User talk:Schwede66/Archive 7

Peter Finn

Hi. I agree that the 'not-run' issue is no longer so extraneous in the present footnote context. I was earlier concerned that the emphasis seemed to have shifted away from the subject of Finn to that of elections in which he was not involved. E.g., would you now follow it by footnoting all the Victorian elections before his death, as evidence that he also no longer had political ambitions in Australia? :) Btw, in creating your three redlinks, is it your intention to provide those articles in the near future, or are you floating them as a proposed task for others? Cheers, Bjenks (talk) 01:28, 6 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Bjenks, great to see that we agree. I don't know where to look for Australian sources for elections, so no, I'm not planning on looking up Australian elections. But if somebody else did that who has the sources at hand and it is relevant to his character / life / bio, then I'd appreciate it. With regards to redlinks, when creating articles, I generally redlink everything where I'm 100% certain of its notability. You will find that I take great care of making sure that I'm not inventing an article name, but look for other redlinks where those exist (the 1871 election redlink comes from an election template and the two electorate redlinks come from a list article). I have no intentions of creating those articles myself (lack of sources, and there's enough to do on this this side of the ditch), but I also don't expect anybody else to create them. That said, they will turn blue over time. My observation is that the Australian politics wikiproject has still a surprisingly large number of redlinks. Another observation is that many of your articles are completely unreferenced. Lots to do, eh? We have a couple of Kiwis who might help with creating stub articles for missing politicians / electorates / elections. One of them codes by hand and the other one uses database processes. If you have an interest in that, I could put you in touch. If, for example, one of you guys could set up a list of all members of your lower house, say, the guy running the database processes could probably get a stub created from your Victorian parliament bio database (shouldn't be too hard for him; he just needs a list of redlinks as a starting point). Schwede 66 01:52, 6 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Uh, huh, no probs. I looked about and noted that WP is very thin on Vic elections, but the verifiability has to be there somewhere in their huge state library! Being in Perth, I'm almost as far away as you are, so will remain just an interested observer! Cheers, Bjenks (talk) 02:05, 6 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Legislative Council

Have made Suicide squad (New Zealand) into an article, and the List of MLCs should be made an article now too. Hugo999 (talk) 10:03, 9 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Did you know nominations/Arthur Rhodes (politician)

I've slightly amended your 'hook', it now says " ...New Zealand House of Representatives", which will hopefully make more immediate sense to readers who aren't familiar with NZ politics. Hope you are okay with that. Everything else looks good-to-go! Sionk (talk) 18:50, 14 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks Schwedde66. Almost everything I write is referenced, so I should know how to do it properly.Rick570 (talk) 21:29, 7 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination of Henry Brown (New Zealand politician)

Hello! Your submission of Henry Brown (New Zealand politician) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Daniel Case (talk) 04:38, 9 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Saw your reply On DYK Talk Page

Hey May I know when do I have the privilege to actually review papers? Since I am newish, I often think that I dont hold any authority whatsoever. What exactly do I have the right to do around here? Khyati Gupta (talk) 19:46, 10 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Anybody has the right to review anything at DYK at any stage. Some reviews are even done by anons (i.e. users that are either not logged in, or don't have an account). What you do is to read the reviewing guide, then pick something that you'd like to review, work your way through the requirements and then write down what you have found. I'd suggest that you spell out that it's your first review and that you'd like somebody else to have another look whether you got it right. You could also ping me again and I'd be happy to check things over. How's that? Schwede 66 19:52, 10 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Cool! What else can I do around here? Khyati Gupta (talk) 19:55, 10 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

