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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize 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 inquire on the talk page.

Contents 1 Title 2 Scope 3 Similar WikiProjects 4 Participants 5 Wikipedia:New Zealand Collaboration of the Fortnight 6 Pages needing work 7 Missing pages 7.1 Geography 7.2 People 7.2.1 Arts and entertainment 7.2.2 Sport 7.2.3 Politics and history 7.3 Maori-related 7.4 Misc 7.5 See also 8 Missing images 9 Stubs needing work 10 Larger pages needing work 11 Other suggested work 12 Year in New Zealand 12.1 Music 12.2 Radio 12.3 Film / Movies 13 Resources 13.1 Wikipedia namespace articles related to New Zealand 13.2 Article quick reference status 13.3 Project banner 13.4 External sources

[edit] Title

WikiProject on New Zealand

[edit] Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to help coordinate pages on:

1. New Zealand
2. The History of New Zealand
3. New Zealanders.

[edit] Similar WikiProjects

• WikiProject New Zealand places

[edit] Participants

Alan Liefting Avenue Brian New Zealand Dramatic Drstuey gadfium Goldfinger820 Grutness Hauser Ihatepotsmokinghippies James Pole

Lewis Holden Limegreen Marialadouce Mathmo Midnighttonight Paddy_whack Robin Patterson Roue2 SimonLyall Smoth 007 Thorney¿?

Tiles Tom Webb Ziggurat Loopy Axver General Eisenhower Domster AJD

[edit] Wikipedia:New Zealand Collaboration of the Fortnight

The current New Zealand Collaboration of the Fortnight is Feltex Carpets. Every fortnight a different New Zealand-related topic, stub or non-existent article is picked. Please read the nomination text and improve the article any way you can.

[edit] Pages needing work

• Christchurch - The history section needs some PoV remarks rewritten/removed.
• School uniform#School Uniform in New Zealand - This section was recently tagged with a cleanup tag
• Cinema of New Zealand - Recently tagged with a cleanup tag.
• Cartwright Inquiry - a new page, but in need of wikifying & referencing
• New Zealand Music Awards - 'Tui_award_winners_YEAR' page slowly being deleted, information needs moving to 'YEAR in New Zealand' pages and formatting.
• New Zealand Department of Child, Youth and Family Services - Now part of MSD, no longer a separate department but a service of a Ministry.

[edit] Missing pages

[edit] Geography

See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities, Wikipedia:WikiProject Ecoregions, and Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand places

• Pacific Coast Highway (NZ) (ext resource) currently dabbed at Pacific Coast Highway
• Caledonian Ground
• The red links on the List of towns in New Zealand
• The red links on the List of New Zealand mountains by height
• The red links on the List of rivers of New Zealand

[edit] People

[edit] Arts and entertainment

• Max Cryer, Sally Ridge, Ian Johnstone, Keith Quinn, Clint Brown
• Ray Columbus, John Hore-Grenell, William Southgate
• Jeffrey Harris

[edit] Sport

• Barbara Kendall, Duncan Laing
• Mark Hammett, Charles John Monro (see Rugby union in New Zealand)
• Cricketers Anthony MacGibbon and Rod Latham
• Meda McKenzie

[edit] Politics and history

• Truby King, Arthur Allan Thomas, John Minto
• Bob Harvey, Clifford Skeggs, Michael Fowler
• Redlinks in New Zealand's Top 100 History Makers and New Zealand Listener Power List

[edit] Maori-related

• Kura kaupapa
• Kohanga reo
• tohunga
• tukutuku
• Maoritanga
• kāinga
• There are many red links to be filled at List of Maori iwi, including:
  • Te Arawa

[edit] Misc

• New Zealand Superannuation Fund (a.k.a. the Cullen fund) [1], which is not to be confused with New Zealand Superannuation (NZ Super) [2], paid by Work and Income New Zealand (WINZ).
• Manawatu Standard, Chaff (newspaper), Nexus (newspaper)
• New Zealand Land Association
• Flax mill (c.f. New Zealand flax, [3])
• Landfall (journal), Literary Journal 1946-present
• Rowing in New Zealand
• Baypark Stadium
• Transmission Gully
• Zenith Applied Philosophy (small right wing cult, expelled from Scientology and based in Christchurch. Former members seem to be either in ACT or the National Front)(Needs reliable sources)
• Statement of Intent (SOI) - In NZ this formal document explains what NZ government departments intend to do with the money they get. Seems to be a curious New Zealand usage of an otherwise common term that means something a bit different.
• Starship Children's Hospital

[edit] See also

The following pages reference large numbers of non-existent pages:

