There is template brokenness at the bottom of both Richard Worth and Rodney Hide. I suspect a change has been made to a template, but I'm not sure which. Stuartyeates ( talk) 00:41, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
{{s-par|nz}}
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00:43, 18 July 2011 (UTC)Today on http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/IvoteNZ The orange guy said I'm in Wikipedia? Cool! (And a bunch of other stuff about elections in New Zealand) I'm not sure whether this counts as a press mention or wikipedia used as a source, but it sure is referential. Stuartyeates ( talk) 03:10, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
Template | Usage | Produces |
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{{ NZ electorate link}} | {{NZ electorate link|Auckland Central}} | Auckland Central |
{{ NZ election link year}} | {{NZ election link year|1853}} | 1853 |
{{ NZ election link}} | {{NZ election link|2011}} | 2011 election |
{{ By-election link year}} | {{By-election link year|Te Tai Tokerau|2011}} | 2011 |
{{ By-election link}} | {{By-election link|Mana|2010}} | 2010 by-election |
{{ By-election link small}} | {{By-election link small|Botany|2011}} | 2011 by-election |
{{ Party index link}} | {{Party index link|Independent politician}} | Independent |
Frustration at having to make up dozens of electorate & by-election links while editing List of New Zealand by-elections led me to create these templates:
Some #REDIRECT pages may be necessary to resolve those electorate article that don't follow our standard naming format.
Fan |
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05:19, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
Shortname | Colour | Article | |
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Political party list | #F8F9FA | Political party list | |
Independent | #DCDCDC | Independent politician |
Key (table layout) |
Independent |
Liberal |
Reform |
We've got a vast variety of styles for election results tables and I thought it would be useful to have an agreed template to work towards. I've thus copied an abbreviated table here that shows all the features that I think is current best practice. Please comment, so that what we've got here does in fact represent consensus.
KeyNote 1
Independent Reform United Labour Labour National
ElectionNote 2 | WinnerNote 3 | |
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1866 electionNote 4 | Edward Stevens | |
1871 election | William Reeves | |
1875 electionNote 5 | Cecil Fitzroy | |
1879 election | John Hall | |
1881 election | ||
1883 by-electionNote 6 | Edward James Lee | |
1884 by-election | Edward Wakefield | |
1884 election | ||
1887 election | John Hall | |
1890 election | Alfred Saunders | |
1893 election | ||
1896 election | Cathcart Wason | |
1899 election | Charles Hardy | |
1902 election | ||
1905 election | ||
1908 election | George M. ThomsonNote 10 | |
1911 election | ||
1914 election | Andrew WalkerNote 11 | |
(Electorate abolished 1919–1946)Note 7 | ||
1946 election | John McAlpine | |
1949 election | ||
1951 election | ||
1954 election | ||
1957 election | ||
1960 election | ||
1963 election | ||
1966 election | Colin McLachlan | |
1969 election | ||
(Electorate abolished 1972–1978, see Rakaia)Note 8 | ||
1978 election | Colin McLachlan | |
1981 election | Ruth Richardson | |
1984 election | ||
1987 election | ||
1990 election | ||
1993 election | ||
1994 by-election | David Carter | |
(Electorate abolished 1996–2008, see Banks Peninsula) | ||
2008 election | Amy AdamsNote 9 |
How does that sound? Schwede 66 01:42, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
Election | Winner | |
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1914 election | Andrew Walker | |
Election | Winner | |
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1928 election | Sydney George Smith | |
1931 election | ||
1935 election | ||
Election | Party | Winner | |
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1908 election | Independent | George M. Thomson | |
1911 election | Reform | ||
1914 election | United Labour | Andrew Walker | |
Labour |
I appreciate that could be a lot of work to go over all the electorate articles, but moving forward with new electorates would be a good start. Thoughts? Adabow ( talk) 02:53, 4 October 2014 (UTC)
Draft
Wikipedia:WikiProject_New_Zealand/Election_2011_taskforce page created. If there's anything you want to put your hand up for please drop by and add your name to a task.
