User talk:PemGateway

Hello, PemGateway !


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Where to put listings
Hello - thanks for your edits, but please note that listings are generally placed in only one article, for the town in which they are located. Thus if a hotel is located in Pemberton (British Columbia) it should not be listed in Whistler and vice-versa (see Where you can stick it and Don't tout for the relevant site policies). Hopefully that makes sense, but if you have questions you can ask them on this talk page or on the relevant article's talk page. -- Ryan &bull; (talk) &bull; 05:26, 6 February 2014 (UTC)


 * It makes general sense except that the communities are joined, an intertwined. Both the Pemberton & Whistler Mayors sit on the same regional district.:SLRD Squamish Lillooet Regional District. They belong to the same single Catholic Church Parish. Share the same Police combined Police Force :Whistler Pemberton RCMP Detachment. Share a transit System. The ESPN2 featured Whistler BMX park is the Green River BMX park in Pemberton.All the whistler Helisking spots are in or North of Pemberton. Their Helicopters depart from & are based at Pemberton Airport.


 * Whistler Jets Boats is in Pemberton on the Lillooet River. Pemberton is a Whistler bedroom community with travel  times equal or shorter than the former Olympic Village Cheakamus Crossing to Whistler Village. —The preceding comment was added by PemGateway (talk • contribs)  08:43, 6 February 2014‎ (UTC)


 * So you think there is a case for merging the 2 articles into one? If so, please make it at Talk:Pemberton (British_Columbia)... --118.93nzp (talk) 09:24, 6 February 2014 (UTC)


 * I did not request that they be merged, but I do think you should allow some redundancy because they are inter twined. The purpose I assume of Wikivoyage is to inform all the Holipoli not only for a tiny self selected group of Wikivoyage editors. You need to inform the public that Pemberton is a bedroom community of Whistler and that almost all of Whistlers backcountry activities are in Pemberton & its environs not Whistler proper. With all due respect this 1 placename implied policy is STUPID & does not match the real world - use realpolitik. Sea to Sky exists on Wiki pedia & voyage: yet it includes Squamish, Whistler & Pemberton. Should they all be merged???? I think not. The unincorporated areas in Sea to Sky are in the SLRD,Squamish Lillooet Regional District. This is no different than a town existing in a New England in a County, within a Parish (both meanings: secular & political boundary), within an amalgamated (super) Parish/County, within a  State. I understood Wikivoyages purpose was inform the public about the real world as it exists with all its contradictions, not some fake Autistic fantasy world. Reality is messy there are over lapping political jurisdictions and intertwined communities here - as in many places- deal with it!


 * Vancouver Airport YVR is in Richmond BC and not the City of Vancouver have you removed it from the Vancouver Listings?????
 * All Above also posted on Pemberton Page.


 * Have you lived in the area or ever visited? I'm a 12 yr local,& who spent 15yrs of my youth nearby visiting the area almost every other weekend. What's quite ironic & coincidental is last night while I contributing to the Pemby Page our Mayor Resigned & spoke at length about these overlapping Jurisdictions []. —The preceding comment was added by PemGateway (talk • contribs)


 * I've responded at Talk:Pemberton (British Columbia). -- Ryan &bull; (talk) &bull; 00:33, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

Contribution Survey of WikiTravel and WikiVoyage
Dear PemGateway,

Hello. I am a dedicated Wikipedian and a regular contributor to many other projects of Wikimedia. In addition to this, I also study the contributors and their contributions. In this connection, I have authored the following blogs studying different projects of Wikimedia Foundation :


 * 1) Wikipedia for Schools Project (posted on Wikimedia Foundation blog)
 * 2) Samskrita Bharati and Sanskrit Wikipedia: The journey ahead (posted on Wikimedia Foundation blog)
 * 3) A Focused Approach for Maithili Wikipedia (posted on Wikimedia Foundation blog)
 * 4) Two Shades of Wikipedia in Punjabi (posted on Wikimedia Foundation blog)
 * 5) A Survey of Esperanto Wikipedians (posted on Wikimedia Foundation blog)
 * 6) Wikimedia Projects in Urdu: Unleashing the Latent Potential (posted on Wikimedia Foundation blog)
 * 7) Hindi Wikipedia - An Encyclopedia Bridging New Bonds of Friendship Across Borders

I have seen the fact that you have created accounts on both Wikivoyage (WMF website) project and WikiTravel (a different entity). I will be glad if you could share your editing experience and observations by answering to the following questions, either here itself, or email me, if you have specified your own email address in the preferences of your WikiVoyage account or post me a message (privately or on my wall) on Facebook with the responses to the questionnaire:

Questionnaire
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Please feel free to circulate this questionnaire to the friends known to you who maintain accounts on WikiVoyage and WikiTravel. --Hindustanilanguage (talk) 03:22, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

Autopatroller
Hi, PemGateway. I made you an Autopatroller. Thanks for your good contributions; much appreciated.

All the best,

Ikan Kekek (talk) 09:04, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

Style
Hi, PemGateway. I've taken the unusual step of rescinding your Autopatroller status, because of your large-scale irregular formatting of the Pemberton (British Columbia) guide. Users are awarded Autopatroller status because they are trusted to follow the guidelines in the Wikivoyage Manual of style, not to insert huge numbers of pictograms and Unnecessary Initial Caps in violation of that manual. If you want to create a guide that deviates radically from the look and feel of Wikivoyage guides, you should do that on your own website. All users on this site are required to operate within site guidelines, and your work will henceforth be closely watched to ensure that you do not flout those guidelines in a quiet corner undetected. Ikan Kekek (talk) 23:14, 20 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Caps in Keyhole Hot springs are literally life & death warning of agressive bears.


 * Caps in Sloquet refer to bear danger too, bears will become agressive too if given human food. —The preceding comment was added by PemGateway (talk • contribs)


 * Please sign your name on talk pages by typing 4 tildes (~) in a row at the end.


 * We do not use capital letters for emphasis on this site. You may use bolding, when that's really essential (not in a list of hotel amenities, for example). And you may not use pictograms, which you didn't address above. Dollars signs are also not prices. You are not a new user. Spend some time reading the Manual of style, and make sure you follow it. Ikan Kekek (talk) 23:29, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

Pls for public safety remove the whole listing  for Keyhole hotsprings or make the bear warning conspicious. —The preceding comment was added by PemGateway (talk • contribs)


 * Are you going to start signing your posts on talk pages? I don't need to do anything. You can easily make a warning conspicuous without using capital letters (see how I did that?). And why don't you discuss how best to do that at Talk:Pemberton (British Columbia)‎‎ instead of your user talk page? Ikan Kekek (talk) 23:59, 20 May 2017 (UTC)