Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need any questions answered about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or drop me a line. BTW, sorry about the misunderstanding that a few of the other long time users had about you - we can be rather protective of the wiki, sometimes to a fault. Cheers! --maveric149
SimonP, is the information you're adding to British Empire your own work, or is it from a textbook or a copyrighted website? -- Zoe
I've added little more than general information, what I was doing was editing another fellow's 5000 word essay that they added to the article, and that was not particularily relevent to the topic. - SimonP
Thanks, sorry, it was hard to follow who was adding what. -- Zoe
Everything in the article, even the portions that dealt with other countries, illustrated the factors that contributed to the breakdown of Pax Britannica and the ensuing repercussions. It was a disorganized weave of some different drafts that did require extensive editing. The content was generally fine and warranted.
But was it original work? -- Zoe
SimonP, I have a page now
I was not offended by your “essay” comment, but the use of the term “undergrad” as a term of derision. If it weren’t an utter waste of time, I’d go through your contributions, excoriating your writing as that of an ‘undergrad level’ whenever possible.
Thank you for the excellent rewrite on the FLQ page....DW
Re changing Canal Zone to Panama Canal Zone, what's your authority for that? As far as I know, the official title was always just "Canal Zone", because it was a unique governmental entity. For instance, the stamps for it always said just "Canal Zone", and my references mentioning the CZ do likewise. state.gov sometimes says "Panamal Canal Zone", but in informal contexts only that I can see. Stan 16:44 3 Jul 2003 (UTC)
While it might not be the official name it:
1) distiguishes which canal zone, I know the area around the Suez Canal is also called the Canal Zone, and there are probably other Canal Zones around the world
2) is more exact for many readers, especially non-Americans who do not think 'Panama' as soon as they hear the term 'Canal Zone'.
3) international sources, such as the Canadian government, will usually refer to it as the 'Panama Canal Zone'
4) seems more logical and less annyoing then changing it to Canal Zone (Panama)
SimonP 17:26 3 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Hi, Simon.
I was just looking through your change to Queen of Canada, and noticed that you had marked it as a minor change. Please be a bit more careful. While your change was correct, it was not minor in the sense used here. From Wikipedia:Contributing FAQ:
The rule of thumb is that an edit of a page that is spelling corrections, formatting, and minor rearranging of text should be flagged as a "minor edit". A major edit is basically something that makes the entry worth relooking at for somebody who wants to watch the article rather closely, so any "real" change, even if it is a single word. (Emphasis added)
Since this was a fact correction, even though it only changed a link, it shouldn't have been marked as minor. But, good catch. I had previously edited that section and missed the error. - Cafemusique 20:51 3 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Sorry about that, I tend to use the minor change more liberally, but perhaps I won't in future. SimonP 02:38 4 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Er, what in the world were you talking about with the current Bourbon heir being an Anglophone Canadian? The current heir to the throne of France is either Don Luis Alfonso de Borbon, Duke of Anjou, a cousin of Juan Carlos (for the legitimists), or the Comte de Paris, a (French) descendant of Louis Philippe (for the Orleanists). john 06:50 5 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Hello, Simon. Noticed your edits to the entry for the UB. I'm currently researching the UB, and wondered if you might know a bit about the structure/history of the organisation in the post-war years.
Rayray 08:09 23 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Sorry, but my knowledge is pretty limited I was mostly just cleaning up the articles. - SimonP 16:58 23 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Hi, you cast a vote in the TEMP5 debate. The Temp5 proposal was voted down by 61.3% to 38.6%. We seem to be going around in circlces on the whole issue of the main page. A new vote is now taking place to clarify what exactly we want, namely
As of now, the whole issue seems surrounded by complete confusion. This way, finally and definitively, we will know what we want and when we want it. So do please express your opinions. The vote is on the same page as the previous votes. FearÉIREANN 20:24, 13 Aug 2003 (UTC)
I deleted the Canada-specific information because having parallel information for all the nations of the world, or even all the English-speaking nations of the world, would be tedious at best in the death article. Death in Canada simply seemed to be an utterly idiosyncratic facet of death in general. I think a better use for that info would be in an article like life expectancy or causes of death, where the almanac-ish data of how likely people are to die from any given sourth in any given nation could be the main focus of the article. If you put it back though, I'm not going to start an edit war over it.Shimmin 03:07, 27 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Good work linking all of those names in List of current NHL players. That must have taken more patience than I could possibly have. RickK 01:52, 28 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Question for SimonP : I would like to know your reference on the fact that "One of the only areas of the world where Pepsi outsells Coke is the Canadian province of Quebec.". I'm doing a small research on the word Pepsi in Quebec and it would help me. Thank you.
Re List of socialists - is there another Herbert Morrison? Adam 06:27, 9 Nov 2003 (UTC)
The other is Herbert Morrison (announcer), he is the fellow who narrated the Hindenburg disaster. - SimonP 04:14, Nov 11, 2003 (UTC)
Hey SimonP, how are things going? Still working away? I've recently switched to working mostly on the Danish wikipedia, as they are lagging somewhat behind the English. (currently at roughly 13,700 articles) However, it is making slow but steady progress and can be proud of hitting way above its weight considering population of native speakers relative to other languages. Any rate, just thought I'd say hello. Hope all is well.
Peregrine981 23:38, 9 Nov 2003 (UTC)
In response to your question, peregrine comes partially from peregrine falcons which for some reason I was always impressed with, ever since that section in our grade 4 math book, and partially from the character in Lord of the Rings, although I was no particular fan of the character, I just liked the name. The Danish wiki definetely has huge holes in it, it is missing many very important subjects, or they are treated in a very superficial way. It also has random subject very well covered, like for some reason Rhododendrons and butterflies are covered in detail with many articles about the different species of each. My main problem is a lack of formal training in written Danish which limits my usefulness for complicated topics, but I can still make up charts, and slowly but surely write simple introductions. Currently I am adding Canadian content, and countries. Hope all is well Peregrine981 20:43, 19 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Hey, SimonP. Are you planning to add any information about the council elections to 2003 Toronto election? I was thinking of moving it to 2003 Toronto mayoral election but thought I'd better check with you first to see if you had further plans for the article. Trontonian 03:14, 11 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Thanks, Simon. I think I'll wait and see if any theme emerged from the council elections. I've been working this evening and so don't have much of an idea of what's happened. Trontonian
Hehe, another Torontonian here. ;-) Anyway, I just saw that you corrected the links to a bunch of misspelled articles on User:Daniel_Quinlan/redirects3. If you do any more, then it is a good idea to actually redirect the misspellings to the correct page. That means in the future when people make incorrect links, some of them might redirect to the correct page. Or if people type in a misspelling on a search engine, Wikipedia will show up. Thanks for the work you've done fixing those links. --snoyes 03:52, 11 Nov 2003 (UTC)
You may want to add your voice to: Wikipedia talk:Don't include copies of primary sources --mav 07:16, 14 Nov 2003 (UTC)
I still think even the 1998 in Canada info could be added directly to 1998...it would be necessary to add that certain things refer to Canada, of course, but why bother separating them into a country-specific timeline? On the other hand, "Wikipedia is not paper," as they say, so there's no reason not to have a timeline for every country. I'm still on the fence about this :) Adam Bishop 18:05, 18 Nov 2003 (UTC)