User talk:Joe Fielder

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Invitation to join Wikiproject Ontario Roads

Hey, I've noticed your recent edits to Aberdeen and your contributions to a few tunnels in the region. I thought I'd give you an invitation to the Ontario Roads WikiProject. We're a (rather small) group of editors that edit road articles. Take a look if you're interested. Cheers, ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ ^τ _¢ 20:44, 1 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Actually

It appears that you work for Morrison Hershfield. You may wish to openly declare your conflict of interest so that people aren't suspicious. Secondly, I encourage you to bring information and your great sources to the talk page and have other editors introduce them; your last few edits read like a pamphlet for the McGuinty government. You have access to some great information that I do not. Dates of original bridge construction are indicative of when that section of highway was built, so I really do encourage bringing the information, but probably best not to do the writing yourself. - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ ^τ _¢ 13:42, 14 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Floydian, I would like to thank you for your suggestions and feedback. I am still pretty new to Wikipedia and learning more about it everyday. I have now updated my user page following the suggestions you made. Please let me know what you think. Your help is much appreciated and I will use your sugguestions for making edits in the future as well as posting some of my sources in the talk page. If you have any other pointers or suggestions please feel free to share. Thanks again. --Joe Fielder (talk) 19:20, 15 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Looks perfect. The only thing I can think of at the moment, is to forget everything you know about press releases, and then start writing. Strip the filler to the facts. For example, you added this to Hogg's Hollow recently:

The rehabilitation of Hogg’s Hollow Bridge is estimated to be an $86-million construction project. Barricade Traffic Services Inc. were in charge of traffic control. The safety needs of the traveling public and workers within the construction zone were met, with minimal disruption to commuters and commercial carriers. Work on the Hogg’s Hollow Bridge saw most of the lane closures required done at night to minimize congestion on Canada’s busiest section of highway.[4] The impact of delays on traffic from construction activities on this section of the highway would have been significant if it was not for the detailed construction staging plans and the planned mitigation of traffic impacts that were in place prior to the beginning of the bridge rehabilitation.[4] The expected completion date of the rehabilitation of Hogg’s Hollow Bridge is tentatively scheduled for 2012.[5]

This has a lot of filler that really adds little to a laymans understanding. On the other hand:

Work on the Hogg’s Hollow Bridge saw most of the lane closures required done at night to minimize disruption on Highway 401 and to improve the safety of both workers and drivers.[4] The impact of delays on traffic from construction activities on this section of the highway would have been significant had it not been staged gradually.[4] The expected completion date of the rehabilitation of Hogg’s Hollow Bridge is tentatively scheduled for 2012, at a planned cost of C$86,000,000.[5]

It adds little to know who planned the traffic coordination, or that it was to the specs of the MTO (obviously, being an MTO highway). Basically narrow it down to how you'd explain the concept to a 14 year-old. - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ ^τ _¢ 22:58, 15 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the example Floydian, I will keep that in mind. I am also not the only person making the edits so I will pass this information on as well. --Joe Fielder (talk) 12:09, 20 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Carson Morrison wikipage created

We have created a wikipedia page for Carson Morrison please feel free to take a look and give any feedback you have as this is the first page we have created on our own. Thanks. --Joe Fielder (talk) 13:26, 30 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Morrison Hershfield PR

I am glad my comments were useful. Assume you have looked at things like this on Google news. Since you were able to get photos from the firm, do you know if they have some sort of press coverage library? That might be a source of refs on past projects and awards (and things can be print only and still be used a refs here). Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 03:24, 5 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think that those pages can be useful, but the article should rely as much as possible on independent, third-party sources. Please see WP:SELFPUB for use of self-published material. I think this would be OK as a ref for things like "in YEAR the firm opened a branch office in PLACE", but note that WP:V cautions that use of self-published material is OK only if the article is not based primarily on such sources. For things like awards, I would look carefully at the list and see what sources it lists - for example the first award listed links to a story that cites a magazine R&D Magazine, 2009 Lab of the Year Competition. Find that magazine and quote it. In general, awards are worth pointing out here if they are motable or made by a notable organization (so if I give myself the award as Wikipedian of the Year it is meaningless, but if the Wikimedia Foundation named me Best Editor Ever, that would be notable (and is never going to happen ;-) ). See also WP:RS. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 15:33, 24 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, please don't re-upload these images. They are licensed on Flickr for "non-commercial use only", which is not a license we can use on Wikipedia. Fut.Perf. ☼ 15:02, 24 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Here's a form that you can email in from a company email address to verify the images from Morrisson Hershfield. - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ ^τ _¢ 16:41, 24 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Hiberia GBS Found here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hibernia_GBS.gif

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Morrison Hershfield

Hey Joe - do you work for Morrison Hershfield? Tompw (talk) 15:11, 19 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Tompw The first sentence on his userpage says "I am an employee with the engineering and management firm Morrison Hershfield." OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 16:13, 26 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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