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Talk:List of postal codes of Canada: Y

message: I have long wondered what Canada Post will do in Whitehorse when they near the end of the supply of Y1A codes.  They are already into the Y1A 7xx range, and there are some Y1A 9xx codes already in use.
Will they do a split?  Probably not, since it would mean changing a lot of codes in the city.
More probably, Canada Post will do an overlay, putting Y1B on top of Y1A. Myself, I think they should do a split now, allowing several years of permissive addressing.  Downtown should keep Y1A, as should selected government and major business facilities in the rest of the city. Points along the Alaska Highway south and Hamilton Boulevard should change to Y1C, while points north of the Hamilton Boulevard intersection with the Alaska Highway, including Takhini subdivision, Kopper King, Range Road, Porter Creek, should change to Y1H.  The existing local code would stay the same.  At least three years after permissive addressing ends, the now-unused codes in each range could then start to be assigned.  Y1B would be reserved as an overlay on Y1A for downtown, Marwell and Riverdale. I skip Y1E and Y1G as visually similar with Y1C and Y1A, and as rhymes with C.
But that's my idea.  It'll probably be a complete overlay by Y1B.
I also think that in the Northwest Territories, Hay River should have been changed to X2A from X0E when they started putting in codes according to supermailbox location. Yellowknife once was a single postal code (X0E 1H0, I think), but not long after codes were introduced, it was changed to address-based codes (X1A). GBC (talk) 05:52, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Overlay or split? 
Talk:Gingering

message: Why does "gin up" redirect here? The article doesn't mention this practice as the etymology of the word. Wiktionary has an unsourced etymology coming from the drink gin. Nearwater (talk)   — Preceding undated comment added 19:59, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: gin up

message: Trying to find info, but I'm guessing that we don't need to worry about copyright issues on a book from 1811. --Onorem♠Dil 13:56, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Just wish it didn't still happen in the modern world; though now they euphemistically call it "Gingering the tail."  :-P  Montanabw(talk) 00:16, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: hangon
Talk:Ribat

message: I am not sure it isn't partially a coincidence, but there seems to me that there is a connection. Who feels they can look into it?
*Rabat (r-b-t) as ancient Semitic word for fortified town (see for instance Rabbath Ammon, Rabbath Moab). The word was used in medieval times for faubourg, or suburb (used this way for instance for Ajloun Castle, Qal'at ar-Rabat in Arabic, understood as "the castle with the suburb", where the castle's suburb eventually became the town of Ajloun). A quick Google search confirmed what I remembered, and it's a reliable source: "Cyprus, Greece, and Malta" p. 150, Britannica Educational Publishing, 2013.
*Ribat, the Early Muslim type of frontier fort. From Yumna Masarwa, FROM A WORD OF GOD TO ARCHAEOLOGICAL MONUMENTS: A HISTORICAL-ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE UMAYYAD RIBATS OF PALESTINE (dissertation, 2006): "Literally, the word ribat (as a substantive) means a place where horses were kept ready to be mounted for an expedition. In the Qur'an, the term (as a verbal noun) denotes the act of keeping the horses ready to be mounted for military expeditions. However, in the period of conquests that saw the establishment of Muslim power in the new territories of al-Sham (Greater Syria), the term ribat became associated with the idea of “going to the frontier.” It has not yet been determined when the term ribat began to denote an edifice that could take the form of a small fort, a fortress, a fortified city, or even a fortified caravanserai..." So maybe not related to r-b-t, just a phonetic coincidence that dissipates if one can read abjads and one of the three letters actually differ from rabat to ribat?
*Robat, apparently the Persian (Farsi) variant/pronunciation for ribat. Dozens of places called "Robat-i XYZ" in the Persian realm.
Due to historical process, the transformation of ribats as frontier forts, into ribats as caravanserais/khans, or/and Sufi retreats: there are so many of them that it looks like a very important phenomenon with a large influence in the expansion of Islam, settlement, and trade. Arminden (talk) 11:57, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Connection rabat-ribat-robat needs to be studied, links created
Talk:HMS Kingfisher (1675)

message: I'm shortly to add some more images of this battle that are already on the server; I've also found this, which seems to be a black and white image of an oil painting by van de Velde the elder based on his sketch which we already have. Any opinions on whether five images of this battle is too many? (Could they be put in a "gallery" in the article?) –Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 18:36, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The article being very short, I would suggest a gallery. Regards, Acad Ronin (talk) 16:38, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  So many images 

message: My source for the mention of the Golden Rose is the museum website. I'm suspicious because it says the ship was captured, when we know from other historical documents that Wheler fought a ship called the Golden Rose several months later after taking over the Kingfisher! (The site also mentions the White Horse, which J. Kempthorne fought in 1669, but didn't capture or sink, so it's different, the ship could still be around.) I'm slightly reluctant to keep it. Opinions? –Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 18:44, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Golden Rose
Talk:Omfg

