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[edit] Welcomes

Hello there Cameron, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you ever need editing help visit Wikipedia:How does one edit a page and experiment at Wikipedia:Sandbox. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions or how to format them visit our manual of style. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. BTW, nice work on Telemarketing. There is a message for you at Talk:Caller. Cheers! --maveric149

Cheers Cameron - welcome. Nice to have another kiwi around the place. hawthorn

[edit] Culture of New Zealand

Hi Cameron. I'd appreciate it if you'd stop by the Culture of New Zealand article you started earlier today and check that the copyediting I did just now has not made it say something you didn't intend it to say. I hope that I've just made your original thoughts a little clearer, not changed them - a grand total of two weeks in the South Island 20-odd years ago does not qualify me as an expert on NZ culture. (Except for DB Brown - I got to know DB Brown rather well!) Tannin

Logs in eye & etc. - yes, a good point, and one that applies in equal measure to me - having done the Culture of Australia thing a week or so ago, I fully appreciate how difficult they are to write! Tannin

Hi, I like your article on Culture in NZ, a very challenging subject. I added another aspect to the section on NZ Attitudes but am not really sure if it is appropriate, what do you think, it might be a bit too much POV? Ping 07:41 2 Jun 2003 (UTC)
Re Culture of New Zealand - Cultural Cringe - I think it makes a good addition to the topic. Concerning NPOV - much of the Culture area is opinion and it is very hard to obtain a completely NPOV - I think some opinion and humour is necessary, provided it is not too excessive. If anyone else disagrees thy can always change it! - kiwiinapanic 09:22 2 Jun 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Eastbourne

How big is Eastbourne, New Zealand?

  • Pop. 4600 est. - Updated the page.

[edit] Fellowship of the Ring

My reasons in favor of an entry entitled The Fellowship of the Ring (movie) are listed on the talk page Talk:The Fellowship of the Ring (movie). -- Modemac

I don't really care which way it goes... I made the changes I did, because a parallel set of articles were already being developed already under the "... (movie)" names (which seems to be the usual standard here for movies that might be confused with books). I just tried to make thing consistant. I made the The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring a disambiguation page because I thought it should definitely stay, but does apply to both the book and the movie. But as far as I am concerned... do whatever you want... just make sure it is consistant everywhere (it is a lot of paqes to visit and change, I know! I'm not even sure I found them all myself...). -- RTC 17:07 Jan 27, 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Maori Wars

Hi Cameron, thanks for your help with the Tauranga Campaign. I have been keeping a full bibliography on the end of the "mother article", the Maori Wars. Most of the Tauranga campaign comes from Bellich and Maxwell, hopefully later on I will be able to go through other accounts and broaden the perspective somewhat, that is the advantage of constant editing. I will look at the List of Battles later on also. Ping Ping 07:58 25 Jun 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Dear Cameron: Hi, I always do the articles I start based on careful researching. After Ive researched, I write what I have found out with my research. I cannot add or substract from what I have found out, because then the article would not be historically correct, and probably also subject to a point of view discussion. If I say a singer had a crush on the wife of another singer , without them admmitting it or without any credible info on how it happened or anything, that would be adding to the subject. This is one of the biggest challenges wikipedians face: While you can not, of course, copy someone else's article and put it here because its not legal, at the same time, we can only write based on what we have found out about the individual or history.

I found out in a site that some Robert Scott made flying history, and I included it, based on what I found in that place, but not copying what I found in that place. Whether if its that Robert Scott or the one you sent me, I dont know. But looking at the one you sent me, his biography says nothing of being a pilot.

Thanks for rweading the article, and God bless you!

Sincerely yours, Antonio Ginger-Ale Martin

[edit] Maori Articles

You know, the links off the Maori pages, where Maori is spelled using these special chars like so Māori doesnt work for my browser. does it work for yours ? although i normally use mozilla, im using IE at the moment. reply here 10:21, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC)

