User talk:Madmagic

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Sir Isaac Brock Talk

(okay, I couldn't resist the urge to make that rhyme). Anyway, thanks for the kind words and pointing me towards those two pages...I'd seen the Galafilm one but generalbrock.com was new to me, and I'll have to look it over.

Glad to see that somebody new's arrived to write War of 1812 articles. I'm too slow to fill the many glaring holes out there, so welcome. :) Lord Bob 23:05, Apr 11, 2004 (UTC)

Great article!

Hi Madmagic, great article on Terry Southern. (I hope you really wrote all of it yourself and there is no copyright violation.) It had been long overdue. Looking forward to reading your other contributions, <KF> 22:38, 16 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I only mentioned the idea of a copyright violation because (a) there's quite a number of people contributing to Wikipedia who are obviously not familiar with the concept of plagiarism and because (b) the article is so good. So keep on writing! <KF> 17:43, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Stub msg

Hi, juat a message to ask if you could add some info to an article before you put in the stub msg? Articles that solely consist of that msg are normally speedily deleted. -- Graham  :) | Talk 15:04, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Articles that are little more than external links are equally speedily deleted. Try adding some of you own text to National Archives of Canada before inserting the stub msg or external link, and it won't be deleted as quickly. -- Graham  :) | Talk 15:06, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Categories

Hi...this may not have been mentioned to you before, but when you add a category link to an article on a person, could you please use the format [[Category:Whatever|Surname, First Name]] rather than just [[Category:Whatever]]? If you do it without the extra step, it alphabetizes wrong on the category page (frex, Peter Russell would file under P instead of R.) This also applies to any article title beginning with The, by the way. Bearcat 08:12, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

• Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
• Multi-Licensing Guide
• Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

Good eye!...

... on "Cannon". I couldn't get "shot" in italics without putting the whole thing in. It kept reverting. Your way works. Sfahey 02:20, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Beaumont Hamel

Just wanted to let you know that I deleted the Newfoundland Memorial Park section of the Beaumont Hamel article, which you first wrote and then semi-amputated. In its current state, it was badly formatted and served no purpose, but do feel free to bring it back if you can fix it. Fbriere 03:26, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Industrial rev

"Hi. Thanks for adding this article to Wikipedia:Article improvement drive... &c."

You're most welcome. I hope it gets accepted. :) — RJH 18:42, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Military history of Canada on Wikipedia:Peer review

I've just listed Military history of Canada on Peer review with hopes of eventually elevating it to a featured article. I know you have worked on this article and contributed a great deal in this area, and any input you might have would be much appreciated. - SimonP 00:43, July 14, 2005 (UTC)

UDHR

Seems to me you're so obviously POV on this that I can't be bothered to debate the issue with you. This is clearly a matter of opinion where no agreement is possible. Also, frankly, I don't care for your tone, and I've got better things to do than waste time quibbling with some self-important little-boots with a fairly transparent agenda. No interest in discussing this further. WMMartin 11:45, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

Patrick Watson

Hi,

Patrick Watson is a Companion of the Order of Canada. See this link: [1]. I didn't read the article. I will correct both. (Update: the article actually says he is a Companion as well).

--YUL89YYZ 19:10, August 31, 2005 (UTC)

Bringing Wikipedia to Toronto

I've been working on a bid to bring Wikimania 2006 to Toronto. I have contacted KMDI, an institute at the University of Toronto. They are very interested in partnering with us, and can get us a full range of U of T facilities for free. With this offer I think there is a very good chance of bringing Wikimania 2006 to Toronto. The only thing we currently lack are people willing to help out. I'm willing to do much of the work, but for the time being I am in Ottawa and having some people on the ground in Toronto will be necessary. We also need a number of people willing to assist at the actual event, likely the first weekend of August 2006. If you are interested in helping out sign up at Wikimania 2006/Toronto. Preliminary bids from various cities need to be made by Sept. 30, 2005, at which point a committee will choose which city gets to host the event. The number of people willing to help will certainly be an important consideration. - SimonP 16:33, September 6, 2005 (UTC)

12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend

Madmagic,

see the above articles talkpage for an explanation.--Ansbachdragoner 03:00, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Wikimania meeting tommorrow

Hello, and thanks for signing up at Wikimania_2006/Toronto. It has been announced that there will be a half hour meeting on the Wikimania IRC channel tomorrow October 2, at 20:00 UST (4:00 pm EST) to pick the 3 city shortlist. It would be great if you could attend. Also these are our last hours to ensure that our bid at Wikimania_2006/Toronto is as good as it can be, so any improvements to it would also be useful. - SimonP 20:42, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Hi

Just a hi from another ex-io.org’er (noticed you while browsing my watchlist) :-) —Gniw (Wing) 02:09, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Hi Patrick!

Thought I'd say hey... I forgot you did wiki. SB Johnny 14:09, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Wikimedia Canada

Hi there! I'd like to invite you to explore Wikimedia Canada, and create a list of people interested in forming a local chapter for our nation. A local chapter will help promote and improve the organization, within our great nation. We'd also like to encourage everyone to suggest projects for our national chapter to participate in. Hope to see you there!--DarkEvil 17:11, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Peacekeeping

Madmagic, I noticed that you contributed to the peacekeeping article in December. You seemed concerned about the poor quality of the article. I have significantly overhauled the article (as a draft on a subpage) and would like to know what you think. You can find it at Talk:Peacekeeping/Sandbox. If you know anyone else who is concerned about the article, please let them know too. Thanks. --Tjss(Talk) 21:07, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Three comments removed from this Talk page

Please note: Three non-specific comments (templated comments added to the Talk pages of many Wikipedians) that were formerly on this Talk page, and were made between 11 July 2006 and 5 November 2007 -- were removed today because of their large graphics, and to make this page quicker for my slow computer to load. Please see the History of this page, if you wish to view any or all of those comments. cheers,
Madmagic (talk) 15:18, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs

Hello Madmagic! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created is tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 1,093 article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the article:

1. Carole Bayer Sager - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 00:51, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Frederick Trent Stanley

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Proposed deletion of Cameron Public House

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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