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]

Please stop changing an historic to a historic. It's not an error. Masterhatch (talk) 18:52, 14 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello. This edit violates WP:ONUS. Please self revert. Dovidroth (talk) 12:00, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

WP:ONUS is not for things you simply disagree with. Your personal feelings should not be used as a source. And regardless, you still never reached a consensus on the talk page. Salmoonlight (talk) 21:31, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Onus states that "The responsibility for achieving consensus for inclusion is on those seeking to include disputed content". As such, as long as there is no consensus, you many not include the controversial text in the article. Dovidroth (talk) 07:53, 17 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Indigenous peoples. This means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be although other editors disagree. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

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I got it the first time, you don't have to ping me again. And I haven't tried doing anything since that IP reverted me. How about you go on their talk page too? Salmoonlight (talk) 12:33, 18 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I corrected the message. I apologize if it pinged you twice. Dovidroth (talk) 12:52, 18 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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