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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.

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

New Zealand articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	1	12	16	27			56
FL		1	1	21			23
A		1	11	22			34
GA	10	19	62	243			334
B	66	153	300	922			1,441
C	89	361	1,285	4,746		1	6,482
Start	3	291	2,269	18,258			20,821
Stub			687	25,524		1	26,212
List	3	44	331	1,977			2,355
Category					7,016		7,016
Disambig					190		190
File					361		361
Portal					2		2
Project					34		34
Redirect				1,333	2,157		3,490
Template					1,083		1,083
NA				758	209		967
Other					6		6
Draft					39		39
Assessed	172	882	4,962	53,831	11,097	2	70,946
Unassessed				4		1	5
Total	172	882	4,962	53,835	11,097	3	70,951
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 292,322			Ω = 5.28

The current time in New Zealand is 06:18, 30 December 2024 NZDT [refresh]

Scope

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

As of 29 December 2024, there are 57,811 articles within the scope of WikiProject New Zealand, of which 87 are featured and 338 are good articles. This makes up 0.83% of the articles on Wikipedia, 0.78% of all featured articles and lists, and 0.83% of all good articles. Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, etc., there are 135,390 pages in the project.

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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

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Article alerts

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23 Feb 2025 – Donald Forrester Brown (talk · edit · hist) has been proposed for Today's Featured Article by Z1720 (t · c); see discussion

Did you know

28 Dec 2024 – Thomas (goose) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Panamitsu (t · c); see discussion
26 Dec 2024 – Tea in New Zealand (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Panamitsu (t · c); see discussion
24 Dec 2024 – Caesar (the Anzac Dog) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Winnieswikiworld (t · c); see discussion
19 Dec 2024 – Burma (elephant) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Panamitsu (t · c); see discussion
14 Dec 2024 – Happy Feet (penguin) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Panamitsu (t · c); see discussion
13 Dec 2024 – Richard Stratton (diplomat) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by BeanieFan11 (t · c); see discussion
13 Dec 2024 – James Mustapic (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Panamitsu (t · c); see discussion
10 Dec 2024 – Onekaka Wharf and tramline (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Schwede66 (t · c); see discussion
26 Nov 2024 – Noel Hilliam (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Petersmeter (t · c); see discussion
05 Nov 2024 – Oscar Goodman (basketball) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by TonyTheTiger (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

28 Dec 2024 – 1874 Waitemata by-elections (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Traumnovelle (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
28 Dec 2024 – 1886 Waitemata by-election (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Traumnovelle (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
26 Dec 2024 – Miz Ima Starr (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Bearcat (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
24 Dec 2024 – 2007–08 New Zealand Figure Skating Championships (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Bgsu98 (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
24 Dec 2024 – 2004–05 New Zealand Figure Skating Championships (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Bgsu98 (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
24 Dec 2024 – 2005–06 New Zealand Figure Skating Championships (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Bgsu98 (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
24 Dec 2024 – 2003–04 New Zealand Figure Skating Championships (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Bgsu98 (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
24 Dec 2024 – 2002–03 New Zealand Figure Skating Championships (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Bgsu98 (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
24 Dec 2024 – 2012–13 New Zealand Figure Skating Championships (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Bgsu98 (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
24 Dec 2024 – 1999–2000 New Zealand Figure Skating Championships (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Bgsu98 (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)

(17 more...)

Proposed deletions

23 Dec 2024 – Lightning Lab (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Imcdc (t · c): concern
22 Dec 2024 – Antipodes Water Company (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Mlejmle (t · c): concern
24 Dec 2024 – Louis Balmain (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by JayCubby (t · c) was deproded by Blue Square Thing (t · c) on 25 Dec 2024
23 Dec 2024 – Hawera Observatory (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by JoeNMLC (t · c) was redirected to Hāwera Observatory (talk · edit · hist) by TheSwamphen (t · c) on 27 Dec 2024
19 Dec 2024 – Aotearoa Cafe (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Traumnovelle (t · c) was deleted

Categories for discussion

16 Dec 2024 – Category:Bailey family (Rugby) (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by Mike Selinker (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Redirects for discussion

29 Nov 2024 – Hallelujah night (talk · edit · hist) →Guadalcanal campaign was RfDed by Mdewman6 (t · c); see discussion

Requested articles

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

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.

