This page is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
It has come to my attention that User:Mr Bluefin has been going around NZ schools removing a lot of useful information arguing that it is not encyclopedic. Please keep watch on this issue to make sure that these articles are not reduced to sub-stubs as what happened to Mt Roskill Grammar: [1] (now reverted).-- Konstable 01:54, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
British/Irish mountaineer Brede Arkless who assumed NZ citizenship is up for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brede Arkless. Please provide input. More NZ related links at Talk:Brede Arkless. Thanks. ~ trialsanderrors 00:54, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
I have started on an attempt to clean up the usage of Māori terms throughout New Zealand articles. What I mean is that making sure that the proper spelling is used for example Maori -> Māori, Pakeha -> Pākehā, Pa -> Pā. The full list of what I am using can be found here (I keep on adding to it as I go) can be found at User:Konstable/Māori terms, along with the more specific description. Basically I do this using AWB, but reviewing (and editing if needed) all the changes so it is not a fast process for so many articles. If anyone has any terms they wish me to add to the list, wants to help do the same, or any other thoughts - let me know on User talk:Konstable/Māori terms.-- Konstable 10:55, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
There seems to be a wish to put people directly in this category as well as any sub-categorys. I think this is a bad idea. The category will become too long (several thousand names) and unweldy. I think either everyone should be in a subcategory (or two if applicable) or perhaps we should split it by letters of the surname or something. Even large countries like Franch or Australia don't list many in the top category. I also not that subcates like Category:New Zealand World War II people don't show up until you go to the second page. - SimonLyall 11:23, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
Re NZ people by occupation, we don't need Category:New Zealand educationalists (nil in) as well as Category:New Zealand educators (about 23) do we?? And there is only one in Category:New Zealand schoolteachers Hugo999 ( talk) 03:16, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
It's worried me for a while that the subcategories of Category:Regions of New Zealand don't conform with the official regions into which the country is divided. it's mainly my fault - I created most of these categories a year and a half ago while making a few hundred geography articles. I think, though, that it's about time these were formalised. Luckily, most of the seventeen categories won't need much work at all. Twelve will need only the slightest of tweaks if any ( Category:Northland, New Zealand, Category:Waikato, Category:Hawke's Bay, Category:Taranaki, Category:Manawatu-Wanganui, Category:Wellington Region, Category:Marlborough, New Zealand, Category:West Coast, New Zealand, Category:Canterbury, New Zealand, Category:Otago, and Category:Southland, New Zealand, plus the still useful, even if not "official" Category:New Zealand outlying islands). The other five need a little more work.
I'd like to propose the following changes:
Unless there are any serious objections to this, I'll start the ball rolling with a CFR of the Auckland and Nelson ones, then see where to go from there. (crossposted at Wikipedia:New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board) Grutness... wha? 07:14, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
As per a bit of discussion at thr Auckland meetup I am thinking of setting up a subpage of this to help coordinate the watching of NZ related pages to reduce vandalism. It would probably be a list of top 20 articles and links to pages like Special:Recentchangeslinked/Category:Cities and towns in New Zealand to help people keep an eye on other pages. Thoughts and suggested names or better places to put this? - SimonLyall 13:19, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi. If you still have work to do tagging talk pages and assessing articles, my AWB plugin might be of interest to you.
The plugin has two main modes of operation:
As of the current version, WikiProjects with simple "generic" templates are supported by the plugin without the need for any special programatic support by me. I've had a look at your project's template and you seem to qualify.
For more information see:
Hope that helps. If you have any questions or find any bugs please let me know on the plugin's talk page. -- Kingboyk 14:37, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
Hello, I would like to help with this WikiProject. Where do I sign up? -- James Bond 00:35, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
I just created New Zealand telephone numbering plan, because it was on the list of missing pages, (and I needed a reference article for work purposes too). I also added it to Wikipedia:New articles (New Zealand) and put a project template on the talk page. I think it can still be improved, but do not have the time just yet. What is the protocol for what happens to the Wikipedia:WikiProject_New_Zealand listing? Do I remove it? Let someone else review the article, and they remove the listing? Put a new one in its place? -- Cameron Dewe 01:49, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
This article has been vastly improved and expanded. New Zealanders participated in this campaign during World War II and I was hoping some of you might want to contribute. It has also been nominated for A-class status. Take a look if you'd like. Periklis* 06:40, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 16:30, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
The other day I added to Wikipedia:WikiProject Scouting/Todo this list:-
Anyone care to pick this up and run with it? I'm over the Tasman and know little about Scouting in NZ. -- Bduke 00:59, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
I Don't think many people in New Zealand do scouting. Glamgirljaspreet101 ( talk) 02:47, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
Was Brian Lochore actually knighted, or was an editor a little overenthusiastic about the form of address for a holder of the OBE? dramatic 10:49, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
I'm pleased to announce that everyone listed on List of New Zelanders and all the major lists linked therefrom, now has Birth/death dates included on the year in New Zealand pages. Ok, the above lists are not all-encompassing by a long chalk, but its a start. dramatic 10:53, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 20:19, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
Enough articles refer to Crimes Act 1961 that it may be worthwhile to create an article for it. I'll leave it to the experts here to evaluate ... ✤ JonHarder talk 21:54, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
Its pretty easy to do the basic stuff - you just grab a copy from New Zealand Statutes, which most libraries have, and fill in the template. You can pinch this from the Treaty of Waitangi Act page or several others. -- Helenalex 22:18, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi all, I've done the major revision needed of the Geography of New Zealand. It would be good to get a temperature map and this site has some good maps but I'm not sure of the copyrights etc. Tim_ 00:11, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
I'd like to add Aroha Island to the List of islands of New Zealand, but am not quite versed enough to know which section in the list is best for it. Please advise. I came across this since I decided to try to de-orphan an article, and started working on Aroha Island. Keesiewonder talk 01:34, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks! I've added Aroha Island to the Open Sea Island section of the island list. Since I'm focused on de-orphaning (from 0 to 4 in the 'what links here' count) right now rather than expanding the stub article, I'll save expanding/improving the article for another day. Keesiewonder talk 02:05, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
According to William Stevenson (New Zealander), Sir William Alfred Stevenson was born when his father (William Stevenson) was only 4 years old. Stevenson senior, not content with that feat, founded his company at the age of 15, so methinks that it is his birthdate which is in error. Does anyone have a source to fix it? dramatic 11:23, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
Is anyone interested in forming a WikiProject focusing on the biota of New Zealand? I'm doing a course in ecology and conservation at the moment and I'm interested in continuing along this path, so I may be able to contribute a bit to this area. If other editors are interested we could look at drafting up a sub-project. Richard001 06:37, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
I would like to invite you all to participate in a discussion at this thread regarding bilateral relations between two countries. All articles related to foreign relations between countries are now under the scope of WikiProject Foreign relations, a newly created project. We hope that the discussion will result in a more clean and organized way of explaining such relationships. Thank you. Ed ¿Cómo estás? 18:57, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
This page needs some work especially references. Is it a piss take? Is it notable? Alan Liefting 01:32, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi guys and girls. I am not part of the WikiProject as such, but I am a New Zealand Wikipedian (or should that be Wikipedian New Zealander :P?) and I am quite concerend about the state of the ANZAC Day article. This article will be on the Main Page tomorrow as one of the featured anniversaries. What is concerning is the article is not of a very high standard and New Zealand seems to take a back seat to Australia for much of the articles. Just look at the images and you will see none from New Zealand, although I will take some (will be at the cenotaph service in Wellington at 0545) and upload them tomorrow. I hope that some Wikipedians will see this and decide to take action before tomorrow. I would but I have little time to edit theses days (see my contributions). Thanks-- Hamedog Talk| @ 06:13, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
I just noticed that Designline, a significant NZ company, has had it's article deleted at some point since December. I can't find any reference to it being deleted. Anyone know what happened? -- Lee Begg 04:03, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
I have just made a Designline stub. I've copied the above into the talk page. Nankai 02:31, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
I started the article for this NZer yesterday without actually noticing it was on this page (I found it just now through 'what links here'). Because he is now a former mayor it seemed inappropriate to call the article Michael Redman (mayor), so I labelled him as an NZer. However, because I had not heard of the bloke until I saw the bizarrity of the page, his new page has next to nothing on it. Feel free to add more (and please do!); it is still on the list of articles that need doing up on this project page.
- - -
THE DARK LORD TROMBONATOR
(((¶))) 03:35, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
Why do we have a limited scope for this project? I think the scope should be as broad as possible, to allow new sub-projects and work groups to bud off from it over time. Should we expand our definition? Richard001 04:21, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
This WikiProject aims primarily to help coordinate pages on:
The scope is basically just the article on New Zealand, it's history, and New Zealanders - there are certainly a few things in Category:New Zealand that don't specifically relate to what is mentioned above. Richard001 07:49, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
I see a problem with the new wording - it now overlaps with Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand places. Given that that WikiProject is fairly sluggish these days anyway, should a merger be proposed? Grutness... wha? 00:28, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
If someone types "raa" (all in lower case) in the search box and clicks "Go", they end up at Tama-nui-te-rā (via the redirect Raa). I think RAA would be a more logical destination. Would anyone object to me changing Raa to redirect to RAA instead of Tama-nui-te-rā? -- DH85868993 07:59, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
Shall we change this to something a little less bright? No offense to the creator, but I wouldn't want to paint my room that colour :) Richard001 01:51, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi all - I've just created {{ clutha}}, based on a template in use for one of Britain's major rivers. It's a bit bulky and probably needs cutting down a little, but it could also serve as a templ...erm...model for similar templates for NZ's other main rivers (the Waikato, Whanganui, Taieri, and Rangitikei could possibly use something like this). Anyway, have a look and see what you think. Grutness... wha? 02:00, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
I've been helping out with a new article about Ray Ahipene-Mercer in an attempt to improve it and prevent it from succumbing to AfD. Making a general call here for anyone who can assist in improving this article, especially for sourcing from newspaper or magazine articles that aren't available on the internet. I'm in Alaska, so I don't have easy access to New Zealand printed sources. Most info thus far has been contributed by the person who created it, Projectbob. -- Ace of Swords 20:02, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
Should supergroove be included in wikiproject New Zealand? particularly with their reforming to tour with Crowded house, it seems as though it might be in need of some peoples to watch over it and make appropriate updates. Any NZ wikipedian Supergroove fans out there??? Thanks. 203.97.237.98 01:37, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
Hey folks!
I've just kicked off a wikiproject for Split Enz and Crowded House. I couldn't think of a title that encompassed both of them, so I went with Crowded House, so if you've interested, come on over.
