including well-known country-names), and
  • common terms you’d look up in a dictionary (unless significantly technical).

Thanks and my best wishes.

Tony (talk) 11:14, 4 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey Bearcat, they're taking their sweet time in renewing my account, so let's just move to links like this instead:

http://tools.wmflabs.org/dplbot/cat/untagged_uncats.php

The old toolserver.org url's are out, and the new mwflabs.org url's are in. Just update your bookmarks to use this style of url and everything should work fine.

Let me know if you have any problems! --JaGatalk 02:30, 13 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Problem with recent edits

Your recent addition of categories to some articles appears to have created a problem at the top of the articles (e.g., Patsch, Pettnau, Baumkirchen, etc.). Please take a look. Bede735 (talk) 11:08, 13 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of The Monsters in the Morning for deletion

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Proposed deletion of James Beddome

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Poet-diplomat

I thought it was a bit naughty of you adding an AfD to Poet-diplomat without an edit summary or notifying the creator of this relatively new article. --Derek Andrews (talk) 12:45, 31 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Bill Grummett for deletion

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AWB/Hotcat barfing on adding uncategorized

Magioladitis and Bearcat... I don't add tags, probably the only thing I don't don't do with AWB, so I'm not sure what is happening. It seems when Bearcat is adding uncategorized tags, there is a goof. An example is on the article Sex + Love (something else I do with AWB!). Bearcat adds the tag, then hotcat barfs on removing it. Other examples are Panathinaikos F.C. season 2000-01, Mark Nelson (actor), Tinbergen Lecture, The Complaisant Lover, The Return of A.J.Raffles, The Faculty of Social Sciences at Tel Aviv University, This is Gospel and many more. I've fixed around 25 today. Bgwhite (talk) 07:55, 1 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Bgwhite and Bearcat, I guess it was Bearcat's custom edit. Probably append text was used and subst was forgotten. my edit proves AWB works right. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:03, 1 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry about that; I reinstalled Windows recently and had to reconstruct my AWB settings file from scratch, so I guess I made a mistake of some kind in the tag text. I promise I'll fix it before I run through another batch. Bearcat (talk) 18:05, 1 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Ouch. I've had a hard drive die and had to do the same. I run AWB out of Google drive now so that won't happen again. Good luck. Bgwhite (talk) 18:34, 1 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Re your Paul Lane message:

Just a reminder that when critiquing an edit using vague references, we include a link to the edit in question so it can be properly discussed. Your note might apply to one of the edits I made, but certainly not all. Thanks. 174.118.73.1 (talk) 21:59, 2 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Islamic Assembly of North America

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Uncat tool update

Hey, FYI, I just went through the code and it does exclude certain hidden categories, such as Category:Redirects to Wiktionary, and didn't have an entry for Category:Redirects to Wikisource. I've now added it, so the problem should go away with tomorrow's run (but not with a user-triggered update). Please let me know if you still see the problem tomorrow! Thanks, --JaGatalk 00:21, 8 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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BTW

This is my master list at the moment. I'm still going through about 3 or 4 other lists and cross-checking, so it's not complete, and has taken me so much longer to compile than I ever thought. Already it's more complete than any other list I've seen. Sportfan5000 (talk) 23:47, 8 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Nice, that is a rather impressive worklist. I took the liberty of correcting the spelling on one name where we actually already had the article, and I've already jumped ahead and added Category:LGBT Olympians to a few of the Canadians. And I've already got both Scott Cranham and Brian Marshall listed at WP:CANQUEER as needed new articles, as well, but I hadn't gotten around to tackling them yet. Bearcat (talk) 00:00, 9 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I'm getting closer to cross-referencing with the other lists that are out there. I wanted to drop a not that one of them added up the athletes by sports and had these as the top sports which may help for dividing up the large group further; 15 Soccer, 14 Track & field, 10 Swimming, 10 Equestrian, 9 Handball, 9 Tennis, 8 Diving. This encumbers are likely high, but i wasn't sure where anyone who cares would notice the note. Sportfan5000 (talk) 02:02, 12 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A cup of coffee for you!

