User talk:Ppe42

Hello Ppe42, welcome to Wikipedia. In case you didn't know, you have a user page as well as this talk page, so you could put the above information there if you wanted to.

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Hi Ppe42, I am Pcb21 (barely half the man you are :). Just noticed you wrote Finless Porpoise as an anon IP - great stuff - please feel very free to write more porpoise and cetacean articles... I really want to see those red links disappear from that page.... :-) Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 13:09, 9 Dec 2003 (UTC)

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Sorry about that copyright mess. Entirely my mistake. Bmills 13:41, 9 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Just read the article on Wellington, New Zealand, which I really enjoyed. Maybe you could break down the j=history into headed sections to produce a table of contents? Bmills 13:54, 9 Dec 2003 (UTC)

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Grits. You might want to look at Naked and Petrified as a link, instead of Slashdot. Just a thought. Mark Richards 07:33, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Maori

Greetings, Ppe42, fellow-Wellingtonian. How's the weather? (I haven't seen the sky since 8am.) Not much of that formerly excellent activity from you in recent weeks (unless it continues anonymously). Maybe a look at the fledgling Maori Wikipedia may inspire something! Kind regards - Robin Patterson 01:16, 11 May 2004 (UTC)

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Taps Hot are red.

You are correct; my error; in AU hot taps are on the left and are blue and labelled "H".

I had read somewhere that taps in Spain are labelled the other way around. Need a Spaniard to advise.

Tabletop 10:30, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the email

Hello. I just received your email about the Wellington Botanic Gardens page. (Unfortunately I've just noticed it's a dupe of the Wellington Botanical Gardens page... we'll need to fix that.)

Sorry for the delay--I'd left my wikipedia account pointing to an older address that I no longer check very often. (Now fixed.) Yes I am at Vic (by some definition). I'm hanging around the Computer Science dept., having recently finished an MSc and tidying up the corrections. I'll be gone within a matter of weeks since I'm employed in town. I guess you know Joel -- I noticed that your wiki is run off a server that he runs. (Or at least one of his domains.)

Izogi 22:00, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

Hi Ppe42. I found your pages when I did a Wiki search on Taranaki. I see you also have connections with Stratford, my home town. You probably know me, in fact, people like me obviously inspire a lot of your sociological and psychological thoughtlife! I definitely identify myself as a right wing authoritarian with an understanding of SDO. You might like my blog: www.agrichristian.blogspot.com

Invisible disability

Your updates are quite good. Thanks for giving the article some attention. :) --Jacquelyn Marie 03:07, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Your pictures

That's a lovely picture of Mount Taranaki. I select a picture of the week for the Wikiportal:New Zealand page, and I've added it to my list of pictures to feature. It'll be on that page in about a month's time. If you have other pictures of similar quality on Wikipedia, please drop me a line on my talk page.-gadfium 18:56, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

Uncle Joe's Mint Balls ↔ Chocolate Salty Balls

I'm just curious - why did you link these two seemingly unrelated articles together? Ppe42 11:37, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

The names Uncle Joe's Mint Balls and Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls are built upon the same double entendre. I wouldn't be surprised if the first name was an inspiration for the second. Even if not, the fact that a real world confectionery with such a name exists may be interesting for the South Park fans. · Naive cynic · 09:48, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

LibertariaNZ?

Hi, thanks for the hello on my talk page.

Unfortunately your hunch is a bit off the mark - I've never been affiliated with the Libertarianz in any form. I certainly didn't stand for any of the electorates up this way in the election just gone. My electorate was missing a Libertarianz candidate, but the candidate in question wouldn't really have stood a chance - John Key won by over 20,000 votes.

Have a good one,

Darobsta 09:13, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

Geneva mechanism

Thanks very much - nice to know someone noticed :-)

Mike1024 (t/c) 21:02, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Meager!

I saw your profile from New Zealand and I realised you may actually have a different way of spelling it in your part of the world.

And I did think there may be two different spellings actually. But all I saw on wiktionary was "meager". Maybe I'll just delete the word altogether and lay the matter to rest.

