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As stated below, Wikipedia is not the place for photoshop fun'n'games. HDR photography does not belong in this article.-- 68.179.16.113 21:40, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
huh? its not hdr oye and i don't use photoshop i use gimp ever herd of a retinex filter?? 1ajs
Photoshop, GIMP, MS Paint, same difference. Save that stuff for your photography club. -- 68.179.16.113 12:44, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
ok then how about a fish eye http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Downtownwpg.jpg or this? http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/5447/panofu5.jpg 1ajs
Take a look at other cities' HDR photos. Denver, Dallas, Toronto, Atlanta, etc all show the downtown core from recognizable vantage point, and they're all largely 'unplayed with' photos. Clear and in real colour! As 68.179.16.113 said, this is not a place for photoshop fun'n'games. Nor is it a place for playtime wit' camera lenses. Sorry, try again. JacobTwo 22:57, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
yea well that reconizable vantage point you showed is well miss representing 1ajs
Once again we have an inappropriate picture on the front page. Let's get a normal colour shot of the city up there, please. 1ajs, you may want to look at some other cities' pages to get an idea of what works. -- 68.179.16.113 14:02, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
The image would be acceptable if it was in real colour. Try taking one from across the river in St. Boniface. JacobTwo 22:44, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
lol my pano from fort gary place gives a better feel for downtown does it not? i will go dig threw my images and such and find my none edited version or rebuild it again... wishs i had not forgoten my spare set of bateries that night woulda had an amazing sun set pano :( i havent realy had much luck with st b need to get above the tress..... but were to go :S 1ajs —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 1ajs ( talk • contribs) 01:24, August 21, 2007 (UTC).
The current picture for the infobox is not bad, but i still think the shot should be of the more 'classic' and common shot of Winnipeg's downtown. This is an encyclopedia, and the 'title' photo should be 'normal'(no special effects, whether they be fisheye, filtered, HDR, B and W, whatever--not on wikipedia!!!). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.202.44.27 ( talk) 04:00, August 30, 2007 (UTC)
point taken... 1ajs —Preceding unsigned comment added by 1ajs ( talk • contribs) 18:43, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
The pictures of Portage Ave. and the Royal Canadian Mint are framed TERRIBLY, so if someone could either retake those (I probably could) or remove them, that would be great.
-Richard
I would be happy to supply pictures of Portage Ave and any other required images of Winnipeg. As a Winnipeg stock photographer I have a large and diverse collection. Check out http://siamandas.com and http://manitobaalive.com. You might find it useful to supply these as external links. -- Siamandas 22:26, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
I have noticed the skyline and portage avenue photos are lacking as well (you cannot even see the portage roadway itself!) I'll take some photos soon to replace the current photos. JacobTwo 01:57, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
I have replaced the somewhat terrible photo of the Assiniboine Pavilion Gallery (also fixed the spelling error) Building, with something a little better. JacobTwo 00:06, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
How ironic. The image you just posted is the only one on the article that actually has snow in it. Disinclination 03:10, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
I don't see how that is ironic but yes......I find the winnipeg article lacking. Hope to replace the mint and portage ave. photos soon. JacobTwo 06:52, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
Ironic was probably not the best word. Disinclination 04:42, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
The photos for the article are a REAL issue. With recent image placements by users such as 1ajs, and any efforts on the part of users who might have some knowledge of what an encyclopedic image might be, being stamped out by people who post images that are heavily distorted or completely devoid of content. This user will no longer be making efforts to improve the quality of the photo in this article if the quality of edits by certain users continue.
The Winnipeg is a sub par city article as it is, and will continue to be so. JacobTwo 22:21, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
We really need the pictures to be looked at some more. The HDR image in the infobox is absolutely terrible for an encyclopedia. Even the photos of portage avenue are somewhat out of place, as they could have been taken in almost any city in the world. There is nothing saying Winnipeg in those photos. I like the suggestion of having P and M in there, as its a truly Winnipeg thing. But please change that HDR image, its very out of place. Wikipedia is not the place for your own photoshop adventures 207.161.47.99 22:42, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
would somthing like this work for a portage and main shot?