Thank you for you occasional drop by through my articles. Thanks Ashishlohorung (talk) 11:31, 9 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wajam

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on the Wajam page. If you're interested in learning more about Wajam, or getting the perspective of the company in regards to discussions on the talk page, I'm happy to chat. The current article contains inaccurate information referencing some non-credible sources. It'd be great to have an unbiased and neutral editor to improve the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alainkinwong (talk • contribs) 19:10, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion of Mosaic Festival Page

Dear Admin,

I would like to respectfully ask for a detailed explanation as to why my page "Mosaic Festival" was deleted. I would also like to request the text on the page to be sent to me.

Thanks ≠≈≠≈ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cre8iv80studio (talk • contribs) 17:59, 11 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Gavin Crawford's Wild West / 2014 Screen Awards

Hi There!

I noticed you've made edits to both Gavin Crawford's Wild West and 2014 Canadian Screen Awards I am a new user who is trying to get Andrew Cheng (Actor) AfC reviewed. He is listed in both the wiki articles. Thought I would reach out to you based on your excellent track record for detail.

Thanks!

MSimmons81 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Msimmons81 (talk • contribs) 19:32, 12 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Andrew Cheng

Thank you for your very detailed response. Would the CBC's offical website where the episode that he was nominated from count as a primary source? here it is: http://www.cbc.ca/player/Shows/ID/2396106092/

I don't mean to take up a lot of your time but he is nominated with some pretty famous people and they have pages, plus there was another Andrew Cheng who is definitely not him on wiki.

Thanks! -M — Preceding unsigned comment added by Msimmons81 (talk • contribs) 20:23, 12 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your help. I have found a few actual news pages that list his nomination... perhaps that will be better than a data base source. Thanks again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Msimmons81 (talk • contribs) 21:08, 12 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Talia

I edited it based on the CBC Radio 2 schedule PDF, so I don't know what to follow now!

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/pdfs/Radio2-schedule.pdf — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nickcolby (talk • contribs) 07:15, 14 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Jack Liangjie Xu and variants thereof

Thank you --Redrose64 (talk) 14:27, 14 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I've just reverted another WP:CUTPASTE violation, and have filed a WP:RFPP request for Jack Xu. --Redrose64 (talk) 18:27, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Hugh McFadyen

I looked at history log. Before protection, one IP user caused ruckus, leading to semi-protection. However, not all IPs were too disruptive like that person. Recently, it has been infrequently edited. Lower to PC instead? --George Ho (talk) 19:28, 16 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

UAS Laboratories

Hello. Could you please review the UAS Laboratories page? It is written like an advertisement. I've done some cleaning-up, but it could still use another review. Thanks! NHCLS (talk) 22:28, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Women short story writers

Great category! However, make sure that you also populate a Category:Men short story writers. We don't want something akin to Categorygate to happen again as it did around American women novelists. Happy editing, Sadads (talk) 03:47, 19 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I was assuming since you were populating it, that it was relatively new (over a hundred new pages added! Nice!) Maybe I ill do some AWB crosslisting myself, Sadads (talk) 03:56, 19 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I have a list of 460 women novelists who are also categorized as having written short stories, will populate that group. Then will go at the 700 or so men, Sadads (talk) 04:04, 19 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Added more population to Category:Women short story writers based on the women novelist cats, probably a bunch more out there, but the population of 700 looks a lot better that 200. Give you a nice backlog to work through if you are thinking about women writers :P We might want to start splitting by nationality, etc. at some point, Sadads (talk) 04:55, 19 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I only found another ~400 or so articles labeled as woman writers (recursive) and short story writers (recursive), if my pace for the last set is representative, that will take me about 20-30 minutes. I will do it tomorrow night. Why don't you start on some of the men short story writers, that way we have a full set of parallel cats that can be expanded at some later point, Sadads (talk) 05:12, 19 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nevermind, Category:Men writers is way underpopulated, so won't do us much help. I think we might just want to leave off as is, for right now, on that front. I might go back through the American novelist cat for missing writers in either category.... we will see, Sadads (talk) 05:23, 19 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Speaking of Canadian women authors" I tried to start Priscilla Galloway because she was important to Linda Hutcheon. however, didn't find much in the way of research. Is there anything else that should be included, research wise. Do you have some specialists sources that might help? Sadads (talk) 19:07, 19 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks much

Thank you for your help at Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties, much appreciated, — Cirt (talk) 04:55, 19 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Shannon Martin

Hello. My apologies for not responding sooner; this is the first time I've been on-wiki in a while.

