User talk:Gadfium/Archive 17

Please check Te Kooti article.Thankyou

Hello Gadfium. Could you please drop in on Te Kooti and check if what I have done is reasonable in wiki terms? How to proceed? Stuart seems to have interpreted the "talk" about Binney as meaning that she is an unacceptable source, or maybe she is acceptable for somethings but not others? His response on the talk page are limited and somewhat vague so it is not clear at all what he is referring too(when he refers to "as above" and "emotive". His argument is hard to fathom, as ,if anything Binney takes a "pro TK" view overall and Stuart seems to be objecting to information (from TK himself originally)that he was a very bad person in his youth and was driven out (to take up seafaring). Stuart want to say "left", which is just plain wrong if not daft!Instead of just changing 1 or 2 words he deletes the whole lot! The info is all sourced and as far as I can see very reasonable and accurate in its tone and factually correct. It is quite consistent with the rest of the article and with what I have read about TK . All a bit puzzling to me really. I would appreciate your input. Does Stuart have to make threats on my talk page? It doesnt seem very productive or positive to me. As Ive said before I cant have my own page for work/contractual reasons. Thanks for your considered help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.62.226.243 (talk) 01:12, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

When your edits are reverted by several other editors in good standing, it's not a good idea to edit war even if you are in the right. Not all the messages to you have been threats; pretty much all the regular editors you've interacted with have tried giving you positive advice. Have you seen Snori's reply to you at User talk:Snori#THANKS!?

You've now been blocked, but when you return, keep using the talk page and try to improve the quality of your writing and referencing. It is very difficult for anyone to see the errors in their own writing. Do you have a friend or colleague who could view what you write before you post?-gadfium 04:48, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedians with articles about themselves

Hi Gadfium, is there any guidance on Wikipedians who have an article about themselves. Do they need to declare on their user page, for example, that they would have a COI editing their own article? Just wondering. Schwede66 09:04, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

There is a page at Wikipedia:Wikipedians with articles. As far as I am aware, there is no obligation to make such a user page declaration, and as we respect editors' rights to privacy and not being outed, I cannot see that we could impose such an obligation, especially for editors who use a pseudonym and do not edit the page about themselves.-gadfium 09:10, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Schwede66 09:41, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Martyn "Bomber" Bradbury

Hello Gadfium - how do I go about complaining about things written on my wiki page? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyn_%22Bomber%22_Bradbury - almost all of this is now defamatory.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.74.212.112 (talk • contribs)

See Wikipedia:Contact us - Subjects. A first step would be to post at Talk:Martyn "Bomber" Bradbury, and in particular to point out assertions made in the article which are unsourced, or for which the sources do not support the content.-gadfium 22:15, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Thomas Ellison

Cheers mate. Decided a while ago would be good to have at least one Māori biography FA – he seemed like an interesting subject, and I had a few good sources so I went for it. Took months though! – Shudde ^talk 06:19, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Hi Gadfium, I'm a journalist with Fairfax and was hoping I could speak with you for a Wikipedia story. Could you email me your contact details please? Cheers. michael.fox@fairfaxmedia.co.nz. Michaelfoxnz (talk) 02:44, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

I corresponded with Michael Fox last night. He has published an article at http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/8896869/Critic-claims-censorship-on-Collins-Wiki which quotes part of what I said to him. The only part of what I said he got wrong was that he confused sockpuppetry by Offender9000 with anonymous editing.-gadfium 04:14, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

		The Press Barnstar
		Thanks for serving as a de-facto Wikipedia spokesperson and explaining the situation to the journalist. Nick-D (talk) 10:05, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Move request

Hey, would you mind moving Canterbury representative rugby union team to Canterbury rugby union team? It'd be over a redirect, and I don't think the move it at all controversial. Cheers. - Shudde ^talk 05:41, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

 Done-gadfium 05:45, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Pat Zalewski SD Issue

Greetings, Gadfium. I created the Pat Zalewski author page that was recently SD'ed by you. I hope we can talk about reconsidering this action? The deletion of Pat Z's page was part of a larger scandal involving "Qworty" - a Wikipedia editor who was using sock puppets to attack a large number of pages dedicated to occult or pagan authors (using "non-notability" as his main weapon), and has since had his account blodked for his actions. (There were even articles on Salon.com about the entire scandal.) His name is found in the deletion discussion for Pat Z, and I am unsure how many (if any) of the others in that discussion were his sock puppets.

I had hoped that Qworty's fingerprint being on Pat Z's deletion would be enough to give Mr. Zalewski another chance. Those involved in Golden Dawn studies certainly do find Pat Z's contributions to the corpus of GD material quite notable. (Much like those of Chic Cicero, Sandra Tabatha Cicero, Israel Regardie and others who also have Wiki pages.) He has been around for decades and is referenced in publications by numerous third parties. My recreation of his page was kept very simple - just his birth data and bibliography. I had hoped the stub would be expanded by other interested parties and his notability would be apparent. Is there any way we can re-open the discussion of his deletion? Thanks for your consideration. Kheph777 (talk) 08:00, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

The deletion discussion centred around whether Zalewski met Wikipedia's standards of notability. There was nothing in the recreation of the article which met the objections raised there. You can appeal at WP:Deletion review.-gadfium 08:58, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Meka Whaitiri

The DYK project (nominate) 00:04, 2 August 2013 (UTC)

Welcome back

Hope you had a good holiday. Schwede66 23:49, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, I did. You can see one place I went at voy:Lörrach.-gadfium 00:48, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

thanks for spotting the obvious on your return sats 04:37, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

Local elections

Hi Gadfium, with the local elections in full swing, we have promotional articles popping up for candidates and political groupings that lack notability. Is there a faster way of purging them than prodding? Cases in point are Karunanidhi Muthu and City First (Political Party). Schwede66 21:34, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

Articles for people who lack notability can be tagged with {{db-a7}}. I have deleted Muthu under this criteria.

