Love the new map on Lethbridge. Do you think you could add the Indian Reserves to it? Kevlar67 02:24, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi - it has come to our notice that you have recently created a new stub type. As it clearly states at WP:STUB, at the top of most stub categories, on the template page for new Wikiprojects and in many other places on Wikipedia, new stub types should be proposed prior to creation at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals, in order to check whether the new stub type is already covered by existing stub types, whether it is named according to stub naming guidelines, whether it reaches the standard threshold for creation of a new stub type, whether it crosses existing stub type hierarchies, and whether better use could be made of a WikiProject-specific talk page template.
In the case of your new stub type, it covers far too small a subject. Very, very few individual cities gt stub templates, and in each case there is a specific WikiProject to do with them. In Canada, only Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver have specific templates - all others stubs are divided by either province or provincial sub-region. Your new template has been proposed for deletion at WP:SFD - please feel free to comment there on any reasons why it should not be deleted. Grutness... wha? 05:52, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
Unless the article goes to Good article status, it won't change. It's certainly not A-Class (Which is close to featured status). Personally, I'd rate it Low-Importance; I don't think so many Canadians across the country would know about this specific city that it warrants mi-importance (which maybe a dozen or so cities in the country warrant, in my opinion). Circeus 19:41, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
Cool it on the edits, you stick to Lethbridge. Let those that live in Regina deal with it. Thanks. -- 206.163.235.114 01:45, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
thanks for the assistance in looking over my articles in the culture in Regina articles. I love doing research and finding the articles, but I do not have a journalistic or any kind of editing experience in writing the articles properly. I hope it is ok with you if I continue to find substantial articles about Regina and insert them with your help to go over them and get them looking polished and professional. Also, thanks for your assistance with the North Central issues, I agree with you that a priority is that we need to move the NC article to another place and possibly create articles for each major subdivision later.I do not know how to do that so if you want to do it, feel free, you have my full support. Also, we should also move the Notable people to another page also as I feel it doesnt really define a community enough to be on the front page. Enough for now, I gotta go, thanks again for the help! Friesguy 04:43, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi Kim,
Does this appear to be the same clown you were having the contretemps with a few weeks back?
Masalai 08:58, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
I kindly request that you abstain from wholesale reverts or deletions in this article. I have put in a request for administrative assistance in this disagreement and am awaiting a response. Until such time, feel free to add your POV on the subject but PLEASE do not revert or delete. Thank you.-- 207.81.56.49 19:41, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
I have posted a compromise to the issues in the Talk:Regina Neighbourhoods. It is my hope that this will lead to a solution over the disputed figures and edits. I also hope that this will eliminate future accusations as to my identity and/or relation to other banned users. I would appreciate that you read over the compromise and comment on it. I just want to find a solution, that will satisfy all parties.-- 207.81.56.49 07:28, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
You are quite right. As I say, these generalisations really are truisms of the religion of sociology, and are readily supportable in the academic literature, but as you rightly point out they should not be presumed. (There are articles, indeed tomes, regarding the number of US presidents who have been from the minority but elite Episcopalians, for example, versus the anomaly of the elite Rockefellers having been Baptists: it is telling in this connection that when General Eisenhower was about to become President he found it desirable to switch from Jehovah's Witness to Presbyterian.) Where I am, in Australia, I cannot provide the necessary footnotes. So I have removed the observations: as I say, they are readily supported by all manner of published academic commentary in the sociology of religion but I do not have access to it -- and you rightly suggest that they ought to be footnoted -- but they really don't much matter. In due course it might be interesting to consider vis-a-vis Regina, Saskatchewan, the issue of the shifting demographic of the various denominations: the closing of St Andrew's and St. John's United Churches from the North Central, for example, as WASP Canadians have moved to the north and the south. The Anglicans of course never penetrated those precincts. Masalai 13:30, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
