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Trolling
Hi, I dont understand how asking a question about information in an article is “vandalism of an article”? Isn’t a talk page for talking about an article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.88.169.47 (talk) 04:57, 1 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Trolling is vandalism.- gadfium 05:06, 1 October 2021 (UTC)
 * So you can censor talk page comments? Sammy D III (talk) 10:44, 1 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Talk pages are for discussing how to improve the article.- gadfium 17:04, 1 October 2021 (UTC)
 * I don't know you, I think I came here from Plymouth. A quick glance at your user page and talk.


 * A number showed up and made a GF edit on a talk page. They then made a GF edit that you reverted with a nonsense edit summary.


 * The number posted a stupid opinion which you deleted (correctly) the second time.


 * The number then made another GF edit that you reverted with a nonsense edit summary. So when they asked a GF question on your talk page you blew them off with a nonsense reply. I asked why you censored a talk page and you blew me off with another nonsense reply.


 * How do you feel that you personally can judge whether a question is good enough to be on a talk page? Four of the six number's post were GF, two were just stupid/ignorant. But they weren't bad faith. If the question isn't good enough for anyone to answer then it can just sit there and rot.


 * This rookie has shown zero signs of bad faith. You are really dumping on, and maybe have chased off, them because of ignorance of the system and your personal opinion of their intelligence. Maybe you could back off some, a new POV, and think for a moment? Sammy D III (talk) 20:55, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

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Nomination of Rlab for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Rlab is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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Lists of Radio Stations in New Zealand | Thanks for restoring persistent unsourced changes
Hi Gadfium

Thanks for your recent work in restoring records for the various regions and stations. Is there anything that can be done to stop this editor who I think is the same person persistently making malicious updates under different IP addresses?

Thanks, David 101.100.130.181 (talk) 02:10, 9 October 2021 (UTC)
 * I've given them a week long range block. If you see further activity by this editor, please let me know.- gadfium 02:26, 9 October 2021 (UTC)

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Barnstar

 * Thank you. I'm not particularly familiar with Christchurch so wasn't always confident that I made the right choices of aligning suburbs with statistical areas. I did spend a couple of nights in Christchurch last March, but spent the day out on Banks Peninsula riding the high gravel roads hoping for spectacular views. Unfortunately it was wet and so foggy I sometimes could barely see the road immediately ahead of me. I drove around the residential red zone a couple of years ago but only had a short time available.- gadfium 19:59, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
 * I shall second the notion of awarding a Barnstar for this solid work. In fact, I had the same action on my plate for when the last red link disappears from the suburb navbox but it's entirely possible that the remaining places aren't their own census area (which was the underlying driver of this work). But it's not your job to make all red links go away and for what you've done, you surely deserve to be recognised.  Schwede 66  20:58, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
 * To be fair, Christchurch suburbs are more nebulous than most I suspect - I've grown up in the city and even I'm not entirely sure where to draw the lines between them! Turnagra (talk) 23:23, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:44, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

Lists of Radio Stations in New Zealand
Hi Gadfium

The disruptive edits are happening again. Suspect it is same editor but reverted to a previous IP address 2407:7000:aa1f:5e00:b568:648e:b925:ce33.

Thanks, David 101.100.130.4 (talk) 07:25, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I've renewed their block, this time for a month.- gadfium 07:29, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

Sean wainui
Hi do you keep changing Sean Wainui birth place to whatatutu? Where do you get this information? I suggest contact his Mother. He was born in Auckland. Lazy journalists keep printing this because of this stupid Wikipedia and its offensive please stop changing it thanks 115.188.8.46 (talk) 09:31, 6 November 2021 (UTC)
 * I didn't add this in the first place, but I have repeatedly asked you for sources and you have not provided them. He clearly had a connection with Whatatutu. As you say, it appears in reliable sources such as NewstalkZB as his birthplace. You could contact the media and ask where they got this information from and if they haven't done their due diligence they should publish a correction, which can be cited in the article. I am happy to remove his birthplace entirely as a disputed fact in the meantime.- gadfium 17:18, 6 November 2021 (UTC)

WP:LTA/TFD
Found them using the IPs 120.155.56.82 and 121.218.28.83 and went to AIV. Perhaps a rangeblock is in order.... wizzito &#124; say hello!  07:10, 11 November 2021 (UTC)

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Deri Lorus (singer)
Hi, I need some assistance on Deri Lorus (singer) page. A user continues to remove the CSD for an article that is eligible for G4 (and previously SALTED). -KH-1 (talk) 08:14, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

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Administrators will no longer be autopatrolled
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Kea edit, not the only alpine parrot
Hello Gadfium, I am new to editing anything on wikipedia so please let me know if I have done anything improper. I wanted to let you know why I removed the Kea section about it being the only alpine parrot.

