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Assessment for WPCANADA
Can you give me some examples of articles I put in the wrong class? I gave an A-rating to any article that looked fairly long without being full of fluff that had good references. --Arctic Gnome 01:55, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
- Fair enough. I'll keep an eye out for that stuff when tagging articles' class. However, I have to disagree with you about the lists. The criteria to be a featured list is quite a bit easier than to be a featured article. I think most list that are complete, have references, and aren't trivial could be nominated for featured status under WP:FL, and would therefore be A-class. --Arctic Gnome 18:10, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
CCOTW
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Cuba
I see that you mentioned on Z's talk page that you'll be coming to Cuba soon. Where are you visiting ? -- Beardo 11:42, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
- So hadn't you better write an article for Bacuyanagua ? -- Beardo 18:30, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
"Calgaty [sic] Zoo"
I guess I was thrown by the two things: 1) the editor was from an anonymous IP address with an atrocious record of vandalism. 2) The edits included "Calgaty". Thanks for handling the reversion calmly. Hu 01:34, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
Trans-Canada Highway
Nice visual work on your new Trans-Canada Highway image. Can I bug you to make a couple of changes to it, however? You have a couple of routes marked in red that shouldn't be (Highway 6 through Manitoulin Island and the Bruce Peninsula, Highway 11 south of North Bay, Highway 400 south of Coldwater, Highway 401) and a couple of routes not marked in red that should be (Highway 69/400 from Sudbury to Coldwater, Highway 66/Route 117 from Kirkland Lake to Montreal). I've uploaded an image to show you the needed corrections; it's at the right. Routes that I traced over in black shouldn't be marked as parts of the TCH, and routes that I traced over in green should be. You can confirm all of this on the appropriate highway articles and at Trans-Canada Highway if needed. Thanks. Bearcat 01:31, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
- Done, thanks for the heads-up. --Qyd 01:54, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
- Great...but why did you also unmark the Yellowhead Highway? (Oh, and I'm also getting a weird inconsistency — sometimes Highway 11 south of North Bay is unmarked, as it should be, but sometimes it's still showing as red. Might just be my cache being weird or something, but I thought I should let you know just in case.) Bearcat 02:02, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
- Oops forgot about the yellowhead, corrected that one now. Yes, it has to be chache if it's nor consistent, I had to F5 several times before it was displayed correctly after upload. Don't hesitate to let me know of any errors, it's obvious that I need some supervision with this... or maybe some sleep. --Qyd 02:12, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
- Heh, no worries. There is one more correction I might have to throw at you, but I'm going to have to double-check it first: there's conflicting information about the status of Highway 71 and the westernmost leg of Highway 11. Some sources say that route is part of the TCH, but I also have maps that don't have it marked as such, so I have to confirm whether the maps just have it wrong, or whether it used to be part of the TCH and isn't anymore, or whatever else is going on. Obviously not your fault, of course. Bearcat 02:32, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
- Turns out I am going to have to bug you one more time; I've gotten confirmation that the 11/71 route is designated as part of the TCH. I tried to save you the trouble by just fixing it myself, but as you can see I did something wrong and my upload at Image:TransCanadaHWY2.png didn't turn out quite right. But if you need the clarification at all, it'll at least show you what route to add (of course, if you don't need the clarification, then there's no need to worry.) Obviously I don't know British Columbia or Alberta as well as I do Ontario and Quebec, but apparently Highway 5 is also designated as TCH — if you need clarification on those, on your map it's the grey line between the Yellowhead and the TCH mainline that's closest to the BC-Alberta border. The Crowsnest Highway (the line that zigzags right along the Canada-US border in BC and then starts snaking upward to hit the TCH mainline at Medicine Hat) also seems to have a weird quasi-TCH status; according to its article it isn't officially part of the TCH itself, but is part of the national highway system. So we could (a) colour it as TCH, (b) not colour it at all, or (c) colour it differently to denote its different status — and I really don't know what would be the best approach to take. Sorry to make myself such a pest :-) Bearcat 04:04, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
