User talk:Masalai/Archive 2

ACC
I'll take a crack at it. My friends in England tell me that Canada is perceived as a "liberal catholic" province internationally. Let me see what I can flesh out. Thanks for the vote of confidence. Carolynparrishfan 22:50, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

History of the ACC
Regarding the unbalanced article: I agree. My contributions were intended to answer the questions: a) what is the first and b) what is the oldest? I think the casual reader wants to know that (for example, the enduring popularity of the Guiness Book of World Records); more so than a lot of the polity of the church. But yes, the article is unbalanced. Cheers! Wassupwestcoast (talk) 23:49, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
 * No, I wouldn't mind. My original intention was to combine the histories of the ACC and ECUSA because they share so much. But on reflection at the time, it didn't seem wise. Maybe, it would make sense to combine them. Cheers! Wassupwestcoast (talk) 01:01, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Locator Maps
To use a locator map... Go to the lower half of this page about the template usage...Examples which shows the different formats for Croatia and a few other examples. The locator map can use either decimal or degree -minute-seconds of longitude and latitude.

I generally use Geo names to find the locations. Good luck.

All you have to do is change the label, and the longitude, latitude and all should be good to go.

So a copy and paste you could use for Grenfell located at Latitude - Longitude : 50° 25' 00" N - 102° 56' 00" W or 50.416667 (West is always a negative value for longitude in decimal format) -102.933333

So in the infobox under the value of image map, this is the template to paste in. }}
 * image_map             = (( Location map
 * Saskatchewan
 * label=Grenfell
 * lat=50.416667
 * long=-102.933333
 * position=right
 * width=300
 * float=right

I will adjust the locator map shortly about the locations, give me a few moments longer Kind Regards Julia SriMesh | talk  03:39, 4 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Hello I added the locator map within an infobox for Grenfell, Saskatchewan :-)

For location maps without infoboxes see...some of these examples which also work with the longitude and latitude thrown in - maybe this way is easier. SriMesh | talk  01:28, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan
Hello there, you have done an amazing job on the Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan, as well as Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan. it is great to see some locations with probably some of the oldest records come online, especially as this was not only a main trading post site, but also as you say considered to the capital of the NWT. Cool. Keep up the absolutely great work. You even have citations! :-) SriMesh |  talk  03:52, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Re: Regina, SK article
Don't worry about differences in British vs. American spelling. However you guys write things up in Canada, is fine with me. What I was really referring to is the necessity of a good copyedit prior to nominating for WP:GA or WP:FA, particularly to catch any minor grammatical issues, or wikipedia manual of style issues, that the regular editors might have missed. Though overall, the article is very well written, but sometimes the professional copyeditors might catch things you and I might miss,... ;-) Also, two specific guidelines or templates that might help for the article are WP:USCITY and WP:UKCITIES (sorry, there's no template for Canadian cities; you're always free to start one ;-) ... but hopefully the two should help point you in the right direction towards improving the structure of any city article. Cheers! Dr. Cash (talk) 15:48, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Peers SSJE
No, quite right, he is not resident with the community. I will see if I can dig up a reference. Feel free to revert in the meantime. As for my name, the answer is none of the above. I am in fact merely a (male) fan of Carolyn Parrish. Carolynparrishfan (talk) 00:39, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Qu'Appelle and Indian Head
Hello there I am so sorry for confusing these two fine places. We traveled home from there a few years ago, and took the pictures. I labelled them as such, as I remembered spending more time in Qu'Appelle than in Indian Head. I will defer to your knowledge of these places as you seem to know South Saskatchewan very well, and me, I'm a Saskatoonian who is trying to learn more about SK. Whenever we pop down to Regina we try to take different route there and back. If you tell me where I took the wrong turn regarding names, I will revise, please and thanks. Kind Regards. The articles are coming along so well about Qu'appelle and ort Qu'Appelle by the way. SriMesh | talk  20:07, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Well I think I have things all right now. I tried to find some images, or supporting docs for the other places.  There is only for instance an RBC in one place, and the Indian Head community hall is brand new, so perhaps the Lions Community hall does belong to Qu'Appelle.  The town hall matches an old Qu'Appelle postcard of the town hall. I have deleted the wrong names, and re-uploaded all the images with better names.  Thanks so much for the heads up.  Will be starting an article on the Bell farm next, and then revise and add it also to Wikinews as well, as 'tis in the newspaper.  I do wish others would see Saskatchewan.  I find it so amazing.  Our  Saskatoon does have a few buildings from the late 1800's which are starting to be preserved, but they are so visible in Qu'Appelle, and other small towns compared to here where you have to dig them out between the houses.   Kind Regards  SriMesh |  talk  22:25, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Featured topic proposal
Hi, Masalai! I have seen from this link that you are one of the major contributors to the articles Edward VIII of the United Kingdom and Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, both of which are featured articles. Since the article Edward VIII abdication crisis currently has GA status, it is perfectly possible to combine those three articles in order to create a featured topic (FT). All of the featured topic criteria are currently met: the topic is well-defined with no obvious gap or missing article, and I have just created a template and a category in order to fully comply with criteria 1c. I would like to hear your opinion before starting a featured topic nomination. Regards. BomBom (talk) 14:45, 29 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I have started a discussion about this featured topic proposal here. Your input is welcome. BomBom (talk) 15:12, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Hamilton, Ontario Anglican Cathedral
Thanks! The doors of that church are usually closed whenever I go by there. Nhl4hamilton | Chit-Chat
 * Is that your Sunday church? Nhl4hamilton | Chit-Chat  07:25, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
 * OK no problemo. I'll come up with some snapshots this week. Nhl4hamilton | Chit-Chat  07:31, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

