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Scarborough, Ontario
For the references that you are adding to Scarborough, Ontario, where are you finding them from? I'm interested because then I can help out and add more useful references to where they are needed. Thanks! Gary King ( talk ) 03:28, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't know if you are aware or not, but the article is currently undergoing a Good Article Nomination. The review is at Talk:Scarborough%2C_Ontario. If you wouldn't mind, I'd appreciate it if you could look at 3. Broad in coverage?: (I've covered everything else), and address the issues that the reviewer has brought up. Here are what they are basically, in point form:


 * Create (and populate) the following sections (guidelines found here&mdash;very useful!): Education, Sports, Shopping, Healthcare, the Golden Mile, Toronto


 * If you can't do them, then I'll get to them tomorrow when I wake up, anyways. Cheers. Gary King ( talk ) 04:12, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Since you are one of the major contributors to the article, if you have time, could you take a look at Talk:Scarborough, Ontario and address those concerns? I will do what I can, but my time is split among several other articles that are not tended to as well as this article. Thanks in advance! Gary King ( talk ) 05:45, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Starting tomorrow, Ill have more time to look at these. I plan to tackle history and geography as these are my forte. EncyclopediaUpdaticus (talk) 15:47, 7 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I took the liberty of formatting the references, but I wasn't sure how to format reference #48 (Fenco MacLaren Inc. et al. Integrated Shoreline Management Plan, Tommy Thompson Park To Frenchman’s Bay. Toronto. December 1996.) Is it a court case (those would use cite court? Other templates can be found at WP:CIT. Gary King ( talk ) 23:22, 11 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Since you are active in editing the article, have you given any thought to bringing it to Featured Article status soon? I'd be glad to help out; I will take an active role again in improving the article. I'll give it a nice copyedit probably later today. Gary <b style="color:#02b;"><i style="font-size:large;">K</i>ing</b> ( talk ) 04:16, 12 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Generally speaking, a Good Article requires only one reviewer to pass it; a Featured Article requires consensus among several reviewers to pass it. It is more difficult to pass. Gary <b style="color:#02b;"><i style="font-size:large;">K</i>ing</b> ( talk ) 14:51, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

E. (your damned name is too long and complicated to spell), fantastic editing job, you have taken this from amateur hour to very professional. Sincere appreciation and congratulations on a job very well done. Your editorial skills shine through.

If you google 'heritage scarborough + toronto' you will glean valuable historical information. I will attempt to add in the future. There is a gentleman by the name of Rich Schofield who is a living historian of the city.

Regards, —Preceding unsigned comment added by Idyllic (talk • contribs) 21:37, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Ned Hanlan
Thanks for your message. A couple of citations now added - thanks for reminding me!--hydeblake (talk) 13:27, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

hey
thanks for cleaning up after my mess here. =) &mdash; Nova  Dog  &mdash;  ( contribs ) 19:46, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

John McKay
Oh, I completely agree with you. I just wasn't feeling up to getting into an edit war with an anonymous IP editor (who's quite obviously at least on McKay's staff) over it. I'll completely back you or anybody else who wants to fix the article up — I just didn't feel like being the heavy on this one. Bearcat (talk) 00:19, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Could you please explain further...
Could you please explain why you redirected Iroquois Shoreline? Geo Swan (talk) 05:58, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

RE:defaultsort
Hey! Thanks for letting me know. Why do you think that the listing from last name to first name is better? Bejinhan Talk   11:56, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

RE: David William Warner
I found the style in two separate ways. First was on this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Infobox_officeholder/Archive_1#Multiple_terms.

The second was by searching wikipedia for 'non-consecutive terms'. I found that in an office that was traditionally numbered, such as governors and presidents of the USA, the tradition was generally two separate headers starting with the number. But for non-numbered offices, such as congressmen or senators, the tradition more often the single header followed by dates for each consecutive period, such as in Barry Goldwater's entry.

I couldn't think of any Canadian politicians to check, however, so this may only be convention for US Politician articles. If the multi-header format is standard with Canadian Politicians, however, I can't see why it is needed. I feel the office is sufficiently clear without the repetition and the single-header format reduces visual clutter. Imatoronto (talk) 03:33, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Hello EncyclopedediaUpdaticus
First of all, great user name EncyclopedediaUpdaticus. Love that comic and the word-play in your name.