I wasn't able to find anything about Shannon Martin's 1999 candidacy in the databases to which I have access, but I did find this page, which confirms that one Shannon Martin of the CFIB ran in Kildonan against Dave Chomiak in 1999. I think, based on this, that we can reasonably assume it's the same person. CJCurrie (talk) 20:44, 19 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

American young adult novelists

My watchlist shows that you and AWB have moved numerous biographies from Category:Writers of young adult literature to American writers of young adult literature. Do you know that we have cat American young adult novelists, meaning American writers of YA novels? I learned that recently and since then moved several biog's there during the course of other editing. Has there been any related discussion?

(FWIW i doubt we should have the novelists cat, or anything parallel for people whose shorter fiction has been published.) --P64 (talk) 23:41, 19 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. Winners of the Edwards and Printz Award are not all American. They do all write English-language young adult literature. As far as I know, all write novels primarily. --P64 (talk) 23:46, 19 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

AfD for Willy Monfret

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Moose Jaw City Council article

Hi Bearcat, I have created and article that's titled Moose Jaw City Council, Moose Jaw City Council is the governing body of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. And administrator by the name of User:Cindamuse speedy deleted by mistake cause it's was an A7. I work hard on the Moose Jaw City Council article with the citation sources and other Moose Jaw related articles. Could you talk to User:Cindamuse on why you deleted by speedy deleted by mistake. And also could you create the Moose Jaw City Council for yourself as a request and improve the Moose Jaw City Council article by avoiding speedy deletion and I will edit some changes on the Moose Jaw City Council article. This is my first time creating an article from a few years ago. Could you talk to User:Cindamuse the deleted administrator to never deleted the Moose Jaw City Council. If I re-created the Moose Jaw City Council and I will show it to you and improve your changes by editing. And after that, either you create the article and I make changes or I create the article and I show it to you and improve your changes. Thanks for your help, and I will reply you back later. Steam5 (talk) 06:19, 21 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Squamish CfD

I don't know if you've been watching it at all, so far only myself and CambridgeBayWeather and an IP user are Canadians in the discussion; and as usual I'm finding myself having to re-explain the obvious so many times to people who refuse to acknowledge it as relevant (that the PRIMARYTOPIC of "Squamish" means that it can't be used in the category name as has again been done by someone (a) with no knowledge of BC or (b) no knowledge of the native people in question). The bigoted display of anglo-chauvinism on what is now Talk:Squamish people, in the lead-up to the RM and in hte RM itself, is where this "bad call" on a category name-change started, and once again we have people with no knowledge of Canadian geography or aboriginal/cultural issues weighing in with more bad ideas, and "not getting" both their own chauvinism or the geographic realities they're flouting. Could Category:Squamish ever have been for the town, given that the town article needed disambiguation anyway? Probably not, but it can't be used for the ethnic group either, not by itself.....which the Nevadan indigenous person who weighed into this fracas just doesn't get, nor does anyone else currently there (but CambridgeBay Weather, myself, and that IP user), and they're talking about more disambiguation, without having any useful ideas (Category:Squamish (First Nations) has been proposed, for example, when no other similar disambiguation exists)) and the waiting in the wings obvious Category:Skwxwu7mesh continues to be disregarded..... but hell, if it were as simple as ignoring the CfD outcome from last year, as Usyvidi has done, I shoudl have just ignored the CfD myself and created that on my own.....instead of respecting due process....instead of chorus of me-toos are supporting the person who flouted the process. I'm not happy with Category:Squamish people for the ethnic group and never have been; but Category:Squamish had already been junked by consensus and should have stayed that way; it's similar to using Category:Ottawa for the category for the Odawa people. Vegaswikian has pointed out that category names of this kind should be WP:SALTed to prevent further mucking-about, but in the meantime the issue remains of people from outside the country, with no knowledge of the subject matter, but armed with guidelines and examples, wading in and renaming things to suit themselves, no matter what the locals (us) have to say about it. And I get very tired of "people might listen to your points if you didn't write so much" and decisions like "I might have agreed with Skookum1's preference if not for his behaviour"....where in Wikipedia guidelines about AfDs, CfDs, RMs does it say anything about making someone's personality a deciding factor?? And if I 'm not allowed to criticize what other people's ideas/logics are and why they're wrong, that's tantamount to saying that bad ideas cannot be criticized and have to be taken at face value. On the one hand Uysvidi wants consistency re other "FOO people" categories, and points at the Category:Squamish people as being anomalous within Category:First Nations in British Columbia, but she doesn't get that the other endonym-categories are based on "authentic" names, not "most common anglicisms", e.g. Nlaka'pamux vs. Thompson, Secwepemc vs. Shuswap...and that if anglicisms were used for them, we'd have another bunch of geoname collisions ujust like we do with "Squamish"....consistency? Then recognize that Category:Skwxwu7mesh is in harmony with the other FNs in BC subcategories..and that the collision with teh town-meaning of Category:Squamish people is too easily confusable with Category:People from Squamish, British Columbia. These are the core issues in my "walls of text" which people say offends them; I think what really offends them is being told their ideas are wrong and that they shouldbn't make decisions about subjects they really know nothing about...Skookum1 (talk) 08:05, 21 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

