User talk:Johnny Au/Archive8

voice

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0NEN6M905s

Hi Johnny, at 1:19, it's a normal voice or a falsetto? Fête Phung (talk) 03:08, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

It is at the boundary between the two, as it is a high note. Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 03:15, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

It's in C₅. Fête Phung (talk) 03:19, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

That is at the top range for tenors. See the image to the right:

Tenor voice range (C3–C5) indicated in sheet music (left) and on piano keyboard in green with dot marking middle C (C4).

Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 03:23, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

chord

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X04jR-RzByk

Hi Johnny, at 4:02, it's in E♭ major or in E♭ minor? Fête Phung (talk) 03:28, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

E♭ major ? Fête Phung (talk) 16:57, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

The first half of the arpeggio is minor and the second half is major, so it is actually both. Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 17:24, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

Where is the minor key? Fête Phung (talk) 01:33, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

It is subtle and is at 4:02 and the major key is a few seconds after that. Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 04:04, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

voice

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Hi Johnny, this is a male voice or a female voice? Fête Phung (talk) 02:24, 17 March 2016 (UTC) Male. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 12:46, 17 March 2016 (UTC) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMfavuvEx58 Hi Johnny, as far as I know, this is a male singer, but he has a unisex voice? Fête Phung (talk) 23:46, 18 March 2016 (UTC) Definitely male, as he is a tenor. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 02:48, 19 March 2016 (UTC) When you were listening his voice, you were sure that he is a man? Fête Phung (talk) 02:53, 19 March 2016 (UTC) Yes. I am very certain. In fact, he sounds like a tenor and thus is a tenor, albeit at a high range for a tenor. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 02:54, 19 March 2016 (UTC) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns8Cu5sXcMA This guy has a unisex voice? Fête Phung (talk) 01:32, 28 March 2016 (UTC) Perhaps so. His voice is quite sweet by the way. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 01:45, 28 March 2016 (UTC) Notice The above IP user is a sockpuppet of Fête (see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Fête for investigation). Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 23:27, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

Quebec accent

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France: Quebec: Hi Johnny, the French pronunciation is [ivɛːʁ], and the Quebec pronunciation is [iveɪʁ̥], have you heard the difference? Fête Phung (talk) 01:58, 20 March 2016 (UTC) Yes. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 02:13, 20 March 2016 (UTC) The Quebec pronunciation is definitely not [eɪ]. They sound almost the same, maybe the Quebec vowel is a bit higher. Martin sv 85 (talk) 08:30, 3 April 2016 (UTC) @Martin sv 85: You should message Fête Phung about this. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 15:48, 3 April 2016 (UTC) Done, thanks. Martin sv 85 (talk) 15:56, 3 April 2016 (UTC) It's [iveːʁ̥] or [iveɪ̯ʁ̥]. Fête Phung (talk) 21:59, 3 April 2016 (UTC) Neither of these, and most definitely not a closing diphthong [eɪ]. It's [e̞ː], a close-mid front unrounded vowel, which in broad transcription can be transcribed as [eː], with no diacritics. Martin sv 85 (talk) 22:09, 3 April 2016 (UTC) Notice The above IP user is a sockpuppet of Fête (see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Fête for investigation). Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 23:29, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

symphony

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Hi Johnny, you pronounce it [ˈsɪmfəni] or [ˈsɪmfoʊni]? Fête Phung (talk) 02:14, 2 April 2016 (UTC) Both ways in fact (the former when speaking quickly and the latter when speaking slowly). However, when I speak very quickly, I pronounce it [ˈsɪmfni]. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 02:29, 2 April 2016 (UTC) Notice The above IP user is a sockpuppet of Fête (see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Fête for investigation). Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 23:31, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

key

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVfgeAw6Idc Hi Johnny! This is in F♯ major? Fête Phung (talk) 23:23, 2 April 2016 (UTC) Yes. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 02:26, 3 April 2016 (UTC) Notice The above IP user is a sockpuppet of Fête (see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Fête for investigation). Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 23:32, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

mettre/maître

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Hello Johnny! You pronounce the word mettre as [mɛtʁ], but you pronounce the word maître as [mɛːtʁ]? Fête Phung (talk) 00:56, 7 April 2016 (UTC) Yes. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 02:34, 7 April 2016 (UTC) You pronounce the word faite as [fɛt], but you pronounce the word fête as [fɛːt]? Fête Phung (talk) 01:53, 8 April 2016 (UTC) Yes. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 02:22, 8 April 2016 (UTC) You really make the difference? Fête Phung (talk) 02:24, 8 April 2016 (UTC) Yes. The circumflex serves dual purpose: it lengthens the vowel and it is an etymological reminder that there used to be an "s" following the letter. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 15:17, 8 April 2016 (UTC) Notice The above IP user is a sockpuppet of Fête (see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Fête for investigation). Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 23:34, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

technology

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You pronounce it [tɛkˈnɒlɒdʒi] or [tɛkˈnɒloʊdʒi]? Fête Phung (talk) 16:38, 8 April 2016 (UTC) [tɛkˈnɒlədʒi] actually. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 02:16, 9 April 2016 (UTC) Notice The above IP user is a sockpuppet of Fête (see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Fête for investigation). Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 23:35, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

