Talk:Guelph

message: Why are there twin cities in Italy?  could someone explain this?
Edstamos (talk) 15:43, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It's my understanding that Guelph attracted a sizable number of Italian immigrants in its early years, to work as stonemasons.  The Italian community remains a significant presence in Guelph. Tunborough (talk) 18:41, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Twin Cities

message: I don't think the Commons image for Guelph places the city in the best light. Is there any way we could adjust it to something more postcard-worthy (preferably showing the church)? I can take the picture, if needed.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.225.10.54 (talk) 22:43, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Some of the images are irrelevant. Osprey over the bridge? The pictures look like they were taken by someone trying to convince readers that this truly is a gem of a town.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.132.12.186 (talk) 03:55, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Preferably not the church. The church scares the hell out of me, but not at all in the way I suppose it intends. Also it tends to leave me feeling sort of apathetically annoyed and angry. --Jammoe (talk) 04:12, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

text: I rather like it.  It could benefit from a caption that says what street it's looking along, and the name of the church.  PKT(alk) 23:05, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Good suggestion. I added a caption.Optionbooter (talk) 03:43, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I concur, nice pic. I'd encourage you to add more pictures if you have them! --Natural RX 16:20, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Image Unsatisfactory

message: Need someone to take the temp. info and put it in chart form.
:Done. The location is awkward because the infobox is long and floating over the article. If the Intro, History, Climate, and Topography sections are lengthened, it should position more appropriately.Thorlius (talk) 17:06, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Geography, Climate Info

message: The walmart battle is over and walmart won.
:kinda
It is worth noting that while walmart did establish a store, the council that approved the bylaw was vitually all defeated in the subsequent city council elections.
cduke  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.40.1.129 (talk) 19:27, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Walmart battle is over 

message: What's happened to the map? Lupin 04:00, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't believe any map was uploaded yet, a map should be uploaded with the name Guelph,_Ontario_Location.png.  The template just adds the option to put the map in.  There is an example map on Toronto, or Windsor, Ontario that I made.  BCKILLa 09:42, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Map?

message: Although you can see signs for interchanges for Guelph along Hwy. #401, the city itself is not.  To reach Guelph from the 401, one must travel up Hwy. #6 for about 0.5hr and pass through the Puslinch Twp. in Wellington Co. before you reach the city limits.  See Ontario provincial highway 6. --chris 20:45, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Guelph is not on the 401 

message: John Galt was over the Canada Company, but he was a Scotsman.  The article as currently written leads to an incorrect inference.
::John Galt, originally from Scotland, was superintendent of the Canada Company in its first years. I have revised the article to include more about him and the Canada Company.Peter K Burian (talk) 19:05, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  John Galt 

message: Running a WHOIS on blogguelph.com shows that it's registered to a private corporation. If it was City of Guelph-run, I could certainly justify keeping a link here, much like the Wellington-Guelph Community Portal. However, Wikipedia is not a repository for every single Guelph-based website on the Internet - only the official ones. Therefore, I can't justify keeping a link to that site on this page. Andy Saunders 20:38, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blog Guelph 

message: Has been modified to avoid copyright problems!
:Nice to see some effort at avoiding the copyright violations, but I think they're a little too similar, and not very essential to the article, so I removed them. See below. --Padraic 16:10, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misc. Facts about Guelph 

message: "And in 1882 Guelph became the first North American settlement to abolish slavery."
Huh?  Could the date be wrong?  Or is this some sort of vandalism?  Blotto adrift 17:07, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Slavery??

message: What is the relationship between Guelph and Wellington County? This article says its the seat of Wellington County, but the Wellington County article says Guelph is a seperate entity except as a census division. :Category:Guelph, Ontario is also a subcategory of :Category:Municipalities in Wellington County, Ontario. bobanny 05:50, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The mayor of Guelph does not sit on county council.  There are a few joint committees, to oversee the joint services you mention, but that's the extent of it. Tunborough (talk) 18:45, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Wellington County

message: Why has the link to guelphsocialjustice.org been removed several times?  The website is a university initiative, and works as an inclusive alternative media source.  It features a wiki and a blog.  I would think people involved in wikipedia would be more open to the inclusion of the site.  It isn't a personal blog; it's a community blog.  "SNAP Guelph" is just a bunch of pictures of wealthy people attending events, and an excuse to get advertising dollars.  If you want to talk about "balanced news," let me deconstruct the Mercury for you... why is wikipedia working to promote "recognized authorities" in the first place?  Who's doing the "recognizing"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.114.210.173 (talk • contribs) 
::However, Guelph Social Justice is a group that focuses on social justice activism, which is seen a "politically motivated" site under Wikipedia rules. A good example of a Weblog is BlogTO is, which offer a broad and non political look at life in Toronto. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.123.61.133 (talk • contribs) 
Okay. I would say that there is no de jure Wikipedia recognition of news sites. However, there is de facto recognition. In my opinion, the general population would be willing to tell others "I read in the Mercury/Tribune/SNAP Guelph/Ontarion that this is taking place." People give recognition to a news source when they themselves are willing to use it as a source of news and information. The weblink to Guelph Social Justice was originally placed here by a representative of the site, which gave the impression that they were trying to use Wikipedia to promote their site, something which is categorically frowned upon. Therefore, the link was removed. If Guelph Social Justice gets large enough, such that multiple established Wikipedia users can agree on its importance to providing Guelph news, or it is provided some official status by the City of Guelph,  I would have absolutely no qualms regarding its inclusion on this page. Until then, I have major qualms. Andy Saunders 16:10, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  guelphsocialjustice.org 

