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Disambiguation link notification for June 27
An automated process has detected that when you recently edited I've Been Everywhere, you added links pointing to the disambiguation pages Waimea and Pukaki.

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 * That's deliberate, because it isn't clear which locations the song refers to. The article already linked to these disambiguation pages, although not directly.-Gadfium (talk) 06:51, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:58, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

Taumata etc
Your move protection was because of disruptive moves. Why protect it? Everything was precipitated by someone who was unaware of debate on the question, and who quickly attempted to self-revert once he learnt of the debate. (In my mind, the following moves are irrelevant, since they're artifacts of technical issues.) We're not likely to see such a move again, especially since the edit history of the alternate titles already prevents non-admins from moving the page to those titles. A single bad pagemove isn't a pattern of editing that disrupts progress toward improving an article or building the encyclopedia, and we don't generally move-protect titles just because of a single good-faith move against consensus. Nyttend (talk) 12:50, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
 * The article has been moved many times, usually without consensus. I see moves in 2014, 2015, 2018, 2020 and 2024. There are probably more moves between alternative titles or when early versions of MediaWiki used a different summary for moves. There are far more possible alternative titles that a good faith editor could try to move it to (various forms of disambiguation, with or without macrons, accidental leaving shy in the name, various different contractions and expansions of the name, transliterations, and combinations of all of these.-Gadfium (talk) 18:44, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
 * That article isn't on my watchlist,, but if it had been, I'd applied move protection by now as well.  Schwede 66  04:35, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

Kia Ora
Have seen your name around a lot, so I've left you a message on the talk page of the Colony of New Zealand regarding the transition from nominative sovereignty to substantive sovereignty, which is greatly discussed by historians. Arguably, the article at present reflects somewhat of a one-sided view which implies wrongly that the Colony's establishment was considered absolutely legitimate at the time, with substantive sovereignty from 1841. This is at odds with a good 50 years of historiography, so I was wondering whether you could review my suggestion. Ngā mihi nui. Dhantegge (talk) 07:16, 11 July 2024 (UTC)