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NZ general election 1975
Re the NZ general election articles; the Waitakere electorate was replaced by Henderson (with Martyn Finlay as MP) for 1969, 1972 & 1975 (see Norton pages 375 & 376). Hence I have removed the references to Waitakere in the article on the 1975 general election. Hugo999 (talk) 10:27, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

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Tamaki by-election 1992
Hi. I have been conducting research on OECD politics. As part of my research, I obtained elections data for the Tamaki by-election in 1992 directly from the NZ Electoral Commission. I have added these results to your article. I thought you may have been interested, so I figured I'd drop you a note on your talk page. Please feel free to clean up my templating work, and if you do manage to find the given names of the candidates for which I had only family names, that'd be great. Cheers. 2607:F010:2E9:1:9CD0:A41F:2317:3F4C (talk) 16:48, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Awesome; thank you. Good work!  Schwede 66  18:00, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

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Nomination for deletion of Template:NZ parlbox minor
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Nomination for deletion of Template:MMP election box candidate with party link
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An invitation to discussion
I kindly invited you to the discussion on Template talk:Infobox election to decide whether to bold the winner in the election infobox. Lmmnhn (talk) 19:03, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

A thank you
Hello Fanx, my name is Rebestalic

Thank you for thank you-ing my edit! I take it upon myself to get that update done like it's a race haha

People like you remind me that there are rewards to editing other than self-pride

Oh my, you look very decorated... quite impressive

Very impressive

I should stop wasting your time now, I'm certain you have better things to do  Rebestalic  [dubious—discuss]  04:38, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

New Zealand COVID-19 cases
Hello Fanx, Rebestalic here again

As you can see in the New Zealand field in the Coronavirus template, New Zealand recoveries have now exceeded confirmed cases. What should we do?
 * That is strange ... but it is a consequence of NZ's counting confirmed and probable cases, without any clear definition of whether any probables become confirmed or are excluded as false positives. The only solution I can think of is expanding the footnote for the NZ part of the template to explain this apparent discrepancy. I've not been active on the Covid-19 pages lately ... with an acquaintance of a family member succumbing in the UK, and having friends working in the Belgian and Spanish health services it's become just a bit too depressing. Fanx (talk) 09:23, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Kia kaha, my friend. My thoughts are with you.  Schwede 66  19:23, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

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March 2024
Hi Fanx! I noticed that you have reverted to restore your preferred version of American Truck Simulator several times. The impulse to undo an edit you disagree with is understandable, but I wanted to make sure you're aware that the edit warring policy disallows repeated reversions even if they are justifiable.

All editors are expected to discuss content disputes on article talk pages to try to reach consensus. If you are unable to agree&#32;at, please use one of the dispute resolution options to seek input from others. Using this approach instead of reverting can help you avoid getting drawn into an edit war. ''I've semi-protected both articles due to the disruption from IPs and new accounts. That won't stop you though, so please don't force me to have to consider a partial block here. The talk page is where you need to be discussing the issue.''. -- ferret (talk) 13:14, 17 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Stay clear of edit warring, Fanx. Getting blocked is just not worth it.  Schwede 66  17:50, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
 * I'm going to have to disagree on that point Schwede. Sometimes taking a stand is 'worth it' - in spite of the cost to oneself. It used to be that you and I would fight ignorant outside interference in a project we'd both worked on. When we stopped being able to stand up against The Borg I had to walk away. I don't ever want to find myself having to surrender to the supposedly well-meaning bullies again. 23:31, 17 March 2024 (UTC) Fanx (talk) 23:31, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
 * This is demonstrably false, and hypocritical. We have one editor that has made three reverts so I'd suggest you take up with them, and discuss their refusal to engage in consensus building. FYI - I do not have a "preferred version" of the article - I'm just opposed to that 'refusal to engage in consensus' that is just dogmatic & browbeating. 19:59, 17 March 2024 (UTC) Fanx (talk) 19:59, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Furthermore, I did not restore until after two other editors had their restorations reverted by the article's singular edit-warrior. Try reading the article's history - I'm not the problem here. 20:08, 17 March 2024 (UTC) Fanx (talk) 20:08, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
 * You restored content against guidelines, without a stated reason beyond an attack on the editor who was removing it. The other two editors restored it without any reason whatsoever. While it's not great that Soetermans continued to revert, you then reverted another editor (Woodroar, again with attacks on their character), and only stopped when a third (Melodia) reverted you again. My goal here is to stop the mainspace edit war, without resorting to ECP/Full protection or a partial block for anyone. If you don't have a 'preferred version', then you can certainly wait for any discussions to play out. -- ferret (talk) 20:25, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
 * How are discussions supposed to play out when I would be talking to no-one but myself? If I've found the other editor does not engage in consensus building then to pursue such would be futile and farcical. Your suggestion doesn't make a lot of sense. Suggesting that disingenuous claims about sources are in fact disingenuous is not an attack on character - it's a simple statement of fact. I do agree that the page needs work (my not having a "preferred version" solely relates to the versions in discussion - a better article would be my preference), but the shredding of it in a contrived rage manner is not a productive way forward. 23:17, 17 March 2024 (UTC) Fanx (talk) 23:17, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
 * I won't trouble you further, but I see at least 2 other editors engaged on the talk page, and one more that has supported the edit without commenting. -- ferret (talk) 00:30, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Cheers. 06:16, 18 March 2024 (UTC) Fanx (talk) 06:16, 18 March 2024 (UTC)