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Moxy is one of the most active Wikipedians on English Misplaced Pages.

This user has made over 65,000 edits to Misplaced Pages.

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Stefan2 (talk) 12:43, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

Please contact the Arbitration Committee

Hi Moxy, could you please contact me or the Arbitration Committee through the Misplaced Pages email extension (which you have not activated) or at nw.wikipediagmail.com or arbcom-llists.wikimedia.org? If you do the latter, we're going to need to go through a whole process to make sure that it is indeed you who is emailing us, so the former set of choices would be preferable. NW (Talk) 21:44, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

 Done got the massage "our mail to 'ArbCom-l' is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval. -- Moxy (talk) 23:41, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

Still waiting for approval - is there a time range for this wait? -- Moxy (talk) 02:23, 2 August 2013 (UTC)

Not sure; whenever a list admin sees it really. I received the note to my personal account though and I have responded. NW (Talk) 02:28, 2 August 2013 (UTC)

Saskatchewan's population

Your edits to Saskatchewan Population numbers do not reflect out-migration including the young children leaving Saskatchewan with out-migrants.

Statistics Canada CANSIM Table 051-0017 clearly demonstrates an increasing population decline. In 2010 the out-migration was approximately 15,000. That number increased in 2011 by approximately 16.3% to around 17,500. In 2012 the out-migration increased by 16.3% to over 20,000 people leaving the province.

Statistics Canada has also identified the source of out-migration as overwhelmingly immigrants sponsored directly by the Government of Saskatchewan.

Approximately 65% of all births recorded as population increases are babies and children born to out-migrating immigrants.

Finally, analysis of out-migrants since 2007, when the current ruling government was elected, shows that to date over 89,000 people have left Saskatchewan since 2007. Applying statistical analysis to the curve plotting out-migration shows the number of people that will have left Saskatchewan since 2007 will exceed 100,000 people by the end of 2013.

Correcting for these variations, it is clear that Saskatchewan's population remains unchanged at approximately one million people, with the only discrepancy being the yearly sponsored group of immigrants numbering between 10,000 & 20,000. This immigrant group migrates out of Saskatchewan at a rate of 60% within two years & 90% within five years. Said another way, nine it of ten immigrants leave Saskatchewan within five years. This accounts for the continuing lack of change from Saskatchewan's population of one million. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.114.38.33 (talk) 14:38, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

FYI

Wanted to bring something to your attention and ask that you keep an eye out. First, see this back and forth conversation.

Then, see these edits I just made to these articles.

I expect a sock of a recently indefinitely banned editor may emerge, take notice and contest. In fact, I wonder if one may already exist, editing both before and after the ban.

Anyways, please keep an eye out, and keep up the good work as usual. Cheers, Hwy43 (talk) 05:23, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

Help Project newsletter : Issue 7

The Help Project Newsletter
Issue VII - August 2013

Hello from Hong Kong, and the Wikimania DevCamp! Just a quick bulletin to update everyone on recent goings-on:

• There was a Wikimedia blog post about our experience at the Open Help Conference.
• Based on discussions at the Open Help Conference, Seeeko, Ocaasi and the wub have drafted a series of guidelines for writing and improving help pages.
• There is now also a system in place for assessing help pages by quality and importance. See Misplaced Pages:Help Project/Assessment for more details and the two scales we are using.
• A project collaboration has been started, the first one is focusing on the above mentioned Assessment. Discussions about this are welcome at Misplaced Pages talk:Help Project#Current collaboration (and the next).
• Misplaced Pages:New contributors' help page/questions was merged into Misplaced Pages:Teahouse/Questions
• A couple of other mergers have been proposed:
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  • Misplaced Pages:How to help and Misplaced Pages:New contributors' help page
• Help:Introduction to talk pages and Help:Introduction to policies and guidelines have both been overhauled and updated to use the new tutorial design.

