User Neveselbert has modified several election box templates. As these are used on tens of thousands of pages I feel that some sort of consensus should be required to do so. I can't revert most of them so was wondering if you could? These ones in particular:
Thanks. Kiwichris ( talk) 09:46, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
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Thank you for your help with the entry Margi Robertson. It has proven invaluable and I appreciate the time and attention that you devoted to the task. I am new to Wikipedia and still trying to get my head around the citation system. I noticed that you seem to suggest that I enter newspaper articles using the "manual" mode and then checking "news" for the template. I noticed that this gives a different format (or maybe I am doing something wrong) than checking "automatic" (last name first for example). Is it preferable to use the "automatic" function as opposed to the "manual function"? I have been using the "automatic" function for online sources and only entering these manually when the "automatic" function fails (generates a message saying that it cannot generate the citation automatically). I have been using the manual function only when the automatic function fails or when I am citing hardcopy. Do let me know if I am doing something wrong here. I am accustomed to a number of different referencing systems but find that this knowledge doesn't translate well into the Wikipedia environment. Any advice you might have would be much appreciated. Yrarendar ( talk) 05:08, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
Thank you for your prompt and helpful response. I will remember to add links next time! Yrarendar ( talk) 04:24, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
Kiaora,
I was using another wikipeida page: ( /info/en/?search=Territorial_authorities_of_New_Zealand) to glean information from the websites of all local authorities in NZ. Most of them have an external link to the TLA's website with the name of the Council, rather than "Official Site", so I changed Dunedin's to be more consistent with the rest. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sophocrat ( talk • contribs) 02:41, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
Why did you set up redirects for pages related to the 2018 Commonwealth Games? Its hard to tell now which articles need creating and also discourages editors from creating the article (as they would assume that the article exists). Sportsfan 1234 ( talk) 18:48, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi Schwede66, our paths have crossed a few times on NZ soldier biographies that have political elements. I was wondering if you may be able to assist with the Leslie Andrew article, which is presently undergoing a A-Class review at Milhist. One of the sources I used in expanding the article mentions that he was approached to run for parliament some time in the 1950s/1960s. Unfortunately the source doesn't say who approached him - I suspect it was the National Party but it would be good to confirm this. From an edit you made on the Reginald Judson article, I think you may have the book on the history of the National Party by Gustafson. Is there a possibility you could check this, or any other resources for which you may have ready access, to confirm who approached Andrew? It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Zawed ( talk) 10:23, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
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Hey Schwede, thanks for updating article status of Geoffrey Rees from stub to start. What's your view on the status of Campbell Johnstone, Marina Cade, Deirdre Fraser, Virginia Lee ? Rgds - Sticks 66 09:15, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
You just moved stating no primary topic based on page view analysis, but you did not include the correct spelling of Glenn Turner (you missed an N). Was this deliberate? Glenn Turner has more views thatn the rest combined, so I would say is the primary topic. Spike 'em ( talk) 18:37, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
Have added dates and refs for the article on Arthur W. V. Reeve. Hugo999 ( talk) 14:28, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
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Logstash.Thanks for familiarizing me about WP:REDYES. Cheers Sharkslayer87 ( talk) 23:02, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
Schwede would you mind taking a look at these rowers for a view on whether they're start class yet ?
Miranda Bennett;
Marguerite Houston;
Sally Causby;
Jo Lips;
Eliza Blair;
Malcolm Batten;
Dale Caterson. Rgds
Sticks
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1972 New Zealand eight you nominated as a
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That's not correct, see also MOS:NICKNAME:
If a person has a common English-language hypocorism (diminutive or abbreviation) used in lieu of a given name, it is not presented between quotation marks or parentheses into or after their name.
