User talk:PKT/Archive 2016

Thanks!
Glad to see someone appreciates my photography contributions to the encyclopedia. I look out for things that haven't been photographed at all or were not photographed properly whenever I visit new places. In this case, I knew I would be going up the CN Tower so I focused on Toronto-based landmarks, noticed that Corus hadn't been photographed yet, and was careful to take lots of pictures of it when I was up there. This was back when I owned a prosumer camera with an amazing 22x zoom lens. Unfortunately it got an aberration on the right corner somehow. The aberration was noticeable only at 1x or 2x zoom but that means it messes up most regular photos, so I turned in the camera for recycling and upgraded to my first real SLR after the Toronto visit. --Coolcaesar (talk) 04:55, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

Please give input
Thanks Vaselineeeeeeee (talk) 01:30, 22 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Article was deemed "speedy keep" soon after. :) Vaselineeeeeeee (talk) 04:02, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

Eccles Road railway station
Hi, re. All pages edited by are either unreferenced, poorly referenced, or have an unclear style, in many cases both. I've tried talking to them on their user page, but get no response other than reinstatement of bad edits. -- Red rose64 (talk) 12:18, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

Parent, Ontario listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Parent, Ontario. Since you had some involvement with the Parent, Ontario redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Cnilep (talk) 06:29, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre
Hello PKT,

I am from the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, currently updating our production history page. I noticed you had disambiguated a couple of links on our page, and would like to thank you for your efforts. Our main focus right now is in checking links, cleaning up formats, and ensuring proper attributions to the playwrights and creators are being given. Of particular interest is ensuring our page meets the Wikipedia standards and guidelines, as well as the standards for other theatre centre production histories throughout Canada. Given your experience in this area of Wikipedia, any advice or information that you could provide would be greatly appreciated, and help facilitate our mission to improve the article.

Thank-you.

MTCHistory (talk) 20:55, 11 May 2016 (UTC)


 * See also: Manitoba Theatre Centre production history   PK  T (alk)  13:17, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

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Pontus Carlsson
Hi PKT. You unlinked the chess club Sollentuna SK. Why do you think that the club is not notable? They've been winning the Swedish Chess Championship 6 times (1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2006 and 2007). Regards, --Gereon K. (talk) 17:04, 5 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Hello Gereon K. - is there an article for Sollentuna SK? In Wikipedia, that's the first question.  The second question is whether or not it's likely that an article will be created and will meet notability standards, and I doubt that a chess club would do so.  It is more likely that the club's players have articles in Wikipedia than the club will have.   PK  T (alk)  19:36, 5 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Red links have the purpose of inviting editors to write articles. en.wikipedia has 13 articles about chess clubs (Category:Chess clubs). Why should a club that has won the national championship 6 times not be notable? There are more than 1,000 articles about football clubs, several hundred baseball teams and so forth. --Gereon K. (talk) 19:43, 5 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Gereon K.; In my humble opinion, chess clubs don't generally have the cachet of football clubs, baseball teams (or hockey teams, for that matter). Regardless, you're free to go ahead and start the article for Sollentuna SK.  Or, simply revert my edit if you feel strongly enough about it.   PK  T (alk)  19:58, 5 June 2016 (UTC)

Geelong College
Hi PKT

I linked M.A. Buntine to his Wikipedia bio at Arnold Buntine but you reversed it. Was that a mistake? You might like to reverse your edit so that Dr Martyn Arnold Buntine (1898-1975), who was Principal of the Geelong College from 1946 to early 1960, is wiki linked.

Thanks Castlemate (talk) 00:22, 17 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Actually, the link I saw was to simply Arnold, not Arnold Buntine. I'll leave it to you to repair.   PK  T (alk)  01:02, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

Thank you
That brings us down to only 2 territories and 1 more province of Canada's to go. Getting close to a complete set. The Transhumanist 04:33, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

Ghayl Habban
"Ghayl Habban" is a name that I frequently saw in literature about Yemen without ever finding an accurate explanation of it in English (I found German and Arabic explanations, but no good English explanations). I tried to make people a favor and I wrote what may be the first accurate explanation in English. I left the Arabic names of the villages because they are unvocalized and it is not possible to transliterate them, but providing unvocalized names is better than nothing. --HD86 (talk) 19:58, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

New 10,000 Challenge for Canada
Hi, WikiProject Canada/The 10,000 Challenge is up and running based on The 10,000 Challenge for the UK which has currently produced over 2300 article improvements and creations. If you'd like to see large scale quality improvements happening for Canada like The Africa Destubathon, which has produced over 1600 articles in 5 weeks, sign up on the page. The idea will be an ongoing national editathon/challenge for Canada but fuelled by a contest such as The North America Destubathon to really get articles on every province and subject mass improved. I would like some support from Canadian wikipedians here to get the Challenge off to a start with some articles to make doing a Destubathon worthwhile! Cheers. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:55, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

Thomas Power
The citation seems correct: https://books.google.co.il/books?id=LqF0BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA246&lpg=PA246&dq=wizards+of+armageddon+Well,+you%E2%80%99d+better+make+sure+that+they+a+man+and+a+woman&source=bl&ots=7Ju1cLIuMF&sig=vsFnzrOOE_OKTp2YhI6i1p2PLrU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiLvfvpzuDQAhWKzRoKHa7_CfsQ6AEIGjAA#v=onepage&q=wizards%20of%20armageddon%20Well%2C%20you%E2%80%99d%20better%20make%20sure%20that%20they%20a%20man%20and%20a%20woman&f=false

Regards, Max.--Maxaxax (talk) 22:33, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your response. The quote in the reference was "make sure that they're a man and a woman", not "they".  I fixed it for you.  Cheers!   PK  T (alk)  22:36, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors December 2016 News
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Sortname
Thanks for your edits to sortname entries on List of Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science. Although two or three are very useful, most of them don't seem to have made any difference. Now, I freely admit I may be missing something here, so if you could explain to me why I should not have changed the ones I have changed, I would be very grateful. Meantime, Merry Xmas! Pdfpdf (talk) 13:31, 18 December 2016 (UTC)
 * I guess the issue is that there are articles for a few of the Fellows, but not many. Let's use David Black as an example - there are several people by that name for whom there are articles, but not the chemist who's a Fellow of the AAS.  When David Black is a blue link, a user might follow the link to a disambiguation page where there is no information about the chemist, so the link's of no use.  Changing the link to David Black (chemist) tells people that there isn't an article, and it might prompt somebody to create one.   PK  T (alk)  14:32, 18 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your reply. I agree with what you say about changing entries like david black to entries like david black (chemist), but you've kinda missed my point that in many other examples of your edits you've done something similar to changing entries like david black to entries like david black , and my point is that changing entries like that achieves nothing. No big deal - just trying to clarify what I was trying to say to you. Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 10:56, 22 December 2016 (UTC)

Merry, merry!
From the icy Canajian north; to you and yours! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 15:05, 25 December 2016 (UTC)