User talk:PKT/Archive 2016

Thanks!

Glad to see someone appreciates my photography contributions to the encyclopedia. I look out for things that haven't been photographed at all or were not photographed properly whenever I visit new places. In this case, I knew I would be going up the CN Tower so I focused on Toronto-based landmarks, noticed that Corus hadn't been photographed yet, and was careful to take lots of pictures of it when I was up there. This was back when I owned a prosumer camera with an amazing 22x zoom lens. Unfortunately it got an aberration on the right corner somehow. The aberration was noticeable only at 1x or 2x zoom but that means it messes up most regular photos, so I turned in the camera for recycling and upgraded to my first real SLR after the Toronto visit. --Coolcaesar (talk) 04:55, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

Please give input

Main page: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of people from Richmond Hill, Ontario

Thanks Vaselineeeeeeee (talk) 01:30, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

Article was deemed "speedy keep" soon after. :) Vaselineeeeeeee (talk) 04:02, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

Eccles Road railway station

Hi, re this edit. All pages edited by Bkendler (talk · contribs) are either unreferenced, poorly referenced, or have an unclear style, in many cases both. I've tried talking to them on their user page, but get no response other than reinstatement of bad edits. --Redrose64 (talk) 12:18, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

Parent, Ontario listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Parent, Ontario. Since you had some involvement with the Parent, Ontario redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Cnilep (talk) 06:29, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre

Hello PKT,

I am from the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, currently updating our production history page. I noticed you had disambiguated a couple of links on our page, and would like to thank you for your efforts. Our main focus right now is in checking links, cleaning up formats, and ensuring proper attributions to the playwrights and creators are being given. Of particular interest is ensuring our page meets the Wikipedia standards and guidelines, as well as the standards for other theatre centre production histories throughout Canada. Given your experience in this area of Wikipedia, any advice or information that you could provide would be greatly appreciated, and help facilitate our mission to improve the article.

Thank-you.

MTCHistory (talk) 20:55, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

See also: Manitoba Theatre Centre production history PKT(alk) 13:17, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

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Pontus Carlsson

Hi PKT. You unlinked the chess club Sollentuna SK. Why do you think that the club is not notable? They've been winning the Swedish Chess Championship 6 times (1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2006 and 2007). Regards, --Gereon K. (talk) 17:04, 5 June 2016 (UTC)

Hello Gereon K. - is there an article for Sollentuna SK? In Wikipedia, that's the first question. The second question is whether or not it's likely that an article will be created and will meet notability standards, and I doubt that a chess club would do so. It is more likely that the club's players have articles in Wikipedia than the club will have. PKT(alk) 19:36, 5 June 2016 (UTC)

Red links have the purpose of inviting editors to write articles. en.wikipedia has 13 articles about chess clubs (Category:Chess clubs). Why should a club that has won the national championship 6 times not be notable? There are more than 1,000 articles about football clubs, several hundred baseball teams and so forth. --Gereon K. (talk) 19:43, 5 June 2016 (UTC)

Gereon K.; In my humble opinion, chess clubs don't generally have the cachet of football clubs, baseball teams (or hockey teams, for that matter). Regardless, you're free to go ahead and start the article for Sollentuna SK. Or, simply revert my edit if you feel strongly enough about it. PKT(alk) 19:58, 5 June 2016 (UTC)

Geelong College

Hi PKT

I linked M.A. Buntine to his Wikipedia bio at Arnold Buntine but you reversed it. Was that a mistake? You might like to reverse your edit so that Dr Martyn Arnold Buntine (1898-1975), who was Principal of the Geelong College from 1946 to early 1960, is wiki linked.

