User talk:Ahunt

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7&6=thirteen (☎) 12:49, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

Breakfast time here, but thank you! - Ahunt (talk) 13:10, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

Leaders Pictures

Hey Ahunt, I wanted to know if I need to go to the Talk page to change a leader's picture or if I can simply be bold. I found more recent pictures for two of the leaders. I have a new picture for Trudeau that was taken during the G7. It's in the public domain. And I also found campaign pictures for Scheer that are in the public domain. They don't go against what we previously said in the Talk page (a leader looking at another one).

This is the Trudeau one : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:-G7Biarritz_(48622478973).jpg

Here are the Scheer ones : https://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewscheer/48859362463/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewscheer/48859697821/

I'm not sure which one is better between the first and second to be honest. Which one do you think is better?

There's also this one, but it's not as good as the two others : https://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewscheer/48859595631/

I'm annoyed there isn't anything new for Blanchet, since his picture is 10 years old. Same thing for May, it's annoying that her picture is a bit old now. Bernier's is fine, since it isn't old.

Finally, I found this one for Singh: https://www.flickr.com/photos/usw-metallos/39604732844/in/photolist-WSzuF2-23Swwhs-2eWG4UT-SNSQs3-aHyvVk-QTeiFH-23kJBgs-NCx771-29EG8Mb-29EGacA-2heh3YA-2hb7F63/ It's not as recent as the others I have (it's around the same period as the picture from now, i.e. 2018), but it seems to be a better picture. What do you think? MikkelJSmith (talk) 20:38, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

Nevermind, I went and did it. We'll see how it goes. MikkelJSmith (talk) 21:54, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

LOL, I was going to suggest you ought to take it to the talk page first, as leaders' photos on election articles are always contentious. That would go doubly where you want to use "official" pictures for Scheer, but more "incidental" photos for the other. But let's see if anyone reverts. - Ahunt (talk) 22:01, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

I'm not touching Singh, since I know there's not going to be consensus on that one. MikkelJSmith (talk) 22:16, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

The main concern you may hear is that Scheer's photo has Canadian flags in the background. That is usually a no-no for us: "wrapping one candidate in the flag". - Ahunt (talk) 22:43, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

I'll change it then MikkelJSmith (talk) 22:44, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

- Ahunt (talk) 22:49, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

Thoughts on the new one? I may update it again if Scheer posts a good picture on Flickr (without the flag). He seems to upload one every day. They're all in the public domain so it's fine. MikkelJSmith (talk) 23:06, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

It looks better. You might want to scale it so all the leaders appear the same size, though. - Ahunt (talk) 23:07, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

Could you do it? I can't right now. MikkelJSmith (talk) 23:14, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

I am actually not sure how you were doing that! - Ahunt (talk) 23:59, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

So, it seems I can't zoom out... Scheer decided to wear a vest with the CPC logo, so I can't zoom out since showing the logo would show implicit bias I think. I think Pierre Poilievre actually was fined for wearing a shirt like that in 2015 I believe. Elections Canada ruled that it showed bias if I remember correctly. I'll have to wait for them to post a better picture. Hopefully, it happens. Looking at it quickly it seems they have some good pictures but much like the old Trudeau picture from the White House, he isn't looking to the front and we decided that was a no-no. MikkelJSmith (talk) 15:21, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

Okay thanks for your efforts! - Ahunt (talk) 00:56, 11 October 2019 (UTC)

Diamond DA20

I've replied to you at Talk:Diamond DA20 but I'm not sure the ping worked. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 07:09, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the note, I do watch that page. - Ahunt (talk) 12:15, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

Could you take the image reversal to the talk page?

