User:Coppertwig/Sandbox

Wolastoqiyik Wahsipekuk First Nation
fr:Première Nation Wolastoqiyik Wahsipekuk

The Wolastoqiyik Wahsipekuk First Nation, formerly known as Maliseet Viger 1 First Nation, is an Algonquian People of the Wəlastəkwewiyik (Maliseet) Nation in Quebec, Canada. As of July, 2023 they were reported as having a registered population of 1860, all living off-reserve or on another reserve. They have two reserves, Cacouna 22 and Kataskomiq, and they are based at Cacouna in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec.

The majority of the Walastoqiyik living in Quebec speak French, and many speak English. The Maliseet-Passamaquoddy language is still spoken by some people in Maine and New Brunswick.

Geography
The Viger nation has two reserves: Kataskomiq and Cacouna 22, both at Bas-Saint-Laurent in Quebec. The nearest large town is Rivière-du-Loup.

Government
In addition to a Band council, the Viger nation has a council of sages composed of elders who have a role of examining political decisions which could influence the functioning of the nation. The council of sages also serves as arbitrator and mediator. It also gives advice to the leaders of the band.

The first nation is officially governed by a Band Council, which is elected by a customary electoral system based on section 10 of the Indian Act. The election of June 2020 re-elected Jacques Tremblay as Grand Chief, in which role he is one of five members of the Grand Council.

History
In 1891, the government purchased a parcel of land at Cacouna to form the reserve Cacouna 22, the smallest Indian reserve in the country. A number of homes were built there, but it was too small for many Maliseet to settle there. The last inhabitant of the reserve was the chief Jacques Launiere who died in the 1970s.

The Viger First Nation was recognized by the government of Quebec in 1989.

Fishing
At the beginning of the 21st century, the Wolastoquey of Quebec started commercial fishing operations. In 2000, the federal government granted them a permit to fish for snow crab and northern prawn. In 2006 they received a permit for exploratory fishing of green urchins, in 2006 two permits for fishing deep fish and three for whelk.

In 2009, a committee was formed to manage the commercial fishing: le Comité de gestion de l'entreprise de pêche commerciale (EPC) (committee for management of the enterprise of commercial fishing). At one point at least, over 50% of the crew of the fleet were indigenous people of the Wolastoqiyik nation.

The development of the Wolastoqiyik fisheries contributes to the economic growth of the regions of Bas-Saint-Laurent and Gaspésie.

The house of Denis-Launière
This house, which belonged to the last chief of the Viger inhabiting the Cacouna 22 reserve, was transformed in the year 2000 into an interpretation centre of the Maliseet culture. A craft shop was installed in the shed that adjoins the building.

statistics canada tobique 20 indian reserve https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/dp-pd/ipp-ppa/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&SearchText=2021A00051312007&DGUID=2021A00051312007&GENDER=1&AGE=1&RESIDENCE=1&HEADERlist=0

Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador
cbc news

Links
A circ link re HIV Wikifying articles -- you can help! New page patrol -- you can help!

Priorities
OK. I said I might have to start setting priorities. I hereby do so. This is not to say that I'll necessarily spend all my time on the identified priorities; and priorities can change. But it should help me feel more organized. General priorities: (a) RL (b) answering messages; (c) responsibilities; (d) other.

Usual priorities

 * 1) RL: In a natural rebalancing of priorities, I need to put RL first for a while.
 * 2) Answer messages
 * SEWQ_rc
 * 1) Re-order to-do list (order to-do's in priority order; list page move guidelines)
 * 2) Water supply and sanitation in Colombia for Kerres
 * 3) done CSD templates general, articles, images and other
 * 4) read policies
 * 5) Che Guevara
 * 6) Safavid art
 * 7) Items on to-do list
 * 8) Other

At other times

 * 1) Easy items on to-do list
 * 2) recent changes
 * 3) 1000 new pages
 * XfD: AfD, tx MfD
 * 1) helpdesk – helpme's

Easy to-do

 * Talk:Milk
 * Talk:Israeli–Palestinian conflict
 * Done Vitamin C sentence re kidney stones (Feb. 22) and claim re racemic mixture (Feb. 26).
 * Done Edit sentence re insulin index in Carbohydrate as per my message on Talk:Carbohydrate after waiting from Feb. 17.
 * Codex alimentarius: re-instate Bridging the Great Divide article as per talk, after waiting from Feb. 15
 * Healthy diet: edit as per Zeroin147's comments on talk page
 * Find out how to do redirects on French Wikipedia; Acides gras essentiels --> Acide gras essentiel

