User talk:GPascon

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Saint John, the refinery, etc
Your interest in the Saint John article is certainly appreciated. I'm wondering, though if it necessary to write, twice more, about the oil refinery. You added a section in the Buildings and structure section and then again in quick facts. As I am sure you are aware, the refinery was already briefly talked about in the Economy section, first paragraph.

In the Buildings section, as you see, all the buildings are discussed in terms of height, so maybe in the buildings and structures section, it is not appropriate to write about the refinery here. A refinery isn't one structure or one building, is it? But rather many. Hmmm... Also, in the quick facts, I guess the idea of quick facts is just that, quick. Maybe you have too much information here. I actually know very little about the refinery and you seem to know quite a bit so your knowledge is much appreciated. You could probably start the Irving Oil Refinery in Saint John article. And I think that would be a good challenge!

Uh-oh, just having a look now, though, I found this Iriving page page and you seem to have taken the wording from this and copied it verbatim which is not really the goal of wikipedia. I've put in bold the words and phrases that appear similar.

(From the Irving page: "producing over 300,000 barrels of quality finished energy products per day. From that daily production, we export approximately 175,000 barrels of petroleum products to the US Northeast, including 100,000 barrels of reformulated gasoline (RFG)—that's about 42% of all Canadian petroleum exports and about 45.5% of US RFG imports."

From your edit: "producing over 300,000 barrels of quality finished energy products per day. From that daily production, export is approximately 175,000 barrels of petroleum products to the US Northeast, including 100,000 barrels of reformulated gasoline (RFG)ﾑthat's about 42% of all Canadian petroleum exports and about 45.5% of US RFG imports.")

One more thing, if I were writing this for wikipedia, apart from major re-wording this, I'd certainly change the that's about to the slightly more academic approximately.

Good luck with the edits. And thanks again.DDD DDD 02:01, 31 August 2006 (UTC)