What are you interested in? Any specific topic, or are you asking about helping at DYK? Schwede 66 19:57, 10 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Well I made few edits here and I tried contributing 2 new pages. Am aware of certain rules an regulations about neutrality of articles. After all the experiences encountered, what privileges does it give me here on wikipedia? Do you have to geek out really hard to be an administrator here? Khyati Gupta (talk) 22:51, 10 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It's a long, hard slog to become an administrator. Those are elected positions and you will have to have been around for a long time, with a lot of edits under your belt, and most importantly, have earned the respect of a lot of fellow editors before you will get anywhere near that one. There's a lot of cool stuff that you can do prior to becoming an admin. On the DYK front, more experienced editors put the prep sets together; you don't have to be an admin to do that. You'll get the necessary experience by doing lots of reviews :) Schwede 66 23:38, 10 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hey by the way, I contributed to one of the DYK. Please do see if my review was decent: Template:Did_you_know_nominations/2012_Indian_Premier_League_spot_fixing_case Khyati Gupta (talk) 23:14, 10 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I have also commented, so that you can see what else matters. Schwede 66 23:38, 10 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I added Stuff too! Whats a copyedit? :D Khyati Gupta (talk) 23:45, 10 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Have a read up on copyediting; basically, it's improving grammar, language, style, and bringing articles in line with Wikipedia's Manual of Style (MoS). Great contributions from you on the review template. Just note that when you start contributing to the article beyond some minor tweaks, you will not be able to contribute to the review any longer. But if your contributions become significant enough, you can be added to the contributors for the article, and when the DYK credit comes out, you'll receive one, too. Keep up the good work! Schwede 66 23:52, 10 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, I added more recommendations to the spot fixing article. Please see if it is on the right track. Thankies :) Khyati Gupta (talk) 22:25, 11 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You will have seen that I have further commented on the nomination. DYK is a complex process and the basic question is whether an article meets the requirements or not. Beyond that, almost any article can certainly be improved further. When we first started reviewing the article, it was a stub and they are not eligible. Once it got expanded beyond being a stub, that requirement was met and any further expansion is no longer an issue that DYK concerns itself with. Rule D7 gives a good example of what matters. You have to decide for yourself whether you want to stay on the reviewing side of the DYK process, or start expanding articles that interest you (at which point, you can't review them any longer, but you might well get the DYK credit as a result). But you can't require an editor to expand their article when it's already long enough. Schwede 66 19:10, 12 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It is a complex process :( So I want to get one thing cleared. The person who makes any changes to the article cannot approve the DYK. DYK is approved only by people who are only watching over the article and cannot get involved with editing it? Khyati Gupta (talk) 02:22, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

If your changes are minor, you can still be involved in the DYK process (everything that I've done to the article is minor, by my reckoning). But when you start contributing content, that's not a minor change and then you'd have to retire from the DYK process, as you would have a conflict of interest. Schwede 66 06:11, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ahhh I see! Thanks! I have learned so much about conflict of interest in my campus lectures! Khyati Gupta (talk) 06:15, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Dude, Im a female ._. Khyati Gupta (talk) 06:03, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

My name is pronounced as Kathy. Ill add that bit to my userpage too, now. :D Khyati Gupta (talk) 06:07, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I learn something every day, and here, I've just learned two things. I hope you'll forgive me. Schwede 66 06:11, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oh no! I wasn't mad! :D I wasn't mad at all! :D I just wanted to make sure. Im sorry if it came out the wrong way. Khyati Gupta (talk) 06:14, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A bowl of strawberries for you!

For your insightful response and followup to the "This one has been up" question. Orlady (talk) 22:33, 10 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yum - thanks! I really love strawberries. Schwede 66 23:22, 10 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for cognitive vulnerability

Greetings. I was wondering if you can check out this article. I created this article. And I sat down hours and hours and understood the material and then wrote it in my own words. However, one of the users have stamped that I copied stuff. Which is unfair. Here is the article. I have fixed the citations which could ease some misunderstanding. I dont believe there is any issue with Copyedit. I would appreciate if you can check it out. Thanks.Khyati Gupta (talk) 01:16, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'll have a look tomorrow. My WP time for today has been used up. If I forget, please remind me. Schwede 66 06:15, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Will do! Thank you! Khyati Gupta (talk) 06:19, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I got rid of the OCD part. Please check the nomination page. Thank you. Khyati Gupta (talk) 21:20, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, "Revision Demanded" is not language that I would use. It would sound much nicer if you said something along the lines: "The article is ready for another review, as I think that I have attended to all the issues raised by the reviewer." Schwede 66 05:49, 15 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Will do. Thank you.Khyati Gupta (talk) 05:51, 15 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

