Archived messages: 2004-2006
You are all invited to Auckland Meetup 2 on the afternoon of Saturday February 10th 2007 at Galbraith's Ale House in Mt Eden. Please see Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland 2 for details. You can also bookmark Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland to be informed of future NZ meetups. - SimonLyall 05:30, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading Image:Anand Satyanand and Silvia Cartwright.jpg. I notice the 'image' page specifies that the image is being used under fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our first fair use criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed image could reasonably be found or created that provides substantially the same information. If you believe this image is not replaceable, please:
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If you have uploaded other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified how these images fully satisfy our fair use criteria. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on this link. Note that any fair use images which are replaceable by free-licensed alternatives will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. MECU≈ talk 01:16, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi, are you going to be on a marae this year for Waitangi day? I am asking just in case you are and are available to take a photo and have it available for a possible Wikinews report. Nzgabriel 05:56, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
Weird. I'd have thought the Herald would get that one right (and I am reasonably sure I copied it right). Later corrections to interim data, maybe? MadMaxDog 02:34, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Say, Avenue, maybe go have a look if you could spare the time to improve the Christchurch article (especially regarding census figures, maybe we could simply copy the table style we have for Auckland). I did quite a bit of work improving the article, but compared to Auckland, it is still a rather rough gem... MadMaxDog 11:42, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
HI. In case you are in Auckland (or near auckland) you are invited to Auckland Meetup 2 on the afternoon of Saturday February 10th 2007 at Galbraith's Ale House in Mt Eden. Please see Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland 2 for details. You can also bookmark Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland to be informed of future NZ meetups. - Linnah 10:58, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar | ||
For statistically proven benefit to Wikipedia, and general industriousness in various areas. MadMaxDog 11:05, 13 February 2007 (UTC) |
Adding a quick question: is the Tank Farm really a volcanic cone? I thought this was a artificial piece of land (actually pretty sure - its the 'Western Reclamation'). The map in the article also shows empty bay there... MadMaxDog 11:08, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi—Thanks for removing that repeated item. I hope to return to complete that project in May and June. Tony 14:31, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
How do you feel about this after having done more work? Still a remove? It's been up an awful long time. Marskell 13:57, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
You added some material on Herb Green's views on abortion and fertility but the material was unsourced. If you still know where you found the information, could you add it to the article please.- gadfium 19:17, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
You must have reverted the New Zealand article seconds before I did. Not realising you'd done so, I went on to add an explanation to the talk page. I think your paragraph at History of New Zealand is excellent.- gadfium 21:45, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
Just wanted to say "Hi", Avenue, and thanks for all your great work on WikiProject Volcanoes, including dredging up another 30+ crater lakes the other day. I'm rather fond of crater lakes, including Crater Lake (one of my favorite places) but especially remote crater lakes hidden high out of sight in summit craters.
By the way, I corrected a font problem on your talk page stemming from the "thank you" card above. Hope that's OK with you. -- Seattle Skier (talk) 17:11, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
Neither being a vulcanologist nor playing one on TV, I really appreciate your fixing the references on the article. I'm not a geologist by training, but I started the article because I was editing the Minoan eruption and it made reference to the term, and I thought it deserved a wiki-article. I was editing the Minoan article because I was interested in historical events that might have influenced biblical myths. Anyways, I am not usually a plagiarizer, but because I barely know tephra is, I had a difficult time converting the references into my own language. I just want to thank you for your help, and to make sure you knew I wasn't typically a plagiarizer. Also, the article might only deserve a couple of paragraphs, but anything you can do to make it scientifically correct would be greatly appreciate. Orangemarlin 17:01, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi Avenue, I just found out an interesting bit of info. There is a permanent crater lake about 100 m in diameter at an elevation of 6,390 m on the eastern side of Ojos del Salado. This is most likely the highest lake of any kind in the world, exceeding 6368 m Lhagba Pool in Tibet. There is a photo and other info at http://www.andes.org.uk/peak-info-6000/ojos-info.htm. -- Seattle Skier (talk) 08:43, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
SmackBot seems to have broken the {{ Ongoing}} template link in this edit to the David Bain article. I don't know if this problem is more widespread. -- Avenue 11:27, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
Hats off for your recent work on David Bain article. I'm bold enough to suggest that you also read Keith Hunter's recent book on the Smart/Hope - Watson case, regards RichardJ Christie 13:35, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for removing that stuff about the 4-mile high geyser. I can't believe I didn't see or deal with that myself when I updated the article a couple of hours earlier. -- Seattle Skier (talk) 22:00, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
Just thought you seemed interested in David Bain so you might be able to answer these questions.