I believe that political parties which are contesting an upcoming election should generally get the benefit of the doubt until the election is over, but this is only my personal opinion and is not supported by policy. City First got coverage in The Press and while you could tag it with db-a7, I suspect the deletion request would be declined.

Promotional material should be trimmed out of such articles, and feel free to slap COI templates on them, which will at least warn our readers that these articles are suspect. I think if I were a candidate in a local body election, I would not mention to anyone that I had a Wikipedia article if it had COI and prod templates taking up most of the first screen!-gadfium 23:19, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

Would you mind also keeping an eye on Christchurch mayoral election, 2013? The campaign is heating up. Schwede66 23:14, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

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Thanks, BracketBot. You would be much better at this sort of edit than I am! There are lots of articles which need similar updates to this, and I am considering writing a bot to semi-automate the process.-gadfium 21:01, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

King's College, Auckland: Headmasters

Hi Gadfium! I have a few questions regarding the table of former headmasters on King's College, Auckland that I have written. I am a former student of the school and am trying to bring it up to the same standard of the article for Auckland Grammar School. I have gotten most of the information on the headmasters from the internet but unfortunately some of it is contradictory. The only official records are at King's College in the form of portraits in the dining hall which lists full names, honourifics/military ranks, and degrees. I would like to contact the school archivist for the exact information which is on these portraits but I am unsure if this is allowed due to original research / conflict of interests etc. Can you advise me if this is acceptable? Thanks! DJAMP4444 (talk) 15:46, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

I don't see that conflict of interest is a problem in this case as you are only adding purely factual material. Our policy on original research boils down to verifiability; if you add a table of headmasters, and then in a few years time someone changes a year or the spelling of a name, how can other editors determine which is correct?

Is there a history of the school published? It doesn't have to be online; so long as any local editor can find a copy at a public or university library.

Otherwise, the easiest way for you to get a verifiable list is to ask the school to put it on their website, perhaps appended to the History page there.

In practice, I think it is unlikely that anyone will remove the list of headmasters, but you might like to post an explanation of how you gathered the list on the article's talk page[I see you've already done this].-gadfium 21:06, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

Invitation to WikiProject Invention

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Updating NZ stats as 2013 census results become available

New results will begin being published next month. Do you know if it's possible to find all pages that reference the 2006 NZ census for their figures? I'm wondering if there's a project/team page of people interested in updating Wikipedia pages with the latest data. Where might I find this? Thanks! Tayste (edits) 21:26, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject New Zealand will certainly be involved in updating pages. Most links to Quickstats use the template {{NZ Quickstats}}, and you can get a list of pages using this template. I expect we will adjust the template to link to the 2013 results and then adjust the figures in each page to match. I'll do this myself if no one else beats me to it.

For the major centres, {{NZ population data}} is updated annually and the release of census data won't make a difference.

Other links to stats.govt.nz will take more work to update.-gadfium 23:09, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the pointers. Tayste (edits) 00:56, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

Please check in on my conversation with Backcab.

Hello Gadfium I would appreciate some input from you re my attempted conversations with Blackcab re a couple of edits I made on Maori King Movement and The King Country. He has labelled them "dubious" without actually saying what is dubious. I believe I have now named about 5 or 6 sources for the information-newspapers, at National Library site, Cambridge Museum , historians etc. Before I reverted the King Country edit I added several NEW references in addition to the earlier ones. I am trying to be reasonable about this topic and have made a number of suggestions to keep the content what I would call neutral, even if it is not that informative. Blackcab has made a statement on my talk page that is to me, rather over the top-he seems to me more interested in not responding and ramping up the heat on me-virtually a threat, rather than coming to a collaborative effort or even discussing the issue. I have made about 100 or so edits in the last month or so without any issues apart from Blackcab. I am still waiting for him to respond to to a discussion on the description of Waikato farmland from about a week ago. He claimed to have references from a number of leading historians to support his viewpoint, but to date he has not supplied them. Im in no hurry -but what is reasonable time to wait before reverting? In the meantime I have found a number of new reference that support my contention that the Waikato was not rich Agricultural land when under Maori ownership. Various references talk about swamp, bracken , fern, the need for drainage,the infertile soils of the south Waikato,the limited number of Maori inhabitants and their confinement to quite small areas. Blackcab seem to have PERHAPS extrapolated a reference regarding fertile land around Te Awamutu (about 2-4% of the Waikato) to mean that all the Waikato was rich productive agricultural land. Living in Melbourne he does not have the benefit of knowing the Waikato very well. I am reluctant to provoke another outburst from him over this one too! Sorry to go on a bit but in the past you have been helpful and fairminded editor.Thanks in anticipation of your help. Claudia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.62.226.243 (talk) 04:29, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

I have explained the problem at Talk:Māori King Movement#Maori bank, which is where the IP user began using this stuff. Essentially he/she has picked up a very dubious piece of 1880s "coon humour" and inserted it in two Wikipedia articles while ignoring historian Stuart Park's specific caution over the reliability and factuality of the story. The typically poorly-cited sources are essentially recycled versions of the same thing. BlackCab (talk) 05:38, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

I don't see any reason not to cover the bank in the Māori King Movement article, so long as it is made clear that the sources differ on exactly what happened. It's not appropriate to cover it in two different articles. Discussion on the talk page is ongoing, so there's no need to edit war on the article.

