User talk:Gadfium/archive20

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[edit] Cat change lost?

Hi Gadfium, About 22 October I submitted a Category renaming request using the correct method - "Category:Freshwater fish of New Zealand" → "Category:Endemic freshwater fish of New Zealand". The comments were building up but now the entry has disappeared - I wonder whether you can point me to its location. Thanks. GrahamBould 14:53, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

It's at Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_October_27#Category:Freshwater_fish_of_New_Zealand. The main Wikipedia:Categories for discussion page only transcludes one week's worth of daily pages. This has dropped to the next section, Pending completions. That section has it's own working page at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working, and I don't see your categegoy there anywhere. You might like to ask someone involved with that page - look through the history of it and pick one of the regularly occuring names. It may be that someone has misunderstood that the consensus, which is to keep the category but move the articles to a subcategory, requires a bot to do the move.-gadfium 18:05, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Akanemoto

No problem, thanks for letting me know. I wasn't sure myself. Proto::type 08:19, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bias shown by Gadfium in the AUT page

Because you are a University of Auckland student you are more likely to be bias in your comments/postings on the AUT page. This has been reflected several times where you have stated unsupported claims and reasons for AUT's establishment as a university. You have no evidence whatsoever to support your statements. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sinista (talk • contribs).

Actually, I'm an ex-AUT student too. In the case you seem to be objecting to, where you have tried to change my comment on the talk page, I'm defending AUT.-gadfium 01:20, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Well whats with the "Auckland Technical Institute" comment?—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sinista (talk • contribs).

Please sign your name on talk pages. The comment flows from the sentence before it. Why do you find it offensive?-gadfium 04:45, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

I don't find it offensive at all. All I am questioning is the neutrality of your comments on the AUT page. Once people like you start posting bias comments it impacts on Wikipedias credibility as a source of information. And Im a Massey Uni student by the way. (Sinista 04:56, 5 November 2006 (UTC))

[edit] Oceania

Please consider my last statement.Gelpiac 15:14, 5 November 2006 (UTC) Would you check the discussion page please? Gelpiac 16:23, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Why remove my link?

@ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loch_Ness any particular reason? Do you even click on the link? Or do you believe the link below it (yours?) is some how better? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 213.217.220.42 (talk • contribs).

I removed your link, and have done so again, because Wikipedia is not a web directory. I have now gone through that article and removed several other photo and travel sites. I have no conflict of interest here; I am trying to improve Wikipedia. You clearly do have a conflict of interest, as you are linking to your own site.-gadfium 17:46, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

No I have no conflict of interest otherwise I would have deleted all links but mine, hopefully one day you and others like you will get the difference between blanket statements like "Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that exist to attract visitors to a web site or promote a product." and what is useful to the end user, which is what Wikipedia is all about. Hei konā rā Tutae Upoko.

[edit] RfA thanks

Thank you for participating in my RfA discussion! I appreciate you contributing your voice to the debate and its outcome. I hope how I wield the mop makes you proud. Thanks!

— Saxifrage

[edit] Mare

Hey mate, I was the original guy posting about mayor vs. mare. I see that someone else has wound up with the same IP as I had, and is causing trouble. I have recovered the password to my old account, and I will use that for editing in the future. I just wanted to let you know that you are absolutely in the right with your edits to the article. PS: My account is called Cicadaboy. 130.195.86.36 21:08, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Lazy" reverts

If you have a specific problem with another editor's copyedit, please do not just revert (as you did at New Zealand). Fix the actual mistake, or discuss the problem with the editor in question. Meanwhile, "lazy" reverts can considered a simple slap in the face and can bring about needless heated disputes. Regards, Saravask 21:28, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Ok, I've tried changing your edit to something which doesn't confuse the Realm, the country and the Polynesian triangle. What I've ended up with is something worse than the original. Your first edit made it look like the Realm was the country, and the Triangle is the isolated area (it is isolated, but the article is talking about NZ). Your second edit mixed the distinct ideas of New Zealand, with its Maori name, and the Realm. Again, you mix up the isolation of NZ with that of the Polynesian triangle. Perhaps if you explain what it is about the original which needs copyediting, we could fix it.-gadfium 21:48, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

The Ross Dependency is not a state in free association with New Zealand. It's a territorial claim by New Zealand. Tokelau is not self-governing - your edit removed this distinction.-gadfium 23:36, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

