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Too many images at Havana
Hello Qyd, you had deleted all links that I posted yesterday, and I ask you now: if there are too many images (therefore page increments it weigh), why you don't select the best images about Havana and related to publish it on Havana's main page? Thanks for you interest...  Z o r p h Dark .


 * Ok, your answer was gratify, but I insist in review once in a while the new uploaded photos to select the best that make the article more comprehensible. Thanks again... & be 1n touch...  Z o r p h Dark .


 * PD: Also, keep in mind that one image had more value than a lot of words. A picture reveals contents that we can't appreciate by read. But obviously, we should abridge bytes as more as possible.  Z o r p h Dark .

Recent reversions
Hi, Qyd.

I noticed that your recent "reversion" on the Havana article changed more than just a reversion - how did you do you reversion ? Manually ? Not by formally reveryting or using the undo function ?


 * -- Beardo 20:35, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Auyuittuq National Park
I got a bit confused after this. It turned out there was Category:Parks in Nunavut (and Category:National parks of Nunavut is a sub-category of that) and the now deleted Category:Parks of Nunavut. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 23:14, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Pearson Airport
Hello Qyd!

I was just looking up Pearson Airport page here and I couldn't help noticing you've got some nice shots of the terminals... I'm building a Pearson Scenery for a flight simulator called X-Plane and I need some pictures of the buildings so I was wondering if you have some there that you could share and allow me to use, the photos will be basically used for modelling the 3d buildings and to create the textures so only pictures from the exterior would be useful and especially ones taken from the aircraft ramps(showing the facades that face the airplanes rather than the ones that face the parking lots side), if you cannot share I'll understand! ;) You can find me at [mailto:jmour03@my.centennialcollege.ca this e-mail]

Regards,

José Moura

Toronto


 * Sorry, I uploaded all I had. --Qyd 14:36, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Caibarién
The stuff you're translating is a copyvio of this page, so I'm going to delete the Spanish material and revert it back to the stub it was before the Spanish material was added. -Yupik 22:37, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Great work
Great work on the project stuff Qyd. I Like the template. Ooh, and by the way, I've put one of your photos on the Portal selected pics list! Hope you don't mind.-- Z leitzen (talk)  00:06, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Reversion to Bowen Island Article
I think we both attempted to revert the same vandalism to this article. I am not sure it came out right. I thought before I try to fix anything, I would let you know in case you are in the middle of doing the same thing -- KenWalker | Talk 03:50, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Subdivisions of [Canadian province/territory] templates
Hi Qyd, Just to thank you for continuing to correct my forgetting to update the name parameter in these templates. I'll try to remember to do it myself! Best wishes, David Kernow (talk) 13:06, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

National Parks Map
Hi Qyd,

RE: Canadian National Parks Location.png

This is a great looking map. I made some comments on it in the Discussion page of the Image. Take a look and let me know what you think. Yoho2001 11:17, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Thought I'd pop in to see if you've had a chance to reply, here or at the image discussion page. Thanks for adding the Categories box at Pingo National Landmark. :) Yoho2001 12:27, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Q
WHY did you take out what I put? I'll be putting it back on so DONT take it out. —Preceding unsigned comment added by TelusFielder (talk • contribs) 17:19, March 2, 2007
 * replied on your talk page.--Qyd 17:14, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

coordinates
Thanks Qyd for revising the coordinates on the Millenium Park article. Can you tell me where I can find the docs regarding the coordinates syntax. Monsieur david 19:42, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
 * There's a comprehensive list at WikiProject Geographical coordinates, and a usage sections which lists all related templates at Template:Coor/doc. --Qyd 20:34, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

thanks Monsieur david 04:32, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Template:Road types
Hi. I can appreciate the reasoning for you removing the whitespace from the top of the navibox, as it could appear 'inconsistent' when used with other Naviboxes. However, without the whitespace, the navibox 'collides' with whatever text is immediately before it, which I think looks dreadful. Adding a blank line (all I was trying to do – NB, this technique has been seen and used on other naviboxes) provides just enough breathing space to avoid the text being dominated by the navibox.

There must be a way of avoiding this problem without introducing new ones. Any ideas?

EdJogg 15:31, 6 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Take Macadam as an example. The last paragraph now 'includes' the navibox, as there's no visible separation between the two (aside from the leading below the last line of paragraph text).


 * In Tarmac, the navibox again 'touches' the final text, yet there is space allowed before the 'See also' heading – consistency would demand space before the navibox also.