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Qu'Appelle photo
Hello there. Re the photo, even though the original photo was taken in 1889 so the Sk Archives who owns it can publish it which they did, we would need to ask permission from them to re-used it as now the copyright date of their website is 2005 as per their terms of use. I will pop off an email to the archives for permission for use.
 * re discussion on talk page, sounds like with a few more citations, and just a little tweaking, it should survive some of those comments. It is good to have content on it that is from some one from the area and not just a re-hashing of stats, so we should see if we can smoosh it into their wiki format while keeping the info intact.  I will see if I have any info around and about here with citations thingies to help out, as the article as an awesome base.

Kind Regards SriMesh |  talk  01:04, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Qu'appelle again
Hello there me again. Soon have to wind down tonight...found another source for ya, and more naming stuff..about the french word qu'appelle...People Places Will add demographics and go to bedSriMesh | talk  03:33, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Hello there. Tried to add a few more statistical sections..weather, government, education, geography etc. from online and book sources....as I have never had the benefit of staying/living here. I found notes about high school being taught in Qu'Appelle but it doesn't seem to be taught there any longer, do you know about secondary / post secondary education in Qu'Appelle?  I don't think that the Qu'Appelle Indian school in Lebret needs mention here, even though it has a name overlap, but the location is different.  I couldn't find anything online about any sports or sports teams current or previous to have a sports section.  Is economy covered in the section Qu'Appelle today or should there be mention of commuting and that the loamy soil produces cereal, oilseed, forage and specialty crops in the area.  The geography section could use some of the geographical sentences in other areas of the article perhaps.  What is your opinion on a Sites of interest section?  The historic land trail markers are not close to here.  The Troy-Prince Albert trail marker is located 9.6 km w of Humboldt.  The Wood Mountain-Qu'appelle trail marker is located at Oro Lake Park north east of Ormiston.  There are a few historical markers in Qu'Appelle, and a few neighboring sites of interest...Qu ’Appelle Dam, Motherwell Homestead National Historic Site,  Fort Qu'Appelle Museum and Lebret Museum.SriMesh |  talk  04:00, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
 * No, the Qu'Appelle Indian school was, as you say at Lebret (actually on the opposite side of Mission Lake from Lebret) and had nothing to do with the town of Qu'Appelle. As the article states, Qu'Appelle High School was built in 1906, closed in 1973 and demolished in 1975. Masalai (talk) 04:14, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you, I also see you have commuting, and thank you for the note about the high school in the article. I missed it being in the image notes.  Is it possible in the article to make the image notes smaller, and put the long text of the images - which is really quite interesting - in the prose of the article so tis not missed by silly folk like me.  I think some folks only read image captions, and some only the prose of the text.  I tried to read both, but missed that tid bit of info.  Me again.  ahhh the Qu'Appelle school taught grade 1 to grade 12, and it is in modern history that James Hamblin School stops at grade 9.   Where do students go now a days for grades 10-12, do they have to go all the way to Regina??....  I added a note on the Qu'Appelle talk page about the fact that there was even press coverage about the unscrupulous nature of chosing a literal pile of buffalo bones for a capital city rather than a major distribution center.  Kind Regards  SriMesh |  talk  06:19, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Edited Qu'Appelle article re business about being the capital of Sasakatchewan. Emailed to you the reply.  Kind Regards SriMesh |  talk  23:20, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Hello there. Put article into GA nomination, but no review yet.  Have talk page on watch list, I hope as you have a lot of base knowledge on this topic, you will help with the points brought forward, and the article goes to hold with pointers which can be made so it can achieve the GA status.SriMesh |  talk  04:45, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Sorry about that. The newspaper article was in reference to the Cairn and the capital city business as it was in the Globe and Mail.  Haven't heard back about the school, as of yet.  Don't know what to do about the capital for a day, it does indeed put a smile on the face indeed.  Kind REgardsSriMesh |  talk  01:52, 22 September 2008 (UTC)a

