Maps, Directions, and Place Reviews
Infobox for New Zealand towns and villages
I just created a small article about a village in New Zealand, and looked for an infobox template I could use on there, but couldn't find one suitable. The article is Arundel, New Zealand and all I've been able to do was to include a map so far. Is there a suitable infobox template? Regards, Hebrides (talk) 19:10, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
Kia Lake Manawa Video
Truth in Numbers
Anyone know if the film Truth in Numbers, the first doco all about WP, is gunna show at the pitchers in NZ? -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 07:44, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
Special Investigation Group
Some extra eyes to check this article for NPOV please? I don't know enough about NZ politics. Thanks! - LuckyLouie (talk) 20:10, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
James and Mary Wallis
I would like other users opinions of this article. The creator is a new editor who says his reason for joining wiki is specifically for this purpose. The subject appears to be notable but I'm not sure that that content is sufficiently encyclopedic and may be disproportionate. Cheers, DerbyCountyinNZ 11:54, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
Benjamin Mountfort FAR
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Waikato
Please weigh in on a requested page move involving Waikato and Waikato (disambiguation): Talk:Waikato. --Una Smith (talk) 21:28, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
New Zealand river articles
Hi all - a considerable number of stubs on New Zealand rivers have just ben created - almost all of them simply contain the text "The Foo River is a river in New Zealand", along with a survey reference. If anyone knows anything about these rivers - even if only whereabouts in NZ they are, then help would be appreciated in adding the regional category (e.g., Category:Bay of Plenty) and the relevant regional geo-stub (e.g., replacing {{NewZealand-geo-stub}} with {{Otago-geo-stub}}). More info would also be useful, of course, but sorting them by region would be a good place to start. All of these stubs are currently to be found in Category:New Zealand geography stubs. Grutness...wha? 02:10, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
Royal New Zealand Air Force Copyright
Hi, I did not find any adequate template for the RNZAF copyright. The RNZAF writes:
CROWN COPYRIGHT 2002- 2009: Material featured on this site is subject to Crown copyright protection unless otherwise indicated. The Crown copyright protected material may be reproduced free of charge in any format or media without requiring specific permission.
This is subject to the material being reproduced accurately and not being used in a derogatory manner or in a misleading context. Where the material is being published or issued to others, the source and copyright status must be acknowledged."[1] I would be glad if you could help. Cobatfor 22:36, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
Regional categories and articles
Following on from the recent renaming of the article on Tasman to Tasman Region, I'd like to propose a fairly substantial change to the names of some of our NZ articles and categories. Before taking any of the categories to CFD, though, I'd like to run it by here and WPNZ first to see whether it would be worthwhile.
At the moment, the articles on our various official regions are titled in a fairly haphazard way. We have Wellington Region, Otago, and Canterbury, New Zealand, for instance. This could make for confusion - the article Gisborne, New Zealand is about both the city and region, Bay of Plenty is abotu both the region and the bay itself, and there's been seemingly neverending discussion about what Waikato is about. Several of the regions also shared their names with the old provinces, each of which has (or should have) its own article. Some regions have different names for different categories - we have Category:Marlborough, New Zealand and Category:Marlborough Region geography stubs, and Northland Region is the key article in Category:Northland, New Zealand (Southland is also like this).
I'd like to propose that the main articles for each of the regions, and any categories named for those regions, be in the form Foo Region (e.g., Otago Region, Bay of Plenty Region). As far as I know, we don't share any region names with regions of other countries (despite there being other Canterburies and Marlboroughs, there is no other Canterbury Region or Marlborough Region).
This would leave:
- Auckland Region / Category:Auckland Region
- Bay of Plenty Region / Category:Bay of Plenty Region
- Canterbury Region / Category:Canterbury Region
- Gisborne Region / Category:Gisborne Region (is this the official name? Regions of New Zealand uses both "Gisborne" and "East Cape")
- Hawke's Bay Region / Category:Hawke's Bay Region
- Manawatu-Wanganui Region / Category:Manawatu-Wanganui Region
- Marlborough Region / Category:Marlborough Region
- Nelson Region / Category:Nelson Region
- Northland Region / Category:Northland Region
- Otago Region / Category:Otago Region
- Southland Region / Category:Southland Region
- Taranaki Region / Category:Taranaki Region
- Tasman Region / Category:Tasman Region
- Waikato Region / Category:Waikato Region
- Wellington Region / Category:Wellington Region
- West Coast Region / Category:West Coast Region
So that would require moving 11 articles and 52 categories (possibly more articles, given there are things like List of schools in Otago). It's a fair amount of worth, but most of it would be by bot (after CFD) - I think it'd be worthwhile in the long run. Any thoughts? Grutness...wha? 10:10, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
I agree with this proposal. For the Gisborne and Nelson regions, I would favour splitting the regional material out of the existing articles immediately to form new Region articles rather than renaming the articles, which are primarily about the cities.
I suggest the proposal be extended to Districts as well, so we have each district with both an article and category, as in Far North District and Category:Far North District. Where there are current articles which combine information about a district and its major city, eg Wairoa, then the article should not be renamed, but at some point the material on the district should be split out into its own article.
An exception might be Chatham Islands, and Category:Chatham Islands. The Chatham Islands are a special territorial authority, but I think it would be unintuitive to rename the article or the category to "Chatham Islands Region" or to "Chatham Islands District"
I'm not sure how to deal with the cities which are also territorial authorities, since many cities will need disambiguation whether called eg "Hamilton" or "Hamilton City". I think we could leave this part of the problem for a later date.-gadfium 20:58, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
Okay, I'm going to go ahead with this on a piecemeal basis, starting with some of the less controversial or problematic ones - I'm taking Category:Northland, New Zealand and its subtypes to WP:CFD. Grutness...wha? 23:48, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
Location maps
Rather than having a map created for every location in NZ we should use Template:Location map if it is part on the approp infobox. Template:Infobox settlement has the ability to have a generic NZ map with a marked location. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 00:39, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
Molluscs of New Zealand (and elsewhere)
Hi folks, just wondered if you are OK about having more than a thousand articles in your project that are about the various species of molluscs that live in your general vicinity. Some of the land snails and even some of the marine species do appear to be endemic, but a lot of the marine species live elsewhere in the Indo-Pacific, so are not New Zealand specialities. It's no skin off my nose either way, but I just wondered what you thought about this question. Thanks, Invertzoo (talk) 20:52, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
GA Reassessessment of Crowded House
I have conducted a reassessment of the above article as part of the GA Sweeps process. I have found a number of concerns with the article and have delisted it from Good Article status as it no longer meets the criteria nd is likley to need considerable work to regain it. You can see the review at Talk:Crowded House/GA1. If you do not agree with my assessment you may challenge it at WP:GAR. Thanks. Jezhotwells (talk) 16:16, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
List of 1888-1889 New Zealand Native football team matches
I have nominated List of 1888-1889 New Zealand Native football team matches for featured list removal here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks; editors may declare to "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Dabomb87 (talk) 02:09, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
GA reassessment of Hayley Westenra
I have conducted a reassessment of the above article as part of the GA Sweeps process. I have found some concerns with the referencing which you can see at Talk:Hayley Westenra/GA1. I have placed the article on hold whilst these are fixed. Thanks. Jezhotwells (talk) 20:27, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
Air New Zealand and Auckland City
I have added the information that Air New Zealand, the national airline of New Zealand and a major airline and corporation, is headquartered in Auckland City, which is comparable in population to Fort Worth, Texas (in 2000). Some users have continued to remove this information, saying that because the information about Auckland City's economy is incomplete, it should not be listed. I strongly oppose this concept, especially considering the fact that {{expand|section}} exists and that, the information about the headquarters is sourced to reliable publications that have written in detail articles about the headquarter facilities, which are located in the City of Auckland. We know how many people (about) work at the central HQ facility (about 1,000) and we know the market capitalization of Air New Zealand. Air New Zealand has a market capitalization of 1,331,553,351 [4]. Writing about a company with this market capitalization and 1,000 employees at the central headquarters says a lot about Auckland City. See Talk:Auckland_City#Economy WhisperToMe (talk) 07:11, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
- I have since found more information that should settle the issue: http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/council/projects/cbdproject/docs/theeconomyofcbd%20.pdf - This 2003 report states that Air New Zealand, along with two other companies, are three of the ten largest companies in New Zealand that have their headquarters in Auckland City. While Air New Zealand since moved its headquarters, its new facility is in Auckland City. WhisperToMe (talk) 07:52, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
use of http://www.safe-nz.org.nz/ as a source
I notice that some articles have http://www.safe-nz.org.nz/ as a source. Am I right in thinking that as a political pressure group the Sensible Sentencing Trust is not considered a reliable impartial source? On the positive side most of the pages wikipedia links to have at least one (but usually only one) source (usually a new article), so maybe we should link directly to that? Stuartyeates (talk) 09:03, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
LINZ50 topo maps
I am active in New Zealand topics in german wiki, so i am interested in good maps. The new LINZ50 topographic maps of New Zealand can be downloaded for free at LINZ webpage, but other people appear to have the same idea to... so my 54Mbit connection downloads with only 2kb/sec = quite annoying. Are there any faster mirrors or has anybody a ftp download for the maps ? -- Andy king50 (talk) 16:43, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
Update: the speed problem seems to be restricted to highly polulated areas and work days. Weekend download for low pop. areas are much better using multiple downloads. Server itself runs with at least 2 MBit/s in low res maps..-- Andy king50 (talk) 10:58, 24 October 2009 (UTC).
Maori terms
As a foreigner reading about New Zealand, articles such as Te Reo (TV) are just about unintelligible, containing Maori words and phrases without translation or linking to an explanation. --Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.196.204.115 (talk) 07:53, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
Popular pages
I've signed us up at the toolserver for stats on the most-visited pages tagged with WPNZ. This will appear as WikiProject New Zealand/Popular Pages once approved. dramatic (talk) 07:46, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
Government of New Zealand
I think we need a Government of New Zealand article. It is current a redir to Politics of New Zealand. Governance is different to, but linked to politics. Some of the stuff in the latter article is more applicable to the former. Note that there is already a Category:Government of New Zealand and a Governments of New Zealand article. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 06:19, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
Cat for renaming
I have put an NZ cat up for renaming at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2009 November 1. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 06:30, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
Pageview stats
After a recent request, I added WikiProject New Zealand to the list of projects to compile monthly pageview stats for. The data is the same used by http://stats.grok.se/en/ but the program is different, and includes the aggregate views from all redirects to each page. The stats are at Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/Popular pages.
The page will be updated monthly with new data. The edits aren't marked as bot edits, so they will show up in watchlists. You can view more results, request a new project be added to the list, or request a configuration change for this project using the toolserver tool. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know. Thanks! Mr.Z-man 00:52, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
Astonishing blip in stats
I expected a blip in the pageview stats for Caversham, New Zealand when it went on the fromnt page on Nov 30 -and was not disappointed (viewcount). It pushed Caversham into the top list mentioned above.
What I didn't expect was the 'collateral fallout" -have a look at the spikes on Nov 30 for these connected articles: Dunedin, Dunedin Southern Motorway, South Dunedin, William Henry Valpy, Dunedin Southern Cemetery, Otago, the South Island... that last one is particularly impressive. Even New Zealand seems to have picked up some extra hits...
Seems that having a front page feature does a lot of good to the pageviews of many related articles trough "browsing". Grutness...wha? 23:43, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
Odd page
Something is off with Talk:Yr Head Is A Rock. It seems like a talk page for a redirect page? That's just odd. Maybe a loose end from something? Stuartyeates (talk) 07:35, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
FYI: Large list of NZ bios
Just a heads up that I have placed a list of roughly 3,000 NZ individuals (Or individuals present in the NZ dictionary of biographies) in the requested articles section of this project page. Cheers!Calaka (talk) 05:45, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
A vote to move Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom to Elizabeth II is being held at Talk:Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. --what a crazy random happenstance 02:36, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
WP 1.0 bot announcement
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WikiProject New Zealand music
How about a sub-WikiProject of WikiProject New Zealand Music? It would be similar to WikiProject Australian music, with articles' talk pages still wearing the {{WPNZ}} badge, but with a |music=yes parameter. There are many articles relating to New Zealand music, so wouldn't it be a good idea to organise a WikiProject simply for their purpose? Adabow (talk) 09:26, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
Year in New Zealand articles
A new user has attempted to add the following sections to 2010 in New Zealand: "Visits from the Famous and Royals around the world" and "Bands/Artist on Tour". I think these are an excessive trivialisation of the sort of sections that should be included on year pages. I can find no other instance of these categories being used in Year in Country articles (although I haven't checked them all, just the most obvious ones). There would undoubtedly be endless arguments about who qualifies as 'Famous', the only exceptions would probably be the Monarch of the UK and the Pope (if those tours involved large-scale public parades). The vast majority of musical acts visiting NZ could hardly be considered notable even on a year by year basis (the exception would probably be The Beatles). Annual events, such as the Big Day Out, are excluded from Year articles although they persist in Year in Music articles. If the were Year in New Zealand music articles (as there are for some other countries) visiting artists would belong there.
Opinions on this? DerbyCountyinNZ (Talk Contribs) 00:12, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
Peter Pennell
Peter Craig Pennell, Air Force navigator in WWII. Can anybody help with this? He seems to have been famous at the time, but I've gone as far as Google will take me. DGG ( talk ) 22:52, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
Studylink article
Studylink redirects to Ministry of Social Development (New Zealand) as I write this, and is only covered by a sentence or two. This organization seems important enough to have its own article, since it must have tens of thousands of student clients. I could probably write a bit about it but I can't easily locate any external sources to show its notability. If anyone could suggest some I might create an article on it - does anyone know of some reliable independent sources that discuss Studylink as the subject of an article/book etc? Richard001 (talk) 11:50, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
role of maori in women's suffrage being achieved
Hi
please would u include details of how maori seats etc and maori played role in development of womens suffrage eg in votes to bring it in195.188.208.250 (talk) --Preceding undated comment added 16:43, 28 February 2010 (UTC).
Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2010 February 28#Category:Australasia
Your input is welcome. Cheers, postdlf (talk) 23:04, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
Template:New Zealand English
FYI, {{New Zealand English}} has been nomiated for deletion. 70.29.210.242 (talk) 05:35, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
Talk:Heliacal rising
I've removed Talk:Heliacal rising from WPNZ. The article does mention the Maori (amongst other groups of people), but the subject is of global scope and hasn't been added to any other such wikiproject. Please do revert my change if I've misunderstood anything. -Syncategoremata (talk) 23:27, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
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New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme
Some adjudication may be needed at Talk:New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme. Mrfebruary (talk) 22:21, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
Robert Lawson (architect)
I have just rated the importance of Robert Lawson (architect) to WPNZ and saw that it is a former featured article! At the moment it is currently B-Class, and I thought someone might like to request a peer review and/or nominate it for good article status. I won't get too involved, as I know nothing about the topic, but it seems like this could easily make GA, so could someone with a bit more knowledge of the area please give it a bit of attention? Thanks, Adabow (talk) 10:40, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
Meetup?
It's been quite a while now since the last meetup in Auckland. I wouldn't mind going to one this year some time, maybe around June/July? I haven't really been working on New Zealand articles that much that I can think of (the closest I can think of recently is the Asian paper wasp entry I started), but would like to meet some more contributors, keep the meetup thing going, and talk about promotion of Wikipedia contribution. I'm interested in hosting some seminars and public lectures about Wikipedia at the University of Auckland too.
We would need to promote the meetup early and effectively beforehand to get a good turnout. It might be good to try to have roughly simultaneous meetups in other areas, maybe Wellington and Christchurch, if there are enough people to come (I feel bad that only Auckland ever has meetups, but don't particularly want to go far to one myself). Richard001 (talk) 10:43, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
Can you help with a triple DYK nomination?
I'm expanding the article on John Evans Brown, and it would be great if others could chip in and you'll get DYK credits in return. Please see the talk page - there are some good sources listed that can be worked in.
The aim is to submit a triple DYK about Brown and his three brothers in law that were all MPs in the New Zealand Parliament. Two of the articles are new (from today and yesterday), whereas the page on Garrick has been around for a few weeks. My suggested DYK submission is:
- ... that the New Zealand Members of Parliament Francis James Garrick, John Thomas Peacock, John Evans Brown and Henry Richard Webb were brothers in law? Schwede66 06:21, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
Requested move
There is a proposal on the WikiProject New Zealand/governments talk page to move the page to Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/politics, thus broadening the scope of the project. There's been very little discussion so far. Can you please comment on the government talk page if you have an opinion? Schwede66 00:22, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
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Gary Brain
Could someone please have a look at Gary Brain. It's been up for a while and shows no real progress in wikification. Additionally, as indicated by File talk:Brain receving grammy award for conducting finest orchestra cd for 1997.jpg some claims in the article may have been insufficiently qualified. I'd propose the page for deletion myself, but I have a real-world COI on this one. Stuartyeates (talk) 03:56, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi? This interests me somewhat
http://www.nzso.co.nz/search?go=yes&keywords=Gary+Brain&Search=Search
The last is this
JANACEK: Orchestral Suites from the Operas Peter Breiner, music director of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, has done us a service in arranging... news_and_media/2009_discography - 100%
?
http://www.google.co.nz/search?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-nz:IE-SearchBox&q=Gary+Brain+conducting+orchestra+1997&ei=O2HoS_S8B5OssgPq1tXUCA&sa=X&oi=revisions_inline&ct=unquoted-query-link&ved=0CBUQgwM
Amazon has this CD ?