To do
to make sure nothing is left out. Compare also with Pauling and other references. Add references. Find out amounts ...
 * Conditional probability add diagram?
 * Regularization (math) make statistics section more readable
 * TfD
 * Talk:milk
 * Talk:Golan heights
 * Talk:Theorem
 * Fix db-u1 per
 * Talk:biodiversity my post of May 30, 2008
 * '''delete "/new" CSD templates listed in User:Coppertwig/Sandbox4 (only the "/new", not the real ones!) or merge page histories
 * followup re instructions on changing username?
 * Talk:Dopamine receptor D4
 * done edit Help:diff
 * done remove electronic components from discrete (I put it in temporarily)
 * format refs: Women's rights in Canada
 * clean up Template:Infobox Officeholder1
 * CSD 4th paragraph wording re deleting new articles
 * CSD user warning templates: standardize internal workings of
 * propose merge of foco focos theory and Guevarism
 * CSD I7 wording as I suggested on talk
 * ill-posed problem
 * (doing) Proposal: priority levels in watchlist
 * Consensus statement on neurodevelopmental disorders
 * Proposal: highlighting in recentchanges log
 * translating simple:Hellenistic art
 * ? disambiguation: Discrete
 * Talk:Metonymy 14:21, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Confidence region
 * Inter-African Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children. Expand further (e.g. report on each of its conferences?). Make redirects to it.
 * See note to self on talk page re bf refs, e.g. plugged ducts
 * done Proposal: display earliest unpatrolled page
 * done Re User talk:Jeepday
 * done Talk:Thirty days hath September
 * done Tank Street Bridge, Brisbane need to format ref.
 * User:User:YouWiki
 * doneadoption templates
 * you template (see Template:wikify?)
 * (note link: Wikipedia talk:IP block exemption)
 * done shorten lead of Lamb waves
 * done J.M. case (need to post at AN) (decided not to post at AN; is OK now)
 * merge Udo
 * The letter N
 * Tor exit notes: see User:Lunkwill/nym -- Wikipedia talk:Blocking policy/Tor nodes -- Wikipedia talk:IP block exemption
 * done SmithBlue/PresterJohn thingy
 * Cleanup after CSD template discussion: remove noinclude messages; update hatnote at WT:CSD; done maybe delete speedybase
 * done Think about transclusion of db-bio 14:47, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Women's rights in Canada: incoming links; translation; format refs; etc.
 * National College of Chiropractic (?), Chicago
 * Format refs at Chase McEachern
 * done finish Water supply and sanitation in Latin America for Kerres
 * do Water supply and sanitation in Colombia for Kerres
 * Look at Treatment of human head lice
 * Poon dictionary entry
 * User:DanBealeCocks wants advice re NPOV editing. Use Gilbert quote.
 * Check templates: &#32;  shortcuts, including standard one;  noincludes  categories etc.
 * Compare essential nutrient translation
 * Mona Lisa travel page; French page? Quote?
 * Naming conventions (Norse mythology) change I suggested on talk page March 8, 2008; still need to propagate to Naming conventions 14:21, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Semicha

Items set aside (probably won't do or don't have time for)

 * Translation page: Look at translated articles;  put links to the French version (in bibliography and language tag.)  If it says completed, move it to completed.
 * Add links among English nutrient articles
 * More redirects: interlinguistic* to Interlanguage links. Also:  put disambiguation on latter page re Babel.
 * post at WT:NOR
 * Complete someone's proposed merge at Linear elasticity
 * User:Acps110's template (already gave help anyway, Acps110 seems satisfied)
 * lengthen lead of Circumcision and law

doing

 * 1981 Irish hunger strike
 * Samuel Adams
 * Alcibiades
 * Ancient Egypt Sept 13
 * Harriet Arbuthnot Sept 13
 * Aspasia Sept 13
 * Georg Cantor (See User:EdJohnston/Georg Cantor referencing)

to do

 * 1962 South Vietnamese Independence Palace bombing (maybe; small number of refs)
 * Arrest and assassination of Ngô Đình Diệm (smallish number of refs)
 * Elias Ashmole (maybe; mostly one author; OK as is?)
 * Italian War of 1542–1546
 * Pontiac's Rebellion

done

 * 1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt
 * I-message
 * Che Guevara (manually)
 * Isaac Brock (manually)
 * Temple Sinai (Oakland, California) (manually)

Formatting refs

 * Women's rights in Canada
 * Medical analysis of circumcision

Editing
Interesting articles:
 * Integration using complex analysis
 * Integration using parametric derivatives
 * Circumcision Modify the lead
 * Medical analysis of circumcision expand the lead
 * Udo Erasmus merge in food pyramid info
 * James Lovelock
 * Possibly disambiguate/define Global
 * Particle technology
 * Evolutionarily stable strategy

Creating

 * Leaders' debate on women's issues during the 1984 Canadian federal election campaign
 * IAC
 * Confidence region
 * National College of Chiropractic, Chicago
 * Federation of Women Teachers' Associations of Ontario
 * Caroline Andrew
 * Teaching Profession Act (Ontario) 1944
 * Pierre Trudeau's 1983-84 peace initiative
 * Cuban aid to Africa

Policies
Wikipedia policies are marvelous. In organization and style they are logical, readable and concise. In content they are designed to prevent problems in the maximum number of situations. A few contain rough spots: the exception that proves the rule, an invitation to participate in wiki editing and in the further evolution of the policies. Wikipedia policies are probably among the most thoroughly edited documents in human history.

