User talk:Jiffles1

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I love your spelling patrol, Jiffles. Keep up the good work. -- Earl Andrew - talk 20:01, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

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Jody Wilson-Raybould
Thanks! GentleDjinn (talk) 16:51, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides
Thanks for your updates to the article. I rewrote and expanded it several months ago, and have more-or-less been curating it since then. However, I am a dial-up user and struggling somewhat with the recent attention to the sizeable article. I would like to promote it at In the news when I can get some sources and sufficiently update the article body. One note: Thanks again, and please ping me and let me know if you're going to continue working on the article. Edit conflicts are a major headache for me. – Reidgreg (talk) 17:46, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
 * We may need a better source for McArthur is the most-prolific known serial killer in Toronto. as the source was originally hypothesizing on it and is several months out of date (it does not rule out that there has been another more prolific serial killer since then).

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Infoboxes
Regardless of whether they were defeated last night or retired from politics and didn't even reoffer at all, an outgoing MP's term in office ends with the writ drop. So for an MP who isn't coming back to Ottawa, the end date for their term is September 11, not October 21. Please see WP:CANSTYLE. Bearcat (talk) 00:28, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

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Featuring your work on Wikipedia's front page: DYKs
Thank you for your recent articles, including Joan Bamford Fletcher, which I read with interest. When you create an extensive and well referenced article, you may want to have it featured on Wikipedia's main page in the Did You Know section. Articles included there will be read by thousands of our viewers. To do so, add your article to the list at T:TDYK. This can be also done through this helpful user script: User:SD0001/DYK-helper. Let me know if you need help, Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 07:49, 7 July 2021 (UTC)

WikiProject assessment tags for talk pages
Thank you for your recent articles, including Joan Bamford Fletcher, which I read with interest. When you create a new article, can you add the WikiProject assessment templates to the talk of that article? See the talk page of the article I mentioned for an example of what I mean. Usually it is very simple, you just add something like to the article's talk, with keyword replaced by the associated WikiProject (ex. if it's a biography article, you would use WikiProject Biography; if it's a United States article, you would use WikiProject United States, and so on). You do not have to rate the article if you do not want to, others will do it eventually. Those templates are very useful, as they bring the articles to a WikiProject attention, and allow them to start tracking the articles through Article alerts and other tools. For example, WikiProject Poland relies on such templates to generate listings such as Article Alerts, Popular Pages, Quality and Importance Matrix and the Cleanup Listing. Thanks to them, WikiProject members are more easily able to defend your work from deletion, or simply help try to improve it further. Feel free to ask me any questions if you'd like more information about using those talk page templates. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 07:49, 7 July 2021 (UTC) Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here  07:49, 7 July 2021 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Joan Bamford Fletcher
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Ways to improve Emma Woikin
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Women in Red
Hi there, Jiffles1, and thank you for creating several detailed biographies of Canadian women. It looks to me as if you would be a useful member of Women in Red where we are trying to chip away at the gender gap. You can join from the link at the top of our Wikiproject page- Happy editing!--Ipigott (talk) 07:30, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

DYK for Gouzenko Affair
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Frank Graves Article
Jiffles1,

I noticed you edited down some additions I made to the Frank Graves (pollster) page. I appreciate your clarifications on the language and structure. But I worry you also selectively removed critical, unflattering, but well-sourced facts about Mr Graves' past conduct. I hope that is not for the sake of advocacy and promotion.

I note that your first articles created back in 2009 were to create the pages for Mr. Graves and his company, Ekos Research Associates. You have been routinely editing these pages over the intervening years and adding content that it seems only a close relationship or colleague would be aware of. As per WP:COI, directly editing a page to which you hold a personal/financial interest or have an external relationship to is strongly discouraged. However a conflicted party can still propose edits in the talk page which they would like other editors to consider making (see WP:COIEDIT).

Do you have an undisclosed connection to Frank Graves and/or Ekos Research Associates? If so, are you willing to abide by WP:COI? I assume good faith and am happy to discuss the facts with you.

Be well.

Balancingakt (talk) 11:20, 25 July 2023 (UTC)



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Canada convoy protest
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/1191027343 you removed saying that the comment is about vaccine mandates. No, you are incorrect. The professor said that in relation to emergency act invoked by Canada in response to the truckers convoy. Please read the news citation, original tweet to understand the chronology.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/1191027159. First comments from other prominent figures were removed (e.g. indocanadian Sikhs and MP) in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/1186892450 then you removed the last one. That's how news are sanitized sadly.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/1190595551 the section is about media opinion so you removing it saying that it is opinion is not correct reasoning. The second point is that the backlash was not severe, you are just moving the goalpost to sanitize the document.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/1190597999 you claim nyt is already discussed. Fair enough, then remove just that. Why are removing the other news and commentators? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mittgaurav (talk • contribs) 23:32, 30 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi there! Thanks for reaching out. As I'm sure you've noticed, the Canada convoy protest article is running quite long and I've been trying to condense it bit by bit. I've been focusing on removing material that either gets repeated or that I don't feel adds anything to the article.
 * With regards to Saad's comments, I didn't feel they warranted a mention (let alone an entire paragraph) since he wasn't a major figure in the convoy protests, he isn't a major public figure in general, and he does not appear to be an expert on the subject matter. We can't include every comment that anyone has ever made about the protests and we have to make decisions about what is worth including and what isn't.
 * Some of the material I removed ran into other issues as well. For instance, I removed since it runs afoul of Wikpedia's policy on maintaining a neutral point of view; statements like "Several news outlets... pointed out the hypocrisy in the Canadian politicians" are not encyclopedic language. I removed  and  since they run into problems with original research; it other words, we can't combine sources to draw conclusions that aren't mentioned in any of the individual sources. Also, the latter sentence was sourced exclusively to an opinion piece, which are not generally accepted as sources.
 * Anyways, I hope this clears up my reasoning (I realize my edit summaries can be overly brief at times). Cheers! Jiffles1 (talk) 05:05, 31 December 2023 (UTC)

CS1 error on Kathleen Wynne
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