email citations
Hello. I have put in a request on citing emails and associated protocols for wikipedia articles. I know I have given emails as permission references for using photos on wikimedia commons before...will let you know if/when I hear a reply in this regards. Kind Regards SriMesh | talk  17:11, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
 * The wikipedia email citation was removed from the Citation templates page as they could not be verified. In this case, there is an awesome published newspaper article which provides the pre-requisite verifiability.  Kind REgards SriMesh |  talk  23:22, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Replies
You received two comments to your query at my talk page. If everyone contributes, the article should become well rounded, and maybe even achieve GA status. There are links added which the GA reviewers have used to look at city-town-settlement articles and how they are written, that they have told me about when I have reviewed other articles trying to achieve GA status. Maybe they will be of use listed on the talk page there. On looking at some other GA placename articles there aren't any yet for Saskatchewan to use as an example to look at yet.... Kind Regards, and good luck with everything. SriMesh | talk  02:02, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
 * We have had an editor offer up a GA review.  Did you wish to putter at some of their comments?  I corrected my oops, and did a little, but we are going out tonight.SriMesh |  talk  23:48, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
 * If you could plop in some citations or references to answer this point...Inadequate sourcing for much of the article, especially in the media, churches, cultural events, and economy.... and fix whatever else you were commenting about....we could again offer the article into a GA review...If you were leary about putting in that there was a hudson bay company post or fort at Qu'appelle as there were several more historically famous ones at Fort Qu'appelle, but I did find a website source outside the local history book that Bill Barry wrote about the Fort at Qu'Appelle. Another source was not listed was for Ka-iu Fung, Professor of Geography, at the U of S who was editor of the Atlas of Saskatchewan, Celebrating the Millenium edition pages 34 and 35.  I will try to help locate references to the other if you want also....Kind Regards  SriMesh |  talk  16:08, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Images
I have put the full description on the actual pages that hold the images, so that the description is not lost until it can be incorporated into the article. The detail o knowing the buildings and their evolution is very invaluable, and I didn't want to loose the information while making the captions smaller. When the article is re-read then the fuller captions can be added where they make sennse to be popped back in to the article prose. For instance this is the image page for  Kind Regards SriMesh |  talk  04:54, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Reply to your comment. OK  SriMesh |  talk  06:39, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

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Barack Obama
I reverted your recent edits to Barack Obama and Ann Dunham. It isn't our decision what his name is. If he goes by Barack Obama II, than he's Barack Obama II. He doesn't use Jr. and neither do we.  Grsz  X  06:07, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Qu'appelle
Hello there...left a note at the Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan talk page SriMesh |  talk  19:23, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Added info from talk page to article main space.... could you fix grammatical formatting? Added

