User talk:Gadfium

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Tom Newnham

@ Gadfium Page about Tom Newnham The 3 photos are from the daughter of Tom Newnham for use in wikipedia. Please let give you a permission from the daughter Anne Newnham <anewnham@orcon.net.nz>, for you it is a shorter way and my English is very bad. Kind Regards

Gerd Hartmann, M.D., Germany

For answer please write me an E-Mail. I haven`t found a E-Mail from you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dr. Gerd Hartmann (talk • contribs) 08:17, 7 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You need to email the permission to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org. I have no special rights at commons, so I cannot sort this out for you.-gadfium 08:22, 7 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I write an E-Mail to Anne and hope that she can give fast the permission to the address. I have again done the third photo in the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dr. Gerd Hartmann (talk • contribs) 08:58, 7 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Anne Newnham has sent about 20 hours ago an E-Mail with permission for the 3 photos to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org. Kind Regards Gerd Hartmann — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dr. Gerd Hartmann (talk • contribs) 22:28, 9 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Someone at commons should soon change the tags on the images, or get back to you or her if there's still something wrong.-gadfium 00:26, 10 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A good person for you to talk to would be commons:User_talk:Quedel, who is a German-speaker and has posted to your talk page on Commons. He may not have realised that you would prefer to communicate in German.-gadfium 00:30, 10 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ein anderer deutschsprachiger Administrator ist commons:User talk:Martin H.. Schwede66 01:28, 10 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oceanic topic

Hi Gadfium,

Thank you for contacting me on my talk page. I edit a wide range of articles, so I don't monitor article or template talk pages unless a conversation is ongoing. I responded to your question on the template talk page; I would be grateful if you would again leave a note on my talk page if you have further concerns.

Happy editing,

Neelix (talk) 22:40, 25 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

New Zealand Europeans

Hi There,

Thanks for clearing up my confusion about including the Maori in the 'related ethnic' section for white New Zealanders. Your correct, I included them as I assumed due to the fact that there are New Zealanders of mixed ethnic ancestry the groups are related in this way, hence I originally included them. Also, I would like to ask your opinion as to whether the 'Anglo-Celtic Australian' group should remain in the related section as this group is, I estimate, more of a socio-cultural rather than an ethnic group. There is is also the fact that they are ultimately descended from the British Isles as well therefore the link is unnecessary. Interested to hear your opinion.

TerritorialWaters (talk) 03:22, 26 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I don't have any strong opinion on whether Anglo-Celtic Australians should be listed as being related to New Zealand Europeans. However, they share ancestors in common only a few generations back, so it seems like a reasonable link.-gadfium 03:49, 26 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

New block evasion of DavidYork71

Daffydavid (talk · contribs) may be another block evasion of DavidYork71. See this edit. I tried to resolve the issue here, but to no avail. I think that New Age should be semi-protected indefinitely to avoid these problems; they go back to Wednesday Next. Sock puppetry research is not my forte. All is One (talk) 22:08, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

As was said at AIV, this is more appropriate for WP:AN/I or perhaps WP:SSP. Sock puppet research is not my forte either, and I have no involvement with the New Age article. However, my experience with DavidYork71 is that he makes reasonable edits at first, but pretty quickly goes off the deep end. He also goes back to the same few articles and reverts them to his preferred version. I don't see this behaviour in DaffyDavid, at least on New Age.-gadfium 23:53, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Cook Islands

As you're the major contributor to Cook Islands, I was wondering if you could take a look at Netball in the Cook Islands and leave some feedback on the talk page on how to improve the article? Thanks! --LauraHale (talk) 00:38, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Re: "Mount Eden"

The anecdote is on a piece of paper amongst the effects of my mother, Betty Clay. It was annotated to the effect that the facts had been checked. She subsequently accompanied them one year in the 1980s. I used the story in my response to the unveiling of a Blue Plaque to O.B-P in Chesterfield on Thinking Day 2011. I tried to verify it beforehand by writing to the NZ Guides, but have still not had a reply. RobinClay (talk) 22:38, 12 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

