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Hello, Canadian Copy Editor, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially what you did for Law Society of Alberta. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Redirects

Hello again - I noticed that in this edit you seemed to be having some trouble with redirects. What you were doing was actually backwards: if you want "Alberta bar" to redirect to "Law Society of Alberta", you need to put #REDIRECT [[Law Society of Alberta]] on the Alberta bar page, as I've done here. Thanks again for your work on the legal profession in Alberta, and please do let me know if you ever have any questions. Steve Smith (talk) 23:52, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

The redirect is fine - there are some places from within the editing interface where if you click on a redirect, you're taken to the redirect page itself rather than to its target, which is probably why you thought it wasn't working properly. One thing, though: by the terms of our license, article edit histories have to be preserved, so the kind of "cut and paste" move you conducted was problematic, since the history for the text in "Court of Appeal of Alberta" was still at "Alberta Court of Appeal"; for that reason, articles need to be moved using the "move" tab. If there's already an article or a redirect at the target, as there was here, you need to get an administrator to do the move, either by posting it at Wikipedia:Requested moves or by just asking me. Anyway, I've fixed this one, so everything should be fine now. As well, it's not so much that I'm looking over your edits as that I happen to have Law Society of Alberta on my watchlist, and I noticed what you were doing with it. Anyway, you're doing really helpful and much-needed work; I'm always around if you ever need help with anything else. Steve Smith (talk) 15:18, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Getting help

Unfortunately, there's always more article writing to be done on Wikipedia than there are people to do it. There are a few things things you can try as far as getting help goes, but there's no guarantee they'll work.

• Notifying a relevant Wikiproject. You might try posting at WT:LAW and/or WP:ALBERTA, in this case.
• Posting on the Canadian Wikipedians' Noticeboard.
• Having a look around articles of the sort you want to write and seeing who's worked on them, and then approaching a couple of them directly. People have a harder time ignoring requests if you ask them directly.

As an aside, I'm supposed to be working on Law of Canada right now, which is in lamentable shape, but the only part I've actually improved as yet is the "Constitution" part. So much writing, so little time. Actually, I have a fair bit of time. But not as much as I have writing I want to do. Good luck! Steve Smith (talk) 14:53, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Blocking IPs

Unfortunately, we have know way of knowing that that IP is stable, so to avoid blocking innocent users I'm going to hold off for now. If it continues with the same type of vandalism in the future, that will be evidence that it's a stable IP, and I'll apply a block then. Steve Smith (talk) 02:02, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Question re: Maclolm McKenzie

This seems like something to which you might know the answer: one of the articles on my "to improve" list is Malcolm McKenzie, who served as MLA for Macleod from 1905. At the Glenbow Archives, I've found a photo from March 1896 labelled "Supreme court, Fort Macleod, Alberta.", in which can be found an "M. McKenzie". My strong suspicion is that this is the same guy, but I haven't found any way of confirming that; do you happen to know of any resources that might be helpful? I presume this is the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories. Steve Smith (talk) 15:59, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of William J. Haddad

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entirely unsourced for many years

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