February 2014

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Moose Jaw City Council article, Part 2

Hi Cat, I have re-created the same article and I have replaced the city's own website and replace it with a media source from a Moose Jaw newspaper website. Now could you go to the article title Moose Jaw City Council and improve some changes for yourself and I also added 2009-2012 Moose Jaw councillors in the last election in 2009. I improve the article for the last time that User:Cindamuse speedy deleted because it was an A7. Go to the Moose Jaw City Council article and improve your changes and let me know what do you think of my better creation. Thanks, Cat and reply me back as soon as possible. Steam5 (talk) 01:25, 22 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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My verification editing on Wikipedia

Hi Bearcat,

As an administrator you previously edited a page I created RJ Tolson, and I wanted to ask for some verification. I believe that my assessment of some of the editing done recently on it is inaccurate and such I reverted based on an abundance of notable sources, but I would be grateful if you would look over my edits on the article I have created to make your own assessments, is possible.

I did some background research of course, but better safe than sorry. KickStartWrit (talk) 13:53, 22 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Keith Loris

Hi Bearcat. I am coming to you as someone I trust as I don't often get involved with deletions and I know that things keep changing. Please check that I have followed the correct procedure here. Much appreciated. Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia (talk) 21:27, 25 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Bearcat. I did place a deletion template, but it has in the meantime already been taken down. I thought that once a notice goes up it has to be discussed before being taken down? Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia (talk) 21:39, 25 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your help. It is appreciated. Regards, Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia (talk) 22:12, 25 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Radio stations licensed in Chilliwack at CFD

Hi Bearcat. I replace a category titled Category:Radio stations in Chilliwack, the title is matched per parent category called Category:Radio stations in British Columbia. One user is opposed speedy deletion on Category:Radio stations licensed in Chilliwack. That category is no need to add the word "licensed". The category Category:Radio stations licensed in Chilliwack supposed to be deleted in favour of Category:Radio stations in Chilliwack to match with parent category Category:Radio stations licensed in British Columbia. You can feel free to participate and discuss on the propose deleted category. There's the link right there right there. I will see you at CfD. Steam5 (talk) 02:39, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Create Categories

Hi Bearcat,

I see that you removed redlinked category on an article (or articles) of mine. How do I create a new category? Margavriel (talk) 03:17, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Chilliwack article

Hi Bearcat, Someone has undid my editing the Chilliwack article. The user's name is User:Buffalkill has added Category:Cities in British Columbia and Category:Cities in Canada on the Chilliwack article. On the Category:Cities in Canada category there is no need to add an article it can go to multiple Canadian categories and a double categorization. Could you take a look at the history page at the Chilliwack article. There is User:Buffalkill making unsourced editing many times. Could you talk to User:Buffalkill and warn the user never make unsourced editing and do not double categorize Cities in British Columbia and Cities in Canada categories. And the don't forget the Cfd I nominate the category Category:Radio stations licensed in Chilliwack is still ongoing. You can still participate in the CFD discussion on why the Category:Radio stations licensed in Chilliwack to be deleted in favour of Category:Radio stations in Chilliwack. The link is right there. This my warning message. Thanks for you attention. Steam5 (talk) 06:52, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

category question

Hi, a drive-by editor inserted a category on an article which i removed, only to be reverted by another editor who seems "passionate" about this. I think the category is misplaced but is it worth delving into? Is it appropriate for the group? They don't seem to be on the level of the KKK, etc. Ideas? Sportfan5000 (talk) 18:39, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Metro Moncton