2 DYK noms

I've given Later life of José de San Martín the old college try; letting you know here as well as with the red bendy arrow at the nomination, since there is some urgency. Also, I owe a good solid look at Cognitive vulnerability, since I was able to find the main source on GoogleBooks. But that has been waiting for me to have a long enough stretch of uninterrupted time; work required me to do too much actual work this week. So, letting you know I hope to get to that in a few hours, and hopefully I can reduce the remaining work needed to get it through DYK. --Yngvadottir (talk) 13:14, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Letting you as well as the article creator know that I have given Cognitive vulnerability a once-over. Some of what I've done may illustrate my ignorance of the topic, but I'm hoping some will help move it away from the appearance of overly close paraphrasing and also make it clearer to the non-expert, and that re-changing what I got wrong will lead to further improvement. But I must now go to bed before I make any more silly mistakes :-) Yngvadottir (talk) 19:51, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I've written out an alternate hook for Later life of José de San Martín. Yngvadottir (talk) 15:25, 14 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Kind Request for DYK

Hey. This nomination is approved. I made some suggestions. It seems as if my suggestions were faulty. I was only trying to make sense of what was written and was looking at the copy-editing article you sent me and was making suggestions. :( If you can glance it, I would appreciate it. Thanks : ) Khyati Gupta (talk) 23:00, 18 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

DYK Geology of Dorset

Thanks for attempting to fix the hash up I made of my template. Although I've on been Wikipedia a while, I've never had a go at DYK and although I did read the instructions, I tend to learn best by experimenting. Unfortunately of course this method sometimes creates additional work for others, so thanks for cleaning up after me and hopefully I'll know what I'm doing next time! Regards--Ykraps (talk) 10:38, 20 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You might find that DYK is quite complex. Don't get frustrated, but stick with it. There are lots of experienced editors around who will be able to help. Schwede 66 18:05, 20 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Move request: John Williams

Hi, thanks for withdrawing your move request at Talk:John Williams. Since it seemed a snow situation and sensible, I've closed the request: please let me know if you object, or if I've mangled anything! . . dave souza, talk 08:04, 21 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks - it was my intention that it got closed. Schwede 66 09:12, 21 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Implosion

Hi! Most of the credit goes to User:Secretlondon really; I noticed their comments and links to the new sources on the article talk page when I was reading the article, and just pasted it all across to the nom template. I thought at first they were actually on the nom template but had perhaps gone below the "don't write below here" line or something and had therefore not appeared, but that wasn't the case. Anyway, I'll have another look now and hopefully verify. I will recommend that the video goes forward as the lead image in a prep area: it is so rare to have videos at DYK (I can only think of about 10 in more than 5 years I've been around DYK). Cheers, Hassocks5489 (tickets please!) 20:49, 27 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I see. I have to admit I didn't understand your earlier comment (pasting from the talk page), but I now see what happened:

I created the DYK nomination as per usual.
I transcluded the nomination onto the article's talk page.
User:Secretlondon then commented on the article's talk page, rather than on the nomination page itself.

I had missed Secretlondon's actions on my watchlist. Thanks for fixing this. Schwede 66 20:58, 27 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

(Sorry, have only just logged on today – lunch break) It looks like the video "question" might be a lost cause now as it has gone to a Queue, but hopefully it will get a good level of viewings from people reading the article by clicking on the hook. I suppose it might actually encourage more people to click on the hook and then see the video at full size, on reflection. Hassocks5489 (tickets please!) 13:16, 28 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

New Zealand Parole Board

Hi Schwede66, I notice you have shortened the references to Flying Blind in response to comments posted by Daveosaurus.

