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I live in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Where are all the greetings??
Welcome to the team! (Actually, you've been here longer than I have.) It seems we have a lot in common! Catch you later. Robin Patterson 01:59, 6 May 2004 (UTC)
I am confused about your edit. See Talk:Tui Yogi de 12:09, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)
You shouldn't have moved it by cutting and pasting. That destroys the history of the article.
Next time, move it with the Move page command, and write the disambiguation article at the old location. -- Cyrius| ✎ 11:54, May 10, 2004 (UTC)
Hello. I notice you had moved the Mackenzie River to disambiguate it. Disambiguation is good, but in this case, we have an established policy of letting well-known major rivers (which the Mackenzie certainly is) live at the regular name space (cf. Mississippi River (disambiguation), Jordan River (disambiguation), Fraser River (disambiguation), Swan River (disambiguation)), so I moved it back and created a separate disambiguation page Mackenzie River (disambiguation). Also in North America, and elsewhere, the convention many of us have established is to use parentheses to disambig rivers. The reason is that a name like Mackenzie River, Northwest Territories is in the form of a community, and in fact many times it will be such (cf. Toms River and Toms River, New Jersey). Also, the Sabine River in Texas and Louisiana is a pretty important river. Disambiguation is probably OK in this case, but doing so leaves behind lots of links that you need to redirect away from the disambig page, as a matter of courtesy (check "What Links Here" ( like this, which shows the links that are now stranded): it's often one good reason to let major rivers stay in the undisambig article space. Moving them requires lots of link correction).
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:WikiProject Rivers where we've had an ongoing discussion about river disambiguation for quite some time. We've only come up with some rules of thumb as guidelines, because rivers are a pretty complex topic with lots of exceptions, but they seem to do the job much of the time. Well, in any case, keep up the good work with New Zealand rivers. :) -- Decumanus | Talk 15:22, 10 May 2004 (UTC)
Hi, I removed the link to England that you added in the Oban disambiguation page. It wasn't clear if you were saying there is an Oban in England, because the link just went to an England page. If you meant to suggest that Scotland is part of England, I can only hope you did this out of ignorance rather than malice. I suggest you actually read some of these articles before offending every single Scottish person. Eoghan 15:26, 10 May 2004 (UTC)
Just wanted to check with you on the Copland River article you created today -- the title says "Copland" and all of the text says "Copeland", and I found Google references to both on a quick check. Could you clarify which is correct? If it could be either or both, please note that in the text. Thanks, you're doing good work! Catherine - talk 01:07, 13 May 2004 (UTC)
What's the purpose of the link to British River in this disambiguation page? --Smack 22:19, 14 May 2004 (UTC)
How could I have forgotten Marlborough!!! Cheers. Ben Arnold 01:14, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)
You include man-made dams in your environment proposal but deleted my suggestion because you say built enviro is not relevant. Aren't dams built enviro? The protection at Kerikeri basin is for the whole local environment, not just the buildings. The area is where missionaries established NZ's first (permanent) mission station and over the years caring people have been restoring the environment there as much as possible to the way it was in the 1820s. Same for Hongi Hika's pa there, where he lived and armed his warriors with muskets for forays down south. If they build a dam over the Kerikeri basin, will that qualify for your article? :)-. Moriori 22:16, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC)
Hi Alan! You and I seem to be chasing down each other's geo-stubs on NZ's South Island and (mostly) improving them! I'm in the middle of a major rationalisation of the categories used for NZ geography at the moment and am hunting out any which aren't categorised... As well as the "NZ rivers, lakes, islands, etc" categories, every place in NZ is being linked to a category for its region (at the moment it's mainly S.I. ones that have categories, but give me time!). Can I ask you to add these categories with any new articles you do, please? All the categories are subdirectories in the Locations in New Zealand category at the moment, if you want to know what they are. Thanks, and keep up the good work! Grutness 13:54, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:
OR
Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man ( comment| talk)
Thanks for pointing out an image I uploaded long before we had the tags which I'd not gone back to put one on. Tip: rather than "nowiki", put a colon just inside the first bracket. "[[:Image:Fchristi.jpg]]" produces Image:Fchristi.jpg. Cheers, -- Infrogmation 07:04, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Hi Alan - good to see some NZ trees being done, one small note, when mentioning endemic, it needs to be linked [[endemic (ecology)|endemic]], as [[endemic]] leads to a disambiguation page (there's also endemic as a medical term) - MPF 11:36, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Someone has put this article of yours on VFD - thought you should know. Dbiv 19:13, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
You marked Daniel Fignole -- president of Haiti for speedy deletion. It doesn't seem to fall under any of the criteria for speedy deletion; could you please explain?
