User talk:XLerate/Archive 3

Thanks for welcome!

Thanks for the post XLerate and I hope those changes looked OK! Will update user page with appropriate templates. Cheers! --Philtweir (talk) 00:30, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Duncan Garner

On April 7, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Duncan Garner, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your 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.

-- Cirt (talk) 00:03, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Duncan Garner

In the spirit of keeping wiki collegial, I won't change the intro again. But allow me to retain the opinion it is currently ungrammatical. Moriori (talk) 01:24, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

I'm happy to discuss alternatives, it had 1000 page hits yesterday and no-one else brought this up, and ran through my grammar checker ok (other than wanting to change 3 to three). I feel using "was" isn't right, like saying "John Key was PM of NZ". One option could be to put the "as of" in brackets at the end, or remove it altogether. Also the nine-ten years was my bad, I meant to include the Stuff reference, as you can see with the refname in the earlier version, sorry. (actually was in first version). XLerate (talk) 01:41, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Crowe

Thanks. Apparently that this article has frequent vandalism reverted makes me guilty of ownership. I object to naming the hotel concierge based on WP:BLPNAME and for wanting to inflate the event beyond its minimal period of notability. And Cinderella Man did not tank. It made over $108 million at the box office, which is clearly not a box office flop and garnered multiple nominations and awards. Wildhartlivie (talk) 02:57, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

You're welcome; nearly every sentence in the preceding post started with the word you. I also think the name is a BLPNAME issue, and Cinderella Man is erroneous and based on speculation. The ownership claim is ad hominem, and that editor has started some canvassing, I think they need to stop being disruptive. XLerate (talk) 03:34, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

I was unaware of the canvassing, but I have since posted to him about it, the ad hominem attacks, including his conclusions that I am a New Zealander (Indiana born and raised) and his mounting incivility. Perhaps you could post your feelings on this issue on the talk page too? Wildhartlivie (talk) 04:01, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

You can take being mistaken for a Kiwi as a compliment if you like :-) XLerate (talk) 12:34, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

University of Otago student protest

your edit for University of Otago student protest obscures the story and purpose of this current protest group at otago. Looking back it is clear you have a strong interest in editing topics related to this group, can we work out some wording for the University of Otago entry that is agreeable to all parties? It seems like you had issues with this paragraph in the past but had accepted the current wording some time ago. What gives? Otepoti history (talk) 20:43, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Edit Warring

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on University of Otago. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24-hour period. Additionally, users who perform several reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. When in dispute with another editor you should first try to discuss controversial changes to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. Should that prove unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. Please stop the disruption, otherwise you may be blocked from editing. Outback the koala (talk)

2008 Otago NORML Protests

Please remove the warning you left on my talk page as acceptance you made a mistake in placing it. When you tagged the 2008 Otago NORML protests as a COI page, you did not explain why in your edit summary or on the talk page. I explained why I removed it and yet you reinstated it once again with no reason other than just re-explaining what the template means on the talk page. I have reviewed the page and in my opinion there is no clear bias in the writing, nor is there any indication that any of the main contributers are connected to the subject outside of systematic bias. On that basis, I am removing your template. Instead of repetitively re-adding it, either explain specifically what sentences need to be worked on/changed/sourced, or even better - do it yourself. 118.92.132.230 (talk) 11:19, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Nonsense, the primary contributor[1] and article creator is Otepoti history, who other editors can see is a pro-Otago NORML/cannabis SPA, and several of the references go to the Otagonorml's YouTube. The solution to the COI problem is for an editor without a history of supporting the group to do significant work on it, like a partial or full rewrite. You/Otepoti history haven't commented on the merge, I understand you have no objection to incorporating the content into the Otago NORML article. XLerate (talk) 12:28, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

