NZCOTF April 23 2006 to 7 May 2006
NZCOTF 7 May 2006 to 22 May 2006
The article expanded from 59 lines (795 characters) to 89 lines (1508 characters), not counting categories or interwiki links.
NZCOTF 22 May 2006 to 5 June 2006
The article expanded from nothing to 221 lines (1693 characters), or 181 lines (1433 characters) excluding the See also and References sections.
New Zealand has had a lot of referendum, from alcohol, to CMT, to Electoral reform, to extending the term of Parliament and so forth. Yet, no overbinding article? None that discusses our unique nature of Citizens Initiated Referendum. I think we need one.
Just bigger than a stub, and was recently created. I'm not sure how appropriate this nomination is, but after finding the NZ COTF, I figured it would interest a few people. Although it could normally go to the RU COTF, but that Collab. is a bit quiet at the moment and a nation-specific article may not get any votes. Anyway, thought I would nominate it. Cvene64 13:39, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
This is a series of articles, from 1900 in New Zealand to 2006 in New Zealand, mostly created from a template on March 1. They are being slowly improved, but many of them still have the original completely incorrect information on incumbents, and inappropriate links. The 1900 in New Zealand article is, as of this writing, an example of an unaltered product of the template. I'd like to see a community effort to bring these up to scratch.
Comment: since several people have suggested we tackle only a singe decade, I suggest we have a run-off poll. Please add your name (and optionally reasons) to one or more of the following options. The option with the most names at the time the main topic becomes NZCOTF (most likely this Sunday) will become the topic being worked on. If several options have the same number of names, then we'll worry about that at the time.
This could be a controversial one. There's currently an article Treaty of Waitangi Grievance Industry which has POV and other problems, which is up for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Treaty of Waitangi Grievance Industry. I've proposed it be renamed to the above title (or similar), and its contents transformed. This would be an excellent chance for Wikipedians from diverse political viewpoints to find ways of expressing the issues in the neutral tones that this encyclopedia does so well.
Nominated 21 June, needs 4 votes by 19 July
This article on the Māori Queen, and the associated article Māori King Movement, are very short, but the subject is an important part of New Zealand culture, history and politics. With the Queen admitted to hospital in the final phase of her life, we should expand these two articles. More information can be found with a Google search for "Te AtairangiKaahu" than for our article title, but I don't know enough to say that our article title is wrong.
Nominated 11 July, needs 4 votes by 8 August
Currently this is a stub article consisting of some incomplete lists and some bullet points. This could be dramatically improved by turning the bullet points into text, changing the lists into tables with some explanation of each item, and making it more complete. There's plenty of information on the web, with three excellent external links already in the article. I've added a section on liverworts as a start.
Nominated 19 July, needs 4 votes by 16 August
A very short list. Even if everyone only added one or two places to this it could be far more useful. As it is, it's in dire need of expansion. There should be plenty of sources - many of them in WP's own articles.
Nominated 19 July, needs 6 votes by 30 August
This has been in the headlines for months now, and shows no sign of abating. There's a small section under New_Zealand_general_election,_2005#Controversies but I think it warrants its own article. This is the sort of article which would lead well to collaborative writing, since there are numerous interpretations on what happened and how legitimate it was. There's certainly room for improvement in my suggested title, above.
Nominated 10 September, needs 2 votes by 24 September
According to their corporate page, Feltex is Australasia’s largest manufacturer of residential and commercial carpets, and it's very much in the news at present. Whether or not the company survives, we should have an article on it.
Nominated 26 September, needs 2 votes by 10 October
2 votes needed by 29 October 2006 Given New Zealand's history of welfare, from being the social lab of the world, the reforms of the first Labour govt etc, we should have an article on it all. History, current policy, current debates etc etc.
2 votes needed by 9 December 2006
This is a poor quality article at present, dominated by a large list of New Zealand writers with no indication of which names on the list are considered to be significant. I'd suggest that any writers who haven't won a major award should be removed from the list. See Australian literature for an example of a decent article on national literature.
Nominated 2007-01-18 This is one of the major events in New Zealand's recent history. It's still referred to as 'The Tour' and had a massive impact on New Zealand society. The article needs a lot of work. I've started adding some inline citations, however the article doesn't even have a lead. There are no mentions of the actual match and Test results of the tour. As well there isn't a single image in the article. It needs a lot of work but it's a subject with a lot written about it out there. - Shudda talk 23:51, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
New Zealand collaboration topic from 9 April 2007 to 21 April 2008, but the collaboration was inactive throughout this period.
Nominated 2007-02-01 Amazingly, this article is not that much more than a stub - considerably smaller than the articles for places within the province like Ranfurly, New Zealand and Milton, New Zealand, and also considerably smaller than the articles for most of New Zealand's other traditional regions. Grutness... wha? 05:26, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
Australian collaboration of the fortnight topic and added to the New Zealand collaboration template from 21 April 2008 to 5 May 2008.
