User talk:Indefatigable

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Changed figure for admission into confederation

It's good to have another Canadian editor on board.

You changed some of the figures for order of admission into confederation; however, had you checked Canadian Confederation, you would have seen that the numbers we are using includes the admittance/creation of the territories as well as the provinces. The previous numbers were correct. - Montréalais 21:03, 5 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Oops, I jumped the gun on that: I went ahead and started editing before I really understood what was going on. Personally, I think the territories should be ranked after the provinces (as in the official order of precedence), but if strict chronological order is the convention here, so be it. Indefatigable 00:07, 6 Sep 2003 (UTC)

en_US to en_CA

Ugh, among your other tastes, apparently, is changing the language of Wiki pages from en_US to en_CA. "The trio was" grates on my ears like fingernails on a chalkboard, but I reckon you say the same about what I had there (Neil Peart, Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee) originally. I'll also add that anyone who doesn't know how to pronounce "Peart" couldn't possibly be troubled to learn IPA. Also, don't we generally use SAMPA instead of IPA proper on the Wikipedia? Still, the price of purity is puritans, so keep it up...I think. :) - Branden 00:56, 6 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Point taken on the IPA spelling; I'll change it back to the ad hoc respelling. However, using plural verbs with singular collective nouns is usually considered a en-GB habit. Style guides from both Canada and the United States are nearly unanimous in insisting on singular verbs. -- Indefatigable 21:00, 8 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Either singular or plural can be used after group words (e.g., "Trio," "audience," "crowd"), but the meaning is different. If the singular is used, it means that all members of the group performed the action of the verb; if the plural is used, then some members of the group performed it.Cadillac 19:02, 23 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Mount Indefatigable

The first thing I thought of when I first saw your user name a while back is Mount Indefatigable. Is that where you got the name from? Have you climbed it? It's an interesting scramble, especially the north to south traverse (I did it in 1994). RedWolf 06:51, Jan 1, 2004 (UTC)

My user name doesn't come from the mountain. In fact I didn't know that there was a Mount Indefatigable. I chose the handle simply because indefatigable is one of my favourite words. When I first came across it, I could immediately tell its meaning by breaking it into its roots, but I was puzzled at how to pronounce it (I'm usually good at guessing the pronunciation of a word I haven't seen before) until I finally got around to looking it up. Then I began to like it even more because of its unusual rhythm for an English word: two unstressed syllables, a stressed, and three more unstressed (in de FA ti ga ble). Then I ran into the word again in a list with other grand-sounding names of British warships built in the arms race preceding the First World War. HMS Indefatigable was sunk in the Battle of Jutland. When I read your message, I guessed that the mountain you climbed was named after the ship, and that it might be near other mountains named after ships from the battle. A quick Google shows I guessed right! Another reason I chose the handle is that I think (or wish) that it describes my character. And of course, who can forget "Camelot" from Monty Python and the Holy Grail: "In war we're tough and able, / Quite in-dee-fat-ee-gay-bull; / Between our quests we sequin vests / And impersonate Clark Gable."

I may not be indefatigable, but I am Indefatigable 08:15, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Thanks on UK coat of arms

Tank you for your message about U.K. coat of arms. Could you write where can I find U.K. coat using by U.K. Government. Do you know polish wikipedia. There is Jonasz who live in Canada and write very much about the country. He has written about Alberta few days ago. Can you see U.K. coat of arms on polish wikipedia. What do you think about this version of coat. Darius-poland-viki 21:18, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I can't read Polish, but the Polish Wikipedia's image of the arms seems to be a smaller version of the French Wikipedia's image. This drawing is a correct version of the arms, but drawn in an older style than the version on the English Wikipedia. Sorry, I don't know where there is an on-line image of the version without the helmet.--Indefatigable 22:29, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Thank you for everything. Darius-poland-viki 22:47, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Darius-poland-viki "Coats" are to be found in Tailors and Clothes shops. Glad to be of help Skull 'n' Femurs 22:41, 6 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Mountains

Hi. I have started the WikiProject on Mountains — Wikipedia:WikiProject Mountains. Feel free to make comments on the proposed structure, etc. RedWolf 20:18, Mar 20, 2004 (UTC)