Here is the excert - from a google result.
Amazon.ca: Gary Brain - Classical: Music1 by Philharmonia Orchestra of London (Orchestra), Gary Brain (Conductor), ... (Conductor), and Czeslaw Marek (Composer) by Koch Schwann (Audio CD - 1997) ... www.amazon.ca/gary-brain.../s?...Gary%20Brain...n%3A962464%2Ck%3AGary%20Brain... - Cached - Similar
Does this help? Roxburgh NZ (talk) 19:47, 10 May 2010 (UTC) Roxburgh NZ (talk) 19:47, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
Woohoo?
OneSquared's Presentation of Brian Harmer's WYSIWYG New Zealand ...19 Sep 1997 ... New Zealand-born conductor Gary Brain has won classical music's ... The conductor and the London Philharmonia Orchestra won the Echo award for their .... Date: 18 September 1997 Brian Dooley Wellington, NZ CURRENCIES The ... wysiwygnews.com/1997_News/1997September19.html - Cached - Similar
Reference:- SAME RESULTS PAGE - just lower down.
DIRECT LINK
http://wysiwygnews.com/1997_News/1997September19.html
Midway down - on WYSIWYG New Zealand News as the "EDITORS" ARTICLE
http://wysiwygnews.com/1997_News/1997September19.html
WYSIWYG New Zealand News
19 September 1997 Copyright © 1995 Brian Harmer
Cheers - This has made my day - THANKYOU for allowing me to help
Roxburgh NZ (talk) 20:09, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
Roxburgh NZ, as well as the rest of the "lower" South Island (via videos, photos & general LOCAL knowledge)
(re- the ONLY section- on Wikipedia:Roxburgh, NZ - "entitled" thus- is incorrect) --- Entertainment ---
Roxburgh has New Zealand's oldest operating cinema. Located in Scotland Street, it opened in October 1898 as is still operating. The cinema seats 258 persons and is one of only four cinemas left in Central Otago. Live shows are also performed
MAJOR EDITING is hereby being given (unbiased) by a local resident
every saturday, since major restoration was recently completed [exact citation of completion date needed].
These weekly screenings are usually advertised up to three weeks in advance, via the weekly published Teviot Bulletin , and some important screenings are often given longer lead-in times - especially when special films are "coming soon" (such as the locally produced films of- In His Fathers Den, & The Lord of The Rings Trilogy).
References source:- Teviot Bulletin (a free circulation that is usually printed in back & white - except on special occasions when colour is used - and consists of two sheets of double side printing A4 - which has recently expanded to a fifth page - and is delivered on Fridays to every household in the "triangulated" areas of Raes Junction at the southern point, Heriot to the west, & as far north as Fruitlands).
Reference source - locally obtained by author - can be quickly be verified direct with the Teviot Bulletin Publishing Staff
by
Although the author Roxburgh NZ (talk) 18:50, 10 May 2010 (UTC) could abtain permission indirectly, it is advised that Wikipedia Admin obtain direct permission to "upload" copied details of printed copyright materials - directly - from the teviot bulletin Staff
The author Roxburgh NZ (talk) 18:50, 10 May 2010 (UTC) is easily willing to take & or make - upon Wikipedia Admin Request - as many photos & videos of the whole general area (from as far south a Bluff - to as far north as Timaru & maybe sometimes Christchurch) ... for inclusion in either this article - or for insertion into any of the many others subject projects within this lower South Island of New Zealand - (being the home turf_area - that the author has resided "in" for 56yrs)
The author already HAS ... several films already running on www.youtube.com/QUIX4U (most available for downloading in mp4 format according to my edit page?) - depicting not only the Roxburgh area & many of it's surrounds, including some very descriptive videos on the Fruitlands Goldfeild Days & on Mitchels Historic Cottage to be precise, as well as a video sequence of both stills & video footage - from Roxburgh to Queenstown & The Crown Range Road, involving the added inclusion of comentated footage - on three Snow Cat Machines at Shingle Creek, between Roxburgh & Fruitlands, but several into & around lower Canterbury - and even some unique views into & around Auckland - (and if needed - the audio re-masters which accompany them - can be muted - so as to not detract from the scenery)
Roxburgh NZ (talk) 18:50, 10 May 2010 (UTC) Sincerely trying to be ever helpfull - & especially going well out of ones way, to showcase the area & environs, flora & fauna - (mostly to foreign hitch-hikers) Roxburgh NZ (talk) 18:50, 10 May 2010 (UTC) My verification can also be easily checked via
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Roxburgh NZ (talk) 18:50, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
Roxburgh NZ (talk) 18:59, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
Calling all NZ military history buffs
Hi all, this is just a friendly hello to let you know that the Military History project has undergone some changes recently which have resulted in a merge between the Australian task force and the New Zealand task force to create a new task force called the Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific military history task force. We currently have very few active New Zealand members, so if you are interested in getting involved please stop by. The task force can be found here: WP:ANZSP. There is a list of articles that are requested and others that need expansion. Cheers. -- AustralianRupert (talk) 22:33, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
Edward Cephas John Stevens
Can someone take a quick look at Edward Cephas John Stevens and see if you think it can be nominated as a GA? I think it meets the criteria, but I may be jumping the gun here. Adabow (talk) 06:02, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
Request for project help on St. Mark's Anglican Church, Remuera, Auckland
I removed a PROD from this yesterday and added some project templates to the discussion. Maybe someone from this project can bring the article up to standards and add some additional sources. Maybe from here. Thanks. --Mike Cline (talk) 13:34, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
Ben Hana
Ben Hana, aka Blanket Man. In need of serious, urgent clean-up, probably a re-write. A deletion may be in order even. Adabow (talk) 10:12, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
Timeline of New Zealand history
I am intending to get Timeline of New Zealand history of to FL status. You can help by adding (or removing) events that are (or are not) notable enough to be in it. If you can reference stuff, that's great; if not, I am doing a sweep to find a ref for each entry. Adabow (talk) 09:12, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
...and on the subject of featured lists...
I've requested a peer review of List of former territorial authorities in New Zealand as a first step towards getting it to FL status. dramatic (talk) 07:13, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
Use of this page?
Considering we have this noticeboard, shouldn't this talk page be kept for discussions around the WikiProject itself? At the moment they seem very similar, just with different discussions. Adabow (talk) 10:12, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+My preference would be for the first option. All it really needs is a bit of a clean up (i.e. shift all the talk from this page to the other), and then some ongoing management (say two or three people cutting and pasting new talk from this page to the other when it ended up in the wrong spot). In no time, everybody will get the hang of it. We've done exactly this with the politics task force pages (where discussions were distributed across both the talk page and the taskforce page) and it's now in top shape. Schwede66 06:02, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
(talk) 08:17, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
M?ori Battalion article
Hello all, I'm a member/co-ordinator of the Military History project and have found myself working on a rewrite of the M?ori Battalion (just for a change of topic, as I usually work on Australian military history articles). Anyway, I've rewritten the article up to a B class standard, but have found over the past couple of days that the article has had pieces removed from it by a dynamic IP address. To be honest I don't have the content knowledge (I just followed what the sources said) to know whether or not the IP is correct, whether they are incorrect or if it in fact vandalism. As such, I am asking for someone who mght have a bit of specific New Zealand knowledge to take a look at the article and see whether the changes are correct or not. If they are, that's fine, just let me know and I'll back off. I rewrote the article to do the topic justice, but if I've introduced inaccuracies because of my lack of content knowledge I would be disappointed in myself for not fixing them. However, equally I don't want to allow the article to get trashed again (as it was in a poor state to start off with). Thus if anyone from this project would be so kind as taking a look and letting me know what you think, I'd be very grateful. Cheers. Take care. AustralianRupert (talk) 02:10, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
Highway infoboxes
Members of WP:HWY, with members of the Infobox Accessibility Task Force, been working on a project to consolidate all of the infoboxes for highway articles into one, {{infobox road}}. This master template currently supports 48 countries, Europe (for the supranational E-routes system) and Antarctica (for the lone "highway" there). As you can see, it supports New Zealand, and I've worked to convert the articles over on New Zealand highways. If there are any improvements to be made, please let us know so that we can upgrade the level of support and improve the articles. Our goal is to make one template with consistent display for highway articles on the English Wikipedia.
We already know that the "Major cities:" label is not optimal, and that would be our next update to make, adding a replacement parameter for destinations instead of cities. A simple AWB run can switch that over once added to the template. Additionally, in the initial conversion, I placed the tourist routes into the "alternate_name" parameter, but I had placed it initially in the "system" parameter which listed it at the bottom above the links to the highway system articles. Imzadi 1979 -> 23:27, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
Firstly, thank you for (belatedly) bringing this here for discussion. To me, the change seems a waste of wikieffort.
- The handful of people who are creating the NZ highway articles are already familiar with the existing template.
- A template designed to accommodate the peculiarities of every highway system in the world is necessarily much more complex. This just spends more of the wikimedia foundation's CPU time. I guarantee that in a few years time someone will say "this template is trying to do too much - it should be devolved into regional ones".
- You are adding further complexity to it to cope with our (99 maximum) articles
- In summary, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
If you do think that our template is "broke" in some aspects, it's much easier to modify our template than to convert all articles to the new one. dramatic (talk) 22:37, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
Well? Are there any further objections before restoring the conversions to Infobox road? --Rschen7754 06:54, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
Sorry I'm late replying - sloppy internet connection recently. Some points I have to add:
- I designed both templates as a direct New Zealand version of the UK motorway infobox - I didn't even know Infobox Road existed, and even then it was designed for North American roads.
- Originally the Motorway box was designed with the Northern Motorway in mind - back then it was State Highway 1 south of Silverdale and State Highway 1A north.
- I created the SH57 article with infobox road as a trial - it works well with State Highway 57 as there are no major complications with Tourist Routes.
- We still have no infobox suitable for both the conditions of all-motorway State Highways (SH18 and SH20), or for touring routes.
I have no opinion on whether to keep or replace - although I do think the NZ-specific infoboxes are getting a bit old and do need to be updated if they are to be continued in use. If Infobox Road is to be used, the data for New Zealand needs to be updated to allow defaluting of the Maintenance field to the New Zealand Transport Agency, and to have State Highway Succession (e.g. SH2 article succession is SH1 before and SH3 afterwards Until there is such a consensus, I will use Infobox Road on a limited number of articles (namely SH20, SH57, Auckland Northern Motorway, Southern Scenic Route) as a showcase trial. Lcmortensen (mailbox) 05:31, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
From reading the above discussion I gather that the NZ editors are okay with the conversions to Infobox road. Can these conversions thus be done? --Rschen7754 18:50, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
Helen Gibbins
Please take a look at this deletion discussion, if anyone has anything useful to add, please do so!--Chris (??? o ?????) (talk) 06:53, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
Neil Peres Da Costa
This gentleman has been put into NZ categories, and now the WP NZ banner has been added to his talk page. But there is not one single mention of New Zealand in the article. Not one. Why is he being claimed for New Zealand? -- Jack of Oz ... speak! ... 06:02, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
Discussion at Talk:List of Sovereign States regarding NZ's, Cook Islands' and Niue's political status
The discussion is located here. The debate is over whether the Cook Islands and Niue and sovereign states and should be included on the list. It has also been suggested that a few pages be created to this end to explain the situation, namely pages with these possible title; Political status of the Cook Islands, Political status of Niue, Political status of states in free association with New Zealand. Regards. Outback the koala (talk) 23:44, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
List of New Zealand ministries
Two of us are at logger headers about the use of the word 'ministries' in this article, as per the talk page. It would be great to get some external input as to whether these should be called 'governments,' 'cabinets,' 'ministries' or something else entirely. Stuartyeates (talk) 21:59, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
AFD for Charles E. Sexey
At Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Charles E. Sexey. East of Borschov 12:06, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
Category:History of New Zealand by region
I created Category:History of New Zealand by region. Its subcats as well as the parent need populating. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 03:04, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
FAR
I have nominated The Catlins for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. YellowMonkey (new photo poll) 02:15, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
Darius Dhlomo copyright cleanup
A bot is going to blank 10,000+ articles with significant contributions by User:Darius Dhlomo due to a major and chronic history of copyright violation. Judging from the number of articles on which I've seen his moniker, this may affect hundreds of articles within WPNZ. Help will be needed investigating articles once they have been blanked - Instructions are here. dramatic (talk) 18:16, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
Te Rewa Rewa Bridge
Hello Taranaki Wikipedians (or those who have recently visited the area), there's a new article on your newest landmark - Te Rewa Rewa Bridge. I've nominated it for DYK (Did you know?) and it's to go onto the WP homepage sometime on Wednesday (I guess). The article has been chosen including its photo as shown here. If anybody has a better photo than this, could you please upload it to Commons ASAP and leave a note here? I'll look after getting the photo exchanged if that were to happen. I reckon it's a nice opportunity to showcase Taranaki to the world - you guys have built yourself a beautiful structure! Well done. Schwede66 04:52, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
New Zealand articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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We have greatly streamlined the process since the Version 0.7 release, so we aim to have the collection ready for distribution by the end of October, 2010. As a result, we are planning to distribute the collection much more widely, while continuing to work with groups such as One Laptop per Child and Wikipedia for Schools to extend the reach of Wikipedia worldwide. Please help us, with your WikiProject's feedback!
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Include:
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Adabow (talk · contribs) 00:34, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
I've responded on the v0.8 talk page, but I'll bite here, too.
I'd also be tempted to add New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987 (surprisingly, only 518 pts). Other than that, I agree pretty much with Avenue's and Adabow's comments above. Grutness...wha? 04:28, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
One thing uniquely Kiwi are M?ori electorates. That article isn't very comprehensive, though. I've recently written First M?ori elections, which goes a lot more into the historical context of that issue. It's quite new and I don't know where the score that the toolserver lists show comes from. Both have a relatively low score of 225, so are way below the cut off for articles that have been chosen (>1050). Ok, I'm probably biased, but one of those articles should be added. Schwede66 06:09, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
Useful source
New Zealand Acts as enacted is now online, showing NZ legislation as it was when first passed. --Helenalex (talk) 00:06, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
M?ori orthography
What's the policy on standardising on M?ori work names from double-vowel to macronised orthography? There are several in Bruce Biggs which are still double-vowel. I've not corrected them, not being sure I should. Stuartyeates (talk) 08:24, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
Old photos on Commons
If anyone feels like doing a bit of categorising, there are 29 photos in Commons Category:New Zealand that need to be placed in the correct categories and a description added. Mainly places and buildings - some of them might be useful. Kahuroa (talk) 08:27, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
List of number-one singles from the 2000s (New Zealand)
This list's FLC could do with a couple more reviews, if anyone has a bit of time. Thanks in advance, Adabow (talk · contribs) 10:28, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I would like to join this wikiproject.
I am new to editing on wikipedia, but I am very interested in New Zealand articles. I have spent some years as a user, however I am new to editing articles. How do I join a wikiproject? (This one). Luke021 (talk) 11:17, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
Naming convention for rivers
Hi, the other day I turned Alexander River into a disambiguation page, since New Zealand's river of that name is probably undeserving of being at the main article. Someone reverted one of my moves and while I was checking naming conventions for ammunition in order to remonstrate with them, I discovered that [Rivers] generally uses bracket disambiguation, but that all New Zealand rivers are currently using comma disambiguation. The project notes that UK and NZ use comma, while Australia and North America use brackets. I see no reason why we have adopted the comma, and advantages to switching to brackets. For example, in the Australian section of the disambiguation page Little River, there is a clearer distinction between towns (Little River, Victoria) and waterways (Little River (Dubbo)). Is it worth making the change? dramatic (talk) 09:18, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
I'd be happy to see a general discussion on the NZ naming conventions. The common practice for articles on other parts of the world is to use "name, country" for settlements, assuming "name" is ambiguous, and "name (feature)" for geographical features such as rivers and mountains. The guidelines are set out at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names)#Disambiguation. We do have quite a lot of rivers and lakes with names which are not unique within New Zealand, so "name (river)" might have to become "name (Canterbury river)", which seems rather ugly to me.-gadfium 19:11, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
I have a recollection of a discussion about NZ river and place naming conventions about six years ago. The US went for brackets and we went for a comma to create disambiguated pages. My preference is to use a comma since that is what is generally done in the real world. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 04:48, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
!Vote
I'm finding it difficult to judge consensus from this discussion - can we have an indication of people's preference:
Change to Foo River (New Zealand)
- dramatic (talk) 21:19, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
- Mattinbgn (talk) 21:33, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
- gadfium 22:02, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
- DerbyCountyinNZ (Talk Contribs) 23:57, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
Retain Foo River, New Zealand
Conclusion
On the basis of the above I have started moving rivers. I haven't yet rewritten the naming convention guideline, since we haven't explicitly discussed other geographic features. Once again, LINZ generally includes the type of feature in its name, so the only likely need for disambiguation is the country. Therefore there is no real need to vary from the more general convention. dramatic (talk) 23:00, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
Whoooaaah, Neddy!