Mention it elsewhere if you can source it, do not include in the opening name. Giant Snowman 19:17, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
You can still nominate an article for deletion via PROD if it has been previously tagged with BLLPROD - WP:PROD clearly states that "a special case is BLPPROD: an article which has had the BLPPROD-tag removed still can be PRODed via the process described here." I'd therefore respectfully invite you to restore the PROD tag on this article. Giant Snowman 15:36, 18 May 2018 (UTC)
derbycountyinnz falsely accused me of being a sock puppet and you didn’t threaten to suspend his account Coolguy48s ( talk) 09:16, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
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Would you (or another experienced editor) be interested in getting the ball rolling with a RFC to lead to a policy change on NZ place name titles? I'm new to this, and have already posted quite a bit in an argument that seems to be just repeating itself. Perhaps we can start to bring this to a resolution. — Giantflightlessbirds ( talk) 07:02, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
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Hi Schwede66. Just a heads-up - this template is missing all the judoka. The full list is here. Thanks. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 17:32, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
The infobox on 1979 World Rowing Championships is so long (& wide) that it restricts the width of the men's event listing and causes all names (first & surnames) to split over two lines. Similar on 1975 World Rowing Championships although it's not quite so bad. Any clues on what to do ? Suppose if I had a a few lines of copy to add to the lead paragraph that would drop the events box, but I'm not sure what's interesting to say about these c'ships. Sticks 66 09:05, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
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In regards to your warning about "vandalising", I wish to justify the revertions made, and acknowledge having forgotten to do so in the revertions made to edits in the first place. I am aware this may have contributed to your concern. The edits I reverted removed the office held by Winston Peters that is "Acting Prime Minster of New Zealand", unnecessarily so. It should not have been removed and subsequently noted in his Deputy PM office for several reasons. There is precedent for such use, look to Helen Clark's article and see 'Acting Foreign Minister' is afforded a separate office. This is for a simple reason, because it is a separate office, as is Acting PM. Which is why it is wrong to note that Winston Peters is Acting PM in the office for Deputy PM, because it has nothing to do with the office of Deputy PM. It is afforded to he/she who is next in line (cabinet rankings). Winston does not hold the office of Prime Minister and it is therefore appropriate to maintain what was. I hope you understand and I apologise for not having justified earlier. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Drtimberman ( talk • contribs) 09:05, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
Howdy Schwede66. What annoys me, is that Drtimberman was away from Wikipedia for about 8 months & suddenly today, he shows up & acts like he in charge of the Peters article. Not good. GoodDay ( talk) 13:16, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
A while ago you (completely validly) criticised some of the female academic articles I was creating for MOS issues. I'm not back from a enforced break from keyboarding and getting back into this work. I work from a template at User:Stuartyeates/sandbox/academicbio and you're welcome to tweak it to fix any remaining issues. Feel free to add little comments anywhere you notice me getting things wrong too. Stuartyeates ( talk) 19:53, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
Our discussion over the autopatrolled right was archived. What would you like to do? ɱ (talk) · vbm · coi) 19:54, 25 June 2018 (UTC)
How does Denise Wilson measure up? Looks like I'm getting back into the swing of these after my injury, with no difficulty typing, thankfully. Stuartyeates ( talk) 10:01, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
User Neveselbert has modified several election box templates. As these are used on tens of thousands of pages I feel that some sort of consensus should be required to do so. I can't revert most of them so was wondering if you could? These ones in particular:
Thanks. Kiwichris ( talk) 09:46, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2018).
Thank you for your help with the entry Margi Robertson. It has proven invaluable and I appreciate the time and attention that you devoted to the task. I am new to Wikipedia and still trying to get my head around the citation system. I noticed that you seem to suggest that I enter newspaper articles using the "manual" mode and then checking "news" for the template. I noticed that this gives a different format (or maybe I am doing something wrong) than checking "automatic" (last name first for example). Is it preferable to use the "automatic" function as opposed to the "manual function"? I have been using the "automatic" function for online sources and only entering these manually when the "automatic" function fails (generates a message saying that it cannot generate the citation automatically). I have been using the manual function only when the automatic function fails or when I am citing hardcopy. Do let me know if I am doing something wrong here. I am accustomed to a number of different referencing systems but find that this knowledge doesn't translate well into the Wikipedia environment. Any advice you might have would be much appreciated. Yrarendar ( talk) 05:08, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
Thank you for your prompt and helpful response. I will remember to add links next time! Yrarendar ( talk) 04:24, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
Kiaora,
I was using another wikipeida page: ( /info/en/?search=Territorial_authorities_of_New_Zealand) to glean information from the websites of all local authorities in NZ. Most of them have an external link to the TLA's website with the name of the Council, rather than "Official Site", so I changed Dunedin's to be more consistent with the rest. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sophocrat ( talk • contribs) 02:41, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
Why did you set up redirects for pages related to the 2018 Commonwealth Games? Its hard to tell now which articles need creating and also discourages editors from creating the article (as they would assume that the article exists). Sportsfan 1234 ( talk) 18:48, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi Schwede66, our paths have crossed a few times on NZ soldier biographies that have political elements. I was wondering if you may be able to assist with the Leslie Andrew article, which is presently undergoing a A-Class review at Milhist. One of the sources I used in expanding the article mentions that he was approached to run for parliament some time in the 1950s/1960s. Unfortunately the source doesn't say who approached him - I suspect it was the National Party but it would be good to confirm this. From an edit you made on the Reginald Judson article, I think you may have the book on the history of the National Party by Gustafson. Is there a possibility you could check this, or any other resources for which you may have ready access, to confirm who approached Andrew? It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Zawed ( talk) 10:23, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article
1972 New Zealand eight you nominated for
GA-status according to the
criteria.
