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Contents 1 Re: Eden Park pic 2 Re: Mapping sites for NZ 3 Re: Are you okay? 4 Proposed Georgia Move 5 Deletion review for Template:Good article 6 East Timor is not part of Oceania 7 New Zealand Categories 8 Désiré van Monckhoven 9 Re: Gidday 10 Hawaiian language on Portal:Oceania 11 NZ Sign Language

[edit] Re: Eden Park pic

Fine, delete it, if the rules have been broken. I personally don't see that there's a problem, but I guess rules are rules. I just don't get the whole licensing thing....FPV F6 TYPHOON 06:03, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Mapping sites for NZ

I restored a restored a couple of links for mapping sites earlier today (our site vianet.travel and zoomin's) after being removed by someone adding multimap. In turn all the mapping links have been removed. Three mapping site is excessive I agree and I guess it is fair to remove them all. We are a NZ mapping company and we specialise in tourism maps providing information on NZ locations, schools, parks and other points of interest on the maps. Zoomin is another NZ company who provide street mapping for NZ. I suggest it is appropriate for both links to be restored, or perhaps the creation of a new "Maps" section to the NZ page? Vaughan.rowsell 09:41, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

I suggest you post to Talk:New Zealand explaining why some map sites are more useful than others (and explaining your own connection to vianet). I don't know how many different map sites covering New Zealand there are, but at least these three plus Google maps.

I'm not quite sure what advantage there is for an encyclopedia to link to map sites anyway. We should have a decent map as part of the article of course (and our present one is not nearly sufficiently detailed for my liking), I would expect people who use Wikipedia to also use Google to find zoomable maps if that is what they're after. On the other hand, I do see that encarta includes an interface to mappoint.-gadfium 20:12, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Are you okay?

I notice that you haven't edited since accepting your RfA, and it's unusual for you to go this long without an edit. If you're just busy in real life, or your computer crashed, please let us know so we don't worry about you.-gadfium 22:26, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the concern. I did not realise that my activity on Wikipedia was followed closely! I was out of town for a while after submitting my RfA and have been doing a little bit of work on another project. I am not ready for Category:Deceased Wikipedians!! Alan Liefting 10:22, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed Georgia Move

As a past participant in the discussion on how to handle the Georgia pages, I thought you might be interested to know that there's a new attempt to reach consensus on the matter being addressed at Talk:Georgia (country)#Requested_Move_-_July_2006. Please come by and share your thoughts to help form a consensus. --Vengeful Cynic 03:54, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion review for Template:Good article

hi, i hope you can take part in the deletion review debate for the above metadata template that puts a star on the article's mainpage (you voted in the original deletion debate). the vote is here Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2006 July 8 (scroll down for Template:Good Article section). thanks. Zzzzz 00:40, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] East Timor is not part of Oceania

East Timor is not part of Oceania. That is why I pasted it to an Asia article. East Timorese themselves feel very insulted if one referres to their country as a "South Pacific" country or as a part of Oceania. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.255.230.227 (talk • contribs)

Please discuss this at Talk:Oceania. Please provide a cite that "East Timorese ... feel insulted if one refers to their country as ... part of Oceania." It certainly isn't part of the South Pacific, but no one argues that it is.

Don't just remove material from articles without explanation. When you initially removed the material, I thought you had done so because it was out of date. East Timor is certainly part of Oceania in a zoogeographical sense - see Wallace Line. Politically, it has had more involvement with Australia and New Zealand than most countries in its area, relative to its size and population. Portal:Oceania covers it; as far as I'm aware no other portal does so.-gadfium 20:00, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

East Timor is part of Asia, Southeast Asia more specifically, PERIOD! Even though it shares the same fauna and flora with Oceania is absolutly of no signifcance. They are both part of Asia and universally accepted so.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.255.230.227 (talk • contribs)

Please provide citations as requested above. Also, remember to sign your posts on talk pages, and there's no need to bold everything.-gadfium 20:18, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New Zealand Categories

Hi, do you know of any way that we can list all the sub cats under Category:New Zealand in a hierarchical format. This is for two reasons. 1) I suspect some category placement could be improved. 2) I don't know them that well and it would be nice to print off a list and put things into their correct sub category, rather than in Category:New Zealand people for example, some times they can be hard to guess -- New Zealand artists, or Artists in New Zealand?. Onco_p53 22:20, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

The category tree tool does what you want. The place to look for tools like this is at Wikipedia:tools.-gadfium 23:48, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Désiré van Monckhoven

Good idea; I stubbed out Désiré van Monckhoven per your suggestion. Dicklyon 05:43, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Gidday

Thank you. I hope you've been doing well. I missed you (and everyone else here). It is good to be back. I made one edit to one article and soon another followed, then another. Before I knew it I had decided it didn't matter how busy RL was; I was going to make time for Wikipedia. You're right about removing the inactive notice. I've been thinking about that, myself, but putting it off because of the time tradeoff. I would prefer a more aesthetically pleasing page than what I had before. Putting one together means taking time away from reverting vandalism. You're right, though. It's time. I guess I'll just shamelessly steal ideas from some of the user pages I've seen lately. SWAdair 03:05, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hawaiian language on Portal:Oceania

Thanks for figuring out what I was trying to do with the article. I was in a hurry and wasn't very clear. I hope the article is OK. · rodii · 20:17, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NZ Sign Language

You just beat me to the revert, but it was certainly more humourous than average...--Limegreen 23:47, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

True.-gadfium 23:48, 30 July 2006 (UTC)