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May 2007 edition of the WikiProject Germany newsletter

The Germany WikiProject Newsletter Issue I - May 2007
From the editor This is the first issue of WikiProject Germany's newsletter. The newsletter is intended to help all members of the project to keep up with new developments and coordinate new collaborative efforts.	Other areas where you can help Assessment requests: Some open Requests for assessment need to be answered. To see new assessment requests as they come in, you can watchlist the assessment page. More task forces and subprojects: As this WikiProject covers a very large topic area, it is helpful to add more task forces that focus on specific aspects of Germany. Currently, we have a Mainz task force, a Munich subproject and some joint task forces with other WikiProjects. Any project member is invited to start a new task force. Suggestions for possible topics: Transportation in Germany German politics (the political system of Germany and the biographies of its politicians) German Democratic Republic Be creative! If you have an idea, just suggest it on the project talk page (don't forget to watchlist it). Categorization: Uncategorized Germany stubs need to be categorized
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Invercargill Article

Thank you for adding to my Category of Invercargill! I dont edit very much for a few reasons, but I read Wikipedia for a few hours a day! Thank you for fleshing out the category I started.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_transport_in_Invercargill

Dafing 05:11, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

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Seacliff

Hi Nankai. Thanks for your addition. As section 2.10.1 of the reserve management plan says that everything at the old site has been demolished, I have done a bit of rephrasing. Is there also a good way we can reference a connection between the Asylum and the backpackers? The backpackers alone would likely not be notable on its own... Their website is down, BTW. Cheers and happy editing. MadMaxDog 21:14, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

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Lindau

I will look what I have and if necessary I will do some more! Any specialy wish?--Stone 07:24, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

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Good addition to Reading navigation template

I hadn't thought of including a reference to Basal reader in this template! I added a link to Decodable text to go alongside it.  :=)

Best, Rosmoran 00:58, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

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Tourist highway

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Had you considered uploading to Wikimedia Commons? Sfan00 IMG (talk) 22:04, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

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Galleries

Hi Nankai - Thanks for adding more pictures of the Northern busway. Like them, good photography. Admittedly however, I don't like galleries that much - if an article like the Northern busway has twenty images (well, I'm kidding, but there's a lot now) then it feels more like a Commons Gallery, and less like an article which should focus on text (the fact that the galleries have a different layout than a normal article doesn't help). In general, there's a Wikipedia tendency to remove galleries as well, so its not just me.

Would you mind much if we reduced the images on the the article to 3-5 that are standard-layout within the article, and moved the rest into a dedicated category on Commons which was then linked to from the article? Ingolfson (talk) 03:09, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

I have already moved them into the category. If you would prefer a gallery page on Commons, that would be okay too. Ingolfson (talk) 08:04, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

March 2008 edition of the WikiProject Germany newsletter

The Germany WikiProject Newsletter Issue II - March 2008
From the editor This is the second issue of WikiProject Germany's newsletter. The newsletter is intended to help all members of the project to keep up with new developments and coordinate new collaborative efforts. If you think anything should be featured in the next issue, please leave a note at the Newsdesk	Other areas where you can help Assessment requests: Some open Requests for assessment need to be answered. To see new assessment requests as they come in, you can watchlist the assessment page. More task forces and subprojects: As this WikiProject covers a very large topic area, it is helpful to add more task forces that focus on specific aspects of Germany. Currently, we have a Mainz task force, a Munich subproject and some joint task forces with other WikiProjects. Any project member is invited to start a new task force. Suggestions for possible topics: Transportation in Germany German politics (the political system of Germany and the biographies of its politicians) German Democratic Republic Be creative! If you have an idea, just suggest it on the project talk page (don't forget to watchlist it). Categorization: Uncategorized Germany stubs need to be categorized
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Ferries, bridges & canals in Dunedin

