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I just removed this claim from the article:
"The town of Smithers (which is close to Burns Lake) may have been the inspiration for the Waylon Smithers character from the popular TV show The Simpsons."
This sounds very apocryphal/coincidental to me. Can anyone provide any documentation for it per WP:CITE? -- Dvyost 08:39, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
This article was obviously written by someone who lives near Smithers but not in it. Much of the info on this page is false and serves to remind me to be careful in considering how much of each article on Wikipedia is factual. 209.82.97.10 06:55, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
UPDATED...SOMEONE HAS SINCE GONE THROUGH AND CORRECTED THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE...WELL DONE. 209.82.97.10 06:06, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
I dont believe that. There are some settlements in BC, which are much older. -- Eingangskontrolle ( talk) 06:14, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
I have to say that I do find this section to be of dubious factuality for several reasons: 1) the 2001 Census listed a total of zero Jewish people in Smithers that year. [1] 2) No directory of Synagogues on the internet show any Synagogue in Smithers. 3) The references added recently that only give an authors name, date and page number are not sufficient.
I would like to see better refereneces on the "Jewish Community" in Smithers in this article than the one given or at least add a title for the work or and ISBN number. Also, an explanation of why the 2001 Census shows no Jewish residents would be helpful in removing several editor's doubts. It seems odd to have a fair sized section on a Demographic that apparently doesn't exist. If this information is provided, I will be happy to not delete the section. User:Tartessos75 11 January 2010
:Your assertion that "No directory of Synagogues [sic] on the internet [sic] show any Synagogue [sic] in Smithers" is ridiculous. Have you personally checked every directory? Obviously you haven't. You don't even seem to posses basic proficiency in the English language as you insist on capitalizing 'synagogue' even though it is not a proper noun yet you did not capitalize 'Internet' despite the fact that it is.
:::Apparently you've never been to Smithers.
Webley455 (
talk) 05:48, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
I have recently made edits to the Notable Residents section to this page. I added the inventor of the egg carton, Joseph Coyle. This has since been taken down by Rhododendrites. I would like to request that Joseph Coyle be added back to the list of notable residents because his invention of the egg carton is important to society making his roots worth noting. You can do a quick search to see that what I have said is accurate. Here are some links http://www.bcnorth.ca/magazine/pages/jim/egg/egg1.htm and http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/bc-inventor-created-better-way-to-carry-eggs/article16118691/ Prime7919 ( talk) 23:29, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
I revised the population data to reflect the 2016 census. There was quite a discussion about demographics, but that information was not provided in an accessible way by the current census, so I removed it. The number of households was also not included because there were three different numbers given in the census. Canadianknowledgelover ( talk) 20:57, 21 October 2017 (UTC)Canadianknowledgelover
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I just removed this claim from the article:
"The town of Smithers (which is close to Burns Lake) may have been the inspiration for the Waylon Smithers character from the popular TV show The Simpsons."
This sounds very apocryphal/coincidental to me. Can anyone provide any documentation for it per WP:CITE? -- Dvyost 08:39, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
This article was obviously written by someone who lives near Smithers but not in it. Much of the info on this page is false and serves to remind me to be careful in considering how much of each article on Wikipedia is factual. 209.82.97.10 06:55, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
UPDATED...SOMEONE HAS SINCE GONE THROUGH AND CORRECTED THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE...WELL DONE. 209.82.97.10 06:06, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
I dont believe that. There are some settlements in BC, which are much older. -- Eingangskontrolle ( talk) 06:14, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
I have to say that I do find this section to be of dubious factuality for several reasons: 1) the 2001 Census listed a total of zero Jewish people in Smithers that year. [1] 2) No directory of Synagogues on the internet show any Synagogue in Smithers. 3) The references added recently that only give an authors name, date and page number are not sufficient.
I would like to see better refereneces on the "Jewish Community" in Smithers in this article than the one given or at least add a title for the work or and ISBN number. Also, an explanation of why the 2001 Census shows no Jewish residents would be helpful in removing several editor's doubts. It seems odd to have a fair sized section on a Demographic that apparently doesn't exist. If this information is provided, I will be happy to not delete the section. User:Tartessos75 11 January 2010
:Your assertion that "No directory of Synagogues [sic] on the internet [sic] show any Synagogue [sic] in Smithers" is ridiculous. Have you personally checked every directory? Obviously you haven't. You don't even seem to posses basic proficiency in the English language as you insist on capitalizing 'synagogue' even though it is not a proper noun yet you did not capitalize 'Internet' despite the fact that it is.
:::Apparently you've never been to Smithers.
Webley455 (
talk) 05:48, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
I have recently made edits to the Notable Residents section to this page. I added the inventor of the egg carton, Joseph Coyle. This has since been taken down by Rhododendrites. I would like to request that Joseph Coyle be added back to the list of notable residents because his invention of the egg carton is important to society making his roots worth noting. You can do a quick search to see that what I have said is accurate. Here are some links http://www.bcnorth.ca/magazine/pages/jim/egg/egg1.htm and http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/bc-inventor-created-better-way-to-carry-eggs/article16118691/ Prime7919 ( talk) 23:29, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
I revised the population data to reflect the 2016 census. There was quite a discussion about demographics, but that information was not provided in an accessible way by the current census, so I removed it. The number of households was also not included because there were three different numbers given in the census. Canadianknowledgelover ( talk) 20:57, 21 October 2017 (UTC)Canadianknowledgelover