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St Peter's College, Auckland

I see that you have expanded the Notable former Staff section of this article, yet many of the entries are simply the name of an individual. Please add information that makes these individuals noteable. Within Misplaced Pages ...

Notability is not an opinion, it is based on facts and a set of Misplaced Pages policies. A topic is notable if it has been the subject of multiple, non-trivial, reliable published works, whose sources are independent of the subject itself. Enforcing notability criteria for articles is important, and ensures that articles meet core criteria such as verifiability and no original research.

I can understand that you, as an alumnus, believe that all of these individuals are noteable, and if they are, the Misplaced Pages community would appreciate you providing supporting information. If they are not, would you please consider removing them. Thank you. Truthanado 01:56, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi there! Just wanted to say thanks for the compliment of 'tidied the article up' you said on your userpage. You must have worked countless hours on that article, and I've been trying to help out. Once again, thanks! jj137 20:44, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar

Hi Rick,

		The Original Barnstar
		I hereby award this Original Barnstar for your ongoing and tireless work on the St Peter's College, Auckland article. Well done! Rob Lindsey 05:28, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

• Even though the article may well need to be trimmed down at some point to meet some of Misplaced Pages's more stringent guidelines, you've done a huge amount of work that no one else seems to have noticed. Except for me! Keep it up. Rob Lindsey 05:28, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

P.S. I've never given a Barnstar before, which goes to show that I reckon you've earned it!

Thanks

Thanks For adding the extra paragraph on St Peters college Houses that I started . Damian R Thomson

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John Paul College

We have an existing article at John Paul College (New Zealand), and since that has more history I've suggested we merge the new article you've started at John Paul College, Rotorua into it, even though your article is already much better developed. I'm not going to object to a merge in the other direction though. If you make the merge yourself, use an edit summary such as "merged from John Paul College, Rotorua", and change the other article to a redirect.-gadfium 06:34, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Daughters of Our Lady of Compassion

Hello. Please do not create articles on groups that do not indicate why they are notable as per our guideline WP:N, or they may be speedily deleted. Thanks, Sandstein 07:33, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

An article which you started, or significantly expanded, Outhwaite Family, Auckland, was selected for DYK!

On October 10, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Outhwaite Family, Auckland, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid64 (talk) 23:39, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Mt Eden prisons

Could you please have a look here?. I am trying to link the reference you gave with the Herald database, which usually keeps all the articles of recent years online, freely accessible. But I had trouble getting the information you referenced with that ref. Please understand that I am not trying to get the info or the ref deleted - I am just curious, as to the what and why. Ingolfson 09:16, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

I have an extract from the hard copy of the New Zealand Herald, Friday , June 15, 2007, Section A, page 2, "GO-ahead for new Mt eden jail, by Elizabeth Binning (police reporter). Sorry, I don't know about internet versions. I have access to Knowledge Basket newstext and will check there when I get time. How else can I help?? Rick570 21.56, 21 october 2007(UTC)

Its fine - I'm quite willing to trust you that you cited the information correctly. Just because something isn't online does not invalidate a reference. If you want to go the distance, maybe hunt down an additional reference for the riots which *is* online. Ingolfson 00:34, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

would appear to be a very good reference.-gadfium 00:42, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks as ever Gadfium. You are always so helpful. The old 1966 Encyclopedia of New Zealand is a great reference work, and it is very good that it is on line. I will add the reference in where appropriate when I get the time. Rick570 21.00, 23 october 2007(UTC)

Assumption College, Warwick

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AfD nomination of Assumption College, Warwick

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Saint Mary's College Auckland

Do you know anything about a 1931 disappearance of a student at this school? A new editor added a paragraph about it, which I trimmed back to remove speculation, but I haven't been able to find any mention of this online.-gadfium 08:14, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi gadfium. When I get time, I will check about the alleged 1931 "disappearance" and get a reference. But such an incident does seem to be far too specific for the article as it is at the moment. We will see. Rick570 (talk) 20:42, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Auckland Grammar School

