User talk:Stevecudmore

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Ha!

Anyone who knows who was a Nova Scotia Governor and who was acting should be a member of wikipedia:WikiProject_Nova_Scotia! WayeMason 01:15, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ambiguous link

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Dictionary of Canadian Biography

I apologize if i've stepped on any toes and "welcome" to the editing of DoCB articles. When I started on those, I received many corrections from the founder of the project, User:Fawcett5 who had a format in mind and I stuck to it. The important thing, however, is new articles under DoCB. I'll watch for your name and try to avoid changes that are style oriented. I can't say that I won't edit your articles, (or you mine) because that is the whole idea of Wikipedia. Welcome again and happy editing! --Stormbay 17:16, 13 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate it

Thanks alot there, Steve. I just got pissed off because it looked shitty, it wasn't all about self promotion. So you're a Canadian college student? Where do you attend? My webmaster of my website goes to school with me here in Austin, Texas at the University of Texas and is from Canada. I'm glad you like the new pic I put up! Cnota 00:30, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

DYK

On 10 June, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Henry Pering Pellew Crease, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Carabinieri 08:42, 10 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Robert Burnaby

On 13 June, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Robert Burnaby, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--howcheng {chat} 00:13, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Legislative Assembly of Vancouver Island

On 13 June, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Legislative Assembly of Vancouver Island, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--howcheng {chat} 16:24, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

DYK

On 16 June, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Fort Victoria, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Carabinieri 16:28, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know?

On 17 June, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article John Sebastian Helmcken, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--GeeJo ^(t)⁄_(c) • 14:31, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

DYK

On 25 June, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Royal Engineers, Columbia detatchment, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Carabinieri 21:35, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

On June 28, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Jamie Graham, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Blnguyen (bananabucket) 08:08, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Henry Pering Pellew Crease

The article Henry Pering Pellew Crease you nominated as a good article has failed , see Talk:Henry Pering Pellew Crease for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of said article. If you oppose this decision, you may ask for a review.

Nishkid64 (talk) 17:07, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Burnaby Masonic reference...

Do you have an author, ISBN, and page for that book you used to cite Burnaby? As it stands, the ref is incomplete. MSJapan 22:11, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I thought there should have been a BC&Y reference. We can use that, as there's a slight preference for online vs. print sources for the sake of easier verifiability. MSJapan 22:42, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Henry Pering Pellew Crease

A few minor formatting tips that aren't typically deal-breakers until an article is scrutinized for FA, but are good to know sooner rather than later. Full dates (day/month/year) and partial dates (month/day) should be wikilinked, but not stand-alone years. The reason is that users can set their preferences to display dates as, for example, 7 July 2007 or July 7, 2007 regardless of what's written. Second, acronyms need to be consistent (with or without periods); the current trend is no periods (according to the Chicago Manual of Style). Lastly, ISBN numbers should be included for book references. Just type it in (eg, ISBN 9-345-88900-33-0) and the software should link it automatically as part of the reference and then users can look up which libraries have it on world cat.

I'll try and give the article a closer reading later and see about bumping it to GA status. In the meantime, keep up the good work; it's good to see you stepping up to bat since some of the more prolific BC history buffs have stepped back from Wikipedia. Cheers, bobanny 22:06, 7 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats, on the GA status for this article. --KenWalker | Talk 15:42, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The RCMP badge was created by Royal Warrant and thus it belongs to Her Majesty in Right of Canada and not the RCMP (ie. it is not a Canadian government creation).

Heraldry is considered as a trademark (by Canadian Law) and thus can be displayed on Wiki for that reason and not because it's on public domain. --Cahk (talk) 10:34, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi; I see you started the Alexander Begg (1825-1905) article and was wondering if you could help resolve, or perhaps muddle, the question as to which of these gentlemen is which; the "other guy" in Manitoba died in 1897, so he couldn't have been the Alexander Begg who authored the consultancy-type works that you'll find in the refs on Alaska boundary dispute; so presumably, if there are/were only two, then this guy (1825-1905) would be the one; but the article says there was another Alexander Begg working in Victoria as a journalist at the time (the Manitoba-Begg article says nothing about that guy having lived in Victoria....). So could there be a third Alexander Begg? or would the guy "here" (1825-1905) be sufficiently versed in the background of BC history so as to write the very detailed, and highly British Columbian in sentiment, tracts on the BC position re the boudnary dispute? I'm wondering if there's three A. Beggs....http://www.nosracines.ca doesn't solve the issue either, they have a general Alexander Begg listing, and then two breakdowns by "each one" (of two) but the History of BC, and the works on the Alaska Boundary Dispute, they don't so classify. Any ideas on this? if it's "our guy" *1825-1905* then his writing such major works on a then-burning boundary dispute should definitely be in his bio, as also the links to nosracines.ca. The otehr guy I think I'm pretty safe putting hte links to his writings on the Metis Rebellions....if I could be sure that is the Manitoba journalist.....could be worse, they could all be named John Smith....Skookum1 (talk) 03:47, 25 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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