The population information does not add up. It says 107,086 which doesn't makes sense unless it includes (Moncton, Dieppe, and Riverview) also since Dieppe and Riverview is not included in this list and it says Large Urban as opposed to medium and small that is why I changed it. if it is just Moncton then we should update the Population numbers.Hogie75 20:06, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

  • Interesting. It is confusing but I think I understand it now. Thanks for the Info.Hogie75 20:29, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

Hi Bear Cat

Can you help me out. I would like to add categories to Utan but I do not know how to find the list of category names. Also do you have any suggestions on what categories a food dish should go in and especially a ethnic food dish? PinoyVeggie (talk) 09:45, 1 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Categories

Is there a 'list of biographical categories' so I can select the right one for Leonell C. Strong. (An equivalent for food related topics would suit the immediately preceeding queryist). Jackiespeel (talk) 10:51, 2 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Such lists are something for 'the proverbial someone else to set up' :)

Much easier to decide upon categories when one is in charge of a small wiki.

Mainly a case of 'passing the parcel' for someone else to develop the article. (Is there a suitable phrase for WP - salami tactics/eating the artichoke implies that being acted upon are being reduced.)

Could you rename the National Archives of Botswana page to agree with the website (link provided). Jackiespeel (talk) 21:56, 2 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Custard

Hey, Bearcat,
I ran into a puzzling anomaly. I was looking at Category:Wikipedia articles with content issues and, for some reason, Custard is the only article filed there. The category is applied to the article and I can't see any way to remove it from the article. When this usually happens, it's because the category is assigned because of a template placed on the article but I looked at the code for the page and I can't find any one that would place this random category on this article.
Not a big issue, in the scheme of things but this category is composed of subcategories and this one article. It would be "cleaner" to file the article under one of the subcategories if it still has content issues. Any idea how to solve this? Liz Read! Talk! 02:27, 4 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) When a page is listed in a category, but the category is not shown at the bottom of the given page (or vice versa), this indicates that two portions of the Wikipedia database are out of synchronisation. Try a WP:PURGE; if that doesn't work, a WP:NULLEDIT will normally fix it. --Redrose64 (talk) 07:32, 4 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Actually the problem was exactly the opposite of that; a category was appearing on the article that wasn't actually declared on the page, but was being transcluded by a template. Bearcat (talk) 08:01, 4 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Indeed, either way round is fixed in the same way. I based my comment on the sentence "I was looking at Category:Wikipedia articles with content issues and, for some reason, Custard is the only article filed there." so I assumed that the cat didn't show at the bottom of the article but the article was listed on the cat page. --Redrose64 (talk) 08:15, 4 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar of Diligence

The Barnstar of Diligence
I am both pleased and honored to present you with the Barnstar of Diligence in appreciation for your pre-emptively dealing with an issue at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Walter's Christmas before it became major. Well done. Schmidt, Michael Q. 10:03, 5 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

...however

I think stating "dialogue in both the film and series consists of non-linguistic gibberish", implies that all dialogue is in "gibberish". Not quite correct. This video of Le Noël De Walter Et Tandoori is most definitely in understandable French and this one of Walter & Tandoori's Christmas is definitely in understandable English. Perhaps clarifying that in the films, it is only the character of Walter who speaks "in a mumbling dialect that's somewhere between gibberish and a nondescript accented English" as a means of spoofing Canadians might be more accurate per the citation? Good job, none-the-less. Schmidt, Michael Q. 10:23, 5 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

HillarySmith1995

This user is a definite duck of HillarySmith1992 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) with the same behavior; feel free to definitely block and nuke their contributions. Nate • (chatter) 06:49, 7 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Ralph Dfouni

Dear Bearcat, just saw that the article about Ralph Dfouni was deleted... This is a work in the making and rather than deleting it, I would suggest giving positive guidance and indications... Maybe one option is to go more closely by the wiki guidelines which can be even more objective and neutral... Please do post it back to that our iterative cooperation can become more fruitful by rendering a just due to one very talented artist who works closely and contribute positively to the artistic scene in Montreal... I am sure that cooperation can be constructed rather than simple deletion which hides talent and prevents other from the nice discovery component. Thank you...(talk) — Preceding undated comment added 10:57, 8 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of The City of Miami Television

The article The City of Miami Television has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

multiple issues as tagged

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An RfC that you may be interested in...