Capitals

I note that you have amended various rank titles to smaller case and I wanted to seriously question whether or not this was correct in the given context. Example: Group Captain becomes group captain. Whilst this is correct in most uses, surely, if we are talking about a proper noun such as in a title or phrase such as "the rank of Group Captain" or "Group Captain Mark Smith" then capitals should be used. Additionally military protocol seems to back this up (the rank is abbreviated (GpCapt, not Gpcapt.) Dainamo 11:44, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)

When a rank is used before a person's name, it has to be capitalized: Group Captain Mark Smith. Or when the rank is used to refer to a specific person, it can be capitalized: "Report it to the Group Captain." Because this is the way people most often see ranks used, they tend to overgeneralize this rule and overcapitalize. Ranks do not have capitals when not used as a replacement for a specific person's name. *"Mark Smith was a Group Captain." is wrong: it should be "Mark Smith was a group captain."

Because ranks can be used without capitals, Wikipedia articles about ranks should not have capitals in the article titles.

Capitals in abbreviations don't always tell you how the spelled-out phrase should be capitalized. For example, the symbol for megapascal is MPa.

--Indefatigable 14:56, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Hi, I am in agreement with everything you have said above and your explanation. However the examples in the specific text are firstly in the page title, where capitals should be used and second in the text refering to other ranks. You are right in saying "Mark Smith is a group captain", but in in the phrase "immediately obove the rank of Wing Commander" wing commander becomes a proper noun in relation to "the rank of...." and therefore should be capitalised Kind Regards Dainamo 13:47, 8 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I have done some browsing of newspaper style guides that are available on the Web, assuming that they would all support my position. However, I see now that some are on my side (e.g., the Montreal Gazette's section on capitals), and some are on your side (e.g., The Times' armed forces style guide). I won't object if you revert my changes.--Indefatigable 15:22, 8 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Apostrophes

Hi Indy!

Saw your user page and your interest in capitalization, punctuation, and apostrophes. What's the rule made by Charles? Is it Charles's rule, or Charles' rule? I've always followed Strunk and White's first rule so I like the former, but I like even more S&W's metarule: consistency. Vincent 00:20, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I did not see your Copps' -> Copps's edits, so it is an amazing coincidence. The chain runs like this.

1) You dared to edit the title of the Canadian Conspiracy article I started. I repressed the deep rage and anger that immediately surged up from deep within me and 2) investigated the fiend who performed the dastardly deed, then 3) saw that you were Canadian and promptly forgave all, hence 4) I also read of your wiki interests and grudgingly decided you were probably right but then 5) I noticed the bit concerning apostrophes and finally 6) I asked you your preferences about apostrophe S to avoid feeling as I did in 1).

And to add to coincidences, I'm also interested in Canadian railways. I just finished Pierre Berton's The National Dream and The Last Spike, and I worked for the CPR on a track maintenance gang during the summer of 1988. The highlight for me was working through Rogers Pass.

You wouldn't be a Will Ferguson fan, would you? Vincent 01:53, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I happened to notice this discussion of apostrophes. If you guys don't mind a comment from a non-Canadian interloper, you might be interested to know that I raised the point a while back. You can read several users' opinions at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 6#Making possessives. JamesMLane 11:54, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Owyhee River

Hi. Just a heads up that I changed the 120 mi (190 km) rounding-off in your edit back to 193 km. Some of the distances in the articles are approximations, but in this case, the 120 mi is an exact value, so the more accurate conversion is appropriate. :) -- Decumanus 05:41, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Help

Hi. I'm a relatively new user to Wikipedia. I was wondering if you could help me with something. (I've randomly picked your name off the list of "Most Active Users.") Last week I came across an article called Holomovement that was (and still is) absolutely horrible. It is being maintained by a user, togo who, as far as I can tell, is crazy. I took it upon myself to try to fix this situation and have taken several steps in that direction. I did some provisional research of my own and wrote a new article on the subject to redirect to. but togo won't cooperate with this redirect. i put in a request for comment, as well, but so far only one person (a friend of mine that i basically had to armtwist into it) has said anything. togo was unmoved by his comments. it just seems that this is taking much longer to deal with than it should. i was wondering if you could help me speed it up? –Floorsheim 08:34, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Which way round? (union flag)

Thanks Indefatigable. Thinking about is carefully I have to say that rahter than "upside down" the incorrect use of the flag is "back-to-front". And the article should refer to flying the flag the "correct way round" rather than the "corrrect way up". D'ya know what I mean?? Dainamo 15:05, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Categorisation of Canadian military

