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Hi, If you are on can you semi Jeet Raval. It was mentioned on Cricinfo and I am edit conflicting with all the vandals trying to keep it clean. AIRcorn (talk) 05:34, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
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Hi, Wikipedia:WikiProject Oceania/The 10,000 Challenge and Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/The 5000 Challenge are up and running based on Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge which has currently produced over 2300 article improvements and creations. The Australia challenge would feed into the wider region one and potentially New Zealand could have a smaller challenge too. The main goal is content improvement, tackling stale old stubs and important content and improving sourcing/making more consistent but new articles are also welcome if sourced. I understand that this is a big goal for regular editors, especially being summertime where you are, but if you'd like to see large scale quality improvements happening for Oceania and Australia like The Africa Destubathon, which has produced over 1700 articles in 5 weeks, sign up on the page. The idea will be an ongoing national editathon/challenge for the region but fuelled by a series of contests to really get articles on every province and subject mass improved. The Africa contest scaled worldwide would naturally provide great benefits to Oceania countries, particularly Australia and attract new editors. I would like some support from existing editors here to get the Challenges off to a start with some articles to make doing a Destubathon worthwhile and potentially bring about hundreds of improvements in a few weeks through a contest! Cheers.♦ -- MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 02:12, 24 November 2016 (UTC)
Could I suggest that you please move Mid-Canterbury to Mid-Canterbury (New Zealand electorate), and then redirect the original name to Canterbury, New Zealand? There's a new article South Canterbury and that refers to the other Canterbury sub regions, including the one that occupies the place of the electorate. Schwede 66 06:11, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
that the guy is not a reptilian — Preceding unsigned comment added by Crazytalkerman ( talk • contribs) 21:57, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
Cant you see i wrote presumptive next to it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jvfmgnlllj ( talk • contribs) 07:16, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
Can you please stop stalking my edits. Its really annoying you are deleting my work, which is a sign of vandalism.
I have recently did an article Re Goldcorp Exchange Limited (in receivership): Kensington v Liggett, and I have since discovered another article simply called Re Goldcorp. As this is a double up, could you delete my article. Could you please change the title of the other artilce to "Re Goldcorp Exchange Limited (in receivership): Kensington v Liggett", as that is the proper legal citation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kiwisheriff ( talk • contribs)
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Good catch. I'll start working on it again in the medium term future. Abyssal ( talk) 13:42, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
Well done, you flagged "Unite is a trade union" as unverified sources. I don't know what crack pipes you smoke but how about checking facts before you get all reversion-crazy? http://www.unitetheunion.org/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.22.169.240 ( talk) 11:34, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
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You know that even blocked editors can remove their block notices, right? What they can't remove is declined unblock appeals while blocked. -- NeilN talk to me 07:33, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
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She's a BLP troll magnet. Last time you protected the article for a week. The day after it expired, IPs were back at it. Why only a month? Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 14:14, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
Could this article be upgraded from Stub to Start class? Akld guy ( talk) 21:12, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
At The Strand Station, User:Bennyaha deleted the statement that the Northern Explorer train leaves from the station in this edit. I reverted the edit because the statement is true - the train does leave from there. Bennyaha didn't leave an edit summary, so I assumed he was simply mistaken or deleting duplicate info stated elsewhere in the article. However, Bennyaha and I have reverted each other a couple of times since, and it's obvious he's playing a game because his latest edit summary says: "The northern explorer train leaves from britomart not from this station)".
