User talk:Nzgabriel/Archive 1

This page is an archive of old messages dating from the 28 May, 2006 to 4 May, 2007. Please do not make any changes to this page, if you wish to leave me a message do so here, User talk:Nzgabriel.

Support
I support you for your Accreditation. No one else has been on that page yet. Why? FellowWikiNews 15:19, 28 May 2006 (UTC)


 * But it means I have over 70% ;) nzgabriel 20:02, 28 May 2006 (UTC)


 * That's good. FellowWikiNews 01:42, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia
Is this you on Wikipedia? FellowWikiNews 16:17, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Yes.nzgabriel 19:55, 28 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Why don't you put a link to that on your user page? FellowWikiNews 01:42, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the suggestion, because I have used it. ;) nzgabriel 03:46, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

???
Please do not put awards that you randomly found somewhere on your user page. Use the sandbox instead. FellowWikiNews 18:37, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
 * They're not random images, I got them off the page they are found on (page escapes me). nzgabriel 20:04, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
 * You thinking of this page? R2b2 20:35, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
 * yes.nzgabriel 04:15, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Its generally a good idea to only put Trophys on your page that someone has awarded you. Unless your talking about the I have written blah amount of stories award. You can put thoose on yourself if you fall under the category. user:Bawolff 04:29, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry wrong link. was looking for Trophy. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 01:20, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Optional parametres in leads
There are currently no optional parameters (We're all too lazy to make them optional, and its not really worth the effort). If you want to not put a parameter just put
 * pram=

And it will be blank. Image is required however, see the intro if you can't find a suitable image. Thanks, Happy editing. user:Bawolff 02:25, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Farm dogs will not have to be microchipped in New Zealand - deleting
You put the speedy deletion template on Farm dogs will not have to be microchipped in New Zealand. To delete it I need to know why its listed for deletion. (I notice its a dupe, if all meaningful info's been merged then will do). Thanks Bawolff ☺☻ 23:50, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

article headlines
hi, i've seen u write quite a few NZ articles. i've sometimes changed the article headlines, following the guidelines in style guide. just thought i'd point out those guidelines to u, in case u've not come across them before. Doldrums 06:40, 11 July 2006 (UTC)


 * I've read the style guide in regards to the headlines, I just have trouble thinking of good ones.
 * i know, we all do. Doldrums 06:53, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

International Contribution
Would you like to try this option? It is under test. --Carlosar 11:54, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I may do the occasional one. nzgabriel 00:04, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Re: sources
hi, i added the two sources for them to be used in the article. u r right that sources must not be added, unless they are used. but a guideline is that each article *must* have two or more sources. using a single press release is particularly problematic as it solely reflects the pov of one of the parties involved. so i added a pr from the other involved party and a press report for a more disintersted view. i may not get around to doing much more with the article, so feel free to replace the sources i added, making sure that two or more remain. cheers, Doldrums 09:40, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Okay. nzgabriel 09:47, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks nzgabriel for fixing the Psalm 83 article on Wikipedia. F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)  02:28, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
 * That's alright, but the only thing I don't understand is why it was on the talk page in the first place?! nzgabriel 05:27, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Print
Nice job on the kiwi print edition! one suggestion change the "If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit" on the bottom of each page address to www.wikinews.org.nz, that way people can view, and publish kiwi articles first. Brian | (Talk) | New Zealand Portal 09:38, 30 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Ok, thanks for the suggestion. nzgabriel 19:46, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Image
You can't link Wikinews with an image that was uploaded to Wikipedia. I suggest that you upload it here or at commons. I hope this helps. F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)  12:55, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your help. nzgabriel 19:31, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

NZ Portal "Redesign"
I've been playing around with the NZ Portal page and wanted your feedback on the changes I've made. You can see my design here. --R2b2 07:18, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for asking my feedback ;). I quite liked it, especially the top part with the top story, etc. And thanks for fixing the Browse Wikinews New Zealand section. Maybe increase the top story font? As we say in my TIM (text and information management) class: "graduated emphasis". nzgabriel 07:43, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I like it as well; lets get it live:) Brian | (Talk) | New Zealand Portal 08:23, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I'll leave that up to you, Brain.nzgabriel 08:29, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Made a few other tweaks like bringing in a list of other Oceania stories (although it strangely resembles an Australian portal :) ), and moving the links to the other Oceania sites down to the bottom (as I think that the news is more important than links to other parts of the site - quite happy to put it back up the top if others disagree). I've also increased the Top Story font to make it stand out a bit.


