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== Alice Arm == ==Liberty Bell to Liberty bell==
Good one (but you may have given some editors an idea...). Anyway, speaking of the Bell, want to see something cool? Awhile ago I added a template or three to the page 'United States Declaration of Independence' and, completely by accident, when I looked at the template stack I thought 'Darn if that doesn't look like the shape of the Liberty Bell'. Check it out. ] 13:27 12 February, 2015 (UTC)


== Hwlitsum ==
Thanks for tweaking those coordinates Skookum, much appreciated. Not sure why they were originally targeting Vancouver Island. --]<sup>(]) </sup> 11:56, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
:Nor I...may have been an old mistake on BC Names, not sure; I often let them know of errors...I think it was me who started ] and used what they had. When looking for coords for BC articles, I always go to BC Names/ for outside-of-BC articles then CGNDB. Too many out there are "gns-wiki" or the like, which is OR. In the case of Alice Arm, as noted in the comments, the geolocation of the arm is not the same as that of the community, but the article is primarily that of the arm, so....used those coords rather than the community's; in future they may have non-rounded coords for the community;but BC Names is only one overworked person with filing cabinets full of notes yet to be transferred to digital. BC Basemap is another place to go when the BC Names coords are rounded, as they often are.] (]) 02:16, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
::Yeah, I more or less just took the general location of the body of water (I don't think it was labeled on Google Maps) and added it in. I will keep the spots to look you mention in mind. Thanks, --]<sup>(]) </sup> 23:37, 4 October 2014 (UTC)


For a complete list of task forces, see ].
== Boya Lake and Charlie Boya ==


== Nomination of ] for deletion ==
Hey Skookum
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The ] article says the park (and I guess the lake) are named after an "Indian from the area," which you took from . I just changed Indian to First Nations because I can't figure out his specific community. Any google searches for "Boya Lake" and "Charlie Boya" yield that same BCGN quote. I found, however, a Kwadacha guy named Charlie Boya had a cabin way up near Terminus Mountain, not too far from Boya Lake, both of which are between Kwadacha/Fort Ware and Lower Post. Do you think he's the Boya the lake was named after? Any other sources you might consult? Thanks. - ] (]) 07:31, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
:In that area, he'd most likely be Kwadacha (a branch of the Kaska Dena. A local history, if you can find one, might have something; or ask the Kwadacha Band or one of the Liard River bands maybe; if you're in Vancouver, MacLeod's Books has a good range of local histories from all over BC, and it's amazing how much can be out there about obscure corners of the province (in this case a really remote one overall huh?). Doubtless the same guy, given the small population in that region, though could be father and son or whatever of course.] (]) 14:30, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
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:Internet here in Cambodia, and/or power supply, is intermittent; just haven't gotten to it though did see it, thanks.] (]) 02:52, 11 October 2014 (UTC)


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==Category:Historical Chinatowns in British Columbia==
== Synonyms ==


''']''', which you created, has been nominated for deletion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at ''']''' on the ] page.<!-- Template:Cfd-notify--> Thank you. ] (]) 03:02, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
Hello Skookum<br>]: I was thinking about ] and ] when I referred back to ]. There was method to my madness. ] ] 01:40, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
:Make that ]. ] ] 01:45, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
::Note my edit comment about "tribe" being unsuitable due to its other connotations in both countries; "the Lake people", "the Lakes" etc.... you do see "Arrow Lakes Band" in some sources...referring to when they still ''were'' a band (before Indian Affairs declared them "extinct"). As you know by now I adjusted "Arrow Lakes tribe" to "Arrow Lakes people" and took out the Band item altogether, as they do not have a constituted band in Canada, and though incorporated within the Colvilles they are not a separate government either. The people/band/tribe usages were debated long ago and all these issues observed...but since then various title-meddlers without any regional context and awareness have screwed a lot of that early consensus around totally....more about which I'll leave aside for now, except that the muddle of "tribe" and such has often been imposed by editors from afar who don't "get" the realities of the usages.] (]) 02:24, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
:::Your exposition is very enlightening indeed. As for the band being declared "extinct", well the band got screwed. What else is new. So the people "exist" only in the ]. ] ] 15:24, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
::::"extinct" in Canadian government terms means that the ''band'' (i.e. the designated government created by the ], not the group of people as such, were "decommissioned"...partly because there were none living in BC full-time, other than maybe one or two; I don't think there were even Indian Reserves set aside for them, though I'm not sure about that. It doesn't mean that they were ethnographically extinct, only in a sense of legally constituted. One group that has never had official recognition are the ] (Lamalchi) on Vancouver Island, who though connected and part of the larger "Cowichan" grouping (of which the ] band government is only a part), they succesfully fought the Royal Navy (humiliated them is more like it) and part of the revenge was to give their lands to other bands, and not allow them status; ] has some links about progress towards recognition. Think I spelled that right anyways; I know them as the ].] (]) 05:25, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
:::::The Sinixt are considered by the ] (Okanagan) to be a subgroup of their own; and in their capacity as a component people of the Colville Tribes, are "represented" in the ] tribal council, which is bi-national; the Sinixt maintain they are a separate people...as far as Canada goes, that is; in the US they are integrated through government and marriage with the Okanogan of the Colville Federated Tribes. They also have a bitter long-standing rivalry /resentment with the ]; one Sinixt editor here was going through all articles with Ktunaxa names and changing them to Sinixt, and negating Ktunaxa presence in the area concerned; I got called a racist for daring to police that and keep the ethno-vandalism under control; there's more about this kind of thing external to Misplaced Pages I won't go into.... suffice to say that "loaded language" is common on native topics, on "both" sides (or "all sides", since often it's not just native/non-native that's the dialectic; more like trialectic or quadrilectic at times).] (]) 05:38, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
== About your About.com question ==


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:OK. For as long as I've been around here, the wiki-bureaucracy is a maze.] (]) 13:28, 20 October 2014 (UTC)


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:Hahahaha sorry Maude, I'm an older editor who just went through a block perpetrated by younger editors who condemned me for, basically, being a crotchety old f**k and standing up to childish nonsense from a teenager who wanted exclusive control over a subject area he really knows nothing abuot but has a very decided POV agenda for....; I'm leaving Misplaced Pages once and for all; done done done; see section below. Misplaced Pages is being run by people who got their adminships when they were in their early teens who have no real knowledge of teh world, that's my summatino of the problem in a nutshell. I've got only so many years left, tired of arguing with the arrogantly ill-informed and those with power they don't deserve and very little common sense and even less real manners. But man, a whole ''lot'' of attitude.] (]) 02:44, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
I pointed more than once that both of you violated wikipedia rules in the discussion about such trivial thing like Foo in BC or Foo in Vancouver. Although I agree that {{u|WhisperToMe}} should be sanctioned because they are admin, your comments about them are such blatant violation of WP:NPA that I see them as your kamikaze attempt to provoke them and get both of you sanctioned. I have never reported anybody at AN, at least until now, and I don't have intention to do so in future, at least for now. If there is anything I hate more than WP:NPA at wikipedia, it is WP:DIVA behavior. All the best.--] (]) 08:32, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
:DIVA huh? More like "expert in his area(s). The separation in question was not "trivial" (though the illogics being used to justify it ''most certainly are''), it was ''provocative'' and ''arrogant'' and I'm not the one committing SYNTH/OR with every post, never mind now WEASEL also. Legitimate frustration with someone's ongoing AGF is what it is; calling every criticism "NPA" andignoring AGF/OR/SYNTH et al.... oh well....so the merge discussion, it's derailed.....so bound for a dual RM to try and enlist some COMMONSENSE at the RM board.....wherre it's sadly in short supply.] (]) 08:43, 25 October 2014 (UTC)


== Notice to The Interior and Moonriddengirl re illicit removal of POV/ESSAY/SYNTH tags ==
== That AN discussion ==


My block is over; who cares? I don't. The only thing that's prevented me from responding with one final condemnation of the illicitness of this peremptory block, which gave ''carte blance'' to a highly POV and persistently AGF editor, is personal circumstances including six weeks ago the smashing of my laptop screen; other than that I was going to condemn, item by item, violations of policy/guideline committed by yourselves and comebacks to some of the inane comments in the ANI. D
I've no idea why it was there, but should it be copied/linked/whatever to the two places you mention? There seems to be enough useful stuff there to make it worth while doing that. I think most people outside the US and Canada haven't a clue about any of this. ] (]) 09:53, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
:Too many. And it's made a pain in various RMs and such where votes and closes were made by misinformed/half-informed people. Also have similar going on re Indo-Canadians vs "Asian Indians" with some guy from Texas lately. The idea of a styleguide/conventions guide for IPNA related articles is "still out there", but got dissed by certain newer IPNA editors who weren't around when the "map" of the "system" was derived; I made a draft in a sandbox somewhere about what I call "the old consensus", which got swept aside by BOLD moves and retrenched by some of those "bad closes" I'm referring to, plus retrenched in certain "lone-wolf guidelines" (] especially but nm), though I did get a lot of RMs passed and the consensus reaffirmed; it's still shoved aside in various arenas, but piecemeal decision-making by people who don't know the background, or "get" current language/name expectations, means there's still some issues out there, as I'd indicated re the Duwamish.] (]) 10:14, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
::In Canada, terminology is very important because of hte layers of political and constitutional meaning, and the peoples' own preferences; which get swept aside by so-called "reliable sources" invoking older usages e.g. see ] - the follow-up comments; it ''should'' be ] if the "old consensus" had been respected instead of swept aside.] (]) 10:17, 4 November 2014 (UTC)