Is there any reason to have Category:Canadian military formations and Category:Canadian military units? Geoff/Gsl 00:00, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Well, I'm not a military man, but from what I have learned about military organization, (a little knowledge is a dangerous thing), formations and units are not the same thing. As I understand it, units are the basic building blocks, and formations are formed out them or out of other formations. The distinction appears to be important to military folks. However, as I said, I'm not an expert in the matter, so if I'm way off base, I could be persuaded to consolidate the two into one category.--Indefatigable 02:12, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Personally, I'd be happy with one category containing all military "things containing people", be they "units" or "formations", but that's just my preference. If you like, we could move this discussion to Wikipedia:WikiProject Military and try and get some consensus from other interested parties (assuming there are any). Geoff/Gsl 04:31, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I'm of the same understanding as Indefatigable - a unit has a UIC (Unit Identification Code) while a formation doesn't (because it comprises units or other formations?). Units and formations are different things. --BCRCornet 03:01, 2004 Nov 25 (UTC)

Canadian Government Copyright

I noticed that you just listed a couple of articles on Wikipedia:Copyright Problems that cite a Canadian government website as a source. There is a discussion at User_talk:SD6-Agent regarding using material from Government of Canada websites in Wikipedia. If you feel you can add something, I would be interested in your comments. Thanks Al guy 03:50, Sep 8, 2004 (UTC)

Canadian Red Ensign

I am ArmChairVexillologistDon,

I am a hobbiest in Heraldy, and Vexillology, I am very well read on those subjects.

Yesterday I noted a slanderous reference, linking the Canadian Red Ensign to Neo-Facists groups. I did not appreciate the reference, not one little bit. I posted some information in that regard. Specifically a web-site link to the Great Canadian Flag Debate. The Canadian Government uncharacteristically saw fit to keep an accurate archive, detailing those important events.

At any rate, you decided to remove my "contribution". However you decided to leave the "disputed" reference linking the Canadian Red Ensign to the Neo-Facists groups. I was not pleased that you choose to remove my "contribution", and then decided that the Neo-Facist comment could stay.

I decided then, if my comments were to go, then the Neo-Facist comments were to go as well. I thus have deleted them.

I don't usually get involved in things such as this, but Heraldy and Vexillology are two of my dearest passions. So, my comments are gone fine, but why was the Neo-Facist comment left by you?

ArmChairVexillologistDon

-- I expect the picture below will be accepted as proofAndyL 04:51, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

File:Zundelprotest.jpg

Red Ensign at a protest in Toronto in defence of Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel.

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Rebutal-of-Rebutal

Dec 11, 2004 AD,

AndyL,

I have deleted your reference to the Canadian Red Ensign and the "Zundel People". I shall keep doing so.

EVERYDAY.... If I have to. FOREVER.

Next up,

You can "expect" nothing.

Some "wing-dings" have put up the Red Ensign at this idiots rally once in a while,.... SO WHAT,....?

That does NOT make the Red Ensign theirs.

Why do you try so hard to link the Red Ensign to this bunch of nut-bags,...?

The Red Ensign is a cherished symbol of Canada.

I'm trying to protect it from getting slandered by reckless people like you.

So AndyL,... why do you keep going to the effort of linking the Red Ensign to "Zundel-people",....?

Why make such a big effort to link such insignificant "sightings of the Red Ensign" at Zundel rallies,...? http://www.zundelsite.org/zundel_persecuted/aug10_rally.html

Well,...?

Eh,...?

Why,...?

Austrian Flags at Zundel Rallies

http://zundelsite.org/zundel_persecuted/free_zundel_rally_nov23.html

Austria: Index of All Pages Österreich

http://flagspot.net/flags/at-index.html#land

Austrian (Austro-Hungarian), and German Flags are the most varied in the World. If you KNEW ANYTHING ABOUT FLAGS (which you obviously do not) you would know that some block-head waving a Flag does NOT make it theirs.

I am prepared to continue this "debate/deleting" of the Red Ensign racist-group linking, AD-NAUSEAM, AD-INFINITUM.

