User talk:Themightyquill/Archive10

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further to previous[edit]

[1] [2]. keyboard wifi key missing, will inbox you.Skookum1 (talk) 07:11, 4 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

please note revised Chiatowns section vs how it was, and inline comments re sources and issues/cotext). more canadians needed, and help revising poor writing, arranging content cogently, checking for American spellings/usages, as well as addressing POV and synth et al.Skookum1 (talk) 07:16, 4 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe it's time to take a break from wikipedia and cool off for a bit? - TheMightyQuill (talk) 09:28, 4 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe it's time for Wikipedians to step up to bat about NPOV instead of telling me to take a break....more and more I have been, and only revising that one article to make it readable and less repetitious and clunky, and adding balanced information (from readily-available online sources that have always been there). If other Canadian editors weren't so stand-offish about POV topics and/or because of me being the only one that cares about NPOV issues and integrity and fairness of historical coverage, I wouldn't have to be doing all the work; and I wouldn't be dragged to ANI on behavioural guidelines being invoked - as a means to sidestep confronting outright POV activity....and just plain old bad writing.

I've been improving the article in genuine-wikipedian terms, and am now being railed against for "bad behaviour" i.e. for disputing POV content and activities to further/protect that POV, all of which are contrary to policy but nobody seems to give a damn about anymore. I'm trying to recruit new blood to Wikipedia from BC community and museum and professional historian/authors .... as WP:CANADA doesn't seem to have anybody around who gives a shit about BC content, or knows enough to recognize problems when they emerge. THIS problem had big red flashing lights on it from the start and I shouldn't have had to be the only Canadian trying to deal with it..... and I shouldn't be being shit on or told "go take a holiday" for standing up for the POV policy, which nobody else is.Skookum1 (talk) 09:51, 4 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"Maybe it's time to take a break from wikipedia and cool off for a bit?" - why does nobody ever say that to WhisperToMe? Why is it so important for him, as a Texan, to have the subject of Chinese history in British Columbia exclusively his own; why is it such a big issue for him and why does he spend so much time attacking the one wikipedian who knows a whole lot about the subject matter and further sources? Why, indeed.Skookum1 (talk) 09:54, 4 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Elise Otté[edit]

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Photo request bots[edit]

Hi -- just letting you know that I'm catching up to old business and replied to the suggestion you left at User talk:PhotoCatBot. Happy to carry on a discussion about it (preferably there). —Tim Pierce (talk) 16:43, 19 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Marcy Page[edit]

Thanks very much for creating Marcy Page. I expressed myself badly in the edit summary, so let me just explain that I felt "...who specialized in..." -- past tense -- seems to me to imply that she will no longer be working in animation film at all, whereas in that excellent Dan Sarto interview you link to, she does say she already has plans to pursue a variety of animation-related projects with Regina Pessoa, among others. thanks, Shawn in Montreal (talk) 14:59, 2 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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removed Category:Canada in World War I[edit]

Greetings quill, just a bit curious about why you're removing this from articles? Regards Keith-264 (talk) 19:08, 8 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Keith-264:, thanks for your message. I think I only removed it from articles that were already in Category:Battles of World War I involving Canada, which is a subcategory of Category:Canada in World War I. If there is some reason those few articles should be in both the parent and child category, you are welcome to re-add them. I figured it was an accident, but I should have left a clearer edit summary. - Themightyquill (talk) 20:44, 8 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again, I tend to assume that when people do technical things, it's because they know what they're doing and I can learn something from them. It looks like I hit the jackpot again; thanks very much! Regards Keith-264 (talk) 21:37, 8 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It certainly never hurts to ask. It's easy to make mistakes when adding and removing categories. - Themightyquill (talk) 07:19, 9 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Cataloging and library science[edit]

I see that you removed the category "library science" from Cataloging. Can you explain your thinking? Is there a definition of the category that would exclude cataloging? Thanks, LaMona (talk) 00:21, 27 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@LaMona: Absolutely - thanks for asking. Cataloging is already in Category:Library cataloging and classification, which is a sub-category of Category:Library science. Generally, we don't keep articles in both parent and child categories within the same category tree (see WP:SUBCAT) but perhaps I've missed something and made an error? Let me know. - Themightyquill (talk) 10:14, 27 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Themightyquill: Thanks for the explanation. I don't pay much attention to categories, so that helps. Write on! LaMona (talk) 16:39, 27 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Just FYI[edit]

pls see Talk:Military history of Canada#Oka image again.Jjust wondering what you think...have always though it was odd that this image gets removed all the time yet the Wait for Me, Daddy image and File:Soldier-and-child-octcri.jpg never get removed yet are in the same circumstance (as in copyrighted). Do some find the image offensive? Or is it just fly by editors that dont see the others - as dont care to read the article before removing images? -- Moxy (talk) 21:27, 9 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Moxy - it could be the content, but it might just be the fact that the Oka image is colour, whereas the others are black and white. They might assume anything black & white is pd? I have no idea. - Themightyquill (talk) 07:11, 10 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]