But here's what it is: why would I spend more time responding to people who refused to read anything I said while pandering to whining and pleading by WTM who even said, "is there a way to block him that won't be subject to consensus at ANI" - where his ally-in-enmity LegacyPac failed to get consensus. So yes, there was; harrassing me and demanding I stop 'interfering with' his sole authorship of his soapboxing about BC history on purely biased lines; I cringe at seeing some of his additions since my departure; but hell, MRG, you plunged in from the start saying you didn't want to have to research the previous months, and the lot of you - The Interior, yourself, Viriditas , Anna - refused to read anything I had to say, whether here or on the article talkpage. You have supported not just a POV fork but a blatantly OWN one, with loads of ESSAY/TRIVIA ''bunk'' and washed your hands of it and walked away.
== Harper in a closet ==


''NPOV is not negotiable'', Moonriddengirl; your comment about nobody else commenting about POV being there is no consensus is completely out of line; read NPOV again and its POV fork again; using personal complaints as a way to denounce and override complaints of POV is ''against policy''. But my own personal complaints ''about him'' were ignored, while his about me were pandered to and encouraged/mollycoddled.
Harper was not in the closet for the whole time of the shootings. So it is not factually correct. And the closet was in the caucus room anyway. So it is a bit of a misrepresentation, and I don't think it is in the spirit of Misplaced Pages. And it would be too prominent to mention that minor aspect. What could go in the caption, as it is in the reactions section, is how he labelled it a terrorist attack. ] (]) 16:11, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
:That was in a cited piece, and all reporting I've seen said that he was hid in the closet (passive voice might work better for you); your suggestion is highly POV and I would oppose it, all I did was correct the ''incorrect'' caption according to what ''I've'' read and seen cited. If you add in the reactions section how he labelled it a terrorist attack, there is more to be added about that, including criticisms of him and his agenda and some commentary about jumping the gun out there too (meaning jumping the gun in the tweet-fest and extrapolations thereof that went on; you ''have'' seen those summaries, haven't you? What's your timeline and cite to state "he was not in the closet for the whole of the shootings"....I've seen no such statement anywhere, only that he was put in when shooting broke out, and was ushered out once the shooting was over.....cite please.....] (]) 16:19, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
::I'm trying to take the POV out of it. You yourself said it looks like POV. Well, I agree with you. If you say shootings, then the time period includes the shooting at the war memorial. He hid in the closet while there was shooting outside the caucus room. I doubt Harper was aware of the war memorial shooting at all. Also I noticed that someone had changed it to his security detail put him in the closet. His detail was not present, the Conservative caucus did not even let them in at first. ] (]) 20:18, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
:::Big difference between ''looking'' POV, but it's not POV ''if it's a fact''. And it is; if "during the shootings" is there, that can be reworded; "once teh shooting began in the Centre Block", then. But what is a plug-photo for Harper doing on that page ''anyway''? It's election season, he's not hte primary topic of the article or even one of teh players in the events....Kevin Vickers should be on the article, if he's not already; I can't see any reason to have ''any'' politician on the article; the way that caption read was a bit of advertising/poli-spam to me.....I say take it out entirely; I've seen /edited countless articles with "Harper plugs" over the years, about him cutting some ribbon or being there for some event, as if it were notable and not just political stumping.] (]) 01:40, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
:::: If we can, I'd like pics of Zehaf-Bibeau, Cirillo and Vickers, as well as Harper. The problem you mention is prominence. If all pictures were available, then it would not be an issue. ] (]) 13:53, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
:::::If Harper's there other political leaders have to be, then; sure he's "led the debate " but for balance Mulcair, saying the opposite, should be there; the only ones that really belong on there are ZB, Cirillo and Vickers....including Harper only would not be balanced.] (]) 14:46, 12 November 2014 (UTC)


The Interior's b.s. about me writing 20,000 character opuses was a laugh; at the top of my talkpage at the same t ime was a link to the NOR board discussion which, if you go find it in the archive, was called a complete was of time by the ''sane'' editor who closed it. Do a word count on the 'new' CCinGV article - it's twice that length. Have even ''one'' of you read its content and fact-checkecd it, or noted my complaints about the content he had cultivated on the CCinBC article about how much repetition there was, about obvious SYNTH, about blatant POV, about working to exclude sources while cherrypicking others? No, obviously not, if you don't have the time to research what you're pronouncing judgement on ''you shouldn't be pronouncing judgement'' on it, ''never mind taking sides as you have done''.
==Wikiprojects re native/indigenous talkpages==
Will do. I haven't come across ''too'' many yet - maybe three or four total - but I'll add it there when I see 'em. --<font face="Old English Text MT">]</font><sup>]</sup><sub>]</sub> 02:47, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
:I have added it to four of those. The fifth I had already added it to. --<font face="Old English Text MT">]</font><sup>]</sup><sub>]</sub> 06:21, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
==Issues regarding a few BC provincial parks==
While updating the BC provincial parks articles, I ran into a problem with ]. It doesn't appear to have an entry in BCGNIS (see ; other parks may not have info, but at least they have entries). I suspect, given transfer of ownership to a municipal body, that it should no longer be listed at its current name.


So we have, other than the token British Columbian who levelled the block against me, an American-Texan-Chinese now OWNing articls about BC after successfully blocking the sole active British Columbian who works (worked) in historical areas and listed point after point after point about what was wrong ''all of which was ignored'' and not just ignored, but condemned. The Anglo-American bias issue of ] is very much in evidence here, and also in WTM's behaviour and content, where the Sino-globalist bias is also very much not just in evidence ''but his whole agenda''.
I'm also unsure about ], as BCGNIS does not contain an entry for it, but does have an entry for "Simson Marine Park". I've added this as the BCGNIS entry for the article, but if it's wrong, could you remove it. Ditto for ].


That you, MRG, claimed my saying he was "ill-informed" was an NPA while never considering the AGF against me, and his covert NPAs implicit throughout that AGF ''from day one'' - that you refused to take the time to read - is incredibly hypocritical and alos ironic - because you, too, are ill-informed and willfully so. but that you would call ''that'' an NPA while allowing "paranoid delusional" and various other very nasty and unfair ''direct NPAs'' to stand, including indulging in personal attacks yourself, is so much part of wiki-culture now that it's pointless to even explain it to you; you can never admit you're wrong and what you claim are guideline-driven actions on your part are actually ''policy violations''.
If you get a chance, could you check these out. Thanks. <font color="#8b4513">]</font><font color="#ee8811">]</font> 16:51, 22 November 2014 (UTC)


NPOV is not negotiable. Period. Read ] and ] sometime; be warned, they're longer than seven sentences; they're "too long did not read".
:Sudeten Park I don't know the story of other than it exists per which I used to improve the ] page. Tomslake is not a municipality, the park might be administered by the Peace River Regional District and maybe is listed on their website alongside other regional parks; or it could be maintained by a legacy from descendants of the Sudeten pioneers the monument is for.


"Misplaced Pages is not censored" is hilarious bullshit; wikilawyering is all ove the place, NPOV violations are commonplace, OWNership behaviour and DIVAism I've beeen accused of; both describe WTM to a 't'. (capital T). "I don't want to be interefered with:" as he said to someone, Viriditas I think, sums it up. No, he wants control of the sandbox and no messing around freom somebody in the way of his agenda, or his notions of content; I see bias and shabby logic not just in his content and arguments ''but in yours''.
:"Simson Marine Provincial Park" would be the same as "Simson Provincial Park", likewise BC Names does have "Sabine Channel Marine Provincial Park" while BC Parks has "Sabine Channel Provincial Park" and also . I'll take it up with BC Names next time I write her about why it's missing; she's overwhelmed with work/backlog so it may be an error of omission. Why the names don't match is a mystery of inter-ministry politics no doubt.....not the first time one arm of the government doesn't know or care what another one is doing. I've been sticking with the BC Names "FOO Marine Provincial Park" title and have moved some accordingly - and just moved both Simson and Sabine Channel to the "Marine Provincial Park" title since there was no redirect in the way. Have you tried these on CGNDB btw?


The block is over, but I will not be back, other than to answer Anna below;
:There's a few parks I came across in my own recent updating that were no longer provincial parks and now "local government"...not always clear if it's to an RD or a municipality, but when outside a municipality my guess, or the necessary conclusion, is that they are now regional parks, when not city or town parks. Sometimes RD and muni websites list their parks, often not; for ], which was created under ] governance and is now run by the ], the cite I've found though haven't yet used (busy) is from a heritage site of the Mission Museum and Community Archives; the falls isn't in Mission District though the MCA site includes "greater Mission" (areas to the east as far as Lake Errock). Regional parks there's tons of that don't have wiki articles, though some do (] I think is already there) and many are quite major in local prominence/role. Whether a category for "regional or municipal parks that were formerly provincial parks" is warranted remains to be seen....there's quite a few of them, actually.


