User talk:Tompw

Suggested new page: Timeline of Canadian budgets
Hi Tompw,

I've used the Timeline of Canadian Elections page many times and I'm profoundly grateful. However, for economic analysis it would be even more helpful to have a timeline of Canadian budgets, at the very least from 1981, to correspond to the RBC Fiscal Tables (http://www.rbc.com/economics/economic-reports/pdf/provincial-forecasts/prov_fiscal.pdf).

Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Red456789 (talk • contribs) 21:47, 8 July 2018 (UTC)

GO Station ridership
Hello, thank you for updating several GO Station articles with 2018 ridership. I just want to point out that the ridership from your source is only from the period of April–November 2018, and not for the whole year. Would it be possible to indicate that in the station infoboxes? BLAIXX 22:20, 31 January 2019 (UTC)

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Transcluding bookshelf at smaller size
Hi Tompw! I'd love to transclude your bookshelf to Help:Introduction to navigating Wikipedia/1, but it's a bit large; is there any way to transclude it at a smaller size? &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 20:08, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

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Bookshelf viz syntax error
hey Tompw, think there's an issue with your famed bookshelf viz. Would love to buy you a beer if you're in Toronto. Let me know if I can help. cheers Spencerk (talk) 19:48, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

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Canada census template
Hi Tompw. Thanks for your efforts updating all census info. Note though that the field "2021_total_pvt_dwell" in Canada census calls for total private dwellings, not private dwellings occupied by usual residents. If you use this latter value, the data will no longer be comparable, since the different years show different data. Thanks for your diligence in this matter.  P 1 9 9  ✉ 20:04, 30 June 2022 (UTC)

Hi Tompw. Again, thanks for updating the census info. I see you started using the new parameter I added for "occupied dwellings". Just wanted to make you aware that you should not add the dollar sign ($) when adding household income. This is already done by the template. So, it is now displayed twice at all your edits. Regards, --  P 1 9 9  ✉ 14:01, 24 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Well, it's a good thing I only did ~100 in the first trance! Thankfully, AWB has a find-and-replace function that made this easy to fix. FYI, I have a long-term aim of using WikiData for this info, so that I won't have to go through all this again in five four year. There's a bunch of stuff I need to do over there before that can happen; so in the meantime I'm updating existing uses of the template. Tom pw (talk) 14:23, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes, that has been my goal as well. I fully support the linking to WD! It is so tedious and slow updating all 3500 municipalities (not to speak of higher level jurisdictions) after every census. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help with that. --  P 1 9 9  ✉ 19:03, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
 * I've figured out how to do bulk data uploads to Wikidata, but one of the intermediate steps is tagging the various Census (sub)divisions with the relevant Q-code in Wikidata. If I left a list on my userpage there, would you be willing to add those? There's ~50 CDs that need it. 19:13, 24 October 2023 (UTC) Tom pw (talk) 19:13, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

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 * Thank-you! Tom pw

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Curling at the 2022 Winter Olympics
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 * Thanks for letting me know. I see you were WP:BOLD and updated the rating. I'll start a discussion on the talk page of the article. Tom pw (talk) 15:34, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

"Polling status" of Reform UK
Hi there, Please note that the edit I put into the lede followed referenced material I added to the GE 2024 subsection. You said "fell back to 9%…" which while true in a case or two isn’t supported by a reference anywhere, and of course there are other polls without that much fall back and lead over the Conservatives. What I’m trying to say is, although maybe I’m not putting my point across very well, apologies for that, is that I don’t reckon one should just pluck figures from a table elsewhere and editorialise with them. All the best. Boscaswell  talk  07:52, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

Just stop, please,, removing from the lede the rather soft words that had been included about pollsters reporting an increase in support for Reform following Farage's resumption of the leadership. Have you looked at and absorbed the information shown on the Opinion Polling article? You’ll note that one of them, the esteemed YouGov, is now reporting a 1% deficit cf. the Cons. Redfield and Winton surveyed 10,000 people and came up with 2%. Others have a different result, that is always the way with opinion pollsters, and indeed one has a figure of the deficit cf. the Tories of double figures. But look at the graph! The polling line for Reform shoots up. So it is clear that the words which you deleted and said were now countered are clearly correct, notable, and current. Just stop, please, your edit warring. I’m going to edit in something similar and trust you to the decent thing and leave the new words as they are. All the best. Boscaswell  talk  20:45, 11 June 2024 (UTC)