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Does "on the wrong lane for TastyCakes" says anything to you? Yours, El_C 16:07, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

mm no sorry, I've never heard that before. Should I have? TastyCakes 16:13, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

I love TastyCakes, but I think I mistook you for someone else. Sorry 'bout that! El_C 16:16, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

A cyber-doppelganger... how flattering. TastyCakes 20:08, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

It's my friend Jason from San Diego, I don't think he made it to Wikipedia yet, though. Sorry, that's Kake with a k! El_C 20:10, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

UBC Frats

You may be hard pressed to find it at another university? What is that? Who do you think you are? UBC is a public university and Wikipedia is all up for adding information to it to make it a better and MORE COMPREHENSIVE website. UBC has a very strong Greek system and it should be equally reflected on their page on Wikipedia. Ok maybe not the second thing on the page I’ll give you that but it should not be at the bottom of the page. Fraternities and sororities help build relationships stronger than most friendships and provide strong connections for after university. if you are not a member of the Greek system which by your reaction I’m almost positive your not you would have no idea about this.

KM

It seems ridiculous to keep posting like this should I give you my MSN and we can talk about this?

If you want: schmitt_happens at hotmail.com is my msn.

You're invited :)

Please accept this invite to join the new WikiProject Bodybuilding, a WikiProject dedicated to improving bodybuilding related articles. Simply click here to accept! Addbot (talk) 02:30, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Chinese world

Thanks .... Yug (talk) 20:29, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

np TastyCakes 20:31, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Semi-protection proposal

You wrote:

You know much as I'm sure there'll be huge advances in what we know about Chuck Norris in the next few months, can't we just lock the article for a significant length of time until he melts back into obscurity again? This constant reverting is getting stupid. They should have a setting on Wikipedia to lock individual articles against anonymous contributors but not registered people... Or do they have one already I just don't know about? It'd be cool if there could be a setting to stop anonymous posters and registered posters with less than a certain number of edits on certain heavily vandalised pages. --TastyCakes 00:53, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

There is a discussion (and a straw poll) taking place right now regarding just this. You may want to review Wikipedia_talk:Semi-protection_policy#Semi-protection_proposal_v.02 for details. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 10:37, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Cool, thanks, I'll have a read TastyCakes 17:37, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

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More details

you wrote to me about Cat Stevens as example of western muslim not force to back to his old religion I invite you to read more about him and watch how he abused by FBI and other authorities by way I can give you lots of examples of famous western muslims abused coz they are muslims & some of them paid their life as cost for becomes muslim.Qatarson 11:59, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

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What is a dicdef?

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Coconut99 99

Hey, there. I've noticed this guy is hitting other articles and blanking, adding POV tags for petty reasons, etc. If you want to start an admin referal process (I don't know how to do that), I'll add my support to it. I'll also get people from the other articles to add their support. He isn't going to listen to reason from what I can see. John Smith's 21:30, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Ya it could probably use an admin. I have a feeling he'll just get bored and leave after a while though. I'm not sure how to refer to an admin either.. I'll try and find out. TastyCakes 21:39, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

I've asked for mediation. Would you like me to add your name to it? John Smith's 21:41, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Sure. Looks like its getting a little heated.. ;) I've also left a message for an admin, don't know if they'll get back to me. TastyCakes 21:42, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

I would really appreciate it if you could stick with this, as he doesn't seem to want to leave it, unlike many other "unhelpful" editors. I was a little angry, but really he is being unreasonable to demand a reference for everything. John Smith's 21:56, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Re: EU in country lists

It took me some time to found out where actually did I join such a discussion :-P . I prefer having EU listed but italicised. — Instantnood 19:59, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

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Drilling fluid invasion

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Energy portal

Hye, i see you've had a fair number of petroleum engineering related edits, you might be interested in joining the Energy portal,

cheers Philbentley 13:32, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

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• If you have sources showing that this company is notable per WP:CORP, feel free to repost. NawlinWiki (talk) 20:32, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

• • Now posted to your userspace at User:TastyCakes/Ryder Scott. NawlinWiki (talk) 20:36, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

• • • The article still doesn't cite independent sources to show the company's notability. The company's own website isn't independent. I've placed a proposed deletion tag on the article; if you add independent sources, feel free to remove it. NawlinWiki (talk) 20:58, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

If you object to the PROD nomination of Ryder Scott, you can just remove the PROD tag on it, although an explanation in the edit summary is recommended. But then, expect the article to go to WP:AFD if you can't provide sources. Corvus cornix_talk 21:15, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

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Syncrude

What possible motive do you have for placing the word hollow in quotes and removing valid content?

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hollow - 5. without real or significant worth; meaningless: a hollow victory.

Jerkface03 (talk) 23:50, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

From what I can see from your edit history, you seem to have a boner for articles revolving around the oil industry. I'm REMOVING the quotes you put around the word hollow as you have no valid reason for having them there. If you don't like that, go chew glass. Jerkface03 (talk) 20:25, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

"As I said at the time, the duck deaths were a passing news story with little lasting consequence and so shouldn't have been added to the article." You can keep saying it until your face turns blue, but it won't change the fact that it's relevant, properly sourced, and meets Wikipedia's notability criteria.

Tough luck.

