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[edit] Image Tagging Image:OJ entebbe airport.gif

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[edit] Image tagging for Image:OJ_Mercedes.gif

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[edit] Non-free use disputed for Image:Clannad Legend album cover.jpg

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[edit] "Default sort"

I am sure you mean well, but changing the sort order for names of kings and princes and such people normally known by their full given name makes no sense. As I had put Adolf Frederick of Sweden on my "watchlist" a couple of weeks ago, I happened to notice your changing the sort order to "Frederick, Adolf" (which makes as much sense as sorting George W. Bush as "W., George Bush"), and I also undid another couple of similar edits of yours, but I don't particularly feel like going through your contributions systematically. Please backtrack your edits and undo them yourself in applicable cases. Olaus 10:42, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

P.S. I am sorry if I came through as patronizing above. When doing a lot of minor and mostly very useful edits, as you obviously do, it is probably easy to stumble into something unfamiliar and make a mistake. Everything is revertible, so it is really no big deal. :-) Olaus 11:07, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

It's no problem, I'm happy to discuss it. I did look for a policy or guide on this specific point of names mixed with titles but didn't see anything, please let me know if you're aware of some documentation on this topic. George W. Bush has default sort set to "Bush, George W.", rather than "George W. Bush President of the United States". One the other hand, Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom has nothing set, so reverts to the title (as opposed to Windsor, Elizabeth). Thanks for pointing it out, this looks to be the precedent for royalty, so I'll leave the names with titles as they are.XLerate 11:35, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nomination for Did you know

[edit] DYK update

Updated DYK query On 5 October 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Ethel Benjamin, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Congrats! --Espresso Addict 16:03, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hello

Hello, Nice to hear that you are a loyal member on wikipedia but unfortunatly your edits on Kasautii Zindagii Kay are identified as vandalism but sadly they can't be reverted. Other users and I have really worked hard on that article and now it is ruined If you could please some how revert your edits it'll be wonderful,Hope you understand.Thanx Lil'Khan 01:17, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

The edits after mine deleted large portions of the article. I spent several hours improving the article, ran it through spelling and grammar checking, you can see this here. I have reverted the article to the edit I did, it looks ok now. There were some small edits afterwards, I'll take a look and see if some additional repairs are needed. If the vandalism continues you can request protection. XLerate 01:36, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AWB edit to The Seattle Times Company

Under the edit summary "stub sorting" you've deleted an inline crosslink that I feel shouldn't have been deleted: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Seattle_Times_Company&diff=164198410&oldid=161192607. Note that there is no actual stub change in the edit, contrary to the summary you (or your AWB) left. I went ahead and reverted it but wanted to give you a head's-up on it, as it appears to have been a case of auto-editing gone wild. Feel free to leave me a talk message there or on my page if there's any problem. Cheers! ``` W i k i W i s t a h ``` 04:17, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

There are 2 topics regarding this edit. Firstly I deleted an internal link duplicated in the preceeding sentence. It's really not necessary to repeat the same link in such close promixity, please see WP:MOS-L. Secondly I removed the stub tag, I feel it is start class already from 2 criteria - "multiple links that help explain or illustrate the topic", and "multiple subheadings that indicate material that could be added to complete the article". Please see here for the assessment guideline I use. I feel the repeated link really needs to go, the stub tag is more subjective, if you want to leave it on I suggest putting a more specific one, like company stub. XLerate 04:47, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
Whoops ... you're right about the stub. That one slipped my attention. I've no problem with that edit. As for the deletion of the town link, I disagree, though not strenuously enough to revert. Sorry for the inconvenience. ``` W i k i W i s t a h ``` 04:53, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
No worries, thanks anyway for pointing it out, in case it was auto-editing gone wild. XLerate 05:26, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New Plymouth weather info box

Nice work with the weather box, XL, but the rain section at the bottom is very hard to read. Are you able to lighten the blue, or is this a Wiki template? Grimhim 02:56, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Grimhim, I agree the text could be clearer. It is the Infobox Weather standard template, this issue with the font colour has been raised already, I'll add a note for New Plymouth also. XLerate 03:06, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

Updated DYK query Did you know? was updated. On 17 November 2007, a fact from the article Wellington Free Ambulance, which you recently nominated, was featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Zzyzx11 (Talk) 18:55, 17 November 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Robert Lawson

Thanks, that's a vast improvement [1] any more like that at home? Giano (talk) 08:22, 20 November 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Disputed fair use rationale for Image:St John New Zealand Logo.PNG

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[edit] NZ State Highways

Hi XLerate -

I see you've been improving the State Highway 8 (New Zealand) article I started the other day! I've just made a start on State Highway 7 (New Zealand) - you might like to have a look at that one too (I'm hoping to make a start on articles for Highways 2 to 6 during the next week or two). Grutness...wha? 01:42, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Feel free to change the shields. With the software I've got I can only make them in gif, jpg or png, but you're right that svg would be better. Regard my ones as "spacefillers". Grutness...wha? 23:32, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] University of Auckland

Hi,

I see that you are making bot-assisted changes of "Auckland University" to "University of Auckland". I would suggest that in any article which says "X graduated from y in (year) z", then y should be whatever the institution was called at that time.