The issue is not really on who the contributors are, for as I said before such an issue suffers from systematic bias. There is no way to force people who are not involved with the issue in any way to edit the article. The issue is whether the article actually is not neutral. Unless you can point out specific instances where the article discredits the groups opponents or casts a non-neutral light on the group itself, the tag does not really apply - and if you can, I assume it would be very easy for you to fix the issue. It would surely be better than absent mindedly tagging the article without explaining why or leaving any written justification, with no intent to come back and fix the page yourself. Maybe a compromise would be to change your COI tag into a clean up tag, seeing as you want a rewrite? It might be worth keeping in mind where you stand on this issue, and why you are motivated to leave the tag on the page. Do you disagree with the group? I will remind you that you appear to have a history of edit warring and if you continue to replace the tag without ending our discussion with an agreement, we might have to bring in a third party. You shouldn't assume anything, especially when the issue could be controversial. I have no strong opinion on the matter however, but I don't see any policy side reason to merge the article and I do see that the move could be counter productive as the event seems to have more than enough coverage and page content to sustain it's own article. 118.92.129.27 (talk) 05:58, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

While we're on the subject on the article history actually, you might want to have a look at this diff. Seems to be in clear violation of WP:ROLLBACK if you ask me. 118.92.129.27 (talk) 06:01, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

The major contributor appears to be connected with Otago NORML, so a COI tag is appropriate. The policy to merge the article is WP:NOTNEWS as I've said on the article talk page. The article still is an orphan, I thought rollback to restore the orphan tag was self-explanatory. If there was some confusion with unreferenced, WP:ORPHAN has the details. XLerate (talk) 09:38, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

RfD nomination of Gap (clothing retailer

I have nominated Gap (clothing retailer (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) for discussion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Svick (talk) 20:28, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, XLerate. You have new messages at Nancy's talk page.
Message added 07:54, 7 May 2010 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Nancy ^talk 07:54, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Photos

Good work on the photos! Thanks. Pdfpdf (talk) 10:04, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! XLerate (talk) 10:11, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Invitation

Dear XLerate, I'd like to invite you to join me in an ambitious project - please refer to the project talk page for further info. Schwede66 09:06, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Given that I haven't heard, I'm guessing that you are not keen. But that's ok - no worries. Schwede66 06:32, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

Politics task force

This user wants you to join WikiProject NZ politics.

Djibrill Bassole

Hi, I had made a few editorial corrections on the site regarding Djibrill Bassolé. His name is spelled with two "l"s according to his passport. With regard to his language skills, I work and communicate with Mr Bassolé in English and can vouch for that his English skills are excellent.

If you would like further clarification or information feel free to contact me.

Thanks. Marlene Nilsson (talk) 22:22, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

Hi Marlene, the sources vary on the spelling, if two "L"'s is correct then to page ought to be moved also. The link to the image shouldn't be changed because it prevents the photo from appearing, to fix that the image would need to be renamed, then the article can be updated. Reuters says he isn't able to speak English, maybe it's a misprint, so another source saying he can, or trying to get a correction to that article would be ways to fix it. I had a look for another source last time but was unsuccessful. Passport and personal experience don't meet WP:V, and normally comments about errors in the article would go on the talk page (Talk:Djibril Bassolé). The original photo[2] also appears to have an interpreter. XLerate (talk) 04:00, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

You are now a Reviewer

Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, is currently undergoing a two-month trial scheduled to end 15 August 2010.

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If you do not want this userright, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. Courcelles (talk) 18:49, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks. Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 00:44, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

You're welcome. XLerate (talk) 01:21, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Simon Prast Discussion Post

Hi, they were my own comments and edits I was removing, did not feel they were relevent, I had now finisehd the major edits and happy for anyone else to work on the page, felt those comments may stop others. —Preceding unsigned comment added by KakapoNZ (talk • contribs) 21:21, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

The comment I restored was from User:DaHaqi, if this is another account of yours please read WP:SOCK - "should edit using one account only". XLerate (talk) 04:21, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

Yes, I realise that, I have abandoned DaHaqi for legit reasons. But I have ammended the comments rather than delete. KakapoNZ (talk) 04:13, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

Bot tagging

I notice that your bot is able to tag NZ-related articles with the {{WPNZ}} banner. Would it be possible for it to add task force parameters to the tag, given a parent category? This could be very helpful for both the politics and music task forces. Adabow (talk) 12:41, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