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Britain

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Hi Johnny! You pronounce it [ˈbɹɪtən] or [ˈbɹɪteɪn]? Fête Phung (talk) 02:46, 17 April 2016 (UTC) The latter. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 14:54, 17 April 2016 (UTC) You say [ˈbɹɪteɪn], it's funny! Your teachers have corrected your pronunciations? Fête Phung (talk) 15:34, 17 April 2016 (UTC) No. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 02:17, 18 April 2016 (UTC) Notice The above IP user is a sockpuppet of Fête (see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Fête for investigation). Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 23:36, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

male voice

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Hi Johnny! This is a hoarse voice? Fête Phung (talk) 01:25, 24 April 2016 (UTC) No. It is just the microphone. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 02:17, 24 April 2016 (UTC) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY22U1_JA_s At 0:20, he doesn't have a clear voice, he has a hoarse voice? Fête Phung (talk) 02:19, 24 April 2016 (UTC) He has a clear voice. Again, it is just the microphone. It sounds almost like the National anthem of Russia though. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 16:47, 24 April 2016 (UTC) In fact, some men have a voice like this, it's a virile voice. Fête Phung (talk) 16:54, 24 April 2016 (UTC) Ah. Thank you. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 02:09, 25 April 2016 (UTC) It's a deep voice? Fête Phung (talk) 10:46, 25 April 2016 (UTC) No. It's tenor, just a deep tenor, but not deep enough to be baritone. Johnny Au (talk//contributions) 16:08, 25 April 2016 (UTC) At 0:20, his voice is not clear, but how to call this kind of voice? A magnetic voice? Fête Phung (talk) 22:03, 25 April 2016 (UTC) It might be static. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 02:17, 26 April 2016 (UTC) I don't know how to call this male voice. Fête Phung (talk) 23:50, 26 April 2016 (UTC) Me neither. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 02:26, 27 April 2016 (UTC) Hi Johnny! C♯4 is tenor? Fête Phung (talk) 01:27, 29 April 2016 (UTC) Yes. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 03:54, 29 April 2016 (UTC) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jR2nPBW20d0 Hi Johnny! At 0:25, it's a male voice or female voice? Fête Phung (talk) 14:48, 29 April 2016 (UTC) Sounds male to me. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 16:44, 29 April 2016 (UTC) In fact, it's Wong Cho-lam who disguises. Fête Phung (talk) 22:06, 29 April 2016 (UTC) Notice The above IP user is a sockpuppet of Fête (see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Fête for investigation). Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 23:37, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

villain

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Hi Johnny! You pronounce it [ˈvilən] or [ˈvileɪn]? Fête Phung (talk) 02:33, 1 May 2016 (UTC) The latter. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 02:36, 1 May 2016 (UTC) In fact, in unstressed syllable, /eɪ/ should be reduced to [ɪ], for example, captain /ˈkæpteɪn/ → [ˈkʰæptʰɪn], message /ˈmɛseɪdʒ/ → [ˈmɛsɪdʒ], orange /ˈɔɹeɪndʒ/ → [ˈɔɹɪndʒ] etc., but you don't pronounce the reduced vowel, except the word orange, it's special! Fête Phung (talk) 21:26, 1 May 2016 (UTC) Orange is special: I pronounce it as [ˈɔɹɪndʒ]. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 02:21, 2 May 2016 (UTC) Notice The above IP user is a sockpuppet of Fête (see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Fête for investigation). Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 23:38, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

key

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WDADKmnykI Hi Johnny! This key is similar to F major? Fête Phung (talk) 01:38, 4 May 2016 (UTC) Similar to F major, but is not F major. It is closer to F♯ major to me. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 02:09, 4 May 2016 (UTC) It's exactly in F♯ major? Fête Phung (talk) 13:36, 4 May 2016 (UTC) Correct. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 14:50, 4 May 2016 (UTC) F major and F♯ major are very similar? Fête Phung (talk) 01:53, 5 May 2016 (UTC) They are one semitone apart from each other, which makes them very similar. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 01:58, 5 May 2016 (UTC) Notice The above IP user is a sockpuppet of Fête (see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Fête for investigation). Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 23:39, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

