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Save Bruce Simpson

Wikipedia article Bruce Simpson has been nominated for deletion by Tercero. Maybe Bruce has some funny views sometimes and rubs some folk up the wrong way, but his achievements are significant and he is certainly sufficiently notable for an article in wikipedia. Since you have edited this article, you might care to post a comment in support of retaining it here. Thanks --Pakaraki (talk) 07:33, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Metre

At Metre, you reverted several changes, most of which were vandalism. However, this change was also reverted, although it was not vandalism. I have reinstated the missing change. When you revert vandalism, please try not to lose good changes. —AlanBarrett (talk) 13:47, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Actually there are now multiple links that that reference. The one above got added because the original one was removed. So now it is ref twice - SimonLyall (talk) 19:34, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Simon, your justification for your sabotage of my improvements to the metre article was incorrect - if you click on any of the other "metre" or "meter" articles, then you'll see there is no pronunciation guide. The word only has 5 letters; it's insulting to have a pronunciation guide. If you write your article in a way that suggests the readers are idiots, then any intelligent readers are made to feel out of place and may stop trusting the article. The whole idea that it's even helpful is ludicrous - if they didn't know how to pronounce such a common word, how would they have any idea how to read the aloof pronunciation guide? Owen214 (talk) 09:10, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

People From Martha's Vineyard

You're absolutely right that every categorized article should make reference to the category topic in the article, as you pointed out in Category:People from Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. I was just trying to populate a neglected but important category with some popular or obvious entries.

Is there a standard posted somewhere for managing the "People from..." categories? I was making the assumption that the following sorts of people were appropriate for inclusion: (1) People born in <wherever> (2) People who moved to <wherever> and were a significant part of the community. So a famous person who has a seasonal vacation home they quietly hide in one week a year would not be a good candidate, but a seasonal resident who participates in local life and is embraced by the community would be; as would the notable person who happened to be born in <wherever> and moved away as a child. Is there any consensus on this?

Where I have trouble is with people like Lillian Nordica who was pretty far removed from Martha's Vineyard (her great-grandfather and his family was from there, and she visited a few times), and yet many local Vineyard books, magazine, and newspaper articles celebrate Nordica as an islander and a "local girl gone good" and clearly embraced her as a (wanna-be) local.

Your thoughts? Cbaer (talk) 18:25, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

At minimum the article needs to show they have a connection to the community. So born or lived there for some period and at least the word "Martha's" should be in the article somewhere. I was concerned that some of the people you listed had no obvious connection. In the case of Lillian Nordica there is no indication on her article that she even visited. The page Wikipedia:Categorization_of_people seems to have ( or point to) the main guidelines - SimonLyall (talk) 10:34, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

USB flash drives and viruses

Re your edit to USB flash drive ([1]), I think what the previous editor probably meant was if your PC has "boot from USB" enabled, it's at a greater risk of getting infected.

It's similar to the problem with (for example) 3.5" floppies - if you have a PC with "boot from floppy" enabled and used a floppy disk which had a boot sector virus on it, you'd probably be quite safe. But if you subsequently rebooted without first removing the floppy, the PC would attempt to boot from the FDD - executing the virus code in the process, and infecting the PC's HDD.

I can understand where he was coming from; this is a risk with USB drives - though his wording was pretty bad! Nuwewsco (talk) 18:06, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Hamid Mir

Just wanted to thank you for your yeoman work cleaning up Hamid Mir -- I would never have had the patience! Languagehat (talk) 17:26, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Only an hour or so of work but we'll see how it settles down, he seems to attract a lot of attention. - SimonLyall (talk) 11:32, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Photos from horowhenua.kete.net.nz

Politicians

PMs

• PM Seddon

[2]

• Holyoake

[3]

• Norm Kirk

[4]

• David Lange

[5] - [6]

• Bill Rowling

[7]

GGs

• GG Paul Reeves

[8] [9] [10]

• GG ? Myers or Newall probably

[11]