Why was no mention of this discussion made at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (New Zealand) until after some kind of completion of discussion was done here? Surely that would be the place to announce that this sort of discussion is taking place! (Actually, it's where the diwscussion should have taken place in the first place...) It may also be why only four !votes were registered for what is a pretty far-reaching change in article naming. I oppose the change as proposed. There are several countries which use the same system as New Zealand currently does for rivers, with the same reason (i.e., it is the most common way that rivers are disambiguated in general writing (and yes, that does happen, D - it happened with me yesterday, talking about the Waiau, Southland and the Waiau, Marlborough). The United Kingdom is the most obvious with all of its rivers being disambiguated in the form River Foo, County where necessary. The same is true with other New Zealand geographical features, such as Lakes and Mountains, which are also disambiguated by commas. The only reason why Australia does things differently is because there are a considerable number of towns in Australia which have "Foo River" as their names - it is a more common practice there than here. Grutness...wha? 11:26, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
WikiProject cleanup listing
I have created together with Smallman12q a toolserver tool that shows a weekly-updated list of cleanup categories for WikiProjects, that can be used as a replacement for WolterBot and this WikiProject is among those that are already included (because it is a member of Category:WolterBot cleanup listing subscriptions). See the tool's wiki page, this project's listing in one big table or by categories and the index of WikiProjects. Svick (talk) 19:52, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
CAN I PLEASE HAVE SOMEONE TO DELETE A PAGE AND REDIRECT
CAN I PLEASE HAVE SOMEONE TO DELETE A PAGE AND REDIRECT, CAN I HAVE TO DELETE THE PAGE "Northern League (New Zealand)" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_League_(New_Zealand)) and the to REDIRECT TO THE PAGE "Lotto Sport Italia NRFL Premier" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotto_Sport_Italia_NRFL_Premier) THANK U VERY MUCH --Preceding unsigned comment added by WhizzSheep (talk o contribs) 20:52, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
- I've done the opposite. League sponsorships change regularly, and as such the standard, non-sponsored name is the best name for the page. What's more, since you simply copied and pasted everything across from the Northern League page, a lot of info would be lost. And I agree with DCiNZ - there's no need to SHOUT. For future refenece, you might like to look at Help:Redirect and Help:Moving a page. Grutness...wha? 21:22, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
Slight simplification of requested articles
Hi all - I've slightly simplified the requested article list (I hope!) by turning the list of pages with many redlinks into a template -- {{WPNZ redlinks}}. There were separate lists on WP:WPNZ and WP:WPNZ/Requested articles which kept on getting out of synch with each other - now the list on the two pages will stay identical. Grutness...wha? 03:20, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
Adding M?ori task force to WPNZ template
If any admin has a moment, could they please take a look at Template talk:WikiProject New Zealand#M?ori task force, and add the code there for the task force to the {{WikiProject New Zealand}} template. Cheers. - Liveste (talk o edits) 10:04, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
Richie McCaw
Hi all. I have just expanded the article on the next Rugby World Cup winning captain. I think it is of Good quality and it could make Feature. I started a peer review here if anyone wishes to make comments. Cheers AIRcorn (talk) 12:13, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
Photo from Canterbury?
Hi all - our article on the Nor'west arch could seriously use a photo...and judging by the idiot wind blowing hot through Dunedin today there's a chance that there's a good opportunity for one from one of our Cantabrian editors. Any chance? Grutness...wha? 22:59, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
- Done - thanks Schwede66. Grutness...wha? 21:14, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
404 source
Everything here
Seems to be sourced to [7] and at least all I checked give 404 messages. BE----Critical__Talk 00:30, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
Placenames and Macrons
After a long time away I have found some free time to edit some articles again. I have discovered a couple of placenames with inappropriate macrons, i.e. M?oribank and T?tara Park, that I think should be spelt Maoribank and Totara Park, because that is how they are spelt locally, here in Upper Hutt, and in the NZGB place name database. In my opinion, macrons should only appear in article names when they appear in the official (M?ori) name of the place, if that is also the official (English) name of the place as well. Putting macrons over letters in English words in order to suggest they are not actually English words but M?ori ones is getting a bit too PC for me. I get most concerned when the words originated from English speaking settlers or developers who chose not to put macrons in their English spelling of words that they had borrowed from the M?ori and everyone has now accepted that their common usage is without macrons. But before I act too boldly, I would like to know what do others think?
Specific comments to Talk:M?oribank and Talk:T?tara Park, general observations here. - Cameron Dewe (talk) 12:48, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
Proposed deletion of Mucking In
The article Mucking In has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.
Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Jeepday (talk) 00:45, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
2011 New Year Honours
I created the relevant section for 2011_New_Year_Honours. I've not linked and disambiguated the names, but that's something that can be incrementally. Stuartyeates (talk) 08:54, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
Inset location maps FYI
Anyone who uses location infoboxes/maps might want to see Template talk:Location map#Inset Maps and give some feedback on a proposal to add inset map parameters Kahuroa (talk) 08:11, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
A very handy tool
Thought I'd let everybody know of a very handy tool that I installed the other day, and it's turned out to be most useful. User:Anomie/linkclassifier is the documentation page for this javascript tool, which adds various classes to wikilink elements based on various characteristics. For those of you who keep an eye on things, you might find the following links that look different from a usual link of interest:
- pages tagged for deletion
- link to dab pages
- stub pages
- redirect pages
These are just some examples. Once you get used to the colour coding, you might be equally enthusiastic about this handy tool as I am. Schwede66 21:40, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
M?ori move proposal
A proposal to move M?ori to M?ori people is being discussed on the M?ori talk page. If this were a game of soccer, you could say it's the Kiwis playing the United Nations. It's one nil for the Kiwis at the moment. I suggest you go and spectate; maybe even put on a black jersey and join in. Schwede66 06:27, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
New article: The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
New article, created, at The Mystery of a Hansom Cab. Additional assistance in research would be appreciated, feel free to help out at the article's talk page. Cheers, -- Cirt (talk) 13:40, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
Onepoto
Does anyone think there is a primary topic for Onepoto? We have:
- The suburb in Porirua (Onepoto, New Zealand)
- A village near lake Waikaremoana (we don't even have an article!)
- The domain (and crater) in Auckland Onepoto (volcanic crater)
- ...and the nearby Onepoto Bridge
The settlement near Lake Waikaremoana is the only entry for the name in Wises New Zealand Guide. Google seems to have many more results for the Auckland domain than for Porirua, but this could be distortion from sports notices. It is arguable that a standalone village might have primacy over a suburb, especially since it is much older. dramatic (talk) 18:32, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
Alan's OK
Just letting people know that I received an email from Alan Liefting - probably our most active Christchurch editor - who has been away from WP since the earthquake. He's safe and well - presumably his lack of editing is simply because of higher priorities in the real world. Anyone know of other prominent Chch wikipedians who have been unusually quiet since Tuesday? Grutness...wha? 21:30, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
New Zealand
I am aiming to submit the projects flagship article for peer review next week and from there try for featured article status. I would like to encourage members or watchers of this project to make any suggestions or fixes regarding content, accuracy or any other issues before it is assessed as to its suitability for the front page. AIRcorn (talk) 06:02, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
A Pox upon unimaginitive explorers and settlers!
Had they no idea what headaches they were going to cause us? The question at hand is how to disambiguate two rivers named Rainy River, both of which are in the Tasman Region. The usual approach would be to use the next smaller division, which is district, only Tasman is a Unitary Authority, so they are both in Tasman District. Does it make any sense to disambiguate via the rivers of which they are tributary, i.e. Rainy River (Motueka) and Rainy River (Pelorus)? dramatic (talk) 10:33, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
definition of Christchurch
The wikt:Christchurch defintion for New Zealand is under dicussion, see wikt:Wiktionary:Requests_for_verification#Christchurch. Is Christchurch named after the town in England? 65.95.15.144 (talk) 07:35, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
Discussion on orthography of dual names
Aoraki / Mount Cook was recently moved to Aoraki/Mount Cook without discussion (the spaces around the slash being removed) and the article title now contravenes Wikipedia:Naming conventions (New Zealand). Because this potentially effects 90+ other articles, I have initiated a discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(New_Zealand)#Does_usage_trump_convention? dramatic (talk) 01:23, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Wood (New Zealand musician)
This AfD has been relisted twice due to lack of input. It would be great if a few more people could take a look. Thanks. Adabow (talk · contribs) 00:59, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
Help with location map
Could someone with experience of NZ location maps show me how to include one in the {{Geobox}} template on Kaweka Range? As a linear feature it would be great if the map copuld show a line rather than a dot, but I appreciate that that may not be supported. dramatic (talk) 21:59, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
Ok how do i join this group ????
Ihaveahugesandwidge 3:18, pm 16 March 2011 (UTC)
WPENGVAR template:New Zealand English
{{New Zealand English}} use of the flag is in question, see Template talk:American English
184.144.160.156 (talk) 02:57, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
National Parks categories
We currently have Category:National parks of New Zealand. Do people think that it would be useful to create a subcategory for each National park which can include places within the park? dramatic (talk) 21:00, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
2007 New Zealand anti-terror raids
This page is getting unmanageably large, could someone with experience in such things please split it? Ideally before the build-up to the trials, which will presumably generate a buttload of coverage. Stuartyeates (talk) 20:11, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
Ruapuke needs some love
If anyone has an hour to spare, Ruapuke has been neglected for 5 years and currently reads like a travel brochure rather than an encyclopedia. dramatic (talk) 00:21, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
Baron Ashburton
I'm suffering from conflicting sources and numerous copies (of some unreliable source?) - does anyone have a reliable print source for which Baron Ashburton the NZ town and river were named after. It seems possible that the first to third barons were all involved with the Canterbury Association. dramatic (talk) 00:21, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
New Zealander
I was wondering if New Zealander and Kiwi (people) should be merged so stated a discussion here. It will probably need a broad consensus to go ahead. AIRcorn (talk) 20:07, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
Citation Provided for Dinoris (Giant Moa) Height
A request for a citation on the height of the Giant moa was placed, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_moa)
here is a link
http://www.nzbirds.com/birds/moagiant.html
I am very new here, and opened my accoung 5 minutes ago so i could see if i can help out.
StringFellow1974StringFellow1974 (talk) 01:24, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
North and South article index?
North and South magazine would be a top source for New Zealand articles given the depth of research their writers do - but there doesn't appear to be any index of articles available online. Is there a cumulative index of the magazine that someone could digitise and make available for project members? dramatic (talk) 18:14, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Titirangi Theatre
Can anyone help the new user with this? Mostly, it could use more reliable sources. Cheers, Chzz ? 09:18, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
Unreferenced BLPs
We have eliminated the backlog of NZ-related Unreferenced BLPs. Well done and thank you to everyone who helped out in any way! It would be advisable to watch the bot-updated list so that we can keep the number at zero. Adabow (talk · contribs) 05:23, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
2007 New Zealand anti-terror raids
An anon and I appear to be having a disagreement about the 2007 New Zealand anti-terror raids. I feel that some note is important that this isn't an isolated thing but that there's >100 years of history here. The anon feels differently. I'm not going to edit war. Could someone else take a look? Stuartyeates (talk) 09:06, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
Hone Harawira
There is currently some debate in the discussion section of his page about the reliability of David Rankin as a source on the subject of Hone formerly being called 'Hone Hatfield'.
http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/harawira-scolded-ngapuhi-elder-127449
User:luke96241 --Preceding undated comment added 11:29, 20 May 2011 (UTC).
Niue and Tokelau articles
While doing assessments, I have removed the WPNZ template from some articles on Tokelau and Niue. Although technically part of New Zealand, the articles are better served by their inclusion in WP:WikiProject Polynesia and the appropriate task-forces. In cases where the article is about the NZ/island relationship or there is a non-trivial reference to New Zealand, I would retain the WPNZ template. Does anyone disagree with this approach? dramatic (talk) 11:27, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
2011 Puyehue eruption flight disruptions
I was wondering whether a Air travel disruption after the 2011 Puyehue eruption article for the 2011 Puyehue eruption should be created? This would be analogous to the Air travel disruption after the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption article.
Please discuss at: Talk:2011 Puyehue eruption
65.94.47.63 (talk) 10:14, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
Waiheke Island
Waiheke Island was apparently named after "an event when Maori Explorer Kahumatamomoe landed on the island and urinated". This reads like vandalism. I find it a bit hard to believe that an island would be named after someone urinating. 83.84.195.88 (talk) 07:56, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
Christchurch photos
Hi there, I got a batch of flickr photos uploaded the other day showing Christchurch heritage buildings and gone through and categorised them, but there are three buildings left that I can't figure out where they are located. Could other editors with local Christchurch knowledge please go and have a look? Schwede66 04:39, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
2011 Birthday Honours
I've started 2011 Birthday Honours but won't get time to completely link it. Stuartyeates (talk) 08:32, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
Feedback wanted
Could I get some feedback on the New Zealand sections of 1999_Birthday_Honours vs 2009 Birthday Honours ? They're both my work and relatively similar amounts of work, but which is better? Stuartyeates (talk) 04:36, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for your feedback. I've just done 2001 Birthday Honours. For reference, the commandline I'm using to generate the tables is:
cat 2001.jb.html| sed 's^
^\n^g' | grep "\(dd\>\|p\>\|b\>\)" |perl -pe 's/([A-Z])([A-Z]*)/\1\L\2\E/g' | sed 's^$^||^' | sed 's/^/|-\n|| sed 's/,/ || ||/' | sed 's/\. /]] || /' | sed 's/ of / [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject New Zealand/Archive 3/'| sed 's^||J.P.,^J.P.||^' | sed 's|<[^>]*>||g'
Cut and past that from the source, if you want it unmangled. Each table start and end need to be done by hand.Stuartyeates (talk) 10:55, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
David Henderson(s)
Could someone who knows better then me please take a look at these edits, and especially the possibility that the ref actually refers to David Henderson (Christchurch, New Zealand)? I really have no idea where to go with this, and figured that this would be the best place for it. Thanks for any help. Nolelover Talk·Contribs 00:41, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
Template talk:Globalize/New Zealand
Shirt58 was WP:BOLD and used a non-existant template Template talk:Globalize/New Zealand on my recently created 2000 Birthday Honours page (see other section of this talk page). I've now created the template. I've used New Zealand/Aotearoa in the text of the template, since this is about inclusion. A new category New Zealand/Aotearoa-centric is thus automatically created. Feedback and complaints welcome, either to me or direct to Shirt58. Stuartyeates (talk) 07:34, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
WikiProject English
Wikipedia:WikiProject English has been nominated for deletion. As this project was proposed for maintaining national varieties of English on how articles are written/formatted/spelled, you may be interested. (essentially, maintaing WP:ENGVAR compliance on articles) 65.93.15.213 (talk) 04:59, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
Kia Ora, New Zealand
Kia Ora, New Zealand - is this for real or is somebody making this up? Schwede66 04:32, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
I've added it to this WikiProject and tagged it for notability. Stuartyeates (talk) 08:04, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
Unidentified church
Does anybody recognise this pretty church somewhere outside Christchurch? Schwede66 19:54, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
Images on Commons need to be categorised
There are 105 new NZ images on Commons, uploaded from Flickr, that need categorising. Please chip in if you have time and interest. Most of what has been done will be a subcategory of Luxury accommodations in New Zealand Schwede66 03:41, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
A commendation to all New Zealand Wikipedians
I travel far and wide through the pages of Wikipedia - from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe - but I also spend time on the pages relating to New Zealand. During my editing and reading of Wikipedia I have gained the impression that the New Zealand articles and categories are extremely well written and maintained. More often than not they have a page layout that follows the Manual of Style and one that is emerging as a preferred standard on many other well maintained pages - it is also one that I like.
Does New Zealand have a greater number of competent Wikipedians per capita than other countries? If so, is it the often stated egalitarian nature of New Zealanders that makes us contribute to Wikipedia? There is a huge amount of data that can be sifted to see how New Zealand compares to other countries in terms of editing quality. This would be an interesting project that could be followed up.