I will now re-place the he removed a month after you blocked me, The Interior - ''did you even notice''. And they belong in "his" new article, which is a travesty not just of bias and essay/synth/trivia but also of incredibly bad english composition.
:btw when searching BC Names be advised that the percentage symbol /%/ is the "wild card" for searches.] (]) 02:24, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
::Re the Sudeten Park, I just , it's not one of theirs. I'll write the Peace River Country tourism site and see what they might know about it. I'm not aware of Tomslake being in a municipality but it might be (I don't know that part of the province well). Re regional parks and regional district-operated/affiliated community facilities, those should all ultimatley be on regional district pages and if there's not already ] could use creating; only some will be worth having subcats-by-RD for e.g. GVRD, Capital and certain others which have lots of regional parks.] (]) 02:30, 23 November 2014 (UTC)


Misplaced Pages has become a bureaucracy ruled by the uninformed with no sense of logic, and pandering to bias and empire-building and entrenched empire building by established admins and editors; it is not the collaborative environment it once was, and now is a battlefield and ''I'm not the one to blame for that''. Ignorance is, on the one hand, and 'gaming the system' on the other. and 'gaming the system' is exactly what has gone on here, and you have either been suckered by it ''or were part of it''.
Thanks for looking into those. I was going to move the articles too, but thought there might be two independent but associated areas. I also figured the now-municipal park was dropped as a provincial park. As an aside, I'll be finishing off the category in the next day or two - I have about 60 articles to re-cat for years of establishment. I'll do some minor cleanup as I go, but not much more than that. <font color="#8b4513">]</font><font color="#ee8811">]</font> 00:52, 25 November 2014 (UTC)


That this anti-consensus block in direct violation of policy was done by two ''paid editors'' - paid by the WMF no less - makes it all the more noxious; you have lost yourself a once-loyal contributor by pandering to an obvious propagandist. I will place those templates; I've already said ''over and over'' what is wrong with the CCinBC article; the same applies on the CCinGV article. So why bother contributing ''anything more to Misplaced Pages AT ALL'' when I have been hounded and harassed to help along a prodigious but suspicious editor. Please note - he is now no. 21 up from no. 34 onthe lsit of all time contributors; that is not some kind of proof of his validity, MRG, rather it calls into question the value of those contributions and note, the very bad writing and repetitious content and bad sourcing; i still think he's not one editor but a team, and if he isn't then prove it by opening his edit summary instead of concealing it; CHECKUSER is called for but given the bureaucracy is staffed by the same kind of people who have hounded and condemned me I have better things to be doing with my life and time.
== RAND ==


I will not be writing in Misplaced Pages anymore; but I definitely will be writing ''about'' wikipedia, {{ping|User:Jimbo Wales}} take note. Not that you care, it seems that your own staffers were who hounded me out and blockerd me- you ''condoned'' their violation of the NPOV policy.
It's best if we discuss your revert ] before anything gets out of hand. ] (]) 10:18, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
:I included information on who backs RAND, what RAND is, because on an article already struggling with government agenda/propaganda vs media/public opinion/sentiment, RAND's nature is highly relevant to the quality of the comment being made..... that paper in fact is teh ''genesis'' of applying those terms to the "perps" at Ottawa and SJsR. It's also from a ''blog'' (''Daily Beast'' not being a newspaper) so that opens the field for "declarations" of who's behind it. This is a Candaian article, RAND is a foreign body, that opinions circulated and supproted by people associated with them have a particular military-derived POV/context can ''not'' be omitted without deception/misdirection = POV.] (]) 10:25, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
::And I did ''NOT'' "revert", I resinserted a more condensed version of what you elided (wrongfully IMO).] (]) 10:27, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
:::If you want to have a proper discussion about this, then stop reinstating your edits. ] (]) 10:55, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
::::Yessir, nossir, FU sir. I'm not your boy, but you clearly are from the crowd that likes giving orders. If you want to be a proper Wikipedian, stop your POV deletions/censorship. I see you as an "information manager" out to sanitize the complete truth and replace it with neutered (not neutral) hobble gobble, and you're not the first "terror advocate" out to protect the "official line". Changing "said" to "suggested" was rank OR /editorializing.] (]) 02:45, 27 November 2014 (UTC)
:::::I'm not sanitizing anything, but I understand why you would write that because you are obsessed with pushing the "mental illness" line when it comes to the shootings. There's way more things I could have done if I completely believed in the official line, like citing more sources that supports that narrative or inserting a criticism of what your idol, Glenn Greenwald, wrote. ] (]) 18:36, 27 November 2014 (UTC)
::::::Not that your criticisms matter s**t to me, but "pushing the mental illness line" (38% of Canadians think these were mental health incidents, 36% say "terror") and presuming to say that Greenwald is my "idol" (that's one of the first articles I've ever read by him) shows me what a low-life you are and out to attack the messenger. That article was a rank war-on-terror-Tory screed until balance was brought in by rendering other views than the government, the police, and that of he US "terror establishment". Removing the POV context of the nature of the RAND Corporation ''WAS'' "sanitizing the article of associations that apparently you don't want your pet propaganda think thank/organ to have to admit to. Your agenda is clear; mine is the complete and whole truth; yours is the edited and controlled not-really-truth.] (]) 01:20, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
:::::::What are you getting wet for? Nearly all of your edits on the page have been pushing the mental illness narrative and you've made multiple edits giving Greenwald the royal treatment by insisting that he be described as a putlizer-prize winning so don't give me this horseshit about how I am attack you. Like I said, there's way more things I could have done if i actually believed in the "official line." Also, you need to drop the nauseating, broken record sermonizing about how you know the complete and whole truth and I don't; there is no "truth" when it comes to complicated events like this, there are only interpretations of facts, and if what you said about what narrative Canadians believe about the shootings is true, then it stands to reason that your version of what happened is not a complete and truthful interpretation of the facts of the events. You keep throwing the accusation that removing the nature of RAND is POV like an infant; how about you argue, first, how the USG (with which RAND is affiliated) is even connected to this shooting? ] (]) 07:26, 28 November 2014 (UTC)


Legacypac and others from the political-activist branch of Misplaced Pages will no doubt be happy that I am gone; watch for the gloating; hell, WTM went out and ''looked'' for enemies to help condemn me with - he was polling, in othr words. Would a responsible admin be doing that? No - bt I don't think there ''are'' many responsible admins; hypocritical ones by the score, to be sure.
::::::Go shove it and stop posting your bitching on my page, you're boring. The propaganda machine of the War on Terror is very much connected to how the shooting has been portrayed in US media and blogs; and calling me an "infant" for insisting that your POV removal of the military connection is not just NPA it's asinine, and your bitch about Greenwald "being given the royal treatment" endorses my view/interpretation that you are part of that propaganda machine, such derision is too-common fare and overblown rightist hype. The mental health theme is a main current in Canadian sources, if not in the US (excepting Greenwald and others like him) so don't bitch about me "pushing" it, it was absent from the article and all I did was ''add balance''. Not cut things out, other than conflated abuses of sources like a certain other "terror fanatic" has been doing repeatedly.] (]) 07:44, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
:::::I see who thinks the RAND Corporation's nature should be in the article. And as for calling that paragraph "OR" in your one "revision" of it, that whole passage was put into the Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu article by another "terror propagandist" who tried deleting the Glenn Greenwald comments as being "fringe", which Greenwald is anything but; I only copied it over to this article, the wording was his not mine.] (]) 02:56, 27 November 2014 (UTC)


If you ban me for this 'rant' then please delete ALL my contributions and build back the thousands of articles I've contributed ''yourselves''. Maybe WTM would care to undertake that huh?


Seeing the removal of thoe templates was the height of gall, but it's not the first time he's behaved with incredible arrogance, "Honestly" in his edit comment is a joke; he hasn't been honest or respectful ever since he barged into Canadian wikispace. He's played you, and won. Maybe he'll be Number One someday huh?


