Talk:Cashmere, New Zealand

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Cashmere should appear in the first fews of the lead sentence, not at the very end. Manderiko 16:24, 25 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Have done. Thanks for point it out. --Lee Begg 03:31, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Maori name
There is a common habit in WP of adding translations of a place name at the start of an article, which was done here today and removed by me. The guidelines (sorry I cannot find a link) are clear - add a foreign name if that name appears in a significantly large number of English language sources. NOT, because the topic has a connection of sorts with a foreign language. The Maori name added does not appear in a sizeable number of reliable English sources. In fact it is not a translation of Cashmere suburb in any case. A valid use of a foreign name is, eg, The River Plate, (Spanish - Rio de la Plata), because the Spanish term is very often used in English sources, perhaps today more commonly than River Plate. Roger 8 Roger (talk) 09:58, 22 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi, the Māori name for Cashmere is Te Iringa-o-Kahukura (more precisely it's in the lower parts of the suburb itself). This should be mentioned better then it currently is, since Māori history is significantly important to chch history. I will incorporate the content removed if no objections are made, (note: having the mindset of "I just don't like it" isn't a valid point to make in a discussion.) There obviously is notable connections with Māori and Cashmere compared to somewhere like Spreydon or Merivale, and there is some references supporting this claim (mostly book sources). Alexeyevitch (talk) 10:22, 22 May 2024 (UTC)