User talk:Pfly

Agassiz Harrison Observer
I created an article called Agassiz Harrison Observer someone tagged it with notability. The newspaper is listed in List of newspapers in Canada. I thought newspapers were notable. Are they?Msruzicka (talk) 05:52, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

Some major geography expansions
Hey Pfly, how goes. Just wanted to let you know about one of the university classes I'm working with here on WP. It's an environmental history course at UBC here in Vancouver, and they're doing some major expansions on some cool W.Canada/Pac. NW topics. Trying to get get some more eyes on the new stuff. If you're at all interested, you can watchlist some of the articles listed at the course page: Canada Education Program/Courses/Present/North American Environmental History (Tina Loo). They're going "live" some content over the next three weeks or so. Anyways, hope all is well with you, The Interior  (Talk) 04:01, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Sure thing! Pfly (talk) 04:03, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

Template reversions
Regarding these edits:,. My initial reaction was that your reverts were unjustified, but I guess I could be wrong. Could you explain your concern to me? HuskyHuskie (talk) 03:52, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Hey, maybe I was being overzealous--it's quite possible. I reverted a few others for having broken links and empty lines and/or repeated info already on the pages, and such like. Those last three were based off what I read at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents and a quick look at the website being used as a reference. But I admit I haven't investigated too far, and the basic idea might be good. Feel free to revert me if you want. Sorry if I jumped the gun. Pfly (talk) 03:59, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Well, I looked at the version before the template and with the template, and the information is nearly identical (8 of 10 cities have identical populations; two of them are slightly different, though not enough to change their ranking). I've already reverted you at Illinois, but that's enough for me; I'll leave it to other states' native sons to decide for their articles. HuskyHuskie (talk) 04:01, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

Yamassee native americans
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Thanks for involvement in talk; side note
Thank you for kickstarting Talk:List_of_fixed_crossings_of_the_Hudson_River out of the impasse. You introduced useful primary sources which I did not know about or think to access.

As a side note, you might want to glance at, where it is revealed that Flowed Land with its dual outflows is a manmade feature. --Cstaffa (talk) 01:12, 3 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Ah ha, interesting. I was thinking "Flowed Land" is a curious and cool name for a waterbody. Now I wonder...before the dam at Flowed Land was built that caused much or most of the Opalescent River to flow down Calamity Brook, did Calamity Brook connect to the Opalescent at all? If not, then before the dam was built Feldspar Brook and Lake Tear of the Clouds would have been a tributary of a tributary of the Hudson, which would hardly seem a contender for "true source". Ah well, I have chores I should be doing rather than researching this too much! Pfly (talk) 04:51, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

Lake Michigan–Huron
In case you're interested, there's a POV warrior disrupting the article with spurious tags, since he hasn't been able to get it deleted. — kwami (talk) 18:48, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I just saw that. Thought about doing something but don't have the time at the moment. Will keep it in mind for later! Pfly (talk) 21:00, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

I don't disagree
"The point is simply to highly recommend nominators choose high quality, well composed images. Nothing is summarily rejected. No one is imposing anything on you." - I don't disagree with the protocol that much myself. I think you might find this enlightening about my stance on the protocol. Mrt 3366 (Talk?)  [ (New thread?) ] 07:11, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

Please do ...
... comment on the images on Talk:India. Your incisive comments are always welcome. Fowler&amp;fowler «Talk»  11:06, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I'll try to later today. Sometimes that talk page is daunting. :-) Pfly (talk) 15:25, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Hmm. No idea what you are talking about.  :)  Fowler&amp;fowler  «Talk»  20:22, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
 * PS Anyway, for diversion, you may want to read a post I left in Sitush's talk page. Fowler&amp;fowler  «Talk»  20:22, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

Talkback
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New Albion
Please take a look at the Talk section for Nova Albion. There are a number of suggestions about possible deletions and rewrites. I'd welcome your comments before proceeding. Thanks. MikeVdP (talk) 15:13, 18 October 2012 (UTC)