An interesting development, eh. Somewhat a pity that the church wasn't able to sustain the property but I suppose once St Chad's couldn't survive it was a foregone conclusion. I'll bet they were pleased they'd never got around to building the cathedral on the corner of Broad St and College Ave.! So Peart School is no more? Hmmm...I got his library when he died. I wonder if there's anything left of him in Regina now. Masalai 19:53, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
Hello again. I wonder if you can make a great deal of sense out of this: "The city of Regina, Saskatchewan, the provincial capital of Saskatchewan, Canada currently has 69 neighbourhoods of [sic] subdivisions.[citation needed]" (The "citation needed" is mine.) There follows an extremely lengthy list of neighbourhoods. They undoubtedly come from some civic website but in my humble view they need to be cited. The list of neighbourhoods is good, to be sure, subject to formatting (small type; columns) but I wonder where this list comes from: it could perhaps be cited (and of course formatted). Kind regards. Masalai 11:07, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi again. Any thoughts on the suggestion that SriMesh makes on the “Regina Neighbourhoods” talk page that all Regina neighbourhoods have their own articles? There are issues of spelling and grammar in the material she has inserted in the article regarding neighbourhoods but I hesitate to edit till there has been some discussion as to whether the substantial elaboration of the neighbourhoods article(s) is warranted. Masalai 02:04, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
What do you think about the large number of deletions that a user in Australia is making from the article? I suspect she is a little unclear as to the correct use of footnotes: they are not necessary for trite matters of generally common knowledge (though it is certainly possible for me to add the citations she demands); but I do wonder if it is appropriate for her to have deleted a great deal of material on the basis of its being in other articles. It is common for the main article to summarise such material, which is then elaborated in detail in the relevant sub-article. I reverted a couple of her deletions and she immediately restored them.... Masalai 02:06, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
No problem. The thing was, the to-ing and fro-ing had resulted in prose that was unreadable, quite apart from the question of whether the contents made any sense. The issue appears to have been retired for a couple of months; indeed the thorn in my own side also appears to have disappeared altogether. Pity about Mumun; he hadn't, perhaps, stuck around long enough to see that that almost always happens sooner or later. Masalai 22:47, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
I see you're interested in Mormon history....I'm not Mormon but my field of interest/expertise is the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush and the Lillooet area in particular. Had a look at the early censuses and other stuff in detail a year or two ago and remarked that, in the first census in Lillooet, there were half a dozen or a dozen Mormons - listed as an ethnicity alongside Galicians (Ukrainians), Poles, Italians, Irish and all the rest. One of the main gold-mining bars just north of town, between the Bridge River Rapids (aka Six Mile, at the confluence of that river with the Fraser) and Fountain (aka 12 Mile) was called Mormon Bar. I'm wondering if there are any Mormon historians or records that might have diaries or journals of the experience of Mormon pioneers in the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush that might make mention of Lillooet (then known variously because of multiple local shantytowns as Cayoosh, Cayoosh Flat, Parsonville, Parsonsville, the Fountains, Bridge River and "Kayousch"; it didn't get the name Lillooet until fall 1860, when the rush was mostly over). See http://www.cayoosh.net (my hobby site) for more on the area; I'm always looking for new material from unusual, especially personal, sources...sometime in the near future I'm going to try and "get done" my long-postponed book on the area, as its 150th Anniversary is upcoming in 1858-60. Skookum1 09:18, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi. Saw your post on the Kootenai (tribe) talk page and I agree with you about the tribe->people thing; "tribe" in particular is a very US-side usage and kind of awkward, as you know, when used in Canada (when used by non-First Nations people anyway...). I'm all over the place on the Indigenous Peoples of North America WikiProject and I can tell you there's a lot of variance between the two forms, and some have brackets around tribe or people, some don't; there's also some that omit it entirely ( Palus e.g.) as was also the case in BC with Lillooet and other names (now disambigs, mostly; see how it got resolved on Chilcotin and the Lillooet pages....which are still kind of tangled. Anyway, yeah, there needs to be a standard; the Indigenous Project has been kind of fallow for a while but an appropriate place for discussion of this issue would be the talk page there....I've kind of overposted there so it might be better if someone else posted something for a change ;-) Skookum1 09:12, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
