User talk:Qyd/Archive 5

Assessment for WPCANADA
Can you give me some examples of articles I put in the wrong class? I gave an A-rating to any article that looked fairly long without being full of fluff that had good references. --Arctic Gnome 01:55, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. I'll keep an eye out for that stuff when tagging articles' class.  However, I have to disagree with you about the lists.  The criteria to be a featured list is quite a bit easier than to be a featured article.  I think most list that are complete, have references, and aren't trivial could be nominated for featured status under WP:FL, and would therefore be A-class.  --Arctic Gnome 18:10, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Cuba
I see that you mentioned on Z's talk page that you'll be coming to Cuba soon. Where are you visiting ? -- Beardo 11:42, 2 December 2006 (UTC)


 * So hadn't you better write an article for Bacuyanagua ? -- Beardo 18:30, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

"Calgaty [sic] Zoo"
I guess I was thrown by the two things: 1) the editor was from an anonymous IP address with an atrocious record of vandalism. 2) The edits included "Calgaty". Thanks for handling the reversion calmly. Hu 01:34, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Trans-Canada Highway
Nice visual work on your new Trans-Canada Highway image. Can I bug you to make a couple of changes to it, however? You have a couple of routes marked in red that shouldn't be (Highway 6 through Manitoulin Island and the Bruce Peninsula, Highway 11 south of North Bay, Highway 400 south of Coldwater, Highway 401) and a couple of routes not marked in red that should be (Highway 69/400 from Sudbury to Coldwater, Highway 66/Route 117 from Kirkland Lake to Montreal). I've uploaded an image to show you the needed corrections; it's at the right. Routes that I traced over in black shouldn't be marked as parts of the TCH, and routes that I traced over in green should be. You can confirm all of this on the appropriate highway articles and at Trans-Canada Highway if needed. Thanks. Bearcat 01:31, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Done, thanks for the heads-up. --Qyd 01:54, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Great...but why did you also unmark the Yellowhead Highway? (Oh, and I'm also getting a weird inconsistency — sometimes Highway 11 south of North Bay is unmarked, as it should be, but sometimes it's still showing as red. Might just be my cache being weird or something, but I thought I should let you know just in case.) Bearcat 02:02, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Oops forgot about the yellowhead, corrected that one now. Yes, it has to be chache if it's nor consistent, I had to F5 several times before it was displayed correctly after upload. Don't hesitate to let me know of any errors, it's obvious that I need some supervision with this... or maybe some sleep. --Qyd 02:12, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Heh, no worries. There is one more correction I might have to throw at you, but I'm going to have to double-check it first: there's conflicting information about the status of Highway 71 and the westernmost leg of Highway 11. Some sources say that route is part of the TCH, but I also have maps that don't have it marked as such, so I have to confirm whether the maps just have it wrong, or whether it used to be part of the TCH and isn't anymore, or whatever else is going on. Obviously not your fault, of course. Bearcat 02:32, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Turns out I am going to have to bug you one more time; I've gotten confirmation that the 11/71 route is designated as part of the TCH. I tried to save you the trouble by just fixing it myself, but as you can see I did something wrong and my upload at Image:TransCanadaHWY2.png didn't turn out quite right. But if you need the clarification at all, it'll at least show you what route to add (of course, if you don't need the clarification, then there's no need to worry.) Obviously I don't know British Columbia or Alberta as well as I do Ontario and Quebec, but apparently Highway 5 is also designated as TCH — if you need clarification on those, on your map it's the grey line between the Yellowhead and the TCH mainline that's closest to the BC-Alberta border. The Crowsnest Highway (the line that zigzags right along the Canada-US border in BC and then starts snaking upward to hit the TCH mainline at Medicine Hat) also seems to have a weird quasi-TCH status; according to its article it isn't officially part of the TCH itself, but is part of the national highway system. So we could (a) colour it as TCH, (b) not colour it at all, or (c) colour it differently to denote its different status — and I really don't know what would be the best approach to take. Sorry to make myself such a pest :-) Bearcat 04:04, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

I've added the west Ontario hwy 11+71 strech (found confirmation on a mapset about that too). As far as I know and my maps confirm that, Crowsnest Highway is not designated as TCH (although it is interprovincial AB+BC). I've used it many times, and saw no TC green marker either. I found no evidence about BC highway 5 being part of the trans-canada system, and I don't believe it is. The strech between Kamloops and Chilliwack (the southern portion of the highway, between TC1 and highway3/Crowsnest) is an expressway, and considered a faster alternative than highway 1 detour through Cache Creek and Lytton, that might have confused the editor at the Highway 5 page, but it doesn't make it officuially part of TCH. --Qyd 11:46, 13 December 2006 (UTC) PS: your image editor doesn't seem to support transparancy, I can add a white background if you want. --Qyd 11:49, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