template to sections with new images to help sections remain themselves. I would like to find how much spending $32000 in 1882 would be in comparison to spending how much nowadays...to get an idea in current market conditions of what a whopping sum that 1882 $32000 purchase would be now. Kind Regards SriMesh | talk  02:16, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Spotlight award.
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Indian Head, Saskatchewan
Hello there. Thank you for your comments re the Indian Head, Saskatchewan photos. Sometimes I miss the obvious like the main streets, but if the community goes to the trouble of erecting and paying for a plaque or monument, it usually is a memory they wish to preserve of some import to that community, so that is why I usually take those photos, if I can find them. They are usually unique to each place as well...so their claim to fame. Most of the Indian Head, Saskatchewan photos are on the article except for the museum pictures, and I added the commons category link today as well. If the article was longer, perhaps the museum photo would look like it belonged also. Kind Regards SriMesh | talk  00:51, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Julian Moti
Hi Masalai

I've noted that the article hadn't been updated until a week ago (Thanks for keeping an eye on it).

I've made some small edits; One to Moti's legal limbo (As I think it's fair to say that even though he's under arrest, his legal state is innnocent until proven guilty, so he's not in Limbo, he's simply awaiting trial). The other was about an article from 'The Australian Newspaper' that I think is relevant to the circumstances around the 1999 Vanuatu case. I've inserted text with citations on that, but haven't touched any text from the Marr quotes or other information you've got in there. So I hope that's ok by you.

Let me know if you have a problem with my edits.

Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Xlh (talk • contribs) 08:01, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Hmmm... Your point on the ramifications of not being tried is well taken, and certainly quite true. It's unfortunate but a reality that the legal concept of burden of truth sometimes doesn't stop people from leaping to conclusions; and there are plenty of examples worldwide where wrongfully accused people have later been vindicated, only to be left to try and pick up what's left of their lives. I haven't been back to the article since my edit of the other day... I'll try to think of an improvement if you haven't put one in already. I also definitely agree about the chronology and I think Tony's posted a tag to the same effect - it is a little disjointed now and hopefully it's just a matter of swapping text around. Xlh (talk) 08:45, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Treaty 4
Thanks for the note. I was going to talk to you about this as well. I took a picture of the location of the signing 2 years ago. The picture is called File:Treaty4.JPG and it is in the Fort Qu'Appelle category. Maybe it was called the Qu'Appelle treaty in reference to the area, but the main locale would be as you say Fort Qu'Appelle North West Territories. So the Treaty 4 article should be indeed corrected. Kind Regards SriMesh | talk  06:00, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Qu'Appelle sports and recreation
Hi there. I agree totally. Those couple of places would be good to add for recreation. Are you using the conversion templates? They tend to make distance numbers easy to add to an article. Category:Conversion templates Template:Convert ````
 * Ahhh! Good idea then it is all consistent with either Canadian, British or American english as well.  So you are just adding in... |spell=Commonwealth into the template.  Hey and oh b the way.  Happy New Year!!!  I hope you have a wonderful one.!!!  SriMesh |  talk  05:55, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Qu'Appelle distances
Hi there I usually go to two sites for distances, one would be mapquest, where you can type in the two places, and it calculates the distance and give the actual driving route as well. The other is Geographical Names of Canada (geonames) where you can request the closest geographical places names within either a 5, 10 or 20 km radius of the places you originally looked up. It gives the description of the site as well as the distance away from the original placename. Kind Regards SriMesh | talk  23:25, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I can find on the above geonames site the location of B-Say-Tah which is 4 km or 2 mi from Fort Qu'Appelle. The Map sources/GeoHack tool server is down on wikipedia right now, and map quest does not find B-Say-Tah.  It is further than 20 km from Qu'Appelle for the geonames site.  Ah ha I found it on expedia.com...and plopping it into the conversion template thingie...33.6 km

Name :	B-Say-Tah Province/Territory : 	Saskatchewan Feature type :	Village Location : 	23-21-14-W2 Latitude - Longitude : 	50° 46' 51" N - 103° 50' 15" W NTS Map : 	062L13 SriMesh |  talk  16:32, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Happy new year
Hi there. I knew you were on a different time frame where you were than where I was, but I didn't guess you were in Australia!!!! That also is so awesome. I am going to travel to Australia one day, it has always been a wish of mine, I just haven't quite done it yet.... still here in SK, but one day.... Talk to ya later. SriMesh | talk  23:28, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

