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Every month, a New Zealand collaboration (NZC) will be picked using this page. This is a specific topic which either has no article or a basic stub page that is directly related to New Zealand, the aim being to have a much improved article by the end of the period, from widespread cooperative editing.

The project aims to fill gaps about New Zealand in Wikipedia, to give users a focus and to give us all something to be proud of. You can find a list of New Zealand articles on the Todo list on the WikiProject:New_Zealand.

The selected collaboration is the nomination with the most votes, and at least four votes, at the beginning of the month.

All previous collaborations can be found at /History.
Removed nominations can be found at /Removed.

The current New Zealand collaboration is Poi (performance art). 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.

Contents 1 Selecting the next Collaboration 1.1 Voting 1.2 Nominations 1.3 Considerations for nominations 1.4 Selection 1.5 Pruning 2 Current candidates 2.1 Kiwiana 2.2 Leaky building syndrome 2.3 Boy racers 2.4 Gang patch 2.5 Joseph Claude Sinel 2.6 Gregg's (New Zealand) 2.7 People honoured in the Birthday Honours 2009 2.8 A&P show 2.9 New Zealand native bee

[edit] Selecting the next Collaboration

[edit] Voting

Please vote for as many of the following candidates as you like. Please add only support votes. Opposing votes will not affect the result, as the winner is simply the one with the most support votes (see Approval voting).

Only registered users should vote. Any Wikipedian can vote on this page. You do not have to be a New Zealander. However, if you support a nomination you are expected to contribute to the article if it is selected as the current collaboration.

To enter your votes, simply edit the appropriate sections by just inserting a new line with "# ~~~~". This will add your username and a time stamp in a new numbered list item.

[edit] Nominations

New nominations can be made at any time and should be added at the end of this page. If the page you are nominating already exists, please add {{New Zealand collaboration candidate}} to the top of its talk page. This expands to:

New Zealand collaboration is a candidate to be the New Zealand collaboration of the month. Please comment on the nomination.

[edit] Considerations for nominations

• Please only nominate New Zealand articles which don't currently exist or need serious work. – also see New Zealand stubs). If you have an article that is not related to New Zealand please use Collaboration of the Week, which is not specific to New Zealand articles.
• Giving reasons as to why an article should become the New Zealand collaboration may assist others in casting their vote.
• Can the wider community easily contribute to the article? Or is it something only a small number of people will know about?
• Check /Removed. If the topic has failed in nomination within a month, then do not re-nominate it.

[edit] Selection

If the article is selected as the collaboration, enter the article's complete title at Template:NZC article. The template {{Current New Zealand collaboration}} should then be placed at the top of the selected article's talk page. This expands to:

When the article is no longer the current collaboration, please add the following template to the talk page: {{past NZC|start date|end date|year}}

[edit] Pruning

Pruning of candidates is ad hoc at present, since no candidates are receiving sufficient votes to survive the process.

[edit] Current candidates

[edit] Kiwiana

Currently a start class article, with a further reading list but only one inline reference. It could stand to be better illustrated too. Nominated 26 January 2009.

1. gadfium 02:21, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
2. dramatic (talk) 07:31, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
3. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 00:10, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Leaky building syndrome

The title is open to debate. Leaky homes is more widely used on the internet, but I wanted a slightly more formal term. This has been a significant issue in New Zealand for the last ten years or so, and there's plenty of material about it available online to use as resources. Nominated 2 February 2009.

1. gadfium 00:02, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
2. dramatic (talk) 09:28, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Boy racers

There's an existing section at Boy racer#New Zealand which needs citations and could be split off and expanded to cover the legal and social issues surrounding the subculture. The sources would primarily be newspapers, and the Listener article of earlier this month.[1]. There's also a section at street racing#New Zealand. Nominated 29 March 2009.

1. gadfium 00:58, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
2. dramatic (talk) 09:28, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Gang patch

Tiny brand-new stub on something that has certainly been a hot news topic in recent times. There's quite a few web news sources which have information on this topic, which I was amazed didn't have an article until I noticed that all the googlesearched material seemed to be NZ-specific (so it's likely a kiwi-only term). Nominated 16 May 2009.

