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Unreferenced BLPs
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CfD nomination of Category:Ancient Roman farmers
I have nominated ancient roman farmers for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 05:24, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your categorization!
Thanks for your categorization for the future railway station! Ricky@36 (talk) 13:45, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

Former NZ electorates
Congratulations on completing the creation of articles for all of the former electorates. My quibble is with your description of them. I think it is incorrect to say
 * "Kumara was a former electorate from 1881 to 1890."

From 1881 to 1890, Kumara was an electorate, not a former electorate. Since 1890, it has been a former electorate, although it is simpler to write about something that no longer exists using the past tense of a verb ("Kumara was an electorate from 1881 to 1890") instead of using an adjective ("Kumara is a former electorate that existed from 1881 to 1890").

I hope you understand why I've made these edits. Regards, Ground Zero | t 23:09, 23 January 2010 (UTC) Yes - much better English! Hugo999 (talk) 23:11, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

Wikilinks in years
Hi. I would like to inform you that per recent consensus we don't wikilink years (unless they are strongly connected to the subject). This means that birth and deaths years should not be linked in biography articles. Thanks, Magioladitis (talk) 12:01, 24 January 2010 (UTC) Was force of habit Hugo999 (talk) 03:49, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
 * No big deal. I just thought I had to say. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:31, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

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CfD nomination of Category:South African television sitcoms
I have nominated south african television sitcoms for renaming to south african situation comedies. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 03:42, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Category renaming
I see that you recently placed a proposal to rename Category:Battles of World War II involving New Zealand on the category description page, but never placed notice of this proposal on WP:CFD. I have now done this, to permit discussion, and you may wish to visit the discussion page. In future, if you want to propose renaming a category, use the {{subst:cfr}} template and follow the instructions in the message box. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 14:56, 25 February 2010 (UTC) Sorry, I thought I had met the notification requirements Hugo999 (talk) 22:03, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Entertainment in Birmingham, England
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Evelyn Patuawa-Nathan
Thanks for contributing new article Evelyn Patuawa-Nathan. However, one of Wikipedia's core policies is that material must be verifiable, by being clearly attributed to reliable sources. Please help by adding more sources to the article you created, and/or by clarifying how the sources already given support the material (see here for how to do inline referencing). Many thanks! PS If you need any help, you can look at Help:Contents/Editing Wikipedia or ask at New contributors' help page, or just ask me.  Schwede 66  21:46, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Navy League of New Zealand
Thank you for your contributions on military history! Can you create a page on the Navy League of New Zealand? There is a red link on wikipedia page "Navy League". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.58.246.23 (talk) 08:10, 15 March 2010 (UTC) Maybe - not an organisation I know much about Hugo999 (talk) 08:12, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

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WPNZ template
I've tried to start a discussion on the WPNZ template with respect to the governments project, but this hasn't attracted any contributions. Given that you sometimes contribute to pages on politics, I thought you might be interested in this.  Schwede 66  22:49, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

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Category:Defunct railway stations in the United States
Defunct buildings are in some cases former buildings. But it many cases are not. Please don't tag defunct buildings whit the inaccurate former classification. Vegaswikian (talk) 18:18, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Some thoughts on by-elections
Please see the discussion on Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_New_Zealand/governments.  Schwede 66  00:51, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Eponymous
Thanks for making all those congressional categories. By the way, Eponymous would suffice on the articles. See, for example, this edit of mine.—Markles 13:35, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Well the earlier ones used Congress No ... which is not much more trouble, but I will try eponymous Hugo999 (talk) 13:37, 25 April 2010 (UTC)


 * OK. It's not required, I'm just suggesting.—Markles  13:47, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Cartoon in 1907 in New Zealand‎
What a great idea! - SimonLyall (talk) 18:09, 26 April 2010 (UTC) I saw it used for another page (]Dominion) and copied it across. But I have seen some cartoons of MPs in weeklies eg the Free Lance from the 1910s & 1920s which I plan to add to the MPs page (out of copyright; too much hassle with anything that is copyright but fair use! Hugo999 (talk) 05:21, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

Geology of county
Hi, why are you removing "Geology of" categories from their parent county categories and putting them into the "Geography of" cats? This doesn't make sense to me. DuncanHill (talk) 13:47, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

This was the way that Cheshire, Oxfordshire, Somerset plus South and West Yorkshire were previously categorised; with Geology as a subcategory of Geography (plus of Geology of England), so I changed four (Staffordshire, Shropshire, Cornwall & Devon) to have a uniform categorisation for all the counties.

