User talk:Samaritan/2004

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I joined per your recommendation :) Good to meet a fellow canuck! -- Jord 02:02 17 Nov 04 (UTC)

Debaters

Ha. No worries. That's what VfD is for, after all. Bearcat 09:20, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Jane and Finch

Yes, you're right. I haven't lived in Toronto -- or Canada for that matter -- in awhile, so my memory of directions and streets can be somewhat inaccurate at times. If you feel that the northern boundary is Steeles, then I'll agree. As for the directions part, I also agree with you there although I think the original text said "west of the neighbourhood," which I was sure was wrong. Darkcore 07:09, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Your wish is my command

One plate of RAV-FM for the fine Wikiperson, with a free side order of CKVI. Bearcat 09:30, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

*laugh* Knew I'd do Delwin Vriend, eh? Well, either you're clairvoyant or you knew that I previously wrote up Marc Hall... Bearcat 02:28, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Just cuz I, like, rock so hard and stuff...

Howzabout a bit of Ridge Radio for the obscure-yet-completely-encyclopedic file? Bearcat 06:38, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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 2000 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:

• Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
• Multi-Licensing Guide
• Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

Collaboration of the week

Congratulations, the candidate you voted for, Underground Railroad, is this week's Collaboration of the Week. Please help edit the article to bring it up to feature standard.

The Plot Against America

You added this book to Category:Controversial books. What exactly is controversial about his book? If there is a controversy, it should be mentioned in the article. --Polynova 06:45, Dec 15, 2004 (UTC)

CNN's liberal bias

Thanks for reworking that CNN article so artfully, I was just about to go and fix the 'Allegations of Liberal Bias' section myself. It's much better now.

p.s. yay toronto. I'll sign up on that there board.

Bouncy e-mail

My reply to your e-mail bounced. So I'm posting it here instead:

Well, according to TVRadioWorld, CHPR is a rebroadcaster of a station in Lachute...but then, it doesn't give the same originating call letters that the Quebec radio listings page gives for the station.

And from what I can find on the CRTC site, it looks like they originate about 15 hours per week of predominantly community-oriented rather than commercial programming, and then simulcast the commercial programming out of Lachute the rest of the time.

*Wow*. I'm having bad Pelmorex flashbacks here.

As for the other stuff, well...incompatible sexual orientation may rule out marriage, but it wouldn't get in the way of a *business* partnership (*grin*) Bearcat 16:47, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

She used to have a man and the man's name was Sam. He was the ultimate anti-hero.

You've been doing great work on some contentious issues. What's with the name "Samaritan"? Kevintoronto 21:29, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Molto grazie for the kind comments back. I'm glad that my work on small parties is appreciated. I've always felt there to be a gap in coverage of small parties in other sources, and so I was gathering information for an eventual website to fill that gap when I stumbled across Wikipedia, which has turned out to be the ideal place for this stuff. Several others have added to articles that I have started and broadened my knowledge. For example, I assumed that the North American Labour Party was just another communist faction until someone corrected me by pointing out the link to Lyndon Larouche. Keep up the good work. Kevintoronto 14:29, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Brad Levicoff

Thanks for the tip. - Vague | Rant 02:23, Dec 17, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for keeping me apprised of the status of the Tikkun olam page I created; before making it I searched for "Tikkun olam" and "tikun olam" and "tiqun olam" but didn't think to capitalize both words! Oh, well, that's how one learns, I guess.

Anyway, thanks for letting me know what was up, and for merging my contribution with Tikkun Olam. Rachel 19:41, Dec 17, 2004 (UTC)Rachel

Not sure this should be here...

I noticed that you changed my page for Christopher Robin Milne to be a stub. There is also a request saying that it should be expanded. Is this because I did something wrong? I'm rather new to this whole thing so I'm not sure about the "warning" for lack of a better word.

Thanks,

Dismas

Thanks!

Thanks for the quick response!

I'll see if I can come across some more info on C.R. Milne and add it to the article.

Dismas

Where to on B.S.

You asked: "Where do we go from here?" I would suggest that we wait to see what michaelm does. Since the page has been unprotected, he has been relatively moderate. I note that he has been asking "Is this o.k." for many of his edits. I would suggest that we continue as we are, editing his unsupportable statements (e.g. "fair trade"). As long as he accepts this and doesn't try to insert one of his pet opinions it should be fine. I would suggest zero tolerance if he starts reverting reasonable edits. In that case, I would suggest that we ask AndyL to block both his IP address and his user account for 24 hours (per Wikipedia:Blocking policy: Vandalism). If he continues with egregious valdalism, we block him for 30 days. He cannot argue that he wasn't warned. We could send him a message via the talk page about this just to be sure he is clear. Sunray 18:09, 2004 Dec 19 (UTC)

COTW

Congratulations, First Indochina War has been voted this week's Wikipedia:Collaboration of the week. Please edit it to help raise it to featured article status.

Gene Lockhart

Noticed your edit to the bio-stub msg at this page--thanks. For the record, though, I do not know whether Mr. Lockhart was indeed Canadian or American, (Canadian-born). Quill 22:23, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)

CSE

Why do you think that the two are different? I've noticed that Canadian Security Establishment is used, but it often seems to pertain to Communicatons Security Establishment. I spent the last half hour going through google, gc.ca and more specifically, dnd.ca to find any place that mentionned both Canadian Security Establishment and Communication Security Establishment and made it obvious they were different but I haven't had any luck. If you look at Budget/Report/Estimate, the index has an entry for Canadian Security Establishment (but not Communications Security Establishment) but only Communications Security Establishment is found in the text. --jag123 09:55, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

As much as I'd like to believe Canada has a super-secret spy agency, the french version of that document doesn't mention an extra agency. It must be a mistake, if not an inside joke. Did he offer any other support besides that one document (or did you find that)? --jag123 10:36, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

He didn't provide anything. And there's no Canadian Security Establishment in business section (no government section seems to exist) of the Canada411 online phone directory. Back to square one, I guess? (I've redirected Canadian Security Establishment and Canadian security establishment to Communications and removed the disambig.) Samaritan 10:47, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Impreza

Hi there, Samaritan: regarding my VfD for Impreza, I'm happy to put in a redirect. I had thought that redirecting would have wiped the target page, but I do see what you mean—the penny just dropped. I'll rescind the nomination now. Stombs 23:30, Dec 21, 2004 (UTC)