User talk:Andrewrutherford

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I wasn't actually experimenting, I thought it would be a good change to make.

Hi, please remember to sign your posts with four tildes. I have added the standard welcome message to your talk page; hopefully it will help you familiarize yourself with WP. KillerChihuahua^?!? 09:10, 22 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Verifiability

Andrew, it would be appreciated if you could hold off from making changes to the policy pages. In the case of WP:V, the changes contradicted the rest of the policy. We only publish what reliable sources have published. We don't use "truth" as our criterion, because everyone disagrees on what is true on any given point. So our policy is that if e.g. the London Times says it, we publish it and cite them. SlimVirgin ^(talk) 10:50, 22 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Libel

Thank you for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and it has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Steve block Talk 10:40, 26 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fan Death

I point out to you that the other four quotes in the article are representative of the scientific consensus on the subject. Almost all experts in the field classify it as an urban legend, and not doing so is lending undue weight to the POV that fan death is a real phenomenon, and that lending undue weight to a minority position is against Wikipedia's Neutral Point of View policy. --Kuzaar^-T-C- 12:49, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Even so, if you read the first quote carefully, note that he categorically disbelieves in the phenomenon of fan death, thinking that it is, at worst, a contributing factor to the death of people with far more serious problems. That is the reason that I strongly believe that the article should refer to fan death- that is, death for which the fan in the room is the primary cause- as an urban legend. --Kuzaar^-T-C- 12:27, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Kim Ki-duk

Most of the text in those versions was copied from [1]. - Bobet 13:54, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Transport in Milford Sound

Read the reference - I will not reference every single sentence with a seperate tag, the GHD report is already linked 14 times. MadMaxDog 06:15, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Milford Sound Airport

Hello Andrew,

Nice to see you working on here. Thanks for creating the Milford Sound Airport page. I did a couple smaller fixes and wikifications. Can I ask a couple additional questions?

Is that the official name? Not "airfield"/"aerodrome" or something? Just checking.
Do you have any official statistics in terms of flight numbers? I already tried to dig up stuff for my work on Transport in Milford Sound, but managed to find nothing. I heard that in fact it would be one of the busiest airports in New Zealand...
Can you provide a few more references? Such as for the first landing, and for the runway data ect... I was gonna stick a {{moresources}} tag on it, but that would have been a bit rude, seeing that I could just ask you as well...

Ingolfson 11:34, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Shelling of Yeonpyeong merger

You are supposed to discuss it, not just remove the tag.Mztourist (talk) 08:34, 23 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

They are all major current events when they happen, it is too early to say whether or not this will develop into something bigger or if this is the end of things. As I said in the tag, apart from more details of the actual shelling, the page is mostly a rehash of information already contained on the NLL page. The tag should stay for now, Wikipedians can discuss and then a decision can be made at a later date on whether or not it should be merged. RegardsMztourist (talk) 09:01, 23 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Arthur Barnett

Hi there, if you are interested in possibly writing a biography about a Dunedin personality, then I invite you to have a look at these thoughts. Schwede 66 19:01, 29 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel

Are you sure that on this pictures is RQ-170 Sentinel. In my information is Lockheed Martin Polecat.--Tokyotown8 (talk) 22:48, 4 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Polecat was shown at the 2006 Farnborough Airshow but X-45 was never in Farnborough--Tokyotown8 (talk) 00:16, 5 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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A barnstar for you!

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	I will subscribe your own website！ Cheers， Desmond DesmondZHANG (talk) 02:42, 11 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"the largest being Dunedin then Auckland" Thames, New Zealand

I notice that this statement has been in the Thames article for around ten years. It looks as if you put it in there. If you had said that Dunedin was the most significant city in the country at that time it would not have bothered me. I am a Wellingtonian. I have always understood that though it may have been very poor and disorganised Auckland was always the largest settlement. Can you provide a citation for your claim? — otherwise it has to go doesn't it. Eddaido (talk) 03:58, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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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)[reply]