In any case, I would like to introduce myself to you. I am a crusading defender of the wiki core tenet of NPOV and find the re-appearance of The Rosedale Gang in the Rocco Rossi article bordering on political slander (because we all the know the political socio-economic implication that is trying to be made, not even very overtly, by including this association in his biography).

I am going to be 100% upfront about my involvement in this project. I am a toronto-area resident: tax-paying, politically informed, etc. I am doing an intentionally non-partisan (rather: pan-partisan) event in Toronto on Feb 28th to introduce all the mayoral candidates to Toronto voters through a venue hall and the media. We are directly in touch with the three front-runners campaign offices and will be extending the invitation out to all candidates that can make the event, as this week unfolds. The reason I supply this background here is for complete public disclosure of my involvement with all mayoral candidates and my parallel mission here on wikipedia.

As a wiki editor I have been obsessively non-partisan, neutral and academic in every single syllable I contribute or edit to this project. Until the day I die, I will never stray from this philosophical commitment. I have found that the other front-runner mayoral candidates have very honest and (for the most part) encyclopedic entries but Rocco Rossi's seems to be poorly written, stubby as well as the victim of non-NPOV insertions. For this reason alone, I feel it is the duty of every single honest member of the wikipedia community (including the senior Guardians and Chief Editors) to make sure we improve on Rocco Rossi's article and keep it free from from vandalism.

The discussion page on Rocco Rossi's article has a pretty clear explanation of why the phrasing, "the rosedale gang" is not acceptable according to the stated mandate of this site. (see -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Rocco_Rossi). Before anyone re-inserts it for a third time, I would love to have a healthy and theoretical debate about the merits + demerits of including this information. May the truth prevail. I have been wrong in the past. And most importantly, you should know that I would (and probably will over the coming months) protect the integrity of your preferred candidate (i am assuming you are working with a different candidate's campaign, perhaps?) article with the same vigor and crusading intelligence that I maintain towards all public documents on this site. I take the wikipedia mission very seriously, and so should we all. Please engage me here, or on the Rocco Rossi discussion page, or on my user talk page. I look forward to a clever and wordy dialogue. Sincerely: --<b style="font-family:Arial Black">    SKY  child  </b> 08:16, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
 * EncyclopedediaUpdaticus, I noticed you made 1 edit to the Rossi article. I have re-inserted the reference to the Rosedale Gang which you quite correctly inserted. I disagree with Skychild and find his argument strange and quite wrong. Mr.Grantevans2 (talk) 00:25, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Re; Ralph Cowan and Judy LaMarsh
As stated in both entries my additions to the rather slight bios for these two long dead political figures came directly from the memoirs of Peter C. Newman and LaMarsh herself and have never been challenged and can hardly be considered "controversial" at this point, perhaps you should read them yourself before deciding otherwise,. At any rate there are few other references to Cowan available anywhere other than a few yellowing newspaper stories not online, so where else exactly am I supposed to refer to to satisfy you? What are we supposed to do with figures who while not really important anymore, certainly deserved to be fleshed a bit more. User:DiamondDaibhidJames (User talk:DiamondDaibhidJames —Preceding undated comment added 23:49, 20 March 2010 (UTC).

