Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Saskatchewan/Archive 1

WikiProject Saskatchewan/List of Saskatchewan-related topics
Hello. I'm writing to inform the members of this project that I have moved the article List of Saskatchewan-related topics to WikiProject Saskatchewan/List of Saskatchewan-related topics per discussion here. -- Black Falcon (Talk) 21:04, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

As a person with the userbox
id love to help with regina area articles.

and i have a request for a userbox regarding "loves the riders but wont live to see them win a championship"


 * P

looking forward to work with all of you!

SniperSarge 22:40, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
 * How about:

Does that look any good? Just edit the page and copy the wikicode if you like it. (there's also a userbox at User:Royalguard11/userboxes/riderfan) -Royalguard11 (Talk·Review Me!) 22:52, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Spot On! thanks SniperSarge 00:58, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Louis Riel
The article right now just has the standard bio infobox, but I'm pretty sure there's something more specific that we could use (there's like a hundred persons infoboxes). If anyone can find a more specific one, that would be great (it must have been featured a while ago, before infoboxes were a definite requirement for passing). -Royalguard11 (Talk·Review Me!) 03:43, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Idea
Hi, I am not a very active Wikipedian, but I try to make a contribution when I can. I was wondering if there would be interest in some of the Saskatchewan Wpians getting together some time in the near future. I suggest the Craik Eco-Centre at noon for lunch on Saturday, June 23. Delzen 22:36, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Sounds great. We can even arrange a Wikimeetup. --Victor D PARLE 06:44, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Great initiative Delzen, see the meetup schedule prepared by him : Meetup/Saskatchewan 1. --Victor D PARLE 19:13, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Delzen 20:41, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Compromise Regina Neighbourhoods
I have posted a compromise to the issues in the Talk:Regina Neighbourhoods. It is my hope that this will lead to a solution over the disputed figures and edits. I also hope that this will eliminate future accusations as to my identity and/or relation to other banned users. I would appreciate that you read over the compromise and comment on it. I just want to find a solution, that will satisfy all parties.--207.81.56.49 07:28, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Sedley, Saskatchewan
You may be interested to know the above article is up for deletion - see Articles for deletion/Sedley, Saskatchewan. Cheers, Mattinbgn/talk 10:20, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Posted to Canadian Wikipedians' notice board. -Royalguard11 (Talk·Review Me!) 23:25, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

2 things (geminis and a userbox regarding)
according to cjme, regina is getting the geminis.


 * 1) 1 - an article would be nice; ill help with it
 * 2) 2 - a userbox perhaps?

SniperSarge 16:33, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

sorry forgot to sign

Request for Comment: 207.81.56.49
I apologise for the long-winded message, but I ask fellow editors to look closely at this request. Please comment on the the following Anonymous IP:



This anon. IP has been trying to re-insert misrepresentative and non-relevant statistics into the North-central section of the article Regina neighbourhoods. There was also quite a hullabaloo a couple of months back over the same statistics that was perpetrated by the editor Mayor Quimby and his or her anon. IP sockpuppets:



Mayor Quimby and socks engaged in unprecedented edit-warring, personal attacks, vandalism, and just plain hostility and ill-will. The disturbances caused by Mayor Quimby ended when the troll was indefinitely blocked from Wikipedia for making legal threats against Ryulong and others who got caught up in the disruptions.

If one looks at the edit history and diffs of the articles Regina neighbourhoods and Pat Fiacco one can see where the recent trouble begins with the anon. IP. 207.81.56.49. I ask editors to also look closely at the pattern of edits and the personal attack messages related to North-central Regina and the very same statistics that were deposited by Mayor Quimby and series of other anon. IPs that originated from Saskatoon several months ago. The same stuff can be found in the diffs of Regina, Saskatchewan. Now, please note that the recent disruptions caused by 207.81.56.49 come from Victoria, B.C.! I think that there is a connection between the incidents from a couple of months back and most recently. Simply put, based on the great similarities between edits and the single-minded attention to a personal crusade to 'expose' North-central Regina, I propose that 207.81.56.49 is actually Mayor Quimby and has moved, temporarily or otherwise, from Saskatoon to Victoria, B.C.

