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Archive 7: July 2008 — December 2009
Thank you Nevers - I have moved your message into my Archive 6. There are some very beautiful pictures there! Some I have seen before, many I have not and they are very interesting. I will be busy with all these for some time. I think I will put a source category on these so you can check my progress! Thanks for going to so much trouble! Kāhuroa ( talk) 12:43, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for expressing your concerns on the recent issues with TinucherianBot in Project Banner Tagging for WP:FOOD . I have made some comments and explainations at Wikipedia_talk:Bots/Requests_for_approval#TinucherianBot and I am leaving this note just for your information -- TinuCherian (Wanna Talk?) - 09:43, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
Kia ora. It was a good idea to change most instances of "te reo Māori" to "Māori". Re the capitalisation, I've opened a discussion at Talk:Māori language#Capitalisation of the term "te reo Maori". Nurg ( talk) 06:52, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
Howdy mate, good of you to expand that Howea; so many genus articles like that one are one or two sentence stubs in desperate need of expansion. If the expansion is five fold, and includes a noteworthy tidbit, it may be suited for DYK which, once posted as such, usually beckons the independent eye of other editors, a process I find helpful as a guidance tool. Be sure to submit them on that page when you expand or create articles that meet the criteria. If you will give a bit of time to the family I'd say we most need to do more of what you are doing: creating all subfamilies, tribes, and subtribes. Ive written all the missing genera but, as I said, many are essentially vacant, one sentence stubs. Expansion of the underrepresented genera and creation of the tribal and familiar ranks should be our first order concern; we can highlight interesting species at leisure. And however formatted, getting more pics is key. I dont know how things are in NZ right now but most palms here in Florida are now either in flower or fruit (or both, or about to be) so shots are forthcoming. Here's the Linowhatever: 1 2 Mmcknight4 ( talk) 06:59, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
Kia ora (the only Māori expression I know). The heading is Norwegian and means "Thanks, same to you". As being nearly the only one on the Norwegian (nynorsk) Wikipedia dealing with New Zealand subjects, it's really nice to have a response from "down under". Mostly I have delt with geographic matters, now and then plants (trees), history and culture. Much work still to be done, I'll probably pick up one or more of your articles in the future. Good of you to put your pictures into Commons, by the way. Greetings PerPlex from the Neo-Norwegian Wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.212.250.223 ( talk) 19:36, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
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I clicked on the Howea commons link on the page and it said it was deleted. Mmcknight4 ( talk) 05:14, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Dude nice work getting them! That article is my baby and it really makes it look so much better. Nice work.. Cheers, Kotare ( talk) 06:47, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
If reports indicate that a species of tree has been planted in a foreign country (even one specimen), this is a fact, the phrase it has been planted is correct, then the specimen in fact can be seen in that place, I'm not saying the trees have been very popular there and there are a lot of trees there, besides, if there is one tree there it can be inspiring for its introduction and i can even tell you that even those trees have been there for several years they have not been selected from the best provenance source which are specimens at its highest altitudes or southernmost places, but i prefer highest altitudes provenances, look in my city aguascalientes there are some araucaria heteropphylla every year we have frequent frosts and very common about -4° C, these trees withstand the frosts, in 2005 a record low temperature iof -9° C ocurred and the trees withstood i saw them, when the trees collapsed in 1997 it was because it snowed the trees did'nt withstand snow even when it was a lower temperature (-7°C) aeven though some trees survived, died trees in 1997 where replaced by new ones, what happens if we collect seeds from those surviving trees: many trees will heir their hardiness but few will collapse, i have a friend from Cisco, State of Washington, he planted a chilean Austrocedrus, when the books indicate tha this tree can be tolerant at about -15°C it withstoood -30° C, at that time he show me by the links about that temperature and photos of the sapling, i don´t have the proves but i have confirmed that some specimens are hardier than other and if they are brought from stressing provenance sources, and it can be provable with chilean species planted in Britain, there is literature about it very recently new specimens from southernmost places or from the mountains are hardier, and it has been discovered that Argentine provenance sorces tolerate better frosts and droughts than chilean specimens, many trees from New Zealand have been planted from specimens from sea level and planted in Britain but if a selective sampling is collected from its highest distribution, even if this treee grows at 800 or 1000 m above sea level good hardy trees can be obtained, chilean trees have been showing us this, i don´t know where is the provenance source of that Austrocedrus he bought it in Chile, about an isolated specimen growing some years in a country is very hopeful and mostly if we know that it has not been taken from its highest altitudinal range or southernmost range and that those trees have been there several years, an isolated specimen growing for years in the fast north is remarkable in mainly knowing its sea level origin, and what happens if we plant a tree from its mos altitudinal or southernmost ranges and we plant it in Britan at sea level and survives frosts, we take seeds from it, with a long long time we get an acceptable frost tolerant tree, an isolated tree is very important, it show us many things and this is true, the tree is there. Greetings -- Jaguarlaser ( talk) 20:42, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello,
Are you quite sure of the merits of this category? I previously created Category:Flora of the Antipodes Islands, Category:Flora of the Chatham Islands and Category:Flora of the Kermadec Islands because each of these regions is considered floristically distinct; for example they are listed as distinct regions under the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions. Three King Islands, on the other hand, is not floristically distinct from North Island, and the WGSRPD therefore lumps them together as part of "New Zealand North". I think you'll agree that we shouldn't be categorising plants according to their presence on any old island, lest articles end up in thousands of categories.