http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/1460/pmflr3.jpg
1ajs
No. If the image was square with no black void then maybe. JacobTwo 22:42, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
thats at 18mm on my lens with the fisheye macro thing atached i can play around with it one day and get some stuff
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Kirk's picture is great. Let's keep that one for now. :) vid 15:41, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
nice shot kcumming
aww we need a better shot of the pavilian at asiniboin park... the curent one is horible
1ajs
4 spelling mistakes out of 16 words. GOOD JOB! Apparently all the pictures I have taken are horrible. —Preceding unsigned comment added by JacobTwo ( talk • contribs) 20:18, August 25, 2007 (UTC)
If you spent your entire childhood travelling the world instead of going to school, you'd have bad spelling, too. Besides, it's not as bad as the txt msgn lng, a? vid 21:36, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
no offence jacob 2 but they are and yea i take alota crap to........ as for the spelling yea as vid has said i spent alota time as a kid not in school traveling the world can thank the blue chips for that.... 1ajs —Preceding unsigned comment added by 1ajs ( talk • contribs) 05:49, August 26, 2007 (UTC)
changed the skyline pic.... is it to dark?? 1ajs —Preceding unsigned comment added by 1ajs ( talk • contribs) 04:25, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
AJs pic was way too dark, I reverted it. The picture should reflect the city, an image showing the legislature, CBD and the urban trees would be the best angle, but no one has a free shot of that. Kirk's picture will do for now. vid 16:22, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
if you all as a colective don't want it as the head image representing winnipeg then change it... i not guna start a war not what we need... i just took a new shot from a diffrent angle with the river rouge that i felt should be the image there and being the other one
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/06/Wpgriversky.jpg/678px-Wpgriversky.jpg was to dark i took one of the others and litend it and cleaned all the dust specs outa the image... has to clean my ccd...
anyhow cheers 1ajs —Preceding
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having to many pics is not a good thing though jd.101 our wiki is sorta a rats nest that needs to be sorted... a meeting is probably needed to really sit down and get it the way a proper wiki entry should be... 1ajs —Preceding
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Although Winnipeg lists Minneapolis as a sister city, Minneapolis does not. I've checked their city website. Anyone have the facts on that one? jdobbin 19:24, 30 March 2006 (UTC)no
Just a quick note on the pedestrian/pedestrian-vehicular edit. According to the ISIS Canada site Esplanade Riel Pedestrian Bridge, the Esplanade Riel Pedestrian Bridge features twinned bridges, one for vehicles and commuter cyclists and one for pedestrians. CMacMillan 16:34, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
Was about to add something about Homer Simpson being a honorary Winnipegger based on [ [1]] and [ [2]], but perhaps a bit trivial. But if Winnie-the-Pooh warrants mention, then I reckon Homer could too. -- Ezeu 17:10, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
An excellent job by Qyd to condense the article. Further work should be done to move articles that require further detail to separate headings. In the fall of this year, what are people's thoughts on getting peer reviews of this article? jdobbin 00:32, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
The media list in a city article is meant to contain stations licensed to a city. Stations are only to be listed here if they operate in Winnipeg; stations licensed to Fargo or Grand Forks or Kenora are not to be listed here even if they are available OTA. Bearcat 09:20, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
I moved Riel's tomb off the main article main in favour of a statue of him. The politics section should expanded as it starts in 1900 and doesn't encompass the Riel years. jdobbin 16:21, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
I have requested that this article be renamed from "Winnipeg, Manitoba" to "Winnipeg" as this seems to be the new convention in naming the larger Canadian cities. For example the articles on Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa do not include the provinces in their titles. Any thoughts? -- 142.161.182.225 19:35, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
Suggest.....How about voting on the issue, by indicating on the talk page whether or not one would support or oppose the name change. We could have a cut off date of say, August 15th? -- 209.115.235.79 21:38, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
I understand it's been restored in recent years; my grandfather was the conductor of its orchestra until sometime before his death in 1916, and there's currently a redlink on his article at Endre Johannes Cleven. Is it significant enough to ever have an article, or should I take off the link? He also played in the orchestra, I don't know about conducting, at Winnipeg's Orpheum Theatre, whatever that is now, if it still exists. Any input on articles or subjects concerning Norwegian-Canadian immigration and society/cultural organizations in Manitoba that might have other bits of bio? And does anyone have access to the Free Press archives who might be able to look and find the obit and reports on the automobile accident mentioned in his article, which apparently was one of the first traffic fatalities in the Friendly Province? Skookum1 08:53, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
Shalom Everyone! I know that in Winnipeg is a Seventh-Day-Adventist Church. Have they German members? RussiaGermans? Simon Mayer.
What? So many churches!? With Germans I meant people, wich have a Russian-Mennonite origin!
This article has improved noticibly in recent months and its overall quality has surpassed the articles on Edmonton and Hamilton but is still of a lower calibre than those of Toronto, Calgary, or Vancouver. This article should be modelled on that of Chicago which has received a good quality award. To further improve this article I would suggest:
Any quality improvements by users is completely hampered by other users to have no sense of writing or photography. So why bother? JacobTwo 22:23, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
Hello fellow wikiholics.
are there any indian (asian indian) resturaunts / shopping in the city??
thanks. owe you guys one, in advance.