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For your work in maintaining Southern Alberta related articles, especially for getting Lethbridge up to GA status. Phoenix Two 06:00, 19 February 2007 (UTC) |
You're welcome. I'm not sure whether the page needs the big copyright tag or not, but it certainly needs some major clean-up. For what it's worth, I'm about to nominate Tough Buck from Brocket and Brocket 99 Christmas Album at AfD, which may help clear up some things; after that's done, we can work on the main page (there's probably a stub's worth of encyclopedic content there). — Josiah Rowe ( talk • contribs) 19:32, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi Kim,
Oops, yes. Thanks for spotting! Regards, David Kernow (talk) 18:07, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
Kim,
I'm new to wikipedia editing, will you review the changes to Sunstone Magazine and see if that is closer to where it needs to be for references? I didn't remove the reference alert yet. Specifically, the references address several of the points in each paragraph, so I included them in bulk at the end. Being relatively new, that may be bad form. Feedback, cleanup would be appreciated. Mahuph 17:13, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
I think the individual who has recently chosen a name is engaging in vandalism, trolling, baiting, hurling personal insults, politicized and POV enflamed arguments, engaging in attacks, and generally spends more time making trouble than contributing (although the individual does have some contributions). I think we may have to report this. However, I am not sure of what to do now except, since the individual engages in trolling, to try and ignore as much as possible. However, the areas in which I usually work in Wikipedia are rife with these miscreants and we tend to shut them down quite quickly because of their disruptiveness and the difficulties that they create. What do you think we should do? for example, I saw above that you had considered 'arbitration' the last time (you mean dispute resolution?) but I think we might consider asking for an official comment from an admin who's familiar with this kind of thing. Alternatively, file an 'Incident Report' if things get bad? -- Mumun 無文 15:52, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
Greetings, Kim! Please check my request for comment at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Saskatchewan. What do you think? Am I off the mark or am I making connections that are not there? If you have any comments it would be good to add them there. Mumun 無文 20:51, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
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I've been working on getting the above-named article set up, and one thing I'd like to do to ensure that the article continues to be updated as the election approaches is find a wikipedia to take on each of Alberta's cities (and ideally some of its larger towns/counties/municipal districts). Obviously, you were my first thought for Lethbridge - are you willing to take this on? Failing that, do you have any suggestions of anybody else that might worth asking? Sarcasticidealist 09:03, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
Hello, fellow regular contributor to the Regina, Saskatchewan articles. My apologies for the recent contretemps with a user in Australia, which you may have felt yourself involuntarily drawn in upon. I confess that I overreacted: Crummy English I can handle; rudeness and arrogance together with crummy English sends me ballistic.
Actually, I continue to maintain that my response to such user was not out of line — I do correspond regularly, believe it or not, with all manner of non-native anglophone business associates and friends in a half-dozen countries and in three languages — but never mind. Apparently for Wikipedia purposes I was wrong and I shall be more careful in future. (“Ad hominem,“ indeed!)
However, please do not intrude on my user page. I am a poor weak fellow and I am susceptible to taunts. If I delete matters from my user page it is because I do not wish to be provoked by them to further indiscretion. If you barge in and restore such deletions without comment, surely you can understand how I might perceive that as being, at least prima facie, and certainly if it is without explanation, an act of aggression.