 * I'm wanting to make a change to the New Zealand Intro template (just pretty it up a bit), but I'll wait for that - one thing at a time! :) --R2b2 09:35, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
 * You're a great designer! nzgabriel 10:04, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

NZ Print Edition Logo
Just wondering if its possible for you to create a version of the NZ Print Edition Logo with a transparent background? Basically would be good as it would blend in nicely with the non-white background... --R2b2 05:56, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Okay, will do. nzgabriel 06:21, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Looks good - thanks! --R2b2 22:11, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

New Zealand government unwilling to help Overlander train service
the "wikinews hotline message" listed as an OR source in the article is a reading of a bloomberg article. the wikinews article itself is a copyvio of the bloomberg article as i've tagged. Doldrums 09:01, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
 * ok nzgabriel 09:09, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Edit
I started off trying to get them right-aligned but didn't have much luck so I've done an interim measure. I'm still working on getting them right-aligned and hopefully I'll figure it out soon... (I'm sure its possible - I just have to work out the CSS etc. :) ) --R2b2 10:36, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
 * okay, I noticed you were trying to do it in the test page on your user page.
 * Take a look at my test page again and let me know what you think - the change has had an unfortunate effect on the height of the headings for the lower two boxes but probably a step in the right direction? --R2b2 02:24, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, definitely a right step in the left direction (just a little joke). It's good except for the wrong height headings. Maybe counter the effect by increasing the text size? nzgabriel 02:45, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Right, think I've got it sorted... have another peek... (btw, do you think we should keep the brackets around the change or take them out?) --R2b2 03:24, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Yep, that's great. And yes, I do think the brackets should be removed (I was already thinking about that). nzgabriel 03:45, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Thank You
Thanks for all your New Zealand work. I'm a Yank (wish I was a Kiwi) but New Zealand is a country I have explored/visited and have a great passion for. I enjoy reading anything and everything I can about what's going on and I keep a Yahoo RSS feed for WikiNews just for the New Zealand articles that pop up.

In addition to that I gotta tell you I've converted 3 people to being die hard fans of the All Blacks. I'm so freaking glad they won the cup. I download all the games off the internet as you can't get the Rugby Channel in the States right now.

Anyway, please keep up the good work. I love reading about my "spiritual" homeland. Maybe one day I can be an actual New Zealand citizen (my goal).

Jasenlee 01:26, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
 * You are very welcome, thanks for the thanks. nzgabriel 02:51, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Your RFA
Nice comment, but is that to get more votes? Please correct me if I'm wrong. F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)  03:11, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
 * What do you mean by: "Is that to get more votes"? nzgabriel 03:13, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
 * You said: This user is greatful for my articles on New Zealand stuff. They left a comment on my talk page. F  e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)  03:14, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I was just letting the community know why this user had voted for me even though it is said that it was there third edit. nzgabriel 03:16, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
 * No problem. F  e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)  03:17, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Switcharoo
I can do - although I'm wondering whether we get rid of the "featured story" and have something else... (although the wording alludes me :) ) Whatcha reckon? --R2b2 06:49, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Do you mean like different wording, or actually get rid of the box? If you were to just change the wording then I think that would be alright, depending on what it is. There would have to be a discussion if the box was to be removed. Nzgabriel | My RfA | Talk page 06:51, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Leave the box but reword - I've had a thing up on the discussion page of the portal for a while but don't think anyone reads it! --R2b2 07:28, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Im not sure exactly what you could call it, maybe something like "Most recent news"? Not much ideas. --Nzgabriel | My RfA | Talk page 08:05, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Adminship
Congrats, you are now an admin. If you have any questions let me know --Cspurrier 01:20, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much. It is awesome. --Nzgabriel | NZ Portal | Talk 09:09, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you for voting and a good job on you adminship. too :) Jason Safoutin 05:09, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
 * You too. --Nzgabriel | NZ Portal | Talk 05:10, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Rollback
The "one click" rollback is available when you're looking at a diff for changes. At the top right where it says "current revision" you've a new rollback option. --Brian McNeil / talk 08:12, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks. --Nzgabriel | NZ Portal | Talk 09:09, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Re:Userboxes
Sure, which ones exactly? I don't think I created most of them or any of them! Lol. Plz reply on my talk.58.105.7.119 07:43, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I didn't even make them, so feel free. I used to live in Wellington and Christchurch. Been to Otaki.

Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday :-) --219.88.174.179 05:48, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot! --Nzgabriel | Article list | Talk 05:50, 19 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks Doldrums! --Nzgabriel | Article list | Talk 06:23, 19 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I'll add to that, Happy Birthday! --Brian McNeil / talk 07:09, 19 September 2006 (UTC)






 * Thank you all for your nice words and pictures, see you next year! --Nzgabriel | Article list | Talk 09:25, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi admin
Could you add Category:Al-Qaeda to Terrorism expert says Osama Bin Laden could be dead? Thx. --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 21:03, 23 September 2006 (UTC)]
 * Done. --Nzgabriel | Talk 21:43, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Mafart or Marfart?
in the Rainbow Warior article, can u figure out what the name is, the two sources disagree on this, and 'pedia its says "Mafart". Doldrums 05:38, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
 * We should stick to what our sister projects use, Mafart. And I spoke to one person who agreed that it was spelt Mafart. --Nzgabriel | Talk 05:54, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Overlander
Thanks for the speedy news service... :-)

NevilleDNZ 05:51, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Welcome. I heard on the new bulliten and hurried to find out more. --Nzgabriel | Talk 05:53, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Admin vote
Thanks for supporting my successful admin nomination! I will try to live up to the confidence that's been shown in me. Crimson 17:18, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Good luck. --Nzgabriel | Talk 22:08, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Dates
template:new page may help you with your date problems. user:Bawolff
 * I had already accessed that page, but thanks anyway. The problem is that the New Zealand create an article page also includes source templates and categories, etc so the  tags don't work. I am going to do some work on it in the next few hours. --Nzgabriel | Talk 06:59, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Or not. I have run out of ideas. --Nzgabriel | Talk 07:10, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Take a look at it now, it should automagically create articles with the right day - if I've got your current UTC offset correct. That'll need maintained when you go to/from daylight savings.  --Brian McNeil / talk 09:29, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that, a lot. --Nzgabriel | Talk 09:42, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Template:Al-Qaeda
Please note that the term "terrorist" is POV and should not be used on Wikinews. Hence I have removed this POV word from the template created by you. Please refrain from using this term in future. For further information, see. PVJ(Talk)(Articles I have written) 12:09, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for letting me know. --Nzgabriel | Talk 22:21, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Terrorist is NOT POV if it is attributed to a quote or a source. Al-Qaeda is a terrorist group and is recognized as such by nearly every nation on the planet. Jason Safoutin 22:23, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
 * You should tell PVJ59 that. --Nzgabriel | Talk 22:24, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
 * He has been told and the result of his use of the word terrorist was opposed. If al-Qaeda is not a terrorist group, what are they? Lovable Bunnies? Jason Safoutin 22:32, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Lol. --Nzgabriel | Talk 22:42, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Clarity
I've renamed your most recent article for clarity. The quotation marks in "Clint Brown, TV3 presenter, gives "unsatisfactory" letter of apology" make it clear that it's someone else saying the letter was "unsatisfactory", not us. -- Zanimum 14:09, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks. --Nzgabriel | Talk 00:02, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Your First Award

 * The Wikistar award I give out is for users that I think deserve special recognition by Wikinews editors, especially those not as recognized as others. Thunderhead (talk) 19:59, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Undie Riots
At some stage could you please ammend the dunedin student riots article at New_Zealand_riot_police_use_batons_to_disperse_unruly_pub-crawl to reflect the corrections and comments myself and others placed on the talk page.

Thanks Nzjrs 10:55, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry I am not allowed to edit a protected page. Although I am an administrator and can edit protected pages I am not allowed to make content changes. I may do a follow up story when I get back from holiday over the long weekend. --Nzgabriel | Talk 19:30, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I have made an apology on my user page.
 * Well it was more of just a notice but thanks anyway. It lacked many qualities present in an apology such as justification, or defense for an act or idea (thanks wikipedia definition!). I would still like to voice my opinion that the passing of time does not make this story any more accurate than it was at the time it was written. If you cannot ammend the article because of lack of priviledges then that is a shortcoming of the wikinews organisation. Consider an example where a newspaper publishes an incorrect story; newspapers are unable to go back and change the story, so they issue a retraction or a correction to the story. It seems to me that as this is a wiki a correction shall be possible. I do not wish to be confrontational or argumentative without basis but your apology was neither jsutification nor correction nor explanation. Nzjrs 02:12, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

