User talk:Malathos

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Hello, Malathos, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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[edit] Disambiguation of Okura

Disambiguation pages are only required when three or more articles that can be confused exist. For now, there is only a really crappy article on Okura that doesn't even make sense (it could probably be deleted, but for now would be better if it was expanded), so the convention would be to have a disambiguation link at the top of each page, something like this:

Okura is also the name of a style of theater in Japan

... and on the article referring to the Japanese version of Okura you would write:

Okura is also the name of an area in New Zealand

... or whatever description is most appropriate. Note that to create those sentences I am using a template, which looks like this: {{dablink|type your information here}}. Type that at the top of the page where you want to put the disambiguation link (dablink), and it will indent it and put it in italics, which is a standard style for such links.

The most common/relevant Okura article would be placed at Okura, and since you seem to think it would be the Japanese one it should stay there. Since you can't have two articles with the same name, check the style guidelines for places in New Zealand by looking at other similar articles. I assume the name would be something like Okura, New Zealand, or Okura, ProvinceStateOrDistrict, though it could also be something more like Okura (New Zealand), which is also a common style for disambiguating titles.

If you make an article for the river as well (meaning there's 3 Okura articles) tell me on my talk page and I'll help you disambiguate that.  freshofftheufoΓΛĿЌ  00:43, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Sorry to interrupt on somebody else's talk page. I just moved Okura to Ōkura school. I hope this helps avoid confusion. Fg2 07:06, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the help - Malathos 22:02, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Murupara

Thanks for double checking the location - I was sure it would be East Coast! :)

BTW, a comment on the discussion above, with NZ place names the naming guidelines would be Placename if it's the only place with that name in the world, Placename, New Zealand if there are others in the world but only one in NZ (not Placename (New Zealand)!), and Placename, Province if there are two or more places with that name in NZ. The only exception is features of cities like parks, which usually get Placename, City. All the details are at Wikipedia:Naming guidelines or one of the pages connected to it. Grutness...wha? 05:42, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New NZ related articles.

Hi, you might want to add any new New Zealand related articles you create or come across to Wikipedia:New articles (New Zealand). This paged is watced by several people and is a good way to let people know about new articles. - SimonLyall 04:57, 16 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 08:51, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of New Zealand lakes

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
Your work on List of New Zealand lakes was incredible and added a lot to the community. It looks like an incredibly boring and long task, but one you did superbly. Kia kaha. Midnighttonight (rendezvous) 23:55, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lakes of New Zealand

Amazing work! It is such a pleasure to see a complete list of all lakes in New Zealand. Being an editor that always writes complete articles, I am normally reluctant to translate incomplete lists. This one, I felt, had to be done, but there was still a dose of discontent in me because of its incompleteness. But now this is wonderful. I know it will be a challenge, but I will gladly do it. Unlike other languages, Macedonian and the rest that use cyrillic alphabet require translation for everythijng translatable and transcription only for specific intranslable names (and, of course, all Māori names). Thanks for the great job. All best. --B. Jankuloski 00:59, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WP:SCOWNB Participants merger with WP:SCO

As I hope you may have seen I am attempting to tidy up WP:SCOWNB by removing old notices and the duplication that has emerged since the creation of WP:SCO. One of the latter issues is that there are lists of active Wikipedians on both locations which overlap to a significant degree. As WP:SCOWNB is ideally a place for announcements I am in process of merging the lists at WP:SCO and intend to remove the one at WP:SCOWNB when this is complete. However there are a fair number of Users not on both lists. If you do not wish to have you current WP:SCOWNB entry re-appear at WP:SCO please either let me know or edit the latter as appropriate. Thanks for your patience, and continuing support of matters relating to WikiProject Scotland. Ben MacDui (Talk) 18:17, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

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