Kind regards Masalai 12:14, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi there. It's good to have people working on dab pages, but I'm afraid I can't agree with some of your changes like removing all redlinks as you did in Santa Barbara or removing useful links to existing articles (as you did in Atlas (disambiguation), apparently solely based on the fact that an article title doesn't contain the name of the dab page). Please study the guidelines and consider how dab pages are used before removing further information. Thanks. Rl 08:08, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi, you are graciously extended an invitation to join the Saskatchewan WikiProject! The Saskatchewan WikiProject is a fairly new WikiProject. We are a group of editors who are dedicated to creating, revising, and expanding articles, lists, categories, and Wikiprojects, to do with anything Saskatchewan. |
As you have shown an interest in [[ Regina neighbourhoods Regina, Saskatchewan White City, Saskatchewan Pilot Butte, Saskatchewan]] we thought you might like to take an interest in this growing WikiProject. |
Another project dedicated to Saskatchewan is the Saskatchewan Roads and Highways Wikiproject |
Also, a descendant project for Saskatchewan is the WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods |
We look forward to welcoming you to the project! SriMesh | talk 04:15, 8 August 2007 (UTC) |
A new article also is Sports in Saskatchewan can you fix the baseball section, or any other areas of this newly created article? Pls and Txs if possible :-) SriMesh | talk 04:15, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
I noticed that you have been making edits to the Lethbridge Collegiate Institute as I was beginning to start copyediting it for the League of Copyeditors. Also noting that you have done work for the copyediting project (and that the page might have some significance to you after reading your user bio) if you would like to copyedit the page I can choose another to work on. Or, we could work on it collaboratively if you like. -- Kenneth M Burke 04:38, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
The CN Tower article received heavy editing today by new/unregistered users, which I noticed at WikiRage.com. The article may benefit from a good review. According to Wikipedia Page History Statistics, you are one of the top contributors to that page. If you have the time, would you please read over the article and make any necessary changes. Thanks. -- Jreferee ( Talk) 16:32, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
Hey Kim, sorry to dump on the article but it is promising. Have you seen Hamersley, Western Australia which is a suburb of Perth and may be hlpeful to compare with? cheers, Casliber ( talk · contribs) 10:51, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
I've noticed you have a high contrib. rate and I'm currently working on an article about barcode systems and was hoping you might have time to take a look and give some feedback. I'm also thinking after researching Wikipedia some more that there are a few other articles that may need to be combined with what I have, your thoughts. Thanks.
Jmduncan 04:09, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
I'll go over it and see if there's anything I can do to improve it. I promise nothing because sometimes my copyediting skills go mysteriously blank when faced with some articles. I do see a few things already though so I give it a go. Cheers, Pig man 21:07, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
I see that article Lethbridge has really improved. I still see issues in a few sections and I will assume that editors are still actively working on it. Let me know when you are ready for me to have another look and reply to the FAC page. Jeff Dahl ( Talk • contribs) 19:42, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
Nice copyediting on London, Sir, picking up a few points I missed. Just a note on the airports question - it's unclear exactly how many international airports London does have, but it's indisputable that there are five major ones. No more bongos 22:33, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
The Silver Maple Leaf Award
For the quality coverage of topics in southern Alberta, I hearby award Kmsiever this silver maple leaf. -- Qyd ( talk) 14:12, 18 November 2007 (UTC) |
The Golden Maple Leaf Award
How about another, heck I ain't even sure what the rules are for tossing this award about, but you sure as hell deserve it for getting Lethbridge featured...next step is the Main Page! Well done. -- Phoenix2 ( holla) 00:12, 29 November 2007 (UTC) |
Sweet! I can't actually believe it happened! The last couple of months have seen a lot of good suggestions and several copyeditors helping out. This is probably the happiest day of my three years of Wikipedia editing. :) -- Kmsiever ( talk) 02:57, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
Hello again Kim. Congratulations on the recognition you’ve had for your work on the Lethbridge article. I have been noting your work there and the recognition is certainly amply deserved.
(1) Qu’Appelle.
Till I noted that you’d been communicating with the standards folk as to such matters I was a little perplexed (and momentarily mildly stunned) as to the somewhat abrupt, peremptory and ex cathedra observations you made about the Qu’Appelle article. But I infer that you are applying there what you have learned as to Wikipedia standards in your work on Lethbridge. I’m not sure I completely agree that replacing definitions of local terms such as “bluff” and “coulee” with wikilinks is always appropriate — such terms have local definitions which you are possibly not aware of and which Canada-wide (much less international) dictionaries are unable to take cognizance of. However, others of your suggestions are entirely sensible (the original draughtsperson of an article — and I suspect that the original draughtsperson will for some time be the only draughtsperson — doesn’t necessarily have the wherewithal to apply the appropriate standards of disinterest.) [ So, with the caveat that I don’t entirely think that your tone was especially helpful — I live in Australia and Canadians, especially western Canadians, have the reputation here of being mealy-mouthedly polite: possibly you are living in the wrong jurisdiction; I shall not introduce you to my children, who consider Canadian standards of civility excessive! ("C’mon, Dad!") — I take aboard most of your suggestions and will incrementally attend to improving the article along the lines you suggest. I do think that the distinction between an "essay" and an "encyclopedic" article is more than artificial. Perhaps you might point out, to be going on with, precisely which elements of the article you consider to be notably "essay"-like as opposed to encyclopedic. I’m not notably thin-skinned and I somewhat assume that you are not notably aggressive; perhaps you might take under advisement the fact that my initial response to your observations — and, as I say, I am the least umbrage-taking of people — raised hackles. Though as I say, on reflection I entirely agree with much of what you have said.
