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"Default sort"

I am sure you mean well, but changing the sort order for names of kings and princes and such people normally known by their full given name makes no sense. As I had put Adolf Frederick of Sweden on my "watchlist" a couple of weeks ago, I happened to notice your changing the sort order to "Frederick, Adolf" (which makes as much sense as sorting George W. Bush as "W., George Bush"), and I also undid another couple of similar edits of yours, but I don't particularly feel like going through your contributions systematically. Please backtrack your edits and undo them yourself in applicable cases. Olaus 10:42, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

P.S. I am sorry if I came through as patronizing above. When doing a lot of minor and mostly very useful edits, as you obviously do, it is probably easy to stumble into something unfamiliar and make a mistake. Everything is revertible, so it is really no big deal. :-) Olaus 11:07, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

It's no problem, I'm happy to discuss it. I did look for a policy or guide on this specific point of names mixed with titles but didn't see anything, please let me know if you're aware of some documentation on this topic. George W. Bush has default sort set to "Bush, George W.", rather than "George W. Bush President of the United States". One the other hand, Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom has nothing set, so reverts to the title (as opposed to Windsor, Elizabeth). Thanks for pointing it out, this looks to be the precedent for royalty, so I'll leave the names with titles as they are.XLerate 11:35, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Nomination for Did you know

• ...that the first legal case presented by a female barrister in the British Empire is believed to be in New Zealand? User:XLerate nom, by Victuallers 07:33, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

DYK update

On 5 October, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Ethel Benjamin, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Congrats! --Espresso Addict 16:03, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Hello

Hello, Nice to hear that you are a loyal member on wikipedia but unfortunatly your edits on Kasautii Zindagii Kay are identified as vandalism but sadly they can't be reverted. Other users and I have really worked hard on that article and now it is ruined If you could please some how revert your edits it'll be wonderful,Hope you understand.Thanx Lil'Khan 01:17, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

The edits after mine deleted large portions of the article. I spent several hours improving the article, ran it through spelling and grammar checking, you can see this here. I have reverted the article to the edit I did, it looks ok now. There were some small edits afterwards, I'll take a look and see if some additional repairs are needed. If the vandalism continues you can request protection. XLerate 01:36, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

AWB edit to The Seattle Times Company

Under the edit summary "stub sorting" you've deleted an inline crosslink that I feel shouldn't have been deleted: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Seattle_Times_Company&diff=164198410&oldid=161192607. Note that there is no actual stub change in the edit, contrary to the summary you (or your AWB) left. I went ahead and reverted it but wanted to give you a head's-up on it, as it appears to have been a case of auto-editing gone wild. Feel free to leave me a talk message there or on my page if there's any problem. Cheers! _{``` W</sub> i k i <sub>W</sub> i s t a h <sub>```} 04:17, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

There are 2 topics regarding this edit. Firstly I deleted an internal link duplicated in the preceeding sentence. It's really not necessary to repeat the same link in such close promixity, please see WP:MOS-L. Secondly I removed the stub tag, I feel it is start class already from 2 criteria - "multiple links that help explain or illustrate the topic", and "multiple subheadings that indicate material that could be added to complete the article". Please see here for the assessment guideline I use. I feel the repeated link really needs to go, the stub tag is more subjective, if you want to leave it on I suggest putting a more specific one, like company stub. XLerate 04:47, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Whoops ... you're right about the stub. That one slipped my attention. I've no problem with that edit. As for the deletion of the town link, I disagree, though not strenuously enough to revert. Sorry for the inconvenience. _{``` W</sub> i k i <sub>W</sub> i s t a h <sub>```} 04:53, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

No worries, thanks anyway for pointing it out, in case it was auto-editing gone wild. XLerate 05:26, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

New Plymouth weather info box

Nice work with the weather box, XL, but the rain section at the bottom is very hard to read. Are you able to lighten the blue, or is this a Wiki template? Grimhim 02:56, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Grimhim, I agree the text could be clearer. It is the Infobox Weather standard template, this issue with the font colour has been raised already, I'll add a note for New Plymouth also. XLerate 03:06, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? was updated. On 17 November, 2007, a fact from the article Wellington Free Ambulance, which you recently nominated, was featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Zzyzx11 (Talk) 18:55, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Robert Lawson