Hesperian 00:39, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
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I had this lame idea of getting as many bird FAs and GAs by the end of the year, I thought this one looked pretty good - is there still material you want to add? I view GA as a good "stable-point" or "way point" Cheers, Casliber ( talk · contribs) 04:44, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
hurriedly, Cheers, Casliber ( talk · contribs) 23:29, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
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I suggest you get a copy of the Ngati Toa treaty claim that was accepted by the crown tribunal and update your rohe map —Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.90.138.234 ( talk) 08:02, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
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I'd like your view on a conflict of interest question I've raised, since you're deeply involved in some of the pages / subjects that we'd be linking from. Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard#Workplace_COI_questions Stuartyeates ( talk) 10:29, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi Kahuroa I'm currently editing a new book on Maori Art and Design and am intersted in using your image 'Poumatua2' in the book. I would include the usual Wiki copyright notice, but wondered if you would like me to use a fuller form for your name? regards Steveb17 ( talk) 15:31, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
Hello,
I work at the Department of Conservation (DOC) in New Zealand.
We would like to begin fixing broken links to the DOC website on Wikipedia. Here are some examples:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Remote_New_Zealand_island_evacuated_as_volcano_erupts http://en.wikipedia.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aoraki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aoraki/Mount_Cook http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auckland_Islands http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridal_Veil_Falls_(Waikato) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell_Island,_New_Zealand http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castaway_depot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castaway_hut http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catlins http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_creek_disaster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_in_New_Zealand http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Buildings_(Wellington,_New_Zealand) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karori_Wildlife_Sanctuary http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Rotopounamu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_caves_of_New_Zealand http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_smoking_bans http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_timelines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Island,_New_Zealand http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Cook http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Ruapehu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_tui http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Island_Saddleback http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nugget_Point http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Government_Buildings,_Wellington http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oparara_River http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Ring_of_Fire http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parson_Bird http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Burn_Viaduct http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periegopidae http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rangitoto_Island http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddleback_(bird) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoking_ban http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoking_bans_by_country http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tane_Mahuta http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taputeranga_Marine_Reserve http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Catlins http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Mackenzie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tieke http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tui_(bird) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_Beach http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellington
We understand the importance of being open and transparent in what we are doing and we understand that links should not be placed on Wikipedia for self-promotion. However we feel the pages we would fix links to on the DOC website provide current and relevant information which would add a substantial amount of value for users.
We are approaching Kahuroa to start the discussion on whether or not it would be acceptable for us to do this.
Conservation ranger 21:53, 7 October 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Conservation ranger ( talk • contribs)
Tēnā koe Kahuroa! Ko ahau Norbert no Hanekeria. I know, you work only wiht Maori-related articles, but could you help me. I'm a Hungarian and I wrote this article Hungarian New Zealander. I love your country and I would like to have it in the Maori wikipedia in te reo Māori. Could you do that to me? If you want, I will make more māori-related articles in the Hungarian Wikipedia (although I did it myself more times :)). Thank you!
