User talk:IanRitchie

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Contents 1 Welcome 2 Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot 3 NZ Schools 4 Warriors 5 Bartercard Cup 6 Footy Club 7 Auckland Meetup 2 Scheduled - Feb 10 2007 8 NZ Dual Rugby Int'ls

[edit] Welcome

Hi Ian. Since you don't have a user page I'm assuming that you are relatively new to Wikipedia. There are some handy thoughts on how to contribute effectively at Wikipedia:Policy trifecta.

Thanks for adding information to the MacLeans College page. One comment that I do have is that you might want to consider how 'encyclopedic' some of the information is. For example, the McLeans values might not be of interest much outside the school. Again, is there anything special or noteworthy about international students at McLeans? I have recently added an infobox to all the NZ School spages, and the best ones are the ones that mention something that differentiates this school from other NZ ones. Cheers Neil Leslie 08:53, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi Neil.

Sorry if this isn't the right way to respond...i'm not entirely used to this yet...

I'm not very new to Wikipedia, i've never bothered with a user page. I decided to have a decent shot at the Macleans page after i looked it up a while ago and saw how bad it was.

Like i said, it is a work in progress. I imagine there is something noteworthy about the international students programme at Macleans, but i haven't examined the idea yet. I'll take it out if it is needless. I was going to expand on the Macleans values and more of the schools policies in the next few days, as i always felt it differentiated Macleans from other Kiwi schools. I thought that the information was fairly encyclopedic. If i looked up a school i wouldn't want some mindless drone about the general stuff there. I'd want to know the 'interesting' things about the school, like values etc. The acronyms were something drilled into us for 5 years, so i figure there is some importance there.

By the way, Kirkcaldy, Fife? I have family there. Nice place.

Hi Ian, Kirkcaldy is not that nice, else I wouldn't be in Wellington! About McLeans: feel free to add whatever you want, if you think it is interesting. Best wishes Neil Leslie 23:25, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Fair enough. I only spent a few days there and then it snowed...in April...

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[edit] NZ Schools

I replied on my talk page. Mr Bluefin 23:43, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Warriors

I'd much rather be doing players than results - at least I already know most of the info this way. I figured it was a good time to start a section now that the Official website lists all the players in chronological order. Cheers for that site. Mattlore 12:38, 15 July 2006 (UTC) Its complete(ish) :O Mattlore 08:25, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bartercard Cup

Drat, my Raiders lost did they? Saw a table that hinted they had on nzrl.com but couldn't find an article or anything. You got any links to match reports? Also any comments on what I've been upto with the Bartercard Cup stuff? Cheers. Mattlore 08:55, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, Rangers :$ I must still be living in the Lion Red Cup days...They just hadn't updated themselves when I visited the site earlier. Cheers Mattlore 09:45, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Footy Club

Hi, I am trying to introduce a club for rugby league supporters that will be more than just a wikiproject and help to encourage rugby league participation and article improvement. I have written down some of my thoughts about what wikileaguies should attempt to do and would be interested if you, like other rugby league supporters, would be willing to be involved on some level. [1], leave signage and thoughts on the talk page if you are interested. Cheers. --Rugby 666 08:29, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Auckland Meetup 2 Scheduled - Feb 10 2007

You are invited to Auckland Meetup 2 on the afternoon of Saturday February 10th 2007 at Galbraith's Ale House in Mt Eden. Please see Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland 2 for details. You can also bookmark Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland to be informed of future NZ meetups. - SimonLyall 08:42, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] NZ Dual Rugby Int'ls

HeyIan, I've done lots of work on the Aussies in Category:Dual code rugby internationals . Also now lots of the Welsh qualifiers are getting added & even 2 Samoans!! But there are at least 30 more Kiwis/All Blacks missing. Don't suppose you can steer me to a list of them can you ? Sticks66 13:36, 26 March 2007 (UTC)