As one of the previous contributors to {{Infobox film}} or as one of the commenters on it's talk page, I would like to inform you that there has been a RfC started on the talk page as to implementation of previously deprecated parameters. Your comments and thoughts on the matter would be welcomed. Happy editing!

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Categories, socks, and nuking

Just re-create 'em instead of restoring. It's a question of denying credit. DS (talk) 22:43, 8 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Okay. I concede my error, and I'll be more careful should that circumstance arise again. Thank you for cleaning up the wreckage that I created in the process of cleaning up other wreckage. DS (talk) 23:44, 8 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Deletion of page: Sarah Anne Johnson

Hi there,

Could you please give me some information as to why the page on the well-known Canadian Artist Sarah Anne Johnson was deleted? Any guidance would be very much appreciated.

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Let's talk grammar

Hi,

thanks for the edits on Tom at the Farm - gargantuan sentence constructions are quite common in my native language and they do not necessarily translate to English all that well : ) Although I do not agree that dropping "To which" from "Dolan responded “you can kiss my narcissistic ass” on his Twitter account." is a good idea - this sentence is too "abrupt" then, because the idea of the whole paragraph are the reviews and this sentence is trivia-like and not connected to the rest of the paragraph, therefore additional contrast and leading would really help the style. Such constructions are often used in comedy (e. g. Jimmy Fallon uses it lot in his monologues) and for punchlines in particular, because it then contrasts nicely with the rest of the joke. I would agree to removing the "To which" if the whole paragraph would be about the relationship of that particular reviewer and the director, but it is not.

I do not agree with your opinion. I have found 132 usages of "to which" starting the sentence in the Corpus of Contemporary American English (http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/). "Why is she doing this?" Mr. Blansett asked of the regulatory campaign. To which Ms. Autor replied, "It is not something that happened out of the blue." (New York Times) "Tonight we have eight career politicians, an officer and a gentleman," he said. To which Braun replied: "And a lady." (Washington Post) [...] homeopathic doctors were essentially prescribing nothing but distilled water to their patients. To which homeopathic defenders poetically reply [...] (Esquire)

You can clearly see that such construction is used to refer to something said earlier and that is exactly the case with the sentence we are talking about.

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Talkback

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Genie question (what else?)

Should I not have added a link to the first Genies where the best a Animation award was given, because it wasn't then called (apparently) Best Animated Short. I'd suggest we do, and just adjust the lead to note this award has been named differently over time. But of course if you object, I won't. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 17:32, 22 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Rob Maness

You PRODded this, and it was deleted. Undeletion has been requested on my talk page, so I have restored it, see also User talk:Khronos21#Rob Maness, and now notify you in case you want to consider AfD. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 17:17, 23 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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please take the time to read this.

