Talk:Selkirk, Manitoba

Selkirk Mental Health Centre
I think the part suggesting the Selkirk Mental Health Centre is one of the mainstays in the economy is false. There's little under 100 patients and one doctor at the facility. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.161.255.17 (talk • contribs) 2007-01-13 20:30:13 (UTC)
 * Please sign your posts - and consider getting a Wikipedia account, it's free. The SMHC Web page isn't very current but says over 200 patients and I imagine there's more than a doctor on staff...nurses, orderlies, janitors, food service, technicians, etc. and so on. --Wtshymanski 03:08, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

What does number of patients have to do with an employer being a mainstay in the economy? Nothing. Mainstays in the economy have to do with number of workers. I used to work at the Selkirk Mental Health Centre. I saw written proof of 500+ employees. So, the SMHC is probably THE main employer in Selkirk. I think the MRM has less than 500. Number of patients at the SMHC is around 250, so you're wrong there as well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.161.246.137 (talk) 00:25, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

Chuck history
I was working in Selkirk in 1986 and regularly got the Selkirk newspaper, and I don't recall a movement to dump Chuck in the river. A citation would be nice. --Wtshymanski 22:23, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I would say remove it then, as it's probably just someone trying to be funny. Qutezuce 23:05, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

The catfish photo isn't appearing on the page, I don't know the correct name it's supposed to be -- Jimj wpg 13:31, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

The link has been fixed, however that photo is almost positively a copyright violation (a warning has been left on the photo's page). I'll be up there in three weeks and will hopefully get a photo of Chuck to pop back up in the place of this one. CWood 01:40, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Expansion tag
Would somebody who's familiar with Selkirk please take that unacceptably oversized "see also" list and integrate it into actual article text? Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 07:00, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Lists
Look, no explanation is even provided for those huge lists. Were those Selkirk natives? Selkirk tourists? Who knows? And if they are natives, it doesn't matter--it's simply too long a list to include that way. What if every town in the world listed every person who came from there? When a town has one notable person from it, it may merit inclusion, but lists like this are simply not appropriate. If you really want to note them, then you should create List of people from Selkirk, Manitoba. There's a reason that we have lists, in addition to articles, and it's because lists destroy the readability of articles. Unschool (talk) 17:36, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
 * What is the Wikipedia policy that describes a "huge" unacceptable list? It's a short article and a short list of links provide useful supplemental information; I think it's striking that such a small community has provided so many people with Wikipedia articles. Arguably the Red River Cart and Keenora are not uniquely associated with Selkirk.  The list hardly makes the article "unreadable".  There are some who think every town in the world *should* be listed in Wikipedia. Presumably all the Wikipedia articles on these Selkirk natives passed their own criteria of notability. --Wtshymanski (talk) 13:42, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I made two points; as far as I can tell, you only answered one.
 * My second point was simply that these lists were too long, and you said, "What is the Wikipedia policy that describes a 'huge' unacceptable list?" I would suggest you read this, paying close attention to item #3, and this; I think point #1 is probably most relevant here.  But even without these explanations, I think a good rule of thumb is probably something like this:  If over 50% of the "article" consists of lists, then it's probably closer to being a list than an article, and needs to be retitled accordingly.
 * My first point you never appeared to directly address, which is, what are these links—that is, what do they have to do with Selkirk? I'm not denying a connection, I'm saying that it's a disservice to have these connections not explained.  And perhaps—just perhaps—adding some material explaining what these links have to do with Selkirk might go a long way toward creating a prose-based article instead a huge list with a foreskin covering the top. Unschool (talk) 02:59, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Totally agree! I suspect some of the (not-so) notables in that long list were probably Wtshymanski's relatives. With so many new-to-the-netters misusing Wikipedia as 'an authoritive source', the clowns that add these 'notable folk' must get a real chuckle. Wtshymanski, just because you create a wikipedia article on some bar room celebrity doesn't justify their inclusion in the town wikipedia article. Bad rationale chap. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.161.255.138 (talk) 03:51, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

The list of political notables seems to have been chosen with some sort of blindfolded pointing method (sarcasm). Ed Schreyer, for example, was from Beausejour, but his constituency was Selkirk. Schreyer was an MLA then Premier then Governor-General of Canada. He is arguably the most notable. Additionally, I spent the first 38 years of my life in Selkirk, and live 20 minutes from there now. Yet I don't recognize more than half of the notables. I mean, shouldn't the actual citizens of the town know of them before they can be considered "notables"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.161.246.137 (talk) 00:37, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

In response to Wtshymanski's comment of August 25, 2008. When I think of Selkirk, Manitoba I associate the City with: Lake Winnipeg, the Channel Cat near McD's, the Marine Museum of Manitoba, the Provincial Hwy. No. 4, the blue bridge between Selkirk and East Selkirk. I've seen a "Garry Theatre" listed in the movie listings in the Winnipeg papers, but never seen it in person nor seen a movie in it. Oh yeah, and the Selkirk Mental Hospital. But I've never seen it because its not located on the main streets, it's off another road. There is a public library too. Jimj wpg (talk) 02:30, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

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The article Is getting deleted
Due to not being notable — Preceding unsigned comment added by Autistic editor (talk • contribs) 01:57, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

2016 Census
2016 Selkirk 10,000 Just a notice — Preceding unsigned comment added by Autistic editor (talk • contribs) 14:53, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Please provide a source. Note that the population and dwelling data for the Canada 2016 Census will be released in February 2017. Mind  matrix  17:42, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

Census data was released this morning. AntonFMD (talk) 01:59, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

✅ Jimj wpg (talk) 09:56, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

Fort Gibraltar
In the Places of Interest section, Fort Gibraltar is noted in the list. The Fort is in St. Boniface (Winnipeg), not Selkirk, Manitoba. It should be moved from Places of Interest into a See also or other section. Jimj wpg (talk) 02:20, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

Outdated photos
Most of these photos are long out of date, and the water tower has been painted with a new design but as of now still has scaffolding surrounding the mid and lower sections. I’ll try to get some new photos with my DSLR which better represent the city as it is currently, and will release the photos onto the Wikimedia Commons. SevenSixty2 (talk) 08:00, 3 October 2021 (UTC)