1. Grutness...wha? 02:13, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
2. That'll be interesting.-gadfium 05:09, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Joseph Claude Sinel

Largely forgotten in his home country but still widely referred to overseas, this Kiwi was an important and influential pioneer in graphic design/architecture/inventing etc. Our stub doesn't do him justice. See this for a glimpse of his achievements. Nominated 23 May 2009.

1. nominator Kaiwhakahaere (talk) 21:42, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Gregg's (New Zealand)

Currently a three-line stub, which came to my attention when it was prodded as non-notable. I'm not sure how easy it will be to find reliable third-party sources which do much more than affirm the company's existence. Nominated 24 May 2009

1. nominator gadfium 01:07, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
2. As the person who wrote the stub twenty minutes ago to fill a redlink at the new article on Dunedin North, support :). Grutness...wha? 01:10, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
3. Adabow (talk) 04:15, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] People honoured in the Birthday Honours 2009

Following on from a discussion at the WP:New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board#AfD of John Stuart Yeates about whether the receipt of honours automatically makes someone sufficiently notable to warrant a Wikipedia article, I suggest we examine the list of people who received honours for the 2009 Queen's Birthday and consider adding to/improving existing articles, creating new articles, or adding mention of the people to appropriate articles on eg community groups. Per that discussion, please don't create articles on the people unless there are multiple reliable sources available. Stuartyeates is working on a wikified list of people at User:Stuartyeates/Scratchpad. The list is now at Birthday Honours 2009. Nominated 1 June 2009

1. nominator gadfium 00:55, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
2. seconder Stuartyeates (talk) 23:55, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] A&P show

Nada, niente, zilch, zip - not even a stub on this major historical and cultural feature of New Zealand country life. Surely this should be fixed... Grutness...wha? 06:48, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

1. nominator Grutness...wha? 06:48, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
2. Support in principle. We have articles on agricultural show and field day, which deal mainly with Australia, and on the Royal New Zealand Show and National Agricultural Fieldays. Australia also has A&P shows. I wondering if we should make field day our collaboration and add New Zealand content to it.-gadfium 07:59, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

   Possibly - either that or start the new article and invite the Aussies to take part and give their side of the story on A&P shows. Mind you, that would probably mean doubling-up information from Field day. If the terms used in both countries it's even more perplexing that there wasn't even a redirect there (I've redirected it to field day for the time being at least). Grutness...wha? 08:17, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] New Zealand native bee

I have added a par to Bee about our native bee, namely:

"In New Zealand scientists discovered that three genera of native bees have evolved to open flower buds of the native mistletoe Peraxilla tetrapetala. The buds cannot open themselves but are visited by birds such as the tui and bellbird which twist the top of the ripe bud. That action releases a mechanism which causes the petals to suddenly spring open, giving access to the nectar and pollen. However, when observing the native bees in the Canterbury province in the South Island, the scientists were astonished to see the bees biting the top off the buds, then pushing with their legs, occasionally popping open the buds to allow the bees to harvest the nectar and pollen, and therefore aid in the pollination of the mistletoe which is in decline in New Zealand. Nowhere else in the world have bees demonstrated ability to open explosive bird-adapted flowers.^[1]"

Seems to me we could collaborativeyl develop a substantial article about these clever critters, and our other native bees too (which many people have observed but think are overgrown flies!). These days I only have time to sporadically drop in and check my watchlist and do a bit of fiddling here and there, so for a while at least I can't research and develop articles. Perhaps there is someone here who might be interested in this one. Kaiwhakahaere (talk) 22:27, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

1. Kaiwhakahaere as nominator
2. Support. Articles on individual bee species don't appear to be well developed in Wikipedia. The three native bees Kaiwhakahaere is talking about are a species of Leioproctus, Hylaeus agilis and Lasioglossum sordidum. Rather than starting articles on these three species, I suggest a single article on New Zealand native bees would be useful. However, if this topic gains support, we should consult with Wikiproject Arthopods.-gadfium 23:06, 18 June 2009 (UTC)