User talk:John FitzGerald

Talk page for Jfitzg, Trontonian, TronTonian, and John FitzGerald.

Contents

1 Jazz musicians category 2 Article Licensing 3 Delisle 4 Métis people (Canada) 5 Intercounty Baseball League 6 Louis Riel

Jazz musicians category

Here is an explanation of my actions.

1. I noticed there were some subcategories of the Jazz musicians category, including Jazz Guitarists, Jazz Bassists, and Jazz Pianists.
2. I noticed the Jazz Guitarists subcategory was woefully incomplete.
3. I added all the jazz guitarists I could find on Wikipedia to the Jazz Guitarists subcategory.
4. Since there is no need for musicians to be listed on both the Jazz Musicians category and on the Jazz Guitarists category, since the latter is a subcategory of the former, I removed the guitarists' listings from Jazz Musicians category.
5. I created a Jazz Saxophonists category using the same reasoning above. It is a subcategory of both Jazz Musicians and Saxophonists.
6. I added all the jazz saxophonists I could find on Wikipedia to the Jazz Saxophonists subcategory.
7. Since there is no need for musicians to be listed on both the Jazz Musicians category and on the Jazz Saxophonists category, since the latter is a subcategory of the former, I removed the saxophonists' listings from Jazz Musicians category.
8. Since there is no need for musicians to be listed on both the Saxophonists category and on the Jazz Saxophonists category, since the latter is a subcategory of the former, I removed the jazz saxophonists' listings from Saxophonists category.

I'm sorry this upset you so. I was not aware I needed to consult with anyone before doing what I did. There were no discussions in the talk page for the Jazz Musicians category. If I'd known you'd be so upset, I certainly would have consulted with you prior to doing anything. Taco Deposit | Talk-o Deposit 14:56, Sep 7, 2004 (UTC)

Answered at User talk:TacoDeposit

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

• Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
• Multi-Licensing Guide
• Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Ram-Man&action=edit&section=new)| talk)

Delisle

Yes, this article needs some work (like so many others). I am quite familiar with the controversy and I read most newspaper and magazine articles on the subject. Unfortunately, most of my sources are (obviously) in French.

Translating from my native language to English is quite demanding intellectually and I have very little time for Wikipedia nowadays. I hope to be able to get to it eventually. If only there were more than 24h in a day! If I could quit my job and work full time on Wikipedia, I'd be very happy! :-)

Ideally, we should begin by writing a chronology of events and find all the opinions that were published on the subject. This would really help.

A good way to start is to type "esther delisle site:vigile.net" in www.google.ca. -- Mathieugp 21:08, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Métis people (Canada)

HI John - put it down to my ignorance of Canadian French. :) rossb 22:21, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Intercounty Baseball League

It was the language "The league is independent – that is, none of its teams is affiliated with a major league baseball team." that led me to believe that the article was trying to imply that the league was a professional league and that its players have a chance to move up to the majors. These are amateurs -- they probably drink beer while they're playing. RickK 02:05, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)

Are you sure they get paid? The Google search I did referred to it as an amateur league -- and it's the league's official site. - "Major amateur adult league in southwestern Ontario" - http://www.icbaseball.com/. RickK 02:22, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)

Well, like I said, I posted it on the Canadian Wikipedians' page, hopefully some more Canadian eyes will be helpful.  :) RickK 00:35, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)

I hope you don't think it's some kind of anti-Canadian, anti-baseball or anti-minor league bias, because I've done a lot of work on a lot of baseball league and team articles. I had never heard of this league and when I saw that "amateur" designation on the website, that's when I decided to list it for deletion. RickK 02:39, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)

Louis Riel

Hi John, a long time ago, you made a contribution to the Louis Riel article, and added a bit attributed to J.M.S. Careless. Well, I worked on the article quite a bit, and now LR is up for featured article candidacy (see Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates#Louis Riel). And I'm trying to find a reference for Careless's comments... can you help me out? Fawcett5 21:55, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

John, thank you for the information. Cheers, Fawcett5 11:56, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

John, thanks for your gracious comments about Riel. I intend to turn my attention to Red River Rebellion next - I too think it is pretty arguable whether or not it should be called a rebellion, since in that case there was not really any constituted authority. I will definitely deal with the issue. Much of what is there now was actually taken from a previous version of Louis Riel, but his article was getting to big so it got moved. But according to MoS guidelines, the name of the article should probably be retained, because this is undeniably the most common way of referring to the events. Regards, Fawcett5 16:07, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

By the way, if you liked the Louis Riel article, you might consider giving it a nod of support on the FA candidate page: Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates#Louis Riel Fawcett5 16:21, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)