The train does leave from The Strand, as can be seen from the company's advertising page here. Note that the page is dated 2017. The train has been leaving from The Strand for several years. What can we do about this editor who is being disruptive? Akld guy ( talk) 22:10, 21 April 2017 (UTC)
First of all I do not play games and I am extremely offended that is suggested. I do not have fun and I do not Vandalize Wiki as I take my wiki editing very seriously. I do not play games like a high school student. Secondly out of all my edits I have never had a situation like this so I never had a procedure or knew what to do in instances like today. Thirdly gadfium you are 100% correct, I use to take the train often but i haven't taken the train for a while. I do apologies for the situation and I don't mean to create quite a disturbance. -- Bennyaha ( talk) 03:12, 22 April 2017 (UTC)
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In this edit, you changed to role of the RNZAF to "aerial warfare", but this has not been their role for many decades, and they no longer have attack aircraft. I doubt you will be able to find current reliable sources which claim that this is their role.- gadfium 19:47, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
" Garuda28 ( talk) 20:42, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
Kia ora Gadfium. All Survivor editions in the United States, as well as the recent Australian Survivor (2016) and many other international versions of the format do not include local sources from the NZ Herald as 'verified sources' to tell what days people were voted out, and who was voted out when. It makes the graphs look different to the other versions and more clogged. I suggest you peruse these Wikipedia pages, and if you feel desperate to change this for the Survivor NZ page, perhaps one clear link to the official TVNZ site, which includes recaps and links to the full episodes, will suffice? Rather than a local newspaper review? Kiwi_Jaden 10:26, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
hi there I wanted to remove the content as I'm about to start a new project and don't want the old project to come up on google when you search my name.. please keep removed content removed — Preceding unsigned comment added by Djeisan ( talk • contribs)
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Hello, I'm the wikipedian in residence at the Auckland War memorial museum and I've been told you are a good person to talk to about setting up editathons? I've just started in this role this week ( going to be here for five weeks in total) and we were considering hosting an editathon in the final week of my placement, 10th-14th July. I was wondering if you had any advice on this? There is more information on what we are doing at our page GLAM/Auckland MuseumI'm quite new to Wikipedia so if you see anything we need to add to this page or clarify please let me now. Susan Tol ( talk) 00:36, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi, me again, hope you don't mind me continuing under the same heading. I've been working on a new page for a jeweller Elena Gee and I was wondering if you would mind having a look at it. We have her CV that she made in 1997 which is where I've been able to source most of her lists of exhibitions and works but not sure if I've referenced everything right. I've added additional references where I've been able to find them but if there appears to be no reference that means its from her CV. User:Susan Tol/Eléna Gee It's looking a bit messy so I thought I'd seek help. Susan Tol ( talk) 23:44, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
What if I am the source? Crngegod ( talk) 00:23, 4 July 2017 (UTC)
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Special:Undelete?fuzzy=1. Currently the search only finds pages that exactly match the search term.Hi Gadfium, I noticed you removed the external link I added to William Rolleston. I'm new in editing Wikipedia and would be interested to learn about my mistake? -- Guigus60 ( talk) 19:19, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
Susan Wittig Albert, James Altucher, Jane Austen, Peter Bagge, L. Frank Baum, Edgar Rice Burroughs (I stopped checking after "B".) are all in the "self published" category but it is not specifically indicated on their pages that they are self published. TruthMatters ( talk) 05:19, 14 July 2017 (UTC)
Greetings from France. When dealing with Torygreen84's problematic edits (e.g. Winston Peters), can you please leave a note on the editor 's talk page? You have to look at the talk page history to see all the warnings. The editor simply does not learn from these warnings and I can only see this heading towards a site ban. Hence, further notices will either reduce the time until the editor gets blocked or maybe they will suddenly get it. Schwede 66 10:02, 16 July 2017 (UTC)
Thank you, I really Do not want to be problematic I Really do Love editing wikipeaida, i am doing my best work i can do with wikipeaida. Torygreen84 ( talk) 14:32, 17 July 2017 (UTC)
Hello Gadfium,
Regarding your question... Many, if not most, wired broadband providers allocate a /64 to each customer, so blocking that range is unlikely to cause any collateral damage. — DoRD ( talk) 12:04, 19 July 2017 (UTC)
Hi Gadfium, I understand you put a message on my talk page and I'm in New Zealand, and you're a member of the New Zealand WikiProject. In the kids programming block from Saturday-Sunday, as I said on TVNZ 2. Aidancuckoo ( talk) 23:38, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
No. The broadcast of kids songs ended when TVNZ 2 switched over to the new logo.