This article, together with the very many other articles which need to be updated to account for the election and change of government, is de facto the topic which New Zealand editors are concentrating on this month. The process is being coordinated at Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/Election 2008 taskforce.
This is a top-importance article which is currently stub-class. Nominated 13 October 2008.
This is New Zealand's longest river, but it's mostly unreferenced. See Johnson Creek (Willamette River) for a featured article on a river. We could ask WP:WikiProject Rivers for assistance on this collaboration. Nominated 15 October 2008.
A top importance article with a reasonable structure already in place but limited content and very little referencing. It won't be hard to find sources in public libraries. Nominated 8 January 2009
The mainstay of the New Zealand economy, but mostly a stub. Nominated 11 January 2009
A messy article with an inappropriate title. There is currently undue weight on "poi as practiced overseas as a circus-arts discipline", and a tad too much how-to, with relatively little on the Māori tradition.
Several hundred one-line stubs have been created on New Zealand rivers. Each says "The X River is a river in New Zealand". They can be found in Category:New Zealand geography stubs, and there's a discussion about them at Wikipedia:New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board#New Zealand river articles. Each needs at a minimum to be resorted into one of the geographical regions of New Zealand by replacing the national geo-stub template with the appropriate regional geo stub template, and adding a line saying what region/district/area the river is in. This information can be found in any half-decent road atlas of New Zealand or with google searches. Adding the river or sea the river runs into is good (there's a field for it in the infobox), and other general information about the river can at least sometimes be found on Google - I've found http://www.nzfishing.com a useful resource. Occasionally, a free photo can be found on http://www.flickr.com to use. Coordinates can be added too, using for example Google Earth. In short, you can spend as much or as little time as you want on each stub and still make a valuable contribution.
Haupiri River is an example that I've fleshed out into a reasonable stub.
This will be the area that some of us will probably be spending our time on over the next month or so anyway, so why not make it the collaboration topic? Nominated 13 July 2009.
Currently a three-line stub, which came to my attention when it was prodded as non-notable. I'm not sure how easy it will be to find reliable third-party sources which do much more than affirm the company's existence. Nominated 24 May 2009
'NZC for February 2010 Seems to be thattouching on the spheres of Māoridom, entertainment and politics thisbiography would be an excellent place to start improving wikipedia,especially with all the recently-published obits. Stuartyeates ( talk)07:26, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
NZCOTF April 23 2006 to 7 May 2006
NZCOTF 7 May 2006 to 22 May 2006
The article expanded from 59 lines (795 characters) to 89 lines (1508 characters), not counting categories or interwiki links.
NZCOTF 22 May 2006 to 5 June 2006
The article expanded from nothing to 221 lines (1693 characters), or 181 lines (1433 characters) excluding the See also and References sections.
New Zealand has had a lot of referendum, from alcohol, to CMT, to Electoral reform, to extending the term of Parliament and so forth. Yet, no overbinding article? None that discusses our unique nature of Citizens Initiated Referendum. I think we need one.
Just bigger than a stub, and was recently created. I'm not sure how appropriate this nomination is, but after finding the NZ COTF, I figured it would interest a few people. Although it could normally go to the RU COTF, but that Collab. is a bit quiet at the moment and a nation-specific article may not get any votes. Anyway, thought I would nominate it. Cvene64 13:39, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
This is a series of articles, from 1900 in New Zealand to 2006 in New Zealand, mostly created from a template on March 1. They are being slowly improved, but many of them still have the original completely incorrect information on incumbents, and inappropriate links. The 1900 in New Zealand article is, as of this writing, an example of an unaltered product of the template. I'd like to see a community effort to bring these up to scratch.
Comment: since several people have suggested we tackle only a singe decade, I suggest we have a run-off poll. Please add your name (and optionally reasons) to one or more of the following options. The option with the most names at the time the main topic becomes NZCOTF (most likely this Sunday) will become the topic being worked on. If several options have the same number of names, then we'll worry about that at the time.
This could be a controversial one. There's currently an article Treaty of Waitangi Grievance Industry which has POV and other problems, which is up for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Treaty of Waitangi Grievance Industry. I've proposed it be renamed to the above title (or similar), and its contents transformed. This would be an excellent chance for Wikipedians from diverse political viewpoints to find ways of expressing the issues in the neutral tones that this encyclopedia does so well.
Nominated 21 June, needs 4 votes by 19 July
This article on the Māori Queen, and the associated article Māori King Movement, are very short, but the subject is an important part of New Zealand culture, history and politics. With the Queen admitted to hospital in the final phase of her life, we should expand these two articles. More information can be found with a Google search for "Te AtairangiKaahu" than for our article title, but I don't know enough to say that our article title is wrong.