Thanks, that's a vast improvement [1] any more like that at home? Giano (talk) 08:22, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

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NZ State Highways

Hi XLerate -

I see you've been improving the State Highway 8 (New Zealand) article I started the other day! I've just made a start on State Highway 7 (New Zealand) - you might like to have a look at that one too (I'm hoping to make a start on articles for Highways 2 to 6 during the next week or two). Grutness...wha? 01:42, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Feel free to change the shields. With the software I've got I can only make them in gif, jpg or png, but you're right that svg would be better. Regard my ones as "spacefillers". Grutness...wha? 23:32, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

University of Auckland

Hi,

I see that you are making bot-assisted changes of "Auckland University" to "University of Auckland". I would suggest that in any article which says "X graduated from y in (year) z", then y should be whatever the institution was called at that time.

So for someone pre-1950* you might say "Auckland University College (now University of Auckland)" and for the time prior to the latest name change**, I'd use [[University of Auckland|Auckkland University]].

• I can't remember the exact year the U of NZ was split up into 7 universities - it was some time between 1950 and 1957)

• • When was the name change? I can't find a press release.

dramatic (talk) 03:21, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Hi dramatic, I've gone through and categorised all the faculty and alumni, where the article conclusively stated "was a lecturer" or "graduated from". Incidentally I was also replacing the colloquial "Auckland University" with the actual title "University of Auckland" (especially as there is the Auckland University of Technology). I was aware Auckland split along with the others from the University of New Zealand (in 1961 according to the article), I'm not aware it was called "Auckland University" during it's history. "Auckland University College" I left alone, I was only replacing [[Auckland University]] and [[University of Auckland|Auckland University]] with [[University of Auckland]]. If I've mucked it up somewhere or used the wrong title, please let me know and I can take a look at repairing it. Otago, Waikato and now Auckland have been categorised (over 200 more alumni & faculty in the respective categories), I plan to do the remaining NZ universities in the next few days. Perhaps there need to be categories for University of NZ alumni & faculty, for pre-1961 graduates & staff, what do you think? XLerate (talk) 04:00, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

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HMS Royal Oak (08) reference check

Thanks for pointing this out. After checking, the correct pages are indeed Snyder, pp179-180, which brings the number of uses of this reference to three. Regards, — BillC ^talk 01:16, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

List of Kakapo

Could you confirm this please?--Nicolás10 (talk) 16:41, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

For you

Seems like just about every item on my watchlist has had either coordinates or an infobox added by you recently. Thought you might like this for your good work :)

		The Working Man's Barnstar
		For the onerous work of adding coordinates and other templates to a looong list of New Zealand articles, I, Grutness, award you this barnstar. Enjoy! Grutness...wha? 01:45, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

National Library Sketchup image

Hi, I think I must have got confused about the National Library SketchUp image: the author had released it under a creative commons licnese here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/53752777@N00/971357387/, but I assume your argument is that he does not have the right to do that as the image was taken in Google Earth where any image is owned by Google. Does this mean that the model without the background (hypothetically) would be okay (eg outisde of Google Earth)?

Matt (talk) 23:20, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Dunedin Public Libraries

Xlerate thanks for your editing work. I am based at Dunedin Public Libraries and had the blessing of the Library Manager to use the website text. As the Library is the owner of the text I can't see where use of this public domain content would be a problem? Paul151 (talk) 00:58, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

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B class

Thanks for the feedback on B-class articles. I've put my effort in the last 24 hours into adding references and/or content to Māori, History of Air New Zealand, and Blenheim, New Zealand - all tagged by at least one project as B-class - and I'm very happy that my temporary downgrade of Dunedin has resulted in an improvement to that article.

The assessment of articles is rather inconsistent, and sometimes I think we're too hard on articles, but when an article seems to be accumulating tags without editors making an effort to clean them up, then something has to be done.-gadfium 09:36, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Certainly it was overdue for some attention, especially being top importance to WPNZ, thanks for going to the trouble of point it out. I think the assessment can be somewhat subjective, may differ significantly between editors. XLerate (talk) 03:18, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

HMNZS Te Mana (F111)

On 17 May, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article HMNZS Te Mana (F111), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 07:16, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

could you please do me a favor?

