User talk:BigGuyCA

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Manitoba PTH article titles
Moving the articles—as you attempted to do with Manitoba Highway 32 to Provincial Trunk Highway 32 (Manitoba)—breaks the maps and certain other features of the articles. Although there may be valid reasons to move the articles, please discuss the matter first to get consensus and then to get technical assistance with the move. —C.Fred (talk) 20:59, 19 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Hi C.Fred - I am willing to work on fixing the breaks to have the article named as "Provincial Trunk Highway 32 (Manitoba)" - I need to tell you something of myself - according to Tom Tom, I am or was their top Canadian mapper as of two years ago - and with Google Maps, one of their top Canadian mappers - over the years many people have referenced Wiki for road information - I have been one of them - but what I found extremely frustrating was that different web sites had different names for roads here in Manitoba - the name of "Manitoba Highway 32" is not the name of the road - but many people believe it to be so - I need to calm down chuckle - anyway the current title (name) of article is misleading to readers - and I will work with others to geter done - thanks and with respect! BigGuyCA (talk) 21:18, 19 November 2017 (UTC)


 * By the way, the name of the article isn't always the official name. A lot of times, we'll go with the common name, since it's what people are looking for. —C.Fred (talk) 21:21, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

With respect C. - none of our roads, here in Manitoba, start with the name of Manitoba - the word Manitoba is just an attribute of the road - not part of it's official name or common or known as name - and "Manitoba Highway 32" is not a common name for this road. Anyway, looks like you are set in your ways and it will be pointless for me to try and fix this up - too bad - I have learned thru my 35 years in the IM and IT fields - if there is a will there is a way and a wall is a wall - chuckle - thanks for the feedback - I will move on to other mapping projects BigGuyCA (talk) 21:37, 19 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Neither do Georgia State Routes start with "Georgia", but the article names do. The article titles were the result of years of discussion, so don't expect change to happen immediately—although we would welcome any other assistance you can give to the articles. —C.Fred (talk) 21:49, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

Here is a great saying from the IM field - garbage in garbage out - so am I to expect that my proposed name change is approved? - it will just take awhile? I'm confused - lotsa things take years to create and many many many more years to correct and improve right? Wiki says just cause there are these rules don't let that stop you! I simply wanted to give users accurate info - not what someone or somebody decided years ago for whatever reason - by the way - on any search engine out on the web - searching for "Highway 32" (with or without "Manitoba") will bring up my proposed article name as well as wiki's currect article name - but no we don't want people to see a road with it's real name or it's official name - cmon - seems that the only reason is "technical" - broken links, broken kml files. etc. - we just can't have that - chuckle - been here before - deja vous - I have to go eat - talk to you!