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Welcome, yes the region list is more practical than national. Also there is a partial map on the category page. XLerate ( talk) 22:25, 18 November 2008 (UTC) reply

I just went to the other end of the house and there was your nickname on my wife's list of NaNoWriMo buddies! Small world. dramatic ( talk) 08:46, 27 November 2008 (UTC) reply

It's the same "me" as well, in case you're wondering. You have *no* idea how much a bogged-down NaNoWriMo story is conducive to editing Wikipedia, writing holiday cards, doing *anything* but That Darned Story! Daveosaurus ( talk) 09:02, 27 November 2008 (UTC) reply

Min's answer to that is this tool. BTW she says she isn't a buddy but you were on the list of NZ participants she is trying to catch up to. :-) dramatic ( talk) 10:12, 27 November 2008 (UTC) reply

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Thanks for letting me know that. I just noticed a lot of articles dealing with Southland topics that weren't in the Southland category. Daveosaurus ( talk) 02:15, 14 June 2009 (UTC) reply

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Thanks for catching those - as I say, I'm kind of on the other side of the world, so all I have to go on is what others have input for a list. And here I was assuming that the Lilburn River was named for the composer, and thinking how nice it was that there are countries that name landforms after classical musicians. Find me a Copland River, or a Bernstein River, in the United States... -- User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 14:32, 13 July 2009 (UTC) reply

Thanks for the info. ... I'm still new to all this and finding my way by blundering around treading on people's toes. There are a few other rivers listed that I *think* are in the Otago - Southland area but I'll have to wait until I get my mapping software reloaded (my computer fell down in a great screaming heap a week or so back and has had to go in to the shop for various upgrades, reloads and replacement bits) so I can verify that they're the most notable rivers of that name in the country. Once I'm sure there isn't (for example) a notable Lillburn River elsewhere in the country I'll move the article to Lill Burn. Which, according to Herries Beattie, is named after the Lil Burn in Northumbria (the extra "L" having arrived later); and the space is omitted in the name of the Lillburn Valley (and also the Lillburn Survey District). I can't recall many instances of commemorative naming of rivers; and nothing much musical about mountains. Town names other than original Maori names generally commemorate places in Britain or politicians in general (the town I live in shares its name with a famous march, and little else, but the march was named after the town and not the other way around) but the richest source of commemorative names is in township streets. Original town surveys often named their streets according to a theme: counties, places and rivers of Britain were a perennial favourite, but some local towns named their streets from the classics, or for their earliest settlers, or even (in one case) from a British scandal of the 1820s or thereabouts! One town, Rolleston, west of Christchurch, may interest you if you track it down on Google Maps: most of its streets are named after writers or artists of right up to the 20th century. Daveosaurus ( talk) 07:38, 14 July 2009 (UTC) reply

You're quite welcome...it took me something like a year of blundering to figure out that I could move pages, too. So I definitely sympathize. As for naming things after people, I think the only continent which has a substantial number of landforms named after composers and artists is Antarctica, if the stuff I've read on the subject is any indication. I come from a rather colonial-style part of Virginia, where every street is called Duke, or Prince, or King, or something along those lines. If you're lucky you get a Braddock here and there. And Washington, of course. -- User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 15:27, 14 July 2009 (UTC) reply

OK, I've given it a go. Just as well I didn't just barge on ahead - it turned out to be a river somewhere completely different, and that its name had been corrected from Lillburn River to Lilburne River in 2003! Not sure who it would have been named after, but considering that Canterbury was a Church of England settlement, and the only Lilburnes notable enough for inclusion in Wikipedia were Roundheads during the English Civil War, a fair guess could be made... Daveosaurus ( talk) 08:52, 19 July 2009 (UTC) reply

Actually there are several places in Scotland containing the element "Tyne", including " Tynecastle".-- MacRusgail ( talk) 15:17, 5 October 2009 (UTC) reply

