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Hi there. When creating sections you should use two equals signs. Although you can do "=See also=" the Manual of Style recommends not using them. Instead do "==See also==". Secondly, a "See also" section should only contain links to Wikipedia pages, use an "External links" section for any non-Wikipedia links. Happy editing. Qutezuce 10:34, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Nice photos. One small point: Sir John A. Macdonald spelled his name with a small "d." Masalai 04:13, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for this. My error has been corrected. By the way, I've enjoyed your article on Regina. You live here too? I could find no info on your User name! Scotwood72 19:33, 8 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi there. Thanks for the compliment. Not everyone likes the photos but you can't please all the people all the time, eh. No, I don't live in Regina now, but spent the first half of my life there, went to the University of Regina and later taught there. "Masalai" is probably not something you would find anything on Wikipedia about; it's New Guinea Pidgin. (Spent several years there too.) Masalai 13:26, 9 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Image copyright problem with Image:Alberta_Legislature_At_Dawn_WS.jpg[edit]
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On 22-Feb, you blanked Newfoundland & Labrador House of Assembly. Blanking pages is generally considered a bad idea. I was not sure if this was the result of a broken edit or if you desired the page deleted. If this was the result of a broken edit, you may wish to make the correct edits. If it remains empty, it will probably be deleted, but if that was your intent, please mark it with a {{db-empty}} tag to hasten it. You may also choose to redirect it to another article. If you have questions, please let me know. Thanks! -- JLaTondre 02:08, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. I am a bot, and I am writing to you with a request. I would like to ask you, if possible, to use edit summaries a bit more often when you contribute. The reason an edit summary is important is because it allows your fellow contributors to understand what you changed; you can think of it as the "Subject:" line in an email. For your information, your current edit summary usage is 0% for major edits and 0% for minor edits. (Based on the last 150 major and 0 minor edits in the article namespace.)
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Hi again. It seems a lot of the pages you are creating could be put into a category or two. Most of them seem to fall into Category:Official residences. You can put a page into this category by putting "[[Category:Official residences]]" at the bottom of the page (no quotes). Qutezuce 06:51, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
What is the value of adding a direct link to the monarch's website? There's nothing specific there to Jamaica, Barbados, etc. The page already links to the Wikipedia article on the monarch - there's no point to this link. Guettarda 19:48, 5 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry if it sounded rude - it wasn't meant that way. I just meant that these links don't add anything that isn't supplied by existing internal links. External links (other than references) are something that should be added sparingly - that section tends to get out of control very quickly. Adding external links which duplicate internal links isn't a good idea. Guettarda 02:04, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Please read Wikipedia:External_links and Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not. Basically, you should link to sources which complement the information in the article. You should supply external links to sites which expand upon the content of the article - for example, if they supply visual or multi-media resources which can't be added for copyright reasons, then a link is appropriate. If you feel that there is sufficient grounds to add a section about the role of the monarchy to the Jamaica article, then make the case at Talk:Jamaica and add the section. Once it is added, you could justify adding the external link for "more information". But if you cannot make the case to add a section about the topic to the article, then the link doesn't belong there. The simple fact is that the monarch warrants no more than passing mention in the main articles. The Queen has no role in the government of Antigua or Jamaica or Tuvalu. She appoints the Governor General that the Prime Minister tells her to appoint.