Hey, since you raised the issue about the flags earlier and you have seniority over me. I was wondering if you could raise the issue about the new Scheer picture in the talk page. Someone put it back to the one with the flags. MikkelJSmith (talk) 02:41, 11 October 2019 (UTC)

LOL, no one has seniority on Wikipedia. Feel free to raise it there. - Ahunt (talk) 12:12, 11 October 2019 (UTC)

I'm not sure this qualifies as news or not

Hello Ahunt, as you've probably realized I have a bit more free time right now, which is why I've been catching up on some edits I hadn't done. I was wondering something. There's a story that came out this week and unlike the other stuff that I plan to add I'm not sure if this is noteworthy. So, I wanted to know what you think. We had this information that came out from CPC insiders : https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/2019/10/10/scheer-campaign-faces-leadership-speculation-as-election-day-nears.html https://apple.news/AcoCPYFY3Spah3gxl7IGfzA This one is paywalled but it's a development to the story : https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-despite-leadership-questions-scheer-says-conservatives-are-united/ This also references the development in the paywalled article https://www.nationalnewswatch.com/2019/10/11/despite-leadership-questions-scheer-says-conservatives-are-united-behind-him/ And finally there is this as the final development to the story : https://www.macleans.ca/politics/for-the-tories-peter-mackay-is-more-than-just-a-face-in-the-crowd/ Since we've had all these articles + some journalists asking questions and writing Scheer's response on Twitter I'm leaning towards news but I'm not sure.

What are your thoughts? Does this qualify as news?

MikkelJSmith (talk) 22:15, 11 October 2019 (UTC)

While interesting, I don't think it belongs in the election article, as it is really about what may or may not happen after the election. It might belong in Conservative Party of Canada, though. - Ahunt (talk) 01:30, 12 October 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for your input. That's where my doubts came from too. MikkelJSmith (talk) 01:33, 12 October 2019 (UTC)

WikiProject Canada 10,000 Challenge third anniversary

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Thanks for the note. I have created hundreds of new Canada-related articles in that period, mostly about Canadian sailboat designs and manufacturers. I'm not into competitions, though, as entering them all would take time away from writing new articles, but thanks anyway. - Ahunt (talk) 22:59, 12 October 2019 (UTC)

Wells endorsing the Grits

So, I'm trying to update the endorsement section right now and I'm a bit confused by this article. Is Wells endorsing the Liberals here : https://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/the-noise-and-the-stakes/? From what I saw online that's the conclusion other readers went to. MikkelJSmith (talk) 13:20, 16 October 2019 (UTC)

That is just one journalist, and, having read the article, he is very clearly not supporting either party, presenting it as more of a devil's choice. - Ahunt (talk) 13:54, 16 October 2019 (UTC)

Yeah, that was my conclusion too. I wasn't sure if it qualified as an endorsement lol. A bad endorsement maybe? I'm not going to add it. That was a joke.MikkelJSmith (talk) 14:13, 16 October 2019 (UTC)

LOLZ, well it was worth reading. The main complaint seems to be "no one worth voting for" and in that he is just reflecting what the voters are saying, too. - Ahunt (talk) 14:19, 16 October 2019 (UTC)

Yeah, which is why we can't really add it as an endorsement. By the way, I wanted to ask, this may sound dumb, but is my work on the election page biased? I do my best to fact-check and show what the source is saying. But, when I remove stuff (like I did right now) I get doubts that I'm biased. MikkelJSmith (talk) 14:35, 16 October 2019 (UTC)

I do check every edit on that page and your work looks pretty neutral to me. - Ahunt (talk) 14:46, 16 October 2019 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Civility Barnstar
	For your contributions to discussion in the talk page for the People's Party of Canada article. Thank you for upholding Wikipedia's values. CremationLily (talk) 01:05, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

Thank you very much for that. I try to do my part. - Ahunt (talk) 01:20, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

Tony misrepresenting sources

Hey Ahunt,

So, I've not edited in a while on the 2019 Canadian election page, but I still look at the edits. And I've realized that there's this guy called Tony removing stuff for "neutrality" even though it's already neutral and misrepresenting sources "due to bias". Is there anything we can do for that? JonathanScotty (talk) 03:18, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

Yeah WP:BRD. - Ahunt (talk) 03:29, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

It's just that he keeps trying to redo the same edits even though multiple people have reverted them already. JonathanScotty (talk) 03:47, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