Thanks for the comment. John Turnbull Thomson, who named the streets of the original town survey at Invercargill, named them after the rivers of the Scottish / English border country. I noticed while researching this that the Wikipedia article on Thomson contains very little about his later career in New Zealand, and I'm planning on expanding it somewhat the next time I've got access to one of John Hall-Jones' biographies of Thomson). As well as Tyne, another almost certainly non-Scottish river street name in the original survey is Bowmont. If you're after a town with a definite Scottish street naming convention, I'd recommend you use Wallacetown as an example; its street names are all places in Ayrshire and the surrounding area, although some of them are quite inventively spelt (e.g. Culzean --> Collean, Dalquharran --> Dalwharn). Daveosaurus ( talk) 07:48, 6 October 2009 (UTC) reply

I agree with you that the Tyne in question is probably Newcastle's, although like I say, there are a number of examples in Scottish place names e.g. River Tyne, Scotland, which is not too far from Edinburgh. (I don't know anything about Bowmont) I'm just annoyed that a particular user (not you) seems intent on destroying the article by removing completely relevant subject matter. I didn't mean to remove your edit about the rivers.-- MacRusgail ( talk) 12:45, 9 October 2009 (UTC) p.s. - "Collean" & "Dalwharn" are probably for the better, as that's close to how they'd be pronounced traditionally in Scotland, and I can imagine that they'd end up being mangled if they were written in the original fashion. reply

Thanks, though it's a shame - I was deliberately holding off on nominating it until Otago Anniversdary Day - somehow it slipped through the FA process without me noticing it... Grutness... wha? 23:03, 30 November 2009 (UTC) reply

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Nice researching there! Will try to find confirmation other sources to see if John Arnold as inventor in 1965 can stand up to the studied scrutiny of the commercial POV pushers. As an Adelaidean myself it's quite exciting to think ugg boots might have started here :) Donama ( talk) 06:12, 14 September 2010 (UTC) reply

No worries. It's just that so much of what's in the article didn't even slightly mesh with my recollection of the 1970s etc. that I was sure that some book about fashion and/or nostalgia would have something. Hopefully the Australian Magazine article will be comprehensive enough that it can be used as a source, thereby doing away with all the vague recollections and suggestions that the history section currently contains. Then perhaps a start can be made on de-spamming the article. Daveosaurus ( talk) 06:53, 14 September 2010 (UTC) reply

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Hi there, in case you are online, we have only 10 hours left to get this this article expanded for it to qualify for DYK. I've got it to 1400B – only 100B to go. Schwede 66 09:16, 23 October 2010 (UTC) reply

Thanks for letting me know. I'll see what I can do, but I am not particularly experienced at all this (most of my actual activity here is simply stomping on vandalism) and, in particular, the subtleties of reference formatting escape me. Daveosaurus ( talk) 10:18, 23 October 2010 (UTC) reply

Awesome. I've submitted it. Ah, yes, referencing – there's a lot that one can learn. I'm most happy to mentor you; just fire your questions at me. The most basic step is to turn the referencing toolbar on; click on the 'Cite' button on the editing toolbar. If you then start using the 'Templates', it should be reasonably straightforward. I've started shortened footnotes for the Mayor article, as it allows to make repeated use of the same source, but each time quote the page number (which is handy for JOP Watt). Schwede 66 20:15, 23 October 2010 (UTC) reply

The article is in good shape now. Thanks for your help. The DYK will be on the WP homepage from 1 am tomorrow (NZ time) for 6 hours. It's got a lot of redlinks, though. I wonder whether you'd be interested in writing pages for some (or even all) of them? I'd be most happy to show you how to go about it, and would lend you a hand. There's a page for every Wellington mayor and most of them are quite simple, like William Guyton. Celia Wade-Brown's page has an infobox and a succession box, which is easily achieved, and would be the next step up. Let me know if this interests you and we can talk how to go about this. Schwede 66 18:57, 26 October 2010 (UTC) reply

Thanks. I've had a quick go at adding references to my most recent edit (to Stuart Street, Dunedin and they seem to have worked. I don't have much time to spend on editing Wikipedia (I also have a very unreliable computer - I had been planning on doing some Wikipedia work over the new year break, but my computer spent that entire time in at the shop being fixed - and it still doesn't work properly). I'll try to add info. about the more notable former Mayors if I get the chance though. Daveosaurus ( talk) 08:08, 28 October 2010 (UTC) reply