Fan |
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03:41, 20 August 2011 (UTC)
I have added a tag to the category Category:Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives that it includes (all) members of all the subcategories eg by party, location of electorate, or by position eg prime minister, defence minister or cabinet minister etc. This is so that all members can be found readily without having to go into several subcategories (and more when subcategories are added for the North Island, with subcategories of the North Island for Auckland, Wellington and possibly other cities to come). At the moment some premiers/prime ministers do appear (eg William Fox (New Zealand)) and some do not appear (eg Robert Muldoon) in the “Members etc” category. Note: some ministers eg Mark Fagan were in the upper house (MLC), so will not be included. Hugo999 ( talk) 06:50, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
We once had a lengthy discussion on by-elections ( now archived). The conclusions were contained in two contributions:
I've now started the first template. Whilst not complete yet, it reflects what we discussed back then. And it's really easy to compile this because of the great work by Fanx of getting the list of by-elections completed (awesome work!). I'll carry on with this and will then start rolling it out and getting the old templates deleted. Chip in if you wish. Schwede 66 18:53, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
There seems to be a general consensus to move to a new format of electorate results in the election pages [2]. Does anyone object if I add a third place coloumn to the table for MMP elections? The width is still well within the page size and stopping after third place doesn't seem any less arbitary than stopping after second? Mattlore ( talk) 00:41, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
Electorate | Incumbent | Winner | Majority | Runner up | Third place | ||||
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East Coast | Anne Tolley | 4,774 | Moana Mackey † | Darryl Monteith † | |||||
Epsom | Rodney Hide | John Banks | 2,261 | Paul Goldsmith † | David Parker † |
Following on from this discussion. The more I consider it the more I think Candidates in the New Zealand general election xxxx by party is more useful than Party lists in the New Zealand general election, xxxx. Thoughts? All I really am proposing is renaming, adding a table at the end of party lists listing the electorate candidates not on the list (I was reading a useful article the other day that listed them somewhere...) and including the non-registered parties. Mattlore ( talk) 04:21, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
The Chairman of Committees (New Zealand) article doesn't have a list of office holders yet. The role was effectively that of the Deputy Speaker. I can start the list based on the one for the Speaker (example below), but I've got two high level queries:
# | Name | Took office | Left office | Speaker's party | Governing party |
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1 | Frederick Merriman | 1854 | 1855 | None | None |
2 | Hugh Carleton | 1856 | 1870 | None | None |
Ok, I've tidied up the pages for the Speakers of the New Zealand Legislative Council over the weekend, and the table on the list page has similar issues. I've drafted something using three sample lines, which should cover all the possible issues. Does anybody have any thoughts on possible further improvements before I recode the whole table? Schwede 66 05:12, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
Name | Took Office | Left Office | Speaker's Party | Governing Party | |
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1 | William Swainson | 1854 | 1855 | None | None |
2 | Frederick Whitaker | 1855 | 1856 | None | None |
William Fitzherbert, 2nd time | 1887 | 1890 | None | None | |
William Fitzherbert, continued | 1890 | 1891 | None | Liberal |
Key
Name | In office | Gov't | ||
1 | William Swainson | 16 May 1854 – 8 August 1855 | ||
2 | Frederick Whitaker | 8 August 1855 – 12 May 1856 | ||
(5) | William Fitzherbert 2nd time | 21 September 1887 – 23 January 1891 | ||
1 Died in office
2 Reappointed at end of member's term
Fan |
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00:29, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
I have a few things that I'd like to achieve this year and I thought that it might be useful to share this, because once we start collaborating on these things, we can achieve a lot more and go about it more thoroughly. For starters, I'll just put a bullet list up with only few indications of priority:
Things that I'll be doing on the side without a particular target:
Things that could be tackled when the 2012 to do list is complete:
With regards to the Legislative Council, what is holding me back is that my reference book (Scholefield's Parliamentary history of New Zealand) goes only to 1949, so I'm missing the last year of appointments including the Suicide squad (New Zealand). If anybody had the list of appointments from 1949 onwards, I'd get the list article going and the number of redlinks would show us how much work is involved.