Hi! I've seen you editing Crowded House related articles, and would like to invite you to join WikiProject Crowded House, an effort by Wikipedians to improve the band's coverage on the encyclopedia. Please consider signing up here. |
-- linca linca 13:52, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/Assessment needs some attention also see [2] and [3] Blacksmith2 talk Editor Review 08:12, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
If you have not been watching the NZ deletion sorting page, you might not be aware that a number of shopping mall articles in your part of the world have been nominated for deletion in the last 24hrs. Your brethren across the tasman have stepped in to help where they can, but some additional help to research, cleanup, and help determine notability would be greatly appreciated if you can assist. Cheers, Thewinchester (talk) 02:26, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
You may be interested in a new map I uploaded, Image:Nz large simple downsampled.gif. Separa 18:08, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
Can someone render "Scouting New Zealand" and "Be Prepared", the Scout Motto, into Māori? Thanks! Chris 05:23, 8 August 2007 (UTC) im not good at maori but ill contact some people at the maori wikipedia Blacksmith talk —Preceding signed but undated comment was added at 07:49, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
should we have an ad for Template:wikipedia ads? Blacksmith talk 05:33, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
Hello Kiwipedians, I noticed today that there was a small article about recent census changes. I thought it a bit silly to have an article on such a specific thing, and noting that articles on country's religions seem to be all the rage I moved it to religion in New Zealand. I've added a link to this in New Zealand and expanded it to include a lead, a section on Maori religion and details on the those following the Jedi code. Perhaps some of your could help out - give a bit more history etc, maybe add a picture of a church in NZ. We could even try for a Did you know, though it would have to be enlarged to 8kb within the next few days. Anyway, it's quite an important topic for the project I guess, so I thought I'd mention it here. Richard001 04:39, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
It says so in the lead, though the demographics article seems to be about 2001 data. There are also some comparisons between the sets. Richard001 02:33, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
The pages that request images seem a fairly limited set. What is the approach to upload photos? I am basically happy if any of my photos might be usable by Wikipedia, but I'm never quite sure what is the best approach to upload them (is there a tutorial somewhere?), and what is the preferred license for photos to be uploaded. A subset of my photos is at http://gallery.mcmillan.net.nz/ but I have many more NZ photos in particular. It's easy for me to take photos of anything that might be requested within a 1/2 day drive of Wellington also (or Auckland, with a little more effort, I guess). Thanks. Karora 12:55, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
{{Information
|Description=
|Source=self-made
|Date=
|Author= [[User:Karora|Karora]]
}}
Then you can upload the pic. Kahuroa 19:55, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
Hello if anyone is interested they can created articles on NZ denominations if you want, help would be greatfull. Here is the template. Template:New Zealand currency and coinage. Enlil Ninlil 06:43, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
I see that we now have a section on awards, starting with this revision [4]. Was there any discussion about this? Kahuroa 19:46, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
I've recently added this page and am working backwards from 1900 on the individual years (mainly just the sports champions to begin with). It was suggested on the discussion page that it should be a category but there is already a Years in New Zealand category and I feel that they serve different purposes. Any comments/suggestions? DerbyCountyinNZ 06:19, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
Hello. Just wanted to give you a heads-up that as part of an assessment drive for WikiProject Ships, I recently tagged the RNZN ship disambiguation pages with the {{ WikiProject New Zealand}} project banner as well as our normal {{ WikiProject Ships}} and {{ WPMILHIST}} banners. While I do not generally assess articles for projects of which I am not a member, the instructions at WikiProject New Zealand/Assessment were very clear and concise, so I went ahead and marked each of these pages as having NA as both their class and importance. Please let me know if you have any questions, issues, or if I screwed it up. Thanks, Kralizec! ( talk) 00:59, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
Hello! I gave Kahurangi National Park the {{ WikiProject New Zealand}} project banner. If I shouldn't have, please forgive me. GreenGourd 19:41, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
New Zealand's somewhat unusual placename naming conventions are unde fire again at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (New Zealand). I've defended them, though I'm beginning to wonder whether it would be less fuss to change them all...(crossposted to Wikipedia:New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board) Grutness... wha? 23:12, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
On a similar subject, Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand places seems to be completely moribund - is it worth merging it back into this WikiProject? Grutness... wha? 23:27, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
I have set up Category:New Zealand books. -- Alan Liefting- talk- 00:10, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
Is there anything established for authors? I just did a quick search and no joy but there are results for Oz authors. In fact there is an incredibly detailed list giving links breaking them down by state, genre etc. It would be good if something comparable on New Zealand born/resident authors 203.190.199.174 ( talk) 14:15, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
G'day everyone, I'm new to editing on here and have made it bit of a project of mine to work on article relating to NZ football, especially the NZFC. The NZFC article recently got rated as start class and other people have been making edits, so hopefully thats a good sign that the NZFC is getting some well needed attention! I'd like to ask if anyone could please give me any advice as to how any work I do is effective, especially in the context of the NZ WikiProject? Either on here or on my talk page is fine. Much appreciated, and GO TEAM WELLINGTON! Gialloneri ( talk) 11:19, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
The pic for "The New Zealand Barnstar of National Merit" looks a lot like the one for Hero of the Soviet Union (the USSR's version of the VC and a whole lot of other things, combined) :D Perhaps something a bit less Soviet might be in order, hehe (Just a gentle smile...) 202.89.150.246 ( talk) 11:04, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
...has recently died, for those that do not know. The article is currently being heavily edited and may require some people to keep an eye on it. Regards from across the ditch, Mattinbgn\ talk 23:08, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi all - I've just made an (incomplete) {{ Waikato}}, along the lines of the {{ Clutha}} I made last year. Feel free to edit it and add it to any articles relevant to the river's catchment. If I get time, I'll make similar ones for some of the other major rivers in NZ soon. Grutness... wha? 01:50, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
Should we not add a |needs-photo= parameter to the WPNZ template? I.e. adding the this field (with 'yes') will have the same effect as having to add a separate {{reqphotoin|New Zealand}} template. I haven't had a look at the coding of this feature so I'm not sure if I'd be confident making the change myself, but I'm sure someone here can anyway. Richard001 ( talk) 00:44, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
I notice we don't have an article Law of New Zealand, while many other countries do ( Law of Australia, Law of the United States, more). We do have Category:New Zealand law, but it has no main article. This is a very major omission, no? Richard001 ( talk) 07:09, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
Speaking of new articles, should we also have an environment of New Zealand article, as many other countries seem to have? It would overlap with a few others but might also bring a lot of things together.
Water resources in New Zealand might also be a good topic. Richard001 ( talk) 04:52, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
Greetings from the UK. I normally write articles about football and in researching for an article on Charles Bambridge who was the England national captain in the 1880s, I came across his father William Samuel Bambridge. The more I read, the more I realised that he warranted an article of his own. I have now created this but, writing as a humble Pom, could I ask someone from your project to review the article and check the New Zealand aspects. Cheers. -- Daemonic Kangaroo ( talk) 08:07, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
For the purpose of the NZ dollar article, does any one have info on how common Millenium Commemorative $10 notes are. 1.5 million were released, which means they would be about 1/15 of total $10 notes. My question is how common are they in normal circulation, and the quality of the notes in normal circulation. Are they still commonly seen? Thanks. Tarcus ( talk) 07:25, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. Now to find a reference... Tarcus ( talk) 09:15, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
This is an invitation to WikiProject Auckland, a WikiProject which aims to develop and expand Wikipedia's articles on Auckland. Please feel free to join us. |
Taifar ious1 22:33, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
I moved this to the bottom of the page.
Hello!
Tokelau could use some attention. All help is appreciated.
Perspicacite 04:29, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
The editors of the New Zealand article have settled on 1907 as being the foundation of the state (I note with concern though that this date lacks any external referencing, per official Wikipedia policy WP:VERIFY).
But this article - List of countries by formation dates - claims that the 'Date of statehood' of New Zealand was actually 1840 (again, completely unreferenced). Both articles cannot be correct, so which is it? Please come to the party armed with some proper external refs, per official Wikipedia policy WP:VERIFY. -- Mais oui! ( talk) 12:33, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
Cavalcade mentions the Otago Goldfields Cavalcade. More information about this cavalcade and any other long trail rides in New Zealand would be much appreciated. -- Una Smith ( talk) 02:57, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
The Year in New Zealand series of articles ought to have a section on the economy - a topic on which data is readily available, as far back as 1860 for some measures. I've never studied economics, so suggestions are welcome as to what should be listed, e.g. GNP. GDP (real or nominal?) Top 5 export sectors? Please make a list below. An indication of what is available is at Statistics NZ - plus of course almanacs and yearbooks. dramatic ( talk) 05:19, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
I have added many requests to the requests page, some of which are extremely important articles that have thus far been neglected. One example is waste management in New Zealand. The only other country that has such an article is Switzerland. An good start could be made from the freely available chapter on the subject at [5]. I'll probably only be able to create one or two of these articles over the next year or more, so if anyone is looking for something to do feel free to help out. Richard001 ( talk) 08:36, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
Noticed that for NZ Occupations:
The article Waipatiki seems to be about Waipatiki Beach. According to Reed NZ Atlas, Waipatiki is a village at lat 40 22 S, 176 17 E - at least 25ks inland from the east coast, 50 or so ks east of Palmerston North and at least 100 ks south of Napier. Waipatiki Beach is on the coast 20ks north of Napier, at 39 18S, 176 58 E. Looks like we should move it to Waipatiki Beach, as most of the article and the pics appear to relate to Waipatiki Beach rather than Waipatiki. Only the coordinates seem to relate to the more southerly, inland settlement. Kahuroa ( talk) 11:50, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
Should we merge {{ NZ Military}} and {{ Military history of New Zealand}}? Richard001 ( talk) 09:45, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
This needs some expansion, but I know this was a major controversy in NZ. If anyone from NZ or more familiar with NZ has more info about Murder of Liam Ashley they are welcome to contribute.. WhisperToMe ( talk) 20:43, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
On a related note, I've just moved Mona Blades to Mona Blades case and Kirsa Jensen to Kirsa Jensen case. Does anyone know of other instances where we (against guidelines) have articles on the victim rather than the case? dramatic ( talk) 19:00, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
Good evening! As I know New Zealand is one of the countries whose population pays a lot of attention to the history of Oceania. For example, there are a lot of museums in your country devoted specially to this region. But at present there is a great need in free photos of some important archeological sites, archaeological evidences that were found there (for example, photos of Lapita pottery from Samoa and other places in Oceania). It would be great if some free photos were downloaded to Wikimedia Commons. Best Regards, Переход Артур, talk 19:07, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
I'm a NZ member of the Milhist project, where they have a lot of talent with page/board changes etc. Would it be useful to merge this page with the NZ Wikipedians' notice board, with all archives being maintained? I think some of the people over there could do that quite easily, if it was thought a good idea. Buckshot06 ( talk) 04:04, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
I have merged Student Life New Zealand into Student Life (university ministry), and plan to do the same with Student Life Australia. The article they are being merged into seems to lack notability too, as I have indicated with the template, and might itself be merged into the apparently notable Campus Crusade for Christ. Nobody seems to be watching them, and they were all created by one-edit wonders, so I need some more feedback. Maybe I should take them to AFD (even though the content is technically being merged) to get some? Richard001 ( talk) 03:50, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
I think we have way too many articles in Category:Top-importance New Zealand articles. A lot of these don't even qualify for high importance, IMO. For example, politics of New Zealand is probably worthy of top importance, but not individual elections. This category should probably only have 10-20 articles or so; the ones that are of critical importance and most urgent in getting to FA class. It wouldn't actually be a bad idea to recommend discussing things first before adding to this category (though people will still do it anyway, of course). Richard001 ( talk) 08:49, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
Keep in mind that due to the coarse nature of the importance ratings it may be possible to have articles that are more important than others while still being, say, mid importance. Regarding land wars, I would say 'high'. New Zealand/(Human) history of New Zealand/Land wars. That's two steps down in the hierarchy. Richard001 ( talk) 00:56, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Within WikiProject Companies I am trying to establish guidelines for all Lists of companies by country, the implementation of which would hopefully ensure a minimum quality standard and level of consistency across all of these related but currently disparate articles. The ultimate goal is the improvement of these articles to Featured List status. As a WikiProject that currently has one of these lists within your scope, I would really appreciate your feedback! You can find the draft guidelines here. Thanks for your help as we look to build consensus and improve Wikipedia! - Richc80 ( talk) 13:37, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
Is it time to create articles for all of the regional councils? A page for the Canterbury Regional Council has been created. As shown by the Canterbury Regional Council article the is sufficient information on the geographical region and the political entity that is in charge of it. Note that the Canterbury region ( Canterbury, New Zealand) article has an infobox for the regional council that should go to the Canterbury Regional Council article. -- Alan Liefting ( talk) - 04:21, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
Hey, im just wondering if anybody thinks that we should create an ad for the WikiProject to be put on Template:Wikipedia ads to advertise the project. I would do it myself, but im no good with animation or much coding at all, so if theres anyone who would be willing to create one, that would be great. There is a guide available here for anyone who's interested. Taifar ious1 07:30, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
I've started a rescue job on Māori traditional textiles after someone redirected it to Phormium - I think this should be one of the important articles on New Zealand culture. However, most references are offline, and I hope there are people more expert/scholarly in that field who can help. We also badly need an article on Tukutuku panels and possibly articles on some of the other main woven artifacts (e.g. kete). Talking of tukutuku, are the images on http://whakaahua.maori.org.nz/tukutuku.htm GDFL-compatible? (no copyright statement, request that an acknowledgement would be appreciated, implication that images are for re-use). dramatic ( talk) 09:47, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
We have a duplicate at Old Government Buildings and Government Buildings (Wellington, New Zealand). My inclination is to take the infobox and the information from the second one and put it into the first, because the first one is better structured and has a better name - 'government buildings' sounds more like the ones that the government are still in. But then I wrote most of Old Government Buildings, so I'm probably biased. -- Helenalex ( talk) 08:43, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
I've seen two or three articles containing the whakapapa of an iwi or hapū recently, one of which was speedied (while I was in the middle of knocking it into shape) as "a text dump (entitled Whakapapa) of transliterated (and illiterated), incomprehensible dialect which was so out of context, it indeed seemed to be a hoax" by a non-nz editor. (the admin did apologise but still opposes the inclusion of whakapapa [6])
Yet this pakeha feels that a whakapapa is a central aspect of an iwi, and worthy of inclusion. To quote user:Kahuroa (on my talk page)
To me the best argument for the inclusion (within reason) of whakapapa with iwi articles is that iwi are by definition defined by genealogy. It's not that we Māori need to say who we are on every occasion, it's just that you cannot talk about an iwi without some kind of genealogy, since iwi are just families grown large.