On 27 October 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Mayor of Invercargill, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

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Um.... Thank you. I'm not sure what I've done to deserve this... I'm just an occasional fixer of typos and pruner of nonsense. I can think of a couple of dozen other editors I've seen around who would deserve such an award better than I would, if you want a list of account names let me know. Cheers. Daveosaurus ( talk) 07:01, 4 May 2011 (UTC) reply

Well, some of us think that those are valuable contributions, too! And if you happen to know some other deserving users, why not let them know by sharing the WikiLove? Mike Restivo ( talk) 17:40, 1 December 2011 (UTC) reply

Thanks for contributing to the John Munro naming discussion. I've put the last two cases up for requested move again, and you might want to contribute again. Schwede 66 04:08, 26 September 2011 (UTC) reply

This is a record I kept of my previous dispute with P&W. I hope you will understand why I have trouble with AGF and sometimes get short with him. Wayne ( talk) 02:34, 5 November 2011 (UTC) reply

Thank you for the message. However I am not an admin so I don't think there is anything I can do about this. I suggest you just concentrate on making the article as neutral, spam-free and as well-sourced as possible and ignore P&W's attempts to bait you. With so many of his/her sock puppets now exposed s/he has little support for his/her corporate propaganda. Daveosaurus ( talk) 02:45, 5 November 2011 (UTC) reply

Thanks for doing what you did. I wondered how to do it myself. Bloody meatpuppets. Donama ( talk) 01:39, 24 November 2011 (UTC) reply

Hi... You're welcome... I wouldn't mind knowing some time what it is I've done that I'm being thanked for though. About my only actual contribution to the Ugg boots debate was to find a neutral, verifiable source that dated the term to several years before the corporate mythology begins (and even so I haven't bothered trying to add it to the article yet - I've been waiting for the edit war to finish). Otherwise all I've been doing is trying to push the article towards being neutral and away from being a pile of spam.

actually, having a quick look at what's been going on... I can guarantee that Christie Switz is a P&W meatpuppet (just look at his/her talk page and see which otherwise single-purpose account just "happened" to see him/her join up and deliver a welcome message) and it doesn't matter whether or not Liangshan Yi is any sort of puppet as here [1] s/he admits to having a conflict of interest. Will try to get to the neutrality page some time this evening but can not guarantee anything (I have very limited time to work on wikipedia and a very unreliable computer). Cheers. Daveosaurus ( talk) 04:38, 24 November 2011 (UTC) reply

Hey Dave. I just wish to extend a thank you for permitting me to stay in the discussion and have my vote counted. You could have abstained but chose to take the high road. Again thank you.-- Factchk ( talk) 20:28, 8 December 2011 (UTC) reply

You're welcome. I don't have a "side" in this debate other than the side of neutral and reliable sourcing, and I prefer to address an argument (and its quality) rather than the character of those making it. Cheers. Daveosaurus ( talk) 05:40, 9 December 2011 (UTC) reply

Hi I noted your cut-and-paste repair requests. Just in case you didn't realise, I thought I'd let you know, in the case that there has been no further editing at the target article (as in for example Te Tai Tokerau, this is simple to do yourself by reverting the edits to both pages (I have gone ahead and done this for that article - I am not an admin). Also, it's always worth warning the person who made the move, to try and prevent repeats (your edits are recent so maybe you just hadn't got round to this yet).

Thanks for spotting this and bringing it to everyone's attention. Cheers, -- MegaSloth ( talk) 09:50, 14 December 2011 (UTC) reply

Thanks for the message. I have very little technical ability with this sort of thing so thought it best to leave it to people who know what they are doing. I also did leave a quick message on Fanx's page asking him/her not to make cut and paste moves. I asked as part of a discussion on the topic, instead of using the standard template, so perhaps you missed it? Cheers. Daveosaurus ( talk) 10:55, 14 December 2011 (UTC) reply