We need some published source covering the celebration of Thinking Day on Mount Eden. A newspaper report would be fine, but self-published material such as a blog or forum post will not usually be appropriate. See our guideline on reliable sources.-gadfium 23:02, 12 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sign of the Kiwi

Hi there Gadfium, I hope you are enjoying your holidays. I see that Sign of the Kiwi got deleted in 2008 under A7 (No indication that the article may meet guidelines for inclusion). It's listed as a Category I heritage building by the NZHPT and that alone makes it notable. Could you please have a look whether it's worth restoring what used to be there? Schwede66 07:59, 19 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've restored the article. Please add a source for the Category I heritage listing, and make any other improvements you see fit. If you decide not to make any changes to the article, let me know and I'll delete it again.-gadfium 19:59, 20 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Have done some quick additions to establish notability. Thanks! Schwede66 01:59, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I think I'm finished with it. Does it look notable enough? :) Schwede66 20:38, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it looks notable enough to me. It should include a link to Sign of the Takahe. I don't know if Sign of the Bellbird and Sign of the Packhorse are as notable, but an article on the Summit Road would probably be appropriate.-gadfium 22:11, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, had overlooked that the Takahe wasn't linked. Have done this now, but there should be some prose added, too. Yes, Summit Road is a redlink; that one is definitely notable. I can't see the Bellbird (ruins) or the Packhorse (a tramping hut) as being notable. Schwede66 01:41, 23 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Mt ALbert Grammar School Alumni

Hi Gadfium, heres a reference for football players. I can guarantee the validity, even though I haven't heard of a few of them.

http://www.mags.school.nz/Section?Action=View&Section_id=500

Can you revert? Cheers, Gmoney484

Thanks. I've reverted, but I'm confused about Dave Mulligan. His article says he joined NZ under-17 in 1997, but played for English teams the following year and for some time after, before playing for NZ again. Could there be some confusion between two players of the same name?-gadfium 05:21, 25 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm looking into that - See what I can hunt out. I don't believe they're really notable and the section is getting excessively long and cumbersome, but.... Gmoney484 (talk) 06:11, 25 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sam Harding

Hi Gadfium, In your opinion, do any of the vandalistic edits to Sam Harding (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sam_Harding&oldid=377447641 was the last of a succession) meet criteria 2 or 3 for Revision Deletion? dramatic (talk) 23:33, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It meets criteria 2, as "Grossly insulting, degrading, or offensive material". However, the box above the criteria says "A certain low degree of inappropriate or disruptive posting is normal within a large community", and I think this sort of juvenile vandalism can also be regarded as being covered by that. My usual inclination is to revert such material (and deal with the poster) but not to remove it from the edit history, because I doubt that anyone who looks through the edit history is likely to be misled into believing that the edits are correct. Of course, if the person involved complains, the material should be revision deleted or oversighted, and if someone continually reverts to an objectionable version, then revision deletion is one of the tools to make that more difficult.-gadfium 07:46, 1 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Auckland Wikipedia Meetup

Hey. We're having an Auckland Wikipedia meetup on April 9. Details are at Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland. Would love to see you there. :) --LauraHale (talk) 02:13, 3 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Nice to meet you too

It was nice to meet you too. I'll try to get in touch with the guy in Wellington when I have a more firm date on when I will be there. I'll also poke WM-AU to see what can be done on that front and who they've already talked to. --LauraHale (talk) 07:08, 9 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not delete contriibutions of other people just because they contributed things you didn't know. Thanks!

Hello, I added a contribution about MAO inhibitors in the Parkinson disease article. The fact that tobacco smoke contains MAO inhibitors has been well-known for decades. Just make a google search and you get flooded with results of reputable institutions like the NIH.

In fact, your revert was vandalismus, good that others undid it. So, please in future just google a bit before you delete contributions you do not know about.

Thank you.