Hello old Wiki friend. I have just seen your request to the crats to remove your adminship, and it greatly saddens me. The WMF clearly has no idea of the damage they have done to the project. Good luck. Moriori ( talk) 08:49, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
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On 10 June, a part of the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) - the organisation which runs Wikipedia and related projects - called Trust & Safety (T&S) banned an administrator called Fram from the English Wikipedia for a year. This was an unprecedented action because previously T&S have only become involved in matters with legal implications, and they failed to explain why they banned Fram. Usually, problems on English Wikipedia are dealt with by the community of editors or by the elected Arbitration Committee (Arbcom). The ban created considerable unease amongst editors, which was not calmed by several statements from T&S as they were couched in bureacratic/legal language and failed to address the specifics. A way forward proposed by respected editor Newyorkbrad was rejected outright by T&S.
I followed the discussion with interest, and gave my support to Newyorkbrad's compromise proposal. When it was clear that the community's protest was not being heeded, I decided to make my own protest. On 22 June, I resigned as an administrator with the following post:
I have been dispirited by the recent action of T&S, and even more so by their refusal to explain their action in any meaningful way, to provide any mechanism for an appeal, or to negotiate on a compromise. I do not wish to hold advanced permissions on en.wikipedia in this situation. Please remove my administratorship.
More than 20 other administrators have also resigned over this. In some cases, they resigned because they disagreed with the community's opposition to T&S's action, but most resigned for similar reasons to me. Other editors stopped using administrator tools, or stopped editing articles until such time as the situation was resolved.
Others who resigned also stopped editing Wikipedia articles, but I took a different approach: I became more active in improving articles than previously. I don't know any details about Fram, and I don't particularly care whether or not they are banned, so long as the process is fair. I still very much care about the encyclopedia.
On 28 June, the WMF CEO Katherine Maher began to discuss the situation with the community on her talk page, and on 2 July, the WMF Board of Trustees issued a statement which directed T&S to work with Arbcom to review the case. Individuals on the board made it clear that Arbcom could overturn or alter the T&S ban if it saw fit. T&S provided detailed information privately to Arbcom on why they had banned Fram, and Arbcom has confirmed that although there are some redactions of names in that information, it is sufficient for them to open a case.
The three points I raised in my resignation have now been substantially addressed: T&S have explained their action to Arbcom, which will now consider the evidence and may overrule the ban, and the CEO is actively talking to the community. I will ask for my administrator position back, because I believe that the crisis is over.
I do think the WMF comes out of this badly because they failed to communicate with the community initially, and took a very long time to correct that. I think we need a management organisation which engages with the community in a more timely fashion. The turmoil of the last few weeks may be a wake-up call to them.
I am proud of the community of editors. We've been far from united on this, but in the end we succeeded in forcing the WMF to listen to us and to back down from their early refusal to compromise at all.
More information about the response to T&S's ban can be found at WP:FRAMSUM.- gadfium 04:41, 6 July 2019 (UTC)
Tēnā Koe, Gadfium, it's Leavepuckgackle1998 here. I just wanted to thank you for your advice to help fix the Wellington article I heavily contributed to this afternoon. I read all your feedback carefully, and have corrected all the things you pointed out as being incorrect. However, I did not think it was appropriate how you reverted all my edits I worked so hard on instead of just fixing the two or three mistakes there. That's how we do it on Wikipedia. I'm sure you're a very expereinced editor, but please don't revert people's whole edits even though only 1% of them is a mistake. Please resist temptations from doing this. -- Leavepuckgackle1998 ( talk) 06:32, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
I don't expect you to, I was just saying that if it was, say, BCE instead of CE (something that is clearly a typo) you could just fix that? Thanks. Leavepuckgackle1998 ( talk) 10:32, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
Gadfium, I apologise for you for trying to rename Napier, New Zealand to Napier. I clearly didn't know how when I attempted it, but I did it in good faith. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Leavepuckgackle1998 ( talk • contribs) 03:11, 11 July 2019 (UTC)