(Dates shown are simply dates on which I read or re-read the policies.)
 * Global
 * Ignore all rules and WP:WIARM


 * Behavioural
 * Bots
 * Civility
 * Editing policy
 * Edit warring
 * No legal threats
 * No personal attacks
 * Ownership of articles
 * Sock puppetry
 * Three-revert rule
 * Username
 * Vandalism
 * Wheel war


 * Content and style
 * Attack pages
 * Biographies of living persons
 * "Administrators may enforce the removal of such material with page protection and blocks, even if they have been editing the article themselves."
 * "Editors who repeatedly add or restore unsourced or poorly sourced contentious material about living persons may be blocked for disruption."
 * Naming conventions 20:02, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
 * "In particular, the current title of a page does not imply either a preference for that name, or that any alternative name is discouraged in the text of articles." etc.
 * May want to read Naming conventions (categories)
 * Neutral point of view
 * [Warrants attention:] ""Segregation" of text or other content into different regions or subsections, based solely on the apparent POV of the content itself;"
 * "A matter that is both verifiable and supported by reliable sources might nonetheless be proposed to make a point or cited selectively; ..."
 * No original research
 * Verifiability
 * What Wikipedia is not


 * Deletion
 * Category deletion policy
 * Criteria for speedy deletion
 * Deletion policy
 * Can speedy during AfD etc.
 * Any admin can restore a prod-ed article on request
 * Office actions
 * Revision hiding (Oversight)
 * Proposed deletion


 * Enforcing policies
 * Appealing a block
 * Arbitration policy
 * Banning policy
 * Blocking policy
 * Consensus
 * "Wikipedia's decisions ... are based on a system of good reasons."
 * "... you actually need to carefully consider the strength and quality of the arguments themselves ..."
 * Open proxies
 * Protection policy
 * Resolving disputes


 * Legal and copyright
 * Copyrights
 * Copyright violations
 * Image use policy
 * Libel
 * Non-free content criteria
 * Reusing Wikipedia content
 * Text of the GNU Free Documentation License
 * See also
 * Plagiarism
 * Fair use
 * Fair use


 * Other issues
 * (etc.)

Wikimedia

 * Wikimedia Privacy Policy

Selected guidelines etc.

 * Requested moves
 * Help:Moving a page)
 * Moving guidelines for administrators
 * General sanctions

MOS

 * WP:MOS
 * WP:MOSDATE "If the autoformatting function is used, the opening and closing dates of the range must be given in full (see Autoformatting and linking) and be separated by a spaced en dash. "

Ũber den Wolken

 * 
 * (mentions it)
 * 
 * (mentions it)

Useful links

 * WikiProject Resource Exchange = WP:Library
 * User:Lar/Accountability well-written admin recall procedure
 * WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/WikiBreak Enforcer
 * Wikipedia talk:Blocking policy/Tor nodes (don't reinvent the wheel)
 * Wikipedia talk:IP block exemption and Wikipedia talk:Blocking policy/Tor nodes
 * Category:Wikipedia administrators who will provide copies of deleted articles
 * Cut and paste move repair holding pen
 * User:Teratornis on help desk re advanced editing help
 * Mikkalai: arbreq Wikiquette
 * pywikipedia bot instructions
 * I think M has a good point here.
 * If surgery were like Wikipedia... and same here; the latter is an example of someone who quit Wikipedia after their article was deleted, like Ggggggggggggggg12.
 * Keyboard shortcuts
 * m:Help:Watching pages Watchlist-like functionality
 * succession boxes watchlist-like functionality
 * public barnstar at help desk
 * WikiProject edit counters
 * Heimstern's user page with essay on editwarring etc.
 * "Transclusion of lead section" at village pump technical 14:52, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
 * How to fix bunched-up edit links
 * Raul's laws
 * an AN/I thread
 * User:Filll/essaydraft Filll's essay about techniques used on the Evolution article
 * Moonriddengirl on AfD: last message of this thread, and also see here.
 * arbcom link to DefendEachOther.
 * Zen of Wikipedia
 * |On closing admin responsibility, a discussion on Abd's talk page
 * Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion/Archive 28
 * Template:Csb-pageincluded
 * User:Cacycle/wikEdDiff
 * WikiProject Stub sorting/List of stubs stub sorting stub-sorting
 * March 14, 2009 version of Orthomolecular psychiatry
 * Maximum spacing estimation Avi

Useful bits of code
From help desk near end of 2008-03-11 (equation numbering): $$\begin{array}{rclr}a&=&b+c&(1)\\d&=&e-f&(2)\end{array}$$

From help desk "Tables", cells that span more than one row or column 13:06, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

colour of visited links: a:visited { color: #280;}. in monobook.css

quote: "People tend to overestimate the degree to which their own behaviors have situational causes and overestimate the degree two which other's behavior has dispositional causes."