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User:Cacrats is going from athlete to athlete and deleting and changing categories. I picked this up at Jack Lovelock, but his contribs show dozens of edits today that are damaging. Akld guy ( talk) 23:57, 25 July 2017 (UTC) His contribs here Akld guy ( talk) 23:58, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
I've changed the block on the above user to indef to match your comment on his user talk. If perchance I've misunderstood something here - let me know. Vsmith ( talk) 23:32, 26 July 2017 (UTC)
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Hi, thanks for dealing with the content on my talk page. I didn't have time to see what any of it was fortunately. Ajf773 ( talk) 09:12, 8 August 2017 (UTC)
Your threat to block me is a waste of your time. I use a completely unlimited number of Internet Protocol numbers. R. Neil Marshman has already been accused of advertising by another. If you accused me of Outing, that would be more like a reasonable thing to say. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.220.191.8 ( talk) 09:14, 8 August 2017 (UTC)
Hi! I've proposed a few changes to Portal:Current events that will make the layout work well on narrow-width displays.
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After your previous 1 week block on this user, they've continued their disruptive editing. Would you mind taking a look at this user's edits once again? Thank you. 2601:1C0:103:DC4D:80F8:1BDB:EB21:FAA3 ( talk) 19:38, 22 August 2017 (UTC)
Hey, really glad to see you're coming along to the NZ Insect Cards edit-a-thon. If you haven't already, could you make sure you've enrolled via this Google form, for catering purposes? We'll send out a last-minute email with transportation and parking information. Look forward to seeing you on Sunday. Giantflightlessbirds ( talk) 01:17, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
Same IP as 45.62.253.32 which you just blocked. Thanks. 2601:1C0:102:C24B:704B:3255:9741:9C1B ( talk) 05:37, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
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You recently blocked an IP range related to Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Teenage Fairytale Dropouts vandal – the range of Special:Contributions/49.195.0.0/16. The vandal has found two new IPs, listed below. And the week-long block will soon expire. Binksternet ( talk) 05:24, 23 September 2017 (UTC)
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hi, I'm going to be doing quite a bit of editing on kate sheppard soon. trying to make things a bit tighter and be helpful but please let me know if I'm breaking any style guide rules 01:44, 11 October 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Susan Tol ( talk • contribs)
Seems to me like User:Karlwinn is making a deliberately ambiguous but probably still actionable legal threat at Talk:Kerry Bolton... whatcha think? --jpgordon 𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇 16:38, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
Here's another potential legal threat, this one by User:Le-Au. If you've got time, you could deal with it, otherwise I'll have a go tonight. Schwede 66 19:13, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
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if you look at the previous elections it says elected instead of subsequent it only started saying subsequent from the 1987 election and on. AmYisroelChai ( talk) 19:10, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
A good friend has asked me how to get a page restored from 2013, which is also of interest to many others. Perhaps you can help. You will see discussion of the page, it's removal, and recent discussion at https://www.facebook.com/groups/returndomenic/ Thanks ross nixon 18:14, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
"(rv, pov. The ref given has a discussion about the ethics of rodeo but not a criticism of O'Connor.). "
Alright, if you think the SPCA's response to his comments doesn't count as a criticism, I won't split straws on that. But why not edit the comment, rather than delete the remainder entirely? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.61.184.91 ( talk) 10:46, 17 December 2017 (UTC)
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Please note that TOTP based two-factor authentication is now available for all administrators. In light of the recent compromised accounts, you are encouraged to add this additional layer of security to your account. It may be enabled on your preferences page in the "User profile" tab under the "Basic information" section. For basic instructions on how to enable two-factor authentication, please see the developing help page for additional information. Important: Be sure to record the two-factor authentication key and the single use keys. If you lose your two factor authentication and do not have the keys, it's possible that your account will not be recoverable. Furthermore, you are encouraged to utilize a unique password and two-factor authentication for the email account associated with your Wikimedia account. This measure will assist in safeguarding your account from malicious password resets. Comments, questions, and concerns may be directed to the thread on the administrators' noticeboard. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 20:33, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
Hi Gadfium.