So for someone pre-1950* you might say "Auckland University College (now University of Auckland)" and for the time prior to the latest name change**, I'd use [[University of Auckland|Auckkland University]].

  • I can't remember the exact year the U of NZ was split up into 7 universities - it was some time between 1950 and 1957)
    • When was the name change? I can't find a press release.

dramatic (talk) 03:21, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Hi dramatic, I've gone through and categorised all the faculty and alumni, where the article conclusively stated "was a lecturer" or "graduated from". Incidentally I was also replacing the colloquial "Auckland University" with the actual title "University of Auckland" (especially as there is the Auckland University of Technology). I was aware Auckland split along with the others from the University of New Zealand (in 1961 according to the article), I'm not aware it was called "Auckland University" during it's history. "Auckland University College" I left alone, I was only replacing [[Auckland University]] and [[University of Auckland|Auckland University]] with [[University of Auckland]]. If I've mucked it up somewhere or used the wrong title, please let me know and I can take a look at repairing it. Otago, Waikato and now Auckland have been categorised (over 200 more alumni & faculty in the respective categories), I plan to do the remaining NZ universities in the next few days. Perhaps there need to be categories for University of NZ alumni & faculty, for pre-1961 graduates & staff, what do you think? XLerate (talk) 04:00, 16 December 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Clannad Legend album cover.jpg

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[edit] HMS Royal Oak (08) reference check

Thanks for pointing this out. After checking, the correct pages are indeed Snyder, pp179-180, which brings the number of uses of this reference to three. Regards, — BillC talk 01:16, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] List of Kakapo

Could you confirm this please?--Nicolás10 (talk) 16:41, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] For you

Seems like just about every item on my watchlist has had either coordinates or an infobox added by you recently. Thought you might like this for your good work :)

The Working Man's Barnstar
For the onerous work of adding coordinates and other templates to a looong list of New Zealand articles, I, Grutness, award you this barnstar. Enjoy! Grutness...wha? 01:45, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] National Library Sketchup image

Hi, I think I must have got confused about the National Library SketchUp image: the author had released it under a creative commons licnese here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/53752777@N00/971357387/, but I assume your argument is that he does not have the right to do that as the image was taken in Google Earth where any image is owned by Google. Does this mean that the model without the background (hypothetically) would be okay (eg outisde of Google Earth)?

Matt (talk) 23:20, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Dunedin Public Libraries

Xlerate thanks for your editing work. I am based at Dunedin Public Libraries and had the blessing of the Library Manager to use the website text. As the Library is the owner of the text I can't see where use of this public domain content would be a problem? Paul151 (talk) 00:58, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] B class

Thanks for the feedback on B-class articles. I've put my effort in the last 24 hours into adding references and/or content to Māori, History of Air New Zealand, and Blenheim, New Zealand - all tagged by at least one project as B-class - and I'm very happy that my temporary downgrade of Dunedin has resulted in an improvement to that article.

The assessment of articles is rather inconsistent, and sometimes I think we're too hard on articles, but when an article seems to be accumulating tags without editors making an effort to clean them up, then something has to be done.-gadfium 09:36, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Certainly it was overdue for some attention, especially being top importance to WPNZ, thanks for going to the trouble of point it out. I think the assessment can be somewhat subjective, may differ significantly between editors. XLerate (talk) 03:18, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] HMNZS Te Mana (F111)

Updated DYK query On 17 May 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article HMNZS Te Mana (F111), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 07:16, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] could you please do me a favor?

Hello,

I am a master student at the Institute of Technology Management, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. Currently I am wrapping up my master thesis titled “Can Wikipedia be used for knowledge service?” In order to validate the knowledge evolution maps of identified users in Wikipedia, I need your help. I have generated a knowledge evolution map to denote your knowledge activities in Wikipedia according to your inputs including the creation and modification of contents in Wikipedia, and I need you to validate whether the generated knowledge evolution map matches the knowledge that you perceive you own it. Could you please do me a favor?

  1. I will send you a URL link to a webpage on which your knowledge evolution map displays. Please assign the topic (concept) in the map to a certain cluster on the map according to the relationship between the topic and clusters in your cognition, or you can assign it to ‘none of above’ if there is no suitable cluster.
  2. I will also send a questionnaire to you. The questions are related to my research topic, and I need your viewpoints about these questions.

The deadline of my thesis defense is set by the end of June, 2008. There is no much time left for me to wrap up the thesis. If you can help me, please reply this message. I will send you the URL link of the first part once I receive your response. The completion of my thesis heavily relies much on your generous help.

Sincerely


JnWtalk 07:38, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

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