User talk:Gadfium/archive26

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Contents 1 User:Thunderlizard5 2 Why did you revert this 3 List of All Blacks 4 Nambassa Winter Show with Mahana 5 Split Enz 6 Assassination 7 Thank you 8 Thank You 9 AN 10 David Bain article copyright violations 11 Latin American writers 12 PNG Portal 13 File upload query 14 Future New Zealand/Pacific Parties? 15 Understood 16 Vintagekits 17 North Shore City 18 Thank you 19 Tiniroto 20 Thanks 21 RE: Papatoetoe High School

[edit] User:Thunderlizard5

-has continued to vandalise Māori culture - I have undone it Kahuroa 05:30, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

I gave him a final warning (and you could have done that yourself). It's on the low end of the vandalism scale, but if he continues, I'll block as a vandalism-only account.-gadfium 05:44, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Why did you revert this

Here. You can not delete comments on people's talk pages, no matter what the content, and especially if it is not yours. I'm not saying I approve of the message, but it is not your decision. -- SilvaStorm

Yeah, you're right. I wonder why he is abusing him. -- SilvaStorm

[edit] List of All Blacks

Hey, someone moved the article List of All Blacks to List of players on the All Blacks rugby team a while ago and I am unable to move it back. I need an administrator to do it and was hoping you could. The new name is so redundant it isn't funny, and I have no idea why the original move happened. The person who moved it did not discuss it at the talk page, and actually moved the page twice in total. Nearly all the wiki-links currently link to the old name as well so was hoping would could do this for me. Thanks. - Shudda ^talk 21:52, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Done.-gadfium 01:05, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nambassa Winter Show with Mahana

I appear to have some technical difficulty in Nambassa Winter Show with Mahana. While I have added caregories and the list appears on "edit this page" they do not appear on the main body of the article itself. Any ideas? cheers Mombas 21:45, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Such a problem is almost always caused by unbalanced tags - in this case, the gallery wasn't closed. Similar problems can be caused by unterminated tables, references or div tags.-gadfium 02:24, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Indeed the penny dropped as soon as I realised what you had done. Thanks kindly. Mombas 04:48, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Split Enz

Someone has had a hack at Split Enz again and the technology to repair is over my head. I've noticed Split Enz is regularly vandalised. Can you help.Mombas 09:27, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

I've fixed it, and added it to Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/Vandalism patrol which might result in a little more attention being paid to the article.

To fix such things yourself, see WP:REVERT. Vandalism is very easy to fix - it takes much less time to fix it than the vandals spend trying to mess things up.-gadfium 09:33, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Assassination

Hi gadfium, IF you have some extra time, have a look at this user: user:Ghost of starman in this context. He changed the assassin in the list to suit his theory, and then wrote an 'article' to prove it at the name of the suposed assassin Marrell McCollough. I added POV and unreferenced tags to the latter, and reverted the change at Assassination. I wanted to afd the McCollough article too, but maybe I am taking this too personal. Have a look if you have the time. MadMaxDog 10:34, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

He has removed the references and POV tags, yet provided nothing. He will add references "when he has the time". Can you please mediate this? Or ask some other administrator to do it if you feel you'd be the wrong person? MadMaxDog 11:35, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Had to stop reverting because of WP:3RR... Placed a NPOV tag with explanation on Assassination instead. MadMaxDog 11:50, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

I'm not a mediator, nor do I have any particular interest or expertise on the Kennedy assassination. If you want to get more people involved, posting on the talk page of John F. Kennedy assassination might be appropriate.-gadfium 19:31, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Thank you for the kind words. The overwhelming support that I received made up for the negative and disrespectful attitude displayed by User: Tony Sideway. It never occurred to me that a hacker would waste their time hacking passwords in Wkipedia. I fixed my password and gained my admin powers back. Thank you once more. Tony the Marine 21:58, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thank You

Thank You Gadfium for your great support, its really good to hear positive feedback, I was wondering how would I change an articles name so I can make a different article under the (old) name. I want to change the current article of Papakura to Papakura District so I can make the Papakura article about the actual suburb "Papakura" and not about the district as a whole. Thanks again. Cheers, HannahSamuels 07:07, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

I've deleted Papakura District, so you can make the move yourself.-gadfium 08:50, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AN

Thanks for notification of discussion. I'm been off for a couple of days with RL stuff. Tyrenius 23:10, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] David Bain article copyright violations

Hi, as an administrator I wonder if you can help fix the David Bain article up as it is in the spotlight at the moment, the sections David Bain#Prosecution Theory and David Bain#Alternative Theory looks to be breaches and in their current state and need to be deleted. Scoop has the entire 48 page Privy Council report, a summary of some contents could go into the article --Zven 08:14, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

I've removed the copyvios (the timeline was also from crime.co.nz), and added a request for the material to be rewritten on the talk page.-gadfium 09:06, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Cheers, I will add more material when I can --Zven 20:27, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Latin American writers

