User talk:SweetNightmares/Archive 1

Archive 1

TfD nomination of Template:Zack Snyder

Template:Zack Snyder has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. —Erik (talk • contrib) 14:48, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

(For your information, the template underwent deletion review, and there was no criteria for speedy deletion. In good faith, one of the editors who sought to overturn deletion at WP:DRV placed it at WP:TFD so discussion can be held.) —Erik (talk • contrib) 14:48, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

French simple

Hello, I have been looking into the idea of a Simple French wikipedia. And I have noted down some ideas Here. I don't know if you're still active on wikipedia. But if you are, your input would be greatly appreciated! --Île flottɑnte~Floɑting islɑnd ^Talk 00:02, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

April 2010

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. When you make a change to an article, please provide an edit summary, which you forgot to do before saving your recent edit to Alexander the Great. Doing so helps everyone to understand the intention of your edit. It is also helpful to users reading the edit history of the page. Thank you. —Sean Whitton / 14:44, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Dermatology, etc

I replied regarding Acne excoriée des jeunes filles. Also, any interest in dermatology? This field of medicine has a rich history, with beginnings in France and England. You could be a real asset to the Dermatology task force. Most recently we have been working on the Bolognia push, and there is still a lot of potential for new articles and redirects. Regardless, thank you for your work on wikipedia. ---kilbad (talk) 00:23, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

Matrilineality

Since it's been so long since your 27Oct10 inputs to Matrilineality, which I have finally made the improvements for, the least I can do is let you know on your own page that I have, and that I also briefly responded to your inputs on the article's Talk page, just below your inputs. Please do advise me about the Judaism section. Keep up your good work on behalf of WP readers! For7thGen (talk) 00:42, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

Mont Bellevue

Just to let you know, I've moved your content about the park to a separate article, Mont Bellevue Park. The park is certainly a valid article topic, but the borough is too — they should both have articles, rather than one article replacing the other one. But the way our naming conventions work on en:, the title Mont-Bellevue, Quebec has to be the borough rather than the park, because the comma format is for populated places (cities, towns, villages, boroughs, etc.) rather than geographic features. The park needs to be at a title which has the word park in it — and if further disambiguation were needed, because it's a geographic feature rather than a settlement the word "Quebec" would have to be in parentheses rather than being offset by a comma. Hope that helps a bit. Bearcat (talk) 19:52, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

No worries. I'm actually kind of surprised that fr: hasn't really done articles about the boroughs themselves; as far as I know, they've certainly done them for all of the other cities in Quebec with arrondissements. As for the park article, the stub notice is probably okay for now, since it's still really only a couple of paragraphs long — but there is also a bit of a tendency on here to just leave the stub notices forever, even when the article has gotten really long and thorough, so any individual editor is free to make a judgement call one way or the other at any time. Bearcat (talk) 21:07, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

Tetsuya Ishida

G'day;

I'm kinda new to wikipedia so I've decided to proofread the English translation of the Tetsuya Ishida page. Let me know what you think. It won't be done all at once though. Hope it helps. M miyama (talk) 14:41, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

Your Favorite Enemies

Hello "SweetNightmares"! I replied to your post on the talk page of "Your Favorite Enemies" a few days ago. And since you might have not noticed, I thought of writing you again here this time. Would it be the proper way to do? I'm still new here on Wikipedia. And this is why I am contacting you! I would like to make contributions to the article of "Your Favorite Enemies", though I am still learning about the ethic of bringing contributions here on Wikipedia. Would you mind helping me, or redirecting me to other users or services here, which might be more incline to do so? Once again, thanks for your help!Sophenemy (talk) 16:36, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Copyeditor's Barnstar
	Thank you so much for fixing the issues on Beef Products. The article was a mess and needed some TLC. I hereby award you the Copyeditor's Barnstar for your hard work! :) Dillard421♂♂ (talk to me) 22:46, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Re: RfC