The anon. IP has been blocked for 24 hours, but this block is almost up. The anon. IP will be back very soon. I had some correspondence with which this anon. IP took offence, but since I have some experience with the user I would ask editors to not needlessly provoke as the anon IP appears to carry a grudge (please check the vandalism in the history and diffs on my talk page!). Please also note that I and other editors honestly attempted to debate collegially with and entreat Mayor Quimby and his/her sockpuppets on a number of article edit-related issues a few months back (see Talk:Regina neighbourhoods, Talk:Regina, Saskatchewan). In response we were met with nothing but the exact same hostility, malfeasance, and illogical reasoning as from 207.81.56.49! I ask all concerned editors to specifically comment on the following:

1) Based on the same patterns of edit warring etc named above, do you agree with my hypothesis that 207.81.56.49 may in fact be Mayor Quimby?

2) This occurs on multiple articles. Besides this, what can we do, if anything, to prevent such abusive behaviour and malfeasance? For example, is there enough evidence to report the Anon. IP as a sockpuppet of Mayor Quimby?

Please respond on this talk page. Thank you. Mumun 無文 15:29, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Comments regarding 207.81.56.49

 * I think it's possible, but it is difficult to say at this point given how little editing has been done. --Kmsiever 02:47, 26 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Isn't that a little presumptive and circumstantial. Are you attempting to silence any and all discussion that is counter to your POV ?--207.81.56.49 03:49, 26 May 2007 (UTC)


 * UPDATE: This issue was discussed by administrators on WP:AN/I over the weekend. Two administrators, including one with direct experience in the original disruptions, compared the edits and agreed with the hypothesis that I present above. Mumun 無文 11:54, 28 May 2007 (UTC)


 * UPDATE 2: The above user confirmed as a sockpuppet of Mayor Quimby. Here is the investigation result. The Mayor was notified that s/he was indef. blocked as Mayor Quimby and is thus not permitted to edit Wikipedia under any user name or IP address (see here). Mumun 無文 16:42, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Suggestions For The Wikiproject Main Page
I have a thought that we could feature and article on the main page of the Wikiproject. Also, I am thought to have a news section as well. Just some ideas. Mr. C.C. 05:34, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Add article to project
I'm adding a WikiProject:Saskatchewan tag to the article on the Saskatoon Youth Orchestra. I'm not sure if I'm doing it right or if I even have the authority to do it, so if anyone can give guidance I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks! JoeyETS 15:44, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

Simpson, Saskatchewan
Can someone please take a look at this article. I reverted some vandalism here, but it looks like it is still being vandalised and I'm not sure what is fact vs. fiction. I'm hoping that someone from this WP has familiarity with the area and can clean this up. --After Midnight 0001 15:57, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Added tourist attractions, history and cited sources, and statistical facts to this village article.SriMesh | talk  02:55, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Saskatchewan Archaeological Society
The subject of the article is the SAS. However, there is another unrelated section in the same article called 'Saskatchewan archaeological sites'. The SAS is an organisation composed of people interested in archaeology. 'Saskatchewan archaeological sites' is a list of sites that show evidence of the presence of humans in history and prehistory. As such these are two completely different topics. At Talk:SAS I have proposed that 'Saskatchewan archaeological sites' be spun off from the SAS article and given its own article space as a list. Please help us to find the best course of action on the article talk page. Mumun 無文 17:26, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Saskatchewan in popular culture
Saskatchewan in popular culture was WP:PRODed by someone. 132.205.44.5 00:09, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
 * It is now at WP:AFD for deletion. 132.205.44.5 19:05, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Naming of Government Departments MoS?
Naming conventions discussion started here. Thank you. SriMesh | talk  02:04, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Added conversation also to Canadian Wikiproject Notice Board Style GuideSriMesh | talk  16:19, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Saskatchewan Ministries
Along the same lines as above for the Government of Saskatchewan. Created Ministry of Highways and Infrastructure (Saskatchewan), Category:Saskatchewan government ministries and agencies, Template:Infobox Saskatchewan government ministries and Template:SaskMinistries. Again, as per RoyalGuard above, create a few articles about the various Government Departments and agencies (now labelled as either a ministry, agency, board, commission or crown corporation) For Crowns see above. SriMesh | talk  00:49, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Saskatchewan Crown Corporations
I decided to make a new template to link Saskatchewan's various Crowns together, and it looks like we are missing articles on about half of them. I created Crown Investments Corporation to start off because it's the government's management for all the Crowns. If anyone's got nothing to do, then they could create a few stub articles (CIC has information about all the Crowns on their website). -Royalguard11 (T·R!) 19:11, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Added a note to WikiProject Governments of Canada about adding their Gov.of CA banner to the talk pages of the provincial government.SriMesh | talk  20:13, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

