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Contents 1 Cinema of Unease 2 November 12, and "Emergence Day" 3 Scott Sather 4 Oh Yeah haha 5 Hey 6 Foreign relations of New Zealand 7 RfA Not Listed 8 Cheers 9 Taito Phillip Field 10 Foreign relations of New Zealand 11 Jerkcity 12 User:Buttwhore 13 With regards to your comments on Portal:Singapore 14 GIen's RfA: Thank you! 15 Notes/References 16 About the help desk 17 NZCOTF 18 WP:RfA/Consumed Crustacean 19 Clearing autoblocks 20 Lord Cooke of Thorndon

[edit] Cinema of Unease

• It certainly is relevant to the page, put it in the history section. It is a doco by Sam Neill covering a period where many New Zealand films were dark themed or edgy hence 'unease'. Films such as sleeping dogs, an angel at my table, and the one where the farmer boy has lambs blood spit on him when his old man cuts its throat (cant remember the name but its freaky weird New Zealand Cinema). --Say Var Ree 01:59, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] November 12, and "Emergence Day"

How does a Video game not count? Halo and Halo 2 are both cited on their respective dates of release, and I have never seen a rule saying "no video games" 8/3/06 - Magus05

Since this is a matter which potentially affects more than just the November 12 page, I've raised it at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#Video_game_launches. Please contribute there.-gadfium 00:20, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Scott Sather

Thanks for the small update to the Scott Sather page. It really helps cause I think this individual needed to have more information and a better looking design to the page. Just doing the quote thing helped out a lot. Thanks again. DJREJECTED 11:43, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Oh Yeah haha

I do the "research" you write the paper baby! I'm learning a lot, check out my new user page and thank you xoxo.Courtney Akins 17:46, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your help on my questions. Do you think I'm hot?Courtney Akins 02:46, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Since you're in Florida, and it's summer there, then you are most certainly hot unless you have your air conditioning on full-bore.-gadfium 02:52, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Well I do :). But I also have a pic on my user page baby.Courtney Akins 02:56, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

My sideways comment was intended as a subtle hint that your question is not appropriate as this is not a social networking site.-gadfium 05:46, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hey

Re this edit. unfortunately, they are called the black cocks. However, I recommend you DO NOT try to google that. I think they may have scrapped the name though [1]. --Midnighttonight Remind me to do my uni work rather than procrastinate on the internet 08:13, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Very cautious googling seemed to indicate that they considered that name but either didn't adopt it or abandoned it. I would want to see a link to a website clearly stating that is their current name, dated in 2006, before I would allow this reference. Essentially, it comes down to whether the New Zealand national badminton team are a bunch of trolls or not!-gadfium 08:19, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Foreign relations of New Zealand

Foreign relations of New Zealand is simply awful. There is little actual content - it's primarily a list of organizations NZ belongs to - and the content that was there, other than what I added yesterday, appears to be entirely uncited, POV OR. I'm thinking of deleting 75% of the article and trying to rebuild it from near scratch. Respectfully, Republitarian 13:30, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

I started a page on New Zealander-Israeli relations. I am more than happy to downsize the section on Nz-Israel relations at Foreign relations of New Zealand, but I see no point in creating a timeline of NZ foreign relations page. There is no content for this, at least as far as I can see, on the foreign relations page. Respectfully, Republitarian 17:43, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RfA Not Listed

GIen's RfA isn't listed yet. Wait a couple of minutes =). alphaChimp ^laudare 05:50, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

It'll appear on WP:RFA. Then, feel free to vote. Regards, alphaChimp ^laudare 05:52, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

I saw him accept it, and jumped in. You're right, I should have waited until it was on the RfA page.-gadfium 05:53, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

I actually reverted it back. Although the dividing line is there, I doubt anyone cares in the grand scheme of things. Regards, alphaChimp ^laudare 20:14, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cheers

Thanks for the category you added to Takuu. Lonely island feels included. Kahuroa 11:30, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Taito Phillip Field

Hi. You moved Taito Phillip Field to Phillip Field. I think that's a wrong move. Pls see Talk:Phillip_Field. cheers Nurg 13:12, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Foreign relations of New Zealand

Thanks for trimming Foreign relations of New Zealand. I had forgotten about doing that. Respectfully, Republitarian 13:12, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jerkcity

I saw your block of Jerkcity; I think you have a leetle typo there -- he's blocked for gross civility right now. Didn't want to edit it for you; thought you'd like to know. Thanks. Mike Christie (talk) 19:59, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. Better that the typo was on the talk page and not in the reason for the block!-gadfium 20:05, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:Buttwhore

Would you please block this user: offensive usernames, posting attack article ... thanks very much User:Pedant 23:30, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] With regards to your comments on Portal:Singapore

Thank You for your advise. I would like to further enquire whether typing in {{FULLPAGENAME}} is another method of doing this. With regards to Portal:Bangladesh, I did it by doing this method as they were no ed options in the particular edit page. --Siva1979^{Talk to me} 17:14, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm not an expert. I think FULLPAGENAME is the method used in the recommended templates for setting up a portal, so it seems like a good idea.-gadfium 19:25, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] GIen's RfA: Thank you!