I'm willing to look at running the bot for this, using AWB's list comparer I found:

• 1645 entries under Category:New Zealand music, excluding Category:Number-one singles in New Zealand (which has e.g. ...Baby One More Time (song))
• 2167 entries under Category:Politics of New Zealand, excluding Category:Foreign relations of New Zealand (which has e.g. Category:Australian Light Horse)

(both not counting already tagged articles). So, please confirm these are the items to tag, and I'll run the bot over them, adding/updating {{WPNZ}} with |music=yes or |politics=yes. XLerate (talk) 01:26, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

Yes, that would be great. Thanks heaps, Adabow (talk) 01:32, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

Good on you for spotting this capability, Adabow, and thanks for doing this, XLerate. For politics, can we please include Category:Subdivisions of New Zealand, as that's not a sub-category of Category:Politics of New Zealand? Also, it would be good to tag articles with |politics=yes|politics-importance=, as that will make it easier to add the relevant importance to it. The equivalent measure could be done for music, I suppose. Again, your help is much appreciated. Schwede66 02:40, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

No problem, I'll add |politics-importance= or |music-importance= also. XLerate (talk) 03:43, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

I'm not so keen to add all entries under Category:Provinces of New Zealand Category:Regions of New Zealand, because this includes everything under region categories, for example Category:Buildings and structures in the Auckland Region. I think the following categories would be ok:

• Category:Local political office-holders in New Zealand (+all subcats)
• Category:Provinces of New Zealand (+all subcats)
• Category:Regional councils of New Zealand

I think the rest would best be handled individually, but if there's some other categories you'd like done please let me know. XLerate (talk) 03:55, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for being vigilant - this came as a surprise. I've amended your contribution above, as I think you copied the wrong category name into your contribution. That amended list looks good now, unless Adabow spots anything additional. Not sure whether it matters for your bot, but Category:Local political office-holders in New Zealand is already within a sub-category of Category:Politics of New Zealand. The others may also be, but I haven't checked. Schwede66 04:27, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

Ah, I meant Category:Subdivisions of New Zealand. Thanks for the note on the duplicates, I use the remove duplicates function in AWB after putting a list together. XLerate (talk) 04:50, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

Looks like the bot is a little too generous with shoving talk pages into the WPNZ politics task force. Wind power in New Zealand‎ , Stockton Mine‎, Wind power in New Zealand‎, Reefton Power Station‎ are a few of the pages on my watchlist that the bot have tagged. I don't think these should be in the politics task force. Cheers. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 20:19, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

That'd be because Category:Energy in New Zealand is a sub-category of Category:Politics of New Zealand. Is that intentional? Schwede66 21:46, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

It shouldn't be. I will change it. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 00:01, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for bringing this up, I'll untag articles in that category. I aim to only tag items where there's no contention. XLerate (talk) 00:10, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Ok, the bot run is complete! Category:Energy in New Zealand items have been untagged (where they weren't in another politics category, and recently tagged by the bot). Statistics are:

Project	before	after
Music	410	2048
Politics	982	2835

Thanks for the input and feedback. XLerate (talk) 03:01, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Wow, long live bots, and their keepers. Awesome effort - thanks! Schwede66 03:42, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, you're welcome! XLerate (talk) 04:19, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

I wonder whether a bot run could be used for adding maintenance categories to politics articles. In my opinion, articles about MPs should eventually have the following features:

• infobox
• parlbox
• succession box

Any article in Category:Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives or its subcategories would presumably need to be looked at. It should be reasonably straightforward to check whether {{Infobox, {{NZ parlbox header}} and {{s-start}} are present. If not, a note could be added to the WPNZ tag on the talk page, which then produces the relevant maintenance categories. These notes could be:

• needs infobox=yes
• needs parlbox=yes
• needs succession box=yes

The categories might be:

• New Zealand MP article requiring infobox
• New Zealand MP article requiring parlbox
• New Zealand MP article requiring succession box

If we were to do this, I'm further assuming that we can use the toolserver and get comparison tables, so that we can, for example, look at all high importance articles that are missing a parlbox. Is that correct?