MPs and MLAs standards
Here is a conversation in regards to standardization of MLAs and MPs. SriMesh | talk  01:51, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Newsletter Delivery
Placed the delivery of the newsletter in the hands of ENewsBot (pending approval) (approved)... of the ones suggested at Newsletters Wikiproject CouncilSriMesh | talk  00:20, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Zack Smith
Proposed deletion of Zack Smith hockey player. SriMesh | talk  03:28, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Sandra Schmirler
I've been working on improving this article, I was wondering if anyone with interest might mind taking a look. Also, if anyone has a good free image that we could use for the page, that would be great! leafschik1967 (talk) 19:13, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Prince Albert Rural Water Utility
This article I started on the Prince Albert Rural Water Utility. It's off to a good start, but it could use some templates, article boxes, and categorization. Thanks! Mr. C.C. (talk) 18:55, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme
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William G. Hobbs
Currently at AFD. Could use some help at least for rewording the text, which is not exactly the most neutral thing, and lcating some sources. Circeus (talk) 07:18, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Saskatchewan Hosting 2010 World Junior Hockey Championships
Where would be the most appropriate place to add this infomation? It would be great piece of information to add somewhere. I found a link with some information on it. Mr. C.C. (talk) 07:00, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
 * There's already a page for the event, here: 2010 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.  I'll tag it for the Saskatchewan project when I get a chance.  leafschik1967 (talk) 14:04, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Ahh, that seems obvious. Thanks.  Mr. C.C. (talk) 17:19, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Userbox
I am new at making userboxes, so this userbox is not all that great. The name for it is too long, so just copy and paste it.

Loghead1 17:39, 23 July 2007 (UTC)


 * How's this?
 * Or this?
 * Or this?
 * Or this?
 * Or this?


 * Or this?
 * For the life of me, I can't figure out why the colors won't display properly.  TREKphiler   hit me ♠  00:08, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
 * For the life of me, I can't figure out why the colors won't display properly.  TREKphiler   hit me ♠  00:08, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
 * For the life of me, I can't figure out why the colors won't display properly.  TREKphiler   hit me ♠  00:08, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Corner Gas Userbox
Courtesy of Loghead1

Pat Fiacco needs work
The format and presentation of the article as a time-line is inappropriate for a biography article. The article contains highly POV statements. I encourage fellow editors to stop by and make changes so that the article conforms more closely to a high encyclopædic standard. Mumun 無文 14:02, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Have added infobox and succession template, as well as some sourced statements about Pat Fiacco to help with article, hope it helpsSriMesh | talk  02:17, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Newsletter
Any chance why I got your latest newsletter? Mit ch contribs 14:48, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Replied on talk page. Mit was the original editor on Sk roads and highways, which is why the newsletter was sent out.  SriMesh |  talk  01:09, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Template:Roads in Saskatchewan
Another template for deletion by the same user arguing that templates inside templates are not good. See: the discussion.JForget 19:07, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

The Bez
I just wanted to let everyone know that I've moved Delta Bessborough to that location from the awkwardly sounding and rarely used Hotel Bessborough. It looks like there was some discussion last June to put it at Hotel Bessbourough, but (as people here probably know) it's more known as the Delta Bessborough (I've never actually heard it called anything else). If anyone questions the move, now would be a good time to object. -Royalguard11 (T·R!) 22:07, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Louis Riel
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 * Preceding unsigned comment added by User:Xdamr (User Talk:Xdamr} 22 September 2007

this note added by SriMesh | talk  02:37, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Notability of highways
Editors here may be interested in this discussion. --B. Wolterding 11:06, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