I find it amusing that you claim to know about the importance of the monarchy in Antigua or Tuvalu, but seem to think that the fact that I lived my first 9 years as a subject of the Queen, and even went to see her when she visited Canada for her Jubilee in 1976 gives me no understanding of the importance of the monarch. Guettarda 19:53, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
"Please answer my question and show me how to tell what level of 'admin' are you?" - I'm sorry, I don't understand what you are asking. Guettarda 20:55, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Roomba posted a delete tag on your recently uploaded Image:Poppy.gif I removed it as I believe it can be used for Wikipedia purposes, but the delete tag, might get put back at some time in the future. Cordially SirIsaacBrock 22:17, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you. Perhaps we can find a useful place in Wikipedia that it can be used. I appreciate your help. Scotwood72 17:49, 8 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
They are after your image again. It has to be used in an article or they going to delete it. I have been advised these types of images can no longer be used in templates. As punishment for questioning them they deleted my full template !! 22:18, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
Image copyright problem with Image:Spencerwood.jpg[edit]
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Hello, you have tagged this image with {{PD-ineligible}}. However, it is clear that this tag is not proper. It could be used for say, simple chemical structural formulas, but not for photos! Please read Wikipedia:Copyrights and Wikipedia:Image copyright tags. If no proper license will be added in seven days, the image will be re-tagged with {{no source}} and deleted. Please ask on my talk page if you have any questions. Renata 04:38, 13 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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Thanks for your numerous edits to the 'pedia. They are appreciated. Regarding the User Cdn Armed Forces template, I'd like to tell you a bit about the history of the User templates. The first User templates were the so-called Babel boxes, templates that created groups of users who knew various languages, both so they could communicate between themselves, and so others could identify them and contact them about the languages they knew. This was directly in service to contributing to articles - verifying interwiki links, translating articles, and other tasks like that. People liked the form of the boxes, and gradually expanded their use, first to musical instruments, then to the vast panoply of boxes we have today. Over time, the original focus of the boxes on identifying groups of users who had skills and abilities they wanted to use to contribute to the 'pedia was lost, and it came to be believed that the boxes merely expressed personal statements, not necessarily related to the 'pedia at all. However, the technical ability of the standardized, templatized boxes to identify and group users remained present, and potent. Unlike direct text, individually written by each user to express whatever personal statements they wish to express, User templates provide an automatic list of their users (via the Whatlinkshere feature). They have been used to contact only the members of the implied group, both as assumed allies, and as a hit list of intended victims to be harassed. As long as the boxes remained focused on the 'pedia, this, while sometimes unfortunate, still on the whole benefited the 'pedia, and only opened up the users to risks they intended to run. But the use of the User templates for purposes unrelated to contributing to the encyclopedia means that the group-forming possibilities of the boxes are and can be used for purposes utterly separate, and even opposed to the goal of contributing to the encyclopedia we are all trying to write here.
That's why I proposed the changed wording that I did; a group of Users who want to work on our coverage of the Canadian Armed Forces is a good and useful thing, and something that the group-forming abilities of User templates can assist with. A group of users who merely appreciate the Canadian Armed Forces, but who may or may not make use of that appreciation in connection with the 'pedia is harmed by the group-forming abilities of User templates.
I look forward to your response, either here, on my talk page, or on the talk page of the template itself. If I do not get a response within a week of posting this message, I will assume you accept the proposed wording change, and I will reapply it. Feel free to revert it again if I do, but I urge you to respond to this message as well. Thanks again for your work on the 'pedia! JesseW, the juggling janitor 18:56, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
It is officially the "Canadian Forces", not "Canadian Armed Forces". Would you mind making the slight change?
--Ng.j 20:46, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Please stop adding images tagged with fair use tags to any portion of Wikipedia outside of the main article namespace, such as you did here. This is a direct violation of Wikipedia policy as set out at Wikipedia:Fair use criteria item #9. If you have any questions about this, please feel free to ask. Thanks, --Durin 00:49, 4 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, there is something I don't understand and I would like your polite help in explaining it to me. (I say polite because some admin have been far from this.) Why are some images I put in a userbox not allowed, when very much the same has been included in others? For example, a picture of Queen Elizabeth II was deleted, but other boxes have Martin Luther King. Why is a logo produced by the Canadian government accepted in one (armed forces logo or flag) and not in another (maple leaf and poppy)? The policy page doesn't explain this problem that people keep telling me about. I really don't understand and no one will give me a straight answer. Please help me! Scotwood72 08:30, 8 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I note that the photo you have provided for the article is identical to the one on the Museum's own website. What is its copyright status, and is it available for this purpose? If not I am afraid it will have to be deleted unless the Museum will grant permission for its use. If so, I wonder if other photos on their website are also available. Can you get back to me on this? Thanks. Masalai 00:27, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Tell ya' what! I'm going out tomorrow (weather permitting) and taking my own picture of the museum that you will be welcome to use as you please. Hopefully this will solve any problems. Scotwood72 08:33, 8 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi. I noticed you tagged the image as being PD because it was a work of the U.S. government. Why would the Sask. government use an image from the US government for a building in Saskatchewan? Or even why the US government would have any interest in taking such a photo. RedWolf 22:34, 15 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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Possibly unfree Image:Conexus arts centre.jpg[edit]