WP: SFN policy states: "Some Wikipedia articles use short citations, giving summary information about the source together with a page number. These are used together with general references, which give full details of the sources, but without page numbers, and are listed in a separate "References" section... The short citations and general references may be linked so that the reader can click on the short note to find full information about the source."

In other words it is not appropriate to use shortened references without including a long version which enables readers to go to the source being referred to.

I note that you have switched to the shortened version because you have been persuaded that the source is 'promotional'.

Under the use of self published sources, WP says: "Self-published expert sources may be considered reliable when produced by an established expert on the topic of the article, whose work in the relevant field has previously been published by reliable third-party publications."" The footnote to this statement says: "Any exceptional claim would require exceptional sources". Under "exceptional claim" it says: "Any exceptional claim requires multiple high-quality sources".

Flying Blind has been endorsed by Sir Geoffrey Palmer, Dr Ganesh Nana, Dr Tony Taylor, Prof Doug Sellman, Peter Williams QC, Kim Workman, and others. This information is available on the website that Daveosaurus claims is "promotional". There are numerous previous references to my work in this field in other media and Flying Blind has also been endorsed by judges in the Court of Appeal. Offender9000 (talk) 20:24, 30 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

What you have overlooked is the entry for Flying Blind in the section 'References'. It's there, with more fields than previously, but minus the link to your website. Schwede 66 20:42, 30 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry - missed it. Thanks for that.Offender9000 (talk) 21:19, 30 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

No trouble. Nobody is perfect and we all make mistakes. Schwede 66 21:20, 30 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

What exactly is the problem with the link to my website? Offender9000 (talk) 21:23, 30 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It's regarded as promotional. Schwede 66 21:26, 30 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Where is the WP policy covering that? Offender9000 (talk) 19:02, 31 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Don't know where exactly it is; User:Gadfium would know, though. What's the story with the alleged copyright infringement? Do you need a hand with sorting that out? Oh, spotted you on TV3 news last night. Be careful, you might become notable and then we'll have to write an article about you :) Schwede 66 19:04, 31 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yes please. Offender9000 (talk) 19:07, 31 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

In the View History of the NZ Parole Board article, you wrote that the the DYK nomination failed. Failed what...? Offender9000 (talk) 09:47, 20 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The DYK nomination got rejected, which means that the proposed hook will not appear on WP's homepage. Please follow the link to see the details. Schwede 66 18:55, 20 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I still don't understand. What is the purpose of a DYK nomination? Who decides if it fails and what was it supposed to achieve - so that one would know if it was about to fail...? What has it failed? What is a hook? And in what sense is the NZPB not on the homepage? What homepage? It is on WP when I go to the NZPB page.....? Sorry but I have no idea what this is about... Offender9000 (talk) 03:34, 21 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know (DYK) mentions and links to new articles or articles expanded by a factor of five within the last five days. These articles get displayed on Wikipedia's homepage; there's a sentence that introduces each DYK article, and that sentence is called a hook. To get approved, the article needs to comply with Wikipedia policies and guidelines, and there's a specific set of rules to comply with. The project is run by the Wikipedia community. The rules have been arrived at by consensus, and the vetting process applies those rules. This DYK nomination failed in the review process because the editors who reviewed the article (Nikkimaria, Crisco, Secretlondon, and BlueMoonset) felt that there were issues with it that needed to be resolved, and you gave no indication that you were willing to work towards a resolution. For the record, I agree with their assessment. If I had noticed the close paraphrasing myself, I would never have nominated the article in the first place. Schwede 66 07:14, 21 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This is all news to me. I guess its meant to be some sort of endorsement. Pity someone didn't explain it to me... How am I supposed to participate in such a process when I had no idea what it was about? I thought it was just more people having yet another go at everything I write. Having been attacked incessantly for months on end, I've become quite defensive - as you may have noticed. Offender9000 (talk) 07:53, 21 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I'm truly sorry that you were caught out by the DYK process. I honestly had the impression that you are a semi-seasoned Wikipedian, as you don't appear to have any trouble looking for policies and guidelines, in order to then quote from them. I assumed that you'd do the same with DYK, i.e. go and have a look what it's all about (in case it mattered to you). My bad making this assumption. Please do feel free to ask if the purpose of something isn't clear to you.