Newpages
limit=100:

5000 -- 6000 -- 7000 -- 8000 -- 9000 -- 10000 -- 11000 -- 12000 -- 13000 -- 41000 -- 42000

Changes needed

 * expand complementary medicine infobox
 * rewrite paragraph in condom article as per Lyrl's comment
 * Done Consider posting licensing templates such as User:Bawolff's
 * Arachidonic acid: I put a message on its talk page re essential nutrient or not
 * discuss vitamin C and anemia on contraindications section of Talk:Vitamin C
 * Earth's energy budget I indicated I wanted to delete stuff
 * XXXX AIDS: soon after Jan. 8, create heading re treatment page and announce on HIV
 * Done AIDS: edit alternative therapy paragraph
 * DONE: AIDS article: reduce references to GRID (repetitive). Is mentioned in CDC disease classification; HIV and AIDS misconceptions; and Origin of HIV.
 * DONE Birth control: carry out edits I announced
 * DONE Ill-posed problem: fix definition cf scientific dictionary.  Contrast ill-posed and ill-conditioned.
 * Norm of matrix, condition number: mention determinant as an example of a norm
 * DONE Amino acid: check why content was lost between June and Dec 6 2006 (Table was moved to another page)
 * T-test: add section with simple t-test
 * Translate statistics pages into Simple English
 * Ask questions on French and English Congo pages
 * Create disambiguation page for Wikipedia:Language tags (interlanguage links and user banners)
 * DONE Move my suggested instructions (2 sections?) from discussion of translation page to project page. (both French translation and main translation page.)
 * DONE Get rid of "french translation of the month" but retain links or merge pages
 * reformat "recently translated" (but archive the info?)
 * read French translation instructions as suggested by EdJohnston
 * Merge/organize nutrient pages e.g. existing pages on each vitamin (put in more links!)
 * Work on statistics article in Simple English Wikipedia
 * Bugzilla:
 * Have submitted bug re custom sidebars
 * Need to submit bug re common interwikis (discuss on Meta or someplace)
 * Need to submit bug re displaying number of bytes on history page
 * SE Wiktionary:
 * Continue definitions
 * Word lists
 * SE Wikiquote:
 * Continue adding Simple versions of quotes
 * put interwikis
 * Category system or connect to Main Page
 * Delete stuff from family planning as I said I would (DONE); maybe put merge tags
 * I proposed an edit on Economic equilibrium around Jan 4 2007
 * I've announced intention to change "failure rate" to "pregnancy rate" on Birth control, Natural family planning, Template:Infobox Birth control.

Archiving

 * Iantresman section to Archive 7
 * Re: re your post at ANI to Archive 7
 * Chiropractic to archive 7
 * Moonriddengirl "Back" to Archive 8
 * RfA thanks section to Archive 8

Possible projects

 * Translate instructions for Tools/Navigation popups into French
 * Help translate Flacus' interwiki instructions

Delayed edits
At female genital cutting: possibly say something like "The terms "clitorectomy" or "clitoridectomy" are also used for some forms of the procedure."

Re Reproductive rights: Here's a quote from the Times article, which is already a footnote in the men's issues paragraph, which provides a balancing point of view on that issue and could perhaps be used in the article:  "Franz says that she is, of course, in favor of both parents' taking responsibility for a child, an impulse that she says legal abortion has undermined. One obvious problem, if men can sever their financial ties to unwanted children, is what becomes of that child, particularly as states cut back on health care and social services." (Wanda Franz, president of National Right to Life, quoted here.)

RR: P. 22 "the 'right-to-life' movement had expanded internationally" (from JSTOR Studies in family planning article)

Speedy
Genevieve Bryant (Dangereux) -- Pashia -- Susedia -- Striped blister beetles (copyvio) -- Snowbunny -- Wave Systems (db-spam; page created twice; user deleted speedy-delete tag) -- Event spectacle -- Yolci (db-bio) -- Craig Norman Rossell (db-bio) -- Donview MS (db-blank) -- Globalpeaceexchange (copyvio) -- Techtalk (blank) --  Austin Taylor (db-nonsense) -- Kate Ballin (db-nonsense)  Evan Cebula (db-bio) DJ A.D. (db-bio)(twice!)  Bling H2O (db-advert)Johai Zblinski War (Vampire War) (db-nonsense) Alaa Hassouna (3rd King of Canada) Caroline and elena (3rd time or so) -- Christopher Nuttall -- Erick oduor -- Nathan D Miller -- Frees Hall(db-copyvio, but rescued by Moonriddengirl?) -- Smith Hall  (db-copyvio) Mr. Lankin (db-bio) --   Audit test of control -- HarryKoh           (Remember to notify the creator.)