YouTube videos article
hi, i've made some changes to New Zealand school children put fight videos on YouTube that u may want to check out. also, the date and time when the videos were unavailable need to be filled in. i've also rephrased sentences to remove ur username from the article, as i feel that contributors should "stay out" of reports unless really necessary. note that, a even the Wikinews contributor who conducted the South Korea poll didn't get his name in the article. one thing u can do is to post details of what u checked out on Youtube on the talk page, and perhaps even tag this OR. &mdash; Doldrums(talk) 07:24, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I have added more info and done what you have told me, good now? --Nzgabriel | Talk 07:50, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
 * looks good, thanks! one thing though, the descriptions of the later videos are unattributed, which is ok if u saw them and can confirm they're accurate. o/w they too, need to be sourced, i think. &mdash; Doldrums(talk) 07:54, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
 * All done. (I hope) --Nzgabriel | Talk 08:01, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
 * thanks again for the quick work. :) &mdash; Doldrums(talk) 08:09, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
 * That's alright, nothing else to do but Wikinews and watch TV (have been doing that for the past hour +). --Nzgabriel | Talk 08:53, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

IRC
Hi, I'm getting a "Channel not real" message on IRC from my CGI-IRC client. Is there anything going on with the servers, or is this just on my end? Thanks! Thunderhead (talk) 01:10, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I just loaded the Wikinews chat room with ChatZilla (app) but I am unable to connect via the live chat at the top of each page. So I don't know what is going on. --Nzgabriel | Talk 02:14, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Strange. I'll check it again, but I don't know what could be going on. Thunderhead (talk) 02:17, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

RE: Comp
That sounds good if you want an average. Would this be on a scale of 10? I support it the way you explained it. Thunderhead (talk) 02:20, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Either 10 or 5. (I'll be back later I have to go do some English homework (essay)). --Nzgabriel | Talk 02:23, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh, lucky you! Sounds great! Thunderhead (talk) 02:24, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for pict
Beckett piece greatly enhanced - thank you.Fentonrobb 10:10, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. --Nzgabriel | Talk 18:48, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Article protection.
Just stumbled across an article you'd protected while catching up a bit on the general protection. Are you aware that all archived articles should have the tag added when they are protected? There's also a set of guidelines for performing a last-minute copyedit prior to the protection, I just can't remember where that is. --Brian McNeil / talk 19:18, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Archive conventions. &mdash; Doldrums(talk) 19:19, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh. I didn't know of that, sorry. --Nzgabriel | Talk 02:12, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Note that is new, not everyone is aware of it yet, so don't worry about it to much :) Brian | (Talk) | New Zealand Portal 02:21, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Okay. --Nzgabriel | Talk 02:26, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

US elections
watch out! -, &mdash; Doldrums(talk) 07:48, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I am a NZ citizen ;) --Nzgabriel | Talk 07:53, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Datrio skin
I saw you asked for support for the Datrio skin for the new box on the left hand side. I have customised the skin to work with the new box, and it is available by using: @import url(http://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=User:Skenmy/monobook.css&action=raw&ctype=text/css); instead of the default one. --Skenmy(t•c•w•i) 09:04, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks, works well. Good work. --Nzgabriel | Talk 18:45, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Maybe we should move that to Skins/Datrio.css? that way if you ever want to change your skin, you can do so without breaking others css. Bawolff ☺☻ 18:52, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
 * That's a good idea, tell Skenmy, the one whose CSS that is. --Nzgabriel | Talk 18:54, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Okay, I've switched them. does everything still look okay? (after hard refresh, ctrl+r). Bawolff ☺☻ 19:17, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Yep, everything is fine and dandy. --Nzgabriel | Talk 02:49, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

AWN
Really, try again in a few moments terinjokes User Page / Talk 21:29, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah it's working now, thanks. --Nzgabriel | Talk 22:12, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Adminship thanks
Hi there! I'd like to thank you for your support to become an admin, it's greatly appreciated! -- Zanimum 14:29, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Your completely welcome and I hope you do a better job than I am. --Nzgabriel | Talk 21:48, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Re: My Talk
Yeah, I saw it on Wikipedia. I actually have an account for here but I never log in.58.105.166.71 04:32, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Image speedy deletion
I have submitted an image you uploaded to commons for speedy deletion. . Commons does not allow fair use images, and has a totally different set of policies regarding it then wikipedia (who in turn has a whole different set of policies then we do for local upload). The image was also missing esential source information. If you know the source info, we can upload it locally to wikinews (wikinews has the least strict out of wikipedia, wikinews and commons) via special:upload (proablly). If you happen to know where the image is from, feel free to upload to special:upload (as oposed to commons:special:upload). Bawolff ☺☻ 05:09, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry, don't know where it originated from. --Nzgabriel | Talk 05:16, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Thats okay, I didn't think you did (as you wern't actually the original uploader). Bawolff ☺☻ 05:18, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
 * A couple other things I wanted to mention about the maze of uploading images.