The Mountain parakeet resides in an alpine region on the Andes called the Puna grassland. One of two sections of alpine zone in the Andes the other of which is the Paramos.

https://wrangle.org/ecoregion/south-america/tundra-alpine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_parakeet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_tundra — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.38.52.98 (talk) 08:51, 28 December 2021 (UTC)
 * You should have explained that when you first removed the sentence. It looked like you might be removing it because it was tagged as citation needed, so I found a citation for it. There may be a case that tropical mountain terrain is very different from cold mountain terrain, but 'alpine' doesn't seem to be the right word, and I'll leave it to the experts.- gadfium 16:56, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

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Tamil Bell Edits
Hello Gadfium, I made a change to the Tamil Bell wiki page around October this year. Apologies for not explaining the edit itself, which in retrospect I should have. The issue with that page is the reading of the script on the bell. Since I can read that form of Tamil, it clearly reads "Mohoyideen Buks udaiya kappal udaiya mani" lit. Mohoyideen Buks' Ship Bell. The reading "Sikaiyya Tanava ... Kappal udaiya Mani" is not present.

Now I did take a look at the citation given for this reading, and the book does suggest this latter Sikayya reading, but neither gives citations for it nor explains why its interpretation is different from the commonly accepted Mohoyideen reading. It doesn't explain who did this interpretation either. The only other mention of this interpretation that I can find is from the book "Sea: Our Saviour By K. Sridharan, pg 19" which doesn't provide citation for it either. All in all, that reading seems highly suspect as I can literally read the text to see that it doesn't mention the words "Sikiaiyya Tanava" anywhere in the inscription.

As for the commonly accepted Mohoyideen reading, that the reading accepted by the Museum of New Zealand. See the links below: https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/213397 https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/1135/the-tamil-bell

The same reading is favoured by the Polynesian Society: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20702311

They also released a detailed breakdown of the inscription, which shows the sound corresponding to each individual character (note how the Sikiaiyya Tanava is completely missing): http://www.jps.auckland.ac.nz/document//Volume_84_1975/Volume_84%2C_No._4/The_story_of_the_Tamil_bell%2C_by_Brett_Hilder%2C_p_476-484/p1

So I do implore you, please do look into this and make the necessary changes as you see fit because it seems to be a major error imo. Thank you!

- Pandiya123 (talk) 08:24, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

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"Breatha" vs. "Scafie"
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Sockpuppetry?
You recently reverted a link on Whanganui that looked very much like advertising. Several attempts have been made to add this link by a number of American IP users. Please advise. OrewaTel (talk) 04:29, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I don't know whether the company linked to is notable; it's not my area of expertise. The link was inappropriate at Whanganui, and didn't show any connection to the city. Feel free to let me know if you see other IPs (re-)adding such links.- gadfium 04:40, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
 * At the end of December IP user 24.180.25.144 tried adding this particular link three times. You reverted the first incompetent attempt. Skysmith reverted the proper link twice. I posted a warning on 24.180.25.144 Talk. Since Whanganui must be on your Watchlist, you'll pick up the inevitable next attempt. OrewaTel (talk) 06:26, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Ok, I'm now more primed to pick up the next attempt. I don't think I had realised that 24.x and 72.x had been making substantially the same edits. I see many attempts a day to add people who may not be notable to articles.- gadfium 08:10, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

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Head Hunters
Hi, I'm trying to edit page, but I hadn't finished with uploading sources, and now everything has been taken down.. how can I fix this? Head Hunters mc GHOST UNIT (talk) 10:09, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Replied at User talk:Head Hunters mc GHOST UNIT.- gadfium 18:21, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

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Sockpuppetry no2?
Regarding this revert, our sock appears to be back. Do you have time to deal with it / file a report? I'll have to knock off now. I guess there's IP hopping going on but I'm not up with the technical intricacies.  Schwede 66  04:32, 8 March 2022 (UTC)


 * I've blocked and tagged them. I see you've semi-protected Theo Schoon. gadfium 04:48, 8 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks!  Schwede 66  08:57, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

Thanks...
for the unblock :-) -- RoySmith (talk) 13:40, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
 * . I really don't understand what happened. I reverted an obvious troll from the WMF page, and somehow clicked on you as the previous editor of the page rather than them. As soon as I clicked the block confirmation I realised the user name was nothing like the Serbian name I had intended to block. I am so sorry about this.- gadfium 17:45, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
 * It's totally not a problem. I do stuff like that all the time. -- RoySmith (talk) 20:15, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I got accidentally blocked last year. See mi:User talk:Gadfium.- gadfium 20:56, 2 April 2022 (UTC)

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:13, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

Matariki
Hi. I'm sure it was good faith, but can you please roll back your date change edit. The bill was passed Yesterday, 7th APRIL, as you can verify.