What do you think of this? Is that something that could be done? Is that something that you'd have time for at some stage? Schwede66 00:45, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

I think the general idea is good, don't know if you've considered articles that need a photo also. I've taken a look with CatScan, here are the links to regenerate the results, and a current count:

Group	Count
All MPs recursive	1336
Missing Infobox person/officeholder	978
Missing NZ parlbox	886
Missing succession boxes	1106

Some articles like Michael Cullen do have a hardcoded version of the NZ parlbox template. To match the lists with politics-importance I'd use AWB's List comparer, the context menu has an option convert from/to talk pages. I'm reluctant to run the bot this time, I think the links above or an AWB list are ok for a start. You can apply for a bot account if you like, using AWB it is the same with an extra option, automatically save every 10 seconds. XLerate (talk) 03:45, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

I haven't actually thanked you for your reply yet - sorry. You are making some good suggestions here and I realise that there's a lot that I can still learn. Yes, one of my objectives is to get rid of hardcoded parlboxes. I'll have to look into the list comparer; if I can't work out what's going on, I'll let you know. Good thought about the photos. My initial thoughts were that the other three items are things that editors can readily influence, whereas photos simply depend on their availability. If we are preparing lists of what's missing, though, then we might as well take care photos at the same time. Thanks for putting the effort into such a comprehensive reply. Schwede66 10:31, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Good work!

Hi! I just noticed that you do a good work when you transfer images to Commons. Perhaps you would concider to mark files as reviewed also? You do that by adding "|reviewer=XLerate" to the {{NowCommons}} on all the files you "cleaned up" on Commons. --MGA73 (talk) 20:56, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

You probably just forgot this one [3] but in case you want to check images here is a link with some tips. --MGA73 (talk) 21:19, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll look to add reviewer with ncd. Thanks for the post transfer checklist also, I hadn't been modifying the license information, but can check this as well. XLerate (talk) 23:10, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

Yes that would be nice... I looked in your recent edits and found a lot of easy "NowCommons" to delete. It was my lucky day :-D --MGA73 (talk) 19:31, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome, too!

This is all very new to me. We were impressed at how quickly my idiot friend Tristan's attempt at vandalism (all done in good humour) was removed. Was that your doing or a bot? Jonathanjong (talk) 22:56, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

I think that was this edit, which was removed by User:Excirial patrolling for vandalism.

The article's looking good, I think there's an ODT piece which also might be useful. XLerate (talk) 23:53, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

• • Thanks! I'll look up the ODT piece, and start fleshing the article out when I get more information from parishioners, etc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jonathanjong (talk • contribs) 01:42, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

July 2010

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed maintenance templates from Wikipedia. When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Kudpung (talk) 06:01, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion get a further review from an administrator. You may not remove the tag - you should follow the instructions and place a {{hangon}} tag if you have a good reasons to belive your article should not be copnsidered for deletion, AND you put your reasons, in detail, on the article's talk page.--Kudpung (talk) 06:04, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

Furthermore the article has been tagged as needing WP:RS and/or WP:V since April 2008 and still has neither, and the company only has 3 employees according to the infobox; Update the astticle, provide correct references, fully assert notability according to WP:N, and I will remove the CSD.--Kudpung (talk) 06:13, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

That is a false accusation of vandalism, my edit was to remove a speedy tag and add a 3rd party RS reference. Do you have difficulty understanding "If this article does not meet the criteria for speedy deletion ... please remove this notice"? You misused Rollback reverting the reference I added[4], if you think the article should be deleted then you need to nominate it at AfD. XLerate (talk) 06:49, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks

for that revert. (Couldn't even remember who he was and had to look him up!) Peridon (talk) 08:56, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

File:Tail of Air New Zealand Flight 901.jpg listed for deletion

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Tail of Air New Zealand Flight 901.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. —Bkell (talk) 23:28, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Glenn Wilson (Psychologist)

