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Good work

Keep up the good work on Canterbury and on environmental issues. I like the new graph that you made for the resource consent article. Cheers. -- Alan Liefting- (talk) - 20:36, 22 March 2008 (UTC) Thank you.Mrfebruary (talk) 00:53, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Local Government Act 2002

What work, if any, are you doing on the state of the district report? RoddyYoung (talk) 17:28, 20 August 2008 (UTC) Umm, none. Mrfebruary (talk) 12:16, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

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Climate change in the United Kingdom

There is a discussion at Talk:Climate change in the United Kingdom about the merits of the article that you may want to wade into. Cheers. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 20:31, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Baring Head

I created a Baring Head page. I think NIWA operates the CO2 monitoring? You may know more about it? -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 06:57, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

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Christchurch meetup

Hello to all Christchurch based Wikipedians. It must be high time that we all got out from behind our computers and had a meetup. Somewhere with free wireless access would be ideal so we can get our caffine/sugar/alcohol/nutrient fix along with our Wikipedia fix!! Reply at Wikipedia:New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board#Christchurch meetup. Please let any other Chrischurch Wikipedians who not listed at Category:Wikipedians in Christchurch know of this event. Cheers. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 08:42, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

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Water pollution in Canterbury

You may be interested in the Water pollution in Canterbury article that I wrote? -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 12:02, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

Yes. Thank you. I have added it to my watch list. Mrfebruary (talk) 13:21, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

New Zealand Climate Science Coalition

Hi MrFebruary. I just had a quick suggestion re: your edits to the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition article. Do you know if the various controversies that they're stirred up have resulted in press coverage? The article would be stronger if independent sources were used to document their various scrapes and capers. The danger in using their own press releases is that the article starts to look like a vanity page for them. Media (and other) reports on their activities makes it much easier to justify their notability, should that be called into question. Of course, I'm assuming here that they do have some degree of impact - it may well be the case that they're (rightly) judged as cranks and ignored! Cheers, --PLUMBAGO 13:57, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

Hi Plumbago. Good point. Not many of their press releases get much mainstream media coverage. Let me think about that. One way of reflecting a lower level of notability may be to summarise the topics of their various releases. Mrfebruary (talk) 02:29, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

I did some searching within NZ's main media www.stuff.co.nz, http://www.odt.co.nz/ and http://www.nzherald.co.nz/. and via Google

The allegations the NZCSC made against David Parker (politician), Peter Gluckman and the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment appear to not receive any media coverage. So I have deleted the three allegations. Mrfebruary (talk) 08:04, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Quickstats

In an edit to Fox Glacier you replaced template:NZ Quickstats with a template:Cite web using the same url. I implemented the former template as a protection against the statistics department changing its urls as they have done before. So long as the identifier for a statistical area remains the same, any change in url format can be dealt with by a trivial change to the template. Hard coding the urls potentially means a lot of work should the urls change.

I suggest you consider adding additional formatting to the template instead of replacing it.-gadfium 08:11, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know what template:NZ Quickstats is about. I didn't know that. I will revisit that edit. Mrfebruary (talk) 11:59, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

Crafarms article

Hi MrFebruary, I have noticed you have made substantial contributions to the Crafarms Wikipedia article. From the history it looks as though you have written the entire article and based it almost entirely on how the media has portrayed the events surrounding the Crafar's. I was an employee of the Crafar group for 15 years and have tried to correct some of your misleading information and add some factual information based on first hand experience. I would appreciate it if you would allow my voice to be heard as the media has done a very poor and innacurate job of reporting about this family, giving very good people a very bad name. I'm sure if you took the time to get to know these people and investigate the real facts behind these cases you would change your tune. Also, I'm sure that if it was your family involved you would show a little more compassion. As I have no desire to stir up political, media and legal trouble, I have omitted several very relevant facts which have not been reported in the media at all as I know certain government organisations are trying hard to cover up the mess they made and are pretty happy to let the Crafar's take the fall for it. Hence the reason I deleted the animal welfare section entirely rather than rewording it with facts. I hope you appreciate my discression as I will surely appreciate yours.

Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Liteworker (talk • contribs) 06:47, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Global Warming Potential article

MrFebruary,

Under "Values" of the GWP article, there is this paragraph:

"Although water vapour has a significant influence with regard to absorbing infrared radiation (which is the green house effect; see greenhouse gas), its GWP is not calculated. Its concentration in the atmosphere mainly depends on air temperature. There is no possibility to directly influence atmospheric water vapour concentration." (emphasis added)

For anyone who as lived in the American Southwest, this last sentence will sound odd, and indeed, will not make sense. In Phoenix and Tucson, the introduction of irrigation (and swimming pools) in those cities have decreased the effectiveness of swamp coolers to the point that air-conditioning ("refrigeration" being the local term) has become necessary. Also, the local pollen count has increased significantly, because of the gardening and introduced species by home-owners. At one time, folks with allergies were told to move to the desert areas. This no longer works, unless they live outside of the cities.

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Thanks for that interesting information about life in the American Southwest. Mrfebruary (talk) 23:08, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Hydraulic fracturing in New Zealand

I note that you have made an edit to the Hydraulic fracturing in the United States article. Should we start a Hydraulic fracturing in New Zealand article? It has featured in The Press on a number of occasions. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 18:29, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

Alan, I am in two minds. Thats quite a good idea. Or we could just 'grow' the NZ section of the Hydraulic fracturing until it makes sense to start a NZ -specific change. Sorry, not very decisive tonight! I'm a bit distracted reading the NZETS review report 2011. Mrfebruary (talk) 07:09, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

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Your Edits on 2012 United Nations Climate Change Conference

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Kyoto Protocol Bias in Lede

I have removed your clarification needed citation, I have eight sources backing the statement. Listed here for your convenient reference:

• Al Jazeera
• Reuters
• Huffington Post
• Bloomberg
• Lima Ohio Newspaper
• Yahoo Finance

Might I remind the esteemed editor that s/he is editing unilaterally as well. If you want to contribute, why not add a section on the 15% in the body and start to provide substance with the multiple sources that I have provided. I removed the clarification needed because there are 7 sources that I have listed plus the source cited. Mrfebruary has provided zero support for his statement. As such, I will remove the clarification needed because it is not and if we deem to need it we can add it in the body where it belongs and not in the lede where it does not. If you have 20 sources out there that show disagreement by all means please add them, otherwise, please stop vandalizing the page.

I'm not interested in an edit war, you can have the last word if you wish. I'm getting tired of the POV wrangling going on and with eight sources, I would think that should be enough for even the most cautious of reasonable editors.

Can we be sensible? Very willing to work with you. Help me understand if you have 20 sources out there that disagree.Justanonymous (talk) 23:42, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

I do mean it sincerely, I will not block if you want a clarification back or if you decide to remove the 15%. I will trust your good faith, and I value your contributions. Justanonymous (talk)

Solid Energy

We need to do something about the promotional nature of Natures Flame in the Solid Energy article. I had a look at it and could not figure out how to proceed. Cheers. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 01:56, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

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Hi there. Thanks for all your work editing Wikipedia. You're amazing! I just wanted to mention one thing I noticed about your Wikipedia editing however. You seem to mark almost all of your edits to the New Zealand ETS article as "minor", even though some of them add quite a significant amount of detail to the article, or substantially change its meaning. I suggest – in the most gentle of ways – that you take a look at (or re-read) WP:MINOR, and perhaps start marking your substantive edits as non-minor. Cheers — Ballofstring (talk) 06:05, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

Burnside High School

Hello! I am working on the russian version "Burnside High School" article, which currently has short history section in wikipedia. I am writing you to ask - is there a possibility for you to visit a National Library at Welligton and obtain an electronic copy of book "Choosing the right path : Burnside High School 1960-2010 / Paul O'Connor" (http://natlib.govt.nz/records/21643829), and put some information into the article? Also I can buy a hard copy of that book. Could you give me an advice, if it's possible? I'll be happy to get any version and any part of that book. Thank you for your time, --Voyagerim (talk) 13:27, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

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