Cheers.-- Hamedog Talk| @ 04:46, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
[2], but having read the relevant policy page ( WP:FAIRUSE), I don't believe they meet the criteria (especially #8, significance). -- Avenue 12:53, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
I've been hosting a pdf of the royal commission's report on my website for a year or two. It's the only one I know of on the web. You can link the Thomas article to it if you wish. http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/r.christie/thomas_royal_commission_1980.pdf RichardJ Christie 11:54, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi Avenue, thanks for responding to anon over at Talk:Mount Shasta, and in the edit summaries. I was out of town on May 17-18, so I didn't notice any of that until this morning. I decided to carefully look through all of anon's contributions, before taking any action. I was surprised to discover just how extensive his pattern of abuse was: 30+ edits from 12 separate IPs, all traceable to a PacBell/SBC DSL connection in northern California. He had even been deleting other people's comments from talk pages a couple times. If he had been editing from a single IP or from a registered account, it is certain that he would have already been blocked, probably more than once by now. It seemed essential to give him a final warning, to give him another chance to improve his conduct, or else face a block the next time any disruptive edits are made. It seemed that posting the warning on that talk page was the only way to make sure he sees it, since his IP changes daily. I think I'll only leave it there for a week or so, and then archive that entire lengthy discussion, so that talk page can return to normal and resume discussing article content.
I'm not sure what the best way to proceed is if he should return in a non-constructive manner. I haven't taken any of his comments personally, so I still feel comfortable blocking him myself if forced to do so. But to avoid any notion of impropriety (i.e. abuse of admin tools), it might be best to report him on WP:AIV next time, with a link to Talk:Mount Shasta/Abuse so that the blocking admin can see the full pattern (instead of just the last 1-2 edits) and choose an appropriate degree of response. What do you think?
By the way, do you have any interest in getting admin tools? You've been here a long time, with 7000+ edits, and you'd probably sail through the RfA. Given your very gracious manner on talk pages, I assume you don't have any incivility or other black marks in your contribs that might be held against you in RfA. Having the extra buttons is very useful for cleaning up stuff like misnamed categories, moving articles over stuck redirects, etc. It would be nice to have more admins in WikiProject Volcanoes. Just something I've been thinking about asking you. Thanks. -- Seattle Skier (talk) 04:41, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
I'm half way around the world, but this is the map I was working from: Image:North Island Map.PNG Not ideal, you'll admit. Samsara ( talk • contribs) 02:30, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
-- Yomangani talk 14:59, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
Well, how am I supposed to know what VEI that volcano is if www.volcano.si.edu usually goes back only 10,000 years? Black Tusk 02:54, June 2007 (UTC)
Since Polynesian navigation already exists, I've split the material off from Polynesia. Please help improve the article. Thanks. — Viriditas | Talk 23:04, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
-- howcheng { chat} 06:04, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
-- howcheng { chat} 01:36, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi Avenue, I guess you probably know that this image has been marked for deletion on Commons. But it would qualify for fair-use if uploaded to en.wikipedia instead, since it is now non-replaceable (the same applies to pretty much any other pre-landslide photos of the Valley of Geysers). -- Seattle Skier (talk) 05:22, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi do you have sources for your Kiwi additions to the ANZAC Day article? Could you possibly add them in the appropriate fashion. At the moment they seem to be unsourced. Thanks. Ozdaren 12:55, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
No worries I saw you were editing and adding after I'd written my comment. It's good to see the article gain a balance. Ozdaren 14:19, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