Jerkface03 (talk) 03:37, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

GM

Your edit summary: "numerous state owned organizations are bigger" Is this true? What organizations which would be called called "companies" would be larger? Also if the Fortune 500 list does not use the "publicly traded" criteria in making their list, we cannot add it. Rmhermen (talk) 21:39, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Well, the Fortune 500 seems to rank by revenue and comparing the revenue for Aramco listed in our article against the Fortune 500 list for the same year would place Aramco sixth. Rmhermen (talk) 03:13, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Oil shale geology

Hi. I nominated the Oil shale geology article for the GAN. You are welcome to comment and improve this article. Thank you. Beagel (talk) 17:34, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Image:Syncrude mildred lake plant.jpg

Hi TastyCakes - I'm currently in the process of trying to get Ed Stelmach through the featured article process, and I'm using the above-noted picture in the article (because it's a great picture - thanks for uploading it, by the way). Somebody raised a concern regarding its source - could you clarify for me who took the picture and released under the GFDL, since there seems to be some contradictory information in the image's history? Thanks, Sarcasticidealist (talk) 23:01, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. Sarcasticidealist (talk) 23:15, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

That was uncalled-for

What's with the really grotesquely nasty response on the Ref Desk: [1]?

I generally have no quarrel with calling a spade a spade, but have you got any reason to believe that the original poster is trolling us? It's entirely possible that it's someone who has some...interesting...beliefs about the energy flow in their house, and they're asking us to play fortune teller/feng shui advisor. While we don't usually provide those services at the Reference Desk, and while we many consider their beliefs to be less than sensible, there's no need to resort to calling them stupid trolls.

If you make any unprovoked attacks like that again, your editing privileges may be suspended. Wikipedia editors are expected to interact civilly and refrain from personal attacks at all times. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 16:44, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Hey Tasty, Im with you on this one.

Q.How can we tell a troll from a totally inept but well meaning poster.

A.Its all a matter of tens judgment of course! (as he runs the rds) —Preceding unsigned comment added by BillySugger (talk • contribs) 01:26, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Legend requested to be included in image: World vehicles per capita.svg

I just saved your picture to my hard drive. I have a series world maps I've collected into a folder from Wikipedia. I'd like to request that you include the legend in the picture itself, as the svg doesn't contain it. If the picture become self-sufficient, other people as well as myself can fully appreciate the value of the work. if you do change it, could you please let me know I'm a user page. I'll re-download it right away. Nastajus (talk) 02:59, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Category:Tar sands

I think you may be interested that there is a discussion about renaming the Category:Tar sands. Beagel (talk) 18:19, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Example

Hi~ As you are mentioning personal attrack, i doubt if what i said considered as such, because I concentrated on what they did and didn't, rather then who they personally are. I think it is fair to say perhaps non-New Yorkers should refrain from persisting ur personal opinion againist the rest of us who ARE actually from New York when editing an article that is about New York on its talk page.

I think real personal attrack should be like that : On Talk:Peak Reservation Ordinance page, search AR1997 (talk) 16:43, 19 August 2008 (UTC) and check out what AR1997 said. --Da Vynci (talk) 22:20, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

AfD Jane Scharf

Hi there,

Next time you advise people of a created AfD nomination, you might as well do it correctly.

a) I am not the creator of the article b) You have cited that you put the Talk page for deletion...

Doing such avoids lots of confusion. Thanks. --Deenoe 18:56, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Synthetic crude/Synthetic fuel

Merry Christmas, TastyCakes! I proposed to merge the Synthetic crude article to the Synthetic fuel article. Your comment is appreciated. Beagel (talk) 08:09, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Alberta Oil Sands Technology and Research Authority

Hi, TastyCakes. I started an article about the Alberta Oil Sands Technology and Research Authority and you are most welcome to expand and improve it. Also, there is a need for the Alberta Energy Research Institute article. Beagel (talk) 15:30, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Jane Scharf, Denis Rancourt, et al.

What the hell is wrong with you? You are systematically going through every article related to activism in Ottawa and trying to get the articles deleted. You clearly have some kind of problem, but I'll be damned if I know what it is. Is this some private hobbyhorse you're riding? SmashTheState (talk) 01:17, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

This user has a political bias and should be reported to the Wikipedia admin. I assume good faith 99% of the time but this user does not have good faith. He's gone after the Ottawa Panhandlers Union article, Denis Rancourt and Jane Scharf. There is something wrong with this user. I am going to take further measures to ensure this does not happen again.Wayne Poirier (talk) 01:56, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Hey man, I just call em like I see em. I didn't think those articles were particularly relevant so I nominated them for deletion. Did I find them through each other? Yes. I'm sorry if they're all related to your particular brand of "activism". Anyway, take care, TastyCakes (talk) 15:29, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

I love the way you put activism in quotation marks. Nah, you're not biased or anything. I wonder how many irrelevant articles I can find related to UBC and your own interests. I mean, I'll just be callin' then as I see 'em. SmashTheState (talk) 02:16, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Sockpuppet reports

Go here Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets, not WP:AN/I. Gerardw (talk) 16:32, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

2008 election map

Just so you know, I've asked a user who knows how to work with .svg images to fix the seat errors on that map so that we can actually use it. Bearcat (talk) 04:09, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

The Liberals should be at 77 overall and 14 in Quebec, and the Bloc should be at 49 overall and (obviously) 49 in Quebec. The map doesn't seem to have been updated after the Brossard—La Prairie recount, which actually flipped a seat from the Bloc to the Grits. Bearcat (talk) 04:50, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Please see my response here. vıdıoman 13:10, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

If you are using Inkscape, you convert text to path by going to the path menu and choosing "object to path". The shortcut is Ctrl+Shift+C. Use guides to paste the numbers in line. If you create a duplicate of a number and move it over to the right (using the arrow buttons) then press shift+G, it will turn the various points on the shape into guide lines. Remove most of them, leaving just the bottom one, and you'll have a line that the number will snap to so that it lines up. vıdıoman 17:32, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

I have no idea what font that is. Try looking through here. vıdıoman 18:50, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Favorite flavor?

