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Yangtze River bridges and tunnels
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Ways to improve Luojiao River Bridge
Hi, I'm Rarkenin. ShakyIsles, thanks for creating Luojiao River Bridge!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. Very nice article. Thanks for the contributions! Rarkenin (talk) 18:35, 8 December 2012 (UTC)

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Yangtze River bridges and tunnels
Dear ShakeyIsles, I see that you have made substantial contributions to Yangtze River bridges and tunnels including the creation of individual articles for many of the bridges and tunnels and the conversion of parts of the main table that I created two years ago into separate tables with images embedded and coordinates added. I welcome improvements to this subject area and want to commend you for the excellent work you have done. I would like to point that in your creation of separate tables for the Chongqing and Hubei sections of the river, you have made what was once a single-sortable table into non-sortable. This change may have been inadvertent but is significant to the article. A sortable table allows readers not only to see all of the information listed but to manipulate the information for different purposes. For example, the sortable table allows bridges to be ranked by when they were built, their length and type. With separate tables, the ability to gain new insights from the same data is lost. I do not think it would be difficult to recombine the tables you have created into one main sortable table. All it takes is to re-insert of one narrow column for order and another for province. The location and carries column could be made narrower to create the space. Thank you for your attention. ContinentalAve (talk) 04:22, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the comments. I moved the discussion over to Talk:Yangtze River bridges and tunnels and have replied there. ShakyIsles (talk) 04:01, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

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Wuhan Baishazhou Yangtze River Bridge
Hi, just saw what you have done to this page. The full and official name of this bridge is Wuhan Baishazhou Yangtze River Bridge, not just Baishazhou Bridge. See in Chinese. Baishazhou (zh:白沙洲) is a common name in China, referring to any island with white sand. If you have contradicting source, please provide them here. Otherwise please undo what you have done. Same thing goes with Wuhan Junshan Yangtze River Bridge and any other bridges you have renamed to a shorter one. See. --Howchou (talk) 04:50, 14 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the comments. I moved the discussion over to Talk:Wuhan Baishazhou Yangtze River Bridge and have replied there.ShakyIsles (talk) 00:57, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

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Things are getting completely out of hand at the Red Peak article on the similar designs subsection. We now have two flags that, in my opinion, do not meet the notability requirements. You and others were right, the similar designs is a bottomless pit. I am prepared to create a new article for the Home flag, since that was the Morgan Foundation winner and a Top 40 flag, and to delete the Rise and Bonds of New Origin content.

But the problem is that I am busy with graduate school and need help from the community. We need to write the public debate section as you suggested, and this can incorporate the bit about Peak Engineering. I fear that, gradually, we are losing control of the process. When available, I have been working on adding content to the history section, such as on the bill information and passage, but this is still unfinished.

Inclusing on this as well. Thanks everyone! Sgvrfjs (talk) 00:38, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

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About cricket records
Hi. I appreciate your contributions in cricket articles. Here, I have a proposal. There are so many new articles on the way for create. Head-to-head records of Test cricket teams Sample Link is there.. http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/stats/index.html?class=1;filter=advanced;orderby=start;size=200;team=8;template=results;type=bowling;wicketsmin1=5;wicketsval1=wickets
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 * To create template and articles on five-wicket takers of all teams on sample of cricket centurions template Template:Cricket five-wicket takers

And also, You have created the page of New Zealand Twenty20 International records under the name List of Twenty20 Cricket records for New Zealand. But, I must say that all the records of other nations were created under the name List of Sri Lanka T20 International cricket records, List of Pakistan Twenty20 International cricket records, etc. So, it is good to create articles with the accepted name types. Do not create article citing "for New Zealand" ..etc. Hope you will co-op with us to create articles. Cheers. Gihan Jayaweera (talk)

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Shag River
Hi ShakyIsles - I've moved the articles on the two Shag Rivers (your new article and the existing one) to Shag River (Fiordland) and Shag River (Otago). in the first one you'd got a misplaced comma which was causing problems, and it's better to name it for its general area rather than for the island. In the case of the Otago one, the NZ naming convention is to list places by their region if there's a need to dab, and only to use the district if there are two within the same region. Thanks for the new article! Grutness... wha?   13:55, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

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Moving NZ articles to dual names
Hi ShakyIsles. I noticed you've been moving a lot of NZ place articles to their dual names, in what I hope is simply a misreading of the guidelines at NCNZ. Moving a page to a dual name should be supported by the dual name's common use per WP:COMMONNAME. The guideline does not support moving pages based on any official use.

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 * You may be able to find some references at Papers Past. See this newspaper search although the first few entries appear to relate to the Māori-language word rather than the locality. The top of the search page also offers searches of magazines and parliamentary papers which might also be relevant.


 * I was going to offer to take a photo for you, as I'll be passing through Oio (Upper Retaruke Road junction) in a few weeks, but Google informs me that although it's only 25 km further to Whakahoro, it will take 85 minutes each way, and although I'd love to explore in that area I won't have the time to do so.- gadfium 19:59, 29 June 2021 (UTC)


 * We have a likely photo on commons: File:Retaruke River from Whakahoro Bridge.jpg. took the photo so may be able to help with the draft. There are also some photos on Flickr. Most are not under a free license, but many people when asked will happily relicense a photo under CC-BY so it can be used on Wikipedia. - gadfium 20:52, 29 June 2021 (UTC)


 * I've added some photos. Ruapehu Heritage list says the school was built in 1946 - https://www.ruapehudc.govt.nz/repository/libraries/id:2dyphjrmg1cxby65trfv/hierarchy/sitecollectiondocuments/district-plan-and-resource-consents/operative-district-plan/Z%20-%20App4%20-%20Heritage%20Buildings%20and%20Sites.pdf. Johnragla (talk) 19:36, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

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Thanks for yoiur fixes at Tutaekuri River and Waiohiki. I mistakenly added macrons to Tutaekuri River on the Waiohiki page because I saw that the article for the river had macrons in the name. And I assumed that either the name wasn't updated, or someone removed the macrons, because apparently some people on Wikipedia don't like to use them in articles for NZ places. But thanks again for your fixes. Michael60634 (talk) 00:03, 22 February 2023 (UTC)


 * No problem, I'd done the same earlier this week. The page was under the incorrect name with the macrons. ShakyIsles (talk) 00:23, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

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Kia ora ShakyIsles, thanks again for doing the maps for the marine reserve page and sorry that it took so long for me to suss the rest of it out! In the process, I've just noticed that some of the maps for a few of the reserves include the land of islands they're surrounding, rather than just the water and stopping at the shore. How difficult do you think it'd be to exclude the land from the maps, given that presumably the paths all exist already? I'm happy to try and give it a shot myself if you reckon it'd be straightforward enough, or if you have time and were willing to do it that'd be awesome too! Turnagra (talk) 04:44, 22 July 2023 (UTC)

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wrt Maungatautari as there was significant history of a copyright infringement about 15 years ago historically in the subject matter you shifted which required a cleanup I thought it advisable to add template:copy to the talk pages. ChaseKiwi (talk) 21:14, 23 April 2024 (UTC)