The Election
The Saskatchewan general election, 2007 is now on, so as Wikipedians we need to be prudent in enforcing traditional guidlines (especially WP:NPOV, WP:RS and WP:V). It doesn't matter what side we're all on for the election, we need to all make sure that articles are accurate and especially neutral. Larger election usually have enough people looking after articles to make sure they're fair, but we're only a small group here. Especially the last week of the election there will probably be a jump in the edits based on political promises, adverts and other things. So let's make sure we don't have anything about who will probably be the next premier, cabinet, ect. Let's make sure that we've got accurate information (if you looked at Calvert lately...). So, let's make this a good first election for this wikiproject to handle. -Royalguard11 (T·R!) 03:20, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Prong horn page.
the "Pronghorn" page appears to be part of your project. It has recently received a couple of anonomyous edits equating the pronghorn to a regular antelope. Not sure who is minding the pronghorn shop---but someone with authority needs to contemplate this issueRvannatta 02:06, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Brad Wall
There's an edit war taking place on Brad Wall's article, which obviously needs to be resolved fairly quickly since he might very well become your Premier-elect about four days from now. Since you guys are likely the most knowledgeable about the issues and personalities involved (far more so than I am), could somebody from here come help me sort it out? Bearcat 17:11, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
 * One edit just looked like a revert from someone who deleted a bunch of cited criticism against Wall (and added a lot of direct-from-the-website propaganda). I'm watching it now. -Royalguard11 (T·R!) 23:42, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Project Pages
This is probably a poor title for this section, but I was just wondering if the Saskatchewan project banner gets added to notable people from Saskatchewan? Namely athletes, I've been working on a lot of local hockey players, and if I need to add it so the banner is there, I can do that. Thanks.-- Leafschik1967 (talk) 22:32, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Hello there a SK banner would be much appreciated on these pages, as biographies get rather lost then from the project, where they are notable, and can also be added to the placename pages whence they are started in their notable persons sections. I popped into Curtis Joseph which you had created, and nested the banners there, if you want to copy and paste the idea to your other talk pages.  Thank you very much for your query.SriMesh |  talk  02:12, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I'll try to figure out how to do that. Leafschik1967 (talk) 20:59, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Is there some place I can find formatting stuff like that, or is there an easy way to search for formatting items like this? I am having difficulties finding some of these things.  Thanks.  Leafschik1967 (talk) 00:34, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Added answer on the above user talk page about formatting, etc.SriMesh | talk  02:35, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Robots and Assessment
In the November newsletter the manner of assessment for Wikiproject Sk is introduced whether ratings should be done on the Canada WP banner or if ratings should be incorporated into SK, and then, perhaps a robot can be requested to assist the project with banner placements. Does anyone also have an opinion on this? SriMesh | talk  02:12, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I think a robot would be good. I noticed that most of the pages I had put the Sask banner on carried a message that said to change it to the Canada WP banner. It would be easier if someone had a bot do most of this work, as there must be 1000s of Sask WP Banners to change. Shootmaster 44 (talk) 06:38, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
 * There are two folks working on templates, and talk pages. Arctic Gnome has graciously changed the Canada template, and added a deprecated template note to the several talk pages.    Ρх₥α  is substituting the new template on all Saskatchewan category talk pages, as well as updating the new template on talk pages.  See the December newsletter which is underway.  SriMesh |  talk  02:39, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Proposed deletion: Saskatchewan Association for the Betterment of Addiction Services

 * --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 15:31, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
 * --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 15:31, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Canada Roads Restructuring
As shown at the Canada Roads Home Page, the project is beginning a complete restructuring. You are gonna be the next target. However, you have left your road articles in a complete disaster. I have gone to the trouble of expanding Saskatchewan Highway 913 to what should be a good road article. I am willing to help you guys out in doing this, but we should discuss this. I have plans for everything. Now will you agree to it?Mitch32contribs 14:08, 25 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Pasted to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Canada Roads/Saskatchewan. –Pomte 02:22, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