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Oops. Have you noticed that this picture is now marked for deletion? Any chance of replacing it with a picture that doesn't have copyright issues? I will be in Regina in October and can take a photo then but Regina isn't at its best in October.Masalai 22:23, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I can try and get one before then, weather permitting. Scotwood72 22:32, 17 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I found your image Image:Sylvia Fedoruk.jpg which is a great shot of her and the Order of Canada badge, but im afraid you've taged it incorrectly. Only works of the United States government are in public domain. Works of the Canadian Federal Government (or in this case more likely the Provincial Government of Saskatchewan) are protected by what is known as Crown Copyright or copyright which is help by the state. This (at least in works by the federal government) can be used under fair use and there is a tag (something like Canada-Politician-Photo) to cover them. I tried searching collectionscanada.ca for this image but no luck. Do you have the exact link it came from ? Many of the items on collectionscanada.ca have copyright held by the National Archives which is allowed for use for any purpose which makes them essentially public domain, and it would be great if we could find out for sure on this one. Please answer on my talk page Dowew 02:21, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Image:UgandaHouse.jpg is not an album cover. Please provide a proper fair use rationale, otherwise the image might be tagged for deletion. |||antiuser (talk) (contribs) 07:05, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I haven't found a proper template for a postcard, but if you intend to use the image in a specific article, you can use {{Fair use in|ArticleName}}, provided there are no free alternatives available. See Fair use on Wikipedia for more info. Thanks. |||antiuser (talk) (contribs) 07:21, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Fair use rationale for Image:UgandaHouse.JPG[edit]
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You may be interested to know that an RFC has recently been initiated regarding Fair use images of Canadian politicians. Many images of Canadian public figures are about to be deleted, including ones you have uploaded. Please feel free to participate. - Mcasey666 04:23, 2 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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Any idea what has happened to Hanbidge Hall, the original name of one of the spaces in the Centre of the Arts? I gather it was renamed at some point.Masalai 13:59, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I see many of the Saskatchewan placenames are still not linked to pages that describe them. I know, however, with your interest in Saskatchewan history, you can do it. I found the book: Saskatchewan ghost towns has some of that information. Or perhaps, The Origin and meaning of place names in Canada may contain some of that information. The same website has several books about pioneer communities, all over Canada. W W 19:16, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Hello. A new WikiProject about Saskatchewan has been started as an attempt to better organize information in articles related to the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. If you would like to participate, you can Saskatchewan articles, add Saskatchewan content, or visit the project page, where you can join / edit the project and/or contribute to the discussion.WikiProject Saskatchewan
From your contributions, you have already written some awesome articles on Saskatchewan! SriMesh|talk Julia 02:55, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Image copyright problem with Image:Queens jubilee logo.jpg[edit]
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Hi. I notice that the text you added to the article on the Sask. Hotel is copied from the City of Regina Archives website verbatim without attribution. I have formatted the quoted text as a quotation and added a footnote; fortunately I caught it before the plagiarism brigade got to the article! Do watch out for that in future; possibly it would be better to paraphrase the discussion so it's not just an extended quotation -- still with the attribution of course -- but I don't have time right now. Thanks.Masalai 10:13, 17 May 2007 (UTC).[reply]
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Image copyright problem with Image:Government House PEI.jpg[edit]
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Copyright problems with Image:NS Legislative Chamber.jpg[edit]
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I created a list of Grand Trunk Railway Stations before I found out that you made one. Since both systems have stations in the US & Canada, and both are affiliated with each other, I'd like to know how you feel about merging our two lists. ----DanTD (talk) 16:41, 14 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Image permission problem with Image:Manitoba_Government_House.jpg[edit]
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Image copyright problem with File:Manitoba Government House.jpg[edit]
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Proposed deletion of Foods with Nationality Names[edit]
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I just received a new message suggesting the page I just created, Foods with Nationality Names, be deleted. I am very frustrated with Wikipedia for the over control in this regard. The page had been up for only about 5 minutes and already it was scheduled for being deleted. This is unfair and absolutely rude. This is a continuous situation with all Wikipedia editors or whatever you call yourselves. Each time I ask who makes these decisions, I receive no answer, but just another message about overkill on the control. When I started posting pages and information on this site, it was a welcome to anyone who wanted to add their little bit to web. So much has changed. Members are not welcome to post here anymore. We get rudely shut out to the point where I feel like taking off everything that I have posted on Wikipedia. This has become so unfair, it is no longer a FREE ENCYCLOPEDIA.
I am seriously considering deleting everything that I have posted on Wikipedia. You are not the only one who has treated me in this manner. The control has gone from moderate to excessive. It's not like I was posting racist or pornographic images.
AfD nomination of Foods with Nationality Names[edit]
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File source problem with File:Vic park 1920.jpg[edit]
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Hello Scotwood72, I am interested in a couple photographs you have of the Hope Memorial Bridge in Regina, SA. Could you please get in touch with me so I can ask you about the photographs? Thank you. Faience88 (talk) 02:55, 12 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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