Fair enough. I suspect the main Dunedin article will need an overhaul soon, but I'm busy working on articles on the city's individual suburbs at the moment, and it'll be a big job to get the main article looking good. (I'd have replied straight away, but I was halfway through writing Ocean Grove, New Zealand, and wanted to get it "finished"). Grutness...wha? 00:15, 10 May 2009 (UTC) ("Your Grutness"??? Sheesh :)

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Grand Northern/Union

I will design one but it takes time and i can't do it until later this month. Simply south (talk) 20:40, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

WP:CRYSTAL

Re: your edit to my talk page, let's just assume that I Ignored all rules :) Grutness...wha? 23:42, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

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Dn Northern Motorway

Hi Nankai - I see you beat me to starting a Dunedin Northern Motorway article! I've extended the article a bit and added a map - see what you think. Grutness...wha? 10:19, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Re:Geodata/Dunedin suburbs

Hi Nankai - sorry it's taken me so long to answer (that's the problem when there are two new messages on a talk page - I only tend to see the last one, and someone commented shortly after you did). With geodata, I honestly don't know if there's an easy way - I usually leave it to someone else to add the geodata. Perhaps if you had a look at the history of a few articles to see who actually adds the data, and ask them (I think that User:The Anome does a lot of this via a bot, so (s)he may be the person to ask).

As far as the Dunedin suburbs template goes, thanks for the comments. I did consider adding a lot of the outer townships (e.g., Middlemarch, Allanton, etc) but didn't want to make the template too bulky (if they were all added it might well dominate some of the stubbier pages). It might be worth adding a few more than are on there, though.

As to the motorway, I think it's notable enough, and is certainly linked from a fair number of articles - good work :) Grutness...wha? 00:53, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

Re:Merge

Heh. So you saw the letter, huh? The irony is that the original letter that I was replying to was by someone i've known for years in real life - I stayed with Aaron (User:Motorau) and his family when I last visited the Fiordland area. Grutness...wha? 23:08, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Vexing Vexillology

Okay - so you've given yourself away a bit :) Who are you?

As to the flag image, I've got some bad news for you - the image in Wikipedia is officially correct - the United Tribes flag has five-pointed stars and white fimbriation (Busby's 1834 image was amended when it was gazetted in New South Wales in 1835). But the version of the flag most often seen - an unofficial version - has eight-pointed stars and black fimbriation around the smaller cross (which means that the ODT's page 7 image is still wrong!) Ideally we should have both versions on Wikipedia - I'll try to make an image of the unofficial version and add a section on the flag to United Tribes of New Zealand. Grutness...wha? 00:50, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Your name's vaguely familiar - though I'm not in contact much with illustrations. I work mainly from home but my contacts for work I do at the ODT are Nigel Benson and Spencer Morgan, both of whom you probably know. As to the hikoi, yes, they're using the eight pointed-star flag, but with black not white around the smaller cross. I've amended a couple of articles relating to that flag to show both designs and explain why there's a difference. Grutness...wha? 01:51, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Purple Circle

I've honestly never heard that explanation given for the name; it never seemed to me to have any meaning other than the colour of the buses' promotional gimmickry. I'll keep my eyes open for anything and add a reference if I can. Daveosaurus (talk) 11:42, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

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Re: changes to school bus article

I noticed some of the changes you made to the article about school buses and I welcome your efforts, but I also encourage usage of the article's talk page. It can be an excellent source of feedback from other editors when making large changes to an article.SteveCof00 (talk) 11:14, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

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Maria's paintings

Hi Peter - I did take pictures of them all, but most of them are poor quality photos (I simply use them for reference when I'm writing). I can still provide you with copies of all of them if you like, though it might be better for you to take your own photos of them, since most of them are a little blurry. I did take more care with one or two photos, one of which I'll be sending Nigel for the article. James Grutness...wha? 09:25, 4 December 2009 (UTC) (PS - I *knew* the name was familiar from somewhere other than the ODT... :)