Possibly you could favour me by pointing out those elements of the discussion in the article which you consider to be "bold statements." (My stars, I haven’t heard that term since Mr Justice Allan MacEachern was the Chief Justice of British Columbia!)
(2) Regina.
I have solicited an interim review of the article from User:Derek.cashman, the Good article reviewer who provided a WP:CITIES Assessment as to which I solicited further detail. His observations as to the Regina article are generally very helpful (though I somewhat take issue with his suggestion that the article contains “"inconsistencies in grammar and/or spelling” and I suspect that this might be a matter of US reviewer not recognizing our particular Canadian configuration of British/American/International usage.) I have shuffled the sections about in accordance with his observations, not in particular by way of accepting that they are universally valid, but merely to bring the article into conformity with general Wikipedia conventions as to matters to be addressed and the order in which they should be canvassed: I quite agree that city articles are best kept in some kind of uniform format. I shall continue to whittle away at the “Urban planning issues” section which he considers should be dissected and hived off into other sections. Possibly a discrete “central business district” section can retain what remains. However, the substantive issue according to Mr Cashman remains the suggestion that the introduction is far too short: four paragraphs appears to be normative. Care to have a go at enlarging it with an appropriately expansive summary of the substantive comments? Masalai ( talk) 12:33, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
Saw that Lethbridge is the FA on the main page. I know you did much of the heavy lifting. Good work. Kevlar67 ( talk) 03:34, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
As this is a shared IP and I have no control over who checks the new message dialogue, please refer any edit discussions to the appropriate talk page, in order to prevent miscommunication. 167.1.163.100 ( talk) 03:37, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
Greetings! I noted your recent reorganization of Stirling (disambiguation) and commented at Talk:Stirling (disambiguation). When you have a minute, could you please comment with your thoughts there? Thanks! — DragonHawk ( talk| hist) 00:32, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
Dr. Cash, who recently provided a WP:CITIES rating of the Regina article, has at my behest also provided details on the Regina discussion page as to the basis of such assessment. I don’t necessarily agree that his criteria stand up all that well under scrutiny by strictest scholarly standards – and I confess that I don’t especially care whether the article is ever "featured" (though heartiest congratulations on the favour with which the Lethbridge article has been regarded) – but I’m all in favour of conformity to broadly agreed standards. I’ve been steadily whittling away at the more obvious superfluities of the Regina article: you can perhaps imagine what vast swathes of text I’ve consigned to oblivion. As with the Lethbridge article, it’s becoming somewhat of a one-man show, which is unfortunate; perhaps you could turn your not entirely disinterested eye to it and let me have your thoughts. (An odd irony that the persons most interested in the thing are you and I, neither of whom, I assume, has lived there for the better part of 25 years.)
A particular difficulty is proper citation of statements of fact which are common knowledge among Saskatchewanians and therefore locally not requiring documentation, but so-requiring it for a wider readership: many of the articles in the Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan are (with respect) far from professional in quality, but it is often the only cite-worthy source.
I am of course endeavouring to avoid feelings of "ownership" – that bête-noire of editing in this odd, intellectual property-less medium, but do please try to be moderately nice: I often find myself thinking you a like-minded person whose sometimes (forgive me) peremptory manner raises my hackles in spite of myself. Be that as it may, we are unlikely to find an appropriately disinterested but also suitably aware third party to assess our contributions; on the other hand, we are both doubtless reasonably aware of the pitfalls of our own partisanship for this often unfairly maligned (but also often egregiously sentimentalized) little town, and two heads are surely better than one. Masalai ( talk) 06:29, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
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