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| Ok, off of sourcing for a moment, I believe O-Town is a viable nickname that is used. Not to be rude, but who cares about what an outsider thinks. What makes a nickname a nickname is from the city inhabitants. If you and your friend were talking about Ottawa and one says "I'll meet you in O-Town" They will not think you are talking about Orlando. Also how about Toronto's, T.O? Maybe that means Tijuana? Or C-Town for Calgary? Maybe Cincinnati? Or Thompson, MB "Nickel City", that could be referring to Sudbury, ON? Or Owen Sound, "The Scenic City? That could literally be every city in the world. So I believe it is fine. | Ok, off of sourcing for a moment, I believe O-Town is a viable nickname that is used. Not to be rude, but who cares about what an outsider thinks. What makes a nickname a nickname is from the city inhabitants. If you and your friend were talking about Ottawa and one says "I'll meet you in O-Town" They will not think you are talking about Orlando. Also how about Toronto's, T.O? Maybe that means Tijuana? Or C-Town for Calgary? Maybe Cincinnati? Or Thompson, MB "Nickel City", that could be referring to Sudbury, ON? Or Owen Sound, "The Scenic City? That could literally be every city in the world. So I believe it is fine. | ||
| :I do see your point,,,but dont agree...every generation has a nickname for their city. Onterrible is what Ontario is called by many diaspora in the West,,,but would you add this? You will just have to talk it out when your reverted... see ] for what most do when reverted so there is no edit wars...thus blocks. I recently finished ] it may be helpfull in learning your way around. -- ] (]) 02:37, 4 January 2015 (UTC) | |||
| I see your point but there is actually a nickname on Edmonton's page and on the nickname list "Deadmonton" for Edomton's "boringness". So? | |||
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City nicknames
I would like to thank you for the effort....but you will find many of the edit will be reverted by other. There are a few problems with the edits...first most will want to see source of some national or international recognition of the name. A local reporter that uses a name in passing will not be a source most will think is good. Secondly it looks like your copy and pasting sources from List of city nicknames in Canada ... many of them are dead...this "may" indicate you have not looked at them yourself...thus are not verifying your edits (dont want people to think this). So lets look at Ottawa for example... "O-Town" is a local saying (I am from Ottawa and it is used in an urban setting)...outsider would actually recognize "Canada's Capital" more so then O-Town. O-Town to most outside Ottawa means " Orlando, FL" or any city that starts with an O for that matter. To put it simply... "Everyone is encouraged to copyedit articles, add content and create new articles if they have knowledge about the topic at hand or are willing to do the necessary research to improve it". I will not revert anything else...let other do so if they fell a need ...instead I will help you here and in the articles. Do you have any questions so far?? -- Moxy (talk) 01:37, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
Ok well how about C-Town for Calgary? Why should that be allowed,it could mean Cincinnati for all we know? Also, a source is a source no matter where it comes from, it does not matter if I used it from somewhere else. It is still a reliable one. I just wanted to cross reference between the two articles so there are no discrepancies. Also not to be rude, but who cares about the outsiders? It is a city nickname for a reason because the inhabitants of the city are the one's who know about it. How would an outsider know about Toronto's nickname "The Big Smoke", or even Bytown for Ottawa if they did not know about Ottawa's history? I am from Toronto and I have never heard this, but is apparently a nickname. That is what makes a nickname a nickname. Or even "Hub City", at least five Canadian cities have this nickname.
- Ok first will answer "a source is a source" as quoted from WP:USERGENERATED (a guideline) "Anyone can create a personal web page or publish their own book, and also claim to be an expert in a certain field. For that reason self-published media—whether books, newsletters, personal websites, open wikis, blogs, personal pages on social networking sites, Internet forum postings, or tweets—are largely not acceptable". See more at WP:SOURCES.
- Second "cross reference between the two article" Misplaced Pages has many level of articles...some better then others...some better sourced then others. What we have to keep in mind is we want to have the best articles possible. this means not transferring badly or unsourced info from one article to another. Each article should have up to date sources that have been verified by those that add them (WP:PROVEIT). -- Moxy (talk) 02:14, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
Ok, off of sourcing for a moment, I believe O-Town is a viable nickname that is used. Not to be rude, but who cares about what an outsider thinks. What makes a nickname a nickname is from the city inhabitants. If you and your friend were talking about Ottawa and one says "I'll meet you in O-Town" They will not think you are talking about Orlando. Also how about Toronto's, T.O? Maybe that means Tijuana? Or C-Town for Calgary? Maybe Cincinnati? Or Thompson, MB "Nickel City", that could be referring to Sudbury, ON? Or Owen Sound, "The Scenic City? That could literally be every city in the world. So I believe it is fine.
- I do see your point,,,but dont agree...every generation has a nickname for their city. Onterrible is what Ontario is called by many diaspora in the West,,,but would you add this? You will just have to talk it out when your reverted... see Misplaced Pages:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle for what most do when reverted so there is no edit wars...thus blocks. I recently finished Misplaced Pages:Contributing to Misplaced Pages it may be helpfull in learning your way around. -- Moxy (talk) 02:37, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
I see your point but there is actually a nickname on Edmonton's page and on the nickname list "Deadmonton" for Edomton's "boringness". So?