I had previously looked at America and there the geology cat. of each state is a subcat of the geography cat. for that state. I have just checked Canada where geology is a category of the main province category, but Australia has geology by state (for the states that have a geology page, not all do) mostly as a subcat of Natural history of the state. Hugo999 (talk) 14:12, 2 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Standardisation across category trees has much to recommend it, but I think in this case it would make more sense to standardise to having "Geology of..." as a head category under the area (county, state, etc). I wouldn't (as an amateur geologist) expect to find geology under either geography or natural history. We don't have natural history categories for most English counties - but we do have "Environment of". Both geology and geography would fit into "Environment of" categories, but can also stand as head categories as well. That is to say, for example, "Geology of Cornwall" would be categorised in both "Cornwall" and "Environment of Cornwall", as would "Geography of Cornwall". DuncanHill (talk) 14:18, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Well I have added the main "Highland" cat. to "Geology in Highland" - which is the only Scottish county with a Geology cat. - and only one article! Perhaps you can do the same for England. I will do something about Australia. Hugo999 (talk) 14:06, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
 * OK, will do. I had already put the Cornwall one back into the county cat, but didn't want to go ahead with the others until you'd had a chance to think about it. Best wishes, DuncanHill (talk) 14:09, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Yeah
Just cos the other states have geography of... doesnt mean we need to have that again - Borders of Western Australia is the sub cat - there is no need for parent cats to sit with child cats in circumstances like that - shoot on sight i say :) SatuSuro 14:44, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I have just been quietly trying to cleanup the geography of western australia category, and I see the current exercise and I wonder - do you have conversations about this at all ? SatuSuro 13:59, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Well I was about to say that the 3 adjacent states now have both the History & Geography categories; I had noticed originally that History of the NT was omitted. Hugo999 (talk) 14:02, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
 * They are bit of mess - our editors (oz) who did any category work seemed to have retired or gone to sleep on the job :( - (I suspect youll still find my tagging nz categories around :) - anyways - I can see what you are doing is the geology/geography interface - I had been trying to get out of the WA geography main cat - specific locations and sub-cattable items - so I think whatever you are doing is great and to be commended - but I just wanted to check - I also tend to tag for the project and state projects when they are identifieable in the names - sory to have disturbed - wow it must be late over your way :|  SatuSuro 14:08, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Ok I think I spot one issue - over-cat - there is a policy somewhere - that overcat is an issue - when a parent and child cat are on the same page - I exterminate on sight - nothing personal - it is just that geology or geography of south australia is already listed as a sub cat of south australia - and I tend to see no reason why parent cats should stay... SatuSuro 14:31, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Satu, it makes more sense in such a case to remove the "geography" cat from the "geology" cat page, so that both geography and geology appear in the South Australia cat. (see thread immediately above for more discussion on this). DuncanHill (talk) 14:36, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi - sorry I had not looked up - I didnt realise it was an issue in the above item - thanks for that - cheers SatuSuro 14:40, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
 * So Geology by state in Australia is straightforwar, and now just needs seperating the pages in Geology of Australia to the right state (including ACT?), but should the state geology cat. go to the main State category and/or to Natural History by state or Envirionment by state? Natural History by state is needed for Biota/Flora/Fauna by state anyway. Hugo999 (talk) 01:33, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Good question - I think the main state cat. I suspect (and dont quote me) that natural history is straight to state so that the state cat is the parent and the others are direct children - rather than incestuous partners :| SatuSuro 01:37, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

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J. O. Wilson
Hello Hugo999, given that you frequently quote from Wilson, I thought that I'd supply you with a 'cite book' resource ready for copying and pasting: *

The above would lend itself for manually adding to the list of references. If you want to achieve an inline reference, which is of course much preferable, then put the whole into ref tags as follows:

See Template:Cite book for further information. In particular, the parameters 'page' and 'pages' are for the particular page(s) that you are quoting from (and not the total number of pages of the book). I couldn't find the book's ISBN, so if you have it, you can add it. I hope this helps.  Schwede 66  20:17, 16 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks; I checked the libraery copy and there is no ISBN. The later version Ministers and MPs .... is only 1911-1996. Hugo999 (talk) 22:15, 16 May 2010 (UTC) The Changes in Membership is page 296-7 of the 1985 book. Hugo999 (talk) 22:19, 16 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Oh, something else. When you need to cite the book more than once in an article, you go about it the following way:
 * The first time, where you produce the full cite note, you add a name to the first reference tag, e.g.  (followed by the cite details)
 * When you subsequently refer to it, all you do is to use the following code:


 * Apologies if you know all of that already.  Schwede 66  23:09, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Well I can use the template thanks, and may even be able to use it twice in an article (?) Hugo999 (talk) 20:58, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, that's what the latest entry attempts to explain. If you want to use it and it doesn't work, drop me a note on my talk page and I'll lend you a hand and show you how to do it.  Schwede 66  21:15, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

NZ rugby union players
Hi, Hugo. I noticed that you renamed the articles for three NZ rugby union players – Bryn Evans, Michael Jones and Ian Smith – by giving them shorter disambiguators. While this would normally be uncontroversial, in two instances (Evans and Smith) there is more than one rugby union player by that name. In both cases, I haven't been able to establish that one player was significantly more notable than the other, and so for both names the longer disambiguators are probably necessary. Please reply with any concerns. Cheers. – Liveste (talk • edits) 04:20, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

When there are two “Michael Jones (rugby union)” say, it is acceptable to have a disambig page called “Michael Jones (rugby union)” redirecting to two or more Michael Jones as required. But there was no such page for these players, and I think an acceptable alternative is to have a redirect from one Michael Jones to the other(s) who will of course require a distinctive name. Most of the New Zealand international players (formerly just All Blacks) are identified with “Joe Bloggs (rugby union) though some have others eg (All Black), (rugby), (rugby player) or (rugby union player). But generally the standard suffix (rugby union) is brief and adequate. Hugo999 (talk) 12:24, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Geraldine
In case you have access to Wilson at the moment, would you mind having a look whether Geraldine existed during 1887-90? The article says so, but I can't see any evidence of it. Please reply on the article's talk page, or simply adjust the article if my suspicion is right.  Schwede 66  19:02, 24 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Hello, when you have a moment, I've posted another question for you at Talk:Geraldine (New Zealand electorate). And there's a question for you at Talk:Rangitata. Thanks heaps.  Schwede 66  09:08, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Walter Pilliet
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Burmese election
Since the Burmese general election, 2010 is both a 2010 election and has an article on the Burmese Wikipedia, I don't quite understand this edit. Have I missed something? Bigbluefish (talk) 14:38, 27 May 2010 (UTC) Sorry it was meant to be to "2010 elections in Asia" as all the recent elections are categorised by continent Hugo999 (talk) 22:15, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Oops, my bad! Edit summaries would be helpful though for this reason! Bigbluefish (talk) 22:26, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

P.H. Matthews
Was P.H. Matthews known as that, or as Pressly Matthews? If the former, clarify that in the article's opening sentence. If the latter, maybe move the page. Adabow ( talk )  11:50, 28 May 2010 (UTC) He was called P.H.Matthews by whoever wrote the NZ Socred Infobox, but I don't know what he was called in the 1960s. And there are redirects from Pressly Matthews so would require special action to move I think. Hugo999 (talk) 12:07, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

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Coleridge (New Zealand electorate)
Hello Hugo, could you please have a look at the Coleridge talk page?  Schwede 66  02:21, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

3rd New Zealand Parliament
Hi Hugo999, I'd like to draw your attention to this talk page.  Schwede 66  00:35, 10 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi Hugo999, I've amended the article further by going through all the electorates and recording all the changes that happened during the term. Some of the details are accessible through Google Books, but they use what they call 'snippet view' and what this means is that not all of Wilson is accessible. Thanks for helping out with some details already. In the process of working my way through the electorates, I try and complete membership details. I've done quite a few, and multi-member electorates (like Auckland Suburbs and Wellington) take a bit of effort. There are a few things that I'm not certain about, though. Are you keen to help? There are two levels of help possible.


 * A little help - Where I'm uncertain whether I've got it right, I could ask you specifically to check (or set up a stub for the politician).
 * Lots of help - Where you create stubs in parallel to me tidying up the electorates, with the info supporting my work.


 * A little help - I'm uncertain whether I've got the year of the by-election right for Theophilus Heale (Auckland Suburbs). The other thing that I haven't quite got my head around is all the additional electorates appearing in 1859/60 during the term of the 2nd Parliament - can you provide some details as to what happened, as well as a list of what got established when?


 * I've decided to add all the changes in representation to the first and second parliament, too. And when that's done, I'd like to add all the by-elections for the first three terms to the relevant list. So there's a bit to do (for me) before I embark on setting up an article for the 4th Parliament. Phew, that's quite a bit of an ask - I appreciate your help!

