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Archive for July - December 2016
Kia ora koutou, I have nominated Chris Amon for listing on the WP main page under "Recent Deaths" however I suspect the nomination will be opposed due to the lack of citations in the article. Some paragraphs have none at all. If anyone would like to pitch in and add references to the uncited statements, that would be great! I suspect that all the details of his career do appear online, as there are plenty of references in the ref list, however they need to be matched up to the statements. MurielMary (talk) 11:05, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
There is high interest in the Rio Olympics and New Zealand at the 2016 Summer Olympics contains a large number of redlinks. As per WP:NOLYMPICS, all Olympic competitors—with the exception of reserves for team sports—are inherently notable. So why don't we have a collective blitz and turn those redlinks into articles? I've dealt with rowing already. Schwede66 19:17, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
And here's what needs doing:
That's 31 competitors to do, out of 199 in total. I suggest we cross them out once names go blue; that way, we can see progress. Schwede66 19:36, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
The silver medal goes to the New Zealand Wikipedians for being the second project on the English Wikipedia to have articles for their 2016 Olympians. We got pipped by the Canadians, but as a country, they are a tad more numerous so will certainly have a higher WP to athlete ratio than us. So once again, we are performing splendidly. How about we now try and get every medallist biography up to at least start class? I'll prepare a to do list. Schwede66 23:52, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
Athlete | Sport | Event | Status 5 Aug 2016 | Current article class | Action | User(s) (content since 5 Aug) |
Natalie Rooney | Shooting | Women's trap | no article | Start | ![]() |
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Shakira Baker | Rugby sevens | Women's tournament | Stub | Stub | ![]() |
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Kelly Brazier | Start | Start | ![]() | |||
Gayle Broughton | Stub | Stub | ![]() |
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Theresa Fitzpatrick | Stub | Stub | ![]() |
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Sarah Goss | Stub | Stub | ![]() |
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Huriana Manuel | Stub | Stub | ![]() |
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Kayla McAlister | Stub | Stub | ![]() |
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Tyla Nathan-Wong | Stub | Stub | ![]() |
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Terina Te Tamaki | Stub | Stub | ![]() |
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Ruby Tui | Stub | Stub | ![]() |
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Niall Williams | no article | Stub | ![]() |
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Portia Woodman | Stub | Stub | ![]() |
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Luuka Jones | Canoeing | Women's slalom K-1 | Stub | Start | ![]() |
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Eddie Dawkins | Cycling | Men's team sprint | Stub | Stub | ![]() |
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Ethan Mitchell | Stub | Stub | ![]() |
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Sam Webster | Stub | Start | ![]() | |||
Hamish Bond | Rowing | Men's coxless pair | Start | Start | ![]() | |
Eric Murray | Start | Start | ![]() | |||
Valerie Adams | Athletics | Women's shot put | C | C | ![]() | |
Genevieve Behrent | Rowing | Women's coxless pair | Stub | Start | ![]() | |
Rebecca Scown | Start | Start | ![]() | |||
Mahé Drysdale | Rowing | Men's single sculls | C | C | ![]() | |
Lisa Carrington | Canoeing | Women's K-1 200 metres | Start | Start | ![]() | |
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Sam Meech | Sailing | Men's Laser | no article | Start | ![]() |
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Jo Aleh | Sailing | Women's 470 | Start | Start | ![]() | |
Polly Powrie | Stub | Stub | ![]() |
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Alex Maloney | Sailing | 49erFX | no article | Stub | ![]() |
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Molly Meech | no article | Stub | ![]() |
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Peter Burling | Sailing | 49er | C | C | ![]() | |
Blair Tuke | Start | Start | ![]() | |||
Tomas Walsh | Athletics | Men's shot put | Start | Start | ![]() | |
Eliza McCartney | Athletics | Women's pole vault | C | C | ![]() | |
Nick Willis | Athletics | Men's 1500 metres | C | C | ![]() |
I was wondering which way NZ English spells this word, "medalist" (1-L) or "medallist" (2-L's) ; I noticed that Category:Olympic medalists for New Zealand uses one, while Category:Olympic medallists for Great Britain uses two. -- 65.94.171.217 (talk) 23:02, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
Hi, I was wondering if anybody would like to collaborate long term in trying to reach a 10,000 article improvement/creation drive for New Zealand at Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/The 10,000 Challenge like we're doing for the UK at Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge? Regional contests fuel the drive but it's a permanent goal now. Would wikipedians here be interested in running a similar thing and some regional contests/editathons to increase output? it could be a lower target if there's not enoguh editors, but I'm hoping to get multiple 10,000 challenges running at the same time to benefit everywhere.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:16, 11 September 2016 (UTC)
Schwede66, any thoughts on what a reasonable target would be? How may contributors does NZ have like yourself?♦ Dr. Blofeld 08:30, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
I've created a stub at Union Church (Australia), and it has since occurred to me to wonder, did or do similar buildings exist in New Zealand, either by that name or another? The possibility that they might was suggested to me by discussion at talk:charitable trust#New Zealand law.
It occurred to me that the rural NZ experience might be similar to that of parts of Oz. If so, it might be appropriate to broaden and rename the current stub.