You ask an interesting question ("How am I supposed to participate in such a process when I had no idea what it was about?") and make an interesting statement ("I've become quite defensive - as you may have noticed"). Most of the time, Wikipedia works by editors achieving consensus. When emotions flare up and people start digging their heels in, things get tricky. By my experience, it's hugely valuable to step back from it quite readily and try and really hear what those who disagree with you have to say; a confrontational approach usually doesn't get you very far, as it pisses people off and others come to their defence. I prefer the softer approach, for example when I asked the question where exactly does the article depart from neutral point of view? I couldn't see it myself, but if others had pointed to specifics, I would have worked with them to resolve the issues. Given that nobody put specifics forward, it was justified to remove the maintenance tag after a few days. What I'm saying is: listen to what others have to say, be open to their opinions, and work constructively with them. You'll have a much better experience if you adopt that approach. With such an approach of working together, it's also much less important to understand the exact purpose of something, as the others will take you with them when you all pull in the same direction. If you stop being "quite defensive", as you call it, or your "battleground behaviour", as Secretlondon called it, you'll have other editors who will stick up for you when another editor criticises something that isn't justified. Those same supporting editors won't necessarily be there if the environment is hostile. As Gadfium said, you are "an expert on the [penal] system not just amongst Wikipedians, but in New Zealand overall", and like him, I would like to see much more content contributed by you to Wikipedia.

I hope these comments are helpful. Schwede 66 19:58, 21 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You have more faith in the process of consensus than I do. My experience is that once you get offside with one editor, others tend to gang up and completely ignore wiki policy in the process. But thanks for the feedback. You and Gadfium are the only editors so far that have supported me at all and I do appreciate that. Can I ask you some more questions please - see below.Offender9000 (talk) 20:47, 22 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

NZPB Copyright issues

Material moved to article's talk page

Deletion of New Zealand Parole Board

The article has been deleted. How do I get that reversed? I have started a discussion on the Talk page if you would like to contribute.

I'm not sure what the exact process is of contesting a speedy deletion, but I'll look into it. You can't have that discussion on the talk page that you have just recreated; don't add any more content to it, as it will soon be deleted again. Hold fire. The alleged copyright breach was with regards to this website. Are you the author of it by any chance? If so, what came first? The WP article or that website? Answers to this would be key to going forward. Schwede 66 19:12, 31 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I am not the author of that website and I have not lifted any material from it for the article about the NZPB. However, I see they have copied the material about the Board from the official Parole Board website here. Exactly which statements are in dispute I don't know. However, I don't think the Board would have any objection to material being copied anyway - its public information.Offender9000 (talk) 21:26, 31 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I see. The copyright situation isn't quite as straightforward as you think, but this situation may well be recoverable. I raised a copyright question on a government agency just the other day, and I suggest you have a look at the discussion. I suggest you start a thread on the relevant page to have the copyright status of the Parole Board clarified. Once that's done and looking favourable (which I think is the likely outcome), then we'll file an undelete request. How does that sound? Schwede 66 19:19, 1 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Suicide Squad (New Zealand)

Sorry about my creation of the above article, but I was frustrated with adding to a draft article that months afterwards was still not included in Wikipedia proper. Sorry about that. Hugo999 (talk) 01:20, 1 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The real problem wasn't the creation itself, but the way you went about it. Articles should be moved properly, and not cut and pasted. Schwede 66 20:52, 2 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

For your input at Matthew Brisbane. Wee Curry Monster talk 21:29, 21 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	For writing our article on the Implosion of Radio Network House - the quality genuinely amazed me. Have you considered nominating it for good article status? Ironholds (talk) 03:04, 22 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, thank you. To be honest with you, I have never nominated anything for GA. It's quite an ok piece of work, but something that I have written since is better still, I reckon. I'll look into how to go about nominating an article. Schwede 66 03:12, 22 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I have now nominated both those articles. Schwede 66 03:34, 22 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Great! I look forward to seeing how they fare :). Let me know if you need any help with them. Ironholds (talk) 03:46, 22 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Your DYK review of Camberwell Collegiate School

Hi Schwede

Thanks for the review at Template:Did you know nominations/Camberwell Collegiate School. I have suggested a ALT1 hook to solve the problem which you identified. Would you be kind enough to check whether that does the job?

