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Hi Moriori :) I hope you like the place and choose to stay.

Some links that may be of use:

Just a point re Kerikeri; in future, can you add all relevant information to Kerikeri on that page? Have a look at some of the other pages here, we keep the information relatively centralized (I will merge the information into the Kerikeri site; you may want to put a description of what Kerikeri is when I'm done).

Thanks, and keep contributing! :) Dysprosia 02:18, 27 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia.

Your articles prompt these tips: The title word or title phrase should be highlighted at its first appearance, usually in the first sentence, like this. Another user and I have attended to this in two of your articles, including Stone Store (see my editing of that article). If Kerikeri links to an article titled Attractions, that does not justify the conclusion that anyone reading the article Attractions arrived at it by following that link, nor that the reader knows that Kerikeri links to Attractions, nor that the reader has ever heard of Kerikeri. The title Attractions fails to indicate that the article has anything to do with Kerikeri. The reader has no way of knowing that. The title makes it appear to be about attractions generally — perhaps sexual attraction or the Eifel tower or the attraction between subatomic particles with opposite electric charges. Michael Hardy 02:24, 27 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Hi there, I like your article on Keri Keri, good one! ping 08:30, 28 Oct 2003 (UTC)


Hi Dysprosia, Michael and Ping. Your comments are welcome. Actually Michael, there is a sexual attraction in Kerikeri -- my wife -- who was a Hardy before we married!!! Cheers all. Moriori

Hello Moriori! I hope you dont feel unencouraged to stay here! Have fun, make nice contributions, learn how it works and then reapply! This shouldnt be so difficult. Tip: you can sign, like Angela and Menchi in Requests..., with 4 tildes (~). Any question, please post it in my talk page. Cheers, Muriel Gottrop 22:37, 31 Oct 2003 (UTC)

  • No problem! I'm half portuguese do tildes for me are evryday work: i forgot that some languages dont use them. Tildes are these signs ~. Like in the word leão (lion). You must have them somewhere in the keyboard. If you type three, your user name appears like Muriel Gottrop. If you type four, appears like Muriel Gottrop 00:15, 1 Nov 2003 (UTC) Cheers!

Hi, it's probably best to ask me on my talk page as I don't put everything I edit on my watchlist, so I might not see your question if you put it elsewhere. I'm guessing you might mean Stanley Meads where I changed the format to match what Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Biographies recommends. Let me know what the problem is, or whether you meant a different article. Angela 20:26, Nov 1, 2003 (UTC)

No problem, Moriori. I've done the same too in the past. I suspect you have a browser that will not allow you to edit more than 32K. (Internet Explorer, perhaps? That is the usual culprit!) What happens is that when you save a page, it saves no more than 32K and everything over that is wiped. (The way it cut the page in mid-sentence certainly looked like a 32K cut off. I did that on a major article once!) If you are using I. Explorer, my advice is, don't! I've used quite a few browsers and that is one of the worst. It cuts off at 32K, mucks up pictures and captions, and does all sorts of nasty things. If you go to the Safari page you'll find a far better browser, or also Opera or Camino, which I'm using right now. In any case, don't worry about the cut off. Many many people have done it before and will do again. And when it is done, people don't curse the person who did it but the browser, with all fingers usually pointed at Internet Explorer (or one version of it) with the chorus of you again! :-) FearÉIREANN

A very interesting background, M. Its good to have someone with your experience and expertise here. :-) FearÉIREANN 23:17, 4 Nov 2003 (UTC)

de Havilland Vampire pic added as you asked. It's a pity I couldn't find any public domain colour pic on the net so a black and white has to do.
Best Wishes Adrian Pingstone 13:20, 10 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Hey, it's okay. Admirably shows the distinctive twin boom configuration. Many thanks. Moriori 22:59, 10 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I saw your addition to cannon. I also found listings for 23 mm, 25 mm, 37 mm, 40 mm, 45 mm cannon. Any idea why such small guns were called cannon. I mean my blackpowder musket shoots a 19mm ball. Rmhermen 03:09, Nov 11, 2003 (UTC)

Hey Rmherman, I wish I knew. Grant me a little guesstimate. Google results I have seen seem to indicate that all machine guns over .5 inch (50 calibre) were referred to as cannon. Hardly authoritative. I see the US made the Hispano under licence and used it in several US aircraft, the P38 Lightning especially. The M3? Moriori 07:14, 11 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I've replied to your questions on my talk page, if you haven't seen so already (Just checking :) Dysprosia 03:17, 11 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Tks. I am extremely surprised. Moriori 07:14, 11 Nov 2003 (UTC)
What are you surprised about? Dysprosia 02:43, 12 Nov 2003 (UTC)

No problem, pleased to help. just send the pic to .......
arpingstoneREMOVE@yahooREMOVE.coREMOVE.uk
and I'll put it on the article. I have no idea what size e-mail attachment Yahoo will accept but send it as big as you dare, (say, one megabyte max and up to 800 pixels wide) and I'll do the rest. I'll let you know here if I receive it OK (or if I don't!).

