Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand

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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The time in New Zealand is June 29, 2024

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

Related projects and sub-projects
Closely related projects and sub-projects include: Projects with some geographical overlap include:
 * Māori sub-project
 * Music sub-project
 * Politics sub-project
 * Law 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
 * Performing Arts Aotearoa Wikiproject
 * Pacific Arts Aotearoa
 * Women in Architecture Aotearoa WikiProject
 * National parks collaboration project
 * Christchurch Taskforce
 * 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 and meetups
Add your name to the list at WikiProject New Zealand/Members

Member identification
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New editors
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 * New Zealand Wikipedians by location

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Requested articles
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Specific articles
'''Requests for New Zealand related articles can be found at WikiProject New Zealand/Requested articles. Please add any articles you would like created, or believe are missing to the list there.'''

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 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

 * Culture of New Zealand this high importance article needs work - please jump into the talk page with thoughts / anaylsis
 * 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?
 * Crown Fibre Holdings
 * British Empire – very little mention of New Zealand in here
 * NZX – 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 of New Zealand – add few edits in last 2 years and needs references.
 * Refugees in New Zealand – needs expanding
 * European New Zealanders – needs urgent expanding.
 * Aotearoa Music Awards – 'Tui_award_winners_YEAR' page slowly being deleted, information needs moving to 'YEAR in New Zealand' pages and formatting.
 * 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)
 * IP presumably means they allowed them to choose between the British or American systems, i.e. "reader" or "associate professor", etc. Furius (talk) 22:20, 20 March 2023 (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
 * 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.
 * Lyttelton, New Zealand - Article is messy, hard to read. Needs work as of 22/04/2020.--Violetnights (talk) 09:41, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
 * RBNZ - Needs much expansion
 * Skiing in New Zealand - Article is very high level with no discussion on the history of skiing within New Zealand
 * Sheep shearing relates almost entirely to Australia. Some NZ content would be welcome.

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: and its subtypes
 * Category: Oceania stubs – oceania-stub

''(Note that stub templates and categories are organised by 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 WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types/New Zealand.)''

Larger

 * Office of Film and Literature Classification (New Zealand) – needs references think I've finished this. Nauseous Man (talk) 20:07, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
 * 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 ; 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) it has had work since 2014 and I believe is imporoved Pakoire (talk) 10:26, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Right to privacy in New Zealand needs an update for the new Privacy Act 2020. this has been done. Pakoire (talk) 10:27, 2 June 2023 (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
Notes: country music awards rianz History nzmusicawards ARIA Triple J Triple_J
 * 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

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 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 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 WikiProject New Zealand/Assessment for articles that require assessment.
 * Work on articles in categories below:


 * Add Module:Location map/data/New Zealand to all |cities, 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.

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