So if there is consensus that whakapapa are worthy of inclusion, the challenge is to do it in a way compatible with wikipedia policy:
dramatic ( talk) 09:34, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
Rail privatization in New Zealand is probably a worthy subject, but the current stub has no actual information, just an unresearched commentary. dramatic ( talk) 21:47, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
Is there anyone here who could take some photos of people from the University of Otago (see Category:University of Otago faculty). Perhaps some of these people would be interested? I had James Flynn in mind, though it would be great to get photos for as many as possible.
Another request: Kim Sterelny [7] from Victoria University of Wellington. I'm working on getting photos of people from my own university, the UoA; maybe someone from one of these universities (if there is anyone?) could join me in doing the same for theirs. Richard001 ( talk) 01:48, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
Currently, 732 of the articles assigned to this project, or 14.4%, are flagged for cleanup of some sort. (Data as of 18 June 2008.) Are you interested in finding out more? I am offering to generate cleanup to-do lists on a project or work group level. See User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings for details. Subsribing is easy - just add a template to your project page. If you want to respond to this canned message, please do so at my user talk page. -- B. Wolterding ( talk) 17:38, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
As you may have heard, we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level. The new description is available at WP:ASSESS.
Each WikiProject should already have a new C-Class category at Category:C-Class_articles. If your project elects not to use the new level, you can simply delete your WikiProject's C-Class category and clarify any amendments on your project's assessment/discussion pages. The bot is already finding and listing C-Class articles.
Please leave a message with us if you have any queries regarding the introduction of the revised scheme. This scheme should allow the team to start producing offline selections for your project and the wider community within the next year. Thanks for using the Wikipedia 1.0 scheme! For the 1.0 Editorial Team, §hepBot ( Disable) 21:09, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
I have come across the following articles - Toll Shipping / Interislander / Toll NZ / etc. I split out Interislander from Toll Shipping because it appears to be it's own entity now after being sold, it would be good for someone with more of a clue look over it make sure I haven't stuffed anything up - I guess it ties in with Rail privatisation in New Zealand and everything else that won't stay still. Wongm ( talk) 06:35, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
I created Users in New Zealand at Commons, but until today was the only person there. If anyone is very active at Commons be sure to add yourself to it. I have clocked up 1000 edits there now, so I guess I would be one of the more active members. I have added 3 other NZers to the category myself, being so desperately lonely as I was. Richard001 ( talk) 03:58, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
...why Lew Zealand is marked with the WPNZ banner template? Okay, there's a very tenuous link, but he's a fairly generic muppet and not really much to do with NZ! Grutness... wha? 00:24, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
It seems the NZ category is getting very large so I created this subcategory for WikiProject Auckland. Photo requests can be made using the banner now, just as with {{ WikiProject New Zealand}}, by using |needs-photo=yes.
We might also consider splitting the category further, e.g. photos of New Zealanders, New Zealand places etc (just the ones where there are plenty, of course). Richard001 ( talk) 22:42, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
I've come here to see whether your project would like to be featured in the Signpost as part of the WikiProject report (which has been absent for the past few months). I'd already asked another project but there has been no response. Thanks. Rudget ( logs) 11:30, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
The categories dealing with NZers and descendants of NZers living overseas are confusing. Apart from Category:New Zealand emigrants, which I've just gutted, we also have Category:New Zealand diaspora, which consists of two subcats - Category:People of New Zealand descent and Category:New Zealand expatriates. I would be fine with this if it divided people by whether they were born here or born elsewhere of a NZ parent or parents, but it doesn't. In 'descent' we have Category:New Zealand-Americans and Category:New Zealand Italians both of which include lots of people who were born here. To make things more complicated, a lot of the categories assign national identities to people based entirely on where they were born and/or where they live - it's really not clear that a NZer playing sport in Italy or Japan or whatever would consider themselves a New Zealand Italian or NZ Japanese. Putting that aside, I think we need one category which includes all the groups of NZers and people with NZ parents living outside of NZ. I'm just not sure what to call it. 'New Zealand expatriates' doesn't include people not actually born in NZ, but 'People of New Zealand descent' sounds a bit silly when applied to someone who was born in NZ of immigrant parents. I'm not sure that a 'New Zealand disapora' actually exists, and it's not something that many people would immediately think of, so I don't like that either. Each country seems to have its own way of doing this, but only a few have seperate categories for descent and 'from'. I suppose we could create seperate categories for each country, but for this to work that country would have to already have wider 'descent' and 'from' categories. Any ideas? -- Helenalex ( talk) 00:59, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
As an oz cat tagger (yes i have been tagging wpnz cats :) who has watched the beginnings of the australian demographics project - I would suggest that the oz project has been through all this about a month ago - it might or might not help to know that Satu Suro 01:10, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
I've just thought that 'People of New Zealand origin in country X' covers absolutely everything - people born overseas to NZ parents, expat NZers born in NZ to non-NZ parents, NZers temporarily (but notably) in a particular country, etc. It isn't the standard anywhere, but it works, and would fit into other countries' 'Xs by ethnic or national origin', 'Immigrants in country X' etc categories. We would just have to specify that going somewhere to fight a war doesn't count, or all Gallipoli veterans would be 'People of New Zealand origin in Turkey', for example. -- Helenalex ( talk) 02:11, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
Who pays attention to Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/Assessment? I noticed some time ago that articles I had placed under the "Requesting an assessment" section didn't get rated, so eventually I rated them myself. I've since attended to several requests. The most recent request for assessment was placed several days ago, and since I've rated a number of the same editor's articles previously I thought someone else could make the judgement, but it looks like no one else is watching the requests.- gadfium 09:09, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
Template:New Zealand topics is a little bit odd - it links to fortications but not Maori, for example. I put a note about this on its talk page but no one seems to be watching it. Since it is fairly important I'd like some other people's thoughts before I alter it. -- Helenalex ( talk) 09:50, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
I noticed commons:Category:Money of New Zealand, which seems to be pretty incomplete. Also, according to New Zealand dollar, it would seem a lot of the images there shouldn't be there in the first place since they do not fall under a suitable copyright status. Of course, it's still possible to have other images (e.g. the graph) and surely some of the older coins/notes would be public domain by now (and thus we should get images of them all up). Richard001 ( talk) 00:22, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
I've created a draft letter to send to people requesting photos. It's based on an existing one but I'd appreciate any thoughts. See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject New Zealand/Content task force - SimonLyall ( talk) 09:33, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
I'm friends with a guy who works for Act (oh, the shame) so I will email him about getting some photos of their current MPs as well as hopefully past ones. A personal approach might work better than a letter from someone who they don't know. -- Helenalex ( talk) 22:32, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Afghan British (contains proposal for deletion of the New Zealander British article). Badagnani ( talk) 04:57, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7.
We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Wikipedia:Release Version Nominations.
A list of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles. A team of copyeditors has agreed to help with copyediting requests, although you should try to fix simple issues on your own if possible.
We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 22:48, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
Hello all...
An image used in the Tirau article, specifically Image:1852517-Tiraus main road-Tirau.jpg, has a little bit of a licensing issue. The image was uploaded back when the rules around image uploading were less restrictive. It is presumed that the uploaded was willing to license the picture under the GFDL license but was not clear in that regard. As such, the image, while not at risk of deletion, is likely not clearly licensed to allow for free use in any future use of this article. If anyone has an image that can replace this, or can go take one and upload it, it would be best.
You have your mission, take your camera and start clicking.-- Jordan 1972 ( talk) 00:13, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
Hello all...
An image used in the Buller Gorge article, specifically Image:Buller Gorge.jpg, has a little bit of a licensing issue. The image was uploaded back when the rules around image uploading were less restrictive. It is presumed that the uploader was willing to license the picture under the GFDL license but was not clear in that regard. As such, the image, while not at risk of deletion, is likely not clearly licensed to allow for free use in any future use of this article. If anyone has an image that can replace this, or can go take one and upload it, it would be best.
You have your mission, take your camera and start clicking.-- Jordan 1972 ( talk) 22:03, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
Is there a suitable category that can be used to identify a New Zealander such as Bob Heffron. I guess I need to also ask whether he should be identified as a kiwi anyway. Just thinking out loud. Kaiwhakahaere ( talk) 00:42, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
I have created a category for NZ PMs at Commons. A gallery would be good, and there are still some more images to move (and images to take/upload). Feel free to help out if you're looking for a weekend job.
