User talk:Radagast/Archive 1

Hello Radagast, I just replied to you on Talk:Jane Jacobs but since you didn't sign your post, I thought you were an anon user. Anyway, welcome to Wikipedia. You can sign posts on talk pages by entering four tildes ; the system automatically inserts your username with a datestamp.

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If you have any questions, see Help, post a question to the Village pump, or leave a message on my Talk page. If you are interested in Jane Jacobs, that article needs a lot of work... In any case, enjoy your time here, -- Viajero 17:43, 7 Jan 2004 (UTC)

-- Census division is the correct term, see [www.statscan.ca] and you will see what I mean. Kitchener-Waterloo, Ottawa, Oxford, Algoma are all considered Census Divisions. It's the correct term, and they are not misleading. Perhaps a little explanation seems fit, to fix anything misleading. Earl Andrew 16:25, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I think using the word municipalities is misleading, as I consider a municipality to be what Stats Can defines as a "Census subdivision" (cities, towns, villages, towsnhips, etc) If you must change it, do not use the word municipality at all. I'm really trying to think of a better term to use other than census division, but I really can't come up with one. Political region? I like the way things are now, with the explanation you've provided by the way. This website has proved to be very useful on this subject, please take a look http://www.statoids.com/yca.html Earl Andrew 01:11, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Superfluous "hotel" on Current events -- well spotted! –Hajor 20:24, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Hey, your line maps adapted from my Toronto subway map look really good. I see you haven't done the YUS or SRT ones yet; I'm gonna be putting up my original .psd file at some point, which may make those easier for you. - Montr&eacute;alais 21:27, 3 May 2004 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for providing a complete description of St. Clair Avenue, Toronto. I spent part of my childhood at St. Clair E. and Kennedy Road, and still forgot the eastern section. It's too many years living in west Toronto. TronTonian 23:02, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)

St. Clair West Station
Thanks for the tip about not listing bus routes at each TTC station. Thanks also for the thanks. And now I'm going to check if there's a link to St. Mike's. PBrain 00:32, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Ottawa transitway
If you mention the downtown jumble on mixed trafic streets as a problem you might also mention the problem of lack of a coordination in the national capital region between the Ontario side with its 750,000 plus user base and the Quebec side with tits 250,000 plus user base. And the fact that they both cross over meet in a their respective downtowns in a monster jumble of red buses and blue buses, caught in between the cars of the rush hour trafic. The transitways could be such a marvelous thing, if only there could be a downtown underground bus tunnel like in Seattle. By the way, the same rail line used by the O-train not only crosses the river, as you mention, but once across it goes on for 20-30 km right along a truly central corridor with incredible potential. AlainV 02:54, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Also on the note of the transitway, If you check the page to the Lycée Claudel Transitway Station, this is what I would like to see each station page look like. It's the only one I have made so far, but I plan on taking photos of each stop for wikipedia in the near future. There should be enough information to warrant a page. There's a page for subway stations on many metro pages here at wikipedia, so why not? Earl Andrew 17:40, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Before you last edited the CBC article, the logo images were already stacked. Your edit makes the logo captions not look right. Denelson83 02:44, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Historic counties of Ontario
Thanks...you're entirely right about Regional Municipality of Sudbury. I knew it didn't seem right to add it the way I did, but I couldn't think of a better way to include it. (A separate article on Historic Regional Municipalities of Ontario that weren't previously counties just seemed like splitting hairs, you know? *grin*) But out of the existing categories, Historic counties is about the only place it can go, so I think you hit on the right solution. Good job. Bearcat 21:43, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Canawikipedian coffeeklatsch
Just discovered there's a Canadian wikipedians' notice board. Spread the word. Bearcat 03:04, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Wikinews demo up and running
Hi!