I'm sure there's other things that I've had on my mind, but that's all that I could think of for now. Schwede 66 04:43, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi Schwede:
A possible article I have in mind for 2012 is “Record of members of parliament of New Zealand” along the lines of Records of members of parliament of the United Kingdom, with oldest, youngest, longest and shortest serving etc.
Re Mayors of Lower Hutt I have a History of Lower Hutt with a list of borough and city mayors from 1891 to 1970 (when Kennedy-Good took office)
Re MLCs and working towards an article on every MLC as for the MHRs, I have borrowed the 1984 edition of J.O. Wilson which has all the MLCs; and though not by date it would be simple to pull those (20?) appointed 22.6.1950 as members of the suicide squad. However Polson was actually appointed on 15.3.1950, was he regarded as a member of the suicide squad? On MLCs, is a separate category for those who were ministers from the upper house (like David Wilson) worthwhile; this seems to me to be a mark of distinction for some MLCs.
Re MLCs generally I favour (as said above) having the main category include all MLCs as for MHRs (and electorates) so that there is one category where any MLC can be found by name (as for all MHRs, and also for all electorates). With a template to go straight to the first letter of surnames there is no problem with categories containing several thousand names. Navigation is only slow with very large categories like Category:Living people containing over 552,000 articles, and the need to use a template based on the first two letters which means that finding names in that category is slow. Hugo999 ( talk) 23:39, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
Well, Hugo999 was so kind to look up the members of the Suicide squad and I've used that as a basis to start the list article for Legislative Council members. I'm doing this in the following way:
So this is progressing quite well. If anybody feels like it, they could carry on adding blue links starting with letter 'R'. I would add the terms when back from a short wikibreak. Schwede 66 19:42, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
(discussion copied from Alan Liefting's talk page) Fanx ( talk) 03:07, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
Why are you recategorising NZ electorates to NZ [Region] electorates? Splitting them up now means a visitor or editor accessing through categories needs good geographic knowledge, or will have to search through several regional categories to find anything. At the very least this change should have been proposed at
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject New Zealand/politics before being started.
Fan |
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08:49, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
Is it worth keeping Bright Future (policy)? Unreffed, hard to find refs and a dead ext link to the official govt page. -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 05:18, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
I'm interested in creating articles on by-elections but I can't seem to find any data that is not online. I don't really have the time to go to a library but am interested in knowing if there is any other way to find data on New Zealand by-elections aside from getting a book from the library (or buying one). I'd be interested in creating by-elections articles relating to Dunedin and the South Island, if that is of any help. JaumeBG ( talk) 13:50, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
Some sources for you:
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help) Unfortunately the Wellington Public Library & National Library only have non-borrowing copies to use at the library.
Hugo999 (
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01:19, 8 May 2014 (UTC)I've proposed a formal move request for George William Forbes. Depending on what others think, I may put up a range of other PMs (and Premiers) up for renaming, so you might like to put your considered opinions forward. Schwede 66 05:35, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
The Canterbury Association was an English group of Anglicans that hatched a colonisation scheme, and the Canterbury region is the result of their grand plan. Some of them emigrated to New Zealand, but many of them never had the intention of coming here. So far, so good. The Canterbury Association existed for only a few years before it got dissolved. In a quest of finding out a bit more about the group, its membership was researched for a series of books on The History of Canterbury. In Volume I, the group's membership is listed (in Appendix IV) - I count 84 members. After Volume I was published, a memorial tablet was installed in ChristChurch Cathedral.
The vast majority of them already have articles on Wikipedia. I'm guessing that all of them would meet notability criteria. I once created a category and am working my way through the list (so far, I have done 30 members; a further five that I've looked at don't have an article yet).
