User talk:PatricKiwi

Your edit to Wharariki Beach on 14th November, 2020
I couldn't help but notice you removed a reference that you declared "inappropriate". You correctly identified a reference that was out-of-place, but inappropriate is not the correct adjective.

I believe a correct adjective would be "unnecessary".

-- Jayden Parker (talk) 10:22, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
 * No, it really was "inappropriate". It was a 'note' that was formatted as a reference, but it wasn't a reference at all.PatricKiwi (talk) 08:07, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

My IPv6 address has been blocked for a bogus reason

 * @User:SQL: So what? I'm a (logged-in) user, not an IP.  Why should you care that I happen to be using a Hurricane Electric tunnel to get IPv6? PatricKiwi (talk) 13:30, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
 * This is explained here, and here. It is in order to protect the project due to how frequently Colocation / webhosts are abused. !ɘM γɿɘυϘ ⅃ϘƧ  22:23, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
 * @User:SQL: But how could I 'abuse' Wikipedia if I'm a logged-in user? I can (possibly) understand blocking such addresses for IPs, but not for logged-in users.  (In any case, I don't think my IPv6 address - via the Hurricane Electric tunnel - ever changes.)  This feels like abuse of power to me.  PatricKiwi (talk) 06:49, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
 * This block likely is not addressed directly at you. Open, anonymizing proxies like, and including he's service have historically been heavily abused per the checkuser logs. Socking / undeclared paid editing rings / serial harassers / etc, while logged in, and logged out. Literally anyone with administrative access to a pc can set up a tunnel, and use it to change their IP at will, ad infinitum. !ɘM γɿɘυϘ ⅃ϘƧ  07:01, 13 June 2021 (UTC)

Moving Puriri
Hi PatricKiwi; I was just wondering why you chose to move Puriri to its Latin name. FLORATITLES says to use scientific names "except when a plant has an agricultural, horticultural, economic or cultural role or use that makes it more prominent in some other field than in botany" which surely applies with pūriri, a popular garden/timber tree and most-commonly known by its Māori name (as it is throughout the article). All NZ native trees should probably be moved to their Māori names, by this criterion. (And if they do they should use macrons too, since that's what reliable sources seem to have switched to.) —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 21:59, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
 * The exceptions listed are plants that are very well known in the English-speaking world outside botany: "apple, flax, rose". This doesn't come close.  As far as I can tell, the page for every other New Zealand native tree/plant in Wikipedia is titled with its scientific name, including several (e.g., Agathis australis, Podocarpus totara) that are far more well known. PatricKiwi (talk) 23:46, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

St Arnaud
Hi PatrickKiwi - The two pronunciations of Saint Arnaud were explained in one of those "small town NZ" magazine segments on TVNZ News the other night... but they don't seem to put them on their website, dammit. Grutness... wha?   02:22, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

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Re: Ettrick
Hi PatricKiwi - first, my apologies, I hadn't noticed that the origin of Ettrick's name was listed further down the page. But, grammatically, "similarly named town" is correct, even if the names are identical. "Same named town" us ungrammatical, as "same" is not an adverb. Grutness... wha?   00:59, 18 December 2022 (UTC)

Horses and cyclists
Today, I've learned that horses' age are determined the same way as those of competitive cyclists. I wasn't sure whether my edit was a true correction but thought that I would find out if the age had been correct. Thanks for the lesson!  Schwede 66  06:08, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
 * You check their teeth? - gadfium 06:23, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
 * FYI, the equivalent date in the Southern Hemisphere (including NZ) is the 1st of August. SH racehorses have their birthdays then. PatricKiwi (talk) 06:52, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

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