Stephen Cope

Tēnā koe, e hoa. It's great to see variety in the rārangi of people who have contributed recent changes (rerekētanga).

You're most welcome to put the whole article in te Reo Māori, and/or to make a corresponding entry under 2004.

Kia ora. Robin Patterson 10:26, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Kōrero

Kia ora, e Stephen. You're an early bird! Thanks for giving the Kōrero page some thought. BUT I expect we will want it to be an article eventually if not soon, covering the various meanings of the word. Some of the links to it or to korero are clearly intended for that use of it. Rather than remove them, I'd prefer to try to get such an article.

When we are ready to write some introductory sentences for such an article, the proposed writer should boldly go in and edit accordingly, while leaving a "disambiguation" link ("{{disambig}}") to the WP chat page.

The redirect from korero is just fine.

By the way, do you have a Username on "en:"?

E noho rā. - Robin Patterson 19:38, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Another burst of activity

Stephen, what a splendid couple of hours' work from you last night! I hope you have some Māori-speaking friends about to join in, so that I can really take a back seat. But you may be able to take it forward on your own. Here's to 2005! Robin Patterson 19:15, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Kia ora, e Robin :)

I try and point people in this direction. I'll see if my kaiako will come and correct my terrible grammar. :-)

Progress with or without grammar

Kia ora, e hoa. My grammar is also nothing to write home about; but I religiously watch and tape "Kōrero Mai" on Whakaata Māori and read a grammar book on the train.
You've probably received my email about making you a "sysop". Shows on the Wikipedia:Bureaucrat log, which curiously doesn't have the rest of us on it - I think there was a software meltdown in June, which cut most page histories off, so that may account for it. You or I can make an appropriate entry on Wikipedia_talk:Administrators.
Anyway, you can contact that "Maori history" enquirer if you like: I gave him a pasted link to this page, but maybe he typed it out and gave you a small "c", so you have TWO User Talk pages! He wants to contact Joe Hawke. (see below)
Good to see that you have now moved up on the statistics page.
You are welcome to use my skeleton "articles" at User:Robin Patterson/modelpages as the basis of new articles or expanding old ones. Maybe your kaiako can improve the skeletons.
E noho rā. Robin Patterson 01:22, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Standard headings

Replying to your unsigned[!] message:

1. Spammers don't get long exposure when one site member checks the recent changes at least 6 days a week;
2. "See also" (meant for internal links) - my "Titiro hoki" is short enough to type each time, but a template might make life fractionally easier (especially if one were to remember to use the one-click double-curly-braces below the edit box);
3. "External links" - I see you have a shorter heading than my Turanga tukutuku; its meaning looks as if it may be somewhere in between the two headings. I would be pleased to use something short there. The Commission's book gives "hoto" for "link". "Hoto kē" would be nice and short. "Hoto atu" might be less ambiguous. I won't guarantee either of them!

By the way, I think you went a bit far removing the French and German accents, etc. I may put them back in the section that's commented off, so that they can be revived easily in future rather than being two or more steps behind in the page history.

Kia ora. Robin Patterson 02:18, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Been busy lately? (Stephen D Cope, 52 Allum Street, 021 441 366)

That dark blue background on your Orakei site is very hard to read black print on.

Anyway, there's another Aucklander cleaning up this wiki. Maybe you and "ia" can get your heads together. Kia ora! Robin Patterson 06:45, 25 Hui-tanguru 2006 (UTC)

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