So the New Zealand Wikipedians need a collective pat on the back for good work done to date. Good on ya, mates!-- Alan Liefting (talk) - 21:23, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
Help with database required
If somebody has the capability of interrogating a database, I'd be grateful for a helping hand. I've got a list article on Christchurch heritage structures almost ready to go, but had to reformat the way the referencing works. The draft article was created in somebody's userspace in the German Wikipedia. When the lot got copied across to the English Wikipedia, I encountered the problem of maxing out on the number of templates. I'm in the process of changing how the article is referenced and there are two steps still required:
- shift the refs from the first column to the second column (after the text); that's relatively easy to do and I'd be happy to do it by hand (note that I've done this already for the first four entries)
- replace the text "addtitle" in the reference by the name that the item has on the NZHPT database - this is the task where some clever programming could facilitate a lookup.
Can anybody tackle the (second) task? Schwede66 22:31, 20 August 2011 (UTC)
List of historic places in Christchurch
The List of historic places in Christchurch was published a few days ago, and our fellow DYK editors were kind enough to run it on WP's homepage on the first anniversary of the 2010 Canterbury earthquake. It's been a major piece of work collating the photos and putting this list together, but it's not yet done. For those of you based in Christchurch (or visiting), I've put a list of buildings that don't have photos yet onto the article's talk page. Any help would be appreciated. There's also some concern been raised about the use of Commons categories, so if you've got any useful ideas of how to do things different or better, please let us know.
I've also had two rather different pieces of feedback on the collage:
- "I suggest modifying or replacing the montage currently in the lead image spot. The juxtaposition of different camera angles and image distortions is dizzying."
- "I like the montage, very nice."
If somebody with graphic design skills and a bit of spare time could come up with something better than my amateurish attempt, that'll be great. There's certainly no shortage of images to choose from! Schwede66 02:18, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
Lane's
Hi all - I've made a start on an article on Lane's Emulsion, but I'm having trouble finding info and - frankly - it looks almost proddable the way it stands. If anyone can add any information to this before someone decides to cart it off to AfD, please do so! Thanks. Grutness...wha? 11:37, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
Pronunciation
We must always assume these articles will be read by people outside NZ, people who don't speak with a Kiwi accent. Whenever we add pronunciation, especially for Maori words or place names, we should use international standard pronunciation.
What prompted me to write this is the entertaining article on Ngawi, a small Wairarapa town (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngawi,_New_Zealand). It says to pronounce Ngawi as "Nar wee". That's terrible; only people who are "R-droppers" can pronounce it using that guide. Anyone who pronounces their Rs would get the sound hideously wrong. If someone knows IPA, it would be really good to replace this bad pronunciation guide with a proper one. Haryadoon (talk) 07:37, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
Featured article review for Francis Petre
I have nominated Francis Petre for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Brad (talk) 08:39, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
Grutness
Thought I'd post a quick note that Grutness is having a dreadful time. I've just seen that he has effectively resigned from Wikipedia. I'm off to bed now, so won't have time to look into it. If you want to see for yourself what is going on, start on my talk page. Schwede66 09:52, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/Sources
I have created a new sub-page for sharing New Zealand sources for when we're struggling to find sources for articles.
Feel free to add new sources or notes to the current ones. (talk)
Priyani Puketapu
I just found this article about a kiwi. I've improved it substantially, but I'd like an opinion about where it stands with respect to WP:BIO1E. Stuartyeates (talk) 08:00, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
The Signpost interview
New Zealand Castles (Wikipedia menitions ONLY TWO - but I think there's THREE)
Hi. I was born .. as all (older) kiwi's were. Sometime Last Century. But.. I was also - born 7 raised.. within 20miles of (what I was told was):
A CASTLE.
Being as it was.. A Stout 3story, Solidly built Red Brick Collection of Buildings.. All (Ok - not enclosed in an outer wall as such- but individully all) All buildings in & around the main structure.. Were HIGH WALLED Perapetted (with Flat Roof - Raised wall embattlement's).
Basically -- an exact replca of what a CASTLE .. should look like.. When built in a harsh INLAND environment -- on flat land (with no mote).
Thus: To "learn" today - that NZ is considered to "have' only two CASDTLE's .. One of which was Cargill's (now derilct) With the other being "Larnach" ? Mistifies me somewhat.. As I do "know" the one that I grew up around. (and that could be EASILY SEEN - before the trees grew too large) And: i & through .. were MANY public tours & afternoon tea sessions served.. Before the bulding's Embattlements were classified as being too hazardous and unsafe.. BUT- which is "still" used as the Noble Mans House of residence (Nobleman - I was told.. is they whom being- is the LANDHOLD's RUNHOLDER)
Thus: Why is there no mention. of the Earnscleugh Station CASTLE. A huge 3story multi roomed mansion.. With Fortified Embattlementation's ON EVERY OLD BUILDING (& on the horse stables as well).
? Or is that CASTLE -- not a Castle.. (simply because it isn't in Dunedin). QUIX4U (talk) 20:23, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
p.s. The SHENNAN Brothers.. were.? I do also believe- the 1st PERMANENT settlers. In & Around Alexandra.
One of the Shenna Brothers .. built a HUGE mansion at Galloway. A twin Shyst Rock (structured) building with 2 long passage ways And at the (EAST) end .. a long interconnecting passageway Accessing across the ends - between & thus connecting the two outer parralel sections Much the same as a horizontal |___| "building_floorplan layout" Otherwise known as Galloway Station (Andrew Preston's Runhold, of ~30,000 acres~)
The Other Shennan Brother. Built the HUGE CASTLE On open desolate treeless sandy FLATS (bang smack) in the middle of Earnscleugh. Earnscleugh Station. WITH ALL BUILDINGS HAVING: 1/- an open topped access to the roof as if it were a "floor", & 2/- Highwalled Fortified Perapet's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlements) & 3/- An UPPER ledge across these .. upon which to "rest" small arms.. Or simply to provide a more robust upper continuous plinth, Over the top of the CASTLE'ATED (fortified) Parapet -- Preceding unsigned comment added by QUIX4U (talk o contribs) QUIX4U (talk) 20:44, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
Reference.? VISUAL EVIDENCE - THAT ANYONE CAN VIEW - EITHER FROM MANY POINTS From Public Access roads - (outside the propety boundary). Or from the comfort of your own armchair. Courtesy of a cellphone video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLD-QaA-rlI Uploaded by QUIX4U on Feb 12, 2010
Dual video showing 1stly - The Frasier Domain Single Hydo-Electric Power Generation Station plus 2ndly - The (original) Homestead of the Shannon Brother whom formed & ran - the Earnscleugh Sheep & Cattle RUNHOLD - with it's Castle (NZ).
Category: Howto & Style
Tags: Frasier Domain Hydro Electric Power Generation Station Earnscleugh's Sheep Runhold Castle
License: Standard YouTube License QUIX4U (talk) 20:44, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
2007 New Zealand anti-terror raids
I've been looking to cover the current media storm in relation to the court ruling about this case. I hesitate to add this to 2007 New Zealand anti-terror raids because that's already long enough and much of this is more general. Ideas where I should put it? Stuartyeates (talk) 06:35, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
Template:Lang-mi
I've been trying to get the macro for M?ori words to accept the optional link option, which provides a link to the M?ori wikipedia, as the French equivalent does. Is anyone good with templates? Stuartyeates (talk) 07:28, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
Category:People whose works are held in Museum of New Zealand
I've been doing some work on artists' pages and have created Category:People whose works are held in Museum of New Zealand, but I'm not sure of the name. Until I'm confident I'll not add too many people. Anyone have a better suggestion? Stuartyeates (talk) 18:52, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
New articles
The list of New Articles on New Zealand subjects does not appear to have been updated for quite some time. Is it still "active"? - Matthew25187 (talk) 23:43, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
Map request
Who can help with a map for a new article? City Mall, Christchurch is probably on the home page on Saturday morning, so before then would be great! What I'd like to show are:
- the extent of the mall
- a few road names that are mentioned in the article
- the location of the former and current registered heritage buildings
Schwede66 03:45, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
Merge information from WikiProject Auckland
WikiProject Auckland has been inactive for a while, and I noticed that another user suggested merging information from that project to this one, so I added a {{mergefrom}} tag to this article. Northamerica1000(talk) 09:15, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
<sarcasm>nah, we're not really interested in anything north of the bombays</sarcasm> Stuartyeates (talk) 09:18, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
M?ori Subject Headings
I've begun a bit of a project at User:Stuartyeates/Ng? ?poko Tukutuku that might result in the creation of ~1300 redirects from M?ori to English pages and would appreciate feedback. Stuartyeates (talk) 09:40, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
Update
After some lively discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Archive228#Bulk_creation_of_redirects there is now a Category:Redirects from M?ori language terms which is filling up nicely. I would encourage other editors to place redirects in this category as appropriate. Once I've gone through the list, I plan to build a portal-like page from the headings. Stuartyeates (talk) 09:23, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
Need a decent photo of John Banks
Need a decent photo of John Banks (New Zealand politician). The current one is not suitable. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 00:09, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
Negative coverage in paper
http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/beauty/6041397/Kiwi-women-are-slobs-Wikipedia appears to be talking about Culture of New Zealand. User:SarahStierch beat me to fixing it. Stuartyeates (talk) 20:04, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
DigitalNZ possible harvesting of WikiProject New Zealand content
DigitalNZ is a National Library of New Zealand project that aggregates New Zealand content from across the internet and redistributes it through APIs and so forth. At an event this week, I suggested that they harvest WikiProject New Zealand content based on our assessment of article quality. They seemed to think it was a good idea (and the very least they humuored me). This is a bunch of folks I know though my day job who seem savvy about Content licensing and the technical aspects of web harvesting, but not much about wikipedia internal processes, so I'm offering to be a contact person. If/when DigitalNZ arrive here, they need to read the assessment page and the content licensing page. Stuartyeates (talk) 06:54, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
New MPs
If anybody is interesting on doing some work on new Member of Parliament bios, please see this collaboration. We are working towards getting some DYK credit, with the nomination to be made on Friday. Schwede66 18:26, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
Kerry Bolton
I would encourage people to add Kerry Bolton to their watch lists. The article is about a colourful New Zealand individual with a documented track record of litigation threats and complaints. I have a minor WP:COI so I probably shouldn't work on the article myself. Stuartyeates (talk) 09:16, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
Milhist history articles
I see you guys do a good job with outreach, and I think it makes sense to make use of the stronger wikiprojects when you're trying to help people get started. At the military history project ("Milhist"), we're pretty good at collaborating and helping people get articles through the review processes. Feel free to add the {{WPMILHIST}} tag near the top of the talk page of any article that has a substantial section relevant to military history, or post a message at our talk page if you have questions or would like assistance. Thanks. - Dank (push to talk) 14:26, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
Feildingpedia Proposal
Feilding is one of New Zealand's most beautiful towns supported by a thriving retail and agricultural based economy. It also has a rich cultural heritage still able to be seen in the architecture in the CBD. There are many special aspects of Feilding, so we're inviting people who live in or who are connnected to Feilding to help tell its story, and make it New Zealand's first Wikipedia town in the style of Monmouthpedia. All members of the community (current and those living further afield) are welcomed to participate. [here] to find out more and contact Katherine at Destination Manawatu to register your interest and help get this project started. T: +64 6 350 1811 E: office@manawatunz.co.nz
--ManawatuNZ (talk) 22:38, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
Thank you Stuarteates. This is really useful to know. I hadn't come across the online article you referenced before. I have experience with the archives at Palmerston North City Library and Feilding & District Archives. I guess that is a huge part of Wikipedia, being able to reference article items to existing online articles. I can see that this will have it's challenges. Interesting to know that you created Te Manawa and New Zealand Rugby Museum articles, as these have undergone significant change. I look forward to finding out more about Wikipedia:Glam. Thank you so much. --203.114.136.216 (talk) 20:00, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
Sub cats for the regions of New Zealand
I have been tidying up the subcats of Category:Regions of New Zealand. For each region I have created subcats by topic, such as education, environment, politics, transport, similar to the the structure of Category:New Zealand. It was well overdue since the parent categories had collected a disparate series of articles making navigation a little more difficult. The Category:Regions of New Zealand subcats are now cleaned up but there is a huge number of articles lurking around that can be used to populate the categories that I have created. One part of my re-categorisation is contentious. See Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_New_Zealand/politics#New_Zealand_electorate_categories. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 19:05, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
Category:Factories in New Zealand -> Category:Industrial buildings in New Zealand
See Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2012_January_17#Category:Factories_in_New_Zealand. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 01:45, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
Auckland categories
Is there still a place for Category:Auckland Region and Category:Auckland now that there is one unitary council? Previously the boundary of the Auckland City Council could have been used for the latter category but now it seems rather arbitary and perhaps the two should be merged? I had originally started a discussion here on just the Category:Politics of the Auckland Region, but now I think its a wider issue. Thoughts? Mattlore (talk) 20:36, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
Peter Beck
Could some of you please watchlist Peter Beck (priest)? He's currently standing in a Christchurch City Council by-election and yesterday, an editor appeared who is closely related to the subject (see the article's talk page). I have reinstated some removed content, but the contributor has come back as an anon and removed it again. I'm going to be without internet access for a few days, so I'd appreciate others keeping a watchful eye on the article. Schwede66 18:02, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
Fiji floods
Not strictly a NZ topic, but WPFiji seems to be pretty moribund. I notice there's not yet an article on the 2012 Fiji floods - probably worth having one. Any takers? Grutness...wha? 05:13, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
Joseph Clarkson Maddison
Grats to User:Schwede66 to converting my stub of Joseph Clarkson Maddison into something suitable for the front page. A quick note about naming of architects: the DNZB goes by the fullest name it can find for people rather than the name they practised / lived / were famous under. So the list of architects' names on Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/Requested articles (which uses the names they practised under) should probably have a lot more blue links once sane redirects are in place. Stuartyeates (talk) 00:36, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
Map colours
Many of our maps have a colouration that is a little garish. Pink, green and orange are used. See [11]. I would like to see a change to the colour scheme - at the very least for orange. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 23:37, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
How do I become included as a NZ poet on this list
Hi. I am a New Zealand poet. I have performed for and with my peers on this list, and have had my poetry published and exhibited in New Zealand and online. Could you please provide information so that I may also be referenced on this list, with subsequent Wikipedia pages. My poetry has been performed at Raw Fish Salad, Poetry Live, Spectrum and published in Side Stream, Blackmail Press and Live Lines, and excerpt exhibited at Te Karenga Gallery, 'Ethosphere' Exhibition, Like Minds Like Mine. My poetry is my life and lives on my website http://www.poetryoutwest.wordpress.com.
kind regards
Jodine Derena Butler -- Preceding unsigned comment added by 222.155.24.249 (talk) 06:21, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
Advice sought
I uploaded the image at right today and added it to the Tane Mahuta article, with me as author and released PD. It was subsequently listed at Possibly unfree files, where the reason for listing is given as "commons:COM:FOP#New Zealand suggests that laws are similar to the United Kingdom, where photos of signs like this aren't allowed". Before I comment there, I am asking here if anyone has experienced such an event where a user says a commons guideline suggests something, and on that basis removes an image. And how did you deal with it? I took quite a few photographs in the Hokianga a week ago which would be useful for wiki articles, but I won't consider uploading them if the suggestion is valid. Moriori (talk) 02:35, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
Department of Corrections (New Zealand)
Over the last couple of months this article has been transformed into an attack article. Stuartyeates (talk) 01:15, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
Please read the section on conflict of interest. Editors with COIs are strongly encouraged--but not actually required--to declare their interests, both on their user pages and on the talk page of the related article they are editing, particularly if those edits may be contested. Editors who disguise their COIs are often exposed, creating a perception that they, and perhaps their employer, are trying to distort Wikipedia. Offender9000 (talk) 05:18, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
I am thinking of deleting the section on Structure and condensing it into a couple of sentences. The average reader is unlikely to be interested in the structure of the Department and there is little that can be added to each of the sub-headings that allow editing... Comments welcome - except from anyone who works at Corrections.Offender9000 (talk) 04:30, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
William Liley and http://embryo.asu.edu/view/embryo:128389
William Liley is somewhat of a train crash due to a years-old conflict between family and activists. I've done some rescue and fixed some links. I've also found a biography. Is that a license we can use? I'd like to replace the entire body of the article... Stuartyeates (talk) 07:15, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
Removal of an article about the founder of the of Anti-Bases Campaign.
The founder of the Anti-Bases Campaign was Owen Wilkes.
This article, [12] disappeared from this website for a few months. The article was replaced by a redirect to an article about a trial.
I have now reverted the redirect.