Hi. I note that you proposed that the list of writers at Latin America be merged into List of Latin American writers. I very much agree. I also note that you've crossed swords with User:AlexCovarrubias on this, who seems to take a rather proprietorial interest in that list. I have run into similar problems myself. Meanwhile, I have made a number of suggestions at Talk:Latin America and would be interested if you had any input. Thanks. --Jbmurray 13:34, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

(Oh, and talking about User:AlexCovarrubias, you might want to comment at Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/AlexCovarrubias. I'd be willing to give the guy the benefit of the doubt, but looking a little into his history, I'm not too optimistic right now.) --Jbmurray 14:37, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

I've been watching your edits to rationalise articles on Latin American writers, literature and film, and considering whether to get involved. I think you're doing very well. I've added a comment to Talk:Latin America, but I probably can't play a substantial role in the matter because I don't reside in Latin America or speak either Spanish or Portuguese beyond a beginner level.

I probably won't comment at the RfC because my interaction with AlexCovarrubias was a long time ago. If someone adds an outside view that I agree with, I may endorse it.-gadfium 20:00, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

OK, grand. --Jbmurray 22:06, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] PNG Portal

Just so you know, Portal:Papua New Guinea is fully maintained now. Aliasd 11:04, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] File upload query

Hi, The other day I offered to Avenue access for Wiki to a .pdf of the report of Royal commission into A.A. Thomas/Crewe murders. It's the only copy currently on the web, I've hosted it for a year or two. It is now linked to the Thomas article. However, I may have acted precipitiously as I have recently changed to broadband and I suspect that on my subscribed plan I may be charged IF the wiki link leads to excess traffic/bandwidth uptake from my website. Nevertheless I would like Wiki to maintain some sort of access to this historic document. I have read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Images_and_other_uploaded_files#Uploading which seems to imply that .pdf may be uploaded. Would this be possible with this .pdf (its reasonably large)?RichardJ Christie 07:50, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

It depends on the copyright status of the report. If it is public domain, which I think is unlikely, then the best place for it is Wikisource. If it is New Zealand Crown Copyright, then see Crown_copyright#New_Zealand. It looks as though under section 27, such reports carry no copyright if published after 2001, but this was before then. I am not a lawyer and I don't understand such matters. I think it may be perfectly acceptable for you as a private individual to host the document on your website, but Wikisource may not be willing to accept it. See s:Help:Licensing compatibility. You could ask at s:Wikisource:Scriptorium. I don't think Wikipedia would want to host such a document in any case.-gadfium 08:50, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Check out http://www.coralcdn.org/ who allow you to simply add a .nyud.net:8080 to the end of your hostname in your url to access a free distributed caching service, to prevent you getting overwhelmed by data requests Aliasd 09:18, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Thank you both;

"Section 27(1) defines a further exception to Crown copyright and copyright -- Bills, Acts of Parliament, regulations, bylaws, Hansard, tabled select committee reports, court judgments, tribunal judgments, Royal commission reports, commission of inquiry reports, ministerial inquiry reports and statutory inquiry reports do not carry any copyright, regardless of age. Section 27(1) came into effect on 1 April 2001. There is, in New Zealand, under s 27 of the Copyright Act 1994, no copyright in regulations."

Seems quite clear to me that "regardless of age" means this report is copyright free. RichardJ Christie 08:24, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Future New Zealand/Pacific Parties?

Is there any official Wikipedia policy on representatives of fledgeling political parties in relatively fluid political situations? If so, is it accurate to describe Taito Philip Field or Gordon Copeland as "Independents?" While I think the former's party is probably dependent on his personal mana and local status, that's my supposition, not substantiated by any opinion poll or evidence to the contrary.

On the other hand, I've amended the Gordon Copeland and United Future's entries to reflect the return of Future New Zealand as an independent entity, and according to TVNZ, he may have taken large chunks of that party organisation with him- so, would it be more plausible to describe him as a "Future New Zealand" MP rather than an Independent?

User Calibanu 14.18, 20 May 2007.

I'm not aware of any policy on the matter. It is unlikely to be possible to form policy on fluid political situations. Just use common sense in editing the article, and quote a published source rather than including your own analysis. I understand that Copeland has announced he intends to reform FNZ; until there is evidence that the party is functioning with him acting as its MP (eg a national conference is held), I think the description of him as an independent is probably the way to go.-gadfium 05:32, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Understood

I will post only on the NZ Wiki discussion, and will respect my block for its duration.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Hayden5650 (talk • contribs)

[edit] Vintagekits

{I have posted this same message on Tyrenius's talk page but there is a template posted there that states: "This user is very busy in real life and may not respond swiftly to queries."}

Please would you ask Vintagekits why he has recently created a page Hannah Harrison Lowe with a #REDIRECT to George VI of the United Kingdom when I can find no mention of that lady within the article itself. (This is the differential and I do not wish to provoke him by addressing him directly): http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hannah_Harrison_Lowe&diff=prev&oldid=132532715 —Preceding unsigned comment added by W. Frank (talk • contribs) 14:36, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Im sure you knew who Lowe was when you posted the question. I had to google for it. I do not appreciate your attempt to play me for a fool.