Nominated 11 July, needs 4 votes by 8 August
Currently this is a stub article consisting of some incomplete lists and some bullet points. This could be dramatically improved by turning the bullet points into text, changing the lists into tables with some explanation of each item, and making it more complete. There's plenty of information on the web, with three excellent external links already in the article. I've added a section on liverworts as a start.
Nominated 19 July, needs 4 votes by 16 August
A very short list. Even if everyone only added one or two places to this it could be far more useful. As it is, it's in dire need of expansion. There should be plenty of sources - many of them in WP's own articles.
Nominated 19 July, needs 6 votes by 30 August
This has been in the headlines for months now, and shows no sign of abating. There's a small section under New_Zealand_general_election,_2005#Controversies but I think it warrants its own article. This is the sort of article which would lead well to collaborative writing, since there are numerous interpretations on what happened and how legitimate it was. There's certainly room for improvement in my suggested title, above.
Nominated 10 September, needs 2 votes by 24 September
According to their corporate page, Feltex is Australasia’s largest manufacturer of residential and commercial carpets, and it's very much in the news at present. Whether or not the company survives, we should have an article on it.
Nominated 26 September, needs 2 votes by 10 October
2 votes needed by 29 October 2006 Given New Zealand's history of welfare, from being the social lab of the world, the reforms of the first Labour govt etc, we should have an article on it all. History, current policy, current debates etc etc.
2 votes needed by 9 December 2006
This is a poor quality article at present, dominated by a large list of New Zealand writers with no indication of which names on the list are considered to be significant. I'd suggest that any writers who haven't won a major award should be removed from the list. See Australian literature for an example of a decent article on national literature.
Nominated 2007-01-18 This is one of the major events in New Zealand's recent history. It's still referred to as 'The Tour' and had a massive impact on New Zealand society. The article needs a lot of work. I've started adding some inline citations, however the article doesn't even have a lead. There are no mentions of the actual match and Test results of the tour. As well there isn't a single image in the article. It needs a lot of work but it's a subject with a lot written about it out there. - Shudda talk 23:51, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
New Zealand collaboration topic from 9 April 2007 to 21 April 2008, but the collaboration was inactive throughout this period.
Nominated 2007-02-01 Amazingly, this article is not that much more than a stub - considerably smaller than the articles for places within the province like Ranfurly, New Zealand and Milton, New Zealand, and also considerably smaller than the articles for most of New Zealand's other traditional regions. Grutness... wha? 05:26, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
Australian collaboration of the fortnight topic and added to the New Zealand collaboration template from 21 April 2008 to 5 May 2008.
This article, together with the very many other articles which need to be updated to account for the election and change of government, is de facto the topic which New Zealand editors are concentrating on this month. The process is being coordinated at Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/Election 2008 taskforce.
This is a top-importance article which is currently stub-class. Nominated 13 October 2008.
This is New Zealand's longest river, but it's mostly unreferenced. See Johnson Creek (Willamette River) for a featured article on a river. We could ask WP:WikiProject Rivers for assistance on this collaboration. Nominated 15 October 2008.
A top importance article with a reasonable structure already in place but limited content and very little referencing. It won't be hard to find sources in public libraries. Nominated 8 January 2009
The mainstay of the New Zealand economy, but mostly a stub. Nominated 11 January 2009
A messy article with an inappropriate title. There is currently undue weight on "poi as practiced overseas as a circus-arts discipline", and a tad too much how-to, with relatively little on the Māori tradition.
Several hundred one-line stubs have been created on New Zealand rivers. Each says "The X River is a river in New Zealand". They can be found in Category:New Zealand geography stubs, and there's a discussion about them at Wikipedia:New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board#New Zealand river articles. Each needs at a minimum to be resorted into one of the geographical regions of New Zealand by replacing the national geo-stub template with the appropriate regional geo stub template, and adding a line saying what region/district/area the river is in. This information can be found in any half-decent road atlas of New Zealand or with google searches. Adding the river or sea the river runs into is good (there's a field for it in the infobox), and other general information about the river can at least sometimes be found on Google - I've found http://www.nzfishing.com a useful resource. Occasionally, a free photo can be found on http://www.flickr.com to use. Coordinates can be added too, using for example Google Earth. In short, you can spend as much or as little time as you want on each stub and still make a valuable contribution.
Haupiri River is an example that I've fleshed out into a reasonable stub.
This will be the area that some of us will probably be spending our time on over the next month or so anyway, so why not make it the collaboration topic? Nominated 13 July 2009.
Currently a three-line stub, which came to my attention when it was prodded as non-notable. I'm not sure how easy it will be to find reliable third-party sources which do much more than affirm the company's existence. Nominated 24 May 2009
'NZC for February 2010 Seems to be thattouching on the spheres of Māoridom, entertainment and politics thisbiography would be an excellent place to start improving wikipedia,especially with all the recently-published obits. Stuartyeates ( talk)07:26, 28 September 2009 (UTC)