CCF leaders
I've created new articles on George Hara Williams and John Hewgill Brockelbank if anyone would like to review them. Reggie Perrin (talk) 02:15, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
 * You can request an assesment on the assesment page >>> WikiProject Saskatchewan/Assessment. Mr. C.C. (talk) 17:53, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Brant Kersey
A new member to wikipedia has received a Notability tag as well as several others for the new article: Brant Kersey. Does anyone know this hockey player, newspaper editor? SriMesh | talk  03:01, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Notability
Prairieland Park, Brant Kersey, Mary MacIsaac, Steven Woods all have received a notability tag. Can anyone help to tweak these articles as the quantity of articles with their notability questioned is very high? notable listing. SriMesh | talk  01:49, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Rural municipalities
The official name of rural municipalities is definitely " No. "; however, what is the common name (used in media, vernacular, etc.) for them? Is it just " " or the name and number? TIA. (For those wondering, the result of this answer will essentially determine how the RM are displayed on Saskatchewan provincial highway articles.) -- T M F Let's Go Mets - Stats 16:35, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't think there's a real agreed upon common name, but "RM of " looks common enough. Sometimes you do see the whole "RM of # " though too (I just did a couple quick google searches, and those seem to be the two used most). -Royalguard11 (T·R!) 17:51, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
 * So, for instance on Saskatchewan Highway 1, the name alone would work for the portion of the infobox where the rural municipalities are listed (prefaced with "Rural municipalities:")? -- T M F Let's Go Mets - Stats 19:35, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, I'd say that you could just put the name. The "box" is for RM's, so just the names should do (like, ect). -Royalguard11 (T·R!) 01:09, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
 * It's just one instance, but I see at the R.M. of Corman Park website, they seem to refer to themselves as the "R.M. of Corman Park". No number. Shanemcd (talk) 19:42, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Error message?
There's one reported here, but I don't see it... TREKphiler  hit me ♠  00:31, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Radio question
Does anybody know, or know a reference where we could find out, the actual FM frequency that was used by CJUS-FM, the defunct campus radio station of the University of Saskatchewan? Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 22:39, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Saskatchewan
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Off Broadway Arts Centre
Off Broadway Arts Centre is at AFD, are there any sources for notability?SriMesh | talk  05:07, 24 October 2008

Looting of Battleford
Proposed merger of Looting of Battleford into the history section of Battleford, Saskatchewan please comment if you have an opinion one way or t'other. Kind Regards SriMesh | talk  16:06, 24 October 2008 (UTC)008 (UTC)

Saskatchewan: Natural Resources
A section desribing the natural resources of Saskatchewan would be welcome.142.177.121.172 (talk) 14:15, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

List of waterfalls of Canada
Please help to fulfill the dynamics of this list, List of waterfalls of Canada, and fill in any red link missing waterfall articles and their respective images. Kind Regards SriMesh | talk  01:09, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Martinsville
Looking at this, it reminded me. If anybody has got good enough sources, a mention of the Martinsville case might be worth adding. It might also merit a page of its own. Also, given there was a wave of accusations of child abuse & Satanism & that period, most of which proved false, a separate section page on these on Miscarriage, or subpage linked out from it, might be merited. TREKphiler  hit me ♠  22:41, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Gun for hire
Having done this & discovered it was used by used by Le Gendarmerie du Nordwest, I wonder if anybody out here knows something about them? Has a picture, or can get one? An add at RCMP or .476 would be great (tho I have a personal preference for it being the .476 page... ;D). TREKphiler  hit me ♠  06:00, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Standardisation for Saskatchewan school division naming
Discussion initiated for Saskatchewan continuity in names/categories. Please comment on Saskatchewan school division, school district article naming and categorisation. Then could the result be put on the main page of Canadian Wikipedians' notice board/Style guide? Kind Regards. SriMesh | talk  18:49, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Newsletter interference
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Hockey players
There are two new articles to watch, Jody Lehman and Kevin Shmyr if anyone with expertise in hockey wants to look at these articles and see how they are doing wiki-wise that would be awesome. SriMesh | talk  00:10, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Saskatoon
We could use a couple more people watching Saskatoon for a while as an anon editor seems to want to show the city in a bad light while ignoring NPOV, WP:RS (linking to a non-RS blog, also using Google Maps which I'd say is about 3 years out of date for Saskatoon), and adding claims with random reference that don't mention what they say. Also seems to have something against the metropolitan population and seems to want to yell out that the housing market has crashed here, and spinkled random facts about Saskatchewan that should be in that article. -Royalguard11 (T) 04:38, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

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List of universities in the Canadian Prairies
nominated List of universities in the Canadian Prairies for featured list removal here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks, where editors may declare to "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. --Kevlar (talk • contribs) 02:47, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