The result of the debate was Move. — Wknight94 ( talk) 19:45, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
Winnipeg, Manitoba → Winnipeg – Winnipeg already redirects to Winnipeg, Manitoba. No other significant usage other than Lake Winnipeg and Winnipeg River. -- Usgnus 19:46, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
Add "* Support" or "* Oppose" followed by an optional one-sentence explanation, then sign your opinion with ~~~~
Note that this move is also consistent with the current guidelines at the city naming conventions page. To quote: The canonical form for cities in Canada is City, Province/Territory (the "comma convention"). Places which either have unique names or are unquestionably the most significant place sharing their name, such as Quebec City or Toronto, can have undisambiguated titles. Those cities that need additional disambiguation include their county or parish. (emphasis added). -- Polaron | Talk 19:55, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
The writings of this onetime Winnipegger (1867-1884) are a valuable resource for someone interested in that period. Cheers! Stormbay 01:40, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
Pl. see discussion at Talk:Cityplace (Winnipeg). Pan Dan 14:37, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
I question the notability of the above article, and wonder what some of the editors over here think, and if possibly the above should just be merged into this article. Thanks.
The Winnipeg article could use a general clean-up. Should we propose it for a peer review? jdobbin 00:09, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
Still looking for help on the clean-up of the article. If anyone can do proper footnotes that would be great. jdobbin 17:03, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
I'd like to add recent retrieval dates for all of the footnotes. I have done a few. I hope some people could do a few more for the other notes. I will continue to look for citations for other factual claims on the article. jdobbin 17:29, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
... Really? Thats unique (mostly) to Winnipeg? Can we cite this, just in case? If it all possible. o_O Disinclination 20:07, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
Not so much a "Winnipeg" thing ...but certainly unique to Manitoba. I wouldn't want to see it mentioned as being unique to Winnipeg though. Paulsfunhouse 22:18, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
Why are the Jets given 3 times as much space as the Moose? the Jets belong in the Phoenix section as they are now the Coyotes. Also the Jets didn't really do anything notable during their time in the NHL (the "big leagues" as opposed to the AHL and WHA). If someone wants to read about how great the Jets were they can go look at that article IMHO. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.79.238.25 ( talk • contribs)
I just noticed the appalling lack of information on the Festival, including the fact that it had been going around with the wrong name. Maybe perhaps we could work on it as well? I do have a question though. If we are to take pictures of the sculptures around the city, would we be able to post them up on Wikipedia? I'm assuming they are considered public domain.. but I'm not sure. Disinclination 04:57, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
Maybe some of that info could be added to the St. Boniface, Manitoba article. -- Jimj wpg 04:27, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
I'm trying to add some citations to get rid of the tag. Please check em out and see if I'm of any help at all. :) Thanks. Disinclination 21:00, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
While I enjoy listing to CJOB for the occasional sports update or news bulletin, I don't think this is correct, or at least the wording of it. What about teenagers and young adults (13-25)? Most of the people I know in this age group listen to Hot 103 and Q 94 (Or.. Freak 107. Or whatever they are called nowadays). People who are close to my mother's own age (in or around their early 40's), as far as I've known, listen to the rock stations like 92 Citi FM or Power 97 (which plays new and old rock). And then there are the country listeners... It propbably also violates one of many Wikipedia "rules" in that we can't make biased or unreferenced claims, as well. Just thought I should bring this up. Disinclination 05:14, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Why don't you look at the link below before you assert that a statistic is biased or unreferenced. If anything it is your claims that are unreferenced and simply will not stand up to any meaningful investigation. I hardly know anyone that listens to Freq 107, and usually only women listen to Q94 or Hot 103, because as a rule they do not have very good taste in music (ie. overwhelming preference for bubble gum pop and dance music). Men overwhelmingly listen to Power 97, 92 CITI, or for news & sports CJOB, and I would suggest, just as a matter of common sense, that men listen to the radio far more than women. -- 206.45.165.35 16:35, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
http://www.mediaincanada.com/articles/mic/20061004/bray.html jdobbin 18:13, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Regardless of what you may think of the quality of the roads, the content you have entered is not appropriate for Wikipedia. It is unsubstantiated griping and represents your own point of view. Thus it is against Wikipedia's policies. Every time you enter it, there are more people here who are watching and will remove this content. If you persist, we'll have to request that you are blocked. And by the way, your history shows other instances of vandalism (the queen ain't dead). If you don't have anything useful to contribute, don't bother wasting your time.-- Kcumming 18:59, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
To combat auto theft Manitoba Public Insurance (MPI) brought in the Immobilizer. The Immobilizer is a system installed on vehicles that disables several vehicle systems thus making the vehicle almost unusable to potential thieves. Numerous problems have been found with the Immobilizer, including preventing the owner from starting their vehicle.