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Qu'Appelle
Hello there. I think you are right about what the post would have been in that era, that kind of building/s. . ...You know reading over your wording ....southwest of the future site of the town from 1854 through 1864...maybe the Qu'Appelle town archives or library archives or RM archives would have a planning map of the town which may have info about it....I was at the railway museum by Saskatoon the other day...and an early map of Saskatoon was amazing as to what it had on it for past localities and future plans...some of which have indeed materialized...perhaps the Qu'Appelle town planners had some sort of similar map. I looked at the satellite map on wikimapia, no ancient markings, and the TC 1 is south west, so any evidence may be under the highway. Wikimapia .... This discussion reminds me of a picture of a post on Lake Winnipeg which is at Council of Keewatin Kind Regards SriMesh | talk  03:27, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
 * You are right, that makes sense. Kin Regards SriMesh |  talk  15:24, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

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Saskatchewan award

 * Hello there, I forgot to sign. The newsletter collapses, so that when it is delivered to the talk pages, it doesn't take up so much room, Click on show, and the newsletter will open up!  Kind Regards SriMesh |  talk  23:15, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Regina, Saskatchewan
Hi Masalai, I've reverted your reversion here. You can read up on the rationale here and also at Kyle1278's talk page (who followed your lead) here. You are of course free to propose changes to the guideline, meanwhile it reflects the consensus on-wiki. Franamax (talk) 01:34, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Done
Done. Sorry it took me a while, I just got in. Bear in mind that anybody can revert edits, and warn users. A list of warning templates can be found here. Happy editing :) - Kingpin13 (talk) 08:13, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Masalai himself has ignored warnings in the past, so don´t expect him to use them himself. Wikipedia works in the way he wants. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.213.19.209 (talk) 17:57, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Indian Head
Hello there.

This would be a wonderful idea, and I would be glad to plunk in my two cents worth. Thanks you so much for asking for my collaboration with you. It is good to see the articles getting rounded out and filled in. Kind Regards SriMesh | talk  17:08, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I have added some to the article, but I think what I can do has been added now. You seem to have an innate knowledge that adds a richness to the article past the dry bones.  The government section may be trimmed down of the riding/constituency histories if the article proper gets too long.  I don't know where to find some sectional information, but will keep an eye out for sections lacking from the article still, added the two outline formats on the talk page which help me out as to what sections have been included in WP articles in the past.  I had a moment between events, so puttered a bit, but now tis your turn ;-)  SriMesh |  talk  21:53, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I cannot find anything for Mark Brayford having been born or associated with Indian Head. I think probably they would have had some sports teams or recreational teams as well, but I still cannot find anything for that either.  SriMesh |  talk  19:36, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

RE towns
Hi there The part I do is very similar to the genealogy research I have been doing for quite a while, but using more web site resources than microfiche. Microfiche are not quite so much fun, sitting in a dark room peering at poor handwriting, and then the dataset you want, that photo is blurred, or a page is put over top when the photographed the content or some other Agrrh thing, but they do give information. I find with SK anyways, once I find the source for stats, weather, politics and the various sections, the sources pretty much also suffice to glean the data for the other placenames as well unless the placenames get too small and become part of the rural municipality. It has been really quite pleasing to see Saskatchewan come more and more online, about 8-9 years ago when I started looking up genealogy abroad, lots was online, and then I peeked around for SK, and it was pretty slim pickings, and it is so awesome now. I will see what I can do about the other places around and about which you mention. I, personally, would also like all thirteen cities to be beefed up as well to look like city articles instead of just 2 or 3 of them.SriMesh | talk  19:26, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Grenfell, Saskatchewan
You had added a large amount to this article by the time I visited! I will get out the atlases and start again today. It is cool to the see placename articles fill out. And these communities, have a larger amount of history than many Saskatchewan ones, they really began quite early in the history of NWT-SKSriMesh | talk  17:51, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I did a little more on Grenfell, and I think I am nearing the end of my sources. I think the article still needs some tweaking as mentioned on the talk page where I think you and I doubled up a little in separate sections ie military. I think I will make an ethnic pie chart from the census yet.  There was no weather station, so no weather chart :-( So weather can only be added by prose.  It must be very similar to Indian Head for a generality.SriMesh |  talk  21:29, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

ABB Grain
Hi, may I ask why the fact that Viterra was "(formerly the Saskatchewan Wheat Board)" is relevant to the section in the article ABB Grain about the merger? Besides, was it not a merger between the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool and Agricore United?

