User talk:Adabow/Archive 3

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Proposed deletion of First Dane Rumble album


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Unsigned template
Hi Adabow, I noticed that you used the unsigned template at Talk:Tasman Sea to sign comments. This is a good idea, but you used it incorrectly. See the documentation for the template: it must be substed, it must be in UTC, which is 13 hours behind New Zealand Daylight Time and 12 hours behind New Zealand Standard Time, and it must be in the format of dates, rather than the American date format that you previously used. See my edit at Talk:Tasman Sea. Graham 87 06:39, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

Trading card game
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Ridin' Solo
I am not deleting the page, I am simply redirecting it. While WP:NSONG does state that appearing on a chart should give a song notability, it also states: "Notability aside, a separate article on a song is only appropriate when there is enough verifiable material to warrant a reasonably detailed article; articles unlikely ever to grow beyond stubs should be merged to articles about an artist or album." While it's too early to know for sure if it will ever grow beyond a stub; it hasn't been announced as a single, and thus it currently is only notable for appearing on a few charts. This information can be covered in the main album article. If something does occur to make it notable, such as a music video, as you said, a restoration would be fine. However, cover art does not make a song notable. – Chase  ( talk ) 20:08, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

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If We Ever Meet Again
I'm not sure where it is but I've Posted here on an admin's page requesting that he direct you to it. Jayy008 (talk) 19:11, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Rude Boy
Yes duh!!! "Rude Boy" is a R&B song. Just trying to keep the genres simple without unnecessary add-ons. Charmed36 (talk) 22:05, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

NZ govt project
Hello Adabow, given that you have an interest in political articles, I thought I'd let you know that I'm trying to give a bit more structure to WikiProject New Zealand/governments. Maybe you could help? See also the related contribution on Template talk:WikiProject New Zealand. Would be great if you could lend a hand.  Schwede 66  03:39, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Robert Lawson (architect)
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FFD
Thanks for helping with the Fat Freddy's Drop GAN. Were you planning on fixing the citation placements? If not I was going to get that sometime this week. &mdash;Sebquantic (talk) 19:58, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
 * No, I am not to familiar with the subject, so I'll leave that to you. Adabow  ( talk )  20:42, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Anika Moa
I apologize. I was just being WP:BOLD in my interpretation of WP:OC in regards to the Anika Moa categories, not due to any redundancy. Since you disagree with my interpretation, I will take it to CFD for discussion among other knowledgable wikipedians. Thanks for letting me know. --Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars (talk) 09:16, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Bishop Julius Hall
You've added a BLP template to Bishop Julius Hall. Do you want to take another look? It's a hall of residence at Canty Uni, and I've recently prodded it.  Schwede 66  08:19, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Avon
I'm just doing some work on Avon and so are you! I thought I was drunk (without having drunk anything), as stuff was turning up that I had only just researched, but not entered yet. How bizarre is that? Are you doing more editing? I'm asking because I've got the info for the missing years in the table sorted.  Schwede 66  09:35, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

DYK thanks
Hi Adabow, thanks for your help with the four brother in law MPs. The DYK is currently in the queue and it will go onto the homepage tomorrow at 6 pm.  Schwede 66  09:53, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Robert Lawson (architect)
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Long list but I saw something that needed comment
Happy Birthday! Lambanog (talk) 11:19, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

Love in Motion
I've used both methods, in this case I'd go for a separate ref per song.shaidar cuebiyar (talk) 21:21, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

By-elections
Hello Adabow, you have got a good handle on by-elections. I've just finished another article where there's good material for a by-election page if you are interested: Edward Wingfield Humphreys Keep up the good work!  Schwede 66  10:32, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

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Talk:Grant Park Music Festival/GA1
I have attempted to addressed all of the issues except "a section on public reception or popularity", which may take me a while to assemble. Can you strike resolved issues so I can understand how the review is progressing.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 00:28, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I have not found much critical reception. I could add a lot of stuff from the local newspapers, which say that you can't miss this, but I don't think that is really important.  Will keep my eye out for more.  One other option is to discuss individual show reviews rather than thoughts about the series.  However, I don't really think this is what should be in this article.  One source that I see is The Grant Park Music Festival review log.  However, this log may be edited.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 19:40, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I have to put a call in on Monday. I had expected a replacement image by now from a contact at the publicist.  P.S. look at that file page. It is an official OTRS permission.  We have permission to use the image although we do not have the author info.  I.E., the publicist gave us consent to use one of their photos without detailing who the photographer was.  I would recommend passing it and putting a note on the WP:PR, which is open at Peer review/Grant Park Music Festival/archive1‎.  I believe an image without author info still passes WP:WIAGA 6(a).--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 00:53, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

re: Music samples
Hey. I do tons of work with audio files. I got started by looking at WP:SAMPLE. I use two apps. One for manipulating the file and the other for converting to WAV format and back to Ogg. I use Nero Wave Editor for the actual manipulation and just use Audacity for converting and reducing.