If you are so concerned about "controversy" then why allow the posting of a cheap shot at J.S. Woodsworth (specifically claiming that he supported eugenics) without any context or explanation (this stayed up for months), however when I provided some such context (ie. that this was during his youth and was common during the Victorian and Edwardian eras and that he renounced these views and became a champion against racism, all of which is well known and none of which can be disputed) then it suddenly became "controversial"? This is the sort of thing I expect to see on conservapedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by DiamondDaibhidJames (talk • contribs) 21:26, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I think DiamondDaibhidJames is quite wrong here. Better resources are available – for free – from the Toronto Public Library system, through the ProQuest database system. ProQuest contains every issue of the Toronto Star(1892–2007) and The Globe and Mail (1844–2007) in a digital format that can be stored as a PDF. I didn't check the Cowan or Woodsworth articles, but the LaMarsh article would have been factually wrong if DiamondDaibhidJames's edits were not reverted. Thank you User:EncyclopediaUpdaticus for reverting this information for the correct reasons: unsourced information, especially newly added information, should be reverted until it has the proper citations to verify it.--Abebenjoe (talk) 04:15, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Rossi
Thanks for rewriting the Lead; I think it looks real good now. Mr.Grantevans2 (talk) 21:19, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Sockpuppet
What do you think? Mr.Grantevans2 (talk) 15:20, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for response: Skychildofthesun took out the Rosedale Gang reference. Mr.Grantevans2 (talk) 18:08, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for tip
I'll be sure to use that resource; thanks for taking the time to tell me about it. I'll look for those T.Star articles re: Ford tomorrow. Mr.Grantevans2 (talk) 04:08, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Rob Ford
Please read WP:BLP. The 3rr rule does not apply when good faith edits are made to remove inappropriate content in a BLP. Also, your expressed personal opinions on the talk page about the Subject should obviously cause you to not edit his BLP. Please think about leaving his article to more objective Editors. Mr.Grantevans2 (talk) 04:29, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

Please clarify
Hi, I really appreciate the info u gave me about retrieval of archived articles; that is only 1 reason why I AGF with you 100%, and for that reason, AGF ,I will never have an edit war with you, I will always back down if u push it. But could you please explain to me why the Smitherman debate walkaway is not notable in your mind whereas the "vague" response to an email by the Ford Campaign is? Mr.Grantevans2 (talk) 13:42, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

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Lee Richardson
Hi there, I just noticed that you also had to revert that editor trying to remove sourced content from the Lisa Raitt article and was hoping you might be able to help me out with a similar matter in the Lee Richardson article. A new account is trying to remove most of the content and references from the article for some unknown reason and will not relent. The editor refuses to discuss on the talk page, will not respond to edits I left on his talk page and hasn't left even one edit summary to explain why he is doing this. As far as I can tell, the sources appear legit, and I suspect is most likely being done to remove anything negative about the subject. This seems to happen frequently in political articles, often by editors who appear to be on wikipedia for no other reason but to edit that one article. When you get a chance, will you take a look at the article and see if I'm doing the right thing by reverting the removal? If I'm not, I would like to know before reverting him again to avoid causing problems for myself. However, if I'm on the right track, it would be great to have backup since I'm not having any success getting through to the editor on my own. Thanking you in advance. Cmr08 (talk) 05:09, 12 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the advice. It looks like as soon as you posted a warning, several other editors took notice and helped out. The editor was banned, but then another new user kept up his edits. (I guess he thought we wouldn't catch on, lol). Maybe if I had posted a warning days ago when leaving him messages, it would have alerted other editors more quickly. I'll know better next time. Thanks again. Cmr08 (talk) 05:15, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

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Sockpuppet
Maybe you like to know this: Sockpuppet investigations/Timharper068 Night of the Big Wind  <sub style="color:maroon;">talk  14:04, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the info. I concur with the findings of the SPI. EncyclopediaUpdaticus (talk) 14:11, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

Randy Hillier (politician)

 * [Moved this text to Hillier dicussion page]

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Riverdale, Toronto
It's a historical fact that Paula Fletcher was leader of the Manitoba Communist Party from 1981 to 1986, and this is mentioned elsewhere in Wikipedia, including on her own Wiki entry. Don't hide this again, people have a right to know about her questionable past and it also reflects the leftist slant of this part of Toronto. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.69.46.201 (talk) 21:34, 27 December 2011 (UTC) Don't edit this legitimate FACTUAL change on this page again, or every future edit you make will be continually scrutinized and hounded for left-wing bias. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.7.149.17 (talk) 00:55, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
 * There is an ongoing discussion on the article talk page in case you missed it. --Skeezix1000 (talk) 20:33, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

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Cute user name. I actually thought it was a Harry Potter spell at first. I guess that would put you with the Romans, huh? If I was going to have a Gaulish username, it would be Makeafix. &mdash; Hex    (❝  ?!  ❞)   12:36, 19 November 2012 (UTC)