Cool no problem. You did the right thing if you weren't confident to do it yourself. I was looking for a template warning message and was in a hurry since I wanted the moving to stop, but any kind of message is fine of course. Sorry I missed it. For future reference, if you find the same thing again, you can look on the page history of both pages involved in the move. If the cut-and-paste edit is the last (top) edit on both pages, you can simply click on the "undo" link for each and commit the edits. If you do feel confident, this is the best thing to do as the less time the cut-and-paste move exists, the less risk of intervening edits. -- MegaSloth ( talk) 11:05, 14 December 2011 (UTC) reply

I didn't just revert them as I didn't object to the moves as such - only the manner in which they were done. Daveosaurus ( talk) 11:10, 14 December 2011 (UTC) reply

I see. The problem is, cut-and-paste moves can quickly become an administrative nightmare, so the best thing to do is to revert them as soon as possible, even if you agree with the move. If you agree with the move, you can then request the move at WP:RM. If you think it is non-controversial, there is a special section to do that (you won't be able to do it as a non-admin since the target page will have a history by then). -- MegaSloth ( talk) 11:53, 14 December 2011 (UTC) reply

I'm not familiar with this process so would be gratefull for your input here. Do I go ahead or let it slide? I have added some text at C2 to save you searching and hope you can take part and fill in that section yourself if you feel it should proceed. Feel free to point out any improvements or points I have gotten wrong. Comments are welcome. Thx. Wayne ( talk) 11:52, 21 December 2011 (UTC) reply

You'd probably be better off checking with an Administrator or someone who hasn't got as tired of this whole mess as I have. Possibly Elinruby? You might also want to wait until the Christmas / New Year holidays are over as it seems that there's a time limit for certification. Daveosaurus ( talk) 12:26, 27 December 2011 (UTC) reply

Hey

Thanks very much for the compliment. I've been mostly basing the criteria based on map searching via methods such as Google Maps and from memory. However, if you want to add more communities to the template based on your criteria, be my guest :). Andyman14 ( talk) 10:12, 2 January 2012 (UTC) reply

Hi, thanks for the message. I'm more inclined to start creating articles for the redlinked communities. I just need to get some info. together (plus go out and get some photos) and finally get the new computer up and running (the one I am typing this on is on its last legs). Daveosaurus ( talk) 04:45, 5 January 2012 (UTC) reply

See talk pages:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Māori_King_Movement * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_New_Zealand/M%C4%81ori_task_force#Article_on_the_Kingitanga_State.3F

I am wondering if there should be a new article created for the state or confederacy ruled over by the Maori monarchs of the Kingitanga and allied chiefs. It seems like from the time the confederacy was formed in around 1858 until 1881, when the Kingitanga Movement began leaving aside isolation and finally made peace with and opened up to the settler government, the Kingitanga functioned as an independent state.

From what I understand, the Kingitanga held power over a substantial portion of North Island, originally centered in the Waikato Region. Then the settler government under Governor Grey interpreted their existence as a threat to British sovereignty and justified attacking them and initiating the Land Wars in the Waikato based on a claim that Ngati Maniapoto warriors helping other tribes fighting settlers in Taranaki Region were Kingitanga agents. After brutal fighting, the Kingitanga government occupied Ngati Maniapoto territory and became a neutral player throughout the rest of the Land Wars although remained independent from and at war with the Colonial Government until they opened what had by then been regarded as " King Country" in 1881. Afterwards, they progressively integrated with the rest of New Zealand over several decades, beginning with rail projects several years after peace was established although the Tainui chiefs and Maori king directly ruled the territory and didn't suffer land confiscations and settlement quite on par with other regions which allowed for a higher-than-average Maori population to exist there even to the present day. Unfortunately, not all of this is in the Kingitanga Movement article, and I'm not sure if it would be best for some parts of this to be applied there or if the Kingitanga should actually have its own state article for the period between 1858 and at least 1881 or 1894 (the year when the second Maori King, Tāwhiao, died) in addition to the existing article on the Maori King Movement.