What is your favorite flavor of TastyKake? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.14.244.157 (talk) 01:44, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

New possible sock

Hello TastyCakes. Feel free to create a new sockpuppet report (it is too messy to de-archive the old one). As an alternative, maybe you could just send any new evidence to my User talk. What are the articles that both you and Aurush have edited? He does seem to have been on Wikipedia before. We need to figure out who he is a sock of before action can be taken (unless he is just a pure disruptive editor, a conclusion that I don't see yet). EdJohnston (talk) 16:41, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

What is your current thinking about WP:Suspected sock puppets/MiltonP Ottawa (2nd)? This SSP report should be dealt with, one way or the other. The report claims Aurush is a sock of MiltonP Ottawa. If that is not the case, perhaps the report should be closed. EdJohnston (talk) 23:44, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Andrew Nellis

I have to agree that Andrew Nellis does not seem to meet notability criteria at the moment. I'm going to keep watching though. He might. Baiter (talk) 05:31, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Action Figure Displays

Please reconsider your deletion of this company/product. I know it to be legit and the company JDP Design is in it's final stages of receiving a registered trademarked and LLC company title. They have sales in the US and international. The two sources sites are notible reviews.

72.72.88.234 (talk) 18:03, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

ExxonMobil Reverts

Hello there, in view of our disagreement at ExxonMobil and your continued reverts there, I've reported the situation here. Hopefully an admin can come and clear this up for us. In the future, please edit in accordance to the three-revert rule. Thanks, TastyCakes (talk) 20:42, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

While doing this, I hope that you took some of your time to check at least one of the links. NothingWorthy (talk) 21:06, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

I read the links. You seem to misunderstand the argument being made against your edit. No one is saying that by some measures ExxonMobil is the most profitable company. We are saying there are other measures of what "profitable" means, and by some of them Exxon is not the "top dog". Because of this, we were saying it is better to use wording that is as clear as possible on this point, namely that they have the highest profits of any company. This is indisputable, unlike your wording. For example:

what do you mean Exxon is the most profitable, Apple made 6.3 billion in income on 32.5 billion in revenue! That's 20% return, clearly they are more profitable than Exxon's 10%!

No, that's not how I'm defining profitable here!

You see how using firmer, undisputed language will make it a better article? TastyCakes (talk) 21:12, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

First, use a better language here. What you are talking about is NOT called PROFITABILITY, it is called PROFITABILITY RATIOS, such as profit on sales or profit on stockholders' equity. Profitability means turning a profit, ex. "The company will return to profitability in the third quarter". Most profitable means a company with the highest profit, and that has NOTHING to do with PROFITABILITY RATIOS. NothingWorthy (talk) 21:20, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

"Profitable" is not a term hammered out in stone, unlike the term "profit". Therefore, better to use "profit" than "profitable", in my and apparently other editors of the Exxon article's opinions. Why are you so bent on not using the word profit? If nothing else it says exactly what you are trying to say and it doesn't raise issue with people that consider valid definitions of "profitable" to be percentage based, rather than just absolute sizes (such as myself). TastyCakes (talk) 21:27, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Again, what you are talking about is called PROFITABILITY RATIOS, not PROFITABILITY, I think Fortune Magazine puts it right here, http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/fortune/0707/gallery.global500_profits.fortune/index.html, and so do all the other links that I listed. BTW, you seem to be concerned too much with simplicity to the point where the word "most profitable" is confusing for readers of XOM article, why not editing on the XOM article on the Simple English version. NothingWorthy (talk) 21:34, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

You are clearly entrenched in your opinion/definition. I'll wait for input from cooler heads before having any more dealings with the matter. TastyCakes (talk) 21:39, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Fortune's editors are using "most profitable", and so do all other business links that I listed, PROFITABILITY is different from PROFITABILITY RATIOS, just google any of the two terms to know why you are getting it wrong. NothingWorthy (talk) 21:47, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

At this point NothingWorthy was blocked from editing for 24 hours for violating the three-revert rule.

Now you are wasting even more time. NothingWorthy (talk) 22:32, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

I'm sorry you misunderstand how Wikipedia works. TastyCakes (talk) 22:38, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Well, I think I know how it works, at least for most of the time. After your stunt today, I hope that you understand the difference between PROFITABILITY and PROFITABILITY RATIOS, away from your earlier "Profit and profitability are not the same thing. Exxon has largest profit, not profitability". I hope you will remember this whenever you hear or read "most profitable" in your future again. NothingWorthy (talk) 22:54, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

I will probably remember this incident when I think about how "profitable" is not a particularly well-defined term, unlike "profit". I will also think about it when musing on the fact that "profitability" is simply the noun form of the adjective "profitable", with the weakness of the latter clearly translating to the former. For your part, I hope you will think about this incident before engaging in edit wars in the future. TastyCakes (talk) 23:00, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Incidentally, here is another Fortune article which implies a definition of "most profitable" different from your own: Top industries: Most profitable. TastyCakes (talk) 23:03, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