A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.
It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.
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Hi, If you are on can you semi Jeet Raval. It was mentioned on Cricinfo and I am edit conflicting with all the vandals trying to keep it clean. AIRcorn (talk) 05:34, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
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The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
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Hi, Wikipedia:WikiProject Oceania/The 10,000 Challenge and Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/The 5000 Challenge are up and running based on Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge which has currently produced over 2300 article improvements and creations. The Australia challenge would feed into the wider region one and potentially New Zealand could have a smaller challenge too. The main goal is content improvement, tackling stale old stubs and important content and improving sourcing/making more consistent but new articles are also welcome if sourced. I understand that this is a big goal for regular editors, especially being summertime where you are, but if you'd like to see large scale quality improvements happening for Oceania and Australia like The Africa Destubathon, which has produced over 1700 articles in 5 weeks, sign up on the page. The idea will be an ongoing national editathon/challenge for the region but fuelled by a series of contests to really get articles on every province and subject mass improved. The Africa contest scaled worldwide would naturally provide great benefits to Oceania countries, particularly Australia and attract new editors. I would like some support from existing editors here to get the Challenges off to a start with some articles to make doing a Destubathon worthwhile and potentially bring about hundreds of improvements in a few weeks through a contest! Cheers.♦ -- MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 02:12, 24 November 2016 (UTC)
Could I suggest that you please move Mid-Canterbury to Mid-Canterbury (New Zealand electorate), and then redirect the original name to Canterbury, New Zealand? There's a new article South Canterbury and that refers to the other Canterbury sub regions, including the one that occupies the place of the electorate. Schwede 66 06:11, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
that the guy is not a reptilian — Preceding unsigned comment added by Crazytalkerman ( talk • contribs) 21:57, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
Cant you see i wrote presumptive next to it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jvfmgnlllj ( talk • contribs) 07:16, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
Can you please stop stalking my edits. Its really annoying you are deleting my work, which is a sign of vandalism.
I have recently did an article Re Goldcorp Exchange Limited (in receivership): Kensington v Liggett, and I have since discovered another article simply called Re Goldcorp. As this is a double up, could you delete my article. Could you please change the title of the other artilce to "Re Goldcorp Exchange Limited (in receivership): Kensington v Liggett", as that is the proper legal citation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kiwisheriff ( talk • contribs)
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Good catch. I'll start working on it again in the medium term future. Abyssal ( talk) 13:42, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
Well done, you flagged "Unite is a trade union" as unverified sources. I don't know what crack pipes you smoke but how about checking facts before you get all reversion-crazy? http://www.unitetheunion.org/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.22.169.240 ( talk) 11:34, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
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You know that even blocked editors can remove their block notices, right? What they can't remove is declined unblock appeals while blocked. -- NeilN talk to me 07:33, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
The edit-a-thon will be at the Mairangi Arts Centre on Saturday and Sunday, hope you can join for at least part of that time. I can put you in touch directly with the event organizers if you'd email me.-- Pharos ( talk) 14:09, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
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She's a BLP troll magnet. Last time you protected the article for a week. The day after it expired, IPs were back at it. Why only a month? Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 14:14, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
Could this article be upgraded from Stub to Start class? Akld guy ( talk) 21:12, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
At The Strand Station, User:Bennyaha deleted the statement that the Northern Explorer train leaves from the station in this edit. I reverted the edit because the statement is true - the train does leave from there. Bennyaha didn't leave an edit summary, so I assumed he was simply mistaken or deleting duplicate info stated elsewhere in the article. However, Bennyaha and I have reverted each other a couple of times since, and it's obvious he's playing a game because his latest edit summary says: "The northern explorer train leaves from britomart not from this station)".