Hi XLerate, A month or so ago you (correctly I'm sure) removed the image of Glenn Wilson from his Wikipedia page. This was because the rights to that picture weren't clear. I've just added a new image of Glenn which was taken by a member of his family, who has also provided documentary evidence under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 3.0 license. I can see that you're far more tuned in to Wikipedia editing than I am, so it would be great please if you could just run your eye over what I've done. Thanks for your interest and help. Best wishes. Tellyads (talk) 17:45, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Hi Tellyads, I think you're on the right track, normally the consent gets e-mailed to the OTRS volunteers, per WP:CONSENT. So for File:Glenn wilson melbourne.jpg I would replace the e-mail text with {{OTRS pending}}, and ask Candice to forward the consent e-mail to permissions-enwikimedia.org. XLerate (talk) 23:30, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks XLerate, I'll do as you suggest. Wikipedia can seem a complicated old beast at times so it's very useful to have a Guide at my side. Cheers. Tellyads (talk) 09:49, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Article missing in assessment table

Hi XLerate, I'm wondering why Talk:First Māori elections doesn't show up in the New Zealand politics articles by quality and importance table on the politics page? Its assessment status (i.e. unassessed) certainly hasn't changed in recent days. I'm not too worried about this particular article itself, but wonder whether there's something broken that needs mending, as it may affect any number of unassessed articles. Schwede66 00:48, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

Hi Schwede66, clicking on the "unassessed" in the table goes to the Article lists tool:[5]. From there I ran "Update project data" and First Māori elections appears now, and the unassessed count changed from 39 to 36. The FAQ says "every project updated daily" but the article had been tagged since 1 September. I'd raise this at Wikipedia talk:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Index, looks like New Zealand politics hasn't been updating for over two weeks. XLerate (talk) 01:26, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

That is strange, because it does update the table every two or three days. The count of unassessed projects is going down every few days, as I'm working my way through it. I'll knock off 5 to 20 articles each day, so that item should disappear sometime this week. I've been doing this for several weeks now, and the table is updating itself nicely, apart from this one item (or are there more?). Strange indeed. Schwede66 01:38, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

Ok, if the automatic update has been working then there was some issue which prevented First Māori elections appearing. It'd be nice to identify what that issue was, the only thing I see is history showing the page was moved a couple of times. Looking at Category:Unassessed New Zealand politics articles and Category:New Zealand politics articles by quality, it doesn't appear any other articles are missing compared with the statistics table (the Unassessed category has one extra, the statistics page). XLerate (talk) 02:31, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

I've posted the item to the Editorial Team as you suggested - thanks. Schwede66 05:25, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

Simon Dallow article

What do you say about how you can balance simon dallow and his referenced mistake of presenting a whole electoral system wrong-refer his talkpage? Oystergannet

Replied at Talk:Simon Dallow. XLerate (talk) 06:11, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

Was Clayton Weatherston a "tutor" or "economics tutor and lecturer" at University of Otago?

RE: Your undo revision: (cur | prev) 13:57, 11 August 2010 XLerate (talk | contribs) (7,024 bytes) (Undid revision 378350950 by 115.113.11.239 (talk), not according to references) (undo)

With respect, you are perpetuating the myth at Sophie Elliott that Clayton was a 'mere' tutor - and, in my opinion, this lessens the heinousness of the crime relative to him being her lecturer (for fairly obvious reasons). You are right, this is what most of the newspapers reported - and this was the deliberate spin from the University of Otago. The fact is that Clayton lectured and ran the entire paper that Sophie took with him - ECON375 - and he had had this role for this paper for at least 2 years (possibly 3). It was, in effect, his paper that Sophie was taking with him. This is not the role of a tutor (who tutors a course, that is lectured and run by someone else). Sorry, I cannot furnish references for this, but it is the truth nonetheless. Paulwizard (talk) 11:39, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

