User talk:Bearcat/Archive 1

Welcome

Greetings! Nice work on the cities of Ontario. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you haven't already done so, please carefully read the following pages:

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Progressive Party of Canada

Thanks for the rewrite of Progressive Party of Canada. I've taken it off the votes for deletion page now. Angela 01:31, Oct 5, 2003 (UTC)

Logouts

Regarding your comment (in the summary of an edit), check Wikipedia:Browser notes. Also note that I think that wikipedia automatically logs you out if you have been inactive for about 30 minutes. --snoyes 03:42, 5 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Spouses of the Prime Ministers of Canada

It was great collaborating with you on the PM's spouses. I was looking at your material on Progressive Conservatives. Wow, I bet not many non-Canadians know about that oxymoron! Sunray 00:17, 2003 Dec 4 (UTC)

*laugh* Actually, I had to review that myself just to remember what I did. Seems to me I mostly just spruced up other people's work, really. Puttin' that Political Science degree to good use, finally! Bearcat 07:18, 4 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Hi, Bearcat. Just got your message about PMs' spouses. I agree. If there is such a thing as the First Lady, one would think it was the Governor General or the wife of a male Governor General. On the other hand, as the head of state the queen would seem to have some claim to the position. Trontonian 02:49, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Bloc Quebecois

The Bloc Quebecois was Her Majesty's Official Opposition. Any racoist statement by one of its members is significant and far from a minor matter. Angelique 03:15, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Unless you're prepared to add every controversial statement ever made by a Canadian politician to the appropriate party page, this particular incident doesn't belong on Bloc Québécois. It's no more worthy of note than many other similar incidents that are not listed on their party's page, such as the numerous Canadian Alliance statements against gays, "Tequila Sheila", "Sambo", anti-francophone statements, etc. It's all or none. The Suzanne Tremblay incident is not special. Bearcat 04:18, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)

It's sometimes a matter of opinion, however I think you would agree that any such issue would have encyclopedic merit based on its national media coverage which in the Suzanne Tremblay racist statement issue, was not only substantial, but sustained. Publicity wise, it ranks second only to Paizeau's racism for which he resigned. And, by all means include any racist (or extreme right wing economic policies (please)) into the Canadian Alliance article. The collective thinking, or intolerate views of party members, is extremely relevant in writing an encyclopedic article. After all, a political party is created because its beliefs are different, therefore Wikipedia's job is to inform readers about what specific things make them different. Note, in the Bloc Quebecois case, that the leader only "distanced" himself from Ms. Tremblay, he did not condem her or discipline her. And, it is racism throughout the separatist movement, that scares English Quebeckers --- and Wall Street. Angelique 13:08, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Did it ever occur to you that the sustained media coverage of all stupid or controversial remarks made by Quebec politicians and nationalists in the past 200 years may have something to do with the political battle engaged against them in the name of Canadian unity at all cost?

Bearcat speaks the voice of reason. It is either all of them or none of them. If its all of them, then lets make a List of controversial remarks by Canadian public figures and Opinions on controversial remarks by Canadian public figures and a special one for Angelique called List of facts proving without a doubt that all Quebec nationalists from New France to present are nothing but racist bigotted sons of .... -- Mathieugp 18:16, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Article Formatting

hello! I've noticed you've edited some of my pages to make it look more official, like making this or that in bold, etc. is there a page where all these little things are? Pellaken 11:34, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Sorry Bearcat

I apologize for using your talk page to answer back to Angelique. This is not very ethical I admit it. ;-) -- Mathieugp 18:16, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)

grin No worries, I rather enjoy it, actually. Bearcat 20:26, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Hey!

I saw your message on my talk page about being an Ontario Road geek. Are you in Ontroads? if so, who are you? ;-) I guess you know who I am- the TKH ends website guy. User:Earl Andrew 20:42 UTC December 10, 2003

Tooker Gomberg

Regarding your Tooker Gomberg entry, last I heard, he was reported missing and presumed dead, though his body had not yet been found. Also, I guess this is a typo on your part, but today is March 7, 2004 so it would be difficult for him to have died on March 10, 2004. Darkcore 22:48, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)

You're right, sorry. Accidentally typed the wrong date. Bearcat 22:50, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Nomination for adminship

I've nominated you for adminship over at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship. Best of luck! -- Rdash 14:48, Mar 21, 2004 (UTC)

adminship granted

A concensus has been reached by your peers that you should be an admin. I have made it so. Please review Wikipedia:Administrators' reading list and keep up the great work. Sincerely, Kingturtle 18:31, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)

