User talk:Floydian/Archive/2021b

DYK for Sussex Drive

On 2 May 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Sussex Drive, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Sussex Drive (pictured) forms part of a ceremonial route used by foreign dignitaries and royal visitors to Canada? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Sussex Drive. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Sussex Drive), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

—valereee (talk) 00:01, 2 May 2021 (UTC)

Bradford Bypass

Hello Floydian - regarding your last edit to Bradford Bypass, where you tweaked the sentence that begins "The proposed route would serve...", I would suggest that the whole sentence should be removed, because it's redundant vis-a-vis the first paragraph. Also, despite its name the main purpose of the road is to connect the 400 and 404. It also happens to bypass Bradford along the way. Thoughts? Regards, PKT(alk) 12:03, 5 May 2021 (UTC)

That was an attempt to link bypass in the lede per an edit summary by Turini... I agree though, I kind of shoehorned that in. Can you see any good spots to insert that link? - Floydian ^τ _¢ 13:33, 5 May 2021 (UTC)

I gave it a shot. If you don't like it, feel free to revert, but I think it meets your intention. Cheers! PKT(alk) 16:33, 5 May 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Ontario Highway 39

The article Ontario Highway 39 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Ontario Highway 39 for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of The Rambling Man -- The Rambling Man (talk) 18:01, 6 May 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Ontario Highway 38

The article Ontario Highway 38 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Ontario Highway 38 for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of The Rambling Man -- The Rambling Man (talk) 08:41, 9 May 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Long Sault Parkway

On 9 May 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Long Sault Parkway, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Long Sault Parkway connects eleven islands created by the flooding of the Long Sault rapids (animation pictured) during the construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway in the late 1950s? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Long Sault Parkway. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Long Sault Parkway), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

 — Amakuru (talk) 12:02, 9 May 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Ontario Highway 22

The article Ontario Highway 22 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Ontario Highway 22 for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of The Rambling Man -- The Rambling Man (talk) 21:01, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Ontario Highway 40

The article Ontario Highway 40 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Ontario Highway 40 for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of The Rambling Man -- The Rambling Man (talk) 07:01, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

File:72 Frog Rapids Narrows, 1938.png

Hi! I noticed that you added a {{Keep local}} to the aforementioned file, which is now on Commons. I'm trying to clean up enwiki images right now and was wondering if you still wanted this file kept locally, or CSD'd as having a commons duplicate. It's from about 10 years or so ago, so I'm touching base. Thanks, and I really like the word you've been doing with Canadian infrastructure! :) Sennecaster (What now?) 18:15, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

I have a grudge with commons; they're over-adamant and ignorant. I have no problem with copies being transferred to Commons, but would prefer if a local copy is kept where I can steamroll over any unbased copyright concerns. - Floydian ^τ _¢ 22:25, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

Okay, thanks! Though I hate enwiki file tagging more than Commons :P If you're still doing file stuff with Canada government; PD-CanadaGov is a better template to use since it bypasses the PD review of normal PD-Canada. Sennecaster (What now?) 23:28, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Ontario Highway 29

Hello! Your submission of Ontario Highway 29 at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! --ZKang123 (talk) 09:42, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

QE Way dates in lead

I started a discussion at QE Way. Thanks for all your efforts by the way! Cheers, Facts707 (talk) 19:00, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Ontario Highway 29

On 3 June 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ontario Highway 29, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the former Ontario Highway 29 was split in half for nine years, from 1927 to 1936? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ontario Highway 29. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Ontario Highway 29), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:03, 3 June 2021 (UTC)

Ontario Highway 403 scheduled for TFA

This is to let you know that the Ontario Highway 403 article has been scheduled as today's featured article for July 15, 2021. Please check the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/July 15, 2021, but note that a coordinator will trim the lead to around 1000 characters anyway, so you aren't obliged to do so.

For Featured Articles promoted recently, there will be an existing blurb linked from the FAC talk page, which is likely to be transferred to the TFA page by a coordinator at some point.

We suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from the day before this appears on Main Page. Thanks! Jimfbleak - talk to me? 13:35, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Bloomington GO Station

Thanks for the citation tip but I actually added the same opening date reference as you did but in the body of the article (per WP:INFOBOXCITE). We should either merge the references or remove it from the infobox. BLAIXX 22:30, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

My apologies, I didn't see that. I've always been one to cite dates in the infobox... INFOBOXCITE seems like a redundant guideline since the infobox is considered part of the lede, and should contain nothing that ISN'T repeated within the body. Regardless, I'm not a transit editor. I've integrated the two references into one (and switched the article to present tense... 10 days comes and goes fast). I have no prejudice towards you doing as you will with my "contribution"... I just get MTO news updates on my desktop, so I go add the press releases where I can :) - Floydian ^τ _¢ 02:55, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, appreciate it! BLAIXX 21:43, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

Yep, pretty much...

Your edit summary here is spot-on. I thought the same thing, all the usual suspects jumping on the condemnation bandwagon. It's a sad thing nonetheless...all those babies and children in unmarked graves. Shearonink (talk) 16:11, 26 June 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of GTA West Corridor

The article GTA West Corridor you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:GTA West Corridor for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Mcguy15 -- Mcguy15 (talk) 16:02, 10 July 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Long Sault Parkway

The article Long Sault Parkway you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Long Sault Parkway for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of MWright96 -- MWright96 (talk) 07:01, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Ontario Highway 62

The article Ontario Highway 62 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Ontario Highway 62 for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Epicgenius -- Epicgenius (talk) 14:21, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Ontario Highway 103

The article Ontario Highway 103 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Ontario Highway 103 for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Some Dude From North Carolina -- Some Dude From North Carolina (talk) 01:22, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Ontario Highway 107

The article Ontario Highway 107 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Ontario Highway 107 for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Some Dude From North Carolina -- Some Dude From North Carolina (talk) 19:21, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Ontario Highway 114

The article Ontario Highway 114 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Ontario Highway 114 for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Some Dude From North Carolina -- Some Dude From North Carolina (talk) 14:22, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Ontario Highway 117

The article Ontario Highway 117 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Ontario Highway 117 for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Some Dude From North Carolina -- Some Dude From North Carolina (talk) 14:22, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Bill Davis

On 13 August 2021, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Bill Davis, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Stephen 05:39, 13 August 2021 (UTC)