BlackCab has remarkably good access to resources for someone not in New Zealand, but it seems he doesn't have the Pei Te Hurinui Jones book. If you have access to a scanner, you could offer to scan the two pages in question and email them to him. That might help change your relationship to collaborators rather than opponents. If you can't do this, I'll get a copy from my local library tomorrow and can send the pages to him. There shouldn't be a problem with copyright in this, so long as the scans don't get put on line.

I wonder if there is a misunderstanding about the Waikato being rich agricultural land. I accept that most wasn't at the time of the wars, but much of it is rich now. Could the 19th century pakeha have recognised that the land had huge potential, given suitable drainage, fertiliser application and cropping methods unknown to Maori at that time, and therefore regarded it as rich land?-gadfium 21:13, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

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Hello Gadfium -your help needed

Hello Gadfium, could you check in on the talk page of Maori Culture please? I have been having discussions with I think a newish? editor,Tirana. They have reverted a number of edits and made various claims but have not, to date, provided any information or evidence at all that their POV is correct or that the information of a tagged section is incorrect. I would like the section to have as many different facts as is needed to give a rounded view of the topic. I think Tirana may be becoming somewhat inflammed because the section is about children-they may have forgotten that the para is about historical cultural acts. I have invited them to add new information from what they call "modern " sources. I am expecting a new book myself soon on Maori Lore from Vic(pub 2013) which I understand is good on Maori culture so may be able to add new info myself shortly.Thanks Claudia — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.62.226.243 (talk) 05:25, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

Please do. Most of my deletes have been for relevance (I believe Gadfium you also considered paragraphs on Vikings to be borderline in an article about Maori culture); I think an article is served by being on point rather than including "as many different facts as needed". It's up to the person adding the material to provide good refs for it, not for everyone else to disprove it. The children paragraph has an obvious slant to it - there are many contemporary sources describing very positive Maori parenting, like the ones listed on page 36 of this paper http://www.whakawhetu.co.nz/assets/files/TraditionalMaoriParenting.pdf. It's a contentious issue with a number of points of view, which deserves more than the very negative one Claudia's been providing. Tirana (talk) 07:16, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

I have been following the discussions on the talk page, but you are both experienced editors who should be able to collaborate in improving the article, and rationally resolving differences in your approaches on the talk page. My role on Wikipedia as an administrator is not relevant here: I have no extra authority over content compared with regular editors. I see four editors active at Māori culture and that's a healthy situation. Too many articles have only one editor with no one providing balance, or two editors with no one to provide a third viewpoint.

The previous discussion about whether Vikings are relevant to the article was at User talk:Gadfium/archive73#I find myself duty bound to support Claudia this time....-gadfium 19:23, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

Tricky vandals

Hello Gadfium. Regarding this edit [1] the IP had actually made an edit that restored the article to its proper state. If you look at the edits for November fourth [2] you will see 3 pieces of vandalism from IPs with the address 210.55.212 made within 6 minutes of each other. They did IP hop between the edits. So Donner caught the second one but missed the first. It sat there until the 80.96 IP caught it today. Making more than one edit to try and hide some of their vandalism is a favorite trick of those who don't have WikiPs best interests at heart. I used to get caught out by this one and sometimes still do for that matter. Thanks for your efforts and cheers. MarnetteD | Talk 19:42, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

The most recent IP had missed changing "cliff" to "hulk", and I missed that an earlier edit had changed "partner" to "wife". I'm not worried about whether the section title is "Childhood" or "Early life".-gadfium 19:48, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

Just so long as it isn't "old life" heehee. Thanks again for all you do here at wikiP. MarnetteD | Talk 20:57, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

Ack I only just noticed the "cliff" "hulk" thing. I didn't scroll down far enough which is another vandal trick and I just fell afoul of it. Your vigilance is appreciated. MarnetteD | Talk 21:26, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing out my mistake.-gadfium 21:29, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

Hello Gadfium. Re: neurofibromatosis: the undo to the edits of the neurofibromatosis page were not justifiable on the grounds of promotion. Wikinews has already done a story on Reggie Bibbs and the Just Ask! foundation which is currently present in the article. This is an expansion of that information which is already on the page and not separately cataloged on the charities page. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.6.212.20 (talk) 06:12, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

Sara Tetro

Hello Gadfium, I replied in my talk page. -- SERGIO aka the Black Cat 15:20, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

I replied again there -- SERGIO aka the Black Cat 19:51, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

Scots College, Wellington

Hello Gadfium

You ask me to cite my sources. I do so. Then you come up with some other objection. Can I site the original stuff article even though it is down - I have a copy of it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 222.154.30.52 (talk) 06:32, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

I've replied on your talk page.-gadfium 07:36, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

Your policy seems to want to rewrite history as it occurs. There also seems to be a gender bias if I compare this case where a female allegedly abused a boy - an adult female and a school boy - with the case of the so-called roast busters where young boys allegedly had sex with under aged girls - the boys themselves were under aged when the incidents began. The article that is up describes the girls as "victims" when there is no proven crime.

