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Happy editing and have a great day! :-) Akamad 09:57, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome! Have you had a look at the Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Electoral districts in Canada? Perhaps it's of interest to you. Either way, enjoy Misplaced Pages, and if you ever need anything, you know where to find me. - Akamad 10:14, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Wikimedia Canada

Hi there! I'd like to invite you to explore Wikimedia Canada, and create a list of people interested in forming a local chapter for our nation. A local chapter will help promote and improve the organization, within our great nation. We'd also like to encourage everyone to suggest projects for our national chapter to participate in. Hope to see you there!--DarkEvil 17:11, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Vancouver

Hello. I am Arnold (aka Buchanan-Hermit) and I am writing to invite you to join the newly-formed WikiProject Vancouver. It was created really recently and it's in need of new members and those who are willing to spread the word.

I'd love to see you there. :) Thanks for your time. --Buchanan-Hermit™..CONTRIBS..SPEAK!. 03:16, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

North Vancouver

Ok, thanks a lot for your advice in North Vancouver, in the Portuguese Misplaced Pages. I moved "North Vancouver" to "Cidade de North Vancouver" (City of North Vancouver), created an article about the district municipality, and left "North Vancouver" to comment in the similarities and differences between the municipalities, like here. Best wishes, Leslie Mateus 06:02, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Gender

No, but that user shouldn't assume. It's easy to get around. Ardenn 20:30, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

I've also previously indicated I'm thinking about becoming a mason, and women can't be masons. Ardenn 20:34, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Templates

Sure thing! Misplaced Pages:Template messages Hope this helps! Ardenn 23:29, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

You are most certainly welcome. :-) Ardenn 03:42, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Queen's U

I did see this but after several attempts to fix it, I failed. Ardenn 17:51, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

False Creek South Station/Olympic Village Station

The change to Olympic Village Station is pending a licence agreement with the IOC. I thought it would be prudent to wait until it was confirmed. No big deal. — Usgnus 00:01, 12 May 2006 (UTC) Please see Talk:Olympic Village Station. Thanks! — Usgnus 03:07, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Quotation Marks

I didn't realize WP followed its own standard on this. Sorry about that. --Usgnus 05:57, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

University of Alberta

• Please refrain from undoing other people's edits repeatedly. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Misplaced Pages under the three-revert rule, which states that nobody may revert an article to a previous version more than three times in 24 hours. (Note: this also means editing the page to reinsert an old edit. If the effect of your actions is to revert back, it qualifies as a revert.) Thank you. - pm_shef 01:17, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

• "My concern, however is still with the earlier issue of the comment, and what sort of impression that creates for users." I'm not sure I understand? - pm_shef 02:14, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Moo!

--217.134.237.125 19:36, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Stub sorting

I updated the following to allow a sort key:

• {{Canada-school-stub}}
• {{Gvrd-stub}}
• {{Vancouver-stub}}
• {{Vancouver-bio-stub}}

--Usgnus 14:31, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

• {{BritishColumbia-stub}}
• {{BritishColumbia-geo-stub}}

--Usgnus 16:24, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Re:Your congrats

Thanks...although that was very confusing to read at first! Hehe. I wasn't sure what Ardenn was mad at me for though. I sure as hell didn't gang up on him for his "Oppose" vote (or even said anything about it, for that matter). But hey, I'm used to people hating me for no reason (even strangers on Burrard Street), so it's not too bad. :) -→Buchanan-Hermit™/!? 06:20, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Re: Deep Cove

I didn't think having the article at Deep Cove would confuse people into thinking that it was a separate entity from DNV, especially seeing that a number of articles on neighbourhoods within the City of Vancouver (eg. Yaletown, Kerrisdale) don't have the "Vancouver" disambiguation in their titles. (Admittedly the ones within Vancouver are better known around the Lower Mainland than ones on the North Shore.) I don't really mind either way, but I just think it'd be nice to have some consistency in naming. - Hinto 00:39, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Re: municipality boxes

I agree completely with the "immediate neighbours" thing. I, too, think the Vancouver one is way too crowded. Bodies of water might be important though, for cities next to, say, the Georgia Strait. It might make sense for places like West Vancouver or Richmond, both of which is heavily influenced by water bodies. Personally, I like the layout of the University Endowment Lands and Richmond, British Columbia municipality boxes. While all boxes are filled, it doesn't look too cluttered (which is a change from the Vancouver one). As for the "hop from one to another" part, I also support that idea but it might run into trouble when a city has many neighbours on one side (i.e. Burnaby's eastern neighbours are Port Moody, Coquitlam and New Westminster).

But in short, I like the style on the University Endowment Lands and Richmond articles, personally. Bodies of water shouldn't be a big deal if it influences the city significantly, I think. I'm not sure if you already did, but maybe you can post something on the WikiProject Vancouver talkpage about this too, to get more input. -→Buchanan-Hermit™/!? 09:16, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Just did a little experimenting: do you think something like this would work for Vancouver? :) -→Buchanan-Hermit™/!? 09:23, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Your recent North Vancouver edit

I your recent edit, you deleted a link to North Vancouver, British Columbia -- http://en.wikipedia.org/North_Vancouver.

I had added that link earlier as it seemed useful to include the information from that site.

Your thoughts?

Cheers, frtzw906 --Frtzw906 22:53, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Good point - take a look now. I've updated the link list at the top of the article. --Ckatz 23:10, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Frtzw906 23:54, 1 June 2006 (UTC)I like it.

School infoboxes

Eventhough the address is optional in the template, I believe in including the information when availible. I don't see how keeping the address off wikiepdia enhances safety as this is extremely public information already. There was a significant discussion about how to locate schools in the larger districts, whether we would refer to them by neighbourhood or something more local. So, The inclusion of the address is useful for other wiki editors. Wakemp 15:33, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Thank you :)

You reverted those "delightful" comments on talk page so quickly I had to look up the history to see them! Thanks heaps ;) - Glen _C (Stollery) 09:45, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

PS: He's been blocked indefinitely now too :)

VandalProof

Have you ever thought of using VandalProof? It makes vandal fighting *so* much easier. You usually have to apply to use it but as I'm a moderator I've preapproved you. If you're interested follow the instructions below. thanks again! - Glen _C (Stollery) 10:04, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Cool... thanks for doing that. I've checked out the page before and had planned to apply to use it. No time like the present, eh? --Ckatz 19:55, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to VandalProof!

Hi Ckatz, thank you for your interest in VandalProof. I am happy to announce that you are now one of our authorized users, so if you haven't already simply download VandalProof from our main page, install and you're all set! Template:User VandalProof

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If you have any problems please feel free to contact me or post a message on VandalProof's talk page. Welcome to our team! - Glen _C (Stollery) 10:04, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

What do you think of THIS? :)

v t e Places adjacent to Ckatz
City of North Vancouver, District of North Vancouver, West Vancouver University Endowment Lands Vancouver Burnaby Richmond

-→Buchanan-Hermit™/?! 04:01, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Wow, looks good. You put a lot of work into it, and it shows. Some problems, though - one, we lose the diagonals, which is a fair bit of information. Two, the arrow icons invite people to click on them, which leads to the image page. This will (I think) be somewhat confusing for most readers, so you might want to consider using arrows from a character set (as opposed to Wiki images). --Ckatz 05:45, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Well, I didn't make it. I spotted it while leafing through the Ottawa article. ;) Although we COULD make our own version WITH the diagonals if we wanted to... -→Buchanan-Hermit™/?! 05:58, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Update: Well, we COULD do this (ignore the WikiFrown, hehe). -→Buchanan-Hermit™/?! 06:05, 8 June 2006 (UTC)