Talk:List of mayors of Calgary

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I think the List of mayors of Vancouver is a lot more organized and clean. As just a suggestion I think we should consider reformatting this list to a similar format. Ideas anyone? --Zippanova 05:20, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

I am okay with it being either a bulleted list or a table. So, if you want to switch it, go right ahead. Note that I do not believe that Calgary has ever used political party affiliations in elections, which is one of the columns in the Vancouver list. As a side note, we probably would have had a few different results: Calgary tends to vote conservative in provincial and federal politics, but has had a few Liberal mayors recently. If you do switch, please do not reduce the dates to just the year. I believe that the actual dates of tenure is valueable information. -- JamesTeterenko 05:30, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

I made it into a table keeping the dates. -- User:Docu

Copyright and links

I have reverted the edits by 136.159.209.102 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log), 136.159.209.107 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) & 136.159.209.90 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) which I assume are the same user. I have two main reason for this:

• The links being re-inserted are not the links to the actual articles of the mayors. For example James A. Reilly is the link to the article about the mayor, James Reilly is a disambiguation page for multiple people with that name.
• A list of mayors is not something that needs to be taken verbatim from a specific "copyrighted" source. You may have used a specific source to update the list, and it is great that you were able to fill in a few missing dates. However, the original information was obviously not derived from the source you listed, as it would have had that missing information.

-- JamesTeterenko 19:58, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

I have reverted the change again from 136.159.209.8 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log). Please discuss your edit here. You may want to review Wikipedia:Disambiguation to understand why the link should be to James A. Reilly and not James Reilly. Or you may just want to click on those links and see where you actually end up. -- JamesTeterenko 22:36, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

This reversion continues without any edit summary or explanation on this talk page. I assume that you do not believe that James Reilly's middle initial is A. If you want to see a reference that refers to him with this initial, see here. This is a description from the Canadian Archival Information Network about a fond held at the archives at the Glenbow Museum. Although it for a collection from James Emmett Reilly, it refers to his uncle, James A. Reilly, who became mayor of Calgary. I believe that this is a reliable source. -- JamesTeterenko 19:55, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

• The link should certainly go to James A. Reilly to avoid the redirect, though if it's that much of an issue, it could be pipelined so that it looks like James Reilly. If the reverts do not stop, the anonymous user may be up for a block, either for WP:VAND or WP:3RR. --Scott Wilson 23:36, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your opinion. I have added the pipe in the hope that this satisfies the anonymous user. If you haven't done so, please this page to your watch list. I doubt there too many active wikipedians watching this page, which is why I asked for the 3rd opinion. -- JamesTeterenko 00:36, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Edit request from 72.25.192.4, 10 June 2011

It is really small wonder that so many of us give up in frustraton trying to navigate the complex web of how and where to contact the proper person for editorial remedy.

In this case, it seems utterly ridiculous, outrageous and offensive that some would-be "smart person" keeps restoring the error every time it is corrected; and now it is frozen "in situ" with a block preventing further correction. I regard this as a flagrant example of vandalism, yet I feel as though I am being treated as the vandal.

In reference to the List of Mayors of Calgary, to which I have made many improvements, Mayor James Reilly keeps showing up incorrectly as James A. Reilly. Please note that his christening record in Quebec indicates no other name than James. His marriage registration in Quebec indicates no other name. His death certificate in British Columbia indicates no other name. His tombstone at Calgary indicates no other name. His biographies and even his obituaries indicate no other name. None of his property deeds indicate any other name. Civic documents, Council Minutes, Nomination Papers, Civic Election results and signed Oaths of Office indicate no other name. His signature indicates no other name. Even his own relatives know of no other name. Never at any time does anything indicate any other name, save one single source, the newspaper report of the results of an election in the Calgary area of the North West Territories, which he lost. This is scarcely the most authoritative source.

This error has obviously been picked up by and crept into records (such as those of the Glenbow) along the way. The City of Calgary Archives does not accept it. I am sure the City Archives will tell you that I have a deeper knowledge of these matters than most anyone. I am also certain that if I were to point out these facts, my contacts at the Glenbow would take the issue seriously as well.

In my studied opinion this singular error may result from any of several causes. Amongst these might be included: (1) the possibility that this is a different James Reilly, (admittedly highly improbable); (2) an absent minded blunder either by an electoral official, or by a newspaper reporter, editor or typesetter, either accidentally or because, even back then, just as now, some know-it-all thought he knew better; or (3) the receiving of a "Confirmation Name", which is a new name added upon Confirmation into the Roman Catholic Church. In the latter case this would not normally be recognised or appear in any other situation or for any official purpose, and all the more so in view of his subsequent eschewal of Roman Catholicism.

I think the weight of the preponderance of evidence above should establish once and for all that there is insufficient justification to ascribe to Mayor Reilly any given forename apart from James, and that the one source from which various others have since accorded him one, is far too flimsy to outweigh all the evidence to the contrary. This reasoning hardly constitutes vandalism, as the obstinate perpetuation of the error would seem instead to do. 72.25.192.4 (talk) 23:02, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

If this was the problem, then why didn't you say anything the edit summary? It looks like vandalism when you change the link from the proper article, to James Reilly, a disambiguation page. You should have actually taken this up on Talk:James A. Reilly, this list just links to the article, and assumes it has the correct title. 117Avenue (talk) 00:38, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

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