ArmChairVexillologistDon

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

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Vieux Montréal buildings of the regime français

I tried placing this in the discussion page of Montreal but the system rejected it: The page was too long. Yes, the Vieux-Montreal borough is made up mostly of 19th and early 20th century buildings but it also has some 18th century buildings like the Chateau de Ramezay, right in front of city hall, and even a 17th century one, the Vieux séminaire (of the Sulpicians) right next to Notre Dame basilica. --AlainV 03:15, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Chateau Ramezay

http://travel.e-scape.net/canada/quebec/montreal/old_montreal/chramezay.html

Vieux séminaire (des Sulpiciens) built in 1683, renovated through the 18th

http://www.2hwy.com/pq/v/vieuxsem.htm

Please do not remove the country of birth in biographies as you did in Yves Michaud. Thank you. JillandJack 15:44, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Royal Hamilton Light Infantry pages merged

Two pages were started within one day of each other, both on the RHLI and both with good information and links. The better one, The Royal Hamilton Light Infantry (Wentworth Regiment), uses the full formal name of the regiment. Mine was under the shorter name and is now a redirect.

Although I was aware of the duplication (after I created mine, of course!), your message promopted me to move up my plan of action. Yesterday, I merged, reorganized and added to the content of both pages to make a better single one -- the goal of Wikipedia.

Perhaps we need to chat about military history and some of its conventions more.

Anderskin 20:54, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

It's a pain to merge documents, and I find inconsistent choice among technically correct but rarely used titles and natural language variants as entry points makes it difficult to properly search for potential duplicates. For instance, a search on "Yeomen Warders of the Tower" yields nothing, while that on "Beefeaters" leads to a redirect to Yeomen Warders.

Still, thanks for the compliment on the merge job, especially since the other article was written by the Public Affairs Officer of the regiment in question.

Anderskin 01:30, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

alternately/alternatively

Can I have "alternately" back on the Perl page? I think the meaning fits better. Also, I prefer the simpler sound.

From www.m-w.com:

Main Entry: 1 al·ter·nate
Function: adjective
4 : constituting an alternative <took the alternate route home>

Main Entry: 1 al·ter·na·tive
Function: adjective
2 : offering or expressing a choice <several alternative plans>

Yeah, OK. I guess the battle to keep separate meanings for the two words is lost. An alternate used to mean one of a group of equal choices that were switched through in turn. An alternative was secondary choice used when the first choice was not available. Indefatigable 20:24, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Actually, that's just the distinction that I was thinking of when I chose "alternate". Compiling the interperter to a link library isn't a secondary choice, used when an executable can't be created. Libraries and executables are equal choices (used, of course, for different purposes).

State Funeral of Pierre Trudeau

You did not redirect the article State Funeral of Pierre Trudeau to State funeral of Pierre Trudeau. I started the article you redirected. I know that I'll try to do this with another article when I start it. Thank you. User:SNIyer12

Alberta

All in all, a pretty good edit of this article. The only thing I might suggest is that, as per Wiki guidelines, when British or American spellings are used, it is not necessary to revert one to the other. I prefer "cooperate" and "practice", which were the original spellings. However, these are minor points in the face of a thorough edit, and I will not complain. Thanks for your work! (BTW, I get from the edits that you are an Albertan. Yes?)Denni ☯ 04:01, 2005 Apr 19 (UTC)

sports franchises

You made Baltimore Stallions into a redirect to Montreal Alouettes. This is a decision I fully support. I think it is the correct protocol for MLB teams. There is currently a debate raging at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Montréal Expos, and so far the redirect solution is losing. I think it is because some of the users don't fully understand how franchises work in MLB. If you have the time, maybe you could chime in on the conversation there. Kingturtle 04:47, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Jam (TV series)

I reverted a very strange edit of yours on Jam (TV series). Please make sure your browser is functioning correctly. Kelly Martin 20:50, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC)

Monarchy in Canada

Can you please look at the dispute at Monarchy in Canada Homey 01:37, 25 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Regimental Sergeant Major

I notice you've moved Regimental Sergeant Major to Regimental sergeant major. It may be a good idea to discuss moves like this first, since it's normal on Wikipedia to capitalise all words of rank titles and these articles are often heavily linked. For consistency's sake, there are a number of other two or three word rank titles that should be renamed if this is renamed, and it's going to upset a lot of people if you start doing it. -- Necrothesp 21:25, 8 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I actually agree with you, but I've had too many people go through my military articles zealously changing the first letters of all the ranks to upper case! Now I just give in to it. -- Necrothesp 22:04, 8 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Mile, etc

