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Some Wikipedians have formed a project 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.

Assessment log • [by quality] • [by importance]

New Zealand articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	2	11	2	2			17
FL			1	3			4
A			2				2
GA	5	5	15	19			44
B	34	90	138	211			473
C	20	86	287	409		4	806
Start	30	272	1,580	3,497		56	5,435
Stub	1	85	1,124	12,175		755	14,140
List	2	30	100	339	1	4	476
Future			2	7			9
Book	1	1			4		6
Category				3	3,256		3,259
Disambig					60		60
File				7	81		88
Portal					1		1
Project					25		25
Template	1	2	3	41	347		394
NA				20	63		83
Assessed	96	582	3,254	16,733	3,838	819	25,322
Unassessed		1		3,523		404	3,928
Total	96	583	3,254	20,256	3,838	1,223	29,250

[edit] Title

WikiProject New Zealand

[edit] Scope

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

As of 6 March 2012, there are &1000000000002536300000025,363 articles within the scope of WikiProject New Zealand , of which &1000000000000002700000027 are featured. This makes up 0.65% of the articles on Wikipedia and 0.48% of featured articles and lists. Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, etcetera, there are &1000000000005861400000058,614 pages in the project.

[edit] Related projects and sub-projects

Closely related projects and sub-projects include:

WikiProject New Zealand places
New Zealand cinema task force
Māori sub-project
Music sub-project
Politics sub-project
WikiProject New Zealand - Content task force
New Zealand task force of the military history project
New Zealand railways project

Projects with some geographical overlap include:

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Articles for deletion

04 Mar 2012 – LIFE (church) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Stuartyeates (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
28 Feb 2012 – Igloo (New Zealand) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Stuartyeates (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
26 Feb 2012 – Wairere Boulders (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Stephen (t · c); see discussion (9 participants; relisted)
18 Feb 2012 – Alternative Cars Limited (New Zealand) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Sionk (t · c); see discussion (4 participants; relisted)
26 Feb 2012 – 2Tube (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by JayJay (t · c) was deleted; see discussion (5 participants)

Proposed deletions

04 Mar 2012 – Toy Love Live at the Cook (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Freikorp (t · c): unreferenced bootleg album page - notability
02 Mar 2012 – Talking to Adam (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Tokyogirl79 (t · c): A search through google news, search, and books did not bring up any reviews or links to show that this book achieved notability. There are no sources to show that this book became notable.
27 Feb 2012 – Igloo (New Zealand) (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Stuartyeates (t · c) was deproded by Socks 01 (t · c) (author) on 27 Feb 2012
21 Feb 2012 – NZ Art Guild (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Stuartyeates (t · c) was deleted

Good article nominees

19 Jan 2012 – Aboriginal title (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Savidan (t · c); start discussion

Good article reviews

05 Mar 2012 – Birkenhead Public Library (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA review by Aircorn (t · c); start discussion

Requested moves

04 Mar 2012 – New Zealand first-class cricket championship (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved by Armbrust (t · c); see discussion
03 Mar 2012 – Mount Hutt (New Zealand) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved by Schwede66 (t · c); see discussion
28 Feb 2012 – Wellington Central (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved by Schwede66 (t · c); see discussion
15 Feb 2012 – NZR DL class (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved by Mike Cline (t · c); see discussion

[edit] Requested articles

If you create an article and it meets the criteria, please consider nominating it at Did you know.

[edit] Specific articles

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

[edit] Pages containing numerous red links requiring articles

[edit] Requested images

List an article here if the article requires an image. If an article needs an image add {{reqphotoin|New Zealand}} to the articles' talk page. Also see Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in New Zealand

Bay of Plenty Polytechnic - logo needed
John William Hansen
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)
John Key also Don Brash, Jim Bolger, Jack Marshall & Jenny Shipley, head & shoulders only image for New Zealand general election 1999, the image on Jenny Shipley page is too large.
Nor'west arch
Parliament House excluding Beehive - suitable to replace the photo at Template:Parliament of New Zealand in which Parl. House is in shadow, which highlights the Beehive instead.
Irene van Dyk – should be able to reach FA pretty soon

