Zurak26

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Ciara Discography

This is a message in response to the changes that you made to Ciara's discography on March 31, 2009. There is no denial that ciara has many fans but your actions in falsifying the charts were not appropriate, appreciated or helpful. Go Girl and "Never Ever" were never released outside of the US therefore your additions to the charts were false. They were considered commercial failures as neither charted higher than number 70. As a caira fan i too am disappointed that the singles didnt perform better but it is HIGHLY inappropriate ande misleading to use wikipedia in this way to falsely project an artist. discussions can take place on a fansite but only facts should appear on wikipedia. please read some wikipedia rules before making further edits in future. WP:albums, [{WP:Crystal]]. (Lil-unique1 (talk) 14:10, 1 April 2009 (UTC))

Adopt offer

Hey, Zurak26! I see that you have expressed an interest in being adopted by a more experienced editor. I would love to adopt you and help you with everything related to Wikipedia. Please, if you accept my offer, reply here. I have added this page to my watchlist, and I see when you reply.  Ilyushka88 Talk to me 14:52, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

Hey Ilyushka88 :) Thanks heaps for adopting me, and helping teach me the ways of Wikipedia! I have done a reasonable amount of editing, but only small edits to pages, so am keen to learn a bit more detailed stuff. The main thing I want to know about right now is about how to upload pictures (especially album covers), and what you have to put for the copyright explanation and stuff. I've read some pages saying what to do, but am still a bit confused? Anyway, thanks for adopting me, and thanks for the help :) Zurak26 (talk) 07:08, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Hey again, Zurak26. First of all, I'm glad that you have accepted my adoption offer. I have created a page to User:Ilyushka88/Adoption/Zurak26 where we can collect our experiences about the adoption. It is best to have everything that has something to do with this adoption on the same page. I'm asking you to answer the four questions there, so I know better where to start. Oh by the way, when you reply to someone who wrote to you, you don't need to create new level 2 header like ==Re: Adopt offer==. WP:TP has great advices about talk pages. When you reply to someone, you can use indentation (WP:TP#Indentation). That makes it easier for people to read the page. Ilyushka ☃^Talk!_Contribs 08:22, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Usage of edit summary and some links to places where to start

Hey again. Thank you for answering the questions :) I notice that you sometimes use edit summary when you edit and that's a good thing. It is not required, but recommended to add edit summaries for all of your edits, no matter how small edits they are. It saves you from alot of trouble. For example: you do some minor changes to an article. Someone might think it is vandalism or adding of false information if they don't know much about the subject, but if you use edit summary to explain why you did the changes to the page, then no-one will accuse you of anything (unfortunately some people revert changes a bit too easily, and do not expect good faith edits from someone). Now about something you might have already seen: As you want to edit articles about new zealand bands, I suggest you to have a look at Category:New Zealand musical groups. Also if you want to find short articles about new zealand musical groups, you should have a look at Category:New Zealand musical group stubs which lists stub articles (short articles) about New Zealand bands. Ilyushka ☃^Talk!_Contribs 08:58, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Newworldson

Is there any way that you can provide a source for the addition you made to Newworldson regaurding the New Zealand album chart positions? You listed a chart position for the band's selftitled third album, but the album isn't scheduled to be released, in America anyway, until February 9th. Thanks for understanding.--Spence The Chef (talk) 14:53, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Hi Spence The Chef. I'm sorry I didn't provide a source for that New Zealand Chart position. This website here backs up the chart positions that I added: http://charts.org.nz/showinterpret.asp?interpret=NewWorldSon and I will add that to the page as well. I noticed that the album wasn't released until February 9th, but it clearly shows that it charted in the New Zealand charts this week. So I am guessing that they must have released their album early here in New Zealand to coincide with them playing at the Parachute Music Festival? I hope that is correct. Sorry for not putting on a source. Thanks :) -- Zurak26 (talk) 06:53, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

Adoption problems

Hey there. I am really sorry to inform you, that, my computer has broken and I can access internet rarely on a public computer, so I cannot be online very often before I get a new PC. I am sorry that I can't continue adopting you as I can't respond to your questions anymore while I do not have access to Wikipedia from my home. I hope you understand. Sorry for this unfortunate thing :( You can point your new adopter to User:Ilyushka88/Adoption/Zurak26 so that he can see what you are interested in. Ilyushka ☃^Talk!_Contribs 18:11, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

Grrr :)

I spend twenty minutes finding out details of when the goals were scored in the Oceania women's world cup qualifying matches, enter it all in...and get an edit conflict with someone else who's jusst done exactly the same thing! Sigh :) Grutness...wha? 08:01, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Oh man I know how that feels... it's so annoying!! Sorry about that :( Took me at least twenty minutes to find out the goals scored as well... hopefully that wont happen again :) Zurak26 (talk) 08:14, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

No worries - it's good to know that someone else out there's ready to put the scores up as soon as they find them :) Grutness...wha? 23:21, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject New Zealand

This is an invitation to WikiProject New Zealand, a WikiProject which aims to develop and expand Wikipedia's articles on New Zealand. Please feel free to join us.

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Request for interview

Hi Zurak26 -

I'm a professor working with the GroupLens project at the University of Minnesota, trying to learn about how the adopt-a-user program functions so that we can hopefully develop tools and ideas that might improve it. Your user page indicates you have been adopted... would you be willing to have a conversation with me so I could ask you a bunch of questions about your interactions with the adopt-a-user program? (I'd be willing to do a phone call, instant messaging, or whatever way you would best prefer to do it.) I'm hoping that as a result of having a few of these conversations with people, I'll better understand how users in general get involved, how the adoptee / adopter pairings work out, and so on. Let me know. Thanks! SeparateWays (talk) 19:39, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

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Thanks!

Hey Zurak26, just wanted to send you a quick thank you for the work you've done on keeping the ASB Premiership page up to date. Much appreciated. =) - J man708 (talk) 12:25, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! :) That's alright. I noticed it was getting behind, so thought I would use a bit of spare time to update it. I don't like seeing pages like that half finished haha. - Zurak26 (talk) 20:04, 2 March 2015 (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)