The train does leave from The Strand, as can be seen from the company's advertising page here. Note that the page is dated 2017. The train has been leaving from The Strand for several years. What can we do about this editor who is being disruptive? Akld guy ( talk) 22:10, 21 April 2017 (UTC)
First of all I do not play games and I am extremely offended that is suggested. I do not have fun and I do not Vandalize Wiki as I take my wiki editing very seriously. I do not play games like a high school student. Secondly out of all my edits I have never had a situation like this so I never had a procedure or knew what to do in instances like today. Thirdly gadfium you are 100% correct, I use to take the train often but i haven't taken the train for a while. I do apologies for the situation and I don't mean to create quite a disturbance. -- Bennyaha ( talk) 03:12, 22 April 2017 (UTC)
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In this edit, you changed to role of the RNZAF to "aerial warfare", but this has not been their role for many decades, and they no longer have attack aircraft. I doubt you will be able to find current reliable sources which claim that this is their role.- gadfium 19:47, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
" Garuda28 ( talk) 20:42, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
Kia ora Gadfium. All Survivor editions in the United States, as well as the recent Australian Survivor (2016) and many other international versions of the format do not include local sources from the NZ Herald as 'verified sources' to tell what days people were voted out, and who was voted out when. It makes the graphs look different to the other versions and more clogged. I suggest you peruse these Wikipedia pages, and if you feel desperate to change this for the Survivor NZ page, perhaps one clear link to the official TVNZ site, which includes recaps and links to the full episodes, will suffice? Rather than a local newspaper review? Kiwi_Jaden 10:26, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
hi there I wanted to remove the content as I'm about to start a new project and don't want the old project to come up on google when you search my name.. please keep removed content removed — Preceding unsigned comment added by Djeisan ( talk • contribs)
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Hello, I'm the wikipedian in residence at the Auckland War memorial museum and I've been told you are a good person to talk to about setting up editathons? I've just started in this role this week ( going to be here for five weeks in total) and we were considering hosting an editathon in the final week of my placement, 10th-14th July. I was wondering if you had any advice on this? There is more information on what we are doing at our page GLAM/Auckland MuseumI'm quite new to Wikipedia so if you see anything we need to add to this page or clarify please let me now. Susan Tol ( talk) 00:36, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi, me again, hope you don't mind me continuing under the same heading. I've been working on a new page for a jeweller Elena Gee and I was wondering if you would mind having a look at it. We have her CV that she made in 1997 which is where I've been able to source most of her lists of exhibitions and works but not sure if I've referenced everything right. I've added additional references where I've been able to find them but if there appears to be no reference that means its from her CV. User:Susan Tol/Eléna Gee It's looking a bit messy so I thought I'd seek help. Susan Tol ( talk) 23:44, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
What if I am the source? Crngegod ( talk) 00:23, 4 July 2017 (UTC)
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?fuzzy=1
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Special:Undelete?fuzzy=1. Currently the search only finds pages that exactly match the search term.Hi Gadfium, I noticed you removed the external link I added to William Rolleston. I'm new in editing Wikipedia and would be interested to learn about my mistake? -- Guigus60 ( talk) 19:19, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
Susan Wittig Albert, James Altucher, Jane Austen, Peter Bagge, L. Frank Baum, Edgar Rice Burroughs (I stopped checking after "B".) are all in the "self published" category but it is not specifically indicated on their pages that they are self published. TruthMatters ( talk) 05:19, 14 July 2017 (UTC)
Greetings from France. When dealing with Torygreen84's problematic edits (e.g. Winston Peters), can you please leave a note on the editor 's talk page? You have to look at the talk page history to see all the warnings. The editor simply does not learn from these warnings and I can only see this heading towards a site ban. Hence, further notices will either reduce the time until the editor gets blocked or maybe they will suddenly get it. Schwede 66 10:02, 16 July 2017 (UTC)
Thank you, I really Do not want to be problematic I Really do Love editing wikipeaida, i am doing my best work i can do with wikipeaida. Torygreen84 ( talk) 14:32, 17 July 2017 (UTC)
Hello Gadfium,
Regarding your question... Many, if not most, wired broadband providers allocate a /64 to each customer, so blocking that range is unlikely to cause any collateral damage. — DoRD ( talk) 12:04, 19 July 2017 (UTC)
Hi Gadfium, I understand you put a message on my talk page and I'm in New Zealand, and you're a member of the New Zealand WikiProject. In the kids programming block from Saturday-Sunday, as I said on TVNZ 2. Aidancuckoo ( talk) 23:38, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
No. The broadcast of kids songs ended when TVNZ 2 switched over to the new logo.