See here. Dislike me as you may, I consider you the dean of WPCANADA in terms of judicious behaviour and right action; what has been going on with the pack-hounding of me is reprehensible, especially considering I have been acting under the mandate of WP:CSG#Places and Hyw43's encouragement to file these RMs. I do not have the stomach for more procedure given the way I have been treated, otherwise would be filing ANIs on all parties in question (Vegaswikian, JorisV, Fayenatic london, Kwami, and Uysvdi). Biased and hostile actions and words on their part are extremely un-wikipedian and guidelines are being flouted, and making me the whipping boy for those who (a) can't read or concentrate or just don't want to read what they don't want to hear and one-sided chastisements re wikiquette. Content and guidelines should be the priority; instead it seems there is a concerted effort to drive me out of Wikipedia so that I'm out of their way. Atlin, Comox and Squamish all need action at higher levels to resolve "bad closures" but it's clear from what I read at MoveReview that I'm not the person who will be given a fair hearing there; and ANI seems incestuous, though granted you and CambridgeBayWeather and Floydian and others in WPCANADA are admins, so present company excepted. Please take the time to read my post just linked, as I realize you may not read my posts regularly by force of habit.Skookum1 (talk) 05:57, 31 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Skookum1, I did not encourage you to file any RMs. I asked that WP:CANLIST be updated with those RMs that were successful so that CANLIST remains current. This is the second time you've referred back to my comments incorrectly. Here is my comment regarding the first. I've assumed good faith both times. Please be more careful in referring to the comments of others in the future. If it persists, my assumption of good faith will dissolve. Hwy43 (talk) 14:16, 6 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I'm sorry I misread you or didn't understand that when you said on CANTALK or wherever I asked about moving comma-province to no-comma-province, you said "go ahead" that you meant in any way that RMs should not be used; many I moved without needing them, as there were unused redlinks available. But when encountering the "redirect in the way" advisory when that is the case, I simply followed the directions and normal procedure and filed RMs, and I'm sorry I mentioned you as "telling me to" (get them de-comma-province'd) and should have only mentioned the consensus within WPCANADA and at CANSTYLE as the consensus mandate for doing so, since I was getting disputes from non-Canadians that CANSTYLE even was valid; Being advised since by Floydian and others that I should have just posted the comma-province moves needing an admin on CANTALK instead of going to RM and encountering the blockading that I have, I regret ever thinking that proper procedure was going to be advisable, or that CANSTYLE would not be so readily thrown into dispute and ENGVAR along with it. I'm sorry to have embarrassed you, no AGF was intended, I was simply saying that I was not acting in my own, but after having consulted the main other "communities" editor for WPCANADA per what CANSTYLE says; was it time to clean up all the remaining province-dabs outstanding; you'd said yeah go ahead (sorry don't have the precise wording handy) and so I did; and encountering redirect problems, filed RMs........Skookum1 (talk) 06:36, 7 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
RfC? Arbcom? Mediation? ANI? I don't understand the higher levels of the bureaucracy...what I do know is that the bureaucracy's obsession with its own importance has engendered a situation where too much is being treated as "Holy Writ" when per the Fifth Pillar "there are no rules". I'm tired of being "spanked" by people with openly partisan, hostile and POV agendas.....but there seems to be little point in even going "upstairs" even if I knew where to go. I know where "they" would like me to go......see Kwami's rude putdowns on the WP:NCET talkpage (never mind on repeated RMs he wants to have shut down, which are explicit NPAs that none of those harassing me officially have taken action on and have told me to shut up about "or else"). and note Usyvdi's silence in respond to direct, polite questions.Skookum1 (talk) 06:02, 31 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Wallbridge

Shouldn't a hatnote be used in this case with only two targets? Also, shouldn't the article remain undabbed until an article on the English town exists? - Floydian τ ¢ 18:46, 5 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

coat of arms of canada

official but low quality
please notice the brighter colours, the details and style etc
Hello, i want to know someone who can fix the official coat of arms of cananada file. while the file might be official, the low quality :
makes the fact about officialy not as true, do you know someone who can fix the file?
if you look on the rendition then you will notice the better quality and better colours and details and style
see http://www.pch.gc.ca/eng/1359469552514/1359469845405#a1 under "the proclamation" it looks more alike the rendition than the file on wikipedia 95.199.197.181 (talk) 21:55, 6 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tommy Malone

I am not trying to "persistently" spam this page and would like to make the content usable. As I said I am new to Wikipedia, please explain how it is a promotional tone(what sections/parts), if you feel the biography is not appropriate for Wikipedia then it could have been removed with the other content remaining. I will gladly edit/remove ANYTHING neccessary but now you have made it so only an administrator can make an edit. Not all of the content should have been removed because it was informational. The sources are not only his website and they are completely reliable and provide correct information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Michellem024 (talk • contribs) 02:31, 8 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Finish Ticket (band) Page

Hi. It says that in 2011 you deleted a page for the band Finish Ticket due to lack of notability. Since then they have been covered by grammy.com and nbc and are playing at Outside Lands Music and Art Festival. What are your thoughts on creating a new page for them? Bwallace722 (talk) 06:30, 9 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding your reply on my talk page:

Fair enough. I'll hold off on remaking the page right now. Thanks for the thoughtful response. Bwallace722 (talk) 21:56, 12 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Tommy Malone#Protected edit request on 10 April 2014

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Tommy Malone#Protected edit request on 10 April 2014. Jackmcbarn (talk) 19:01, 10 April 2014 (UTC)Template:Z48[reply]

Tommy Malone Help

I appreciate all the information you provided. I am going to make adjustments so the content complies with the policies and rules.

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