Thomas King
I've had a look at the Thomas King article and here's what happened to it:
 * It was started as a stub for the politician who sat in the 1st Parliament.
 * It then had biographical details added to it that belong to a different Thomas King.

There was much more content about the other person in the article, so I've removed all the details of the politician from that article. I've set up another stub (Thomas King (New Zealand politician)), based on an early version of the other article. However, there's more that you could usefully add to the article:
 * birth year,
 * death date (in case Wilson gives more than the year)
 * apparently (according to the NZETC reference), he sat for Grey and Bell a second time

Thanks a lot.  Schwede 66  04:41, 13 June 2010 (UTC)


 * 2nd try: Wilson has him as 1821-1893 ie died 1893 not 1891. And 1st = 27.8.1853 to 22.6.1855, Resigned then 2nd 28.5.1860 to 5.11.1860, Defeated. Was he re-elected in 1860 at a by-election? Hugo999 (talk) 07:40, 13 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks!  Schwede 66  09:32, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

And another King
I've written an article on William Cutfield King. I wonder whether he's listed in Wilson. He got elected to represent Grey and Bell in November 1860, but got killed before Parliament sat for the first time. Would you mind having a look?  Schwede 66  05:59, 13 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Yes, as (1829-1861) page 211= in parl. 27.11.1860 to 8.2.1861


 * Thanks!  Schwede 66  09:32, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

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Categories
Good to see another NZ'er creating categories! When you create the categories can you add the most appropriate WikiProject to the talk page? It is not too much of a big deal but I don't like seeing redlinks (even for talk pages) and it may be of use for the more active WikiProjects. Cheers. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 19:46, 18 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Well I usually don't leave redlinks, but create another category (eg for Years in .... ) Hugo999 (talk) 01:37, 24 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Alan is talking about dropping the template onto the talk page of the category.  Schwede  66  02:00, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Wanganui Electorate
FYI. Isaac Featherston 1854; Sir William Fox 1856-60, 1877-79 & 188-81; Henry Harrison 1861-65 & 1867-70; John Bryce 1866 & 1871-81?; Julius Vogel 1876; William Watt 1882-84; John Ballance 1884-93; Archibald Willis 1893-96 & 1899-05; Gilbert Carson 1896-99; James Thomas Hogan 1905-11; Bill Veitch 1911-35; Joseph Cotterill 1935-?...; Russell Marshall 1972-90.

I hope this assists your work on this Wiki New Zealand project.


 * This is probably a pretty old entry, but it didn't get archived because it hasn't got a date (it has now through my reply). I see that not all of the info has been transferred (e.g. Featherston is not listed on the Whanganui page. Will you transfer the info, or was it incorrect? Also, have you processed the info above?  Schwede 66  02:29, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

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Jeremiah Connolly
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Archive

 * And one further thing - do you want me to archive the older stuff of your talk page? It's getting a bit long. You can reply here - I'll keep an eye out for your response.  Schwede 66  01:35, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes please, I tried to install an automatic bot to do archiving (see [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MiszaBot/Archive_HowTo]) but it did not work; it is the redlink at the top of this Talk page Hugo999 (talk) 02:05, 24 June 2010 (UTC)


 * It worked! Let me know if you want a hand with an archive box, so that there are links to all the archives.  Schwede 66  02:26, 25 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks very muct (it needed doing) but yes please, an archive box as I don't know where the archives are hidden! Hugo999 (talk) 13:21, 25 June 2010 (UTC)


 * I've added the archive box. I don't know why, but the bot started with archive 4. I've moved the archives, so that they start with archive 1. Hence, archives 4 to 6 are currently redirects. I'll ask an admin to delete those redirects, as the list of archives is automatically generated. I've reset the archive counter, so it should work fine from now on.  Schwede 66  19:36, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Temporary Hold
Sorry laid up with health problem Hugo999 (talk) 02:10, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I hope that it's nothing too serious and that you get better soon!  Schwede 66  02:51, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

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List of New Zealand Ministries
See my sandbox for a list of Ministries from Wilson page 59-98. It uses the titles from Wilson eg Fox Ministry, 1856 rather than Fox Ministry or First Fox Ministry, as I wish to finish the list anf make into a Wikipedia article before the book is due back at the library Hugo999 (talk) 05:50, 8 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Great. Can you please bring this up on the politics talk page, as there is already an article about this? Please provide a wikilink to your sandbox.  Schwede 66  20:12, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