 * Remember to categorize the images, if you upload it to commons
 * Print edditions have to be in
 * Hotline recordings:
 * are PD - they didn't switch with the rest of wikinews. see Hotline
 * They have to be categorized with category:Wikinews Hotline on commons
 * Their equivalent local user page should be tagged with
 * Not everything on wikipedia is GFDL
 * Audio/spoken wikinews has its category too, but I forget what it is. look in the subcats of wikinews. I think your supposed to use commons:template:audio upload for spoken wikinews, as opposed to commons:template:Information but I really don't know all that much about audio policies.
 * Sorry for bomboarding you with this big long list. Uploads are really confusing some times. Bawolff ☺☻ 04:06, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
 * That's quite alright, thanks. --Nzgabriel | Talk 04:41, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Hey,
I wanted to explain, so there won't be a misunderstanding, that it was not my intention to leave the 'pedia wikilink to Cinderella in the Hell Pizza story. My Internet connection was limping along so badly last night that I probably shouldn't have been editting at all. However, I thought that I was good for another edit to the story and would have undone the Cinderella wikilink at time, figuring you would pick up on the subtlety and answer it. My connection fizzled completely before I had the chance.

My worst fear was that you would think I vandalized the story. I do find the Hell Pizza advertising campaign amusing, but that's easy for me to say when it's oceans apart from where I live. In the United States, many might say the ad campaign is "over the top", meaning that it goes too far for some people's tastes.

In any case, thanks for the follow up to a lively story. Best regards. -Edbrown05 03:48, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Ok, thanks for explaining. I also thought that the campaign was very good, innovative, etc. And I am glad that American's are increasing their IQ with New Zealand stories :P --Nzgabriel | Talk 05:06, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Hi, thanks for the notice about the wikinews tr logo... I posted a response in my talk page Towsonu2003 09:16, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Image replacement
hi, I posted a reply to your comment at my talk page :) Towsonu2003 00:44, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Indian Railways tie up with Bombardier Transportation
Snce you are one of the main authors I thought I should get what you were trying to say before I make a request for a protected page edit. - The first sentence of the article says that "The Indian Railways (IR) has tied up with the Canadian transport solutions major Bombardier Transportation to produce electronic freight locomotives in the country for the proposed Rs 22,000-crore dedicated freight corridors on the eastern and western routes." I'm not sure what word you meant by "Crore" and I think by "Rs" you meant "railroad's" JoshuaZ 22:27, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * A crore is a unit of measurement in India . And I think Rs is meant to be rupees, currency in many countries including India . --Nzgabriel | Talk 22:41, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Hmm, I would suggest expanding "Rs" to "rupees" to make that clear and wikilink crore since I doubt many readers will be familiar with the term. JoshuaZ 22:44, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I will do so as I believe it is acceptable, the archive conventions state that a page may be edited for reasons "such as spelling, typos, punctuation and so forth." --Nzgabriel | Talk 22:49, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

#38?
in terms of number of articles written, i think u do a heck of a lot better than 38. &mdash; Doldrums(talk) 05:52, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks! And so do I ;). But sadly the ranking system only counts number of edits on articles only. --Nzgabriel | Talk 06:13, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

 * Thanks a lot! And a very merry Christmas from me to you too. I too feel privileged to be working in Wikinews as an accredited user and admin. --Nzgabriel | Talk 09:15, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
 * By the way, thanks for the page revert! I feel special, now that I'm a common vandalisim target! Thunderhead - (talk) Congrajulations to Kat! 07:33, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
 * That's alright, all in a days work. --Nzgabriel | Talk 07:35, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

 * Merry Christmas to you too, FellowWikiNews. --Nzgabriel | Talk 02:48, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas! Wishing you all the best for the forthcoming year. --Brian McNeil / talk 16:21, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much and merry Christmas to you too. --Nzgabriel | Talk 21:33, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Broken source
Hello Nzgabriel. I've removed a source you added to New Zealand local loop unbundled because the page does not seem to exist, and I could not find the article to fix it. The source is quoted below in case you can find the correct URL. Thanks.  —Pathoschild 21:19, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
 * RNZ and stuff's articles only stay up for a short period of time Brian | (Talk) | New Zealand Portal 20:16, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

