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I don't see any reason why you are changing Aylward's term as ending sometime between December and January. Just because his successor was announced in December doesn't seem like a reason to say his term as leader ended, even if he wasn't doing normal leader duties. The party's website had him listed as their leader till the January 3. Newfoundlander&Labradorian ( talk) 14:51, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
He stated he'd step down when his successor was chosen. Newfoundlander&Labradorian ( talk) 07:30, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
I must beg to differ with your interpretation. The material that you've deleted consists of (i) an electoral record table, (ii) a one-sentence description of the number of times this candidate has run for office, and (iii) the candidate's own one-word description of her occupation. There is nothing here that is intrusive, unencyclopedic, or contrary to Wikipedia's standards for these pages.
I realize that Wikipedia's standards for including information on peripheral candidates have evolved in recent years, and I also grant that some of the miniature candidate biographies that I wrote in previous years would not be appropriate today. With that said, however, I can't understand why this particular entry would be a source of controversy -- it isn't a "biography" at all in any meaningful sense of the term. CJCurrie ( talk) 06:25, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
117 Avenue Why did you undo my recent edits on Strathcona County, Cloverdale, Strathcona? These are my first forays into aiding in the Wikipedia effort, so I am learning how it works. Perhaps I am mistaken but it appears you are controlling or trying to control the Edmonton area entries. If my knowledge of local history is not appreciated, I certainly don't need to participate. Tom Monto, Alberta historian ( talk) 18:56, 16 January 2012 (UTC)Tom Monto, Alberta historian
I noticed the list of registered parties on the Elections Alberta website [1] has updated to include the Evergreen Party. But the Wildrose is still Wildrose Alliance. It makes me wonder if the party never filed paperwork to legally change its name.-- Þadius ( talk) 21:05, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi User 117Avenue, I just want to say that birthdate of Landon Liboiron was sourced and that the actual source about his age has expired. That's why I removed it. This is not a form of violation, please consider it. -- ScottieOrNothing ( talk) 16:31, 26 January 2012 (UTC)ScottieOrNothing
Ok, now that I indicated the dead link, could I add the new source? -- ScottieOrNothing ( talk) 20:35, 28 January 2012 (UTC)ScottieOrNothing
There's obviously a lot of confusion around the Liberal leadership, different sources say different things. From what I understood at the time from Yvonne Jones' announcement and from what was in the news she remained the Liberal leader while Kelvin Parsons was just the Opposition Leader (which makes sense considering the circumstances). Due to the confusion around this some media sources say different things. I'll try to look for some clarification. Newfoundlander&Labradorian ( talk) 03:57, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
These area minor points, but I thought I'd get your opinion before starting.
First, I noticed that 100 years ago there were several provincial parties that ran federal candidates, for example United Farmers of Alberta, which were mostly at the provincial level, but had a couple of federal MPs who kept the "of Alberta" parts of their affiliation (for example, this dude). How do you think we should handle these? The old templates just used the provincial party row-names in federal elections, but I'm wondering if we should create federal versions of these provincial parties that linked to the same page but displayed the "of Alberta" part. If we did that, what would be a good label for them? "CA AB United Farmers"?
Second, do you think we should do anything special with the row-name Template:Canadian elections/Unknown, or should we just give it a bland colour and keep it as "unknown"? The Parliament website confirms that they really don't know what party these guys were from. — Arctic Gnome ( talk • contribs) 19:44, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
CA AB United Farmers of Alberta
as you suggested, or simply United Farmers of Alberta
or UFA
. I just noticed
this edit, are you sure this is a good idea? There are other parties that used the Conservative name in the past.
