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Talk:Expo Line (SkyTrain)

message: A discussion is taking place to address the redirect :SkyTrain (Expo Line). The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 November 3#SkyTrain (Expo Line) until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  feminist (+) 08:27, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "SkyTrain (Expo Line)" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: I've reverted the very recent move to Expo Line (Vancouver): The Expo Line is not just a Vancouver line: it spans (and has since inception) Vancouver, Burnaby, and New Westminster, and later Surrey. Disambiguating by "Vancouver" is inappropriate and certainly inappropriate without a proper discussion. —Joeyconnick (talk) 06:08, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, "Expo Line (Vancouver)" seems strange when no agency or organization refers to it as such, AFAIK. TROPtastic (talk) 01:22, 3 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  recent move 

message: You are invited to join the discussion at :Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Willowbrook station (SkyTrain).  Joeyconnick (talk) 17:55, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion at [[:Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Willowbrook station (SkyTrain)]]
Talk:TD Tower (Vancouver)

message: Actually, although I won't contest the removal unless perhaps I or someone comes across a citation, the comparison to toilets and urinals was made by not one but several Vancouver columnists and architecture critics; one of them in particular I remember commenting that one of Toronto's gifts to Vancouver was a bad-looking, smaller copy of the Eaton Centre plunked down on the corner of Robson & Granville, one opf Vancouver's key intersections, of something that "looks like a giant urinal"; not incidentally its new indoor shopping arcade was designed explicity to kill commerce on Granville, so the snub to the remaining commercial stretch of Granville southwards was pointedly obvious in the design, with only a side door faicng that way, not a main facade.  Maybe such criticism were in Fotheringham, could have been Lautens, Wasserman, Boyd, or all of them; several of Len Norris' cartoons lampoon the place or feature it in some sarcastic way. I was around when this monstrosity got built and remember the press coverage well.  Where the TD Tower is adn the plaza in front of it was once the [[Hotel Vancouver (demolished0}|Second Hotel VAncouver]], though that was before my time; at the corner of Georgia and Howe, once a hub of social activity, there was afer construction only a barren black-glass wall.  I'm just relyaing hte message, y'see, not taking the POV.  All these articles on Vancouver buildings could be seriously enriched by giong into the press archives of the Sun, Province, Straight around the time of their construction, for ccontemporary views and political contexts.  So while it may seem POV to you, it's a widely-held POV even in the "official" media as well as the alternative; it's not the only architectural disaster downtown, but it 's certainly among hte top 10, more like the top 5.Skookum1 (talk) 02:55, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The story of the metal sculpture which stoo in the plaza during Expo and was dismantled and left to rust in a Surrey used-metal yard...that's not able, there was a lot of press about that, not sure what year of the paper archives to look in though....Skookum1 (talk) 02:55, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: "toilet white" Eaton's
Talk:Marine Building

message: Was it ever actually the tallest?  I have heard this said before (and "Pokemon Go" even features it as such -- maybe because Wikipedia says so!) but the list of tallest buildings in the British Empire and the British Commonwealth would indicate otherwise...  Does anyone agree this should get a "cite" tag or am I just really confused? -- abfackeln (talk) 01:04, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  "tallest building in the British Empire"?
Talk:The Psychedelic Furs

message: David Bowie?  VU seems more plausible. 01:17, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Influence

message: Info on soundtracks should be included but how to do so?  --Daniel C. Boyer 19:22, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: in Movies

message: No mention of the Peel Session in July 1979?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/johnpeel/sessions/1970s/1979/Jul25thepsychedelicfu/  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.233.248.178 (talk) 22:25, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: John Peel?

message: When Midnight to Midnight was released in 1987, the article "The" had been dropped from the band's name. For the album, tour, and singles, the band was called Psychedelic Furs. When the greatest hits album was released the next year, 'The' was back.
I think I am the only person to have actually noticed this.
~~  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.54.5.171 (talk) 22:20, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name of the Band
Talk:Hastings Park

message: I found this on VPL's Historical Photographs site tonight; totally public domain....these really nice buildings were structurally unstable...what a pity huh?  They were about where the Food or ShowMart Buildings were/are.Skookum1 (talk) 03:17, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: old exhibition buildings

message: It's already on Talk:Pacific Coliseum.Skookum1 (talk) 03:17, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed Olympics template
Talk:Lucy Baxley

message: It looks like some places are citing that Lucy Baxley wants to be Alabama's first female governor. Wiki says that Alabama has already had a female governor. What's going on? I don't remember learning about a female governor in Alabama History - a class I feel like I took every year since I was 10. --71.8.83.75 00:17, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Female Governors? 

