User:Floydian

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I'm tired of a small minority of oblivious loudmouths dictating and misleading the community into their rabbit hole of everything being original research. You know who you are. Maybe one day you'll contribute something useful to this project, but until then, I will not. - Floydian ^τ _¢ 19:55, 20 June 2023 (UTC)

**My good stuff**

On 2 May 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Sussex Drive, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Sussex Drive (pictured) forms part of a ceremonial route used by foreign dignitaries and royal visitors to Canada?

On August 13, 2021, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Bill Davis, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Step hen 05:39, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

On November 22, 2021, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article David Longdon, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Step hen 23:15, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

Barnstars

Barnstars

		The Minor Barnstar
		For consistently keeping the genre consensus and false/speculated information out of the System of a Down article. Here's too one day getting it featured. SKATER ^Speak. 01:58, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

		The Teamwork Barnstar
		In working on the DVP article, I feel you went the extra mile to make it a successful team effort. And a successful one leading to an FA. Cheers! ʘ alaney2k ʘ (talk) 16:48, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

		The Pink Floyd Barnstar
		This award was just added, and it's 's very* well-deserved on your part. You should be the first to get it.* Friginator (talk) 23:27, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

	The Original Barnstar
	I think this is overdue, but you deserve it. All the best. Haljackey (talk) 17:57, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

		The Good Article Barnstar
		Thanks Floydian for helping to promote Ontario Highway 402 to Good Article status. Please accept this little sign of appreciation and goodwill from me, because you deserve it. Keep it up, and give some a pat on the back today. --Sp33dyphil © • © 02:10, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		Congratulations on getting Ontario Highway 401, one of the most important roads in the world, featured, and for sticking through the process that took a few years. Rs chen 7754 21:46, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

	The Civility Barnstar
	For making perhaps the only neutral, civil, and well-thought-out comment at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive809#Continuing WP:OWN issues from User:TonyTheTiger, I give you this barnstar. I hope the signal-to-noise ratio isn't so low that your level-headed assessment will go unnoticed and/or un-acted-upon. Acdixon ^{(talk · contribs)} 13:37, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

The Silver Maple Leaf Award

This award is VERY well deserved on your part for upgrading a hughe number of Canadian and Torontonian articles to Good Articles and Did You Know? articles. Ossih (Talk)

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		For your extraordinary hard work, care and precision in your contributions, I award you this accolade. It's been a pleasure and a privilege to be working with you. Your articles are phenomenally meticulous. So thank you very much for your service to Wikipedia. Seabuckthorn ♥ 10:42, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

		The Civility Barnstar
		I'm very happy to know that humility and knowledge are coexisting in you. You truely have a beautiful mind with a beautiful heart. Thanks for being the way you are. Seabuckthorn ♥ 15:47, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

articles which have blossomed
Thank you, long standing contributor, historian and composer, for your contributions to quality articles on Canadian highways such as Ontario Highway 416, on music, such as Pink Floyd, and many more topics, for patienceand for seeing "many articles, which have since blossomed into beautiful flowers through the contributions of other editors", - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:18, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

		The Good Article Barnstar
		Thank you for all your work on making highways good articles. Your work is noticed and appreciated. MasterMatt12^{💬 ● Contributions} 18:18, 13 January 2023 (UTC)

	The Queen Elizabeth Way Barnstar
	You are the one who helped over 20 arcticles get to GA status, You are the only one I know that cares about Canadian highways. YOU are most deserving of the Queen Elizabeth Way shield! TheCorvetteZR1^{(The Garage)} 20:57, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

picture... one case of where Wikipedia is censored

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This user is a native speaker of the English language.

This user is male.

This user is a Wikipedian in Canada.

37Y

This Wikipedian was born on 09 November 1987 and is 37 years, 2 months, and 22 days old.

This user has written or expanded 18 articles featured in the Did You Know section on the Main Page.

This user helped promote Rumination syndrome to good article status.

This user helped promote Highway 401 to featured article status.

This user helped promote Don Valley Parkway to featured article status.

This user helped promote Queen Elizabeth Way to featured article status.

This user is a music composer.

This user enjoys jazz-rock fusion.

This user is a member of
WikiProject Progressive Rock.

This user is a member of the Ontario Roads subproject of the Canada Roads WikiProject.

This user supported the legalization of cannabis in Canada.

This user believes cheese sucks!.. Unless it's on pizza.

This user has been on Wikipedia for 21 years, 5 months and 21 days.

This user knows that there is no dark side of the moon really — matter of fact it's all dark.

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Floydian signs his posts and thinks you should too!

Guess what?

This user's got a fever! And the only prescription.. is more cowbell!

Started Articles

The following are articles started by me. None of these were redirects when created, and were all the original content on those topics.