ICAO spelling alphabet

Official is ICAO spelling alphabet, maybe you withdraw your WP:RM. Tiraios-of-Characene (talk) 15:00, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

Quiz

Yup sure. Nasty time of day for a quiz (sounds like a late meal when I get home), but yeah, I'll be there. Grutness...wha? 00:23, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Re: big help

James, I want to run a few paragraphs at large font size say 30pt or so) on a (non-Wikipedia) wiki, this is so people with impaired vision can read the text. Is there a good, straightforward way to do this? -thks, Peter

Like this?:) Open this in an edit window to see how it's done. Hopefully it should work on any wiki. Grutness...wha? 05:46, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

Hi Peter - User: Gadfium's added another suggestion on my talk page which you might find helpful. Grutness...wha? 11:25, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

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Mmmmmm. that's a tricky one. It is fairly much in the WP:OR category. It could be cut down and made into a section off Antipodes, but it would need to be cut down a lot for that. An alternative would be to split out the whole "List of Antipodes" section from the Antipodes article into a new article - that would allow for a longer list of NZ ones (and for expanding of ones for other countries). As far as the Wikiethics of it are concerned, I must admit I'm not that strong on them - but reading through the OR link above should give you the main points. Grutness...wha? 22:18, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

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Re: Zealandia

Thanks for that, Peter. Weirdly, there's another connection, as the original model for the woman on the Coat of Arms was very probably my ex's grandmother, Alice Spragg. James Grutness...wha? 21:55, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Yup - daughter of Silas Spragg, and great niece (IIRC) of early ODT bigwig Sir George Fenwick (if I remember it right, Silas married the daughter of George's brother Robert). Alice (my ex) has old family photos of her grandma (who was a well-known figure in both Dunedin and Wellington) with writing on the back which suggests that she was modelling for the image. Not hard-and-fast evidence, but certainly suggestive. Grutness...wha? 05:36, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

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Motorways and Freeways

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Why remove India from expressways? They're called expressways in India, and as such, such a section should exist in the expressways page. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 05:20, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

Expressways as such in India refer to roads which are completely grade separated and offer controlled access, unlike other highways. It's just that Controlled access roads in India, are called Expressways, so it is best to leave it there. Someone comes to look up expressways and doesn't see India, looks funny, especially when you have an article called Indian expressways. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 05:38, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

That can't be helped, an expressway in India is access controlled, so hence they are listed in that article too. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 05:39, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

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A suggestion would be to merge the article into Highland Global Transport. If the firm becomes notable in its own right then an article might be appropriate. NealeFamily (talk) 23:53, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

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Obviously anything planned to happen in the future may not occur. The Next New Zealand general election may not occur, but unless an earth shattering event occurs, it is almost certain it will. In terms of this article, and the services scheduled to be introduced in the next few weeks, ManaBus has announced they will commence and is selling tickets, so unless something dramatic happens, it is almost certain they will commence and thus meet the criteria of point 1 of the crystal ball policy. Big difference from stating that future services may commence, contingent on the success of the initial routes. Mo7838 (talk) 18:48, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

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A long time ago in a land far away (Lindau)

I see you created this article in 2007 and populated the infobox with the coordinates:

|lat_deg = 51 |lat_min = 40 |lat_sec = 57

|lon_deg = 10 |lon_min = 5 |lon_sec = 57

But these are the same coordinates given in the larger merged Katlenburg-Lindau: 51°40′57″N 10°5′57″E

Lindau was significant enough to have its own article (including because of the Max-Planck-Institut für Aeronomie). It seems to me that the coordinates in Lindau ought to be for the town of Lindau. These seem to be closer to: 51°39'17.3"N 10°07'26.7"E (I just chose a major intersection)

Can you think of a reason not to make the coordinates more specifically correct for the subject of the article? Would you know how to get the most correct coordinates for Lindau? Shenme (talk) 08:21, 28 May 2019 (UTC)

• I agree with changing the coordinates. Nankai (talk) 07:43, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

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