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Thanks for the fantastic articles on the various Maori Wars! As a fellow New Zealander I'm sort of ashamed I don't know more about them (aside from Maurice Shadbolt novels...). Keep up the great work Lisiate 20:52 29 Jun 2003 (UTC)

The Imperial Troops and then later the Colonial Forces never captured a completed and defended Pa but they did learn how to neutralise the problem. Although cheap and easy to build a Modern Pa did require a significant input of labour and resouces. By the wholesale destruction of the Maori economic base, the destruction of the society itself, they were sometimes able to them unaaffordable. This was the reasoning behind the bush scouring expeditions of Chute and McDonnell in the Second Taranaki War.

This is a very strong statement Ping, and in fact I don't think this language can be justified. As far as I know there was never any attempt to bring about either "the wholesale destruction of the Maori economic base" or "the destruction of the society itself". Both of these things would have required a nationwide campaign. Yet none of the campaigns in the maori wars was ever truly nationwide in scope. Both of these things would have required a policy of attack on maori civilian (non-combatant) populations away from the area of immediate conflict. That never happened, indeed almost all of the fighting occurred around fortified pa, and the British aim seems to have always been to achieve a 'decisive' military victory by defeating maori combatants in the field. Wouldn't it much more accurate to describe these bush scouring campaigns as simply efforts to cut off supply lines. The language you are using suggests a campaign of genocide. hawthorn

Hi Ping - great articles on the Maori Wars... a little PoV in places, but it's a difficult subject to stay 100% "Kupapa" on that subject. There's a new category for them (Category: New Zealand land wars). I think I've caught all the articles and categorised them, but I may have missed some - any chance you could see whether there are any you've done that I've missed? Also any of the Maori leaders of the wars that you've written articles on: they should be in the Category: Maori people. Again, i think I've caught most of them, but you might spot some that I've missed! Cheers (and keep up the good work!) Grutness 06:50, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)


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[edit] Re "Northland" college

Tena koe ehoa. Mea culpa. Export Golds with lunch are not always a good idea. Many thanks for fixing such a glaring error. Ka kite. Moriori July 3, 2005 08:36 (UTC)


[edit] Transient Maori

Were you not aware of the influx of Maori into Virginia and North Carolina?  ;-) Thanks for catching that. I swear I had read that as East Coast of New Zealand before--but it is obvious pasted the wrong link :-(. If you see any others, please do not hesitate to let me know! Have a great weekend :-). -[[User:RobyWayne|<span

[edit] Category:Wikipedians in New Zealand

Hi, You might want to consider adding {{User NZ res}} to the top of your user page, which will add you to this category automatically and also add a nice graphic. Onco_p53 08:42, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Butter

Can you please review this article. It is up for Wikipedia:Peer review/Butter and I noticed it could use some work (and a fact check) on the chemical properties/analysis side I noticed you have a background in biochemistry so I thought you may be interested and can help. Thank you in advance for any contributions you make. --maclean25 09:27, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

(So that's how you found the old peer review.) Appreciate the comments. Actually, it's out of peer review and in FAC now. Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Butter. So comments should go there. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 16:21, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Darren Romeo

I removed your speedy deletion tag from this article. At the time you tagged it, it did qualify for A7, but it was slightly expanded by User:Wingsandsword and as it stands now, does not appear to be a speedy candidate. Feel free, however, to nominate it for deletion if you wish. howcheng {chat} 18:56, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] You might be interested

In fact I'm sure you will be. See here Moriori 06:05, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stubs and de-stubbing

I notice that you have been removing stub tags from some very short articles, and I was wondering what criteria you were using to decide that they were not stubs. Hawkbit, for instance, was only three sentences long, and Ononis spinosa was only two sentences long when you de-stubbed them. Wikipedia:Stub suggests that articles of "3 to 10 short sentences" are stubs, on which basis both of the articles I've mentioned were clearly stubs. Can you clarify your method? --Stemonitis 10:02, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Cleanup

I am the programmer of the bot, I responded to your queries about User:Gnome (Bot). I just thought I'd let you know that I responded. Please leave your message on the Clean Up talk page as that is where I posted my response. Thanks. Eagle (talk) (desk) 00:43, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

If you are wondering, I was recruted by User:Alba to design a bot to help this project...So many of these ideas are Alba's, all I do is program them them, and make sure they work:-)Eagle (talk) (desk)

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Cleanup#Nice thinking, and update to Gnome bots operational status

I responded agian, Will keep your idea in mind. The title is a link to my response. Eagle (talk) (desk) 00:11, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gnome bot

I saw on User:Alba's talk page that you made another suggestion on Gnome bot, As the programmer of the Bot, I ask that if you let Alba know, please also let me know...Alba is the person who came up with most of the idea's behind the bot (he made a request for it), but regardless of whether it is a good idea, I need to make sure that it is programmable.:-)Eagle (talk) (desk) 18:56, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Auckland meetup

Just to let you know that a meetup is planned in Auckland for the 25th of June (see Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland for more details), and that you are cordially invited. GeorgeStepanek\talk 00:21, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New Zealander-Israeli relations

I noticed you identified yourself as a Wikipedian in New Zealand. You may be interested in New Zealander-Israeli relations. Respectfully, Republitarian 23:33, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

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