Wales & Cox
Would you mind setting up a stub article for Nathaniel Wales (New Zealand politician)? Talk:Nathaniel Wales has the background to this request. Thanks!  Schwede 66  00:22, 7 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Some of these 19c NZ politicians had only a few months as a backbencher so are not particularly notable - am happy with a redirect note from the (existing) page for the US one who was a state? senator Hugo999 (talk) 21:28, 8 July 2010 (UTC)


 * PS: I made the page for Alfred Cox into Alfred Cox (politician) from a dis. page as Alfred Cox already links to lots of articles on films & horseracing. Like when I found that Wellington East & Wellington West already linked to many Ontario articles as Ontario provincial electoral districts, so had to redirect to the NZ electorate article from new stub articles for the Canadian electorates Hugo999 (talk) 21:40, 8 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi, thanks for that. It looks like Wales was known as Nathanial Wales, and he was a reasonably notable architect. There's somebody in Dunedin who likes history and architecture, so I'm sure he'll expand the article. If I'm right regarding the name, I'll move him to Nathanial Wales (architect). And good call re Cox.  Schwede 66  00:26, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

Goldfields (New Zealand electorate)
Hello Hugo999, would you mind looking up the members for Goldfields (New Zealand electorate) for me? Probably best if you added them straight to the article. I've just discovered that this was created during the term of the 3rd Parliament, so should really be listed under changes of that article. Thanks!  Schwede 66  05:44, 11 July 2010 (UTC) Done; also the Hampden (NZ electorate) with new MPs in 3rd parliament  Hugo999 (talk) 01:37, 12 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Excellent - thanks!  Schwede 66  02:22, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Taieri
Hello, I'm working my way through the 4th Parliament of New Zealand. The list with the initial election results in nearly complete. Could you please assist with Taieri (New Zealand electorate), as I don't know whether the person elected in 1866 served the whole period, and I suspect that he is the father of the person who held the seat from 1902, with them sharing the same name?  Schwede 66  00:42, 17 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Done. Don't know about the son (?) but he is referred to as Don Reid jnr. Will look at Bruce (NZ electorate) next Hugo999 (talk) 01:21, 17 July 2010 (UTC)


 * So we've had three Donald Reids in Parliament. How bizarre is that?  Schwede 66  04:21, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
 * And all from Otago Hugo999 (talk) 04:56, 17 July 2010 (UTC) Also 3x John Munro! Hugo999 (talk) 00:03, 21 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Strange, eh? By the way, WP:MOS stipulates that on disambiguation pages, there should only be one blue link per line (I noticed that you also wikilinked the Munro electorates).  Schwede 66  01:15, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Timaru is another case where I'd need your help. Only the first two reps are listed, and Google Books doesn't show the relevant page.  Schwede 66  06:27, 17 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Have finished with Bruce - looks good now!  Schwede 66  07:27, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
 * You should have Henry Bunny for the Wairarapa Hugo999 (talk) 22:54, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I've finished with Wairarapa. I hadn't spotted before that it was in fact a multi-member electorate for a while - good to do those tables. I'll attend to Wallace next. There's a very long list of names there of politicians where I don't even know the first name (got the names from the 1949 version of the Parliamentary Record, and the details are sometimes hard to read, so you better check spelling / dates when you get to it).  Schwede 66  05:37, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

James Williamson
Hello, it says in the James Williamson (politician) that he retired in 1867. Should that rather say resigned, given that this was in the middle of the term?  Schwede 66  18:59, 21 July 2010 (UTC) Yes, it is "resigned" in Wilson Hugo999 (talk) 21:58, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Second Ballots at By-elections
As well as second ballots at the 1908 & 1911 general elections, 4 second ballots were held at by-elections (Wilson, 1984 page 178). This should be added to the NZ By-elections article, except that adding more references to Wilson (Ref 18) is too complicated for me: Hugo999 (talk) 11:53, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Rangitikei (R W Smith) 23.9.09
 * Thames (E H Taylor) 28.1.1909
 * Grey (P C Webb) 24.7.1913
 * Lyttelton (J McCombs) 16.12.1913

Hutt electorate
Hello, can you please help with the Hutt (New Zealand electorate)? I think there is one member missing, who represented Hutt from 1856–58. Thanks!  Schwede 66  03:25, 26 June 2010 (UTC)


 * No, no other names in Wilson to 1879 when Henry Jackson was elected. Ludlam resigned 9-7-55 & was reelected 16-11-55 Hugo999 (talk) 04:45, 26 June 2010 (UTC)


