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John Vanthof
Greetings, fellow rabblerouser! (asterix here). Just wanted to call your attention to a recent edit you made to John Vanthof, adding a reference to The Temiskaming Speaker to support his age: the problem with the Speaker is that their URLs don't remain in place as permanent links to articles, but instead, each week the old article disappears and the URL becomes a link to an article in the new issue — so when I clicked on that link today, instead of an article about John Vanthof I was taken to one about a guy named Des Hemingway who's a community volunteer in Haileybury.

Generally speaking, it's actually far more important to provide the title, publication and date of a reference article than it is the web URL. A plain URL that gets taken down or changed becomes a lost reference that we have to remove from the article again, whereas if we'd had the full data (i.e. "Article about John Vanthof". Temiskaming Speaker, October 12, 2011.) then we'd still have a valid and functioning reference even after stripping the URL. So we should always provide all the available citation data instead of just the web URL alone. Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 17:43, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

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Fixed. Wilfred Day (talk) 14:39, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

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Fixed. Wilfred Day (talk) 14:39, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Libertarians? - Ontario election
I have started a discussion about the Libertarians in the candidate section of the Ontario election article, I thought you might want to join in. Me-123567-Me (talk) 04:41, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

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Fixed, I hope.Wilfred Day (talk) 03:19, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

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Copyright (again)
Hello Wilfred. Thanks for your recent additions to Danish election articles, but you appear to have copied and pasted the text directly from the source. This is a clear copyright violation and not allowed on Wikipedia. This has already been pointed out to you previously, so it is concerning that you are still doing this.

Also, when adding references, the reference tag should go after the punctuation (full stops or commas), and it's not considered good practice to leave a bare url. Number  5  7  22:56, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Sorry, I understand the copyright issue but I had forgotten the previous warning. Thank you for fixing my edits. Yes, I do know it's not considered good practice to leave a bare url, but I didn't take the time to do it neatly. (By the way, I finished fixing the edit to the April 1920 election to correct this point.) Wilfred Day (talk) 04:09, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

Kamala Harris
I reverted your edit. Don't forget that in Quebec, high school only goes to Grade 11. And then you do two years of college (CEGEP) before entering a Quebec university - or one year (if you choose the right courses) if you go to an Ontario or US university. What I've scratched my head about for a long time though - is did she go to CEGEP - and if so, which one? Nfitz (talk) 04:53, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

Yes, a mystery. I know Quebec has 2 years of CEGEP, but I find no hint she ever went to one. She could have taken a gap year and edited it out of her book, but no one has unmasked it yet. Google "Kamala Harris" + 1981, and again with 1982. Zilch. Except everyone says she started Howard in 1982, why did you delete that??? Wilfred Day (talk) 05:37, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

Nor can I. If she remained in Montreal, she'd have been at one of a handful of colleges ... or possibly another year at Westmount (unusual ... but I knew a couple in my class who did that after graduating, to get the right credits). It is a mystery. It's very typical for those in Quebec, at that time, who were planning to go to University in Ontario or the USA, to only do one year of Cegep. I hadn't meant to delete anything else - I'll check the edit. Gosh, if I can find it ... lots of activity. Nfitz (talk) 21:35, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

The 1982 date for Howard is back in. As for where she went after 1981, my guess would be Dawson College, that was where most anglophones went at that time. But google finds nothing. Wilfred Day (talk) 02:45, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

Dawson is one candidate, and the old Selby campus would have been not too far away. But (at the time at least), Dawson was the college of last choice - you ended up there because you couldn't get in anywhere else. (which is indeed a possibility if her French was weak). The brighter kids tended to end up at Vanier - most likely the old Snowdon campus - which was walking distance from her elementary school. But also nearby is Marianopolis College, which was by far the best one around, but tough to get into. Others meanwhile ended up further afield. I am mystified! Nfitz (talk) 17:42, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

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