User talk:Grutness

Please leave any messages at my en:Wikipedia user talk page. Grutness 12:39, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Haeremai

Kia ora, member number 48! An energetic start (just like your start in "en" last year). Yes, I will send a message to your "en" page, but I like to leave a greeting here for when you return. Robin Patterson 19:55, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Some help for members who know very little of the Maori language

My "model" pages are available to start a page quickly or supply ideas. One of the more useful is en:User:Robin Patterson/MaoriModelPeoplePages. A couple of others are in the same general area with similar names. Robin Patterson 22:13, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Upgrading substubs to stubs - and those funny macrons

Kia ora, James. Thanks for the frequency of recent contributions.

I've looked at your recent stubs as requested. Seem to be passable, to my unskilled eye. The addition of "ki Aotearoa" to "Timaru" would add a bit of value easily, and the image on its English page may be worth a try. Hotere could have his "References and further reading" added as a Tūranga tukutuku paragraph. Have you found my en:User:Robin Patterson/MaoriModelPeoplePages?

You're still using those new macrons. Do they look like macrons to you? To me, at least on this office PC, they are out to the right over a blank space. In the two macronned words in the altered stub message, you can get away with it because the words are basically compound anyway and are sometimes split. Better than the rectangle my home PC displays for me, I guess!

E noho ra.
E noho rā [clicked from the character list below].
E noho rā [pasted from there].
E noho rā [pasted from the text below].
E noho ra¯ [pasted from the amended stub message].

Robin Patterson 20:18, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Kia ora Robin - it was a glitch with using IE for Macintosh - not the most stable of combinations. BTW, you're more likely to get a response if you use my user talk page at en.wiki - I'm not on the maori site often enough to reply frequently! Grutness

Waihopai

Four interwikis! (Welcome back!) Robin Patterson 10:21, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

I just got bored with what I was doing on en:wiki and realised there wasn't an article on In'gll. :) Grutness 13:25, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Kua hoki mai koe

Kia ora mō āu mahi i mahi nā koe. Kahuroa 17:45, 5 Hakihea 2006 (UTC)

Tūmanako

Nō te mea kua tae ngā tuhipānui ki te 600, ko te tūmanako kia tae mai ngā tāngata matatau ki te reo Māori o Aotearoa nei, mā tātou e whakapai te mātāpunenga nei i runga i ngā tikanga whakapai, kia tupu ake hei rākau whakaruruhau, hei Tōtara, hei Kauri rānei i te wao-nui-a-Tāne. Tēnā, whakaputaina ō whakaaro ki Wikipedia:Kōrero. Nō reira, tēnā tātou katoa Kahuroa 04:47, 13 Poutū-te-rangi 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, Kahuroa - you'll have to speak slowly and loudly to me. I'm just a dumb pākehā who can't get much further than a couple of standard greetings in te reo... and my dictionary doesn't help much - it simply tells me that you're asking everyone to develop more wooden shelters (which doesn't sound like it's an accurate translation!) Grutness 11:34, 16 Paenga-whāwhā 2007 (UTC)

Ha. You understood perfectly. Just celebrating the passing of the 600 article mark and wishing that the wiki will grow and flourish in appropriately poetic language. but you knew that. Kahuroa 12:11, 16 Paenga-whāwhā 2007 (UTC)

Kia ora

Kia ora - Thanks for your vote on my behalf - the proposal was enacted today by Vardion. Cheers for your support. Kia kaha koe. Kahuroa 07:26, 23 Paenga-whāwhā 2007 (UTC)