 * You are right that Navigation includes 'style="clear:both;"', which should allow for some leading space. However, Road types is based on Navbox generic, which is a table, and does not include a 'clear' of any kind.  The sample usage shows three such boxes butted-together, and I can't imagine why one might want to display that way.


 * Adding a blank line to the article is an easy compromise, but risky, as there are many editors and bots who will remove 'stray' blank lines on sight!


 * EdJogg 16:26, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Image:Canada-Drainage.png
Just a comment: The part of your drainage diagram, Image:Canada-Drainage.png, that drains into the Gulf of Mexico seems a bit small and only seems to indicate the Milk River drainage and not the Old Wives Lake, Big Muddy Creek, and Poplar River drainages (I'm referencing the Saskatchewan Water Authority map at http://www.swa.ca/Maps/ ). (Although, being a native Saskatchewanian, I always thought Old Wives Lake was a self-contained basin which didn't actually drain anywhere...just loss by surface evaporation & irrigation, but I'm assuming the SWA knows better than I do)  Thomas Dzubin  Talk 16:07, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Photos
Qyd Per your photo requests, I do have several Stephen Ave photos and I would be happy to share. However, they are not better than the copyrighted shots. I will take a crack at beating the Chamber of Commerce shots and will post if successful. I do have some first class Calgary skyline wide angles and panoramas which I think are as good as or better than the Copyrighted Chamber shot there now. I have been hesitant to replace it since the Chamber shot is decent and it seemed so self aggrandizing. Is the Chamber copyright offensive? What would you advise? Cszmurlo 17:49, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

World Heritage template

 * Hi again. Someone proposed that the World Heritage template be merged with the protected area template. In any case, a user is complaining about the lack of use of the World Heritage template. See this article for reference. Joey80 12:57, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

and other templates
Sure i can!

It's an error in the javascript encoding, but it's neutralised by placing " " right before the templates, either in the articles, or directly above the template information in the template itself.  RingtailedFox • Talk • Stalk''' 21:19, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

what da problem?
I just wrote a addition to the Port Coquitlam article, you promptly came along and reverted for no apparent reason I can thin of. 1) it was sourced 2) it is relevant 3) it was accurate I'm putting it back man..lates...TotallyTempo 00:53, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

yeah
yeah, I shouldn't have put that for a summary...and I noticed the reference thing afterwards....thanks TotallyTempo 16:29, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Coat of arms
Hey, I see that you removed a bunch of images from this article. Can you share your criteria for removing "random" images? It seems pretty arbitrary to me, but I'd love to learn.-- Eva  b  d  13:56, 11 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks.-- Eva  b  d  14:31, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Public domain BC govt map-generator
Just found this which you should have a look at; you're the first guy (gal?) I thought of when I saw it, though I'll let WPBC know as well. I haven't played with its toggles yet but don't know the quality of the graphics; the bigger mapplace system can load sat photos, contours, all kinds of stuff so this may be able to as well; looks like an easy way to do park and IR boundaries properly. No copyright, unlike Basemap (which you can't even mail yourself now; they want to charge for it; to hell with it I use prnt-scrn '-). Skookum1 00:59, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Re: expand and counties
Thats fare enough man. Reason i did so, was thinking that having the expand tag on top would encourage people that know bout the area to add things in...if u dont think it's need it just remove it. I wrote on that articles talk page though articles that are similar: such Brant, Ontario and unless im mistaken Chatham-Kent, Ontario is also a country/municipility? no? And that has a history section for eg? But fare enough, in future when i add a "expand" tag, i will make sure that i want something in particular added. Hope i addressed ur concern. petze 15:12, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

You're right...
Yukon shoudl be YT (according to ISO_3166-2:CA, which is the default for such thing on WP). I've tweaked the template so that using either  or   as a parameter will work, though the documentation now only mentions YT. Thanks for highlighting this iussue. Tom pw (talk) (review) 09:34, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Orphaned fair use image (Image:Fort_Saskatchewan-logo.png)
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 * Delete, was temporary replacement for flag. --Qyd 19:55, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Alberta location maps
Hi Q, I asked for help at the village pump with the Airdrie, Alberta map. I seen that you switched the Medicine Hat, Alberta map to the roads map. I compared the older Census divisions AB.png map between FF and IE7 (WinXP) and there didn't seem to be a difference in dot placement at Medicine Hat. Have you come across any other odd dot behavior in the Alberta maps? &mdash;MJCdetroit 20:19, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Other than Resolute's issue on Airdrie, I didn't notice any odd behaviour, but than again, I can't test it in IE6. I swithed the Med Hat map only because I find the road map more informative (census divisions are not well known these days). I'm contemplating changing all AB census divisions background maps with the road map, but so far it's just a thought. Nice work on implementing the Infobox City, by the way. --Qyd 20:28, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, I am slowly working on the Canada Town one now. I figured that Med Hat switch was a preferance thing.

