User talk:Gordalmighty

^[1] I deliberately put a question mark (?) after I accidentally refered to the wrong page in some articles due to a too enthousiastic "copy and paste". Be aware of this and on the look-out.

Peter Horn 22:16, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

You will notlce that a number of roads are only 1 km long so when you fill in the page number you will also be able to fill in the right length at the same time. Peter Horn (talk · contribs)

"Distances routières", don't forget the Quebec Autoroutes, Quebec Autoroute 20 etc. Peter Horn 20:42, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Hello,

I was wondering where you get the source of the images you make of Quebec Municipalities such as Dundee_Quebec_location_diagram as I am interested in making one on a slightly larger scale for the Chateauguay Valley and the Chateauguay River amongst others. Many thanks. Sirtrebuchet (talk) 03:05, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Congratulations on the excellent job you have been doing in making all the maps that were desperately needed for various Quebec articles. I have, however, noticed a small problem with your map of the Urban agglomeration of Longueuil. Saint-Lambert's borders are too large, because the map shows the former Saint-Lambert-LeMoyne borough and not uniquely the city of Saint-Lambert. LeMoyne has since joined the Vieux-Longueuil borough, and therefore, that borough's map is too small. The correct map can be found here: . Notice the slightly different borders between Greenfield Park, Vieux-Longueuil and Saint-Lambert. Cheers. MTLskyline (talk) 22:53, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

Please refrain from changing the formating in the Geographic Location templates, as I am in the process of adding and updating this for all municipalities in Ontario and Quebec. This template is used not just for these provinces but everywhere elso too, so, as you can appreciate, changing the formating would make it inconsistent. Thanks. -- P199 (talk) 18:19, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

• Adding colour will not impact the template itself but its appearance which I'm trying to keep consistent. I agree that the template page doesn't give much instruction on its use, so I have modelled the look after the most common use of this template throughout WP. -- P199 (talk) 19:00, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
  • Having done all northeastern Ontario, Abitibi and Outaouais, now moving into the Laurentides, I haven't seen or updated southwest Quebec yet. IMHO, geographic features (lakes, rivers, etc) should not stand out with bold text since this template focuses on municipalites. And yes, I spend way too much time on WP, I guess that makes me a Wikipedian... -- P199 (talk) 19:30, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
    • Your proposal sounds good. Can you provide me a sample of it somewhere so I can see what you mean? -- P199 (talk) 20:01, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
      • Stacking geographic features with municipalities will make it seem that they are north/south of each other (as in your example). I kindly suggest the following: -- P199 (talk) 20:47, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

• • • • Commas or slashes, it doesn't really matter. I don't want to insist on anything, just trying to present the info within the box somewhat consistently so it is logical and clear to readers. Regards, -- P199 (talk) 14:07, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Just so you know, {{pagename}} isn't supposed to sit directly in articles as a transclusion. If there's a pressing reason for the top of an infobox to say "Dunham, Quebec" rather than "(City or Ville) of Dunham", then you need to either type "Dunham, Quebec" directly, or use {{subst:pagename}} so that the actual text of the page name replaces the template once you hit save. If you don't do one of those things, a bot or a user on cleanup patrol will always come up behind you and subst out the "pagename" template anyway, so there's not much point in insisting on it.

Also, the traditional consensus at WP:CWNB has been that the infobox on a place's article should generally have "(City/Town/Village/Whatever) of Name" at the top of the infobox, rather than "Name, Province". We can always change the consensus if there's a good reason to do so — but if you're just replacing it with the pagename template because you think that's what's expected, it isn't. But if you've got a good reason beyond just thinking that's what we were supposed to do, then it's okay as long as you explain it so that we know what the real reason is and don't think it was just an error.

Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 22:20, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

If a place has a straightforward "Parish/Municipality/Village/whatever" designation, then yeah, that's what should be used. I don't think there's ever been a consensus around what to do with villes — I think most people just use "city" for all of them unless there's an actual indication in reliable sources that "town" is specifically preferred (as, frex, Mount Royal). My own tendency has been to just use ville de in the topline regardless of language issues; it would also be acceptable to just put "name".

As for the article structure, while there are a few editors who've structured articles by preinserting empty section headers, there's never really been a broad consensus for it. I don't see a valid reason not to do it, but there are other editors who will strip out the empty headers if and when they see the article. Bearcat (talk) 18:09, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

I'm having a hard time understanding why you are adding the names of communities in Nova Scotia where they don't belong. It looks like you are taking the communities in a County, and adding them to the individual articles. A couple of examples are Yarmouth, Nova Scotia and Shelburne, Nova Scotia. You have added the names of every community in those counties to the articles for the towns I just listed. Also look at Clyde River, Nova Scotia, which is a small community in Shelburne County, Nova Scotia. You have added a long list of communities to the Clyde River article which are not part of that community, they are the other communities that make up the county. Can you at least explain why you are doing this? 142.167.228.252 (talk) 23:21, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

I found the problem already. The link you are using is refering to community health boards, not a list of communities. This is the heading for Clyde River in the link you gave me.

Community Health Board: Shelburne County County: Shelburne County District Health Authority: South West Health Province: Nova Scotia Country: Canada

When it states after this the various communities included are not communites in Clyde River, but the places that are included in this particular health board which is Shelburne County. Clude River itself is a very small community and doesn't contain any of the communities listed. 142.167.228.252 (talk) 00:52, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

I should add that you are doing a good job editing the Nova Scotia communities, and that adding the names was just a misunderstanding that could happen to anyone. Don't let this stop you from continuing to edit the Nova Scotia articles as you have done good work with the highway articles and such. 142.167.228.252 (talk) 01:02, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Firstly - oops, that was supposed to be "autoreviewed", not "confirmed". You're already autoconfirmed because you've been here long enough and made enough edits; you don't need manual confirmation.

