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History of Petroleum Industry in Canada

Looking good already! Well done. Bubba hotep 10:44, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Petroleum industry

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"History of Petroleum Industry" articles

First of all: you've done a great job on the History of the petroleum industry in Canada... May very well be a featured article one day.

As for the History of the petroleum industry in North America article, I left my comments on its talk page. GregorB 12:42, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

History of natural gas liquids industry in Canada

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As I have explained elsewhere, I own the copyright for this article. I am donating one chapter of one of my books to wikipedia. The text of the entire book is available online in my blog at languageinstinct.blogspot.com. Please do not pull this text. Thank you.Pmbcomm 21:10, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Jack Tafari

Hi, sorry about the delay answering. I have responded on my talk page. – Bubba hotep 08:44, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

I will also comment on the problem with the above article (which has now been deleted) on my talk page aswell. Bubba hotep 08:48, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Charles R. Stelck‎

• Hame of Fame. Thanks for fixing that crazy typo. Clerks 15:45, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Template:Canadianpetroleumhistory

I fixed up that template last night and just wanted to touch base with you; looks like you were able to get it into the article without a problem. Contact me if you need anything else. Best of luck and happy editing! --Merovingian ※ Talk 15:55, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Okay, I fixed that.  :) The problem came from the link in the template; it was a redirect and that messes up the title in template on the article. --Merovingian ※ Talk 00:26, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

History of the petroleum industry in Canada

I left a comment on Talk:History of the petroleum industry in Canada. In essence, the changes are great; they both solve the previous problem and lift the standard of the article. Thanks! --rxnd ( t | € | c ) 06:35, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Well, six months ago I noted that it looked "like a very promising article". Glad I was correct about that one. A series of articles now. Great work... GregorB 21:38, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

It's excellent. Well done. Truly what the real spirit of Wikipedia is about. – B.hotep ^u/_t• 19:34, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

In recognition of your great work

		The Original Barnstar
		In recognition of your hard work and perseverance over the months on making a raw, but nevertheless interesting, article into a great article. Well done. – B.hotep u/t• 19:37, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

RE: Barnstar

Thank you very much, although I will be the first to admit that your contributions were crucial. --Merovingian (T, C, E) 20:29, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Natural gas

Hello... I thnk we're reverting each other due to edit conflicts. Let's take it to the talk page and resolve it there. Thanks. --Ckatz^chat_spy 22:05, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Test

400 cubicmeters

Lightmouse and year-links

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Why?

Hi. Why did you undo my edit? --John 04:24, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

I would like people to use the template whether they are at the beginning or end of the story. Also, sulphur is spelled with ph in Canada. Check the Oxford Dictionary of Canadian English. Sorry. You spent a lot of time on this, I know. 04:27, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Nope. See Sulphur#Spelling. Please sign your posts by typing ~~~~. --John 04:30, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

WP:OWN

I just read "I am voluntarily contributing a chapter of one of my books to Wikipedia." Please urgently read WP:OWN. Thank you. We don't need to display a template twice on one page, it is overkill. --John 04:28, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Stuff

I really appreciate your work with Wikipedia. I know that I don't own anything on this document, and I welcome improvements from other people, like yourself. However, I also have the capacity to make judgements of my own, and in this case I want to use Canadian spelling and I think articles of this length -- about 5000 words each -- can use the template twice without it being overkill.

Best regards04:33, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. I appreciate very keenly the variety of spellings in English. As a chemistry teacher though, with nearly 20 years experience teaching in Scotland, I have to say I think you are wrong on the spelling issue. IUPAC standardised on "sulfur" a good many years ago. (Personally I was against it, but they didn't ask me.) On scientific articles (which these clearly are), Wikipedia uses "sulfur" as it is an international project. By the same logic the light metal is always spelled aluminium (not "aluminum"). I appreciate the good work you have done, and am glad that you realise you grant others the right to change your work when you edit here. However if we cannot agree between the two of us,the next step will be to centralise the discussion and let others have a say.--John 04:55, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Concur. Tyrenius 06:38, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

