User talk:The Canadian Roadgeek/Archive 14

Below is an archive of messages for The Canadian Roadgeek between October 2007 to April 2009. Please do not modify any content below. If you want to reply or bring up a particular subject again, use the current talk page menu.

=Compliments=

Say NO To Free Use
Fantastic User Page. How did you get the banner thing on the bottom fight of the page?

Munchman —Preceding signed but undated comment was added at 09:45, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Happy Birthday
Happy birthday! – i123Pie biocontribs16:21, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Happy Birthday
Idontknow 610 TM 19:09, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Layout
I have randomly clicked on users and saw that your user page looks amazing! Seriously, I tried to make mine look better for hours but its still a mess of just color. I love how you put the pix and then graphics and all those things. Can you teach me how to make mine looks nice? Thanks. PLEASE REPLY! =) ♥, calliegal_x (talk) 02:30, 15 April 2008 (UTC)Calliegal

MOTD Barnstar
=Complaints=

York Regional Road 3 / Kennedy Road
Exactly why is there "no need of merging"? When it's the same road, it does not get a separate Wikipedia article just because it crosses a municipal boundary; one article is to cover the entire length of the road through all municipalities that it crosses. You really have to stop making up your own special rules for York Region. Bearcat (talk) 01:46, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I wasn't aware that Bearcat had left this message - I already restored the merge tag, and explained on the talk page why these two articles should be merged. If you have valid reasons why they should not be, please leave comments on the Kennedy Road talk page. Thank you. Mind  matrix  22:51, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Queensway
(I hope this is the right place to put my comment.) I'm not sure the road shield signs on disambiguation pages such as Queenswayserve any useful purpose, and in fact, make the lists look rather messy. What do you say? enochlau (talk) 23:11, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

=Comments=

Hi
Thanks for working on my page. Do you have anything else?? Dustihowe (talk) 18:17, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Hi Nick, I have been very sick all this week. i'm not sure you realize how sick. But I spent some time here looking at another facet of who you are. your pictures have brought me comfort and serenity and calmed me while I have been so ill. Thank you, Nicholas, your friend, Bruce, (Yodawx)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by68.37.201.250 (talk) 18:26, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Help?
Have you considered my request?

Dustihowe 16:12, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Feel free
You have my permission to do whatever you want to do to my page, feel free to add, expand, whatever.....make it look awesome if you can, i have faith Dustihowe 16:19, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Awesome
Have I bothered to tell you how awesome you are? You have no clue as to how appreciative I am with you assisting me on this. Thank you so much!!!! Dustihowe 16:09, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

My Page
Thanks for working on my page. Do you have anything else that you are considering doing to it?

Dustihowe 17:04, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

In Remembrance...
--nat Alo! Sunt eu, un haiduc?!?! 17:11, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Your Fair Use Stuff!
Hi

I was just looking around at user pages, and I saw your "Say no to Fair Use" Sign at the Bottom Right Corner. I am in full support of that idea, and I would like to add that to my user page as well. If you could show me how you did it, I would be really thankful. Phoenix741 (Talk Page)  20:28, 25 November 2007 (UTC)


 * I hope you don't mind but I found the code for that fair-use thing my self, and I am going to add it to my user page. If you don't want it on their, then remove it from my page or just tell me and I will remove it ASAP. Again, that is one of the coolest things I have seen. Phoenix741 (Talk Page)  23:30, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Arviat, Nunavut
Hi, just wanted to ask about this edit. I was curious where you got the urban area population figure from as I couldn't find anything in thecensus except for 1,785 being the "Number of owned dwellings" in Nunavut. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather(Talk) 00:59, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Hello
Its been awhile since we have talked. How do you like my userpage? Happy Editing,  D u s t i talk 18:12, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Urban area
Thanks. That is really odd. Following on from your link I found urban arears and census subdivisions for Nunavut. Looking at Cambridge Bay, Nunavut makes me wonder where the UA is and who is not included. Probably some of the newer "subdivisions". In a way it's quite funny. The population for here is 1,477 and the area is 202.2 km² giving a density of 7.3/km². The UA information says we have a population of 1,147 with an arear of 0.49 km² giving a density of 2,341/km². CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla19:33, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Layout of Your Userpage
I have randomly clicked on users and saw that your user page looks amazing! Seriously, I tried to make mine look better for hours but its still a mess of just color. I love how you put the pix and then graphics and all those things. Can you teach me how to make mine looks nice? Thanks. ♥, calliegal_x (talk) 01:57, 15 April 2008 (UTC)Calliegal

All your beautiful pictures
Hello Nicholas, I'm not sure you realize how sick I have been since Friday but, I have spent some time here looking at your pictures and reading about your road trips. I'm so surprised you never talk about them to me. I would be fascinated. This is just one more facet of who you are and it is very interesting to me. Looking at your beautiful pictures here have calmed me and comforted me during these many hours of sickness. Thank you, my friend. I will always be your friend too. Bruce, (Yodawx) —Preceding unsigned comment added by68.37.201.250 (talk) 18:36, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