I have a penfriend in NZ, her name is Maree Folwell,she lives near Muriwai Beach just to the west of Auckland. I guess you're not too far from there?
Adrian Pingstone 23:18, 12 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Firstly I must apologise for the length of time it has taken to reply to the message you left me, I had intended to reply earlier. When I initially saw the changes that you made to Mount Cook and Aoraki/Mount Cook, I thought that you were up to mischief. By just cut and pasting the article under a new name you lose all the history of the original article. The correct way to rename an article is to use the 'Move this page' option on the left of the page (seeWikipedia:How to rename (move) a page). I now realise that you had good intentions.

Apologies for not using ‘Move this page’.

Also my initial investigations suggested the official name of the mountain was Mount Cook. Although I now realise my sources were out of date and Aoraki/Mount Cook is currectly the official name. However there is a Wikipedia policy about the naming of articles that the most commonly used name is used rather than the official name. It could be argued that Mount Cook is more commonly used than Aoraki/Mount Cook. However it is not a big issue to me, I am happy with either, as long as a redirect for the other name exists.

I hear what you are saying, but we must all move on, and Wiki must be accurate. Do a Wiki search for Calcutta and you rightly go to a page titled Kolkata. Search for Burma and you go to Myanmar.

However, if Aoraki/Mount Cook is to be name of the article then what is currently there should be deleted and Mount Cook should be moved there so as to preserve the history. Popsracer 10:23, 13 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Thank you for your comments. I would like to revert to the Aoraki/Mount Cook page, and add a section explaining the name change which has great cultural significance for Ngai Tahu. . Cheers. Moriori 21:22, 13 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Popsracer, I have to go out for a little while and will reply when I get back. Cheers. Moriori 19:59, 13 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I've put the Pania pic on the article, hope you like it. I tried a "Larger Version" at 500 pixels wide but it looked too pixellated. So I did just the one at 250 pixels wide (my normal value for a portrait format pic).
Best Wishes,Adrian Pingstone 10:32, 13 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I forgot to ask you to click on the pic and let me know if you want what I wrote changed in any way. Is the pic your own?
Adrian Pingstone 10:35, 13 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Many thanks Adrian. The caption is fine. The photo was especially taken for me by a kind lady at the Napier council office who dashed out with her digicam, and there is no copyright involved. Today when I tried to go to the page I could not access it. I searched for Pania and Pania of the Reef but, no, nothing. I eventually got there through the link on the Napier page. Has it somehow developed a bug? Moriori 19:56, 13 Nov 2003 (UTC)
I think I know why you couldn't access Pania. For some weeks now the proper Wiki Search has been disabled and a Google search substituted. This should work OK but I believe that (for reasons I don't understand) Google actually searches an old cached copy which was stored by Google before Pania was created.
Is this what you did ........?
- you went to any article
- you typed Pania into that article's search box
- you clicked on SEARCH.
- Google Search came up
- you clicked GOOGLE SEARCH and it said "Pania is not found"
but if you had clicked on GO in the Wiki search box you would have gone straight to Pania. Why? Because the GO search is working normally (GO means that only the article titles are searched). Very useful to avoid the rather useless Google search if you know the exact article title. I hope this helps!
Adrian Pingstone 20:52, 13 Nov 2003 (UTC)
I guess I'm a real pain. I can't explain why I clicked search instead of go, but yep, mea culpa. Cheers Moriori 21:22, 13 Nov 2003 (UTC)

No clue - please feel free to change it!ThetestingofLSDbytheUSarmy 03:21, 14 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Subic Bay

Hi Moriori-- I think someone else has now edited Subic Bay since I was last in it. The sentence you point to is certainly a tangle and needs a rewrite, but the best way to do it would be to add more content and I don't really know much about it - I was just providing a stub because Subic was on the Most Wanted list (and I thought it was somewhere else which I did know about).

There must be some US ex-navy or ex-marine type who will do a good job on this one in due course. seglea 08:19, 15 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I know already

Yeah I know, I mucked up an edit of the LDS page. Don't know what happened except that when i pressed Save Page it gave a quick flash, so quick that I'm not sure whether the Conflict message tried to display, or whether it was imagination. Don't know how to fix it, so can some kind person please oblige. Moriori 20:56, Nov 18, 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for the corrections/enhancements on Egmont National Park. snoyes 21:45, 23 Nov 2003 (UTC)

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