BC municipality infobox and BC portal
I was actually trying to get the link appear in one cell. The problem with adding the link to the pages manually is that it's time-consuming. Plus, we can add a few parameters to make it a bit more customizable. -- Selmo  (talk) 00:13, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

About "enlargement"
Hi. In the Dalhousie (C-Train) article you made this edit with the comment "enlarge pic". Actually, you enlarged it for only some people, but shrank it for other people, like me, who have "300px" set as the default image size in our "user preferences". Ideally everybody chooses the size of image thumbnails in their user preferences, so it shouldn't be set in the article. Now, if you feel it is necessary to enlarge the image, which sometimes it is, then its best to make it at least 300px wide, since that ensures the new image size, is at least as big as any user's default size. So, I would recommend removing the width specification or making it 300px (as opposed to the 200px you have now). --Rob 01:58, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Montreal
I noticed that you made the two columm change to the notes section. It does give a bit of a odd result on certain monitors. On 2 out of 3 that I checked it cuts the reference into to parts. For example the one I'm looking at right now shows the number 14 on the bottom of the left column and the link that matches it is on the top of the right column. So when you click on the number in the article (it's in Demographics Religions) you jump to the bottom of the page and all you see is the number 14 and no external link. Now if you increase the text size it get even stranger. The first 13 are ok but then 14 becomes a scond 13 and 15 becomes 14 and so on. But the article links to them correctly. Odd. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 11:04, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I tried to replicate the behaviour but couldn't (maybe because I re-formated that reference before). --Qyd 17:39, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

History of the petroleum industry in Canada, part one
Thanks for your work on the Canadian petroleum history series. It helped a lot. 13:26, 26 December 2006 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pmbcomm (talk • contribs) 06:26, December 26, 2006
 * I still believe there is a lot of work on those articles, mainly concerning tone (it needs a change from essey to encyclopedic).--Qyd 17:39, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Aerial view of the hamlet of Cheadle, Alberta
Hello! How's it going? I noticed you submitted an Aerial view of the hamlet of Langdon, Alberta. It's a great shot. I was wondering if you managed to capture any from Cheadle which is not far from Langdon. I remember a small plan doing several low passes over Cheadle last November-ish. Looked like they were taking Aerial shots. Maybe that was you? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jgosteli (talk • contribs) 20:41, 27 December 2006 (UTC).
 * Nope, that pic was taken from a regular flight, and Langdon and Chestermere were the only communities that I recognised. Sorry. --Qyd 22:18, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Peer review Winnipeg
Hi Qyd, How does one go about getting a peer review of Winnipeg? It needs a good going over by people to get citations, filling in missing pieces and generally getting it up to featured article status. What do you think? jdobbin 19:23, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Ack. I so don't know what I am doing in making a request. Can you follow up on what I have done to make sure my request has been done properly? Thanks so much. I really appreciated your earlier work on the Winnipeg article. jdobbin 00:47, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks Qyd. I appreciate the help. I hope to see the quality of the article improve greatly because of it. jdobbin 01:14, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Untagged image
An image you uploaded, Image:Lethbridge-coat.PNG, was tagged with the coatofarms copyright tag. This tag was deleted because it does not actually specify the copyright status of the image. The image may need a more accurate copyright tag, or it may need to be deleted. If the image portrays a seal or emblem, it should be tagged as seal. If you have any questions, ask them at Media copyright questions. -- 08:52, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Hotel Saskatchewan photograph
I'll see if I can get a picture of it from outside, since I work downtown about six blocks from it. A few questions, do you think there is any specific time of day that would be best? Is it okay that it's Winter and the city has a lot of snow? I expect the easiest photo would be one of the front of the hotel from Victoria Park, across Victoria Avenue. I'm not so sure about photos from inside, since I've only been inside of it once and I doubt I'd get near anything noteworthy to photograph. Let me know your thoughts.  Big Nate 37 (T) 17:31, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Big compliment for your template!
I'm enthused about the template you created. It's miraculous how you positioned the text - this is the first time I see this here! This can have so many great applications here, such as Human anatomy, Orion (constellation), Pacific Ring of Fire, Paris Metro Line 1 and infinitely many more! Does it take a lot of tweaking? If so, maybe a Java applet could help? &mdash; Sebastian 04:24, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
 * While the syntax is rather transparent and easy to understans, it requires some tweeking. There are a number of labeled maps that use this kind of absolute + relative link positioning, see Category:Dynamic map templates, with documentation available at User:Zondor/Labelled Map Documentation, A number of sub-templates can be used, and an external program has been developed, but I honestly prefer the raw html code, I believe it is easier to understand and edit. I've used it on a public transport map Calgary C-Train map (with more formating), and directly in article bodies List of communities in Alberta (with plain code). Regarding tweaking of absolute position coordinates, most image editors dispaly the x and y in pixels when hovering with the cursor over the image, that can be helpful. Images and text can be combined, see France Regions Labelled Map. For only one superimposed item, see superimpose (image, heavily used on location maps to avoid the dotty maps syndrome) or Text-superimpose (text/link). --Qyd 19:20, 31 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks a lot for the helpful information. I'll try it myself some time. &mdash; Sebastian 07:12, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Coat of Arms
Hello! I would like to use your template coat of arms in polish wikipedia and make some changes (polish lanquage, adding of crown, order) I hope you have nothing against it.