reasons

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV2yMnzWkkc Hi Johnny! At 0:36 and 0:37, he pronounced /ˈɹizənz/ or /ˈɹizʌnz/? Fête Phung (talk) 01:28, 6 May 2016 (UTC) The former. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 02:14, 6 May 2016 (UTC) Notice The above IP user is a sockpuppet of Fête (see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Fête for investigation). Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 23:40, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

key

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5-LQgAVp-A Hi Johnny! This song is between D minor and E♭ minor? Fête Phung (talk) 01:50, 10 May 2016 (UTC) The latter. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 02:11, 10 May 2016 (UTC) It's between D minor and E♭ minor? Fête Phung (talk) 13:11, 10 May 2016 (UTC) It's definitely closer to the latter. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 14:47, 10 May 2016 (UTC) Notice The above IP user is a sockpuppet of Fête (see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Fête for investigation). Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 23:41, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

songs

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY22U1_JA_s Hi Johnny! This song is really similar to the Russian national anthem? Fête Phung (talk) 15:42, 12 May 2016 (UTC) It is. It shares some of the same chord progression. However this is even more similar to the Russian national anthem. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 16:28, 12 May 2016 (UTC) Notice The above IP user is a sockpuppet of Fête (see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Fête for investigation). Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 23:42, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

keys

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izGwDsrQ1eQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz6Y3Deba0g These two songs are similar? Fête Phung (talk) 18:15, 12 May 2016 (UTC) They are similar, but not similar enough to get in legal issues. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 01:37, 13 May 2016 (UTC) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAyJboDfI8I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WDADKmnykI Hi Johnny! These two keys are identical or different? Fête Phung (talk) 02:03, 28 May 2016 (UTC) Different: the former is in F major, while the latter is in F♯ major. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 03:01, 28 May 2016 (UTC) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npE9J1P7uAA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7HyfdLBS8U Hi Johnny! The first video is in C minor, but the second video is between B minor and C minor? Fête Phung (talk) 14:13, 3 June 2016 (UTC) Both are nearly identical, especially with the instrumentals. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 17:05, 3 June 2016 (UTC) Notice The above IP user is a sockpuppet of Fête (see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Fête for investigation). Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 23:43, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

Help me understand Twitter policy (re Line 4 Rocket)

Hi. Line 4 Sheppard said the Rocket trains were coming summer 2016.

Brad Ross, Executive Director, Corporate Communications, for the TTC, on his verified Twitter account, announced that they had started.

This isn't Brad Ross talking about Brad Ross, this is Brad Ross in his official capacity as spokesman for the TTC, talking about the TTC.

So I added the date and the reference.

Now there are better references, such as http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/sheppard-subway-line-gets-new-toronto-rocket-trains-1.3607811

But I'm curious why Twitter wasn't appropriate at the time?

Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bobagem (talk • contribs) 03:05, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

The CBC link is acceptable. Twitter is not. Read here: WP:TWITTER. Though Ross is speaking at an official capacity and having the authority to do so, third-party publications (as secondary sources) prevail over primary sources anyways per WP:OR, thus the CBC link is to be used instead. Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 03:31, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

Canadian accent

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http://www.wordreference.com/fren/peut-être Hi Johnny! The Canadian pronunciation is [pœtɛɪ̯tʁ̥ə], [pœtæɪ̯tʁ̥ə] or [pœtaɪ̯tʁ̥ə]? 206.180.250.57 (talk) 02:52, 12 June 2016 (UTC) The first one is the pronunciation used in wordreference.com, while the third one is the Canadian French pronunciation: wikt:être. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 03:06, 12 June 2016 (UTC) But the peut-être article exists in Wiktionnaire too. 206.180.250.57 (talk) 13:24, 12 June 2016 (UTC) True. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 13:54, 12 June 2016 (UTC) http://www.wordreference.com/fren/guêpe The Canadian pronunciation is [ɡɛɪ̯p] or [ɡaɪ̯p]? 206.180.250.57 (talk) 16:08, 12 June 2016 (UTC) The former for the website, the latter for the Canadian pronunciation. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 02:14, 13 June 2016 (UTC) The Canadian pronunciation is [ɡɛɪ̯p] in wordreference.com? 206.180.250.57 (talk) 02:26, 13 June 2016 (UTC) No. The former pronunciation is in wordreference.com, while the latter is the one generally used in Canadian French. wordreference.com uses standard French pronunciations. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 02:27, 13 June 2016 (UTC) Wordreference.com uses Canadian French pronunciations too, please check them. 206.180.250.57 (talk) 11:05, 13 June 2016 (UTC) Sometimes, but not always. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 16:45, 13 June 2016 (UTC) Have you heard the Canadian pronunciation of guêpe in Wordreference.com? 64.18.87.172 (talk) 18:37, 13 June 2016 (UTC) Now I do. It sounds like "gape." Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 02:08, 14 June 2016 (UTC) Notice The above IP user is a sockpuppet of Fête (see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Fête for investigation). Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 23:47, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