Gadfium, hello. I know we’ve had our disagreements in the past, and I am sorry that happened. I highly respect you as an administrator, because that just shows your commitment to something you volunteer for. So I just wanted to say thank you again for unblocking me, and that I’m incredibly grateful. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Leavepuckgackle1998 ( talk • contribs) 09:05, 30 July 2019 (UTC)
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I edited an article by removing four images and leaving three because it seemed to me to be overkill. User:Tahatai objected on my talk page and then there was further mention at Talk:Judith_Baragwanath where Tahatai said she would reinstate the images. I urged her not to. It would be appreciated if you could look to see if I am on the right track. Tahatai joined Wiki in March and has become a fine, competent contributor and I would hate to discourage her. If you don't agree with my removal of the images, I will restore them myself. Cheers. Moriori ( talk) 01:29, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
Thanks User:Moriori : well said - happy to abide by this. My reasons are several and can be found on the Baragwanath Talk page. Tahatai ( talk) 01:47, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
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Hi, that's what I meant. the page should change the name. can you do it. I don't know how too. Evangelical10002 ( talk) 09:49, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
(this page should change its name Fascism in New Zealand to Far-right politics in New Zealand reason = Australia and many other nations have far right politics pages, 2 Far right politics would include more in the page. Evangelical10002 ( talk) 13:20, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
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Hi there, the information is available for download as a WINRAR or spreadsheet by NZ stats. It's an estimate for the moment from the collective data they've given us (Asian, Maori, Pacific etc) and, though as more data comes out over the next month or so, the statistics themselves are pretty accurate (As seen in the rise of immigrantion to Auckland, compared to other places of the country). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Foxterria ( talk • contribs) 08:54, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
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Just curious. The post looked innocent. Does that user have some issues? WQUlrich ( talk) 20:21, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
Are you able to remove this edit? [1]. It outs a person with current name suppression. Ajf773 ( talk) 09:32, 29 October 2019 (UTC)
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Over at the ArbCom questions you said "I think their rights were removed by T&S so they could not unblock themselves", but admins can't unblock themselves anyway. Boing! said Zebedee ( talk) 01:21, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
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It was a pleasant surprise to see you refer to one of my essays involving Arbcom in your question to candidates. And I have to admit that I giggled when you asked yourself too! Mostly, though, I'm pleased to see that the candidates who have answered so far seem to be of the "well, I'm already busy here, I'll just keep doing what I'm doing" mindset. I think it speaks to the relative maturity of this year's candidates. We as a community will be the real winners here, with so many solid candidates who really get it. Good luck, Gadfium. Risker ( talk) 02:29, 15 November 2019 (UTC)
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Firstly, sorry about the message from the previous poster. However, I believe they are correct. For whatever reason the NRL does not include World Club Challenge matches in their official stats, any more than they do other trial matches. I don't personally have strong feeling one way or the other, except that we should stick by the stats of the competition organiser. Here's a link to support the change: [2] Doctorhawkes ( talk) 06:48, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
I was thinking out loud the other day, how about a kiwiwiki? A somewhat tongue-in-cheek and tourist guide wiki, as part of wikimedia obviously. No BLP's, make up a "Chur" rating system for beaches, suburbs, shopping malls, parks, walks, the Johnkey way (bike tracks), pubs etc. Its task is to get some news coverage here (NZ), drive some new users to wiki in general and recruit more Maori editors, only 2 active currently. I viewed stupidwiki, a German parody site and it gave me pause, FYI, our anthem, according to them is "God shave the Sheep".
Second, thanks for correcting my edit today.
Lastly, I used to visit Ihuamoto, I may of been the "disembodied voice", reason withheld.