 * I notice you have commented on Nova Albion Talk page back in Oct 2012 without me knowing about it until now but you have never read my book. How would you like to read my book "Francis Drake in Nehalem Bay 1579, Setting the Historical Record Straight". email me at ggitzen@nehalemtel.net Ggitzen (talk) 17:18, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

Dabbin' ribers
Hey P, you probably know the answer to this: Best, The Interior  (Talk) 21:03, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

June 2013
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Colorado River at FAC
Hey Pfly! Colorado River is up for FAC and could use a few reviewers. I thought you might be interested. If you could help that'd be awesome. Regards, Shanno n  21:59, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

Pfly the River Guy

 * Hehe, thanks! I wasn't sure if anyone would even notice my recent edits to some of these remote BC rivers, like the Chilako River, which is practically an orphan page. I've sometimes tried to work on Fraser River tributaries but found the total Fraser system way too big and complex to work on all at once. So I thought I'd start with a sizable but remote and "not too complicated" tributary, like, oh, I have no idea, the Nechako River? Sure, why not? After a while I realized I had picked the wrong tributary for "not too complicated". Wow, Kenney Dam, the reservoir, the diversion to Kitimat, etc—that's some major terraforming! So I spread out to other Fraser rivers. But I am making a page for the Cheslatta River, which could be worth a DYK—a once relatively small river transformed into a giant drain for the Nechako Reservoir, sometimes subjected to such large flows it carved new channels...quite a story. Who says Wikipedia has a page on everything? Pfly (talk) 23:08, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
 * It's tres crazy up there, all for an aluminum smelter! Must be one of the bigger impoundment areas in the world. Ootsa Lake I've dipped my toes in, there was a 100,000 hectare island for sale up there once for something like 40,000 bucks. The whole thing.  I'll try help out with Cheslatta, I'd like to visit the Natural Resources Canada library here in Van before it's shut (grrrr..), maybe fanangle one of the big DFO river bibles before it hits the dumpster, they're stats heaven.  There's a three volume, 600 pager that I catalogued during my practicum.  The Interior  (Talk) 23:33, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Got a translation of "cheslatta" to start from the Akriggs: Carrier, "top of small mountain" or "small rock mountain at east side". The Interior  (Talk) 23:40, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
 * I just found that too :-) ...I think it was the biggest impoundment in Canada at least, but surpassed by Williston Lake on the Peace River, I think. Still probably one of the world's larger ones ( there's got to be a WP list about that, no? List of reservoirs by volume) Anyway, I should get a reasonable Cheslatta River start page up later today—something worthy of submitting a WP:DYK, but probably still just a start page. I found a couple of books online that describe some of the river-chaos on the Cheslatta and upper Nechako after the spillway was let loose. For folks living near those rivers it was end-of-the-world-ish. There's also interesting stuff about Alcan and the BC government colluding to, among other things, silence or disempower the people who were (and are) protesting. Anyway, working on a Cheslatta draft now... Pfly (talk) 00:17, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Hmm, only 35 by volume, eh. Bet you it's up there in terms of area. I'll take a look at this tomorrow at work, might have some good hard data.  As for the hoodwinking of the public by Alcan/PofBC, probably the Evenden book is best.  Just calling the 1970's part of the project the Kemano Completion Project was a smooth p.r. move, making it sound like a fait accompli. It all makes for some good DYK hook possibilities.  The Interior  (Talk) 00:38, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Heh yea, "completion", almost laughable once you realize the PR spin. And wait, which Evenden book? There's Fish versus power : an environmental history of the Fraser River. The Seattle Library is quite lacking on this subject, though UW's library has some stuff, like this Christensen book Too good to be true : Alcan's Kemano Completion Project. Not that I'm likely to get to any library anytime soon... Pfly (talk) 00:56, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Yeah, that Evenden. I'll load up tomorrow, VPL has a good selection.  All I have to do is pretend there is a patron doing research on northern rivers ;).  The Interior  (Talk) 01:03, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Cheslatta River
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DYK for Cheslatta River
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August 2013
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 * flows south, then west to the Fraser River, which it joins between [Haney, British Columbia|Haney] and Albion. The lower half of the creek is within [[Kanaka Creek