key

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_pXWajF3lY This song is in F major or in F♯ major? 206.180.250.57 (talk) 02:17, 14 June 2016 (UTC) The former. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 02:20, 14 June 2016 (UTC) Are you sure? 206.180.250.57 (talk) 02:27, 14 June 2016 (UTC) It sounds like it to me. Otherwise, it is halfway between the two. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 16:24, 14 June 2016 (UTC) Notice The above IP user is a sockpuppet of Fête (see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Fête for investigation). Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 23:47, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

jaune

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http://www.wordreference.com/fren/jaune Hi Johnny! The Canadian pronunciation at Wordreference.com is [ʒoʊ̯n] or [ʒɔːn]? 206.180.250.57 (talk) 16:34, 15 June 2016 (UTC) It sounds close to "John." Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 16:49, 15 June 2016 (UTC) But the first consonant is surely [ʒ]. 206.180.250.57 (talk) 16:53, 15 June 2016 (UTC) Correct. It sounds close to "John" except that the first consonant is [ʒ], not [dʒ]. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 02:31, 16 June 2016 (UTC) Notice The above IP user is a sockpuppet of Fête (see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Fête for investigation). Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 23:48, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

voice

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1RUpmid9TY Hi Johnny! He has a male voice or a female voice? Fête Phung (talk) 01:44, 1 July 2016 (UTC) It has elements of both. Perhaps a unisex voice. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 02:11, 1 July 2016 (UTC) Notice The above IP user is a sockpuppet of Fête (see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Fête for investigation). Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 23:49, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

Editing News #2—2016

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CN Tower

Hi there. I know you make a lot of edits to the CN Tower article. Do you know why there a French translation of the name in the article's first line? Thanks. Magnolia677 (talk) 22:23, 9 July 2016 (UTC)

It is because French is Canada's other official language. Not only that, but it is indirectly owned by the federal government and structures owned by the federal government have names in both English and French. Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 05:00, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

Would you happen to know the Wiki policy that supports that? I looked in some of the usual places but was not able to find it. Thanks again. Magnolia677 (talk) 09:07, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

It might be from an obsolete policy though. Please feel free to change that part of the article. Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 17:16, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

The policy might be changed. Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 16:06, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

Toronto

Hello Johnny Au:

The copy edit you requested from the Guild of Copy Editors of the article Toronto has been completed.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Kind regards,

Twofingered Typist (talk) 21:02, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

Thank you so much for your hard work and dedication to improving the Toronto article. Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 02:24, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

Hello Johnny Au:

The edit I made to the article Toronto regarding the nickname "The 6" was found to be un-constructive.

I'm happy that the listing has "The six" as a current nickname.

I'm curious as to why you found that it wasn't constructive in April 2015.

Novice editor, Thanks

Many monkeys (talk) 06:05, 28 August 2016 (UTC)

It was considered un-constructive back then, but is now acceptable, since there are reliable sources that document the term "The Six." Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 16:45, 28 August 2016 (UTC)

WP:NOTBROKEN

Hi. I saw several of your edits such as this one and this one to Wikipedia:Verifiability from a couple weeks ago. At the time I didn't think much of it, but I was reading {{R from plural}} which mentions WP:NOTBROKEN and I was reminded of your edits. Technically these changes are against editing guidelines. I often think these kinds of edits are beneficial, but since you might make a lot of them I wanted to make sure you were aware of this guideline. Cheers, Jason Quinn (talk) 15:29, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

Mention of block lengths

That template (and others) omit block lengths on purpose so the current vandal doesn't have an easy way to know when they can start vandalizing again. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 16:14, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

Got it. Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 02:20, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

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• Image galleries now use a visual mode for editing. You can see thumbnails of the images, add new files, remove unwanted images, rearrange the images by dragging and dropping, and add captions for each image. Use the "Options" tab to set the gallery's display mode, image sizes, and add a title for the gallery.[7]

Future changes

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining 10 "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next month. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect several languages, including Thai, Burmese and Aramaic.

