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If you have time, please look at the discussion page and see if you can chime in on an informal poll for a new article title. Also, if you can help with any of the tasks or create some new ones, that would be great, too. Thanks. --Viriditas 09:15, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)
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Thanks for your kind and useful welcome message. I like your new name! Avenue 13:17, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Care to weigh in on the main talk page? -- RyanFreisling @ 03:04, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Links_between_Iraq_and_Al-Qaeda#Requested_move:_Links_between_Iraq_and_Al-Qaeda_.26rarr.3B_Alleged_links_between_pre-invasion_Iraq_and_Al-Qaeda Kevin Baastalk 22:17, 2005 Apr 25 (UTC)
Wikipedia_talk:Conspiracy_theory#Voting_.28rename_vs_keep_as_is.29 Kevin Baastalk: new 21:50, 2005 May 6 (UTC)
Hi, I found your monobook.js file tagged for speedy deletion at Avenue/monobook.js, I went ahead and moved it to User:Avenue/monobook.js. It should actualy work now, just so you know in case stuff suddenly starts poping up :P --Sherool (talk) 03:25, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
Sigh. I wish you'd told me a couple of hours ago! I finished merging all those articles about twenty minutes ago. So they'll all need to be checked... not tonight, though - I've had enough of Auckland geography for one night! Grutness...wha? 10:14, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
Nice revision to Fjord. Williamborg
I am trying to make some improvements in the project Censorship. I thought you might want to know about it. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Resid Gulerdem 16:04, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi there, just thought that the tag for auckland volcanic feild would be better suited to Mangere Mountain, which I might create sometime. There's also a need to have articles about Ihuamatou volcanic field and Puketutu Island, and others. Thanks though! Mostlyharmless 01:26, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
Cheers. Feel free to edit the draft as you see fit. Daniel Collins 00:32, 19 March 2006 (UTC).
Excellent! I was hoping I wasn't going to have to travel all the way to Tautuku for a view (amazingly that is almost exactly the image I wanted!). BTW, in case you haven't guessed, I'm slowly trying to get the Catlins article up to FA standard. Glad I'm not the only one working on it :) Grutness...wha? 13:20, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi again - you wrote: I'm glad you like the photo. I have a few more from the Catlins that I'm not sure whether to add, but I'll try some out over the next day or two. Feel free to remove any that you feel aren't helpful.
Well, another one might be useful, but I wouldn't want to overload the article with much more than that (perhaps one of Owaka or one of the smaller settlements, and that'll be enough). BTW - I noticed that the contrast on the Tautuku and Cathedral Caves pictures was a bit dark, so I've brightened them up a bit with Photoshop (I've uploaded them as Image:View over Tautuku Bay 2a.jpg and Image:In Cathedral Caves 2.jpg and replaced the ones in the article with them - see what you think, and if you want to feel free to replace them with the other). As to the article itself I'm going to spend some time reducing the number of relinks by making a few small stub articles on places in the area. Grutness...wha? 23:28, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
The article looks good! I think I've done about all I can with the Catlins article now. I'll see whether AndyZ can come up with any more ideas at Peer Review - if not, it might just about be good enough to take to FAC! If you can think of anything else (especially for the extremely skinny section on government) then please do so! Grutness...wha? 10:32, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
Me again :) Not entirely sure about the new position of the sections, but I'll leave it - if it's wrong someone will tell us when it goes up for FA. You forgot to switch the order of the footnotes around, BTW, so I'll do that! I'll put it up for FA tomorrow - fingers crossed! Grutness...wha? 06:30, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
OK - Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/The Catlins is up and running! Grutness...wha? 02:30, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
Hey Avenue, care to take a look at Talk:New Zealand mud snail. Cheers. Moriori 04:29, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
How come NZSL was removed from the infobox in New Zealand ? Brian | (Talk) 01:20, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
Sorry, I was going by Template_talk:In_the_news#New_Zealand_Sign_Language. Night Gyr 01:09, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your added info on the AoC pages. This is exactly the kind of quality work this article is calling for. Cheers! --Monotonehell 08:28, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
If you could help w/a discussion at Talk:Legitimacy_of_the_2003_invasion_of_Iraq#.22Prevent.22_is_correct.2C_whether_you_choose_to_accept_it_or_not I would greatly appreciate it. I am at a loss of words. Kevin Baastalk 16:34, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
The New Zealand Portal's list of interesting facts, "Did you know.." has been updated. A fact from the article Kaka Beak, which you created, has been featured in that section. Thank you for your work.-gadfium 04:02, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
Excellent!!, thanks for that awesome map, I spotted some new things i didnt know about Ak by looking at that.moza 10:42, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