Shouldn't this statement have a citation attached to it? Paulsfunhouse 22:45, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
I don't know if this has been brought up, but I think the history and sports sections should be streamlined - link them to History of Winnipeg and Sports in Winnipeg and include in this article only more important bits of information. The new subjects will also allow a greater subject matter; ie: inclusion of local league sports, and sports infrastructure, etc. Vidioman 01:48, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
This article really needs to be referenced more, maybe a reference or two for each top level section. Also, there needs to be more than just history in the Government section. When these concerns are met feel free to contact me. Greeves ( talk • contribs • reviews) 22:30, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
Can somone please add this pic for the main photo for winnipeg. The pic thats there is terrible. http://www.manitobaphotos.com/bottom1.jpg
-I agree, the other picture doesnt show enough of the cityscape.
I am of the opinion that the architecture part of the article should be folded into the Geography section. I am also thinking this is a good place to write a neighbourhood section. What do people think? jdobbin 15:11, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
I reduced the amount of sections in the table of contents as per guidelines for Wikipedia. I moved some of the articles off the main page altogether. jdobbin 22:28, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
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A Winnipeg Free Press editor wants to do a story on someone from Winnipeg who is an administrator or who contributes most to Wikipedia. I am certainly not that person. Can you help? His contract number is: Morley Walker Books editor/Entertainment columnist Winnipeg Free Press 1355 Mountain Ave. Winnipeg, MB, Canada R2X 3B6
Email: morley.walker@freepress.mb.ca jdobbin 02:09, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
There is a standard that we use on Wikipedia to make all city articles follow a similar layout. At some point, the article was re-arranged and no longer follows that standard.
The layout is as follows:
You can view a more in-depth explanation here.
I would suggest re-arranging the article to fit that standard, as it would make GA qualification more likely in the future. Vidioman 21:44, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
Is it really necessary? vid 03:13, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
This should be checked, several Russian cities, all larger than Winnipeg, may well be colder; the best contender is Krasnoyarsk (pop. 900,000), but also Novosibirsk (1.4 million), Omsk (1.1 million), and Chelyabinsk (1 million). The Krasnoyarsk article claims a −56 °C record. - MPF 16:48, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
Well, we could change it to say 'North America' but then it wouldn't be 'according to environment Canada' anymore. vid 01:20, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
I actually think Edmonton has a colder overall climate then Winnipeg as well!?? jd.101 20:22, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
Edmonton | Winnipeg | |
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Average High | 8.5 | 8.3 |
Mean | 2.4 | 2.6 |
Average Low | -3.8 | -3.1 |
Source | ec.gc.ca | ec.gc.ca |
I updated the climate graph. Numbers are now rounded (People can click the source link to see exact numbers; you can add that note if you like though I don't think it is entirely necessary) and I moved the averages up so that they appear on the main body. It is about 3000b shorter, which saves space on the page. If you have any other suggestions for the climate graph leave them on my talk page.
The climate graph has been a little project of mine and I encourage feedback to continue to improve these graphs. :) Thanks.
Also, if you think the graph is too distracting, simply change class="wikitable collapsible" to class="wikitable collapsible collapsed". That will reduce the graph to just the blue bar with the words "Winnipeg Climatological Data [show]", and it's pretty self explanatory on what the reader should do there. :)
More here.
vid 21:50, 8 September 2007 (UTC) Edited: vid 21:56, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
I moved some stuff today and I also deleted redundant text. I just want to note:
Anyway, if anybody has any questions, give me a shout. ♦ Supāsaru 20:26, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
Winnipeg is a Cree word (for 'muddy waters') being used in English. I has changed slightly from it's original form. It's is pronounced two different ways. These aren't dialects, they tend to change depending on how the same speaker uses the word in a sentence. If we can get some recording of people saying "Winnipeg", that would probably help clear this up. vıdıoman ( talk • contribs) 18:33, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
But people pronounce it the other way more often.. :P vıdıoman ( talk • contribs) 18:54, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
Are you crackers? People here say it one way. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.202.17.180 ( talk) 13:50, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
The article only mentions the Red and Assiniboine. Could somebody add some info about the third (small) river, the Seine?
See it enter the Red on google maps at http://maps.google.ca/?ie=UTF8&ll=49.898228,-97.110472&spn=0.005736,0.010686&t=h&z=16&om=0 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.163.150.8 ( talk) 23:25, 24 January 2008 (UTC)