message: I am nearly certain that the population of Guelph is over 120,000. I don't live in Guelph anymore but I can recall coming into the city and seeing a population over 120,000. The number edited by Polaron from the 2006 Statcan site just seems like it is too low. I know it is statcan and their numbers usually are considered correct, but 114,000 seems way too low considering all the growth the city has undergone in just the last 5 to 10 years. I don't know, maybe I'm wrong but I have to believe that statcan got this one wrong. --JackHanlon 18:50, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Population

message: I gave this article an initial quality rating of "B", but I wouldn't argue with the lower rating of "Start".  There is a reasonably strong level of content here, but the article could use more inline referencing and documentation of sources.  PKT (talk) 22:36, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks Padraic and others for your work to improve the article.  I took the liberty of moving the 1855 map b/c it was causing a chunk of whitespace under the 'History' heading in my browser today, even at full size. PKT (talk) 16:37, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quality Rating 

message: Is there a place for Paul Fendley in this article? ... He was a top NHL prospect who led the Guelph CMC's Jr. A hockey team to the 1972 Centennial Cup.  He was a local boy and he died as a result of an on-ice incident in the final game of the national championship.  As far as I know he is a part of Guelph folklore and is still recognized as an important part of Guelph's history or at least sports history... any thoughts?  DMighton (talk) 07:01, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Paul Fendley

message: After realizing how much of this article was plagiarized from the City of Guelph history page, its trivia page, and the Guelph entry in the Canadian Encyclopedia, I've deleted many parts of this article. If I deleted any original work by fellow editors, I apologize; I'm just erring on the side of caution. Please feel free to re-add (and remember that citations are sorely needed!). --Padraic 14:12, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent deletions 

message: There is a proposal to rename this page. Please discuss it here. (Talk:Guelph (disambiguation)) Mindmatrix 16:07, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Rename page

message: What on earth is going on with the demographics? The population column adds up to ~151 000, and the percentages exceed 100%. Can someone clarify what is going on here? --Natural RX 03:09, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Simple. If your mother was Irish and you father was Italian, you would answer Yes to both. Secondarywaltz (talk) 03:48, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Demographics 

message: Do we actually have any? like look at the neighboring towns like listing them would be good like Pine Ridge, Westminster Woods, Blueberry Hill, Watson Creek, Starwood, etc, would adding the neighborhood names be something to add to the article ?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.50.215.119 (talk) 02:48, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Names of the neighborhoods of Guelph 

message: Please add Ron Asseltine to the People Section. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Asselstine
Not only was he an NHL Ref, but was a member of Satan's Choice for many years. And my neighbour :) Roan Art (talk) 15:05, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where's Ronny? 

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replies: text: Absurd deletion request IMO. I have responded with Speedy Keep. --Natural RX 19:13, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: From the early responses it looks like an easy keep... if by some unholy chance it does get deleted I'll personally do my best to recreate the shot myself. Tabercil (talk) 19:34, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: File:Guelph skyline night-23-11-.jpg Nominated for Deletion

message: The music section has been edited many times now with the addition or removal of a band or two. I think it all sprouts from "notable bands including..." when we haven't even defined what is notable, or if specific bands should be included at all. Before this goes further, I have removed the bands. Please discuss so we can gather some consensus. Cheers. --Natural RX 14:04, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable music 

message: Hello!  Is there a Wikipedian in or around Guelph who could take a photograph of the new Guelph City Hall and upload it to Wikimedia Commons.  It seems odd that we do not have an image of the city's new seat of government.  Cheers, --Skeezix1000 (talk) 15:18, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photograph needed 

message: The flag used on this page is this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guelph#/media/File:Flag_of_Guelph.svg but I'm pretty sure this is the actual flag: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Guelph_City_Hall_cropped.jpg (you can see it better in this picture from the Mayor's blog: http://mayorsblog.guelph.ca/2008/11/11/rembrance-day-recognizing-service/). I haven't found any actual photos of the one that's currently being used on this page. Where did it come from and can anyone confirm which is the correct flag? -- PB54 21:45, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I drew :File:Flag of Guelph.svg, which was based on :File:Guelph_flag_1.JPG. That flag appears to be lower resolution, highly artifacted version of the file that was on FOTW at the time. Since then FOTW have updated their site and the now consider the flag you posted the official flag. They are calling the other flag "Flag of the citizens of Guelph". I will try to make the correct flag in a couple of days. --Svgalbertian (talk) 15:54, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:   --Svgalbertian (talk) 21:57, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong flag? 

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message: At one time both levels were at record lows in Guelph but for some time now, crime and unemployment levels have been average, or higher than average, for Southern Ontario. (e.g. Oct. 2017, unemployment is at 5.9% vs. 5.1% for Kitchener-Waterloo). 
I updated the lead with current info, but wonder if there is any value now to including either topic in the lead. The very low numbers did not last for very long, so are they historically significant? IMHO: It's old news now and not significant enough for the lead, in my view. 
I propose that we delete the discussion of the temporarily low crime and unemployment rate from the lead and make sure it's covered in the body of this article. Peter K Burian (talk) 14:21, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead: should unemployment and crime be included? 

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message: In the article, there are two identical pictures, with different captions, concerning Allan's mill.Ekisbares (talk) 13:53, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Good catch, Ekisbares. I removed the second one. Peter K Burian (talk) 14:58, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two identical pictures 

message: :The Old Quebec Street Mall was a street built in the 1800s that was enclosed and covered; that work was completed in 1984 and the street has become an indoor shopping mall.
Okay—it didn't really take over 100 years to build a shopping mall, did it? (Even if 19th-century people had some idea what a shopping mall would be?) I suspect "that work" refers to its conversion into one. – AndyFielding (talk) 11:30, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  A long project