You're right, he did teach Econ 375 according to the university bio. But his job title wasn't Lecturer, he was in the process of applying for a Lecturer position at the time, it was discussed at the depositions hearing as a possible motive, that the relationship difficulties may have been hurting his chances of getting it. I don't see a problem adding "and taught a third(?) year undergraduate paper" or similar. XLerate (talk) 12:28, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Hone Heke

For the record, it was not me who made the unconstructive edit to the Hone Heke article. IP's are shared so I suggest you don't send out messages to anonymous users based on IP. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.57.128.61 (talk) 00:16, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

That message is over five months old, it was posted about 45 minutes after the vandalism occured. You say it wasn't your edit so please ignore the warning. Creating an account is one method of getting messages only for you. XLerate (talk) 01:06, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Weta vandalism

Regarding this anon's edits to Kiwi and your warning, they have been at it again with Weta. Oops cancel that, your warning is over a year old, my bad Kahuroa (talk) 04:05, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

No worries, I've added a new warning level one message. If unconstructive edits continue after four I'd normally list the address at WP:AIV. XLerate (talk) 05:47, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

Māori task force

Kia ora, XLerate. I wanted to ask if you can please run XLerateBot to tag articles for the Māori task force of WikiProject New Zealand, as you did for the Music and Politics task forces. Basically, every article in Category:Māori and its subcategories would fall under the scope of the project, with the exception of the following:

• Category:Cook Island Māori people – outside scope
• Category:Race relations in New Zealand – only some articles are relevant, which I'll add manually; articles in the subcategories are relevant though, excluding the category below ...
• Category:Ethnic groups in New Zealand – the only relevant subcategories and articles are already included elsewhere in category structure.

The {{WPNZ}} parameters to be added are |maori=yes and |maori-importance= (no macrons). Cheers. – Liveste (talk • edits) 04:16, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

What about areas like Polynesian navigation, Polynesian triangle etc. Polynesian mythology, languages etc. Or maybe we should just affiliate to the Polynesia project (which may be defunct) Kahuroa (talk) 04:42, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

Didn't think of that. Some articles should definitely be covered by the MTF – e.g. basic-level Polynesian articles, Jewellery in the Pacific. I've had a quick look now, and only a few articles in each of the relevant categories would fall within the scope of the task force (at least those that aren't already in the Māori category tree). These articles are probably best tagged manually. I'll compile a list and run them by you. Cheers again. – Liveste (talk • edits) 06:15, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

Ok, I've put together a prospective list, it is at User:XLerate/sandbox, and was generated from Category:Māori (and subcategories), removing all articles in:

• Category:Cook Island Māori people
• Category:Race relations in New Zealand
• Category:Ethnic groups in New Zealand
• Category:New Zealand Jews
• Category:Pakistani diaspora in New Zealand (and subcategories)
• Category:Cook Islands mythology (and subcategories)
• Category:New Zealand land wars (and subcategories)

Ethnic groups in New Zealand has circular categorization (Māori->Māori society->Race relations in New Zealand->Ethnic groups in New Zealand->Māori->etc). Please feel free to add or remove entries from the list, when you're satisfied with it I'll run the AWB bot to add the parameters. XLerate (talk) 05:06, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Why remove the land wars? Schwede66 05:26, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

HMS Hazard (1837), Category:British military personnel of the New Zealand Wars, etc. XLerate (talk) 06:32, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Thanks for compiling the list, and so quickly too. I've included the relevant articles from Category:New Zealand land wars to the list manually, and I'll also add more from Category:Aboriginal title in New Zealand and Category:Treaty of Waitangi before we go ahead. Thanks again, XLerate. – Liveste (talk • edits) 06:47, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Okay, we're good to go. Some articles may have already been tagged: Stuartyeates has been doing some manually (about 100–200 in less than 24 hrs, poor bloke). Cheers again. – Liveste (talk • edits) 07:13, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Good stuff. Btw it seems kinda weird that Cook Is subcats are under Maori. Might take a look at that Kahuroa (talk) 17:20, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks very much, XLerate. Can't wait 'til the table updates. Great job! – Liveste (talk • edits) 00:51, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, you're welcome. I was just posting to say the bot run is complete but received an edit conflict. The table just updated also, the article count is up from 130 to 1,061. XLerate (talk) 01:04, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Rhys Jones (soldier)

Materialscientist (talk) 18:02, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Nomination of Otago University Debating Society for deletion

The article Otago University Debating Society is being discussed concerning whether it is suitable for inclusion as an article according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Otago University Debating Society (2nd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.