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Hi there! I understand recommendations to sites that don't have a wikipedia page might not work for Wikipedia. I am confused though that the entire section I submitted was deleted and not just the links. The page had spiritual and medical aspects covered but completely left off the legal and financial aspects of end of life care. This is a critical step that if forgotten can lead to major medical and financial repercussions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by EaseRoad ( talk • contribs) 05:21, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
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I don't get it. Why do that, when we don't write "Australia actress" for instance? Both are nationalities, not countries. What adjective is there except "New Zealander" for a person who is from New Zealand?- Mcc1789 ( talk) 21:30, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for the update. I meant to check on that. Guess it is the standard usage. Odd. I'm still confused how there's no singular "New Zealander" denonym, given we have the plural "New Zealanders". Oh well. English makes no sense. Mcc1789 ( talk) 16:41, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
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Hello, I am the IP address of User:CityOfSails. I have been attempting to log in to that account but it kept saying Password Inccorect. I then requested a password reset email but it did not arrive. Now I have been completely locked out of Wikipedia. I cannot attempt to log in again with my password because it has been reset. I also cannot request another password reset email because Wikipedia would not send two reset emails to a single email address in one day. Can you please help me? 122.60.168.131 ( talk) 01:05, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
Could you please add Christopher Luxon to your watchlist? Schwede 66 02:30, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
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I've made a couple of changes- I hope it works out. I think the events of the mid-to-late nineties at AUSA are an important part of its history, and the destabilization that resulted- deliberate or not (you know where I stand on that issue) can serve as important lessons for the future. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Flootoo ( talk • contribs) 13:50, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
User:Bablos939 appears to be a single agenda editor. All of his edits are about posting Chinese women with non-Chinese men on mixed marriage and prostitution articles while deleting information anout Chinese men with non-Chinese women. Recommend undoing all his edits. He is deleting massive amounts of sourced information giving false reasons and even changing sourced information to omit things or say things the sources don't say. Buzinezz ( talk) 00:57, 2 May 2020 (UTC)
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Hi and I do not know who to come across with but you since I have worked with you once before and you're also a Kiwi editor. It would be nice to put your thoughts on regarding my recent discussion of Talk:2020 coronavirus pandemic in New Zealand#Timeline layout. Thanks so much. Typhoon2013 (talk) 01:36, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
Kia ora Gadfium, hope all's well. No doubt you'll be most interested in today's 4pm news conference.
I'm going through Wikidata entries with a view of ensuring that the New Zealand Gazetteer place ID is present. What I've found is that many Wikidata entries relating to the Māori Wikipedia are blank beyond the article name, and need merging with other Wikidata entries. I've just come across Allandale and Allendale; the former referring to the locality on Banks Peninsula and the latter to the locality near Fairlie in the Mackenzie District. The Mackenzie locality is missing from Google Maps (they do have the Allandale Lodge Bed and Breakfast, though) but more importantly, it is misspelled. I'm not sure how disambiguation works so can't move it myself. Could you thus please move mi:Allendale ( d:Q65429408 is the related Wikidata entry)? I would regard the Banks Peninsula location as the primary topic as that one does show up in Google Maps. Schwede 66 01:22, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
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Gadfium, I am a new user who created an account yesterday and is now on an editing spree, mostly reverting vandalism. When I edit I feel like I will accidentally do something and get blocked for it. As you have been editing wikipedia for 16 years do you have any advice on how to not get blocked? Southern Lights ( talk) 01:56, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
Gadfium, your edits regarding 'McGowan' are incorrect. Michael Elphick's character was called 'Magowan'. Check the credits of episode 3, series 1. You will find it on YouTube. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.57.139.86 ( talk) 16:43, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
Hello Gadfium, in regards to your editing to Martin_Dreyer, could you please advise the reason that those two links been removed. In addition, are you working for Wikipedia & what's your role in Wikipedia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.29.31.115 ( talk) 05:16, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
The school rolls on the Kerikeri article puzzle me. Kerikeri Primary for example -- the roll is given at 487. Exploring the reference I see it is actually 535 which I think is more realistic. Is there something amiss with the reference markup, namely {{NZ school roll data|1034|y}}<ref>{{TKI|1034|Kerikeri Primary School}} ? Cheers. Moriori ( talk) 03:27, 24 June 2020 (UTC)
Thanks to you both. Interesting, Moriori ( talk) 00:03, 26 June 2020 (UTC)
Sorry, it wasn't YOUR changes to Pat Evison that I meant to revert, but the earlier several ones that made unreferenced changes, made a mess of formatting etc. Paora ( talk) 22:30, 24 June 2020 (UTC)
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Hello old Wiki friend. I have just seen your request to the crats to remove your adminship, and it greatly saddens me. The WMF clearly has no idea of the damage they have done to the project. Good luck. Moriori ( talk) 08:49, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
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On 10 June, a part of the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) - the organisation which runs Wikipedia and related projects - called Trust & Safety (T&S) banned an administrator called Fram from the English Wikipedia for a year. This was an unprecedented action because previously T&S have only become involved in matters with legal implications, and they failed to explain why they banned Fram. Usually, problems on English Wikipedia are dealt with by the community of editors or by the elected Arbitration Committee (Arbcom). The ban created considerable unease amongst editors, which was not calmed by several statements from T&S as they were couched in bureacratic/legal language and failed to address the specifics. A way forward proposed by respected editor Newyorkbrad was rejected outright by T&S.