I'm not sure why Jim Bolger requires a fair use image - is he not photograph-able? Richard001 ( talk) 00:58, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi, fellow NZers. Would it be possible to create a template for the NZ politician articles to show their terms, electorates, list positions, etc? For example, every politician currently has a table as follows:
Parliament | Term | Electorate | List Position | Party |
40th | 1981-1984 | Mt Albert | Labour | |
41st | 1984-1987 | Mt Albert | Labour | |
42nd | 1987-1990 | Mt Albert | Labour | |
43rd | 1990-1993 | Mt Albert | Labour | |
44th | 1993-1996 | Mt Albert | Labour | |
45th | 1996-1999 | Owairaka | 1 | Labour |
46th | 1999-2002 | Mt Albert | 1 | Labour |
47th | 2002-2005 | Mt Albert | 1 | Labour |
48th | 2005- | Mt Albert | 1 | Labour |
By clicking the edit tab, you will see that I have copied this "prettytable" in full code. It would be beneficial to articles, especially with the election approaching, if this could be transformed into a standard template where we can simply fill in parameters ( Template:NZ politician?, however I do not have the expertise needed to carry this out. Leave any questions here or approach my talk page if you prefer. Thanks, -- THE DARK LORD TROMBONATOR 07:45, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
In case you don't watch the NZ noticeboard and have missed my attempts to hunt you down, we're having a meetup in Auckland on Saturday. Richard001 ( talk) 01:20, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi, over at OTRS we received a photo of Robin Johnson, a contest from the 2004 season of New Zealand Idol. I don't think it fits into the article, but do Kiwi editors here think he's notable enough for his own article? Thanks. howcheng { chat} 18:02, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
Many, many pages will need updating after the election, and I think that it would be best for tasks to be shared out in an organised manner so that we don't end up with some pages out of date for months, two people trying to do the same task, etc. So I have set up Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/Election 2008 taskforce to list all the stuff that needs doing, who will do it, and roughly when it should be done by. If you want to bags a particular task, put your name next to it and try to get it done asap after the election. Some things, like updating the electorate pages, should probably be divided amongst more than one person, so if you want, nominate yourself for a certain range (A-M or whatever). Also feel free to add pages which should be on there but aren't. -- Helenalex ( talk) 05:11, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
I've just suggested that the actual happening collaboration for November is the 2008 General election, and that we should formalise that by deferring the collaboration on State housing until December. That way we can avoid the resurrection of COTF/M falling flat on its face at the first hurdle. dramatic ( talk) 09:15, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
The category's getting pretty big, and splitting it into subcategories has been suggested aat Category talk:Wikipedia requested photographs in New Zealand. Input from here would very welcome. Grutness... wha? 23:32, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
Well, that process doesn't work. I still don't particularly want to do this by hand though. Maybe I'll have to learn how to make one myself or something. Richard001 ( talk) 00:25, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi all - I've just made the first of what will probably be a small bunch of templates for common reference works on New Zealand - {{ WisesGuide1969}}, {{ ReedPlacenames1975}}, and {{ DixStranded1988}}. I'm thinking of doing the same for a handful of other such books. If anyone has any suggestions of useful books to template in this way, let me know and I'll make them too (it might also be worth adding a list of these templated works somewhere on one of WPNZ's project pages). Grutness... wha? 23:02, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
I've also created a category: Category:New Zealand specific source templates, so any new templates of this type will go in there. Even if there are just a dozen or so templates for major reference sources, it'll save quite a bit of work writing reference sections. Grutness... wha? 00:43, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
Greetings. I am from outside the project. I just want to propose to re-assess the importance of the article. He is a Prime Minister-designate now, and in mu opinion, the importance should be raised to "top" Sincerely, w_tanoto ( talk) 19:54, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
Speaking of importance, it might be interesting to get some data on the number of hits NZ related articles get. They did this at the bird project and got some interesting results. Richard001 ( talk) 06:07, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
That's the images taken care of - I have added a few to his article and there are more at the linked Commons category. Shouldn't we also make New Zealand National Party top importance, since it is the dominant party? I would think the NP would be more important in the present (and certainly in the long run) than Key. I don't really think either deserves top importance (neither are significantly covered at New Zealand, unlike say economy of New Zealand or geography of New Zealand). Richard001 ( talk) 23:16, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
New Zealand Parliamentary Caucuses and MPs' responsibilities is a huge and very out of date page. It was out of date even before the election, now it is completely off.-- Anon 10:59, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
It is pretty meaningless to many readers to say that "St Joseph's school is a co-educational integrated full primary (years 1-8) school with a decile rating of 6 and a roll of 248". Are their suitable pages to which we can link the terms integrated and decile rating? dramatic ( talk) 00:40, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
Does someone want to look at List of New Zealand monarchs? -- Lawe ( talk) 06:42, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
I have recently completed a draft of an article for a subject related to the south Wairarapa region. In order to illustrate it, I'd like to include a map, but it is not clear which map sources it is safe to use with Wikipedia. I have on previous occasions used OpenStreetMap, but can't in this case as it doesn't have any data on the Wairarapa district. Google Maps has obvious licensing issues.
A street-map style is preferrable, rather than aerial/satellite photography. Ideally, the map would include roads, railway lines, and place names. The ability to save an image of a map so I could annotate it before posting to Wikipedia would also be helpful.
Any ideas? – Matthew25187 ( talk) 19:47, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
In case anyone is interested, I ended up using WikiMiniAtlas for the map. The results can be seen at Martinborough Branch. - Matthew25187 ( talk) 23:48, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
Can anyone join? -- Kingliam1 ( talk) 02:24, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
Not sure what to make of http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=United_Tribes_of_New_Zealand&diff=next&oldid=252702256. Suited to someone who better knows the ins and outs of Wikipedia's policies for citations etc. Lanma726 ( talk) 22:25, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
See http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Companies_Office&diff=262841241&oldid=245768137 and note the author.
Having read WP:CONFLICT it seems that it is not strictly wrong for an organisation to edit an article on itself. A good example of something related to this is the Te Ara discussion.
The edit in question seems neutral. Does a welcome template exist that says something like "Welcome to Wikipedia, please be aware of our policies on conflict of interest" etc.?
Lanma726 ( talk) 22:44, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
Is this google trend trying to tell us something? -- Geronimo20 ( talk) 02:54, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
|
I thought this WikiProject might be interested. Ping me with any specific queries or leave them on the page linked to above. Thanks! - Jarry1250 ( t, c) 22:09, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
The New Zealand Official Yearbook 2008 ( ISBN 978-1-86953-717-3) is now out in dead tree format. It is full of lovely info that can be added to WP. -- Alan Liefting ( talk) - 07:14, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
Odd edits at William Leonard Williams ... can someone look and at my comments on the talk page first before deleting what may or may not be vandalism ? Victuallers ( talk) 12:49, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
Google Maps may not be the best reason to change a Wikipedia article, but it doesn't seem to recognize a latitude formatted as -10°N; it just reads 10°N. A few of the New Zealand articles are thus placed on the map to the northwest of Hawaii. Further, I'm no expert on geography, but it does seem a little strange to refer to -10°N instead of simply 10°S. I've seen it both ways here.
From the standpoint of the amount of work involved, it might take less (and be good in the long run) to ask Google to upgrade their software to recognize the -10°N format, but should there be (or is there already) a standard here for latitude and longitude? Khakiandmauve ( talk) 14:16, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
Sorry dramatic, agree with you 10S would be better. Wanted to ask Khakiandmauve for a few examples, are there some articles to fix up? The coord documentation shows three options:
Latitude before longitude. XLerate ( talk) 01:56, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi! I'd like to draw your attention to the new WikiProject coordinators' working group, an effort to bring both official and unofficial WikiProject coordinators together so that the projects can more easily develop consensus and collaborate. This group has been created after discussion regarding possible changes to the A-Class review system, and that may be one of the first things discussed by interested coordinators.
All designated project coordinators are invited to join this working group. If your project hasn't formally designated any editors as coordinators, but you are someone who regularly deals with coordination tasks in the project, please feel free to join as well. — Delievered by §hepBot ( Disable) on behalf of the WikiProject coordinators' working group at 06:09, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
The World Roads Portal is at Peer Review, if any editors know of any articles, images, news items or DYKs which could be added to the Portal, please add them directly to the portal or contact .... SriMesh | talk 01:06, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
This is a notice to let you know about Article alerts, a fully-automated subscription-based news delivery system designed to notify WikiProjects and Taskforces when articles are entering Articles for deletion, Requests for comment, Peer review and other workflows ( full list). The reports are updated on a daily basis, and provide brief summaries of what happened, with relevant links to discussion or results when possible. A certain degree of customization is available; WikiProjects and Taskforces can choose which workflows to include, have individual reports generated for each workflow, have deletion discussion transcluded on the reports, and so on. An example of a customized report can be found here.
If you are already subscribed to Article Alerts, it is now easier to
report bugs and
request new features. We are also in the process of implementing a
"news system", which would let projects know about ongoing discussions on a wikipedia-wide level, and other things of interest. The developers also note that some subscribing WikiProjects and Taskforces use the display=none
parameter, but forget to give a link to their alert page. Your alert page should be located at "Wikipedia:PROJECT-OR-TASKFORCE-HOMEPAGE/Article alerts". Questions and feedback should be left at
Wikipedia talk:Article alerts.
Message sent by User:Addbot to all active wiki projects per request, Comments on the message and bot are welcome here.
Thanks. — Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 09:29, 15 March, 2009 (UTC)
Hi! I put a question here about the name of the station. Can you help me? -- Arcibel ( talk) 22:56, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
The Alexander Turnbull Library has placed some historic NZ photos on Flickr The Commons with no known copyright restrictions. Very easy to upload to commons using the Flickr tools. Gwinva ( talk) 23:42, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
I have become concerned recently by the edits of a New Zealand editor User:Wallie. He has been one of the parties involved in an edit war on Talk:Phar Lap. I was also concerned when he attached the WP:NZ tag to two Australian horse races - Talk:Caulfield_Cup and Talk:Cox_Plate. Further checking of his edits show the following have also been tagged WP:NZ :
If this continues it will create a lot of work in reverting his inapropriate edits. Could someone from the project please have a word with him, or check all his recent edits and remove the WP:NZ tags. Cuddy Wifter ( talk) 04:26, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
Apparently nothing has happened this year! Does anyone have time to give this page some love and at least add the major news stories (prefereably sourced from the NZ Herald, as their stories don't disappear like Stuff ones). (I only tend to catch up with the news a couple of times a week). dramatic ( talk) 03:48, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
File:Swine Flu map NZ.PNG has been nominated for speedy deletion. 76.66.202.139 ( talk) 05:11, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
And it's still practically meaningless! DerbyCountyinNZ 11:01, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand places appears to be totally moribund - only one non-vandalism-related edit to the main page in the last year, and no talk page edits (other than this one, which I'm crossposting) in almost two years. Should it be rolled into Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand, either totally or as a working party subtopic? Grutness... wha? 01:50, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
A proposal has been posted for a contest between all 200 country WikiProjects. We're looking for judges, coordinators, ideas, and feedback.