117Avenue (
talk)
03:54, 5 February 2012 (UTC)Another question: what do you think we should do with all of the farmer-labour candidates in Labour candidates and parties in Canada. They use a wide assortment of names, like Farmer-Labour, Farmer-United Labour, United Farmer-Labour, etc.. Should we use a colour that's neither Labour, nor Farmer, nor independent, like we did in Template:Canadian politics/party colours? — Arctic Gnome ( talk • contribs) 07:51, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
I think the number of Senate nominees to be elected is set in the writ. The only other place a number could be found would be a regulation under the act, but I haven't found one. The act itself does not specify a number or formula, but leaves the decision in the hands of the LG. - Rrius ( talk) 05:21, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
[2] I am troubled by your repeated revert with reference to the same guideline and without initiating discussion. In this edit, you have claimed that I "don't understand the cited policy". That would seem to imply that you do. Please explain precisely and in detail what you are doing and why in light of the entirety of that guideline, rather than continually revert. Gimmetoo ( talk) 11:43, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
This edit summary didn't answer the question. Nothing at that documentation page explains why we are using a header that is different from the previous election page, that doesn't look as good, and that forces an expenditures column. - Rrius ( talk) 12:07, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
The Wildrose Party's website has been vandalized numerous time over the last day, I'm not sure not how to revert all the edits because they've gone right through the article several times. I thought you might be able to help fix it. Newfoundlander&Labradorian ( talk) 13:16, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
Dear 117Avenue,
I would like to draw you attention to the Port Alberta entry. Your link to the Edmonton International Airport is outdated misinformation. As I have edited many times and cited from the Port Alberta Webpage, Port Alberta was incorporated in 2010 and has been an independent organization separate from the airport for 2 years. I have not had time to address a proper entry, however I did try and highlight some clarifying remarks from their website. Perhaps if you could highlight your objections I will be able to start creating a stub that will serve academic interest in the reality of the corporate situation.
Thank you, PA Mgr ( talk) 17:52, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
Bonjour cher 117Avenue,
Est-ce que ça me ferai plaisir de mettre des nouveaux députés et enlève des députés défaits et qu'il ne présentera pas à l'élection dans la page francophone fr:Modèle:Palette députés Alberta. Aussi mettre les deux nouveaux députés néo-démocrates dans la page francophone fr:Modèle:Palette députés Colombie-Britannique. J'aimerai les faires, mais je suis pas encore me débloquée avant le 19 juin.
204.237.12.81 ( talk) 02:18, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi 117Avenue, In response to your post on the Alberta 2012 election talk page and your article reversion early on the 23rd, I apologize if my edits offended you (I sensed a harsh tone). I'm aware of the contributions you make to many articles, and thanks for that. I was acting in good faith to do what I thought was improving the article. I guess it was partly my newness to political Wikipedia editing that resulted in my unawareness that past graphs would automatically be used for future elections (and thus I guess I disrupted a status quo, whilst thinking that you disrupted a status quo by introducing all the graphs). So I've definitely learned something from that. I also read the two pages you linked me to, BRD and StatusQuo, where I've also learned things. So you were completely justified to revert those changes.
However, there were other changes that I made in separate edits at the same time early on the 23rd including removing "However, [Wildrose] support has waned in the past year" that you also reverted. Also, I had thought we had reached a consensus on the talk page that 'MLAs not running again' should be beside 'nominated candidates'. Were there compelling reasons that you reverted these changes? Arstoien ( talk) 18:52, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
An NDP MHA has updated his own wikipedia page and now is adding unsourced information and deleting information from the Newfoundland and Labrador general election, 2011, am I correct that this isn't suppose to happen. Newfoundlander&Labradorian ( talk) 01:42, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
He's added references to his own page but is not editing the election article, the one he ran in, with information. Some which is unsourced and other things that he has deleted. Newfoundlander&Labradorian ( talk) 01:46, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
I have built up a federal electoral district and I would like some feedback. Please see Wikipedia:Peer review/Surrey Central/archive1 and provide some comments if you can. Thanks. maclean ( talk) 03:12, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for trying to improve this new article by moving the title. My own original choice was the one you changed it to, and indeed it sounds and looks better. But, since there are four Frank Lakes in Alberta, I thought that the one I ultimately chose would enable the distinguishing of this lake from the three others. We can't name all of them "Frank Lake (Alberta)". Hence my choice of "south-central Alberta". Is there truly a naming convention here? Perhaps there's another way of distinguishing the four lakes? I'm not sure why you called the dab's "ridiculous". The link was piped to shortened the name in the articles, and like other piped links, enabled a link to the correct article. BC talk to me 06:28, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
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I don't see any reason why you are changing Aylward's term as ending sometime between December and January. Just because his successor was announced in December doesn't seem like a reason to say his term as leader ended, even if he wasn't doing normal leader duties. The party's website had him listed as their leader till the January 3. Newfoundlander&Labradorian ( talk) 14:51, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
He stated he'd step down when his successor was chosen. Newfoundlander&Labradorian ( talk) 07:30, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
I must beg to differ with your interpretation. The material that you've deleted consists of (i) an electoral record table, (ii) a one-sentence description of the number of times this candidate has run for office, and (iii) the candidate's own one-word description of her occupation. There is nothing here that is intrusive, unencyclopedic, or contrary to Wikipedia's standards for these pages.
