Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand
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.
Title
WikiProject on New Zealand
Scope
This WikiProject aims primarily to help coordinate pages on:
Similar WikiProjects
Participants
- Alan Liefting
- Avenue
- Brian New Zealand
- Dramatic
- Drstuey
- gadfium
- Grutness
- Hauser
- Ihatepotsmokinghippies
- James Pole
- Lewis Holden
- Mathmo
- Midnighttonight
- Paddy_whack
- Robin Patterson
- SimonLyall
- Thorney¿?
- Tiles
- Tom Webb
- Ziggurat
- Loopy
- Axver
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.
Missing pages
Geography
(See also Wikipedia:WikiProject_Cities, Wikipedia:WikiProject_Ecoregions, and Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand places)
- For towns pick the red links on List of towns in New_Zealand
- Also Paraparaumu Beach, Caledonian Ground, McLean Park
- Red links on List of New Zealand mountains by height
- Red links on List of rivers of New Zealand
People
- Max Cryer Sally Ridge Ian Johnstone
- Arthur Alan Thomas
- John Hore-Grenell
- Ray Columbus
- Truby King
- John Minto William Southgate Jeffrey Harris
- Cricketers Anthony MacGibbon and Rod Latham
- Redlinks in New Zealand's Top 100 History Makers and New Zealand Listener Power List and at the top of Category:New Zealand rugby union footballers
Maori-related
- tohunga tukutuku
- Maoritanga kainga
- There are many red links to be filled at List of Maori iwi, including:
Misc
- New Zealand Superannuation Fund (a.k.a. the Cullen fund)
- Michael Fowler Centre
- Halt All Racist Tours
- Manawatu Standard, Chaff (newspaper), Nexus (newspaper)
- Dominion Breweries (how could we have missed that one?)
- New Zealand Land Association
- Flax mill (c.f. New Zealand flax, [1])
- Bastion Point (or alternatively expand Kohimarama with the event)
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
Missing images
- 1981 Springbok Tour
- Tauranga
- Whangarei
- Royal Commission on the Electoral System
- Electoral reform in New Zealand
- Footrot Flats
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.
Stubs needing work
- New Zealand Swan, Kākā, Kererū, Kiore
- Rewi Alley, David Tua, New Zealand Great Walks
- Catherine Tizard
see also:
- Category:New Zealand stubs - {{NZ-stub}}
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.
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.
Resources
External sources
- New Zealand Geographic Place Names Database from Land Information New Zealand - searchable database of official (and some unofficial) place names
- Statistics NZ - regional profiles.
- Zeal Profiles of over 7,000 websites about New Zealand, categorised in a variety of ways
- Dictionary of New Zealand Biography