User talk:CJCurrie/Archive 1
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When you create a new article on a Canadian political party could you create a link for it in the Canadian political parties page and also put a link to Canadian political parties in the article itself. Also, if you're going to create more articles on provincial CCF parties please include links to their modern NDP successors and vice versa. Also, when you create an article try to bold the name of the article when it fist appears in the body of the article. You can do this by using three single quotation marks at either end of the word or phrase. AndyL 08:58, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Hi,
Well, aside from the technical quibbles, your contributions are excellent - well written and very interesting.. Just a few more wiki points, if the info is available try to put birth date and death date at the top of the article right after the name eg John Smith (January 1 1900 - December 31 1999). If you don't have the exact date just the year is fine - if approximate use ca. or a question mark. Also, on wikifying dates, don't wikify the entire date as a link since such links won't go anywhere. There are articles on individual years and on dates of the year so wikify January 1 and 1900 but not January 1, 1900. AndyL 02:51, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Oh, I notice you've been moving articles a lot. There's nothing wrong with that but I'm wondering if you're aware of "redirects" which can be used to link to an article via an alternate name? For instance if you want links that say P. E. Trudeau to connect to the article Pierre Trudeau click on the former link and edit it by entering #REDIRECT [[Pierre Trudeau]] make sure you are redirecting to the actual name of the article and not to a name that itself redirects to the actual name or you'll be causing an "double redirect" which won't work properly. For instance if you go to the article Pierre Elliot Trudeau you'll see that it actually redirects to an article called Pierre Trudeau so when you do redirects they should be #REDIRECT [[Pierre Trudeau]] rather than #REDIRECT [[Pierre Elliot Trudeau]]
Alternately, you can code it as [[Pierre Trudeau|P.E. Trudeau]] in which case it doesn't matter if the link written prior to the | is a redirected link or not. AndyL 02:51, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Paula Fletcher was the leader of the Manitoba CP for a period in the 1980s. She has since left the party and is now a city councillor in Toronto representing ward 30 which was formerly represented by Jack Layton. I believe she's now a member of the NDP but I'm not sure, the NDP machine supported her in the municipal by-election held to fill the seat left vacant by Jack Layton when he became NDP leader and he endorsed her personally. She had previously been a school trustee in that ward for several years. Her husband, John Cartwright (another ex CPer), is President of the Toronto and District Labour Council.AndyL 03:21, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Don't know anything about the others. Am curious if Darrell Rankin is related to Harry Rankin. Anyway, the CP was in general disarray in the early to mid 1990s due to the split between the George Hewison reforms and the more orthodox members and the party was deregistered federally following the 1993 election so I suspect the problems the party was having were also felt in Manitoba. The CP has a discussion board, perhaps you can ask for details there?AndyL 04:22, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Great work in assembling the Manitoba Liberal leadership data! I've proposed an alternative format for this page. If you don't like it, I won't be offended if you revert. Kevintoronto 15:19, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- I'm glad you approve. The formatting is straightforward: put in Major Headings by putting == before and after the heading. For minor headings, use === before and after the heading. The Table of Contents will take care of itself. Wiki is so smart! Keep up the good work. I look forward to your PC and NDP articles. Kevintoronto 17:54, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Finally! I've always wondered who Stan Roberts was! I had heard the name several times, but searches pulled up nothing. I thank you and Wikipedia for this! Kevintoronto 20:09, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)