Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand

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Some Wikipedians have formed a WikiProject to better organise information in articles related to New Zealand. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please enquire on the talk page.

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Title

WikiProject New Zealand

Scope

This WikiProject covers all subjects closely related to New Zealand, including its history, geography, people, biodiversity, and many other topics.

As of 18 January 2021, there are 51,036 articles within the scope of WikiProject New Zealand, of which 77 are featured. This makes up 0.82% of the articles on Wikipedia and 0.8% of featured articles and lists. Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, etcetera, there are 129,992 pages in the project.

Related projects and sub-projects

Closely related projects and sub-projects include:

• Māori sub-project
• Music sub-project
• Politics sub-project
• Critter of the Week task force
• New Zealand – Content task force
• New Zealand task force of the military history project
• New Zealand railways project
• Oceania Highways task force
• New Zealand cinema task force
• West Coast task force
• WikiProject Auckland
• New Zealand meetups and edit-a-thons
• New Zealand Wikipedian at Large

Projects with some geographical overlap include:

• WikiProject Polynesia
  • WikiProject Polynesia/Tokelau work group
• WikiProject Antarctica

Project guidelines

• Naming conventions (New Zealand)
• List of adjectival and demonymic forms for countries and nations for use of "New Zealander" as a demonym but "New Zealand" as an adjective

Members

Add your name to the list at Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/Members

Member identification

Members of WikiProject New Zealand should place one of the following lines of Wikitext on their user page to add it to Category:WikiProject New Zealand members.

Wikitext	userbox	where used
[[Category:WikiProject New Zealand members]]	none	linked pages
{{Template:User WikiProject New Zealand}}	This user is a member of WikiProject New Zealand.	linked pages
{{Template:User WP New Zealand}}	This user is a member of WikiProject New Zealand.	linked pages
{{Template:User WP New Zealand|invite}}	This user invites you to join WikiProject New Zealand.	linked pages

For other New Zealand user templates see Category:New Zealand user templates.

• Wikipedia:New Zealand Wikipedians by location

Article alerts

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NZ biographies

Many New Zealand biographies are yet to be written, including for many people who have an entry in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. The Women in Red project which supports the creation of biographies about women, has developed a Wikidata list of red linked women from New Zealand based on articles in other language versions of Wikipedia. Please note the guideline for notability of New Zealand people.

Requested images

If an article needs an image add {{Image requested|in=New Zealand}} to the articles' talk page.

Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in New Zealand lists all pages for which an image has been requested. Suitable historic photos may be found on the website of the National Library; please follow these instructions.