I'm on mobile, and can't see how to revert your edit from here.

Thanks. ‒ Jaymax✍ 03:58, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

Also, apparently I'm logged in to wiki as different users on different devices.... DOH! ‒ Jaymax✍ 04:00, 8 April 2022 (UTC)


 * I changed the article this morning to read 7 April, and added a ref. Previously it read 7 March, which is an easy mistake to make for people who don't write the date regularly. I've just changed another mention of March which I had missed in my previous edit.- gadfium 04:07, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

New administrator activity requirement
22:52, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

IP Vandal 110.174.179.98
Hi Gadfium. About IP 110.174.179.98. You blocked the account early this month, but I see that he is back. Interestingly, the account made three edits 1 2 3 with references to "gay", two of them on the same article where user Annis1234 made a similar (and only) edit also with a reference to "gay". Rui &#39;&#39;Gabriel&#39;&#39; Correia (talk) 12:57, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, 'gay' vandalism is too common to establish a link between the anon and the account. One of the anon's two most recent edits was constructive, so the IP address is probably used by multiple people, and in any case the last edit was a couple of days ago so the time to block has passed. Thanks for the heads-up!- gadfium 20:50, 30 April 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).

Administrator changes
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 * The ability to undelete the associated talk page when undeleting a page has been added. This was the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
 * A public status system for WMF wikis has been created. It is located at https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and is hosted separately to WMF wikis so in the case of an outage it will remain viewable.

Arbitration
 * Remedy 2 of the St Christopher case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine or related pages from those pages.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:33, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

West Auckland demographics
Good evening! If you have some time, would you be interested in making some demographics sections for some of the settlements around the Waitākere Ranges? Little Huia, Karekare, Parau and Woodlands Park all lack demographics sections (and I'm very bad at navigating the stats NZ website!). Possibly Whatipu as well, although I'm not sure if anyone lives there permanently. --Prosperosity (talk) 06:30, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Karekare and Parau will not be a problem and I'll make them a priority. Whatipu doesn't have a statistical area devoted to it, so probably doesn't have a significant permanent population. Little Huia has an SA1 area possibly a bit larger than what I think of as the area but close enough that I'll work with it. Woodlands Park does not have any clear boundaries; Statistics New Zealand considers it and Waima the same area, and Fire & Emergency (which generally have their own fairly sensible definition of suburban boundaries) consider it part of Titirangi. I'll find some reasonable combination of SA1 units for it. See for the maps I work with, clicking to show Statistical area->Statistical Area 2-2018, Statistical area->Statistical Area 1-2018, and Urban Rural for the overlays I use.- gadfium 09:44, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much! I knew Whatipu would be a long-shot. --Prosperosity (talk) 21:35, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
 * All done except Whatipu. I had another look and it seems like populations by meshblock are no longer published. I did have access to this a couple of years ago, but it has disappeared. Feel free to ask me for further demographics.- gadfium 05:00, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much! All these pages look so much more fleshed out now. --Prosperosity (talk) 22:40, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Actually, I do have another demographics question. I recently created Rotuman New Zealanders, and the demographics section isn't as complete as the other ethnic community articles. Would you be able to take a look? --Prosperosity (talk) 22:46, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Similar information is available in quick stats for ethnic communities as for geographical ones, but my script uses raw tables (called 'Statistical area 1 dataset for 2018 Census') rather than the pretty quick stats page, and the raw tables for ethnic groups (which appear to be the ones at the bottom of ) aren't in the same format so a complete redevelopment of the script would be required. The quick stats page does have a lot of data, which can be manually added to the article, but I have no interest in doing so myself.- gadfium 23:35, 14 May 2022 (UTC)

Proposed Xero article updates
Hey there, I work for Xero and am seeking updates to the company article. Do you have time to review a couple of requests at Xero? You recently implemented one of my proposed changes, and I see that you have a special interest in NZ-related articles so this request may be of interest. I have a conflict of interest, so I do not edit the article myself. Thank you! JT at Xero (talk) 05:32, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I have seen your requests for updates, but company details do not particularly interest me. I have no shortage of other work on Wikipedia. I hope someone else responds to your requests. Thank you for respecting the conflict of interest guidelines.- gadfium 05:39, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
 * No problem, thank you for your quick response! JT at Xero (talk) 05:41, 17 May 2022 (UTC)