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-- EdwardsBot (talk) 06:16, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

Mariah

Hi, Moxy. Haven't heard from you in a while at Talk:Mariah Carey, though I'd gotten the impression the two of us had reached the outlines of a reasonable compromise consensus. Since no one else seems to be jumping in after nearly a week, i thought you and I could work out the details. I have to say that so far, in the tradition at Misplaced Pages at its best, we seem to have been able to work through a good-faith disagreement in overall polite, cordial and collegial discussion. After eight years here, that's still a relief, let me tell you! Let's continue our discussion there, and I hope to hear from you soon. With regards, Tenebrae (talk) 16:42, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

Embassy of the Democratic Republic of Congo in Ottawa

I've restored the redirect at this title. Since it came from consensus at an AFD, it's not something that can unilaterally be undone. All of the history remains, though, so if you want some of it merged over, feel free! It's still there. But the redirect should remain. Now, if you think there is a better target for that redirect, you might want to head over to WP:RFD and discuss the matter. If you think the AFD was improperly closed or decided, Deletion Review is thataway. Hope this helps. UltraExactZZ ~ Did 13:15, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

I will bring this up when I have more time.... There was NO consensus for a redirect ...that is clear as day... there is to merger the info ....not blank it.-- Moxy (talk) 15:44, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

When an article is merged into another article, though, the title of the original article is routinely left as a redirect to the newly merged article. Since the entire content of the article is still in the history, there is no reason whatsoever not to redirect now. Put another way, if this article had been deleted outright, I likely would have come by and put in a redirect anyway per WP:BOLD or whatever. It's a reasonable target, and the current title is a reasonable thing to redirect. In any event, even if you're right about the consensus against a redirect (and I don't see that in the debate - quite the opposite), you need to make that case at WP:RFD. UltraExactZZ ~ Did 18:21, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

Collaboration

(Ignore if you don't feel like it, but I encourage reading.) For no help (too late) but support: follow the link on top of my user and sign under "Continued collaboration". Once there, don't miss the link to "peace and reconciliation". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:23, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

I have not been following that for a bit....am I seeing that the only thing they have done is to propose to ban one editor? WOW its to bad they dont see the big picture and where the problem comes from. -- Moxy (talk) 15:28, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Thank you. It got better today, but is not final. I was not exposed to arbcom so far other than watching, and now - involved - find it a questionable system: so much influence given to a few people, I changed the mentioned link: it now takes you to an exemplary discussion of opera's traditional side navbox vs. infobox. The opera's name translates to The Ban on Love. You may like to read the Siegfried discussion, at least it comes with irony, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:59, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

I see no one moving in the right direction. For god sacks they have not even mentioned accessibility...something that many were talking about. Simply a waste of time. They seem to not get what the problem really is -- Moxy (talk) 23:47, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

You are so right. At least, after proceedings for which kafkaesque is an understatement, the (

I find it very funny that the ones trying to add content over the ones removing content are the ones being talked about the most. Edits like this one are simply odd how does someone that has never edited the page even have the balls to revert the main contributor is beyond me. In fact when i think about it seems like they are following you all over - how do they even know about these edits. Great shame that people involved with content removal and biting our editors fell they are now in the right. I did notice 2 more people leave the projects involved since the talks started - they cant even get along with people in the own projects - the bullying is just nuts. We are loosing our older educated editors because of things like this. -- Moxy (talk) 21:38, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the Barnstar, Moxy

I have a language background and enjoy improving articles. Kgrad (talk) 02:58, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

Hi Moxy

Hello I am Calerusnak. I was wondering if you could help complete the Portal:Regina —Preceding undated comment added 22:40, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

I can but if will be in a little bit -- Moxy (talk) 22:48, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks Calerusnak 17:19, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

Mariah Carey

Hi, Moxy. It's been five days since the last comment, so we're hoping to hear from you at Talk:Mariah Carey. I like the Joan Crawford treatment you suggested. I also saw this same issue addressed in the lead at Sondra Locke. --Tenebrae (talk) 17:47, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

I am not sure what to write...was waiting for someone to give an example. -- Moxy (talk) 18:11, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Ah. Okey-doke. I'll put something together a la Joan Crawford's in the next day or two and post it on the MC talk page.