OK now
Admiral Seymour Elementary School (copyvio, and was re-created; now has been rewritten and is OK) -- Superman x(empty) -- Hope for the Flowers -- Won't Let You Down (Texas Takeover Remix) (blank) --WCEF-FM(blanked) --

Prod
NikeSB.org (Dec. 1 2007) Gt xpress (Dec 1 2007) -- Evil Yamato Man (Shadow Yamato X) (Dec. 2) -- Hemamotus Yamato (Shadow Yamato X) and Hemamotos Yamato (Shadow Yamato X) (Dec. 2) Growth accelerator (Dec. 2)(Dec. 2) Popular music artists from Atlanta (Dec. 2) (Dec. 2; Liolani Clan, and see also Kambari (Dec. 2) Private hybrid incubator (Dec. 2) (See also Collegiate entrepreneur AfD)     -- I Stand Here Ironing (non-notable) -- Plc.4 Mie Haed(song, non-notable) -- Intuitive Games -- Brohl model -- Moparscape.org --Utatane (disambiguation) -- Primes / rules / patterns / location  -- Axe bombing -- Runhardt Sander                  (Remember to notify the creator)

Prod by others, patrolled
Godzilla: Unleashed fractions

Prod, OK now
The Cry and the Covenant --  The Land Leviathan -- see also Articles for deletion/The Cornelius Quartet) The Steel Tsar (Dec. 2) A Nomad of the Time Streams (Dec. 2) Morlock Night (Dec. 2) To Visit the Queen (Dec. 2) Les Sales Majestés (Dec. 2)

Prod, more
Kittyboots 23:14, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

AfD
NikeSB.org (was speedied at AfD) -- Manakin (DSpace) -- List of oxymora (not AfD-ing yet.)

Misc.
Uniform electric field(merge, not speedy) -- Inner family archetypes (talk page re copyvio) -- Harriet Farley (copypaste) -- Ben chenery(talk page comment re context etc.) -- IPVS (suggested db-ad on talk) Princeton Media Group (notability tag; put speedy and took it off, oops) Myfinpro (I was going to db-bio, but someone db-spammed it first) Uno (game) (just need to delete certain material contributed by Mrpatriot9369)

Copyvio
Richard Quiller Couch(but was really OK) -- Backbeat Beatles(db) -- Sunnyvale Public Library (I only warned the user, didn't tag it; need to follow up) -- Nikolay Solovtsov(db) -- James hergott -- Relief From Joint and Several Liability on Joint Returns (I only warned the user, didn't tag it; may be in public domain; need to follow up) Frees Hall (db, 2nd time)  -- Smith Hall (db, 2nd time)  see User talk:Nancy.weyers Porter Memorial Bridge (db)  Brandt Memorial Bridge (db)  -- Cassel Open Air Theatre (db)  -- Dean Memorial Pergola (db)  -- Fiske Lodge (db)  -- Todd siler (db) Margi (db) -- Nathan Stoltzfus is Florida State Historian (db)  -- Lighthouse Furniture: too many quotes, did not tag yet. Just warned user. and associated image Image:Lighthouse Furniture Logo.jpg Coppertwig (talk) 23:51, 26 December 2007 (UTC) The Camping And Caravanning Club (db-copyvio) Global Mediacom

Merge proposals
Silvana (Last Exile) (I set up links for the merge proposed by someone else) The Code of Claw with The Underland Chronicles, I proposed --Coppertwig (talk) 03:29, 9 January 2008 (UTC) Electromagnetic waves or something?

Advert
Telemedical ECGs -- Tenant acquisition -- WordTravels

I contested speedy-deletion
Nanjing No.1 Middle School (is it a high school?)

For improvement
The Steel Tsar (see Talk:The Steel Tsar

Pages I've helped improve, from newpages
Sunnyvale Public Library -- Lighthouse Furniture -- Cold FX -- Chase McEachern --

Look for refs
Roses, Kings, Castles 03:15, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Have put formal notice
(Note that Non-violent child discipline also contains overlapping material)
 * proposed merger of Child discipline and Parenting on Nov. 10, 2006. check back in 2 to 4 weeks re  merging
 * DONE put mergeto tag on Domestic violence against men 2006 nov 11 (someone else put the tag on Domestic violence; I completed the pair of tags).  Andrew c carried out the merge on Nov. 16, 2006.
 * Nov 24 2006 put expert template on Fatty acid metabolism re someone changed chemical equations without explanation.

Have put informal notes

 * Have put informal note on Domestic discipline (lifestyle) suggesting deletion of page
 * Have put informal note? re merging the for/against arguments sections of Spanking and Corporal Punishment
 * Have put informal note on Corporal Punishment page re merging a number of other pages (Child Discipline, Spanking, Paddle (Spanking)). Maybe put formal merge proposals and/or put informal notes on the other pages?
 * Have put informal note in "Domestic violence" talk page in Neutrality section asking if it's OK to remove the neutrality banner. Nov. 13 2006; check back later.
 * On "Vitamin" talk page: "Mind control" re a sentence

Thinking about

 * Think about proposing to merge Domestic discipline with Corporal punishment.
 * Another one to merge: Domestic violence?  Someone else is proposing to merge Domestic violence against men with it.  Maybe it's separate from abuse and corporal punishment?  Think about it.
 * Merge all parenting techniques other than CP from Child discipline, Non-violent child discipline and Parenting onto the Parenting page. Non-violent child discipline will then talk only about the history, prevalence, etc. and link to Parenting for how-to and to CP for arguments for/against.
 * Consider merging Food supplement and Dietary supplement (read them first!)