In the Viterra article, it does not say "ABB, the most part of which is made up of AusBulk" or anything of the sort. This is because most readers of these sections do not particularly care what's happened in the companies' history, and if they did, they could simply follow the link to read a bit more about that company (the fact that Viterra was formed between two companies is mentioned in the lead section of the Viterra article). -- timsdad  (talk) 08:01, 22 May 2009 (UTC)


 * "I did provide a perfectly cogent and reasonable explanation as to why this is relevant" - You, in this edit. Where and when did you provide this reason? -- timsdad  (talk) 09:31, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Whitewood, Saskatchewan
Hello there, Yes I did peek in for a little while at Whitewood, Saskatchewan... Will see what other goodies I can find about it, with seasons changing schedules are also changing, so we haven't got into a pattern yet. I see that you already did some puttering as well!! Kind Regards SriMesh | talk  21:51, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

The French Counts of St Hubert, Saskatchewan
Did you see the new article The French Counts of St Hubert, Saskatchewan created by a new wiki-editor Gating? They may indeed also be of some help in that neck of the woods of Saskatchewan.

I tried to wikify the somewhat, but it is rather a new type of area, a historical ethnic settlement, but I don't believe it is a provincial or federal historical site, .... may have to write to the Saskatchewan heritage society or folklore socity for a designation or if there is a cairn,plaque in the area. SriMesh | talk  01:33, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
 * From the sounds of it on the talk page, he got permissions to use an old article of the Whitewood Herald, so it was that editor probably which chose the spelling style. It could probably be cleaned up to be consistent with the use of only one convention which would be grammatically more accurate.  It sounds like the folks from St. Hubert went to horse races with the folks at Cannington Manor.  I had previously heard of the huge (in comparison to homesteads) la Rolandrie Ranch in southern Saskatchewan. Kind Regards SriMesh |  talk  03:03, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

I'm thrilled that the French Counts article has generated some interest. The author of the original article, (Larry Smeets) and I grew up in the St Huberts area. I now live in Manitoba and Larry lives in BC. We both have relatives in the area and ancestors buried in the St Huberts cemetery. The article was part of a commemorative book "Memories of St Huberts" that was written for the 90th anniversary of St Huberts parish in 1980. The book was printed but not published by the Whitewood Herald. I would look forward to adding more material to wikipedia generally and about this area of Sask. I must study up on my Wikipedian skills. --ggatin (talk) 06:14, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

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Talk:Whitewood, Saskatchewan
Plopped a link to investigate further on the talk page. I am not sure if all the notes can be verified, if they can they could be added into the article proper. I will putter somewhat at the list, but if you have heard of any in your travels, or sources....perhaps you will know if they are factual or spam.SriMesh | talk  01:09, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

vISITS to Saskatchewan
I find your comments interesting re photos and the seasons. Of course, as I live in Saskatoon, that is the majority of my contributions, but I have tried to run here and there when I can. But doing other SK work, it is amazing the # of times asked by other folks in the WWW what here looks like in winter, so I have had to click a few of those here and there, but travelling is easier in the summer - and the football games are summer and fall so they entice us around and about a bit better. I wish you luck with you new job. Will continue to peek in at the article of Whitewood here and there, things a bit busier now, and our poor little puppy is in at the vets :-( but we should get her back home tommorrow. :-) Take care. SriMesh | talk  23:10, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Edit summary
Your last edit at Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone was summarised as: "says in the lede that he was GG of both South Africa and Canada; it says in articles on GGs of Australia and New Zealand that they were indeed GGs. What are you looking for?" I'm not entirely sure what you're asking, though. Can you clairfy? -- Ħ   MIESIANIACAL  16:43, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
 * An editor inserted the business about his being a member of the Royal Families of the UK and Canada and reverted my deletion of "and Canada." That deletion was predicated on the basis that if it were appropriate to add that detail it would also be necessary to include all the other "British Dominions Beyond the Seas." The editor indicated in so-reverting that there was no citation for the other "Commonwealth Realms," as they are now styled, having the British monarch as their heads of state, whereas this is the definition of a Commonwealth Realm. And indeed the lede of the article specifically says that the Earl himself served a term as Governor-General of South Africa before he was Governor General of Canada. I was not seriously asking; I was challenging. Masalai (talk) 16:49, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Your question was so vaguely worded as to leave one wondering what you're challenging. The "of Canada" part is reliably cited; I'd say your logic for the rest of the realms is sound, but, unfortunately, Wikipedia is governed by sources, not logic. What other option is there, then, other than including that which is sourced and leaving out that which is not? -- Ħ   MIESIANIACAL  15:29, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

