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March 2009
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AfD Nomination: Lordco
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Please don't make major changes like that without a large consensus to do so. Thanks, OhNoitsJamie Talk 03:47, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
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April 2009
edit Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you recently tried to give Jalandhar a different title by copying its content and pasting it into another page with a different name. This is known as a "cut and paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history which is needed for attribution and various other purposes. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.
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Please stop
editPlease stop copying and pasting article content from one to another. This is a proper process for moving pages (see above) so that page history and discussions are not lost. If you continue to do this, I will consider your actions vandalism and have you blocked. KhalfaniKhaldun 04:09, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
About moving pages
editWhile I doubt your page moves were especially problematic, it is highly suggested that before possibly controversial moves of pages you discuss it on the respected page's talk page. For example, I can find no consensus to move for Ludhiana, Jalandhar, and Hoshiarpur, or even a discussion about those moves. It should be noted that there is no official policy or guideline for places in India, so any move should be considered potentially controversial. Thanks for understanding! By the way, if you have any questions feel free to reply here and I'll notice and reply; if I can't help you I'll send someone bye who can. =) KhalfaniKhaldun 05:42, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
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Saw your name change but, er, as it has turned out and consensus has arrived at, and not that I like it, but when a Canadian city/town/etc has a unique name the guideline is that the comma-province is dropped. Vancouver, Toronto, Penticton.....and Kelowna. Now, it hasn't been applied "down the line" but of late it's ben extended to municipalities e.g. Maple Ridge (though there are other settlements named Maple Ridge, that's teh alrgest one, is why). I'm pretty sure the consensus-mongers on this will interpret this as not needing the comma-province, esp. since Kelowna doesn't have it....I'm pretty adamant on its use for tiny places, but there have been arguments agaisnt that also, e.g. Ucluelet or Shalalth or even Bralorne (i.e. a non-aboriginal name). There are other cases where it's not suitable to have the commoa-province "postal adres", such as pre-colonization placenames such as Opitsaht. That's not the logic that will be invoked here, even though the "Kelowna" part of the name is aboriginal; it's because there's no other place by this name that there's no need for disambiguation.....Skookum1 (talk) 01:13, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
- With respect to Skookum1 (and I mean that Skookum!), article titles on Wikipedia do not participate in the articles. That means that the title is not used to explain the subject, it only uniquely identifies the subject. The recommended style for article naming is to use the simplest possible title. Since no other simple "West Kelowna" exists in the universe, the simple name is indicated. The new search function ensures that casual visitors will see first the correct article to click.
- RebaFan, it looks like you may be move-warring with CKatz. Please read WP:BRD and bring your concerns to an appropriate talk page. Making second reverts helps no-one. Franamax (talk) 01:36, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
- Indeed. Reba, if you have an issue with naming, please take it up at the appropriate place. You have now also unilaterally moved Moncton, two and one-half years after the page was successfully moved to that location, and again without any discussion. I also see several mentions above regarding improper cut-and-paste moves to other articles, suggesting a pattern. You should be aware that such behaviour can be considered disruptive if it continues. --Ckatzchatspy 02:09, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
- Hmm, yes. Reba, I don't want to beat up on you (none of us do) - but watch out with cut-and-paste where you don't give proper attribution for where you are getting the words from. That crosses a whole lot of boundaries...
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You can see the actual naming rules for Canadian city articles at WP:CANSTYLE if you need to, but a basic summary is as follows:
- If a name is unique (e.g. Iqaluit, West Kelowna, Rouyn-Noranda), or the city is unquestionably the most prominent and primary use of its name (e.g. Toronto, Montreal, Moncton), then the article goes at "City".
- If there's a valid and cogent reason why the article can't be at "City", then — and only then — it goes at "City, Province".
In a nutshell, we have the exact same naming convention as almost every country in the world. The US convention, requiring an invariable "City, State" in nearly all cases, is an outlier rather than the norm — and the Canadian contingent decided a long time ago that we want to follow the international norm, not the USian weirdness. Hope that helps a bit. Bearcat (talk) 14:04, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
The only reason I moved West Kelowna was that no one discussed it and I felt that unfair so I moved it back. RebaFan1996 (talk) 03:33, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
May 2009
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Proposed deletion of Demographics of Abbotsford, British Columbia
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Re neighbourhoods thing
editI agree with the overall thrust you're undertaking about neighbourhoods...I actually changed Heffley Creek, British Columbia to Heffley Creek, Kamloops, since it's now in city limits, but then again i see your observation/exemption for Westbank. But if Westbank, then also Clayburn and Kinnaird should have been left as-is; haven't noticed any change to Rosedale, Aldergrove or Cloverdale, but those are most commonly known in the comma-province format, as also with other local-identity-locations within Fraser Valley municpalities, e.g. Port Hammond, Whonoock, Agassiz, Sardis, Yarrow...but then so was Point Grey, and it was a separate municipality....anyway the ones I'd be concerned about are those that straddle borders, the ones I'm thinking of being Ruskin, Hatzic and maybe Burquitlam; those should be left as comma-province though maybe in Hatzic's case Hatzic Island and Hatzic Prairie are distinct enough as articles (technically landform articles but both also communities, though distinguishing Durieu from Hatzic Prairie is a subtle exercise mostly in terms of who goes/went to which school...Ruskin is commonly perceived to be in Maple Ridge, but the reality is half of it's in Mission (I know, I'm from Ruskin Dam, or was). Burquitlam maybe is more clearly Coquitlam, as the area north of Lougheed Mall and west of North Road is theoretically in it but is usually identified as North Burnaby (or part thereof, that is); East Burnaby is down by the New West border....Cariboo Hill is also both in New West and in Burnaby, and so on.....no biggie, just some cautionary notes on particular places....Skookum1 (talk) 21:23, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
I understand how you feel but the reason I left Westbank and not Clayburn was because before I joined wikipedia I never knew about Clayburn all I thought it was just a road in Abbotsford like many people I know. I just thought since it is not that well known in the rest of the province I changed it. Plus with Westbank before it was incorporated into West Kelowna many people outside it called the whole area Westbank and Westbank is a real important place in West Kelowna because it's the oldest and it's the their downtown. RebaFan1996 (talk) 03:14, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
- Yeah, well same as with Yarrow, which you just did comma-Chilliwack on; it's like Rosedale or Sardis, a distinct place in its own right (vs Greendale which is tiny). Clayburn was historically important, in fact it was larger than the Village of Abbotsford in its heyday; similarly Matsqui, British Columbia should be left as-is, I don't think Sumas, British Columbia has been written yet (the old municipality of Sumas is what's being referred to, not Upper Sumas which is the same as Kilgard, or rather is the IR part of Kilgard). There's no Rutland, British Columbia article yet, but since that was its own municipality before amalgamation it should probably not be Rutland, Kelowna (which just looks odd). Similarly Flood, British Columbia should not become Flood, Hope. Remember that when making/correcting disambiguations the point is to distinguish from other similarly-named articles, so Silverdale, British Columbia is more than adequate (see the Silverdale disambiguation apge) as comma-province is all that's needed to distinguish it from, for example Silverdale, Washington. Similarly Ferndale, British Columbia doesn't need to be Ferndale, Mission; the comma-province is more than enough to distinguish it from Ferndale, Washington and other Ferndales.). This subject is probably worth enlisting comment from the Communities subproject of WP:Canada and maybe there's more on it in WP:CANSTYLE.Skookum1 (talk) 15:59, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
Oops! did I do Yarrow sorry I guess I wasn't thinking and If you want just change those places back and next time when you reply please don't give me a long list of examples thanks! RebaFan1996 (talk) 20:08, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
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