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Power corrupts, and you are corrupt. And in the wrong.] (]) 01:49, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
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:I didn't "revert", I restored the information YOU are edit-warring about, but with different wordings so as to not be faced with the 3RR brinksmanship your friend LP engaged in and presumed to take to the edit-warring noticeboard, to no great effect. ''I have not reverted anything'', I have ''restored'' context that YOU are edit warring over and seeking to '''''censor'''''. {{ping|User:Callanec}} sorry to drag you into this but given this nonsensical block-warning from someone actively reverting and edit warring on a highly POV matter, I'm tired of the game, which is all too reminiscent of the gamesmanship of a certain K-named editor (I think you will remember, if not email me) and what is going on here is ] according to a recognizable pattern. '''''This is harassment from a troll'''''. The dispute here is entirely "manufactured" and groundless; the post from ITFL is a ''threat'' to take action against me to silence me so I'm not in the way of the "lie machine" that has sought to purge the Ottawa shootings article of content not favourable to the "official line"; the technical dispute matter this troll is edit-warring over is whether or not the ] should be identified as to its highly political/military and nature/origins; he says no, other editors say yes, and he keeps reverting it whenever added and now presumes to warn ''ME'' for edit-warring and threaten me with a block. The larger issue of "war on terror" articles on Misplaced Pages being subjected to disruptive edits, procedural gambits, mis-use of cites to forge SYNTH and OR content goes beyond this individual but it is ''very noticeable'' in relation to the two articles on recent events in Canada. I'm under no illusions as to the "agenda" of those doing it; one thing is certain, they all engage in teh kind of procedural threat and imperious/pompous warnings as you will see above in this section. Note two ANIs involving ] currently underway, one of which was launched against me by him, the other launched against him by others for ongoing misconduct and gamesmanship. My "assailant" above is cut from the same cloth and not incidentally from the same "faction" whose agenda is simple; neutralize information they don't like, claiming NPOV or some obtuse mis-use of guidelines/policies to justify their activities, or go for the throat and seek to have people in their way blocked, as is being done here. I'm a valuable editor here as you know, prolific on a host of subjects, and don't deserve the imperious bullshit above or threats from someone who has cast himself in the role of censor. {{ping|User:Floydian}}, {{ping|User:Carrite}} {{ping|User:Bearcat}}; threats from someone wanting to purge an article of information very relevant to the context of an important article are more than questionable. Misplaced Pages needs a purge, already, in my very honest opinion....of "information managers" and "terror pushers" who deride and degrade all who stand in their way. This whole affair, the "terror faction" pushing their agenda on various pages and harassing editors who are trying to maintain balance and honest coverage, is almost becoming media-worthy in its own right, to be quite blunt....NPOV means "neutrality", but it is being used to mean "neutering" and "neutralizing" by those seeking to "information manage" content on Misplaced Pages and attack those who dare to differ with them, ''ad nauseam''. This should really go up to ARBCOM - whether or not Misplaced Pages should allow itself to be used by propaganda agendas instead of fairly covering and representing sourced material properly; what's going on here is censorship pure and simple, now hiding itself behind threats of DR and threatening me with a block. '''It's not me who should be blocked''. ] (]) 13:25, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
:::Actually ] 's count is quite correct. Please knock of the combative behavior and edit warring. ] (]) 18:20, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
::::You and your buddy are the ones edit-warring on that article, and seeking to use procedural harassment to intimidate and bully your way to control that article's wording. Complete horseshit, and more hypocritical pot-kettle-black posturing from you, but I'll take Viriditas' advice.....there's other ways to deal with this, but arguing with information-mole bullshit is pointless; you'll just escalate your campaign, just as you had on the article and its talkpage where you have edit-warred endlessly. Not surprising to encounter hypocrisy on that side of the political equation, not surprising at all......standard fare, really. How's the property business in Vancouver by the way? How is it you have so much time in your busy business day to "work on" articles about MidEast affairs......"things that you actually know about" you say on your userpage? How is it that you're a "terrorism expert" and know so much about US politics but claim not to know what American Legacy PAC is?] (]) 00:51, 29 November 2014 (UTC)
:Skookum, a revert is the addition or removal of material removed or added by another user, in part or in whole. They are correct in this regard and your defence is little more than wikilaywering. You have made four reverts to the article in a 24-hour span. And, as you assuredly know, it is impossible for one side of a dispute to edit war without the other.


:Welcome back. Let me see if I get this straight: after being blocked for three months for alleged battleground behavior, disruptive editing, and personal attacks, the first thing you did when your block expired was to ''return'' to battleground behavior, disruptive editing, and personal attacks. Am I correct on this, because that's what your contribution seems to show. Also, you once again complain about how nobody reads what you write, but you've been repeatedly told to shorten your TL;DR rants and ravings into something that is brief and to the point out of ''consideration'' for those of us who have jobs and actually have to work for a living. Is any of this getting through to you? ] (]) 02:21, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
:That being said, {{u|Legacypac}} and {{u|Inthefastlane}} - you two have tag-teamed your way to at least three or four reverts in the same period yourselves. Were this to continue and I came in as an uninvolved admin (I'm not due to my history with Skookum, so will take no admin actions at all), I would end up blocking the both of you as well. All three of you need to stop warring on the article over this and keep it to the talk page. And if you three feel inclined to continue yelling over top of each other on the talk page, I suggest asking for a ] or something. ]] 01:15, 29 November 2014 (UTC)


::coming from someone who claimed to be a moderator and demand I concede to a blatant guideline violation/instruction creep while refusing to discuss the NPOV policy you're nothing more than a hypocrite; you condoned the creation of a POV fork and shepherded a badly-written and over-sourced ''tract'' to mainspace and did ''nothing'' when he removed tags from the CCinBC article without ''ever'' even reading or doing anything about the many problems that article had, and still has. You are not a moderator you are a ''harassser'' and a scold; if you were a moderator you would have sought to understand the POV and sourcing problems instead of demand I accept his ''false'' claims about what RS says (which it doesn't) or his false claims about what that board said in response to him. ''He is a liar''.
:::Not quite ] there is no tag team here and we have not communicated or had any interaction anywhere (as far as I remember) outside this article. A tenacious or disruptive editor can't sustain changes in the face of two or three other editors, which is what is happening naturally here. This editor clearly does not understand the 5 Pillars or the idea of no personal attacks. ] (]) 03:42, 29 November 2014 (UTC)
::::since you , that's like so much else you say beyond disingenuous. And you seem to have forgotten ] from yesterday. "Striving for the world we all still hope is possible". Waht a sorry world that would be if your lot has their way. You seem to have no problem at all with ITFL's nasty derisions above; but again, your criticisms of others are entirely one-dimensional and hypocritical and while you claim there's no tag-team ] applies. That you opined on the talkpage that some qualification of the nature of sources was valid,in response to Alaney2k's reversion of ITFL's censor-reverts, almost no sooner had you said that that you removed my restoration/rewording of the reference in question; that you have regularly fabricated/conflated sources to build SYNTH or outright ''make things up'' is not limited to the Ottawa article and it's clear that YOU have no respect for the Five Pillars or proper wiki-conduct. But telling a hypocrite what he is is inevitably pointless; it won't stop him being hypocritical, rather he'll notch it up in response, just as you are doing here. ] (]) 04:19, 29 November 2014 (UTC)
::I was actually contemplating calling in a mediator during the night, rather than launching a POV/OR ANI to confront the "terror specialists" on a number of counts re various articles and their own long history of misleading edits and abuse of sources, but as you know I dislike procedure and with a group of apparently "coordinated" editors having to be notified, it would simply be another slag/denial fest and I'd be "outnumbered" in the resulting dogpile from the "terror lobby". The broader subject of manipulation of Misplaced Pages by propagandists, whether they be Ukrainian, Chinese, Russian or "war on terror" agendists is something that is not easily solved or dealt with; even when it is blatant. "Gaming the encyclopedia" by edit warring combined with threats of ANI-ification we've seen before, and actual "harassment ANIs" also; the behaviour is all too recognizable. I'm heeding Viriditas' advice below but the notion that the military origin of terms being used to hype/distort an event being used by government/police/military to push new security laws is "irrelevant" as claimed is utter twaddle.] (]) 02:23, 29 November 2014 (UTC)


::"Is any of this getting through to you"?? hahah repeat after me "I won't be back", other than to chronicle for Anna below the number of times controversial actions have prompted responses frm me and how many there are out there who intervene on subject and title discussions who have no clue what they're talking about. ''That includes YOU''.
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::You have always been a waste of time. But here you are, back to the harassmwent and the scolding and ''still'' not considering t he POV issues I've raised, and ''still'' condoning the ''immortal prose'' of his contributions, which is just plain sophomorically bad English plus too many uses of "So-and-so in such-and-such said that the term is " and building SYNTH arguments from that. but you're perhaps in teh same camp as him, and only here to protect rankly POV editors like him frmo people calling "bullshit". which is what this block was, and what all that was said by those refusing to read what the problems were ''without ever researching content''. My anger is justified; and so is my contempt for ''YOU'' in particular. Moderator my ass; have ytou taken down that bit from the Dhammapada from your userpage yet??] (]) 02:38, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
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::::'''''JEALOUS'''' hahahah man that's a good one; and here you are making more than one rank NPA ("find a good pyschiatrist who will treat you" is a ''rank'' violation of NPA but hey you're immune from any reproach huh?). Hghahahah man you sum up everything that is wrong with this place.] (]) 02:56, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

::::: :::It's a complete joke that I was blamed for "battlefield behaviour" when the battlelfield behaviour was his from the ''very start'' from his first appearance on ]. but ''none'' of those condemning me have condescended to ''read'' the disputes and observe the escalating battlefield against ''me'' though RfCs, NOR RS and other boaards, and illogical responses and arguments against sources and so on; ''none of those condemning me'' including the scold above have read the whole of the dispute, ''or'' paid attention to my points about how he counter-attacked with demands including I should buy a book when he knew I didn't have money, or following my comments asking him to 'back off' as I was having health and life-crisi problem by posting a parody of that bout himself ''then'' launching into a massive amount of edits and also talkpage/board arguments against me. the battlefield has always been of his making; and he enlisted supporters and blatantly polled for support by those hostile to me. but who gets blamed? His victim. You're all sociopaths IMO.] (]) 02:56, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

::::::Per ], you should be immediately re-blocked. To come back here after three months and start right where you left off is a good rationale for an indef. ] (]) 03:01, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

And who are you again? You are a harasser and have refused to consider ''any'' of the content issues I have raised and it is ''you'' who have furthered teh battlefield behaviour here as you have before. Be that as it may, you just made two ''very'' personal attacks and I launched an ANI against you, and it's ''you'' who need disciplining, ''not me''.