I followed the discussion with interest, and gave my support to Newyorkbrad's compromise proposal. When it was clear that the community's protest was not being heeded, I decided to make my own protest. On 22 June, I resigned as an administrator with the following post:
I have been dispirited by the recent action of T&S, and even more so by their refusal to explain their action in any meaningful way, to provide any mechanism for an appeal, or to negotiate on a compromise. I do not wish to hold advanced permissions on en.wikipedia in this situation. Please remove my administratorship.
More than 20 other administrators have also resigned over this. In some cases, they resigned because they disagreed with the community's opposition to T&S's action, but most resigned for similar reasons to me. Other editors stopped using administrator tools, or stopped editing articles until such time as the situation was resolved.
Others who resigned also stopped editing Wikipedia articles, but I took a different approach: I became more active in improving articles than previously. I don't know any details about Fram, and I don't particularly care whether or not they are banned, so long as the process is fair. I still very much care about the encyclopedia.
On 28 June, the WMF CEO Katherine Maher began to discuss the situation with the community on her talk page, and on 2 July, the WMF Board of Trustees issued a statement which directed T&S to work with Arbcom to review the case. Individuals on the board made it clear that Arbcom could overturn or alter the T&S ban if it saw fit. T&S provided detailed information privately to Arbcom on why they had banned Fram, and Arbcom has confirmed that although there are some redactions of names in that information, it is sufficient for them to open a case.
The three points I raised in my resignation have now been substantially addressed: T&S have explained their action to Arbcom, which will now consider the evidence and may overrule the ban, and the CEO is actively talking to the community. I will ask for my administrator position back, because I believe that the crisis is over.
I do think the WMF comes out of this badly because they failed to communicate with the community initially, and took a very long time to correct that. I think we need a management organisation which engages with the community in a more timely fashion. The turmoil of the last few weeks may be a wake-up call to them.
I am proud of the community of editors. We've been far from united on this, but in the end we succeeded in forcing the WMF to listen to us and to back down from their early refusal to compromise at all.
More information about the response to T&S's ban can be found at WP:FRAMSUM.- gadfium 04:41, 6 July 2019 (UTC)
Tēnā Koe, Gadfium, it's Leavepuckgackle1998 here. I just wanted to thank you for your advice to help fix the Wellington article I heavily contributed to this afternoon. I read all your feedback carefully, and have corrected all the things you pointed out as being incorrect. However, I did not think it was appropriate how you reverted all my edits I worked so hard on instead of just fixing the two or three mistakes there. That's how we do it on Wikipedia. I'm sure you're a very expereinced editor, but please don't revert people's whole edits even though only 1% of them is a mistake. Please resist temptations from doing this. -- Leavepuckgackle1998 ( talk) 06:32, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
I don't expect you to, I was just saying that if it was, say, BCE instead of CE (something that is clearly a typo) you could just fix that? Thanks. Leavepuckgackle1998 ( talk) 10:32, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
Gadfium, I apologise for you for trying to rename Napier, New Zealand to Napier. I clearly didn't know how when I attempted it, but I did it in good faith. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Leavepuckgackle1998 ( talk • contribs) 03:11, 11 July 2019 (UTC)
Gadfium, hello. I know we’ve had our disagreements in the past, and I am sorry that happened. I highly respect you as an administrator, because that just shows your commitment to something you volunteer for. So I just wanted to say thank you again for unblocking me, and that I’m incredibly grateful. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Leavepuckgackle1998 ( talk • contribs) 09:05, 30 July 2019 (UTC)
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I edited an article by removing four images and leaving three because it seemed to me to be overkill. User:Tahatai objected on my talk page and then there was further mention at Talk:Judith_Baragwanath where Tahatai said she would reinstate the images. I urged her not to. It would be appreciated if you could look to see if I am on the right track. Tahatai joined Wiki in March and has become a fine, competent contributor and I would hate to discourage her. If you don't agree with my removal of the images, I will restore them myself. Cheers. Moriori ( talk) 01:29, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
Thanks User:Moriori : well said - happy to abide by this. My reasons are several and can be found on the Baragwanath Talk page. Tahatai ( talk) 01:47, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
For your work on Aka Aka.