About your earlier statement, after all this, you are still not able to know the difference between the two terms profit and profitability, you said earlier, "Profit and profitability are not the same thing. Exxon has largest profit, not profitability". As for the second, These are whole industries, not companies. Now, in your fancy world, Do you know what is the most profitable company in the world, or just you don't know what you are talking about after your demagogic stunt today???????? NothingWorthy (talk) 23:18, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Oh so now your definition of profitability depends on whether you're talking about one company or a group of companies? Fortune could have just as feasibly gone and added up absolute profits of various industries and come up with a far different list. But they didn't, because "being profitable" is a term that can refer to at least two different metrics (profitability %-wise and gross amount-wise) and both are valid. By the first definition, no, I do not know the world's most profitable company. It is probably some obscure little startup. That is why it was a mistake to list Exxon as "the most profitable": by the % metric it is obviously not. But I'm getting a little bored with your childish arguments and acerbic personality. You are clearly wrong. Enjoy your ban. TastyCakes (talk) 23:34, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Well, what about the first most profitable list which list XOM as the world's most profitable company????, does not that end your whole argument????. BTW, I called your stunt demagogic because 1) now you are searching for adjacent Fortune lists, while not accepting the first plain clear list that ends all your today's stunts. 2) You earlier said "Profit and profitability are not the same thing. Exxon has largest profit, not profitability", I guess you don't know what you were talking about then. You idiot even don not understand, after your stunts and substantial time wasting, that there are NO DIFFERENCE between profits and profitability, because profitability is turning out a profit, ex. "We will be profitable in the 3rd quarter". Most profitable means having the highest profits, not to be confused with profitability rations. NothingWorthy (talk) 23:56, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Northern Ship (talk) 05:50, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

NothingWorthy grew impatient with TastyCakes failure to put this discussion on his talk page and made a second account, Northern Ship, to circumvent his ban and paste it here. Soon after, Northern Ship was banned indefinitely for being a sock puppet and NothingWorthy's block was extended to 5 days for being a sock puppeteer.

UBC Template

Fixed. You had "background: {{{1|#E7AF10}}}" - I think the "1" was deciding whether to show gold or not - the text was always there, just not visible - (I'm not that good with these multi-bracket parameters - I'm not sure that it actually needs a parameter string), I changed it to a "2", and it seems to work Ronhjones (talk) 01:53, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

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User talk:198.180.155.6

The last edit done by the user to Alberta was not vandalism all that was done was a month change that is not vandalism. Kyle1278 (talk) 05:15, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Vancouver

A note regarding the issue of census for Vancouver that may interest you has been made at Talk:Vancouver#Census. Mkdw^talk 17:33, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Thank you good sir

I just wanted to say I appreciate your excellent idea of using Google to provide an English translation and for implementing it. I didn't know how well it would work, but I'm pleasantly surprised with the results. Especially the sentence that contains the phrase "Jewish lobby", which is good since it is the most contentious piece of information being referenced. As far as I can tell, that particular sentence is a perfect translation. So again, thank you! Letsgoridebikes (talk) 22:52, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Tri-Cities map

I see that you are the author of the GVRD maps. Any chance you could do one for the Tri-Cities? I suppose I modify one of yours, but I figure it would be better for consistency if you could do it. Greg Salter (talk) 04:51, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Looks perfect, thanks! Greg Salter (talk) 15:08, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

BTW, for your own benefit, you might want to update the summary on that graphic image; it mentions it as being a map of Anmore. Greg Salter (talk) 15:23, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Epoch Times

Hi, if you remember seeing biases in The Epoch Times' reporting, please indicate them to me. I would be interested to see them. I'm not saying "show me the source or I don't believe you," but more like, I would be interested to understand what you mean. So if you don't have any examples on hand, which would be understandable to an extent, but you believe you have encountered bias in their reporting before, then please keep me in mind if you see any in the future. I am also an observer of these issues, and would be interested to see some specific examples or instances in this connection. Thanks. --Asdfg12345 09:55, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Hey, thanks for your thoughts. I'd be interested to know if you stumble across anything else--I'm not against a paper having a pro human rights kind of stance, and proclaiming it openly even, (that actually sounds good to me), but it terms of presenting the facts of things, that should be fairly straightforward, and not too much impacted by other things. So I can see how on the CCP's human rights records it's clear that the paper brings one perspective (that of dissidents), but I'm not sure what impact this could have on other news, unrelated to human rights in China. In that regard I imagine it should be treated as a self-published source when the topic is the communist party's human rights issues, or Falun Gong, Tibet etc., but on other news just as a regular newspaper. Well, it's academic I guess. On another note, you may find this interesting reading.--Asdfg12345 23:05, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Baby Boomers

I have made a pitch for some language on the baby boomer article that is intended to solve the stalemate with the Generation Jones consortium. If you want to weigh in...? --Knulclunk (talk) 04:24, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

User page revert

I have taken the liberty to revert the last edit of EU100% to your user page as vandalism. Arnoutf (talk) 18:20, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Seems like the troll committed suicide this morning. I don't know why; perhaps not enough fun? Arnoutf (talk) 15:59, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

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You got mail

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Calgary-Glenmore

Can we please revert back, I am trying to standardize all the riding articles for Alberta to be the same way, and those are not mistakes. It is literally described as 14 Calgary Glenmore. In different years they added numbers to the name of the districts and some years they did not.