The special characters are known as macrons. These are horizontal bars above the vowels a, e ,i, o, and u. See Maori language for more information about macrons in maori. These characters work for me in my browser and I am using Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 2. You may need to download a special character set to get macrons to work.
In my opinion, macrons should not be used in the [english Wikipedia] because of the very problem you are experiencing. It also screws up text searches. Please feel free to raise this problem on the talk page of any and every Maori article that you encounter in Wikipedia. Edit the pages to remove macrons if you cannot read them. Macrons should only be used in a maori language website, such as the [Maori Language Wikipedia], or web page where both Maori and English are used. --- Cameron Dewe 10:44, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Hello and kia ora! I think we corresponded briefly a while ago. Thanks for your contribution to "Maori language" - are you aware that there is now some real content (ie articles) on the Maori Wikipedia? I'd love to see a few more contributors. One doesn't need to speak Maori to contribute. But if you have any acquaintances who speak it or are studying it, please let them know. - Robin Patterson 07:56, 1 May 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

[edit] Category:Wikipedians in New Zealand

Hi, You might want to consider adding {{User NZ res}} to the top of your user page, which will add you to this category automatically and also add a nice graphic. Onco_p53 07:43, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Done -- Cameron Dewe 04:32, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ride theory

I removed some material you added to Ride theory because I believe the quoted source may have been engaged in a hoax or satire:

Trevor Blake, publisher of obscure OVO Magazine, claims an article by Ignatz Topo, (or Ignatz Topolino), titled The Psychogeography of Disneyland: Exerpts and Analysis of Formulary for a New Urbanism is one of the first published examples of Ride Theory. [1], [2](40MB download) The article presents an October 1953 Situationalist text about an (unidentified) tourist city that appears to be a parallel description of Disneyland. Even though at that time the amusement park was still only on a (secret) drawing board in Disney studios. Later examples appeared in the Journal of Ride Theory published by Dan Howland.

"Ignatz Topo" or "Ignatz Topolino" sounds like a fake name in that "topo" is the Italian word for "mouse", "Topolino" is the Italian name for Mickey Mouse, and Ignatz was the mouse character in the comic strip Krazy Kat. Furthermore, the two cited links in this paragraph do not go to any page that contains the information described here. --Metropolitan90 08:26, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for the advice. However, you should explain yourself on the Ride theory talk page. While I agree that the quoted source is satire, I disagree that my comments are inaccurate. Consequently I intend to revert the edit, at least until it is discussed on the talk page. -- Cameron Dewe 08:43, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Murder v. Homicide

I asked Taco325i 
From your comments on Murder and your to-do list, you appear to be on a crusade to replace Murder with Homicide. I think you are wrong to hold such a position. Please explain why you believe all references to murder should be replaced with homicide, before making any changes. In my opinion there are very important differences between murder and homicide that means the two terms should be kept separate. So I think the first two bullets on your to-do list are misguided. One effect of this is that moving List of countries by murder rate to List of countries by homicide rate has invalidated the statistics, because the definitions of murder and homicide are different. -- Cameron Dewe 13:21, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

I think we're in agreement, but just not realizing it. Murder and Homicide have distinct definitions. Murder is a kind of homicide, but homicide is not murder. My crusade is to ensure the correct use of the word "murder", because in everyday language we often use murder to describe all kinds of killings. For example, no jurisdiction in the US publishes "murder statistics" or "murder rates", though we often call it that. The proper term would be homicide rates. -Taco325i 19:22, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

I understand that the FBI Uniform Crime Reports actually publish statistics for Murder and non-negligent manslaughter (see http://www.justice.govt.nz/pubs/reports/2002/intl-comparisons-crime/section-5.html ), so using homicide is also inaccurate, as accidental homicides, such as motor vehicle accidents are excluded from the statistics. Perhaps the term criminal homicide (rate) is closer. I agree with you wanting to use the precise term, but your mission seems to have picked up a few followers who do not understand your intent, as they have tried to change ALL references to murder, when sometimes it is the applicable term. Perhaps you need to modify your mission slightly to only change inappropriate uses of the word murder. -- Cameron Dewe 11:37, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New Zealand Government

I am thinking about changing New Zealand Government to a new article. (It is a redirect.)

New Zealand Government 
New Zealand Government is a brand of the State Services Commission. It is part of the All-of-Government brand initiative. (See http://www.ssc.govt.nz/govt-brand)

[edit] WP:AUK

WikiProject Auckland This is an invitation to WikiProject Auckland, a WikiProject which aims to develop and expand Wikipedia's articles on Auckland. Please feel free to join us.

Taifarious1 09:19, 10 March 2008 (UTC)