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[edit] March 2004

Hi there Gadfium. Welcome to Wikipedia! Thanks for writing Michael King. I hope you like it here and keep doing good work. If you want, you can drop us a note at Wikipedia:New user log to introduce yourself.

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Happy editing, Isomorphic 22:14, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Hi Gadfium, and welcome. What a sad entry. A great hole has been left in NZ writing and history scholarship. Moriori 23:39, Mar 30, 2004 (UTC)

Hi again. Yeah, improving an article should never be taken as criticism - in fact, it's more of a compliment. It says that what you wrote was interesting enough to make it worth expanding. I don't have a particular interest in King (in fact, I'll admit that I'd never heard of him until today) but I like to learn things by expanding articles, especially when the subject sounds interesting. It's kind of sad that some people get entries here only when their death makes the news. We notice what they've accomplished only once they're gone. Isomorphic 01:32, 31 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] April 2004

Hah, thanks for catching that Traingle typo. *blush in embarassment* --Golbez 04:04, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)

[edit] May 2004

Greetings (again?), fellow-Kiwi. If you ever want a momentary break from computerese and NZ towns, please have a look at the fledgling Maori Wikipedia - it may inspire something; or at least you will see whether it's worth telling others about! Kind regards - Robin Patterson 00:47, 11 May 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the greetings. I do actually check Maori Wikipedia every few days, even though I speak no Maori, just to see the progress being made on it.--Gadfium 00:59, 11 May 2004 (UTC)

[edit] June 2004

Howdy. Just a quick thank you for pitching in with the misspelled links list. Good job. - TB 11:09, Jun 4, 2004 (UTC)

Glad to help. I'll do a bit more over the next few days, whenever I need a break. --gadfium 22:03, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)


I saw you caught edits on Port Charles and Lisa Rinna. Thanks for the help! The unexplained truncation seems to be stemming from an anonymous contributor who adds the shows a person was on, but little else. :) Check out my user page for the pages I've created. I usually stay in the American soap realm but I've also added pages on Jean Alexander, Julie Goodyear, and Sally Whittaker. Mike H 01:34, Jun 24, 2004 (UTC)

You didn't reply to me, so now I will reply to me. I saw you edited another pithy substub. NOW do you know what I mean? Mike H 01:29, Jun 25, 2004 (UTC)
Sorry, didn't realise you wanted a reply. I see you are changing the sub-stubs to redirect to the main show, but if there's already an article on an actor, even a stub, I'd rather clean it up a bit than redirect it. I don't know what we can do about the sub-stub creator, who seems to change IP addresses daily. --gadfium 01:37, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)
I have only redirected a few. Lucky 6.9 is redirecting most of them. I feel that I want to write these articles at my own pace and should not be forced to write it because some snot just wants to write a pithy one-liner that is, in essence, "refined vandalism". And BTW, if I write to someone, I generally do want a reply in return. It's kinda....give and talk. I was going to type give and take, but I figure that's more quirky and punny. Mike H 01:38, Jun 25, 2004 (UTC)

From ErikFP 07:09, 26 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Hi! Yes, I did mispeld Americian, it wasn't intentional. when I found nothing there I was surprised. But also found it a good place for further discussion on the origins of the name Indian. The Native American topic is already so darn big (and contentious) I hesitate to make any changes to it. But I have actually done a lot of reasearch into the orgins of the name and no, it wasn't Columbus.... most of what we are told about him is fairy tales and it turns out that the origin of "Indian" is very probably another fairy tale, most likly explaination is the Spaniards.

Anyway, I had spent many hours working on that topic and then poof it's gone. I was none too happy until I finally managed to figure out how to pull up my work. strangly, redirect pages do not have an edit history...

Well, anyway, I was back to add another really cool quote to the page and now I have the problem that my page is an orphan. I'm not sure what to do with it at this point. One idea I had was to take the entire name section of Native American and put it onto a seperate page, because as I say, the topic is really getting too big.

I'd like to here your thoughts on this... The current topic is well written, but I've got all of this suplemental research... I don't want to mangle the existing topic, but I would like to present this additional info. Any ideas how I can do this and especially how to do it without tilting other peoples apple cart?

Thanks, ErikFP

[edit] July 2004

Wikimoz.org Spam?????

http://www.wikimoz.org/en/about.html

ALFA..............

(placed on my user page by User:81.172.108.8)


Pues yo la quiero en español, dame tu página, por que adivino no soy.