Image:Mt_Taranaki.JPG

Hi, I'd like to include this image on the Maori wikipedia, and the best way of doing that would be fore it to be in Wikipedia:commons, however that would best be done with you, otherwise it would end up looking as though I had taken the photo and placed it in the public domain. (Commons doesn't keep the history from en as far as I know. Cheers, dramatic 18:38, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks muchly! dramatic 05:32, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Reality Dysfunction reference

The fact that the Reality Dysfunction article is about a book doesn't excuse it from the need to cite a source. Therefore, I have added a proper book citation. (While I was at it, I also added a link to Hamilton's official website and to Wikiquote's Hamilton article, which includes quotes from TRD.) In the future, please don't remove {{unreferenced}} and similar tags unless you first fix the problem they identify. Thank you for your cooperation. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 01:01, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Sorry if I removed the unreferenced tag without fully thinking it through, but ... I mea, come on, its a book article. That the information within comes from the book mentioned seems self-evident. On another note, given that you quickly, and apparently easily, put the correct reference in, why didn't you simply do that in the first place instead of placing an ugly tag on the article? Never mind! The article is improved, and Wikipedia moves on.Ppe42 05:27, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

You ask an excellent question, kemosabe. Here's a hint: I completely forgot that I was the one who tagged it in the first place. I divide my work between a small group of tasks that each take hours to do properly, a larger group of tasks that only take me minutes to knock off, and a huge group of tasks each of which takes only seconds to do. Tagging unsourced articles is in the third category, and once tagged, these articles often get sources from their more involved editors, so my seconds of work pay off by encouraging interested parties to do required WP tasks. Some articles, however, cause editors to complain or refuse to cooperate. Such articles go into my middle group, where I must put a bit more effort into resolving the problem. It took me a few seconds to tag TRD; it took me several minutes to collect the reference information and add it. (It also spun me off into a side issue of learning the current state of Template:Cite book and fixing some related cite templates.) It is also taking me rather more time to explain my actions, but the dividend I hope to get is another Wikipedian who will henceforth add citations to articles. To borrow from a popular saying, I don't mind feeding villages, but it's even more useful and rewarding to teach people to feed themselves. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 06:25, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

About a pic in Novi Sad

Thanks, i am glad someone likes it :)

Answer on your question: It is a pieace of brigde, witch was destroy in NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, brigde was standing 50 m from that location (picture), they left ed there, like a tourist attraction (now we have a new brigde on that location)

--Goran.Smith2 04:15, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Auckland meetup

Just to let you know that a meetup is planned in Auckland for the 25th of June (see Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland for more details), and that you are cordially invited. GeorgeStepanek\^talk 00:21, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Pitch Black

I created some articles for the series (Nocturnal Aliens, Antonia Chillingsworth).--SGCommand (talk • contribs) 19:42, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Waterbed

I find your, “made the article into an advertisement,” hard to believe as your real reason.

An advertisement is either a “call to action” or a “brand/idea promotion.” My contributions were neither.

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An error (or what I thought was an error) was the spelling in the phrase “conventional foundation or cox spring.” I corrected it into “conventional foundation or BOX spring.” Since you reset it to “cox” I must assume that you want it to be “cox” not “box.” Since your word is so like the word for male poultry, I must assume that you are trying to insert a disparaging attitude. The point is, YOU are the one “promoting an idea.”

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My addition of the phrase “when powered ON by the thermostat” is the more correct, since without it, it can be assumed that the wattage consumed is consumed 24/7. It isn’t.

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The earlier sentence, which you restored: “They can be repaired with a bicycle repair kit or a dinghy repair kit” wasn’t completely wrong. A dinghy is sometimes made of vinyl, so such a kit would work on a waterbed mattress, which is nearly always made of vinyl (urethane waterbeds were never commercially successful in the popular market). However since inner tubes and some dinghy s are made of rubber, a repair kit for rubber is the wrong choice for a vinyl waterbed mattress.

My contribution: “They can be repaired with nearly any vinyl repair kit” is more accurate.

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Your removal of my contribution starting: “Rebuttal: Certainly Hall’s waterbed ... “ is curious. It’s not disparaging of Charlie. He and I have always had a cordial relationship. We were never close, but certainly we were never adversaries.