(Sure, it's a copyvio, and it's poorly formatted, and it's badly titled. Now, which of these meet the criteria for speedy deletion?) -- jpgordon ∇∆∇∆ 03:46, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Please read the instructions at the bottom of WP:VFD (or at Template:VfDFooter) before trying to put anything else up for VfD. — Ben Brockert (42) UE News 05:21, Jan 29, 2005 (UTC)
Hi Alan - you wrote: Is there a reason for giving unique NZ placenames a qualifier of "New Zealand" in the article title? Some that I have seen are Kumeu, Kawau Island and Bombay Hills, New Zealand.
Hi Alan - you started a stub for Back River, New Zealand which simply says that it's a locality in the North Island. I can't find it in Wise's, or in my largest NZ atlas... whereabouts is it? Do you have any more info about it at all? Grutness| hello? 00:43, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading Image:New NZ flag design.gif. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much, Tagishsimon (talk) 16:36, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Hey, I recently started an article at New Zealand Tree Fern and thought I would invite you New Zealanders to use another name. I didn't know which one to use, so I went with the most informative one. If you don't do plants, pass it on to any of your friends who know New Zealand well. Feel free to rename it according to your standards. -- DanielCD 21:23, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for your comment on my work on New Zealand politics. It's nice to know that people are finding it useful, and also nice to know that people think it's NPOV. -- Vardion 01:08, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Environmentalism was a page about the international Environmental movement but with a strong US bias. I have requested that it is to be moved back. A new page on the environmental movement in the US can then be created.
Hi Alan! Just noticed the article on Stephen King (NZ) that you started. Not sure whether you know about Wikipedia:New articles (New Zealand), which is for listing new NZ articles. If you could add the names of any New Zealand-related articles you make to this it's be great! Cheers - and keep up the good work! :) Grutness... wha? 10:35, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
I see that you're planning on moving the GM disambiguation page. Why? Josh Parris ✉ 02:54, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
Given that you still intend to move it, I bequeath to you the responsibility for maintaining the disambiguation of imbound links to GM. I suggest checking every couple of days. Josh Parris ✉ 03:29, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
Looking forward to your edits of Environmental movement this needs some work. Keep in mind Ecology movement and Green movement. On the deep ecology article, deep ecology is described as differentiating the ecological from the environmental movement, maybe this difference is important enough to be put in the introduction? Would it be correct to say that the conservation movement has evolved into the environmental movement and thence to the ecological movement? Muxxa 05:31, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I like your work! Fast fingers on the conservation! Good job! Troller Trolling Rodriguez 08:45, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Hi Alan - I've expanded and modified the text and descripion at the Meadow-grass page to include NZ Tussocks and have put in a request to have the page moved to Poa. Please add any more NZ species that should be in! (I added two that I could find details for easily) - MPF 16:42, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Hi again - I've just been adding a bit to Tutu (plant). One of my books lists Coriaria microphylla and C. ruscifolia as native to both NZ and South America, but online sites suggest they are just South American, with no reference to NZ. Can you check to see if these two species occur in NZ as well please? - Thanks, MPF 17:50, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for straightening me out on that one. WormRunner | Talk 15:03, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
The answer as to where I got the figures from would be the link that is now dead. It's quite a while ago I made the edit, I'm not sure I remember much else. Kind regards, jguk 3 July 2005 08:58 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 1 | Archive 2 | Archive 3 | → | Archive 5 |
I live in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Where are all the greetings??