History of Richmond Hill, Ontario
Thanks, by-the-by, I'd been meaning to do that. Wily D 23:49, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Enterprise Drive
An article that you have been involved in editing, Enterprise Drive, has been listed fordeletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Articles for deletion/Enterprise Drive. Thank you. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? Mind matrix  16:36, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Moving to Canada
Hi All,

I am thinking I might retire to Canada. I currently live in the USA. I would love to hear some pros & cons from Canadians. Thanks, Patrice —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.214.175.217(talk) 15:42, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Might take a look
Hello. Just wondering if you would mind taking a look at a collaborative effort I'm trying to start. Any feedback or ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! DxNate, 29July 2024 User-Talk-Contribs

WikiProject TVB
I would love to, but we'll have to get members before we can start it up. There are certainly enough articles to be assessed.--Shaggy9872004 (talk) 21:42, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

=Requests=

I hate to bother you but i need some help with my talk page. I am untilizing the stoplight image to be red if i am offline and green if i am online. I am somewhat new to Wikipedia and i want a message box that i can utilize to say I am unavaliable if i am offline and I am Avaliable if i am online. Can you help me? Thank You !!!

Dustihowe 16:52, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

List of Municipalities in the Golden Horseshoe
I'm working on re-writing the article (Here and Here) and saw your note on the page. If you have any suggestion on how the article can be improved or if there is anything I have gotten wrong, please let me know. vıdıoman (talk •contribs) 12:39, 17 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Sandbox2 was actually a guide I made to help with figuring out the population and area of both rings, and will be incorporated eventually. It isn't separate editions, it's two parts of the same article, separated for easy management for the time being. ;) The template idea doesn't sound bad though, so the data is there for whatever you want to do with it.

I also want to change the chart format. Personally, I don't think having things like what roads are located in the community is necessary, it's a big excessive for a list, and the combination of charts and images really screws up the articles appearance (at least with a 1024x768 resolution). We have to take that into mind when editing. Not everyone has a wide screen monitor. vıdıoman (talk •contribs) 13:58, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

I did something thinking about the List of Municipalities in the Golden Horseshoe and have a few more ideas. 1: The infobox should be moved to Golden Horseshoe. This is List of Communities in the Golden Horseshoe (I almost wrote Horsehose) so it doesn't really need an infobox (See List of cities on the Great Lakes, which I also re-wrote.) That brings me to my second point: This is a list, not a gallery of mottos and transportation infrastructure and some delightful random trivia. Lists should be, imo, to the point. The sorting system can be maintained (It's rather nifty if it isn't stretched as tall as it is). Density and population is really more suited for a Demographics of the Golden Horseshoe, but that article does not yet exist. Images and maps can stay, we can also add infoboxes for the Upper Tier municipalities under their subsection, removing the need for that small section above the charts and streamlining the article. Flags can be put beside names using the flagicon template if applicable, like so:

Toronto ... (information to follow)

vıdıoman (talk •contribs) 18:35, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

See: List of municipalities in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania; I found it when requesting a peer review, and think it's a pretty good model. I might try this, instead. vıdıoman (talk • contribs) 16:37, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Highway 53 shield
I'm updating highway shields for provincially-controlled highways, and i saw that you uploaded a shield of Highway 53... I have one that is nearly identical in font and appearance to the provincial shields, particularly in size of letterings...would you mind if i replaced it with one that i've made? RingtailedFox • Talk • Stalk 23:30, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

The fonts i used are:

Two Digits: Roadgeek 2005 Series C: Centered, 176pt, and for the "ONTARIO" text, i used Roadgeek 2005 Series C: Centered, 19pt. I have used several other font combos for the other shields, such as ones with suffixes, or three-digit numbers... RingtailedFox • Talk •Stalk 22:14, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Films coordinator elections
The WikiProject Films coordinator selection process is starting. We are aiming to elect five coordinators to serve for the next six months; if you are interested in running, please sign up here by March 28! Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 09:21, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi
In your guestbook, you said if anyone gets Jimbo Wales to sign your guestbook, you will give them a special prize. If you check, he has signed. If you also check on his talk page, I asked him. SimsFan Talk to Me • Sign Here and Get a Thank You Award09:52, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

HI
I'm assuming your young(ish). I'm in seventh grade. I was wondering if there was, at one point, a wikipedia youth thingy. I think there was at one point but it was inactive. I was asking if you wanted to help get it together again. If yes, then tell me and direct your younger wiki friends to my talk page. Thanks.