My question to you - should members of the Canterbury Association come under the scope of this Wikiproject? I would think that this is the case. But before I go ahead and tag the articles, I thought I better ask. Schwede 66 23:10, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
All the infoboxes for MPs who represented Ratana are broken (see Eruera Tirikatene and Haami Tokouru Ratana for example). I can't work out what the problem is, so this will need to be solved by some one more techie than me. Helenalex ( talk) 01:05, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
A large portion of the history section of ACT New Zealand has been removed because it has lacked references for over two years, and has accumulated a number of other maintenance templates. I think a lot of this would be really easy to reference, particularly the election results. Other parts may need to be rewritten to avoid original research. Anyone feel like having a go at this? The article looks pretty silly with the remnant of the history section starting at 2008.- gadfium 20:41, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
To report a minor error on the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33rd_New_Zealand_Parliament (and I am not confident enough to fix it)
The list of by-elections includes the 1963 Northern Maori by-election, and lists the winner as, and links to, Matiu Ratana. This is an earlier MP who died some 14 years before in 1949. The correct name is Matiu Rata - can be verified via the Northern Maori page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.93.80.116 ( talk) 08:26, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
We've had referenda about increasing the length of parliamentary terms in 1967 and 1990. John Key is now promoting the idea again, a Stuff.co.nz poll shows 61% support for it, it would require 75% support from MPs, but Key says that he'd only change if this was also supported in a referendum. So, should we have an article on the latest proposals yet, and if so, what should we call it? Future New Zealand parliamentary term referendum? Schwede 66 08:23, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
We should have a few articles on local elections; the mayoral elections in the bigger centres are certainly deserving of an article. So far, we have Christchurch sorted; we should also have articles for Auckland and Wellington at the very least. Schwede 66 06:31, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
By the end of the election day, the New Zealand local elections, 2013 article was in good shape. Good team effort; well done! If anybody feels inclined to pretty things up, the 2004 article has results boxes by region. At the very least, the way how incumbents are shown in that table is probably worth adopting. Schwede 66 19:20, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
I really don't think that it is either necessary nor desirable to disambiguate New Zealand electorate articles when disambiguation is not needed. And as for convention, we have discussed this before and there was no such thing as consensus. Schwede 66 00:45, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
I have copied this discussion to Category talk:Members of New Zealand provincial councils; please contribute there if you have further thoughts. Schwede 66 05:32, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
We have a Category:Members of New Zealand provincial councils with currently just over 100 articles. There have been hundreds of provincial councillors (I own a 1925 version of the 'New Zealand parliamentary record', which lists all of them), and whilst not all of them are notable, the number of articles is going to increase by quite some over time. I'm thinking of turning this into a meta-category, with membership of the respective provincial council as the subcategory. I'm unsure how to name this, but here are the options that I can think of:
Your thoughts would be welcome. Schwede 66 08:56, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
A new account - presumably operated by Street - has edited the Maryan Street article to adjust the dates that she was Labour Party president. I don't have a problem with COI here as the change, if accurate, is not controversial. However, the change conflicts with the dates in New Zealand Labour Party#List of presidents (and the previous version of Maryan Street also conflicted). Assuming the dates in Maryan Street are correct, the list of presidents needs an adjustment. Does anyone have a suitable source to do this?- gadfium 21:15, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
I'm suggesting that we change the standard structure of electorate articles and would like to get thoughts from my fellow editors. What we have at the moment is as follows:
What I'm suggesting is as follows:
Currently, history detail and election results are not together. It doesn't make sense to me that the election results are in descending order. I've done Christchurch East as a fairly complete article, but with the old structure. What do you think? Schwede 66 05:00, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
Ratana used to be a strong political force, holding all of the Māori electorates at some point. They are, however, not included in the list of political parties in New Zealand nor in the template of historic parties. Any reason why not? They were closely aligned to Labour, but they should get their own entry, shouldn't they? Schwede 66 03:17, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
A Stub Contest has been organised for next month.
The Stub Contest is a short intensive contest focusing on de-stubbing and expanding as many of Wikipedia's stub articles as possible.
This is being done as a competition (there are book vouchers to be won), but I suggest that we can do this regardless of this. As of today, 3,652 articles are classified as belonging to the WikiProject on New Zealand politics. Of those, 1,536 are rated as stubs. 68 are mid-importance articles, with the balance low-importance. How about we try to make a good dent into the list of stubs? We could, for example, aim to have all the mid-importance articles brought up to at least start class. Keen?
Here are links to various lists of stub articles:
The way I see it, there might be three aspect to this:
Some articles are already long enough and if so, only steps two and three might be necessary.