My regards and congratulations on good work!

--Steifer 12:28, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

I couldn't if I wanted, it's a wiki ;). Cheers. --Qyd 17:59, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Rockies Range Hierarchy
Hi Qyd. Saw your nice table on Ranges of the Canadian Rockies after I'd gone and expanded range lists according to their hierarchies on articles like Continental Ranges and Park Ranges, which follow a format I'd used for the Columbia Mountains and their subdivisions (the Cariboos, Monashees, Purcells) as also for the Coast Mountains. I was about to go and link Continental Ranges and so on on your table but wanted to confer with you first and try and coordinate all mountain range articles. Many of the range groupings you have are not standard/official geographic designations but seem like climbers' groups, or maybe from park guides? The Coast Mountains has many similar, as while there are named ranges within the system not all chunks have official geographic names (those I haven't cribbed over from my old work at http://bivouac.com, where the system is based on Holland but augmented in areas where Holland wasn't specific enough); likewise the Cascades and the Vancouver Island Ranges. I'm wanting to add provincial parks to the mostly American-flavoured Rocky Mountains page, esp. those that are UNESCO Heritage Sites; can't remember the status of the Muskwa-Kechika or even what that park is called; there's definitely Stone Mtn and Muncho Lake prov parks up by the Alaska Highway, which go back many years (relatively speaking). Hopefully somebody up in the Peace Country or Fort Ware etc might start contributing photos of that part of the Rockies, too (rare, partly because it's not penetrated by roads much, and by people even less....).Skookum1 17:13, 3 January 2007 (UTC)


 * My reply to your reply is on my talk page.Skookum1 20:23, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

BC WikiProject Userbox has been made
Made a stab at a userbox; check 'er out: Template:User WikiProject British Columbia (use ). Fudged around with the colours and borders for a while, tried to use colours taken from the dogwood but wound up blue-adjusting the background, not quite happy with the bkgnd colour but it's better than the grey-transparent on the Vancouver userbox. Trying to think which stubs are needed; I think one for mountain and moutain range stubs (there'll be hundreds of these...), though the dogwood won't do for that; could use it for parks stubs, though, no? There's already a protected area stub that has a thing from the US Southwest on it; might as well replace it with the dogwood (d'ya like the dogwood? It's from Wikimedia Commons...I thumbed it down though). Trying to remember which other stubs are needed....bio-stub I guess for biographies, I'm thinking one for communities/settlements, have to think what else. Suggestions?Skookum1 02:21, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

yo
thanks for properly referencing my contribution to the anmore British Columia article, pretty ridiculous having your proerty increase 35% in 1 year, how exactly do I do that fancy reference things with the links, could you show me the syntax? I've tried before but have failed every time. TotallyTempo 18:23, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Reply
Well, in my mind, it makes more sense to be more specific in regards to professions with some, ie. Alex Trebek whose only claim to fame is being a game show host. As for the one town, I'll fix the link. BTW, would you mind reporting this lists FLC on various Canadian projects so that it can get more opinions? I'd hate for it to lose only because not enough people noticed it. Thanks. -- Scorpion 19:14, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the Welcome! :)
Hi Qyd!

Nice to see someone is appreciating my changes. This is the first Wikipedia article I've ever put together and I'm having a lot of fun doing it! Sorry for any mistakes I make along the way... like I said this is my first time.