BTW, I've been to Montreal, Vancouver, the Canadian side of Niagara Falls and once out in rural land with a gravel road across the border from Maine, driving from there and looping around to come into New York, and I have to say Canada is one of the most beautiful and one of the friendliest and downright civilized places on earth. My dream is to retire to Vancouver someday. Saw the waving flag on this page, and just wanted to say! --Tenebrae (talk) 17:32, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

I know — I thought I'd have had time and energy to pull something together by now. I'll try again tonight! --Tenebrae (talk) 18:11, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

First pass done at Talk:Mariah Carey! Let me know what you think. I'll alert the others involved in the discussion as well. --Tenebrae (talk) 23:37, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

Hi, Moxy. Hope you're hanging in there. When you get a chance, your input on the solution you and I worked on at Talk:Mariah Carey would be valuable, and since it's been a week since other editors (positively) commented, I think we might have created something workable that can be implemented. Let us all know what you think! With regards, Tenebrae (talk) 14:47, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

Just wanted to say how much pride I felt in working with you as a fellow veteran editor to create something bigger than the sum of its parts. We transcended differences and developed something that for my money is more comprehensive and encyclopedic than virtually any other source. If there's ever any time you'd like an extra eye on something, or you need help in any way, I am here for you. With great regards, Tenebrae (talk) 21:41, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

Template:Calgary

Thanks for the good words

Other word work to do? Would you specify the URL?

Thanks!

Kgrad (talk) 14:59, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

Portal:Calgary

Hi. Do you know why the image for the Calgary portal isn't appearing in the {{Portal}} box? Nothing looks wrong with Template:Portal/Images/Calgary, and it's been too long for server lag. 117Avenue (talk) 06:25, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

I have no clue .. even asked at Template talk:Portal#New Image but still no reply. -- Moxy (talk) 15:09, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

I just looked at it again, and realized, all the portals on Misplaced Pages:CANWPS that have images are listed on Module:Portal/images, even though they have a Template:Portal/Images/ page. 117Avenue (talk) 23:47, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

additional edit work

I will look into doing both. Thanks for alerting me! Kgrad (talk) 23:59, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

copy editors guild

I don't know what this is. Where can I learn about it? How does one qualify to join? Kgrad (talk) 00:02, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

Who is your grandson? I will leave their DOB out of the update. Better yet remove that individuals info yourself rather than INTERFERING with major wiki article cleanups. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nonc01 (talk • contribs) 18:01, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

War of 1812

I am sorry but when I read your most recent Talk page posting and your advocacy of American spelling, I believed that you were making a unilateral change to American spelling as a consequence. I personally am not too concerned what spelling language is used in this article, perhaps Canadian as a mixture of British and American is appropriate. Dabbler (talk) 16:20, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

September 2013

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About Coat of Arms.

Hi. I read your thing about The Arms of Canada about appearing on other languages wiki right? Well at least the other visitors can actually see what the coat of arms is. It represents Canada. Otherwise other users will never know what the Coat of Arms is. I think we should put the one back and stop people from editing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Noedits123 (talk • contribs) 20:08, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

I believe your talking about a copyrighted version. It simply cant be on the main Canada page for some very very odd reasons. -- Moxy (talk) 04:34, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

Needing help

Hi Moxy, You may know I've been progressively very ill-- I've had 3 hospitalizations in 4 months. I've had little time for the Misplaced Pages, and still wouldn't be able to do the following anyway. Do you know how to remove watermarks? Each of the feature photos on the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and the photos of each member in their infoboxes bear the great work from the same photographer, as well as their band photo and one more on the Stephen Stills article with one of him and Neil Young. Can you remove those watermarks? If not, can you find someone who does? Please, they are really good photos. --Leahtwosaints (talk) 20:29, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

