User talk:Mike metcalfe

Recent edit to Cornwall, Ontario
Your two most recent edits to Cornwall, Ontario have been reverted. Commentary like this is more appropriate to the article's talk page instead of the article text. Thank you. Ellbeecee 13:15, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

I disagree vehemently with whomever took the liberty of editing the comments about these two schools. Both Rothwell-Osnabruck and Longue Sault Public Schools are part of a Cornwall area group of schools known as the Gateway Region of the Upper Canada Board. Children from both Ingleside and Long Sault attend city schools as well as those in their own communities and there is some migration from Cornwall proper to these schools. Consequently, the comments are valid and should be left intact.

Education in Cornwall
Schools in Ingleside and Osnabruck are not a Cornwall topic, and have no place in Cornwall's article. If you think it's worth mentioning on Wikipedia, each outlying community already has its own separate article where the quality of their local schools can be discussed. Bearcat 21:35, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Your contention is incorrect. R-O is part of the Cornwall area cluster of schools that make up the Gateway region of the Upper Canada Board and as such, most definitely has a 'place'. Interstingly, a number of students in the Ingleside area attend Cornwall schools and vice versa.


 * No, it is not incorrect. The place for this information is on Ingleside and/or Upper Canada District School Board, not on Cornwall's article. A school outside of the city certainly has a place in the article on the school board, but it does not belong in the article on the city. Only material pertaining to the city belongs in the article on the city. And please note that you can be edit-blocked if you continue to add this material in inappopriate places. Bearcat 16:59, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

I'm curious to know why you feel the need to nit-pick on this. Unless you live in the area, you do not have an understanding of the local environment. Not only that, it was somewhat of a positive story, particularly with respect to the students and faculty. You appear to be hell-bent on maintaining Cornwall's image in a negative light and that is regrettable given the fact it is a great place to live, to work and to raise a family.


 * Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a public relations database. We are governed by non-negotiable policies such as neutral point of view, verifiability and no original research, not by how an employee of the city wants to see his city represented. I have no interest in portraying Cornwall in a bad light — as a Wikipedia administrator, what I care about is making sure that the rules are followed. The bottom line is that you cannot rewrite Wikipedia articles to sound as though they were written by Cornwall's tourism bureau, especially when that involves removing properly sourced content, or adding content that more properly belongs in a different article. Information on schools that aren't in Cornwall belongs in the article on the school board, or in the articles on the towns that those schools are actually in. Our responsibility is to be accurate, not to make Cornwall residents feel good. Bearcat 17:59, 20 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Your entries are tantamount to lying.72.1.213.195 17:13, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

This last comment is not only inappropriate, I find it offensive. That said you'll no doubt be pleased to know that I do not plan any additional entries. You persist in focusing on the negatives about the community and because of your control over content, there is little we can do. It is unfortunate that people like you seem bent on portraying Cornwall as it was a generation ago and not what it is today (i.e. your penchant for negative details about environmental issues and effluents. What you faiol to note is that much of what passes through Cornwall originates well upstream and environmental 'hot-spot' #43 was as a result of Massena industries not ours. You have also failed to note the close to $100 million in environmental upgrades undertaken by the Domtar Mill alone over the past 15 years as well as the number of environmental initiatives undertaken by the City (the Co-gen plant and the million dollar endowment to the River Institute.)

By the way, you're notation #11 to do with the Health Canada report (if you want to talk about misleading information), if your read the report you'll note the descriptor 'perceived'. You appear to have overlooked that in your narrative about the City's environmental matters. In tems of the Air Quality Improvement group ... you are correct in that it has dome some good work. It also may interest you to know that in 2006, because I was interested, I monitored the Ministry of the Environment's Air Quality Index of 40 communities across Ontario. Over a 115 day period, Cornwall ranked in the top 10 for good air 84 out of the 115 days, was in the top 5 49 out of the 115 days and was #1 in Ontario 10 days of the 115.

So ... there's my final entry. Read and enjoy.