User talk:Piopiotahi

Welcome![edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia, Piopiotahi! I am Intelati and have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. Thank you for your contributions. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page or by typing {{helpme}} at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Talktome^(Intelati) 02:48, 16 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Roads[edit]

You could add your references to the Haast-Hollyford road. Just a second, I'm comparing the two articles.--Talktome^(Intelati) 03:06, 16 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm... It's a tie. your article has it's strengths along with the other. Work on combining the two. Combine your content in to the structure of the other. One thing that hurts your article is that it is in a list form other than a prose form.--Talktome^(Intelati) 03:13, 16 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I created Haast-Hollyford road after deciding on the best name not knowing that you were working on one in your sandbox. I saw no reason to search user namespace for such an article. I have been writing a number of NZ environment articles and this one was long overdue. I renamed Haast-Hollyford Highway (World Heritage Highway) to Haast-Hollyford Highway since the original name was inaccurate. I would like to see some of the work that you have done merged into the article that I had created. Some of the other stuff does not have a direct bearing on the topic. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 22:34, 16 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Alan. As you probably know I am a first timmer at Wikipedia and it has been rather daunting for me. I live in the area and have taken a great interest in this subject and felt that something should be done so as to record in chronological order the events that have taken place. My reason for using the words World Heritage Highway was simply that is what it has been refered too as I have shown/recorded in many places. The route after all traverses A World Heritage Park. However I don't have a problem there and I don't want to make an issue out of it. This is a new language to me and I don't want to upset anybody.

I can see that Wikipedia editing can be daunting. I have been an editor for over six years and I have learnt a lot about it over that time. It has grown immensely and become more bureaucratic making it harder to learn from scratch. You are right in documenting what has happened in that area historically. With respect to "World Heritage Highway" is have not seen that in used commonly in relation to the proposed road. It will pass through a World Heritage Site and the World Heritage status is used as a selling point for construction the road but that is not a basis for an article name. There is WP policy concerning article names.

As long as you are civil you generally won't upset anyone.

When editing be careful with spelling, do not add opinion and make sure things are referenced. Having a spell checker in your browser is a great help. Also, make yourself familiar with the Manual of Style.

In future it you want to pre-empt someone creating an article while you work on a sandbox version you could create a stub article of the most obvious name with redirects of the less obvious ones to it. Then, if you place it on your watchlist you can see if anyone else it working on the same topic. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 03:32, 17 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Alan for your help. Could I ask for your assistance here. On two occasions I have successfully inserted two of my own photos from my computer. However at the third insertion, it won't completely download because I seam to have given the wrong "license details". Where have I gone wrong ?

You probably gave an incorrect licence. It has to be a fair use or free licence. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 22:55, 17 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]