The text of the present article is "Owen Wilkes (died 2005) was a researcher, author and the founder of Anti-Bases Campaign who was sentenced to a suspended prison sentence for espionage in Norway (the Wilkes/Gleditsch trial).
- Loran-C and Omega. A Study of the Millitary Importance of Radio Navigation Aids. (1987) Co-authored by N.P.Gleditsch]
- Onkel Sams kaniner - teknisk etterretning i Norge (1981) Co-authored by N.P.Gleditsch
" --Golinu (talk) 18:52, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
I've added sufficient content and references to it that it should no longer be tempting to change in back tot he redirect. Stuartyeates (talk) 20:14, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
Writers awards and residencies
I'm thinking of starting a page Writers awards and residencies of New Zealand. There are a lot of these, but I'll probably impose a 15 (or 20?) year minimum run or one year full time support criteria for inclusion. An overview of these can be found at the book council, but in most cases the aouthoratative source is somewhere else and that page is out of date. Thoughts? Stuartyeates (talk) 06:11, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
List of libraries in New Zealand
The List of libraries in New Zealand is far from complete. We could probably do with a Libraries in New Zealand article as well. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 00:23, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
It's pretty much done now, or as close to done as I'll likely to get it. Stuartyeates (talk) 19:06, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
Birkenhead Public Library
An article that you have been involved in editingmight be of interest to this project, Birkenhead Public Library, has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the good article reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. AIRcorn (talk) 07:46, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
Some NZ categories up for deletion
... at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2012 March 6. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 03:49, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/NZ/Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
I'm taking another look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/NZ/Dictionary of New Zealand Biography since there doesn't seem to have been much progress in a while. (a) I've fixed all the URLs on the subpages (DNZB has moved into Te Ara and while it didn't break any URLs, the search didn't recognise the redirects) (b) I've created a new category Category:People with biographies in Te Ara (c) I've written a Greasemonkey script to create sub-stubs from the pages. For example [13] from [14] (d) I'm planning on mass-creating, by hand, quite a few of these (probably a hundred in the first instance) (e) I would value feedback on the example page above, I know it's short but is it correctly styled? Part of the reason I'm asking here is that I've just been given the autopatrolled right, so I have no opportunity for feedback through that mechanism. Stuartyeates (talk) 03:37, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
I've now finished [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Missing_encyclopedic_articles/NZ /Dictionary_of_New_Zealand_Biography/N-Z |N-Z]], or at least those articles on which (a) my script works and (b) clearly meet the criteria of having an article. There are a reasonable number of names on the list that have only a shared article (usually sibling groups, look for pairs of red links on the list), I've not created articles for these. I've not thoroughly checked disambiguation pages either. There are also some names that appear to be on the list but not in the encyclopedia (maybe a maiden-name issue). I feel that these are best done by hand. I'm going to take a break before starting in on A-M. Stuartyeates (talk) 07:45, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
Questions
I'm currently re-writing my script for the second half of the list and would like feedback:
- I'm thinking of adding all women to Category:New Zealand women and all men to a newly created Category:New Zealand men category. Does that sound sane? Should Category:New Zealand men be a hidden category?
- Can I treat DNZB as an authority for iwi? If they say someone is in an iwi and WP has no other mention or category for that iwi, should I make a iwi stub and category?
- I'm thinking that once I'm done I'll ask a bot to add all people in Category:New Zealand M?ori people to the M?ori task force as per Template:WikiProject_New_Zealand; this can wait until right and then end and be done in a single pass. Does that sound sane?
- Are there any other things I should be adding? Ideally things that can be done automatically?
Cheers Stuartyeates (talk) 03:46, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
Done
I've now finished all A-Z. The only articles left are those (a) which feature more than one person and (b) those that break my script. I'll not be creating articles for either. There's a stack of work to be done including (a) work on categories (b) work on iwi/hapu links and categories (c) moves/redirects per WP:COMMONNAME (d) adding names to disambiguation pages and hat notes as appropiate (e) rounding up and motivating editors to expand the articles. Stuartyeates (talk) 19:32, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
Other stuff that still needs to be done (f) get a bot operator to all biographies in the Category:New Zealand M?ori people to the the M?ori task force; all biographies in the Category:New Zealand musicians to the the music task force; and all biographies in the Category:New Zealand politicians to the the politics task force (g) when MCH have finished their current work to normalise macronisation in the DNZB, normalise our use against theirs (yes, involves manually looking at all biographies) (h) probably some otehr stuff I've forgotten. Stuartyeates (talk) 02:48, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
Category:New_Zealand_people is now empty. As well as the categories mentioned above, Category:Iwi and hapu especially has been thoroughly populated. I'm pretty much considering this work as done now. Stuartyeates (talk) 07:04, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Please see the above concerning doubts that the DNZB standards for notability are comparable to ours. Mangoe (talk) 22:01, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
Contents of the United States diplomatic cables leak (New Zealand)
This article covers the various cables released by Wiki leaks on a number of topics of note. The title and article are quite obscure and I think it would be better to have the individual paragraphs moved into the major articles on the topics mentioned. This would mean that anyone researching the topics would be aware of the US diplomatic take on the item. I also think that over time the knowledge of Wikileaks impact on the NZ scene would be better kept. What do others think? NealeFamily (talk) 02:03, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
Natalie Cantell
Is she a notable person. The article does not seem to have anything that merits notability. NealeFamily (talk) 03:37, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
Thank for your comments. I'll move it to AfD status.NealeFamily (talk) 09:06, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
St John Of God order in Christchurch
Should the following articles be combined?
- Sexual abuse scandal at Marylands School, Christchurch
- Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God
- Marylands School.
All three articles are basically about the same thing and they even have their own category "Category:Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal in New Zealand" which has the three articles all about the single organisation its work and its problems. Should the three not be combined into one article or at least two?Rick570 (talk) 03:05, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
WikiWomen's History Month
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:New Zealand will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in New Zealand's history, society and culture. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 22:12, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
New Resource from stats NZ
The official year books. Beware that the stats are harder to interpret than they might seem. http://www.stats.govt.nz/yearbooks Stuartyeates (talk) 20:11, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
First National Innovation Brokers
I would encourage editors to voice an opinion on First National Innovation Brokers which claims to be a New Zealand based company; it is currently up for deletion. Stuartyeates (talk) 06:19, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
It looks as dodgy as. A Hong Kong based, UK owned non-traded company with an inflated purported number of shares. NealeFamily (talk) 22:49, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
New Te Ara search
MCH have released a new search http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biography_search and are keen for feedback. Stuartyeates (talk) 03:06, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
St John of God Halswell
I need some advice on this one - is it notable and if not would it be best to merge it with the organisations article? NealeFamily (talk) 08:46, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
Please try for balance in biographies
We seem to have biographies for living and recently dead people which are almost entirely negative. If you're working on a biography, especially a disgraced politician or someone who has been in trouble with the law, please be sure to add positive material as well as negative material. Pages such as Allan Hubbard (businessman) and David Garrett (politician) border on attack pages, please work for balance. Stuartyeates (talk) 02:56, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
Department of Corrections (New Zealand)
There has been a mediation request lodged with the mediation committee over an editing dispute relating to this and some other New Zealand penal system articles that could be of interest to project members. NealeFamily (talk) 09:34, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
Kirsa Jensen case
Just a note that the Kirsa Jensen case is AfD. NealeFamily (talk) 08:46, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
Christodoulos Moisa
I would like someone from the project with knowledge of the New Zealand poetry scene to take a look the article and advise me if Christodoulos in notable as a poet in New Zealand. As he self-publishes his works I have been unable to find much in the way of independent references. I have not, to date, found any reviews of his work although some must exist as he cites various critics in his publicity. Also, there is a potential WP:COIN around the article that would be addressed if notability can be established. I have seen his works at our local library (Wellington), but none in the bookshops. NealeFamily (talk) 22:50, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
Assistance requested with article on Hamilton Walker
I have started creating an article on Hamilton Walker, the inventor of the New Zealand rotary engine, at User:NealeFamily/Hamilton Walker (New Zealand), but have run out of sources at this stage. If anyone has anything else they can add please feel free to do so. I don't have enough information to submit it just yet, although he is notable. NealeFamily (talk) 02:38, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
Taup?
A user has pointed out to me that Taup? District Council use the macron in their name, and apparently local road signs also do. Please see our discussion at User talk:BridgeBuilderKiwi#Macrons, which began with my reversion of their edit at Taupo-nui-a-Tia College. Should we make an exception to our naming conventions for Taup??-gadfium 04:14, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
Asset sales of State-owned enterprises
Given the past, present and likely future interest in the sale of State-owned enterprises of New Zealand we need to add some info on the whole process. The term "asset sales" should redirect to any such information given the frequency of its use. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 22:50, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
WikiWomen's History Month follow-up
Hi everyone! I just wanted to follow up with your project and see if any article creations or improvements took place in regards to Wikipedia:WikiWomen's History Month! If so, it'd be great if you could please post your article outcomes on the..you guessed it...WWHM outcome page! Thanks everyone for all your efforts! Sarah (talk) 20:54, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
Odd that you should say that, Sarah. I didn't know about Womens History Month, but I've just added several articles dealing with the question of infanticide in colonial New Zealand which deal with cases that pertain to four such women, either acquitted or who had capital sentences commuted to life imprisonment- Caroline Whitting (1872); Phoebe Veitch (1883); Lillian Fanny Jane Hobbs(1907); and Winifred Carrick (1917). I noticed that the Lillian Hobbs article seems to be having problems meeting the noteability guidelines. At the same time, though, I would also note that apart from the Minnie Dean piece, there is little else available on Wikipedia about the problem of infanticide in colonial New Zealand. Could I suggest a new category, 'Infanticide in New Zealand' ?Calibanu (talk) 23:50, 6 May 2012 (UTC)User Calibanu
We now have a daylight saving adjusted time template
We now have a daylight saving adjusted time template
Daylight savings offsets are programmed up to 2018. Ain't it beautiful... -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 23:30, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
Copy of 'The Reed Dictionary of New Zealand Place Names
Does anyone have a copy of:
- Reed, A. W. (2002). The Reed Dictionary of New Zealand Place Names. Auckland: Reed Books. ISBN 0-7900-0761-4.
It is used often in NZ articles as a ref, including Akaroa and my newly minted Akaroa Harbour. I boldly used it as an inline ref in the latter. It will need to be checked. I would like to see it used as an inline ref wherever it is used. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 02:40, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
Timeball station
File:Timeball station.jpg has been nominated for deletion. 70.24.251.208 (talk) 05:17, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
The New Zealand Electronic Text Centre has just rebranded and changed it's URLs from www.nzetc.org to nzetc.victoria.ac.nz. This impacts on approximately 2468 URLs in article namespace. There should be appropiate redirects in place to avoid breaking any links (if any links are broken please let me know, either here or on my userpage) and these redirects should continue to work for > five years. Once the dust has settled (~ a month) I plan to file a bot request to change the links en-mass rather than rely on the redirect. On the positive side, the new URL makes the relative status of the NZETC clearer. Disclaimer: As per my user page I have significant conflicts of interest in relation to this. Stuartyeates (talk) 20:22, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
A problem of my own making: Category:New Zealand M?ori people
Maybe this question belongs on Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_New_Zealand/M?ori_task_force, but this page is a little more high-traffic.
I recently add a whole lot of articles for M?ori people as part of my DNZB work. As part of that, I added people to Category:New Zealand M?ori people as well as per-iwi/hap? categories that I made up as I went along (named based on the iwi/hap? page). I've now ended up in a bit of a mess. The main symptoms are: (a) Category:New_Zealand_M?ori_people containing many assorted random things which are confusing to me, let alone someone hew to the field (b) Category:Rangatira which is problematic because there is no reliable measure for membership (c) List of M?ori people which is also problematic because there is no reliable measure for membership (d) Some iwi/hap? pages (i.e. Ng?ti Kahungunu containing long lists which duplicate membership in their respective categories, and others not.
I would like to propose (1) a new Category:New Zealand M?ori people by waka, iwi, hap? or whanau as a parent of the new iwi categories (sub cats would contain only people) (2) rewrite the text at Category:New_Zealand_M?ori_people to make it clear that this is the primary decomposition (3) only list people in Category:New_Zealand_M?ori_people if they're not in a sub cat of Category:New Zealand M?ori people by waka, iwi, hap? or whanau (4) delete Category:Rangatira and List of M?ori people making sure that all the members are in appropriate other categories (I'd fix incoming local links and redirect the pages to M?ori culture and M?ori culture to handle external links) (5) Trim membership lists on iwi/hap? pages to only dead people (or 10 in total for small ones) (6) recast Category:New Zealand M?ori people by occupation to match Category:New Zealand people by occupation where possible, including links between them. Quite a few new and existing categories could also do with more explanatory text. Stuartyeates (talk) 07:58, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
This is now complete. Category:New Zealand M?ori people is once again a managable size, and about evenly divided between contemporary people and early M?ori, all of whom are of unknown iwi/h?pu (or at least unknown in the article). Stuartyeates (talk) 09:59, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
New Zealand Historic Places Trust
I've started work on the New Zealand Historic Places Trust register in the Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles namespace, you can see it here. I've started with Wellington (because I know it reasonably well) and with Category I places (because I believe that they're notable). I'm a little confused about the use of commas vs paraentheses for disambiguation, i.e. Government House (Wellington) vs Government House, Wellington. The architecture disambiguation rules (which I had presumed to be operating under) appear to disagree with the placename disambiguation rules. Conveivably we need both, with one being a redirect. Stuartyeates (talk) 20:49, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
I've had another crack at this. I've changed the table layout and done cat I and cat II places for five regions. The entries for churches are going to take quite a bit of work to get into shape, but not nearly as much work as is going to be required for the many places just called Pa, Terrances or Ovens. House and Cottage are also common, but presumably hose will have been solved in other countries. See New Zealand Historic Places Trust. If anyone has a region they're particularly interest in me doing next, give me a yell. Stuartyeates (talk) 06:47, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
- So if you want to remove the two redundant columns, maybe you replace them with one column for 'Commons'.
- Neither 'relocated' nor 'demolished' would appear to be needed or desirable for the WP article name. If it's been demolished, the article will explain that. If it's been moved, well, it's still about the same structure, it's just that it's been in different locations. Presumably, one article will cover the various locations (e.g. Victoria Clock Tower).
- I've also struggled with 'house' and 'cottage' and in the end, I have settled on 'House at xyz Example Street' and 'Cottage at abc Example Avenue' (there are some older categories on Commons based on 'xyz Example Street'). In all reality, if a house or cottage doesn't even have a name, it's not very likely to be notable, so it's probably not a big issue.
Department of Corrections (New Zealand) yet again
This article is still a dog's breakfast of wild claims that I don't have the time (nor the knowledge of the Department's workings) to address. I've removed the most obviously tinfoil-hatted claim and reinstated an NPOV tag (which will probably have been reverted by the time anyone sees this) but it would be really appreciated if it could be looked at by someone with enough spare time, some knowledge of the subject and the diplomatic skills necessary to deal with an editor who is a capable writer but who doesn't understand Wikipedia standards. Thanks. Daveosaurus (talk) 06:04, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
A request for comments has been filed concerning the conduct of Offender9000 (talk · contribs). You are invited to comment on the discussion at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Offender9000. -- Stuartyeates (talk) 06:36, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
Perth requested-move notification
A requested move survey was started at Talk:Perth_(disambiguation)#Requested_move, which proposes to move:
- Perth -> Perth, Western Australia
- Perth, Scotland -> Perth, Perthshire
- Perth (disambiguation) -> Perth
Background: There was a previous requested-move survey which ran from late May to mid June. There was a great deal of controversy surrounding the closure and subsequent events, which involved a number of reverts and re-reverts which are the subject of an ongoing arbitration case. There was a move review process, which was closed with a finding that the original requested-move closure was endorsed; however, the move review process is relatively new and untried. -- P.T. Aufrette (talk) 03:12, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
Ministry for Primary Industries (New Zealand)
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (New Zealand) was moved by Orangemike to Ministry for Primary Industries (New Zealand). I would prefer to retain the old page and start the new page afresh. A govt dept name is sufficiently notable to support retention of it even if it is defunct. We have similar cases such as the Wildlife Service and the Forest Service. Also, the current page is a mess and it has a messy edit history. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 07:16, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
Just want to see if we are all cool with it. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 07:25, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
Category:Cromwell, New Zealand up for deletion
See Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2012_June_24#Category:Cromwell.2C_New_Zealand. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 22:05, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/NZ/Olympians
I have created a list at Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/NZ/Olympians. It based on the official website, for better or worse (mainly for worse in the handful I've looked at closely, the NZOC data is pretty shocking). Some of the people may not be covered by the presumed notability of olympians if they only made it to an empire or commonwealth games. I'm also adding some links to Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/Requested articles, including all the Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles lists I'm aware of that relate to NZ. Stuartyeates (talk) 08:04, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
Academic Colleges Group and assiciated pages
I'd ask editors to keep their eyes on Academic Colleges Group and assoicated pages. There was a deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/ACG English school, but a number of the pages such as ACG Senior College are back. These are commercial entities and it feels like there's paid editing / COI editing going on; certainly the content is seems very different to other schools pages I've come across. I've removed a little bit of stuff and added lots of {{cn}} tags. Stuartyeates (talk) 08:27, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
A media celebrity in Norway
This man might be the most known New Zealander (and Maori) in Norway--Busby Nobles. His fame started as an a purported kidnapping victim. Busby Nobles seems to be a media celebrity in Norway--a few notches below Rihanna.
