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    Will There Be No More - Can There Be No More?

    in Recruiting and Category Proposals

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    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.)

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    Will There Be No More - Can There Be No More?

    in Recruiting and Category Proposals

    Posted · Edited by Country_Wife

    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!

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    Wait For It ... ...

    in Recruiting and Category Proposals

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    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. 

    Looking for new Officers

    in Recruiting and Category Proposals

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    9 hours ago, fi67 said:

    Now I have two more categories with my own submissions waiting for over week, which is currently how I find out that I am alone there.

     

    Train Stations/Depots: This is usually not a difficult one. Just keep in mind that this category is in the Buildings department. The category is not looking for stops without any structures. And former stations are welcome as well (the building, not the site).

     

     

     

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

    1500 consecutive days with posts

    in General Waymarking Topics

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    1 hour ago, ScroogieII said:

    Send me at least one "Western Canadian Heritage" Waymark per week and you'll be allowed, but only if absolutely necessary, to purloin other categories from any and all aforementioned Waymarks to maintain your resolution (meaning submissions of >1 Waymark in that week), and I will happily, even gloriously, forgive any transgressions, AND promise to NEVER, EVER mention any transgressions to ANYBODY, EVER! That said, I envision lotsa trips into town in your future, in any event.

    That's just 52 "Western Canadian Heritage" Waymarks for next year,

    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, ;)

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    Useful Links For Waymarking

    in General Waymarking Topics

    Posted · Edited by Country_Wife

    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)

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    Absent Leaders and Unresponsive Officers

    in General Waymarking Topics

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    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. 

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    Which category for this?

    in General Waymarking Topics

    Posted · Edited by Country_Wife

    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.

     

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    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!

     

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    Edited to add: Apparently the museum considers the fur post to be an "analogue" rather than a replica. 

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    Non premium members can be group officers?

    in General Waymarking Topics

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    *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. 

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