The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. The 2017 wikitext editor will look like the visual editor and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices in October 2016. You can read about this project in a general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list.

Let's work together

Do you teach new editors how to use the visual editor? Did you help set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki? Have you written or imported TemplateData for your most important citation templates? Would you be willing to help new editors and small communities with the visual editor? Please sign up for the new VisualEditor Community Taskforce.

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Ways to improve Vincent Yard

Hi, I'm CaroleHenson. Johnny Au, thanks for creating Keele Yard!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. I know it's been awhile since you created this article, but do you have references, by chance for this article?

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse. CaroleHenson (talk) 02:42, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

I did not create that article as an article. I created it as a redirect. Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 03:07, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

I also added some content to the article though. Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 03:55, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Johnny Au. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

New 10,000 Challenge for Canada

Hi, Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada/The 10,000 Challenge is up and running based on Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge for the UK, which has currently produced over 2300 article improvements and creations. If you'd like to see large scale quality improvements happening for Canada like The Africa Destubathon, which has produced over 1600 articles in five weeks, sign up on the page. The idea will be an ongoing national editathon/challenge for Canada but fuelled by a contest such as The North America Destubathon to really get articles on every province and subject mass improved. I would like some support from Canadian Wikipedians here to get the Challenge off to a start with some articles to make doing a Destubathon worthwhile! Cheers. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:55, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

That would be quite a challenge, especially given that there aren't that many active Canadian Wikipedians, as many of them quit for various reasons. Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 14:17, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of 2015 Pan American Games

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article 2015 Pan American Games you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Jaguar -- Jaguar (talk) 19:21, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

Thank you very much. Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 02:58, 25 November 2016 (UTC)

The article 2015 Pan American Games you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:2015 Pan American Games for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Jaguar -- Jaguar (talk) 17:42, 25 November 2016 (UTC)

Thank you very much. Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 02:59, 26 November 2016 (UTC)

Toronto

Hi Johnny! I am trying to improve the Toronto article. Do you know where I could find some good references for the sections that are unreferenced? I can only seem to find info on blogs and other "unreliable" sources. Thanks, Jith12 (talk) 22:16, 4 February 2017 (UTC)

You could try the following:

• Toronto to 1918: An Illustrated History (1984) by J. M. S. Careless
• Toronto since 1918: An Illustrated History (1984) by James Lemon

I have both of these books; they're excellent for finding stuff about the history of Toronto.

You could also visit the Toronto Reference Library as well. Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 02:14, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

I went to the Toronto Reference Library and it is very helpful. It has stuff about Toronto's history as well. Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 00:32, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

The City of Toronto Archives on Spadina Road between Casa Loma and Dupont station is also a good place to visit as well. Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 03:13, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

Translate an article

Hello there, I'm Info2Learn, and I realized that the pages 2016 Canadian census and 1996 Canadian census has no French version of it. I'm asking you because I saw that you know some French and I thought you could do it. If you don't want to, that's fine, but don't forget to notify me either way so that I don't accidentally annoy you to do it. Info2Learn (talk) 21:35, 18 February 2017 (UTC)

@Info2Learn: My French writing skills aren't good enough for the task unfortunately. Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 00:22, 19 February 2017 (UTC)

Well, there's now a French version for the 2016 census but not for the 1996 census. Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 03:17, 5 March 2017 (UTC)

Someone could create the 1996 census article in French. Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 03:12, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

Oh, and don't use Google Translate. It's very inaccurate in most cases. Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 03:11, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

173.230.176.176

Useddenim recommends that I request an administrator to block 173.230.176.176 as per the last remark in Talk:Toronto streetcar system#Steve Munro. I would appreciate your comments. Thanks. TheTrolleyPole (talk) 01:37, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

Go right ahead! Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 02:12, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

The specific link is here, albeit archived. Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 03:52, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

Apparently, there's no decision made by admins at all; the user probably became inactive. Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 00:39, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

The user probably has sockpuppets and should be blocked. Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 00:31, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

Editing News—2017

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Did you know?

Did you know that you can review your changes visually?

When you are finished editing the page, type your edit summary and then choose "Review your changes".

In visual mode, you will see additions, removals, new links, and formatting highlighted. Other changes, such as changing the size of an image, are described in notes on the side.

Click the toggle button to switch between visual and wikitext diffs.

The wikitext diff is the same diff tool that is used in the wikitext editors and in the page history.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has spent most of their time supporting the 2017 wikitext editor mode, which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and adding the new visual diff tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor as a beta feature, and improving the visual diff tool.

