User talk:TakakaCounty

Welcome to Wikipedia!
 - Welcome-

Former Counties
Hi there, It is good to see someone creating articles on former counties of New Zealand. There is one thing, however, that I have changed on two or three of your articles already: Because a county was a Territorial Authority, I think the "currently part of" entry in the infobox should be the current Territorial Authority rather than the region. Hence what was Akaroa County is now part of Christchurch city.

BTW, when I have time, I am visiting the library to go through the New Zelaand Gazette, finding references for proclamations. (I'm up to 1877 so far, mainly with boroughs). dramatic (talk) 23:55, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Sometimes I couldn't find the TA easily, and sometimes I didn't know whether the county fully was located within the TA. I also have to closer look into the template, don't understand all the variables. Something with successor and predecessor should be possible. BTW: Full dates in the county listing would be nice preferably in YYYY-MM-DD format, so the listing is still easy to read. TakakaCounty (talk) 09:40, 16 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Good work on this. Glad to see that this tedious work is being tackled. As for the stub tag, can I suggest that the appropriate regional geo stub is more appropriate rather than ? This category has a list of them. I've changed Akaroa and haven't looked at your other articles, but are assuming that the same applies there.  Schwede  66  23:51, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
 * If I always knew the region... Did you ever work with "subst:"? I would like to create stubs for all counties and it is faster if via subst PAGENAME the name would be inserted. Also: The Template:Infobox former subdivision does not seem to be well maintained. And it does not seem practical. Is there any general territory-template that accepts the variable "disestablished" - that could make it automatically a "former" country subdivision. TakakaCounty (talk) 10:56, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Regarding regions, I once worked with User:LJ Holden on a map for the Provinces of New Zealand. Maybe it would be useful to have a map for the 1966 counties – I'd talk to Lewis about that. Given that you found the PDF of a map, this should be straightforward. And once that is done, Lewis could simply overlay the current regional boundaries and you'd have that aspect nailed.

Regarding substitution, try the following in your userspace and see if it works:


 *  was one of the counties of New Zealand on the South Island.

Regarding the infobox, I don't know. I hope this helps! And don't hesitate to ask if you have further queries.  Schwede 66  20:27, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
 * The subst:- worked well and I created some more county articles. Too bad I am blocked indefinitely, would have liked to create one for every county. Best regards and thanks for your help. TakakaCounty (talk) 23:31, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot
You have received these suggestions because we are currently running a study to see if SuggestBot is helpful for newly registered Wikipedia editors. Normally SuggestBot only makes suggestions for users who ask for them explicitly on the SuggestBot request page. We will not post suggestions on your talk page again unless you ask for them. Participation in the study is voluntary. Should you wish to not participate in the study, or have questions or concerns, you can find a complete consent form with contact information on the SuggestBot Study page.

SuggestBot picks the articles you might be interested in based on the articles you've edited and using a number of different techniques: following links from them to other articles, matching articles based on their content, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedia users. It tries to recommend only articles that others have marked as needing work, such as stub articles that need to be made longer, clean-up articles that need writing help, and so on. Your contributions make Wikipedia better -- thanks for helping.

If you choose to participate we encourage you to leave feedback on these suggestions, which you can most easily do here by editing your user talk page. We'll stop by later to read them.

Regards,, project researcher and SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot (talk) 19:50, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

Cape Brett Peninsula
This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Cape Brett Peninsula, and it appears to include material copied directly from http://www.fotopedia.com/en/Cape_Brett.

It is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article. The article will be reviewed to determine if there are any copyright issues.

If substantial content is duplicated and it is not public domain or available under a compatible license, it will be deleted. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material. You may use such publications as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. See our copyright policy for further details. (If you own the copyright to the previously published content and wish to donate it, see Donating copyrighted materials for the procedure.) CorenSearchBot (talk) 19:59, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Block, defamation and libel by User:Blurpeace
__NOINDEX__ Blurpeace  20:59, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
 * This is libel! TakakaCounty (talk) 23:28, 26 August 2010 (UTC)


 * I provided some comment above. When I arrived at this talk page and saw the rather recent welcome notice, I looked at the edit history. I was most surprised to see a brand new account doing rather advanced things on Wikipedia. My thoughts at the time were that somebody has been an anon for a long time before getting an account.  Schwede 66  02:00, 27 August 2010 (UTC)