Welcome to the team! (Actually, you've been here longer than I have.) It seems we have a lot in common! Catch you later. Robin Patterson 01:59, 6 May 2004 (UTC)
I am confused about your edit. See Talk:Tui Yogi de 12:09, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)
You shouldn't have moved it by cutting and pasting. That destroys the history of the article.
Next time, move it with the Move page command, and write the disambiguation article at the old location. -- Cyrius| ✎ 11:54, May 10, 2004 (UTC)
Hello. I notice you had moved the Mackenzie River to disambiguate it. Disambiguation is good, but in this case, we have an established policy of letting well-known major rivers (which the Mackenzie certainly is) live at the regular name space (cf. Mississippi River (disambiguation), Jordan River (disambiguation), Fraser River (disambiguation), Swan River (disambiguation)), so I moved it back and created a separate disambiguation page Mackenzie River (disambiguation). Also in North America, and elsewhere, the convention many of us have established is to use parentheses to disambig rivers. The reason is that a name like Mackenzie River, Northwest Territories is in the form of a community, and in fact many times it will be such (cf. Toms River and Toms River, New Jersey). Also, the Sabine River in Texas and Louisiana is a pretty important river. Disambiguation is probably OK in this case, but doing so leaves behind lots of links that you need to redirect away from the disambig page, as a matter of courtesy (check "What Links Here" ( like this, which shows the links that are now stranded): it's often one good reason to let major rivers stay in the undisambig article space. Moving them requires lots of link correction).
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:WikiProject Rivers where we've had an ongoing discussion about river disambiguation for quite some time. We've only come up with some rules of thumb as guidelines, because rivers are a pretty complex topic with lots of exceptions, but they seem to do the job much of the time. Well, in any case, keep up the good work with New Zealand rivers. :) -- Decumanus | Talk 15:22, 10 May 2004 (UTC)
Hi, I removed the link to England that you added in the Oban disambiguation page. It wasn't clear if you were saying there is an Oban in England, because the link just went to an England page. If you meant to suggest that Scotland is part of England, I can only hope you did this out of ignorance rather than malice. I suggest you actually read some of these articles before offending every single Scottish person. Eoghan 15:26, 10 May 2004 (UTC)
Just wanted to check with you on the Copland River article you created today -- the title says "Copland" and all of the text says "Copeland", and I found Google references to both on a quick check. Could you clarify which is correct? If it could be either or both, please note that in the text. Thanks, you're doing good work! Catherine - talk 01:07, 13 May 2004 (UTC)
What's the purpose of the link to British River in this disambiguation page? --Smack 22:19, 14 May 2004 (UTC)
How could I have forgotten Marlborough!!! Cheers. Ben Arnold 01:14, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)
You include man-made dams in your environment proposal but deleted my suggestion because you say built enviro is not relevant. Aren't dams built enviro? The protection at Kerikeri basin is for the whole local environment, not just the buildings. The area is where missionaries established NZ's first (permanent) mission station and over the years caring people have been restoring the environment there as much as possible to the way it was in the 1820s. Same for Hongi Hika's pa there, where he lived and armed his warriors with muskets for forays down south. If they build a dam over the Kerikeri basin, will that qualify for your article? :)-. Moriori 22:16, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC)
Hi Alan! You and I seem to be chasing down each other's geo-stubs on NZ's South Island and (mostly) improving them! I'm in the middle of a major rationalisation of the categories used for NZ geography at the moment and am hunting out any which aren't categorised... As well as the "NZ rivers, lakes, islands, etc" categories, every place in NZ is being linked to a category for its region (at the moment it's mainly S.I. ones that have categories, but give me time!). Can I ask you to add these categories with any new articles you do, please? All the categories are subdirectories in the Locations in New Zealand category at the moment, if you want to know what they are. Thanks, and keep up the good work! Grutness 13:54, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:
OR
Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man ( comment| talk)
Thanks for pointing out an image I uploaded long before we had the tags which I'd not gone back to put one on. Tip: rather than "nowiki", put a colon just inside the first bracket. "[[:Image:Fchristi.jpg]]" produces Image:Fchristi.jpg. Cheers, -- Infrogmation 07:04, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Hi Alan - good to see some NZ trees being done, one small note, when mentioning endemic, it needs to be linked [[endemic (ecology)|endemic]], as [[endemic]] leads to a disambiguation page (there's also endemic as a medical term) - MPF 11:36, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Someone has put this article of yours on VFD - thought you should know. Dbiv 19:13, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
You marked Daniel Fignole -- president of Haiti for speedy deletion. It doesn't seem to fall under any of the criteria for speedy deletion; could you please explain?