.. Which helps make a point: the lead exhibits sloppy organization and syntax, leading readers (like me) to confusion. For example, take the phrase "the Cook Islands and Niue, which are self-governing, but in free association;". In free association with what? Each other (including the items subsequently listed)? With the realm? With New Zealand itself (which, per your clarification, is apparently a separate concept from the realm)? There are other examples, but there is a more general point: the lead is currently an informal hodgepodge of random factoids, not unlike a list of trivia. There is no thematic cohesion, no flow between facts, no higher organization, etc. Please compare your lead with that of Australia or Kerala. Saravask 00:04, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cats and Dogs Portals

Hi, Gadfium. If you can offer some tips on the respective portal talk pages about how to improve Cats and Dogs up to "featured" quality, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Rfrisbie^talk 18:07, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:Mattressman123

You blocked this user as a blantant vandal. However, they have created a chain of accounts (see [1], [2], [3]). They have also vandalized under the Bradleybittinger and MrsEdwards account. I warned them on that before I noticed the block on Mattressman123. If they continue vandalizing under any one account, should we block all of them? -- JLaTondre 00:22, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Do what you like; I'm on my way to an exam and don't have time to think about this.-gadfium 00:24, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

No problem. Good luck. -- JLaTondre 00:28, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar!

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		I hereby award you the RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar for your dedication and persistence to fighting vandals on Wikipedia. Thanks for helping Wikipedia stay strong. Nishkid64 19:35, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Added references to George Laking

Think that probably cleans it up, but accidentally deleted your request for references. Apologies for that, but think it's sorted now.

Are you perhaps confusing me with User:Chapium, who asked for references on the George Laking article, or have I made a request that I just don't remember?-gadfium 05:37, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Konstable

Hello,

An Arbitration case in which you commented has been opened: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Konstable. Please add any evidence you may wish the arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Konstable/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Konstable/Workshop.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, --Srikeit ^{(Talk | Email)} 05:51, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Thank you for your introduction. I am doing my best to add information in areas I have been or am currently an can get information about. Thanks for the links!

[edit] And here

Thanks for your note to me. I have unblocked him. Actually, I was ready to fight the good fight, but considering what has happened to the standards here I'm thinking it might be more rewarding to get on with the projects my wife has had lined up for me for ages. Were you aware that if you are not a member of a Wiki-project that you can't edit within that Wiki-project? Moriori 08:49, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

I haven't been involved in the paranormal area of Wikipedia at all, so I have no idea of the culture of that project. It looks like adding the article to the project page was a perfectly reasonable thing to do, and the idea that you can't make constructive edits within a project without being a member of that project seems bizarre. However, I suspect this is little to do with that principle or the article you were trying to add, and much to do with the past history between you and InShanee. Deciphering that is more work than I care to take on.-gadfium 18:09, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] re: Co-ordinates

• Your comment: These templates fail to display properly in other skins
• The solution: Back in April, William Allen Simpson posted fixes for various skins.

I will check to see what I need todo to update the skins. My apologies for the inconvenience.

Cheers NevilleDNZ 10:39, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

• Update & assistance needed

Cheers NevilleDNZ 09:47, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fiji tensions

Hi there! I have been planning to start an article on the current tensions - and have gathered a huge number of news reports to peruse. Lack of time has slowed me, but I should have something written up in the next few days. Feel free to get involved yourself, too:-) David Cannon 09:07, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Apology

Re: this. Please accept my apology for being uncivil to you. I should remember that your ability to maintain the assumption of good faith (even if I disagree) is admirable and that I've been the beneficiary as well. << armon >> 13:31, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Help

Wasn't sure who to ask regarding this issue but I noticed you removed a warning from my talk page which was given to me by User:EZisthebest so I thought I'll ask you. He just gave me another warning on my talk page. I have never vandalized Wikipedia, in fact, I'm a member of the Counter-Vandalism Unit and many of my edits are reverting vandalism. I think this user is trying to defame me because I reverted some of their edits. What should I do? Is there something like an "abuse of warnings" approach? This user is clearly abusing the system.--James Bond 02:04, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

I've removed the message from your talk page, and given the user a block and a warning.-gadfium 04:22, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Thank you!--James Bond 20:10, 30 November 2006 (UTC)