My goal is to have each article with a section containing the boundary history, including a list of changes, so that it does not clutter the results. In each result section I want a small article listing what happened for each relevant election. a box for MLA history, an overview of the riding history byitself. --Þadius (talk) 16:14, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

The biggest reason I did that was I kinda of thought that eventually when all the map data goes in people could open the boxes and see the boundary changes from year to year. It was also easier to copy the boxes and edit them in the same section, because putting the description is enough work on its own. I also thought about that way, but I thought it looked better because all the boxes expand to fill the screen. If you want to change them I am open to suggestions if you think there is a better way. --Þadius (talk) 16:22, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

I had considered moving the section down to somewhere near the bottom possibly above the references so there was "article" after the contents but I was undecided on what looks best. You know what now that I think about it lets keep them in the relevant results table. --Þadius (talk) 16:32, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

He vacated on May 15, 2009 Ron Stevens just has not been updated yet ^_^. Its actually one of the reasons I chose Glenmore to work on first because I figured more people would come looking for Calgary-Glenmore information due to the upcoming by-election. As for the boundary descriptions, as long as the article looks good and people find the information useful. I am happy--Þadius (talk) 16:36, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Synthetic fuel

Hi, TastyCakes. There is a plan to improve the Synthetic fuel article to the GA level. In this process, there are still several issues, which should be done before renominating this article for GAN. As you have contributed to the article and/or discussion, you may be interested to participate in the discussion about the article improvement. Thank you. Beagel (talk) 07:13, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Oilfield infoboxes

Hi, TastyCakes. I just proposed to merge Template:Oilfield and Template:Infobox Oil field. Your comments are welcomed here. Beagel (talk) 14:19, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Rising power

Hey, I saw you helping out on the potential superpower page and have taken some interest in the topic. Want to add your two cents to this proposal I have here. Deavenger (talk) 09:06, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Template:Infobox refinery

Hi, TastyCakes. There is a new Refinery infobox. I added some comments and suggestions at the template's talk page. Your input and opinion is highly appreciated. Beagel (talk) 19:26, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

obnoxious remark

I felt I was responding to an "obnoxious" comment. That person has "heard" and "been told" for "decades" there are more illiterate Americans that the article (Education in the United States) would lead you to believe. Heard? Been told? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.46.20.209 (talk) 19:50, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

So you like calling people disgusting names eh. I didn't deserve that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.46.20.209 (talk) 20:18, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Twang never mentioned conflicting figures in the article. Twang doubted the accuracy of the figures given because he/she had been "told" and "heard" differently over a period of time spanning decades. Nothing else. Twang gave his personal view in a way that I found insulting. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.46.20.209 (talk) 20:58, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

You said that I attacked somebody for merely discussing conflicting figures in an article with the aim of improving said article. That is plainly not the case. You are wrong. Twang's remarks were stupid. And now you're just being a smartass. This is the last from me. Want the last word? Be my guest. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.46.20.209 (talk) 21:38, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Get out. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.46.20.209 (talk) 22:48, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Best Investment

I read your recent respond on the humanities reference desk (Best Investment). I'm wondering if you can tell me, based on your experience/opinion, how and where could I educate myself on proper investment? I'm still reading Intelligent investor, heard from an HSBC financial advisor, search and read some stuff on the internet (mostly wiki + google). Roughly speaking I feel that while some of the info make sense, most of them don't and seem to present conflicting data or mix with interest other than my own (eg: very intend on promoting bank's own mutual fund while provide little other alternative investment info+option) I don't want to ask this on the reference desk because I don't want to hijack (I think I already did :P) the question.

Sorry for the long read, and thank you in advance. Royor (talk) 07:20, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

Hi TastyCakes. Thank you again for your reply. Your way of investment sound pretty solid and stress-free, definitely a path worth checking out. I 100% agree with you on mutual fund - it seems like my bank, my insurance guy all want me to buy mutual fund (from them) but the profit doesn't really look promising. Have a very great day. :) Royor (talk) 07:42, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

Blank Canada fed election riding map.svg

Hi. I'm currently puzzled by a detail in the Image:Blank Canada fed election riding map.svg map which you created. The details are specified at Wikipedia:Graphic_Lab/Map_workshop#Canadian_Election_Maps. Cheers Lokal_Profil 00:47, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

Map workshop thanks

Hey, just want to give you a huge thank you for working on map workshop requests. Real life has kept me from working on them recently and it was beginning to look pretty sad over there with nobody taking on requests. Kmusser (talk) 18:08, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

• Thanks for the King's highway map. Philly jawn (talk) 02:00, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

Electorate of Cologne historical map

Thanks for helping out on this. Ping me when you need some input, okay? Auntieruth55 (talk) 17:49, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Far East Council

Since you marked it {{done}}, how about fulfilling the last bit

“ Splendid! Please upload it over the original so we don't have duplication. Thank you so much! Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 15:24, 25 August 2009 (UTC) ”

so it really is done, properly. Thanks Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 14:33, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

It just seems a waste of bandwidth to have two when only one will do. Anyway, might you be able to help with the other Scouting/Guiding map we're struggling with at the Map Lab? My colleague is doing a noble job, but she's hit a wall, your history shows you might find a way out.Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 07:19, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

Okay. Please do what you can with the Western Hemisphere map. Thanks! Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 18:16, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

File:ISS Centers.svg

Hi there! I'd just like to say thanks very much for putting this together for us - it's greatly appreciated! If I could make one point, though, it's that I think the version of the map with the complete world map (minus Antarctica) looks better than the version with northern & southern latitudes cut off - any chance of sticking them back on? Thanks again! Colds7ream (talk) 20:10, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

Talk:Blue-water navy

I added to the discussion with regard to Blue-water_navy#Examples_of_navies_with_considerable_blue_water_capabilities on Talk:Blue-water navy please feel free to add your opinion so that we can reach consensus on this issue. RP459 (talk) 16:53, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Barnes & Noble nook

I just noticed you went through and completed all of the citations at Barnes & Noble nook. I'm really bad about putting in bare references, and it's high on my list of personal editing resolutions to take up (hopefully with better success than my "eat healthier" resolution from this past January). All of this was just to say thank you for setting a good example, and I'll try to do better in following it starting now. user:J aka justen (talk) 03:31, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