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Queen Elizabeth II school
Hi there, I didn't realize that QE was where Joni Mitchell had gone to school as well, maybe we could pop that onto the Queen Elizabeth II school article as well. QEII was just north of my old public school. Kind Regards SriMesh | talk  20:12, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

PNG question
I think the problem can be readily solved by being bold with merging and redirect. There doesn't seem to be any editors actively maintaining the pages. So, create a new page with the proper name and merge and redirect to them. Any editor can do this. See:Help:Merging and Redirect. I've done this on other occassions and it usually goes well. If you want, you can give 5 or 7 days notice of discussion. I doubt it will lead any where. Sometimes it is best to be bold and do it. Cheers! Wassupwestcoast (talk) 20:53, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

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Lord Denning MR
Only for a short period of time, and peers are an exception to the "most common name" policy. He was Lord Denning MR for 20-years or so, but he was also Denning J, Denning LJ and Lord Denning at various points. We shouldn't base it on a single form of professional notation. Ironholds (talk) 08:38, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

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Michael Somare
Hi, please remember Neutral point of view when contributing to articles and please take also a look at Honorifics and Honorifics. The constant use of "His Excellency Grand Chief the Right Honourable Sir Michael Thomas Somare, GCL, GCMG, CH, CF's" in the mentioned article is contrary against the cited links and should be avoided. Best wishes. Phoe  talk   20:47, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

Episcopal
Respectfully, I would maintain that the analogy does not hold. In Quebec, "Episcopale" is routinely used in church literature as the French equivalent of "Anglican." That is a difference in degree from urban cathedrals or Muskoka parishes providing parenthetical accommodation to American visitors. Carolynparrishfan (talk) 19:18, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

Umm, yes, I do, as I thought my previous post made clear. In English Canada, church signs in high-tourism areas often add the "Episcopal" tag to be helpful. I don't think that this is at all the same as the situation in Quebec, where "Anglicane" while official seems to be dis-preferred outside of legal and canonical contexts. I would argue that a closer analogy would be the Scottish or American churches, where "Anglican" is likewise avoided out of historical sensitivity (although there the legal name matches the common one, while Canada has opted for a characteristically muddled - Anglican? - solution). My own city's cathedral uses the word "Episcopal" on its sign, but no one calls it "the Episcopal cathedral." By contrast, in Quebec, the change to "Anglicane" just doesn't seem to have caught on, or at least has done so highly inconsistently. Indeed, in 2006, the Bishop of Montreal moved to revert the name officially at Provincial Synod. Carolynparrishfan (talk) 16:32, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

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Michael Somare
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Your user page
Just thought you should know that your user page was vandalized back in July by an anonymous editor. I reverted it, and left a warning on his user talk page. --Drm310 (talk) 15:40, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
Hi Masalai. I'm translating this article to catalan Wikipedia and I got some problems in a sentence written by you in january 2006: "the Privy Council (...) ruled that the Canadian Criminal Code was ultra vires the Canadian Parliament because it purported to legislate extraterritorially" I understand that PC unauthorized the canadian Criminal Code and the Canadian Parliament for being both below the imperial jurisdiction. Am I right?--Galazan (talk) 16:46, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Image on the Coorparoo, Queensland page
Hey there

I was looking at your image (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Brisbane_CBD_from_Chatsworth_Road_at_Cavendish_Road,_2009.JPG) on the Coorparoo, Queensland page, and noticed that the location you gave didn't match up (I'm a local to that area). I had a bit of a look around and I think you took it from Upper Cornwall Street, not Cavendish Road.