P. S. Sorry if I wrote this in the wrong place. Me  what do u want?  Your Hancock Please  21:52, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

If you have IRC, look up wikiyouth. Me  what do u want?  Your Hancock Please  15:34, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

TTC Infoboxes
Hey,

The reason I changed the infoboxes (as I mentioned in my discussion post on the OTHER infobox) were basically twofold:

I saw no general difference in the information the two boxes were displaying (as evidenced when I changed the boxes and basically did not need to leave out any of the information except perhaps the number of platforms, which I think is a relatively unimportant and arbirary item for TTC stations which, unlike train stations, generally have one platform for each line - I noted that Sheppard said "6" which I'm not sure how the number was arrived at)

The reason I edited those three articles was because 3 out of the dozens of stations used it and I was going for uniformity. The fact that yours was titled "infobox TTC" and the other "infobox TTC station" led me to the incorrect assumption that the other infobox was perhaps newer, so I was going for uniformity. I noticed that the three articles with your template lacked wikilinks for things like the subway line, so I also assumed those pages were older and hadn't been updated.

The other issue was that when I went to the Sheppard article, I felt like the infobox was extremely large. It was only after going to another article that I noticed it was not as large. The font used in your infobox is much larger than the other, which results in a far longer box.(though I do appreciate the narrower design, it just causes more word wrapping - especially with the large font) I already think the old box is too big, so making it even bigger is not a great thing. The second reason, was therefore aesthetic.

I noted that there was no information in the new infobox's documentation or discussion page that suggested the goal of a new improve infobox. To be honest, I would have thought you'd at least first bring up the issue on the old infobox's discussion page before going through the effort of creating a whole new infobox system. It would avoid issues like this.

In the meantime, if you'd like to revert my change, I'm fine with that - as I said on the old infobox's talk page; I couldn't see a reason those three were singled out as different.

I personally can't see why updates to improve the old template would be frowned upon. I'd be interested to hear what improvements the new template has over the old one, and be willing to assist developing them.

I noted that you added additional fields like "line 2" instead of just having an HTML break between two different lines. Things like that can be implimented in the old design without any disruption to existing articles using the template; but I don't think it's necessary though. using an HTML break is quite simple and prevents us from having to keep adding fields if there is ever a station with three or four lines. Same with next/previous station. "next" and "previous" are pretty arbitrary in a system with no beginning and end. And when there are multiple lines, it just gets confusing to me.

I think the best route is to start a discussion on the old infobox's talk page and bring up point by point all the things you think are missing or bad about the old design and how to improve them. Then people can get discussion going on the issue and work to improve the current design for all articles, instead of working one by one; and there won't be revert wars.

Write me back if you have any questions. TheHYPO (talk) 22:45, 27 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Hold On! I can help. What you have created for Viva and TTC are really floating tables that behave erratically and which do not nest and dock with other boxes and images like the existing properly defined versions. You have changed just one or two random articles - you MUST change them all. You must be willing to add this extra information, that you think is so essential, to all articles. Not much new information is created by what you have done. What you should do is create a version in its own sandbox(call it Viva or something) using the same infobox definition and named parameters as the existing infobox, plus your new fields. Experiment there with your additions until things are exactly the way you want them and only then you can replace the existing infobox. Every station would be converted at once - but still retain the existing information. There is no need to make a separate version for Vintage Vivastations as the standard infobox can be amended by the use of a parameter, which would also allow you to show terminals differently (type=vintage or type=terminal, with the default being a regular display). You can't do everything at once, so leave the TTC alone and we can concentrate on Viva. -Secondarywaltz (talk) 13:33, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

You have now asked me why I reverted one of your new TTC infoboxes. Please read the comments above. Can you not see the problems you are causing in some of the Vivastation articles? -Secondarywaltz (talk) 22:49, 28 May 2008 (UTC)


 * My bad. My request at this point would to goto template:infobox TTC and make a bulleted list of either things you think need changing, and changes you think would improve the infobox. From there, we can get feedback (if anyone cares) re: changing the infobox, and at least you and I can discuss the pros and cons of each and the best way to fix it, and then go ahead and do it. Unlike, say "infobox album" for music albums, this infobox is in very limited use... something like a few dozen pages mostly in the same format (TTC subway stations). I think it should be very simple to update without breaking any pages. And if there's anything in your list that would be hard to impliment, we can look at working on a seperate and new infobox as you did. I personally thing improving the current is far easier (changes will occur instantly without having to change any code). Drop me a line when you post there, so I don't miss the post and I'll respond to it :) TheHYPO (talk) 04:20, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Image:Yonge_Street_Toronto.JPG
I noticed you uploaded this image in the raster format JPEG, when optimally it should be in the vector format SVG, or at least the raster format PNG. If you would kindly, re-upload your image in PNG, or better yet, SVG (as to not have compression details), I think we'd all appreciate it. Thanks. Cavenba (talk •contribs) 06:20, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Help needed with signature
Hello. Would you please help me getting a new signature? I want my new one to look like that: PHARAOHThe Great but i fo not know how to do it. Thanx in advance. --One last pharaoh (talk) 00:30, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

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