MessedRocker's contest
Congrats Nzgabriel for winning MessedRocker's contest, and I'll guess I'll have to dig up my orkut invites. Keep up the great work and keep rolling with the Oceania stories terinjokes | Talk | Come visit the WikiBistro 02:43, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I already sent Nzgabriel an e-mail about this, but this is good, too. ★ MESSED  ROCKER ★  02:44, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Don't worry about currency conversion -- I'll convert it into NZ Dollars for you! ★ MESSED  ROCKER ★  16:34, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Ok, thank you very much! --Nzgabriel | Talk 19:52, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, I was not able to buy a money order or get the currency converted so I sent you American cash. ★ MESSED  ROCKER ★  19:53, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Yay! --Nzgabriel | Talk 03:09, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Nzgabriel, I'll send you an orkut invite as soon as I can re-gain access to my account (my stupid ISP is blocking HTTPRedirects in an attempt to defer cross-site hacks... crippling many login systems) terinjokes | Talk | Come visit the WikiBistro 16:54, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Ok, thanks. --Nzgabriel | Talk 19:54, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

I'd appreciate your feedback...
...on my latest post on WN:AW.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 13:00, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Very nice. Spoke very clear and understandable. Keep up the good work! --Nzgabriel | Talk 23:39, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Auckland Meetup 2 Scheduled - Feb 10 2007
You are invited to Auckland Meetup 2 on the afternoon of Saturday February 10th 2007 at Galbraith's Ale House in Mt Eden. Please see Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland 2 for details. You can also bookmark Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland to be informed of future NZ meetups. Can you let anyone else over here at Wikinews know as well please. - Wikipedia:User:SimonLyall

Consecutive redirects
Hello Nzgabriel. When renaming a story, please remember to check incoming links for consecutive redirects. These are recognizable in the list of incoming links (a link is provided on the post-rename page) as nested lists of redirects:
 * REPORT: Israel planning nuclear strike on Iran (redirect page)
 * Report: Israel planning nuclear strike on Iran (redirect page)
 * Israel announces plans for strike on Iranian nuclear facillities (redirect page)

As you may know, a redirect to a redirect does not work, and leaves the reader on the redirect page (see [ example]). These can be fixed by replacing the link after "#redirect" on all redirect pages with the current story title. There were several double redirects to that story, and even a triple redirect (I've fixed them). :) —Pathoschild 18:19, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Interview with Drake Bell
Hi, I just noticed you posting that you are planning on trying to get an interview with Drake Bell. If you manage to get this (not sure if you have already done this) one question that could be asked is if his music is given freedom to be played in the Nick show, Drake and Josh. --Nzgabriel | Talk 08:59, 10 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the question. Just to clarify, the question would be:
 * Have producers ever considered using your music on the series?
 * The PR people were sounding optimistic, but during the holiday season when I contacted him, he was on tour promoting his album. I'll likely contact them again in a week or so. --  Zanimum 14:33, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Yep that sounds like a good question, hope you do get that interview. --Nzgabriel | Talk 22:20, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Archiving using AWB
Responding to your question to Brian, here's how I would do it -if I had the time. You can use AWB for pre-archiving, just switch on automatic fixes and do all the other things like sorting sources to date, adding more categories, adding archived etc. Once you're tired of that after you've prepared a whole list of stories, it's easy to go to your contributions list, open them one by one, and manually protect them.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 14:45, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Your reply and Brians are basically the same... --Nzgabriel | Talk 22:50, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Looks like you might not have the settings quite right on AWB as you missed a typo.
 * You should have "Apply general fixes", "Unicodify" on the "Set options" tag and "Enable RegexTypoFix" at the bottom of the "more options" tag. --Brian McNeil / talk 15:00, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I will do when I get around to do more archiving. --Nzgabriel | Talk 22:54, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for help
Thanks for helping with the vandalism tonight (or whatever timezone). JeremyBicha 08:11, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I hate that guy, I don't think 24 hours is long enough, what do you think? And yes, it is night time in New Zealand. --Nzgabriel | Talk 08:17, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

I blocked him indefinitely, he's causing too much chaos. He (William G) is a sock of the Mumfum vandal. Thanks for the help though, I'll try and stick around, just in case he pops in again. PVJ(Talk)(Newpages) 11:00, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I didn't realise he was a sock-puppet. Thanks for picking that up. --Nzgabriel | Talk 19:46, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

WikiCast.
You expressed an interest in doing some kind of New Zealand podcast? WikICast has someone possibly to do something from Australia, so the idea was a combined programme.