I am going through that article and changing all references of "victims" to "alleged victims" given that no crime has been proven. Indeed if there is no crime then the victims are the guys who have been falsely accused. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 222.154.30.52 (talk) 17:14, 28 November 2013 (UTC) 222.154.30.52 (talk) 17:19, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

Post copied to User talk:222.154.30.52 and replied to there.-gadfium 19:37, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

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reverting

can i revert you are mum

you are edit on the Whangarei page is you are mum tier. plz un revert it to its prior dubs state — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.110.153.177 (talk) 02:03, 22 December 2013 (UTC)

Your edits on that article make even less sense than your posting here.-gadfium 04:52, 22 December 2013 (UTC)

You might want to check on this

Hello Gadfium. I don't know it this is related to the post just above but you might want to check your message at the top of your talk page. It looks like someone slipped some wording in there that is confusing. Especially this bit "you are into of the mom on this page". I took a brief look at the editing history and couldn't find when this wording was added so if it reads the way that you want please forgive me for intruding. Even if I am wrong let me say cheers and enjoy the rest of your weekend. MarnetteD | Talk 05:36, 22 December 2013 (UTC)

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Thanks Gadfium!

Appreciate your help. Will keep this as a Sandboxed page for now. No I am not Alex Gilbert. Alot of this information is from his website, I have however been following his story for a couple of months. Thanks For your time! :) --TreesCanTell (talk) 10:07, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Copyright infringement for IYL 2015 and JM Dudley

Dear administrator You have suppressed using a speedy process and without trying to discuss with me the two newly articles International Year of Light 2015 and John Michael Dudley. You have claimed that they suffer from copyright infringement (from SPIE website and ERC Multiwave website). I understand fully the importance of respecting copyright lawq. However, I can without problem proove that I have the agreement of the authors of the documents (for the International Year of Light, I have been asked by the writer himself of the document to use it as an initial and temporary basis for factual facts). The document used for IYL 2015 is a public declaration that has been freely reproduced by all the scientific societies linked to the project. You can find it dozens of times on the internet and I have for this the explicit consent of the author who is the international chair of the project. Is a possible to restore the pages or at least provide me by e-mail a copy for my own use of the content of the deleted pages (on which I could further work on it eventually) ? I have indeed sourced the pages, add significant extra informations, made all the required internal links, adopted the wikipedia structure... I really hope that it is possible to send me a restaured copy, I would greatly appreciate. It is a real pity that I have not been asked before this speedy deletion of a work on which I have spent more than five hours (the page looked already very different from the initial one). I will note that you have also deleted the first versions of the page that did not contain any word from the SPIE document. I will also add here that even if I have just a few contributions on english wikipedia, I think that I have more than 10000 contributions on the overall wikipedia so that I fund it quite hard to see the pages deleted without any discussion. With best regards and I hope once again that it will be possible to send me the last versions of the two pages. Christophe.Finot (talk) 06:58, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

I have replied on your talk page.-gadfium 08:06, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

If I provide the proof that I have the contents are not copyrighted, will I have to restart from scratch or will the previous pages be restaured ? Christophe.Finot (talk) 08:54, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Yes, the contents will be restored if the copyright concerns can be satisfied.-gadfium 18:57, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

The creator of both documents being seen as problematic (i.e. John. M. Dudley, john.dudley@univ-fcomte.fr) should have sent by now an e-mail to permissions-en@wikimedia.org. I hope that it will enable to clarify the situation and to close this incident due to my initial lack of caution regarding copyright issues. With best regards. Christophe.Finot (talk) 22:20, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Great, thanks.-gadfium 22:23, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Hello. Now that the permissions have been sent for the two articles for which a potential copyright issues have been detected, I was wondering how long would it take to restaure the speedy deleted pages ? Would it be possible to have them soon back for further editing and improvements ? With best regards Christophe.Finot (talk) 02:31, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

I have no connection with the permissions-en mailbox. It's up to them to restore the articles if the copyright is resolved. Since it appears you had a colleague email them, you might like to also email them yourself with an explicit request for the articles to be restored. You are welcome to point them to this discussion.-gadfium 03:27, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

After more than one week, I have no news from the permission team (neither me or Pr Dudley has received the slightest answer to our various detailed e-mails concerning the issue). Are the e-mails adresses still active and are there people still working on those points ? It is a bit embarassing to have asked someone with international level responsabilities to spend time in writing an official authorization, to make him read carefully the official pages of wikipedia describing the procedure and then to answer him that nothing change and that no one can help us on this side. How can we get the situation to evolve ? Can we have the page restaured and place on it the --- OTRS pending -- label on it ? Thank you in advance for your kind help. Christophe.Finot (talk) 14:41, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia is mostly run by volunteers, so things sometimes take more time than when dealing with a company with paid staff. Schwede66 18:07, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

Of course, I know this point, I have contributed quite a lot on the french wikipedia edition and deposited more than 4000 photos on commons... So I fully understand that wikipedia is based on volunteers that alway do their best and that should be thank for them precious time and competencies. I also know that thing never go as fast as one would like. However, on the one hand, an article is suppressed in a few hours timespan, whereas on the contrary, no answer can be provided for copyright autorisation after one week. This is this point that may be embarassing when we ask busy people that are not used to wikipedia to provide the complex authorization to realease their work under the CC agreement. With my best regards. Christophe.Finot (talk) 19:26, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

I chased this up, and while I had trouble getting hold of anyone at first, it now seems to be resolved. John Dudley should have an email response, and the articles have been restored. Thanks for your patience and co-operation on this, and my apologies for the frustrating delays.-gadfium 21:28, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

Yup, it should be fully dealt with. NativeForeigner ^Talk 21:32, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

Thank you very much and very sincerely for your kind help and sorry for not having dealt correctly at the initial stage with theses issues. Best regards Christophe.Finot (talk) 21:41, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

Please check the following page- Janet McIntyre

Please check the following page, was requested for Articles to be made.- Janet McIntyre --JimBJames (talk) 22:02, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

It looks like an okay stub, and I think it is unlikely to be speedily deleted as promotional or lacking in claims of notability. If it gets nominated for a deletion debate, the multiple references will help it be defended.-gadfium 23:55, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

Janet McIntyre page looking good!