Indefinitely blocked for standing up for myself? that's how this place works huh? and who are you again? some interloper who won't consider the subject matter and its POV violations but instead engaged in threatening and demanding behaviour; instead of moderating you ''took sides''. The only reason I don't care about an indefinite block is I want to ''publicly'' explain to Anna below why her question is a conundrum and list off the controversies that I engaged myself in that ''needed engaging'' and gee, which for the most part, ''I won''.

And as for being "bitter" of course I'm bitter that people from outside my province have created a blatantly biased and distorted version of its social history, while engaging in personal attacks in the course of preventing me from adding balance and/or arguing for it. {{Ping|User:JimboWales}} please take note of all this; the harrassment I have received here is a violation of behavioural guidelines in the course of retrenching a violation - a very blatant violation - of ]. I'm not insane, and I'm not stupid either; hilarious that V. 's barntar for me had been, in part, for 'calling a spade a spade'; but when the shit was on his own shovel, he/she turned nasty. Or is he/she on your payroll too, as are Moonriddengirl and The Interior? ] (]) 03:23, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

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:Gee thanks, aw shucks. And here, seeing the yellow 'you have new messages' alert, I was going to delete the section above with "delete harassment by troll" but you've encouraged me to leave it, to bear witness. I'll transfer your nice shiny new barnstar to my userpage now.] (]) 08:35, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
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::You've earned it. Your little friend has responded to this award by attacking me as a "political zealot" on another talk page. Keep in mind the kind of petty, vindictive personality you're dealing with here. Lay low for a bit, I don't want to see you blocked or sanctioned; don't forget, the "information managers" run this site, whether we like it or not. (See '']'') It's important for you to take the higher ground. That means no edit warring and no personal attacks. Your little friend is manipulating you and counting on backing you into a corner. He can play the "new user" schtick all he wants, but it's more important for you to focus on the problem at hand and the solution you want to see implemented. Don't get distracted by the sideshows. If you're interested in exploring the ] connections between ] and RAND, you may want to let off some steam by doing it in another article. Coincidentally, I'm trying to touch upon it in '']'', but I haven't made any real progress just yet. When I saw you struggling with the same problem, I though I would try and contact you. There's some evidence that ] placed the sculpture directly in front of the RAND building on purpose, to protest their history of involvement in MAD and other war-related issues. See the "location and installation" section of the sculpture article for more information. The work sits exactly in front of the RAND building, which evidently took some planning on Conrad's part, since the building wasn't there when the sculpture was installed. I've found some evidence that Conrad was aware of the older RAND building down the street, and may have seen blueprints (or become aware of the plans) for the new site. Considering that the council members were aware of the future site and several were good friends with Conrad, a larger picture begins to emerge of foresight on the part of the artist. ] (]) 22:32, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
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:::I've been ]ed before more than once, including by political operatives and corporate monkeys/consultants (and also by a "rogue linguist" who shall remain nameless), and know what you're saying; I've been around since 2006, ITFL only since June of this year; that he mimicked your barnstar for me with . It's fairly obvious that Misplaced Pages's UGC "anyone can edit" platform would have been moled by p.r. and partisan and security establishment/Ministry of Truth types from its very start; including rigging guidelines such as RS to block out non-mainstream media reporting as much as possible, and more. As for the involvement of the US disinformation machine in Canadian media/politics, ; note the second paragraph.] (]) 01:03, 29 November 2014 (UTC)
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::::Thanks. Was it you or another editor who picked up on ye olde talking point switcheroo that led to media outlets changing the narrative of the shooter from one of mental health in the first few days to one of dyed in the wool terrorist out of the blue, simply to justify the new national security initiatives aimed at curtailing what we used to call democracy and freedom? It's an old tactic, and many writers have picked up on this from the start, predicting that when the "enemy" of communism disappeared, we would quickly find a new enemy to justify the budget of the national security state apparatus, and of course, the terrorist groups the west once funded as "freedom fighters" thanks to same right-wing players, suddenly emerged to become the new "terrorists" holding the very weapons we gave them. Funny, that. And so it goes... To see what you have to look forward to, take at look at ]. The conservative right keeps telling us yanks that we have more freedom under their watch, but as the evidence shows, we have less than ever before. ] ] (]) 01:30, 29 November 2014 (UTC)
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:::::I picked up on that, and others; but worth noting that in the Canadian media since those first few days, identifying either suspect as a "terrorist" is not to be found in most coverage even in the mainstream media, and the theme of mental health vs organized terrorism is ongoing in Canadian media/blog arenas. ZB is referred to only as a "gunman", and mostly the RAND-generated terms "lone wolf terrorism" and "stray dog", with or without the invective from Jenkins' report that ITFL added (or was it LP?), are largely avoided. Other pages have similarly been edited by the "terror campaigners", as you'll see on ], which I've been meaning to trim of its rank UNDUE SYNTH about the Ottawa shooting but have been....preoccupied with the assault on wiki-decency underway re the Ottawa article. Attempts to remove the comparison to ] by an apparent Tory editor (] not sure I spelled that right were easily thwarted by finding coverage that ''did'' make that very valid comparison/contrast between that being ''not''called terrorism by the Tories and police (or US media) vs the from-the-get-go peppering of media with "terror" interpretations/allegations/imputations. There's a HuffPo article about its propagation and "where it started", also another column somewhere by the person who took the picture of ZB, which the propaganda establishment jumped on and widely publicized as being put out by ISIL, which is not the case; a caption to that effect on the Ottawa page I removed, likewise on the image page itself. You can still find RS that say that it was an ISIL photo, but that's case in point or RS being "not reliable" and/or misled/manipulated.] (]) 02:14, 29 November 2014 (UTC)

::::::I closely monitored the Canadian news coverage for the first week, and I remember that the media didn't refer to them as terrorists; however, the politicians that they quoted and interviewed referred to their acts as terrorism. What caught my eye was the focus on mental health issues; in the US, the media would have tried and convicted the suspects as terrorists in the first few hours using the same, shared talking points across each news outlet, ''without evidence''. In Canada, the focus is more on actual journalism, reporting, weighing and sifting of different POV, and news analysis. We don't get anything like that in the American mainstream media. It disappeared on September 12, 2001. The media in the US has a bad habit of ''disinforming'' its audience, not informing them. I've found Canadian news outlets to be much more information rich. ] (]) 03:17, 29 November 2014 (UTC)
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I added that bit about May's audience. The intended effect wasn't to discredit her, but to show that her sentiment was booed by ''The Globe and Mail''. Of course, intentions aren't effects, and I see how noting the way someone noted something can sound like noting the same thing someone noted. By now, there's been plenty of audible (and mostly legible) grumbling about the political bullshit, and the article does a decent job (largely thanks to you) of covering it far more explicitly than before. So it's fine to remove the hint, just figured I'd explain myself. ] ] 09:34, ], ] (UTC)
:Well, no secret about where the G&M's political allegiances lie.....but how often in any article do we hear about a Commons speech or exchange with the "noise from the peanut gallery", and it's not like Ms May has any allies outside her own caucus in the House....her statement is one thing, giving the "crowd's reaction" to her is another; the PM and Mulcair and Trudeau get hissed and booed and heckled all day long - do we include mention of that?] (]) 10:04, 2 December 2014 (UTC)


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:::Because of the stress of the "procedural gambit" just hurled at me, which I survived, my intent is to stay out of directly editing either article for a while....but if the bullshit continues....as it probably will..... may get around to a POV/ANI about info-suppression and misrepresenting sources by the "terror faction"....but I need a break and ''do'' have other thing to do in Misplaced Pages and in the real world.....and so e.g. ] for example I won't be creating myself...or an article about the plan to bomb the Beltran Tower (which since it's in court and under publication ban is likely very hard to source).] (]) 10:08, 2 December 2014 (UTC)