VfD RE Gerard Barbara

I realize your question of Everyking may be rhetorical and/or to get him to go on record, as you may have noticed this, but Everyking has voted to 'Keep' EVERY 9/11 victim listed on VfD since I've been here. Personally, I am not unsympathetic to his views, but since there seems to be a clear consensus, I generally vote Memorial/Delete. My main concern is that numerous articles have these names wiki-linked, just begging for articles. I feel we need to make more effort to redir these to the sep11 site. PS congrats on your "upgrade" ;) Niteowlneils 16:40, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Deletion

Hi, I was watching RC at the same time as you and noticed your deletions at George Olsen and Pierre Petiot. Just for the future, I think it's better to talk with the creator of the page about it instead of just deleting the question/contribution of a newcomer. Please see my message at User talk:24.61.47.149 for an example, and feel free to reply either here or at my talk page. --Alex S 19:43, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)

9/11 victims

I reverted your edits to 9/11 victims since you missed the part about those discussions being archived. -- Cyrius | Talk 22:28, Apr 3, 2004 (UTC)

Anything else you wanna know, just ask.

I wanna piccy! :) Martin 01:27, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Mad Mad House

Re: Mad Mad House - Thanks for confirming that. I was just about to ask you if you knew! :) -- Rdash (t) 22:11, May 5, 2004 (UTC)

Indian reserve

Hi, Bearcat--I ran across your comments about Indian reserves while moving the Canadian content from Indian reservation to Indian reserve, so I thought I'd let you know you can now link to that article instead of Reserve if you add any more articles about reserves. Indian reserve is not the term I would normally use, but it is the official term so I used that for the article and left First Nations reserve as a redirect. I also have quibbled here and there about usage (APTN has a show about Canadian reserves called The Reservation, so the term's been used at least once in Canada), but I'm sure you can cope with that. I have also tried to change the links in all articles that should link to the Canadian article, but may have missed some. TronTonian 21:43, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Re TV: Not much on TV worth watching (which is why I spend so much time here), but APTN has programs that actually are unlike anything else on TV. Just avoid Moccasin Flats. TronTonian 00:26, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the advice on speedy deletion. Elf-friend 19:25, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Ann Coulter

You deleted some text which I added to balance an imbalanced statement. That paragraph does not consist of a quotation alone. It's is also commentary, and I added balancing, truthful text. Why did you remove it? Rex071404 09:25, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Per your comment on my talk page, I have removed this sentence: Coulter often attacks rich Democrats, such as John Kerry for being hypocrites who are totally out of touch with the working class they claim to represent. I have done this because you said about another opinion which you removed: "it was a statement of opinion, unattributed and disguised as fact".

With the above text deleted, I feel that pargraph is acceptable now, as is.

Rex071404 09:47, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Canadian TV Personalities

Yeah, I figured that out. Thanks for catching it, though! --Sewing 07:58, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)

WFXT, renaming

Thanks for working on WFXT and related. I'm removing them from WP:CU. Could you perhaps follow meta:Help:Renaming (moving) a page for moving articles in the future, as that keeps the history whole? Cheers, Rvollmert 08:41, 2004 Aug 27 (UTC)

re: By Divine Right revisions

I appreciate your categorization of the material though I am curious as to your removal of information.

• Most of the information I removed (labels, record label product codes, individual songs on compilations or soundtracks) isn't necessary or relevant to an encyclopedia article. You'll find very few band articles on Wikipedia that include that type of info, and if any do, they shouldn't. Bearcat 16:01, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Curious; though I understand your statement and don't particularly disagree, as an archivist, I find myself frustrated many times when researching, that obscure and arcane knowledge is not always available. As a completist, I tried to provide all the bare, non-volatile information regarding the subject that I have found. I would debate that the Wikipedia would be a viable forum to expand upon traditionally accepted forms of information presentation. It should include as much obscure and arcane data, within storage constraints, as possible before such knowledge becomes lost (topic generic), and should be as heavily cross-linked as is interpretable. It already does contain many of these aspects.