Please see Wikipedia:Requests for comment#Request comment on articles, policies, or other non-user issues point number three. Requests should be made using neutral language and your personal bias or "vote" should not be disclosed. The editor will be able to discern your opinion when they go to the article's talk page to fulfill RfC. Zepppep (talk) 04:43, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

fête

Do you pronounce "fight" for the word fête ? Fête (talk) 21:17, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

In Quebec city, the word fête is pronounced "fet" or "fight" ? Fête (talk) 22:07, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

expresse

In Quebec French, the word expresse is pronounced /ɛkspʁɛs/ or /ɛkspʁaɛ̯s/ ? Fête (talk) 00:34, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

kung-fu

Why Quebeckers pronounce /kɔŋfu/ instead of /kuŋfu/ ? Fête (talk) 01:10, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Oil cleansing method

Hello SweetNightmares. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Oil cleansing method, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: A7 does not apply to products. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 20:10, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

Prod of Oil cleansing method

WARNING do not keep adding a prod template to Oil cleansing method, This is now the third time I have removed the tag. Have a read of WP:Prod and you will see that an article must not be prodded more than once. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 03:53, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

Firstly, you did not delete the first request--which I added erroneously--another user did, so I would not be violating the three strike rule (in fact you are arguably the one guilty of edit warring). I corrected my actions by adding the proper template yet you removed it without explaining yourself on the talk page, as per standard procedure. If you are so confident that the page should not be deleted, why not allow for an open discussion? The "article," if you can call it that, clearly does not meet any of the criteria. Sorry I alerted you for the sake of transparency... - Sweet Nightmares 05:27, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

I don't think you read the rules about WP:Prod yes. We are not have having a WP:3RR situation yet. Yet I thank you for the speedy delete alert notification. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 07:34, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

Ah, another Wikipedia bureaucrat dedicated to condescension and pissing around in paperwork instead of trying to make Wikipedia a better place... just what we need! - Sweet Nightmares 14:47, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

Pronunciation of Causapscal

Hello again, Amqui! I'm just looking for a clarification re: the pronunciation of "Causapscal." Is it said "ceau-sap-scale" (phonetic French) or "co-pascal?" I was talking about it with a friend and he was convinced it was the latter. - Sweet Nightmares 01:41, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

It's the first one, but it's "keau-zap-scale", a "s" between 2 vowels is pronunced like a "z" in French (and your "ceau" doesn't work either, because a "c" in front of a "e" is pronunced like a "s" in French instead of like a "k" like when it's in front of a "a", "e" is a soft vowel while "a" is a hard vowel). Amqui (talk) 02:11, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

Great, thank you. As for "Amqui," does it make the "qu" sound as in "quick" or is it a K sound as in Québec? Intuition tells me it's the latter, but my friend says it's the former, since it's an Amerindian name. - Sweet Nightmares 20:23, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

It's the former, pronunce it like you would in English. It doesn't follow French pronunciation. If you want another "weird" one go see Sayabec (which I made a GA on fr.wp), it's pronunced "say-bek" (as in English), middle a is completly omitted. Amqui (talk) 21:32, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

Interesting! I've added the IPA transcription to all three articles (+Causapscal Lake). - Sweet Nightmares 21:58, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

A well deserved barnstar!

		The WikiProject Barnstar
		For your valiant and drastically improving contributions at WikiProject Quebec, I award you with the WikiProject Barnstar! Thanks for your tireless efforts to improving the WikiProject, and hopefully I can get around to contributing to the project as much as you have. Your efforts are appreciated! FlipandFlopped ツ 03:19, 16 July 2014 (UTC)

@Flipandflopped: I'd like to thank l'Académie... ;) - Sweet Nightmares 16:14, 16 July 2014 (UTC)

Rivers

Just for future reference, stub templates such as {{quebec-geo-stub}} go at the bottom of a new article that you're creating, not the top. As well, please ensure that you're directly filing a new article in at least one content category, such as Category:Rivers of Quebec (or a regional subcategory if one exists) for a river, or Category:Lakes of Quebec (or a regional subcategory if one exists) for a lake. Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 22:02, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