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Sorry, ( am not familiar with wiki-nese. However, I have some knowledge about a subject ("political finance") and I would like to improve an encyclopedia in my areay of expertise. Any kind of help is appreciated, any form of holier-than-you-are attitude is not (see wikiquette!!) Cheers, ] (]) 16:44, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
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:Citing wikipedia guidelines on this or that is not a "holier-than-thou-attitude". You'll find plenty of that in various discussions about guidelines, but explaining to you why your name-change was not needed, and not in guidelines, was not done in a "holier than thou" fashion, it was straightforward and "the way it is". Undiscussed name changes can be and are reverted regularly....particularly when the changed name created unnecessary disambiguation (that's a very wiki-nese word you'll find yourself becoming familiar with).] (]) 02:13, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
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The resentment you feel over having a "newcomer" editing your subject area and the newcomer wanting certain types of articles ''needs to stop''. The resentful comments re:"Asian Indian" need to stop. The personal attacks need to stop. The long, rambling, off-target replies need to stop. Stop the personal attacks and stop the resentment. I don't need to point you to any policies or guidelines as you know them.
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:Your long, rambling compilations of citations you haven't even read yet and your warring over a title where consensus has now spoken are why I stayed away from even the main WPCanada talkpag, and the merge discussions you deliberately kiboshed and bludgeoned. You're not a "nwecomer" to BC, you haven't even been there and you're a complete neophyte with ''any'' aspect of BC history or geography. Your self-built articles are really just masses of trivia items strung together, your writing style bald and repetitive and ''trite'', non sequiturs without context right and left, and the article unwieldy in scope and very much POV in many cases, and near-invariably ] also. Your animosity towards me from ''day one'' about "Asian Indians" vs the correct ] and then your name-screwing about that and South Asians....it's endless, and prodigious, your output, and your stubbornness. You were disrespectful to me ''as a British Columbian'' about my opwn province's history and my own considerable knowledge in it, presuming to throw me to the original research board for telling you you were ''wrong''. I point to guideiines YOU are ignoring all the time, and your own tone towards me has been NPA/AGF over and over and over again. Now you are ignoring guidelines once ''again'' by re-fielding an effort to get a title changed even though it was only at RM a month ago, there's lots of RM calls I haven't liked but normally at least 3 months, if not six, is needed to revisit them. Posturing about me making personal attacks when you've been arrogant and dismissive towards me and here once ''again'' seeking support against me belies the fact that I put off filing ANIs on YOU for various things. I spent three hours last night fixing ] because you have added so much to it sections were repeated; history and geography (both geography sections) had been pushed down below all your "Vancouver data trivia" and you have made no efforts to research the gold rush period or all the small-town Chinese history that you didn't want to know about or address. There's so many things wrong with the way that you behave, and with the types of information you dig out of your ethno-academia history and throw up like blobs of mud, and the way you have misconducted yourself with giant talkpage rants..... I'm used to having someone point at me who cannot see your own faults. {{Ping|User:Moonriddengirl}}, the "I'm innocent, Skookum1 is picking on me" game is old, and tiresome. I have knowledge of the field, a knowledge of what sources are out there, what's wrong with many sources and claims in them, knowledge of geographic reality he's shit all over, knowledge of what else is out there in the way of parallel content that he's "re-inventing" according to his stated self-mandate of making a "global serious of ethnicity by city" articles....presuming to start them, no less, without knowing anything about the subject first, or anything about the place, and being completely hostile to someone ''from the place'' who's a long-time Wikipedian who points out that t he "by city" parameter in his campaign ''does not apply'' without the full context of the province that city is inextricably part of, and within which "Vancouver" cannot be split off as a POV fork because some guy in Texas has this "thing" about "ethnicity by city" topics. The resulting articles have been "junk data" collections with a decidedly POV agenda. Making me an issue instead of addressing the issues and information I raise I've seen before; instead of working with me, he wants to accuse me, rally people against me, and accuse me of AGF/NPA when that's what he's done himself (including this attack here, which is just more wasting time/whining). One thing he won't do is listen to me, or respect my knowledge or even the wide range of sources and where to look for them I've fielded, so he's not just working with "specialist" academic papers (and all their attendant POV and bad-facts problems). I won't stop patrolling "his" little farm of ethnicity articles, I won't stop editing and patrolling BC history articles.


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Here's what has to stop:
*wars and campaigns to overturn a title change or to prevent a merge, and forumshopping to try to recruit support for your positionn
*Walls-of-cites in the course of discussions
*patronizing dismissals of me and what I have to say
*cite-farming: your pages are masses of links and cites.....as if the title were ]; "link farm: doesn't even begin to describe this ''fetish'' of yours. Here's an idea, why don't you actually ''read'' a book before you start an article for it? And if you do make such a book article, try not to make it an effort to dismiss the book's contents by selectively quoting a negative review? ] I'm not sure qualifies under WPBOOKS notablity guidelines, given there's only two reviews, one of them complete invective and that doesn't talk about the book's contents. You didn't even make the title of that article correctly, I had to fix it.
*complaining about ''me'' instead of listening to what I have to say.
*agressive article-spawning. How many of this series of "ethnicity by city" titles have you started in this last month or two? Too many. Work on one or two, not start multiple titles to turf-build your personal "global series on ethnicity by title". ] already existed; but you had to go make your little POV-fork ] (that title, if used strictly, would mean Chinese citizens in the city of Toronto, proper. so I changed it).] (]) 02:34, 28 December 2014 (UTC)


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==Decapitalization effort underway on the Civil Rights Movement pages==
You may have not gotten a ping on this. There is a decapitalization vote underway on the bottom of the talk page of 'African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968)' (there was a discussion underway, and then suddenly a new section was added). This is a week many people are on vacation or won't be editing, not a good time for a full discussion but here we have it. Please have a look, and, hopefully, vote or act on this one. Thanks. ] 19:14 28 December, 2014 (UTC)
:I never seem to get a ping so don't even know whether the ones I make myself work.... the insanity of what's going on with this is typical of a certain anal and mechanistically-dealt-with approach to Misplaced Pages guidelines that flies in the face of reality....which is why those guidelines need changing, not the titles that they're being used to ruin. "American revolution" etc. Why "sentence case" should be used in titles when the rest of the publishing world uses title case is quite beyond me. Pullman Strike, Homestead Strike etc are the same as ] and other titles, in terms of being proper names for events; some events in Canada like the ] of the '80s just redirect to the parent company or location article in that case to ], I'm not sure there's much about it on the ] page; Dicklyon's campaign to change a lot of titles to use as examples to change others is as incestuous and dishonest (whether well-intended or not) much like a certain editor I'm forbidden to name doing the same with adding "people" to long-standing standalone titles for indigenous peoples; he often changed them to archaic or what are now derisive forms because his thesis was that what linguists use should prevail over actual English usage and what the peoples themselves call themselves. Before changing ] to suit himself, he'd already moved several hundred (at least) to "prove" that "FOO people" was the wiki-norm. That guideline is a mess now, relative to its lack of conformity to other guidelines and policy, because of his edit-warring over it; the same would ensue with any attempts to reform MOS, and t hat crowd is even more laager-mentality than nearly any other.] (]) 02:05, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
::I do understand your point about "degrading" labour/civil rights movement titles as being a POV issue. Part of the problem is that the downgrading of such events is rife in so-called RS, whether in books or in media mentions, as is distortion of facts by those so-called "reliable" sources. Trying to de-capitalize these events has a POV impact; something the MOS crowd fielding this refuse to acknowledge. Which is par for the course with Misplaced Pages bureaucracy and those core people who man the ramparts of their guideline-fortresses.] (]) 02:08, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
:::Seems to me that not so long ago the same cap/decap war was going on over ], with many of the same specious arguments and guideline-twaddle fielded there also.] (]) 04:31, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
::::Someone wanted to decapitalize Monroe Doctrine (lol, or crying out loud). On the 'African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968)' talk page I see that you were listed on the ping list that Dicklyon supposedly sent. He may have forgotten yours (good faith assumed, with great wisdom comes great forgetting...or something similar). In any case, the movement pages that are, imnho, under "attack" (assuming good faith, under "a deep massage treatment") do have some defenders, and any comment or vote that you can make in the ongoing discussion there could be very helpful. It's, if nothing else, an interesting discussion, and a dance of Misplaced Pages policies and selective emphasis on what to focus on in the literature and what not. Please come by, and lend a hand (or, assuming good faith and human anatomy, two hands) to those who think that capitalizing Civil Rights Movement when preceded by a name such as 'African-American' or '1960s' has worked just fine for Misplaced Pages since its inception and is the way to go into the future as well. Thanks. ] 13:00 29 December, 2014 (UTC)
:::::] on Misplaced Pages is a major problem of the community; people who like rules and enforcing them also busy themselves with writing and maintaining them; they're also in the habit of calling guidelines and even "wikipedia essays" as "policy", and even when citing them seem to not have fully read them....so they're trying to de-capitalize Monroe Doctrine ''again'' huh? They're relentless..... and I daresay not one of them has worked on the articles that they're wanting to rename....another bad problem in Misplaced Pages, name-fiddling by the obliviously uninformed who think in rulesets and nothing else.....] (]) 02:43, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
::::::Just noticed "]" but won't draw Dicklyon's attention to it; it's fine as it is....until Wikipedians obsessed with MOS say otherwise.] (]) 03:58, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
This was freshly made recently ] and I would ''not'' like to see that very valid title downcased to ], which looks odd, especially when used and/or linked in flow of text; ] is only a modifier of the noun of the archaeological site - as with the strikes under RM right now. De-capitalizing a noun when its modifier is capped just doesn't make any sense; but then this is Misplaced Pages and not the real world....and comes off odd in the flow of text. But it's ''titles'' that are under discussion, why ''ISN'T'' title-case rather than sentence case used by MOS? Some long-ago "consensus" by 15 people or less??] (]) 08:22, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
:It's been my experience, working on prehistoric pages, that site names are often capitalized. Like you say, lower-casing on many proper names looks very strange, and on the African-American Civil Rights Movement pages I had to create several redirects with the lower-case because nobody had ever thought to do it before, showing how often people think of those pages as lower-case entities. I am now ] for attempting to protect the standard capitalized wikipedian name for those civil rights movement pages, the name that they've been called since their inception. If a zealot I be, in this case I wear the scarlet Z proudly, and with a nod towards Zorro (a favorite childhood television hero - I even had a mask and cape when I was a kid, wish I'd kept them). Until these page-name discussion (the labor pages, the civil rights movement pages) I've kept out of wikipedian politics, and didn't realize how such a small-circle of people can make major and, in these cases, seemingly detrimental, effects on many inappropriate changes here. Frightening in a way, as, in the case of the civil rights movement pages, Misplaced Pages has the best and most accurate CRM material on the web, and playing with the names of the pages to deemphasize them, to make them less than what they were, can be done by a handful of people, especially when the attempt is made on a week when much of the population is on holiday or has their minds on other activities. I'll take a look at the Keatley Creek page, that's one I don't remember hearing of. Oh, and the Monroe Doctrine, I didn't see a new attempt, I was just reacting to you saying that someone in the past tried to change the name! Will the next attempt focus on the 'New deal'? We can only wait and see (I must sign-off now, to continue my zealotism over on the civil rights movement page...or put the Kennedy assassination template on the Researchers pages...one of the two). ] 12:45 30 December, 2014 (UTC)
Yeah, I made the lower-case version of the archaeo site title, partly to try to keep it from being easy-moved once it's discovered. Re Monroe Doctrine I was surprised to see no RM on the talkpage as I remember a long and thorny discussion about it. Watch out about ]y actions, I'm tempted all the time but know there's wiki-gestapo out there and my open and sharp tongue has made me the ''bete noir'' against passive-aggressive soft-spoken imperiousness; and seen my blocked arbitrarily ''twice'' without warning or any ANI consensus...by people whose own behaviour is questionable. As for in-group hassles, look at the talkpage and history for ] and ]....the ''laager'' mentality of certain groups, who deny that they're groups (I'd described them as a "linguistics cabal" which got me an NPA warning and was used as an example of my wiki-wrongdoing) is compounded by those who haven't been following the scope of an issue then wade in admonishing me to curb my tone and threatening me if I so much as mention the editor responsible for so much BOLD crap and absurdity-mongering like you'll find in the discussions on the NCL talkpage....MOS, now, that's WP:HOLYWRIT and I do wonder who intransigent it is to possible change because of the MOS-moles who "live" there to protect that turf.....and wonder about how many people took part in its creation, or if it was just the same small crew that polices that turf and wields is like the Bible at a session of the Inquisition....there's endashed titles that shouldn't be endashed, but all you hear is arguments about "typography" and how Misplaced Pages should set standards, not follow them....] (]) 04:19, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
:That was quite the write-up of the history of the decapitalization actions you posted on the CRM talk page, and I still have to re-read it a couple of times to 'wrap my head' around it. This has been going on for awhile, and I'm wondering how many page have been moved which shouldn't have been. It's good you keep watch on some and have stayed with this, thanks for your vigilance. I see you love Canada and its nature, and thanks for that too. Happiest of New Year's to you, yours, and theirs. ] 13:08 2 January, 2015 (UTC)