• The problem with listing record labels and product codes, as I see it, is that albums are very often released on different labels in different countries, and sometimes even rereleased on different labels in the same country. And occasionally the product code for an album changes even when it's still on the same label. The textbook example would be Sarah McLachlan -- she's on Nettwerk in Canada and Arista Records in the US, and there's a now-unavailable deleted version of her first album, with a different product code than the version that's currently available in stores. There'd really just be no point in including the original product code, since as things currently stand nobody can do anything with that information. IMO, the real test for data inclusion is how useful it is, and personally I just don't see product codes as helpful info -- if the album is available for purchase, people can search for and buy it by band name and album title anyway, and if it isn't available, the product code isn't going to change that. YMMV, of course. Bearcat 17:06, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)

As a collector, that would be exactly the sort of information I would want when examining flea market booths, record convention vendors, used stores, etc. How else would I know that Def Leppard's second album, "High N'Dry" had two releases? The second version was released when the single "Bringin' on the Heartbreak" was remixed with keyboards added and was gaining popularity with an MTV video; I think there was also some minor cover art alteration. As a purist, I prefer the original release and the above info is not in the wiki article. In a more relevant example, there was a pre-release pressing limited to 500 numbered copies of By Divine Right's "Good Morning Beautiful" that contained 16 songs. When Linus Entertainment/Warner Brothers (Canada) released the album, there were only 12 songs and in a different tracking order with a different sound mixing. As a collector, I may want that rare first album of Sarah, or first pressing of "High N'Dry".... Though I will assent that the scope of the wiki is grander than just being an online Goldmine Magazine and maybe this kind of stuff is best relegated to someone's personal fan page which has the volatility of ISP lifespan or even that of the fan.... Maybe a separate section for Compilations?

re: Category Canuck History and bio links

Hi Bearcat. :) Thanks for cleaning up my errors in alphabetization of the Category links. I don't know if the piped alphabet workaround was discovered/ implimented/ in the Style Guide when I was adding the links -- I do know I wasn't aware of it. I'll use it in future! Cheers, Madmagic 10:01, Sep 1, 2004 (UTC)

Deletion of George Woshingtin and Queen/Band

Why did you delete Queen/Band, when on RfD there was an argument supporting it and none opposing it (except the original nom)? Likewise, a discussion was ongoing with George Woshingtin about whether or not the redirect was useful. If you do not undelete these, I will list them on Wikipedia:Votes for undeletion. Thank you. — i386 | Talk 17:44, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Queen/Band's been put back because of its edit history, but because you refuse to put back George Woshingtin, this will be listed for undeletion. — i386 | Talk 21:29, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Canadian music

Great work on music of Canada! Tuf-Kat 20:07, Sep 15, 2004 (UTC)

vfd page

Bearcat: I think this is the first time that I've actually contacted you (which is a bit odd, considering the number of times our paths have crossed in the articling process).

I notice that you've voted to keep the Ian Woods page in circulation, and that you've put the Manitoba politicians page back on the Magnus Thompson page. Thanks. Considering the close nature of the balloting, could I also request that you consider voting on the other disputed articles as well. CJCurrie 22:43, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Catherine Asaro

I'm afraid you got caught up in a whirlwind of vandalism by User:Wifki (contribs) who spent a very short time on Wikipedia alleging that various people were gay without substantiation. I have reverted the changes made to this article, and added in some information which seems to disprove Wifki's hypothesis. I am now trying to check on Patricia Anthony, the person alleged to be CA's "girlfriend", to see if there's any likelihood of her also being gay: given Wifki's record thus far I'm not anticipating finding any such thing :-) HTH HAND --Phil | Talk 12:20, Oct 15, 2004 (UTC)

Well...*laugh*...all I really did to that article was to add the piped surname, firstname to a category that was already on the article, so that it alphabetized under A instead of C. People do some weird things around this place sometimes, don't they? *grin* Bearcat 21:54, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC) (on user talk page of Phil Boswell)

LOL they do indeed. Yeah i thought i might have a play and see whether i could put a few ppl in the lesbian category. Actually it started with some dickhead who put a vanity article on about himself, and i though how funny, when he comes back to update it, he'll have a nice little categorisation down the bottom: 'categories: gay, lesbian or bisexual people.' It made me laugh so i thought id weave a web of deceit, linking various people together with strange lesbian connections ;-) Catchas

Oh and btw, just in case you're still looking for evidence (which i doubt you are) i herby admit that what i said was complete garbage, and none of the peoples pages who i vandalised had any connection to being gay (as far as i know). Cheers, Wifki 04:33, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Historic counties of Ontario

Great work on the list/category. I made one small tweak; as Sudbury Region/Greater Sudbury was never a 'county' (it was split from Sudbury District), I moved it down as a 'special case'. Radagast 13:52, Oct 21, 2004 (UTC)

Adult high schools

I have since Googled and found adult high schools in various U. S. states, Tennessee, North Carolina and one right here in Boston.