FLRC
nominated List of premiers of Saskatchewan for featured list removal here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks, where editors may declare to "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Dabomb87 (talk) 04:05, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * FYI, this also seems to be a merger discussion (minus the transparency). -Royalguard11 (T) 03:41, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Economy section in Saskatoon article.
I would like to get some discussion going on the Saskatoon talk page regarding this section. I've noted what I feel are problems with this section and made a couple of suggestions at Talk:Saskatoon but I would really like to have a discussion on that page before I (or anyone else) do something major. I started the thread over a week ago and I've had no response so I thought I would leave this note here were a few more eyes may wander. Thanks. Wolfrock (talk) 23:06, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

mormon temple in regina
There is a Mormon temple in Regina, SK. Should the article belong to this WikiProject? LDS-SPA1000 (talk) 03:38, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes as far as I can tell, it is about a building of Saskatchewan, so it should belong to this wikiproject and to the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints work group and the Category:Buildings and structures in Regina, SaskatchewanSriMesh | talk  18:15, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
 * All 3 have been done. User:Snocrates added the cat 18 months ago, and I added the projects. Thanks for the reply. LDS-SPA1000 (talk) 18:25, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
 * excellent!SriMesh | talk  19:04, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Wiki Meet up 2009
In 2008, a Wikimeetup was sceduled for those interested in editing Saskatchewan articles. Is there interest for a 2009 Wiki meet up? In 2008 Craik was chosen as a mid-point between the two major cities, Saskatoon and Regina, and it coincided with the [http://www.craikecovillage.ca/pdf/solarfair09agenda.pdf Craik Sustainable Living Project (CSLP) Solar Fair and Trade Show. June 20 and 21, 2009]. Please comment on the here on this talk page. Is spring a better time for folks, or would late fall be better after harvest? Summer may crash into holidays and vacation times.SriMesh | talk  18:54, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
 * If its in Saskatoon I can make it. As long as it is on a Friday afternoon.  Mr. C.C. (talk) 05:49, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Newsletter
I am interested in doing the newsletter. - Presidentman (talk) Random Picture of the Day 17:41, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

History Bio articles about Sask
I keep coming across articles about people in Saskatchewan history that I have never heard of like James Hamilton Ross. Having lived in Saskatoon for nearly 30 years ending 26 years ago, I am surprised about how wrong I was that Saskatchewan's history was too recent to bother about. I lived here in Qualicum Beach for years before I discovered that a fellow important in the history of this town made his fortune in Saskatchewan. Perhaps that is a manifestation of the oft repeated line that there are more people in BC from Saskatchewan than there are people in Saskatchewan. Anyone interested in adding articles about people significant in Saskatchewan history probably already know about the 3 volume work of John Hawke "The story of Saskatchewan and its people" Wikipedia would be well served well if the Saskatchewan project developed a list of people who should be added and categories that help readers find articles about them. -- KenWalker | Talk 20:35, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Good point another good source is Pioneers and Prominent People of Saskatchewan. There have been several folks who have gone on elsewhere to become well known, as well as those who have remained.  It is good to see this information grow, and for documents to make it into the public domain about some of these folk.  Kind Regards SriMesh |  talk  00:28, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement
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User:Pomte/Template:SK hwy tiny shield & User:Pomte/Template:SK road shield
FYI, some articles are using templates sitting in userspace. I don't think it's a good idea to use userspace material in articlespace.

76.66.193.224 (talk) 09:19, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
 * The second template is User:Pomte/Template:SK road shield. 70.29.212.131 (talk) 04:51, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Placed a request for help at Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Tasks

SriMesh | talk  21:59, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Saskatchewan articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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Concern over cties, town and other settlement articles
I was checking WikiProject Cities for some German cites to work on. The trend as I look through was there was an awful amount of Saskatchewan settlements that are stub class. I am willing to help provided others are willing to participate. Kingjeff (talk) 03:41, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Replied on Kingjeff talk page...about towns and villages updating SriMesh | talk  01:42, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