I'll read through all those links you sent me but I did have one question. Do you know if there is an infoblock I can use for a community? Right now I'm working on making a page for the Sunnyside community if Calgary and I have been looking at other Calgary and Alberta communities but none of them seem to use infoboxes. Is this deliberate because it seems like they would be a useful way to present some common statistics at a glance.

Thanks for your kind help. I'm living in Sunnyside now so I'm going to start making my way around the neighbouring communities adding pictures and information to them as well.

Sincerely,

-Mark (aka Praxis)

Merging List of Papers In Calgary
How long is an appropriate time to wait before merging the List of newspapers in Calgary with the List of Calgary media outlets? This seems like a god suggestion and one I would support. Mark 01:26, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Calgary neighbourhoods
Nice work on the Calgary neighbourhoods template! Do you think the article and references are solid enough to nominate for a featured article yet? --Arch26 05:24, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

I think some of the neighbourhoods that you recently deleted from the list might be legitimate. However, I would agree that Aspen could be more specifically divided into Aspen Estates and Aspen Woods. I would also agree that "of Symons Valley" is an invention. --Jrsnbarn 12:17, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

As you suggested, I went to the official map and was able to confirm Aspen Woods, but also found a number of suspect neighbourhoods on the list. I recategorized many of them so that the official neighbourhoods ranked higher in the hierarchy than unofficial developer brands. The most controversial change I probably made was moving Garisson Woods under Altadore. --Jrsnbarn 05:59, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Public domain NASA Visible Earth sat-maps
Hi. Thought I should let you know about a few images I just uploaded which may be handy for map-making; see Talk:Lower Mainland, towards the bottom; there's others in this series linked from my BC & PacNW History Resources/Forum sandbox that will work really well for Alberta/Rockies ranges, too; I'll get the specifics later but wanted to let you know about these (for starters).Skookum1 05:35, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

BC Template importances
Hi. I see you (and KenWalker) have been cruising through the BC cats adding template ratings; I make a mistake sometimes in reviewing my own stuff, but don't mean to break guidelines - I'm often "on the fly" and usually it's only a stub/start call that I make. Or high/mid/low. In the case of the importances, there's a couple of rules of thumb I've been using, for when you run across them - all significant early colonial leaders/figures get "high" ratings, same with First Nations leaders and all First Nation ethno articles, and "main government articles" (not individual bands) should be treated with at least "mid", same as municipalities. I also give "high" ratings to all major regions and also all major mountain range groupings and landforms (e.g. Interior Plateau...Interior btw is currently a redirect to the plateau, but should/will be its own region article soon - at a high rating, as it's equivaletn to the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island in terms of provincial subdivisions. Certain small towns should have a higher priority than other small towns, because of their historical or other importance not to do with their current size or status; hence Yale, which I just saw your template on, which was a much bigger to-do even until about 1900, is of fairly high importance related to other historical articles, even political articles (it was the site of the main pro-Confederation conference in 1868, the Yale Convention, and also the site of the mainland's first private girls' school, All Hallows - the old Onderdonk mansion). Anyway, I guess I should make some notes on these rules-of-thumb; I'm not trying to lay down rules, just wanting to make you aware of parameters I've been using when I was doing "templating".....Skookum1 (Talk) 18:20, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Please see Talk:Bush Creek re redirects
Hi; made some notes on Talk:Bush Creek about templating redirects; pls read.Skookum1 (Talk) 18:41, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Lillooet dab page
But it's a BC-only dab page, and may be need to be amended or watched by BC WP members. Unless there are rules about this - ??Skookum1 20:09, 16 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Hm. The idea with the dabs and redirects is just to catalogue all pages, of any kind, that have to do with BC topics/articles; some redirects are "critical" redirects but I guess all of this kind of thing can be figured out from the "what links here" stuff; with the dabs, as in the case of the Lillooet page, there may be wording that needs tweaking, and/or it would help to have BC Wikipedians know the pages exist; they could just be catalogued on a back page of the proejct I guess.Skookum1 20:20, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Aerial Photos
How did you get those great aerial photos of Calgary? --Jrsnbarn 00:36, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
 * From regular commercial flights (albeit with small planes). --Qyd 01:39, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Alberta Highway 29
Go to http://www.gov.ab.ca/acn/200610/2062632DE70A3-A98F-2A5E-B563E986047F4FAD.html. Highway 29 isa new highway that replaced several other secondary highways. --Colin473 19:29, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

History of the petroleum industry in Canada, part two
You commented on this article once, and it is relevant to your areas of interest. FYI, I have just rewritten it completely. You may want to have a look. 10:18, 24 May 2007 (UTC)