Ka kite anō: -- Eino81 ( talk) 08:15, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
Greetings Kahuroa, would you be so kind to help me create an article about Confucius in Maori Wikipedia? Please. It's about a Chinese philosopher and is listed as one of the articles every Wikipedia should have. If you think that article is too long, here is a short version: "Confucius was a Chinese thinker and social philosopher, whose teachings and philosophy have deeply influenced Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese thought and life. His philosophy emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity." Thanks a lot, and best regards-- Amaqqut ( talk) 13:55, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
Kia Ora Kahuroa. I know this is very late to raise, but on the 28/Jul/07, you removed large sections I'd written as "unsourced". They were in fact sourced from McLaughlan's Encyclopaedia. I am not well versed in Wikipedia and so I am not sure if I should re-enter the data, nor if I should - how to tag it to the reference. Would you consider that the material, given its verifiability, be worthy of replacing? Ka Kite L-Bit ( talk) 19:04, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
Do you know who actually created the image for Buller's Birds of New Zealand, at
File:NewZealandFalconBuller.jpg? Cheers. --
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Could you take a look at this edit to Kaikohe please and decide whether this is worth translating.- gadfium 00:28, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
I saw your quick catch on my spelling on this - thanks. I feel this is an interesting and complex subject, and I am not at all qualified to do a good job on it. Any chance of help? Or ideas of good sources? Thanks, Aymatth2 ( talk) 04:11, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
If I don't get sidetracked, I will expand the article, and hope you will spot my more obvious errors. All your points are sensible. But this could grow and grow and still be far from complete... Thanks for the feedback. Aymatth2 ( talk) 13:37, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
Like I said, the article looks good. Some comments:
Small niggles really. I think you should submit this for GA once you have finished it. I am happy to give you a more in depth review if you want. Sabine's Sunbird talk 07:03, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
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We're running out of time to nominate Cordyline australis for DYK, so I'll put it forward Sunday afternoon (NZ time) unless you say otherwise or beat me to it. -- Avenue ( talk) 15:33, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I only now noticed that your 3 example maps use differents greys. Can you reupload them with the same grey :
grey | #E0E0E0
R:224 G:224 B:224 |
This grey is the convention for the ~one or 2 hundreds Location maps that are the backbones (the main background pool) for map makers, to create all following styles : area maps, topo, etc. This grey should be keep as background unless you have specific needs needing to change it (to orange, yellow, or other). Regards, and thanks for your contributions to the talk ; ] Yug (talk) 07:16, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
Could you please explain why did you revert my formatting changes? I fully understand that they might be too massive and to drastic, but they are dictated by WP:MOS and common sense. Materialscientist ( talk) 03:44, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
I've quickly read the article and left (mostly hidden) comments. You'd better go through my multiple edits (I usually spend one, but here fiddled with the spaces to vertically synchronize paragraphs in the diff) and check, as some corrections could be just wrong and some comments merely reflect my ignorance. I am somewhat worried by the abundance of quotes - this might be picked up at FAC. Otherwise, it is an FA-class article. Materialscientist ( talk) 11:07, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
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Archive 7: July 2008 — December 2009
Thank you Nevers - I have moved your message into my Archive 6. There are some very beautiful pictures there! Some I have seen before, many I have not and they are very interesting. I will be busy with all these for some time. I think I will put a source category on these so you can check my progress! Thanks for going to so much trouble! Kāhuroa ( talk) 12:43, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for expressing your concerns on the recent issues with TinucherianBot in Project Banner Tagging for WP:FOOD . I have made some comments and explainations at Wikipedia_talk:Bots/Requests_for_approval#TinucherianBot and I am leaving this note just for your information -- TinuCherian (Wanna Talk?) - 09:43, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
Kia ora. It was a good idea to change most instances of "te reo Māori" to "Māori". Re the capitalisation, I've opened a discussion at Talk:Māori language#Capitalisation of the term "te reo Maori". Nurg ( talk) 06:52, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
Howdy mate, good of you to expand that Howea; so many genus articles like that one are one or two sentence stubs in desperate need of expansion. If the expansion is five fold, and includes a noteworthy tidbit, it may be suited for DYK which, once posted as such, usually beckons the independent eye of other editors, a process I find helpful as a guidance tool. Be sure to submit them on that page when you expand or create articles that meet the criteria. If you will give a bit of time to the family I'd say we most need to do more of what you are doing: creating all subfamilies, tribes, and subtribes. Ive written all the missing genera but, as I said, many are essentially vacant, one sentence stubs. Expansion of the underrepresented genera and creation of the tribal and familiar ranks should be our first order concern; we can highlight interesting species at leisure. And however formatted, getting more pics is key. I dont know how things are in NZ right now but most palms here in Florida are now either in flower or fruit (or both, or about to be) so shots are forthcoming. Here's the Linowhatever: 1 2 Mmcknight4 ( talk) 06:59, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