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Almost right. It's 4 tildes, not 5! [2] Tyrenius 14:09, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

History of the petroleum industry in Canada (frontier exploration and development)

I have added several "clarify" tags to the article as the meanings are unclear. The words that need explaing are "spudded", "tight hole" and "jackup rig". Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 07:12, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. The unclear words are something I noticed a while back and not a particular problem just for that article. We all tend to write about what we know and use the jargon/slang that we are used to and forget that others don't always understand them. I noticed it because I am guilty of the same thing in airport articles. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 07:52, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

I just did this. I'm not sure how the layout looked to you but I've viewed it on 3 different monitors/computers and what I get is 4 sections in the opening; the map on the left with the table of contents next to it, then the opening section and the template on the right hand side. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 14:46, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

That looks fine on this one so it should work OK on most then. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 16:20, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

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Energy policy of Canada

I have already reverted to your last edit of this article, after studying the edit history. A large deletion by an editor with a redlink userpage is usually not a good faith edit, but yours was. Sorry. Edison (talk) 00:18, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

JACOS

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A Regional Chronology of Operas, Composers and Librettists

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Edit summeries and preview

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History of the petroleum industry in Canada 2

The article may be completely accurate — I'm not saying it isn't — but we still have to cite sources. Wikipedia:Verifiability, which is policy, states that "All quotations and any material challenged or likely to be challenged should be attributed to a reliable, published source using an inline citation." I don't know if the article contains anything likely to be challenged, as I've only read a small part of it, but it certainly does contain several quotations, which need to be sourced. Mr. Absurd (talk) 00:06, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Also, on a somewhat unrelated note, I noticed that you didn't sign your post — please do so using ~~~~. Also, you leave few edit summaries, which are very much encouraged and help others understand what changes you've made. Mr. Absurd (talk) 00:09, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

I see you've removed the references tag again without any reasoning or explanation. As I have stated, all quotations must be sourced, according to Wikipedia:Verifiability, a Wikipedia policy — actually, a key policy. It cannot simply be ignored. If you have a question or issue, please discuss this with me on my talk page or the article's talk page. Mr. Absurd (talk) 02:07, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Ah, I see there is a discussion here about it. I have reverted (diff) your 'reference additions' (and one change of an internal in an external links, to same server). I seriously doubt if a blogspot can be used as a reliable source here, and the change of internal link to an external link is also not a proper way of linking. Could you please find reliable sources? Thanks. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 14:17, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

This is getting very tiresome. You seem to be having trouble reading. The sources were not self-published. They were published by reliable, credible sources. Your efforts are vandalism of a kind I don't understand.

Note the comments above: We need to cite sources. Would it be better to get out a copy of a book andinput that information so that people can go to the library, find the book and look up the reference? How does your mind function?15:06, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

That is not vandalism. You are writing an article here, based on a self-published source. When you get as a comment there are no sources, you source it to your own work. This source is not a primary source, it is not a suitable reliable source (the sources you use to write your blogspot are), and you do have a conflict of interest. There are others here who have the same questions, in this same thread on this talkpage, so I ask you to discuss this thoroughly before adding the references again. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 14:15, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

I also removed the references to the edukits. Also those are not suitable sources (actually, they are not reliable sources, there is no independent overview). --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 14:32, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Yes, you have to cite sources, but please not to a blogspot. You say there are several books, why not properly source it to the books itself? And there must be more sources than only educational material and blogspots. I hope this explains. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 15:10, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

I'm beginning to feel worn out by your intransigence, I must say. I suppose the best news is that we both believe in what we are doing quite strongly.

I'd note that the Edukit info is produced by a public museum. I acknowledge it isn't well written, but it is correct.

What is your hang-up about blogspot? If I cited the work of a Nobel Prize winner with a blog would you remove that too? There is a lot of authoritative material on blogs, including much of mine. (I'm not comparing myself to a Nobel Prize winner, but the way.)

You haven't convinced m. I'm certainly not willing to get out my books and copy the references when they are already available on line. That sounds like the kind of solution an academic would propose.