(placed on my user page by User:81.172.108.8)

[edit] Murder by Death

Could you do me a favor: i merged histories (trivial tho the hidden one was), but (somewhat as the last time i did that) cannot immediately see the result of the final undelete. I'd be grateful to know what you get as the history of Murder by Death (and when you got it); if you're curious you may want to refer to Talk:Murder by Death.

My theory is that this is a server-cache problem, that will clear up for both of us at the same point in time, and that the contents of my client cache is irrelevant.

Tnx.! --Jerzy(t) 07:23, 2004 Jul 13 (UTC)

I see both articles as redirects pointing at each other. This is clearly not acceptable, so I've reverted the one which had real content so at least something is there. Feel free to make any changes you think appropriate; I know nothing about this movie and only discovered that we had two articles on it through a cleanup list I was working through.--gadfium 09:03, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)

(I remember the film, but my interest in editing it was equally prosaic: fictional characters don't belong on List of people by name, where i do a lot of work.)

Tnx, we are now both seeing what i should have been able to see last nite, without my having done anything further to changing my client-caching status. This reassures me that i know what to expect in these situations.

To give you a little more detail, i deleted "your" page, and moved "mine" to that name, with everything looking as expected. I got an ugly message when i undeleted "yours", and could only see the short history of "mine". Now we both find that what the server is reporting to both of us includes the merged history that was the next step toward the result i was aiming at.

The change you made is the final step i thought would probably be needed (tho i couldn't tell for sure which of the two same-minute edits would end up as more recent). We agree as to the proper text; thanks for finishing the job. [smile]
--Jerzy(t) 14:08, 2004 Jul 13 (UTC)

[edit] Cu Chi tunnels

Hi, good spot on the redundancy on Cu Chi tunnels, but I think it should probably be swapped the other way around on the title. Please see: Talk:Tunnels_of_Cu_Chi. Thanks. Fuzheado | Talk 02:57, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I've replied at Talk:Tunnels_of_Cu_Chi. -gadfium 04:20, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Tools

Thanks for helping with that article, and sorry for the lynx-link. I guess I got confused while changing things around. Also, i'm sorry about my othography... it's pretty bad in german already, and it's worse in english, i guess. Anyway, I will keep translating bits for that page. If you like, have a look every now and then. regards, -- G. Gearloose (?!) 22:06, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)

My comment was out of line. I apologise.-gadfium 22:15, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] NZ politicians

Gidday, Gadfium. I see you don't accept Dick Hubbard in the Category:New_Zealand_politicians because he hasn't been elected yet. We therefore have (not explicitly but by logical deduction) different definitions for the category and for the page, which latter I recently amended to include "including prominent candidates for local and central government office as well as those who achieved such office" after Vardion added Dun Mihaka, who has never been elected either. A bit of a hui desirable, maybe! Robin Patterson 01:47, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I have no problems if you want to add him to the politicians category, but he is still primarily a businessman and should therefore be in the general New Zealanders category until we split out a category for New Zealand business people. As far as Dun Mihaka goes, I am happy for him to be in the politicians category as politics are what he's best known for, an activists category would be even more appropriate.-gadfium 01:59, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] TV Nova

Hi. Someone else has already removed Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/TV Nova from VfD, I would have left it there for 24 hours to give you a chance to respond. If you want to discuss why I think it doesn't need to go on VfD, or how to do the redirect if you want to be bold, or where to talk about the options if you want to seek support for the action first, just drop me a line on my talk page. Andrewa 01:27, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)

If this was a simple merge of two articles, I would have done it myself, but in this case I suspect the content of the article is false, and I wanted to raise this so someone could verify or debunk it. Should I raise it on m:Peer Review instead? If you look at the original author of the article, you can see why my suspicions were raised. -gadfium 01:32, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I've put a Template:Accuracy tag on the article. This is probably what I should have done in the first place.-gadfium 01:49, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Yes, I think that's a good move.
Other possibilities are Wikipedia:Pages needing attention and cleanup. Both m:Peer Review and m:Peer review link to non-existent Meta pages, but there's a Wikipedia:Peer review page which I think is what you mean. But it's for requesting review of your own work, not other people's.
What I would have done is to copy the suspect text to the talk page of the article with the preferred name, with a note as to why I thought it needed verification, and where it was from if it wasn't from the preferred name article. I'd then have merged all the useful information to the preferred name and redirected the other.
If I thought the suspect text was definitely worth further investigation but wasn't able to do it myself, I'd then take some action such as described above, but I don't think I'd have bothered in this case. I take your point about authorship, it's most likely a joke IMO but I don't know an easy way to find out. If it's not a joke someone is bound to find the removed text in the talk page and reinstate it, especially if the article is tagged as a stub, while if it's just in the page history or in the talk page of a redirect they may never find it.
Lots of options. Hope this helps. Andrewa 07:19, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] beta Systemic Bias section