message: According to every poll cited in this article, Riley is far out in front. Yet the article states that political pundits think she may win. Are these objective pundits or pundits for one party? Who says it? I like Lucy, too, but that statement screams out for attribution. I would suggest the statement should be deleted altogether (just for the sake of NPOV). Any objections? Goeverywhere 03:07, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Political Pundits Say She Might Win?? 
Talk:David Littman (activist)

message: Is there any opposition to renomve to David Littman (activist) per the suggestion here above ? Pluto2012 (talk) 18:23, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: . Pluto2012 (talk) 12:17, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opposition to rename ? 

message: I removed some content sourced to unreliable sources. This article falls under WP:BLP so extra-care must be given to ensure sources are reliable.VR talk 03:19, 23 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unreliable sources 
Talk:The Province

message: It is fair to categorized "The Province" as being a tabloid ???  The paper is known for its sensationalism and strong bias, but is categorizing it as a tabloid accurate ??? Lets discuss this !!!
I really don't see it as a tabloid, just a normal newspaper.
It is a tabloid in the same way the New York Post is.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.1.156.204 (talk) 10:58, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The Province is objectively a tabloid, I am not saying that I think tabloids are good or bad but merely stating the fact that it is a tabloid and that's that. Vancouver Sun's about section calls The Province a tabloid  and The Province's own twitter account bio states that they are a tabloid  though this may be subject to change, the point still stands. Just taking a look at the headlines, images, article subjects, and writing style of The Province should leave no doubt that it is a tabloid. I do not think that we should base this discussion off of the connotations of the word "tabloid" rather we should use its proper definition, and even considering its connotations, one could make the case that The Province still fits under the term.ΣΨ (talk) 07:23, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tabloid ? 

message: This paragraph is plagiarized:
In 1923, the Southam family bought The Province. By 1945 the paper's printers went out on strike. The Province had been the best selling newspaper in Vancouver, ahead of the Vancouver Sun and News Herald. As a result of the six-week strike, it lost significant market share, at one point falling to third place.
This is what the source (Vancouver Maritime Museum) says:
In 1923, the Southam family bought The Province. By 1945 the paper's printers went out on strike. The Province had been the best selling newspaper in Vancouver, ahead of The Vancouver Sun and News Herald. As a result of the six-week strike, it lost significant market share, at one point falling to third place.
Identical, word-for-word. I will change it to remove the plagiarism. --Greysonsarch (talk) 18:22, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plagiarism found
Talk:Hastings–Sunrise

message: "as one of Vancouver City's oldest neighbourhoods, had her first: road, hotel, post office, telephone, real estate transaction, subdivision, and ferry (between Burrard Inlet and Victoria)."Interesting. But since it wasn't part of "Vancouver City" at the time of these innovations, perhaps this can be re-phrased. There may also be arguments as to the definitions of both road and real estate transaction as well, but I'd have to do some reading before trying to re-jig anything to do with my old 'hood.--Keefer4 22:34, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As per above, I've tweaked it a bit.--Keefer4 06:58, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Vancouver-Burrard (provincial electoral district)

message: I'm rating this a stub due to the low quantity of text in the article as it is currently written. PKT (talk) 16:55, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Wow - I wrote that comment almost 10 years ago! ....PKT(alk) 02:27, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Peter Wolf

message: The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Abebenjoe 21:27, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment#Class_parameter|Biography assessment rating]] comment 

message: USe this biography:
http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/jgeilsband/biography
Sorry my English isnt't good enough to do this by myself Just changed "Wooba Gooba" to "Woofa Goofa" Stell98 (talk) 08:45, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Biography on Rolling Stone

message: I found this an interesting bit of trivia, but when searching for more information about Peter Wolf, didn't see it in the wikipedia article. 
62.12.14.28 (talk) 08:46, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peter Wolf as the original "Facebook Guy" 

message: In the Peter Wolf bio the Bronx is referred to as a neighborhood of NYC. More precisely the Bronx is a borough of NYC replete with many neighborhoods. I’ve never read that Manhattan (also a borough of NYC) is a neighborhood of NYC. I2likeike (talk) 16:38, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Bronx
Talk:Augusta Read Thomas

message: Hey, I don't think she left Northwestern--at least I hope she didn't, as she's the whole reason I applied there.  She's still on the university's faculty page (it doesn't list her as "emeritus") and I couldn't find anything on her personal webpage about it.
--Never mind, I found it.  Hey, that really sucks... I wonder who'll replace her.
RE: Northwestern has had some trouble funding positions well, and providing tenure to people who deserve it- the people on top haven't been making very good decisions, and it's been crippling the comp department, which must be frustrating to the faculty on a variety of levels. IMO, Augusta Read Thomas was at Northwestern because it was close to the CSO. She wasn't taking new students this year, anyway, but she was finishing up with people that had begun studies with her. SInce her CSO composer in residence ended, I don't think she had as much of a reason to be there. We'll all miss her influence in Chicago...
Riceklang 06:05, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Vancouver (electoral districts)