Do you have any idea as to whether this is the case? I'm pretty sure I'm right, but I thought I would double check before I go editing anything.

Da chucky (talk) 16:44, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for a great read
Masalai, my mother spent her childhood summers in Qu'Appelle, her grandfathers were the Anglican priest of the pro-Cathedral and the mayor, she is now 82 and has many wonderful memories and stories of that place. If you wanted any input from her, e-mail me thyra.endicott@tmmc.com and I'll get her to write something up for you! ```` —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.103.147.72 (talk) 22:34, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

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Message in illustrations program
Hi there I am repsonding to :Message in illustrations program message to me which was....

Again my apologies, this time slightly altered. I have finally figured out again how to bring illustrations as of course we both have amply done in the past. This time it was a by-now ancient photo of mine of the remote high school in the New Guinea hignlands where I was deputy headmaster many years ago. In due course I shall doubtless recover how to adjust the size of such contributions to an article. If in the slightest interested, here: File:Ambum Valley, Enga PNG where I was vice principle.jpg -- rather stupid to describe the photo exactly that way, though truthful. Masalai (talk) 04:08, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

My reply

Sorry I don't check daily, I should change that on my talk page....I will tell you how to install this image you uploaded first in wikipedia articles, and then in your blogs not on wikipedia.

Here is a detailed Picture Tutorial about the following wiki code....



The above code makes the image appear in an article like this in this wiki mail

Beautiful place BTW,

Wikipedia finished, now I will talk about HTML code

When not using wiki mark up but in another program using HTML you would insert a thumbnail (100 pixels in width with this code



That may help with facebook.

I hope this is of some help to you...Email me direct if you want to hook up some more on wikipedia! saskgenweb AT yahoo.com

Kind Regards SriMesh SriMesh | talk  00:47, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

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Clean up, expanding, and referencing
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Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan
Hi! I looked at this page that you requested help for. I just placed the images in the gallery tag and now they line up nicely. I'd be cautious about loading up any article with too many images, though, as that's contrary to the policy of Wikipedia is not a mirror or a repository of links, images, or media files. Cheers! --Drm310 (talk) 13:17, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

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Prince Edward Building
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Grenfell
Hi, sorry for the delay. I didn't go inside, I just drove through and took a few pictures to add to Wikipedia that were lacking at that time :) If I am ever lucky enough to drive across Canada again, I will do my best to make a lot more contributions. --Eternalsleeper (talk) 08:24, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

Bishop Greg's earlier incumbency
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Uploads still needed?
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 * Thank you for the reply on my talk page. I deleted most of the pictures. One was still in use but almost a duplicate of another of your uploads so I deleted the file and used the other version instead. Another is still in use so I did not delete that. If you think other of your files should be deleted you could add on the file page. --MGA73 (talk) 13:21, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

Re:"File:MacPherson School south of Grenfell (If it was never published, that is not the correct copyright tag)"
If the image creator died in 1980, then it's not yet going to be in the public domain; presumably, copyright would have passed to the next of kin. Who was the original photographer? J Milburn (talk) 17:43, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

Would have been the original photographer herself. Surely it isn't necessary to provide that here, is it? Masalai (talk) 23:16, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

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Images in Regina
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 * Thank you for your message. Alas, I obtained the photo so long ago that I cannot recall the circumstances, though I am certain I properly obtained permission. Alas, tracing the source indicates that it no longer exists: "Not Found The requested URL /AboutRegina.html was not found on this server." Do you have any suggestion as to how the issue you raise might be resolved in the cirumcances? Masalai (talk) 16:33, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

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"Buildings in Downtown Regina as seen from Victoria Park"
Hi Masalai! I took the downtown photo of Regina while I was visiting for a few days. Unfortunately I am back in Winnipeg now and it's a bit of a drive. :) Thanks for the compliment and best of luck.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ccyyrree (talk • contribs) 15:20, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

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Sorry for the late response, it's been almost a year. I have not been active on Wikipedia for along time. I actually did not get a chance to go inside, but I plan to go to Saskatchewan again soon and will try to contribute. Interesting place, got back from Esterhazy in September after working there for a month. Eternalsleeper (talk) 19:46, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

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