Thanks! --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 08:49, 23 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination of Charles Johnson Pharazyn

Hello! Your submission of Charles Johnson Pharazyn at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 21:35, 1 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination of List of members of the New Zealand Legislative Council

Hello! Your submission of List of members of the New Zealand Legislative Council at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 22:44, 4 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Could you also add some links to other pages, such as a "See also" under New Zealand Legislative Council? Yoninah (talk) 22:47, 4 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Linwood House

The article Linwood House you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needed to be addressed. If these are fixed within 15 days, the article will pass, otherwise it will fail. See Talk:Linwood House for things which need to be addressed. Kürbis (✔) 17:41, 7 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Mayors of Wellington

Thanks for your tireless effort correcting the succession boxes. I missed that. NealeFamily (talk) 05:57, 10 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

No trouble. The rules regarding year ranges are:

When you have a space in the date range (e.g. "August 2012 – present"), you would have spaces around the endash.
When there are no spaces in the date range (e.g. "2011–2012"), you don't have spaces around the endash either.

Hence, you should amend the lead for John Aitken (politician). Schwede 66 21:01, 10 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Done - thanks again. NealeFamily (talk) 21:35, 10 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hutt by-election, 1858

File:Colonial Secretary's Office 4 September 1858 issue 25 The New Zealand Gazette page 125.jpg.png

Thanks for the correction, I'm not the only person to make that mistake as I was working from the New Zealand Gazette. The returning officer was Sir Edward Stafford who was later the 3rd Premier of New Zealand and named Renall as Rendall. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sinesurfer (talk • contribs) 06:34, 10 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have a URL for this little gem? Schwede 66 17:09, 10 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Regret no, it is not online. You need access to either the hardcopy (at a library) or the PDFs via Lexus (or an academic account). ---- Karl Stephens (talk) 06:11, 11 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Giorgio de Stefani

Hello! I've noticed your recent contribution in reassessing the said page on 5 October. Since I am the only one currently involved in expanding the article (which has been doubled the past 5 days), I'm not competent to change its assessment but I'd like you to ask you to please have a look at it and do it again if you are interested. I would be also happy to receive some tips on how to reach a better quality of it. Lajbi ^{Holla @ me • CP} 10:13, 10 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Colony of New Zealand

Have expanded the article somewhat. Let me know what you think. --LJ Holden 05:45, 13 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Cranmer Court

Hi Schwede, Nice to hear from you! I gave Cranmer Court a go. What a shame it's being demolished. I hadn't kept up with what's happening in Christchurch but from what I read in the last couple of hours, seems like there's a lot of PTSD subsequent to the earthquakes. You doing ok? --Rosiestep (talk) 16:00, 14 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Did you know nominations/2012 English Channel scallop fishing dispute

Hi Schwede66, thanks for reviewing the DYK nomination and for fixing up the article a bit. I've fixed up the things you mentioned in your comment and was wondering if there is anything else I need to do, or what happens next. Regards, Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 03:46, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination of Cranmer Court

Hello! Your submission of Cranmer Court at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! BlueMoonset (talk) 17:10, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Linwood House

The article Linwood House you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Linwood House for comments about the article. Well done! Tomcat (7) 09:42, 26 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination of Esme Tombleson

Hello! Your submission of Esme Tombleson at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! LauraHale (talk) 21:44, 26 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Scandals in New Zealand

Per Wikipedia:New_Zealand_Wikipedians'_notice_board#New_category_-_Category:Scandals_in_New_Zealand did you have anything in mind? I am curious if nothing else! Cheers. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 01:02, 27 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The wikilink in my reply points to what I had in mind. Schwede 66 01:06, 27 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ah. Note to self: must use mouse hover... -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 01:44, 27 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Joseph Brittan reviewed