I may have found another odd-behaving dot eariler, Redcliff, Alberta, but at the moment I am using a Macintosh and everything looks good (go figure?).

Question: Is there a way to line up the dot in Firefox (or whatever) and select that map image and turn it into a permenant map (no dot x & y)? Like how Invermere, British Columbia's map is? &mdash;MJCdetroit 02:46, 27 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Could be done by hand for every community (and was done, unfortunately by me, for AB and BC). But I believe that is the point of having map+dot, that is, avoiding the dotty map syndrome, piles of similar map images clogging up the servers. It was the resaon I preffered AB and BC municipality infobox over the canadian infoboxes. --Qyd 14:16, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

I agree. I was just wondering if it was possible. THanks,MJCdetroit 14:55, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

UPDate: I am going to start to fix the dot map placements. The list of places that maybe affected can be found here: Category:Settlement articles requiring maintenance. I am going to switch the templates to a test template first, then move the dot as needed. When all pages needing work have been fixed then I will edit Infobox Settlement and switch the pages using the "test" template back to the live template. I am using google earth to double check the placement; please feel free to double check my placement and adjust if needed. Thanks, &mdash;MJCdetroit 16:33, 30 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Sounds good. As of now, with the map aligned left, the dots are out of place. Let me know if you want any particular one tested in IE7, FF and Opera. --Qyd 16:35, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Infobox City/Test1 centers the image and the same change will be applied to the main template soon. I don't have Opera, so some tests in that would be nice. Just look at my user contribs to see what the last pages were. Cheers. MJCdetroit 16:42, 30 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Athabasca, Alberta and Banff, Alberta look good in Opera, so I suppose /Test1 works. --Qyd 16:49, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

All the maps have been fixed. Most by just subtracting 35 from the dot_x value. Some may need an adjustment one or two in either direction but they are close (compared with google earth). The only one I am not sure of was Tomahawk, Alberta. Please check that one out. Thanks, &mdash;MJCdetroit 16:46, 2 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Tomahawk looks good (it's just southeast of the yellowhead x cowboy trail intersection. --Qyd 17:08, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Ok, because that map was sized at 250px I couldn't use the -35 from the dot_x, but the dot did not need to be adjusted. Thanks for double checking. &mdash;MJCdetroit 17:53, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:Military-Insignia
Template:Military-Insignia has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. — Megapixie 02:40, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Template:Canada provinces map
Hi, I noticed your addition of the labeled map feature to Template:Infobox Province or territory of Canada, but the infobox is suited for maps of 250px or smaller. The bigger map you added is stretching the infobox and disrupts the layout. Since you appear to be the main editor of Template:Canada provinces map, can you please edit the template to make its width adjustable before it gets added? I think your template would be much more practical and adaptable if you can make that change. &mdash; Kelw (talk) 02:56, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!
For the life of me I couldn't figure out how to put those catagorys on the project page! :) WayeMason 18:20, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

List of municipalities in British Columbia
Can I ask for your help on this page? I created the article the other day and the framework will be complete soon. I've been using the maps that were on individual articles, many of which you created. However, the formats differ and in some cases there are no maps (in which case the Regional District map is used). What do you suggest for using small image size maps? --maclean 07:21, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Some extra dot maps can be found at commons:Category:Community locator maps of British Columbia (for Burns, for example). The generic maps and overlain dots have the great advantage of saving space and bandwidth, but are not very usefull in a layout like that you propose. Frankly, I would suggest using the coordinates (coor dms) in the table, rather than a map image, as they are more precise. --Qyd 13:51, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Yah, alright, that is a great idea. I'll add the (coor dms) below the maps and see how that looks. Do you know how to superimpose those yellow dots onto the maps like map at Dawson Creek, British Columbia? I've been fiddling with the dot_x=118, dot_y=67 but I can't get it to work in the table. --maclean 01:25, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Superimpose does it. The values are in pixels. Or two div's: one with position:relative, and inside it, one with position:ablolute. --Qyd 01:33, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I started using Superimpose. Can you please review the page and the code I've been using. It is getting rather large kilobyte-wise, is there a way to reduce the amount of code? --maclean 06:03, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Superimpose IS a shorter sintax (compared to the raw html code), the only things that can be trimmed are the captions for basemap and dot (both are optional). Nice job on List of municipalities in British Columbia, btw. --Qyd 13:45, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

