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Reference errors on 4 July

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Peter Simpson

You cleaned up Peter Simpson (writer) after vandalism but I wonder whether they live in Pickles and have 45 children! From the persondata he was born in Takaka in 1942 not Hiroshima in 1925 and has a PhD from Toronto not Japan. Hugo999 (talk) 01:52, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

I haven't attended to vandalism on this page before, but have now. Schwede66 01:57, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

Re: House Hunt

Re your message: When I deleted the talk page, the article did not exist as of yet. As I noted to Whakaoriori, I deleted several Talk pages that they had tagged for WPNZ, but there was no corresponding article. They only created the one for House Hunt, though interestingly, it was a different editor who tagged it was WPNZ. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 04:59, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. Creating talk pages before an article exists - what a bizarre way of editing. Schwede66 20:31, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

Drive-by tagging

Please don't tag articles for issues which can be fixed with no more effort than it takes to tag them. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:14, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, Andy, for your thoughts on "drive-by tagging" as you call it in your edit summary. I do a lot of article assessment for WikiProject New Zealand and try and keep an eye on new New Zealand articles, which is sometimes a bit of a struggle. And in between, I try and write some articles from scratch. I do a lot of drive-by tagging as part of the assessments, and mostly tag for linkrot. With Twinkle, it takes about 5 seconds to tag, and I do not know as quick a method to fix linkrot; please enlighten me if you are aware of it. There are a few editors around who keep on top of the resulting category, and in my experience, linkrot tags are usually attended to within a couple of days. Those editors use scripts to fix the issue, and I presume that is reasonably easy to do. To that end, I do not see what the issue is with drive-by tagging. I do take issue with you twice reverting a linkrot tag that I placed on Robert Falla Memorial Award: here and here. If it would really take you just 5 seconds to fix the issue, why don't you? I see it's still with a bare URL, and you continually removing the tag but not being willing to fix it yourself denies those editors who do look after linkrot the chance to attend to it. You may have an issue with article tagging and I suggest you consider what that is, so that you can do some self-awareness work. I respectfully suggest that your actions demonstrated here are not becoming of a good Wikipedia editor. I've come across you many a time before and this isn't your usual conduct. Schwede66 19:32, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

Removal of weasel words from Colony_of_New_Zealand article

Hi, I am not trying to change history, I am trying to remove what I saw as weasel words from Colony_of_New_Zealand but you have reverted the change. Can you please discuss this on [[1]]. Thanks 101.98.248.252 (talk) 09:55, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

FYI

See User talk:Bbb23#Whakaoriori -- PBS (talk) 09:58, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. Good to know the background. Schwede66 18:47, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

I had hoped the editor would improve but it is clear that he was using "bad hand" accounts as well as this one, so I think we should not tolerate any future editing from him.-gadfium 22:29, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

Village Settlements

Thanks for your contributions to William Dening Glyde; much appreciated. Can you find any reference to the New Zealand equivalents to the socialistic scheme mentioned in Village Settlements (South Australia), an exercise in Depression mitigation that, in South Australia anyway, had rather mixed outcomes. Doug butler (talk) 07:56, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

Glyde - that was fun. He was quite well connected. Re Village Settlements Act, that can really only refer to the initiative by the Liberal Government of New Zealand of breaking up all the large land holdings. This ended up as small farms, and some settlements came out of it; the biggest one that I'm aware of is Cheviot. Large property owners affected by this were Ready Money Robinson and Allan McLean, the latter of whom had McLean's Mansion built from the money given to him by the government for his land. The story how the architect got engaged to design McLean's Mansion is fascinating; have a look on page 5 (chapter 'Plans for a new home') of this document. Does this help? Ping me if you write something about it. Some sources: [2] and [3]. Schwede66 10:55, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of West Coast Wilderness Trail

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Not notable cycle trial. No independent refs.

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@Stuartyeates: That would appear to be a slight misjudgement on your part; that trail is as notable as it gets. Even if you haven't heard about it and before it had independent sources, but a quick check on Google would have readily shown you. Schwede66 01:02, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

@Schwede66: Thanks, looks much better now. When I'm doing new page patrol, I don't google, just look at the article and tag, that's why it's PROD's not AfD's. Stuartyeates (talk) 02:43, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

Reference errors on 21 September

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New Article Patrolled

Hi Schwede, newish wiki user here. Hoping that I've now edited article correctly that I created (can you check please?), as there were some highlighted points flagged by yourself. Hopefully I've got it right this time - your feedback is much appreciated. --S-birkman (talk) 01:49, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

@S-birkman: Much better. What you now need to do is find some categories that the article belongs to. Look for similar articles (Australian company; deals with money) and see what categories that article has. Once done, feel free to remove the non-categorised tag yourself. No trouble if you get it wrong; somebody else will come along and tidy it up. Any questions, please ask. Schwede66 05:17, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

@Schwede66: Many thanks hey, really appreciate the guidance. --S-birkman (talk) 05:27, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