Delevero

You gave the user Delevero a final warning to which if he ignored he will be banned, just informing you that i just reverted his disruptive edits Pro66 (talk) 20:02, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Vancouver

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- Mkdw^talk 19:46, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

Hi Tasty, I feel quite bad about what I said about your map. I think I must have been in a bad mood about JimWae. Even thinking about that 'editor' I can already feel myself getting heated. Some times you just wish people would improve the article than come in during the middle and only talk about changing the date back. I realize you actually spent quite a bit of time on those maps for each of the Metro Vancouver districts. I can see where you're coming from and even viewing them large they're much better than they appear. I think with how small in scale they are, especially if users have set their image resolution to the default Wiki settings which is only 180px for thumbs, the map became crushed and hard to see. At this point I think Emarsee has found a fairly good neutral colour and then the contrast to make the map viewable in that small format. We are open to further suggestions to colours, but it's hard to imagine a more clear map then white, black and red, however, if you're able to find one then all the better. By the way, I really appreciate your feedback and willingness to talk about it in a polite, collaborative, and reasonable way. I started trying to initiate this FA project and at the beginning it seemed like I wasn't getting any offers, but now it seems like its taken off and I can take a step back a bit. Mkdw^talk 02:41, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

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Georges Bedard

You don't get to be an obsessed, wikistalking, right-wing ideologue and claim moral superiority too. You gleefully whitewash the biography of anyone who smells of reactionary politics, while squeezing in every bit of mean, muckraking demagoguery for which you can find the slightest reference for anyone whose politics you don't like. You typify Wikipedian politics and behaviour, which is why Wikipedia looks the way it does, but you do NOT get to also ride around on a high horse and claim the moral high ground. Douchebaggery may be the accepted norm on Wikipedia, but it doesn't make it any less ugly. SmashTheState (talk) 11:27, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

US Article Reply

I'm not exactly that new to Wikipedia, but that was my first attempt at a requested move. I've had far worse discussions that I deem unfair, that have resulted in me being banned. Personally I've already developed my opinion on Wikipedia through these past experience. To tell you the truth, when I started this requested move, I already thought that it wasn't going to pull through. What surprised me was how long this discussion lasted though. A near 6 days! Anyway, thanks for the apology (even though it wasn't needed really) and I'm sorry too for calling you unpatriotic (if you find that insulting. Personally, I think that it's Golbez that needs to apologize).

P.S. I have a question regarding the discussion: How was the consensus decided?--Valkyrie Red 16:27, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Guess we're all entitled to our own opinions, so I'll leave the Golbez thing at that. Anyway, regarding the whole consensus thing, I don't get how he decided that their was no consensus for move.--Valkyrie Red 20:51, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Well, I wouldn't say that it had a Snowball's Chance in Hell. It did have a good chance. It's just that there were too many people who had participated in the past debates that they were just pissed off with this being brought up again. Out of those 16 votes, about half of them were from pissed off users. What I really hoped to do was win the debate through SnottyWong's argument of WP:COMMONNAME, but looks like in the end, I lost (as with every debate I've tried to win). The only good thing that came out of this one was that I wasn't banned for sometime.--Valkyrie Red 23:29, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Well TastyCakes, I would like to thank you for your advice and conversations. They have been quite helpful and I no for sure that I will be looking at Wikipedia in a new light. Cheers!

P.S. I dropped this by Jimbo the other day to ask of his opinion, and he said that at first glance, United States of America should've been the title, but after thoroughly researching the topic, he was divided (at least that's what I interpret it to be).Valkyrie Red 04:13, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

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Climate Group

hi Tasty Cakes:

Apologies for this obviously amateurish attempt to reach you, you commented on the conversation about Singapore (which I appreciated), and since you seem to know your way around Wikipedia, wanted to ask for your advice on something else: I found an article, a profile of an organization called The Climate Group, which I am about 99% certain was written by the organization's PR people - is there not a rule about not writing about / promoting yourselves on Wikipedia, and how does one go about flagging an article to tackle this? Aside from the article being obviously self-promoting, it is also totally one-sided - it's essentially the organization's press kit posted to Wikipedia! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nealmcgrath (talk • contribs) 15:19, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Neal McGrath Nealmcgrath (talk) 15:19, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Republic of Ireland

Hi there TastyCakes, or is 'Republic of TastyCakes' the correct form? :) Anyway, nice to make your acquaintance. Perhaps now is not the time to quit, we have two very strong points in our favour. Firstly, there is clearly room for ambiguity, and secondly MoS supports use of 'Republic of Ireland'. There's obviously no talking to these zealots, but perhaps there is some process of arbitration we can go to, which would be external and binding?The Spoorne (talk) 20:40, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

Things are swinging a little bit our way over here at EU. I have also initiated a vote on the behaviour of Bosonic dressing.The Spoorne (talk) 10:22, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

Poorest postal code

That's very common, so very citable; but if you look at postal code maps there are a number of postal codes within the officially-defined area; a better wording might be "includes Canada's poorest postal code"; the citation for that might best be StatsCan I'd think, for that particular postal code, plus citations describing the whole area as the poorest postal code; though what is mean is the 000-300 block East Hastings only, I'm pretty sure; Chinatown and Gastown are included in the city's definition, but do not themselves consider themselves to be part of the Downtown Eastside, given that term's association with "the strip" (Hastings). Just some thoughts....Skookum1 (talk) 01:33, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

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Direct quotations

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Wikipedia:CITE#When_quoting_someone Yworo (talk) 21:40, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

It clearly shows that a citation is required even for a single quoted word. That's why quoting whole sentences is better. Use named refs, that way they won't repeat in the ref section. It is necessary to know which of the two articles quoted each quote comes from. Yworo (talk) 21:48, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Tigrent

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2010/01/28/consumer-rich-dad-poor-dad-marketplace.html

Second paragraph: "Whitney recently changed its name to Tigrent Learning Inc." And paragraph above heading "Guru not pleased": "The company now known as Tigrent Learning has been offering get-rich workshops for more than 10 years, and has a history of run-ins with regulators and unhappy customers."

