User talk:Popsracer

Eugene Platon[edit]

Dear Richard,

Could you help with [1] article ref your article the Volvo Ocean Race? Thanks for your cooperation. Regards.

PS. I was going to contribute to WK with other articles regarding sailing, yacht racing etc. But it seems VERY difficult to do that. Plus WK seems to be not interested in personalities.

Platon 17:10, 24 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cape Reinga[edit]

Nice picture, but the image page says
"Copyright Richard Gallagher. Photo taken 31 May 2004."
I realize NZ is several time zones ahead of most of the world, but...
--wwoods 07:53, 10 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Ratu Mara, Rhodes Scholar?[edit]

Here is a source : XTRAMSN News Admittedly, there are inaccuracies in the story. I know their claim that Mara was the first Fijian Oxford graduate to be incorrect: Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna was. I realize that if one part of their information is wrong, something else may be too. But yes, this is a source. I have posted the same info. on the article's talk page. Please reply either there or on my own talk page.David Cannon 12:57, 19 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Maori[edit]

Greetings, fellow-Kiwi. If you ever feel like a break from your splendid work on towers, beaches, and famous people, please have a look at the fledgling Maori Wikipedia - it may inspire something, even if only the desire to publicise it! Kind regards - Robin Patterson 01:24, 11 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

NPC[edit]

Hiya! I see you corrected the heading of the "Past NPC Winners" table in National Provincial Championship from "Winner" to "Winner Division 1" - so I was wondering, you wouldn't by chance be able to find a table of previous lower divisions winners, would you?

Obviously the lower divisions have been rearranged several times since 1976.. (I intend to add a history section to the article soon).. but anything you've got would be welcome! —Stormie 04:23, Jun 23, 2004 (UTC)

Wow, you are a champ!!! Congrats for tracking down those 2nd and 3rd division winners! One thing.. my History section was basically all paraphrased from the nzrugby.com history of the NPC ([2]) which I'm not 100% trusting of, since there were a few gaps and contradictions in there. But they say "(in 1985) a third division was introduced, split between islands in the same way", and then "The next year saw the third division united" (they never mention when the 2nd division was united). But the results you found have a split division 2 up to 1984, and then a single winner for each of div 2 and 3 from 1985 onwards. If you've got the solid goods on how exactly it worked, can you fix my History section? Cheers!! :-) —Stormie 23:38, Jun 23, 2004 (UTC)

Lloyd Trigg[edit]

Hello Richard. I see you moved Lloyd Alan Trigg to Lloyd Allan Trigg. Is there a site somewhere which gives an authoritative spelling of his second name? Incidentally, see [3] where his name is given as Allen. Cheers. Moriori 20:35, Jul 5, 2004 (UTC)

Hi again Richard. Your response on my talk page is good enough for me. Allan, it is. Cheers. Moriori 23:11, Jul 7, 2004 (UTC)

Sorry[edit]

So sorry Richard (and New Zealand Wikipedians) for doing something that was not right. I did not see the link for "Notable New Zealanders" till now. Thank you for you time and consideration and cleaning it up. Our Hawaii Article has one on the front page of the article and then also a link. Hawaian Wikipedian Newbie.

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I've just justified my sysop status[edit]

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Netball&diff=0&oldid=5450019

Man (thankfully changing the subject), you have a VERY impressive list of WIP there! Best... Robin Patterson 06:14, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)

commons[edit]

On commons.wikipedia.org the common repository for pictures has started and instead of copy all image to all languages, we can store them in one place. I have recently relocated to London and I'm therefore keen on translate London articles to German. I would like to use your photos eg Canary Wharf in the German wikipedia. Can I motivate you to transfer your photos into the commons repository? Otherwise I will do it. For sure you can describe and categories them better than I could. Mikegr 23:30, 29 Nov 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 1000 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:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

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)

Image:Surfing manu bay 400px.jpg[edit]

Hi! Thanks for uploading Image:Surfing manu bay 400px.jpg. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much, – Quadell ^{(talk) (help)}[[]] 20:05, Dec 13, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for taking care of that! How about Image:Huntly power station.jpg? – Quadell ^{(talk) (sleuth)} 03:08, Mar 3, 2005 (UTC)

HKWNB, HKCOTW, Current events[edit]

Hi. Thanks for your contributions to some Hong Kong-related articles. You might be interested to take a look at HK wikipedians' notice board, HK Collaboration of the Week and Current events in Hong Kong and Macao. Happy editing! — Insta ntnood 20:22, May 14, 2005 (UTC)

Visual Basic Classic Wikibook[edit]

I see you have contributed to the Visual Basic article on Wikipedia. Any chance you would like to join in editing the wikibook: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Visual_Basic_Classic? --Kjwhitefoot 09:51, 30 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Night canary wharf london.jpg[edit]

Hi there, if you still have a high resolution version of Image:Night canary wharf london.jpg then it would be great if you could upload it. I would nominate it to be a featured picture.

Ta, Andy. 17:51, 29 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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 07:43, 14 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

New Zealand portal[edit]

A photo you contributed to Wikipedia, Image:Russell, New Zealand.jpg, is currently the selected picture on the New Zealand portal. You're welcome to nominate other pictures of New Zealand at Portal_talk:New_Zealand#Selected_picture suggestions, or to view the archive of selected pictures at the picture archive.-gadfium 07:47, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome![edit]

Welcome!

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask another fellow member, and we'll be happy to help you. Again, welcome! We look forward to seeing you around! Shy1520 10:26, 22 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Chatham islands from space 280px.jpg listed for deletion[edit]

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NowCommons: File:Brighton west pier.jpg[edit]

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Image tagging for File:Goughwhitlam.png[edit]

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Waikato[edit]

Hi. A long time ago you contributed to Waikato (region/district). Now there is a proposal to move the article, and some questions about its scope. Please see Talk:Waikato (region/district). --Una Smith (talk) 03:15, 7 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Unreferenced BLPs[edit]

Hello Popsracer! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 2 of the articles that you created are tagged as Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. Please note that all biographies of living persons must be sourced. If you were to add reliable, secondary sources to these articles, it would greatly help us with the current 942 article backlog. Once the articles are adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the list:

Windsor Davies - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
Sonia Waddell - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 20:33, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Requesting your opinion[edit]

Hi. I've started a discussion here. (Actually, it's a restart of a prior discussion that went cold; you can just scroll directly down to the first post I made today in that section if you want.) Can you offer your thoughts? I think it's very important. Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 01:50, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open![edit]

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Nomination of BOP (computing) for deletion[edit]

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article BOP (computing) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. AZ1199 (talk) 04:52, 3 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]