I realize that Wikipedia's standards for including information on peripheral candidates have evolved in recent years, and I also grant that some of the miniature candidate biographies that I wrote in previous years would not be appropriate today. With that said, however, I can't understand why this particular entry would be a source of controversy -- it isn't a "biography" at all in any meaningful sense of the term. CJCurrie ( talk) 06:25, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
117 Avenue Why did you undo my recent edits on Strathcona County, Cloverdale, Strathcona? These are my first forays into aiding in the Wikipedia effort, so I am learning how it works. Perhaps I am mistaken but it appears you are controlling or trying to control the Edmonton area entries. If my knowledge of local history is not appreciated, I certainly don't need to participate. Tom Monto, Alberta historian ( talk) 18:56, 16 January 2012 (UTC)Tom Monto, Alberta historian
I noticed the list of registered parties on the Elections Alberta website [1] has updated to include the Evergreen Party. But the Wildrose is still Wildrose Alliance. It makes me wonder if the party never filed paperwork to legally change its name.-- Þadius ( talk) 21:05, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi User 117Avenue, I just want to say that birthdate of Landon Liboiron was sourced and that the actual source about his age has expired. That's why I removed it. This is not a form of violation, please consider it. -- ScottieOrNothing ( talk) 16:31, 26 January 2012 (UTC)ScottieOrNothing
Ok, now that I indicated the dead link, could I add the new source? -- ScottieOrNothing ( talk) 20:35, 28 January 2012 (UTC)ScottieOrNothing
There's obviously a lot of confusion around the Liberal leadership, different sources say different things. From what I understood at the time from Yvonne Jones' announcement and from what was in the news she remained the Liberal leader while Kelvin Parsons was just the Opposition Leader (which makes sense considering the circumstances). Due to the confusion around this some media sources say different things. I'll try to look for some clarification. Newfoundlander&Labradorian ( talk) 03:57, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
These area minor points, but I thought I'd get your opinion before starting.
First, I noticed that 100 years ago there were several provincial parties that ran federal candidates, for example United Farmers of Alberta, which were mostly at the provincial level, but had a couple of federal MPs who kept the "of Alberta" parts of their affiliation (for example, this dude). How do you think we should handle these? The old templates just used the provincial party row-names in federal elections, but I'm wondering if we should create federal versions of these provincial parties that linked to the same page but displayed the "of Alberta" part. If we did that, what would be a good label for them? "CA AB United Farmers"?
Second, do you think we should do anything special with the row-name Template:Canadian elections/Unknown, or should we just give it a bland colour and keep it as "unknown"? The Parliament website confirms that they really don't know what party these guys were from. — Arctic Gnome ( talk • contribs) 19:44, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
CA AB United Farmers of Alberta
as you suggested, or simply United Farmers of Alberta
or UFA
. I just noticed
this edit, are you sure this is a good idea? There are other parties that used the Conservative name in the past.