The Transhumanist 00:39, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
This page is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
It has come to my attention that User:Mr Bluefin has been going around NZ schools removing a lot of useful information arguing that it is not encyclopedic. Please keep watch on this issue to make sure that these articles are not reduced to sub-stubs as what happened to Mt Roskill Grammar: [1] (now reverted).-- Konstable 01:54, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
British/Irish mountaineer Brede Arkless who assumed NZ citizenship is up for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brede Arkless. Please provide input. More NZ related links at Talk:Brede Arkless. Thanks. ~ trialsanderrors 00:54, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
I have started on an attempt to clean up the usage of Māori terms throughout New Zealand articles. What I mean is that making sure that the proper spelling is used for example Maori -> Māori, Pakeha -> Pākehā, Pa -> Pā. The full list of what I am using can be found here (I keep on adding to it as I go) can be found at User:Konstable/Māori terms, along with the more specific description. Basically I do this using AWB, but reviewing (and editing if needed) all the changes so it is not a fast process for so many articles. If anyone has any terms they wish me to add to the list, wants to help do the same, or any other thoughts - let me know on User talk:Konstable/Māori terms.-- Konstable 10:55, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
There seems to be a wish to put people directly in this category as well as any sub-categorys. I think this is a bad idea. The category will become too long (several thousand names) and unweldy. I think either everyone should be in a subcategory (or two if applicable) or perhaps we should split it by letters of the surname or something. Even large countries like Franch or Australia don't list many in the top category. I also not that subcates like Category:New Zealand World War II people don't show up until you go to the second page. - SimonLyall 11:23, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
Re NZ people by occupation, we don't need Category:New Zealand educationalists (nil in) as well as Category:New Zealand educators (about 23) do we?? And there is only one in Category:New Zealand schoolteachers Hugo999 ( talk) 03:16, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
It's worried me for a while that the subcategories of Category:Regions of New Zealand don't conform with the official regions into which the country is divided. it's mainly my fault - I created most of these categories a year and a half ago while making a few hundred geography articles. I think, though, that it's about time these were formalised. Luckily, most of the seventeen categories won't need much work at all. Twelve will need only the slightest of tweaks if any ( Category:Northland, New Zealand, Category:Waikato, Category:Hawke's Bay, Category:Taranaki, Category:Manawatu-Wanganui, Category:Wellington Region, Category:Marlborough, New Zealand, Category:West Coast, New Zealand, Category:Canterbury, New Zealand, Category:Otago, and Category:Southland, New Zealand, plus the still useful, even if not "official" Category:New Zealand outlying islands). The other five need a little more work.
I'd like to propose the following changes:
Unless there are any serious objections to this, I'll start the ball rolling with a CFR of the Auckland and Nelson ones, then see where to go from there. (crossposted at Wikipedia:New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board) Grutness... wha? 07:14, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
As per a bit of discussion at thr Auckland meetup I am thinking of setting up a subpage of this to help coordinate the watching of NZ related pages to reduce vandalism. It would probably be a list of top 20 articles and links to pages like Special:Recentchangeslinked/Category:Cities and towns in New Zealand to help people keep an eye on other pages. Thoughts and suggested names or better places to put this? - SimonLyall 13:19, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi. If you still have work to do tagging talk pages and assessing articles, my AWB plugin might be of interest to you.
The plugin has two main modes of operation:
As of the current version, WikiProjects with simple "generic" templates are supported by the plugin without the need for any special programatic support by me. I've had a look at your project's template and you seem to qualify.
For more information see:
Hope that helps. If you have any questions or find any bugs please let me know on the plugin's talk page. -- Kingboyk 14:37, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
Hello, I would like to help with this WikiProject. Where do I sign up? -- James Bond 00:35, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
I just created New Zealand telephone numbering plan, because it was on the list of missing pages, (and I needed a reference article for work purposes too). I also added it to Wikipedia:New articles (New Zealand) and put a project template on the talk page. I think it can still be improved, but do not have the time just yet. What is the protocol for what happens to the Wikipedia:WikiProject_New_Zealand listing? Do I remove it? Let someone else review the article, and they remove the listing? Put a new one in its place? -- Cameron Dewe 01:49, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
This article has been vastly improved and expanded. New Zealanders participated in this campaign during World War II and I was hoping some of you might want to contribute. It has also been nominated for A-class status. Take a look if you'd like. Periklis* 06:40, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 16:30, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
The other day I added to Wikipedia:WikiProject Scouting/Todo this list:-
Anyone care to pick this up and run with it? I'm over the Tasman and know little about Scouting in NZ. -- Bduke 00:59, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
I Don't think many people in New Zealand do scouting. Glamgirljaspreet101 ( talk) 02:47, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
Was Brian Lochore actually knighted, or was an editor a little overenthusiastic about the form of address for a holder of the OBE? dramatic 10:49, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
I'm pleased to announce that everyone listed on List of New Zelanders and all the major lists linked therefrom, now has Birth/death dates included on the year in New Zealand pages. Ok, the above lists are not all-encompassing by a long chalk, but its a start. dramatic 10:53, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 20:19, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
Enough articles refer to Crimes Act 1961 that it may be worthwhile to create an article for it. I'll leave it to the experts here to evaluate ... ✤ JonHarder talk 21:54, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
Its pretty easy to do the basic stuff - you just grab a copy from New Zealand Statutes, which most libraries have, and fill in the template. You can pinch this from the Treaty of Waitangi Act page or several others. -- Helenalex 22:18, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi all, I've done the major revision needed of the Geography of New Zealand. It would be good to get a temperature map and this site has some good maps but I'm not sure of the copyrights etc. Tim_ 00:11, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
I'd like to add Aroha Island to the List of islands of New Zealand, but am not quite versed enough to know which section in the list is best for it. Please advise. I came across this since I decided to try to de-orphan an article, and started working on Aroha Island. Keesiewonder talk 01:34, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks! I've added Aroha Island to the Open Sea Island section of the island list. Since I'm focused on de-orphaning (from 0 to 4 in the 'what links here' count) right now rather than expanding the stub article, I'll save expanding/improving the article for another day. Keesiewonder talk 02:05, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
According to William Stevenson (New Zealander), Sir William Alfred Stevenson was born when his father (William Stevenson) was only 4 years old. Stevenson senior, not content with that feat, founded his company at the age of 15, so methinks that it is his birthdate which is in error. Does anyone have a source to fix it? dramatic 11:23, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
Is anyone interested in forming a WikiProject focusing on the biota of New Zealand? I'm doing a course in ecology and conservation at the moment and I'm interested in continuing along this path, so I may be able to contribute a bit to this area. If other editors are interested we could look at drafting up a sub-project. Richard001 06:37, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
I would like to invite you all to participate in a discussion at this thread regarding bilateral relations between two countries. All articles related to foreign relations between countries are now under the scope of WikiProject Foreign relations, a newly created project. We hope that the discussion will result in a more clean and organized way of explaining such relationships. Thank you. Ed ¿Cómo estás? 18:57, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
This page needs some work especially references. Is it a piss take? Is it notable? Alan Liefting 01:32, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi guys and girls. I am not part of the WikiProject as such, but I am a New Zealand Wikipedian (or should that be Wikipedian New Zealander :P?) and I am quite concerend about the state of the ANZAC Day article. This article will be on the Main Page tomorrow as one of the featured anniversaries. What is concerning is the article is not of a very high standard and New Zealand seems to take a back seat to Australia for much of the articles. Just look at the images and you will see none from New Zealand, although I will take some (will be at the cenotaph service in Wellington at 0545) and upload them tomorrow. I hope that some Wikipedians will see this and decide to take action before tomorrow. I would but I have little time to edit theses days (see my contributions). Thanks-- Hamedog Talk| @ 06:13, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
I just noticed that Designline, a significant NZ company, has had it's article deleted at some point since December. I can't find any reference to it being deleted. Anyone know what happened? -- Lee Begg 04:03, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
I have just made a Designline stub. I've copied the above into the talk page. Nankai 02:31, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
I started the article for this NZer yesterday without actually noticing it was on this page (I found it just now through 'what links here'). Because he is now a former mayor it seemed inappropriate to call the article Michael Redman (mayor), so I labelled him as an NZer. However, because I had not heard of the bloke until I saw the bizarrity of the page, his new page has next to nothing on it. Feel free to add more (and please do!); it is still on the list of articles that need doing up on this project page.
- - -
THE DARK LORD TROMBONATOR
(((¶))) 03:35, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
Why do we have a limited scope for this project? I think the scope should be as broad as possible, to allow new sub-projects and work groups to bud off from it over time. Should we expand our definition? Richard001 04:21, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
This WikiProject aims primarily to help coordinate pages on:
The scope is basically just the article on New Zealand, it's history, and New Zealanders - there are certainly a few things in Category:New Zealand that don't specifically relate to what is mentioned above. Richard001 07:49, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
I see a problem with the new wording - it now overlaps with Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand places. Given that that WikiProject is fairly sluggish these days anyway, should a merger be proposed? Grutness... wha? 00:28, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
If someone types "raa" (all in lower case) in the search box and clicks "Go", they end up at Tama-nui-te-rā (via the redirect Raa). I think RAA would be a more logical destination. Would anyone object to me changing Raa to redirect to RAA instead of Tama-nui-te-rā? -- DH85868993 07:59, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
Shall we change this to something a little less bright? No offense to the creator, but I wouldn't want to paint my room that colour :) Richard001 01:51, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi all - I've just created {{ clutha}}, based on a template in use for one of Britain's major rivers. It's a bit bulky and probably needs cutting down a little, but it could also serve as a templ...erm...model for similar templates for NZ's other main rivers (the Waikato, Whanganui, Taieri, and Rangitikei could possibly use something like this). Anyway, have a look and see what you think. Grutness... wha? 02:00, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
I've been helping out with a new article about Ray Ahipene-Mercer in an attempt to improve it and prevent it from succumbing to AfD. Making a general call here for anyone who can assist in improving this article, especially for sourcing from newspaper or magazine articles that aren't available on the internet. I'm in Alaska, so I don't have easy access to New Zealand printed sources. Most info thus far has been contributed by the person who created it, Projectbob. -- Ace of Swords 20:02, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
Should supergroove be included in wikiproject New Zealand? particularly with their reforming to tour with Crowded house, it seems as though it might be in need of some peoples to watch over it and make appropriate updates. Any NZ wikipedian Supergroove fans out there??? Thanks. 203.97.237.98 01:37, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
Hey folks!
I've just kicked off a wikiproject for Split Enz and Crowded House. I couldn't think of a title that encompassed both of them, so I went with Crowded House, so if you've interested, come on over.