- Heh, no worries. There is one more correction I might have to throw at you, but I'm going to have to double-check it first: there's conflicting information about the status of Highway 71 and the westernmost leg of Highway 11. Some sources say that route is part of the TCH, but I also have maps that don't have it marked as such, so I have to confirm whether the maps just have it wrong, or whether it used to be part of the TCH and isn't anymore, or whatever else is going on. Obviously not your fault, of course. Bearcat 02:32, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
- Oops forgot about the yellowhead, corrected that one now. Yes, it has to be chache if it's nor consistent, I had to F5 several times before it was displayed correctly after upload. Don't hesitate to let me know of any errors, it's obvious that I need some supervision with this... or maybe some sleep. --Qyd 02:12, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
- Great...but why did you also unmark the Yellowhead Highway? (Oh, and I'm also getting a weird inconsistency — sometimes Highway 11 south of North Bay is unmarked, as it should be, but sometimes it's still showing as red. Might just be my cache being weird or something, but I thought I should let you know just in case.) Bearcat 02:02, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
I've added the west Ontario hwy 11+71 strech (found confirmation on a mapset about that too). As far as I know and my maps confirm that, Crowsnest Highway is not designated as TCH (although it is interprovincial AB+BC). I've used it many times, and saw no TC green marker either. I found no evidence about BC highway 5 being part of the trans-canada system, and I don't believe it is. The strech between Kamloops and Chilliwack (the southern portion of the highway, between TC1 and highway3/Crowsnest) is an expressway, and considered a faster alternative than highway 1 detour through Cache Creek and Lytton, that might have confused the editor at the Highway 5 page, but it doesn't make it officuially part of TCH. --Qyd 11:46, 13 December 2006 (UTC) PS: your image editor doesn't seem to support transparancy, I can add a white background if you want. --Qyd 11:49, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
BC municipality infobox and BC portal
I was actually trying to get the link appear in one cell. The problem with adding the link to the pages manually is that it's time-consuming. Plus, we can add a few parameters to make it a bit more customizable. -- Selmo (talk) 00:13, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
About "enlargement"
Hi. In the Dalhousie (C-Train) article you made this edit with the comment "enlarge pic". Actually, you enlarged it for only some people, but shrank it for other people, like me, who have "300px" set as the default image size in our "user preferences". Ideally everybody chooses the size of image thumbnails in their user preferences, so it shouldn't be set in the article. Now, if you feel it is necessary to enlarge the image, which sometimes it is, then its best to make it at least 300px wide, since that ensures the new image size, is at least as big as any user's default size. So, I would recommend removing the width specification or making it 300px (as opposed to the 200px you have now). --Rob 01:58, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
Montreal
I noticed that you made the two columm change to the notes section. It does give a bit of a odd result on certain monitors. On 2 out of 3 that I checked it cuts the reference into to parts. For example the one I'm looking at right now shows the number 14 on the bottom of the left column and the link that matches it is on the top of the right column. So when you click on the number in the article (it's in Demographics Religions) you jump to the bottom of the page and all you see is the number 14 and no external link. Now if you increase the text size it get even stranger. The first 13 are ok but then 14 becomes a scond 13 and 15 becomes 14 and so on. But the article links to them correctly. Odd. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 11:04, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
- I tried to replicate the behaviour but couldn't (maybe because I re-formated that reference before). --Qyd 17:39, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your work on the Canadian petroleum history series. It helped a lot. 13:26, 26 December 2006 (UTC)— Preceding unsigned comment added by Pmbcomm (talk • contribs) 06:26, December 26, 2006 (UTC)
- I still believe there is a lot of work on those articles, mainly concerning tone (it needs a change from essey to encyclopedic).--Qyd 17:39, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
Aerial view of the hamlet of Cheadle, Alberta.
Hello! How's it going? I noticed you submitted an Aerial view of the hamlet of Langdon, Alberta. It's a great shot. I was wondering if you managed to capture any from Cheadle which is not far from Langdon. I remember a small plan doing several low passes over Cheadle last November-ish. Looked like they were taking Aerial shots. Maybe that was you? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jgosteli (talk • contribs) 20:41, 27 December 2006 (UTC).