Based on this background, do you think it is reasonable to create a new article for a state with this information included or that it should be included only here in the Maori King Movement article or both or neither? Nanib ( talk) 00:06, 26 January 2012 (UTC) reply

The following are relevant articles on nzhistory.net.nz, a New Zealand government history resource (that you likely already know of) that is a wealth of information for New Zealand and even other Polynesian histories, which I believe would be helpful to consider:

http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/politics/maori-king-movement-1860-94/build-up-to-war http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/politics/maori-king-movement-1860-94/response-to-war http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/politics/the-maori-king-movement-1860-94/raupatu-confiscations http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/politics/maori-king-movement-1860-94/maintaining-te-kingitanga http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/politics/the-maori-king-movement-1860-94/tensions-ease

As the page is locked I have set it up in my sandbox and made test changes per talk to see how it looks. I have also rewritten the history a bit. The page should not be seen as a replacement but one we can do test edits on. Feel free to have a look, make changes if you like and/or comment on the sandbox talk page. I have posted this message on several editors talk pages. Despite P&W's usual claims in this regard, we have a consensus for the edits per talk page so if we (editors who have shown they can work together and compromise if needed) can agree on how the article page reads it may avoid the inevitable long winded discussions in Talk once the page is unlocked. Wayne ( talk) 22:38, 5 February 2012 (UTC) reply

Hi Wayne. Looks interesting. I will leave some comments on the talk page of the proposed improved article. I do think you should gain at least a broad consensus of non-SP editors on the talk page before going ahead with anything major because to a complete outsider what has gone on does look a lot like edit warring. To be honest I would be sorely tempted to take the next set of shenanigans against consensus to the edit warring notice board and let them worry about it. Cheers. Daveosaurus ( talk) 05:16, 16 February 2012 (UTC) reply

Hey I recommend that you request access Wikipedia:HighBeam/Applications, I just got mine and the resource is fantastic, the number of pre decker ugg article are interesting. Gnan garra 02:00, 14 April 2012 (UTC) reply

Thanks for the message. Yes does sound a great resource, I'm seriously short of spare time at the moment for anything Wikipedia related so won't be asking at the moment (don't want to take up a slot that an active editor could use). Cheers. Daveosaurus ( talk) 08:04, 17 June 2012 (UTC) reply

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Thanks for the message. I'll try to get on to this some time this evening if I have time. Cheers. Daveosaurus ( talk) 08:02, 17 June 2012 (UTC) reply

OK I tried to find it but couldn't find anything on the page, if it has been moved somewhere else can you let me know where it is. Cheers. Daveosaurus ( talk) 05:43, 18 June 2012 (UTC) reply

It's at Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution_noticeboard/Archive_32#Department_of_Corrections_.28New_Zealand.29 I withdraw due to this apparently being the wrong forum. After a reasonable period of time (maybe a week?), I'll probably submit to Wikipedia:RFC/U as suggested. Stuartyeates ( talk) 05:51, 18 June 2012 (UTC) reply

Thanks, can you give me a heads up once you've started the RFCU. Cheers. Daveosaurus ( talk) 05:59, 21 June 2012 (UTC) reply

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Thanks, will try to get to it later tonight. Cheers. Daveosaurus ( talk) 06:27, 25 June 2012 (UTC) reply

I reverted your change on Te Ururoa Flavell, and added a reference for the name. I don't believe that this is controversial. Stuartyeates ( talk) 06:54, 2 July 2012 (UTC) reply

No worries. The main reason I reverted it was that it was an unreferenced addition from a regular IP editor who has a habit of making rather dubious and slanted edits to Māori subjects, and a name I'd never heard used before, so in light of WP:BLPSOURCES I chose to err on the side of caution. Cheers. Daveosaurus ( talk) 07:33, 2 July 2012 (UTC) reply

Daveosaurus, may-OR-ee is commonly used in America, and not considered offensive here. I have never heard MOWR-ee, only may-OR-ee. It should be included as an alternate pronunciation. Also, can you find proof it is offensive in New Zealand English.

