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Revision as of 19:31, 12 February 2006

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Richard Park

Thanks for your interest in the matter of Richard Park. As for that article you pointed me to, there was no agreement on flags. There is no offical policy or even effective guild-line in place. When the flags first started appearing several months back, there was a discussion and the people who were spreading the current rosters throughout the leaugue had agreed to use country of birth, not nationality, for the flags. But like i said, that was an agreement made by the people spreading the rosters and it was never made into policy or anything like that. The reason we used birth place for flags is because it was so much simpler. some players can get really confusing as to what flags should be used so a simple birth place system was used. Since no official agreement was ever reached to use this method, it hasn't been enforced rigourously. Ccwaters, for example, tried to enforce it for a while but got sick of reverting and arguing with people. He just gave up. I have given up for the most part too. In all honesty, I don't really care what flag is used, but to me it looks strange to have a player who was born in Korea to Korean parents with an american flag. Richard Park born in Seoul, South Korea followed by an american flag. Masterhatch 17:35, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Why is it strange? Around here, in Vancouver, a lot of athletes are born elsewhere in the world with foreign parents but represent Canada in international competitions. (i.e. wrestler Daniel Igali, NBA basketball player Steve Nash.) I am born to Chinese parents in Hong Kong but I identify myself as a Canadian due to my citizenship and the fact that I'm almost unfamiliar with Chinese culture. For hockey, where most players are Canadian, it's probably better to use nationality I think because 1/5 of the population is born outside the country but most still identify him/herself as being Canadian. --Buchanan-Hermit 19:15, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for reverting all the link spam from User:70.97.175.15. Much appreciated! --Yamla 18:49, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

You're very welcome. Glad to do it. :) --Buchanan-Hermit 18:50, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Atlanta Thrashers

Yeah that was fine with deleting my post I just love the atlanta thrashers --user:24.99.239.114

Map of Canada (from commons)

Son of a.. that's what I get for doing it from memory. :P Thanks. :) --Golbez 03:05, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages Project

Hi, my name is Federico (alias Pain) and I am creating a section for nominating th best user page, I was wondering if you were interested in joining the project.

The project has just started, and we need help to spread the word and ameliorate it.

Misplaced Pages:Votes_for_best_User_page

Best regards, Federico Pistono ✆ ✍ 14:26, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Wikimedia Canada

Hi there! I'd like to invite you to explore Wikimedia Canada, and create a list of people interested in forming a local chapter for our nation. A local chapter will help promote and improve the organization, within our great nation. We'd also like to encourage everyone to suggest projects for our national chapter to participate in. Hope to see you there!--DarkEvil 17:11, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Blade Runner pic

Word. The outline needed significant tweaking. - RoyBoy 22:58, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

James Staunton

Hello. I think I just got a message from you but it said something about vandalism, which seems rather odd. Just wondering, if indeed it was from you, what you think I might have done wrong? Short of sharpening up some rather sloppy English, I didn't think I had altered all that much - and I thought that was the idea of Misplaced Pages in the first place anyway. I see the page has been reverted now, so I suppose it's a rather theoretical question, but one doesn't like to cause offence. All the Best James

I reviewed the edit and I have retracted my vandalism warning. I was doing some routine vandalism cleanup and your edit looked like pornographic or inappropriate material to me. Well, after reading the article I realized that it should be judged under different circumstances, so hence I retracted the warning. Sorry for that, and thanks for pointing it out to me. Feel free to revert back to your edits if you wish. --Buchanan-Hermit™..CONTRIBS..SPEAK! 09:50, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, old boy. The internet can be an unfriendly place - so nice to come across someone polite for a change. Those warnings - pretty scary stuff! All the Best James

No problem. Don't be intimidated by the warnings -- there's nothing wrong with asking why you got one or challenging a warning, if you think you've got a strong case. :) --Buchanan-Hermit™..CONTRIBS..SPEAK! 10:04, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

98 B-Line

Hi Buchanan-Hermit. Nice work on the B-Line. As a Vancouverite, I watch the Coast Mountain Bus article, and I saw the link. Cheers. --Bookandcoffee 09:37, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. I spent a while on it but it was collecting dust in one of my userpage subpages for a while because I wasn't sure if it should be added or not (some of the info might be covered by other articles). I'm glad I added it today, and I see I'm not the only one. ;) --Buchanan-Hermit™..CONTRIBS..SPEAK! 09:41, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Regarding the Best User Page Project

Let us try an experiment. Until further notice, the voting system will be open, using the method described in the Guidelines. This will make us understand how reliable the current system is and whether the project has a real possiblity to expand into hundrends of users or not.

All users are encounaged to display the {{BestUserPage}} banner on their User Page.

All members all encoraged to display the {{BUP}} banner in their User Page, and also notify that project has started.

We will refer to the votes for this first session as "March 2006" in the archive.

Federico Pistono ✆ ✍ 19:31, 12 February 2006 (UTC)