User talk:Ahkitj

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Hi Ahkitj, welcome to Wikipedia! It's good to see another kiwi round the place - us Southern Hemisphere types have to stick together. Be warned, it is highly addictive. There are lots of resources around by way of help and guideline pages, but it can take a while before you find the one you want. Wikipedia:Naming conventions and Wikipedia:Manual of Style are handy, then there is Wikipedia:Help and you can always ask at the Village pump. Don't be afraid of making the odd mistake, there are any number of others eagerly waiting for a chance to correct it! Need to know anything, just ask.

Cheers - Tannin 08:28 Feb 12, 2003 (UTC)

Here's this you might be interested in: Solomon Islands WiFi. Koyaanis Qatsi 23:17, 4 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Hi Jonathan-- Thanks for your note. Nice to hear from someone in New Zealand.Jose Ramos 09:37, 19 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Hey-- Thanks for your comment re East Timor. I perhaps could explain my reasons a little better: (1) The section in question was a short blurb (there is a separate, extensive Economy of East Timor article) and therefore should give only a brief summary of economics, not weird political commentary. (2) The "puppet state" claim I find absurd with respect to Texas, but at any rate it's certainly a POV. (3) If someone wanted to offer this claim (danger of being a puppet state, which I also find silly), it would require a lengthy discussion, which (by (1)) would be inappropriate here. Also, the proposed conspiracy theory is also out of place, also by dint of (1). VeryVerily 04:58, 5 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Niue[edit]

Thanks for your work on articles relating to Niue! I have a special interest in the island and its language. --pne 14:11, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Maori[edit]

Greetings, JAK, fellow-Kiwi. I see we should integrate or better relate "my" Maori Television (the broadcaster) page with "your" Maori Television Service (originally the Govt entity) page. One day... Anyway, the reason I've been doing less for the English WP in the last 5 weeks is here: the fledgling Maori Wikipedia. I would be pleased if you had a look; it may inspire something! Kind regards - Robin Patterson 01:05, 11 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Territorial Authorities[edit]

Hi Johnathan, I see you've been adding the Territorial Authorities template to a number of articles on NZ regions and towns. I'm not that sure how appropriate that is, because surely that template should link to articles about the Authority (i.e. the council) in question, not about the region. For example, on the template I would say that the region link for Canterbury should link to Environment Canterbury (currently non-existent) not to Canterbury, New Zealand, and that the latter article should carry the template while the former should not.

dramatic 11:09, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Suburbia[edit]

Hi, sorry to be answering so late but I've just returned from a one-week off-line holiday. And unfortunately I have no idea where I got that image from. It happened in the old days before you were explicitly asked to provide information on the source, the copyright status etc. All the best to you, <KF> 21:40, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Hi[edit]

Hey Jonny (or is it Johnny?), just found you on the list of Kiwi Wikipedians. How's it going? gracefool 01:29, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)

P.S. I'm Chris Wood of HVHS! ··gracefool |☺ 04:34, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing[edit]

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
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To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

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Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

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]

Assuming good faith[edit]

Hi. I notice your edit summary for this edit, which seems to me to be rather sarcastic. Please assume good faith with respect to other's contributions: I saw an article which said "Pompallier Catholic College is a college located in the suburb of Maunu in Whangarei, New Zealand", with a request for that to be categorized. I don't think that putting it into Universities and colleges in New Zealand is entirely unreasonable. As you obviously know it's a school, can I ask why you didn't put it into Schools in New Zealand?

Hi. No intention to be sarcastic. I wasn't aware of that category, sorry. Had I known of it offhand, I would have moved it to that category.

I am of the impression that 'colleges' in 'universities and colleges' tends to refer to postsecondary colleges and similar tertiary institutions, and as virtually no secondary school I know in New Zealand still has a tertiary-level college attached (for example, the vocational college that was part of Wellington High School, which later became Wellington Polytechnic and is now the Wellington campus of Massey University), so I draw the distinction on that basis.

Please, I don't need a flame war, but I do appreciate some more constructive feedback if you'd like to provide it. I'm happy for you to restore my deletes if you still disagree. Cheers! --Jonathan Ah Kit 11:56, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Proposed deletion of MSN (New Zealand)[edit]

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no content; "merge" with msn

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Notification: changes to "Mark my edits as minor by default" preference[edit]

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Category:Territorial Authorities of New Zealand[edit]

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Victoria University of Wellington Faculty of Education moved to draftspace[edit]

An article you recently created, Victoria University of Wellington Faculty of Education, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please follow the prompts on the Articles for Creation template atop the page. Steve Quinn (talk) 03:16, 13 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Victoria University of Wellington Faculty of Education[edit]

A tag has been placed on Draft:Victoria University of Wellington Faculty of Education requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

This page already exists as a redirect [1]. I originally tagged that page for speedy but that was changed to a redirect. Probably the best option.

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Victoria University of Wellington Faculty of Education moved to draftspace[edit]

An article you recently created, Victoria University of Wellington Faculty of Education, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please follow the prompts on the Articles for Creation template atop the page. Steve Quinn (talk) 23:18, 17 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Faculty of Education of Victoria University of Wellington for deletion[edit]

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Faculty of Education of Victoria University of Wellington is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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Proposed deletion of New Zealand College of Education[edit]

The article New Zealand College of Education has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Apparently fake of hoax educational institution. Not accredited, not in companies register, no independent sources. See also discussion at /Wikipedia:New_Zealand_Wikipedians'_notice_board#New_Zealand_College_of_Education and the article talk page.

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Nomination of New Zealand College of Education for deletion[edit]

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Invitation to an in-person meetup in Mohua / Golden Bay[edit]

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. Schwede 66 09:14, 13 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]