Message to new (non-IP?) editors; link to overcategorization
Hi. Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia and editing Circumcision. That page is controversial and is edited a lot, so when you want to make a change (unless it's obviously good, like fixing a spelling mistake) then please first describe your change on the talk page Talk:Circumcision and give the reasons for it, and wait to see what other people say about it. I suggest you take the changes you made already, describe them on the talk page and give the reasons, and then people will discuss them. If you make a change and someone reverts it, then you need to talk about it on the talk page -- not make the change again without talking first.

non-notable intersection non-notable intersection

Editing

 * Remove weasel words from "nonviolence" page
 * Somewhere, explain about the 5 landmark studies (Straus etc.)

Citation formats

 * (Cite news:)
 * (Cite web:)

Books I have

 * The Collins English Dictionary. 1979, 1986, 1988.  ISBN 0 00 433134-6.  William Collins & Co. Ltd.  Great Britain.
 * Gleijeses
 * Cormier

RfA votes
(some of)
 * Salix alba. Support.
 * Dihydrogen Monoxide: I supported. Did not succeed.
 * HisSpaceResearch I opposed. did not succeed.
 * Soxred93 I opposed neutral (moral support). did not succeed.
 * Jeepday, I didn't vote. successful.
 * Rudget 2, I opposed neutraled supported.  successful.
 * Alexf, I opposed. succeeded.
 * Gwen Gale, I opposed. Did not succeed.
 * smalljim. Neutral re not enough info, but positive.
 * Pb30. Support.  Succeeded (I think).
 * Ultraexactzz. Support.  Succeeded.
 * Melesse. Support.
 * RMHED. Oppose.
 * TheDJ. Oppose. 14:27, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Triona. Weak oppose.
 * Seresin. Support. Succeeded.
 * EdJohnston. Support.
 * Seresin. Support. Succeeded.
 * EdJohnston. Support.

Wikipedians with complaints pages

 * Jonathan
 * JetLover

My Wikipedia contact list

 * EdJohnston helping with translation of Hellenistic Art
 * Paul August mathematician, cool sandbox also ancient civilization
 * Sjakkalle admin, answered questions re watching nonex page
 * Aldux requested Hellenistic Art translation
 * Femto admin; deletes linkspam
 * User:Jim Butler re alternative medicine

Reproductive rights
CEDAW paper Insert non-formatted text here

Huggle
Huggle glitch? --Coppertwig (talk) 00:34, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Gesichtete Versionen experiment
Parameters: The plan is that I'll find 20 articles (or 50, if it doesn't take too much of my time) with the random-article link ("Zufälliger Artikel") on the German Wikipedia. I'll examine their status at and just before 00:00 31 May 2008 and 00:00 5 May 2008: gesichtet or not? Apparently vandalised or not? How long had they been in that state? What state were they in in the previous edit, and for how long?

For comparison, also the same number of articles on English Wikipedia, where I'll only look at the state at and just before 00:00 31 May 2008, seeing whether they're apparently vandalised at that time or in the previous edit, and for how long.

I may not necessarily be able to easily recognize vandalism on the German Wikipedia. I may have to go with things like whether the person reverting mentioned that they were reverting vandalism. We'll see. (I'll assume all gesichtete articles are free of vandalism. For the May 31 part of the experiment on the German Wikipedia, I'm more interested in the amount of time they've been gesichtet or not, than recognizing vandalism.  I'll also do a sub-calculation counting only the gesichtet articles.)

NV means apparently no vandalism. V means apparently vandalism. G means gesichtet (sighted). U means ungesichtet. K means keine Version gesichtet(no sighted version). G-S means selbst-gesichtet, i.e. gesichtet by the same person as the one editing, therefore presumably at the same time as the edit. Going back to the last 2 edits before the beginning of the date shown. If the state of the article didn't apparently change at the time of the last edit, I don't bother counting up the amount of time.