Halifax DAB

You mentioned why Halifax is a DAB page, as it may be the primary topic. I don't know but if you have ever been to WP:CANCITY and Wikipedia:Canadian_Wikipedians'_notice_board/Style_guide#Places, or the list at WP:CANLIST, but there has been a lot of (not uncontroversial) work done moving cities and towns that have unique (i.e. Flin Flon) names (not related to primary topic, like Toronto) to page titles without the province. Previously Halifax NS was located at Halifax Regional Municipality as that used to be the legal name (up until only a couple months ago). You will see on CANCITY it mentions Sudbury in that regard, it used to mention Halifax. While a case could be made to move Halifax, NS to Halifax, there is likely some push back from some editors (possibly from the UK, but we also get push back from American editors, as they only uses titles without the state if the city is listed in the AP Stylebook as not requiring one, see reference 2 for the list). Cheers, --kelapstick^(bainuu) 23:36, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

@Kelapstick: interesting, thank you for the information. The AP manual seems a bit conservative. I do see where you are coming from about potential resistance from Wikipedians outside Canada, but I think that the project probably has enough sovereignty that if it were to vote on a convention (e.g., capital and most populated provincial city having >[n% views than similar-named articles]), we would have enough ammunition. Either way it's an undertaking that's sort of futile and dwarfed in comparison to other tasks that remain to be seen. - Sweet Nightmares 00:58, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Typically the US is the only country where cities are disambiguated by default, and everything else is based on primary topic and debates thereof. Because in Canada, outside Quebec, many cities are are named after cities in the UK, and unless there is a compelling reason why it is the primary topic it is left with the province (Hamilton, Windsor, Price Albert, etc.) Halifax has been debated ad nauseum, as has Vancouver vs. Vancouver, Washington (typically the argument is that Vancouver should be a DAB page, but most agree that the BC city is the primary topic). The typical rule of thumb is that if a a city name redirects to a city with the province, and there are no other articles that could sit at that name (I recently moved Glace Bay), it can be uncontroversially moved, although that isn't always the case. A move of Antigonish, Nova Scotia was rejected despite it being the only city of that name, and Antogonish redirecting there. It is all very confusing. --kelapstick^(bainuu) 01:44, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Thanks....

.... for your recent contribution to the article List of wolf attacks in North America! Here's some virtual Molson and Poutine: Chrisrus (talk) 18:41, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

File:Unibroue - La fin du monde.jpg

I know I said Molson but this is way better.

No cold whether can harm a man who eats a lot of Poutine!

@Chrisrus: Ahhhh beer and poutine. Can't ever go wrong with that! Thanks, Chrisrus! - SweetNightmares 19:11, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Here, if you would, please look at [1] and [2]. Chrisrus (talk) 20:05, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

@Chrisrus: While it is an interesting topic I'd like to learn more about, I'm not sure I am prepared to read 1000+ pages of material on wolf attacks. However, if there are specific things you would like to know, I would be more than happy to help you out. It appears as though WP:FR is relatively active; perhaps you could ask for their assistance? - SweetNightmares 20:16, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

ClickInsurance

Hi SweetNightmares, I'm the one who created the page of ClickInsurance. I want to thank you for your help in the discussion to delete the page. Is there anything else we can do ? --WilliamCloutier (talk) 15:08, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

@WilliamCloutier: No problem. I'm not sure what else can be done aside from finding physical sources (magazines etc) that discuss the site in a capacity other than advertisement. A major barrier exists in that people over here don't speak French, nor are they familiar with French-language media. There's also a raging bias against corporations here and everywhere else on the web, which doesn't help; nor does the group of users who just goes around debating deletions all day.