message: In reversing a needless change - unless Vancouver-Kensington should now be in the "defunct" group - I noticed blanks where the Vancouver Island section headings are.  No doubt some earnest editor thought "those aren't in Vancouver!" and deleted them.  No, but they're named Vancouver, from and in the days when that word didn't mean Burrard Inlet, but ONLY meant Vancouver Island; long story; they have a historical existence and they were listed on this page because of the confusion,as those artifcles exists and should be indexed with others of like name, no?  I guess I have to dig them out again; I'll try and cite all these defunct ones especially because it seems like people who don't know electoral history well will alwaysbe making edits ot the page, thinking they're right....Skookum1 (talk) 04:44, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Eager beavers cutting the wrong tree
Talk:Chicken fries

message: I reverted an anonymous edit that made the article even more like a Burger King advertisement.  There's nothing wrong with having a section about BK Chicken Fries and their viral marketing campaign, but that should not be the only focus of this page.  If this keeps happening it might make people wonder if the viral marketing includes editing Wikipedia. —TheMuuj Talk 03:44, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Note about recent revert

message: I'm pretty sure my old high school wasn't the only of its kind to serve chicken fries years before Burger King. So, perhaps it could be mentioned that Burger King started serving them after an executive's kid brought the idea home one day? Not that they necessarily did, but the concept of chicken served in the shape of a fry was not innovation on Burger King's part so they shouldn't get the credit for it.
:Yes, this article should probably be about Chicken fries in general, and maybe even merged with Chicken nugget, since that article is not very long.  Besides, Dwight Yoakam also has his own line of Chicken fries, so the BK product should not be the sole focus of this article.  —TheMuuj Talk 09:27, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Other chicken fries

message: Chicken Fries also refers to the testicles of a rooster, considered an edible delicacy by some.  There are also Duck Fries as evidenced by this article - .
Having slaughtered a rooster just yesterday, I can confirm that chicken fries look just like duck fries, but I cannot confirm the taste.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.118.51.38 (talk) 16:48, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Need a disambiguating page?
Talk:Indenture

message: Merge proposal with indentured servant
*Don't merge I think the topics people are expecting to find when searching for indenture vs. indentured servant are sufficiently different that they should not be merged. Emfraser 01:36, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Agree. David Spector (talk) 15:06, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  Agree. indentured servant comes with a lot of historical baggage that really doesn't belong here.  --AnalyticalHistoricalHobbyist (talk) 15:48, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge proposal

message: Hi, y'all!! Since my article A Gest of Robyn Hode is already bursting at the seams, I need to point to somewhere for a discussion re Edward III's indentures for the 100 Years War, & it should be here – there it is – 3 sentences in the middle of all those land transactions. I guess I just volunteered to insert such a section. Shortly; sometime soon, before I file my research ...  Ta-ta for now!  --AnalyticalHistoricalHobbyist (talk) 15:45, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Section for indentures during the 100 Years War needed
Talk:Da Vinci's City Hall

message: It's a shame they cancelled the show -- it was the first show in a very long time that I felt I had to watch and set aside the time to do so.  I've heard that CBC plans to bring back the Da Vinci franchise in one of the aforementioned TV movies next month.  Anybody know anything about that?  --antifreez 20:33, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Arthur Laing Bridge

message: Why is the bridge unpainted? Is it protected from the elements in some other way? --Hooperbloob 04:47, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Both Derek Dang and Bill McNulty were the ones to bring this first to public light.  While other councillors have since joined in opposition, a mention of their spearheading this issue was warrented. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.83.108.92 (talk) 07:56, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update to Page - re: Dang and McNulty Spearheading Opposition 
Talk:Granville Mall, Vancouver

message: The article says Graville Mall ends at Smithe Street, however MapArt's Greater Vancouver mapbook for 2006 shows that it extends an additional block to Nelson Street. Which is correct? 23skidoo 21:56, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Smithe. It was originally Nelson when the Mall was formed in 1974. In 1988 the block from Smithe to Nelson was opened to general traffic. I'll update the page. --Usgnus 22:04, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The mall-sized sidewalks and trees remain, though, right?Skookum1 (talk) 22:39, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Ends at Smithe Street?

