Talk:Tāmaki Makaurau

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"...a thousand lovers"? A hundred surely? Or is this mistranslation in fact the popular version? Or is it merely translating an impressively large number with another impressively large number? Koro Neil (talk) 11:32, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Proposed split
My reading of the matter is that the 1999 to 2002 electorate was a different one, and the change was not merely a name change.  Schwede 66  19:49, 11 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Qualified Support It surprised me that this electorate article had subsumed the Hauraki Maori electorate. Also, there aren't any MMP results for Hauraki here, or anywhere else either? However, we need to be carefully with the naming, because Hauraki (New Zealand electorate) also refers to a general electorate (1928 to 1972, 1981 to 1987 and 1993 to 1996) which was sometimes called Coromandel. That page is also an indication of a precedent, that a new electorate name leads to new Wikipedia article (the Coromandel and Hauraki general electorates do not share a page). Ridcully Jack (talk) 21:35, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
 * It's not unusual for there to be no MMP results; you will hardly find any 1999 electorate-level MMP results on Wikipedia  Schwede 66  22:05, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Qualified Support I am against any naming that doesn't follow the standard Foo (New Zealand electorate) since it compromises templates and breaks convention (your suggestion on the project page would mean templates would point to a #REDIRECT of Hauraki (Māori electorate) (New Zealand electorate). I would support Hauraki Māori (New Zealand electorate), or similar. It may be a bit of a fudge, but the problem lies with elections.govt.nz in bizarrely recycling an electorate name in such an inappropriate manner. Fan &#124;  talk  &#124; 08:17, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Since the old Hauraki Maori electorate isn't particularly important, I've changed my support to the same qualified support; the name of the new page has to be chosen to work with the templates as seamlessly as possible (even if it's a little clumsy). Ridcully Jack (talk) 08:46, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I have no qualms with the article name, even if it's clumsy. To me, the important thing is that it gets done; I just wanted to make sure that my reading of the situation is right, and that it's not a rather unusual case of the electorate having been renamed without an underlying geographic shift.  Schwede 66  09:17, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
 * The electorate definitely changed when the name changed; it went as far as Coromandel under the old Hauraki name. I'm having difficulty finding a primary source to cite for my recollection though. Ridcully Jack (talk) 10:13, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
 * The only reason the 1999 Hauraki electorate was appended here was that its natural name was already occupied by the general electorate of Hauraki - since it didn't have a unique logical namespace it was orphaned to this article. If we're in agreement that a suitable name can be applied then by all means proceed with it ... I notice the election table is already sandboxed. Fan &#124;  talk  &#124; 11:12, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

request move
I think that the title of this article should be changed to "Tāmaki Makaurau (electorate)" because the primary topic for "Tāmaki Makaurau" is Auckland.Abbreviated derail hysteria disorder (talk) 08:55, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Well, a hatnote currently deals with it so that should be fine. However, if this title is going to be turned into a redirect, then the dab should be "New Zealand electorate" to be consistent with all other New Zealand electorates that need a dab.  Schwede 66  20:49, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
 * I agree with Abbreviated derail hysteria disorder. The way it is currently is confusing and misleading. E James Bowman (talk) 00:10, 1 June 2020 (UTC)