Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/Collaboration/Removed

List of New Zealand-related topics
Needs a fair bit of work in many places. In theory should be a good overview page pointing to the most important articles about New Zealand.
 * Nominated on 23 April 2006, needs 2 votes by 8 May 2006


 * Support as nominator.- SimonLyall 05:22, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Removed 8 May 2006: lack of votes

Air New Zealand Flight 901

 * Nominated on 4 May 2006, needs 2 votes by 18 May 2006

(Mt Erebus disaster) - Clearly not a stub but I was surprised by how little there was on this. Its not exactly a sraightforward subject but one that is clearly deserving of better coverage. There is little discussion of the most probable reason for the crash (i.e. the coordinates being set without the crew being notified). Currently Mt Erebus disaster redirects to this but I would suggest that we re-name it Mt Erebus Disaster and set up a redirect from Air New Zealand Flight 901
 * Support as nominator -- PageantUpdater 07:11, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Removed 19 May 2006: Lack of votes

Contiki Tours
This is up for deletion but looks like it will be kept. If it is indeed kept, I believe it is a worthy candidate for a workover. This is a notable company in terms of its impace on New Zealand youth, and deserves some attention.
 * Nominated on 24 April 2006, needs 4 votes by 23 May 2006


 * Support as nominator.- PageantUpdater 03:38, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Support. This company has operated in Canada for years. I had no idea it was a Kiwi company until I saw this. Fluit 01:14, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Beware .Beware  .Beware. Don't work on this article just yet. For a start, it's a copyvio, a direct  verbatim steal from http://www.contiki.com/en-NZ/About.Us/Index.htm  Also, that cut and paste is from Contiki Holidays which may be a completetly different company  from Contiki Tours . Will need checking. No, apparently it's the parent company. Moriori 02:34, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment, Whether we need to start from scratch or not, the "Contiki" conception deserves a decent article. Once we sort out the exact title (perhaps just "Contiki") it shouldn't be that difficult to find information from reliable sources. PageantUpdater 03:35, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Removed 21 May 2006: Lack of votes

Carless days

 * Nominated 06:10, 8 May 2006 (UTC), needs 2 votes by 22 May 2006

Little bigger than a stub at present, but quite a bit more could clearly be written about it by people in the know (and a picture or two would be good). Most of thge information currently there is sketchy, to say the least, and needs thoroughly expanding.
 * Support as nominator. Grutness...wha?  06:10, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment: Is there much information readily available about the subject, preferably online, or in local libraries?-gadfium 06:53, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
 * googling "Carless days" + Muldoon gives about 200 hits, and any library large enough to have a newspaper archive on microfiche will have something. Grutness...wha?  08:25, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
 * there are a number of biographies on Muldoon about which should mention something. --Midnighttonight 08:31, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Removed 21 May 2006: Lack of votes
 * Comment what time period should be covered? Carless days in the 1970s or the history of Carless days (including the proposal of carless days more recently)? If you want to write something about carless days (or proposed carless days) 1995-2006 there are many news articles on the web (I searched Newztext Plus and got 169), but of course its harder to find earlier articles etc. PageantUpdater 08:45, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Currently it deals with the 1970s legislation, but anything relevant about more recent carless days proposals could probably be worked in too... I dunno - what do others think? Grutness...wha?  09:45, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Winebox Inquiry
Winston Peters ‘Famous’ investigation; in the 90's. We should have an article on it, and how it caused a major political 'scandal' It went on for a few years.
 * Nominated on 23 April 2006, needs 6 votes by 4 June 2006

Removed 5 June 2006: Lack of votes
 * 1) Support as nominator. Brian | (Talk) 04:53, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Support.  This was a big topic.  A huge topic indeed.  And something which is little understood.  Having a quality readable article on it would be a fantastic service to the people of NZ.  --Midnighttonight 05:41, 23 April 2006 (UTC) Conditional support.  Supporting on the condition that some other article is the collab between this one and Peter Ellis. --Midnighttonight 05:48, 29 April 2006 (UTC) (this can now be read as a straight out support --Midnighttonight 23:51, 10 May 2006 (UTC))
 * 3) Support. I find 280 google hits for "Winebox Inquiry" (with quotes), and 200 of them from NZ pages, so there seems to be plenty of raw material to work from.-gadfium 08:27, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment. At Arty Bee Books in Wellington (Manners St, next to the Body Shop) they have a copy of the papers Winston presented to the inquiry for sale if anyone is that dedicated to go out an buy it.  --Midnighttonight 09:47, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment: After doing Peter Ellis something a little less controversal first would be nice. - SimonLyall 07:10, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
 * We don't have to do this right away :) lets leave it till next time, (in 3/4 weeks) hows that sound? Brian | (Talk) 09:35, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
 * As Weta was nominated first, I think we go with that before this. Although, I don't think this will be as controversial as there are less people with strong views on it.   It might be good to place something in the criteria about avoiding too many controversial topics, at least until the collaboration gets sizable.  --Midnighttonight 01:52, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Actually, what we do in nine days time is promote whichever article currently has the most support votes, with special provisions in case of a tie. If you don't want to see this article as the next collaboration, hold off voting for it until after that. It has enough votes already that it won't disappear.-gadfium 02:05, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) Support. Avenue 00:05, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Support. --Konstable 06:49, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

