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Famous Canadian Aviators Wiki Pages
It was pointed out to me today that Fern Villeneuve,
Canada's "Bob Hoover", does not have a wiki page.
Horrors. So, I created this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fern_Villeneuve
It's pretty minimalistic. My wiki skills are non-existent.
I'm just a country doctor, Jim.
If anyone here would care to improve the presentation
or content, please edit the page and do so! For example,
there is not one word about his years of work with the
Air Cadets, a terrible omission on my part.
Anyways. It annoys me sometimes that we Canadians
are so low-key. I try to make up for the rest of you,
but ...
EDIT: to change topic title
Canada's "Bob Hoover", does not have a wiki page.
Horrors. So, I created this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fern_Villeneuve
It's pretty minimalistic. My wiki skills are non-existent.
I'm just a country doctor, Jim.
If anyone here would care to improve the presentation
or content, please edit the page and do so! For example,
there is not one word about his years of work with the
Air Cadets, a terrible omission on my part.
Anyways. It annoys me sometimes that we Canadians
are so low-key. I try to make up for the rest of you,
but ...
EDIT: to change topic title
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Re: Fern Villeneuve Wiki Page
I would have modified it myself but I defer to your better knowledge on the subject. Incidentally there were a lot of red links on that museum page that we should have a project here to have the pages completed for posterity's sake.
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Re: Fern Villeneuve Wiki Page
I think SSU is referring to:there were a lot of red links on that museum page
that we should have a project here to have the pages
completed for posterity's sake
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_A ... #Inductees
If the name is blue (eg Fern V) there is a linked wiki page for that person.
But if the name is red (too many to list) then there is no wiki page for
that person, whom almost certainly deserves one because of their
induction into the Canadian Aviation Hall of Fame.
Additionally, I can imagine that many of the AvCan people would have
valuable information to contribute about these noteworthy Canadians.
We need to figure out some way to organize this ... creating crappy
wiki pages (like I did) is not difficult!
I just noticed Neil J Armstrong (NOT the astronaut, the Canadian
pilot who has a COPA scholarship named after them) doesn't
have a wiki page!
Canadians are just too unassuming.
SSU, I did Fern, you do Neil. Start with this content:
http://www.copanational.org/NAbackground.cfm
which you can use as a (required) inline ref as follows:
<ref>http://www.copanational.org/NAbackground.cfm</ref>
No XML boy, am I!
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Re: Fern Villeneuve Wiki Page
Embarassed to admit I never heard of Villeneuve but I sure have now. Quite a career. Good on you CS for taking the lead on this.
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Re: Fern Villeneuve Wiki Page
I'll take on that task, I'll try to get to it in the next day or so.SSU, I did Fern, you do Neil. Start with this content:
Incidentally maybe we can get volunteers for the other names?
Here's the list.