 * de:Christoph Lehmann (Musiker)
 * May 31: K, NV
 * May 5: K, NV
 * de:Kriegssense
 * May 31: G-S, NV
 * May 5: K, NV
 * de:Ecclesia de Eucharistia
 * Last edit January. Gesichtet.  NV.
 * de:Damien Broderick
 * 14:42 25 May 2008 edited, NV, K
 * 20:35 25 May 2008 edited
 * 23:19 25 May 2008 G
 * 8 hours, 37 minutes K, then 5 days 41 minutes G.
 * de:Wernerwald
 * K NV
 * de:Max Neubert
 * K NV
 * 1) Schlacht bei Kunersdorf
 * G 22 may. NV.
 * de:P6
 * K NV
 * de:Big Loop
 * G-S 26 May. NV
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OK, I've done 20 articles. Now, new procedure: I'll keep clicking "random link" until I find an article that's been gesichtet at least twice, or that has been edited after it's been gesichtet. I'll collect a number of such articles in that way.
 * de:George Froeschel
 * This is the first time I've found a "ungesichte version" article (i.e. previously gesichtet but not now) other than via recent changes?? Except I don't understand:  it said "Ungesichtete Version [letzte gesichtete Version]" but apparently that was a bug or something -- the history and logs only show the last edit 22 April, and G 17 May.  So this doesn't  fit the criteria.
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circumcision

 * "There is abundant evidence that coercion in the act of circumcision was rejected by Judaism as a whole." Anti-Judaism in Early Christianity By Peter Richardson, David Granskou, Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion Published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1986 ISBN 0889201676, 9780889201675 232 pages

Notices/Draft
I'll post notices from time to time at User:Coppertwig/Notices about my activities or about things I think may be interesting to Wikipedians. I'll plan not to edit it often, so that it will be easier to watchlist it than my talkpage. I got the idea of a Notices page from Abd; see User:Abd/Notices.

February 2009

 * In the near future I hope to find time to participate in editing the following pages, and I encourage others to get involved as well:
 * 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict: Contentious topic; more neutral editors called for (permanent link)
 * Israel Shahak: Content disputes, editwarring, deletion of talk page comments (AN/I archive)
 * Cold fusion Fundamental questions about NPOV: what count as reliable sources. Arbitration case. Allegations re editwarring, blacklisting, use of admin tools (AN/I archive). By the way, I recently learned that apparently Muon-catalysed fusion is an example of a low-energy nuclear reaction that has been accepted as reality by mainstream science for decades.
 * Flagged revisions/Trial/Proposed trials etc.
 * Let's at least mark edits as sighted, to guide RC patrollers and watchlisters to avoid duplication of effort and draw attention to unnoticed edits, like the yellow highlighting in new page patrol, even if the most recent version is always displayed by default. Having a sighted version available to readers via a tab would also be beneficial.
 * Let's not label a tab "draft", but call it "newest" or "latest" or something; the word "draft" would contribute to the feeling that one is not being allowed to edit the encyclopedia, as was widely felt at the German Wikipedia. I'm not sure whether choice of words would make only a very small or a large difference, but I believe it would make a difference.
 * I hope that RC patrol tools such as Huggle will be updated to allow people to effortlessly mark edits as sighted.


 * At Simple English Wikiquote, there was an issue when I, as the only bureaucrat on the project at that time, said I wouldn't close an RfB; I suggested that someone else close it. There was a brief "request for decratship" about me, withdrawn and closed as keep per SNOW after little more than an hour. More information  here.


 * There was an MfD about my signature page, closed as keep per SNOW. For those curious about the varying colours and sizes of the smiley in my signature, I attempt to explain it in German at the end of the "Simple English Wikiquote" thread here, but also explain it in English on the signature page itself.

January 2009
I became an admin at Simple English Wiktionary on January 14, 2009.

Editing Federation of Women Teachers' Associations of Ontario
The Federation of Women Teachers' Associations of Ontario (FWTAO) was an association founded in 1918 to promote the interests of women elementary school] teachers in Ontario, and continued to represent women teachers until they merged in 1998 with the Ontario Public School Teachers' Federation to form the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario.

The FWTAO was formed as a coalition of local women teacher's associations which had begun forming in 1888 in several Ontario cities. They worked for better salaries and job security. In the early years, according to a history by Barbara Richter in the newsletter of the successor organization, FWTAO organizers risked dismissal from their jobs. With the passage of the Teaching Profession Act of 1944, all elementary school teachers in the public school system in Ontario were required to be members of the FWTAO. This empowered the FWTAO to carry out its work. The FWTAO worked to counter discrimination against women; for example, even after the passage of legislation in 1951 requiring equal pay for work of equal value, married male teachers were still receiving an additional allowance. There were strict social expectations of women teachers; a 1965 study found that women teachers were expected by parents not to smoke, place bets, run for political office, teach after marriage or any of a number of other activities; there were strict expectations that they stop work if visibly pregnant. The FWTAO worked to change these expectations.

The FWTAO lobbied for affirmative action programs and used scholarships to help individual women further their careers; they also gave scholarships to young women in developing countries. They developed curricula, which tended to follow a democratic philosophy of education, promoting cooperation rather than competition.