message: It may be a subtle distinction between two different city-designations but this and the Granville Entertainment District are fundamentally about the same place; does the city's designated area of the entertainment district include AuBar, for example, or Dick's on Dick's?  Even if it did (and I don't think it does) I'm of the opinion that these should be merged.
*Support as per notes above.Skookum1 (talk) 22:39, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge discussion

message: Made this just now and thought I'd better comment here; that name alludes to an era as much as it does to a space and it could use its own writeup; also many of its flagships are gone.  I don't have the resources to write it separately, but think it should have as much architectural as locational content; each theatre was in a different style (I miss the luxury and tasteful swank of the old Capitol vs the deliberately glitzy vaudevillian glitter of the Orpheum, and the Strand's old double staircase velvet-and-gilt lobby....NB there was another theatre district, the Great White Way (Vancou7ver), now otherwise known as "the Strip" or, in p.c. geography, the Downtown Eastside.  Anyway for now the redirect will do, and there are arguments that a split isn't necessary as Theatre Row was where Granville Mall is now, more or less; the name is still used, but most of the pladce is gone....Skookum1 (talk) 20:25, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds like a good idea, an article on Theatre Row and its history would be great. Creativity-II (talk) 07:02, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Theatre Row (Vancouver)]] redirect
Talk:List of mayors of Vancouver

message: LD Taylor was elected 7, not 4 times, NPA should begin earlier than it does here. I'll fix it when I get a chance, unless someone else is chomping at the bit.Bobanny 08:42, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Turns out he was actually mayor of Nanimo.Stevecudmore 05:48, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: this list is wrong
Talk:Coalition of Progressive Electors

message: I cleaned up the writing a bit, corrected some mistakes (e.g., Larry Campbell was not a Liberal in the 2002 election), and took out some of the POV language. Could still use some work to not read like COPE's official history. For example, it doesn't mention any issues except maybe in an implied way with the Insite reference. Seems odd that the wards issue is omitted, I guess that's because mentioning the one issue consistently championed by COPE for most of its life would mean describing how they botched it even though that had full control of city hall. Woodwards could also be mentioned. Also, does anybody know: I thought COPE was originally called the Committee to Re-elect Harry Rankin - but I could be wrong.Bobanny 23:28, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Removed unnecessary information that is available on other pages. Cleaned out anecdotes. Added citations and recent updates --HGutteridge (talk) 02:13, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revamp
Talk:The Electors' Action Movement

message: Tagging this with . I'd also argue that the article is unencyclopedic in tone, as well as overly detailed for an article about a defunct municipal political party, but those seem to be side-effects of the POV thing. I'll leave it to a more experienced Wikipedian to decide if additional tags are necessary (ie: , ).
Here are a few examples of POV:
* A section header titled "filling a leadership void"
* "the residents of Vancouver woke up to the fact"
* "without anyone having asked them if they approved of such a scheme"
* "the concept of a civic party having a platform was a novelty in Vancouver"
* "it filled the need for civic leadership at a time when unelected and entrenched bureaucrats were ignoring the right of citizens to be informed and to participate"
These examples are non-exhaustive, but I think they illustrate the problems with the tone of the article as a whole.
Additionally, there is excessive use of quotes from candidates and their supporters. Many are "floating" quotes without context as to who or what is being quoted, aside from a citation in the footnotes.
104.142.124.211 (talk) 03:38, 22 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi I don't know much about wikipedia but I saw this note and just wanted to provide context. The main guy editing this page is association with the new Vancouver municipal political party "TEAM for a Livable Vancouver", which is based on The Elector's Action Movement. I think he's may be trying to make this page look flattering to bulk up his new Party's status? Anyways sorry if this isn't the right place to comment this I just wanted to say something because I found the content on this page concerningly slanted. 2001:569:7171:B400:F8E3:8DF7:47F6:B5A0 (talk) 17:32, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutral Point of View issues
Talk:Gerry McGeer

message: I get the feel of a summary of dismissal when I read the language this article is written in. One plan of McGeer's outlined under Mayor Gerry  and under Federal Politics is called a scheme. His theories were "cobbled together". "Outlandish behaviour" instead of a description of behaviour.
Mr.troughton (talk) 18:57, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Seems a little negatively biased 
Talk:L. D. Taylor

message: A good reference for this article is the book on this guy.  The publisher's site, with quotes, reviews, etc, is http://www.arsenalpulp.com/select_book.php?book=174 - citation info is: ; just the quotes on the linked page provide more than whats in the stub right now... JesseW, the juggling janitor 02:28, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Malcolm Alexander MacLean

message: I believe McLean Drive in Vancouver is named after him.  Hard to find a reference to this though.
Topher67 (talk) 21:38, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Street Named after Mr. MacLean
Talk:Vancouver City Council

message: Can someone on this page and on that of the city's make clear what distinguishes the mayor from the rest of the city council?  Is the mayorship only a figure-head position in Vancouver, of does he/she have any kind of executive authority?  Does the city have a hired-manager that does this?  These are all things that need to be made clear about Vancouver municipal government. --Criticalthinker (talk) 05:39, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Powers of the Mayor vs. Council
Talk:Mark Harrison (comics)

message: In the AfD I proposed moving this to Mark Harrison (artist), which is one of two disambiguation terms from WP:NCC} (the other being Mark Harrison (comics) which is less applicable because of his work in other fields in recent years). Thoughts? (Emperor (talk) 13:29, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Name