My contribution is historically accurate. I don’t understand why you want to suppress it.

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You might have a point regarding my contribution starting: ”In comparison to air beds. Manufacturers of air beds ...” While I wasn’t promoting an idea, I was responding to the invalid promotion of other ideas.

I have long been irritated by advertisements for air beds. They are false. However since I don’t see “air beds” in Wikipedia, I don’t think that you are a professional airbed advocate. I am not running down air beds, just being defensive about how they run down waterbeds.

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The section that preceded my contribution starting: “Rebuttal: While the gross weight ...” is simply wrong regarding the weight of filled waterbeds. I didn’t want to remove the earlier contribution because it’s a popular myth. I did want to shed more light on the issue. You seem to want the light off.

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Why would you suppress my contribution starting: “Tips for improved satisfaction. In a waterbed store, you will only ...” My tips are correct, but not the information that anyone would easily get from a retailer or a manufacturer, because under filled and unoccupied, they DO “look strange.”

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I was almost finished with this message when I thought to compare the version just before my changes to your last version. There is no difference. Of course you know that. Your response to my contributions was not at all thoughtful. I suspect that all that you noticed was that someone had changed YOUR contribution. Your response was just to delete the contributions of others and restore YOURS, errors and all.

You are definitely not part of the solution.

However, since I am no longer active in the waterbed industry, I don’t care enough to go back and forth with you on this. You can win, errors and all.

Patrick O'Redondo 19:25, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Waterbed

Ppe42

Thank you for your response of 23:39, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

It was on point and very helpful.

Based upon it, I plan to go back and put my edits back into the article - while making them the correct tone, formality and NPOV.

Patrick O'Redondo 14:27, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Bernard Darnton

I have reverted to what appears to be the consensus view of Darnton's significance, judging by the other comments on the talk page. Please don't add party political propaganda to wikipedia. It really doesn't help. Neil Leslie 09:45, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Picture fun

Assuming that it is the same user, they have never broken WP:3RR, having only ever made 3 reverts in 24 hours. Additionally, because they have a dynamic IP, even if there was a clear breach, it would be difficult to do anything about it. Consulting an admin might suggest some other ideas, but I think at this stage it would not be deemed serious enough. --Limegreen 23:22, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

I put a note on the NZ Wikipedians' Noticeboard, and it seems like that's been helpful.--Limegreen 06:54, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Stratford High School

I see you changed the name of the headmaster in this article. The school's website still lists Paul W Howison as the headmaster; if this is out of date, could you provide a source please. Thanks.-gadfium 18:45, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Hello Ppe42

Should you add this webcam to your page: http://www.metservice.co.nz/default/index.php?alias=wellington ? It seesm to be quite close to your home. Is it located on the Met Office Building in the Botanical Garden? If you have a moment to follow the 180 degrees scan: What is the name of the road shown when the webcam points north (shown on the extreme left of the sweep)? Reinhard Wentz sleuthmedical@yahoo.com 14.02.2008 (Aplogies: Please delete this entry if it is inappropriate) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.104.2.237 (talk) 19:13, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

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Conservatism

I noticed that you were a contributor to the Social Dominance Theory article, and wonder if you could assist in Conservatism#Psychology. That section has drawn much heated debate, but I wonder whether the section is accurately written. None of the editors have expertise in the subject. Any assistance you might provide would be welcomed. The Four Deuces (talk) 14:57, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

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Invitation to an in-person meetup in Mohua / Golden Bay

Golden Bay Air are holding some seats for us until 21 November

Thinking about your summer break? Think about joining other Wikipedians and Wikimedians in Golden Bay / Mohua! Details are on the meetup page. There's heaps of interesting stuff to work on e.g. the oldest extant waka or New Zealand's oldest ongoing legal case. Or you may spend your time taking photos and then upload them.

Golden Bay is hard to get to and the airline flying into Tākaka uses small planes, so we are holding some seats from and to Wellington and we are offering attendees a $200 travel subsidy to help with costs.

Be in touch with Schwede66 if this event interests you and you'd like to discuss logistics. Schwede66 09:14, 13 November 2023 (UTC)