Who would like to join me? Schwede 66 03:07, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
There is template brokenness at the bottom of both Richard Worth and Rodney Hide. I suspect a change has been made to a template, but I'm not sure which. Stuartyeates ( talk) 00:41, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
{{s-par|nz}}
. The template must have been changed to display a big red error when an unrecognised value is entered. —
Andrew
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00:43, 18 July 2011 (UTC)Today on http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/IvoteNZ The orange guy said I'm in Wikipedia? Cool! (And a bunch of other stuff about elections in New Zealand) I'm not sure whether this counts as a press mention or wikipedia used as a source, but it sure is referential. Stuartyeates ( talk) 03:10, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
Template | Usage | Produces |
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{{ NZ electorate link}} | {{NZ electorate link|Auckland Central}} | Auckland Central |
{{ NZ election link year}} | {{NZ election link year|1853}} | 1853 |
{{ NZ election link}} | {{NZ election link|2011}} | 2011 election |
{{ By-election link year}} | {{By-election link year|Te Tai Tokerau|2011}} | 2011 |
{{ By-election link}} | {{By-election link|Mana|2010}} | 2010 by-election |
{{ By-election link small}} | {{By-election link small|Botany|2011}} | 2011 by-election |
{{ Party index link}} | {{Party index link|Independent politician}} | Independent |
Frustration at having to make up dozens of electorate & by-election links while editing List of New Zealand by-elections led me to create these templates:
Some #REDIRECT pages may be necessary to resolve those electorate article that don't follow our standard naming format.
Fan |
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05:19, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
Shortname | Colour | Article | |
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Political party list | #F8F9FA | Political party list | |
Independent | #DCDCDC | Independent politician |
Key (table layout) |
Independent |
Liberal |
Reform |
We've got a vast variety of styles for election results tables and I thought it would be useful to have an agreed template to work towards. I've thus copied an abbreviated table here that shows all the features that I think is current best practice. Please comment, so that what we've got here does in fact represent consensus.
KeyNote 1
Independent Reform United Labour Labour National
ElectionNote 2 | WinnerNote 3 | |
---|---|---|
1866 electionNote 4 | Edward Stevens | |
1871 election | William Reeves | |
1875 electionNote 5 | Cecil Fitzroy | |
1879 election | John Hall | |
1881 election | ||
1883 by-electionNote 6 | Edward James Lee | |
1884 by-election | Edward Wakefield | |
1884 election | ||
1887 election | John Hall | |
1890 election | Alfred Saunders | |
1893 election | ||
1896 election | Cathcart Wason | |
1899 election | Charles Hardy | |
1902 election | ||
1905 election | ||
1908 election | George M. ThomsonNote 10 | |
1911 election | ||
1914 election | Andrew WalkerNote 11 | |
(Electorate abolished 1919–1946)Note 7 | ||
1946 election | John McAlpine | |
1949 election | ||
1951 election | ||
1954 election | ||
1957 election | ||
1960 election | ||
1963 election | ||
1966 election | Colin McLachlan | |
1969 election | ||
(Electorate abolished 1972–1978, see Rakaia)Note 8 | ||
1978 election | Colin McLachlan | |
1981 election | Ruth Richardson | |
1984 election | ||
1987 election | ||
1990 election | ||
1993 election | ||
1994 by-election | David Carter | |
(Electorate abolished 1996–2008, see Banks Peninsula) | ||
2008 election | Amy AdamsNote 9 |
How does that sound? Schwede 66 01:42, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
Election | Winner | |
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1914 election | Andrew Walker | |
Election | Winner | |
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1928 election | Sydney George Smith | |
1931 election | ||
1935 election | ||
Election | Party | Winner | |
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1908 election | Independent | George M. Thomson | |
1911 election | Reform | ||
1914 election | United Labour | Andrew Walker | |
Labour |
I appreciate that could be a lot of work to go over all the electorate articles, but moving forward with new electorates would be a good start. Thoughts? Adabow ( talk) 02:53, 4 October 2014 (UTC)
Draft
Wikipedia:WikiProject_New_Zealand/Election_2011_taskforce page created. If there's anything you want to put your hand up for please drop by and add your name to a task.