Hi! I've seen you editing Crowded House related articles, and would like to invite you to join WikiProject Crowded House, an effort by Wikipedians to improve the band's coverage on the encyclopedia. Please consider signing up here. |
-- linca linca 13:52, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/Assessment needs some attention also see [2] and [3] Blacksmith2 talk Editor Review 08:12, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
If you have not been watching the NZ deletion sorting page, you might not be aware that a number of shopping mall articles in your part of the world have been nominated for deletion in the last 24hrs. Your brethren across the tasman have stepped in to help where they can, but some additional help to research, cleanup, and help determine notability would be greatly appreciated if you can assist. Cheers, Thewinchester (talk) 02:26, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
You may be interested in a new map I uploaded, Image:Nz large simple downsampled.gif. Separa 18:08, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
Can someone render "Scouting New Zealand" and "Be Prepared", the Scout Motto, into Māori? Thanks! Chris 05:23, 8 August 2007 (UTC) im not good at maori but ill contact some people at the maori wikipedia Blacksmith talk —Preceding signed but undated comment was added at 07:49, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
should we have an ad for Template:wikipedia ads? Blacksmith talk 05:33, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
Hello Kiwipedians, I noticed today that there was a small article about recent census changes. I thought it a bit silly to have an article on such a specific thing, and noting that articles on country's religions seem to be all the rage I moved it to religion in New Zealand. I've added a link to this in New Zealand and expanded it to include a lead, a section on Maori religion and details on the those following the Jedi code. Perhaps some of your could help out - give a bit more history etc, maybe add a picture of a church in NZ. We could even try for a Did you know, though it would have to be enlarged to 8kb within the next few days. Anyway, it's quite an important topic for the project I guess, so I thought I'd mention it here. Richard001 04:39, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
It says so in the lead, though the demographics article seems to be about 2001 data. There are also some comparisons between the sets. Richard001 02:33, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
The pages that request images seem a fairly limited set. What is the approach to upload photos? I am basically happy if any of my photos might be usable by Wikipedia, but I'm never quite sure what is the best approach to upload them (is there a tutorial somewhere?), and what is the preferred license for photos to be uploaded. A subset of my photos is at http://gallery.mcmillan.net.nz/ but I have many more NZ photos in particular. It's easy for me to take photos of anything that might be requested within a 1/2 day drive of Wellington also (or Auckland, with a little more effort, I guess). Thanks. Karora 12:55, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
{{Information
|Description=
|Source=self-made
|Date=
|Author= [[User:Karora|Karora]]
}}
Then you can upload the pic. Kahuroa 19:55, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
Hello if anyone is interested they can created articles on NZ denominations if you want, help would be greatfull. Here is the template. Template:New Zealand currency and coinage. Enlil Ninlil 06:43, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
I see that we now have a section on awards, starting with this revision [4]. Was there any discussion about this? Kahuroa 19:46, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
I've recently added this page and am working backwards from 1900 on the individual years (mainly just the sports champions to begin with). It was suggested on the discussion page that it should be a category but there is already a Years in New Zealand category and I feel that they serve different purposes. Any comments/suggestions? DerbyCountyinNZ 06:19, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
Hello. Just wanted to give you a heads-up that as part of an assessment drive for WikiProject Ships, I recently tagged the RNZN ship disambiguation pages with the {{ WikiProject New Zealand}} project banner as well as our normal {{ WikiProject Ships}} and {{ WPMILHIST}} banners. While I do not generally assess articles for projects of which I am not a member, the instructions at WikiProject New Zealand/Assessment were very clear and concise, so I went ahead and marked each of these pages as having NA as both their class and importance. Please let me know if you have any questions, issues, or if I screwed it up. Thanks, Kralizec! ( talk) 00:59, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
Hello! I gave Kahurangi National Park the {{ WikiProject New Zealand}} project banner. If I shouldn't have, please forgive me. GreenGourd 19:41, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
New Zealand's somewhat unusual placename naming conventions are unde fire again at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (New Zealand). I've defended them, though I'm beginning to wonder whether it would be less fuss to change them all...(crossposted to Wikipedia:New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board) Grutness... wha? 23:12, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
On a similar subject, Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand places seems to be completely moribund - is it worth merging it back into this WikiProject? Grutness... wha? 23:27, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
I have set up Category:New Zealand books. -- Alan Liefting- talk- 00:10, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
Is there anything established for authors? I just did a quick search and no joy but there are results for Oz authors. In fact there is an incredibly detailed list giving links breaking them down by state, genre etc. It would be good if something comparable on New Zealand born/resident authors 203.190.199.174 ( talk) 14:15, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
G'day everyone, I'm new to editing on here and have made it bit of a project of mine to work on article relating to NZ football, especially the NZFC. The NZFC article recently got rated as start class and other people have been making edits, so hopefully thats a good sign that the NZFC is getting some well needed attention! I'd like to ask if anyone could please give me any advice as to how any work I do is effective, especially in the context of the NZ WikiProject? Either on here or on my talk page is fine. Much appreciated, and GO TEAM WELLINGTON! Gialloneri ( talk) 11:19, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
The pic for "The New Zealand Barnstar of National Merit" looks a lot like the one for Hero of the Soviet Union (the USSR's version of the VC and a whole lot of other things, combined) :D Perhaps something a bit less Soviet might be in order, hehe (Just a gentle smile...) 202.89.150.246 ( talk) 11:04, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
...has recently died, for those that do not know. The article is currently being heavily edited and may require some people to keep an eye on it. Regards from across the ditch, Mattinbgn\ talk 23:08, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi all - I've just made an (incomplete) {{ Waikato}}, along the lines of the {{ Clutha}} I made last year. Feel free to edit it and add it to any articles relevant to the river's catchment. If I get time, I'll make similar ones for some of the other major rivers in NZ soon. Grutness... wha? 01:50, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
Should we not add a |needs-photo= parameter to the WPNZ template? I.e. adding the this field (with 'yes') will have the same effect as having to add a separate {{reqphotoin|New Zealand}} template. I haven't had a look at the coding of this feature so I'm not sure if I'd be confident making the change myself, but I'm sure someone here can anyway. Richard001 ( talk) 00:44, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
I notice we don't have an article Law of New Zealand, while many other countries do ( Law of Australia, Law of the United States, more). We do have Category:New Zealand law, but it has no main article. This is a very major omission, no? Richard001 ( talk) 07:09, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
Speaking of new articles, should we also have an environment of New Zealand article, as many other countries seem to have? It would overlap with a few others but might also bring a lot of things together.
Water resources in New Zealand might also be a good topic. Richard001 ( talk) 04:52, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
Greetings from the UK. I normally write articles about football and in researching for an article on Charles Bambridge who was the England national captain in the 1880s, I came across his father William Samuel Bambridge. The more I read, the more I realised that he warranted an article of his own. I have now created this but, writing as a humble Pom, could I ask someone from your project to review the article and check the New Zealand aspects. Cheers. -- Daemonic Kangaroo ( talk) 08:07, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
For the purpose of the NZ dollar article, does any one have info on how common Millenium Commemorative $10 notes are. 1.5 million were released, which means they would be about 1/15 of total $10 notes. My question is how common are they in normal circulation, and the quality of the notes in normal circulation. Are they still commonly seen? Thanks. Tarcus ( talk) 07:25, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. Now to find a reference... Tarcus ( talk) 09:15, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
This is an invitation to WikiProject Auckland, a WikiProject which aims to develop and expand Wikipedia's articles on Auckland. Please feel free to join us. |
Taifar ious1 22:33, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
I moved this to the bottom of the page.
Hello!
Tokelau could use some attention. All help is appreciated.
Perspicacite 04:29, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
The editors of the New Zealand article have settled on 1907 as being the foundation of the state (I note with concern though that this date lacks any external referencing, per official Wikipedia policy WP:VERIFY).
But this article - List of countries by formation dates - claims that the 'Date of statehood' of New Zealand was actually 1840 (again, completely unreferenced). Both articles cannot be correct, so which is it? Please come to the party armed with some proper external refs, per official Wikipedia policy WP:VERIFY. -- Mais oui! ( talk) 12:33, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
Cavalcade mentions the Otago Goldfields Cavalcade. More information about this cavalcade and any other long trail rides in New Zealand would be much appreciated. -- Una Smith ( talk) 02:57, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
The Year in New Zealand series of articles ought to have a section on the economy - a topic on which data is readily available, as far back as 1860 for some measures. I've never studied economics, so suggestions are welcome as to what should be listed, e.g. GNP. GDP (real or nominal?) Top 5 export sectors? Please make a list below. An indication of what is available is at Statistics NZ - plus of course almanacs and yearbooks. dramatic ( talk) 05:19, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
I have added many requests to the requests page, some of which are extremely important articles that have thus far been neglected. One example is waste management in New Zealand. The only other country that has such an article is Switzerland. An good start could be made from the freely available chapter on the subject at [5]. I'll probably only be able to create one or two of these articles over the next year or more, so if anyone is looking for something to do feel free to help out. Richard001 ( talk) 08:36, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
Noticed that for NZ Occupations:
The article Waipatiki seems to be about Waipatiki Beach. According to Reed NZ Atlas, Waipatiki is a village at lat 40 22 S, 176 17 E - at least 25ks inland from the east coast, 50 or so ks east of Palmerston North and at least 100 ks south of Napier. Waipatiki Beach is on the coast 20ks north of Napier, at 39 18S, 176 58 E. Looks like we should move it to Waipatiki Beach, as most of the article and the pics appear to relate to Waipatiki Beach rather than Waipatiki. Only the coordinates seem to relate to the more southerly, inland settlement. Kahuroa ( talk) 11:50, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
Should we merge {{ NZ Military}} and {{ Military history of New Zealand}}? Richard001 ( talk) 09:45, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
This needs some expansion, but I know this was a major controversy in NZ. If anyone from NZ or more familiar with NZ has more info about Murder of Liam Ashley they are welcome to contribute.. WhisperToMe ( talk) 20:43, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
On a related note, I've just moved Mona Blades to Mona Blades case and Kirsa Jensen to Kirsa Jensen case. Does anyone know of other instances where we (against guidelines) have articles on the victim rather than the case? dramatic ( talk) 19:00, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
Good evening! As I know New Zealand is one of the countries whose population pays a lot of attention to the history of Oceania. For example, there are a lot of museums in your country devoted specially to this region. But at present there is a great need in free photos of some important archeological sites, archaeological evidences that were found there (for example, photos of Lapita pottery from Samoa and other places in Oceania). It would be great if some free photos were downloaded to Wikimedia Commons. Best Regards, Переход Артур, talk 19:07, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
I'm a NZ member of the Milhist project, where they have a lot of talent with page/board changes etc. Would it be useful to merge this page with the NZ Wikipedians' notice board, with all archives being maintained? I think some of the people over there could do that quite easily, if it was thought a good idea. Buckshot06 ( talk) 04:04, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
I have merged Student Life New Zealand into Student Life (university ministry), and plan to do the same with Student Life Australia. The article they are being merged into seems to lack notability too, as I have indicated with the template, and might itself be merged into the apparently notable Campus Crusade for Christ. Nobody seems to be watching them, and they were all created by one-edit wonders, so I need some more feedback. Maybe I should take them to AFD (even though the content is technically being merged) to get some? Richard001 ( talk) 03:50, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
I think we have way too many articles in Category:Top-importance New Zealand articles. A lot of these don't even qualify for high importance, IMO. For example, politics of New Zealand is probably worthy of top importance, but not individual elections. This category should probably only have 10-20 articles or so; the ones that are of critical importance and most urgent in getting to FA class. It wouldn't actually be a bad idea to recommend discussing things first before adding to this category (though people will still do it anyway, of course). Richard001 ( talk) 08:49, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
Keep in mind that due to the coarse nature of the importance ratings it may be possible to have articles that are more important than others while still being, say, mid importance. Regarding land wars, I would say 'high'. New Zealand/(Human) history of New Zealand/Land wars. That's two steps down in the hierarchy. Richard001 ( talk) 00:56, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Within WikiProject Companies I am trying to establish guidelines for all Lists of companies by country, the implementation of which would hopefully ensure a minimum quality standard and level of consistency across all of these related but currently disparate articles. The ultimate goal is the improvement of these articles to Featured List status. As a WikiProject that currently has one of these lists within your scope, I would really appreciate your feedback! You can find the draft guidelines here. Thanks for your help as we look to build consensus and improve Wikipedia! - Richc80 ( talk) 13:37, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
Is it time to create articles for all of the regional councils? A page for the Canterbury Regional Council has been created. As shown by the Canterbury Regional Council article the is sufficient information on the geographical region and the political entity that is in charge of it. Note that the Canterbury region ( Canterbury, New Zealand) article has an infobox for the regional council that should go to the Canterbury Regional Council article. -- Alan Liefting ( talk) - 04:21, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
Hey, im just wondering if anybody thinks that we should create an ad for the WikiProject to be put on Template:Wikipedia ads to advertise the project. I would do it myself, but im no good with animation or much coding at all, so if theres anyone who would be willing to create one, that would be great. There is a guide available here for anyone who's interested. Taifar ious1 07:30, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
I've started a rescue job on Māori traditional textiles after someone redirected it to Phormium - I think this should be one of the important articles on New Zealand culture. However, most references are offline, and I hope there are people more expert/scholarly in that field who can help. We also badly need an article on Tukutuku panels and possibly articles on some of the other main woven artifacts (e.g. kete). Talking of tukutuku, are the images on http://whakaahua.maori.org.nz/tukutuku.htm GDFL-compatible? (no copyright statement, request that an acknowledgement would be appreciated, implication that images are for re-use). dramatic ( talk) 09:47, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
We have a duplicate at Old Government Buildings and Government Buildings (Wellington, New Zealand). My inclination is to take the infobox and the information from the second one and put it into the first, because the first one is better structured and has a better name - 'government buildings' sounds more like the ones that the government are still in. But then I wrote most of Old Government Buildings, so I'm probably biased. -- Helenalex ( talk) 08:43, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
I've seen two or three articles containing the whakapapa of an iwi or hapū recently, one of which was speedied (while I was in the middle of knocking it into shape) as "a text dump (entitled Whakapapa) of transliterated (and illiterated), incomprehensible dialect which was so out of context, it indeed seemed to be a hoax" by a non-nz editor. (the admin did apologise but still opposes the inclusion of whakapapa [6])
Yet this pakeha feels that a whakapapa is a central aspect of an iwi, and worthy of inclusion. To quote user:Kahuroa (on my talk page)
To me the best argument for the inclusion (within reason) of whakapapa with iwi articles is that iwi are by definition defined by genealogy. It's not that we Māori need to say who we are on every occasion, it's just that you cannot talk about an iwi without some kind of genealogy, since iwi are just families grown large.