(Now that was a long header wasn't it?) There's a debate here about commas versus parentheses for scientific names for organisms (well in this case birds). I'm not sure whether this has been raised elsewhere but would be good to establish once and for all here and could apply as MOS across all biology articles. cheers, Casliber ( talk · contribs) 21:04, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
As of time of posting there have been no comments at the France national rugby union team's FAC even though it's been an FAC for over a week. So i'm asking for some comments from some people that have commented on Rugby union FAC's before. Please comment here. A support or oppose (with reasons) would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. - Shudda talk 00:33, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi Avenue - can you please indicate which of the two dates of the meetup you prefer? Cheers Ingolfson 06:28, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
Following your suggestion at User talk:Samsara, I uploaded a "clean" version of the NASA topographic map of NZ: Image:Nz large simple downsampled.gif. Perhaps the various tuatara locations can now be plotted on this map. Separa 18:10, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi Avenue, is there a reason why you rate almost every volcano article low importance? Most of the volcano articles I have seen were rather mid-importance (e.g. Sturgeon Lake Caldera, Spectrum Range, Wells Gray-Clearwater Volcanic Field, Tweed Volcano, Vestmannaeyjar, etc). If it's large, well-preserved, very active, or a notable volcano, it's definitely not "low"-importance. Most articles about volcanic protected areas (such as national parks) should probably be rated as mid-importance. Black Tusk 16:23, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi Avenue me again, do you think the Monteregian mountain chain should be added with the list of volcanoes in Canada? I just seen you added it and reverted your edit. I removed it because the magma that forms the present-day mountains in the chain was actually beneath sedimentary rock and wasn't erupted. Here they say they're the oldest remnants of volcanoes that were active about 125 million years ago. Here they say were formed by a series of plutonic intrusions. Black Tusk 04:12, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading Image:NZ 10c shilling front.jpg. However, there is a concern that the rationale you have provided for using this image under "fair use" may be invalid. Please read the instructions at Wikipedia:Non-free content carefully, then go to the image description page and clarify why you think the image qualifies for fair use. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to ensure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.
If it is determined that the image does not qualify under fair use, it will be deleted within a couple of days according to our criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thank you. BetacommandBot 21:31, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
I really appreciated your reference to government support for the New Zealand dream. However I am a little concerned about the other reference. I presume from the wording in the first paragraph that you think that the New Zealand dream is overly materialistic, and I agree with you.
Often commentators will try to define how they think culture should be rather than how it really is. For example the
European dream has been defined by an American, where he tries to differentiate from the American dream. Yet the EU hasn't barely established a
Pan-European identity and what finally emerges as their dream is yet to be determined and it probably won't be determined by an American. The
Canadian identity is another example of commentators trying to differentiate themselves from the United States, rather than really describing Canadians.
Suggested Solution: What about have a section called “Criticism of the New Zealand dream” instead? New Zealanders are arguably the most materialistic people of earth. Worse than Americans. They spend all of their money and then borrow more from overseas countries and spend that too. Although consumer spending is good for the economy, most economists believe that New Zealanders spend far too much. Over the long-term New Zealanders are getting deeper and deeper into debt. Kiwi-saver is a government program designed to encourage Kiwis to spend less.