I'm writing to let you know that the Wikimedia Board of Trustees has approved the first stage of the Wikinews project. There's now a fully operational English demo site at demo.wikinews.org. This will be used for experimenting with various review models and basic policies before the site is launched officially in about a week. demo.wikinews.org will become the English version later. You voted for the Wikinews project, so I'm asking for your participation now. Everything is open, nothing is final. What Wikinews will and can be depends in large part on you. There already is a global Wikinews mailing list for discussing the project. If you are interested at all, please subscribe -- coordination is of key importance. There's also an IRC channel #wikinews on irc.freenode.net. Realtime discussion can help to polish up articles. If you're looking for something to do, check out the articles in development and articles in review. Or start a new story in the Wikinews workspace, or ignore the proposed review system - it's up to you. I hope you'll join us soon in this exciting experiment.--Eloquence* 01:58, Nov 17, 2004 (UTC)

Wikifun round 4
Hi, I noticed that you competed in a previous round, so I just wanted to tell you that Round 4 of the Wikifun trivia quiz is now running... -- Eugene van der Pijll 22:36, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Re: Maps
Thanks! I actually hope to do a bunch of other maps, such as for the expressways in Ontario and the entire provincial highway network. I started work last night, but with the state of the highway network since downloading, it's hard to figure out where some roads end and where others begin. I'll keep working on them, though. Take Care. Snickerdo 21:15, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)

nice addition ...
... on "Christmas".Sfahey 03:27, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Collaboration of the week
Congratulations, the candidate you voted for, Underground Railroad, is this week's Collaboration of the Week. Please help edit the article to bring it up to feature standard.

and thanks for vote on ...
"Niagara Falls". Gosh, I forgot that I had stopped by this page just last week! Perhaps I'd remember better if I kept my stress meter as low as yours. Sfahey 22:10, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Toronto Subway
Thank you for your thoughtful reply to my work with the Toronto Subway page. In all honesty, I am mostly just following what I have noticed to be the trend on Wikipedia for all well-formed subway articles (Reference MTR, KCRC, Montreal Metro, and the 6 line). I think that it generally looks clunky to have information not be parcelled out. There is actually quite a lot of information there, and I have so far come across three stubs. I think it makes it easier to cross-reference within information to have it seperated out by station so that when individual stations are referenced in the Wikis for other stations, a user can go directly to that station for further infornation. I will post this to the Canadian Wikipedia users board, but I am also going to continue with my work so that the finished product can be presented.Páll 01:23, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Contact with formerly anonymous user Anderskin
Radagast --

Thanks for your kind words.

I was raised in Hamilton and took various bicycle camping rides around the Niagara Peninsula, Grand River Valley and Lake Simcoe. One of my most incongruous experiences was sitting on my bike at a traffic light in Wilmot beside a horse and buggy and transport truck.

You seem like an interesting person. Feel free to drop me a line.

-- Anderskin 17:28, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC) (now a registered Wikipedia user)

Hello
I was going to take a picture of a GRT bus but I found you had already beaten me to it! Anyway, just thought I'd say hi. Nice to see someone else in Kitchener on Wikipedia. CryptoDerk 20:22, Jan 21, 2005 (UTC)

spoilers
Please try to avoid spoilers (even in edit summaries). I prefer to be blissfully unaware that anything changes from season to season, until I watch it. I'm going to revert, until any change is confirmed in show. -- Netoholic @ 04:23, 2005 Mar 2 (UTC)

Talk:Benjamin Mountfort
Thanks for your kind words, regarding the images when I started to write the page I would have agreed with you, I only used the Victorian black and white photographs as they were the only ones I could find out of copyright. Having now stared at them for the three weeks or so I was writing the page, I now think they add a certain nostalgia and originality to the page, they also have a certain clean clarity that new ones  may not have, especially as many of the buildings are now in heavily developed areas. However I suppose Wikipedia is a modern encyclopedia, and mine is not a very encyclopedic view, and colour would brighten the page up, but in the meantime I quite like the old ones. Regards Giano 15:25, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Curious
Hello, I created the tactile feature page and I noticed that you made an edit called "copyedit and wikiage. I'm curious as to what that means?

