User talk:Rosarrob

Welcome / nau mai

Welcome / nau mai with the official WANZ Louise cake!

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Many thanks Schwede66

it has been great to get lots of help from the experts! I would like to try again soon.

regards, Rosar48 2404:440C:1A01:6200:9D19:F6CA:64C7:AEF7 (talk) 09:56, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

Many thanks for your welcome Schwede66

I am delighted to have my first page up and inspired to try more. I had some great help from the Wadestown Wikipedians, Mary and Marshall.

Rosar48 Rosarrob (talk) 00:33, 28 July 2023 (UTC)

Mary and Marshall, they are good sorts! Schwede66 02:37, 28 July 2023 (UTC)

Thanks again Schwede66, are you in NZ yourself? The louise cake was a nice idea, but fear it is virtual!! Cheers, Rosar48 Rosarrob (talk) 04:10, 28 July 2023 (UTC)

Just over Cook Straight in Mohua (Golden Bay). Schwede66 06:35, 28 July 2023 (UTC)

Titles, honours and post-nominals

Hi Rosarrob, it takes quite a while to become familiar with the various guidelines in Wikipedia. One of the areas that originally surprised me was that there is quite limited use of titles, honours and post-nomimals. As you are working on biographies, I recommend you read: WP:MOSBIO. One particular point about post-nominals is that they are generally only used in the article about the subject, ie in other articles a person's name will not be followed by the post-nominal. This is set out in the last sentence of the section MOS:POSTNOM in the manual of style for biographies. This means you should revert your last edit to Violet Bowring. Just go the the revision history for the article, and there is an "undo" link against your lastest revision that you can use to revert the change. Cheers Marshelec (talk) 01:42, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

Many thanks Marschelec. I wondered if the MC for Royden was pushing it. THat was the one I think?! I'm still struggling with some web references and been a bit slow on it. My cataract op is now on 10 Aug but hope I can have Walter finished by then.

Appreciate any help and keen to learn!

Cheers, Rose Rosarrob (talk) 05:43, 6 August 2023 (UTC)