Should his name be in any other articles than History of New Zealanders in Norway, and the article about Jarle Andhøy? --Plumbet (talk) 09:16, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
The one article that I have linked to, is about him--rather than about the voyage captained by Jarle Andhøy. --Plumbet (talk) 12:49, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
Vandalism
I'm finding more of my time taken up by undoing edits that constitute vandalism on NZ pages. I don't really want to be doing that! Any good tools to use out there? Is there anyway to quickly stop unregistered IP's from making more than one nuisance edits? Rudolph89 (talk) 08:58, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
Broken links to www.commonwealthgames.org.nz
I'm not sure if anyone has noticed that all these links are borked. Not sure whether there's an easy way to fix them on mass? Stuartyeates (talk) 08:18, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
Clarence Hadfield D'Arcy CHANGE TO Darcy Clarence Hadfield
The surname (family name) is Hadfield. Darcy is the first name. In English usage, the surname comes last. Please shift article heading to read... Darcy Clarence Hadfield Note that "Darcy" (not D'Arcy)is the Hadfield family's spelling in New Zealand, whatever its origin. Citation: Dawber, Carol and Lynette Wilson, "Awaroa Legacy: The story of the Hadfield family", Picton, NZ: River Press, 1999, page 96. Comment by Gilbert Hadfield, a relation. Gilbertnz (talk) 21:14, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
Origins of Queen Carnival - NZ
The Queen carnival page states: The first provincial Queen Carnival in New Zealand was held in Dunedin on 27 August 1915. That statement appears to be incorrect. A news report in The West Australian (Perth, WA) Thursday 5 August 1915 p. 2, suggested that [war relief] funds should be raised by means of a 'Queen Carnival," a method which [an anonymous correspondent] said had been employed with great success in New Zealand. He enclosed a cutting from a Wellington paper, to show that a recent "Queen Carnival" conducted in that city had yielded £100,000. Further, the Cairns Post (QLD) Tuesday 24 August 1915 p. 8, reported: Mr. R. H. Williams, who won the New Guinea tour in connection with the Queen carnival held in Wellington, N.Z., arrived in Sydney... Thus the winner of the Wellington Queen Carnival prior to August 1915 was a Mr. R. H. Williams... and he had arrived in Sydney prior to the Dunedin Carnival.Danglez (talk) 11:09, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
Video of Radio Network House implosion
I've taken a rather nice video of the Radio Network House implosion in Christchurch this morning. I'd like to make this available to Wikipedia (through Wikimedia Commons), and there are a couple of problems where I need help:
- I understand that Commons accepts videos in OGG format only. My camera produces MOV file format.
- I held the camera on its side, so the resulting video should be turned by 90 degrees.
Can anybody help with these issues? If yes, please post here and contact me via Wiki email. Schwede66 20:28, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+The article has been written. If somebody wants to nominate it at DYK, please feel free. I'm off to work now. Schwede66 21:12, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
Template:Culture of New Zealand
This template needs to have the red links sorted out. It is based on a generic template so it is useful. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 20:44, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
Michael Redman (politician)
The Michael Redman (politician) article is currently in all kinds of trouble. The subject is definitely notable, but the sourced coverage is almost entirely in relation to a single negative controversy. An SPA trying to fix the article doesn't appear to be helping. The timing doesn't help, with most of the coverage in the online newspaper articles being controversy articles. I'm open to suggestions as to what to do, but my current idea is merge most of the Controversy section to Hamilton 400, generalizing it in the process and write a short Hamilton 400 section for the Michael Redman article. Stuartyeates (talk) 08:23, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
Phormium / New Zealand flax
See Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Plants#Phormium_.2F_New_Zealand_flax. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 20:40, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
Christchurch Central Recovery Plan
I don't know how much people outside of Christchurch follow what is happening, or how much detail the media reports, but the /Christchurch Central Recovery Plan is certainly a biggie. Together with its anchor projects, it will completely change the face of the central city. So I thought I better give the document (the hardcopy has some 100 pages) a thorough read before I get writing. What puzzles me is the copyright. On page 60 of the PDF version, you'll see:
- Crown copyright, and
- creative commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand (CC BY 3.0)
Is the crown copyright statement there so that individuals and companies who have worked on the plan know that they don't have the copyright themselves, but that it rests with the crown, which in turn has chosen to release everything under CC BY 3.0? Schwede66 09:30, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
image:New Zealand Troops in Torquay 1918.jpg
File:New Zealand Troops in Torquay 1918.jpg has been categorized into cleanup categories for no-author and no-source. Since this is about NZ ANZACs in England during 1918, I figured you might know. -- 76.65.128.252 (talk) 10:04, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
NZ Academics editing WP
- Hi Folks, I'm running a small workshop for a few academics at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury on Friday (07/09/2012) at 1300 NZST. We plan to expand a few of the species articles relevant to the research here (many of which are of significance to NZ). I am hoping a few of you NZapedians will help mentor my colleagues. I'll try to put a list of contributors/articles in my userspace so you all can follow along. Cheers! --Paul (talk) 23:52, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
Highbeam
Hi all, I was one of the lucky ones that got access to the Highbeam database in the last round. see Wikipedia:HighBeam/Applications for details. It doesn't have many NZ sources but if anyone needs a hand and thinks I can help feel free to give me a bell. Mattlore (talk) 23:22, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
Official datasources and privacy conversation
I've started a discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Harassment#Question_regarding_publicly_avaliable_official_databases about the use of official NZ data sources where those data sources contain personal information (particularly residential addresses) and how it relates to wikipedia harassment policies. I would appreciate NZ eyes / opinions. Stuartyeates (talk) 08:50, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
Dubious category additions
User:Asalrifai is on a mission adding categories (relating to honours) to biographies without the text of the bios referring to these honours, nor providing any supporting sources. He's a prolific editor, but does not respond to approaches on his talk page. Of concern is that he has been pulled up by other editors for having added honours categories to fictional characters. I can imagine this to be true (and it is listed in the article), but have no idea about this one, and this one looks rather dodgy. Any suggestions? Schwede66 20:55, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
Autopsy images of Ngatikaura Ngati
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Autopsy images of Ngatikaura Ngati#Inclusion of autopsy image. -- Trevj (talk) 08:46, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Washington Declaration
If anyone has a spare moment and is interested, Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Washington Declaration could use some expert help. Thanks! MatthewVanitas (talk) 17:27, 9 October 2012 (UTC) (AFC reviewer)
Rotoroa Island
Italic text
Just a little confused it says a couple leased the island from the salvation army then they gifted it to Auckland Council after that. Not sure how you can gift land you don't own? This probably needs to be fixed. They either bought the land off the salvation army then gifted it or the leased the land then the salvation army gifted the underlying freehold title to auckland council, or they terminated the lease and the salvation army gifted the land to the auckland council. -- Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.73.198.161 (talk) 04:00, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
Pacific Media Mess
There are a cluster of articles: Pacific Media Centre, Pacific Media Watch, Pacific Journalism Review and David Robie, which have been created by a small group of editors in a promotional manner. I have no doubt that there is notability here, but it seems very doubtful there's four articles worth of notability, even bearing in mind that we're desperately short of coverage on pacific topics. I'm tempted to merge and redirect Pacific Media Centre and Pacific Media Watch to David Robie. Thoughts? Stuartyeates (talk) 22:31, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
Image not displaying
I can't figure out why the image is not displaying in the infobox of Dunedin mayoral election, 2007. They are displaying for the subsequent election, and I just can't spot the difference. Any suggestions? Schwede66 22:36, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti == Ng?ti Hauiti ?
Ng?ti Hauiti is a stub with little or no actual content. I'm thinking that it may be a synonym of Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti. The meaning of the two names suggest that they are. Stuartyeates (talk) 02:41, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
Marriage (Definition of Marriage) Amendment Bill
There is lots and lots of coverage about this appearing in many reliable sources (as well as the usually flood of partisan pres releases). Much of this boils down to name-calling and is clearly inappropriate for the relevant section of Same-sex marriage in New Zealand. Is it inappropriate to put in the politicians pages? I'm thinking of things like United Future leader Peter Dunne distanced himself from his former colleague, calling Mr Copeland a "serial nutter". He added that the Conservative Party was "welcome to him". reported in http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10847505 Is there a standard section name for a politicians' stance on same-sex marriage? Stance on same-sex marriage? Stuartyeates (talk) 19:05, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
Ben Hana
I'd like advice on this edit. Stuartyeates (talk) 08:20, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
Governments/ministries of New Zealand
How are these two categories different: Category:Governments of New Zealand and Category:New Zealand ministries? Couldn't one be merged into the other?
????? (Hasirpad) [formerly Ratz...bo] 00:20, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
Broken links
Links like http://www.primeminister.govt.nz/oldpms/1990moore.html (from Mike_Moore_(New_Zealand_politician)) and http://gg.govt.nz/utilities/popupimage.asp?ID=5 (from David Beattie) appear to be broken and unlikely to come back. Someone probably needs to go through and check all urls to these websites using Special:LinkSearch. Stuartyeates (talk) 22:51, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
Mark Hotchin
I shall go on holiday in a few days time and that will mean a wikibreak. Could others please watchlist Mark Hotchin? User:DLMMackie has done some very strange edits to this page, which I had to revert in their entirety twice now. It would be good for others to keep an eye on things, too. Thanks. And have a jolly good end of year, and I hope you all get some good holidays in. Schwede66 08:33, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
Gananoque (ship)
There's concerns about Gananoque (ship), which from the way its written, was notable in New Zealand. See WT:SHIPS where the discussion is occurring -- 70.24.247.127 (talk) 07:12, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
Time template
It's currently telling me we're a bit after 1pm NZST. It should be displaying NZDT. Robin Patterson (talk) 00:15, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
Auckland Councillors
Hi all, Cameron Brewer has been nominated for deletion. The wider question around this will be, is the Auckland Council big enough to make the councillors notable (like MPs) or should they be assumed to not be notable (ala all the other councils). This would also effect Alf Filipaina, Michael Goudie, Des Morrison, Calum Penrose, Noelene Raffills, Sharon Stewart, Wayne Walker (politician) and potentially Penny Hulse and Sandra Coney. Mattlore (talk) 19:35, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
TFA to mark Waitangi Day
I've scheduled Huia as one of the few New Zealand FAs yet to appear on the front page for 6th February. The blurb is at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/February 6, 2013. I hope you approve! If you can improve the article or the blurb, please do so - or indeed improve Waitangi Day itself, which is currently ineligible to appear on the "On this day..." section of the main page because of the maintenance tags on the article. Regards, BencherliteTalk 19:54, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
Muriel Newman
Can someone please have a look at the edits made to Muriel Newman for me? I feel like all I've been doing is reverting so would appreciate some extra eyes and opinions. Mattlore (talk) 06:35, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
Auckland FIDS.jpg
file:Auckland FIDS.jpg has been nominated for deletion. The image description page is also in need of cleanup. -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 06:26, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
Proposed deletion of Pre-Maori settlement of New Zealand conspiracy theories
The article Pre-Maori settlement of New Zealand conspiracy theories has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
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Waka
The primarity of "Waka" is under discussion, see talk:Waka -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 11:44, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
BlankMap-NewZealand.png
file:BlankMap-NewZealand.png has been nominated for deletion -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 05:43, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
Owenga class notable?
I'd like to get some feedback on the potential notability of Owenga class, a kiwi design of fishing vessel, of which 4 of 9 are thought to have been lost at sea. Thoughts?
New Zealand Sea Lion
I've recently been in a bit of edit fight with another user over what to include in the Bycatch section of the New Zealand Sea Lion article. I've been coming from a conservation perspective, and the other editor seemingly from a government perspective, and we can't agree on the content. Does someone (a 3rd party) want to have a look and see what should/shouldnt be included, as I feel I'm a bit close to this now. Thanks Rudolph89talk 07:20, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
National colours of New Zealand
Hi all. A few weeks ago, I created National colours of New Zealand. Currently, it only has three incoming links, and I'm currently adding more, but as I'm not particularly familiar with NZ, I'd like to request that someone find a few relevant articles to link to it, otherwise it will effectively remain an orphaned article. (It can probably be worked into many of the sport-related articles to which this article links, among others. For National colours of Canada, I've found links related to heraldry, arms, symbols, etc.) Mindmatrix 16:03, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
Te_Kooti, Ringat? and the reliability of works by Judith Binney
I have started a discussion at Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#Te_Kooti.2C_Ringat.C5.AB_and_the_reliability_of_works_by_Judith_Binney that people may be interested in. Stuartyeates (talk) 08:50, 12 April 2013 (UTC)
Category:2009 in New Zealand cricket
Category:2009 in New Zealand cricket, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for deletion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) o (contribs) 10:27, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
Adoption of New Zealand reggae
I have decided to adopt this article and am currently attempting a total rewrite here on behalf of the Music genres task force and in support of WikiProject Reggae and WikiProject New Zealand.
If anybody wants to help, has any suggestions, constructive criticism or can point me in the direction of potentially useful and reliable sources they would be welcome. ThurstenEgorGreene (talk) 13:21, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
Environmental Protection Authority
Hello all. I have noticed the entry for the Environmental Protection Authority is well out of date. It was written in 2011 as the EPA was being established, so covers only the EPA's genesis, rather than what it actually does now it's started work. I'm not in a position to update it myself, but thought I would draw it to your collective attention. Negatron12 (talk) 00:59, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
VAC Benny Award.jpg.png
image:VAC Benny Award.jpg.png has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.76.126 (talk) 21:47, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
Maori names for New Zealands North and South islands
The North Island has a Wikipedia reference for its Maori name, which is 'Te Ika-a-Maui'.
The South Island does not have a Wikipedia reference for its Maori name, which is 'Te Waipounamu'. Please add a valid definitive translation for 'Te Waipounamu' to include as a Wikipedia reference for New Zealands South Island.
Kind regards, -- Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.239.5.18 (talk) 00:47, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
Intend to Remove Waratah Motorcycles from WikiProject New Zealand
For some reason I don't understand, Waratah Motorcycles has a tag or lable or whatever that shows it in this Project. Waratah were made in Australia and I am aware of no New Zealand link. I questioned it on the talk page for Waratah over a year ago and no one commented. I'll wait a while, but unless someone tells me why it should be linked like this, I'll remove it. (Note that I don't know much at all about WikiProjects.) Pyobon (talk) 12:54, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
Removal of the 'Police culture' section in the New Zealand Police article
I wouldn't normally remove a large section from a high profile article, but this material seemed pretty problematic to me, so I'd boldly removed it and explained my reasoning on the talk page. I'm posting here in case I stepped on any toes (WP:BRD obviously applies!). Nick-D (talk) 07:34, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
Offender9000 has just reverted this material back in, without commenting on the talk page. I have raised further concerns about the accuracy of sourcing there, and if other editors would like to join this discussion it would be great. I note Simon's comments with concern given the RfC/U last year (I wasn't aware that there was a connection with this editor with the NZ police article when making my changes); a topic ban might be in order. Nick-D (talk) 09:54, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
File:Flag of the New Zealand Ministry of Transport 1968-1998.png
File:Flag of the New Zealand Ministry of Transport 1968-1998.png has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.76.126 (talk) 06:54, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
1932 LA Olympics competitors
The following are not athletes. Have altered their name on the list of Olympic sportspeople requiring articles (ie missing encyclopaedic articles etc), but the sources a, b still show them as athletes. Probably the simplest solution is to write an article on them? Hugo999 (talk) 22:05, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
- George Cooke (rower)
- John Solomon (rower)
- Harold Thomas (boxer)
I have added a number of "stub" articles about medal winners and some others (Olympics, Winter & Empire Games, prewar) from the SR & NZOGC website. Re Harold Thomas (boxer) born 1913 (no date) according to the SR Website. He was 24 when he died, from Papers Past, and a search of the Registrar-Generals online "historic" website found him born 1909 and narrowed the date down (by gradually halving the range of dates searched) to 11 January 1909.