Fan |
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03:41, 20 August 2011 (UTC)
I have added a tag to the category Category:Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives that it includes (all) members of all the subcategories eg by party, location of electorate, or by position eg prime minister, defence minister or cabinet minister etc. This is so that all members can be found readily without having to go into several subcategories (and more when subcategories are added for the North Island, with subcategories of the North Island for Auckland, Wellington and possibly other cities to come). At the moment some premiers/prime ministers do appear (eg William Fox (New Zealand)) and some do not appear (eg Robert Muldoon) in the “Members etc” category. Note: some ministers eg Mark Fagan were in the upper house (MLC), so will not be included. Hugo999 ( talk) 06:50, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
We once had a lengthy discussion on by-elections ( now archived). The conclusions were contained in two contributions:
I've now started the first template. Whilst not complete yet, it reflects what we discussed back then. And it's really easy to compile this because of the great work by Fanx of getting the list of by-elections completed (awesome work!). I'll carry on with this and will then start rolling it out and getting the old templates deleted. Chip in if you wish. Schwede 66 18:53, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
There seems to be a general consensus to move to a new format of electorate results in the election pages [2]. Does anyone object if I add a third place coloumn to the table for MMP elections? The width is still well within the page size and stopping after third place doesn't seem any less arbitary than stopping after second? Mattlore ( talk) 00:41, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
Electorate | Incumbent | Winner | Majority | Runner up | Third place | ||||
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East Coast | Anne Tolley | 4,774 | Moana Mackey † | Darryl Monteith † | |||||
Epsom | Rodney Hide | John Banks | 2,261 | Paul Goldsmith † | David Parker † |
Following on from this discussion. The more I consider it the more I think Candidates in the New Zealand general election xxxx by party is more useful than Party lists in the New Zealand general election, xxxx. Thoughts? All I really am proposing is renaming, adding a table at the end of party lists listing the electorate candidates not on the list (I was reading a useful article the other day that listed them somewhere...) and including the non-registered parties. Mattlore ( talk) 04:21, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
The Chairman of Committees (New Zealand) article doesn't have a list of office holders yet. The role was effectively that of the Deputy Speaker. I can start the list based on the one for the Speaker (example below), but I've got two high level queries:
# | Name | Took office | Left office | Speaker's party | Governing party |
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1 | Frederick Merriman | 1854 | 1855 | None | None |
2 | Hugh Carleton | 1856 | 1870 | None | None |
Ok, I've tidied up the pages for the Speakers of the New Zealand Legislative Council over the weekend, and the table on the list page has similar issues. I've drafted something using three sample lines, which should cover all the possible issues. Does anybody have any thoughts on possible further improvements before I recode the whole table? Schwede 66 05:12, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
Name | Took Office | Left Office | Speaker's Party | Governing Party | |
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1 | William Swainson | 1854 | 1855 | None | None |
2 | Frederick Whitaker | 1855 | 1856 | None | None |
William Fitzherbert, 2nd time | 1887 | 1890 | None | None | |
William Fitzherbert, continued | 1890 | 1891 | None | Liberal |
Key
Name | In office | Gov't | ||
1 | William Swainson | 16 May 1854 – 8 August 1855 | ||
2 | Frederick Whitaker | 8 August 1855 – 12 May 1856 | ||
(5) | William Fitzherbert 2nd time | 21 September 1887 – 23 January 1891 | ||
1 Died in office
2 Reappointed at end of member's term
Fan |
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00:29, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
I have a few things that I'd like to achieve this year and I thought that it might be useful to share this, because once we start collaborating on these things, we can achieve a lot more and go about it more thoroughly. For starters, I'll just put a bullet list up with only few indications of priority:
Things that I'll be doing on the side without a particular target:
Things that could be tackled when the 2012 to do list is complete:
With regards to the Legislative Council, what is holding me back is that my reference book (Scholefield's Parliamentary history of New Zealand) goes only to 1949, so I'm missing the last year of appointments including the Suicide squad (New Zealand). If anybody had the list of appointments from 1949 onwards, I'd get the list article going and the number of redlinks would show us how much work is involved.