Pages needing work

• Transmission Gully page needs updating in light of the decision to build this route as of 15/Dec/2009 Stuff article
• New Zealand Indoor Bowls Base of article is there, needs some grammatical issues fixed and any other helful edits please
• Women's suffrage in New Zealand – this has a very negative spin on it towards NZ, maybe less about the fact NZ was not the first 'independent' nation to give woman the vote (according to the article) and more on the actual movement?
• Wellington – needs expansion, especially lead section, would advise it to be modelled after Canberra or Washington, D.C. articles. Images and illustration are fine, its the content and references that need significant reworking and cleaning.
• Crown Fibre Holdings
• Auckland – Need quick improvement on Lead Section of article, need more info, blunt facts of the area etc.
• British Empire – very little mention of New Zealand in here
• New Zealand Exchange – needs much expansion
• Rakino Island – Needs cleaning up and referencing
• ANZAC Day – Needs to have more NZ related information – biased towards AUS.
• Socialist Unity Party (New Zealand) – add few edits in last 2 years and needs references.
• Refugee migration into New Zealand – needs expanding
• New Zealand European – needs urgent expanding.
• New Zealand Music Awards – 'Tui_award_winners_YEAR' page slowly being deleted, information needs moving to 'YEAR in New Zealand' pages and formatting.
• Trams in New Zealand – History of Trams in New Zealand may need more work (has been split from Trams in Australasia).
• Rūnanga – a major concept in Māori politics and culture. Currently a stub.
• Professor and Reader (academic rank) need work.
  • Some of the stuff doesn't describe the situation in NZ very well IMHO. For example, Professor used to suggest that NZ universities use Reader not Associate Professor. I don't know which universities use Reader instead of Associate Professor but I know UoA doesn't and from a quick Google; Massey, Waikato, Victoria, Otago and Canterbury all use Associate Professor so I fixed the article to say most NZ universities use AP. The reader article doesn't really describe this well and I haven't fixed it. 203.109.240.93 00:49, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
  • I believe the University of NZ used to use the British system but as time goes on more academics are using the American system. In the 1990s Lincoln University allowed its lecturers to choose.
    • That wouldn't make sense in general, as a Professor is a much higher rank in New Zealand than it is in the US, if lecturers could simply "choose" to be full professors (skipping senior lecturer and associate professor ranks) it would be too confusing. No university I know of does that.CoronaryKea (talk) 10:47, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
• Clint Brown – needs expanding – career details added
• New Zealand local elections, 2004 – only 4 regions done in detail
• New Zealand local elections, 2007 – I have just added the region but only 4 done Whakaoriori (talk) 11:58, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
• Current general and Māori electorates linked from New Zealand electorates require details of population centres and history as most are section stubs
• Kiwi – (see Bald eagle) Need lengthier documentation and discovery notes and much more information needed.
• Takahē – An iconic species, needs cleaning up at least
• Lance Adams-Schneider – Needs expansion, focusing on his stint as NZ ambassador to the US
• Parliaments of New Zealand – i.e. 3rd Parliament of New Zealand, 4th etc. – needs detail of Members, maybe going through other articles most of the information could be scraped together. Also early General elections (i.e. New Zealand general election, 1884.
• HMNZS Kiama – the section on her 24 years in the RNZN is almost entirely unreferenced, and is a bit sparse given the length of service (1952–1976).
• Alcohol in New Zealand – needs expanding. I've taken a fair bit of material from other more complete pages, but needs more work.
• Tertiary education in New Zealand – I created this article by copying a whole lot of material from elsewhere. Needs more citations! Help would be appreciated! Ballofstring (talk) 00:51, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
• Brian Lochore – article on one of NZ's most prominent sportsmen is only slightly longer than stub length.
• Premiership of Jacinda Ardern – Content and citations need to be added
• Lyttelton, New Zealand - Article is messy, hard to read. Needs work as of 22/04/2020.--Violetnights (talk) 09:41, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
• Template talk:Māori Party/meta/color- could I get some input on my proposed colour change here?

Stubs

Stub categories

• Category:New Zealand stubs – {{NewZealand-stub}}
  • Category:New Zealand geography stubs – {{NewZealand-geo-stub}}
    • (this is now mainly divided by region – see the category for more details)
  • Category:New Zealand people stubs – {{NewZealand-bio-stub}}
    • Category:New Zealand academic biography stubs – {{NewZealand-academic-bio-stub}}
    • Category:New Zealand politician stubs – {{NewZealand-politician-stub}}
    • Category:New Zealand musician stubs – {{NewZealand-musician-stub}}
    • Category:New Zealand sportspeople stubs – {{NewZealand-sport-bio-stub}}
      • Category:New Zealand cricket biography stubs – {{NewZealand-cricket-bio-stub}}
      • Category:New Zealand rugby league biography stubs – {{NewZealand-rugbyleague-bio-stub}}
      • Category:New Zealand rugby union biography stubs – {{NewZealand-rugbyunion-bio-stub}}
      • Category:New Zealand football (soccer) biography stubs – {{NewZealand-footy-bio-stub}}
  • Category:New Zealand musical group stubs – {{NewZealand-band-stub}}
  • Category:New Zealand media stubs – {{NewZealand-radio-station-stub}}
  • Category:New Zealand university stubs – {{NewZealand-university-stub}}
  • Category:New Zealand school stubs – {{NewZealand-school-stub}}
  • Category:New Zealand building and structure stubs – {{NewZealand-struct-stub}}
  • Category:New Zealand organisation stubs – {{NewZealand-org-stub}}

more items may be found in:

• Category: Oceania stubs – {{oceania-stub}}

and its subtypes

(Note that stub templates and categories are organised by Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting – new stub types should not be created without first being proposed and debated at WP:WSS/P). A list of existing New Zealand stubs can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types/New Zealand.)

Larger

• Office of Film and Literature Classification (New Zealand) – needs references
• Most of the Category:New Zealand electorates need just election results data transferred from election and Parliament websites, all results from 1999 should be on the pages in {{MMP election box}}; see Hamilton East (New Zealand electorate) for an example. Am now creating stub articles for the remaining historic electorates without an article; see redlinks in e.g. Wellington Suburbs – (in progress - user:Hugo999).
• Disney Channel (Australia and New Zealand) – is in desperate need of re-write so that it will be consistent and re-formatting so it will be readable. There are section headers and difficult to follow information all over the page.
• Colin McCahon page is in need of significant attention. New content and sorting of information required. Further research within source already cited would be a good starting point. --Clawsyclaw (talk) 03:21, 5 November 2014 (UTC)

Year in New Zealand

The article (see Category:Years in New Zealand) have quite a few updates needed. Please add suggestions below and mark which years complete or cross them off when done.

The categories for each year need to be populated with things other than election results and cricket.

Big items.

• Reference everything – even though it links to another article which is referenced.
• Finish adding population section (between 1858 and 1926) (in progress – user:dramatic)

• There are still some gaps in the incumbents section between 1907 and 1927
• Fill out sports sections:
  • Remove competitions which didn't exist – or remove listings devoid of actual info completely.
  • Olympics and commonwealth/Empire – only in games years.
  • Rugby, Summarize All Black series, National championship results, Ranfurly Shield etc.
  • Cricket Same.
  • Golf – NZ Open, NZPGA
  • Horse racing – major races
  • Rugby league
  • netball
  • Soccer : Chatham cup now completed. Provincial league winners from 1891 – 1968 completed. Internationals complete from 1900-1960's
  • Basketball (post 1970)

• Events: make sure all articles under Category:History of New Zealand are linked.
• Create Summary for each year.

Music

• Tui Awards History
• Tui removed prior to 1999
• APRA award inserted for appropriate years
• RIANZ award inserted from 1978 to 1998
• RIANZ winner inserted
• No award existed for 1977
• RATA award inserted for 1973 to 1976
• RATA award winner inserted
• Loxene Gold disc award from 1965 to 1972
• Loxene winner inserted
• ARIA award removed (ARIA is an AUSTRALIAN music award
• Triple J content removed from every page. Triple J is anAUSTRALIAN radio station.
• New Zealand Top 50 Albums of 19xx removed from inappropriate articles

Notes: country music awards rianz History nzmusicawards ARIA Triple J Triple_J

Radio

• references to radio broadcasting checked to be accurate
• references to television broadcasting checked to be accurate

Film / Movies

• See Category:19xx film awards of 19xx removed from inappropriate articles

Economy

New section. Determine what stats to incorporate.

Government

• Update 2014 in New Zealand#Government to reflect the results of the New Zealand general election, 2014
• Update electorate results to reflect the 2014 election in the following: Rotorua (New Zealand electorate), Tāmaki (New Zealand electorate), Tauranga (New Zealand electorate), Te Atatū (New Zealand electorate), Tukituki (New Zealand electorate), Waikato (New Zealand electorate),Wairarapa (New Zealand electorate), Whangarei (New Zealand electorate), Waimakariri (New Zealand electorate), Waitaki (New Zealand electorate), Hauraki-Waikato, Ikaroa-Rāwhiti, Tāmaki Makaurau, Te Tai Tonga, Waiariki (New Zealand electorate).