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Nice catch with Philthybear

I was waiting on the edge of my seat for this one, but we have got confirmation. Knowing that makes it hilarious to look at the conversation with himself, but most of all makes it nice to say cya to a grumpus. - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ ^τ _¢ 16:26, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Agreed, but I would suggest you just leave his talk page be. If he wants to play around for a bit until he gets bored, let him. If he wants to be abusive to other editors again, I'll revert and lock his talk page. But otherwise, no need to poke the bear. Resolute 19:50, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Ok, sorry I couldn't resist :). Incidentally, I do think his latest response probably counts as "abusive". TastyCakes (talk) 20:10, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, I've reverted both, but he was provoked. We'll see if he gives up now. Resolute 20:26, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

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That aside, I do have an issue in which you may be interested in participating in. The issue is with the Montreal article. A user has made numerous recent edits of the infobox indicating the name, official name, other names, website, etc. The editor believes that the names should reflect the french spelling. I believe although the french spelling should be mentioned, the english spelling should be used as this is an english article. The "official" name in french is "Ville de Montréal" which as you know simply means "City of Montreal". So the official name in english is City and the official name in french is Ville. I am a little torn on the issue and believe the users motives might be more about the french agenda, and I do not want to commence an edit war. Perhaps you could add your opinion (whatever it may be), or keep an eye on the article/discussion. Po' buster (talk) 18:27, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

Emotions

Please stop writing me, I have zero interests in your emotions and feelings. I think perhaps you take things personally on wikipedia and no offense, but perhaps someone of such fragile emotions should not get involved in discussion boards. And now accusations of sock puppetry ? I mean c'mon. Once again please do not write me again regarding your personal feelings. PhilthyBear (talk) 13:54, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Wow, you are truly a problem editor and you will be reported. If you check the discussion board history for Wikipedia talk:Canadian Wikipedians' notice board you will see it is you that is being aggressive and a bully to me. And now openly accusing me of something so ridiculous just because you are overwhelmingly the minority in your views on a discussion board ? Other editors share my opinion as well, or perhaps I am also User:Mindmatrix and User:M.nelson. You sir are ridiculous and I am accusing you of being User:Resolute as you two share the same views. Once again please do not write me because I have zero interest in talking to someone of such poor character. PhilthyBear (talk) 14:13, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

I left you a message because that's the standard procedure for accusing someone of sockpuppetry. I did not expect you to respond in any way but deleting the message, which you of course have. If you're not a sockpuppeteer, you have nothing to worry about. Please try not to be emotional about this, it is quite hypocritical. Take care, TastyCakes (talk) 15:19, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Oh, and if you wish to accuse Resolute of being a sock puppet of me, by all means go ahead, you can do so here. A checkuser will show that to be false. And if you wish to report me for incivility, you can do so here. Bye for now, TastyCakes (talk) 15:22, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

My my, you make friends everywhere you go. Must be your charming personality. SmashTheState (talk) 00:21, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

File:ISS Centers.svg

Hello, on your ISS Centers image, the dot for Kennedy Space Center is off by a few hundred miles to the south. Thought you might like to know. Lumbergh (talk) 21:00, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Oil reserves article

I've added the following tag to the oil reserves talk page: {{maintained}} Hope that's ok with you. Of course, if it is not feel free to take your name off the list or fix as you see appropriate.--Work permit (talk) 09:26, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

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Learning how to make a montage

Hi TastyCakes. Could you please show me a page where I can learn what to do to make a montage. I really want to make one for Ottawa but I don't know how. Thanks. Nations United (talk) 05:23, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks TastyCakes. I made the montage and did everything you said but how do I put the montage on Wikipedia? Nations United (talk) 03:30, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Hi TastyCakes. I followed your instructions and I am on the first part, where you have to make a name for your image but I don't know how to go to the next step. I make my name and I still can't click on the "OK-Next" button. Also, I'm not sure if I made it into a png file. All I've done is follow your instructions but nothing else so I don't know if I have to do something else after that to make it a png file. Nations United (talk) 04:47, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Um.. that wasn't really the problem I was having. I am only on the first step. It the step where it says "Original work" and then I have to type the name of my image. It says "File:" and then I have to make a name. Then under it it says "Add more original files" and under that it says "OK-Next" and no matter what I do, it wont let me click it and go to the next step. Nations United (talk) 05:39, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Only a couple of images are from Wikipedia. The rest are from the Internet. Nations United (talk) 22:54, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Okay. I'll make a new one with images from Wikipedia. Thank you very much TastyCakes. Oh, by the way, so I'm so supposed to just list all the images that I used using "File:" in front of each one to unlock to "OK-Next" button? Nations United (talk) 23:18, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for everything TastyCakes Nations United (talk) 04:31, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Ottawa municipal election, 2010

Hey TastyCakes, do you have a ref for current mayor Larry O'Brien running in the Ottawa municipal election, 2010? I think that the information was erroneously added to O'Brien's page and slipped under everyone's radar. The idea of an April 1, 2009 announcement is contradicted by a large number of news stories, for example this March 17, 2010 CBC article. If it's okay with you, I suggest that we remove the information from both pages, perhaps adding a blurb on O'Brien's page stating that he hasn't made a decision either way. Cheers, -M.Nelson (talk) 15:07, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Fair enough; I'll put a few refs together and clean up those pages (unless you beat me to it!). Cheers, -M.Nelson (talk)

