User talk:Boethius65

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Yo, Bongwarrior... :)

Thanks for the welcome,

Having an enormous amount of fun with this - but I think I'll have to go to a library 200 miles away to get the info for a REALLY comprehensive "Eltham" article... Was born there - but not lived there in 20+ years. Am having problems today with URLs - the designated URLs for websites/pages are coming up 404 - and I know they're there... :(

Boethius65 (talk) 09:00, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Minor edits

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I noticed you were having trouble adding your name to Wikipedia:WikiProject Country Music. Your name wasn't showing up properly because you were putting a space after the vertical line character; the proper code would be {{user|Boethius65}}. Just thought I'd let you know. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 13:16, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Kiwanis

I've removed the Kiwani chapter links and the category from several New Zealand town articles because:

1. Wikipedia is not a web directory. Articles tend to accumulate external links, but often these do not meet our policies at Wikipedia:External links. Consider submitting the link to DMOZ instead.
2. The links you added were malformed, and didn't lead to the pages you wanted them to. You had an extra slash at the end of each link.
3. The category is for articles about the Kiwanis, not for articles on towns which contain a Kiwanis chapter.-gadfium 18:01, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Fellow Taranaki history nut

Greetings Boethius65. You seem a most interesting person, I share Taranaki, history and theology as fav topics. Your librarianship seems to most certainly be helping make these articles informative for the amateur historian. Send me an email AJChesswas@maxnet.co.nz it'd be good to compare notes. Boethius is one of my most respected philosophers.A.J.Chesswas (talk) 23:16, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Library, Archives, and Web 2.0 Research Guide Template

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Helen Clark

I'm not sure how useful the "Further reading" you have added to the article is. Please comment at Talk:Helen Clark#Further reading.-gadfium 06:12, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Notes from te koroua

Hi Mike. I've posted an answer to your comments on my Talk page. I find it disorienting to try to conduct a conversation on two different pages. See you over there. Koro Neil (talk) 12:30, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

And again. Koro Neil (talk) 12:48, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

I just looked for your email. I don't seem to have received it. I checked the Inbox, the Friends folder and (just in case) the Old folder, with items sorted by name - no sign of a Boethius or a Mike S. Koro Neil (talk) 13:08, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Whakapapa

Chuffed to find you added references to my great-grandfather George Adlam to the article on Pungarehu. George > Ernest Albert > Jessie Yvonne Adlam (= Dennis Copeland) > yours truly (by adoption). See I'm not the only one who's wikiing less these days. Koro Neil (talk) 10:31, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Further reading references

Hi Boethius, The "Further Reading" sections you're adding to articles on Taranaki places are obviously the result of a great deal of diligent work, but I wonder if you might be a little more judicious in what you include.

I noticed some months ago the very long list at Omata, which greatly exceeded the length of the Omata information itself, and now, at Waitara, New Zealand your list is growing without any sign of stopping. I don't mean to be disrespectful, but I'm not sure that it's necessary to include such "further reading" as The Art of the Carver, a history of the local Rotary and rowing clubs and the family trees of unidentified local people. Your list at that article is now almost as long as the Waitara article itself and in the contents box it creates a very long section too.

I raised this last night with Gadfium, with whom I know you've already discussed this issue. Gadfium, though obviously aware of the issue, seemed comfortable with it; I think the length of these lists should at least be kept in proportion to the size of the article and should be added with a little more discretion. The risk, I think, is that they start to look more like library catalogues than encyclopedia entries. Again, I mean no offence, but I think it's important to raise the issue with you at this point. Regards, Grimhim (talk) 05:14, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Alphabetization and collation

I am inviting you to comment, in your capacity as a librarian, at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style#Alphabetization and collation. -- Wavelength (talk) 15:35, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

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