Can you get back to me on this? (On the WikiCast wiki is preferable) ShakespeareFan00 23:29, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Your picture Image:Sparkler.JPG
If you are the author of the votes by users Mags and JoshNZ, in Featured picture candidates, please strike them out. The picture doesn't really need, or deserves, this kind of atitude. Alvesgaspar 23:15, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
 * They are my sister and friend respectively and I asked them to vote. --Nzgabriel | Talk 23:31, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

congratrs on fp
Bawolff ☺☻ 23:41, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks. --Nzgabriel | Talk 02:55, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

This has been missing for too long...

 * Well thanks for saying I do excellent work, but if you had checked my user page you would have seen that I already have one. But I have added your comment to it ;).--Nzgabriel | Talk 21:51, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

road accidents article
hi, can u take a look at the talk page pls. &mdash; Doldrums(talk) 10:48, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

WikICast: Southern Star...
Hi

Can you get back in touch with the WikiCast project in regard to the NZ podcast thingy?

You might also want to raise Southern Star on the relevant WikiProject noticeboard.

ShakespeareFan00 22:04, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Commons Picture of the Year 2006 Competition
The arrangements for the Commons commons:commons:Picture of the Year 2006 competition are now complete, and voting will start tomorrow, Feb 1st. All commons:commons:Featured Pictures promoted last year are automatically nominated. As a past contributor to commons:commons:Featured Pictures, we invite you to participate in the competition (but please wait until tomorrow to vote). --80.177.86.57 22:41, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Ok, I'll vote. And btw all your links are broken, don't worry, I found the correct place on commons. --Nzgabriel | Talk 01:08, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
 * fixed links. Bawolff ☺☻ 00:00, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks. --Nzgabriel | Talk 04:46, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Wikicast: Southern Star
Boochan has had to withdraw over time constraints..

Are you willing to take over and try and get a pilot programme made ASAP?

Or are there similar time constraints on your side?

Leave a message on my talk page over at WikiCast either way :-)

ShakespeareFan00 13:45, 15 February 2007 (UTC)


 * You should read your talk page at WC, so I don't have to leave msg here ;-)


 * Small problem has arisen though, a name clash with an Australian media

organistion exists, Could you think of alternate name that has no 'conflicts'? ShakespeareFan00 21:50, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

new Zealand infobox
I've modified how the image at bottom link to the nz portal, and I've also centered it (Also to consider is how template:Canadian news aligns its image). Are these changes okay with you? Bawolff ☺☻ 08:03, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Yep, they're fine, I always wondered why it wasn't aligning center, even though as far as I could tell it should have been. Thanks. --Nzgabriel | Talk 08:11, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Your welcome. It didn't align before because of what a crappy hack template:click is. Bawolff ☺☻ 08:17, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

live chat
hi Nzgabriel. I am from pt.wikipedia, and we are trying to set up a personalized web interface for our irc chat channel. it is online on http://wiki-chat-pt.awardspace.com. we used your script for the cgi method, but the page isnt working for IE. we already tested it on firefox and opera and it works fine. as you were the one who put the link to the your live chat in your sidebar, i thought you could be able to help us look out what is wrong with our page, or at least point us to someone who can. thanks in advance, Waldir 18:49, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi, I'm sorry as I cannot help you because I did not successfuly manage to put the link into the sidebar. I am not sure who managed to do it, but I couldn't. --Nzgabriel | Talk 02:00, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
 * In our sidebar under Wikinews? That's found at Mediawiki:Sidebar. --Thunderhead - (talk) 02:44, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
 * umm, I think Illyahawkinson (sp?) can help. failing that try Cspurrier, Dan100, or Chiacomo. you can also ask the people at wikizine, as they have something like this set up too. Bawolff ☺☻ 02:58, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot, i will try to contact these people. Just a question, what does sp mean? Waldir 15:05, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Spelling? --Nzgabriel | Talk 18:24, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
 * (sp?) does mean in what I commonly accept as English language notation that the author questions one's own spelling of something. In this case, Bawolff meant IlyaHaykinson. -Edbrown05 23:55, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry; I don't think I can really help with this. The chat was set up (and I think is hosted) by an ex-user, Amgine. You can currently reach him on his home wiki, here.  Beyond that, I can't really help currently. -- IlyaHaykinson 16:23, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I believe its no longer at Amgine's [although he proablly knows a lot about it] (kept making his server crash if I recall) I mentioned your name as I thought at one point you hosted it. Actually I think Chiacomo hosts it currently. (He was the one who added the newest site to the sitenotice). Bawolff ☺☻ 00:28, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