Anyone else watching my talk page, see User_talk:Tyrenius#Vintagekits for VintageKit's reply to the question.-gadfium 19:06, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

I beg your pardon? Please assume good faith. I still do not know why Vintagekits created this page or the re-direct and had to wait for his somewhat cryptic links before I discovered who this may be (and if you look at the article's talk page you will see that Vintagekits both refused to answer directly my question or delete the article.)

Let me say quite categorically: I neither consider you a fool nor should you read anything into my very plain words. Why the heck would I know all the Georgian royal bastards?!? I specifically asked Vintagekits "Is this the Hannah Harrison Lowe, born in the British Isles, in 1795?" because if it is (and your Google link above seems to imply so), then why the link to a Kiing born more than a 100 years later? What purpose does it possibly serve (other than the obvious one of improving WP) to draw your attention to a (still puzzling to me) page creation by Vintagekits? Please apologise and strike through your allegations of bad faith.

Normally I would not react in this way to a single off-colour remark like this, but you need to be reminded that you blocked me for 24 hours as punishment for asking this user and another to withdraw their unfounded allegations and not post on my User page again [1]. It wasn't me playing silly buggers by creating nonsense pages with re-directs so please don't shoot the messenger! W. Frank ✉ 21:00, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

I think you knew very well what the alleged connection between Lowe and George VI is. Please play your games somewhere other than Wikipedia. I have assumed good faith of you for a long time, but my patience is becoming exhausted.-gadfium 21:25, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Listen, Gadfium: If you're not man enough to apologise then that's the end of it. Other than a typo I still don't know of any connection whatever between Lowe and George VI so why the heck would you assume that I did/do and was playing games. Just say one little word and stop pouring petrol! Goodnight! W. Frank ✉ 22:02, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

You might like to apologise for posting on two admins' pages about a completely trivial matter that does not in any way need admin attention. If you choose to follow Vintagekits' edits that closely, then please deal with such matters yourself in future, and follow WP:DR if necessary. Tyrenius 01:28, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

No problem. Sorry to trouble either of you two gentlemen.

(It was precisely to avoid a row that I refrained from addressing Vintagekits to begin with - but no matter - I can admit to and learn from my mistakes.)

Can you point me to information on how I can delete misleading/mistaken/sloppy re-directed articles myself in future, without troubling an admin first? W. Frank ✉ 01:50, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

• I have recently had some small interaction with Vintagekits on other matters, and I hope he will forgive me pointing this out but like me (this is why I noticed it) he does tend to muddle letters sometimes, which is why I believe in all good faith he probably meant to type "George IV" not "George VI" to some people in black and white print they do look identical - spell-checker picks most things up but not that - so please be a little tolerant on this one. I do believe that is all there is to the matter. Giano 21:28, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Giano, thank you for clearing the matter up. It seems that W. Frank is complaining about a typo. I have no problem with Vintagekits.-gadfium 02:04, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] North Shore City

Hello Gadfium, can you please effect an article swap between North Shore, New Zealand and North Shore City? Its North Shore City, officially, and should be that way on here. Even the article lead shows this. Cheers MadMaxDog 09:15, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

I went ahead and did this, without realising MadMaxDog had asked you. So you can ignore this. -- Avenue 11:14, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

I thought I needed an admin to move because the target already had a page. Still a bit confused that apparently (how?) I could have done it myself. Well, sorry to trouble you. MadMaxDog 12:47, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

You can move a page over a redirect so long as the redirect points to the page being moved, and the redirect has no history. This is designed to allow a page to be moved back to its previous name over the redirect automatically created, but works fine for a situation like this.-gadfium 19:28, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

For your input regarding my usurpation request on User_talk:Jimbo_Wales. I really appreciate it when anyone offers suggestions and solutions. Eleos^Prime 01:24, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tiniroto

Hai, you were right that the image on Tiniroto was to large. But I think a thumb was a bit to small. So I choose something in between. And Tiniroto belongs to the district of Gisborne, although is it close to Hawkes Bay. So I changed the cat too. WeeJeeVee

Sorry about the wrong cat. I've left the picture at the size you chose, but made it a thumb again because that displays the caption.-gadfium 23:13, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Many thanks Gadfium for tidying up and editing my page on missionary William Puckey, I appreciate it. --Soulrevolution 08:32, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] RE: Papatoetoe High School

Okay, thanks! :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kedessa (talk • contribs)

No problem.-gadfium 23:10, 30 May 2007 (UTC)