The Ontario Public School Teachers Federation, formerly the Ontario Public School Men Teachers Federation, made repeated attempts since the late 60s to merge with the FWTAO, including three court challenges. In 1994, the Ontario Human Rights Commission upheld a complaint by a female principal that the requirement that she be a member of FWTAO was discrimination. A decision was made in 1996 to merge the organizations, and in 1998 they merged, forming the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario.
 * honourary life memberships
 * donates archives to York U.
 * early history
 * one of ETFO's predecessor organizations.
 * only elementary
 * cultural ethos
 * book with good info. Feminist Critical Policy Analysis By Catherine Marshall. In recent years, fought in court challenges from male org. (Ontario Public School Teachers Federation). Ontario courts and Human Rights Commission.  Established 1918. First of 5 Ontario teachers federations.  1944 Teaching Profession Act: all must belong to Ontario Teachers' Federation.  (elementary.) (p. 217.)  Democratic education.  Criticism in 1991 by FWTAO contributed to Canada later ratifying United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.  Global feminism; world's children. Overseas scholarships since 1960s for young women in developing countries. (p. 220)  Fighting for democracy, against social inequalities as women, using the Charter (Catherine MacKinnon, p. 221)  3 legal actions by OPSTF (p. 222). OPSTF was formerly Ontario Public School Men Teachers Federation, formed in 1919. 1944: women teachers in elementary schools assigned to FWTAO (p. 223) Developing curriculum, emphasizing cooperative rather than competitive learning (p. 224) 1951, equal pay for work of equal value, but male married teachers still got an additional allowance. promoted affirmative action (p. 224)
 * Unions in the Time of Revolution By Yonatan Reshef, Sandra Rastin merged in 1998. Since late 60s, men's org had persistently tried to merge. Felt they needed separate org to protect interests of women teachers.  In 1972, men's org opened to women members. (p. 88) In 1994, Human Rights Commission found discrimination against principal Margaret Tomen (p. 89)
 * Lesbian Teachers By Madiha Didi Khayatt 1915? (p. 46) FWTAO strove to ameliorate the expectations
 * encyclopedia Canadiana. Est. 1918.
 * Women's Organizing and Public Policy in Canada and Sweden By Linda Briskin, Mona Eliasson have produced curriculum materials

Caroline Andrew

 * "Caroline Andrew has been with the University of Ottawa since 1971." ... "She is a nationally recognized authority on urban and feminist studies as well as on cultural diversity." The Ontario government names uOttawa’s Caroline Andrew as the first chair of Echo, Ontario’s new women’s health agency University of Ottawa News Releases and Announcements
 * Caroline Andrew receives an Ontario Francophonie Award 2006
 * Ontario Office of Francophone Affairs. "former Dean of Social Sciences and currently Professor of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa." Her fields of interest—municipal social policy, urban development and women in local politics—reflect her deep-rooted concern for social justice. has promoted social progress and defended the rights of women and of Francophones. Vice Chair of the City of Ottawa's Advisory Committee on French-Language Services, as well as membership on the City of Ottawa's Working Group on Women's Access to Municipal Services. Francophile. Strives for harmony between the two languages and cultures.
 * French source with bio info
 * appointed Distinguished University Professor 2006-7.
 * (events) board member of Inter Pares; first chair of Echo.
 * doyenne de la Faculté des Sciences sociales de l’Université d’Ottawa. Research interests.
 * yet another bio
 * bio, comparative study of Montreal and Ottawa, etc.
 * with U of O since 1971 (flyer)

Cuban aid to Africa
In 1975, Cuban forces arrived in Angola at the invitation of the MPLA and helped defeat invasions from the north and south, leading to proclamation of sovereignty in November 1975. Marxist. Cuban aid helped militarily, but politically the movement was African. mid-November, due to South African invasion, MPLA asked Cuba for more help; already had Cuban advisors. p. 363. 1981 U.S. linked settlement of Namibian situation with withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola. p. 368 1988 Cubans fighting South Africans along Namibian border. Cubans bombing Calueque Dam using planes. South African officers quoted as saying the "presence of the heavily-armed Cuban troops has altered the balance of power in the area." p. 368. Agostinho Neto had visited Havana multiple times and shared ideological outlook with Castro. p. 392 "Although the Cubans, of course, relied on Soviet material and logistical support, Cuba was not so much the proxy as the prod of the Soviet Union." p. 392 1977 effort to reconcile Ethiopia and Somalia. Fidel Castro brought Siad and Mengistu together to a meeting in Aden, but the two countries had different views. p. 394. "On the other side, the use of Cuban troops to quash the democratic aspirations of the oppressed nationalities in Ethiopia and Eritrea, though this one has a revolutionary veneer to it, is no less a case of intervention by the Soviet Union in the struggles of the peoples of Africa." p. 45-46  1970-75 "Cuban proxies" for Soviet assistance to Angola. p. 89. Cuban military involvement in Angola since 1975. p. 152. Western opposition to Namibian independence was portrayed as justified by Cuban and Soviet military presence in Africa. p. 155

Employment Standards Act
Employment Standards Act: due next week (as of November 10, 1983). Flexible composite test.