Recent changes

A new wikitext editing mode is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. The 2017 wikitext editor has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools. Go to Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures to enable the ⧼Visualeditor-preference-newwikitexteditor-label⧽.

A new visual diff tool is available in VisualEditor's visual mode. You can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs. More features will be added to this later. In the future, this tool may be integrated into other MediaWiki components.⁠^[8]

The team have added multi-column support for lists of footnotes. The <references /> block can automatically display long lists of references in columns on wide screens. This makes footnotes easier to read. You can request multi-column support for your wiki.⁠^[9]

Other changes:

• You can now use your web browser's function to switch typing direction in the new wikitext mode. This is particularly helpful for RTL language users like Urdu or Hebrew who have to write JavaScript or CSS. You can use Command+Shift+X or Control+Shift+X to trigger this.⁠^[10]
• The way to switch between the visual editing mode and the wikitext editing mode is now consistent. There is a drop-down menu that shows the two options. This is now the same in desktop and mobile web editing, and inside things that embed editing, such as Flow.⁠^[11]
• The Categories item has been moved to the top of the Page options menu (from clicking on the icon) for quicker access.⁠^[12] There is also now a "Templates used on this page" feature there.⁠^[13]
• You can now create <chem> tags (sometimes used as <ce>) for chemical formulas inside the visual editor.⁠^[14]
• Tables can be set as collapsed or un-collapsed.⁠^[15]
• The Special character menu now includes characters for Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics and angle quotation marks (‹› and ⟨⟩). The team thanks the volunteer developer, Tpt.⁠^[16]
• A bug caused some section edit conflicts to blank the rest of the page. This has been fixed. The team are sorry for the disruption.⁠^[17]
• There is a new keyboard shortcut for citations: Control+Shift+K on a Windows or Linux device, or Command+Shift+K on a Mac. It is based on the keyboard shortcut for making links, which is Control+K on a Windows or Linux device or Command+K on a Mac.⁠^[18]

Future changes

• The VisualEditor team is working with the Community Tech team on a syntax highlighting tool. It will highlight matching pairs of <ref> tags and other types of wikitext syntax. You will be able to turn it on and off. It will first become available in VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode, maybe late in 2017.⁠^[19]
• The kind of button used to Show preview, Show changes, and finish an edit will change in all WMF-supported wikitext editors. The new buttons will use OOjs UI. The buttons will be larger, brighter, and easier to read. The labels will remain the same. You can test the new button by editing a page and adding &ooui=1 to the end of the URL, like this: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Sandbox?action=edit&ooui=1 The old appearance will no longer be possible, even with local CSS changes.⁠^[20]
• The outdated 2006 wikitext editor will be removed later this year. It is used by approximately 0.03% or 0.3‰ or 3‱ of active editors. See a list of editing tools on mediawiki.org if you are uncertain which one you use.⁠^[21]

If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 19:19, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

Canada's Wonderland

I probably got in your way with this article; sorry. I ran across a note about it at WP:AN, reporting the high levels of vandalism, and the sheer number of vandal edits meant that they were taking up so much room in the page history. This led me to decide simply to get rid of them (not revdel, since revdel allows them to continue clogging up the history), but for some reason it took five minutes just to undelete everything, and in the meantime I suppose you were trying to edit and wondering what happened to the page. Nyttend (talk) 02:49, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

Thank you so much for cleaning the page history. No need to apologize. At least you deleted and restored the article shortly after I made almost thirty revisions to improve the article, the same as the number of edits made by the vandal. Great timing! Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 16:24, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

It's great that the article history was cleaned up. The user could have been blocked for 3RR much earlier and is now very much an unperson, using Newspeak parlance, in the grand scheme of things. My edits stay put, as they are constructive. Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 13:14, 13 August 2017 (UTC)

DRN Notice

This message is being sent to let you know of a discussion at the Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard regarding a content dispute discussion you may have participated in. Content disputes can hold up article development and make editing difficult for editors. You are not required to participate, but you are both invited and encouraged to help this dispute come to a resolution. The thread is "Talk:Toronto#Changes to_the_First_Paragraph_of_the_Lead".The discussion is about the topic Toronto. Please join us to help form a consensus. Thank you! Nihlus 17:33, 10 October 2017 (UTC)

I'm on it. Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 03:14, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

DRN case closed

This message template was placed here by Nihlus, a volunteer at the Dispute Resolution Noticeboard. You recently filed a request or were a major party in the DRN case titled "Talk:Toronto#Changes to_the_First_Paragraph_of_the_Lead". The case is now closed: consensus has been reached If you are unsatisfied with this outcome, you may refile the DRN request or open a thread on another noticeboard as appropriate. If you have any questions please feel free to contact this volunteer at his/ her talk page or at the DRN talk page. Thank you! --Nihlus 14:48, 26 October 2017 (UTC)