message: It was asked on the article, whether or not Wikipedia is "allowed" to have an article on OMFG.  The issue is not allowed or not, but rather what type of article is proper.  As long as what keeps getting put here is little or no more than a dictionary definition, then the redirect to Wiktionary will continue to be much more appropriate.  Wiktionary is the place for dictionary definitions, and already has this one.  Wikipedia, OTOH, is not a dictionary. - TexasAndroid (talk) 14:06, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I reckon this should redirect to Internet slang, which seems the most approprite. Simply south (talk) 16:39, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: OTOH means "on the other hand", for those who, like me, needs to do research on slang such as this everytime a clever person uses it.41.243.36.138 (talk) 16:19, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  OMFG! Zazaban (talk) 05:07, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

message: I changed OMFG as there is a website for gammers which did not long start off called Original Meadi For Gamers
I have left a link to both OMG and OMFG.fm Richwarf (talk) 23:49, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: reverted, for many reasons, but primarily because the website does not meet the relevant Wikipedia inclusion guideline, wp:web. 66.57.4.150 (talk) 13:51, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changed OMFG
Talk:Atlas Terrier

message: This article is factually wrong.
The Atlas Terrier is not an old breed, it's a designer breed created by Lauren Wolfe of Long Island, beginning in 1990.
http://www.geocities.com/c_leed/new/atlas.html
--jdege (talk) 14:10, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, I suppose 17 is quite old in dog years. ;-) Seriously though, if you think the article is substantially untrue, put the Hoax tag on it. --DanielRigal (talk) 15:00, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done --jdege (talk) 15:41, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

text: "Hoax" probably isn't the right word.  But there's never been any controversy about the origination of the Atlas breed. --jdege (talk) 22:51, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

text: I agree that there may be a conflict-of-interest, but it looks like Autumnbriar just started editing, so s/he may not be aware of Wikipedia's policies regarding this. -- Shunpiker (talk) 18:08, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:List of glass artists

message: If you want a chaotic situation, well you got it now. The separate list was made, because to many unlinked names were added in the main article. If you want a short all-american list, do so and delete this list and return those names to the main article. If we want a world wide list of glass artists, with or without linking in en-wikipedia (which may come in time) let the list grow (yes, without the weblinks!!). But no discrimination please. And more talk on this page please, before a too drastic action is taken.--GerardusS (talk) 14:11, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Marcus, In think that Red Links are for the time being o.k. I predict that removing them leads to making more (very) small and still very promotional articles on the same artists as whe can see daily in the other visual arts (as sculpture). And that is what we try to prevent in the first place, isn't it?. I wait for other contributions to this discussion.--GerardusS (talk) 07:08, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You moved Australian name: ok. You allowed red link with Czechs: not very consistant.--GerardusS (talk) 07:20, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]

message: To whom it may concern: There is a YouTube video showing the artistic skills of American-Japanese glass blower, Peter Ivy. If someone has the time, perhaps a Wikipedia article can be written about him. See Peter Ivy - Top Glass Worker in Japan. Enjoy!-Davidbena (talk) 14:30, 5 August 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: YouTube is not a reliable source WP:RS Please do not add non-notable redlinked artists to this. Thank you. Netherzone (talk) 21:21, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peter Ivy
Talk:St Mark's Church, Worsley

message: The church website notes: "1873 - When the Marquis of Normanby was Vicar.. " This seems a little surprising and there is no mention at Marquis of Normanby. Martinevans123 (talk) 13:26, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Marquis of Normanby]] 

message: I have rewritten this article in the format used by several other church articles and removed some intances of close paraphrasing and some off-topic trivia about a pub. I need to get hold of a copy of Pevsner for some detail. J3Mrs (talk) 19:50, 16 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  re-write
Talk:Jean-Louis Triaud

message: Seeming like a rather automatic newpage patrol motion, please actually look at provided sources before slapping up a "makes no assertion of notability" tag. MURGH disc. 15:55, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I wasn't questioning the sourcing; but the cites didn't add up to notability per :WP:BIO, IMAO; just another obscure businessperson. --Orange Mike  | Talk 16:12, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Just another businessperson you may say, but not obscure, and one that is the subject of published secondary source material. MURGH disc. 16:16, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

