Talk:The Wizard of New Zealand

message: The Wizard's home page isn't meaningful (it's a directory listing with a cgi-bin in it and nothing else) so I've removed it.  I apologize if this offends people.  If the Wizard's page is supposed to be a directory listing with a cgi-bin in it, please feel free to revert my changes.  -- — I. Neschek |  talk 00:41, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  removal of home page 

message: I knew the Wizard for a few years at Melbourne University in the early 1970s and was the anonymous author "Zero" of a pamphlet "The Divine Nature of the Wizard Scientifically Demonstrated (A Mathematical Proof)", 1972, 24 pages (15 cents, 20 cents autographed). Portions of the pamphlet appeared later under different names, and a barely-comprehensible fragment is visible here. McKay (talk) 07:15, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  source for edits + confession 

message: Now that the intro has been rewritten, can the tag be removed? Schwede66 (talk) 23:03, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Intro tag 

message: In the sentence "Unfortunately whilst on tour in Melbourne in 1970 WUS in Australia was taken over by political extremists who cut him off without any explanation or communication," it's not clear to the average reader - well, not clear to me, anyway, what "WUS" stands for. There's no record in Wikipedia of WUS being used as an abbreviation for the University of New South Wales; in fact, the only WP entry I can find for WUS is Nanping Wuyishan Airport. Can someone clear this up? --Jay (Histrion) (talk • contribs) 14:16, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I would presume WUS stands for World University Service who were the ones backing him to tour Australia promoting his revitalisation movement as was    and is mentioned in the sentence immediately preceding your one "After travelling to the World University Service headquarters in Geneva he received their backing to travel round Australian universities to promote his new revitalisation movement." Nil Einne (talk) 02:17, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: P.S. Thought of changing it to say World University Service but since it's not directly refed and I can't be sure decided to leave it be Nil Einne (talk) 17:15, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  WUS? 

message: Is left-wing a special area of "head of department" if so perhaps a link would be in order as it is somewhat misleading, because it appears as an unnecessary speculation of political views.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.188.147.25 (talk) 16:40, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  His left-wing head of department 

message: I notice the Barry Smith info has been removed. I will have to look up a ref some time, but basically the evangelist blamed the wizard for an insect plague on NZ.--MacRusgail (talk) 16:52, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Barry Smith 

message: This is a fun article and has true merit as he is a real person of note, however as it stands huge if not majority portions of this article could technically just be deleted for lack of referencing or citations because it is otherwise confusing.  An example would be the aforementioned WUS section that references political extremist.  What political extremists?  Are these people sourced as political extremists?  That's just an example.  I am not familiar enough with this man to feel the urge to wade through it all, but I believe this could be a truly nice little article with the cleanup.  tyvm Pudge MclameO (talk) 13:20, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Major referencing work needed 

message: when did he first proclaim himself a Wizard?  the article makes mention of no transition. --99.101.160.159 (talk) 01:10, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  timeline 

message: In this article and elsewhere it is stated that the Wizard migrated to New Zealand in 1974.  I am wondering whether this is actually correct. I began studying at the Melbourne State College on the University of Melbourne campus in 1974 and I remember the Wizard from that time. As far as I can now recall he was still at Melbourne University for at least a couple of years beyond 1974 (unless he was replaced by another "Wizard" which seems unlikely). Maybe the Wizard's aging memories are more unreliable than mine? Any way of someone checking this? Thanks, Afterwriting (talk) 03:48, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Migration to New Zealand in 1974? 

message: I don't think that the wizard can be called a politician. What has been omitted is actor - he has had roles in several films, including Starlight Hotel.Royalcourtier (talk) 00:40, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Politician 

message: Mike Moore did not appoint him the official Wizard of New Zealand. Not only does a PM not have the power to make any such appointment - in fun or otherwise - but there was no actual purported act of appointment. Just a press release.Royalcourtier (talk) 03:47, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wizard of New Zealand 

message: Substituted at 18:46, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: i know for most this is a matter of semantics but seeing as his legal name is now "Wizard, The" wouldn't the page be more accurate to be labeled "The Wizard of New Zealand"?
the Honorific is often able to be overlooked in other articles but this should follow the full legal name approach which in this instance places him as Mr The Wizard of New Zealand (QSM)
before i jump in for this change wanted to see if anyone had an objection as this is such an usual usage of it. part of me feels not even worth time except that i am a stickler for formal names online.
123.243.169.204 (talk) 12:10, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: These things are hardly ever uncontroversial, so I shall turn your suggestion into a formal move request. Schwede66 21:08, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  article name "Wizard of New Zealand" or "The Wizard of New Zealand" 

message: "This decision was reportedly due to The Wizard's criticism of Christchurch's new tourism strategy and controversial remarks about women."
This should be removed as completely unsupported at the cited link, there's been absolutely no suggestion of that from the council at all. Completely baseless speculation. It's more than likely just because he doesn't spend as much time in Christchurch, or doing his thing anymore, because of his age.219.88.68.195 (talk) 02:02, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually in line with WP:BLP I've removed that, the linked reference cited The Guardian as the source of that assertion, but looking at the article they linked to support that The Guardian made no claim whatsoever linking those comments to his no longer being paid.219.88.68.195 (talk) 02:17, 19 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reason for no longer paying him