William Keir Carr *
Walter Chmela *
Larry Denman Clarke
Thomas Charles Cooke
Thomas Paul Michael "Mike" Cooper-Slipper
Paul Yettvart Davoud
Stanley Matthew Deluce
Robert Leslie Dodds
Vera Elise Strodl Dowling
John Talbot Dyment
Maurice D’arcy Allen Fallow
George Harold Finland
Norman Gladstone Forester
Robert Howden Fowler
Walter Warren Fowler
Thomas Payne Fox
James Henry Foy
Douglas Cowan Fraser
Alexander Beaufort Fraser Fraser-Harris
Elmer Garfield Fullerton
Philip Clarke Garratt
Walter Edwin Gilbert
Roy Stanley Grandy
Keith Rogers Greenaway
Seth Walter Grossmith
Harry Halton
Paul Albert Hartman
Henry Winston Hayter
Robert Thomas Heaslip
Richard Duncan Hiscocks
Fred Harvey Hitchins
Basil Deacon Hobbs
Herbert Hopson
Frederick William Hotson
Albert Edward Hutt
William Gladstone Jewitt
Frederick Ronald Kearns
Harry Marlowe Kennedy
Leslie George Kerr
William George Melvin Knox
Reginald John Lane
Thomas Albert Lawrence
Wilson George Leach
Zebulon Lewis Leigh*
Alexander John Lilly
George Bayliss Lothian*
Joseph Henry Lucas
William Floyd Sheldon Luck
Charles Horace Luttman
Gerald Lester MacInnis
Merlin William MacLeod
Kenneth Cecil Maclure
Kenneth Berry Marsden
William Sidney May
Fred Robert Gordon McCall*
Donald Stuart McClure
Eric Charles McConachie
Robert Billo McIntyre
Alexander Daniel McLean
Walter McDonald McLeish
Stanley Ransom McMillan
Archibald Major McMullen
Robert Wendell "Buck" McNair *
Bert William Mead
Almer Leonard Michaud
Robert Bruce Middleton
Jack Moar
Angus Curran Morrison
Raymond Alan Munro
George Arthur Neal
William Francis Newson
John Ender "Jock" Palmer*
Hubert Pasmore
Ronald Peel
George Hector Reid Phillips
Welland Wilfred Phipps
John Lawrence Plant
Peter Geoffrey Powell
Robert Cheetham Randall
Bernard Anderson Rawson
John Hardisty Reilly
Moretta Fenton Reilly
Stanley George Reynolds
Robert "Dick" Richmond
Donald Howard Rogers
James Lindsay Rood
Frank Walter Russell
William John Sanderson
Kenneth Foster Saunders
Rayne Dennis Schultz
Eugene Howard Schweitzer
Herbert Walter Seagrim
Murton Adams Seymour
John Gavin Showler
Thomas William Siers
Arthur George Sims
John Charles Sloan
Elvie Lawrence Smith
Frank Ernest William Smith
Ernest Walter Stedman
Alexander Mackay Sutherland
Harold Rex Terpening
Samuel Anthony Tomlinson
Leonard John Tripp
Percival Stanley Turner
Joseph Pierre Romeo Vachon
Archie Vanhee
Donald Netterville Watson
Roland Burgess West
Robert Allan White
Arthur Haliburton Wilson
John Armitstead Wilson
Jack Fraser Woodman
Walter "Babe" Woollett *
Jerauld George Wright
Dennis Kestell Yorath
Michael Zubko
edit: 1. * beside aviators with work done on their pages.
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Re: Fern Villeneuve Wiki Page
Update: That taxed my cutting and pasting skills, I only added a bit more, but if I do more research I can add some.
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Re: Fern Villeneuve Wiki Page
I'll do this guy - his son is a good friend of mine. I justGeorge Bayliss Lothian
couldn't resist referencing him when I wrote a letter of
application for a type rating for his son, but he made me
take it out!
EDIT: just did a quickie. It's being reviewed:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_ ... ss_Lothian
Like the part about Howard Hughes?
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Re: Fern Villeneuve Wiki Page
I wrote one on Buck McNair, also being reviewed. Just in case I did it wrong, I saved a word copy if someone more Wiki adept can figure out how to make it work.
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Re: Fern Villeneuve Wiki Page
Thx SD! I'll see if I can do another one today.
Any other takers? C'mon, it's not that hard to create and edit
wiki pages. It can come in handy - just last year, I wanted to
go hunting and get some ivory tusks, so I took african elephants
off the endangered species list on the wiki and added a zero to
their population.
Any other takers? C'mon, it's not that hard to create and edit
wiki pages. It can come in handy - just last year, I wanted to
go hunting and get some ivory tusks, so I took african elephants
off the endangered species list on the wiki and added a zero to
their population.
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Re: Famous Canadian Aviators Wiki Pages
Incidentally the easiest way to make a wiki page and get all the format in is find a page that is already finished, go into edit it, copy the page, then go back and paste into the new page that you're trying to create. That gets all the little box stuff in the top right corner of the page and keeps all the stuff on persons in the regular order. Then all you got to do is change the personal info on the page.
