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"Simple" references to Tim Hortons Brier Media Guide
Excuse me but... Is it a "good style of Wiki references"? I can't simply find "2017 Tim Hortons Brier Media Guide: Previous Rosters" in Google - and I can't (this way) verify information about "Patrick C. Perroud" (and more identical editions today by you) with such references (plain "title" text - not a link to). -- Alexey Gustow (talk) 15:59, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!
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2020 Team Nunavut
In the history of the 2020 Scotties Tournament of Heats page, on the discussion of Team Nunavut, you noted the official website only states the club name and not the team members. If you are using a computer to view the website you need to scroll over the team name/club to reveal the listed team members. On a mobile/tablet webpage the team is listed automatically without having to scroll or click. The team information is there. Hope this helps — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2607:FEA8:500:B09:1F6:5DFA:41F4:78A0 (talk) 17:36, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Oh, I see now. Thanks! -- Earl Andrew - talk 19:56, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

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Interested in making a map of the Province of Canada?
Hi Earl Andrew, I've noticed that you have a talent for making maps. Would you be interested in making a map of the Province of Canada? There doesn't seem to be a wiki-friendly map. Something like the one in the Canadian Encyclopedia article on Canada East would be great! Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 17:10, 4 January 2020 (UTC)
 * What sort of map did you have in mind?-- Earl Andrew - talk 23:41, 4 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Just one showing the location of the Province and its boundaries. There is an old Victorian era map on the article page, but it's rather ornate and not easily understood unless you expand on it. Something like the map in the Canadian Encyclopedia, or the series of maps that show the territorial evolution of Canada (although I don't think it would need to show all of modern Canada, like those ones do, just the Province, putting it in context near the Maririmes and the US, Great Lakes, etc. As the Canadian Enclopedia map shows, the boundaries were not well-determined. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 03:52, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

Portal:Current events/Sports/Sidebar
Thanks for adding curling. I didn't have the will. Khan_singh (talk) 00:28, 11 January 2020 (UTC)

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Moving to Draft
Hello. I tried to add articles about "ancient" European championships - but today Wiki-editor Boleyn again moved 1989 European Curling Championships to draft (because "only one source" - to WCF) (look here). Well OK - and I will not try to create such "ancient" articles in future, maybe Boleyn will do that. It's enough for me - I'm "old man" with bad health (and "near to very bad" eyes for today) and haven't much money and much time for rest of my life to create something that any "clearence fighter" easy destroy. -- Alexey Gustow (talk) 10:42, 19 January 2020 (UTC)

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Template "Curlingzone" created
Hello! I created template Curlingzone (by "decreasing" of "WorldCurlingTour" template) for using after Sports links (it shows all sports-related links from Wikidata: WCF, IOC, TemUSA and many-many other; not "ideal" but useful thing; I don't know who created and modified it) in "External links" section - because link to WCT-player-Id already lists by "Sports links" template, but not second link to Curlingzone site. Look exampe of using in "Joël Retornaz". -- Alexey Gustow (talk) 23:46, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

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Jim Sullivan (curler)
The information was in the infobox! You reverted back a number of improvements, including expanding the infobox, just to put the birth/death place back in the brackets where they aren't supposed to be anyways.A202985 (talk) 18:54, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Oops! I only saw your first edit, but when I went to revert, it reverted everything. My apologies! -- Earl Andrew - talk 19:54, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

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Age limit on provincial Scotties?
There's a sentence in Rachel Homan's article that seems to imply that you have to (or had to, at the time) be out of juniors to enter the provincial Scotties: "Prior to graduating from juniors in 2010, Homan's junior team was too young to participate in Scotties Tournament of Hearts playdowns..." I have no idea if this is true, but I've been able to find references for everything else in the juniors section, so I thought I'd ask in case you know. If not, I can remove it; it's not extremely significant. Allthegoldmedals (talk) 00:02, 28 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I think I technically have to find a source from her junior times, but it’s a good start! Allthegoldmedals (talk) 12:23, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Wendy Stewart


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Table formatting
I've started working on some fixes from the GA review for Rachel Homan, and there are some comments about bolding and linking in the tables. I know I've just been doing tables as they've been done for many other curlers' articles, and I don't know a ton about wikitables, so I was wondering if you could take a look and see what should be done? Allthegoldmedals (talk) 16:34, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Yep, I noticed that the bolded tournaments in the stats table were the ones with totals at the bottom. I think that does make sense; I'll clarify, though. I understood the same about bolding in the team table, so I'll clarify if that's alright as well, and if not, we can change that. As to overlinking, I agree with you, although I guess it's not a huge deal to find a previous link (that's what you have to do when reading the article, anyway). I think I'll probably remove duplicate links when I have time. Allthegoldmedals (talk) 18:36, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Upon reading MOS:BOLD, I've realized that bold isn't supposed to be used for emphasis, but italics is. I suppose we should change the bolding in the stats and team tables to be italics? Allthegoldmedals (talk) 18:42, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Re: aesthetics, I entirely agree. I think un-bolding the team table makes sense for now though, since she was a skip every year so it's not too difficult to find, but italics in the stats table would look really strange. I'll clarify. Allthegoldmedals (talk) 20:50, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I just changed the team tables to regular wikitables and removed bolding because those were requests from the reviewer. I thought the way you had it before looked really nice, but I guess accessibility over aesthetics. I had used your format for a bunch of other stats tables for other curlers so I might change those after this review. I thought I'd let you know, though, because it does look a bit different now. Allthegoldmedals (talk) 17:35, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