Anyway, if it does get deleted and you find ClicAssure starting to get more press down the road, you can always recreate the page with the extra sources. If it gets deleted, you can request for "userification" (i.e., it would be moved to User:WilliamCloutier/ClickInsurance) here. - SweetNightmares 15:38, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

@SweetNightmares: Ok, but can I keep my french version of the page and get rid of the warnings on the page even if the english version is deleted ? I will still try to do the Request for undeletion. Thank You--WilliamCloutier (talk) 18:51, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Your sandbox

I made the edit to your sandbox because using a map without coordinates causes the page to be categorized into Category:Pages with script errors, which is undesirable. Jackmcbarn (talk) 03:19, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

@Jackmcbarn: is there a way to exclude user space from this category? I like to keep the template there because I've been working on redlinks of mountains in Quebec. - SweetNightmares 03:30, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Your best bet would be to add coordinates to it. If you don't know the real coordinates for whatever you're working on, just add dummy ones (like 0*0'0"N 0"0'0"E). Jackmcbarn (talk) 03:33, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

23:16:08, 21 August 2014 review of submission by Labrid

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Thank you for your suggestion that the number of reliable references from independent sources be increased. I have added ten links and I think it has improved the article by more visibly documenting the scope of Dulvy's work. He has been interviewed and quoted in many media outlets including the New York Times and the BBC, among others, and his work has directly resulted in key policy changes (Cathay Pacific Airlines banning unsustainable shark fin soup & the listing of Manta Ray gill rakers under CITES, preventing their international trade). Please let me know if this is what you had in mind, and if the article can be improved further. Labrid (talk) 23:16, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

File:Greatvalley-map.jpg

Oh my, it's been so many years I don't remember. I made that map before becoming convinced that maps on Wikipedia really need to cite sources (which they still do!). I'm sure I used several books I have and could dig up, as well as a number of websites I probably couldn't. I'm sure I at least used the books "Appalachia: A History", by John Alexander Williams, and "The Shaping of America, Volume 1: Atlantic America", by D.W. Meinig. Unfortunately I cannot remember what websites I used, but they were certainly an assortment of historical, cultural, geological, and geographical (physiography etc). If there are specific problems or issues let me know and I can see what I can do. I think it was well-sourced, but I see I only said "I made this map myself" as the source. How bad of me. I can only say I was still fairly new to Wikipedia and had not yet come to the conclusion that maps should have sources at least as much as articles! Pfly (talk) 09:07, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Copyright checks when performing AfC reviews

Hello SweetNightmares. This message is part of a mass mailing to people who appear active in reviewing articles for creation submissions. First of all, thank you for taking part in this important work! I'm sorry this message is a form letter – it really was the only way I could think of to covey the issue economically. Of course, this also means that I have not looked to see whether the matter is applicable to you in particular.

The issue is in rather large numbers of copyright violations ("copyvios") making their way through AfC reviews without being detected (even when easy to check, and even when hallmarks of copyvios in the text that should have invited a check, were glaring). A second issue is the correct method of dealing with them when discovered.

If you don't do so already, I'd like to ask for your to help with this problem by taking on the practice of performing a copyvio check as the first step in any AfC review. The most basic method is to simply copy a unique but small portion of text from the draft body and run it through a search engine in quotation marks. Trying this from two different paragraphs is recommended. (If you have any question about whether the text was copied from the draft, rather than the other way around (a "backwards copyvio"), the Wayback Machine is very useful for sussing that out.)

If you do find a copyright violation, please do not decline the draft on that basis. Copyright violations need to be dealt with immediately as they may harm those whose content is being used and expose Wikipedia to potential legal liability. If the draft is substantially a copyvio, and there's no non-infringing version to revert to, please mark the page for speedy deletion right away using {{db-g12|url=URL of source}}. If there is an assertion of permission, please replace the draft article's content with {{subst:copyvio|url=URL of source}}.

Some of the more obvious indicia of a copyvio are use of the first person ("we/our/us..."), phrases like "this site", or apparent artifacts of content written for somewhere else ("top", "go to top", "next page", "click here", use of smartquotes, etc.); inappropriate tone of voice, such as an overly informal tone or a very slanted marketing voice with weasel words; including intellectual property symbols (™,®); and blocks of text being added all at once in a finished form with no misspellings or other errors.

I hope this message finds you well and thanks again you for your efforts in this area. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 02:20, 18 November 2014 (UTC).

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New 10,000 Challenge for Canada

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Women in Red World Contest

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