• List of towns in New Zealand, List of rivers of New Zealand, List of New Zealand lakes, New Zealand tramping tracks
• Iwi
• List of New Zealand birds
• Timeline of New Zealand history
• New Zealand literature
• State sector organisations in New Zealand
• List of New Zealand musicians, Music of New Zealand
• New Zealand Olympic medalists
• Category:New_Zealand_rugby_union_footballers
• List of New Zealand cricketers
• List of New Zealand feature films, Cinema of New Zealand
• List of schools in New Zealand

[edit] Missing images

• 1981 Springbok Tour
• Tauranga
• Whangarei
• Royal Commission on the Electoral System
• Electoral reform in New Zealand (has an image, but it needs a specific fair use rationale)

Also, there are no images of any of the New Zealand railway locomotive classes listed here (either on the main locomotives page or on the class-specific articles), nor are there images of operating railway lines or relics of closed lines for any of the lines with individual articles on the list of New Zealand railway lines.

[edit] Stubs needing work

• New Zealand Swan, Kākā, Kererū, Kiore
• Rewi Alley, David Tua, New Zealand Great Walks
• Catherine Tizard

see also:

• Wikipedia:New articles (New Zealand)
• Category:New Zealand stubs - {{NZ-stub}}
  • Category:New Zealand geography stubs - {{NZ-geo-stub}}
    • now partially divided by region
  • Category:New Zealand people stubs - {{NZ-bio-stub}}
    • Category:New Zealand cricket biography stubs - {{NZ-cricketbio-stub}}
    • Category:New Zealand politician stubs - {{NZ-politician-stub}}
    • Category:New Zealand musician stubs - {{NZ-musician-stub}}
  • Category:New Zealand musical group stubs - {{NZ-band-stub}}
  • Category:New Zealand university stubs - {{NZ-university-stub}}
  • Category:New Zealand school stubs - {{NZ-school-stub}}
  • Category:New Zealand rail stubs - {{NZ-rail-stub}}

more items may be found in:

• Category: Oceania stubs - {{oceania-stub}}
  • Category: Oceania buildings and structures stubs - {{oceania-struct-stub}}

(Note that stub templates and categories are organised by Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting - new stub types should not be created without first being proposed and debated at WP:WSS/P)

[edit] Larger pages needing work

• Kiwi
• One Tree Hill, New Zealand don't know if it's correct to call it a larger page but see talk of that page
• New Zealand literature
• Helen Clark, is currently POV with much more negative coverage about 'controversies' and (almost) no achievements.
• Geography of New Zealand - Taken straight from the CIA worldbook. Needs to be a bit more friendly.

[edit] Other suggested work

• 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.

[edit] 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.

Big items.

• Update Mayor of Hamilton, New Zealand for all articles. 1900-2003
• Update the whole government section for article before 1950, See 1950 in New Zealand as an example.
• Fill out sports sections:
  • remove awards not in existence in time period of article coverage
  • insert appropriate award
  • Olympics and commonwelth
  • Rugby, List all All black games, National championship results, etc
  • Cricket Same.
  • Golf
  • Horse racing
  • Rugby league
  • netball
  • Soccer
  • Basketball
  • Others
• Fill make sure everything under Category:History of New Zealand is linked.
• Create Summary for earch year.

[edit] Music

• 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

notes. country music awards rianz History nzmusicawards ARIA Triple J Triple_J

[edit] Radio

• references to radio broadcasting checked to be accurate
• references to television broadcasting checked to be accurate

[edit] Film / Movies

• See Category:19xx film awards of 19xx removed from inappropriate articles

Smaller items

• remove red links under music section. TODO: 1900-1949
• Update Summary with major events in that year See 1950 in New Zealand
• copy each birth and death from Timeline of New Zealand history
• Copy items from Timeline of environmental history of New Zealand
• Copy items from Timeline of New Zealand's links with Antarctica
• Copy items from Military history of New Zealand

[edit] Resources

[edit] Wikipedia namespace articles related to New Zealand

• Wikipedia:New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board
• Wikipedia:New articles (New Zealand)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/New Zealand
• Wikipedia:New Zealand Collaboration of the Fortnight

[edit] Article quick reference status

Note: The table below is not up to date - a substantial portion of the work listed has been completed.

Headings

Rod Donald removed from articles prior to his entry to politics

Polical party content checked to be correct for each year

remove awards not in existence in time period of article coverage

insert appropriate award

Tui removed prior to 1999

APRA award inserted for appropriate years

RIANZ award inserted from 1978 to 1998

RIANZ winner inserted

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 OZ music award

Triple J content removed from every page. Triple J is an OZ radio station.

New Zealand Top 50 Albums of 19xx removed from relevant articles

references to radio broadcasting checked to be accurate

references to television broadcasting checked to be accurate

See Category:19xx film awards removed from inappropriate article

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