Kia ora (the only Māori expression I know). The heading is Norwegian and means "Thanks, same to you". As being nearly the only one on the Norwegian (nynorsk) Wikipedia dealing with New Zealand subjects, it's really nice to have a response from "down under". Mostly I have delt with geographic matters, now and then plants (trees), history and culture. Much work still to be done, I'll probably pick up one or more of your articles in the future. Good of you to put your pictures into Commons, by the way. Greetings PerPlex from the Neo-Norwegian Wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.212.250.223 ( talk) 19:36, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
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I clicked on the Howea commons link on the page and it said it was deleted. Mmcknight4 ( talk) 05:14, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Dude nice work getting them! That article is my baby and it really makes it look so much better. Nice work.. Cheers, Kotare ( talk) 06:47, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
If reports indicate that a species of tree has been planted in a foreign country (even one specimen), this is a fact, the phrase it has been planted is correct, then the specimen in fact can be seen in that place, I'm not saying the trees have been very popular there and there are a lot of trees there, besides, if there is one tree there it can be inspiring for its introduction and i can even tell you that even those trees have been there for several years they have not been selected from the best provenance source which are specimens at its highest altitudes or southernmost places, but i prefer highest altitudes provenances, look in my city aguascalientes there are some araucaria heteropphylla every year we have frequent frosts and very common about -4° C, these trees withstand the frosts, in 2005 a record low temperature iof -9° C ocurred and the trees withstood i saw them, when the trees collapsed in 1997 it was because it snowed the trees did'nt withstand snow even when it was a lower temperature (-7°C) aeven though some trees survived, died trees in 1997 where replaced by new ones, what happens if we collect seeds from those surviving trees: many trees will heir their hardiness but few will collapse, i have a friend from Cisco, State of Washington, he planted a chilean Austrocedrus, when the books indicate tha this tree can be tolerant at about -15°C it withstoood -30° C, at that time he show me by the links about that temperature and photos of the sapling, i don´t have the proves but i have confirmed that some specimens are hardier than other and if they are brought from stressing provenance sources, and it can be provable with chilean species planted in Britain, there is literature about it very recently new specimens from southernmost places or from the mountains are hardier, and it has been discovered that Argentine provenance sorces tolerate better frosts and droughts than chilean specimens, many trees from New Zealand have been planted from specimens from sea level and planted in Britain but if a selective sampling is collected from its highest distribution, even if this treee grows at 800 or 1000 m above sea level good hardy trees can be obtained, chilean trees have been showing us this, i don´t know where is the provenance source of that Austrocedrus he bought it in Chile, about an isolated specimen growing some years in a country is very hopeful and mostly if we know that it has not been taken from its highest altitudinal range or southernmost range and that those trees have been there several years, an isolated specimen growing for years in the fast north is remarkable in mainly knowing its sea level origin, and what happens if we plant a tree from its mos altitudinal or southernmost ranges and we plant it in Britan at sea level and survives frosts, we take seeds from it, with a long long time we get an acceptable frost tolerant tree, an isolated tree is very important, it show us many things and this is true, the tree is there. Greetings -- Jaguarlaser ( talk) 20:42, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello,
Are you quite sure of the merits of this category? I previously created Category:Flora of the Antipodes Islands, Category:Flora of the Chatham Islands and Category:Flora of the Kermadec Islands because each of these regions is considered floristically distinct; for example they are listed as distinct regions under the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions. Three King Islands, on the other hand, is not floristically distinct from North Island, and the WGSRPD therefore lumps them together as part of "New Zealand North". I think you'll agree that we shouldn't be categorising plants according to their presence on any old island, lest articles end up in thousands of categories.
Hesperian 00:39, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
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I had this lame idea of getting as many bird FAs and GAs by the end of the year, I thought this one looked pretty good - is there still material you want to add? I view GA as a good "stable-point" or "way point" Cheers, Casliber ( talk · contribs) 04:44, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
hurriedly, Cheers, Casliber ( talk · contribs) 23:29, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
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I suggest you get a copy of the Ngati Toa treaty claim that was accepted by the crown tribunal and update your rohe map —Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.90.138.234 ( talk) 08:02, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
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I'd like your view on a conflict of interest question I've raised, since you're deeply involved in some of the pages / subjects that we'd be linking from. Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard#Workplace_COI_questions Stuartyeates ( talk) 10:29, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi Kahuroa I'm currently editing a new book on Maori Art and Design and am intersted in using your image 'Poumatua2' in the book. I would include the usual Wiki copyright notice, but wondered if you would like me to use a fuller form for your name? regards Steveb17 ( talk) 15:31, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
Hello,
I work at the Department of Conservation (DOC) in New Zealand.