Aidancuckoo ( talk) 03:32, 22 July 2017 (UTC)
User:Cacrats is going from athlete to athlete and deleting and changing categories. I picked this up at Jack Lovelock, but his contribs show dozens of edits today that are damaging. Akld guy ( talk) 23:57, 25 July 2017 (UTC) His contribs here Akld guy ( talk) 23:58, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
I've changed the block on the above user to indef to match your comment on his user talk. If perchance I've misunderstood something here - let me know. Vsmith ( talk) 23:32, 26 July 2017 (UTC)
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Hi, thanks for dealing with the content on my talk page. I didn't have time to see what any of it was fortunately. Ajf773 ( talk) 09:12, 8 August 2017 (UTC)
Your threat to block me is a waste of your time. I use a completely unlimited number of Internet Protocol numbers. R. Neil Marshman has already been accused of advertising by another. If you accused me of Outing, that would be more like a reasonable thing to say. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.220.191.8 ( talk) 09:14, 8 August 2017 (UTC)
Hi! I've proposed a few changes to Portal:Current events that will make the layout work well on narrow-width displays.
As you have previously had involvement with the Current events page, I would appreciate your participation in the discussion, if it is convenient for you. Thank you for your time. — RossO ( talk) 17:12, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
After your previous 1 week block on this user, they've continued their disruptive editing. Would you mind taking a look at this user's edits once again? Thank you. 2601:1C0:103:DC4D:80F8:1BDB:EB21:FAA3 ( talk) 19:38, 22 August 2017 (UTC)
Hey, really glad to see you're coming along to the NZ Insect Cards edit-a-thon. If you haven't already, could you make sure you've enrolled via this Google form, for catering purposes? We'll send out a last-minute email with transportation and parking information. Look forward to seeing you on Sunday. Giantflightlessbirds ( talk) 01:17, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
Same IP as 45.62.253.32 which you just blocked. Thanks. 2601:1C0:102:C24B:704B:3255:9741:9C1B ( talk) 05:37, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
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You recently blocked an IP range related to Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Teenage Fairytale Dropouts vandal – the range of Special:Contributions/49.195.0.0/16. The vandal has found two new IPs, listed below. And the week-long block will soon expire. Binksternet ( talk) 05:24, 23 September 2017 (UTC)
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hi, I'm going to be doing quite a bit of editing on kate sheppard soon. trying to make things a bit tighter and be helpful but please let me know if I'm breaking any style guide rules 01:44, 11 October 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Susan Tol ( talk • contribs)
Seems to me like User:Karlwinn is making a deliberately ambiguous but probably still actionable legal threat at Talk:Kerry Bolton... whatcha think? --jpgordon 𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇 16:38, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
Here's another potential legal threat, this one by User:Le-Au. If you've got time, you could deal with it, otherwise I'll have a go tonight. Schwede 66 19:13, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
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Hello, Gadfium. Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 10 December. All users who registered an account before Saturday, 28 October 2017, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Wednesday, 1 November 2017 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
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if you look at the previous elections it says elected instead of subsequent it only started saying subsequent from the 1987 election and on. AmYisroelChai ( talk) 19:10, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
A good friend has asked me how to get a page restored from 2013, which is also of interest to many others. Perhaps you can help. You will see discussion of the page, it's removal, and recent discussion at https://www.facebook.com/groups/returndomenic/ Thanks ross nixon 18:14, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
"(rv, pov. The ref given has a discussion about the ethics of rodeo but not a criticism of O'Connor.). "
Alright, if you think the SPCA's response to his comments doesn't count as a criticism, I won't split straws on that. But why not edit the comment, rather than delete the remainder entirely? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.61.184.91 ( talk) 10:46, 17 December 2017 (UTC)