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Pan Am Flight 759

You edited the article to say there was one survivor. Yes I know there was a child found where the plane crashed. There were no survivors among the people on the flight, and the article is about the flight.

I'm editing the article back to zero. There is plenty of precedent for what I'm doing. American Airlines Flight 11, American Airlines Flight 77, Viasa Flight 742 all saw planes crash into buildings or residential areas. All those articles say zero survivors, because that's how many of the passengers were still alive after the crash. People on the ground or in the buildings survived the crash but they are not counted.- William 19:59, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

ITN

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Cathedral picture

File:ChristChurch Cathedral - 2011 earthquake damage.jpg is nOT a copyright violation. The file is licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license and was reviewed by the File Upload Bot. -- Mattinbgn (talk) 07:23, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

I've raised a discussion at Wikipedia:Media_copyright_questions#RNZAF_photo in relation to this. XLerate (talk) 07:53, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

Hey thanks for the pronunciation tip

Btw I visited your country last July -- what a great place -- I wrote up something here if interested. Didn't visit the South Island. But I met a lady and her husband on the plane from LA who were professors at U. Otago.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 02:45, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

DNZB template

Great work. I like it! Schwede66 20:26, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! The domain name and URL structure has changed, so I thought it would be a good opportunity to make one. Enjoy! XLerate (talk) 23:54, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

Cemeteries

Hey - good work on the Dunedin cemetery category links! I started to add a few, but quickly ran out of info... Grutness...wha? 01:14, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks Grutness, actually I think you made a pretty good start. I've been trying candidates against the DCC cemeteries database, and there was a small discussion about this at Category talk:Burials in Christchurch. I've yet to look through Category:People from Dunedin, I expect that would yield several more. There's a further nine ashes burials I think can probably be as well. XLerate (talk) 01:54, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

NZHPT

Hi there XLerate (I've posted the same message to Grutness), I'm currently going through a big effort tidying up the NZHPT files on Commons. Would you mind lending a hand? I'm trying to get everything out of the parent category. Could you deal with the Otago Region structures and categorise them? Schwede66 03:38, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

Done. XLerate (talk) 07:41, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

Awesome. Thanks! Schwede66 19:15, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Peter Marshall (police commissioner)

The DYK project (nominate) 06:04, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

25 DYK Medal

-moved to user page-

Cool. Well done, XLerate. Schwede66 19:56, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! XLerate (talk) 22:20, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

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Arthur Barnett

Hi there, if you are interested in possibly writing a biography about a Dunedin personality, then I invite you to have a look at these thoughts. Schwede66 19:02, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

AUT Logo

Hey there,

Could you change the logo on AUT's page to have a larger white border. Facebook uses the wiki page information and the logo thumbnail doesn't show AUT only an expanded logo which essentially looks like a zoomed up version of the logo. I would have changed it myself, but it is protected. Cheers, Ialsolovelimes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ialsolovelimes (talk • contribs) 00:07, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

It looked ok to me on this Facebook page, other than the logo touching the vertical divider. I've added a small margin to the logo, which you can see under File history/Dimensions. Searching for Auckland University of Technology shows a zoomed version of the logo, basically just the U of AUT is visible. That is set by Facebook, I don't know if it can be changed there, you could try the Help Center, or using a different version of the logo. Adding a huge margin to the logo here is not the way to fix that. XLerate (talk) 01:39, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

A bowl of strawberries for you!

For so many "sweet" contributions on here. Enjoy this treat, you have truly earned it. ;) Pinkstrawberry02 (talk) 02:31, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

Re:Thanks

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