New Zealand Police sexual misconduct trials

 * Nominated 25 May 2006, needs 4 votes by 22 June 2006

I'm not too fussed about the exact title, but we need an article on the Louise Nicholas trial which would also cover the new case against the same three men. What we currently have is a small section at New Zealand Police. It's a problematic subject because there's a minefield of suppression orders on details of both cases. There are earlier cases which the article could cover as well. There's lots of material in newspapers; not sure about other resources available. Removed 23 June 2006: Lack of votes
 * 1) Support as nominator.-gadfium 06:14, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Support. No suggestions for the name however. --Midnighttonight 09:19, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) Oppose. I am sure there are current and nonexisting articles that are more worthy of a collaboration. It is a current event but does not deserve its own article yet. Alan Liefting 22:31, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

New Zealand blogosphere

 * Nominated 27 May 2006, needs 6 votes by 8 July 2006

NZ has a number of blogs, although few would deserve their own article on Wikipedia. But, an over-riding article on NZ is do able. Canadian blogosphere would provide a template. Name wise, well I found Political blogs in Australia and Canadian blogosphere to go by, but I don't really know/care about the name. Removed 11 July 2006: Lack of votes
 * 1) Support as nominator --Midnighttonight 01:21, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Support plenty of sources for information Lossenelin 00:24, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) Support. Tumeke has an interesting list of NZ political blogs.-gadfium 01:41, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 4) Support. There are a couple of recent notable interactions between the traditional media and blogs (Rodney Hide's parliamentary absence for example) --Lholden 03:59, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 5) Support no republicans ones :P Brian | (Talk) 08:22, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Social welfare in New Zealand
self explanatory as to what it is

Nominated 20 June, needs 2 votes by 4 July

--202.22.18.241 03:16, 20 June 2006 (UTC) Removed 11 July 2006: Lack of votes
 * 1) Support. --Midnighttonight 04:23, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Support gives me an excuse to rent 'In a Land of Plenty' :-p Lossenelin 05:34, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) Support.-gadfium 03:20, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Bay villa
A distinctive piece of New Zealand architecture from the late 19th century to the early 20th century. I haven't been able to find much in the way of good web sources, although this pdf file has some good material in it:. I suspect there will be plenty in the architecture sections of public libraries.

Nominated 14 July, needs 2 votes by 28 July Removed 30 July 2006: Lack of votes
 * 1) Support as nominator.-gadfium 08:44, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Papakura
I'm nominating this because it is currently suffering at the hands of one or two rather parochial editors who seem unwilling to accept guidance on what is suitable content for an encyclopedia article. dramatic 08:28, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Nominated 7 August, needs 4 votes by 4 September
 * 1) implicit support from dramatic
 * 2) Support. This would be significantly different from previous NZCOTFs because the article doesn't need a lot of new information added to it - although there's always scope for that - but it needs a lot of cleanup and polishing-gadfium 09:52, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

it does not need changing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it is an excellent encyclopedia article... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 202.150.111.232 (talk • contribs).

Removed 5 September 2006: Lack of votes

Time line of Foreign relations of New Zealand
With the current 'dispute' at Talk:Foreign relations of New Zealand, I suggested creating Time line of Foreign relations of New Zealand. I thought I would place it here, to see what could be made of it (especially as I have limited time until November, so can't do it myself).

Nominated 19 August, needs 4 votes by 16 September
 * 1) support as nominator. --Midnighttonight Remind me to do my uni work rather than procrastinate on the internet 05:53, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) support. We don't have enough Foreign Relations info in regard to NZ at the moment IMO Mattlore 06:47, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Support, but the suggested title sounds clumsy to me. Timeline is also one word, and foreign doesn't need a capital F. How about Timeline of New Zealand's foreign relations instead? -- Avenue 09:12, 21 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Comment: This idea was raised when an editor was adding very detailed information to the Foreign relations of New Zealand article which seemed to me and others to be out of keeping with the style of that article. The situation was largely resolved by that editor creating articles on specific bilateral relations between New Zealand and other countries. In my opinion, this time line is no longer needed.-gadfium 01:34, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I've withdrawn my support, after reading gadfium's comment. -- Avenue 11:54, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Removed 21 September 2006: Lack of votes

2006 Progressive Enterprises Lock-out
I think the amount of media coverage this has recieved has made it notable enough for a Wikpedia article.