(Sure, it's a copyvio, and it's poorly formatted, and it's badly titled. Now, which of these meet the criteria for speedy deletion?) -- jpgordon ∇∆∇∆ 03:46, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Please read the instructions at the bottom of WP:VFD (or at Template:VfDFooter) before trying to put anything else up for VfD. — Ben Brockert (42) UE News 05:21, Jan 29, 2005 (UTC)
Hi Alan - you wrote: Is there a reason for giving unique NZ placenames a qualifier of "New Zealand" in the article title? Some that I have seen are Kumeu, Kawau Island and Bombay Hills, New Zealand.
Hi Alan - you started a stub for Back River, New Zealand which simply says that it's a locality in the North Island. I can't find it in Wise's, or in my largest NZ atlas... whereabouts is it? Do you have any more info about it at all? Grutness| hello? 00:43, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading Image:New NZ flag design.gif. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much, Tagishsimon (talk) 16:36, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Hey, I recently started an article at New Zealand Tree Fern and thought I would invite you New Zealanders to use another name. I didn't know which one to use, so I went with the most informative one. If you don't do plants, pass it on to any of your friends who know New Zealand well. Feel free to rename it according to your standards. -- DanielCD 21:23, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for your comment on my work on New Zealand politics. It's nice to know that people are finding it useful, and also nice to know that people think it's NPOV. -- Vardion 01:08, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Environmentalism was a page about the international Environmental movement but with a strong US bias. I have requested that it is to be moved back. A new page on the environmental movement in the US can then be created.
Hi Alan! Just noticed the article on Stephen King (NZ) that you started. Not sure whether you know about Wikipedia:New articles (New Zealand), which is for listing new NZ articles. If you could add the names of any New Zealand-related articles you make to this it's be great! Cheers - and keep up the good work! :) Grutness... wha? 10:35, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
I see that you're planning on moving the GM disambiguation page. Why? Josh Parris ✉ 02:54, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
Given that you still intend to move it, I bequeath to you the responsibility for maintaining the disambiguation of imbound links to GM. I suggest checking every couple of days. Josh Parris ✉ 03:29, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
Looking forward to your edits of Environmental movement this needs some work. Keep in mind Ecology movement and Green movement. On the deep ecology article, deep ecology is described as differentiating the ecological from the environmental movement, maybe this difference is important enough to be put in the introduction? Would it be correct to say that the conservation movement has evolved into the environmental movement and thence to the ecological movement? Muxxa 05:31, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I like your work! Fast fingers on the conservation! Good job! Troller Trolling Rodriguez 08:45, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Hi Alan - I've expanded and modified the text and descripion at the Meadow-grass page to include NZ Tussocks and have put in a request to have the page moved to Poa. Please add any more NZ species that should be in! (I added two that I could find details for easily) - MPF 16:42, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Hi again - I've just been adding a bit to Tutu (plant). One of my books lists Coriaria microphylla and C. ruscifolia as native to both NZ and South America, but online sites suggest they are just South American, with no reference to NZ. Can you check to see if these two species occur in NZ as well please? - Thanks, MPF 17:50, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for straightening me out on that one. WormRunner | Talk 15:03, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
The answer as to where I got the figures from would be the link that is now dead. It's quite a while ago I made the edit, I'm not sure I remember much else. Kind regards, jguk 3 July 2005 08:58 (UTC)