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Thank you for creating 2022 Ontario Tankard.
I have tagged the page as having some issues to fix, as a part of our page curation process and note that:
Consider that the name of this page is incorrect and should refer to Women's Curling Championship for Southern Ontario - or similar. The sponsor's name is not the correct name for an encyclopaedia - which is what Wikipedia is...
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- The Ontario Tankard is most definitely a men's tournament. I think the issue you're having is with a typo, which I have fixed.-- Earl Andrew - talk 15:26, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
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Hi Earl Andrew. I noticed your comment on candidate colours on the 2017 Conservative Party of Canada leadership election. There is a discussion happening on the 2022 Conservative Party of Canada leadership election talk page. I think your perspective, given your comment on the last leadership, would be a welcomed addition to the conversation. RoyalObserver (talk) 08:52, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
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Hello! Your recent edits on 2022 Ontario municipal elections, involving the upcoming elections in London, Ontario, are not acceptable on the page in the current format. Please create a seperate page, such as 2022 London, Ontario municipal elections, to add your content and file a page link under 2022 Ontario municipal elections#Single-tier municipalities. Thanks! I will paste the content here. Hcoder3104☭ (💬) 15:42, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
After using ranked ballots in the 2018 municipal election, London will return to using the first past the post electoral system after the passing of the Supporting Ontario's Recovery and Municipal Elections Act, 2020 by the Ontario Government, which removed the right of municipalities to use a different electoral system from FPTP.[1]
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Please create seperate articles for every municipality. Hcoder3104☭ (💬) 13:25, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
- I've been here for a lot longer than you, and have seen articles on smaller municipality's get deleted. That's why they're on the main page. I'm not writing articles on every single tier municipality. I asked this of you before, do you really expect an article on the Pelee Island municipal election? Don't be ridiculous. -- Earl Andrew - talk 13:41, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
Are you going to add local council elections on these separate pages? I can assist, as I have already been doing it with 2022 Oxford County municipal elections. Hcoder3104☭ (💬) 17:20, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
- @Hcoder3104: I've only added council races to larger municipalities. You are welcome to add council races wherever you wish, though. -- Earl Andrew - talk 17:50, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
Please stop adding bare URL's to this article. Its extremely lazy. Please use the correct citation method to cite the references. Thank you. Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 15:17, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
- @Sportsfan 1234: I know it's lazy, but it'll do when pressed for time. You will note it's not something I typically do. -- Earl Andrew - talk 17:16, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
- Thank you. I don't think each event needs a reference. A link to the GEMS system per sport is more than sufficient. Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 17:32, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
- @Sportsfan 1234: Excellent! That will allow me to be even more lazy :-) -- Earl Andrew - talk 17:35, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
- Only 20 vs 247! Btw you have canoeing at 38 events, I counted 39 on the results system. Is it 38 or 39? Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 17:40, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
- @Sportsfan 1234: Take a look at the note I put in; They did not provide a date for one of the events.-- Earl Andrew - talk 18:27, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
- Only 20 vs 247! Btw you have canoeing at 38 events, I counted 39 on the results system. Is it 38 or 39? Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 17:40, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
- @Sportsfan 1234: Excellent! That will allow me to be even more lazy :-) -- Earl Andrew - talk 17:35, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
- Thank you. I don't think each event needs a reference. A link to the GEMS system per sport is more than sufficient. Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 17:32, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
Please stop vandalizing the wikipedia page of a political party in a city you do not live in. It is not conducive to presenting the sum of local experience and knowledge. Eugenevdebbs (talk) 18:29, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
- @Eugenevdebbs: I was not vandalizing the page, you were, by removing sourced information with your own opinion. That is why you were blocked. -- Earl Andrew - talk 18:33, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
You have moved the article Charles III to Charles III (disambiguation) even though the previous move had been reverted, so it was clearly a controversial move. Going forward, please create a move request for controversial moves. Vpab15 (talk) 20:48, 8 September 2022 (UTC)
Wheel-warring
Hi Earl Andrew,
As moving a fully move-protected page requires admin privileges, doing so is an admin action. Because of this, I believe your repeated reimplementation's of reverted moves at Charles III constitute a WP:WHEEL violation; specifically, your reversal of Amakuru's reversal of The Land's move, and your reversal of Timrollpickering's reversal of your first reversal. There also appears to be some level of WP:INVOLVED here, with you acting as an administrator in a dispute that you have a personal opinion on.
If this is accurate I think the most appropriate way to proceed would be for you to commit to not reimplement reverted admin actions without discussion, and to not use your tools in disputes that you are involved in? BilledMammal (talk) 08:12, 9 September 2022 (UTC)
- Looking further, it appears this isn't the only recent example of you using your tools in a problematic way. For example, at 2022 Windsor municipal election you got into an edit war with an IP user, with you disagreeing about whether "Matthew Giancola" should be listed. This wasn't a situation where the exceptions to WP:INVOLVED would apply, but you used you admin tools anyway, blocking the editor for violating WP:3RR - although their maximum number of reverts in 24 hours was three, which happened to match the number of reverts you did in 24 hours.
- A similar thing happened at Dean Gemmell; you blocked Lovetocurl for vandalism, after they added unsourced information saying that he had four kids and a wife. This information was unsourced, but it also appears to be correct as his personal website confirms that he has four children. While it is a BLP, and we shouldn't be adding unsourced information to it even if correct, doing so isn't vandalism and you should not have blocked them. BilledMammal (talk) 08:49, 9 September 2022 (UTC)
- Hello, my apologies for this. I did not believe my actions to be controversial in any of these cases, but anyway I promise to commit to not reimplement reverted admin actions without discussion, and to not use tools in disputes that I am involved in. Thanks! -- Earl Andrew - talk 13:09, 9 September 2022 (UTC)
- Thank you! BilledMammal (talk) 00:08, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
- Hello, my apologies for this. I did not believe my actions to be controversial in any of these cases, but anyway I promise to commit to not reimplement reverted admin actions without discussion, and to not use tools in disputes that I am involved in. Thanks! -- Earl Andrew - talk 13:09, 9 September 2022 (UTC)
Hello! I'm on the fence about whether the Mainstreet polling for Brampton can be cited. Bramptonist articles before 2020 can be considered moderately reliable sources, but around the start of the pandemic it was purchased by unknown individuals who have turned it into a soapbox. No other outlet has quoted these results, including QP Briefing, and they've provided no PDF. Thoughts? -- Zanimum (talk) 12:45, 15 October 2022 (UTC)
- @Zanimum: Interesting. The poll was mentioned by the Polling Canada Twitter account, so I quickly looked for a source to include it. I don't dispute the poll was actually conducted, but you're probably best positioned to judge the reliability of the source.-- Earl Andrew - talk 12:57, 15 October 2022 (UTC)
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