Re sources, harder when they are Empire/Commonwealth Games only! I have found in Papers Past that swimmer J Davies in 1938, Sydney, see New Zealand at the 1938 British Empire Games, was J C W Davies, possibly Jack (the article has John) and he was from Taranaki and in the 220y breaststroke (but off form). An Otago University student; I thought Doctor perhaps - but he is not on the University of NZ list of graduates. Archives NZ, Wellington has a file of clippings from Internal Affairs about the 1938 games; we sent a big team as Sydney was close but Truth thought there were too many who "hadn't an earthly" of getting a medal. Hugo999 (talk) 13:53, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
NZ Shield Generator
Ive created {{NZshield}} to automatically display NZ shields, depending on input parameters. It is essentially a modified copy of the existing {{AUshield}}.
I dont know too much about the road system there, last time I went to NZ was via cruise ship, but this could probably also be modified to include tourist routes, etc. - Nbound (talk) 05:25, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
The breakdown of the subpage components is about the same:
Template:NZshield- parameter handlingTemplate:NZshield/core- this is where you can link route types to image sets.Template:NZshield/default size- this is where you can control default icon sizes for each route type.Template:NZshield/doc- documentation
Nbound (talk) 05:32, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
NZ MoT Logo.gif
image:NZ MoT Logo.gif has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.76.126 (talk) 02:39, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
Class ratings for WP:NZ project question
If an article with a WP:NZ project tag passes an A-class review for the WP:Milhist project, is it acceptable to mark it as A-class for the NZ project? There are links through to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific military history task force page from the NZ assessment page so this suggests (to me at least) that it is acceptable. Do others agree? Zawed (talk) 08:46, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
T? moko and Russian translation.
I don't read Russian, but there's a Russion article for T? moko. There is an image in there that I'm very suspicious of. I suspect in particular the date is faked to make it appear to be in the public domain. I also confident that if that's ??-???? then ??-???? is not T? moko. Stuartyeates (talk) 22:38, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
National Certificate of Educational Achievement
There's currently some issues with National Certificate of Educational Achievement. A number of editors want to (re)introduced unsourced criticism and other material. Extra eyes appreciated. Stuartyeates (talk) 02:15, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
File:NZ National Rugby league team shirt.GIF
File:NZ National Rugby league team shirt.GIF has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.79.6 (talk) 02:37, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
Talk:Margaret Mutu
There's an RFC that could use some independent eyes. Stuartyeates (talk) 03:16, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
My meatpuppets and I
I recently wrote a blogpost that I later realised could be considered meatpuppetry. I'm reporting it here in case (a) this all blows up in my face or (b) we get an influx of people who need help. Stuartyeates (talk) 20:10, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
User:Offender9000
User:Offender9000, who was a frequent editor of New Zealand articles with a history of copyright issues, was recently blocked. They have just been discovered to have been using sockpuppets for some time. I would encourage editors to re-evaulate any articles they may be aware of that have been the subject of less-than optimal edits. For example there is a consensus building to stubify Legal aid in New Zealand. Stuartyeates (talk) 23:17, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
Promoting Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/Sources
I'd like feedback on a proposed change to the WikiProject template that would add our list of sources (Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/Sources) to the top of every talk page in the WikiProject. See before and after. Feel free to hack at the sandbox, it won't go live on every page without an edit request. Feel free to add to / update the list too. Stuartyeates (talk) 00:09, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
Gow Langsford Gallery
Does anyone know if this gallery is reasonably notable - its based in Auckland and was initially put forward for speedy delete. NealeFamily (talk) 04:43, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
I'm seeing links link [28] and [29] in papers past, whcih is a good sign. Stuartyeates (talk) 20:26, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
Meaning of Waimea
What is the Maori meaning of Waimea. Including the definition would be a good addition to Waimea, but I can't figure out what it means - I looked up mea on translation dictionaries, and it seems to suggest that the name means "I forgot the name of this river". Ego White Tray (talk) 19:35, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
Timeball station.jpg
image:Timeball station.jpg has been nominated for deletion again (for the same reason it was nominated last time) -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 05:43, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
File:Original St Paul's Auckland 1880s.jpg and others
Who is the James D. Richardson mentioned? I'm needing to know a date of death to determine the correct licensing for Commons. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 10:24, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
Category:Tom French Cup winners
Category:Tom French Cup winners, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for deletion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) o (contribs) 18:26, 10 August 2013 (UTC)
NewZealandPartyLogo.png
image:NewZealandPartyLogo.png has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 04:24, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
WikiProject Oceania
FYI, there's a proposal for a coordinating project for Oceania (akin to WP:South America, WP:Asia), see Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Oceania -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 05:41, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
National Library photos uploaded - marked for del
A group of photos from the national library got uploaded. Appears to be confusion over the word "unrestricted". The first one is 100% in copyright but the others are pre-1945 so might be okay if the license is modified. See: Wikipedia:Possibly_unfree_files#NZ_National_Library_Photos - 08:12, 21 August 2013 (UTC)
{{The Commonwealth}}
Template:The Commonwealth (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 02:04, 31 August 2013 (UTC)
Kiwiana images on Commons
I just thought I'd mention that I've started a new category for Kiwiana images and media on Commons. I wanted a single place to get images that speak of New Zealand culture but that are not necessarily official symbols of New Zealand. I hope this proves to be useful to other editors also. AugurNZ ?? 04:42, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
Joseph Norris Peart Picture (1942).png
File:Joseph Norris Peart Picture (1942).png (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.244.158 (talk) 08:10, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
See WT:WikiProject Oceania, where a suggestion has been made to replace the *-nesia project banners with the new Oceania banner, because they are now in the Oceania hierarchy. As WPNZ is also now in the Oceania hierarchy, and already part of the WPPolynesia hierarchy, you may be interested in considering that idea for WPNZ. -- 70.24.244.158 (talk) 08:08, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
Aramoana1976.jpg
File:Aramoana1976.jpg (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.244.158 (talk) 04:20, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
File:Buzzybeeride.JPG
File:Buzzybeeride.JPG has been nominated for deletion. This revolves around a copyright question on what is considered a public space, and what is considered permanent. Can someone with knowledge of the situation in New Zealand comment on this? -- 70.24.244.158 (talk) 05:30, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
ANZAC Mounted Division
ANZAC Mounted Division (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) has been requested to be renamed, see talk:ANZAC Mounted Division -- 70.24.244.158 (talk) 09:42, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
2013 Census results
FYI, Statistics NZ will soon begin releasing 2013 census results, two months earlier than previously expected. See the 2013 Census products and services release schedule for more info. Tayste (edits) 03:21, 16 September 2013 (UTC)
Auckland Super City
Isn't it about time we consigned the Waitakere City category to the history books, as the Waitakere City Council no longer exists? I have lived in Henderson for most of my life. I lived through the change from Henderson being a suburb of "West Auckland" to a suburb of Waitakere City in 1989, and now back to being a suburb of "Auckland West" again since 2010. I have always considered myself a West Aucklander (or Westie), and not a Waitakerian or whatever. Now that the WCC has been subsumed by the Auckland Council, shouldn't we lose the "Waitakere" nomenclature for anything to do with West Auckland? Sure, there are still relevant and required uses for "Waitakere", such as the Waitakere ward, the suburb of Waitakere, and the Waitakere City Football Club who may not have kept in step with the times, themselves. Apart from that, let's consign the Waitakere City Council on Wikipedia to the history books, where it belongs. AugurNZ ?? 21:21, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
Merge information from WikiProject Auckland (pt 2)
I'd like to bring this discussion back into focus, as it was recently archived without being resolved. As you might notice from my post above, I posted it originally on the WikiProject Auckland talk page, and then moved it here to WikiProject New Zealand. As an Aucklander myself, I see no reason to maintain a separate WikiProject for Auckland, when there isn't a corresponding WikiProject for either Wellington or Christchurch, so I support this proposed merge. AugurNZ ?? 22:11, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
Crown copyright file category
-- 70.24.249.39 (talk) 03:36, 22 September 2013 (UTC)
Bridge to Nowhere.
Back in 1995 I firsr walked the road to the Bridge from the Raetihi road end with Wayne and our sons. It is a pictureque part of the country and it is difficult to adequately describe the beauty and the granduer of the Valley itself. In places the road is as it was when last maintained back in 1941 however the road has slumped badly in nother places which can make access difficult and I would advise tramping this route only on dry weather as a result. There are plenty of places to camp and I would suggest speaking to the Department of Conservation for updates as ther ehas been some work done to improve access over the years. The Bridge itself was signifiantly restored some years ago and stands as a monument, both to the original builders and to the settlers of the Valley. When I was last there in 1998 there was still some fences standing with a wooden gate still swinging, just before Battleship Bluff. Interested people should read a book written by an history, it's called the Bridge to Nowhere and gives a detailed history from the view of some of the residents with photos which build a picture of what life was life in the Valley up to 1942. Spend some time talking to older residents in Raetihi if possible, some of mthese people knew residents or their parents did and one can learn much from first hand knowledge. One can really feel the history of this place! Enjoy. -- Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.127.19.60 (talk) 01:58, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
British Empire Games 1950 Silver Medal.jpg
image:British Empire Games 1950 Silver Medal.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.92.181.39 (talk) 07:15, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
Local body elections in the Wairarapa
An identical or near-identical section has been added to the articles on Carterton, New Zealand, South Wairarapa District, Masterton, and Ron Mark about a spoof video and proposals for a unitary authority. I feel the section is undue weight, but it is referenced and the anon who added it has cooperated with my attempts to clean it up and remove parts where the references didn't support the content. My initial feeling was to leave it while the local body elections were on and consider trimming it back or removing it entirely once the dust had settled. However, I did not at first realise it affected so many articles.
One solution might be for someone to write an article on Wairarapa mayoral elections, 2013 including this content but also the lists of candidates as seen in similar articles (eg Wellington City mayoral election, 2013), and then link it from the four articles above but without a summary.-gadfium 21:12, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
Local body elections in the Wairarapa
An identical or near-identical section has been added to the articles on Carterton, New Zealand, South Wairarapa District, Masterton, and Ron Mark about a spoof video and proposals for a unitary authority. I feel the section is undue weight, but it is referenced and the anon who added it has cooperated with my attempts to clean it up and remove parts where the references didn't support the content. My initial feeling was to leave it while the local body elections were on and consider trimming it back or removing it entirely once the dust had settled. However, I did not at first realise it affected so many articles.
One solution might be for someone to write an article on Wairarapa mayoral elections, 2013 including this content but also the lists of candidates as seen in similar articles (eg Wellington City mayoral election, 2013), and then link it from the four articles above but without a summary.-gadfium 21:12, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
New Zealand challenges at the America's Cup
I was wondering if we should create such an article? -- 76.65.129.3 (talk) 06:54, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
New Zealand challenges at the America's Cup
I was wondering if we should create such an article? -- 76.65.129.3 (talk) 06:54, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
Page misstates NZST
"The time in New Zealand is 17:22, October 8, 2013 (NZST)" - no, it wasn't: it was 16:22 NZST, 17:22 NZDT. If that can't be fixed it should be deleted. Robin Patterson (talk) 04:27, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
Page misstates NZST
"The time in New Zealand is 17:22, October 8, 2013 (NZST)" - no, it wasn't: it was 16:22 NZST, 17:22 NZDT. If that can't be fixed it should be deleted. Robin Patterson (talk) 04:27, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
Christchurch East by-election
It would be good if admins could keep an eye on the Christchurch East by-election, 2013 article, and in particular on users Mr Mofo24 and Darkieman24 (probably the same person using multiple accounts). Schwede66 18:43, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
3News link spam
Where did I read about 3News link spamming? This account is certainly doing just that. Can I suggest, though, that before anybody just does blanket reverts, can we please keep the content (which is mostly rather valuable) and have the reference spam replaced with a {{cn}} template? Schwede66 02:23, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
I found another one today (reported to talk page). I've been going though this page looking for obvious spam. A huge amount, I've left the NZ stuff but it is pretty obvious they are going for high traffic pages Like this. I heard from somebody in the media that Wikipedia has jumped as a source of TV3 traffic this year. - SimonLyall (talk) 10:11, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
I asked for advice and was told that we could make a complaint to the Online Media Standards Authority. Read through their guidelines and they don't spcificly cover this sort of thing but it might be worth a shot. I'll have a bit more of a look tonight - SimonLyall (talk) 21:31, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
Te Kooti's War and Te Kooti
These articles are again being heavily edited by User:122.62.226.243 using a work by Judith Binney. As it has been determined that Binney's work is not necessarily NPOV, and given the previous discussion on the IPs talk page about its use (along with the fact that the IP seems incapable of citing properly), it is probably worth keeping an eye on these articles. DerbyCountyinNZ (Talk Contribs) 22:13, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
Christchurch East by-election
It would be good if admins could keep an eye on the Christchurch East by-election, 2013 article, and in particular on users Mr Mofo24 and Darkieman24 (probably the same person using multiple accounts). Schwede66 18:43, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
Te Kooti's War and Te Kooti
These articles are again being heavily edited by User:122.62.226.243 using a work by Judith Binney. As it has been determined that Binney's work is not necessarily NPOV, and given the previous discussion on the IPs talk page about its use (along with the fact that the IP seems incapable of citing properly), it is probably worth keeping an eye on these articles. DerbyCountyinNZ (Talk Contribs) 22:13, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
Pat Sheahan (publican)
Does this new article pass a notability test? Thanks, Eddaido (talk) 19:54, 3 November 2013 (UTC)
3News link spam
Where did I read about 3News link spamming? This account is certainly doing just that. Can I suggest, though, that before anybody just does blanket reverts, can we please keep the content (which is mostly rather valuable) and have the reference spam replaced with a {{cn}} template? Schwede66 02:23, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
I found another one today (reported to talk page). I've been going though this page looking for obvious spam. A huge amount, I've left the NZ stuff but it is pretty obvious they are going for high traffic pages Like this. I heard from somebody in the media that Wikipedia has jumped as a source of TV3 traffic this year. - SimonLyall (talk) 10:11, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
I asked for advice and was told that we could make a complaint to the Online Media Standards Authority. Read through their guidelines and they don't spcificly cover this sort of thing but it might be worth a shot. I'll have a bit more of a look tonight - SimonLyall (talk) 21:31, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
When is a P?hutukawa not a P?hutukawa?
There's a thread at Talk:Metrosideros_excelsa#Deviation_from_WP:FLORA.3B_brought_here_from_the_Help_Desk where some botanists need some help interpreting New Zealand culture. Stuartyeates (talk) 22:25, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
Christchurch Tram
I asked Rschen7754 on the potential notability of this article, and he suggested I ask here. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance. Go Phightins! 05:26, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Created redirect per suggestion. Someone is welcome to do the R in BRD if they object. Go Phightins! 03:12, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
Wikimedia New Zealand
In September I started a discussion over at meta:Talk:Wikimedia New Zealand about whether there is a desire for New Zealanders to have a presence of some sort off-wiki. I neglected to notify this project and others... please come and share your thoughts! ;-) John Vandenberg (chat) 04:49, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
Waimakariri wikiproject
FYI, someone has proposed a wikiproject to cover Waimakariri District. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Waimakariri District for the proposal. -- 65.94.78.9 (talk) 03:02, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
Convert WikiProject Auckland into a taskforce of WP:NZ
-- 65.94.78.9 (talk) 00:15, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
HMAS/HMNZS Kiama
The HMAS Kiama spent 24 years (1952-1976) in the RNZN but the relevant section in the article is almost entirely unreferenced. It is also a bit spartan given the length of service. None of the usual (admittedly Australian-centric) sources turn up anything, but there's surely something available somewhere. Any assistance in referencing this section greatly appreciated, even if its just pointers on where to look for sources. Euryalus (talk) 05:45, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
suggested reference to discussion about sheep
Hi - at the Australian noticebored - [30] regarding [31] - apologies to any sheep enthusiasts in this project thatmade you felt left you out. Happy new year anyways - cripes when you have something like [32] clearly you need to be consulted... satusuro 07:47, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
Admin help
Happy new year everyone! Could an admin please move Auckland Central to Auckland Central (New Zealand electorate) over an existing redirect, as this is not the primary topic? This would make room for the dab page that I've set up. I'll tidy up incoming links now. Thanks. Schwede66 07:44, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
And another one, please: Charles Kendall Wilson to Charles Wilson (New Zealand politician) (his wife's DNZB entry makes clear that he wasn't known by his middle name). Following article expansion, I've just moved another Charles Wilson with this dab to make way for it. Schwede66 00:52, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
DNZB
Not too many Kiwi editors would have the missing articles project page of the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography on their watchlist. If NZ biography is a topic that interests you, I invite you to have a look at my proposal. Schwede66 05:05, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
broken Sensible Sentencing Trust urls
The Sensible Sentencing Trust have changed all their URLs. Except in very limited circumstances this wouldn't be a problem, unfortuntely we've used them as a source more than we should see here. Ideally these would be replaced by decent references. Stuartyeates (talk) 22:52, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
"Apollo Eleven"
The usage of Apollo Eleven (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) is under discussion, see talk:Apollo Eleven -- 70.50.148.248 (talk) 08:13, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
Invitation to User Study
Would you be interested in participating in a user study? We are a team at University of Washington studying methods for finding collaborators within a Wikipedia community. We are looking for volunteers to evaluate a new visualization tool. All you need to do is to prepare for your laptop/desktop, web camera, and speaker for video communication with Google Hangout. We will provide you with a Amazon gift card in appreciation of your time and participation. For more information about this study, please visit our wiki page (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Finding_a_Collaborator). If you would like to participate in our user study, please send me a message at Wkmaster (talk) 14:12, 12 February 2014 (UTC).
three news URLs broken
These links all seem to be broken afetr a recent redesign. Stuartyeates (talk) 08:38, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
Popular pages tool update
As of January, the popular pages tool has moved from the Toolserver to Wikimedia Tool Labs. The code has changed significantly from the Toolserver version, but users should notice few differences. Please take a moment to look over your project's list for any anomalies, such as pages that you expect to see that are missing or pages that seem to have more views than expected. Note that unlike other tools, this tool aggregates all views from redirects, which means it will typically have higher numbers. (For January 2014 specifically, 35 hours of data is missing from the WMF data, which was approximated from other dates. For most articles, this should yield a more accurate number. However, a few articles, like ones featured on the Main Page, may be off).