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Langley flag
I just noticed you've (accidentally, I assume) introduced a silent f in Lanfgley. I would fix this myself, but I have a long history of wrecking images through stupid mistakes, so I thought I'd point it out to you instead. :) --Steven Fisher 17:01, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
 * You are right, the name is misspelled (didn't notice it, I should be more careful when I upload images). However, this should't affect in any way the related article, and as moving images is rather laborious, I would rather leave it at that. Cheers. --Qyd 17:05, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I guess I'm not the only one who has difficulty with them, then. Reasonable. Thanks for the reply! --Steven Fisher 16:41, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Why was this link removed?
Hello, we added a great link to the following page: Obatala

The link was for Offerings to Obatala. This link was based off of the Ifa College part of the Ifa Foundation of America and very accurate information. Why was it removed?

A link to a page covered in Google PPC ads and full of broken images not to mention incorrect information is a better link?

http: //www. angelfire.com/fl3/OBATALA/index.html

Or one page off of a bed and breakfast website?

http: //bbparkslope.com —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 76.109.51.222 (talk) 03:32, 7 May 2007 (UTC).


 * The link someone added was to a discussion forum. Per WP:NOT (WP:NOT) and WP:EL, links to discussion forums are not acceptable as sources or external links. You are right about one of the other links, I removed the ad-driven angelfire link. Haven't seen a b&b one there, if you do, please delete. Thank you. --Qyd 04:02, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply about the link
I was the one who added it. Didn't know that links to forums were not allowed. Sorry about that. Question....we have a couple of different sites that have ALOT of great information on Ifa. We'd like to start contributing it to Wiki. Some of this content is on the ifacollege.com site, which is technically a forum as well. As long as the link to the content as an external source for more information goes to a page on that site that is not a forum link, is this acceptable?

Thanks —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.196.109.174 (talk) 22:40, 7 May 2007 (UTC).


 * Yes, it probably is. However, the best way to add it is contrbuting to the article with information, and referencing it with external links, see WP:CITE. Please consider third party sources and hard sources (books) too, as WP:COI might become an issue. You might also consider registering, see WP:WHY. --Qyd 22:49, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Location of British Columbia provincial and national parks
Dear Qyd,

your map showing the BC provincial and national parks is just what I have been looking for. However, is it available in a GIS format (i.e. ArcGIS shapefile or MapInfo table).

The reason for the request is that we are planning to emigrate to Canada and would like to know where the parks are.

If possible, please email chrisbarrett@explore7.fsnet.co.uk

Thanks, CB —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.157.48.109 (talk) 13:10, 11 May 2007 (UTC).
 * Go to BC Government Map place. BC parks data is "parks_bc_dd.zip" (the standard projection, don't download the BC Albers projection). --Qyd 13:56, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Brilliant
Thank you very much for pointing me to the provincial parks dataset. Much appreciated.

CB. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.157.48.109 (talk) 14:06, 11 May 2007 (UTC).

Orphaned non-free image (Image:Cold Lake-logo.png)
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your stitchwork
Hi. I just noticed the stiching you did with Image:Alberta Children's Hospital 3+4.jpg,of 2 of my images. Thanks, that was a nice job. I was previously dispapointed that I couldn't get a proper wide angle picture of the full length of the building (limit of my camera). I can't even see the line you connected them (if I did it, it would be very noticable). --Rob 15:21, 19 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Fortunately, it was the software that did it, not me ;) Thanks for the extensive coverage of Calgary related topics with images, by the way. --Qyd 17:31, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
 * What software did you use (or do you know of other software that's free, that does it)? I could see doing this for a number of buildings I've tooken pictures of.  --Rob 02:39, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

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 * This is getting ridiculous: one bot modifies the licence tag, then someone comes along with the deletion process. What do you make with images uploaded by editors who are inactive? RIDICULOUS, I tell you. --Qyd 16:04, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Alberta Photos
I would particularly value your input on the photo discussion I posted on the Alberta discussion pageCszmurlo 13:29, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Oil shale
Hi. You are listed as a participant in WikiProject Geology. Maybe you to please consider helping to improve the oil shale article. This article has developed quite well, but some more expert assistance is needed. Thank you in advance. Beagel 17:31, 31 May 2007 (UTC)