Hello,

I am a master student at the Institute of Technology Management, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. Currently I am wrapping up my master thesis titled “Can Wikipedia be used for knowledge service?” In order to validate the knowledge evolution maps of identified users in Wikipedia, I need your help. I have generated a knowledge evolution map to denote your knowledge activities in Wikipedia according to your inputs including the creation and modification of contents in Wikipedia, and I need you to validate whether the generated knowledge evolution map matches the knowledge that you perceive you own it. Could you please do me a favor?

1. I will send you a URL link to a webpage on which your knowledge evolution map displays. Please assign the topic (concept) in the map to a certain cluster on the map according to the relationship between the topic and clusters in your cognition, or you can assign it to ‘none of above’ if there is no suitable cluster.
2. I will also send a questionnaire to you. The questions are related to my research topic, and I need your viewpoints about these questions.

The deadline of my thesis defense is set by the end of June, 2008. There is no much time left for me to wrap up the thesis. If you can help me, please reply this message. I will send you the URL link of the first part once I receive your response. The completion of my thesis heavily relies much on your generous help.

Sincerely

JnW^talk 07:38, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

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Otago

I note that you have added the regional council infobox back into the Otago article. I am separating the geographical info from the political info. The info box is now repeated in two articles and I feel it is not needed in the Otago article. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 06:45, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thank you! That's cheered me up considerably (especially since at the moment I'm trying to cope with some edits made by an editor who caused me strife in real life a couple of years ago). It's nice to feel appreciated! Grutness...wha? 04:28, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

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The Dead Code

I see you edited the article WOPR with plot details from War Games:The Dead Code. How did you get this information if the movie has not yet been released? If it is not Verifiable by a public source, it should not be added yet. -Verdatum (talk) 16:29, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

There must be some mistake, my edit was to fix a link to the John Wood dab page, using the (1983) movie details from the IMDb entry. XLerate (talk) 00:53, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Ah, I see. Entirely my fault, thanks. -Verdatum (talk) 05:00, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

AA New Zealand

Thanks for your comments about my edit on New Zealand Automobile Association. I tried the link you suggested to 'request changes' but none of the links take me directly to that function. Can you help further? I am keen to ensure that our business information is both correct, informative enough and of course 'in the spirit of wikipedia' :-) AANewZealand (talk) 05:35, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Your Air Pacific pic

Just want to say thanks for the fabulous pic, that really is something. But i just want to ask where were you when you took the pic, looks like a place that is pretty unaccessible to the public unless you work at the airport. Can you help me out? Monster Under Your Bed ^(talk) 11:12, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the link to the spotters wiki, i like you am interested in viewing planes as they touch down or come to land. Cheers! Monster Under Your Bed ^(talk) 02:00, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

DYK?

On 5 August, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Pamela E. Bridgewater, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

What a decorated diplomat! Thanks for making Wikipedia better with your informative articles -- CB (ö) 07:41, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Colin Kay - an interesting article you wrote. Punkmorten (talk) 10:01, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

DoD

I, of course, agree with the result of your changes. But there are only a couple of million of you, 20 million of us, 50(?) million Poms, but at least a couple of Hundred million of them. I expect that one of them will object and change it; I hope I'm wrong.
So I hope that helps you realise that the following is not criticism - just "academic" interest:

• Why did you merge the two pages?
• Did you notice that I had split the page?
• If so, did you give any thought as to why I split the page?
• What do you plan to do if/when one of our (yes, not your,) trans-Pacific bretheren decides that we are yet another minority that don't count?

Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 12:38, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

I looked to the talk pages but missed the history. It doesn't bother me if the U.S. spelling redirects to the British or vice-versa, the related pages such as Ministry of Defence, Defence Minister, categories, all use the British spelling. Two dab pages for the same topic isn't sensible to me, the reader arriving at the dab page is looking for a specific DoD and could well have used their local spelling of defence. Per MOS:DAB the idea of a dab page is to make it as easy and straightforward as possible to locate the specific article, looking through the list for the desired country, not finding it, going to see also, next dab page, then the target isn't as good as having all six entries in the one place. So, sorry, but I feel the split takes a simple dab and makes it unncessarily complicated and confusing. XLerate (talk) 15:54, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

No need to apologise - you make some good points. Although I'm not completely sure, I think I agree with most of what you say. If I have anything useful to add, will do so later. Thanks for the reply. Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 16:03, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Speights