Take a look. I have found alot of sources and cites. I have found her award winnings and have added it. Also a photo from her award she won in 2010. --JimBJames (talk) 00:15, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

You are doing well finding sources. I've used an automated tool to fill out the references with titles, dates and publishers. If you add more, please try to copy this format.

Unfortunately we cannot use the photo as copyright is claimed for it by the website you found it on.-gadfium 01:34, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Special:Contributions/200.8.19.55

Can you block Special:Contributions/200.8.19.55 for three months, he/she did genre warrior as did it on Courage My Love. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 183.171.176.210 (talk) 06:14, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

I am not familiar with that band and do not know whether the genres added are correct or not. However, other edits by that IP appear to be in good faith, and I do not see a history of edit warring in that article. I suggest you try sorting out your differences with the IP on their talk page.-gadfium 07:48, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Reliable Source for Alex Gilbert

Please look here. http://tvnz.co.nz/sunday-news/russia-love-5820767 & https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=760024064007774&set=vb.132910786719108&type=2&theater .Thanks --TreesCanTell (talk) 06:13, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

Lots of people have a first meeting with their birth parents. Its a human interest story, but not something Wikipedia covers.-gadfium 07:06, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

Is this still not reliable? Despite having the doco having the highest rating on NZ TV the night it played. - http://www.throng.co.nz/2014/02/tv-ratings-2-february-2014/ , http://tvnz.co.nz/sunday/s2014-ep1-video-5821764 , http://tvnz.co.nz/sunday-news/alex-gilbert-my-journey-home-russia-5820767 & https://www.facebook.com/SundayTVNZ .

Thanks --TreesCanTell (talk) 08:16, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

We don't have an article for each documentary episode made in New Zealand. The documentary is a reliable source, but Gilbert still does not appear to be notable. Meeting one's birth parents is not a notable activity, even if it is interesting enough to have a documentary made about it.-gadfium 18:52, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Winston Peters and mum photo

Hi Gadfium. You deleted this 2007 photo from Winston Peters' Wikipedia SuperGold Card section. I uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. I have licence for this photo and written permission to use this photo from photographer One-Image Photography. To upload image again, what do I have to do? Thanks. Ffruitshop — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ffruitshop (talk • contribs) 22:47, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

I removed it from the article because the image had already been deleted by someone else. If you have permission to release the image under a suitable free license, please go to commons and upload it there, sending details of the license as specified by the upload form. It does not appear that the image is valid for a "fair use" rationale as we already have free images of Peters, and as he is a living person we can ask members of the public to take further images. His mother is not notable, as far as I know.-gadfium 23:42, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

By the way, note that a license which permits an image to be used only for "non commercial" purposes is not sufficient on Wikipedia and not acceptable on commons.-gadfium 23:45, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

Miranda

Kia Ora Gadfium,

I wonder if you can perhaps help me with something. Recently the article Miranda_Naturalists'_Trust received a tag. It is said to be written like an advertisement. Well. I have written it myself, for most parts, and I feel a strong sympathy for the group and the centre, but I tried to write it as neutral as possible and I used sources everywhere. As you perhaps know Miranda is an important NZ bird observation centre, and I think it really deserves a good article. The tag also states that there are "inappropriate links", but I see only one link: to the trust itself. the problem with these tags is that they give little information.

If you could find some time to have a look at the article one of these days, and tell me if you agree with the tag, or not, I would be very grateful. Perhaps the style is not fully correct in some places. I'm not a native English speaker (I'm a Dutchie). So that might be something that could be repaired. But apart from that, I would not know how I could change it for the better. Greetings, Dick Bos (talk) 16:18, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

Since there is no discussion on the article talk page about this, your first step should be to ask the user who placed the tag, politely, what they think needs to change so the tag can be removed. The appropriate place for this is either at User talk:Kintetsubuffalo or on the article talk page with a courtesy note also placed on the user talk page.

The tag's mention of inappropriate external links is just that it covers a number of possibilities. You don't need to address that specifically.-gadfium 19:08, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

Perennial vandal 212.219.10.197

I bring here as you have dealt with this before. Just off second year-long block and right back at it. Could you address? --Hobbes Goodyear (talk) 01:21, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

 Done-gadfium 02:46, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

Much appreciated--thanks! --Hobbes Goodyear (talk) 03:21, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

Saint Bernard's College roll

Hi, I am Typhoon2013. I am currently at Wellington and currently in this school (Saint Bernard's College). I got the first newsletter of 2014 and have just briefly read it. It has stated that it hit the roll of 640 and the aim is 660. I do not know what is the exact roll for this year. Do you think we should put 640 for the roll? Typhoon2013 (talk) 03:51, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

I've changed the article so it uses an automated method of showing the school roll which should be updated several times a year. At present this shows the roll as 605. The roll figure is never going to be completely up to date but does give an indication of how large the school is. I suggest you not change it on the basis of the school newsletter, and within a few months the article will have caught up with the 2014 roll.