Just to let you know that a meetup is planned in Auckland for the 25th of June (see Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland for more details), and that you are cordially invited. Brian | (Talk) 00:08, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
Fabulous - thanks for merging those. Mona-Lynn 20:57, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for pointing out the duplication! I completely missed it. Bah, and I thought I was filling a minor but important gap... oh well. See my comments at New Zealand mud snail - hopefully we can get one complete and referenced article out of it. Best, Ziggurat 21:01, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
The material you added about the reasons Ceci was discounted from E inquiry have been unilaterally deleted by another. If you raise restatement in 'discussion' I will support you,. Richard 06:48, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
However I do note here http://www.peterellis.org.nz/docs/2000/EichelbaumCorrespondence/2000-0602_Sim_Experts-B-Letter.pdf that Ceci was only discounted BY SIM and MOJ on grounds of previous previous involvement. I'm curently looking for the "secret memo" that provides E's reasons. Richard 09:54, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
The memo makes it clear that E discounted on the other grounds that you cited as well, the reasons are referred to in the Thorp section, I have just added ref there to the file note. Your info may have been removed solely to avoid duplication? I hope I haven't caused you to rush to print. Richard 10:19, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
I think the London et al ref from NZ researcher is already in the article references. Just no footnote. I'm unsure of convention needed. Richard 10:37, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
Can you help with the copyright defn of photo on Ellis page that I uploaded. It seems that it will be deleted in a few days. That is silly as I'm sure the image will never cause any trouble and the historical use grounds seem highly appropriate. Richard 10:44, 15 July 2006 (UTC) Many thanks, the original caption will have been the editor of Ellis site's pages, he may have been mistaken, I will ask him and advise of response. I assumed it was 1993 because that was the trial date and it looks like Ellis is dressed for that. He wouldn't normally wear a tie! Richard 12:35, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
See WP:BOLD and WP:IAR. Ardenn 15:48, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
Looks like the Catlins article's going to be on Wikipedia's from page later this month! See Talk:The Catlins! Grutness...wha? 01:34, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
Doesn't the source of the photo just have to be available (i.e. in the description page), and not on every page? --liquidGhoul 08:09, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
Opps, I misread the sentence and thought what I was doing was actually correcting the grammar. Thanks for changing it back quickly though.--Jersey Devil 11:31, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi there, I noticed you voted for Rugby Union in New Zealand to be the next Wikipedia:New Zealand Collaboration of the Fortnight. It is also being voted for on the Wikipedia:WikiProject Rugby union/Collaboration of the fortnight. Add your vote there and have a joint collaboration! --Midnighttonight 05:45, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
First of all I would like to thank you for the ways you stated which I could use to imrpove the article. I believe that they have been generally fixed now. The size of the article is down to 43KB of prose, a large cut and the fixs to adaptations which you suggest fixed. If you believe more needs cutting please say so on the FAC page and I will attempt do so. The Back story problem has been fixed with a longer lead however this may now break WP:LEAD. For further information on this see the FAC page. And for the addition of references I am in the process of adding them throughtout the article and if possible I will address all of yours. Finally the maps you suggested have been added. At any rate please take the time to look at the article once more, comments on the situation with the lead, and even reconsider your oppose. Thanks again, SorryGuy 02:19, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
Hello! I noticed that you have been a contributor to articles on Anglicanism and the Anglican Communion. You may be interested in checking out a new WikiProject - WikiProject Anglicanism. Please consider signing up and participating in this collaborative effort to improve and expand Anglican-related articles! Cheers! Fishhead64 23:32, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks – Gurch 17:43, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
Avenue, thank you very much for your support in my recent Request for adminship, it passed with a final tally of (65/3/3) - which I find both amazing and humbling. I wish I had time to thank everyone personally, but I'm afraid all I can offer is this token of my gratitude. I hope to live up to your expectations/hopes. If at any stage you need to contact me, for help or a request or to point out a mistake in my conduct, please make sure to tell me on my talk page. --Fir0002 08:34, 13 June 2006 (UTC) |
Before editing pages with American populations, I would recommend reviewing the differences between a "Metropolitan Statistical Area" and a "Combined Statistical Area". Though they were renamed a few years ago (from "Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area" and "Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area" respectively); both entities still exist and are used by the U.S. Census Bureau. In the case of Metro Detroit, the MSA consists of six counties and the CSA consists of nine counties. -- KelleyCook 21:01, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