@Ahunt: There is an investigation going on that JonathanScotty may have two accounts. An admin posted on his talk page. TonySavanto (talk) 04:28, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

I wasn't messaged by an admin... JonathanScotty (talk) 16:34, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

You'll need to take it to the article talk page and/or let the relevant sockpuppet investigation proceed to sort this out. - Ahunt (talk) 11:35, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

2019 Canadian federal election Aftermath section

Hey Ahunt, just wanted to know what do you think of an election aftermath section for the 2019 Canadian Election. It was done for previous ones. (I'd prefer if you wrote the answer on the Talk page over there if it's possible)? MikkelJSmith (talk) 19:18, 24 October 2019 (UTC)

 Done - Ahunt (talk) 19:32, 24 October 2019 (UTC)

Thank you, I think I didn't explain myself well on one part, so I clarified that (on the Talk page). I'll ignore the notices of congratulations like you said. MikkelJSmith (talk) 19:43, 24 October 2019 (UTC)

How to speedy delete

Hey Ahunt, I was wondering how do you speedy delete? Someone has made a copy of a part (timeline) of the 2019 Canadian election article and based on consensus people want the page gone, since there's no reason for its existence and it has a load of dead references. MikkelJSmith (talk) 00:04, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

WP:CSD. - Ahunt (talk) 02:08, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

Copyright ignorance

Hi Ahunt - thanks for your WikiWings on my recent Marcel Jurca articles. As you know they are pretty much devoid of images. There are several on the Jurca website that I'd like to use, but I've never uploaded other people's images, and my brain turns to mush when I look at Wikipedia's stuff about copyright.

Here is the Jurca copyright page copied from http://www.marcel-jurca.com/index.php/en-us/copyright-en

"All the materials of the site Marcel-Jurca.com are the exclusive property of the Marcel Jurca Comittee (CMJ). They are protected by the law.

The CMJ authorize the use of those materials in a non profit goal with the following conditions :

• It must promote and enlighten the lifework of Marcel Jurca;
• Before using the materials, you must send an e-mail to webmaster@marcel-jurca.com to announce the use you expect to make;
• A copyright © must inform that materials are the property of the Marcel Jurca Comittee and indicate the website address : www.marcel-jurca.com."

I've already sent the announcement email to them, though had no reply yet, but it doesn't state that I need to have a reply.

Could you please tell me which copyright option I should choose when uploading these images to Commons? Lestocq (talk) 15:54, 26 October 2019 (UTC)

I don;t think you can upload those to Wikipedia or Commons as their conditions don't comply with our licencing requirements on either site. To use them they would have to release them under a free licence. - Ahunt (talk) 16:08, 26 October 2019 (UTC)

What a shame - many thanks for your advice. On a similar tack, regarding the MJ-54 Silas, there's a long-dead site on Wayback Machine, tegas.net at https://web.archive.org/web/20050206143342/http://www.tegas.net/ (worth visiting for the animated GIF alone) with a 2-view sketch of the aircraft. I would love to use that, and I can find no copyright notice on thae Tegas site. Wayback Machine (Archive.org) T&Cs https://archive.org/about/terms.php seem to be OK - do you think I can use that? If so, can I claim fair use? Lestocq (talk) 17:19, 26 October 2019 (UTC)

Fair use can be claimed if there is no chance of getting a free image, if the aircraft no longer exist or are not available anywhere to photograph. - Ahunt (talk) 01:25, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Ah well, I'm hoping to get to La Ferté-Alais next year, so I may get to photograph it (or its remains) myself. Many thanks for your help. Lestocq (talk) 11:20, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

That is the ideal solution! - Ahunt (talk) 23:15, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for correcting

	Correct my mistake award
	I am awarding this trophy to thank you for correcting my stupid mistake on the 2019 Canadian election page MikkelJSmith (talk) 15:22, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

No problem, collaboration works! - Ahunt (talk) 16:32, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

It's weird that I'm working on the page more now that the election is over lol. Although, it's a lot less stressful now that the election is over. MikkelJSmith (talk) 21:44, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

