Wellyboy

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Oswald Birley

Hello and welcome! I tried to help you wikify the Oswald Birley page you started as much as I could. I'm not very familiar with the knight orders and stuff like that, so I suggest you look to pages on other people that were knighted and try to put the information about Birley in a similar way :) If you have any questions, drop a note on my talk page. -Missmarple 20:59, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Courtney Place

Wikipedia:New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board#Courtenay Quarter , Courtenay Place and Te Aro may interest you as a Wellingtonian. --Midnighttonight 08:30, 13 March 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)

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Wellingtonians

Hello, Wellyboy, I've never talked to you, as far as I recall. But I decided to say a few friendly words to everyone in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_in_Wellington since joining that category recently. (Incidentally, if you tweak your page link to that category, by adding a pipe then your user name, you will appear in proper alpha order instead of under "U".)

Good to see some serious biography and university work. But is "Prof" really an approved Wikipedia prenomial??

My employer operated in or near Te Aro (College and Vivian Sts) when I started there in 1993. Now in the real coffee belt in Willeston Street.

Kind regards - Robin Patterson 07:57, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

ONZ

Thanks for creating articles on members of the Order of New Zealand. I am concerned that the articles are too similar to the biographies at ONZ Biographical Notes. It's fine to use such sites as a source of information, but in some cases you appear to have copied entire sentences. I'd appreciate it if you could revise the articles by rewriting such sentences in your own words.-gadfium 04:27, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs

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1. Owen Woodhouse - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 20:40, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Invitation to join the politics taskforce

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Cyril Smith

Please note that per MOS:HONORIFIC, 'honorary knights and dames are not entitled to "Sir" or "Dame", only the post-nominal letters.' ^Bongo_matic 03:14, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Cyril Smith knighthood was substantial not honorary. So therefore he was allowed to be called Sir Cyril. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wellyboy (talk • contribs) 03:19, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Please read the guideline and the text below, that states "This guideline permits inline use of honorific titles that in general have significant sourced usage or recognition (e.g. in general media) outside of the country or system in which they were given" (emphasis added). ^Bongo_matic 03:25, 6 September 2010 (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)