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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)

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved content from Tesla Model S into Plug-in electric vehicle fire. While you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia's content (here or elsewhere), Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content, disclosing the copying and linking to the copied page, e.g., copied content from [[page name]]; see that page's history for attribution. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to also place a properly formatted {{copied}} template on the talk pages of the source and destination. Please provide attribution for this duplication if it has not already been supplied by another editor, and if you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, you should provide attribution for that also. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you. Diannaa (talk) 16:56, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

Hi Diannaa, I recently made extensive changes to the Plug-in electric fire page, however I didn't copy anything from the Tesla Model S page. Indeed I don't recall even visiting that page until just now.

Would you please point me at the sentences or paragraphs which appear on both pages? I don't see any. For example, the coverage of the 2013 recall and OTA is quite different on these two pages.

But thank you for taking the time to raise the issue! I hadn't put any thought into it before now... but I can see no absolutely reason why normal scholarly requirements for attributing sources should be in abeyance, when writing a Wikipedia article and the source is another Wikipedia article. Moral right of attribution, copyright, CC BY-SA, etc.

Oh and, if you have a moment to help this relative newbie, would you please take a look at the top of the Talk page of Plug-in electric fire? There's a (to me quite confusing!) error message referencing here. I believe I have removed the offending crosslink but I'm wary of clearing the error message from the Talk page until I feel confident I fully understand the error message! And hmm... possibly it was my removal of this crosslink (and the barely-relevant paragraph which contained this link) which had triggered your concern about my very-extensive edits? cthombor (talk) 23:03, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

Hello, here is the report generated by the detection service. This is the edit that was flagged. The overlapping content is "Tesla’s revision of vehicle ride height and addition of increased underbody protection should reduce both the frequency of underbody strikes and the resultant fire risk".

The talk page post you are talking about was added by a bot in January 2023. It's okay to remove it if the link has been removed.

By the way, we don't call it a crosslink, we call it a wikilink. Please use the correct terminology to make it easier for people to understand you. Also you said it was the talk page of Plug-in electric fire which does not exist so I again had a bit of a time figuring out what your question was. Diannaa (talk) 14:00, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

Thanks so much for this! My face is red -- I hadn't checked my links for liveness and that caused difficulty for you. Apologies!!

I have trimmed several sentences from the blockquote which CopyControl had flagged. This extensive (and attributed) quote might not violate fair use in the USA but it was still overlong.

As a result of your intervention: the resulting paragraph is shorter and sweeter. (Its genesis was a 5-paragraph ramble in another section of this article. Much more cleanup work would be required on that section before I'd recommend a shift to an A-rating... and mentally I have promised myself I won't recommend a shift in rating on any article until I do some rating-review work... but it's summer here in New Zealand, and my appetite for editorial work is limited. Been there, done that with dozens of theses and hundreds of project reports in my career and I'm fully retired now, yay!)

And thanks for the tip on the language spoken in Wikiland. I can see that "Wikilink" is much more precise than "crosslink", in any case where both the source and the referent are within the friendly lands governed by Wikipedians. cthombor (talk) 21:40, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

Hi,

Please consider checking your sources when making Wikipedia edits. Your edits on the page Kaipara ki Mahurangi were factually incorrect and not backed up by any evidence or references. You stated that Kaipara Ki Mahurangi was dissolved in 2025, and that the majority of the electorate was merged into Henderson.

Couple of notes:
- If KKM was to be dissolved for the upcoming election, it would be dissolved in 2026 not 2025.
- Nowhere in the electorate boundary changes does it state that the Kaipara ki Mahurangi electorate is to be dissolved. The electorate will remain for the election.
- The electorate cannot physically hand off the remainder of it's area to Henderson, as Henderson is a small electorate bordered between Waitakere and Glendene, whilst Kaipara ki Mahurangi is a large electorate above majority of the Auckland CBD.

Please, next time, check your sources and make sure things add up. Thanks. ConcordeAAIB (talk) 06:00, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

Just wanted to say thank you for overhauling lesser-evil voting! Alexandraaaacs1989 (talk) 18:07, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for saying thank you: glad to know my work was appreciated. cthombor (talk) 02:13, 6 March 2026 (UTC)