User talk:Cdmhume

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Testing Talk
Hello Cdmhume, I'm checking out the talk feature on your page. SockeyeSam (talk) 06:39, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

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Columbia River Treaty Page - outline
Introduction: Adding basic information such as: What is the river? Where is it? what are the dams? when was the treaty passed?

Background: Looking into the motivations of why BC and the US wanted to sign a treaty.

Treaty Provision: (This one is going to be left as is, but we wanted to add "Canadian Entitlement" into this section)

Implications (previously labeled "Controversy"): Social Impacts: Regionally (effects of relocation/ varying attitudes towards the dams) and Provincially (economic and political impacts) Environmental Impacts: Specifically looking at how the river was altered and ultimately how that changed salmon runs, spawning grounds, and health of the fish.

I will be working on the 'Environmental' section under 'implications'.

--Cdmhume (talk) 01:40, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

I can't find your sandbox :( Wls33 (talk) 16:44, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

I can't see it either Publicplanet (talk) 20:58, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

Contribution/Citation
Hi Calire, what you sent me sounds really good. I am also really confused with citations. Maybe ask Billie to give you a hand. I might resource to emailing him to help me, cause it is really confusing. Best of luck. Cayleym (talk) 00:06, 14 March 2012 (UTC)cayleym

Ok this is what i got and i think formatting is correct....you might have to refine the first foot note for page numbers and what notWls33 (talk) 04:32, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

The Columbia River has the greatest annual drainage as compared to all other rivers along the Pacific coast. Before the introduction of dams on the river, the changes in water level rose and fell predictably with the seasons and a nine meter displacement existed between the spring snowmelt highs and fall lows. After the dams were built, however, the river changed unpredictably and in some areas the previous maximum and minimum water levels were altered by several tens of meters. No longer linked to the seasons, water conditions became subject to United States power demands. . After the damming, the water during high floods began to cover much of the valley’s arable land - carrying with it fertile soil when the water retreated and leaving agricultural land useless.

From 1965 to 1969, 27, 312 acres were logged along the Columbia River to remove timber from the new flood plain. The slashing of vegetation along the shoreline weakened soil stability and made the land susceptible to wind erosion, creating sandstorms. Conversely, in wet periods, the cleared areas turned into vast mud flats.

Cayley Contribution
Hey Team so I have figured out to cite which is a miracle, and I can contribute my introduction which is around 150 words. The only problem is, is that I have created my own reference list, so I am a little confused how I will incorporate that into the whole article. Does anyone have any suggestions? Anyway here it is, and I am open to edits/comments: Various attitudes were generated from local residents who would be affected directly or indirectly by the construction of the Columbia River Treaty dams. BC Hydro had to relocate and compensate for peoples loss of land, and homes. In Arrow Lake 3,144 properties had to be bought and 1,350 people had to be relocated (1). With the construction of the Duncan Dam 39 properties were bought and 30 people moved, subsequently at Mica Dam 25 properties including trap lines and other economic resourceful land was bought (2). Since Arrow Lake had the largest number of people needing to be relocated it generated the most controversy and varying of opinions. People who worked on the dam felt a sense of pride and purpose for being able to provide for their families for a long time (3). However due to the exclusion of local hearings for the Treaty and the outcome of the Arrow Dam many residents felt powerless in the provinces decision (4). If you go to number 3 in the contents "Inline citation" that was really helpful. Cayleym (talk) 00:44, 14 March 2012 (UTC)cayleym
 * Claire I found a page that really helped my figure out how to cite http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_%28footnotes%29

Another tip- if you go to the current article code and find the code for a reference, you can just copy it, put in your own info, and it will add automatically. Like this (look at the edit view here): . you can just add your own title, author, pages, etc. And then add the reflist tag inside these to get the reference list Publicplanet (talk) 03:18, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

Addition
Claire I added the title Environmental Impacts to your intro so it was a bit more clear of the transition. Cayleym (talk) 05:09, 14 March 2012 (UTC)cayley

your sandbox
Cdmhume, the button to your sandbox links to MY sandbox! This needs to be fixed. You need to set up your sandbox and then do the drafts of your section of the article in your sandbox. If you don't know how to do this, let me know and I will help, but PublicPlanet of your group has his set up right. --Greentina (talk) 03:35, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Hey there, Re: the problem with your sandbox. Can you replace the code you've written with the following, please? User:Example/sandbox As it stands, when your sandbox is clicked, it takes you to the sandbox of the person who is clicking it! --Greentina (talk) 04:26, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Cayley's Completed Section
Hey team, so I have finished my portion of Social impacts. I am wondering if you guys can take a look at it, and tell me what you think. Also Tina mentioned that she cannot access my sandbox. I think I have fixed it, but can you email me if you cant access it. Hope writingCayleym (talk) 06:23, 17 March 2012 (UTC) is going well! Cayleym (talk) 06:23, 17 March 2012 (UTC)cayleym

Sam's Section: Provincial Impacts
Hey, I uploaded a draft of my section to my sandbox, I believe you can find it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SamShurts/sandbox. If anyone is still having problems with references or sandbox links I have them pretty much figured out.--SamShurts (talk) 06:27, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

Billy's stuffers
okie dokie i gots my section up its the Canadian reasons for the treaty, check it out and edit it please Wls33 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 03:08, 22 March 2012 (UTC).

Sandbox
Hey Claire, Im not sure if other people from our group has had this problem, but when I go to your userpage and click on your "sandbox" link it takes it to my own sandbox. I think it is how you set up your user page because I had the same problem. What I did was go to Billies page (remember how it looked all professional). Anyway I went there and clicked edit, and then copied and pasted the formatting that makes this page. I am not sure if that was really confusing or not. Let me know. Cayleym (talk) 23:43, 22 March 2012 (UTC)cayleym

Crisis On the Columbia
Hey Claire, so i just realized that the book I lent you "crisis on the columbia" is not a Koerner Library book, but a Vancouver public library book. I really hope you havent returned it yet. Please let me know.Cayleym (talk) 02:33, 25 March 2012 (UTC)cayleym

Added paragraph
Hey guys so I am going to add my last paragraph to the Social Implications section. PS. Sam and Claire since we are all under the same heading "Implications" I just want to make sure the our sub headings consistently look the same. I really dont care how they look but I think they should be consistent. So feel free the change my headings to match yours. Or vise versa Cayleym (talk) 22:31, 25 March 2012 (UTC)cayleym