The pressure is off! - Ahunt (talk) 01:04, 29 October 2019 (UTC)

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 Fixed - Ahunt (talk) 11:49, 29 October 2019 (UTC)

Change of rating at Talk:Wind-powered vehicle

Hi Ahunt, an editor, with whom I have some unproductive history, recently downgraded the quality rating of Talk:Wind-powered vehicle from B to C, without a substantive explanation. Perhaps you could you could look in on that and see which rating is warranted. Cheers, HopsonRoad (talk) 21:23, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

Will do! - Ahunt (talk) 22:13, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

I think it is "C" class at present. It has too many "citation needed" tags for "B", although I think everything else is there. - Ahunt (talk) 23:01, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

What to do if there's no proof that a picture is in the Creative Commons?

So, I was looking at this and the problem is that there's no proof that the picture is in the Creative Commons. The link gives nothing and it's not a person's work from the file description. Contrast this with Singh's new picture which is someone's own work. So, should I remove it from the articles it's in, since we have no proof we can use it? - MikkelJSmith (talk) 00:05, 5 November 2019 (UTC)

Yup it is on commons under a free licence: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jo-ann_roberts.jpg - Ahunt (talk) 00:50, 5 November 2019 (UTC)

It seems there was a misunderstanding, but nevermind someone did the investigation and found that the page was added even though it's copyrighted. - MikkelJSmith (talk) 19:12, 5 November 2019 (UTC)

Microsoft Edge

Hi! Microsoft has recently launched a new logo for its Edge browser and an user has uploaded that recent logo i.e, File:Microsoft Edge logo.svg.

Can you please edit the svg image to make it bigger and update the summary section?

Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2409:4062:186:356A:142E:6AE2:89DF:3DC0 (talk) 14:53, 6 November 2019 (UTC)

The logo is now set to 150px. Which summary section? - Ahunt (talk) 15:00, 6 November 2019 (UTC)

Should I put it on the election page so it goes faster?

Hey, Ahunt

As you probably saw I moved the policy section that was hidden on the 2019 Canadian election page to my sandbox to flesh it out. I realize now that it's going to take a while if I just do it by myself. So, I was wondering, should I post the table back on the page even if it's incomplete? That way multiple editors can work on it and filling it out can go faster.

- MikkelJSmith (talk) 04:07, 8 November 2019 (UTC)

It always helps to have more editors working on articles! - Ahunt (talk) 13:11, 8 November 2019 (UTC)

So I'm an idiot...

I lost my previous account after updating the password through a password generator(like LastPass) and forgetting to save it. Also, I had forgotten to add an email to the previous one too.

It's annoying tbh, since I lose my past edits and contributions.

I was really an idiot. I'll try and see if I can salvage it tomorrow (there's a chance I can).

Just wanted to give you a heads up. - MikkelJSmith2 (talk) 21:25, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

- try checking with an admin, they may be able to merge the two accounts! - Ahunt (talk) 21:37, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

Where do I go to do that? I honestly have no clue. - MikkelJSmith2 (talk) 21:45, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

You might try leaving a note at User talk:CambridgeBayWeather. He is a very helpful and knowledgeable admin. - Ahunt (talk) 21:50, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

I had no luck. I really am an idiot. I just linked to my previous account on my userpage and talkpage. That's the only thing I can do, besides an other thing I haven't checked yet (will do so later). But, I don't really have high hopes. - MikkelJSmith2 (talk) 14:58, 12 November 2019 (UTC)

I've now put the same notice on Wikimedia. - MikkelJSmith2 (talk) 15:00, 12 November 2019 (UTC)

Make sure you record your password! - Ahunt (talk) 16:00, 12 November 2019 (UTC)

It's been done. The only reason it happened last time is that I changed it on a PC that wasn't mine and forgot to send myself the new one. Also, since I had forgotten to add an email, which I honestly thought I did. I did that too this time. - MikkelJSmith2 (talk) 16:26, 12 November 2019 (UTC)