Many places offer GED (graduate equivalent diplomas) programs to adults, which award certificates that are accepted as the equivalent of a high school diploma, but the courses are usually conducted in high schools, community colleges, etc. rather than in specific, dedicated buildings. And most places have "adult education" programs, but, at least locally, these are very short (e.g. eight evening sessions on successive weeks) and devoted mostly to hobby/recreational topics.

There is certainly a real article of some kind in there somewhere, or perhaps an additional section in Adult education. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 18:20, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Canadian notice board vs. WikiProject

I understand the intention - as I said, I argued the same point with the Australians. The point is that it hasn't gotten unwieldy in the Irish one, Australian one, or UK one, all of which are being used fairly heavily at the moment. It's just frustrating that the lack of the title "WikiProject" seems to give people the desire to fork the notice boards. Ambi 06:06, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Thank you, and sorry for being so terse about it. Ambi 06:25, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Quebec TV series

Hopefully this will hold... I am worried that it will come back though. There are facts we cannot just ignore:

A) Quebec is presently inside Canada. TV shows produced in Quebec are therefore also produced inside Canada. B) Some English language TV series are produced in Montreal. They ought to be listed as Quebec TV series somehow.

The overlapping of Quebec's and Canada's cultural spheres really is giving me headaches sometimes... :-)

See you around! -- Mathieugp 03:15, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Great job on Franco-Ontarians

I noticed your work on the Franco-Ontarians. I wanted to invite you to help me do something similar with the Anglo-Quebecers. If you want to add anything or discuss the structure of the article which I am proprosing in Talk:Anglo-Quebecer.

-- Mathieugp 04:02, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Elections

Why move all the Canadian election articles to the uglier and less grammatical "Canadian federal election, ####" format? - SimonP 23:36, Nov 6, 2004 (UTC)

• Sorry, I missed the discussion on the Canadian notice board. I have raised my objections to the "Canadian federal election, ####" there. - SimonP 23:55, Nov 6, 2004 (UTC)

Elizabeth Wellburn

Hi, I wish I could email you because you're working on the page for me & my book (Echoes from the Square) and it seems we were both on the same page at the same time. Anyway it wasn't published in 2002 (1998 actually) & some other details weren't quite right either but I love it that you're writing about it! Hope you enjoyed it. thnx ewellburn@pinc.com

Significant enough to merit an entry?

Thanks for your contributions to the discussion on my (to be deleted) page. I figure if I win the election that that will put me over the top in terms of having enough significance to merit a page. GrantNeufeld 01:19, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Of Dashes and Ems

Bearcat: Is it standard protocol for the Canadian parliamentary pages to use em-dashes? I *thought* I saw Earl Andrew reverting a few em-dashes to "double-hyphens" a few weeks ago, and assumed that the latter was the "standard" (or, at least, that both were acceptable). CJCurrie 03:30, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I'm not sure an official confirmation would, strictly speaking, be necessary -- as I believe that most (if not all) of the "double-hyphen" riding names are redirected to the em-dash titles already (of the ridings for which pages have been written, that is).

All the same, I suppose being clear on the standard methodology wouldn't hurt ... CJCurrie 03:38, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Up from the debating club

I hope I didn't cut you off at the knees any with my spate of research on the CUSID VfD candidates! Of course, as far as the articles provided, none were otherwise notable, and in the end most of them still aren't. Samaritan 08:47, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for the tips, Bearcat. I'm still learning around here and every little bit helps. Tmaffin 20:41, Nov 19, 2004 (UTC)

Question about Mille Roches Article which was removed

Hello, I am new here. Recently I observed that there was very little information on this site about the Lost Village of Mille Roches. I submitted an article that I wrote but it was removed. I am curious as to why it was removed - I am thinking maybe because I was not a member at the time that I submitted it. But after reading about becoming a member and all the stuff that I would have to learn just to make people more informed about Mille Roches, I don't know if I WANT to post it now! I guess I didn't realize that posting on this site involved learning an entirely different language! Isn't there any way to post information without having to insert a link to EVERY SINGLE WORD????? It seems very confusing, frustrating, and time-consuming to me. If you could help I would really appreciate it. Thanks. --68.248.145.184 02:32, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