Or, if they did/do exist and are already covered by another article, I'd like to at least link to that from the new stub. It seems relevant. TIA Andrewa (talk) 21:51, 11 September 2016 (UTC)
I am on the look out for any photographs relating to New Zealand made automobiles - historic cars and bikes, kit cars, racing/rally cars, and motor cycles for the articles about or related to the Automotive industry in New Zealand, Kit and replica cars of New Zealand, and Motor sport in New Zealand. If anyone comes across any that can be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons Category:Vehicles in New Zealand I would appreciate it. NealeFamily (talk) 02:00, 17 September 2016 (UTC)
There are Green, Labour and United Future candidates standing for Auckland local elections, 2016 as well as local boards in the region. Labour has a section on Auckland Local elections only. Does this mean there aren't successful Labour candidates in local body politics anywhere else in NZ? Green infobox notes the numbers in Wellington City and Regional Councils, Dunedin City Council and Christchurch community boards.
Just wondering if this is something worth noting in those political party's respective pages or note on the local election page.
I noticed some city council pages lists the members of current council etc. I wonder if it is worth archiving them in one page, perhaps adding to the bottom of or the talk page of New Zealand local elections, 2013 so the info is not lost. I am not suggesting we create new pages, just retain some of the old info somewhere until such time someone decides whether they need organising. Any thoughts or objections? Linnah (talk) 15:57, 17 September 2016 (UTC)
Where can I find a Wikipedia style guide for Māori language, e.g., use of macrons, formation of plurals of Māori words in English sentences? Thanks! Wikid (talk) 06:23, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
Thanks - I'll pursue my WikiGnome activities along those lines (e.g. "tohungas" becomes "tohunga"). Wikid (talk) 01:49, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
I started a page on Shannon Te Ao, winner of the 2016 Walters Prize but hit publish a little early and so got tagged for speedy deletion. The original editor hasn't been back to reverse that; would someone mind having a look for me? Auchmill (talk) 03:53, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
See Talk:Rewrite_Advisory_Panel#Merge_proposal for discussing the merge. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 12:55, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
Hello! while looking at old merge proposals I came across Soundscape (New Zealand festival). I can't find any info on this festival from later than 2013. is it still going? And if not, can it be merged into University of Waikato?Sophie means wisdom (talk) 12:52, 6 November 2016 (UTC)
Hi, Wikipedia:WikiProject Oceania/The 10,000 Challenge is up and running based on Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge for the UK which has currently produced over 2300 article improvements and creations. If you'd like to see large scale quality improvements happening for New Zealand and Oceania like The Africa Destubathon, which has produced over 1600 articles in 5 weeks, sign up on the page. The idea will be an ongoing national editathon/challenge for Oceania but fuelled by a contest if desirable to really get articles improved and created.I know for Oceania it is a very tall order, but that's where a big contest like the Africa one would help fuel it! If there is a minimum of 4 or 5 people who work on New Zealand articles interested I'll create a 1000 Challenge for New Zealand feeding into the continent one. I would like some support from wikipedians here to get the Challenge off to a start anyway with some articles to make doing a Destubathon for New Zealand, Australia and Oceania worthwhile! Cheers.♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:57, 20 November 2016 (UTC)
Abel Tasman made two Pacific Voyages, during which he made several discoveries, including that of the Three Kings Islands at the northern tip of New Zealand.
He was accompanied by the artist Isaack Gilsemans who created the sketch seen at right of his visit to the Kings on 13 December 1642. It shows three ships, two in the foreground and one on the horizon.
That's odd because Tasman had only two ships on his first voyage in 1642, but three on the second voyage in 1644.
So, did Gilsemans not draw the sketch until after the second voyage, forgetting there were only two ships when they were at the Three Kings? Or does his image faithfully show another explorer's ship that was passing at that time, someone we don't know about?
Any historians here have a theory? Moriori (talk) 02:07, 3 December 2016 (UTC)
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As a new editor I'm unfamiliar with the process for drawing attention to this nomination, which may take up to 7 days. It may be useful to have the entry added to ITN earlier than that. Please promote this nomination wherever it may be seen by fellow NZ wikipedians. Here is the nomination: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Bill_English#Nominated_for_ITN Thanks EvidenceFairy (talk) 05:02, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
I have a COI with the Whanganui Regional Museum – my employer – so about a year ago posted some suggestions for improvement and references to its Talk page. Nothing much happened as a result, sadly. Recently though there have a been a couple of information dumps obviously taken from Museum press releases about changed hours and address. They're anonymous, so could be from a tourist information office or even my colleagues. If anyone would like to have a go at improving this article, in particular adding an infobox with clear links to temporarily-changed address and website, that would be great. I'm happy to make basic factual changes, but would rather someone else did, as I'm always explaining to museums and galleries why they can't just write their own Wikipedia pages! Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 21:11, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
Seasons greetings everyone. I've opened a peer review for Joe Warbrick, the 19th century Maori rugby player. I'm looking for feedback here before nominating at WP:FAC sometime early next year. So if anyone has a spare couple of hours over the holiday season I'd appreciate any constructive feedback you're willing to offer. Thanks! -- Shudde talk 14:39, 24 December 2016 (UTC)
Category:Recipients of the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. RevelationDirect (talk) 03:14, 27 December 2016 (UTC)