Please let me know your thoughts. Badenoch ( talk) 05:16, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
Sorry about wiping your edit. Some sort of edit conflict must have occured, but I got no message saying so.- gadfium 08:27, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi, Image:Lascar eruption 2006a.jpg appears to be a cropping of an image found here, however it belongs to another Flickr user and has another license. I think the copyright status is unclear. What is your opinion? Jespinos ( talk) 20:00, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
Archived messages: 2004-2006
You are all invited to Auckland Meetup 2 on the afternoon of Saturday February 10th 2007 at Galbraith's Ale House in Mt Eden. Please see Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland 2 for details. You can also bookmark Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland to be informed of future NZ meetups. - SimonLyall 05:30, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading Image:Anand Satyanand and Silvia Cartwright.jpg. I notice the 'image' page specifies that the image is being used under fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our first fair use criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed image could reasonably be found or created that provides substantially the same information. If you believe this image is not replaceable, please:
{{Replaceable fair use disputed}}
, without deleting the original Replaceable fair use template.Alternatively, you can also choose to replace the fair use image by finding a freely licensed image of its subject, requesting that the copyright holder release this (or a similar) image under a free license, or by taking a picture of it yourself.
If you have uploaded other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified how these images fully satisfy our fair use criteria. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on this link. Note that any fair use images which are replaceable by free-licensed alternatives will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. MECU≈ talk 01:16, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi, are you going to be on a marae this year for Waitangi day? I am asking just in case you are and are available to take a photo and have it available for a possible Wikinews report. Nzgabriel 05:56, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
Weird. I'd have thought the Herald would get that one right (and I am reasonably sure I copied it right). Later corrections to interim data, maybe? MadMaxDog 02:34, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Say, Avenue, maybe go have a look if you could spare the time to improve the Christchurch article (especially regarding census figures, maybe we could simply copy the table style we have for Auckland). I did quite a bit of work improving the article, but compared to Auckland, it is still a rather rough gem... MadMaxDog 11:42, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
HI. In case you are in Auckland (or near auckland) you are invited to Auckland Meetup 2 on the afternoon of Saturday February 10th 2007 at Galbraith's Ale House in Mt Eden. Please see Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland 2 for details. You can also bookmark Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland to be informed of future NZ meetups. - Linnah 10:58, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar | ||
For statistically proven benefit to Wikipedia, and general industriousness in various areas. MadMaxDog 11:05, 13 February 2007 (UTC) |
Adding a quick question: is the Tank Farm really a volcanic cone? I thought this was a artificial piece of land (actually pretty sure - its the 'Western Reclamation'). The map in the article also shows empty bay there... MadMaxDog 11:08, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi—Thanks for removing that repeated item. I hope to return to complete that project in May and June. Tony 14:31, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
How do you feel about this after having done more work? Still a remove? It's been up an awful long time. Marskell 13:57, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
You added some material on Herb Green's views on abortion and fertility but the material was unsourced. If you still know where you found the information, could you add it to the article please.- gadfium 19:17, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
You must have reverted the New Zealand article seconds before I did. Not realising you'd done so, I went on to add an explanation to the talk page. I think your paragraph at History of New Zealand is excellent.- gadfium 21:45, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
Just wanted to say "Hi", Avenue, and thanks for all your great work on WikiProject Volcanoes, including dredging up another 30+ crater lakes the other day. I'm rather fond of crater lakes, including Crater Lake (one of my favorite places) but especially remote crater lakes hidden high out of sight in summit craters.
By the way, I corrected a font problem on your talk page stemming from the "thank you" card above. Hope that's OK with you. -- Seattle Skier (talk) 17:11, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
Neither being a vulcanologist nor playing one on TV, I really appreciate your fixing the references on the article. I'm not a geologist by training, but I started the article because I was editing the Minoan eruption and it made reference to the term, and I thought it deserved a wiki-article. I was editing the Minoan article because I was interested in historical events that might have influenced biblical myths. Anyways, I am not usually a plagiarizer, but because I barely know tephra is, I had a difficult time converting the references into my own language. I just want to thank you for your help, and to make sure you knew I wasn't typically a plagiarizer. Also, the article might only deserve a couple of paragraphs, but anything you can do to make it scientifically correct would be greatly appreciate. Orangemarlin 17:01, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi Avenue, I just found out an interesting bit of info. There is a permanent crater lake about 100 m in diameter at an elevation of 6,390 m on the eastern side of Ojos del Salado. This is most likely the highest lake of any kind in the world, exceeding 6368 m Lhagba Pool in Tibet. There is a photo and other info at http://www.andes.org.uk/peak-info-6000/ojos-info.htm. -- Seattle Skier (talk) 08:43, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
SmackBot seems to have broken the {{ Ongoing}} template link in this edit to the David Bain article. I don't know if this problem is more widespread. -- Avenue 11:27, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
Hats off for your recent work on David Bain article. I'm bold enough to suggest that you also read Keith Hunter's recent book on the Smart/Hope - Watson case, regards RichardJ Christie 13:35, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for removing that stuff about the 4-mile high geyser. I can't believe I didn't see or deal with that myself when I updated the article a couple of hours earlier. -- Seattle Skier (talk) 22:00, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
Just thought you seemed interested in David Bain so you might be able to answer these questions.