Secondly - "autoreviewed" means that you've got enough of a track record for creating valid articles that it is no longer worth the effort to patrol your articles individually. We know your stuff won't be crap, and so we don't have to check it; henceforth, anything you create is considered "already checked", and it will automatically be removed from the list of pages that need to be checked. DS (talk) 17:12, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Whoops! Thanks for pointing that out. I'm going to try and find something suitable (and universal) to replace the current caption with in the coming days. Cheers. MTLskyline (talk) 00:29, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

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A while back, Bromont changed its county from La Haute-Yamaska to Brome-Missisquoi. If you are still maintaining the image files, it might use an update, for instance File:Bromont Quebec location diagram.PNG, and (less of a priority) perhaps even the other places in each of those counties. -- P.T. Aufrette (talk) 16:42, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

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Hi Gord, note that all the Quebec settlement infoboxes were standardized and uniform before, so please don't increase image and map sizes in the infoboxes from the standard 250px to 275px without discussion and consensus. -- P 1 9 9  ✉ 16:19, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

• Thanks for understanding. BTW, standard size for the southern Quebec map is the default (250) but for the regular full Quebec map it is 197 (to limit the length of the infobox). In order to reduce the length some more, I shorten the map captions as well (see ). Regards, P 1 9 9  ✉ 16:48, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
  • I saw Sorel-Tracy. Yes, the southern Quebec map is fine. Note that 250px is the default size for images and maps, so I removed those lines altogether to prevent future tinkering. I also removed the bold formatting in the map captions (because it doesn't show right anyway) and abbreviated "Regional County Municipality" to RCM. -- P 1 9 9  ✉ 17:02, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
    • Answer at my talk page. -- P 1 9 9  ✉ 17:20, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
      • Answered on my talk page. -- P 1 9 9  ✉ 15:22, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

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Hi Gord, I noticed you are adding "Adjacent Municipal Subdivisions" above every geo box. I don't think it's necessary (none of the boxes anywhere else have it...). But did you know you can add a heading to the boxes much simpler? There is a "title" parameter for that:

{{Geographic location
 | title     = '''Adjacent Municipal Subdivisions
 | Centre    = Place
}}

gives:

Regards, -- P 1 9 9  ✉ 12:51, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

• I only find out about this now, LOL! I thought it would be better to stipulate what the geo box is actually referring to, especially since I have found entries involving municipalities bordering on counties (and even a region in one case). Take a look at Mirabel, Quebec, which has two specific geo boxes as an example. I've also started adding geographic info to certain municipalities...check out Dundee, Quebec as an example and give me our feedbck. Thanks! Gordalmighty (talk) 14:48, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
  • Mirabel is a special case because it is not only a municipality, it is also like a RCM. As for Dundee, great work. Nice to see articles expanded with real content! -- P 1 9 9  ✉ 15:44, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
    • Thanks for the quick reply! I would still consider keeping the geobox header...it also acts to separate the content from the references AND will hopefully dissuade editors from entering non-municipal (or county) info where it shouldn't be as per Wiki directives. I will use the template "title" line instead though.
    • BTW: There is another user who has tweaked some municipality coordinates, probably to better place them on the pushpins. But now it doesn't match the data on the Quebec toponymie website. Is this no big deal, or does it sort of make the link somewhat invalid? Example: Dundee, Quebec has been slightly tweaked, Mont-Carmel, Quebec has been tweaked to the point of adding seconds in the coord field. Thanks (again)! Gordalmighty (talk) 16:07, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
      • There is not much direction on what coords to use (except not to be overly precise, see MOS:COORDS). So I had been using the coords as provided by CTQ. I am not concerned about this, except if it's wrong. -- P 1 9 9  ✉ 18:07, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

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Hi Gord, nice to see you are still working hard at Quebec articles. Thanks for all your work. Can I suggest to use {{Historical populations}} for the older census data? I almost thought you had deleted it, because it is poorly visible and poorly formatted at the bottom of the {{Canada census}} template. See Côte-Nord-du-Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent, Quebec, where I used the Historical populations template.

Also, <big> text that you use in the geobox title is inconsistent formatting and unnecessary. Using regular text or bold as shown above (#Geographic Location template 2) is better. Or maybe not use it at all (except where there are multiple boxes, like Aparri, Cagayan), because that would seem to be consistent with all other geobox use. I guess it is really understood that they are "Adjacent Municipal Subdivisions".

Regards, -- P 1 9 9  ✉ 15:29, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

• The {{Canada census}} template shows census highlights for the last 3 censuses, whereas the {{Historical populations}} template is strictly for population counts and can go back as far as censuses were done. So no overlap, it's just that no data has been added for historical populations before 1991 for most Quebec places.

With "inconsistent formatting" I mean that big text is not used for anything else and it is not consistent with geobox use for other places, like all of Ontario. IMO, the big text is too much, really why should the text stand out? My preference is no title...

You can just reply here, I will watch this page. That way the conversation says together. Regards, -- P 1 9 9  ✉ 00:26, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

• • Okay for census infobox. I thought the footnotes were a bit too populated anyways. As far as the geobox, the reason I intended to add them was to distinguish between municipal subdivisions and RCMs. Some municipalities have both statuses Mirabel, Quebec that require it. Oddly enough, I did this one without the big text in the first place. So I guess I could go back and change them eventually, but that could take a while. Gordalmighty (talk) 01:19, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
    • Yes, I totally agree that for places with multiple boxes it is needed to have a title (whether it is for different statuses like Mirabel, Quebec, or for non-contiguous areas like Rivière-Rouge). Thanks for your efforts. -- P 1 9 9  ✉ 02:52, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

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