I do not ...but will look into who can for us. Hope your felling better soon. -- Moxy (talk) 04:33, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

Hello Moxy

I just had a few idle moments to spare, and would like to tell you how touched I was by this version of your user page . How I wish my own wife and children were as united as your family, all gathered around the family desktop together editing in unison. You are a lucky man. I also note you often edited from the Ottawa university library , I knew another editor who did that long ago - what happy memories. I envy you.  Giano  19:59, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

I take it your implying you remember my brother that passed away in 2009...yes he was the best of the best and simply one of Wikis most prolific editors. As for my family unity...its not we all sit around and edit...prior to good text to speech technological my wife type for me. My son did edit music articles but has moved on with his own family and just edits every now and then. -- Moxy (talk) 19:39, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

I have never heard of your brother; I doubt you have either.  Giano  20:00, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

You really are an ass hole...if you ever grow the balls to confront someone in-person let me know. Moxy (talk) 20:03, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

		The Special Barnstar
		For enduring with remarkable patience this cruel comment on your talk page.Best wishes olive (talk) 21:39, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

Ditto the above. Moxy, I am so sorry to see someone being such a dick to you. You don't deserve that — you do good work and you contribute much time and effort to helping make this a better encyclopedia. When I get people like this on my talk page, I just go ahead and delete such horrid posts.--Tenebrae (talk) 22:34, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, Moxy, just don't let the bastards grind you down. You rock!. Miss Bono 12:31, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Good Humor
	Just Because! 78.26 (I'm no IP, talk to me!) 01:02, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

Music of the SaGa series

At Talk:Music_of_the_SaGa_series#Collapsed_sections, did you mean to say "impede" (instead of "impend")? --Jax 0677 (talk) 23:16, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

Talkback

Hi

Hi Moxy, I am new to Misplaced Pages! is there a way to make someone your friend???anyway, well i'm new BYE!! oh, and feel free to message me...

-thatgirlwholovesmusic34 :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thatgirlswholovesmusic34 (talk • contribs) 00:31, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

Hi again

Hey Moxy, How do you add info about yourself like that your against cyber bullying?????? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thatgirlswholovesmusic34 (talk • contribs) 00:33, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

UrbanNerd's socks

Rather than simply marking them on his user page, I might suggest bringing each incarnation up at WP:SPI. Not only could it lead to quicker blocks (especially when he inevitably falls into his habits of attacking or stalking editors), but depending on the potential for collateral damage, the people who work that area might be able start applying range blocks. Resolute 14:43, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

At Misplaced Pages:Sockpuppet investigations/UrbanNerd/Archive (very bottom) they said they need a range...so I was making a list in hopes that after 8 to 10 IP's we would have enough to do something about it. I have no clue what they mean by a range so was gathering this data since the first 3 IP's seems not to be enough info? -- Moxy (talk) 14:50, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

A range, in this context, is a block of IP addresses available to someone. In the case of a person being dynamically assigned an IP, they would get it from a pool of addresses. For example: 200.200.200.1 to 200.200.200.254. A range block, if enacted, would block all of those addresses. The problem with range blocks though is the risk of collateral damage. Looking at some of the IPs you have tagged, a couple are very small - a range block would only hit about 1,000 addresses. But at least one would affect 256,000 if the entire range is blocked, and that is probably too much. Based on a note User:Hwy43 left on my talk page though, it seems the potential link between him and the blocked sockmaster PhilthyBear is really quite strong. If i get a chance later, I might try to compile some behavioural history between the two (and the latest IPs) and roll it all into an SPI, and possibly a community ban discussion. Resolute 14:16, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

FYI Moxy, a new SPI has been opened. Hwy43 (talk) 20:52, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

Good to see we now have enough data to do something ...also great to see the latest IP used already . -- Moxy (talk) 20:55, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

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David Gilmour

Hi Moxy. After reading the WP article on Gilmour today, I became concerned by the huge amount of content on the "Equipment" section, which contains some poor English, was difficult to read because of a huge long paragraph, and is also perhaps a violation of copyright and a case of too much non-notable info as per WP:FANCRUFT.

