User talk:Kiwipete

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Mz7 (talk) 00:48, 29 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Mz7. Kiwipete (talk) 08:10, 29 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

		Editor of the Week
		Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week in recognition of your great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project)

User:Buster7 submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:

Kiwipete is veteran editor that finds it "always a pleasure to help". He started strong in 2006 and after 11K edits took an eight year vacation. Wikipedia is lucky that he returned in 2021 and is back to work on (among other things) articles about cantons and townships and voivodeships as a member of WikiProject France and WikiProject Poland. 85% of his article creating efforts are in Mainspace. Another interest that finds his time is Cycling.

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Kiwipete

Editor of the Week for the week beginning December 18, 2022

This veteran editor finds it "always a pleasure to help". Works on (among other things) articles about cantons and townships and voivodeships as a member of WikiProject France and WikiProject Poland. 85% of his article creating efforts are in Mainspace. Cycling is another interest.

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Thanks again for your efforts! ―Buster7 ☎ 14:29, 17 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much, @Buster7. These are very kind words from you. Regards, Kiwipete (talk) 17:34, 17 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Kiwipete!

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Sent by Zippybonzo using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) at 07:50, 21 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Zippybonzo, thank you very much for your invitation. I will need to spend some time going through all the documentation and the tutorial before I could even consider applying for this role. Regards, Kiwipete (talk) 05:20, 22 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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. Schwede66 09:14, 13 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

Kiwipete (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

I am not currently blocked, but I often connect to the internet through my VPS. When I do this, I am blocked from editing any page on Wikipedia, including my own talk page. I am soon to go on holiday, when once again all traffic from my computer will be routed through my VPS. I appreciate if this request is not well-timed, but I'm trying to ensure that there will be no block once I am on holiday. I note that in Q4 on WP:BLOCKFAQ, it states that "using an account to edit Wikipedia will allow you to do so even when the IP address or range of your network is blocked". I always login to Wikipedia before performing any edits, so I hope that this statement carries some weight. Many thanks, Kiwipete (talk) 07:59, 20 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Accept reason:

If you are not affected by a block, please don't make an unblock request. You may use the administrator help request tag or go to WP:AN directly. I think you are asking for an IP block exemption- as a longtime user I will give you a short term one(a month). If you need something longer term, please email the checkuser team(see WP:IPECPROXY). 331dot (talk) 08:38, 20 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your help, User:331dot. Kiwipete (talk) 08:43, 20 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

And I've just successfully made an edit while connected to my VPS :) Kiwipete (talk) 08:47, 20 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, do you remember me? We had a bit of dispute and edit war about me not providing links a while ago. You wrote on my talk page, and I gave you not the kindest of words... I want to apologize for any personal offencives towards you, I had a bad day and wasn't in the best mood of mine. Now I understood I wasn't right. But the topic with my name still remains in Talk Section of 25th December for everyone to see, and I find it a little emarassing and ashaming. I can't remove it, so can I ask you to do that, as you are the one who allowed to as an author. Let's forget that incident without making a clown out of me for the world to see, please. Glebushko0703 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Glebushko0703 (talk • contribs) 15:21, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Glebushko0703, thanks, I appreciate your words and understanding. The talk topic has been moved to the archive. Theoretically, anyone could still view it, but they would have to be searching for it. Regards, Kiwipete (talk) 04:07, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Glebushko0703 - I took your first apology at face value, which I now realise was to my regret. Please make sure you follow the relevant guidlines when editing DOY articles. Oh and yes, I have just been out to my backyard and touched the grass. It hasn't changed anything with regards to your edits. Kiwipete (talk) 04:25, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Kiwipete Many individuals from bands do not have wiki pages dedicated specifically for them, and I've seen plenty DOYS with those, and they all provided links to pages of their bands.

If you think that shouldn't be like that, erase the links, leaving only people and citations, there's no reason to remove them from the list altogether.

And if think that is fair, please, do that on all DOY pages with similiar cases, not just the ones you happen to see. Stand your point, and make Wikipedia better place!

First time I really wasn't right, but after this last case, I have a feeling you just like to do undo.

I don't see a reason for that last undo, I would be happy if you could specify it for me please in the rules, because I can't find it.

Gigman (talk) 14:09, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I would like to know why my Thomas Calabro post was deleted from the 3 February article? What was the problem with that? I just want to understand that I won't do anything like that next time. Cakesam (talk) 11:32, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Cakesam, you would see from my edit summary that when a new entry is added, it must be supported by an inline citation, as per WP:DOYCITE. This would also have been pointed out to you in the "Please read before editing" message displayed at the top of the page when you edited it. Thanks, Kiwipete (talk) 04:02, 31 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Kiwipete, I still don't understand why a famous actor's birthday can't be listed where other famous people are? Regards, Cakesam (talk) 11:32, 31 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry, but I can't really add anything extra to what I said above. Kiwipete (talk) 06:59, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Cakesam sometimes I don't understand @Kiwipete's actions either.

Seems like Undo must be his biggest contribution to this platform. Gigman (talk) 16:34, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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I would like to apply for a permanent IP block exemption. As noted above, I recently had a temporary IP block exemption. This trial period was, I believe, conducted successfully. I am now applying for a permanent exemption, for the same reasons, i.e. I am shortly about to go on holiday and will be using my VPS, and Q4 of WP:BLOCKFAQ still applies. Many thanks, Kiwipete (talk) 09:12, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Permanent exemptions are not granted; the most that you can get is a year. 331dot (talk) 09:24, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks @331dot. Can I then please get the exemption for the next year? Kiwipete (talk) 07:16, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, all set. 331dot (talk) 07:20, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]