text: Well, that would be a bit more wild ;^) but yes, this is a person who is criticised frequently in the press. MURGH disc. 16:50, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I understand that (for reasons incomprehensible to me) football players are deemed notable, no matter how brief their careers; but you feel that all the club owners/executives are likewise notable, even when the club is owned by a television company? This is alien to my concepts of "notable," I will confess. (And I had to click the link to find out who this Ferguson sod was.) --Orange Mike  | Talk 16:58, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's certainly no crime not to be a jock. While I should think footballers with brief mediocre careers don't meet WP:NOTE, club presidents/owners are the focus of so much media attention (from some of Europe's most childish working journalists), certainly within their own cities, a closer example than Ferguson might be Joan Laporta. While Triaud isn't this controversial, he also happens to run two notable wineries. MURGH disc. 17:32, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Hasty proposed speedy
Talk:Star Hall

message: The article states that the maternity hospital closed in the 1940s ... but I was born there in 1963 .... Rhyddfrydol2 (talk) 10:50, 11 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Hospital closure date, it is not correct
Talk:Lord Chaos (DC Comics)

message: Which particular Black Lantern's skull crushed?  Was it the baby?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2606:A000:D983:5700:8D26:7590:9E88:9767 (talk) 16:49, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Skull crushing 

message: Miraclepine suggested in September 2019 that this page be merged with List of Teen Titans members. I'm opposed to that merge for two reasons. First, there are reliable sources that cover the character. Second, he isn't a member of the team; he's a villain. :) — Toughpigs (talk) 19:44, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge proposal
Talk:Notre-Dame-de-Grâce

message: The external links at the bottom included a link that is in effect an advertisment for a local firm of real estate agents. Nice people, I know them vaguely, but this is not appropriate in a Wikipedia article. -- update, links for two firms, I have removed them. CharlesKiddell (talk) 15:09, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Not that I really want to start a debate, but n-d-g.com actually contains loads of info on the neighbourhood, how it developed, etc, along with a bunch of old pictures. It is, indeed, a real estate agent's promotional website, but essentially I see it as a website on the history of the neighbourhood, along with that guy's face and phone number on each page. I'd keep it, if you agree. Saintamh (talk) 15:59, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm restoring the link as it seems quite useful.--MTLskyline (talk) 05:41, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: links

message: I noticed someone has been adding a list of street names (and what they are named for) in the article. I am not sure that this is overly encyclopedic, and believe that it is too detailed for an article on the neighbourhood of NDG. Most of the streets are not significant enough to merit their own articles either (which would be the place to put information behind their names).--MTLskyline (talk) 06:37, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Street names
Talk:Surena/Archive 1

message: Virtually the entire article here has been plagiarised in a straight copy-paste from this site, which has, according to Archive.org, contained its current text since at least May, 2003, which this article obviously has not.  The majority of this text was added by an anonymous user in December, 2006.  The references in this article are, themselves, consequently, similarly plagiarised.  I am thus removing the copied text. --Yst 13:46, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There were pther plagiarized passages (now removed), including an embellished version originally from page 51ff of the Cambridge History Of Iran, volume 3, part 1. In the article, those paras were attributed to an article by the owner of the CAIS website. -- Fullstop 18:29, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have now rewritten the article from scratch, which not only resolves the copyvio problems, but significant WP:OR problems as well. -- Fullstop 22:53, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Plagiarism

message: there are a lot of resources out there to expand the article to its fullest, any aid in the matter might be appreciated, i shall try my best to contribute in this regard along with the house of karen
--ParthianPrince (talk) 21:54, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  expanding the article
Talk:Michael Van Patrick

message: No move Parsecboy (talk) 01:10, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with *Support or *Oppose, then sign your comment with ~~~~. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's naming conventions.
*Oppose MOS:ABBR makes it clear this is not just a question of the most recognisable name: "Acronyms should be used in page naming if the subject is almost exclusively known only by its acronym and is widely known and used in that form (e.g., NASA and radar)." MVP as a term in this sense does not appear to be "widely known and used", and so the full name should be used as a title. --Rogerb67 (talk) 03:52, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

text: Any additional comments:
So far we have two opinions, one that MVP would be widely recognised and the other that it wouldn't be. Some evidence would be good. Andrewa (talk) 15:26, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Requested move

message: :Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with *Support or *Oppose, then sign your comment with ~~~~. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's naming conventions.
*Oppose MOS:ABBR makes it clear this is not just a question of the most recognisable name: "Acronyms should be used in page naming if the subject is almost exclusively known only by its acronym and is widely known and used in that form (e.g., NASA and radar)." MVP as a term in this sense does not appear to be "widely known and used", and so the full name should be used as a title. --Rogerb67 (talk) 03:52, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: :Any additional comments:
So far we have two opinions, one that MVP would be widely recognised and the other that it wouldn't be. Some evidence would be good. Andrewa (talk) 15:26, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion

message: I personally find this article somewhat confusing? The article opens as if the focus is on the original character, but the clones should be the focus. Maybe it's just me, but I think this article needs some work. Namenamenamenamename (talk) 03:47, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article focus
Talk:Deficit round robin

