Kevin lenz

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Images

Hi. Thanks for uploading some of your images of Mount Rae. Since you released the images under Creative Commons Share Alike license, it is preferable that such images be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons instead so they can be easily shared between all the wiki projects. Thanks. RedWolf 19:15, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Aerial photos

Excellent photos, thanks for uploading them, they add great looks to articles pertaining the Canadian Rockies. Do you fly often in that area? Are there companies that offer such flights to the public?

If it's not too much to ask, when you create articles about lakes or mountains, could you please also add the entries in Lakes of Alberta and Mountains of Alberta lists respectively? Thank you. --Qyd 14:16, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

• • Photos: Thanks! I'm happy that they will get seen. Most of the time I fly by myself and the fantastic scenery goes unshared... More than half of my Alberta flight hours are in the mountains and foothills south and west of Calgary. Once upon a time I took at scenic flight once from a one man flight school at Springbank called AVPro Flight Inc. I'm also willing to take passengers up for such flights myself. If we exceed the max takeoff weight of my plane we just rent a bigger one... I have no idea if AVPro is still in business or not. Any flight school should be willing to take you up for fun flight, ask for an introductory flight and be specific about where you want to go. Calgary Flying Club members will also be happy to share the ride with someone willing to share the cost. I'd put up a posting on their notice board at the club house at Springbank to hook up there.
  • Links in parent category articles: I am still unsure if they are automatic or not. It seemed to me that every article I created magically got a link to it from the category article. If this is not the case I will certainly put the link in by hand.
  • Now I have a question for you: Should all mountian/lake/pass articles have the exact same first line (or two) wording? Should that line state the obvious (to me) information like: "Elbow Lake is a Lake in the Canadian Rockies". Then the next line give the precice location in the same format as other articles? Or is it not all that important?

Thanks for all the info.

Regarding the introductory paragraph: while all the guidelines are just that, guidelines that can be broken or bent, it's good practice to write the article for someone that has no idea about the subject, basically just placing in context. Consistency between articles can be invoked, but that's just another loose guideline. Editors will read and modify your articles, but if you can think of better wording or article structure, just do it. Cheers. --Qyd 15:33, 11 October 2006 (UTC)