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Re: Famous Canadian Aviators Wiki Pages
Just started the one for Jock Palmer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ender ... %22_Palmer
Not complete yet, need to do some more research, but its a start.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ender ... %22_Palmer
Not complete yet, need to do some more research, but its a start.
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Re: Famous Canadian Aviators Wiki Pages
Thx SSU - the hardest part is getting a page started. Once
it's there, it's easy to edit it.
it's there, it's easy to edit it.
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Re: Famous Canadian Aviators Wiki Pages
Some wiki admin didn't like you saying Howie needed a bath and was crabby. Like there isn't ample evidence. I also found it kind of wierd that they have a page on "Trans-Canada Air Lines" yet wanted a citation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Canada_Air_Lines
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Re: Famous Canadian Aviators Wiki Pages
I will fix. I have GB Lothian's biography (a book)
which I will reference.
How about picking an aviator and doing a page, Beef?
which I will reference.
How about picking an aviator and doing a page, Beef?
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Re: Famous Canadian Aviators Wiki Pages
Doing research on Palmer one finds that there have been a staggering ammount of start up air businesses in the old days, usually ending when they wrecked the airplanes. Its amazing anyone bothered sticking with it.
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Re: Famous Canadian Aviators Wiki Pages
If you ask any current airline executive, they will probably tell you the same thingIts amazing anyone bothered sticking with it
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Re: Famous Canadian Aviators Wiki Pages
Will an engineer do? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_ ... 2_RichmondColonel Sanders wrote:How about picking an aviator and doing a page, Beef?
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Re: Famous Canadian Aviators Wiki Pages
That's great! I should mention that the wiki-cops are going to
slap your pee-pee, because they want inline references for
facts. They look like this:
2+2=4 <ref>Book Of Arithmetic, ISBN 0-03-0223, pp 3-4</ref>
Also, you can spruce up your text with internal wiki-links. For
example, if you have
Royal Canadian Air Force
in your text you can do this
[[Royal Canadian Air Force]]
with double square brackets, which will turn it into a URL which
you can click on, and hop into the wikipage for the RCAF.
Note that the wiki does NOT approve of inline links to non-wiki
webpages. Those are the inline references, which are automatically
numbered for you and listed below.
Got it? NB I didn't make up this insanity, I just drink the [[Kool-Aid]].
As I tell my instructor candidates our motto is: "We eat this sh1t with a spoon!"
I'm considering having bumper stickers made up.
EDIT - I couldn't help myself - I editted your page and added some
links. Some of them even work.
slap your pee-pee, because they want inline references for
facts. They look like this:
2+2=4 <ref>Book Of Arithmetic, ISBN 0-03-0223, pp 3-4</ref>
Also, you can spruce up your text with internal wiki-links. For
example, if you have
Royal Canadian Air Force
in your text you can do this
[[Royal Canadian Air Force]]
with double square brackets, which will turn it into a URL which
you can click on, and hop into the wikipage for the RCAF.
Note that the wiki does NOT approve of inline links to non-wiki
webpages. Those are the inline references, which are automatically
numbered for you and listed below.
Got it? NB I didn't make up this insanity, I just drink the [[Kool-Aid]].
As I tell my instructor candidates our motto is: "We eat this sh1t with a spoon!"
I'm considering having bumper stickers made up.
EDIT - I couldn't help myself - I editted your page and added some
links. Some of them even work.
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Re: Famous Canadian Aviators Wiki Pages
Did some fixing so that Fred McCall's page now has the correct Wikilink. I'm going to edit the list I posted above to put a * beside each inductee who we do work on their page.
edit: Did up a page for Basil Hobbs.
edit: Did up a page for Basil Hobbs.
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No worries. It's open source and anyone can attempt an edit. I am undecided about their new direction. I like that they are making an effort to cut back on me going on one of their pages and making it funny. I don't love the way they question your statement because they don't like your source.