• I originally reverted it because I thought it was a copyright violation. If you wrote it yourself, I apologize. But to answer your other questions, articles posted here do have to be linked to other articles; it's the nature of the project. The only potential way around doing it yourself is to post the article and then have other people "wikify" it, but that isn't going to make you very popular if you make a habit of it. Also, because this is an encyclopedia, there are certain conventions around writing style and presentation of information that need to be followed. An article here cannot read like an essay on the topic; it has to look and sound more or less like something one might find in the Encyclopedia Britannica or Encarta. And you also can't insert personal copyright notices -- to contribute here, you have to be willing to abide by a copyright model called GFDL, which means that while you're posting your own writing (not copy-and-pasting text from other sites), you don't own the copyright, other people have the right to alter your text, and you're surrendering control over how other people use or redistribute it once it's posted. Bearcat 02:57, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Kate Bush - This Woman's Work

did have a 2 album release according to allmusic, as well as the 1978-1990 boxed release. Link The Boxed set was re-released in 1998. It may not have been released as such in the UK, but following a chat with Scud Lee User talk:ScudLee#Kate Bush A dilemma I decided to list releases separately and used the US re-release alum cover to show the difference.

Please put it all back as it was.

Thank you Martin TB 17:38, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

OK. Sorry about that - I have to accept that you are right. Martin TB 19:33, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

I've "started" the Free the Rambot Articles Project which aims to get users to release all of their contributions to the U.S. state, county, and city articles (if any) under the CC-by-sa 1.0 and 2.0 license (at minimum) or into the public domain if they prefer. A secondary, but equally important, goal is to get those users to release ALL of their edits for ALL articles. I've personally chosen to multi-license all of the rambot and Ram-Man contributions under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License so that other projects, such as WikiTravel, can use our articles. I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all your contributions (or at minimum those on the geographic articles) so that we can keep most of the articles available under the multi-license. Many users use the {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}} template (or even {{MultiLicensePD}} for public domain) on their user page, but there are other templates for other options at Template messages/User namespace. If you only prefer using the GFDL, I understand, but I thought I'd at least ask, just in case, since the number of your edits is in the top 100. If you do want to do it, simply just copy and paste one of the above two templates into your user page and it will allow us to track those users who have done it. For example:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain (which many people do or don't like to do, see Wikipedia:Multi-licensing), you could replace {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}} with {{MultiLicensePD}} -- Ram-Man 23:51, Nov 25, 2004 (UTC)

Take your time to decide and when you do, let me know! -- Ram-Man 00:03, Nov 26, 2004 (UTC)

Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday, Bearcat! Best wishes. --Whosyourjudas (talk) 03:08, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Have a great birthday, Bearcat. Jonathunder 05:31, 2004 Nov 26 (UTC)

Blue Rodeo

I understand why you moved the albums to a seperate page, but I do not appreciate you losing the track listings that I had put in, especially since I was in the middle of it. Thank you so much for making me do the same thing over again. In the future, show some consideration, and KEEP EVERYTHING if you're going to split up the page. Dammit. The Steve 21:00, Nov 28, 2004 (UTC)

No, but why put the stub message in if you aren't finished? The Steve

Well, a stub message to me means either I've added all I can to this article but it needs more or I'm done with this article now but I may get back to it later. It is always the last thing I add to an article because if you are contributing, what possible reason could you have for stubbing in the middle of your additions?

If it makes you feel better, I can switch from thinking of you as that guy who messed up one of the articles on my watchlist to that guy who overuses

 :> The Steve 21:33, Nov 28, 2004 (UTC)

Clearly. One of the reasons I was a bit upset is that I'm not sure albums even deserve seperate articles, which is why I tend to put them in with the band. By adding a stub tag, you're confirming that the article is pretty damn small, and may not deserve to be broken out. Oh well. C'est la vie. The Steve 22:09, Nov 28, 2004 (UTC)

Edit summary

Hello. Please provide an edit summary. Thanks! Hyacinth 01:44, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Espanola, Ontario

Hello, Bearcat...

Just wondering why you deleted large chunks out of the Wiki for Espanola this morning. Although the formatting was a bit loose in terms of neutral prose, there was nothing in the areas you deleted that was A) untrue, or B) cannot be backed up with references. Nor was any of the information copied verbatum from any source. The segments in question - the first being the alternate theory of the town name ("Espaniel"); the second was bit of history surrounding the Espanola Hotel, and a third was a paragraph dealing with "Frenchtown". Although I agree that these points are somewhat esoteric, I saw no reason to discard them. Please reconsider that edit, and let me know what you think.

Regards,

-SJ.

...

Heh. Walden. I've driven through there soooo many times! The town that doesn't end. But I digress...