This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by
Legobot, on behalf of
Zawed --
Zawed (
talk)
00:41, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
Hey Schwede, thanks for updating article status of Geoffrey Rees from stub to start. What's your view on the status of Campbell Johnstone, Marina Cade, Deirdre Fraser, Virginia Lee ? Rgds - Sticks 66 09:15, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
You just moved stating no primary topic based on page view analysis, but you did not include the correct spelling of Glenn Turner (you missed an N). Was this deliberate? Glenn Turner has more views thatn the rest combined, so I would say is the primary topic. Spike 'em ( talk) 18:37, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
Have added dates and refs for the article on Arthur W. V. Reeve. Hugo999 ( talk) 14:28, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2018).
equals_to_any
function can be used when checking multiple namespaces. One major upcoming change is the ability to
see which filters are the slowest. This information is currently only available to those with access to
Logstash.Thanks for familiarizing me about WP:REDYES. Cheers Sharkslayer87 ( talk) 23:02, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
Schwede would you mind taking a look at these rowers for a view on whether they're start class yet ?
Miranda Bennett;
Marguerite Houston;
Sally Causby;
Jo Lips;
Eliza Blair;
Malcolm Batten;
Dale Caterson. Rgds
Sticks
66
04:11, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
The article
1972 New Zealand eight you nominated as a
good article has passed
; see
Talk:1972 New Zealand eight for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can
nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by
Legobot, on behalf of
Zawed --
Zawed (
talk)
08:01, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
That's not correct, see also MOS:NICKNAME:
If a person has a common English-language hypocorism (diminutive or abbreviation) used in lieu of a given name, it is not presented between quotation marks or parentheses into or after their name.
Mention it elsewhere if you can source it, do not include in the opening name. Giant Snowman 19:17, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
You can still nominate an article for deletion via PROD if it has been previously tagged with BLLPROD - WP:PROD clearly states that "a special case is BLPPROD: an article which has had the BLPPROD-tag removed still can be PRODed via the process described here." I'd therefore respectfully invite you to restore the PROD tag on this article. Giant Snowman 15:36, 18 May 2018 (UTC)
derbycountyinnz falsely accused me of being a sock puppet and you didn’t threaten to suspend his account Coolguy48s ( talk) 09:16, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
ACTRIAL:
Deletion tags
Backlog drive:
Editathons
Paid editing - new policy
Subject-specific notability guidelines
Not English
News
Would you (or another experienced editor) be interested in getting the ball rolling with a RFC to lead to a policy change on NZ place name titles? I'm new to this, and have already posted quite a bit in an argument that seems to be just repeating itself. Perhaps we can start to bring this to a resolution. — Giantflightlessbirds ( talk) 07:02, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2018).
Hi Schwede66. Just a heads-up - this template is missing all the judoka. The full list is here. Thanks. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 17:32, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
The infobox on 1979 World Rowing Championships is so long (& wide) that it restricts the width of the men's event listing and causes all names (first & surnames) to split over two lines. Similar on 1975 World Rowing Championships although it's not quite so bad. Any clues on what to do ? Suppose if I had a a few lines of copy to add to the lead paragraph that would drop the events box, but I'm not sure what's interesting to say about these c'ships. Sticks 66 09:05, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
Hello Schwede66, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!
We can see the light at the end of the tunnel: there are currently 2900 unreviewed articles, and 4000 unreviewed redirects.
Announcing the Backlog Elimination Drive!
Go here to remove your name if you wish to opt-out of future mailings. — Insertcleverphrasehere ( or here) 06:57, 16 June 2018 (UTC)
In regards to your warning about "vandalising", I wish to justify the revertions made, and acknowledge having forgotten to do so in the revertions made to edits in the first place. I am aware this may have contributed to your concern. The edits I reverted removed the office held by Winston Peters that is "Acting Prime Minster of New Zealand", unnecessarily so. It should not have been removed and subsequently noted in his Deputy PM office for several reasons. There is precedent for such use, look to Helen Clark's article and see 'Acting Foreign Minister' is afforded a separate office. This is for a simple reason, because it is a separate office, as is Acting PM. Which is why it is wrong to note that Winston Peters is Acting PM in the office for Deputy PM, because it has nothing to do with the office of Deputy PM. It is afforded to he/she who is next in line (cabinet rankings). Winston does not hold the office of Prime Minister and it is therefore appropriate to maintain what was. I hope you understand and I apologise for not having justified earlier. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Drtimberman ( talk • contribs) 09:05, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
Howdy Schwede66. What annoys me, is that Drtimberman was away from Wikipedia for about 8 months & suddenly today, he shows up & acts like he in charge of the Peters article. Not good. GoodDay ( talk) 13:16, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
A while ago you (completely validly) criticised some of the female academic articles I was creating for MOS issues. I'm not back from a enforced break from keyboarding and getting back into this work. I work from a template at User:Stuartyeates/sandbox/academicbio and you're welcome to tweak it to fix any remaining issues. Feel free to add little comments anywhere you notice me getting things wrong too. Stuartyeates ( talk) 19:53, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
Our discussion over the autopatrolled right was archived. What would you like to do? ɱ (talk) · vbm · coi) 19:54, 25 June 2018 (UTC)
How does Denise Wilson measure up? Looks like I'm getting back into the swing of these after my injury, with no difficulty typing, thankfully. Stuartyeates ( talk) 10:01, 26 June 2018 (UTC)