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Ways to improve 1992 European Curling Championships

Thanks for creating 1992 European Curling Championships.

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Ottawa Sport Hall of Fame

Thanks for your edits to Ottawa Sport Hall of Fame (OSHOF). How do you feel about a Category:Ottawa Sport Hall of Fame inductees? I hope to eventually wikilink to the OSHOF from each athete's article, but a category might be useful too. Flibirigit (talk) 15:40, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

Let's continue this discussion at Talk:Ottawa Sport Hall of Fame. It's best to keep it all in one place. Flibirigit (talk) 16:00, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

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North Bay, Ontario

Seems the indefinite extended confirmed protection in place since October 2017 has served its purpose and can be dropped now... you agree? Brycehughes (talk) 00:38, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

Seems fine. Consider it done. -- Earl Andrew - talk 00:59, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

Ethnic Map

Hey Earl! What's the chances we can get an update on this map? From what I understand you created this using 2006 census data?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_origins_of_people_in_Canada#/media/File:Censusdivisions-ethnic.png — Preceding unsigned comment added by HistoryCanadiana (talk • contribs) 18:04, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

Lisa Weagle

You have prob met Lisa so you may know best why we may or may not wish a tick shot section in her article. I have googled 'Weagle tick' and it does have reliable source hits that have the shot as her namesake; in particular a newspaper article as far back as 2014. I left the expansion tag hoping others would reference it as I suck at references. Thoughts? 96.55.104.236 (talk) 22:44, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

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??? I don't see any of my articles in the DYK. -- Earl Andrew - talk 13:38, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

mixed doubles 3rd place rankings

if you think that it is too much of a bother, or is going to cause issues, just remove the rankings. I thought it would be helpful for readers, but I can see that it might just lead to disputes and/or frustration.18abruce (talk) 17:23, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

Nothing to apologize for I assure you. The WCF often complicates matters by being inconsistent (or incorrect) with how they apply 'clinched' to their standings as well, so I guess we will just have to see what happens.18abruce (talk) 17:38, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

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US Mixed Doubles removed

Hey Earl, I noticed when you added the bronze medal for the WMDCC to the medal record for Cory Christensen and John Shuster you removed the gold medal for the US Mixed Doubles Championship. Why? - A202985 (talk) 15:43, 27 April 2019 (UTC)

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Hello! Is it useful for you (and other people in WP Curling)? User:AlexNewArtBot/CurlingSearchResult -- Alexey Gustow (talk) 21:09, 14 July 2019 (UTC)

Potentially! -- Earl Andrew - talk 22:03, 14 July 2019 (UTC)

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Talking about you and me

Hello. Look here ("User needing thoughts about"). I think: maybe my current work in Eng-Wiki is "not so needed for world curling society"? If so "serious Wikipedians" said that I'm not "good guy"... I have a tons of work about curling in my Ru-Wiki (for example - translation from En-Wiki hundreds of articles about curling events and players not exists for today in Ru-Wiki) - so I can stop added "very bad BLPs" in En-WP. (by the way - this table "Teams", is it useful for user-reader? with repeated "red and blue links"? can the user-reader get any needed information like "when Darryl Gunnlaugson last time was in Stoughton team on Brier and what place they had?"? is he needed for this information? I tried to ask in Facebook group, but nobody answered) -- Alexey Gustow (talk) 22:14, 25 September 2019 (UTC)

I think the tables are a good inclusion. Anyway, there are ways you can improve the articles, and source them better of course (inline citations), and more prose (I understand this may be difficult, considering your level of English proficiency). Anyway, unfortunately there are users on Wikipedia that don't understand that their actions are contributing to the site's attrition of users by being less than helpful. -- Earl Andrew - talk 14:27, 26 September 2019 (UTC)

OK, I understand and will try (if I can) make some better. And now I continue the same work through "list of men's World champions and medallists" (from present to past). -- Alexey Gustow (talk) 15:49, 26 September 2019 (UTC)

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