Gadfium for your Support! II feel truly humbled & honored by your support in my RfA, which closed at 90 / 5 / 0. Thank you! If you need me for anything, just say the word. For now however, just like Mr Potter here: My mop & I shall thwart all evil :) IThank you once again my friend. GIen

PS: YES YOU'RE RIGHT HARRY POTTER USES A BROOM! (BUT GOOD MOPS ARE HARD TO FIND!!)

PS - thought it perfect that a fellow Kiwi was first off the mark too - nothing new there!!! :) Thanks mate - GIen 05:07, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Notes/References

Hi I have a question, You know that footnote you just added to the Zaoui page:

• ↑  Submission to the Prime Minister... in light of "Summary of Allegations and Reasoning" provided by the Director of Security on 27 January 2004 (PDF) (16 February 2004). Retrieved on 2006-08-26.

Is there a tool for making them that I don't know about, or do you do them by hand? Armon 00:59, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

There are numerous footnote/reference systems in use on Wikipedia. This is because the preferred style has changed over the years, and because both the MediaWiki syntax and templates have become more powerful over the years. I just follow the one in use on the page I'm editing, which in the case of the Zaoui article is the one explained at Wikipedia:Footnote3. Unfortunately, this is an older style and does need to be entered fully manually (although there are numerous add-on tools to WikiMedia, listed in WP:TOOLS, and one may have automated this process). For new pages which don't already have a footnote system, I use WP:FOOT, and it may be worth converting the Zaoui page to use that.-gadfium 01:26, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] About the help desk

Hi - Just an FYI, I've taken to letting folks at the help desk (and the various related pages) know how to do <whatever> rather than doing it for them even when it's trivial, on the theory that it's better to teach them how to fish than give them a fish. I know you spend a fair amount of time at these pages (as do I). It might be good for us (and the other regular responders) to adopt a common "response style". At one point, a while ago (I forget exactly where), I suggested we create a "how to respond" for these sorts of pages (use real English rather than wikilanguage, etc.). As I recollect, noone responded. Thoughts on this? -- Rick Block (talk) 04:30, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Fair point, I'll try to adhere to it in future. A non-binding/suggested code of conduct for Ref Desk staff is a good idea; if you write something I'll support it.-gadfium 05:04, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

I found what I wrote up a while ago - it's at Wikipedia talk:Village pump (miscellaneous). While looking for this, I also noticed Wikipedia:Help desk/How to answer, which is linked from WP:HD. I'm not a big fan of userboxes (and, looking at your user page it would appear you're not either), but perhaps one way to draw attention to a help desk code of conduct would be to link to it from a userbox for help desk responders, likely some variant of template:User helper. -- Rick Block (talk) 16:28, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NZCOTF

Could you please do the update tonight?; thanks Brian | (Talk) 04:55, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Will do!-gadfium 05:01, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WP:RfA/Consumed Crustacean

Thanks for the supporting vote. The whole ordeal finished with success, thankfully. :) -- Consumed Crustacean | Talk | 04:12, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Clearing autoblocks

Hi, I unblocked Courtney, apparently unsuccessfully and i see that you responded to her saying you cleared autoblocks. Can you give me a pointer as to where I should be reading how to do that? I'd rather have gotten it right on the first try... but thanks for taking care of it for me. You can answer here, I watch. ++Lar: t/c 11:48, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm no expert on the subject, and Courtney hasn't made an edit since, so I can't guarantee that I got it right, but at Special:Ipblocklist there's a link at the top of the page saying "See this tool for help in clearing autoblocks". For some reason, putting in "Courtney Atkins" as the blockee didn't work for me., so I put in "El C" as the blocker, and "last week" for the time span, and it showed me the original block, crossed out because it was lifted, and two autoblocks. Clicking on the autoblock id allows them to be cleared. If you look now, you'll see the autoblocks also crossed out, because I cleared them.-gadfium 19:34, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

I see now there's no "t" in her surname, so that's why putting in the blockee didn't work for me.-gadfium 19:38, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

What is the deal with how you guys are treating Publicgirluk? you know i was almost blocked permanently for as much as offering the same thing. Courtney Akins 02:02, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

I haven't had any connection with Publicgirluk. My connection with you started at the Reference desk, and I'm not involved in the pages she edits.-gadfium 02:21, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Courtney has only narrowly escaped an indef block for trolling and is very much on probation at the moment, although at this rate not for long. I suggest you delete the comment from your user page. Tyrenius 02:59, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

(Just spotted I think you're familiar with it already. Tyrenius 04:43, 30 August 2006 (UTC))

What are you talking abuot why are you all ganging up on me?Courtney Akins 03:05, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

See ganging up here.[2] Tyrenius 04:45, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lord Cooke of Thorndon

Thanks for the fixup on my edits - what I meant to say was that the sentence was POV, but brain wasn't working sufficiently to either fix it properly or explain what I thought about it. There's heaps of really good material that could be added to the article - might this be a good WP:NZCOTF? --Tirana 21:47, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

You could certainly nominate it. I looked for some information on him this morning, particularly on the role he played in cancelling the 1985 All Black tour of South Africa, and critical comments he made about the Business Roundtable, and couldn't find much, so I suggest you include some sources with the nomination.-gadfium 21:52, 30 August 2006 (UTC)