• Additional comments by volunteer: This is the approved version:

  Toronto (/təˈrɒntoʊ/ , locally /təˈrɒnoʊ/ ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. It is located within the Golden Horseshoe in Southern Ontario on the northern shore of Lake Ontario. With 2,731,571 residents in 2016, it is the largest city in Canada and fourth-largest city in North America by population. Also in 2016, the Toronto census metropolitan area (CMA), the majority of which is within the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), had a population of 5,928,040, making it Canada's most populous CMA. A global city, Toronto is a centre of business, finance, arts, and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world.

It has been resolved and is much better than what was there earlier. Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 01:00, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

New Page Reviewing

Hello, Johnny Au. I've seen you editing recently and you seem knowledgeable about Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Would you please consider becoming a New Page Reviewer? Reviewing/patrolling a page doesn't take much time but it requires a good understanding of Wikipedia policies and guidelines; currently Wikipedia needs experienced users at this task. (After gaining the flag, patrolling is not mandatory. One can do it at their convenience). But kindly read the tutorial before making your decision. Thanks. — Insertcleverphrasehere (or here) 10:28, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

I notice that you have the "administrator someday" userbox. Reviewing new pages is one of the best ways to develop experience needed to successfully wield the mop. — Insertcleverphrasehere ^{(or here)} 10:28, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

Yes, I will be admin someday, but I don't have much time to review new pages these days, especially those outside my expertise. Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 13:14, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

We have a new tool called the The NPP Browser that lets you search all currently unreviewed pages by keyword or category (making it easy to find articles within your preferred area of expertise). If you get some spare time and decide to join in the future, I just wanted you to know that this was available. — Insertcleverphrasehere ^{(or here)} 18:05, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

Looks interesting. Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 04:31, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

Capitalization

Terms like "head coach", "first assistant coach" and "director of soccer" are not proper names in English, they're just job titles, and so MOS:CAPS says not to capitalize them. Walter Görlitz (talk) 03:34, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Ah. Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 03:35, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Your signature

Please be aware that your signature uses deprecated <font> tags, which are causing Obsolete HTML tags lint errors.

You are encouraged to change

<font face="Old English Text MT"> [[User:Johnny Au|<span style="color:#ffd700;background:#000080">Johnny Au</span>]]</font> <sub>([[User talk:Johnny Au|talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Johnny Au|contributions]])</sub> : Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)}

to

<span style="font-family: Old English Text MT;"> [[User:Johnny Au|<span style="color:#ffd700;background:#000080">Johnny Au</span>]]</span> <sub>([[User talk:Johnny Au|talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Johnny Au|contributions]])</sub> : Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)}

—Anomalocaris (talk) 17:59, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Updated sig. Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 02:27, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

Thanks ... did you intentionally put in "talk" without a link? —Anomalocaris (talk) 05:27, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

Yes, but only on this page. Otherwise, the link still goes to my talk page if I sign outside this page (such as in an article's talk page, on someone else's user talk page, and such). Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 13:40, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

I don't know how you do that, and there's nothing wrong with it, I suppose, but Wikipedia automatically turns wikilinks to the containing page into bold unlinked text. So why the workaround to get the default display? —Anomalocaris (talk) 08:45, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

No idea. I just manually change the link to talk on this page only. Just a habit. Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 15:46, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

Use of WPcleaner

In searching through options to start up WP cleaner on my Mac, I fear I am an oldie newbie who dares not fool with coding apps on my Mac, it crashes regularly online, probably because I do not keep up with various updates required for the newspaper advertising that keeps loading when I try to blog on op-ed columns. I don't know, I can't figure it out.

I very much would appreciate it if you would run the WP cleaner on the following articles where I have written charts of the delegates in each convention. Many are linked to disambiguation pages (14 of 94 for the Convention of 1829–30, with 36 unique links, -- though at least one was to the wrong guy, so I need to learn how to create disambiguation pages), but the editor who helped out with that and the Convention of 1850 suggests that I do it myself. There are about a hundred names in each chart, so some sort of techie assist would be very much more efficient than eyeball clicking each name.

Here is my wishlist: Fifth Virginia Convention, Virginia Secession Convention of 1861, Wheeling Convention, Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1868, Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1902.