I am pretty sure the april fools joke was around 2003 I'll try to find out.Tshiels1 (talk) 03:53, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

No I was working for a Dunedin company when it was published, and I moved overseas later in 1999. Pretty sure it was 1999 but may have been 1998. Absolutely certain it could not have been later unless it was recycled. ODT archives would have the proof. XLerate (talk) 04:03, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

I have seen your reference It must have been reused I have emailed the ODT for a list.Tshiels1 (talk) 09:07, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

The Dunedin Public Libraries website catalog has a newspaper headlines search if that helps, this is how I found that reference (? vertical search on Dunedin companies / Speights). XLerate (talk) 09:50, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Selmo Cikotić

I want to thank you for creting that page. I was going to create it this weekend, but its all good. QUESTION: what is your interest in him??? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Djamo (talk) 02:09, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, I've been creating articles for a few Defence Ministers, as you can see here. XLerate (talk) 03:06, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Hermogenes Ebdane

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If you can fix this redirect to point to an existing Wikipedia page, please do so and remove the speedy deletion tag. However, please do not remove the speedy deletion tag unless you also fix the redirect. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. WWGB (talk) 09:56, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Hermogenes Ebdane, Jr.

A tag has been placed on Hermogenes Ebdane, Jr., requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a redirect to a nonexistent page.

If you can fix this redirect to point to an existing Wikipedia page, please do so and remove the speedy deletion tag. However, please do not remove the speedy deletion tag unless you also fix the redirect. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. WWGB (talk) 09:56, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

I suggest you create a main page first, then worry about redirect pages. At the moment, it's a mess with numerous pages all going nowhere. So, no, I won't remove the speedy tags for now. Regards, WWGB (talk) 10:04, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

I have now withdrawn the speedy tags and changed the relevant pages to redirects. Next time you create a new article, please don't create wikilinks and redirect pages until the parent article is ready. Thanks, WWGB (talk) 10:11, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Nonesense, have a read of Wikipedia:Red link. If I see a page that needs to be linked to an article I'm creating then it's better to link it right away, rather try to remember or find it later on. XLerate (talk) 10:18, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

"If the redirect is broken, meaning it redirects to an article that does not exist or itself, it can be deleted immediately". WWGB (talk) 10:25, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Maybe, but that doesn't mean I can't create them in the first place, as you request above. And it certainly doesn't apply to the redlinks in articles. Honestly, I don't see what the objective is here. I was trying to create an article, with redirects to variations of the persons name and links on related pages, as I came across them. XLerate (talk) 10:41, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

The half-finished article has been created, so go and remove the tags now. XLerate (talk) 10:10, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Forgotten how to say please and thank you? WWGB (talk) 10:12, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Nope. Please don't tag useful redirect pages a few minutes after I've created them. XLerate (talk) 10:20, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

DYK!

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Thank you for your contributions, and Happy Editing! - Mailer Diablo 19:32, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

DYK

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--Gatoclass (talk) 12:42, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

On 4 September, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Hermogenes E. Ebdane, Jr., which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Another ... Victuallers (talk) 21:49, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Charlotte Glennie

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--BorgQueen (talk) 18:11, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Annette Presley

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--BorgQueen (talk) 10:57, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Diocesan School for Girls

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--BorgQueen (talk) 11:49, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Rollback

Would you like to have rollback? It's an efficient way of reverting vandalism, but should only be used for blatant vandalism and not in a content dispute.-gadfium 06:09, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Done.-gadfium 07:55, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Sas badge.gif)

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Orphaned non-free media (Image:Dunedin Public Libraries logo.svg)

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DYK for Harry Lapwood

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Cirt (talk) 23:21, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Rohitha Bogollagama

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Keep up the good work! ~ User:Ameliorate! ^{(with the !) (talk)} 08:43, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Royal New Zealand Coastguard

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BorgQueen (talk) 05:20, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Howard Broad

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BorgQueen (talk) 14:34, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

DYK for List of New Zealand police officers killed in the line of duty

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Royalbroil 05:17, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

New Zealand police officers killed

Nice work - I'm not normally very big on lists, but this is a very good one. And hopefully (!) not one that will get out of hand. Ingolfson (talk) 09:11, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

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