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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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User:PKT

Hello! I registered as a Wikipedian at the start of May, 2006.

I'm older than I should be, born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada some decades ago. I have lived in Holland Landing (in York Region, north of Toronto) since 1994.

I have a daughter who graduated with a Bachelors of Music (Classical vocal performance) from McGill University in Montreal. She previously studied through the Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto) and performed in Opera Atelier's production of Mozart's The Magic Flute in November 2006, as one of a trio of spirits. Daddy's a wee bit proud, as you might have guessed. She taught English over in Gimje, South Korea for two years after earning her degree, and works at Medieval Times in Toronto.

I spend a lot of my Wikipedia time on articles about places and things in York Region, Ontario watching out for vandals, disambiguating things, and adding bits where I can, particularly related to Education in Ontario. I started the articles for:

and have developed the articles for Bigwin Island, Essex County, Ontario and York Region. I try to make improvements wherever I can, including providing article assessments as well as geographic coordinates for Canadian articles.

I am proud to say that I have also had several users (or rather, mis-users) blocked from editing Wikipedia, after detecting their 'vandalistic' behaviour. (Count started Dec 3, 2019: 39)

Here's a little project of interest to me: /300games. And another. And a navbox. And an article being kept for the future. And a golf list.

That's enough for now, methinx..................PKT

Barnstars and other things

The Disambiguator's Barnstar
The Disambiguator's Barnstar is awarded to Wikipedians who are prolific disambiguators.

The Original Barnstar
is hereby awarded to PKT for creating and developing the Outline of New Brunswick. Well done. Thank you. The Transhumanist 04:33, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
Thanks for your appreciation, PKT...my own birth-father has a page here at Wikipedia, believe it or not, just look for the name Don Earle in the English language Wikipedia, and you'll have found him - it's part of the reason I'm such a huge Boston Bruins fan ! The PIPE (talk) 15:03, 23 December 2016 (UTC)


The Red Maple Leaf Award
This maple leaf is awarded to PKT for co-authoring the new article 1114 Arthur Currie Lane during the second year of The 10,000 Challenge of WikiProject Canada. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 00:42, 3 November 2018 (UTC)
Proud Canadian
PKT
 
Editor of the Week
for the week beginning April 5, 2020
13 year veteran editor with more than 185,000 edits, many about about Canada and Canadians. A self-described wikignome. Vast and noteworthy breadth of contributions. Active part of WikiProject Canada. Extensive contributions to articles about major Canadian cities and to coverage of Canadian sports.
Recognized for
contributions to Windsor, Ontario, Newmarket, Ontario, Markham, Ontario, Barrie, Aurora, Ontario, Georgetown, Ontario, Thornhill, Ontario, Whitby, Ontario, Owen Sound, Milton, Ontario and Cambridge, Ontario.
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The Civility Barnstar
Few editors apologize when having sent a non-ideal warning; even fewer apologize to the affected user, and almost noone does it as professional, kind and calm as you. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 03:07, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
The Invisible Barnstar
PKT, Thank you for your review of the Yorkton Film Festival Golden Sheaf Award - Comedy article. LorriBrown (talk) 20:11, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

Places I've visited

I was born and raised in Windsor, Ontario and have lived in Ontario all my life, presently in a town between Toronto and Barrie. Following are the flags of the other places I've been fortunate enough to visit. It doesn't count if I've only transited through a location, such as Shannon, Ireland, Dallas,Texas, Tennessee or Kentucky.

Countries

Austria China Germany France Italy Japan Mexico United Kingdom USA Vatican Hong Kong

  • note 1; I've been to Wales, Scotland and England. My parents were both British emigrants.
  • note 2; visited Hong Kong in 1996, the year before it was ceded to China.

Canadian Provinces and Territories

Quebec New Brunswick Nova Scotia Prince Edward Island Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta British Columbia Yukon

Haven't been to The Rock yet, but my wife has been there twice (without me!).

US States

Michigan Ohio Georgia Florida Alaska California New York Massachusetts Pennsylvania Delaware Virginia Illinois Maine Vermont New Hampshire