 * In the Dillon Bell article, it says that he resigned on 10 October 1856. Ludlam was succeeded by Revans. Fitzherbert was a member of City of Wellington until 1858. So who succeeded Bell before Fitzherbert took his place?  Schwede 66  05:06, 26 June 2010 (UTC)


 * I think I found it - Bell resigned in 1858, rather than 1856. Could you please confirm this?  Schwede 66  07:11, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

No, Wilson had F D Bell holding Hutt from 16-11-1855 to 10-10-1856 when he resigned, then Wallace from 30-11-1859. E G Wakefield 19-8-1853 to 15-9-1855, resigned. Alfred Ludlam 19-8-1853 to 9-7-1855, resigned; 16-11-1855 to 16-8-1856; then (4th parliament) 28-2-1866 to 30-12-1870, retired. Samuel Revans 27-11-1856 to 22-3-1858, resigned. The next MP for Hutt is William Fitzherbert from 31-7-1858. Hugo999 (talk) 10:11, 26 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Hm, that's strange. All sorts of newspapers reported Bell's resignation from the Hutt electorate having been read out by the speaker on 10 April 1858 (although it's always the same report): Otago Witness, Daily Southern Cross, Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle. This is just a selection - the report appeared in quite a few other papers, too. I'll keep looking through old newspapers.  Schwede 66  21:48, 26 June 2010 (UTC)


 * I'm just transferring the above dates into the various articles and regarding "E G Wakefield 19-8-1853 to 15-9-1855, resigned", I note that Parliament was dissolved that day, so a resignation is unlikely to have occurred. Just noting this here, so that nobody stumbles about the 'resignation' bit later and wonders about it.  Schwede 66  13:01, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Correct again, Wilson p 243 has Edward Gibbon Wakefield for Hutt 19.8.1853 to 15.9.1855, Retired Hugo999 (talk) 21:37, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Shephard or Shepherd?
The title of the new article you created has Shephard as the surname, but the intro has Shepherd. Moriori (talk) 00:17, 24 July 2010 (UTC) Corrected to Shephard; I must have had rustic dreams Hugo999 (talk) 00:53, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

Two Electorates
Names of May, Lusk & Hobbs added to Franklin electorate, but it looks as though Richard Hobbs was elected in a by-election (1878) as he was the MP for 1878-79 only. And Hobbs added to Bay of Islands electorate also Hugo999 (talk) 13:26, 27 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Good that you point this out on your talk page, as I don't necessarily watchlist all the electorates. Have fixed it. Yes, Hobbs won a by-election, and consequently, Harris was missing from the first table.  Schwede 66  19:54, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

Hauraki
Have a look at the talk page of Hauraki. It would appear that it also was a Maori electorate in 1999.

Also, have you seen my latest query on Dunedin East in the Dunedin electorate posting above?  Schwede 66  19:54, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

Well perhaps "Hauraki" needs a "for the Maori electorate see" "Tamaki Makaurau" which was also called Hauraki. But the Maori electorate is listed on the Hauraki disambiguation page. And I will look at "Dunedin East" as I did not see the last note Hugo999 (talk) 22:16, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

Taskforce talk
I don't know whether you watch the politics taskforce talk page. In case you don't, I'd be interested in your opinion on this election issue.  Schwede 66  04:47, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

Dunedin electorate
Hello Hugo999, I'm about to turn the Dunedin electorate into a formatted table. It would appear that all the members are in the list. What I've got problems with is the high number of by-elections, as I don't know in which order they happened amongst other problems. Could you please look up: Thanks for your help - always appreciated.  Schwede 66  19:54, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Is the list indeed complete?
 * Was there a by-election in 1858 for James Macandrew?
 * There appear to have been three by-elections in 1862 (Dick, Richardson, Paterson). Could you please look up the date for those?
 * There must have been a by-election in 1879 prior to the general election. Was that for Thomas Dick or William Downie Stewart?

No - 4 MPs missing - have added A R Barclay. To add NYA Wales 1874-75, R Oliver 1878-81 & D Pinkerton 1890-96. Hugo999 (talk) 08:45, 6 July 2010 (UTC). Suggested article titles Thomas Birch (New Zealand), Nathaniel Young Armstrong Wales, Richard Oliver (politician), David Pinkerton Hugo999 (talk) 09:04, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

Re byelections:
 * Macandrew resigned 2-11-1858 then elected 14-1-1859
 * In 1862 Dick from 17-3-1862, Richardson from 30-5-1862 & Paterson from 15-11-1862
 * In 1879 Dick & Stewart both elected from 2-9-1879 Hugo999 (talk) 11:23, 6 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for all that. 2 September 1879 is the general election. I see that Stewart's by-election was on 14 July 1879. When did Larnach Dick win his by-election?  Schwede 66  05:47, 7 July 2010 (UTC)