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:If I did re-do it (I don't remember doing so but if my sig is there I guess I did) must be early onset Alzheimer's if not just a brain fart. I was actually going to write ] who was your predecessor about access, as even though I'm fully signed up to access any search results there will cost me a "credit" or whatever (can't remember the wording), so I'm wondering if there's a certain way for a Misplaced Pages access account to sign in; so far they're treating me as one of the paying yokels.] (]) 03:25, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
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Hahahaha sorry Maude, I'm an older editor who just went through a block perpetrated by younger editors who condemned me for, basically, being a crotchety old f**k and standing up to childish nonsense from a teenager who wanted exclusive control over a subject area he really knows nothing abuot but has a very decided POV agenda for....; I'm leaving Misplaced Pages once and for all; done done done; see section below. Misplaced Pages is being run by people who got their adminships when they were in their early teens who have no real knowledge of teh world, that's my summatino of the problem in a nutshell. I've got only so many years left, tired of arguing with the arrogantly ill-informed and those with power they don't deserve and very little common sense and even less real manners. But man, a whole lot of attitude.Skookum1 (talk) 02:44, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

Notice to The Interior and Moonriddengirl re illicit removal of POV/ESSAY/SYNTH tags

My block is over; who cares? I don't. The only thing that's prevented me from responding with one final condemnation of the illicitness of this peremptory block, which gave carte blance to a highly POV and persistently AGF editor, is personal circumstances including six weeks ago the smashing of my laptop screen; other than that I was going to condemn, item by item, violations of policy/guideline committed by yourselves and comebacks to some of the inane comments in the ANI. D

But here's what it is: why would I spend more time responding to people who refused to read anything I said while pandering to whining and pleading by WTM who even said, "is there a way to block him that won't be subject to consensus at ANI" - where his ally-in-enmity LegacyPac failed to get consensus. So yes, there was; harrassing me and demanding I stop 'interfering with' his sole authorship of his soapboxing about BC history on purely biased lines; I cringe at seeing some of his additions since my departure; but hell, MRG, you plunged in from the start saying you didn't want to have to research the previous months, and the lot of you - The Interior, yourself, Viriditas , Anna - refused to read anything I had to say, whether here or on the article talkpage. You have supported not just a POV fork but a blatantly OWN one, with loads of ESSAY/TRIVIA bunk and washed your hands of it and walked away.

NPOV is not negotiable, Moonriddengirl; your comment about nobody else commenting about POV being there is no consensus is completely out of line; read NPOV again and its POV fork again; using personal complaints as a way to denounce and override complaints of POV is against policy. But my own personal complaints about him were ignored, while his about me were pandered to and encouraged/mollycoddled.

The Interior's b.s. about me writing 20,000 character opuses was a laugh; at the top of my talkpage at the same t ime was a link to the NOR board discussion which, if you go find it in the archive, was called a complete was of time by the sane editor who closed it. Do a word count on the 'new' CCinGV article - it's twice that length. Have even one of you read its content and fact-checkecd it, or noted my complaints about the content he had cultivated on the CCinBC article about how much repetition there was, about obvious SYNTH, about blatant POV, about working to exclude sources while cherrypicking others? No, obviously not, if you don't have the time to research what you're pronouncing judgement on you shouldn't be pronouncing judgement on it, never mind taking sides as you have done.

So we have, other than the token British Columbian who levelled the block against me, an American-Texan-Chinese now OWNing articls about BC after successfully blocking the sole active British Columbian who works (worked) in historical areas and listed point after point after point about what was wrong all of which was ignored and not just ignored, but condemned. The Anglo-American bias issue of WP:Systemic bias is very much in evidence here, and also in WTM's behaviour and content, where the Sino-globalist bias is also very much not just in evidence but his whole agenda.

That you, MRG, claimed my saying he was "ill-informed" was an NPA while never considering the AGF against me, and his covert NPAs implicit throughout that AGF from day one - that you refused to take the time to read - is incredibly hypocritical and alos ironic - because you, too, are ill-informed and willfully so. but that you would call that an NPA while allowing "paranoid delusional" and various other very nasty and unfair direct NPAs to stand, including indulging in personal attacks yourself, is so much part of wiki-culture now that it's pointless to even explain it to you; you can never admit you're wrong and what you claim are guideline-driven actions on your part are actually policy violations.

NPOV is not negotiable. Period. Read WP:NPOV and WP:POV fork sometime; be warned, they're longer than seven sentences; they're "too long did not read".

"Misplaced Pages is not censored" is hilarious bullshit; wikilawyering is all ove the place, NPOV violations are commonplace, OWNership behaviour and DIVAism I've beeen accused of; both describe WTM to a 't'. (capital T). "I don't want to be interefered with:" as he said to someone, Viriditas I think, sums it up. No, he wants control of the sandbox and no messing around freom somebody in the way of his agenda, or his notions of content; I see bias and shabby logic not just in his content and arguments but in yours.

The block is over, but I will not be back, other than to answer Anna below;

I will now re-place the templates he removed a month after you blocked me, The Interior - did you even notice. And they belong in "his" new article, which is a travesty not just of bias and essay/synth/trivia but also of incredibly bad english composition.