message: I do not consider that the use of temporary variable q in place of queue[i] improve the readability ot the article. First, it is not coherent with the use of the DC[i]. Second, the semantic of the line 'q:= queue[i]' is unclear: reference or deep copy? Why would the instruction q.dequeue() modify queue[i] ? For these two reasons, I suggest to undo this change.
MarcBoyerONERA (talk)
: You're right, I have reverted this change. Ferdinand Pienaar (talk) 00:12, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use of temp variable "q"  (Revision 06:56, 17 July 2015‎) 

message: This page is a hoax. There is a radio station called DWRR at a FM station in the Philippines.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 180.191.150.123 (talk) 12:49, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: DWRR stands here for Deficit Weighted Round Robin (DWRR). The acronym DWRR is valid according to the content of this page. The point that DWRR refers 
too to a radio is not a reason to propose the deletion of this article  
Nicolaslabrot (talk) 20:23, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: July 2015

message: I have undid revision 937844737 since
* I do not know any non-weighted version of DRR, so, DRR and DWRR are two names for the same thing. If there is any difference, please provide a reference.
* DRR can also be used for packets of constant size. And adding "for variable packet size" does not ease the readability IMHO.
MarcBoyerONERA (talk) 16:22, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Undid revision 937844737
Talk:Kryten (Red Dwarf)

message: A subtly funny point in this episode, for me, is that Rimmer's pronunciation in Esperanto is better than the teacher's .. but alas that's WP:OR.  —Tamfang (talk) 09:46, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Esperanto 

message: This article has been checked (edit: in 2008, see more recent January 2018 update) against the following criteria for B-Class status:
1. Referencing and citation: pass 
2. Coverage and accuracy: pass 
3. Structure: pass
4. Grammar: pass 
5. Supporting materials: pass 
Nreive (talk) 15:11, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment
Talk:Specialist firearms officer

message: Baton guns and Taser are not 'non-lethal', but are referred to as 'less-lethal weapons' as defined in the ACPO Guidance on Less-Lethal Weaponry.
ACPO Guidance on the use of firearms states that 
"opening fire with such weaponry should only be considered within existing legislation in respect to necessity, reasonableness and proportionality and should only be with the intention to stop an imminent threat to life or of serious injury." SW3C (talk) 10:30, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Non-lethal weapons

message: I'm having a bit of a dispute over at Talk:Death of Ian Tomlinson over the inclusion of an erroneous press report that the Met's Territorial Support Group has access to "submachine guns" as opposed to the actual semi-automatic MP5 carbines used by Authorised Firearms Officers in the unit (which does not have any SFOs attached to it). Other editors may wish to offer their opinion on the matter. Nick Cooper (talk) 09:53, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dispute over claimed British police use of "machine guns"
Category talk:Railway depots

message: It was proposed to rename the :Category:Railway engine sheds  to :Category:Railway depots. The category :Category:Rolling stock depots is absent, the subcategory :Category:Railway depots in the United Kingdom isnt divided to either the engine (locomotive) depots and the rolling stock depots. See Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Speedy. --ŠJů (talk) 15:40, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rename
Talk:Rafael Sperafico

message: According to brazilan newspapers, Rafael is not Ricardo and Rodrigo's brother. He is a cousin.  Woodcote (talk) 16:52, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmmm - all of the (presumably inferior) English sources I can find says that they are brothers.  I'll wait until I get a copy of Autosport on Thursday; that's usually more reliable than the internet news sites.--Diniz (talk) 18:24, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You may want to discuss this further on the Sperafico article's talk page.--Diniz (talk) 18:28, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, grandprix.com lists them as cousins, and Joe Saward and co are usually on the ball with stuff like this, so I've changed the article accordingly.--Diniz (talk) 18:34, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  A good link about the Sperafico's family  http://www.clicnews.com.br/esporte/view.htm?id=69212 Woodcote (talk) 19:41, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Sperafico's family

message: I also doubt that the day is bittersweet for them. You could be crowned king of the world but any gloss is taken off by the death of a loved one. Strange wording. VonBlade (talk) 18:18, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That's exactly what bittersweet means.--Diniz (talk) 18:22, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I understand that's exactly what bittersweet means. My point was that getting promoted on the day you break your leg would be bittersweet, losing a loved one in a horrific accident would rob anything of sweetness, thusly it was solely bitter. However that's my own opinion so it's not a problem. Still makes for a strange sentence though VonBlade (talk) 12:21, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: "Bittersweet"
Talk:Aviation State High School

message: I have added a number of sources for the information in this page. 
Could someone please assist with adding any others, or better ones, and check whether we think the issue for the template has been addressed, so it can be removed. KarmaKangaroo (talk) 16:07, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations and References? Removal of Maintenance template?