Ontario Highway 407 (on August 17, 2003) (On the Ontario tollway)
Pickering Nuclear Generating Station (on August 17, 2003)
Coboconk (on August 22, 2003)
List of highways numbered 401 (on September 1, 2003)
Relics (album) (on November 19, 2003) (Pink Floyd album)
April Wine (on November 21, 2003) (Canadian rock group)
Delicate Sound of Thunder (on December 4, 2003) (Pink Floyd album)
Echoes (Pink Floyd song) (on December 12, 2003)
Mod (video games) (on December 18, 2003)
Bendale (on December 20, 2003) (Toronto neighborhood)
Yellow tang (on January 10, 2004)
Ronnie Van Zant (on January 15, 2004) (Original vocalist of Lynyrd Skynyrd)
Masters of Rock (Pink Floyd album) (on February 15, 2004)
A Nice Pair (on February 15, 2004) (Pink Floyd album)
The Australian Pink Floyd Show (on February 19, 2004) (Pink Floyd tribute band)
EMS VCS 3 (on March 10, 2004) (Synthesizer)
Money (Pink Floyd song) (on April 29, 2004)
The Ripley (on September 1, 2004) (Alien from Dreamcatcher, by Stephen King)
Karmakanic (on June 13, 2009) (Progressive rock group)
Mitchell Lake (Ontario) (on July 13, 2009)
George Laidlaw (on July 16, 2009) (Canadian businessman, started several railways)
List of numbered roads in Kawartha Lakes (on July 23, 2009) (Ok, I didn't 'create' this one, but I added virtually all of its content)
Ontario Highway 46 (on July 26, 2009) (Former provincial highway of Ontario)
Transcendental homelessness (on July 28, 2009) (Picked a random requested article)
MapArt (on July 30, 2009) (Map publisher, big in Canada)
St. Mary's, Kawartha Lakes, Ontario (On August 12, 2009) (Community in Kawartha Lakes that was never built)
Victoria Road, Ontario (on August 16, 2009) (Community in Kawartha Lakes that was built)
Ontario Highway 121 (on November 18, 2009) (Former Ontario King's Highway)
Ontario Highway 503 (on November 21, 2009) (Former Ontario secondary highway)
Ontario Highway 649 (on November 21, 2009) (Former Ontario secondary highway)
Gordie Howe International Bridge (on February 25, 2010) (A new US–Canada border crossing over the Detroit River to be built; created as Detroit River International Crossing)
List of numbered roads in Durham Region (on March 22, 2010) (List of county roads in Durham Region)
The Middle Road (on March 22, 2010) (Historic highway, now known as the Queen Elizabeth Way)
Ontario Highway 36 (on October 9, 2011) (Former provincial highway of Ontario)
Robert Melville Smith (on January 26, 2016) (Designed the Middle Road)
Ontario Highway 29 (on May 15, 2021)
Ontario Highway 78 (as a redirect in 2014, and as an article January 18, 2022)
Ontario Highway 31 (on October 30, 2022)

Contributions

See Special:Contributions/Floydian for a current list.

Did You Know..?

that the shortest numbered route in the city of Kawartha Lakes, Hartley Road, is entirely a causeway crossing the man-made Mitchell Lake?
that the Gull River system of reservoirs in Ontario controls the water levels of the Trent-Severn Canal, although they were not originally created for this purpose?
that St. Mary's, the first village planned in the Township of Bexley, was never built because the site lay above a bed of limestone?
that Coboconk, Ontario (station pictured), was renamed Shedden after the president of the Toronto and Nipissing Railway in 1873, but was changed back to Coboconk seven years later?
that Canada's first interchange was a cloverleaf opened in 1937 at the intersection of Highway 10 and The Middle Road?
that the Comber Historical Society Museum on Ontario Highway 77 was established in the former Maple Grove schoolhouse, built in 1894?
that the old bridge on Highway 61 at the Ontario–Minnesota border, known as The Outlaw, was built by local citizens without approval from the Canadian or American governments?
that the Vale of Avoca bridge in Toronto was opened in 1924, replacing an iron bridge from 1888 (both pictured)?
that the Mount Pleasant Road extension (pictured under construction in 1948) is considered Toronto's first expressway?
that the Hanlon Expressway is named after Felix Hanlon, who helped cut the first tree to inaugurate Guelph, Ontario?

Major Article Contributions

Ontario Highway 401 (Complete rewrite to FA)
Don Valley Parkway (Complete rewrite to FA)
Rumination syndrome (From start-class to GA)

Project Contributions

Did about half of the Wikiproject-Albums on Pink Floyd
Introduced the WikiProject-Songs (Which along with WikiProject albums, has since been incorporated into the various genre's WikiProjects)
Currently coordinating WP:WikiProject Ontario Roads
Currently coordinating WP:WikiProject Progressive Rock

RIP Shadow - 5:34 pm on November 10th 2003 at the Age of 9

RIP Hendrix - 3:20 pm on June 5, 2012 at the Age of 2