I hope someone else will propose a solution to this quandary. 15:22, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Well, the books are there already in a section, they are certainly more reliable than a blogspot, and if I understand you correctly, they do cite the same info. I have in the past often removed the blogspot in favour of the original, which I think is better (the blogspots are subject to change (or even, shutdown of the server), a link to a hardcopy book would always be traceable (unless all available copies would be burned). Hope this explains. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 15:25, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

By the way, could you sign using four tildes? In the way you are signing now your username does not appear. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 15:26, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Actually, two of the books cited have nothing to do with the article -- the My and Anderson books. They are just items people added because they liked them. It shows a weakness in the very thing we are talking about. I think your work on this article has really junked it up, and I regret that. Could we agree to take it back to where it was in Bearcat's last edit? I think that was your original proposal, in any case. What say you?Pmbcomm (talk) 15:38, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

I am sorry, I think it is better to bring this to a broader group, is there an appropriate wikiproject? If the two books do not apply properly, then they should be removed as well. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 15:44, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

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\thank you for your comments. I am one of Canada's most widely published historians of the oil industry. The articles I reference in the blogs were previously published in authoritative oil and gas magazines or as my books. You will find details on the blog.

• The only problem is that you weren't just adding them to oil and gas articles, you were also adding your article to a lot of articles that had nothing to do with oil and gas. For example, you added an article to the Snow White pages and you also added an article about marathons to tons of other pages. This is where it seemed less like you adding an article to expand upon the subject and more to just have your articles added. What I really recommend is that rather than add your own pages, that you post them on the talk pages and then ask if those would be considered reliable enough links to use as a source or not. I also recommend that you go through Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard to ask if it's a source that would be considered reliable enough to add to the page. There's just a lot of conflict of interest issues that come up when someone adds their blog to various pages and it's absolutely best if you were to try to get others to add the articles rather than you adding them yourself. It just is too easy for it to be seen as spamming and it's better to CYA than to just add.Tokyogirl79 (talk) 12:27, 11 January 2012 (UTC)tokyogirl79

• Thank you for those comments. The articles you mention have all been published in my books or in reputable magazines. Wikipedia's glossary of language teaching terms and ideas, for example, actually originated as a glossary for one of my books, etc.

I don't have much time to put into Wikipedia any more, so I won't likely be causing much more upset.pmbcomm 14:08, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

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Early History of the petroleum industry in Canada

Hello Peter,

First let me congratulate you on an excellent series of articles surrounding this topic! I was hoping you might be open to a change surrounding the John Shaw oil gusher. Recently the Oil Heritage Museum here in Lambton County has gone back to look over the timeline associated with Shaw's discovery. Two newspaper articles from 1862 seem to place the date on 16 January 1862 instead of the dates the wikipedia article quotes. Perhaps the quote from Dr. Winchell could be changed as well to the Hamilton Evening Times description of the event?

ftp://ftp.county-lambton.on.ca/Museums/OMC/Oil%20Heritage%20Resource%20Database/Early%20History%20of%20Oil%20Springs/Year%20of%20the%20Gushers,%201862/Shaw%20Gusher,%20Newspaper%20Reports%20After%20It%20Came%20In/Hamilton%20Evening%20Times,%2001.20.1862,%20Extraordinary%20Flowing%20Oil%20Well.pdf

ftp://ftp.county-lambton.on.ca/Museums/OMC/Oil%20Heritage%20Resource%20Database/Early%20History%20of%20Oil%20Springs/Year%20of%20the%20Gushers,%201862/Shaw%20Gusher,%20Newspaper%20Reports%20After%20It%20Came%20In/London%20Free%20Press,%2001.22.1862,%20A%20Freak%20Fortune%20Enniskillen%20Oil.pdf

I wanted to touch base with you first since I would also be interested in expanding the post-Oil Springs section of the article to include a few more details on the shift in oil production to Petrolia around the turn of the century.

Please let me know what you think. I'm new to wikipedia and wanted to contribute, but at the same time did not want to dive into deleting others work without getting in touch first. Lstempien (talk) 16:14, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

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