Outdated highways article needs redistribution
For those who are maintaining the highways articles, I just found this article - Provincial roads in northern Saskatchewan - which was created back in 2007 but which as become outmoded. The article was an attempt at creating a catch-all for the 900-series northern provincial highways, but only 3 were ultimately profiled. Meanwhile, individual articles have been created for all the other 900 roads, no matter how minor. Except the links on the Saskatchewan Highways Template go to this outdated article as redirects for those 3 roads (those working on the individual articles may not have noticed the omission of 3 highways since there would have been no redlinks to signify they were missing). On the talk page I have recommended the article be deleted and the information on the 3 900-series highways be spun off into their own articles to be consistent with how the other roads are being treated. 68.146.80.110 (talk) 02:46, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Done. See WP Canada Roads - Saskatchewan talk page for further discussion.SriMesh | talk  21:06, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Saskatchewan will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in Saskatchewan's history, society and culture. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 23:45, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Request for cleanup assistance at List of city nicknames in Canada
This section of this list article needs cleanup. In particular, references based on reliable sources (not user-generated media such as blogs, forums, tweets, etc.) for the numerous of nicknames are required, as well as weeding out editor-derived/questionable nicknames from the genuine nicknames of widespread usage. I've cleaned up the Alberta section, and am looking to the members of the applicable provincial/territorial WikiProjects to help out with the other sections including this one. Thanks, Hwy43 (talk) 06:55, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Proposal to redirect Canadian related project talk pages
Please see Wikipedia talk:Canadian Wikipedians' notice board.Moxy (talk) 17:41, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Requested move Sorenson's Beach, Saskatchewan to Sorensen's Beach, Saskatchewan
See discussion at Talk:Sorenson's Beach, Saskatchewan. Hwy43 (talk) 07:53, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

SK Legislative Assemblies
I have found that there are articles for each of the 27 Saskatchewan Legislative Assemblies to date, except for 20th Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan and 21st Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan. When they are created, please start their respective talk pages with the WikiProject Canada banner as used for the other articles in the series.

I will post a similar note at Wikipedia talk:Canadian Wikipedians' notice board.  PK T (alk)  15:48, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

I have access to 2 framed pictures of Legislators for the 1934 and 1938 assemblies. The 34 is suitable to create Bio mug shots for the stubs linked from Saskatchewan_general_election,_1934, example see Norman Leslie McLeod, and the 38 is just a large single shot of them all sitting in the Legislature. No time currently to do the work myself, so if anyone is interested leave a note on my talk page.GardenMulch (talk) 08:10, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

Not all unincorporated places are hamlets
In an effort to capture the attention of the parent project participants that are not members or watchers of the communities/neighbourhoods subproject, please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Saskatchewan communities and neighbourhoods. Hwy43 (talk) 19:00, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride 2014
You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride 2014, a campaign to create and improve LGBT-related content at Wikipedia and its sister projects. The campaign will take place throughout the month of June, culminating with a multinational edit-a-thon on June 21. Meetups are being held in some cities, or you can participate remotely. All constructive edits are welcome in order to contribute to Wikipedia's mission of providing quality, accurate information. Articles within Category:LGBT in the Americas may be of particular interest. You can also upload LGBT-related images by participating in Wikimedia Commons' LGBT-related photo challenge. You are encouraged to share the results of your work here. Happy editing! -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 20:54, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Runnymede No. 271, Saskatchewan
FYI, the above has been proposed for deletion. You can comment at the AfD discussion. Hwy43 (talk) 07:02, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

Requested move of WikiProject Saskatchewan communities and neighbourhoods
The above has been proposed to move to WikiProject Saskatchewan communities. You can join the discussion here. Cheers, Hwy43 (talk) 22:32, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

Proposed deletions of Strawberry Hills, Saskatchewan and Strawberry Ridge, Saskatchewan
Strawberry Hills, Saskatchewan and Strawberry Ridge, Saskatchewan have been nominated for deletion. See Articles for deletion/Strawberry Hills, Saskatchewan and Articles for deletion/Strawberry Ridge, Saskatchewan. Hwy43 (talk) 05:58, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Wartime Station, Saskatchewan
FYI, the above has been proposed for deletion. You can comment at the AfD discussion. Hwy43 (talk) 02:36, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

Washing my hands of Saskatoon-related articles
After seeing a lot of hard work deleted by various tin gods, I will no longer contribute to any articles related to Saskatoon. Check my history and you'll see I've done a lot. No more. I was an admin here for a number of years and I stopped editing under my user name in protest over how some tin gods have taken over the place. Sad to say it's gotten even worse. I am not pointing a finger at any active contributors to this project, just indicating that the behavior of some editors have lost you an experienced contributor. 68.146.52.234 (talk) 15:32, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Time for an archive?
This page is getting quite long, and has posts dating back seven years; some, like the Rider box, have been overtaken by events. I would suggest it's time for an archive. I can try to create one, if no one objects. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 15:32, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes quite a good idea!