 * Good old BracketBot. Pfly (talk) 22:32, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

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Question about File:Greatvalley-map.jpg
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I notice you have commented on Nova Albion Talk page back in Oct 2012 without me knowing about it, until now, but you have never read my book. I'm sure your are in search of the truth, you seem to be a pretty knowledgeable person. How would you like to read my book "Francis Drake in Nehalem Bay 1579, Setting the Historical Record Straight". email me at ggitzen@nehalemtel.net Ggitzen (talk) 17:21, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

Thompson River
Hey Pfly, hope you are well. You don't seem to be around much, but if you drop by, I've got a question. I'm going to fill out some more of our BC rivers articles this year, helped by my new Rivers of North America (200$ later!). Right now, we've got the North and South Thompson split off into two standalone articles. I'm conflicted by how much the Thompson article should cover the system as a whole, and how much info should live in the North/South articles. The above book treats them mostly as a single system. Be great to get your opinion, as you've worked on them a bit. Anyways, merrys and happys to you and yours, The Interior  (Talk) 18:44, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

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 * Hear hear. And congrats!   Fowler&amp;fowler  «Talk»  15:52, 18 July 2017 (UTC)

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Copyright issue
I'm dealing with some old copyvio at Kingdom of Aksum from here and some of it is from you. There's other material there which I can see []https://www.academia.edu/15058762/Ethiopian_ancient_multilateral_trade_relations_And_Ship_Building_Industry_in_the_country here] but I'm not sure if you copied that or they copied you. Doug Weller talk 13:44, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
 * I'll get back to you once I figure out what was copied from where again. It looks as though the Ethiopian ancient multilateral thing is later, and not by the author credited at Academic.edu. Doug Weller  talk 18:56, 24 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Yep, they copied you. Sorry to have bothered you about this. Doug Weller  talk 14:11, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Oh cool, nice to know it wasn't my bad. Thanks for looking into it! Pfly (talk) 18:34, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

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Simon Metcalfe article overwriting
Please do not overwrite an existing article with unrelated content as you did at Simon Metcalfe. On your sandbox article, in the upper right corner, there is a More menu item that has a Move option. --Bamyers99 (talk) 20:26, 4 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Whoops, it was an accident. Pfly (talk) 20:33, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

Thomas Humphrey Metcalfe
Thanks for the creation of the article. I went ahead and nominated it for DYK for you at Template:Did you know nominations/Thomas Humphrey Metcalfe. I also marked a few paragraphs and sentences that need footnotes for on the article. Can you please go back and reference it with the existing source you used or other new sources? All paragraphs need to be cited for a DYK nomination. Thanks.KAVEBEAR (talk) 23:33, 4 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Also feel free to add another hook instead of mine on the nomination page. I wasn’t trying my hardest to think of the most interesting part of the article.KAVEBEAR (talk) 23:35, 4 August 2018 (UTC)
 * That’s fine but please make sure to cite the remaining citation needed sentences when you are back from your break. Thanks.KAVEBEAR (talk) 23:43, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Thomas Humphrey Metcalfe
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Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe
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 * Thanks, I'll take a look when I get a chance! Pfly (talk) 21:02, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

Vector map of Ganga/Brahmaputra
Hello. I'm doing research on Indian rivers and came across. I would like to map the river paths on my own preferred (satellite-based) background earth image. So could you please share the vector paths of the rivers as well? Thanks!

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 * Thanks for your reply on my user page! I feel silly I didn't even get the idea of looking into Natural Earth. I'll do just that! Jamadagni (talk) 09:23, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

Hoodoo Mountain FAC
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Mount Garibaldi FAC
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