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July 12

Question about cell phone companies

What cell phone company in British Columbia has the cheapest monthly plans that includes talk, text, and data? I pay about 60 dollars a month to Fido and they charge too much for talk, text, long distance charges, data. I'm on limited income. 2001:569:7D98:E00:69ED:DD2C:B997:AA3 (talk)

It's likely going to depend on how much usage the phone is getting. This site seems like a reasonably good comparative between plans and it lets you provide your expected usage. Note: that is a commercial site which I've never used and I do not endorse it. Matt Deres (talk) 15:44, 12 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Substitution with a player who has recovered in football

In association football, if an otherwise good player who had been substituted for another due to injury, then recovered after some time, is it possible to make another substitution to bring him back (assuming the number of substitutions hasn't been exceeded)? 212.180.235.46 (talk) 13:43, 12 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

No. --Viennese Waltz 14:19, 12 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

More precisely: according to the LOTG, 3.2 Number of substitutions, the use of return substitutions (the return of a player after having been substituted) is only permitted in youth, veterans, disability and grassroots football, subject to the agreement of the national football association, confederation or FIFA.^[1] --Lambiam 10:01, 13 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

A number of references in Wikipedia articles refer to very old pages that I have written.

There are much more recent pages that have replaced these old articles.

For example: Wind power in South Australia#References refers to https://web.archive.org/web/20091027104046/http://geocities.com/daveclarkecb/Australia/WindPower.html. This page was long ago replaced by https://ramblingsdc.net/Australia/WindPower.html and later again by https://comagecontra.net/Australia/WindPower.html.

Also, there are a number of references to ramblingsdc.net - which replaced my pages on the old geocities site. That site was hosted by Yahoo Small Business. YSB stopped hosting about 5 months ago so I switched to https://ventraip.com.au/ for hosting. As I could not get the old ramblingsdc.net name released by Yahoo (they just did not answer my communications) I created a new name comagecontra.net (eg. https://ramblingsdc.net/Australia/WindPower.html was replaced by https://comagecontra.net/Australia/WindPower.html).

Is there anything that could be done to fix this apparent problem? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Clarkecb (talk • contribs) 20:51, 12 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

There are links to ramblingsdc.net from Crookwell Wind Farm and Wind power in South Australia. You can easily replace them by hand. There are more geocities links: once from Canunda Wind Farm, Cathedral Rocks Wind Farm, List of wind farms in Western Australia, Mount Millar Wind Farm, Portland Wind Farm and Toora Wind Farm, and twice from each of Lake Bonney Wind Farm, List of wind farms in South Australia, List of wind farms in Victoria, Wattle Point Wind Farm and Wind power in South Australia. While more effort to replace all manually, it does not seem worth it to involve a bot. --Lambiam 09:18, 13 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]