So if there is consensus that whakapapa are worthy of inclusion, the challenge is to do it in a way compatible with wikipedia policy:
dramatic ( talk) 09:34, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
Rail privatization in New Zealand is probably a worthy subject, but the current stub has no actual information, just an unresearched commentary. dramatic ( talk) 21:47, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
Is there anyone here who could take some photos of people from the University of Otago (see Category:University of Otago faculty). Perhaps some of these people would be interested? I had James Flynn in mind, though it would be great to get photos for as many as possible.
Another request: Kim Sterelny [7] from Victoria University of Wellington. I'm working on getting photos of people from my own university, the UoA; maybe someone from one of these universities (if there is anyone?) could join me in doing the same for theirs. Richard001 ( talk) 01:48, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
Currently, 732 of the articles assigned to this project, or 14.4%, are flagged for cleanup of some sort. (Data as of 18 June 2008.) Are you interested in finding out more? I am offering to generate cleanup to-do lists on a project or work group level. See User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings for details. Subsribing is easy - just add a template to your project page. If you want to respond to this canned message, please do so at my user talk page. -- B. Wolterding ( talk) 17:38, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
As you may have heard, we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level. The new description is available at WP:ASSESS.
Each WikiProject should already have a new C-Class category at Category:C-Class_articles. If your project elects not to use the new level, you can simply delete your WikiProject's C-Class category and clarify any amendments on your project's assessment/discussion pages. The bot is already finding and listing C-Class articles.
Please leave a message with us if you have any queries regarding the introduction of the revised scheme. This scheme should allow the team to start producing offline selections for your project and the wider community within the next year. Thanks for using the Wikipedia 1.0 scheme! For the 1.0 Editorial Team, §hepBot ( Disable) 21:09, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
I have come across the following articles - Toll Shipping / Interislander / Toll NZ / etc. I split out Interislander from Toll Shipping because it appears to be it's own entity now after being sold, it would be good for someone with more of a clue look over it make sure I haven't stuffed anything up - I guess it ties in with Rail privatisation in New Zealand and everything else that won't stay still. Wongm ( talk) 06:35, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
I created Users in New Zealand at Commons, but until today was the only person there. If anyone is very active at Commons be sure to add yourself to it. I have clocked up 1000 edits there now, so I guess I would be one of the more active members. I have added 3 other NZers to the category myself, being so desperately lonely as I was. Richard001 ( talk) 03:58, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
...why Lew Zealand is marked with the WPNZ banner template? Okay, there's a very tenuous link, but he's a fairly generic muppet and not really much to do with NZ! Grutness... wha? 00:24, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
It seems the NZ category is getting very large so I created this subcategory for WikiProject Auckland. Photo requests can be made using the banner now, just as with {{ WikiProject New Zealand}}, by using |needs-photo=yes.
We might also consider splitting the category further, e.g. photos of New Zealanders, New Zealand places etc (just the ones where there are plenty, of course). Richard001 ( talk) 22:42, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
I've come here to see whether your project would like to be featured in the Signpost as part of the WikiProject report (which has been absent for the past few months). I'd already asked another project but there has been no response. Thanks. Rudget ( logs) 11:30, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
The categories dealing with NZers and descendants of NZers living overseas are confusing. Apart from Category:New Zealand emigrants, which I've just gutted, we also have Category:New Zealand diaspora, which consists of two subcats - Category:People of New Zealand descent and Category:New Zealand expatriates. I would be fine with this if it divided people by whether they were born here or born elsewhere of a NZ parent or parents, but it doesn't. In 'descent' we have Category:New Zealand-Americans and Category:New Zealand Italians both of which include lots of people who were born here. To make things more complicated, a lot of the categories assign national identities to people based entirely on where they were born and/or where they live - it's really not clear that a NZer playing sport in Italy or Japan or whatever would consider themselves a New Zealand Italian or NZ Japanese. Putting that aside, I think we need one category which includes all the groups of NZers and people with NZ parents living outside of NZ. I'm just not sure what to call it. 'New Zealand expatriates' doesn't include people not actually born in NZ, but 'People of New Zealand descent' sounds a bit silly when applied to someone who was born in NZ of immigrant parents. I'm not sure that a 'New Zealand disapora' actually exists, and it's not something that many people would immediately think of, so I don't like that either. Each country seems to have its own way of doing this, but only a few have seperate categories for descent and 'from'. I suppose we could create seperate categories for each country, but for this to work that country would have to already have wider 'descent' and 'from' categories. Any ideas? -- Helenalex ( talk) 00:59, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
As an oz cat tagger (yes i have been tagging wpnz cats :) who has watched the beginnings of the australian demographics project - I would suggest that the oz project has been through all this about a month ago - it might or might not help to know that Satu Suro 01:10, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
I've just thought that 'People of New Zealand origin in country X' covers absolutely everything - people born overseas to NZ parents, expat NZers born in NZ to non-NZ parents, NZers temporarily (but notably) in a particular country, etc. It isn't the standard anywhere, but it works, and would fit into other countries' 'Xs by ethnic or national origin', 'Immigrants in country X' etc categories. We would just have to specify that going somewhere to fight a war doesn't count, or all Gallipoli veterans would be 'People of New Zealand origin in Turkey', for example. -- Helenalex ( talk) 02:11, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
Who pays attention to Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/Assessment? I noticed some time ago that articles I had placed under the "Requesting an assessment" section didn't get rated, so eventually I rated them myself. I've since attended to several requests. The most recent request for assessment was placed several days ago, and since I've rated a number of the same editor's articles previously I thought someone else could make the judgement, but it looks like no one else is watching the requests.- gadfium 09:09, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
Template:New Zealand topics is a little bit odd - it links to fortications but not Maori, for example. I put a note about this on its talk page but no one seems to be watching it. Since it is fairly important I'd like some other people's thoughts before I alter it. -- Helenalex ( talk) 09:50, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
I noticed commons:Category:Money of New Zealand, which seems to be pretty incomplete. Also, according to New Zealand dollar, it would seem a lot of the images there shouldn't be there in the first place since they do not fall under a suitable copyright status. Of course, it's still possible to have other images (e.g. the graph) and surely some of the older coins/notes would be public domain by now (and thus we should get images of them all up). Richard001 ( talk) 00:22, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
I've created a draft letter to send to people requesting photos. It's based on an existing one but I'd appreciate any thoughts. See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject New Zealand/Content task force - SimonLyall ( talk) 09:33, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
I'm friends with a guy who works for Act (oh, the shame) so I will email him about getting some photos of their current MPs as well as hopefully past ones. A personal approach might work better than a letter from someone who they don't know. -- Helenalex ( talk) 22:32, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Afghan British (contains proposal for deletion of the New Zealander British article). Badagnani ( talk) 04:57, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7.
We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Wikipedia:Release Version Nominations.
A list of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles. A team of copyeditors has agreed to help with copyediting requests, although you should try to fix simple issues on your own if possible.
We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 22:48, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
Hello all...
An image used in the Tirau article, specifically Image:1852517-Tiraus main road-Tirau.jpg, has a little bit of a licensing issue. The image was uploaded back when the rules around image uploading were less restrictive. It is presumed that the uploaded was willing to license the picture under the GFDL license but was not clear in that regard. As such, the image, while not at risk of deletion, is likely not clearly licensed to allow for free use in any future use of this article. If anyone has an image that can replace this, or can go take one and upload it, it would be best.
You have your mission, take your camera and start clicking.-- Jordan 1972 ( talk) 00:13, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
Hello all...
An image used in the Buller Gorge article, specifically Image:Buller Gorge.jpg, has a little bit of a licensing issue. The image was uploaded back when the rules around image uploading were less restrictive. It is presumed that the uploader was willing to license the picture under the GFDL license but was not clear in that regard. As such, the image, while not at risk of deletion, is likely not clearly licensed to allow for free use in any future use of this article. If anyone has an image that can replace this, or can go take one and upload it, it would be best.
You have your mission, take your camera and start clicking.-- Jordan 1972 ( talk) 22:03, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
Is there a suitable category that can be used to identify a New Zealander such as Bob Heffron. I guess I need to also ask whether he should be identified as a kiwi anyway. Just thinking out loud. Kaiwhakahaere ( talk) 00:42, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
I have created a category for NZ PMs at Commons. A gallery would be good, and there are still some more images to move (and images to take/upload). Feel free to help out if you're looking for a weekend job.