On closer inspection, I agree with your edits, and will leave them alone. Maybe I should start a Wiki on the Espanola Hotel itself... now there's an obscure area of knowledge! spanishjoe 20:07, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Reform Party

Bearcat, thanks for your comments at Talk:Reform Party of Canada. The last thing I want to end up doing is having to defend those wackos, but I am trying to resolve the propbelm of dealing with the "Reform Party wasn't conservative" Brigade that pops up every couple of months to mess up the article. I had a long dispute with this guy a few months ago who is one of the 'organizers' of a new "Reform Party of Ontario", which appears to be nothing more than a web discussion forum. He was adamant that the proper descriptor for the RPC was "democrat-populist" and came back time and again to change the article. Eventually he went away when I pointed out that "democrat" isn't an adjective, and that all parties would consider themselves to be "democratic". But now there's someone else. I don't think it's the same person because this one seems to be even less literate.

But back to the issue of populism in the RPC. There is some argument for using that in that the RPC did promote Senate reform, referenda and recall votes. They also claimed that their MPs would follow the wishes of their contituents. Their rhetoric, at least, was about giving the people more control over decisions.

Now I fell all dirty, and not in a good way. If I make the change I've proposed in order to try to stop the edit war, will you give me a hard time about it? (And again, I mean not in a good way.) Is there some way of adjusting the proposed change that would keep both you and the above-mentioned Brigade happy? Regards, Kevintoronto 15:13, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Re: Your last edit. I doubt you'll get away with that, but I'm not standing in your way. Have fun fighting off the true believers on this one. Regards, Kevintoronto 20:16, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Why didn't you mention the ritual baby-killings at party conventions? Come on, people should know about that stuff. ;-) Kevintoronto 20:26, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Regional Municipalities

The reason why I moved Sudbury and not the others, is only because I hadn't noticed. I thought they were all like that. In fact when I created the Ottawa-Carleton page, I had it as Ottawa-Carleton RM, Ontario, but then somebody (not mentioning any names ;-) ) moved it without me noticing. Earl Andrew 03:20, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Sorry, didnt notice it. Earl Andrew 03:59, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Missing pictures

The album articles you are creating are missing the picture they are linking to. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|^(talk)]] 11:59, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks...

for RAV-FM and CKVI! And now Delwin Vriend. (At the risk of stereotyping, when I put it on the "Start" list I thought, "I know Bearcat will take this up someday.) And general coolness. Samaritan 02:23, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

More radio fun! The Team stations in Kingston and Peterborough arguably didn't revert to oldies because they became Standards stations, a different creature. CJCH Halifax reverted to oldies-with-a-bit-of-talk, and I could swear CFRW Winnipeg had been Standards before The Team (fighting KY58 being presumably a lost cause) but is oldies now (KY58 now being FM AC outlet Clear FM.) But I can't yet confirm this.

Anyway, *sigh* I'm worried about articles on less-than-huge radio stations are very liable to be VfDed. Proponents/voters might likely be American, where smaller communities have many, many more radio stations (more spectrum allocated) and even most larger communities have more radio stations (more spectrum allocated plus lower powers for easier spacing.) We've both left marks (mine in my anon days) on CJKL and CJTT, for instance, and I'm afraid both are living dangerously, dependent on deletionists not only accepting that being the only local broadcaster in a populated area in one or two hours' drive puts a small-town commercial radio station over the bar, but realizing as much... Samaritan 07:26, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

RFC pages on VfD

Should RFC pages be placed on VfD to be deleted? I'm considering removing Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Slrubenstein, Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Jwrosenzweig and Wikipedia:Requests for comment/John Kenney from WP:VFD. Each of them was listed by CheeseDreams. Your comments on whether I should do this would be appreciated. - Ta bu shi da yu 03:21, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

French Canadian article

Since you also contributed good and valid information to the French Canadian article, I wanted to bring your attention to my recent entry in the talk page of the said article. There is an ambiguity that we must resolve around the phrase "French Canadian". I am trying to get other people to express their opinion on the issue.

Bonne journee! :-)

-- Mathieugp 13:30, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Edit summary

Greetings, Bearcat. You have been editing a lot. It would sure be helpful to others if you provided an edit summary. Rock on! Grumpy Gus 13:52, Dec 21, 2004 (UTC)

Quebec TV series

For the reasons cited earlier, the series produced in English and French should be together. In addition, some English series may be produced in Quebec while some French may be produced outside of Quebec. Either way, "TV shows of Canada" hasn't reached 32K so it's easier to put everything in Canada in that article. WhisperToMe 02:38, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)