Other suggested work

• Use Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/Popular pages as a means of prioritising article improvements.
• Maintain and improve the featured Portal:New Zealand.
  • Add more points to Portal:New Zealand/Did you know
  • Add more articles to Portal:New Zealand/Selected article
• Looking at "What links here" for NZ-related articles can often turn up uncategorised NZ articles. Categorising them (even simply as Category:New Zealand for now) will put them somewhere where they can be accessed for improvement.
• View Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/Assessment for articles that require assessment.
• Work on articles in categories below:

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► New Zealand articles needing attention

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► Wikipedia requested photographs in New Zealand

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► New Zealand articles needing infoboxes

• Add Module:Location map/data/New Zealand to all towns and communities in New Zealand. Just start somewhere and work your way through... Oakura, Oamaru, Oaonui, Oban, etc... See Template:Location map for instructions.
  • Template:Location map North Island and Template:Location map South Island are also available if you want a higher resolution map.
• Articles in Category:Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives should be added to appropriate subcategories as well as to the main category; i.e. MPs by location and by party that they represent in Parliament. Note: this includes independents.
• Listeriabot page for recipients of New Zealand honours. First table (red list) can be used to see who might be notable enough for a Wikipedia page, second table can be used to see who should have an existing honour listed on their Wikipedia page.

Templates

Project banner

Place {{WPNZ|class=|importance=}} onto any new New Zealand article's talk page for it to be recognised and assessed under the project's scope. An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters and helps organise relevant articles for improvement. When assessed, the class and importance parameters are filled in, like this:

{{WPNZ|class=Start|importance=Mid}}

and the banner looks like this:

WikiProject New Zealand	(Rated Start-class, Mid-importance)
v t e This article is within the scope of WikiProject New Zealand, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of New Zealand and New Zealand-related topics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.New ZealandWikipedia:WikiProject New ZealandTemplate:WikiProject New ZealandNew Zealand articles  Start  This article has been rated as Start-Class on the project's quality scale.  Mid  This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

For more information visit the assessment page: Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/Assessment

Invitation

To invite a user to the WikiProject, place {{subst:WikiProject New Zealand invitation}} ~~~~ on their user talk page. This will give

This is an invitation to WikiProject New Zealand, a WikiProject which aims to develop and expand Wikipedia's articles on New Zealand. Please feel free to join us.

Barnstar

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Usage

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New Zealand COTM

The current New Zealand collaboration is None. Every month a different New Zealand-related topic, stub or non-existent article is picked. Please read the nomination text and improve the article any way you can.

NZ Standard time

Use {{Time|NZST}} to produce:

07:20, 19 January 2021 NZDT [refresh]

It will switch between NZST and NZDT at the appropriate times

Categories

• List of all subpages of this page

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External links

• Government datasets online
• New Zealand Gazetteer of Place Names from Land Information NZ – searchable database of official (and some unofficial) place names
• Census Data at Statistics NZ
• Te Ara – The Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
  • 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
  • Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
• Companies Office company and organisation registers, detailed records of all NZ companies with links to annual reports and other docs
• Papers Past scanned pages of NZ newspapers and periodicals, 1839 to 1950
• New Zealand Electronic Text Collection, including many linkable photos
• ONZ Biographical Notes Biographical notes of some notable New Zealanders.
• Insolvency Register Details of New Zealanders in financial straits, including useful details
• Charities Register Details of all charities in New Zealand, with details.
• Te Kāhui Māngai (Directory of Iwi and Māori Organisations) Maps and locations of iwi and Māori organisations
• Watchlist for WikiProject New Zealand
• New Zealand info at Wikivoyage, the Wikimedia alternative to Wikitravel