Thanks,

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Please see User talk:Gadfium#IPCA.- gadfium 04:10, 8 November 2012 (UTC) reply

Hi thanks for the message. I'm happy to leave the situation in your hands; I don't do diplomacy very well and you've got the patience I don't have. I don't know if Wikipedia has any contact for organisations who want to call attention to attack articles against them, but if it does, it would probably be an idea to point the IP in that direction. Cheers. Daveosaurus ( talk) 06:08, 9 November 2012 (UTC) reply

Further to that, I notice that while my back has been turned he has continued writing attack pages, reinstating spam links to his own self-published book [5] and threatening the IP (who has no more of a conflict of interest than he has) [6]. If you don't want me interacting with him let me know and I will hunt through the notice boards to see if there is an appropriate one to consult about his behaviour. Daveosaurus ( talk) 04:45, 14 November 2012 (UTC) reply

I'm not asking you not to interact. I am suggesting that you reduce the level of hostility, because I think he makes a genuine contribution to Wikipedia, and I also think you are a very valuable editor, and if you continue along the present path I think this will end in tears.

The situation has already been taken to a noticeboard, and to mediation, without resolution. We're not supposed to use the mediation to thump other editors, but the mediator's recommendation was to back off a little bit, and I have tried to take this on board. The next logical step is Arbcom, and that isn't going to be good for anyone.

I suggest you add specific criticisms of his edits to the appropriate talk pages. Full reversions of edits with only an edit summary aren't sufficient, because a bald accusation of "CoI" or "PoV" isn't adequate for multiple paragraphs of sourced content. He has asserted his book to be of significance; if you think it is unsuitable as a source, then WP:RSN is probably the place to go. Most of his edits do not however use his book as a source.

You are welcome to email me about this. My email name is my user name, and my provider is yahoo.com.- gadfium 08:09, 14 November 2012 (UTC) reply

Hello Daveosaurus, first up, I greatly respect you as an editor. I don't know what has gone so wrong in this case, but I also sense that there is a lot of hostility being expressed. The suggestion of taking specific issues to article talk pages, instead of simply reverting edits, is a sound one. I also fear that Wikipedia might well lose a valuable editor over this whole affair, which would be a real shame. Schwede 66 08:50, 14 November 2012 (UTC) reply

I have taken to unwatching articles when I notice a particular editor editing them. I can tell you I'm a much happier, more productive, editor for it. Stuartyeates ( talk) 09:06, 14 November 2012 (UTC) reply

Hi everyone thanks for the messages. I have almost no spare time to do any work on Wikipedia apart from checking watchlisted articles for vandalism or test edits every few days, and this situation is likely to continue until early to mid 2013 at the very earliest. Gadfium: I didn't see my edits as being particularly hostile so if Offender is that bent out of shape about them it's probably best someone else try to clean the articles up. Schwede66: I don't know who you're referring to but I've not contributed much at all lately - in the last nine months all I've added is one stub and some minor tidying. Stuartyeates: I vaguely recall reading one comment from Offender saying he'd be willing to go back to mediation - I can't find the comment at short notice but if you've go the time to deal with him it sounds like a possibility. Cheers. Daveosaurus ( talk) 07:19, 18 November 2012 (UTC) reply

And speaking of problem editors, I notice that Claudia has recently deposited this [7] charming little turd in the punchbowl of Wikipedia. I honestly do not think any person who can in all seriousness describe an entire modern race as "stone age people with a very violent culture" has any business editing Wikipedia at all. Daveosaurus ( talk) 07:32, 2 December 2012 (UTC) reply

Hello - go to Google Maps and check boundaries. Frankfort is part of Queenstown; Lake Hayes is not. Regards Crusoe8181 ( talk) 10:21, 21 November 2012 (UTC) reply

Hi there. NZ Post, not Google Maps, is the arbiter of postcode boundaries. Go here: [8], click on "search" and you will see that Lake Hayes Estate (not Lake Hayes itself) has Queenstown as its mailtown. Cheers. Daveosaurus ( talk) 11:03, 21 November 2012 (UTC) reply

