Country_Wife

Welcome back! I just returned myself after being away for around 10 years and I’m really enjoying it once more.

Thanks for the context! Now I’m wondering if I really should propose a category for Indian restaurants! I’ve got a lot going on at the moment (I almost said “a lot on my plate”) but I might do this later. If nothing else, I will learn more about the process by trying it out for a category that I don’t feel that strongly about. Food for thought! (Oops, sorry.)

Going back to the original question, I have recently noticed a missing category. Although there are categories for Chinese, Thai, and Japanese restaurants, there is nothing for Indian restaurants, although India arguably has a major global cuisine of equal stature. Now, I’m not going to propose yet another restaurant category, because I find that kind of category not very interesting or challenging. If someone else brought this forward, though, I’d feel obliged to support it out of fairness. Or is there some kind of unspoken moratorium on certain types of new categories? I hope I’m not stirring up an old controversy here!

Oops! Thanks for the redirection.

Artistically Decorated Utility Boxes has only one active officer, and they must be fairly busy IRL, as Wayfrog approved the last batch of waymarks. https://Waymarking.com/cat/details.aspx?f=1&guid=385e2792-795a-4abf-a57d-1495777d2b9c

Some years ago, a friend went camping with her daughters for the first time, A bat flew into the tent, and they were scratched / bitten. Well, that was an area where rabies was known to be active. So public health staff got in rabies vaccine and opened a clinic for them after hours so that the family could start the post-exposure vaccinations ASAP.

Sounds like an intriguing category is waiting “on deck”? (I wanted to say “in the bullpen” but that would be the wrong position.)

I could help with the train station category; I have a couple of waymarks there and am interested in the category.

Challenge accepted! I may regret this later, as many things that I assumed would be registered historic sites, aren’t. (For example, https://www.Waymarking.com/waymarks/wm2HJ4_Doll_Block_Building_Stephen_Avenue_Mall_Calgary_Alberta ) However, fools rush in, etc. etc. And if I have to go on a few special trips for Western Canadian Heritage sites, I guess I’ll have to,

Well, you folks have inspired me! Here’s my New Year’s resolution for 2024: one novel waymark (no overlap with the same waymark in any other category, such as Satellite Oddities or multiple architectural/historical categories) every week. Wish me luck!

i’d be happy to help with RC Churches and Live Theatres.

Geodiscover Alberta looks awfully cool! Here are some pages I've found useful for Canadian historical waymarks, from the general to the specific: The Canadian Encyclopedia - an encyclopedia of all things Canadian: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/ Dictionary of Canadian Biography: Home – Dictionary of Canadian Biography (biographi.ca) Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada - Good info on architects of historic buildings: Introduction | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada https://www.archiseek.com/ is an Irish architecture website, but they have worldwide info also, and it has been useful for the history of some Canadian buildings . There is a search bar buried at the bottom left corner of their pages (I almost missed it!), or you can do a Google search with the site:archiseek.com tag at the end (e.g. Ottawa site:archiseek.com to find all Ottawa buildings). Peel's Prairie Provinces - all kinds of digitized historical info (including postcards) about Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. Eventually it will all be at Internet Archive: Peel's Prairie Provinces : Free Texts : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive However, Peel's is currently migrating from the old University of Alberta website; it isn't all at Internet Archive yet, so you may wish to start with Peel Prairie Provinces - UofA Library (ualberta.ca)

Wayfrog kindly approved it for me. I continue to work away at my backlog. I'm doing a ton of waymarks from Calgary's Heritage Park, and learning a bunch in the process. I've started to add a "Related Waymarks" section to the end of my new waymarks (when appropriate) to connect things which may be in different categories but still tie together in various ways. For example, I'm working on a waymark for a house at HP which is connected to the Eau Claire Lumber Company, and also to the local Norwegian community. So I'll be adding some waymarks for two local churches that were historically Norwegian, and some waymarks connected to Eau Claire Lumber Co, like Prince's Island.

Thank you! My screen name here is from my years reenacting the Canadian fur trade, so I really wanted to find out the answer to "Exactly what, if anything, is this a replica of?!"

Thanks for the feedback— that’s reassuring! I’ll do up the waymark and submit it soon.

I'm (mostly) just posting to vent. I wish there was a category for "Inexact Replicas" or something similar. I wanted to waymark two things under "Exact Replicas" but it turns out that both of them are far from exact. One is a Frederic Remington sculpture. Remington made exactly 22 sculptures in his lifetime. This... looks a lot like one of his, except that it has been "edited". The "Trooper of the Plains" has had his sword and rifle removed, perhaps at the request of the Canadian purchaser. It would be odd to have an American soldier on display in a Canadian public place. So removing the sword and rifle make it less obviously American. Everything else is identical to Remington's original, and it is even signed "Frederic Remington" on the base. (There are *lots* of knock-off Remingtons out there, I have learned.) Apparently, Remington never made anything taller than 22" high during his lifetime. This is a faithful replica: Trooper of the Plains - Perkins, OK - Figurative Public Sculpture on Waymarking.com Oh well, I can submit it under Figurative Public Sculpture and now I have a few more fun facts in my magpie-nest brain. The other one is a replica of a 19th century fur trading post: palisade, warehouse, trading counter, accommodations, and all. It, too, turns out to be an inexact replica. It was built based on an archeological excavation of the original site, and written records and paintings. It turns out that the archeological dig mis-identified the fort (one of four built in that general area) , and that was only discovered years after the "replica" was built. Not only that, but the replica has four palisade walls, while original drawings show five walls. So, any idea what category that might go into? For what it's worth, the "replica" was built in 1966. As far as I can tell, there are no Waymarking categories that I can use for this one. I welcome any suggestions, though! Edited to add: Apparently the museum considers the fur post to be an "analogue" rather than a replica.

Yes, it has been approved, thanks for asking! And thanks for answering my initial question. It certainly didn’t feel legit to approve my own waymark!

The group is Ice Cream Parlors: https://Waymarking.com/cat/details.aspx?f=1&guid=0047563a-00f1-4a4f-a79a-24b7031a1f8d I’ve messaged Wayfrog like I would if it weren’t a category I managed.

I am the only active officer in a category that I have submitted a waymark to. Nobody else has materialized to approve my waymark since I submitted it two weeks ago. Is it okay to approve my own waymark? I suppose I’m allowed to do it, but I’m sure a lot of other folks are in this situation. What do they do?

Beats me. ❓

It’s this one: https://Waymarking.com/waymarks/wmP8MA_Removed_Annelore_Giszas_Salmon_Arm_British_Columbia And you’re right, it was TOSHEA. I see someone has marked it as “removed”, but it may well have been refurbished and re-placed since 2018.

I don’t do many dedicated benches, but I just discovered that I’d taken a photo of a camera-shy dedicated bench trying to make an escape. Fortunately, ScroogieII had way marked it earlier, so it was easy to log a visit. WMP8MA

*Raises hand* Currently I’m a non-premium member (the exchange rate has made it expensive!) but I’m an officer in one category from when I was last active 10 years ago. I wish I could contribute by being an officer in more categories now that I’m active again, but the reality is that I just might drop Waymarking like a hot popoto once a certain game expansion is released, next summer.

Oops, posted reply to wrong thread!

Thanks for the suggestion! I’ll give it a go,