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 add a question to the Village pump. Cheers! --maveric149
I assume that you are another Canadian who has joined us. If so please sign in at Wikipedians/Canada, or, if you feel it better reflects your sentiments, you can always start Wikipedians/Quebec. Either way your perspective will be appreciated. Eclecticology
Thank you for taking on some of the Canada articles; I've been trying to flesh them out, but lack good reference books, and Canadian history isn't covered well in US schools. Vicki Rosenzweig
- So they say :) You're welcome, and thank you and the rest of you for the welcome. - montréalais
Thanks for the Sandman collection pages edits, nice idea, makes it easier to read through them in sequence :). I see you were tripped up by the World's / Worlds' thing too, though. I shall write to Neil Gaiman and berate him for causing such confusion. =) --AW
- I always like adding such things to lists that can be read through in sequence :) --montrealais
You seem to be responsible for the article Bowser (Nintendo character) (correct title) but there is also Bowser (Nintendo Character) by an anonymous contributor. I found this as I was trying to conform the titles to the naming convention. Perhaps you know enough about the subject to reconcile the texts. Eclecticology 20:03 Sep 6, 2002 (UCT)
- I know next to nothing about Nintendo, but Bowser (Nintendo character) is a revised edition of Bowser (Nintendo Character). I have set the latter to redirect. -montrealais
Just thought i'd let you know I responded to your comment on my talk page over there. Cya! --AW
Thanks for filling in some of my articles. I intend to fill them out more, but was interested jumping in and getting started contributing to Wikipedia. I want to put some more thought into these articles before adding more, but I didn't want to leave them blank - I realize it is not a Dictionary and I thought these deserved Wikipedia entries. --Jim
Please double-check my edits to civil union and gay marriage -- I need help to ensure that my bias doesn't affect my objectivity. (If you can't tell my bias from my edits, then I guess I'm doing okay ;) --Ed Poor
- The only edits I saw from you in those two articles seem quite factual. --mtlais
Help me out again: is it okay to add "(or 1984)" to the Orwell novel? --Ed Poor 21:31 Sep 18, 2002 (UTC)
- Well, I say and maintain that it is supposed to be spelled out in letters, regardless of what those illiterates at Cliffs Notes do. But there's no reason why we couldn't add that as an alternative to the real, just, and true proper spelling. (Pedantic much, Matt? ;)) - user:Montrealais
Hey, speaking of pedantic, how about my change to the "same-sex marriage" definition? So far, no one has suggested a union of three-of-the-same-gender, so I thought it made sense to specify two partners. What do you think? Is this better, worse, or what? --Ed Poor
- I think "both" did the trick, but I have made a minor correction and I think it's OK. - Mtlais
Suggest you read the QUEBEC talk page and stop submitting your misleading statements. Suggest you first consult a few Constitutional experts. McGill has several....DW
- Which statement of mine do you contend was misleading? To the contrary, your statement was downright un-NPOV. - Montrealais
"Hey, relax. Breathe. Calm down." -- Thanks for your concern. But I've been doing that with Ed for something like a year now. Time to vent. :-)
Sorry, I had seen it but I didnot find time to answer to your comment on Talk:Non-sexist language until today. I left you a message there, if you have time to drop by, I would be glad user:anthere
- What! You have a life besides the Wiki? For shame. :) Sorry, I didn't sleep well and am a bit bitchy this morning. --mav
- Tsk. You can make up for it by admiring my cat. (He's the cute black-and-white short-haired one in the lower photo on that page.) His name is Zazou and he wuvs you. - Montréalais
LOL - he is pretty darn cute. One of my cats looks very similar to the long hair on the same page (except my cat doesn't have a dark splotch on her nose). Her name is Mougie and she is a moody bitch -- but my partner and I love her and our other two cats just the same. --mav
Re: city names. See http://www.nupedia.com/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2002-September/004552.html -- Zoe
- Right, which is what I said:
- What, as far as I can see, has NOT been decided on yet, is whether American and Canadian cities get their State/Province addition even in absence of any necessity for disambiguation.
- In other words, it's not yet necessary to move Canadian cities around. The mention of the special case of Canadian cities - what that meant was that if (say) Sydney had to be disambiguated, it would go to Sydney, Nova Scotia, not Sydney, Canada. -- Montréalais
The period vs. dot trick is cool; another I like is writing "dot" .dot. which, if converted by a bot, results in something@something...com, which of course bounces & sometimes crashes things. :-) --KQ 02:36 Oct 11, 2002 (UTC)
Yikes! 71 after only a couple months. Pace yourself the Wiki ain't going anywhere. ;-) --mav
I'm not the only gay Wiccan on wikipedia? Will wonders never cease. Blessed be! (And come to me....meow.) ;) -EB-
- LOL! You're lucky the boyf and I have an open relationship ;) - Montréalais
- Yeah, but you're not exactly around the corner either. ;) (Check out the listing of Easter Bradford ((Not my user page)) to see me...) -EB-
Sorry, but the intent or purpose of italicizing the territories wasn't clear from the context. Perhaps a note to that effect might help the reader.
I don't know who did it but someone has put Newfoundland as the 12th province to be admited; tough to do when there are only ten. Eclecticology
- Newfoundland was the 12th province or territory to be admitted. Check Canadian Confederation for the list. Nunavut was the 13th and Alberta and Saskatchewan are tied for 10th. - Montréalais
Please consider following the steps at Wikipedia:Current events on Main Page to get stuff on the Main Page. Harry Hay needs to be added to Current events and Recent celebrity deaths. --The Cunctator
- Thank you for the info. I had added other events to Talk:Main Page before, such as the stabbing of Bertrand Delanoë and the Queen's visit to Canada, and in fact asked if that was the proper place to do so and was told it was. But I will follow the procedure you mention. - Montréalais
Hi, Montrealais. Do you really want to include regents as successors to monarchs? France has had female regents, but they were regents for an actual king. France has never had a queen regnant. -- Someone else 04:12 Nov 17, 2002 (UTC)
- That's why they're in brackets. - Montréalais
- Yes. It seems confusing to me in what sense they "succeeded" (they shouldn't be on a "List of Monarchs" either, though I suppose a "List of People who held power in France" would be extremely contentious.) The parentheses, though, do make it clear that something is amiss, but I was hoping to come up with something more explicit, and that would indicate that John I, for example, was actually king of France, even though he's in parentheses, but that Catherine de' Medici was never a monarch. -- Someone else
- I am certainly not an expert in French history, and if you want to remove the assorted regents, you're welcome to do so. - Montréalais
- How do you think this looks? An improvement or a debasement?
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