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# Stephen Gilbert

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Stephen Gilbert...

- has a BA with a major in Communication Studies
- is somewhat of an intellectual jack-of-all-trades
- is Canadian
- often signs with his initials STG to avoid typing his whole name
- finds this place fascinating

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Messages:

Another one who has caught the Wikipedia bug.

Welcome! -- Larry Sanger

  Thanks! Happy to be here. It's strangely addictive, you know... -- STG

<grin> That wasn't me who corrected you re: Capital/Capitol?. [Larry Singer]? did. I just corrected an additional misspelling. Rob Salzman

I have a theory, which I offer with no particular authority. I theorize that pages with a handful of incompleted links are more productive in the long run, as compared to short articles that seem complete.

I notice that many of your Canadian articles are short but complete and self-contained. Maybe it would be better to leave a few teasers in there? Like in a page for a particular city, you might leave teasers like:

  /Climate?
  /People?
  /Industry?

The idea behind this is to tease the next person along into contributing.

This is only a pet theory of mine, so by all means proceed as you wish. :-)

  I'm inclined to agree. I think I'll do that from now on. Hopefully, though, people won't take "it's the captial of Ontario" to be the last word on Toronto. :) -- STG

Re spelling correction: we've got <>, (), {}, etc.; all these "embracing" operators; perhaps you've "extended" the set with another pair -- Bruce Parens -- to counteract MS's "embrace" and "extend" .... (SORRY)

Nothing major on the conflict front, I'll reallign it tomorrow. The biographies page is a really nice category. sjc

Hi Stephen, nice to see a familiar face, so to speak. Creating stub entries and lists-o-links (at least in some places) is very valid. Were it not for your nice list of PMs, I would have just passed on by. Instead, it got my interest going and I intend on doing some serious work therein a week's time when my schedule opens up again.

Best wishes with your other projects and thanks for the excellent wikification of the Sir Macdonald article -- enough links there to keep a person occupied for far too long! :) --Colin dellow

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