Hi Daveosaurus, Thanks for raising the issue with admins over the IP user who may or may not be known as Claudia. [9] He/she is a very problematic and dogmatic user, though I've only recently begun interacting with this person. I did follow up the issues I'd raised with this editor at Talk:New Zealand land confiscations#Sales of returned land; though the editor did finally provide a page reference for the Michael King book, it turned out to be quite wrong. I think it was nothing more than a wild guess. Oddly enough, the material he/she had added was from the book, though in a different place. I have yet to return to the article to judge whether that material is relevant to the subject or not. The totality of this person's edits seem to suggest an agenda to portray Maori as primitive aggressors with few redeeming qualities. The editor is persistent, however. My tactic is to simply remove what they write so long as it continues to ignore WP citation style and the rudiments of careful writing. Anyway, thanks again for taking action. We'll see what develops from here. BlackCab ( talk) 07:29, 5 December 2012 (UTC) reply

I appreciate your taking the time to help explain the problem with non-com licensing here. :) -- Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 14:07, 15 December 2012 (UTC) reply

No problem. Best of luck trying to get Offender to understand this though, have just done a quick check and he's currently still edit warring to keep in copyrighted material see [10]. See also [11] for a bit of background to this editor and why a number of NZ based editors are running out of patience dealing with his behaviour. Daveosaurus ( talk) 05:24, 2 January 2013 (UTC) reply

Hello Daveosaurus, can you please explain why you removed a book reference from the Judith Collins with this edit? You have been around for long enough to know that you can't just go into an article and remove a reference. You may not be aware, though, that this particular article uses shortened footnotes, and the footnote in the notes section that is linked to this reference is now broken. Would you mind self-reverting yourself at the earliest opportunity? I give you the benefit of the doubt, but if this was an intentional act and you did this deliberately, it constitutes vandalism and will certainly require action beyond me simply reverting your edit.

I think I have suggested to you in the past that maybe you should avoid editing justice-related articles. In case I haven't, I herewith make that suggestion, as your editing behaviour will get you into trouble, and I would hate to see you being lost from the pool of Kiwi editors, as you are otherwise making rather useful contributions. Schwede 66 17:48, 22 February 2013 (UTC) reply

Hi Schwede. That reference didn't seem to me to be linked to anything and as its target was a self-published polemic, references to which are repeatedly inserted into articles by Offender, who has in the past claimed to be its creator. Note that SPS states "Never use self-published sources as third-party sources about living people" and that Judith Collins was still a living person as at recent news reports. Cheers. Daveosaurus ( talk) 22:02, 22 February 2013 (UTC) reply

For the record, I sorted out the referencing for that article and put that reference there. So will you now self-revert? Schwede 66 22:13, 22 February 2013 (UTC) reply

Hi Schwede. You can revert if you like, but first please make sure that this is an appropriate use of a self-published source. Cheers. Daveosaurus ( talk) 22:18, 22 February 2013 (UTC) reply

Hello, I'm Schwede66. I wanted to let you know that I undid one or more of your recent contributions to Judith Collins because it didn't appear constructive. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Given that you are not prepared to self-revert your removal of the reference as outlined above, your actions constitute vandalism and I issue this level 1 vandalism warning to you. I will put it back myself. I reiterate my advice that you should consider staying away from justice-related topics. Schwede 66 22:28, 22 February 2013 (UTC) reply

Hi there. Please read [ [12]] Cheers. Daveosaurus ( talk) 22:53, 22 February 2013 (UTC) reply

Hello. There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Wayne ( talk) 12:58, 29 April 2013 (UTC) reply

Thanks for letting me know about this. I seriously think yourself and P&W should disengage from each other and will be suggesting a way about doing so at that discussion. Cheers. Daveosaurus ( talk) 19:01, 29 April 2013 (UTC) reply

Phoenix and Winslow is using the Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Tea Party movement case [13] in an attempt to get me banned by making extensive use of my editing at Ugg boots as evidence of bad behavior . Specifically "WLRoss eventually became aggressively involved in the content dispute against Phoenix and Winslow and other editors at Ugg boots and related articles in October 2011, and continued the content dispute for the next two years" and the recent "improper closure" Rfc at the Ugg boots trademark dispute article. I'm not asking you to comment as I think the diffs I posted speak for themselves but I thought this dispute may interest you. Wayne ( talk) 15:14, 18 August 2013 (UTC) reply