Cheers.-- Hamedog Talk| @ 04:46, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
[2], but having read the relevant policy page ( WP:FAIRUSE), I don't believe they meet the criteria (especially #8, significance). -- Avenue 12:53, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
I've been hosting a pdf of the royal commission's report on my website for a year or two. It's the only one I know of on the web. You can link the Thomas article to it if you wish. http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/r.christie/thomas_royal_commission_1980.pdf RichardJ Christie 11:54, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi Avenue, thanks for responding to anon over at Talk:Mount Shasta, and in the edit summaries. I was out of town on May 17-18, so I didn't notice any of that until this morning. I decided to carefully look through all of anon's contributions, before taking any action. I was surprised to discover just how extensive his pattern of abuse was: 30+ edits from 12 separate IPs, all traceable to a PacBell/SBC DSL connection in northern California. He had even been deleting other people's comments from talk pages a couple times. If he had been editing from a single IP or from a registered account, it is certain that he would have already been blocked, probably more than once by now. It seemed essential to give him a final warning, to give him another chance to improve his conduct, or else face a block the next time any disruptive edits are made. It seemed that posting the warning on that talk page was the only way to make sure he sees it, since his IP changes daily. I think I'll only leave it there for a week or so, and then archive that entire lengthy discussion, so that talk page can return to normal and resume discussing article content.
I'm not sure what the best way to proceed is if he should return in a non-constructive manner. I haven't taken any of his comments personally, so I still feel comfortable blocking him myself if forced to do so. But to avoid any notion of impropriety (i.e. abuse of admin tools), it might be best to report him on WP:AIV next time, with a link to Talk:Mount Shasta/Abuse so that the blocking admin can see the full pattern (instead of just the last 1-2 edits) and choose an appropriate degree of response. What do you think?
By the way, do you have any interest in getting admin tools? You've been here a long time, with 7000+ edits, and you'd probably sail through the RfA. Given your very gracious manner on talk pages, I assume you don't have any incivility or other black marks in your contribs that might be held against you in RfA. Having the extra buttons is very useful for cleaning up stuff like misnamed categories, moving articles over stuck redirects, etc. It would be nice to have more admins in WikiProject Volcanoes. Just something I've been thinking about asking you. Thanks. -- Seattle Skier (talk) 04:41, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
I'm half way around the world, but this is the map I was working from: Image:North Island Map.PNG Not ideal, you'll admit. Samsara ( talk • contribs) 02:30, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
-- Yomangani talk 14:59, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
Well, how am I supposed to know what VEI that volcano is if www.volcano.si.edu usually goes back only 10,000 years? Black Tusk 02:54, June 2007 (UTC)
Since Polynesian navigation already exists, I've split the material off from Polynesia. Please help improve the article. Thanks. — Viriditas | Talk 23:04, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
-- howcheng { chat} 06:04, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
-- howcheng { chat} 01:36, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi Avenue, I guess you probably know that this image has been marked for deletion on Commons. But it would qualify for fair-use if uploaded to en.wikipedia instead, since it is now non-replaceable (the same applies to pretty much any other pre-landslide photos of the Valley of Geysers). -- Seattle Skier (talk) 05:22, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi do you have sources for your Kiwi additions to the ANZAC Day article? Could you possibly add them in the appropriate fashion. At the moment they seem to be unsourced. Thanks. Ozdaren 12:55, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
No worries I saw you were editing and adding after I'd written my comment. It's good to see the article gain a balance. Ozdaren 14:19, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
(Now that was a long header wasn't it?) There's a debate here about commas versus parentheses for scientific names for organisms (well in this case birds). I'm not sure whether this has been raised elsewhere but would be good to establish once and for all here and could apply as MOS across all biology articles. cheers, Casliber ( talk · contribs) 21:04, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