You may be interested in Wikipedia:AMA_Requests_for_Assistance#Pseudoscientific attack. -- Egil 22:31, 8 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

RE: 'Canadian' Blue Ensigns

Hi there! I apologise if, as a zombie of sorts, I erroneously expanded on the Blue Ensign flags added by another user recently. Mea culpa! This begs the question, though: why were they recently added to those provincial articles in the first place? Anyhow, thanks! E Pluribus Anthony 16:17, 7 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Good question. In the first half of the 20th century, such flags often appeared in charts of "all the world's flags", but the Canadian provincial flags were just fantasies of the artists who drew the charts, and then copied by other artists putting together similar charts. They never existed in real life.

I'll have to contact the editor who added them to see if there is some new evidence that provincial blue ensigns were ever sewn. Indefatigable 17:29, 7 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Pound (weight)

Thanks for the link. I'd like your comments on the discussion page of Pound (weight) and why it shouldn't be changed to Pound (mass). Fresheneesz 05:14, 6 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Re recent changes to de facto head of state: While the office can depending on context be written as Governor General or governor general, it can never be written as Governor general. If it appears at the start of the sentence, producing a capital for the first word, the second word is always capitalised. Half capitalisation for the post is an elementary capitalisation error. Also whomever is grammatically correct. Whoever is a version which is generally used in American English but regarded as semi-literate in other forms of English. FearÉIREANN\^(caint) 22:39, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

1st hussars

Hi, I added some info to the first hussars page which you've contributed to. can you take a look? Mike McGregor (Can) 08:57, 18 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Canadian Military History Task Force

hi, I just wanted to bring your attention to the Canadian Military Task Force at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history. We're currently looking for the task force people to joint so that we can start to develop and organize Canadian Military history content on the 'pedia.Mike McGregor (Can) 17:35, 18 January 2006 (UTC) Category:Canadian military formations[reply]

DAA

According to the DAA website, the DAA is a privately-owned company that provides automotive services under its own name and branded under other companies' names. It is not a part of the CAA, which is a not-for-profit. Ground Zero | t 20:26, 20 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oops, thanks for the correction. I think the source of my confusion was that DAA has not operated in the West for a long time, so I was familiar with DAA only from seeing old stickers on old cars. That plus the similarity of the DAA and CAA logos led me to believe there had been a name change in the 1960s/1970s. Isn't there a quotation like, "It's not the things we don't know that hurt us, it's the things we know that aren't so"? Indefatigable 21:47, 20 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Another HMS Indefatigable

Try this one, much more fortunate than the Jutland ship and sailed by Horatio Hornblower, a major hero of TV and books. Actually I had two direct ancestors and a colateral relation aboard her during her most famous action in 1795, so your name caught my attention. Dabbler 19:40, 25 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedia Canada

Hi there! I'd like to invite you to explore Wikimedia Canada, and create a list of people interested in forming a local chapter for our nation. A local chapter will help promote and improve the organization, within our great nation. We'd also like to encourage everyone to suggest projects for our national chapter to participate in. Hope to see you there!--DarkEvil 17:11, 20 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Chris Benoit

Why did you move the page without suggesting a move first in the page's talk page? Chris Benoît might be his given name, but it's common practice to use ring names to name wrestler pages for wrestlers who have established ring names, and his is certainly Chris Benoit, and has been for well over ten years. Would you be so kind and change it back?
↪Lakes (Talk) 16:56, 7 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No real harm done. Thanks for putting it back.

↪Lakes (Talk) 19:05, 7 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please check your WP:NA entry

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Thank you, and have a wiki wiki day! BD2412 T 05:07, 17 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Requested moves: There are three steps

Please see WP:RM#Steps for requesting a page move, if you wish your moves to proceed without leaving your requests open to someone who opposes the move arguing that the request was not properly formatted. I have added a link to the talk pages to you entries on WP:RM but you will have to do all of step III on the talk page. --Philip Baird Shearer 16:47, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OK, thanks. Indefatigable 17:20, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fort Smith

Hi, thanks for catching that railway, I just went back and reread my source. I got it confused because Donald Alexander Smith; the towns namesake was head of the CPR railway. --Cloveious 04:40, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Buildings and structures in Saskatchewan