117Avenue (
talk)
03:54, 5 February 2012 (UTC)Another question: what do you think we should do with all of the farmer-labour candidates in Labour candidates and parties in Canada. They use a wide assortment of names, like Farmer-Labour, Farmer-United Labour, United Farmer-Labour, etc.. Should we use a colour that's neither Labour, nor Farmer, nor independent, like we did in Template:Canadian politics/party colours? — Arctic Gnome ( talk • contribs) 07:51, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
I think the number of Senate nominees to be elected is set in the writ. The only other place a number could be found would be a regulation under the act, but I haven't found one. The act itself does not specify a number or formula, but leaves the decision in the hands of the LG. - Rrius ( talk) 05:21, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
[2] I am troubled by your repeated revert with reference to the same guideline and without initiating discussion. In this edit, you have claimed that I "don't understand the cited policy". That would seem to imply that you do. Please explain precisely and in detail what you are doing and why in light of the entirety of that guideline, rather than continually revert. Gimmetoo ( talk) 11:43, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
This edit summary didn't answer the question. Nothing at that documentation page explains why we are using a header that is different from the previous election page, that doesn't look as good, and that forces an expenditures column. - Rrius ( talk) 12:07, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
The Wildrose Party's website has been vandalized numerous time over the last day, I'm not sure not how to revert all the edits because they've gone right through the article several times. I thought you might be able to help fix it. Newfoundlander&Labradorian ( talk) 13:16, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
Dear 117Avenue,
I would like to draw you attention to the Port Alberta entry. Your link to the Edmonton International Airport is outdated misinformation. As I have edited many times and cited from the Port Alberta Webpage, Port Alberta was incorporated in 2010 and has been an independent organization separate from the airport for 2 years. I have not had time to address a proper entry, however I did try and highlight some clarifying remarks from their website. Perhaps if you could highlight your objections I will be able to start creating a stub that will serve academic interest in the reality of the corporate situation.
Thank you, PA Mgr ( talk) 17:52, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
Bonjour cher 117Avenue,
Est-ce que ça me ferai plaisir de mettre des nouveaux députés et enlève des députés défaits et qu'il ne présentera pas à l'élection dans la page francophone fr:Modèle:Palette députés Alberta. Aussi mettre les deux nouveaux députés néo-démocrates dans la page francophone fr:Modèle:Palette députés Colombie-Britannique. J'aimerai les faires, mais je suis pas encore me débloquée avant le 19 juin.
204.237.12.81 ( talk) 02:18, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi 117Avenue, In response to your post on the Alberta 2012 election talk page and your article reversion early on the 23rd, I apologize if my edits offended you (I sensed a harsh tone). I'm aware of the contributions you make to many articles, and thanks for that. I was acting in good faith to do what I thought was improving the article. I guess it was partly my newness to political Wikipedia editing that resulted in my unawareness that past graphs would automatically be used for future elections (and thus I guess I disrupted a status quo, whilst thinking that you disrupted a status quo by introducing all the graphs). So I've definitely learned something from that. I also read the two pages you linked me to, BRD and StatusQuo, where I've also learned things. So you were completely justified to revert those changes.
However, there were other changes that I made in separate edits at the same time early on the 23rd including removing "However, [Wildrose] support has waned in the past year" that you also reverted. Also, I had thought we had reached a consensus on the talk page that 'MLAs not running again' should be beside 'nominated candidates'. Were there compelling reasons that you reverted these changes? Arstoien ( talk) 18:52, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
An NDP MHA has updated his own wikipedia page and now is adding unsourced information and deleting information from the Newfoundland and Labrador general election, 2011, am I correct that this isn't suppose to happen. Newfoundlander&Labradorian ( talk) 01:42, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
He's added references to his own page but is not editing the election article, the one he ran in, with information. Some which is unsourced and other things that he has deleted. Newfoundlander&Labradorian ( talk) 01:46, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
I have built up a federal electoral district and I would like some feedback. Please see Wikipedia:Peer review/Surrey Central/archive1 and provide some comments if you can. Thanks. maclean ( talk) 03:12, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for trying to improve this new article by moving the title. My own original choice was the one you changed it to, and indeed it sounds and looks better. But, since there are four Frank Lakes in Alberta, I thought that the one I ultimately chose would enable the distinguishing of this lake from the three others. We can't name all of them "Frank Lake (Alberta)". Hence my choice of "south-central Alberta". Is there truly a naming convention here? Perhaps there's another way of distinguishing the four lakes? I'm not sure why you called the dab's "ridiculous". The link was piped to shortened the name in the articles, and like other piped links, enabled a link to the correct article. BC talk to me 06:28, 30 April 2012 (UTC)