Nominated 8 September, needs 2 votes by 22 September
 * 1) Support as nominator Lossenelin 02:38, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I'll support if the dispute is still underway in two weeks' time. Since this is both a strike and a lockout, it may be appropriate to move it to 2006 Progressive Enterprises dispute-gadfium
 * Since the dispute is over, I won't support making the article NZCOTF. It could do with someone adding more detail about the settlement, though.- gadfium 08:46, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Agree with you about the title (have moved it) technicly the strike ended on 28 August and it has been a lock out since then, though since the article covers both 'dispte' is appropriate. Lossenelin 00:06, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Removed 26 September 2006: Lack of votes

Photo competition
As a change from the usual COTF, I propose a photo/illustration competition. For the period of the two weeks this COTF runs, photos uploaded to either en Wikipedia or the commons, under a suitable licence (either GFDL or CC), and used to illustrate a New Zealand-related article, will be eligible to be declared the NZCOTF photo of the quarter. People uploading such photos will need to declare them on a page to be provided. We can either have a vote to determine the winner, or agree on someone to judge - I would suggest getting someone with considerable photographic experience, but not regularly involved with the New Zealand articles (perhaps we could ask some of the regulars at WP:FPC).

Nominated 27 August, needs 4 votes by 24 September Removed 30 September 2006: Lack of votes
 * 1) Support as nominator.-gadfium 06:30, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Seconded -Armon 00:01, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Category:New Zealand
2 votes needed by 9 December 2006

I noticed that Category:New Zealand, or more specific the sub-categories, are all over the place. So I propose the collaboration (which is a tad quiet) be used to clean them up and make all the categories logical, place articles into correct categories etc. Removed 2007-01-18, lack of votes within one month of nomination - Shudda   talk  00:37, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) Support as nominator. --Midnighttonight remind to go do uni work! 09:06, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

List of New Zealand feature films
I nominate this article because it's such an awful list. Why? Well lets see.


 * There are far to many red links and in alot of cases the blue links link to the wrong article.
 * The list is incomplete with a large amount of films missing.
 * Inaccurate dates and even names.
 * The list is not great to look at.

A list of NZ films can be found at the IMDB and a few other websites such as the New Zealand Film Commissions. This is also a good template to work from.


 * 1) Support as nominator. Arguss 07:28, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Support # Downending 03:27, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Suburbs of Hamilton, New Zealand
Nominated 2008-02-22 This article has many red links-about as many red as blue!

Jean Batten
The best known New Zealander in the 1930s, according to the article. Her life is interesting and there seem to be plenty of online sources, plus the biography should be readily available in public libraries. The article doesn't even begin to do her justice - it doesn't mention her comeback in the 1970s, or the mystery surrounding her death. Nominated 16 October 2008.


 * 1) gadfium  01:29, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2) suppport - although all my knowledge of her comes from Mervyn Thompson's play which, as a fantasy, isn't exactly a reliable source :-) dramatic (talk) 09:00, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

This one's a bit different, since it isn't a single article...have a look at the rugby bios that are listed as stubs - Stu Wilson, Todd Blackadder, Eric Tindill, Wilson Whineray, Brian Lochore, Grant Fox... it should be relatively easy to get some of these up to speed, and it's frankly a disgrace that some of these articles on top proponents of our national game are only stubs. There's plenty of info about quite a few of these people both online and in hard-copy sources like Men in Black and the Encyclopedia of New Zealand Rugby. Nominated 16 October 2008.


 * 1) Grutness...wha?  01:51, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Charles Upham
A New Zealander who was well known in the 1941 during the battle of Crete. He went on to become the most decorated British and Commonwealth participant in WW2. Little is known of this man, as he was overshadowed by other heroes in the war, such as Audie Murphy and Douglas MacArthur. Naturally, I agree with Jean Batten too. Nominated 26 October 2008.


 * 1) Wallie (talk) 10:56, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Employment Relations Amendment Act 2008
A controversial bill to allow employers with less than 20 staff members to more readily dismiss employees within 90 days of their hire. The government has said it intends to pass the bill under urgency before the end of December. Nominated 10 December 2008.
 * 1) gadfium  04:58, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Now passed (waiting for the Governor-General's signature). Currently a redirect to a paragraph in the Employment Relations Act 2000.- gadfium 08:50, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

