User talk:Rangi

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I hope you enjoy being a Wikipedian on en:! Drop us a note at New user log so we can meet you and help you get started. You can also leave me questions at my talk page. +sj +   Monday, July 29,  UTC

Kia ora
Kia ora, e Rangi! Great to have you on board. I hope your teachers can fix anything in WP that they see is wrong. Robin Patterson 22:54, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Ummm
if u stop vandalising MY user page i'll stop BJADAONing YOUR user page k...g? yeah...kthx

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28/3/05
Why is it that non-neutral facts against Israel are not POV and neutral facts in third person point of view giving both sides are POV? You should either give both sides or have 2 seperate articles. Your Anti-Israel views or so hypocrtical. When I write so-called "POV" views I try to make it neutral giving both sides not taking sides but you think being NPOV automatically means Arabs are right and Israel is wrong.

I don't see how changing Baruch Goldstein to remove all instances of "massacre" and changing references of Hebron as a Palestinian city to a "mostly Arab populated" one is you making the viewpoint more balanced as opposed to spreading pro-Israeli propaganda, but you can believe what you want.--FarQPwnsJoo 06:03, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Aotearoa is at stake
Wikipedia Maori needs you, bro!

Two months ago I thought you might be the shot in the arm that it deserved, but not yet eh? You can surely give us a few words about mi:Waikato and mi:Akarana. Or get your classmates and teachers onto it?

E noho ra. Robin Patterson 08:30, 10 May 2005 (UTC) (This message will not self-destruct)

Source needed for Image:Tieinterceptor.jpg
Hi FarQPwnsJoo, I tagged this image with the no source tag because it currently does not list any source information. Can you please provide a source for this image (URLs would be preferable) so that we can appropriately tag the image? Thanks, &mdash; EagleOne\Talk 03:30, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

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Image Tagging Image:FN Scar Light.jpg
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Persian people
Could you take a look at the first sentence in this section? It claims that Persians are descendants of some "Aryan tribes" migrating from Central Asia. Sounds like outdated racial theories to me. The same source (Britannica) says Persians are of mixed ancentry, but when I try to add this in people remove it. I don't think this is consistent with WP:NPOV. Could you take a look at this and leave a comment? Thanks, AucamanTalk 06:44, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

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template sryia
Hello Dear ,i need to add syrian Flag to related topic of syria,do you have any idea where i can have template of sryia.Khalidkhoso 20:24, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

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