I did notice a statement in the second paragraph of the article: "The maximum roll is 590 pupils." That's obviously out of date. Please could you update it, and include a source so the figure can be checked if necessary.-gadfium 05:48, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Oh, also do you want me to put the deputy principal? Typhoon2013 (talk) 07:13, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

We don't usually include staff members other than the principal or headmaster/headmistress. This is because it is rare for external sources to cover staff changes other than the top position. However, if you wish to do so, the infobox field is "viceprincipal = x", and when the title is "deputy principal" you will also need to add a line "viceprincipal_label = deputy principal".-gadfium 08:41, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

Premonition?

This is a bit unnerving... from two days ago! Grutness...wha? 03:54, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

How very bizarre. Schwede66 04:09, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

Family First, etc

Hi Gadfium. Just leaving you a courtesy note that I've further reverted Family First New Zealand back to what looks a more neutral version. It's fairly obvious from the content that Mollyjohnwoof is the same editor as one you blocked for an offensive user name but I assume if it's a user name block they can just create a non-offensive user name and carry on as they were. Cheers. Daveosaurus (talk) 05:02, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

I blocked the earlier editor purely because the user name was not acceptable, and they were welcome to create a new name. The edits were pov but not hopelessly so, and the second set of edits showed a willingness to compromise. I have no problem with your revert however.-gadfium 05:06, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

Lae area Papua New Guinea

Hello, I saw your entry a while ago on the Papua New Guinea portal page. I am currently working on Lae and the suburbs. Would you please have a look at the suburbs,villages and assist where you can. I will finish the suburbs and then work on the main Lae page. thanks Phenss (talk) 21:50, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

I helped set up the portal in 2006, but haven't had any significant involvement since. I have never been to PNG, and am unable to help you. Good luck!-gadfium 00:17, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

Auckland grammar School - Edward and William Caradus

I understand that you deleted these entries! Both Edward and William are ex pupils worthy of note and I would like to know why you deleted my entries.

As you will see from my WP:Edit comment on the Auckland Grammar School history page, they had inadequate claims of notability. The notes you added said they were headmasters of secondary schools, and one was a chief inspector of primary schools and a director of educational services in the NZRAF. Few people with these positions have encyclopedia articles about them, because there are rarely suitable reliable sources documenting their lives. See also our notability guidelines on people.

When there is no Wikipedia article about a person listed as an alumni, at the very least there should be a reference which is a published secondary source about that person's life which contains sufficient detail to allow some future editor to make a decent start at writing such an article.-gadfium 08:14, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

Offender9000

Hi Gadfium, thanks for following up on Offender9000's socking. What are your thoughts on semi-protecting those articles? We're probably getting to the point where asking for a formal ban via WP:AN is in order (though he's de-facto banned). Nick-D (talk) 00:39, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

I have no problem with the articles being semi-protected. I don't see the socking as a problem however - it's quicker for us to roll back his edits than it is for him to make the reverts manually, and a few extra clicks to block each incarnation.-gadfium 01:02, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

OK, I'll leave them be then. Thanks again for following up on this. Regards, Nick-D (talk) 05:25, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

Could you not delete the external links that I added?

Hi Gadfium, I have been adding external links to the pages concerning "Education in (Country)". (For example, for the 'Education in Germany' page, I added the external link below.

• Information on education in Germany, OECD - Contains indicators and information about Germany and how it compares to other OECD and non-OECD countries
• Diagram of German education system, OECD - Using 1997 ISCED classification of programmes and typical ages. Also in German )

You may have seen this as spamming activity because I added about 50 pages in a day. However, all are different addresses which direct users to the each country's pages for the Directorate for Education and Skills of OECD website(http://gpseducation.oecd.org). On our GPS website, It has many good indicators and data that describe each country's education. If you open the links, you will find it not to be spam but real legite data, which would be really helpful for the users who are interested in the topic. Could you undo deleting the GPS website, or could you not deleting them if I undo all the external links? I will wait for your response. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Diddpql (talk • contribs) 15:54, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

I am happy to wait and see what WikiProject Education thinks of the links. An editor started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Education#Addition of gpseducation.oecd.org to external links section, and you are welcome to explain the value of your website's links there.-gadfium 19:18, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

Hi Gadfium, I just made a comment on WikiProject Education. I hope the GPS website can be visible on WIKI pages. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Diddpql (talk • contribs) 12:28, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

Labour Party

Perhaps you should learn the difference between center-left and far-left socialism. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.98.155.153 (talk) 00:09, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

In the New Zealand political context, the Labour Party is widely considered centre-left. Cunliffe's leadership has not significantly changed this. Of course, extremists on either side will see Labour, along with most of the political spectrum, as being on the opposite side to them.

For an international perspective, see political compass, which ranks it as a right wing party. You might disagree where the centre line on that chart would go, but perhaps you would agree that for the most part the order of the parties from left to right makes sense?-gadfium 00:21, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

NZ Flags

New Zealand flags

fine i will promote this flag by myeslf and if it becomes popular ill make sure wiki has no rights to post it thanks this place is to full of do gooders just because they did not find or see an event does not mean it never happened.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Kevymtnz (talk • contribs)

No problem, you are most welcome to promote your flag by your own means. You should be aware that you have already released the image to Wikimedia commons under a Creative Commons Attribution license at commons:File:Kevymtnz Flag 2014.PNG. If you now regret doing so, you could ask at Commons:Commons:Help desk if there is any way to have that deleted. I have no particular standing at Commons so I cannot help you with this.-gadfium 19:30, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Adding a chilean public person to "List of Motorcycle Riders"

Hello Gadfium, I noticed you revert my publication on "List of Motorcycle Riders" with the following note: "duplication of content and addition of a rider without an article".