We don't generally use the JAVA portion of the CGI:IRC client. Perhaps there's a problem with the JAVA portion? --Chiacomo (talk) 06:00, 23 February 2007 (UTC)


 * I didn't even know the cgi client had a java portion... what we did on that page was create a form that would provide access to a java client (PJIRC), like in http://java.freenode.net, and to a cgi client too, like in chat.wikizine.org... the dropdown list that allows choosing the methods decides which parameters will be passed, as the two clients require different parameters and values. check the function setServer.
 * But anyway, as far as i could find out, the problem resides on the sript you have on your chat, starting on the setjs function -- which btw I didn't get what exactly is there for --, more precisely on the 'ietest' object that IE seems not to recognise. what is strange is that your client still works on IE, while ours don't... do you have any idea what it could be? Waldir 10:01, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the encouragement!
Thanks, Nzgabriel, for the message "Next time, diff sources". I am glad to hear the prefered way to list sources is at the bottom. I hadn't actually done the sources that way in the article Computer glitch delays online tax filing in Canada. Someone else came and edited it to the way you see it. As I am new, I assumed they knew what they were doing when they changed it, so I didn't change it back. This article of mine is in the prefered style: Research In Motion chairman resigns position. Cheers, 23:32, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

WOW on wheels
good report. Edbrown05 09:13, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't mean to distract you, but popular now in the U.S. are these new heely shoes. A co-worker of mine said his son broke his arm after tripping over the shoes.
 * At the doctor's office, the doctor said he wouldn't allow his children to have them. The doctor said that 6 patients were treated by his office over injuries related to the newly popular fashion shoes in the U.S.
 * I don't know how internatonal the shoe trend is. Not sure if this is ground swell stuff, but thinking it is. Anyway, a heads up on Heelys. regards -Edbrown05 09:32, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah, we have shoes like that in New Zealand, not really that popular. May have seen one or two people with them. Thanks for the "good report." --Nzgabriel | Talk 09:39, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
 * The popularity rests in the 5-year-old and up range and has made schools form policy regarding "heely" use in school hallways. Like, "Take the wheels off before you come to class." But to remove the wheel from the shoe is not so easy a task for the person of that age range. As a result, by intention or by acident, the heely shoes are making an in-way into schools where they are unwanted. -Edbrown05 10:16, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

april fool's
pls see Water cooler/miscellaneous. –Doldrums(talk) 04:03, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Wikinews Video
You enlisted! Just in time too...You have a video maker? If you do can I send you an AVI and and audio file? We just made a new video and well...we have a technical issue...see me in IRC if possible or just message my talk page. DragonFire1024 10:07, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

ANZAC article
thanks, Gabriel, for jumping in and fixing it. appreciate the effort. –Doldrums(talk) 05:56, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Didn't want to see the article get abandoned and then deleted. ANZAC day is special and deserved an article. What's surprising is that the numbers were all wrong, so it was good that they were fixed! --Nzgabriel | Talk 08:04, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Press gallery
I am sorry to hear you were not among the "chosen ones." --SVTCobra 01:36, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your support. --Nzgabriel | Talk 01:38, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

The Turkish capital...
...and I thought I knew the world...--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 15:39, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Christian social agency may lose state funding
Greetings. Since this was my first stab at a wikinews story, I'm wondering if you happened to get a sense of the content. Did you think that it was in sufficient shape for me to mark as ready? Thanks, Blum 14:17, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Honestly, it does need more work. A good way to start is to believe that your readers are totally ignorant of what is happening, including the background to the story (I was). Like the other people who have commented on that talk page, it does need more work. It wasn't too easy to understand what was going on.


 * But, Wikinews is always welcolming new editors/wikinewsies, so keep it up. My first stories were bad too, so don't worry too much about it. --Nzgabriel | Talk 20:04, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your frank feedback. Since I probably won't have time to work on it before it becomes old news, what happens next? Assuming nobody else whips it into shape, is there an editing or automatic process to take it off the developing queue in X number of days? Ciao, Blum 21:26, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
 * If someone doesn't fix it up, it will become abandoned. After about two days of being marked abandoned, it will be deleted. Please, don't be discouraged from further writing stories on Wikinews. --Nzgabriel | Talk 05:00, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Once deleted, can I still find a version via my watchlist or contributions? Tx, Blum 17:39, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Sorry but the answer is no. However, if you are an admin you can view deleted pages, if you know the exact address of that page. --Nzgabriel | Talk 22:00, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
 * ok, thanks for the heads up Blum 23:00, 4 May 2007 (UTC)