--- Thanks. It was more of a confusion regarding the words. I didn't know that wikiage means creating links (I though it was to wikify) but I understand the principal. I initially though that copyedit meant something about the copyright for the little illustration I made but apparently it is a general term for improving the grammer and sentence structure. That's quite usefull because I have been saying "fixed grammer" in my edit summaries but it is good to know there is a specific word for it. Martin-C 20:41, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)

Circumnavigation in AR7
I don't know if the race not "travelling around the world" is a legit criticism. Circumnavigation in the Race is more of a tradition than requisite for the race. Besidesm, a lot of ppl were complaining that teams never visited England long enough, and they finally spent an entire leg in London. --Madchester 15:17, 2005 May 11 (UTC)
 * "Race around the world" is just a figure of speech... like when i say "let's go around the block", I'm not really making a circle around a city block. There's room for interpretation either way.  Besides, only Seasons 1 and 6 actually circumnavigated... all the other races didn't even finish at their starting cities.  Hell, Season 3 started in Miami and ended in Seattle.... they didn't even finish on the same coast.
 * Logistically, the producers only had 2 months to plan for the entire race. With the time they had, they did a good job of planning the race. --Madchester 17:40, 2005 May 11 (UTC)

OC Transpo photo
Thanks, but my goal was to brighten the front of the bus, and it's now dark again. :-p -- Earl Andrew - talk 23:35, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Yeah yeah, I'll get a new one ;-) -- [[Image:Flag of Canada.svg|20px]] Earl Andrew - talk 00:32, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Slitheen

 * I don't recall that - I'll look over the episode again when I have the time, and if it turns out she said that I'll change it back. --khaosworks 03:03, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)


 * Right. Anyway, the way the article is written now makes the name of the species implicit. --khaosworks 02:38, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

Wikifun Round 9
Is now open to play. See WP:WF. -- AllyUnion (talk) 11:01, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Isaac Brock FAC
Hi! Just wanted to thank you for supporting the article. I thought I knew all about him too, but I learned a lot while doing the research. If you have any ideas on improving the page, go right ahead, or let me know or whatever. I'll probably see you around the Canadian end of Wikipedia. Best Wishes! --Scimitar 22:03, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Image:Cdn_nickel.jpg
(I uploaded a better one: Image:Cdn-nickel-reverse.jpg --Robojames 14:28, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC))

STS-114
Canaveral, Kennedy.... Oops; I'm showing my age :-) Thanks for the edit.  Tonywalton 13:41, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Photos
Keep up the good work, Radagast. Enjoy your stay in my fair town :) -- Earl Andrew - talk 03:31, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, I hope you had a good time, all the same. I couldn't imagine what fun you could be doing though ;-) -- Earl Andrew - talk 03:40, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
 * P.S., I am asking on behalf of User:Spinboy here, (who maintains a Transitway website that I help him with) if we could use some of your transitway photos on our site? -- Earl Andrew - talk 03:45, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

Smokey Smith
Hi,

I think its great that you added the tag on the portrait image of Smokey Smith However, if you take a look at Canadian order of precedence (Decorations and Medals) (a page a began recently which does admitedly need a lot of work) you will see that the Canadian Forces Decoration is actually third from left and the gold medal rightmost is actually the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal, a commemorative medal which was issued in 2002 to all recipients of the Order of Canada and the Canadian Bravery Decorations. I belive the last 5 medals in the picture are the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal, Canadian Confederation Medal, Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal, 125th Aniversary of Confederation Medal, and the Golden Jubilee Medal.

I think one of the medals in the middle is probably a korean cervice medal but I dont know which.

Dowew 17:45, 13 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I have taken another look at it and your right, it was the CD. Obviously Smokey hadn't mounted the Golden Jubilee Medal at the time of the photo. Dowew 17:47, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

Birthday
--User:Jenmoa 00:22, 17 August 2005 (UTC)