I note that you have added Holy Rosary Cathedral (Regina) to this list. I alas don't know how to negotiate the making and editing of lists, but the article on St Paul's Cathedral (Regina) antedates the Holy Rosary article and is considerably more ample. Would you mind adding it also? Thanks. Masalai 10:50, 16 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

And since you are clearly considerably more expert than I in these things, how would I go about correcting the title of the article "Saskatchewan Legislature Building" to "Saskatchewan Legislative Building"? Masalai 10:52, 16 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Long talk page

Greetings! Your talk page is getting a bit long in the tooth - please consider archiving your talk page (or ask me and I'll archive it for you). Cheers! BD2412 T 23:56, 16 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Alberta flora

Hi there.

I'm not quite sure how you justified reverting my edits as vandalism. First, anemone links to the article on the plant. Second, it is important to note that shortgrass prairie does not exist west of Edmonton - it is not until you drive east that you run into it. Surely, as an Edmontonian, you must be aware of that. Finally, while clover grows in ditches everywhere, it does not grow on the roadways. Can you imagine the chaos which would ensue if suddenly the Yellowhead were covered with clover? I have rolled back your edit. D e nni ☯ 18:24, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

XHTML <sub> and <sup>

Indefatigable, thanks for the information you provided on the XHTML talk page. I’m not that familiar with French and that was more information on French abbreviations than I’ve seen before. I was wondering if there’s any rules behind the superscript letters. For example, how does one know the Établ<usp>ts has only the last two superscript while M^lle has all but the first? Or does this just require a dictionary lookup (or previous knowledge)? Just curious. BTW, from the looks of your user contributions, you look like youre] a native of Montral. I’m from Chicago, but I just ahppen to be traveling through Montreal today. --Cplot 04:29, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that information. I’ve been wondering about that since I read the W3C description of <sub> and <sup>. I figured French would have some hard and fast rules for it. And I’ll definitely check out the smoked meat sandwich while I’m here. Thanks for the tip. --Cplot 17:53, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ho likes ths

If you are such a fan of the word "ho", come to Talk:Cut Spelling and defend it. -- Randall Bart 22:37, 8 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I took some liberty with your userpage

Hope you didn't mind these two edits. Please revert to your last version if the change is not something you like. BigNate37_(T) 19:03, 28 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Party of Alberta

This article that was deleted at the beginning of November may be of relevence now, especially since the group seems to be getting some press. Thoughts? Knave 21:10, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The Party of Alberta was briefly referred to in the Toronto Star, about a week ago. They also now appear on the first page of Google results for "Party of Alberta." Maybe they now are noteable enough for an article? Knave 08:56, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Montreal vs. Montréal

I understand that, but this is a little silly. Even the Alouette jerseys show Montréal. Does that now not make it a name...therefore changing the name Montreal from a city name (then the english renaming would be applicable) to a team name (making renaming it not applicable)? What did Wikipedia call the Nordiques?

Thanks for the work though. Just trying to figure out what the justification is. I read that article and if those are the rules, I understand it but don't agree with it. When speaking of the 'city' Montreal then I feel it is fine if people really feel a need to change it without the accents just like if someone was talking casually about Motley Crue... then accents are dropped. But is Wikipedia not aiming for more 'formal' styled writing? If that is the case, Montréal is more appropriate as per the Canadian Press style guide which Wikipedia seems to try to ask its writers to follow.

Regards CaptHowdy

Like you, my personal preference is to spell it "Montréal", but I can understand both sides of the debate, and uniformity I think is the bigger issue. You also have a point regarding when the word is part of a longer proper name, such as "Société de transport de Montréal"; these definitely must have the accent. However, when translating names of North American sports teams, the "city" and "nickname" parts seem to be rather loosely connected, with the city being translated but not the nickname. If the French media can write "Flyers de Philadelphie" instead of Philadelphia Flyers, we in English should be able to write Montreal Alouettes instead of Alouettes de Montréal. Indefatigable 04:35, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

UBC Thunderbirds

I have added a "{{prod}}" template to the article UBC Thunderbirds, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree with the notice, discuss the issues at its talk page. Removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, but the article may still be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached, or if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria. Oo7565 06:07, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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