I have just looked at the old "Revision History" of the article and noticed that in March 2012 you (rightly in my opinion) removed a lot of the content. Unfortunately it was later put back again by another editor. Perhaps you might like to have a look at the article and decide if a lot of the content can be trimmed again. In my opinion there's a good case for removing a lot of it, although in my case I only did two relatively minor edits. I divided the huge paragraph into two and removed one non-notable sentence. Kind Tennis Fan (talk) 19:12, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

Deletion of Heritage Minutes from 'See also' sections

Hi Moxy, I noted your deletion of Heritage Minutes from the 'See also' sections of a few articles I posted them to. Perhaps you might reconsider by reviewing the MOS's advice on such links, which do not need to be directly related to the article. The last paragraph on the MOS's 'See also' guideline reads: "...links in the 'See also' section do not need to be directly related to the topic of the article, because one purpose of 'See also' links is to enable readers to explore tangentially related topics."

The aim of adding Heritage Minutes to the 'See also' of the John Cabot, Iroquois, and similar articles is simple. These articles reflect subjects which are or made significant contributions to Canada's history and thus its heritage. They are frequently viewed by readers and students studying those subjects, who may be also interested in related Canadian subjects that are covered in the Minutes. The Minutes article is not solely a listing; it also discusses the Canadian institutions and others and who believe that providing its citizens with context on important historical events amounts to a civic duty. Planning of a significant expansion to the Heritage Minutes is currently underway. I hope you can view the Heritage Minutes link in 'See also' sections as an important useful addition to our readership. Best: HarryZilber (talk) 13:30, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

In the future try to incorporate links in the articles over spamming it all over. As for relevant - they are not - they will not help anyone understand the topic at hand....looks like an attempt to up traffic to a page you like. I will be removing more in the future. ---15:07, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

"looks like an attempt to up traffic to a page you like"? That is funny. How many Wikipedians work on pages they aren't interested in? Do you? My contributions are strictly voluntary and unpaid as with most other contributors—I don't work on articles I'm uninterested in— but more to point, adding items to the 'See also' section that contribute to readers knowledge on related topics shouldn't be viewed as a negative. Your view of relevance is different from mine, but it would be mistake to think its superior.

Did you, by chance, review the part of the MOS that reads "...links in the 'See also' section do not need to be directly related to the topic of the article"? It appears not. Whether or not you agree with it, its part of the MOS and should be respected. Best: HarryZilber (talk) 03:48, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

To be honest I can see all the episodes being a good external link over a see also link to the page. Ok I will take the time to source every episode to that you have the external links available to put in external link sections. This would be much more useful to our readers then just a see also link. I would be careful in adding them all at ones as others may see this as site spam...I will also add some as I go. What do you think - good solution - that helps our readers better? -- Moxy (talk) 20:34, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

Adding 'External links's to the individual episode pages at Historica.ca would certainly be useful to the reader, however it is unlikely to draw such people into viewing other episodes on similar topics at that website. Nevertheless your efforts in adding such External links will be appreciated. Best: HarryZilber (talk) 04:29, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

Portal:U2

Hello, Moxy.

I wanted to ask you if you could make a review for the portal to see if it reach the Featured Portal criteria. Thanks you! Miss Bono 13:41, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

new user

Hello, I would really like to know what in specific about the articles are a reason to deem inappropriate? Learning is the first step to changing please tell us what in particular is the problem. He is a young boy who wants to put out his writings for constructive feedback not bashing. He is telling of a fictional business he plans to open as an adult where they will sell his Super Comics. Thanks Purple 16 Worlds (talk) 22:14, 8 October 2013 (UTC)