User talk:Vignaux

Nicely said to Daniel. Danny

Hi Vignaux. Just in case you're wondering why I completely rewrote your bright article, it's because the article as you wrote it was likely to quickly draw fire for being an idiosyncratic idea, unknown by most people. Quite likely, it would have been listed on VfD within hours. When I read up on the idea, it struck me as being too good to waste like that, so I rewrote it into a form which is much more likely to be kept.

Wikipedians are instantly hostile to weird ideas they haven't heard of. To defuse some of that hostility, when you write about strange ideas you should:


 * Try to make the article stylistically perfect: see Manual of style. Otherwise the style becomes a kind of strawman.
 * Make the popularity of the idea explicit. Do not try to make it sound more important than it is.

-- Tim Starling 07:13 23 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Maori
Hello, Vignaux. Another Wellington region pensioner, I presume? And more likely to write for the Latin Wikipedia than the Maori one, I guess. Anyway, in case you're interested: As I've said to some other Kiwis, the reason I've been doing less for the English WP in the last 6 weeks is here: the fledgling Maori Wikipedia, which is mostly my articles at present. I would be pleased if you had a look at its current state; it may inspire something even if you don't speak the language! Kind regards - Robin Patterson 06:16, 24 May 2004 (UTC)

Shoreham
I see you added Lullingstone to the above article: it is in fact in the parish of Eynsford, so I have moved it there. Peter Shearan 09:52, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Category:Wikipedians in New Zealand
Hi, You might want to consider adding User NZ res to the top of your user page, which will add you to this category automatically and also add a nice graphic. Or simply add which will have the same effect. If you want to help find fellow kiwis Click on this link which will find all users who have "zealand" on their user page. I have done a few, but there are many more to do. Obviously don't just add it to everybody, read their user page to see if they actually live in NZ. Onco_p53 01:11, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Auckland meetup
Just to let you know that a meetup is planned in Auckland for the 25th of June (see Meetup/Auckland for more details), and that you are cordially invited. GeorgeStepanek\talk 00:21, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

stone henge
why did you revert me? i wanted to make it in line with the NPOV policy. -- General Cui 21:13, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
 * The construction sequence is hardly contraversial. It has been known for many years. NPOV is used to balance contraversial views. Please dont take this personally! Vignaux 06:18, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Apollo 11
Be careful of reverting without checking what you're reverting. In this edit you actually were reverting an edit that corrected vandalism; that is, you inadvertently re-vandalized the article! TJRC (talk) 07:24, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
 * my mistake. Vignaux (talk) 19:35, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Victoria University of Wellington alumni
I notice you reverted the edit where I removed some people from the alumni list on Victoria University of Wellington. Note that there are rules about who can be on these lists, as per Namechecking. You're welcome to write pages for these people first (if they truely are notable) and then add them. Stuartyeates (talk) 09:32, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

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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)