I'm not sure why Jim Bolger requires a fair use image - is he not photograph-able? Richard001 ( talk) 00:58, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi, fellow NZers. Would it be possible to create a template for the NZ politician articles to show their terms, electorates, list positions, etc? For example, every politician currently has a table as follows:
Parliament | Term | Electorate | List Position | Party |
40th | 1981-1984 | Mt Albert | Labour | |
41st | 1984-1987 | Mt Albert | Labour | |
42nd | 1987-1990 | Mt Albert | Labour | |
43rd | 1990-1993 | Mt Albert | Labour | |
44th | 1993-1996 | Mt Albert | Labour | |
45th | 1996-1999 | Owairaka | 1 | Labour |
46th | 1999-2002 | Mt Albert | 1 | Labour |
47th | 2002-2005 | Mt Albert | 1 | Labour |
48th | 2005- | Mt Albert | 1 | Labour |
By clicking the edit tab, you will see that I have copied this "prettytable" in full code. It would be beneficial to articles, especially with the election approaching, if this could be transformed into a standard template where we can simply fill in parameters ( Template:NZ politician?, however I do not have the expertise needed to carry this out. Leave any questions here or approach my talk page if you prefer. Thanks, -- THE DARK LORD TROMBONATOR 07:45, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
In case you don't watch the NZ noticeboard and have missed my attempts to hunt you down, we're having a meetup in Auckland on Saturday. Richard001 ( talk) 01:20, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi, over at OTRS we received a photo of Robin Johnson, a contest from the 2004 season of New Zealand Idol. I don't think it fits into the article, but do Kiwi editors here think he's notable enough for his own article? Thanks. howcheng { chat} 18:02, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
Many, many pages will need updating after the election, and I think that it would be best for tasks to be shared out in an organised manner so that we don't end up with some pages out of date for months, two people trying to do the same task, etc. So I have set up Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/Election 2008 taskforce to list all the stuff that needs doing, who will do it, and roughly when it should be done by. If you want to bags a particular task, put your name next to it and try to get it done asap after the election. Some things, like updating the electorate pages, should probably be divided amongst more than one person, so if you want, nominate yourself for a certain range (A-M or whatever). Also feel free to add pages which should be on there but aren't. -- Helenalex ( talk) 05:11, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
I've just suggested that the actual happening collaboration for November is the 2008 General election, and that we should formalise that by deferring the collaboration on State housing until December. That way we can avoid the resurrection of COTF/M falling flat on its face at the first hurdle. dramatic ( talk) 09:15, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
The category's getting pretty big, and splitting it into subcategories has been suggested aat Category talk:Wikipedia requested photographs in New Zealand. Input from here would very welcome. Grutness... wha? 23:32, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
Well, that process doesn't work. I still don't particularly want to do this by hand though. Maybe I'll have to learn how to make one myself or something. Richard001 ( talk) 00:25, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi all - I've just made the first of what will probably be a small bunch of templates for common reference works on New Zealand - {{ WisesGuide1969}}, {{ ReedPlacenames1975}}, and {{ DixStranded1988}}. I'm thinking of doing the same for a handful of other such books. If anyone has any suggestions of useful books to template in this way, let me know and I'll make them too (it might also be worth adding a list of these templated works somewhere on one of WPNZ's project pages). Grutness... wha? 23:02, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
I've also created a category: Category:New Zealand specific source templates, so any new templates of this type will go in there. Even if there are just a dozen or so templates for major reference sources, it'll save quite a bit of work writing reference sections. Grutness... wha? 00:43, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
Greetings. I am from outside the project. I just want to propose to re-assess the importance of the article. He is a Prime Minister-designate now, and in mu opinion, the importance should be raised to "top" Sincerely, w_tanoto ( talk) 19:54, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
Speaking of importance, it might be interesting to get some data on the number of hits NZ related articles get. They did this at the bird project and got some interesting results. Richard001 ( talk) 06:07, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
That's the images taken care of - I have added a few to his article and there are more at the linked Commons category. Shouldn't we also make New Zealand National Party top importance, since it is the dominant party? I would think the NP would be more important in the present (and certainly in the long run) than Key. I don't really think either deserves top importance (neither are significantly covered at New Zealand, unlike say economy of New Zealand or geography of New Zealand). Richard001 ( talk) 23:16, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
New Zealand Parliamentary Caucuses and MPs' responsibilities is a huge and very out of date page. It was out of date even before the election, now it is completely off.-- Anon 10:59, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
It is pretty meaningless to many readers to say that "St Joseph's school is a co-educational integrated full primary (years 1-8) school with a decile rating of 6 and a roll of 248". Are their suitable pages to which we can link the terms integrated and decile rating? dramatic ( talk) 00:40, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
Does someone want to look at List of New Zealand monarchs? -- Lawe ( talk) 06:42, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
I have recently completed a draft of an article for a subject related to the south Wairarapa region. In order to illustrate it, I'd like to include a map, but it is not clear which map sources it is safe to use with Wikipedia. I have on previous occasions used OpenStreetMap, but can't in this case as it doesn't have any data on the Wairarapa district. Google Maps has obvious licensing issues.
A street-map style is preferrable, rather than aerial/satellite photography. Ideally, the map would include roads, railway lines, and place names. The ability to save an image of a map so I could annotate it before posting to Wikipedia would also be helpful.
Any ideas? – Matthew25187 ( talk) 19:47, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
In case anyone is interested, I ended up using WikiMiniAtlas for the map. The results can be seen at Martinborough Branch. - Matthew25187 ( talk) 23:48, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
Can anyone join? -- Kingliam1 ( talk) 02:24, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
Not sure what to make of http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=United_Tribes_of_New_Zealand&diff=next&oldid=252702256. Suited to someone who better knows the ins and outs of Wikipedia's policies for citations etc. Lanma726 ( talk) 22:25, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
See http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Companies_Office&diff=262841241&oldid=245768137 and note the author.
Having read WP:CONFLICT it seems that it is not strictly wrong for an organisation to edit an article on itself. A good example of something related to this is the Te Ara discussion.
The edit in question seems neutral. Does a welcome template exist that says something like "Welcome to Wikipedia, please be aware of our policies on conflict of interest" etc.?
Lanma726 ( talk) 22:44, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
Is this google trend trying to tell us something? -- Geronimo20 ( talk) 02:54, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
|
I thought this WikiProject might be interested. Ping me with any specific queries or leave them on the page linked to above. Thanks! - Jarry1250 ( t, c) 22:09, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
The New Zealand Official Yearbook 2008 ( ISBN 978-1-86953-717-3) is now out in dead tree format. It is full of lovely info that can be added to WP. -- Alan Liefting ( talk) - 07:14, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
Odd edits at William Leonard Williams ... can someone look and at my comments on the talk page first before deleting what may or may not be vandalism ? Victuallers ( talk) 12:49, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
Google Maps may not be the best reason to change a Wikipedia article, but it doesn't seem to recognize a latitude formatted as -10°N; it just reads 10°N. A few of the New Zealand articles are thus placed on the map to the northwest of Hawaii. Further, I'm no expert on geography, but it does seem a little strange to refer to -10°N instead of simply 10°S. I've seen it both ways here.
From the standpoint of the amount of work involved, it might take less (and be good in the long run) to ask Google to upgrade their software to recognize the -10°N format, but should there be (or is there already) a standard here for latitude and longitude? Khakiandmauve ( talk) 14:16, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
Sorry dramatic, agree with you 10S would be better. Wanted to ask Khakiandmauve for a few examples, are there some articles to fix up? The coord documentation shows three options:
Latitude before longitude. XLerate ( talk) 01:56, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi! I'd like to draw your attention to the new WikiProject coordinators' working group, an effort to bring both official and unofficial WikiProject coordinators together so that the projects can more easily develop consensus and collaborate. This group has been created after discussion regarding possible changes to the A-Class review system, and that may be one of the first things discussed by interested coordinators.
All designated project coordinators are invited to join this working group. If your project hasn't formally designated any editors as coordinators, but you are someone who regularly deals with coordination tasks in the project, please feel free to join as well. — Delievered by §hepBot ( Disable) on behalf of the WikiProject coordinators' working group at 06:09, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
The World Roads Portal is at Peer Review, if any editors know of any articles, images, news items or DYKs which could be added to the Portal, please add them directly to the portal or contact .... SriMesh | talk 01:06, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
This is a notice to let you know about Article alerts, a fully-automated subscription-based news delivery system designed to notify WikiProjects and Taskforces when articles are entering Articles for deletion, Requests for comment, Peer review and other workflows ( full list). The reports are updated on a daily basis, and provide brief summaries of what happened, with relevant links to discussion or results when possible. A certain degree of customization is available; WikiProjects and Taskforces can choose which workflows to include, have individual reports generated for each workflow, have deletion discussion transcluded on the reports, and so on. An example of a customized report can be found here.
If you are already subscribed to Article Alerts, it is now easier to
report bugs and
request new features. We are also in the process of implementing a
"news system", which would let projects know about ongoing discussions on a wikipedia-wide level, and other things of interest. The developers also note that some subscribing WikiProjects and Taskforces use the display=none
parameter, but forget to give a link to their alert page. Your alert page should be located at "Wikipedia:PROJECT-OR-TASKFORCE-HOMEPAGE/Article alerts". Questions and feedback should be left at
Wikipedia talk:Article alerts.
Message sent by User:Addbot to all active wiki projects per request, Comments on the message and bot are welcome here.
Thanks. — Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 09:29, 15 March, 2009 (UTC)
Hi! I put a question here about the name of the station. Can you help me? -- Arcibel ( talk) 22:56, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
The Alexander Turnbull Library has placed some historic NZ photos on Flickr The Commons with no known copyright restrictions. Very easy to upload to commons using the Flickr tools. Gwinva ( talk) 23:42, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
I have become concerned recently by the edits of a New Zealand editor User:Wallie. He has been one of the parties involved in an edit war on Talk:Phar Lap. I was also concerned when he attached the WP:NZ tag to two Australian horse races - Talk:Caulfield_Cup and Talk:Cox_Plate. Further checking of his edits show the following have also been tagged WP:NZ :
If this continues it will create a lot of work in reverting his inapropriate edits. Could someone from the project please have a word with him, or check all his recent edits and remove the WP:NZ tags. Cuddy Wifter ( talk) 04:26, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
Apparently nothing has happened this year! Does anyone have time to give this page some love and at least add the major news stories (prefereably sourced from the NZ Herald, as their stories don't disappear like Stuff ones). (I only tend to catch up with the news a couple of times a week). dramatic ( talk) 03:48, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
File:Swine Flu map NZ.PNG has been nominated for speedy deletion. 76.66.202.139 ( talk) 05:11, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
And it's still practically meaningless! DerbyCountyinNZ 11:01, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand places appears to be totally moribund - only one non-vandalism-related edit to the main page in the last year, and no talk page edits (other than this one, which I'm crossposting) in almost two years. Should it be rolled into Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand, either totally or as a working party subtopic? Grutness... wha? 01:50, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
A proposal has been posted for a contest between all 200 country WikiProjects. We're looking for judges, coordinators, ideas, and feedback.
The Transhumanist 00:39, 19 May 2009 (UTC)