User talk:Vignaux
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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 Wikipedia: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)
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[edit] 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)
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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 [[Category:Wikipedians in New Zealand]] which will have the same effect. If you want to help find fellow kiwis Click on this link [1] 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)
[edit] Auckland meetup
Just to let you know that a meetup is planned in Auckland for the 25th of June (see Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland for more details), and that you are cordially invited. GeorgeStepanek\talk 00:21, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] 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)