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Hi, that's what I meant. the page should change the name. can you do it. I don't know how too. Evangelical10002 ( talk) 09:49, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
(this page should change its name Fascism in New Zealand to Far-right politics in New Zealand reason = Australia and many other nations have far right politics pages, 2 Far right politics would include more in the page. Evangelical10002 ( talk) 13:20, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
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Hi there, the information is available for download as a WINRAR or spreadsheet by NZ stats. It's an estimate for the moment from the collective data they've given us (Asian, Maori, Pacific etc) and, though as more data comes out over the next month or so, the statistics themselves are pretty accurate (As seen in the rise of immigrantion to Auckland, compared to other places of the country). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Foxterria ( talk • contribs) 08:54, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
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Just curious. The post looked innocent. Does that user have some issues? WQUlrich ( talk) 20:21, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
Are you able to remove this edit? [1]. It outs a person with current name suppression. Ajf773 ( talk) 09:32, 29 October 2019 (UTC)
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Over at the ArbCom questions you said "I think their rights were removed by T&S so they could not unblock themselves", but admins can't unblock themselves anyway. Boing! said Zebedee ( talk) 01:21, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
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It was a pleasant surprise to see you refer to one of my essays involving Arbcom in your question to candidates. And I have to admit that I giggled when you asked yourself too! Mostly, though, I'm pleased to see that the candidates who have answered so far seem to be of the "well, I'm already busy here, I'll just keep doing what I'm doing" mindset. I think it speaks to the relative maturity of this year's candidates. We as a community will be the real winners here, with so many solid candidates who really get it. Good luck, Gadfium. Risker ( talk) 02:29, 15 November 2019 (UTC)
Hello,
Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at the English Wikipedia.
I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!
From my own experience, Google Code-In can be fun, you can make several new friends, attract new people to your wiki and make them part of your community.
If you have any questions, please let us know at google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org.
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"Dancing Dan's Christmas" is a fun read if you have the time. Right from the start it extols the virtues of the
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No matter what concoction is your favorite to imbibe during this festive season I would like to toast you with it and to thank you for all your work here at the 'pedia this past year. Best wishes for your 2020 as well G. MarnetteD| Talk 11:56, 18 December 2019 (UTC) |
Please correct me if I'm mistaken, but I would've considered a book source to be a better trust than an internet source. It takes effort to publish a book. Web pages can be created in a matter of minutes.-- 210.48.190.54 ( talk) 00:54, 24 December 2019 (UTC)
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Firstly, sorry about the message from the previous poster. However, I believe they are correct. For whatever reason the NRL does not include World Club Challenge matches in their official stats, any more than they do other trial matches. I don't personally have strong feeling one way or the other, except that we should stick by the stats of the competition organiser. Here's a link to support the change: [2] Doctorhawkes ( talk) 06:48, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
I was thinking out loud the other day, how about a kiwiwiki? A somewhat tongue-in-cheek and tourist guide wiki, as part of wikimedia obviously. No BLP's, make up a "Chur" rating system for beaches, suburbs, shopping malls, parks, walks, the Johnkey way (bike tracks), pubs etc. Its task is to get some news coverage here (NZ), drive some new users to wiki in general and recruit more Maori editors, only 2 active currently. I viewed stupidwiki, a German parody site and it gave me pause, FYI, our anthem, according to them is "God shave the Sheep".
Second, thanks for correcting my edit today.
Lastly, I used to visit Ihuamoto, I may of been the "disembodied voice", reason withheld.
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Hi there! I understand recommendations to sites that don't have a wikipedia page might not work for Wikipedia. I am confused though that the entire section I submitted was deleted and not just the links. The page had spiritual and medical aspects covered but completely left off the legal and financial aspects of end of life care. This is a critical step that if forgotten can lead to major medical and financial repercussions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by EaseRoad ( talk • contribs) 05:21, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
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I don't get it. Why do that, when we don't write "Australia actress" for instance? Both are nationalities, not countries. What adjective is there except "New Zealander" for a person who is from New Zealand?- Mcc1789 ( talk) 21:30, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for the update. I meant to check on that. Guess it is the standard usage. Odd. I'm still confused how there's no singular "New Zealander" denonym, given we have the plural "New Zealanders". Oh well. English makes no sense. Mcc1789 ( talk) 16:41, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
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Arbcom RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. A draft RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC (Draft) and not open to comments from the community yet. Interested editors can comment on the RfC itself on its talk page.