He Pataka Kupu - Te kai a te rangatira
The first Māori dictionary (not Māori-English) for adults. Published this year and a significant resource for the Māori Language Revival. See. Nominated 20 December 2008.
 * 1) gadfium  01:59, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Fifth National Government of New Zealand
Too soon for another politics article? I know there are still people working on the 2008 election taskforce. See Fifth Labour Government of New Zealand for the type of content that should be in this article, currently a three-sentence stub.
 * 1) gadfium  05:44, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Kiwiana
Currently a start class article, with a further reading list but only one inline reference. It could stand to be better illustrated too. Nominated 26 January 2009.
 * 1) gadfium  02:21, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 2) dramatic (talk) 07:31, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 3) -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 00:10, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Leaky building syndrome
The title is open to debate. Leaky homes is more widely used on the internet, but I wanted a slightly more formal term. This has been a significant issue in New Zealand for the last ten years or so, and there's plenty of material about it available online to use as resources. Nominated 2 February 2009.
 * 1) gadfium  00:02, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 2) dramatic (talk) 09:28, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Boy racers
There's an existing section at Boy racer which needs citations and could be split off and expanded to cover the legal and social issues surrounding the subculture. The sources would primarily be newspapers, and the Listener article of earlier this month.. There's also a section at street racing. Nominated 29 March 2009.
 * 1) gadfium  00:58, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2) dramatic (talk) 09:28, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Gang patch
Tiny brand-new stub on something that has certainly been a hot news topic in recent times. There's quite a few web news sources which have information on this topic, which I was amazed didn't have an article until I noticed that all the googlesearched material seemed to be NZ-specific (so it's likely a kiwi-only term). Nominated 16 May 2009.
 * 1) Grutness...wha?  02:13, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 2) That'll be interesting.- gadfium 05:09, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Joseph Claude Sinel
Largely forgotten in his home country but still widely referred to overseas, this Kiwi was an important and influential pioneer in graphic design/architecture/inventing etc. Our  stub doesn't do him justice. See this for a glimpse of his achievements. Nominated 23 May 2009.
 * 1) nominator Kaiwhakahaere (talk) 21:42, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

People honoured in the Birthday Honours 2009
Following on from a discussion at the WP:New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board about whether the receipt of honours automatically makes someone sufficiently notable to warrant a Wikipedia article, I suggest we examine the list of people who received honours for the 2009 Queen's Birthday and consider adding to/improving existing articles, creating new articles, or adding mention of the people to appropriate articles on eg community groups. Per that discussion, please don't create articles on the people unless there are multiple reliable sources available. Stuartyeates is working on a wikified list of people at User:Stuartyeates/Scratchpad. The list is now at Birthday Honours 2009. Nominated 1 June 2009
 * 1) nominator  gadfium  00:55, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
 * 2) seconder Stuartyeates (talk) 23:55, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

A&P show
Nada, niente, zilch, zip - not even a stub on this major historical and cultural feature of New Zealand country life. Surely this should be fixed... Grutness...wha?  06:48, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
 * 1) nominator Grutness...wha?  06:48, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
 * 2) Support in principle. We have articles on agricultural show and field day, which deal mainly with Australia, and on the Royal New Zealand Show and National Agricultural Fieldays. Australia also has A&P shows. I wondering if we should make field day our collaboration and add New Zealand content to it.- gadfium  07:59, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Possibly - either that or start the new article and invite the Aussies to take part and give their side of the story on A&P shows. Mind you, that would probably mean doubling-up information from Field day. If the terms used in both countries it's even more perplexing that there wasn't even a redirect there (I've redirected it to field day for the time being at least). Grutness...wha?  08:17, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

New Zealand native bee
I have added a par to Bee about our native bee, namely:
 * "In New Zealand scientists discovered that three genera of native bees have evolved to open flower buds of the native mistletoe Peraxilla tetrapetala. The buds cannot open themselves but are visited by birds such as the tui and bellbird which twist the top of the ripe bud. That action releases a mechanism which causes the petals to suddenly spring open, giving access to the nectar and pollen. However, when observing the native bees in the Canterbury province in the South Island, the scientists were astonished to see the bees biting the top off the buds, then pushing with their legs, occasionally popping open the buds to allow the bees to harvest the nectar and pollen, and therefore aid in the pollination of the mistletoe which is in decline in New Zealand. Nowhere else in the world have bees demonstrated ability to open explosive bird-adapted flowers. "

Seems to me we could collaborativeyl develop a substantial article about these clever critters, and our other native bees too (which many people have observed but think are overgrown flies!). These days I only have time to sporadically drop in and check my watchlist and do a bit of fiddling here and there, so for a while at least I can't research and develop articles. Perhaps there is someone here who might be interested in this one. Kaiwhakahaere (talk) 22:27, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
 * 1) Kaiwhakahaere as nominator
 * 2) Support. Articles on individual bee species don't appear to be well developed in Wikipedia. The three native bees Kaiwhakahaere is talking about are a species of Leioproctus, Hylaeus agilis and Lasioglossum sordidum. Rather than starting articles on these three species, I suggest a single article on New Zealand native bees would be useful. However, if this topic gains support, we should consult with Wikiproject Arthopods.- gadfium 23:06, 18 June 2009 (UTC)