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CJCurrie

Joined 22 April 2004
Awards
Original Barnstar
 I award you this barnstar for your tireless adding of content and for your thousands of contributions of exceptionally high quality and quantity. SimonP (awarded 28 June 2005)
Epic Barnstar
 I award you this Epic Barnstar, for your extensive, well-researched and well-written contributions on Canadian political history. Ground Zero (awarded 18 July 2005)
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Barnstar of National Merit





 For your many contributions on Canadian politics and politicians, I hereby award you the Barnstar of National Merit. Bucketsofg (awarded 19 Feb. 2006)
Original Barnstar
 For your tenacity and dedication to persevering with NAS in difficult circumstances, especially in reading a whole book! TreveXtalk 00:38, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
Working Man's Barnstar
 Great job on listing those RFC's. I appreciate all your work. Ardenn 04:46, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
Editor's Barnstar
 For all the hard work on Canadian subject articles, especially the Joe Volpe article, I award you this Editor's Barnstar. AnnieHall(awarded 4 August 2006)
Original Barnstar
 I award you this barnstar for consistently striving for neutrality and applying the rules of Wikipedia fairly. Good rolemodeling! YoYoDa1 (awarded 14 December 2006)


Canada

I've written a number of articles on Canadian political history, including several biographical entries. This isn't even close to being a comprehensive list of the articles I've written, but here are pages with which I've been especially thorough:

Alberta

Manitoba

Ontario

Quebec

Saskatchewan

(I realize that, in some cases, much has happened since I last reviewed these articles.)

Serbia

More recently, I've written several articles on Serbian politics.

I've started the articles for the following political parties and movements: Association of Free and Independent Trade Unions, Better Serbia, Bosniak-Serb Alliance, Bunjevci Citizens of Serbia, Civic Democratic Party (Serbia), Civic Platform (Serbia), Communist Party (Serbia), Green Party (Serbia), Greens of Serbia, Independent Democratic Party of Serbia, I Live for Krajina, Independent Serbian Party, Labour Party of Serbia, League for Šumadija, Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia, Movement of Workers and Peasants, People's Movement of Serbia, People's Strong Serbia, Serb Democratic Party (Serbia, 2011), Serbian Radical Party – Nikola Pašić, Slovaks Forward, United Peasant Party.

I didn't start the Movement of Veterans of Serbia article or the Movement of Veterans article, but I've written the current versions of both (as of September 2023).

And I've written the following biographical entries:

Kosovo

Note: If a politician in Kosovo – whether from the Serb community, the Albanian community, or any other community – is or has been active in the broader politics of Serbia (or, historically, the broader politics of Yugoslavia), they will generally be included in both the "Serbia" and "Kosovo" lists. If not, they will generally be listed solely under "Kosovo." I am not, in making this distinction, expressing an opinion on the status of Kosovo. Including someone in the "Kosovo" list does not mean or imply that they endorse Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence.

I realize there are some politicians from Kosovo included on the "Serbia" list but not on the "Kosovo" list. This isn't meant as any sort of commentary on either Kosovo or the people in question; it's a reflection of the fact that I wrote several articles on Kosovo Serb politicians before starting the "Kosovo" list, and I haven't yet gone through the "Serbia" list in a comprehensive manner to identify these people and add them to "Kosovo" as well. Give it time.

Some people might be interested in my views on the status of Kosovo. I have an opinion on that subject, but the more important point for our current purposes is that I take WP:NPOV seriously.

To clarify one specific point: I've decided to use "Category:Members of the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo", notwithstanding that half the world does not recognize the Republic of Kosovo. I've also used "Category:Members of the Assembly of the Republic of Serbian Krajina", notwithstanding that the RSK wasn't recognized internationally at all. It's not a comment one way or the other on the status of the entity. (And I'm not drawing any sort of broader parallel between Kosovo and the RSK.)

Concerning names, I will generally use Serbian language [Latin script] names for Kosovo's cities and villages in articles about members of the Serb community and Albanian language names in articles about members of the Albanian community. (I will, however, use the suffix "-a" rather than "-ë" in cases where the former is commonly used in English -- for instance, "Peja" rather than "Pejë.")

"Kosovo" (not "Kosova") is the standard name of the jurisdiction in English. That's a sufficient reason for me to use "Kosovo."

With that preamble out of the way, I've written the following entries:

I've also created the article for the Romani Initiative party, and I've written most of the current New Democratic Initiative of Kosovo article (March 2024).

Other countries

I've also written some articles on politics and politicians outside of Canada and Serbia, including ...

Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Hungary
Italy
  • Vittorio Coco (a Canadian journalist who has sought election to the Italian Senate)
  • Basilio Giordano (a Canadian journalist who has served in the Italian Senate since 2008)
  • Renato Turano (who represented Italian citizens living in Canada from 2006 to 2008)
Saint Lucia
Syria
Venezuela

Notes on style

When I started writing Wikipedia articles in 2004, I didn't take a systematic approach to article style. I take this matter more seriously today, and I'm trying to ensure that the articles I write are basically consistent.

This means, of course, that I'll need to make stylistic changes on several articles I've already written. This is an ongoing process.

Capitalization

When I started on Wikipedia, I wrote articles in what is sometimes called "up style" (i.e., capitalizing as many names as possible). I'm now inclined to go with "down style" instead, wherein capitalization is used only when necessary.

In "down style," titles are (usually) only capitalized when used as part of someone's name. For instance, one would write "and then Premier Gary Doer did such-and-such" but "Manitoba's premier, Gary Doer, did such-and-such" or "Manitoba premier Gary Doer did such-and-such."

For a while, I was using a combination of "up" and "down" styles (e.g., "minister of Finance"). I've now decided that isn't quite appropriate, and that I should use "down style" more consistently.

Note that this only applies to capitalization in sentences (not in information boxes and other ancillary areas).

Here's how I'm dealing with ambiguous cases:

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