Hi, if you wish to help contribute to a beta version of a Wikipedia page section designed to counter-act Wikipedia's systematic bias, please sign the bottom of this section on the Village pump - Wikipedia:Village_pump#Systemic_bias_in_Wikipedia. If not, no worries.--Xed 03:29, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Just a Thank you

Thanks for the catch on Trumbull ...Lou I 17:08, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Battleship categorization

Hi, I undid your addition of Formidable class battleship to Category:Royal Navy battleships because it's for individual ships, not classes. There is possibly some values in making a Category:Royal Navy battleship classes, although I tend to prefer a large Category:Ship classes over having it be a collection of small categories. Stan 05:08, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Ok, no problem.-gadfium 05:39, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] This page contains a link that might be mis-punctuated

Howdy. Firstly a pat on the back for working through the lists of mis-punctuated links so diligently - my hat is off to you, you (and others) have manged to recover around 1.5% of all red links in wikipedia by my reckoning. I'm planning to rebuild the report soon using a slightly more robust method and, of course, a more recent database dump. Before I do so, I wanted to check that this won't upset your ongoing work in the area. If I don't hear from you in a few days, I'll rebuild it in more or less it's current format. - TB 08:22, Oct 5, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Categories

Hi Gadfium - could you hold fire on any more category additions in trees/conifers, I'd hoped to organise something a bit more systematic for this - thanks, MPF 00:04, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Sure, sorry if I've caused you any trouble.-gadfium 00:06, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Thanks; the problem is that Category:Conifers would end up with 600-odd listings eventually, once every species was added. When I get the time, I was reckoning on adding categories by family (did a trial start with Category:Pinaceae but am not fully satified with the way I've set it up!), then put the family categories into Category:Conifers. MPF 10:30, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Long lists of mispunctuated links

Thanks for instructions on how to break up those big sections on the "mispunctuated links" report. I knew it had to be something simple like that. I'm finding that list to be addictive, like popcorn or mixed nuts, but with fewer calories. Joyous 10:43, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)

After correcting a great many mispunctuated links, I'm slowly reaching a conclusion: People Can Be Careless. Joyous 01:13, Oct 29, 2004 (UTC)

Yes, but people mean well. I suspect many editors don't bother previewing their article and looking for unexpected red links. Doesn't it feel good to make an article better, by fixing a broken link, adding a category, correcting grammar, or sometimes even doing a bit of research and fleshing out a stub?-gadfium 02:10, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Red-link recovery

Howdy and many thanks for your work on that list of mis-punctuated links. The list's pretty much completed now - I'll be generating a new version of it in due course, taking all the lessons learned from the last one into account. In the meantime, if you enjoyed working through the list (or at least found it a worthwhile distraction), you may want to have a look at the similar list of plural discrepancies which highlights red-links that might be red because they (or the article they are aiming for) are improperly pluralised. Again, thanks for your efforts - award yourself a wikimedal for janitorial services if you haven't already got one! - TB 11:26, 2004 Nov 8 (UTC)

[edit] Culture of Greece

Culture of Greece is this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article.

[edit] Thank you!

Your vote of support on my RFA really means a lot to me. Thanks so much! Cheers! Joyous 00:05, Nov 16, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Partition of India

You voted for Partition of India, this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article.

[edit] Article Licensing

Hi, I've started the Free the Rambot Articles Project which has the goals of getting users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to...

  1. ...all U.S. state, county, and city articles...
  2. ...all articles...

using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) version 1.0 and 2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to the GFDL (which every contribution made to Wikipedia is licensed under), but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles (See the Multi-licensing Guide for more information). Since you are among the top 1000 most active Wikipedians, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles.

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}} template (or {{MultiLicensePD}} for public domain) into their user page, but there are other templates for 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 at my talk page what you think. -- Ram-Man 17:34, Nov 29, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Snap!

Hi Gadfium. Believe it or not, you and I have just both added links to Waiheke Island in the Auckland article within the last five minutes![[User:Grutness|Grutness talk ]] 06:43, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Adminship

Hi Gadfium, I'd like to nominate you for adminship. Are you interested? - Fredrik | talk 18:49, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Please accept the nomination on Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Gadfium. Fredrik | talk 08:49, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Collaboration of the Week

Your vote for African art has helped bring about the article's selection as this week's Collaboration of the week. Please join in trying to make the article a feature.

