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Historic sites in Waterton

Hello, Arctic.gnome! Since you renamed the Jasper/Banff list of historic sites for the Alberta Rockies, I‘ve been thinking the locations in Waterton Park ought to go there as well. Now I notice you’ve moved those to the Southern Alberta list, where of course they fit equally—but so do Calgary and Banff … Anyway, many of the Waterton sites will have a lot in common with those in Jasper and Banff: rustic & railway styles, ski lodges, warden cabins, and so on. What do you think?—Odysseus1479 02:37, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

Never mind, my mistake; from the map on the ‘parent’ page I gather that the region names are pre-defined, not just descriptive terms, with the Rockies district clearly restricted to the Jasper–Banff area. As you were …—Odysseus1479 23:39, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

@Odysseus1479: Our lists of historic sites should match our articles about Alberta regions. But I can't find a reference for the regions. I'm not sure where those groupings originally came from. —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 23:48, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

I’m not familiar with that scheme either, which is why I didn’t recognize it as the basis for your reorganization until I saw the map. The user who created it hasn’t been active for a couple of years, so I don’t suppose there’s any point in asking him or her whence it was sourced; “GIS data” doesn‘t tell us much.—Odysseus1479 00:18, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

P.S. Now I see what you mean about references. (I’ve seen similar problems WRT definitions of unofficial Edmonton neighbourhoods.) FWIW in current government websites I found the land use regions, apparently based on the drainage basins; tourism regions, where the maps don’t show boundaries, but associated locations that include businesses outside each region (but I expect the actual visitor attractions would be indicative); transportation regions; and economic regions—none of which matches up very well. But it might reflect how one of these departments broke the province down ten years ago.—Odysseus1479 01:51, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

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Thanks for adding the "clarify" tag - I've changed the link to Imperial Legislative Council. DuncanHill (talk) 15:38, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

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Hi. I've come across a few cases that break {{Canadian election result/top}}. If you look at the as yet uncreated Category:Election, 1986 results by riding (and the equivalents for 77,78, 90, 94 and 98) you'll see that it's struggling to assign a year category properly for municipal/school elections. I don't know whether you want to exclude them or develop the template to generate proper year cats, and I certainly wouldn't fiddle with a complex, well-used template like that - but I thought I'd let you know it's breaching WP:NOTRED.<g> Cheers. Le Deluge (talk) 14:45, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

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Hi Arctic.gnome. Has there been a discussion in the community about including OSM links in articles, whether in list tables and elsewhere? While it is interesting to get a quick view of a municipality's boundary if one is interested, these are external links, which you know don't belong in the bodies of articles. The column of linked numbers looks awkward and the numbers and column heading are ambiguous. This column of links is adding clutter to crisp tables at List of specialized municipalities in Alberta and List of municipal districts in Alberta, in my opinion. Cheers, Hwy43 (talk) 01:32, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

@Hwy43: That's fair. But I think it would be useful to have the links somewhere on Wikipedia. We currently only link to maps via the GeoHack system, which only links to points, so it isn't very useful for large areas. —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 18:23, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

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Hi Arctic gnome,

I saw you did good work recently improving the tables in the list of federal political parties and parliamentary groups. To that, I've added" a Historical parliamentary groups in the Senate section, but can't get it fixed up. Can you take a look?

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@Dmehus: No problem. It's a table rather than a template, so you don't need the equals signs. Just write the data you want to appear in each cell. —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 18:43, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

Arctic.gnome, Thanks! Yeah, I figured out the problem was I was repeating what I thought were comments (preceded by exclamation marks) so it was making an extra line in there. Doug Mehus T·C 18:48, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

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I've updated the seating plan but haven't posted it yet since I was wondering what you think about it. This is what it looks like on my computer : https://gyazo.com/c64e90ac6a79624fe988d90993b81ae2 - MikkelJSmith (talk) 14:58, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

Looks fine to me. Eventually the Senate will publish an official seating plan, and we'll know which party is in which exact seat. —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 15:46, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

Arctic.gnome, I kind of have a problem though. It doesn't allow me to update the file (says I can't overwrite it). MikkelJSmith (talk) 03:05, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

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I don't know what would be causing that. I get that message when I try to upload a new version of a protected file. Maybe the file has some kind of semi-protection in place? You'll have to ask the admins in Commons. —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 17:48, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

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@Mbakkel2: The full list of Canadian party colours is at Wikipedia:WikiProject Political parties and politicians in Canada/list of parties. These are all sourced from {{Canadian party colour}}. I see that Alberta Liberals should still be using #E51A38. —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 18:10, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

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List of prime ministers of Canada

Some years ago, in this edit, you made some changes to the table which added the following labels:

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^LS Party won the election, but premier lost own seat

However, I can't find a "Min." or "LS" footnote anywhere in the table, and apparently in the last nine years nobody ever added them. Am I missing something -- are they actually there and I'm not seeing them? --Metropolitan90 (talk) 03:45, 21 September 2021 (UTC)

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Consistency is best

Howdy, it would help if you added the monarch & governor general to all the # Canadian Parliament articles. Rather then only a few. GoodDay (talk) 13:49, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

@GoodDay: I'm filling them all out, including GG, but it will take a while. Some of them don't even have PM term lengths yet. —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 14:09, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

Cool. Meanwhile, we've got problems with some of the templates of the Canadian federal election articles. Some of them aren't showing the start & end dates of the parliaments themselves. GoodDay (talk) 14:19, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

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I watch the Move log and have noticed all of the retitling you have been doing lately. But I have a question: I just saw a move you did with multiple pages all at the same time. Is there a tool that allows you to do this? Because I move a page one at a time. I don't foresee any big article moves in my future, I was just wondering if there was a script that allowed you to do this or if you just had very quick fingers on a keyboard. Oh, in case it matters, I am an administrator on the project (I'm not sure if we have crossed paths before). Thanks for any information you can provide. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:58, 20 June 2023 (UTC)

I have all the pages I want to change in separate tabs, and paste the new title in each tab one by one, then click "move" on each tab one by one. It's a little easier that way. If I was moving any more than I did, I'd look into AutoWikiBrowser's move feature, which I think is only for admins. —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 15:17, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

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