User talk:Nzwj

Welcome!

Hello, Nzwj, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Adabow (talk · contribs) 06:41, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
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Suburbs of Hamilton
Hi Nzwj - it's great to see so many new articles on Hamilton suburbs (it's an area that's been missing from the NZ geography articles), so thank you for making them... One slight quibble, though - please check the New Zealand naming conventions before you make any more! I've just moved all the ones that should have been at XXX or XXX, New Zealand - they should only have been at XXX, Waikato if there are other places in NZ with the same name. Cheers, (and keep up the good work :) Grutness...wha?  23:06, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
 * No problem - better to have the articles there and move them than not have them there at all! :) Hope you enjoy it here on WP. Grutness...wha?  23:25, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
 * No, don't worry - I've done all that! Changing a page's title is much simpler than making new pages, you simply click on the "move" tab at the top of the page and give the page a new name (not sure whether that's something that new Wikipedians can do though - there could be a 'breaking-in period before you're allowed to move pages). In any case, the only hassle with it is changing any links ion other pages, and for the most part there's no problem there, since the old page name becomes a redirect anyway. Grutness...wha?  23:32, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

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New Challenge for Oceania and Australia
Hi, WikiProject Oceania/The 10,000 Challenge and WikiProject Australia/The 5000 Challenge are up and running based on The 10,000 Challenge which has currently produced over 2300 article improvements and creations. The Australia challenge would feed into the wider region one and potentially New Zealand could have a smaller challenge too. The main goal is content improvement, tackling stale old stubs and important content and improving sourcing/making more consistent but new articles are also welcome if sourced. I understand that this is a big goal for regular editors, especially being summertime where you are, but if you'd like to see large scale quality improvements happening for Oceania and Australia like The Africa Destubathon, which has produced over 1700 articles in 5 weeks, sign up on the page. The idea will be an ongoing national editathon/challenge for the region but fuelled by a series of contests to really get articles on every province and subject mass improved. The Africa contest scaled worldwide would naturally provide great benefits to Oceania countries, particularly Australia and attract new editors. I would like some support from existing editors here to get the Challenges off to a start with some articles to make doing a Destubathon worthwhile and potentially bring about hundreds of improvements in a few weeks through a contest! Cheers.♦ --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:12, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

Women in Red World Contest
Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!

Invitation to an in-person meetup in Mohua / Golden Bay
Thinking about your summer break? Think about joining other Wikipedians and Wikimedians in Golden Bay / Mohua! Details are on the meetup page. There's heaps of interesting stuff to work on e.g. the oldest extant waka or New Zealand's oldest ongoing legal case. Or you may spend your time taking photos and then upload them.

Golden Bay is hard to get to and the airline flying into Tākaka uses small planes, so we are holding some seats from and to Wellington and we are offering attendees a $200 travel subsidy to help with costs.

Be in touch with Schwede66 if this event interests you and you'd like to discuss logistics.  Schwede 66  09:14, 13 November 2023 (UTC)