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:48, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Expert attention
This is a notice about Category:Saskatchewan articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. Iceblock (talk) 21:04, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Province of Saskatchewan Locator Map used in infoboxes
I started a conversation on the help desk regarding the map of Saskatchewan under the title Error in maps and therefore in the GPS coordinates. The map titled File:Canada_Saskatchewan_location_map.svg does not look my province of Saskatchewan. There should be curvilinear lines north and south. The eastern and western borders albeit are parallel lines, however they are in no way parallel to each other. I see the map NordNordWest used as a template File:Canada_Saskatchewan_relief_location_map.jpg, but it is not a good one at all. The boundaries for Saskatchewan have never changed, I think the cartograher who made File:Canada_Saskatchewan_relief_location_map.jpg took a short cut and made it rectangular with square corners in error. This one MapSK.JPG shows the not parallel east west boundaries and the curved north south borders the best, but it should be oriented more north and south and not off on a diagonal. This also shows the borders well. Saskatchewan Municipalities.png, or this one SK-Canada-province.png. I have contacted user_talk:NordNordWest, the creator of the SVG locater map who seems to have good map making skills BTW I know they have to be rather particular to work with the GPS robot. Kind Regards SriMesh | talk  14:41, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!


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Harej (talk) 16:56, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Hello,

I'm hoping to hold an Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon in Saskatoon, and am looking for experienced Wikipedians in Saskatoon to connect with for advice.

Thanks, OwlLivreOwlLivre (talk) 15:22, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I think your idea is a good one.  I have been off wikipedia for awhile, but had started wikiproject SK back in the day.  Are you still looking to meet about a Saskatoon Edit-a-thon?SriMesh |  talk  00:31, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

New 10,000 Challenge for Canada
Hi, WikiProject Canada/The 10,000 Challenge is up and running based on The 10,000 Challenge for the UK which has currently produced over 2200 article improvements and creations. If you'd like to see large scale quality improvements happening for Canada like The Africa Destubathon, which has produced over 1300 articles in 3 weeks, sign up on the page. The idea will be an ongoing national editathon/challenge for Canada but fuelled by a contest such as The North America Destubathon to really get articles on every province and subject mass improved. I would like some support from Canadian wikipedians here to get the Challenge off to a start with some articles to make doing a Destubathon worthwhile! Cheers.♦ Dr. Blofeld  21:28, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

Is Jon Vickers the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC of the disambiguation page on which his name appears?
A discussion regarding the above topic at Talk:John Vickers (disambiguation) may be of interest. &mdash;Roman Spinner (talk)(contribs) 21:06, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
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A new newsletter directory is out!
A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.
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Proposal to redirect all Canadian project related talk pages
Wikipedia talk:Canadian Wikipedians' notice board...-- Moxy 🍁 22:39, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

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New Saskatchewan delsort
Hopefully this will not get much use: WikiProject_Deletion_sorting/Saskatchewan.--- Possibly (talk) 03:55, 8 March 2021 (UTC)

Rural municipality edit warring against consensus
Hello all, we have an IP-hopping editor that is warring at numerous rural municipality (county-equivalent) articles and lists, particularly at List of municipal districts in Alberta and List of rural municipalities in Saskatchewan, renaming the municipalities contrary to the consensus here for Alberta and the extrapolated approach of that consensus here for Saskatchewan. The IP editor finally reached out to me on my talk page here. Following my response, the editor evidently didn't like it and reverted me yet again with this edit with a strange and unfounded accusation. Would interested members of this WikiProject please watchlist List of municipal districts in Alberta and List of rural municipalities in Saskatchewan? I'm about to revert again and apply a level three warning on the editor's talk page. Cheers, Hwy43 (talk) 05:26, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like and turns it into something like
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from cite web, cite journal and doi.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

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