Hi; I've completed the GA review on the subject article, and have a lot of prose comments. Otherwise, the article looks good. I'll follow along as you address the issues. Cheers.Sarnold17 (talk) 16:19, 31 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Schwede66, New Zealand historian

	Cranmer Court award
	For your diligence in introducing historic buildings to wikipedia, especially this one, as it suffered through earthquakes and subsequent demolition. Rosiestep (talk) 20:04, 4 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Rosie - much appreciated. I went to the owners of Linwood House yesterday and added a little to that article. Schwede 66 20:10, 4 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

GA review of Implosion of Radio Network House

Hi, just a quick note to say I have started the review of this article. Bob1960evens (talk) 14:33, 11 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Neanderthal Museum

If you wish to add some more text from the German references you are welcome, as there is a day more to post it on DYK.--Nvvchar. 19:17, 13 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Schwede. I wasn't sure about noming Neanderthal Museum as most of the refs were from the official website. I haven't looked at it recently and if other sources have been added, I would give it a go at dyk as it's turned out to be a nice article. I'll look at Bolton Street Memorial Park today if possible, but it may not be for a couple of days as busy in RL. --Rosiestep (talk) 15:19, 18 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation link notification for November 14

Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited The Press, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Cellarius (name) (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 12:20, 14 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Page watchers please note that it deliberately links to a dab page, as per the discussion on the article's talk page. So please don't come along an 'fix it'. Schwede 66 18:39, 14 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Bolton Street Memorial Park

I took the cue from your note on Rosiestep's talk page and started expanding Bolton Street Memorial Park. I did some articles last year in collaboration with her and Dr. B on New Zealand topics. Can you find some reference to the mushrooms grown in the park? Otherwise, the picture on the Infobox needs to be changed to roses. Personally, I would not put a picture of the tombstone in the infobox. There are also some red links on different varieties of roses, which you may help in locating and changing it to blue. You are free to edit and delete any undue text as you probably know more about the place. Thank you and cheers--Nvvchar. 03:28, 19 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I have completed my inputs. You may like to nominate on DYK.--Nvvchar. 23:35, 19 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Great work - thanks. You've done a lot. I will nominate it, but Rosie said she might want to have some input, too, so I'll wait a little. Schwede 66 00:13, 20 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Schwede - I've completed my edits to Bolton Street Memorial Park. Let's do another. :) Thx! --Rosiestep (talk) 07:57, 20 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, team. You might want to watchlist the nomination. Schwede 66 10:50, 20 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination of Esme Tombleson

Hello! Your submission of Esme Tombleson at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yazan (talk) 06:50, 24 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Incomplete DYK nomination

Hello! Your submission of Template:Did you know nominations/Esme Tombleson at the Did You Know nominations page is not complete; see step 3 of the nomination procedure. If you do not want to continue with the nomination, tag the nomination page with {{db-g7}}, or ask a DYK admin. Thank you. DYKHousekeepingBot (talk) 02:20, 7 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Rosiestep (talk) is wishing you a Merry Christmas! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year!

Spread the cheer by adding {{subst:Xmas2}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Seasons Greetings

Wishing you very happy Christmas, and very happy and prosperous New Year 2013.--Nvvchar. 03:55, 23 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Flying Blind

Hi Schede66, Sorry I don't know how to use wiki email. What city are you in? Flying Blind is available in most libraries - or you can order a copy from the Flying Blind website if you wish. I didn't understand your comment about "stuff ups that occur in the printing process". What were you referring to? Offender9000 18:59, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

Wikiemail - when you are on my talk page, the 'Toolbox' in the left column has one link pointing to 'E-mail this user'. Stuff ups - when printing errors occur (like ripped pages) and a book cannot thus be sold, often the author has access to these. I'm based in Christchurch, but currently travelling in Vietnam. Schwede 66 00:14, 28 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]