In case you haven't noticed, I thought I'd let you know. Our actionable objections regarding the Hurricane Katrina article were completely ignored and the article was given featured status. There's a big problem in Wikiville. --Jayzel 17:00, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
Avenue, I am requesting your support regarding my argument at "Time to vote for a new monitor of FAs" on the Featured article discussion page. This is just so wrong. We have to put a stop to this. Gather up any friends you have here at Wikipedia if you could. We cannot let the rules of Wikipedia subvert NPOV no matter what we think. --Jayzel 03:14, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
Err, just had a thought, you actually took the picture not me. Can you please update it to confirm the public domain license. Image:NZ_wiki_meetup_200606a.jpg - SimonLyall 08:21, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
Samsara (talk • contribs) 22:35, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the hint and the link. I've added that to my toolbox and will be sure to use that in future. Jibbles | Talk 01:04, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
Good work, eh? WilyD 15:07, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi, you altered Supervolcano to reflect that the La Garita Caldera eruption was a "vei-9" based upon the paper you cited by Mason et al [1] (which is a pretty nifty paper for this subject). It appears to me that the magnitude-9 ("M9") referred to in their paper is a magnitude based upon the mass of the eruption whereas the VEI scale is based upon the volume (the line in the paper is "A logarithmic magnitude scale of eruption size is applied, based on erupted mass, to these events"). They also include a volume which appears to me to fit the description in VEI for a VEI-8 event. I was hoping you could review this for me to make sure I haven't gotten it all backwards :-). And thanks for referencing such an excellent paper -- it makes researching topics like this easy. -- Cjensen 06:58, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Opps. Overwote your edit. Looking back though I'd really like some citations before changing this. - SimonLyall 10:18, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
For the OCR error corrections to Harpegnathos saltator. cheers Shyamal 05:03, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
I got the photo from the Governor-General's website. Brian | (Talk) 00:44, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
Dear Avenue, thank you so much for your beautiful words, your kidness and your trust in me. My Request for Adminship is finally over, and the support and appreciation that the community has gifted me will stick in my mind as long as I live. I have no way to properly express how grateful I am to you for all you've done for me, and all I can tell you is, I'll try not to disappoint you nor anyone else with my use of the buttons... and if I mess up, make sure to come here and give me a good yell! :) Seriously, tho, if you ever need my help, either for admin-related stuff or in any other way, you'll always be welcome to message me, and I promise I'll try my very best.
Despite I've never had the pleasure of talking to you until now, dear Avenue, I really think the best gift that my RfA has given me is to meet people like you, as I see that you're a great editor and an awesome person. From this day on, I also consider you my friend, and I'd be happy and honored if you accept me as your own. Please take good care, and ttyl! :) With a big hug, your friend,
At Ahmed Zaoui. There are only two editors active on the page, and I consider the reverts by Armon disruptive and aggressive. I need outside comment (good bad or ugly) Tell me to get back to work! 22:46, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
This article started as Comparison of American football and rugby which is why there were references to rugby league in it. Following advice I decided to create seperate league and union articles and thus moved the one article to the present title and deleted references to league. I then created a Comparison of American football and rugby league article.
I am going to delete any references to league in the union article to try to keep things simple.GordyB 12:27, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I saw the excellent copyediting you did on the Seabird article, and at a tangent, wondered if you could spare some time to cast an eye over a completely unrelated article: Póvoa de Varzim. I've done some work on it to rephrase the Portuguese expressions that Pedro had put in when translating it, but I'm now too close to the article to do it justice. Yomanganitalk 16:11, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. As to Orewa and the Whangaparaoa, Auckland's urban sprawl must go further than i thought! My original thought was simply limiting Category:Auckland to the four cities, but it would make sense to add in the whole urban area, and my wording of the categories didn't make that clear anyway. Go for. Grutness...wha? 00:25, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
I'm interested in your opinion as wikipedian (as you are probably being indifferent to the subject matter) if you have a few minutes. It relates to potential dispute and straw poll the Talk:Syd Barrett (a popular music subject), see the last two topics. Rather naively bought into a poll on the issue and now discover that its proponent has been very busy soliciting voters. --RichardJ Christie 02:26, 23 September 2006 (UTC)