Could you please tell me what kind of duplicate content did you find in my editing?

Regarding the "addition of a rider without an article" I realized it was my fault to add the rider without first creating the article. I've been working on "Cristián Maragaño Pisani" for the last 2 days but it seems the software won't let me add any pictures although I have 10 edits and my email was confirmed. Could you please also gimme a hand with that?

Thank you very much,

Cristián Maragaño Around The Globe www.aroundtheglobe.cl — Preceding unsigned comment added by Maraguein (talk • contribs)

I mentioned "duplication of content" because you duplicated the reference section and categories at List of long-distance motorcycle riders

To upload pictures to Wikipedia directly, you must be "autoconfirmed", which requires both at least 10 edits and 4 days since account creation. Your user account was created on 28 March, so you still have a couple of days to wait. However, we prefer editors to upload images to Commons:, and as far as I am aware they have no wait period. Images on commons can be used on any Wikimedia project, but must be under a suitable free license rather than a "fair use" justification.

Good luck with the rest of your trip. I would like to be able to do something similar myself someday!-gadfium 02:18, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

JSTOR Survey (and an update)

Hi! Just a quick update that while JSTOR and The Wikipedia Library discuss expanding the partnership, they've gone ahead and extended the pilot access again, until May 31st. Thanks, JSTOR!

It would be really helpful for growing the program if you would fill out this short survey about your usage and experience with JSTOR:

SURVEY

Cheers, Ocaasi via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:47, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

Happy anniversary

Happy belated anniversary. Stuartyeates (talk) 21:43, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

203.171.223.100 (talk · contribs)

Please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/203.171.223.100 There are more vandalism despite your block. Pls check the block. Thanks. --76.64.180.9 (talk) 00:02, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

Notable sources for "Alex Gilbert"

Hello Gadfium,

So we have another notable source for "Alex Gilbert" -- http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11232549 as well as tvnz.co.nz/sunday-news/alex-gilbert-my-journey-home-russia-5820767 and http://tvnz.co.nz/sunday/s2014-ep1-video-5821764

When can this page- User:TreesCanTell be moved to "Alex Gilbert" Thanks very much for your help! --TreesCanTell (talk) 16:03, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

Why do you believe that this person is notable? I've said before that meeting one's birth parents is not a notable thing. Having sources saying he met his parents, or that he met someone else from the same orphanage, is not sufficient to establish notability. Have you read WP:BIO?

If you do believe that Gilbert meets the notability criteria, you can move the page to the mainspace at any time, but there is a likelihood that someone will nominate it for deletion.-gadfium 20:49, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

haggagovic in tonga

the first egyptian go to tonga is a globetrotter ahmed haggaovic and her name wrote in tonga wikipedia page in arabic and me wrote the Reference http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%A7 -->

This is not in any way a notable fact.-gadfium 23:15, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Ikaroa-Rāwhiti

Marama Davidson's inclusion was my error to begin with, and the source was accepted as being Green Party candidate post 2011 election. I saw the 2013 date and quite forgot the by-election. I see I'm not the only one to fall into this trap, and I only realised the error when the anon editor pointed it out in his only edit summary. FanN | talk | 22:40, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

St. Bernard's College Field image

Hello again. I put the image of the field of SBC several weeks ago. I clicked the image today and discovered that there is some stuff in the Metadata. Can you please remove it because I do not like it. Have a good holidays. Typhoon2013 (talk) 04:05, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

The image, File:SBC Field.JPG, is on Commons, which is a sister site to Wikipedia. I have no special rights there, nor do I have any great expertise in editing images. You could either make a request for the removal of the metadata at Commons:Graphic Lab, or remove it yourself on your own copy and then re-upload the image on Commons to the same file name.-gadfium 06:11, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

Kochadaiiyaan

Requesting you to participate on the kochadaiiyaan page where a few editors are not allowing unbiased edits and presenting biased point of view by saying that the film is made in one language only while it is being made in multiple languages. please see my edits which are backed with sources. Marchoctober (talk) 23:29, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

I have not edited this article, and have no expertise on this subject, so I am not well placed to participate. You may find more knowledgeable editors by asking at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Film/Indian cinema task force. However, looking at the talk page it appears to be a confusion about whether the film was actually shot in multiple languages or shot in one and then dubbed into others. I would have thought this could be readily resolved by civil discussion between editors, and is not a case of biased point of view.-gadfium 03:00, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

ANI that may be related to your recent block of 125.239.145.26

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents which may interest you. The thread is Vandalism at Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard. --Guy Macon (talk) 14:17, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. I don't think my input is needed on this.-gadfium 20:14, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

Invitation join the new Physiology Wikiproject!

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Based on the long felt gap for categorization and improvization of WP:MED articles relating to the field of physiology, the new WikiProject Physiology has been created. WikiProject Physiology is still in its infancy and needs your help. On behalf of a group of editors striving to improve the quality of physiology articles here on Wikipedia, I would like to invite you to come on board and participate in the betterment of physiology related articles. Help us to jumpstart this WikiProject.

• Feel free to leave us a message at any time on the WikiProkect Physiology talk page. If you are interested in joining the project yourself, there is a participant list where you can sign up. Please leave a message on the talk page if you have any problems, suggestions, would like review of an article, need suggestions for articles to edit, or would like some collaboration when editing!
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HackAkl: Transport Hackathon

IN case you're interested...