Web tools, to replace the ones at tools:~alexz/pop, will become available over the next few weeks at toollabs:popularpages. All of the historical data (back to July 2009 for some projects) has been copied over. The tool to view historical data is currently partially available (assessment data and a few projects may not be available at the moment). The tool to add new projects to the bot's list is also available now (editing the configuration of current projects coming soon). Unlike the previous tool, all changes will be effective immediately. OAuth is used to authenticate users, allowing only regular users to make changes to prevent abuse. A visible history of configuration additions and changes is coming soon. Once tools become fully available, their toolserver versions will redirect to Labs.
If you have any questions, want to report any bugs, or there are any features you would like to see that aren't currently available on the Toolserver tools, see the updated FAQ or contact me on my talk page. Mr.Z-bot (talk) (for Mr.Z-man) 05:19, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
AfC submission
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Te Rere I Oturu Falls. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 12:08, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
- Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Marty Schmidt. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 12:15, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
- Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Religion and the New Zealand Constitution. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 19:15, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
Abel Tasman National Park
Can someone who is familiar with good English usage take a look at a series of edits by someone calling themselves Pushpithaw82 - I think they are wrong, but I would like a second opinion. NealeFamily (talk) 07:49, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
NZAS talk
I gave a talk at the 2014 NZAS conference, where I tried to convince more NZ academics to edit, as well as give more recognition for Wikipedians. I hope you don't mind that I mentioned several of you (slides here) Paul (talk) 04:17, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
Invitation to Participate in a User Study - Final Reminder
Would you be interested in participating in a user study of a new tool to support editor involvement in WikiProjects? We are a team at the University of Washington studying methods for finding collaborators within WikiProjects, and we are looking for volunteers to evaluate a new visual exploration tool for Wikipedia. Given your interest in this Wikiproject, we would welcome your participation in our study. To participate, you will be given access to our new visualization tool and will interact with us via Google Hangout so that we can solicit your thoughts about the tool. To use Google Hangout, you will need a laptop/desktop, a web camera, and a speaker for video communication during the study. We will provide you with an Amazon gift card in appreciation of your time and participation. For more information about this study, please visit our wiki page (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Finding_a_Collaborator). If you would like to participate in our user study, please send me a message at Wkmaster (talk) 15:57, 21 April 2014 (UTC).
Eyes on Education_Program:University_of_Canterbury/International_Human_Rights_Law_(2014_S1) for a week or so please
The course at Education_Program:University_of_Canterbury/International_Human_Rights_Law_(2014_S1) is peaking right now, with lots of editors making edits and/or creating their articles. I'd encourage everyone to take a look at an article or two and give feedback / encouragement as appropriate. Stuartyeates (talk) 07:58, 7 May 2014 (UTC)
Post-secondary educational organisations
I've started a category discussion which turns out to boil down to what we call our various post-secondary educational organisations. Your input would be appreciated, in the name of a resolution, even if it's not the one I'm proposing. Stuartyeates (talk) 00:43, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
Archibald Baxter
Could someone please have a look at Archibald Baxter? It's a bit of a mess and I have a COI which I think makes it inappropriate for me to edit it further. Stuartyeates (talk) 08:51, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
Wiki Loves Pride 2014
You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride 2014, a campaign to create and improve LGBT-related content at Wikipedia and its sister projects. The campaign will take place throughout the month of June, culminating with a multinational edit-a-thon on June 21. Meetups are being held in some cities, or you can participate remotely. All constructive edits are welcome in order to contribute to Wikipedia's mission of providing quality, accurate information. Articles within Category:LGBT in Oceania may be of particular interest. You can also upload LGBT-related images by participating in Wikimedia Commons' LGBT-related photo challenge. You are encouraged to share the results of your work here. Happy editing! --Another Believer (Talk) 20:27, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
AfC submission - 26/05
Draft:Comte de Paris. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 00:57, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
AfC submission - 10/06
Draft:Pou Pou. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 20:27, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
Leaflet For Wikiproject New Zealand At Wikimania 2014
Hi all,
My name is Adi Khajuria and I am helping out with Wikimania 2014 in London.
One of our initiatives is to create leaflets to increase the discoverability of various wikimedia projects, and showcase the breadth of activity within wikimedia. Any kind of project can have a physical paper leaflet designed - for free - as a tool to help recruit new contributors. These leaflets will be printed at Wikimania 2014, and the designs can be re-used in the future at other events and locations.
This is particularly aimed at highlighting less discoverable but successful projects, e.g:
o Active Wikiprojects: Wikiproject Medicine, WikiProject Video Games, Wikiproject Film
o Tech projects/Tools, which may be looking for either users or developers.
o Less known major projects: Wikinews, Wikidata, Wikivoyage, etc.
o Wiki Loves Parliaments, Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves ____
o Wikimedia thematic organisations, Wikiwomen's Collaborative, The Signpost
For more information or to sign up for one for your project, go to: Project leaflets Adikhajuria (talk) 16:08, 12 June 2014 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/Requested articles/New Zealand academic biographies
I have started a bit of a push to increase the depth and breadth of our coverage of academics and researchers, with diversity being a key issue. I've been trying to attract new editors on social media to write some of these, but don't let that stop you all from jumping in. Stuartyeates (talk) 20:56, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
Notability (New Zealand people)
Discussion moved to Wikipedia talk:Notability (New Zealand people); please continue discussion there
RM New Zealand national rugby union team to All Blacks
See Talk:New Zealand national rugby union team#Requested move -- PBS (talk) 15:47, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
New article, nom for DYK
Just a heads up that I've nominated the article I've just created on Angela D'Audney for DYK - {{Did you know nominations/Angela D'Audney}}. Any improvements to the article are welcome :) Grutness...wha? 08:34, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
Wikipedia down in New Zealand
According to isitdownrightnow.com Wikipedia was down over much of New Zealand yesterday, as well as in some other parts of the world. Personally I could not connect for over 20 hours. Did other users here experience the same issue? --Epipelagic (talk) 02:37, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
Collaborative digitisation
The National Library of New Zealand runs a collaborative digitisation program which is calling for applications. If you know someone struggling to get their historic newspapers online, point them to http://natlib.govt.nz/librarians/national-library-services/collaborative-digitisation This is a feeder program for http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/ which we all know and love. Stuartyeates (talk) 03:45, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
Languages in censuses and Race and ethnicity in censuses
Pleas add information about this country to this articles.--Kaiyr (talk) 14:38, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
Photo request
Is there any editor near Gisborne who can assist with obtaining a photograph of the ship's bell of QSMV Dominion Monarch. Bell is apparently in the Riverdale School, Gisborne, or at least it was in 2005. Mjroots (talk) 09:06, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
beehive edits
There is a twitter stream of edits from beehive-related IP addresses at https://twitter.com/BeehiveEditors Stuartyeates (talk) 08:21, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
How do I edit information on a page?
Hi,
I am writing in as a representative of ICONZ-Webvisions Pte Ltd under the instruction of our Group Marketing Director on some out-dated information that can still be found on Wikipedia. The out dated information are in relation to the change of some key personnel within the organization and we would like to update that information. Please let me know how I can do that. Thank you!
Kthamkw (talk) 09:21, 21 August 2014 (UTC)Kevin Tham, 21 August 2014 Marketing Executive, ICONZ-Webvisions Pte Ltd
Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/NZ/New Zealand Historic Places Trust list problems
Hi all - sthere are distinct peculiarities to how the subpages of Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/NZ/New Zealand Historic Places Trust are organised.
Take, for example, the page Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/NZ/New Zealand Historic Places Trust/Otago I. There follows a lovely long list of article blue and red links, each accompanied by four columns, A, B, C, and D, for "Foo, Otago", "Foo, New Zealand", "Foo (Otago)", and "Foo (New Zealand)". All very well, except quite a few of the buildings listed as missing are - as per the WPNZ naming guidelines - at "Foo, Dunedin", "Foo, Oamaru", etc., or in the case of schools, at "Foo (Dunedin)", "Foo (Oamaru)", etc. Only buildings that are part of the University of Otago are listed as "Foo, Otago". Furthermore, the articles in the first column (i.e., named simply "Foo") are a mix of acceptable articles (such as Dunedin Railway Station) and generic/dab/otherwise invalid articles (such as Olveston, National Bank, and House). The system looks like it needs some kind of major overhaul to be of any use... Grutness...wha? 13:29, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
British Empire in World War II
See talk:British Empire in World War II on whether this should cover New Zealand , and what the proper name is, if it does cover New Zealand -- 65.94.169.222 (talk) 03:42, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
Project Page - Assessment Log
Does anyone know how to get this to update automatically? It has not moved for several months. NealeFamily (talk) 03:21, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
Heritage New Zealand
This move request needs wider input, as it may result in many categories also being renamed. Schwede66 18:34, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
Southlander
This doesn't have a WP NZ project tag on it, hardly surprisingly, but I'm wondering if it's really the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC more notable than all other topics combined? In ictu oculi (talk) 03:11, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
List candidates
There is a discussion at Talk:New Zealand general election, 2014 about removing the table of unsuccessful list candidates in the 2014 general election article. This is a table that has been included in all of the New Zealand MMP elections. If anyone has an opinion can they please join the discussion so a consensus can be worked towards? Mattlore (talk) 09:08, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
New Zealand Open Source Awards
The finalists for the New Zealand Open Source Awards have been announced http://www.nzosa.org.nz/categories The good news is that we (WikiProject New Zealand) are on the list. The bad news is that the awards are being given at a Gala dinner on Wednesday 12 November at Te Papa, Wellington, costing $45. I'm planning on going, is anyone else keen? I'm not sure what our chances are, CEISMIC seems like a pretty strong contender. Stuartyeates (talk) 01:10, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
Draft article needs expert review. Draft:New Zealand First Youth
A Draft article at AfC needs expert review. Could you please comment on Draft:New Zealand First Youth? Is this acceptable or unbalanced? Fixable or for the bin? Jodi.a.schneider (talk) 14:27, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject_New_Zealand/Requested_articles/New_Zealand_academic_biographies
I've pretty much reached the end of this project and am declaring it done. There are still a couple of red links in Hector Memorial Medal, which are either historical people where I can't find the sources or very recent ones where I can't find all that many decent independent ones (the latter ones will get created when there's an obit, I guess). I'm really pleased with the size of Category:New Zealand M?ori academics, Category:New Zealand women academics and even Category:Samoan academics. I've started Category:New Zealand academics lacking usual sources for academics where there probably should be more sources, I'm following these up with the Royal Society of New Zealand. Stuartyeates (talk) 01:42, 28 September 2014 (UTC)
Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
Joanne Hayes
Hi guys, a move proposal has been started at Talk:Joanne Hayes to move the page to Jo Hayes. If anyone has an opinion can they please jump in. Mattlore (talk) 06:53, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
Iwi maps
I've posted a request at Wikipedia:Graphics_Lab/Map_workshop#Set_of_maps_from_shapefile to have maps drawn for iwi. Stuartyeates (talk) 22:22, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
feedback on Draft:Enjoy Public Art Gallery
I've done a bit of a thing over at Draft:Enjoy Public Art Gallery. I can get probably average one decent review per exhibition (some more, some none), going increasingly to print as they go back in time. Do people think it's likely to passing the notability test? Is it useful / worthwhile / helpful? I'm thinking of going for a handful of reviews from the opening exhibitions and seeing whether the whole thing, taken as a whole, works. Thoughts? Stuartyeates (talk) 06:42, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
Index New Zealand
I have recently downloaded and started to play with Index New Zealand https://natlib.govt.nz/collections/a-z/index-new-zealand-innz This is a dataset of ~ 800000 items, including ~ 12000 obits. Pretty much every one of the 800000 items is a reliable source. I expect that there's quite a bit of cross-over with the DNZB work I've done previously and this work will be related to that in so far as I'll be creating aricles in a semi-automated fashion based on authoritative sources, but I'll be lifting my references from INZ but they'll point to other publications. I'll post some examples when I have them. Stuartyeates (talk) 08:41, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
Auckland cone names
FYI: I've proposed name changes for the following pages, to bring them up to date with the T?maki Makaurau Collective settlement:
- Mount Victoria, Auckland
- Mount Richmond
- Pigeon Mountain (New Zealand)
- Mount Hobson, Auckland
- North Head, New Zealand
- Mount Hobson, Auckland
- Mount Wellington, New Zealand
- One Tree Hill, New Zealand
- Mount Smart
Haminoon (talk) 06:05, 11 October 2014 (UTC)
TVNZ logo
Should the TVNZ logo remain as it is - - or be changed to what is on the TVNZ website under their logos?
Metrosideros excelsa -> Pohutukawa
I have started a WP:Requested Move at Talk:Metrosideros_excelsa that may be of interest to editors here. Stuartyeates (talk)
eyes across the ditch
Our good friends across the ditch are doing a mass-creation of historic places articles. If that's your cup of tea, cast you eyes over Category:Articles_incorporating_text_from_the_Queensland_Heritage_Register_(please_review). Stuartyeates (talk) 05:44, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
Te Ara is dead, long live Te Ara!
As people may have seen here, Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand is transitioning from growth mode into maintenance mode. They'll be missed. If anyone has a hankering to rewrite Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand, now is a good time. Stuartyeates (talk) 19:14, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
WPNZ on commons?
Hi everyone! I was just wondering if there is an equivalent project on Wikimedia Commons, and if there isn't, how we might go about setting one up? I ask partly because I'm in the process of transferring ~3000 photos from the NZTEU flickr stream with flickr2commons (I got in touch with them and asked them to change the CC licence on their images to CC-BA-SA) and would love some help categorising everything. I'm trying to categorise everything first as NZTEU, and files by NZTEU, before moving on to categorising in more detail. See Commons:Category:New Zealand Tertiary Education Union. Thanks very much! -- Ballofstring (talk) 23:48, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
Te Papa to upload to commons
In this tweet I received the heads-up that Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa is likely to be uploading some images to commons shortly. This is possibly associated indirectly with the NDF workshop I'm running at Te Papa next month. (I think the connection to @Wittylama: is that he runs the upload tool.) Stuartyeates (talk) 06:35, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
Meng Foon
Can someone please have a look at Meng Foon, some anon's keep adding some twitter nonsense and I don't want to break the 3RR. Mattlore (talk) 09:08, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
Puerto Rico
In the visa requirements for NZ citizens you have Puerto Rico listed in Oceania. Its in the Caribbean so suggest you move it. Thx -- Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.109.10.157 (talk) 23:00, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
Colin McCahon
Hi all,
I'm trying to fix (or at the very least improve) the Colin McCahon page. At the moment, it's a real mess and very poor quality. And kind of help at all would be of benefit.
If you are a Wikipedia pro, there are some formatting issues that could be cleared up. If you are knowledgeable on the topic, there is a huge amount of further research required. If you are neither, I'd still love someone to come and help me out with small details like copy-editing some of the badly composed prose.
Thanks for considering! --Clawsyclaw (talk) 04:24, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
Talk page conduct
There are some very inappropriate comments on the Steffan Browning talk page. How does one deal with that? Simply remove them? Does this require admin intervention? Schwede66 08:34, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
Discussion about merger with Wikipedia:New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board
See Wikipedia:New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board#Merge Wikipedia talk:WikiProject New Zealand and this page?. -- Shudde talk 04:24, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
2010 Queenstown suppressed indecency case
I wonder if anyone here not involved in creating or editing the article would like to re-assess 2010 Queenstown suppressed indecency case, currently rated "stub class" and a not particularly flattering quality level. Nankai (talk) 00:17, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
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