Hello, I am the IP address of User:CityOfSails. I have been attempting to log in to that account but it kept saying Password Inccorect. I then requested a password reset email but it did not arrive. Now I have been completely locked out of Wikipedia. I cannot attempt to log in again with my password because it has been reset. I also cannot request another password reset email because Wikipedia would not send two reset emails to a single email address in one day. Can you please help me? 122.60.168.131 ( talk) 01:05, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
Could you please add Christopher Luxon to your watchlist? Schwede 66 02:30, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
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I've made a couple of changes- I hope it works out. I think the events of the mid-to-late nineties at AUSA are an important part of its history, and the destabilization that resulted- deliberate or not (you know where I stand on that issue) can serve as important lessons for the future. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Flootoo ( talk • contribs) 13:50, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
User:Bablos939 appears to be a single agenda editor. All of his edits are about posting Chinese women with non-Chinese men on mixed marriage and prostitution articles while deleting information anout Chinese men with non-Chinese women. Recommend undoing all his edits. He is deleting massive amounts of sourced information giving false reasons and even changing sourced information to omit things or say things the sources don't say. Buzinezz ( talk) 00:57, 2 May 2020 (UTC)
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Hi and I do not know who to come across with but you since I have worked with you once before and you're also a Kiwi editor. It would be nice to put your thoughts on regarding my recent discussion of Talk:2020 coronavirus pandemic in New Zealand#Timeline layout. Thanks so much. Typhoon2013 (talk) 01:36, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
Kia ora Gadfium, hope all's well. No doubt you'll be most interested in today's 4pm news conference.
I'm going through Wikidata entries with a view of ensuring that the New Zealand Gazetteer place ID is present. What I've found is that many Wikidata entries relating to the Māori Wikipedia are blank beyond the article name, and need merging with other Wikidata entries. I've just come across Allandale and Allendale; the former referring to the locality on Banks Peninsula and the latter to the locality near Fairlie in the Mackenzie District. The Mackenzie locality is missing from Google Maps (they do have the Allandale Lodge Bed and Breakfast, though) but more importantly, it is misspelled. I'm not sure how disambiguation works so can't move it myself. Could you thus please move mi:Allendale ( d:Q65429408 is the related Wikidata entry)? I would regard the Banks Peninsula location as the primary topic as that one does show up in Google Maps. Schwede 66 01:22, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
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Gadfium, I am a new user who created an account yesterday and is now on an editing spree, mostly reverting vandalism. When I edit I feel like I will accidentally do something and get blocked for it. As you have been editing wikipedia for 16 years do you have any advice on how to not get blocked? Southern Lights ( talk) 01:56, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
Gadfium, your edits regarding 'McGowan' are incorrect. Michael Elphick's character was called 'Magowan'. Check the credits of episode 3, series 1. You will find it on YouTube. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.57.139.86 ( talk) 16:43, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
Hello Gadfium, in regards to your editing to Martin_Dreyer, could you please advise the reason that those two links been removed. In addition, are you working for Wikipedia & what's your role in Wikipedia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.29.31.115 ( talk) 05:16, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
The school rolls on the Kerikeri article puzzle me. Kerikeri Primary for example -- the roll is given at 487. Exploring the reference I see it is actually 535 which I think is more realistic. Is there something amiss with the reference markup, namely {{NZ school roll data|1034|y}}<ref>{{TKI|1034|Kerikeri Primary School}} ? Cheers. Moriori ( talk) 03:27, 24 June 2020 (UTC)
Thanks to you both. Interesting, Moriori ( talk) 00:03, 26 June 2020 (UTC)
Sorry, it wasn't YOUR changes to Pat Evison that I meant to revert, but the earlier several ones that made unreferenced changes, made a mess of formatting etc. Paora ( talk) 22:30, 24 June 2020 (UTC)
Category:Submarine simulators has been nominated for renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. ZXCVBNM ( TALK) 16:37, 27 June 2020 (UTC)