I'm sure there's other things that I've had on my mind, but that's all that I could think of for now. Schwede 66 04:43, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi Schwede:
A possible article I have in mind for 2012 is “Record of members of parliament of New Zealand” along the lines of Records of members of parliament of the United Kingdom, with oldest, youngest, longest and shortest serving etc.
Re Mayors of Lower Hutt I have a History of Lower Hutt with a list of borough and city mayors from 1891 to 1970 (when Kennedy-Good took office)
Re MLCs and working towards an article on every MLC as for the MHRs, I have borrowed the 1984 edition of J.O. Wilson which has all the MLCs; and though not by date it would be simple to pull those (20?) appointed 22.6.1950 as members of the suicide squad. However Polson was actually appointed on 15.3.1950, was he regarded as a member of the suicide squad? On MLCs, is a separate category for those who were ministers from the upper house (like David Wilson) worthwhile; this seems to me to be a mark of distinction for some MLCs.
Re MLCs generally I favour (as said above) having the main category include all MLCs as for MHRs (and electorates) so that there is one category where any MLC can be found by name (as for all MHRs, and also for all electorates). With a template to go straight to the first letter of surnames there is no problem with categories containing several thousand names. Navigation is only slow with very large categories like Category:Living people containing over 552,000 articles, and the need to use a template based on the first two letters which means that finding names in that category is slow. Hugo999 ( talk) 23:39, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
Well, Hugo999 was so kind to look up the members of the Suicide squad and I've used that as a basis to start the list article for Legislative Council members. I'm doing this in the following way:
So this is progressing quite well. If anybody feels like it, they could carry on adding blue links starting with letter 'R'. I would add the terms when back from a short wikibreak. Schwede 66 19:42, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
(discussion copied from Alan Liefting's talk page) Fanx ( talk) 03:07, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
Why are you recategorising NZ electorates to NZ [Region] electorates? Splitting them up now means a visitor or editor accessing through categories needs good geographic knowledge, or will have to search through several regional categories to find anything. At the very least this change should have been proposed at
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject New Zealand/politics before being started.
Fan |
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08:49, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
Is it worth keeping Bright Future (policy)? Unreffed, hard to find refs and a dead ext link to the official govt page. -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 05:18, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
I'm interested in creating articles on by-elections but I can't seem to find any data that is not online. I don't really have the time to go to a library but am interested in knowing if there is any other way to find data on New Zealand by-elections aside from getting a book from the library (or buying one). I'd be interested in creating by-elections articles relating to Dunedin and the South Island, if that is of any help. JaumeBG ( talk) 13:50, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
Some sources for you:
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01:19, 8 May 2014 (UTC)I've proposed a formal move request for George William Forbes. Depending on what others think, I may put up a range of other PMs (and Premiers) up for renaming, so you might like to put your considered opinions forward. Schwede 66 05:35, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
The Canterbury Association was an English group of Anglicans that hatched a colonisation scheme, and the Canterbury region is the result of their grand plan. Some of them emigrated to New Zealand, but many of them never had the intention of coming here. So far, so good. The Canterbury Association existed for only a few years before it got dissolved. In a quest of finding out a bit more about the group, its membership was researched for a series of books on The History of Canterbury. In Volume I, the group's membership is listed (in Appendix IV) - I count 84 members. After Volume I was published, a memorial tablet was installed in ChristChurch Cathedral.
The vast majority of them already have articles on Wikipedia. I'm guessing that all of them would meet notability criteria. I once created a category and am working my way through the list (so far, I have done 30 members; a further five that I've looked at don't have an article yet).