 * What date/seat do you mean for byelection? In 1875 Larnarch, McAndrew & Stout were all elected from 20/12/1875


 * It says in the Dunedin electorate article that Larnach served 1875–78. If that is correct, then there would have been another 1879 by-election (the other by-election being for Stewart, but he replaced Stout). However, I can't find any evidence anywhere that Larnach did resign, so maybe the 1875–78 range is wrong and it should read 1875–79. Would that be what the problem is?  Schwede 66  20:50, 9 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Wilson has Larnach for City of Dunedin from 29.12.1875 to 31.5.1878 (Resigned) and the list of Dunedin MPs has Lanarch as 1875-78 Hugo999 (talk) 05:29, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

I went to the library yesterday to have a look at this myself, as it still doesn't quite resolve things. Wilson wasn't on the shelf, but Scholefield was (he wrote the New Zealand parliamentary record, 1840-1949 version). And guess what - he has Stout listed as a member of Dunedin East from 1875–79, both in the electorate table as well as on the member pages. That does, however, not align with newspaper reporting (they all have City of Dunedin as a three-member electorate from 1875), nor Stout's biographies (Te Ara and DNZB). Could you have a look what Wilson says about Dunedin East?  Schwede 66  19:43, 22 July 2010 (UTC) See the Talk page for Stout; According to Wilson (1984))


 * Dunedin East is a single-member electorate, but why a gap (1879-81) between Stout (1875-79) and Green (1881-84)? Hugo999 (talk) 01:19, 29 July 2010 (UTC) NB: Stout represented "City of Dunedin East" 1875-79 but this was "Dunedin East" not City of Dunedin (ie "Dunedin"). Hugo999 (talk) 01:40, 29 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Aha, it's the "City of Dunedin East" vs "City of Dunedin" issue that the contemporary newspaper reporting didn't pick up on. Right, it'll take a bit of doing to unravel this, but with this info (plus what's on Stout's talk page), it will allow me to do that. Thanks heaps!  Schwede 66  02:22, 29 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Ok, it's sorted. Wilson has got it wrong. Dunedin East didn't exist in 1875. See Talk:Dunedin East.  Schwede 66  09:01, 1 August 2010 (UTC)


 * What do you know? Have a look at this. Apparently, James Paterson (New Zealand) represented Dunedin and Suburbs South 1862–66, and Dunedin (New Zealand electorate) from 1862–63. Did he clone himself? In the 1925 edition, he isn't shown for Dunedin 1862–63.  Schwede 66  06:19, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Wilson 1984 has for him Dunedin 62-63 & 66-69 with Dunedin & Suburbs South 63-66 (see his talk) Hugo999 (talk) 10:45, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

Suicides: nationality vs. country of occurrence
Hello—with certain suicide categories, I'm finding that you are consistently equating the nationality of the person who committed suicide with the location that the suicide took place in. For instance, you have twice made Category:Suicides in Germany a parent category of Category:German military personnel who committed suicide. This is not correct, since a German can commit suicide anywhere, not just in Germany, and many of those in the category committed suicide outside of Germany. This is especially so the case with military personnel, who often commit suicide on distant battlefields or while in enemy detention, etc. If you want to link the categories, it's best to use Template:Catrel rather than set up a parent–subcategory relationship that is misleading and incorrect. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:13, 12 August 2010 (UTC) Categories for the same country eg Category:Spanish politicians who committed suicide and Category:Suicides in Spain should be linked together, and linking by Template:Catrel may be a better way. Jose Diaz (politician) is an example of a suicide away from home: he was a guest of "Uncle Joe" in the Soviet Union Hugo999 (talk) 11:18, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

Parent Child Cats combos
Sorry but adding Mausoleums in xxx with a category Mausoleums - is adding child and parent cats together - and as far as I ever knew - we dont do it - any reason why are doing so? SatuSuro 13:04, 12 August 2010 (UTC) No, it is adding more countries to the already existing countries with category "Mausoleums in XXXX" (and parent Mausoleums); so that for each of these countries the Mausoleum category links to other categories for that country - Memorials and monuments in particular. In particular USA/UK which each have a numberr of mausoleums Hugo999 (talk) 13:23, 12 August 2010 (UTC) I am not talking about the added child category - if you do that the parent category becomes redundant and should be removed - cheers SatuSuro 14:03, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