Replied at your talk page. Daveosaurus ( talk) 08:00, 23 August 2013 (UTC) reply

Just an update. Phoenix and Winslow has been indef blocked for sockpuppetry . I wont breath a sigh of relief though as I'm now arguing with a new editor in another article who writes like his twin. I just can't win lol. Wayne ( talk) 11:34, 11 September 2013 (UTC) reply

There's something bloody suspicious going on, not just over there but at Ugg boots trademark dispute. I suggest that you try to avoid the probable socks and just work on draft improvements to the article in your sandbox for the next few days and hope that everything blows over in the meantime. Daveosaurus ( talk) 02:19, 15 September 2013 (UTC) reply

I disengaged from the article as soon as I noticed the editor was reverting everything I was doing. Unfortunately it is very hard to disengage from the discussion as he keeps making very P&W like accusations regarding my editing which winds me up . I've tried keeping my replies brief without success so I will now try not replying at all although he has claimed that that is evidence I can't refute his argument lol. I think I'll continue work on the draft of a new article I was writing before the Ugg trademark debacle instead for a while. Wayne ( talk) 15:38, 15 September 2013 (UTC) reply

Hey, thanks for the update re the debut of "See Me Go". I'd got the info from Official New Zealand Music Chart, but I see you've updated that list too. (I'm quite pleased it was a Joy Division song that was the first to debut at #1!) Robyn2000 ( talk) 00:25, 27 October 2013 (UTC) reply

No worries - glad to be able to help. I've found that a lot of 'list' type articles are incomplete - e.g. this one appears to only contain data from 1995 on. I'm fairly sure there were other #1 debuts in between as well but can't think of the exact songs just off the top of my head. (I actually originally misremembered and thought that "Love Will Tear Us Apart" had also debuted at #1, but upon checking the charts site it looks more like it had spent a week in the lower reaches of the chart beforehand). Cheers. Daveosaurus ( talk) 00:51, 27 October 2013 (UTC) reply

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Fixed now. Daveosaurus ( talk) 21:41, 23 January 2014 (UTC) reply

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Thanks. Have left a short comment, although I think you've already covered most of what needs to be said. Cheers. Daveosaurus ( talk) 10:33, 30 July 2014 (UTC) reply

Hi Dave - I've added my 2¢-worth over on AN/I. Not sure whether what I've said has cleared anything up though! Grutness... wha? 11:10, 5 February 2015 (UTC) reply

Thanks, I was just trying to bring someone with experience to the discussion because it looks like what's happening is a new potentially good editor starting off on the wrong foot in an area on WP that desperately needs a competent editor to sort out the massive mess that a (now blocked) IP editor left it in. Cheers. Daveosaurus ( talk) 21:14, 5 February 2015 (UTC) reply

The following letters are used in NZ English for a specific purpose Ā Ē Ī Ō Ū ā ē ī ō ū ref AS/NZS 4819:2011 s. 3.5.6, 4.7.7. Daveosaurus ( talk) 11:16, 26 August 2015 (UTC) reply

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You may wish to read and comment on my complaint to admins about the IP editor known as "Claudia" at Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard#Duncan Cameron (British Army officer). Your thoughts would be appreciated. BlackCab ( TALK) 04:33, 1 April 2016 (UTC) reply

Thanks, I'll go and look at that now. Daveosaurus ( talk) 06:13, 1 April 2016 (UTC) reply

I have now taken this up at AN/I. See here. Your input would be appreciated. BlackCab ( TALK) 01:06, 7 April 2016 (UTC) reply

wanted to leave you a comment personally rather than on a contentious debate. I remember an additional booklet, but it was available during Freedom '88 in the temporary bookstore if you went in after Steve Taylor played live. I speculate that it had something to do with the Canadian distribution, whatever the case thank you for the comment, and thank you for helping stir the memories. 18abruce ( talk) 04:33, 9 June 2016 (UTC) reply

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You seem to have found the wrong page here - you should be adding this to your OWN talk page. Daveosaurus ( talk) 07:26, 5 March 2024 (UTC) reply