[edit] Congratulations, Gadfium!

Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 07:46, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thank you. The rollback button is neat!-gadfium (talk) 08:04, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Congrats from here, too! - Fredrik | talk 09:47, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you!

Thank you for the barnstar award! It's greatly appreciated... makes the work worthwhile. And congrats on becoming an administrator, too! Nearly finished a first pass of NZ geography now, then a little tidying up and I'll take a short holiday I think. [[User:Grutness|Grutness talk ]] 07:01, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Current Surveys

Since you rolled back my surveys, I am removing the "Koans" poll for the same reason CheeseDreams 02:13, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] vandalism to User:fvw

Thanks for reverting the vandalism to my userpage; Even though I do to a certain point measure how much RC patrol I've done by how many times my user page is vandalised (note the s, back in my day vandals used to be able to impersonate someone at least slightly *grumbles*), I still appreciate it being cleaned up promptly. And while I'm here, thanks for your pledge of support for my next RfA too, it's appreciated. --fvw* 09:37, 2004 Dec 19 (UTC)

[edit] NZ External Links

Actually I meant to revert to remove the link but Chris 73 must have got there just before I reverted it and so when I clicked on the second item in the history it took me to the version with the 'bad' link. Sorry about the confusion. Evil Monkey → Talk 06:12, Dec 21, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thank you for fixing the categories at The Dark Frontier. It would never have occurred to me that I had made such a silly mistake. Best wishes, <KF> 01:53, Dec 22, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Liberty Motor Car

Thanks for checking that. Weird. The image just loaded fine for me with 3 different browsers. Discussion at Image talk:LibertyMotorCar1919.jpg. Cheers, -- Infrogmation 17:31, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] 64.124.92.199

Thanks; your warning seems to have worked - MPF 23:24, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Blocks are not expiring

I'm posting this message on every admin who has made a block in the last few days. The title says it all really: because of a bug in the new software blocks are not expiring when their time is up. Until this is fixed can you get in the habit of manually unblocking a few everytime you block one. If everyone does this we'll be able to keep on top of things until the bug is sorted out. Note also that another bug is displaying indefinite blocks as expiring at the current time and date. obviously you don't want to unblock those. If you want to reply please do so here Theresa Knott (The snott rake) 09:35, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Collaboration of the Week

League of Nations is the new Collaboration of the Week. Please join in helping make it a feature article.

[edit] Persistent vandalism of 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake

Hi, thanks for blocking 64.18.111.141 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)

However, 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake is a pretty high profile article, linked from the main page... yet it's been the target of vandalism sprees today that haven't had a timely response from admins. One spree by the same IP continued half an hour after it was reported on Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress. As far as I can see, User:Cantus is more or less single-handedly taking on the vandals, but he probably needs to sleep sometime.

There probably needs to be a more concerted effort to protect current-news articles, especially this one, which is a bigger story than average, yet it seems most admins are taking a break from Wikipedia over the holidays. -- Curps 05:37, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I'm on holiday too - it's mid-summer here, my main break of the year. I'm just checking in a few times a day, but I make VIP my main priority when I do.-gadfium 08:16, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Orsha

Ghirlandajo was the first one who reverted four times...--Emax 19:21, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] 66.11.165.56

Hi. Could you block 66.11.165.56 for repeatedly vandalizing the Rob McRae vfd header? Thank you. 172.172.35.229 23:27, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I've just done so.-gadfium 23:29, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Thank you. 172.172.35.229 23:31, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Result for 170.211.237.1

--> /usr/local/bin/fwhois 170.211.237.1@whois.arin.net [whois.arin.net]

OrgName: Arkansas Public School Computer Network OrgID: APSCN Address: #4 State Capitol Mall, Room 401A City: Little Rock StateProv: AR PostalCode: 72201-1071 Country: US

[edit] 170.211.237.1 vandalizing Isaac Newton article

Result for 170.211.237.1

--> /usr/local/bin/fwhois 170.211.237.1@whois.arin.net [whois.arin.net]

OrgName: Arkansas Public School Computer Network OrgID: APSCN Address: #4 State Capitol Mall, Room 401A City: Little Rock StateProv: AR PostalCode: 72201-1071 Country: US

[edit] Barnstar

Thanks for the Barnstar. Evil Monkey → Talk 09:02, Dec 31, 2004 (UTC)