User talk:MGBken

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MGBken, good luck, and have fun. --Jargon777 ^Talk 15:48, 5 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Communities

Please stop creating unreferenced stubs about individual communities or neighbourhoods inside incorporated municipalities. I don't know how many more times you're going to need this explained to you — and trust me, the fact that you always end up in and around Milton is a dead giveaway here — but the municipality is the lowest level at which a place is "entitled" to an article just because it exists.

Anything lower than that — neighbourhood, community, hamlet, subdivision, whatever — may have an article only if you can add real reliable sources which demonstrate why the place is notable enough to warrant a separate article, rather than merely being mentioned in the main article on Milton or Quinte West; if such references are not present, then the community is not entitled to anything more than a redirect to the municipality that governs it. Unreferenced stubs are not acceptable, and the mere fact that the place exists is not good enough if the place isn't actually a fully incorporated municipality in its own right. Bearcat (talk) 23:38, 6 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Referencing also does not mean that you can add any random weblink which demonstrates that the place exists; references have to be to reliable sources, such as books, newspaper articles or other media coverage about the community in sources independent of the topic. The fact that you can add a link to a page on the city's website about the Appleby arena does not demonstrate that Appleby is notable enough for a separate article; the fact that you can add links to pages which merely use Kilbride's geographic coordinates to automatically generate a "tourist guide" which just lists the distance from Kilbride to things in other places does not demonstrate that Kilbride is notable.

You need sources such as ongoing coverage in the Toronto Star or The Globe and Mail or other major newspapers, history books which delve into the community, and other sources which provide in depth coverage of Kilbride or Appleby themselves — the article is not "referenced" just because you can add a link to some random web page which happens to mention the neighbourhood's existence, if that web page doesn't meet our reliable sourcing rules. Bearcat (talk) 18:37, 10 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

More information needed about File:Appleby Ice Centre.png

Hello, MGBken!

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Thanks again! --ImageTaggingBot (talk) 23:05, 7 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

More information needed about File:Kilbride Ontario Satellite.png

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Speedy deletion nomination of File:Kilbride Ontario Satellite.png

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Sockpuppetry case

Your name has been mentioned in connection with a sockpuppetry case. Please refer to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Toronto2503 for evidence. Please make sure you make yourself familiar with the guide to responding to cases before editing the evidence page. Whpq (talk) 16:19, 15 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]