Talk:Alberta

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Chicago Manual of Style vs Oxford MoS vs Wikipedia MoS[edit]

I'm going through this article fixing minor style points. I just thought I'd come here and discuss in a small way what I'm doing. Please note I'm not an expert and I have to use the manuals as I edit.

One of the problems with the Wikipedia MoS is that it comes as separate pages. If you go to Wikipedia help and search usually the results returned are a mixture of user posts, talk pages, archived discussions and the MoS. The Wikipedia MoS is fine and covers all the points that the others do. The other two manuals are electronic books. The Oxford, in typical English fashion, is written almost like a discourse to be memorized by the reader. The Chicago manual has a brilliant electronic version that is a joy to work with especially the hyper-linked index.

I've just started out using the Chicago and Oxford and I do compare the two when editing. I am a UK editor so I understand why the Oxford MoS is written with a "we have ways of making you remember so as to make sure you can produce high quality work when stranded in the desert without this manual".

I actually would like Wikipedia to produce an electronic version of their MoS with linked index. Personally I think they should follow the layout of the contents of the Chicago manual. Of course it will contain different information.

I'm off to do the article now. Just thought I'd mention the three manuals.

Sluffs (talk) 12:40, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

You are doing good work cleaning this article. Thanks and keep it up. Note I have reverted two edits involving two-digit numerals. Hope the edit summaries sufficiently explain the reasoning. Cheers, Hwy43 (talk) 18:01, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Geography of Canada[edit]

At the top of the talk page it says, “WikiProject Canada / Alberta / Geography (Rated B-class, Top-importance)”. This suggests that one of the WikiProjects is WikiProject Geography when in fact it is WikiProject Geography of Canada. For clarity it should say “WikiProject Canada / Alberta / Geography of Canada (Rated B-class, Top-importance)”.--Solomonfromfinland (talk) 05:50, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

Semi-Protection?[edit]

This article may need semi-protection. Erroneous edits are being made by well intentioned editors, who are trying to replace Prentice with Notley as premier. GoodDay (talk) 04:33, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

Regarding this, as I understand it, Prentice resigned everything effective immediately in his concession speech last night, unless that was only as leader of the PCs and his seat. If the former, shouldn't the field be blank or state "vacant"? Another solution is to indicate Notley is the "premier-designate" in small text under Prentice/vacant. Hwy43 (talk) 03:20, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
Prentice resigned as PC leader & MLA 'only'. He hasn't gone to the Lieutenant Governor & tendered his resignation as premier. In Canada, the Prime Minister or Premiers only resign when their successors-to-be are ready to assume office. In this case, Prentice won't be resigning as premier until shortly before Notley gets sworn in, upon getting formally appointed by the Lieutenant Governor. The change over usually takes place about 2-weeks after the election. It's best to wait until then, before we change from Prentice to Notley. GoodDay (talk) 06:25, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
Thanks. I was listening to his concession speech live on the radio while driving so I did not quite catch everything. Hwy43 (talk) 06:35, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
No prob :) GoodDay (talk) 06:38, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
We're not dealing with vandalism, so I doN't think semi-protection is really called for. Curly Turkey ¡gobble! 07:02, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
Semi-protection would however, cut down the changing from Prentice to Notley. Having said that, things have eased off, in the last number of hours. GoodDay (talk) 07:08, 7 May 2015 (UTC)

Personally, I'd rather we not show Notley in the infobox, until she becomes premier. However, if it'll stop the newbies from continously replacing Prentice with Notley prematurely? so be it. GoodDay (talk) 12:18, 7 May 2015 (UTC)

Trouble archiving links on the article[edit]

Hello. I am finding myself repeatedly archiving links on this page. This usually happens when the archive doesn't recognize the archive to be good.

This could be because the link is either a redirect, or I am unknowingly archiving a dead link. Please check the following links to see if it's redirecting, or in anyway bad, and fix them, if possible.

In any event this will be the only notification in regards to these links, and I will discontinue my attempts to archive these pages.

Cheers.—cyberbot IITalk to my owner:Online 17:43, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

External links modified[edit]

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to 11 external links on Alberta. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add {{cbignore}} after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add {{nobots|deny=InternetArchiveBot}} to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:

Cheers.—cyberbot IITalk to my owner:Online 17:43, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

External links modified[edit]

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to one external link on Alberta. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add {{cbignore}} after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add {{nobots|deny=InternetArchiveBot}} to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the —cyberbot IITalk to my owner:Online 07:38, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

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