Could I possibley enquire about this change - ? The ref you've provided doesn't back that up first of all.. but I thought i'd run it by you as you seem a little mature for that sort of thing. Thank you, MattWT (talk) 06:22, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Judging by your contributions, it seems like you're trying to promote you're old school. Either stop, or provide references to the facts you've added. MattWT (talk) 06:25, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your questioning my amendment to the page on Auckland Grammar School. You were correct that a level of contribution of $1,300 p.a. at St Peter's College could not easily be verified from the reference I had given. The fee level is buried in a pdf form in the St Peter's College web page. I should have provided a more specific reference. I am sorry I did not give the matter more attention at the time. I have found the appropriate and very specific link for the attendance dues of St Peter's College (which I now realise are considerably in excess of $1,300 pa (I was working from outdated information) - so, again, I am indeed very grateful to you for questioning that figure!)). I have now amended the Auckland Grammar School page accordingly. The amendment I have made is of course completely relevant to the discussion on parental financial contributions- especially since the schools are neighbours and have interacted very closely over the years (see several relevant references in the St Peter's College page). Thanks very much for your help.Rick570 (talk) 03:22, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Auckland secondary schools

I noticed that you recently added a list of the local general secondary schools, and Catholic ones, to many Auckland suburb articles. Do you have a source for this information, e.g a list of school zones, or a directory of school bus routes? I think simply using a map to determine the closest schools is not adequate.

You may have seen that I'm adding information about the schools in each suburb or town throughout New Zealand, and have recently started on the Rodney District. My most recent is Dairy Flat, and I found a source giving the secondary schools which students go to after finishing at Dairy Flat school, which is substantially different from the information which you have provided.-gadfium 03:10, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Hi Gadfium, I found the location of the schools from a commercial map, but obviously did not pay close enough attention to Dairy Flat. I can see that the schools relevant to Dairy Flat are probably Orewa College and Kingsway school (a state integrated composite year 1-15 school at Orewa). Also possibly Long Bay College and Whangaparoa College. The relevant Catholic State integrated schools are probably Carmel College, Rosmini College and Hato Petera College. Perhaps you could update the wiki page. No I did not know that you were engaged in such a painstaking project. I will consult you on such issues in the future. Thank you very much for your helpfulness and good sense over the last two years. Rick570 (talk) 04:11, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Auckland Meetup - 11 October 2008 1pm

Sorry this is a bit late. You are invited to Auckland Meetup 4 on the afternoon of Saturday 11 October 2008 at Galbraiths in Mt Eden. Please see Misplaced Pages:Meetup/Auckland 4 for details. You can also watch Misplaced Pages:Meetup/Auckland to be informed of future NZ meetups. Sending this invite hoping you are in Auckland, are free, interested and able to attend. Just show up if you can. Linnah (talk) 12:36, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Megalists

Rick, while I can't find the exact policy page right now, that's definitely out of bounds. If people aren't notable enough for their own articles, they generally shouldn't be in someone else's.

Also, you wikilinked Boxing from the name of a school boxing coach. That's definitely not done here.

And please be careful about tossing around accusations of "vandalism" - that's a violation of WP:Assume good faith and WP:No personal attacks.--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 21:37, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of List of prize-winners at St Peter's College, Auckland

I have nominated List of prize-winners at St Peter's College, Auckland, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Misplaced Pages's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/List of prize-winners at St Peter's College, Auckland. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.

Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. SarekOfVulcan (talk) 21:41, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

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A suggestion

Would you like to set up your own copy of MediaWiki so that you can have a wiki dedicated entirely to St Peter's? It's free. DS (talk) 18:42, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Reo Maohi Translation

Hi Rick,

I would like to ask you, which translator helped you translate this article into the Tahitian language? Can you email me his/her email address? (Because I am currently looking for a Tahitian translator to help me translate one of my articles into Tahitian).

My email address is: philip.brendangmail.com

(If that person can give me a free Tahitian translation for my article, then I would be willing to help you translate your "Saint Peter's College" article into the Minnan language.) --A-eng (talk) 22:30, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

New articles on schools

You're doing nice work with articles on Catholic schools in New Zealand. However, when you create such articles, please check with the List of schools in New Zealand subpages for existing articles. You appear to have missed that we already had an article on Sacred Heart Girls' College, Hamilton. Also, if there is no existing article, and you prefer to use a different name from the one I've chosen to use in the list articles, that's fine, but please create a redirect from the name in the list to the name you've chosen, or else change the name in the list.-gadfium 05:18, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

List of alumni of St Peter's College, Auckland

I see you have added a link to one of your user subpages in this article. It is generally not thought of as correct to link to userspace from articles, if you wish to create a seperate article or section on the list, that would be fine. There isn't a policy for not linking to userspace, however there are several reasons for it (see Reference Desk Archive). I would like to thank you for your contribution however. Blacksmith (talk) 23:09, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

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Unreferenced BLPs

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Stephen A. Parke

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