We would like to begin fixing broken links to the DOC website on Wikipedia. Here are some examples:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Remote_New_Zealand_island_evacuated_as_volcano_erupts http://en.wikipedia.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aoraki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aoraki/Mount_Cook http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auckland_Islands http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridal_Veil_Falls_(Waikato) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell_Island,_New_Zealand http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castaway_depot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castaway_hut http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catlins http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_creek_disaster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_in_New_Zealand http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Buildings_(Wellington,_New_Zealand) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karori_Wildlife_Sanctuary http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Rotopounamu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_caves_of_New_Zealand http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_smoking_bans http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_timelines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Island,_New_Zealand http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Cook http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Ruapehu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_tui http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Island_Saddleback http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nugget_Point http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Government_Buildings,_Wellington http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oparara_River http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Ring_of_Fire http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parson_Bird http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Burn_Viaduct http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periegopidae http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rangitoto_Island http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddleback_(bird) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoking_ban http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoking_bans_by_country http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tane_Mahuta http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taputeranga_Marine_Reserve http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Catlins http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Mackenzie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tieke http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tui_(bird) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_Beach http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellington
We understand the importance of being open and transparent in what we are doing and we understand that links should not be placed on Wikipedia for self-promotion. However we feel the pages we would fix links to on the DOC website provide current and relevant information which would add a substantial amount of value for users.
We are approaching Kahuroa to start the discussion on whether or not it would be acceptable for us to do this.
Conservation ranger 21:53, 7 October 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Conservation ranger ( talk • contribs)
Tēnā koe Kahuroa! Ko ahau Norbert no Hanekeria. I know, you work only wiht Maori-related articles, but could you help me. I'm a Hungarian and I wrote this article Hungarian New Zealander. I love your country and I would like to have it in the Maori wikipedia in te reo Māori. Could you do that to me? If you want, I will make more māori-related articles in the Hungarian Wikipedia (although I did it myself more times :)). Thank you!
Ka kite anō: -- Eino81 ( talk) 08:15, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
Greetings Kahuroa, would you be so kind to help me create an article about Confucius in Maori Wikipedia? Please. It's about a Chinese philosopher and is listed as one of the articles every Wikipedia should have. If you think that article is too long, here is a short version: "Confucius was a Chinese thinker and social philosopher, whose teachings and philosophy have deeply influenced Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese thought and life. His philosophy emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity." Thanks a lot, and best regards-- Amaqqut ( talk) 13:55, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
Kia Ora Kahuroa. I know this is very late to raise, but on the 28/Jul/07, you removed large sections I'd written as "unsourced". They were in fact sourced from McLaughlan's Encyclopaedia. I am not well versed in Wikipedia and so I am not sure if I should re-enter the data, nor if I should - how to tag it to the reference. Would you consider that the material, given its verifiability, be worthy of replacing? Ka Kite L-Bit ( talk) 19:04, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
Do you know who actually created the image for Buller's Birds of New Zealand, at
File:NewZealandFalconBuller.jpg? Cheers. --
Alan Liefting (
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04:45, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
Could you take a look at this edit to Kaikohe please and decide whether this is worth translating.- gadfium 00:28, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
I saw your quick catch on my spelling on this - thanks. I feel this is an interesting and complex subject, and I am not at all qualified to do a good job on it. Any chance of help? Or ideas of good sources? Thanks, Aymatth2 ( talk) 04:11, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
If I don't get sidetracked, I will expand the article, and hope you will spot my more obvious errors. All your points are sensible. But this could grow and grow and still be far from complete... Thanks for the feedback. Aymatth2 ( talk) 13:37, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
Like I said, the article looks good. Some comments:
Small niggles really. I think you should submit this for GA once you have finished it. I am happy to give you a more in depth review if you want. Sabine's Sunbird talk 07:03, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
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We're running out of time to nominate Cordyline australis for DYK, so I'll put it forward Sunday afternoon (NZ time) unless you say otherwise or beat me to it. -- Avenue ( talk) 15:33, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I only now noticed that your 3 example maps use differents greys. Can you reupload them with the same grey :
grey | #E0E0E0
R:224 G:224 B:224 |
This grey is the convention for the ~one or 2 hundreds Location maps that are the backbones (the main background pool) for map makers, to create all following styles : area maps, topo, etc. This grey should be keep as background unless you have specific needs needing to change it (to orange, yellow, or other). Regards, and thanks for your contributions to the talk ; ] Yug (talk) 07:16, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
Could you please explain why did you revert my formatting changes? I fully understand that they might be too massive and to drastic, but they are dictated by WP:MOS and common sense. Materialscientist ( talk) 03:44, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
I've quickly read the article and left (mostly hidden) comments. You'd better go through my multiple edits (I usually spend one, but here fiddled with the spaces to vertically synchronize paragraphs in the diff) and check, as some corrections could be just wrong and some comments merely reflect my ignorance. I am somewhat worried by the abundance of quotes - this might be picked up at FAC. Otherwise, it is an FA-class article. Materialscientist ( talk) 11:07, 7 May 2010 (UTC)