I am very sorry to bug you but I am really bothered by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:19th_century_in_Russia - I cannot understand why you wish to over-categorise? 19 Century in Russia is already in the categories - by adding the extra categories you are creating complex parallel trees with no clear single line but extra inter-twining - what is the need for them? Could you possibly show me a link in policy or guidelines that back up your current additions - if so I will cease this. If you dont, I am assuming you are not au fait with the general principle of categorisation and the importance of simple parent-child relationships - what I see is a potential nightmare for someone in the future to unravel and cleanup - cheers and thanks if you can in fact reply with good examples of why and how it works the way you are doing it SatuSuro 10:45, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

Re Category:19th century in Russia, that category already existed and so did several individual years eg Category:1821 in Russia, Category:1861 in Russia. So I added extra individual years for 19c Russia, and the links via "Years of the 19th Century in Russia" which is also a standard category for those countries like Russia which have years grouped by century. Looking at Europe, about half of the European countries have years grouped by century, and so Russia is one of the countries in Category:Years of the 19th century in Europe ie with Category:Years of the 19th century in Russia. Some countries just have the equivalent of just "Years in Russia" instead (eg Yugoslavia, Yemen, Uganda, Vietnam; so Category:20th century in Vietnam does not include individual years eg Category:1999 in Vietnam); while some countries group years by decades (eg Zimbabwe) which is unnecessary but difficult to avoid after it has been started. Apart from that I was adding to Russia Year XXXX in Asia as well as Year XXXX in Europe, which was missing from many of the earlier years.

Re Category:Mausoleums it is a subcategory of Category:Monuments and memorials. I added Categories for Mausoleums in UK & USA where there are a significant number of them, and removed them from the parent Mausoleums category, ie in general articles don't appear in the parent AND child category (though there seem to be exceptions). But I note that some articles appear twice (in parent & child) eg Bibi Pak Daman is both in Category:Mausoleums and Category:Mausoleums in Pakistan, as previously put in by the author not by me - is this what you are objecting to for Mausoleums? Hugo999 (talk) 12:12, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for that - please understand I am always impressed by your work - its just that I have had encountered in the Indonesian project where it appears that parent and child cats occur - and I get very very nervous - when I see the additions to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Years_of_the_19th_century_in_Russia - at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category%3AYears_of_the_19th_century_in_Russia&action=historysubmit&diff=378812255&oldid=367711389 as if we look at  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:19th_century_in_Russia - it is already in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:19th_century_in_Europe... so we have one set of additions that are being repeated - I personally never add (and usually remove) such additions - as there is a convolution! if you get my drift - there are possibilities of entanglements.

No big deal in the end - its just my sense of tidiness of single stream/flow/trees of category links goes beserk where I see possibly complications of parent child cats sitting more than one place in a tree. Thank you - the mausoleum analogy is correct - my apology if I inferred your hand and where it was someone else - and thanks for pointing out your action. SatuSuro 12:28, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

Re Mausoleums, look at Mazar-e-Quaid which is in FOUR Mausoleum categories. But see also Category:Bridges in Maryland which includes all the bridges in subcategories. Saves needing to check all subcats as well I suppose - and there is a standard symbol to indicate this. And there are one or two more countries like Uzbekistan with two or three Mausoleums which could have a subcat "Mausoleums in Uzbekistan" though not for the odd country with only one? Hugo999 (talk) 12:45, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

Yup -looks like some cleaning up there - going in now - thanks for the link!! as for Uzbek - I'll pass on that one while i wreack havoc in the Pakistan ones first - thanks again SatuSuro 12:50, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

Nah the more I look at it I reckon adding -  Years of the 21st century in Europe  Years of the 21st century in Asia - to anything regardless is the wrong bottle of beer - whether turkey or russia - as there are category trees that it really cuts across the logic of why they are there - but I have said my bit for the moment - cheers and over and out SatuSuro 13:16, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

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Categories
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More things Dunedin
I've done a bit of reading of old newspapers to try and understand what was going on. It's described in some detail on Dunedin and Suburbs South. Would you mind having a look what details are recorded for James Paterson (New Zealand) in Wilson? Going by what I've read, he probably wouldn't have resigned, but was elected for City of Dunedin (in Nov 1862) and his seat got simply transferred to Dunedin and Suburbs South.  Schwede 66  05:03, 26 August 2010 (UTC) See dates on articles' Discussion page Hugo999 (talk) 04:37, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

Transport in Asia
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