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Ottawa South Election Graph
Do you plan on updating the Ottawa South graph (Or any other election graph you've made)? Username6892 13:09, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

Also, I noticed that the talk page for Calgary Nose Hill is a redirect to Talk:Calgary—Nose Hill. The mainspace page for this is a redirect to Calgary Nose Hill. Can you fix this? Username6892 16:28, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Fixed. -- Earl Andrew - talk 16:30, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

COVID-19 pandemic in the Regional Municipality of Peel
Hi Earl, thank you for adding the Regional Municipality of Peel category into the "COVID-19 pandemic in the Regional Municipality of Peel" main article. I was about to add Regional Municipality of Peel category into the COVID-19 pandemic in the Regional Municipality of Peel main article when it was created. I came to the "COVID-19 pandemic in the Regional Municipality of Peel" main article when it was created I saw the Regional Municipality of Peel category into the related main article. So, thanks for assisting the category to be added. And for me taking time off from Wikipedia for my temporary leave of absence from editing. Thanks for assisting the edit when I was about to add Regional Municipality of Peel category into the pandemic related article for the Peel Region, but no thankfully you did it. I am happy to add the category in the article so I thank you. I will look forward to your reply very soon. Once again, thank you and blessings. Steam5 (talk) 06:22, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Use Template Cite cgndb at List of Lakes of Ontario
Dear Earl, Is there a reason you are using a URL as a reference for various lake names you have added at List of lakes of Ontario? Might you consider using the Cite cgndb template with the five-letter "Key" instead? Thinking that the template can be updated if the CGNDB folks change their URL nomenclature, which has happened before. Also, you've recently added Pot Lake to the list; however, I count seven lakes by that name in Ontario when doing a name search at the CGNDB site. Sincerely, --papageno (talk) 00:38, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I didn't know that template existed. -- Earl Andrew - talk 01:52, 7 June 2020 (UTC)

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Moving lake articles to new article names - consider updating disambiguation page
Earl, you've recently moved a number of lakes named "Black Lake" in Ontario from their previous title to new titles based on their municipal location. Which is just fine. However, their names and links on the disambiguation page for the main title Black Lake remained the old ones. I wonder if you would consider in such cases also updating the links on the disambiguation page? Each Black Lake (TEXT) article you moved had an Otherplaces template or similar giving "For other places with the same name, see Black Lake" at the top of the article, a tip that there was a disambiguation page in play. Hope you take this suggestion in the friendly spirit with which it is intended. Regards, --papageno (talk) 03:23, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

Cite cgndb template - lists of lakes of Ontario
Earl, sorry for posting twice so quickly. 1. (a) In case you weren't familiar with it, I thought I would mention the cite cgndb template, which allows one to use the Geographical Names Board of Canada five letter key of a particular geographical feature in a citation template. One example of its use is at Black Lake (Dysart et al). (b) In case useful, another excellent Ontario geo resources is the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry Official Geographic Names map viewer at ONGNIS map Viewer, which uses the Ontario government's common ESRI-based geospatial map system. One can enter lakes, rivers, towns, hamlets, etc. in the search field in the upper right. The CGNDB key is among the data that will come up for an item. The only hitch: I'm not familiar with a way to use a URL to get to a specific feature on the map. 2. Thanks for putting in a lot of effort to create lists of all the lakes of Ontario! Regards, --papageno (talk) 03:55, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Hello, you mentioned this to me back in June (look up). :-p. -- Earl Andrew - talk 14:18, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I should further add, I was using the template, but with the long lists I was making, it stopped working or was making the pages too long, so we had to stop using it. -- Earl Andrew - talk 14:20, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Sorry for bothering you. It had totally slipped my mind. I'll try to console myself by chalking it up to COVID-19 confinement blues. --papageno (talk) 18:33, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
 * No worries! -- Earl Andrew - talk 18:34, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

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Drop the banhammer?
See Special:Contributions/Hixww01876. They have been listed on AIV for a while now. They have continued edit warring and using unreliable sources. They have not been blocked yet. Want to 3 day block? Aasim 05:10, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Done. Not sure why you chose me, though! -- Earl Andrew - talk 05:14, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Because you were on the top 10 list of most recent active admins. https://apersonbot.toolforge.org/recently-active/ Aasim 05:15, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Ahh, I wasn't aware of that tool. Cool! -- Earl Andrew - talk 05:16, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

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Happy First Edit Day!
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2020 Sask election
Howdy. Remember, when you change the seating numbers at 2020 Saskatchewan general election article? You have to make the same changes to all related articles, to avoid discrepancy. GoodDay (talk) 21:15, 29 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Hello, you can't compel someone to edit Wikipedia. Instead of telling users what they should be doing, I would suggest helping the project out by filling in the gaps yourself. -- Earl Andrew - talk 21:41, 29 October 2020 (UTC)