Audacity doesn't use a scale of bit rates that you can choose from. Instead, they use a scale (0 - 10). Wikipedia recommends a setting of 0 and that comes out to about 64Kbits per second. It's at Edit | Preferences then the File Formats tab. Dawnseeker2000  14:51, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

Ladyhawke discography peer review
Hi, I made a (minor!) comment at Peer review/Ladyhawke discography/archive1. -- Beloved Freak  10:24, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Talk:Ashton Court Festival/GA1
Hi, thanks for the review, I think that all of your concerns have been addressed. BTW, it is customary to notify nominators of reviews, holds, etc. There are templates such as for help in this. –– Jezhotwells (talk) 12:28, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the pass. –– Jezhotwells (talk) 22:34, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Assessment
Another editor is giving me a bit of a hard time on one of my recently published articles. Amongst other things, he's talking about it being "barely past stub". To bring as much objectivity into this as possible, and given that you sometimes assess articles, would you mind having a look at Richard Molesworth Taylor and give it your assessment? And the editor has removed about 700 kb of content, which might be interesting to know as well.  Schwede 66  05:16, 10 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Ta muchly.  Schwede 66  07:16, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Invitation
Dear Adabow, I'd like to invite you to join me in an ambitious project - please refer to the project talk page for further info.  Schwede 66  09:06, 18 May 2010 (UTC)


 * I will try to help you - the idea of breaking the DYK record sounds interesting. You will probably have to set me up with a few web pages first, as I don't have much access to other resources in Hamilton. Adabow  ( talk )  09:47, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

politics task force
Hello Adabow, I see you are working on a template for the music taskforce. Could you please have a look at my draft politics task force template and let me know whether I've got that right? Cheers!  Schwede 66  06:08, 19 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Looks great. Make sure you create the category, add sub-categorise in Category:WikiProject New Zealand members. Adabow  ( talk )  06:11, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

DYK nomination of 2010 Tri Nations Series
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 * Oh, do you now get into DYK? It pays to have a read of the rules and the additional rules, as it's a bit of a minefield.  Schwede 66  23:38, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

Beds Are Burning
You beat me too it! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Timeoin (talk • contribs) 10:22, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

2005 New Zealand election funding controversy
Hi there. Saw this nominated at GAN and thought I would drop in with some feedback, rather than doing the full review. I think it would get close to quick-failed at present. Main issues: ...and those issues were identified before i actually read the text itself. I'm afraid it really needs a major overhaul. Hope this is of some use. Cheers, hamiltonstone (talk) 02:11, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
 * lead is not a summary of the article. It contains some info that should be the introductory background of the body text, but then doesn't summarise the rest of the article at all.
 * the article structure is all wrong. Look at the headings - they aren't clearly a chronology, but they aren't clearly themed either. Some sections are long, then others have only a couple of sentences
 * the article has some clean-up templates
 * lots of the references lack source info (eg note 46 is NZ Herald i think) and publication date of news stories
 * it looks like the article is out of date in terns of any post-2006 developments

Re: Talk:Forgive Me (Leona Lewis song)/GA1
Any time! Take care,  Gongshow  Talk 07:08, 29 May 2010 (UTC)


 * I corrected all the issues (maybe some still wrong, like BrE and ArE differences.) Tb hotch Ta lk C.  23:54, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

New articles processing
Hi, I've updated User talk:AlexNewArtBot/NZSearchResult, which you may be interested in. dramatic (talk) 08:25, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

Following up on this, if you process everything in the top section, the bot tends to delete some parts of the page and put new material in the bottom section. So I'm afraid you just need to be patient (i.e. wait until there are the first June 3 listings there before you can do June 2. dramatic (talk) 20:56, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Garry Mallett
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SubRip
Thanks for the Start class designation. Luckily the software and format are being discussed in scholarly publications. Question: since it's now released as open source under the GPL, does this belong in WikiProject Software/Free Software? --Lexein (talk) 08:19, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

I'm not active in the Computing WikiProject/s, I just read some of the article and saw that it was unassessed, and assessed it. Adabow ( talk )  05:07, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

File:Fat Freddys Drop - Wandering Eye Sample.ogg
I've restored the file. Please note that you'll have to update the rationale. Nyttend (talk) 12:40, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Rob Hamill
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NNZ
Go for it! Just pondering notability for Naomi Ballantyne. dramatic (talk) 21:07, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

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DYK nomination of 2010 New Zealand rugby league season
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DYK for Fairfield Bridge
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DYK for 2010 New Zealand rugby league season
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Templates and NZ bird collabs
Yo man - I just saw the work you have been doing on The Naked and Famous which I recently created - it's good stuff! I was only a teenager (18) when I got my first whiff of "wiki-crack" too - been here for coming on 5 years now! I really like that template you quickly whipped up for the band. I am really keen on doing a whole bunch of templates for articles on NZ plants and animal but I really have no idea how to make them.. but I want to learn, to allow me to contribute more in my field of expertise. How does one go about creating one and how do you/where can you learn what code to write to produce the desired result?

Oh and btw, a small group of us - me, Casliber and Kahuroa are getting ready to do some collab.s with the intention of pushing Kiwi towards GA and Huia from GA to FA. many hands make light work, as they say and you seem to be a highly skilled contributor - interested in joining? Cheers,Kotare (talk) 07:44, 25 June 2010 (UTC)


 * I didn't create The Naked and Famous templates&mdash;Jaydend did&mdash;but I can point you in the right direction: see for the template to create your navbox template (for musicians a special  has been created).


 * On the subject of NZ birds: I would be glad to help out with some of the more technical things, but I am not very active in biology articles (sorry!). Adabow  ( talk )  09:36, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Coastal Fortifications of New Zealand
You don't seem to be aware that I've started the GA review of your article at Talk:Coastal fortifications of New Zealand/GA1.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 17:28, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
 * With regret I've failed your GAN for lack of response.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 00:10, 3 July 2010 (UTC)

Welcome back
It was a short break, but nice that you're back.  Schwede 66  00:31, 27 June 2010 (UTC)