Pages containing numerous red links requiring articles

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

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If an article needs an image add {{Image requested|in=New Zealand}} 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)[reply]
- 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)[reply]
  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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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 musical group stubs – {{NewZealand-band-stub}}
- Category:Mass media in New Zealand 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:

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.)

Larger

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 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.

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

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

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

Ensure articles have coverage of major political events and government changes in each year

Other suggested work

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

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 Module:Location map/data/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.
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.

Templates

Project banner

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:

{{WPNZ|class=Start|importance=Mid}}

and the banner looks like this:

New Zealand Start‑class Mid‑importance

	New Zealand portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject New Zealand, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of New Zealand and New Zealand-related topics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.New ZealandWikipedia:WikiProject New ZealandTemplate:WikiProject New ZealandNew Zealand
Start	This article has been rated as Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

For more information visit the assessment page: Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/Assessment

Invitation

To invite a user to the WikiProject, place {{subst:WikiProject New Zealand invitation}} ~~~~ on their user talk page.

Barnstar

		The New Zealand Barnstar of National Merit
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		_{this WikiAward was given to WikiProject New Zealand by ~ on ~~~}

Usage

To use this, simply add {{subst:The New Zealand Barnstar of National Merit|message}} to the talk page of the user you wish to reward. Make sure you include a message which indicates why they are receiving the award.

New Zealand COTM

The current New Zealand collaboration is None.
Every month 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.

NZ Standard time

Use {{Time|NZST}} to produce:

06:18, 30 December 2024 NZDT [refresh]

It will switch between NZST and NZDT at the appropriate times

External links

Government datasets online
New Zealand Gazetteer of Place Names from Land Information NZ – searchable database of official (and some unofficial) place names
Census Data at Statistics NZ
Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
- 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
- Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
Companies Office company and organisation registers, detailed records of all NZ companies with links to annual reports and other docs
Papers Past scanned pages of NZ newspapers and periodicals, 1839 to 1990
New Zealand Electronic Text Collection, including many linkable photos
Insolvency Register Details of New Zealanders in financial straits, including useful details
Charities Register Details of all charities in New Zealand, with details.
Te Kāhui Māngai (Directory of Iwi and Māori Organisations) Maps and locations of iwi and Māori organisations
Watchlist for WikiProject New Zealand
New Zealand info at Wikivoyage, the Wikimedia travel guide

v t e The following pages within WikiProject New Zealand reference non-existent articles:
Biographies	Hector Memorial Medal Rutherford Medal (Royal Society of New Zealand) Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/NZ/Dictionary of New Zealand Biography List of All Blacks New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame List of Honorary Doctors of the University of Waikato List of Honorary Doctors of Victoria University of Wellington List of Honorary Doctors of Lincoln University (New Zealand)
Geography	List of lakes in New Zealand List of islands of New Zealand New Zealand tramping tracks New Zealand State Highways (Touring routes) List of New Zealand mountains by height List of glaciers in New Zealand Templates in Category:New Zealand river navigational boxes and Category:New Zealand subdivision templates
Politics and law	Subpages of Lists of Statutes of New Zealand Lists by city and town in subcategories of Category:Mayors by city in New Zealand
Culture	New Zealand literature Music of New Zealand List of Aotearoa Music Award categories List of New Zealand films List of New Zealand literary awards List of print media in New Zealand
Buildings	List of schools in New Zealand List of lighthouses in New Zealand
History	Timeline of New Zealand history List of New Zealand disasters by death toll Template:Earthquakes in New Zealand
Other	State sector organisations in New Zealand Templates in Category:New Zealand navigational boxes

v t e Oceania-related WikiProjects
Continental	Oceania
Regional	Melanesia Micronesia Polynesia French
UN member states	Australia Federated States of Micronesia Fiji Kiribati Marshall Islands Nauru New Zealand Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu
Associated states	Cook Islands Niue
Territories	American Samoa Guam Johnston Atoll New Caledonia Northern Mariana Islands Pitcairn Islands Tokelau Wake Island Wallis and Futuna British Overseas Territories Overseas France United States Territories
Related	Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific military history Hawaii Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Highways in Oceania

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