My question to you - should members of the Canterbury Association come under the scope of this Wikiproject? I would think that this is the case. But before I go ahead and tag the articles, I thought I better ask. Schwede 66 23:10, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
All the infoboxes for MPs who represented Ratana are broken (see Eruera Tirikatene and Haami Tokouru Ratana for example). I can't work out what the problem is, so this will need to be solved by some one more techie than me. Helenalex ( talk) 01:05, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
A large portion of the history section of ACT New Zealand has been removed because it has lacked references for over two years, and has accumulated a number of other maintenance templates. I think a lot of this would be really easy to reference, particularly the election results. Other parts may need to be rewritten to avoid original research. Anyone feel like having a go at this? The article looks pretty silly with the remnant of the history section starting at 2008.- gadfium 20:41, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
To report a minor error on the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33rd_New_Zealand_Parliament (and I am not confident enough to fix it)
The list of by-elections includes the 1963 Northern Maori by-election, and lists the winner as, and links to, Matiu Ratana. This is an earlier MP who died some 14 years before in 1949. The correct name is Matiu Rata - can be verified via the Northern Maori page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.93.80.116 ( talk) 08:26, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
We've had referenda about increasing the length of parliamentary terms in 1967 and 1990. John Key is now promoting the idea again, a Stuff.co.nz poll shows 61% support for it, it would require 75% support from MPs, but Key says that he'd only change if this was also supported in a referendum. So, should we have an article on the latest proposals yet, and if so, what should we call it? Future New Zealand parliamentary term referendum? Schwede 66 08:23, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
We should have a few articles on local elections; the mayoral elections in the bigger centres are certainly deserving of an article. So far, we have Christchurch sorted; we should also have articles for Auckland and Wellington at the very least. Schwede 66 06:31, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
By the end of the election day, the New Zealand local elections, 2013 article was in good shape. Good team effort; well done! If anybody feels inclined to pretty things up, the 2004 article has results boxes by region. At the very least, the way how incumbents are shown in that table is probably worth adopting. Schwede 66 19:20, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
I really don't think that it is either necessary nor desirable to disambiguate New Zealand electorate articles when disambiguation is not needed. And as for convention, we have discussed this before and there was no such thing as consensus. Schwede 66 00:45, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
I have copied this discussion to Category talk:Members of New Zealand provincial councils; please contribute there if you have further thoughts. Schwede 66 05:32, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
We have a Category:Members of New Zealand provincial councils with currently just over 100 articles. There have been hundreds of provincial councillors (I own a 1925 version of the 'New Zealand parliamentary record', which lists all of them), and whilst not all of them are notable, the number of articles is going to increase by quite some over time. I'm thinking of turning this into a meta-category, with membership of the respective provincial council as the subcategory. I'm unsure how to name this, but here are the options that I can think of:
Your thoughts would be welcome. Schwede 66 08:56, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
A new account - presumably operated by Street - has edited the Maryan Street article to adjust the dates that she was Labour Party president. I don't have a problem with COI here as the change, if accurate, is not controversial. However, the change conflicts with the dates in New Zealand Labour Party#List of presidents (and the previous version of Maryan Street also conflicted). Assuming the dates in Maryan Street are correct, the list of presidents needs an adjustment. Does anyone have a suitable source to do this?- gadfium 21:15, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
I'm suggesting that we change the standard structure of electorate articles and would like to get thoughts from my fellow editors. What we have at the moment is as follows:
What I'm suggesting is as follows:
Currently, history detail and election results are not together. It doesn't make sense to me that the election results are in descending order. I've done Christchurch East as a fairly complete article, but with the old structure. What do you think? Schwede 66 05:00, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
Ratana used to be a strong political force, holding all of the Māori electorates at some point. They are, however, not included in the list of political parties in New Zealand nor in the template of historic parties. Any reason why not? They were closely aligned to Labour, but they should get their own entry, shouldn't they? Schwede 66 03:17, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
A Stub Contest has been organised for next month.
The Stub Contest is a short intensive contest focusing on de-stubbing and expanding as many of Wikipedia's stub articles as possible.
This is being done as a competition (there are book vouchers to be won), but I suggest that we can do this regardless of this. As of today, 3,652 articles are classified as belonging to the WikiProject on New Zealand politics. Of those, 1,536 are rated as stubs. 68 are mid-importance articles, with the balance low-importance. How about we try to make a good dent into the list of stubs? We could, for example, aim to have all the mid-importance articles brought up to at least start class. Keen?
Here are links to various lists of stub articles:
The way I see it, there might be three aspect to this:
Some articles are already long enough and if so, only steps two and three might be necessary.
Who would like to join me? Schwede 66 03:07, 26 November 2013 (UTC)