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] Pages needing work

Transmission Gully page needs updating in light of the decision to build this route as of 15/Dec/2009 Stuff article
New Zealand Indoor Bowls Base of article is there, needs some grammatical issues fixed and any other helful edits please
Sino-New Zealand relations - could add in something about Chinese communities in Auckland, Chinese new year etc., preferably from someone with extensive knowledge about Chinese culture or Chinese traditions in New Zealand.
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?
Waiheke Island - needs much expansion. Island residents might want to hop in and work on stuff in their free time...
Wellington - needs expansion, especially lead section, would advise it to be modelled after Canberra or Washington, D.C. articles
Crown Fibre Holdings
Auckland - Need quick improvement on Lead Section of article, need more info, blunt facts of the area etc.
British Empire - very little mention of New Zealand in here
New Zealand Exchange - 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 (New Zealand) - add few edits in last 2 years and needs references.
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
Refugee migration into New Zealand - needs expanding
New Zealand European - needs urgent expanding.
New Zealand Music Awards - 'Tui_award_winners_YEAR' page slowly being deleted, information needs moving to 'YEAR in New Zealand' pages and formatting.
Phil Keoghan - Need ~~Wikiproject NZ banner and~~ more NZ related content.
New Zealand Department of Child, Youth and Family Services - Now part of MSD, no longer a separate department but a service of a Ministry.
Sean Fitzpatrick - full of purple prose that has a whiff of copyvio. dramatic 06:40, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
Trams in New Zealand - History of Trams in New Zealand may need more work (has been split from Trams in Australasia).
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)
Clint Brown - a new page with the Taupo incident covered but his extensive career prior to this needs to be added
Sally Ridge - a new page with some basic info but it needs work to expand it
Australian Handball - Everyone played it at school, but there isn't much written documentation on it.
New Zealand local body elections 2004 - tagged for cleanup since Feb 2007: has one election result and a list of council links, 90% of the way through the elected members' term
New Zealand local body elections, 2007: there's no big rush on this, since nothing exciting will happen until nominations close in August, but I'm trying little bits out here. Kripto 02:37, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
Michael Redman (New Zealand) - some basic info, but needs expanding a bit
Current general and Māori electorates linked from New Zealand electorates require details of population centres and history as most are section stubs
Kiwi - (see Bald Eagle) Need lengthier documentation and dicovery notes and much more information needed THIS IS IMPORTANT FOR ALL PROJECT MEMBERS!
Lance Adams-Schneider - Needs expansion, focusing on his stint as NZ ambassador to the US.
New Zealand Order of Merit - Needs editing now the knighthood has been restored. (Sorry, I'm out of time :P)
Parliaments of New Zealand - ie 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 (ie New Zealand general election, 1884.
Telecom New Zealand - needs considerable tidy-up. About half of the article is criticism, history section needs to be converted from bullet points to prose, and there is very little about the company itself, especially its current status, structure, employees etc.

[edit] Stubs

This list may need updating.

Tim Johnson (wheelchair rugby)
Literature of New Zealand
Ruud Kleinpaste
Mataura River - one of our longest rivers; one of our shortest articles
Reo Fortune
Ernest Marsden
Flava (radio station), Fracture (2004 film), Fleur Saville
Epsom Girls' Grammar School
Fletcher Challenge

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 musical group stubs - {{NewZealand-band-stub}}
- Category:New Zealand radio station stubs - {{NewZealand-radio-station-stub}}
- Category:New Zealand university stubs - {{NewZealand-university-stub}}
- Category:New Zealand school stubs - {{NewZealand-school-stub}}
- Category:New Zealand rail stubs - {{NewZealand-rail-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:

Category: Oceania stubs - {{oceania-stub}}

and its subtypes

(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). A list of existing New Zealand stubs can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types/New Zealand.)

[edit] Larger

One Tree Hill, New Zealand — don't know if it's correct to call it a larger page but see talk of that page
Helen Clark — is currently POV with much more negative coverage about 'controversies' and (almost) no achievements.
New Zealand Army - is in much need of formatting and expansion.
Office of Film and Literature Classification (New Zealand) - needs references
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 {{MMP election box}}; 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 eg Wellington Suburbs - (in progress -~~ user:Hugo999).
Shortland Street - In desperate need of some TLC and (even more so) some referencing

[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.

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.

[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

[edit] Economy

New section. Determine what stats to incorporate.

[edit] Other suggested work

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

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► New Zealand articles needing attention

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► Wikipedia requested photographs in New Zealand

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► New Zealand articles needing infoboxes

Add Template:Location map New Zealand to all 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.
Place articles in Category:Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives into subcategories (ie any and all of the parties they represented in Parliament. Note: this includes independents).

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Place {{WPNZ|class=|importance=}} onto any new New Zealand article's talk page for it to be recognised and assessed under the project's scope. An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters and helps organise relevant articles for improvement. When assessed, the class and importance parameters are filled in, like this:

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[edit] New Zealand COTM

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