Thanks Castlemate (talk) 00:22, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

Actually, the link I saw was to simply Arnold, not Arnold Buntine. I'll leave it to you to repair. PKT(alk) 01:02, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors July 2016 News

Guild of Copy Editors July 2016 News Hello everyone, and welcome to the July 2016 GOCE newsletter. June Blitz: this one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 12 through 18 June; the themes were video games and Asian geography. Of the 18 editors who signed up, 11 removed 47 articles from the backlog. Barnstars and rollover totals are located here. Thanks to all editors who took part. Coordinator elections: The second tranche of Guild coordinators for 2016, who will serve a six-month term until 23:59 UTC on 31 December, have been elected. Jonesey95 remains as your drama-free Lead Coordinator, and Corinne and Tdslk are your new assistant coordinators. For her long service to the Guild, Miniapolis has been enrolled in the GOCE Hall of Fame. Thanks to everyone who voted in the election; our next scheduled one occurs in December 2016. All Wikipedia editors in good standing are eligible; self-nominations are welcome and encouraged. July Drive: Our month-long July Copy Editing Backlog Elimination Drive is now underway. Our aim is to remove articles tagged for copy-edit in April, May and June 2015, and to complete all requests on the GOCE Requests page from June 2016. The drive ends at 23:59 on 31 July 2016 (UTC). Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Jonesey95, Corinne and Tdlsk. >>> Sign up for the July Drive! <<<

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Guild of Copy Editors July 2016 Drive Barnstars

		The Minor Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to PKT for copy edits totaling between 1 and 3,999 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE July 2016 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:56, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

Thank you

		The Original Barnstar
		is hereby awarded to PKT for creating and developing the Outline of New Brunswick. Well done. Thank you. The Transhumanist 04:33, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

That brings us down to only 2 territories and 1 more province of Canada's to go. Getting close to a complete set. The Transhumanist 04:33, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

Ghayl Habban

"Ghayl Habban" is a name that I frequently saw in literature about Yemen without ever finding an accurate explanation of it in English (I found German and Arabic explanations, but no good English explanations). I tried to make people a favor and I wrote what may be the first accurate explanation in English. I left the Arabic names of the villages because they are unvocalized and it is not possible to transliterate them, but providing unvocalized names is better than nothing. --HD86 (talk) 19:58, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

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New 10,000 Challenge for Canada

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Thomas Power

The citation seems correct: https://books.google.co.il/books?id=LqF0BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA246&lpg=PA246&dq=wizards+of+armageddon+Well,+you%E2%80%99d+better+make+sure+that+they+a+man+and+a+woman&source=bl&ots=7Ju1cLIuMF&sig=vsFnzrOOE_OKTp2YhI6i1p2PLrU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiLvfvpzuDQAhWKzRoKHa7_CfsQ6AEIGjAA#v=onepage&q=wizards%20of%20armageddon%20Well%2C%20you%E2%80%99d%20better%20make%20sure%20that%20they%20a%20man%20and%20a%20woman&f=false

Regards, Max.--Maxaxax (talk) 22:33, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for your response. The quote in the reference was "make sure that they're a man and a woman", not "they". I fixed it for you. Cheers! PKT(alk) 22:36, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors December 2016 News

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Sortname

Thanks for your edits to {{sortname}} entries on List of Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science. Although two or three are very useful, most of them don't seem to have made any difference.
Now, I freely admit I may be missing something here, so if you could explain to me why I should not have changed the ones I have changed, I would be very grateful. Meantime, Merry Xmas! Pdfpdf (talk) 13:31, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

I guess the issue is that there are articles for a few of the Fellows, but not many. Let's use David Black as an example - there are several people by that name for whom there are articles, but not the chemist who's a Fellow of the AAS. When David Black is a blue link, a user might follow the link to a disambiguation page where there is no information about the chemist, so the link's of no use. Changing the link to David Black (chemist) tells people that there isn't an article, and it might prompt somebody to create one. PKT(alk) 14:32, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. I agree with what you say about changing entries like {{sortname|david|black}} to entries like {{sortname|david|black|dab=chemist}}, but you've kinda missed my point that in many other examples of your edits you've done something similar to changing entries like {{sortname|david|black}} to entries like {{sortname|david|black|david black}}, and my point is that changing entries like that achieves nothing. No big deal - just trying to clarify what I was trying to say to you. Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 10:56, 22 December 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Thanks for your appreciation, PKT...my own birth-father has a page here at Wikipedia, believe it or not, just look for the name Don Earle in the English language Wikipedia, and you'll have found him - it's part of the reason I'm such a huge Boston Bruins fan ! The PIPE (talk) 15:03, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

Merry, merry!

From the icy Canajian north; to you and yours! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 15:05, 25 December 2016 (UTC)