HACKAKL: Transport. Hack Auckland: Auckland's 1st Civic Hackathon

• Web: http://hackakl.org.nz/
• When: 24 - 25 May 2014
• Where: AUT city campus, WG Bldg, Auckland.
• Press release when they announced the event: https://at.govt.nz/about-us/news-events/registrations-open-for-aucklands-first-civic-hackathon/

They are holding 3 meetings before the event. The 1st meeting is this week.

• When: 30 April 2014 at 5:45pm - 7pm.
• Where: Propellerhead, 34 Drake Street, CBD, Behind Victoria Park Market
• Agenda for 1st pre-event workshop on 30 April http://nzoss.org.nz/content/hackakl-transport-pre-event-workshop-event-april-30

Other meetings will be on May 14, 5.45pm - 7.00pm and May 21, 5.45pm - 7.00pm Don't know much more. Just read about it during the weekend. Feel free to pass on the info if you know of others interested in the the info. regards Linnah (talk) 06:01, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for this heads-up. I probably won't go to this but I am hoping to go to nethui this year.-gadfium 06:47, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

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Block of 71.89.159.205

He's editing. See [[3]] and here. How can he edit when he is blocked? James the Knldge-Lvr (talk) 17:34, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

The block was for a month, and has just expired. Since the vandalism started again immediately, I have reblocked for a long period.-gadfium 20:33, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

mi: Ngā huringa hou (Recent changes) page

Hi Gadfium, could you take a look at the above sometime, looks like there is broken code appearing on the page. I guess recent updates aren't compatible with the old system files. Piwaiwaka (talk) 10:19, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

I do check recent changes on mi: a couple of times a day, and it looks fine to me. Are you using a skin other than Vector or any customisation of the interface? If I change skin to Cologne Blue I do see a stray character instead of the link to Notifications on the left side menu, and that applies to all pages. I don't know how to fix it myself but I can find someone to report it to on IRC or meta.-gadfium 20:16, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

I see it now; it happens if the language is set in preferences to Māori.-gadfium 02:14, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

OK. I guess Māori is the default setting, either way if you could report it that'd be great. Thanks for looking into it. Piwaiwaka (talk) 08:53, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Reported at Bugzilla:65210. The problem has been removed for now by deleting an interface file causing it, and someone's looking at the underlying cause in the MediaWiki software.-gadfium 20:11, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Excellent. Piwaiwaka (talk) 05:07, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Request for comment

Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by Anna Frodesiak. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:47, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Need admin help

Hello Gadfium, a new editor has caused a bit of grief as outlined here. Can you please restore this version of the Mid-Canterbury article? The 'restore this version' link does not appear to be available to me (perhaps due to a copy-paste move?) and 'rollback' isn't appropriate as these were good faith edits. There may also be a need for a history merge, but that's not my area of expertise at all. Schwede66 11:57, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Done. I don't see any reason why you could not have done so yourself - you just edit the version you wish to restore it to and save. Any "restore this version" link you see must come from a tool I don't have installed. There is no need for a history merge as the edits made were promotional.-gadfium 20:21, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for sorting it, Gadfium. And thanks for the heads up. Not sure where the restore link comes from, but I see it most of the time and given it wasn't there, I didn't want to create potential further problems. Schwede66 09:48, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

Hello. Thank you for your posts. The aim was to provide an overview of the district of Mid Canterbury, (no hyphen) and the correction to the title was to reflect the accurate title/name by records. Even though the current Mid-Canterbury page is about electroate, wouldn't it be appropriate to have all Mid Canterbury information, geographical, electorate, information about the district, etc. in one location? Then when other pages reference Mid Canterbury - it would link to one powerful source of accurate information? Maybe a solution would be formatting/sections? Yes, new to Wikipedia - but eager to add value and information about the district. Thanks. Look forward to your response. Emct (talk) 20:39, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Please read WP:PROMOTION before making further contributions to Wikipedia. If you wish to provide more tourist-oriented information, then a more appropriate site is our sister site Wikivoyage.-gadfium 20:45, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Standard practice (as I have previously supported) is that all New Zealand electorates should conform to our format of appending (New Zealand electorate) to the electorate name. Having Mid-Canterbury (New Zealand electorate) avoids such ambiguity. FanN | talk | 23:18, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

Sorry

I am sorry what I have done I went to Buddhism by country. 09:33, 19 June 2014 (UTC) by T0300987j

I'm vandalising?

how dare you accuse ME of vandalizing when my every page has been changed to link someone else's and all I do is add useful information — Preceding unsigned comment added by Minecraftracer16 (talk • contribs) 12:57, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

When did I accuse you of vandalism? I haven't posted to your talk page, and a look at your list of contributions doesn't show any articles that I would normally be interested in.-gadfium 20:17, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

Image

Hi, could you take a look at File:JORDAN SIMON.jpeg. Don't know which CDS to use, but I think it needs to go (see history). Jarkeld (talk) 22:48, 19 June 2014 (UTC)  Done-gadfium 23:11, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

Please temporarily block my account

I have a serious problem with security (and thanks for the help on the NZ articles). Arfæst Ealdwrítere (talk) 03:01, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

Donghua Liu

Hi there. Just dropping a courtesy note that I've listed Donghua Liu for AFD here: [4] because it looks like a magnet for BLP problems. Hopefully I'm not treading on anyone's toes. Cheers. Daveosaurus (talk) 05:39, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

No problem.-gadfium 06:18, 25 June 2014 (UTC)