Putting photos on Agnes Busby and Commons

Hi Schwede, many thanks for tidying up Agnes' page with the photo in the infobox and a Commons category - I'm so pleased with how she's looking given we had nothing on her here previously! Dealing with images was the next thing on my "to-learn" list, so thanks for going ahead and doing that. I'll try and follow what you've done and figure out how to do that myself (I did add a photo from Commons to that page myself, but only by copying someone else's photo I found in Commons!) MurielMary (talk) 03:05, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

Category for "People educated at St Margaret's College"

Kia ora Schwede, last night I was looking at how to add a new category (as above) for Peri Drysdale and Ngaio Marsh, and I'm sure there are other notable ex-pupils. I couldn't figure out how to do this - is there a help page on starting new categories? Cheers! MurielMary (talk) 02:28, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

@MurielMary: Well, it's not that tricky. Here's how to do it:

• Pick the category name wisely. Look at other categories that are similar and figure out what the naming convention is. You've done fine in this case.
• Add the category name to one of the articles that should belong to the category via HotCat. This will create a redlinked category.
• Click on that redlink.
• Add the various parent categories to that new category; take guidance from those similar categories that you've already consulted for figuring out the naming convention. Save that page and you are done. Now add all the other pages to that category.

Easy enough? I've done this category so that I don't forget to write down any of the steps. Schwede66 02:42, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

That's great, many thanks indeed! I must admit also that I am confused by the issue of the dashes that you are noticing when tidying up some of my pages. Could you tell me which of the following are correct: (1) 1888-1889 (2) 1888 - 1889 You mention using an "endash" but I don't know what that is?? MurielMary (talk) 04:17, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

An m-dash is a dash that is the width of an 'm', as opposed to an 'n'. The easiest way to create one is to cut and paste from Dash#Em_dash or some other well-cared-for article. Stuartyeates (talk) 04:20, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

What to use when and how is explained at MOS:DASH. Hence, neither of your examples are right, as you are using a hyphen. Replace that with an endash, and your first example is correct: 1888–1889 Schwede66 17:52, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

You can also create an endash or emdash by clicking on "Special characters" above the edit window, then on "Symbols" on the left side of the pane that drops down, and both dashes are in the third row of characters.-gadfium 22:51, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

Bertie Tuckwell

Thanks for adding to the stub I started - always good to see expansion work beginning. Lugnuts ^{Dick Laurent is dead} 08:28, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

How hilarious. There's me pinging you for further attention, and you started this article. I never looked at its history. Schwede66 17:23, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

William Henry Colbeck

I was surprised that your request at Talk:British Newspaper Archive#Library access had not been answered for almost a year. Particularly since you gave such precise and accurate directions. The words you sought are:

On Thursday week ....
Same day, at Halifax, Mr Wm. Henry Colbeck, manufacturer, Batley, to Martha, daughter of Mr. John Cordingley, Boothtown, near the former place.

If you need the rest of that page, give me an email address (the wp email form does not accommodate attachments) Lugnad (talk) 01:40, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

Awesome. Thanks! Schwede66 09:13, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

Why are you deleting Ron Carter?

There's an author like that. Böri (talk) 08:28, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

I gave a detailed reason in the edit summary. Schwede66 08:54, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

If someone finds anything about Ron Carter (the author of "The Coming of Civilization"), they can edit the article. Böri (talk) 10:14, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

The article needs to be written first before an entry can be added to a dab page. You have been around as an editor for long enough to know that Wikipedia's rules are what they are. I see on your talk page that back in 2012, you once got into strife over wanting to add something to a dab page where an article did not exist. Why are you trying to do so again? Schwede66 18:56, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

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Reference errors on 27 November

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The bot is correct. On the template page, the reference is now broken. The important thing, though, that it works on the two pages where the template gets transcluded. Schwede66 07:34, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

Proposed primary topic for Southern Alps: New Zealand

I have proposed that Southern Alps (New Zealand) is the primary topic for Southern Alps. For the proposed move, please see Talk:Southern Alps (New Zealand)#Requested_move_29_November_2015. You're welcome to join in the discussion. —hike395 (talk) 20:54, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

Category:Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park

See my edit here. Or should the article name be changed to add the spaces? Either is OK with me. Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 03:56, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

Referencing book?

Hello Schwede, I don't know if this is the right place to ask or not? But is referencing a school Yearbook or Magazine suitable? Cheers. Sirpottingmix (talk) 03:36, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

I'd say it depends, as it hasn't got editorial independence. You wouldn't be able to use it as a source for the principal extolling on the virtues of the academic performance of the school. But to reference that a particular person was a pupil of a school, that should be ok. Schwede66 05:50, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

Draft:Association for the Promotion of Electric Vehicles

Thanks for the reminder. I have moved the article to my sandbox - please feel free to speedy delete the draft. NealeFamily (talk) 07:35, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

Maureen Pugh

I've been watching what I believe is censorship being exerted; is there a way of resolving this? I do not believe editors from the USA should be interfering in NZ content. Ianguy (talk) 09:43, 28 December 2015 (UTC)