Talk:Highway 11 (Ontario)

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Notice to all Wikipedians: Do not plagiarize information found on www.thekingshighway.ca! My website is not considered public domain. All of my research findings are protected by copyright. Thank-you! Cbevers 22:02, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

I'm sorry, no offense or violation was meant. The information is nowhere near as detailed, resting on generalities, not mentioning the bridges, doubt about usefulness if completed as hoped (I am avoiding specificity even on this talk page). GBC 01:25, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

The bottom line is that information was clearly obtained from my website and posted on Wikipedia without my permission, and I get extremely frustrated when I see this happening. I dedicate an enormous amount of my spare time researching Ontario's highways, and I do not appreciate it when my research is plagiarized and placed on Wikipedia. My biggest concern with Wikipedia is their "Free Licensing" policy, which allows anyone reading a Wikipedia article to copy it and redistribute it at will. The problem lies in the fact that once my research gets plagiarized and posted on Wikipedia, it essentially becomes public domain and I lose all credit for my research work. All of the credit for the work goes to Wikipedia, and not to me. I find this deplorable and extremely unfair. I'm not trying to make money off of my research (my website is free for everyone to view, after all), but I do insist that I get credit for my work. Unfortunately, Wikipedia has such a liberal copyright policy, that I can never allow my research work to be posted on this website. Thank-you for your understanding. Cbevers 01:16, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

As has been pointed out to you repeatedly, information cannot be protected as copyrighted intellectual property; only your specific presentation of such information can be. You can claim copyright infringement if a Wikipedia article copies and pastes text verbatim from your site, but being used as a reference does not and cannot constitute plagiarism. You own your presentation of the facts, not the facts themselves. Bearcat 03:08, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Beginings of Highway 11

In the main article it specifies that Highway 11 Begins at Highway 400 in Ontario. That is absolutely incorrect, as looking at any Ontario Highway map or checking the 'Official' Ontario Governemnt of Ontario Website would show that Highway 11 Begins at the Foot of Yonge Street!

If one were to travel to Downtown Toronto, Travel south on Highway 11A or Highway 11, both Highways join at the Junction of Lakeshore Boulevard, and Yonge Street. 1 Block south of this Junction Yonge Street still heads south until it reaches "Queens Quay", pronounced 'queens key' and at the foot of the intersection on top of the Breakwater, before it dips into Lake Ontario is the inscription "Here begins the Longest Street ....."

and finally ends aproximately 1200 Km later at the Ontario / Minnesota Border with a Bridge across Rainy River in the town of Rainy River. --Richard416282 06:45, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Highway 11 was given to the local governments south of Barrie in the late 1990s. There may still be signs, but they are now incorrect. See [1]. --SPUI (T - C) 14:38, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Any map of Ontario that designates anything south of the Highway 400 interchange in Barrie as still being part of Highway 11 is either ten years old, or based on outdated information. Bearcat 03:04, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Since all of Highway 11 in Toronto was a connecting link for the last several years of its life, it's hard to dissern the actual "provincial" southern terminus of Highway 11. I would assume that, Highway 11 truncated at another provincial highway (Highway 2). Therefore it seems reasonable that the section of Yonge Street between the Gardiner (Highway 2) and Queen's Quay was not part of Highway 11. Just my educated guess. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.92.76.227 (talk) 19:58, November 14, 2006
Until all the signs are removed, or maybe when all of us who lived before Mike "Slash and Burn" Harris die off, then you can remove any references to south of Barrie, and Queen's Quay (while the Gardiner was being built in the 60s, QQ was the detour)... Will the same argument apply to a historic US Route long superceded by an Interstate??Bacl-presby 15:09, 15 November 2006 (UTC)