Misplaced Pages has become a bureaucracy ruled by the uninformed with no sense of logic, and pandering to bias and empire-building and entrenched empire building by established admins and editors; it is not the collaborative environment it once was, and now is a battlefield and I'm not the one to blame for that. Ignorance is, on the one hand, and 'gaming the system' on the other. and 'gaming the system' is exactly what has gone on here, and you have either been suckered by it or were part of it.

That this anti-consensus block in direct violation of policy was done by two paid editors - paid by the WMF no less - makes it all the more noxious; you have lost yourself a once-loyal contributor by pandering to an obvious propagandist. I will place those templates; I've already said over and over what is wrong with the CCinBC article; the same applies on the CCinGV article. So why bother contributing anything more to Misplaced Pages AT ALL when I have been hounded and harassed to help along a prodigious but suspicious editor. Please note - he is now no. 21 up from no. 34 onthe lsit of all time contributors; that is not some kind of proof of his validity, MRG, rather it calls into question the value of those contributions and note, the very bad writing and repetitious content and bad sourcing; i still think he's not one editor but a team, and if he isn't then prove it by opening his edit summary instead of concealing it; CHECKUSER is called for but given the bureaucracy is staffed by the same kind of people who have hounded and condemned me I have better things to be doing with my life and time.

I will not be writing in Misplaced Pages anymore; but I definitely will be writing about wikipedia, @Jimbo Wales: take note. Not that you care, it seems that your own staffers were who hounded me out and blockerd me- you condoned their violation of the NPOV policy.

Legacypac and others from the political-activist branch of Misplaced Pages will no doubt be happy that I am gone; watch for the gloating; hell, WTM went out and looked for enemies to help condemn me with - he was polling, in othr words. Would a responsible admin be doing that? No - bt I don't think there are many responsible admins; hypocritical ones by the score, to be sure.

If you ban me for this 'rant' then please delete ALL my contributions and build back the thousands of articles I've contributed yourselves. Maybe WTM would care to undertake that huh?

Seeing the removal of thoe templates was the height of gall, but it's not the first time he's behaved with incredible arrogance, "Honestly" in his edit comment here is a joke; he hasn't been honest or respectful ever since he barged into Canadian wikispace. He's played you, and won. Maybe he'll be Number One someday huh?

Misplaced Pages should not have been gamed like this. And you should all learn to read and not say you are going to take action against someone if you don't wsant to listen to what they have to say.

Power corrupts, and you are corrupt. And in the wrong.Skookum1 (talk) 01:49, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

Welcome back. Let me see if I get this straight: after being blocked for three months for alleged battleground behavior, disruptive editing, and personal attacks, the first thing you did when your block expired was to return to battleground behavior, disruptive editing, and personal attacks. Am I correct on this, because that's what your contribution seems to show. Also, you once again complain about how nobody reads what you write, but you've been repeatedly told to shorten your TL;DR rants and ravings into something that is brief and to the point out of consideration for those of us who have jobs and actually have to work for a living. Is any of this getting through to you? Viriditas (talk) 02:21, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
coming from someone who claimed to be a moderator and demand I concede to a blatant guideline violation/instruction creep while refusing to discuss the NPOV policy you're nothing more than a hypocrite; you condoned the creation of a POV fork and shepherded a badly-written and over-sourced tract to mainspace and did nothing when he removed tags from the CCinBC article without ever even reading or doing anything about the many problems that article had, and still has. You are not a moderator you are a harassser and a scold; if you were a moderator you would have sought to understand the POV and sourcing problems instead of demand I accept his false claims about what RS says (which it doesn't) or his false claims about what that board said in response to him. He is a liar.
"Is any of this getting through to you"?? hahah repeat after me "I won't be back", other than to chronicle for Anna below the number of times controversial actions have prompted responses frm me and how many there are out there who intervene on subject and title discussions who have no clue what they're talking about. That includes YOU.
You have always been a waste of time. But here you are, back to the harassmwent and the scolding and still not considering t he POV issues I've raised, and still condoning the immortal prose of his contributions, which is just plain sophomorically bad English plus too many uses of "So-and-so in such-and-such said that the term is " and building SYNTH arguments from that. but you're perhaps in teh same camp as him, and only here to protect rankly POV editors like him frmo people calling "bullshit". which is what this block was, and what all that was said by those refusing to read what the problems were without ever researching content. My anger is justified; and so is my contempt for YOU in particular. Moderator my ass; have ytou taken down that bit from the Dhammapada from your userpage yet??Skookum1 (talk) 02:38, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
This would be incredibly funny if it wasn't so pathetically sad and depressing. Do you realize that every time you post a comment to Misplaced Pages, your sole intention is to lash out and attempt to harm others? Here are some words that others might use to describe your behavior: vindictive, vengeful, unforgiving, resentful, jealous and bitter. The best thing you can do for yourself is leave Misplaced Pages and find a good psychiatrist who will treat you. Viriditas (talk) 02:53, 17 June 2015 (UTC)


JEALOUS' hahahah man that's a good one; and here you are making more than one rank NPA ("find a good pyschiatrist who will treat you" is a rank violation of NPA but hey you're immune from any reproach huh?). Hghahahah man you sum up everything that is wrong with this place.Skookum1 (talk) 02:56, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
 :::It's a complete joke that I was blamed for "battlefield behaviour" when the battlelfield behaviour was his from the very start from his first appearance on WP:CANTALK. but none of those condemning me have condescended to read the disputes and observe the escalating battlefield against me though RfCs, NOR RS and other boaards, and illogical responses and arguments against sources and so on; none of those condemning me including the scold above have read the whole of the dispute, or paid attention to my points about how he counter-attacked with demands including I should buy a book when he knew I didn't have money, or following my comments asking him to 'back off' as I was having health and life-crisi problem by posting a parody of that bout himself then launching into a massive amount of edits and also talkpage/board arguments against me. the battlefield has always been of his making; and he enlisted supporters and blatantly polled for support by those hostile to me. but who gets blamed? His victim. You're all sociopaths IMO.Skookum1 (talk) 02:56, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
Per WP:NOTTHEM, you should be immediately re-blocked. To come back here after three months and start right where you left off is a good rationale for an indef. Viriditas (talk) 03:01, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

And who are you again? You are a harasser and have refused to consider any of the content issues I have raised and it is you who have furthered teh battlefield behaviour here as you have before. Be that as it may, you just made two very personal attacks and I launched an ANI against you, and it's you who need disciplining, not me.

Indefinitely blocked for standing up for myself? that's how this place works huh? and who are you again? some interloper who won't consider the subject matter and its POV violations but instead engaged in threatening and demanding behaviour; instead of moderating you took sides. The only reason I don't care about an indefinite block is I want to publicly explain to Anna below why her question is a conundrum and list off the controversies that I engaged myself in that needed engaging and gee, which for the most part, I won.

And as for being "bitter" of course I'm bitter that people from outside my province have created a blatantly biased and distorted version of its social history, while engaging in personal attacks in the course of preventing me from adding balance and/or arguing for it. @JimboWales: please take note of all this; the harrassment I have received here is a violation of behavioural guidelines in the course of retrenching a violation - a very blatant violation - of WP:NPOV. I'm not insane, and I'm not stupid either; hilarious that V. 's barntar for me had been, in part, for 'calling a spade a spade'; but when the shit was on his own shovel, he/she turned nasty. Or is he/she on your payroll too, as are Moonriddengirl and The Interior? Skookum1 (talk) 03:23, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

Please switch to a decaf. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.67.0.13 (talk) 04:43, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

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Skookum1, I have indefinitely blocked you for immediately resuming battleground behavior against User:WhisperToMe upon your return from your block. Converting your block to indefinite or following with indefinite if the behavior continued was an option presented by several at the review of your prior block, where consensus was confirmed for that block. I'm sorry that it's necessary.

Content policy concerns do not trump behavioral policy concerns. (WP:BATTLEGROUND, WP:CIVIL and WP:NPA are all policies.) It is not necessary to engage in battleground behavior to right wrongs; what is necessary is to demonstrate to other users that your content concerns are valid. If the user with whom you are disagreeing cannot be persuaded, dispute resolution is the way to go. If dispute resolution does not garner consensus to your view, you need to let it go.

I do not believe that you should be unblocked without some indication that you are willing to work very differently here. I realize that you are angry that those who have disagreed with your behavior have not also involved themselves in content, but as I noted to you in the past WP:INVOLVED does not permit this. There are many, many editors who can help tangle out the content issue if you are unblocked and will only engage without the personal attacks, unsupported allegations of impropriety and incivility that you have continued to lodge against WhisperToMe. --Moonriddengirl 12:41, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

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Smith's Landing First Nation

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I went to correct the formatting of the reserves within Smith's Landing (e.g., no curly apostrophes per the MOS), and found all sorts of contradictory spellings. Do you have a ref for the official orthography?

Please ping me if you answer.

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continuity - used at this WP article and sister articles for 19 years
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- reliable scholarly reference Britannica for the general reader
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modern update - uses 'vast majority of sources' found in a browser search
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-- US independence, British evacuation, territory to Mississippi-navigation, Newfoundland Banks - fish & cure
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-- Dutch - free trade with North America & Caribbean
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