• GG Cobham

[12]

• GG Fergusson

[13]

• GG Freyberg

[14] [15] (young)

• GG Blundell

[16]

• GG Jellicoe

[17]

• GG Porritt

[18] [19]

• GG Norrie

[20]

Other

• J R Rae minister of Housing

[21] - J R Rae

• Duncan MacIntyre [22]

• Minister of Industries and Commerce Daniel Sullivan

[23]

• Hon W Blair Tennant. M P , Minister of Education, L G A King, Mayor of Foxton and Sir Matthew Oram, Speaker of the House of Representatives

[24]

• Thomson defence minister 1969

[25]

• Minister of Agriculture 1971

[26]

• Mrs Tirikatene-Sullivan (M.P.)

[27]

• Judy Keall MP

[28]

• Mr Moyle, Mr O'Flynn & Mr Hancock, Manakau, 1972

[29]

• Allan McCready

[30] [31] [32] [33]

• Maurice Williamson MP and Hamish Hancock MP

[34]

• Various at 1963 Foxton 75th Jubilee

[35]

• Sir Howard Kippenberger

[36] [37] [38]

• Basil Arthur (M.P. for Timaru). Mr John Scott (Labour Party candidate). Mr C.E. Fuller (Mayor)

[39]

• Tongian Royality

[40]

Entertainment and arts

• Lee Grant

[41]

• Cherry Raymond

[42]

• Ian Johnstone

[43]

• Joy Cowley

[44] [45]

• Graham Billing

[46]

Sports

• Joe Karam - [47]

• Mr B. Frederikson, a 1955 Horowhenua representative & Mr T. McCashin (1963)

[48]

• member of the 1924 “Invincibles” which toured G.B., Cliff Porter (right)

[49]

Other people

• Rough Rider Frank Swanwick, for use in Military history of New Zealand#Second Boer War 1899–1902

• Pictures of Ron Balham, for use in Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition

Those photos appear to be downloaded from a website. I don't think we can use. - SimonLyall (talk) 11:21, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

Things

• Mangahao_Power_Station - Huge number of 1924 photos - [50]
• New Zealand Centennial Exhibition - [51] [52] [53]

Hi, could you upload a copy of this Ranfurly Shield image? Also, I would like to do this myself, what do I need to know? Thanks, Ropata (talk) 04:45, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Never mind, I've done it myself: Is there anything else I need to do? Ropata (talk) 05:06, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

you need to change the license to match that of the other images. You then need to then set the OTRS-pending flag and email the permissions people referencing that this is under the same license as in ticket Ticket#2009061310001054 . - SimonLyall (talk) 08:21, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

MP Photos

Hi Simon, Thanks for that link, I have added my name to it. I have emailed the labour party about their website license and have had no response as yet. I will be calling the office of Clare Curran on other matters tommorow and will ask her(as communications and IT spokesperson) then. I had a good response from her last year when I asked about getting a bio to write her entry on Wikipedia. I find if you use buzz words like 'accountability' 'acessibility' etc... They tend to respond well, Just a thought! I'll let you know the response tomorrow. tshiels1 (talk) 06:40, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Hi, I have received an email from Phil Goff's Communications Director who says he fully supports getting pictures to display the MPs and wants to know specifics. He also said that the Labour Party flickr "feed" now has an open license and we are welcome to use pictures from it, hope that helps!kiwiteen123 (talk) 06:31, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

If that's nzlp on Flickr, then they haven't opened the licence yet. The licence we require is CC-BY or CC-BY-SA. We can't use photos with a NC or ND licence. They appear to be using an "all rights reserved" licence, which is not open by any definition.-gadfium 09:01, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/governments

Hello SimonLyall, I note that you have contributed to Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/governments in the past, are you willing to join me in re-creating it? It is no longer in use and New Zealand politics articles in general need substantial improving. Drop me a line if you want to help: There is work to do! Kiwiteen123 (talk) 13 November 2024 T 02:03 (UTC)