A quick journey through time (well, history, to be specific) shows that the April 2009 bit seems to have been a good-faith contribution by a still-active user. Either way, I think the March 2010 CBC article supersedes a mysterious local newspaper article... -M.Nelson (talk) 16:37, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

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Bonsoir, GâteauxSavoureux.  :) You expressed an opinion on the reliability of the Geist sourcing over at Talk:Wind Mobile. Would you consider expounding on that at Wikipedia:RS/N#Michael Geist? I think it'd be helpful to have a centralized discussion so that there can be some consensus, and I think BordenRhodes and I would both value your input. jæs (talk) 21:40, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Oil spill talk

you've been around wp more than long enough to know better. talk pages are for discussing all aspects of the article. they are not a forum for the general discussion of the article's subject. this is an excellent case in point.call it draconian if you will, it doesn't change the fact that this one is already absurdly long, and an unfortunate proportion of the comments don't relate to the article. there are undoubtedly many message boards you can go to and engage in far-ranging discussions of this disaster. you want to call in an administrator, go ahead. i like my chances. Toyokuni3 (talk) 19:25, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

sorry, i shouldn't have been that confrontational. your point about the newbie is well taken. but on articles about controversial subjects, i feel this rule needs to be enforced to keep the talk pages from getting completely out of hand. this one is well on its way in that direction.Toyokuni3 (talk) 19:46, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

Deepwater Horizon Ownership

This June 3 article on insurance says

• BP (operator and 65 percent working interest in the project).
• Anadarko (25 percent working interest).
• Mitsui (10 percent working interest).

That's pretty bad if we've been messing this up. Could you point me to the logic of not including the partners? (I believe that what you say is plausible...this will impact some feeder articles I wanted to update). Thanks.Americasroof (talk) 18:55, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments on my talk page. In looking at the above statement BP as (sole) operator is a correct statement. However the companies with ownership interest are BP, Anadarko and Mitsui.Americasroof (talk) 23:21, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

AOSC

Hey TastyCakes, I just wrote an article about Athabasca Oil Sands Corp. Since you have an interest in this area, would you take a look and improve if you can? Cheers, -M.Nelson (talk) 22:38, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

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LOL

RE: Deepwater Horizon oil spill talk page... just as I was last commenting about the Jones Act, you had just saved your last comment, which agrees with what I just said. By the way, I live in Austin, Texas. UT alumn. Hook 'em. :D MichaelWestbrook (talk) 18:23, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

Small world :). I envy you for living in Austin, it's a great place. The Jones act claims always seemed a little far fetched, I wouldn't expect bureaucracy to hold much sway in limiting the cleanup efforts... TastyCakes (talk) 18:33, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

Somalia

Sure, I'll look later today. Glad to see somebody interested in Somalia! It could sure use an injection of quality.. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 07:38, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

This my my opinion the Somalia article is very well written article focusing all important and interesting facts of Somalia and that why there is no problem with it. There no need to change because its a quality article. Wikiplayer13 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 16:55, 12 July 2010 (UTC).

Talk:History of colonial Hong Kong#Requested move

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Electricity sector in Canada

Hi. I rewrote Electricity sector in Canada (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), and since you've been an early and frequent contributor to the page, I hope my recent contributions have not offended you too much :) Anyway, I'm pretty much done. If you feel like it, feel free to take a look, tweak and augment (and correct all the lousy spelling and the grammar faux-pas I introduced, it goes without saying). Cheers. Bouchecl (talk) 01:35, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

ISS Operations and Management map

Dear TastyCakes,

Great work on your version of the NASA map for the operations and management stations for the ISS. It's just, your last revision says you were standardizing the spelling. I think it's worth noting that proper names not only do not need to be standardized, but they must not be standardized at all. It's like an American newspaper saying that the US Defense Secretary met with a representative from the Labor party in the UK. Or an Australian newspaper saying that the One World Trade Centre will house the Canadian Humour Association (which I just made up :D ). Neither there is such thing as a "Labor" party in the UK, nor is the soon-to-be tallest building in New York called "One World Trade Centre." The Defense Secretary met with a Labour rep and Canadian Humour will be located in the WT Center. Same here. There is no such thing as an Ames Telescience Support "Centre" anywhere in the United States, just as well as there isn't an ESA European Space Research and Technology "Center". That's why the original map that NASA released, from which you got the information for your own map, spells "ESA European Space Research and Technology Centre" and "European Astronaut Centre" but it also spells "Ames Telescience Support Center" and "Glenn Telescience Support Center" and "Payload Operations Center." Of course, there are other stations with the word "center" that are direct translations from another language; those, of course, need not be either "centre" or "center," but the ones that do have the English word need to be spelled the way their name is officially spelled, regardless of what the chosen style for the rest of the article is. Like I said, I'm sure Brits don't take it very kindly when an American newspaper says that they have a "Labor party" in their country. Likewise, some people might not like the fact that the name of the place they work for has been altered in an encyclopedia. I'm not suggesting that you should make a new version of the map with the correct spelling, but I do ask that you take it into consideration if you're going to revise it any further in the future; if you're ever going to edit the map, you might as well make a couple more corrections. If that's not the case, I really think this is such a minor thing that you don't need to go out of your way to amend it.

My very best regards from Houston, TX, i.e., "Space City" :) --AndresTM (talk) 23:37, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

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