Thanks in advance for any help, no hard feelings if not. TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 11:53, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

@TheVirginiaHistorian: You could perhaps ask GünniX as well. Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 14:33, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

It's very unfortunate that there aren't that many people using WPCleaner, according to this page here. Even rarer are those who use WPCleaner on a Mac, as there aren't many Mac users in general, despite it being the second most popular desktop operating system family. Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 02:45, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

History of immigration to Canada

Fixed. I'm wondering why you didn't fix it yourself? Do you know about Wiki-Blame?—the "revision history search" button on the article history page. I just had it search for "China and India", it gave me a link to the edit where it was inserted (7 months ago!) and I copied and pasted the wording that had been there before, so we have the link to Immigration to Canada back, too. Yngvadottir (talk) 12:55, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

Thank you very much. Wiki-Blame sounds interesting. I might try that. Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 16:50, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

Unfortunately, it has some flaws in that it's rather finicky, but it is still great overall. Keep it up. Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 02:10, 1 October 2017 (UTC)

FYI station renaming

As as local editor, you may have an interest in Talk:Toronto Pearson Viscount Station#Requested move 6 February 2018. So far the discussion seems to be by people who do not regularly take an interest in Toronto stations. Secondarywaltz (talk) 17:20, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

This one is tricky. Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 03:00, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

At least the alternative is much easier to decide. Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 19:33, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

It has been fully resolved. Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 01:54, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

Editing News #1—2018

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Did you know?

Did you know that you can now use the visual diff tool on any page?

Sometimes, it is hard to see important changes in a wikitext diff. This screenshot of a wikitext diff (click to enlarge) shows that the paragraphs have been rearranged, but it does not highlight the removal of a word or the addition of a new sentence.

If you enable the Beta Feature for "⧼visualeditor-preference-visualdiffpage-label⧽", you will have a new option. It will give you a new box at the top of every diff page. This box will let you choose either diff system on any edit.

Click the toggle button to switch between visual and wikitext diffs.

In the visual diff, additions, removals, new links, and formatting changes will be highlighted. Other changes, such as changing the size of an image, are described in notes on the side.

This screenshot shows the same edit as the wikitext diff. The visual diff highlights the removal of one word and the addition of a new sentence. An arrow indicates that the paragraph changed location.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter from May of last year, the Editing Team has spent most of their time supporting the 2017 wikitext editor mode, which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and improving the visual diff tool. Their work board is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor, and improving the visual diff tool.

Recent changes

• The 2017 wikitext editor is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. It has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools. The team have been comparing the performance of different editing environments. They have studied how long it takes to open the page and start typing. The study uses data for more than one million edits during December 2017 and January 2018. Some changes have been made to improve the speed of the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual editor. Since the launch of the 2017 wikitext editor, it opened fastest for most edits, and the 2010 WikiEditor was fastest for some edits. More information will be posted at mw:Contributors/Projects/Editing performance.
• The visual diff tool was developed for the visual editor. It is now available to all users of the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. When you review your changes, you can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs. You can also enable the new Beta Feature for "Visual diffs". The Beta Feature lets you use the visual diff tool to view other people's edits on page histories and Special:RecentChanges.⁠^[22]
• Wikitext syntax highlighting is available as a Beta Feature for both the 2017 wikitext editor and the 2010 wikitext editor.⁠^[23]
• The citoid service automatically translates URLs, DOIs, ISBNs, and PubMed id numbers into wikitext citation templates. This tool has been used at the English Wikipedia for a long time. It is very popular and useful to editors, although it can be tricky for admins to set up. Other wikis can have this service, too. Please read the instructions. You can ask the team to help you enable citoid at your wiki.

Let's work together

• The team is planning a presentation about editing tools for an upcoming Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting.
• Wikibooks, Wikiversity, and other communities may have the visual editor made available by default to contributors. If your community wants this, then please contact Dan Garry.
• The  block can automatically display long lists of references in columns on wide screens. This makes footnotes easier to read. This has already been enabled at the English Wikipedia. If you want columns for a long list of footnotes on this wiki, you can use either <references /> or the plain (no parameters) {{reflist}} template. If you edit a different wiki, you can request multi-column support for your wiki.⁠^[24]
• If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly. We will notify you when the next issue is ready for translation. Thank you!

—User:Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 23:14, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

FYI (Talk:Toronto)

I added some suggestions to Talk:Toronto, as you are very active on the page I wanted you to see them before I add them so I can get a second point of view about adding them —  BrandonXLF   ^{(t@lk) (ping back)} 01:08, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

I will take a look a them. Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 01:09, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

I took a look at them and replied to them. Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 01:12, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

Just so you know I replied to your replies —  BrandonXLF   ^{(t@lk) (ping back)} 01:32, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

Good. Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 12:40, 9 August 2018 (UTC)