User talk:PatrickDunfordNZ

Welcome to the Wikipedia[edit]

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Be Bold!

Sam [Spade] 03:22, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Hi Patrick, Good to have your input on things. Keep it up. One Salient Oversight 04:10, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Hello. When you write a new article on religion, could you add it to the list of religious topics? That alerts some interested readers to its existence. Also, if you find one that is not already listed there (a few weeks ago I found that the article titled Easter was not listed there; I was quite surprised). Michael Hardy

Hello Patrick[edit]

We have a few things in common. We both live in Chch, work as computer technicians, contribute to Wikipedia and the newsgroups. However, I am an atheist and you are a Christian. I fix computer monitors. I hope you had a vote in the local body elections. I will not ask if you voted for me! --Alan Liefting 03:55, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Category:Wikipedians in New Zealand[edit]

Hi, You might want to consider adding {{User NZ res}} to the top of your user page, which will add you to this category automatically and also add a nice graphic. Onco_p53 08:42, 14 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Railway articles[edit]

Hi Patrick,

Firstly, I would like to thank you for the excellent New Zealand railway website you maintain, as it has proven invaluable to me. I'm a fellow New Zealand railfan (though unfortunately I'm presently stuck on the wrong side of the Tasman) and in my work to expand Wikipedia's coverage of New Zealand's railway lines and locomotives, your site has nicely complemented my collection of books, especially with regards to recent data.

Secondly, I was wondering if you would like to contribute any of your photographs to illustrate pages about specific locomotive classes, or to provide an image of a train in action on a specific line. You probably know more than I do about some lines too, and you can rest assurred that I would highly value any expansion of the articles I have started. The more on Wikipedia about New Zealand's trains, the better! If you would like to collaborate to more efficiently expand the information, I would certainly be open to that.

Have a good one! - Axver 13:47, 23 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Diesel Traction Group (NZ)[edit]

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Placing of content from "NZ Diesel and Electric Traction" website[edit]

This site closed 6 February 2009. As owner of the site and the content therein I assert my right to insert this content into Wikipedia pages and re-license it under the GFDL. Photographs from the site are displayed at http://picasaweb.google.com/enzedrail . PatrickDunfordNZ (talk) 03:20, 8 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Copyrights[edit]

Hello Patrick, I noticed you placed {{copypaste}} and {{close paraphrase}} tags on several train-related articles. You cited this book which unfortunately I cannot see. It is hard for me to confirm or help clean them up when I can't see the original text. Can you be of assistance in this matter? When you tagged the articles, they were automatically reported at Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2011 April 24. Please feel free to comment there. Thanks.--NortyNort (Holla) 10:36, 3 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

DG class article[edit]

Hi Patrick, can you please tag the parts of the DG article which are speculation? Cheers --LJ Holden 22:04, 30 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

New login page[edit]

What a stupid log in page, case sensitive usernames, what a joke. PatrickDunfordNZ (talk) 01:37, 31 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Decline reason: Duplicate request. 331dot (talk) 11:37, 7 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Request reason:

Caught by an open proxy block but this host or IP is not an open proxy. My IP address is 210.55.200.0/24. This IP address is owned by Network For Learning, a New Zealand government owned company, and is used by a New Zealand state school on their network for educational purposes. Network For Learning does not run open proxies on its network. This proxy server is for use only by the staff and students of that network who have to login to the network to receive authorisation to use it. PatrickDunfordNZ (talk) 11:12, 7 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Accept reason:

I've given you the IP block exemption userright, which should allow you to edit even when the IP address you are on is blocked. If you still cannot edit, please post again on this talk page.-gadfium 21:25, 7 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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