As of time of posting there have been no comments at the France national rugby union team's FAC even though it's been an FAC for over a week. So i'm asking for some comments from some people that have commented on Rugby union FAC's before. Please comment here. A support or oppose (with reasons) would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. - Shudda talk 00:33, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi Avenue - can you please indicate which of the two dates of the meetup you prefer? Cheers Ingolfson 06:28, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
Following your suggestion at User talk:Samsara, I uploaded a "clean" version of the NASA topographic map of NZ: Image:Nz large simple downsampled.gif. Perhaps the various tuatara locations can now be plotted on this map. Separa 18:10, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi Avenue, is there a reason why you rate almost every volcano article low importance? Most of the volcano articles I have seen were rather mid-importance (e.g. Sturgeon Lake Caldera, Spectrum Range, Wells Gray-Clearwater Volcanic Field, Tweed Volcano, Vestmannaeyjar, etc). If it's large, well-preserved, very active, or a notable volcano, it's definitely not "low"-importance. Most articles about volcanic protected areas (such as national parks) should probably be rated as mid-importance. Black Tusk 16:23, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi Avenue me again, do you think the Monteregian mountain chain should be added with the list of volcanoes in Canada? I just seen you added it and reverted your edit. I removed it because the magma that forms the present-day mountains in the chain was actually beneath sedimentary rock and wasn't erupted. Here they say they're the oldest remnants of volcanoes that were active about 125 million years ago. Here they say were formed by a series of plutonic intrusions. Black Tusk 04:12, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading Image:NZ 10c shilling front.jpg. However, there is a concern that the rationale you have provided for using this image under "fair use" may be invalid. Please read the instructions at Wikipedia:Non-free content carefully, then go to the image description page and clarify why you think the image qualifies for fair use. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to ensure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.
If it is determined that the image does not qualify under fair use, it will be deleted within a couple of days according to our criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thank you. BetacommandBot 21:31, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
I really appreciated your reference to government support for the New Zealand dream. However I am a little concerned about the other reference. I presume from the wording in the first paragraph that you think that the New Zealand dream is overly materialistic, and I agree with you.
Often commentators will try to define how they think culture should be rather than how it really is. For example the
European dream has been defined by an American, where he tries to differentiate from the American dream. Yet the EU hasn't barely established a
Pan-European identity and what finally emerges as their dream is yet to be determined and it probably won't be determined by an American. The
Canadian identity is another example of commentators trying to differentiate themselves from the United States, rather than really describing Canadians.
Suggested Solution: What about have a section called “Criticism of the New Zealand dream” instead? New Zealanders are arguably the most materialistic people of earth. Worse than Americans. They spend all of their money and then borrow more from overseas countries and spend that too. Although consumer spending is good for the economy, most economists believe that New Zealanders spend far too much. Over the long-term New Zealanders are getting deeper and deeper into debt. Kiwi-saver is a government program designed to encourage Kiwis to spend less.
Please let me know your thoughts. Badenoch ( talk) 05:16, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
Sorry about wiping your edit. Some sort of edit conflict must have occured, but I got no message saying so.- gadfium 08:27, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi, Image:Lascar eruption 2006a.jpg appears to be a cropping of an image found here, however it belongs to another Flickr user and has another license. I think the copyright status is unclear. What is your opinion? Jespinos ( talk) 20:00, 22 December 2007 (UTC)