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Hobsonville Point Secondary School

Sorry if this is the wrong area to add this but for edits I make on the Hobsonville Point Secondary School page please note that I'm a student there and there a few year 11's there please just correct my grammar which is poor.122.56.184.173 (talk) 01:49, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

I cannot verify that there are Year 11 students - all sources I have say the school is presently Year 9 and 10 only. Can you provide a reference? And remember, a student is in a particular year by their birthdate, not by what the study - Year 11 students in 2015 were born between 1 May 1999 and 30 April 2000 (give or take). Lcmortensen (mailbox) 02:34, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

I'm a student there so the only reference is staff and students you'll mainly have to take my word for it also there are 253 students this year I don't know how to add that Dystopia in a bag (talk) 04:39, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

I can provide a screenshot of a memorial for the 3 dead builders if you need proof on that otherwise I'll add itDystopia in a bag (talk) 05:24, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

A reference is something like a news article or website that any person can use to verify the information. I've added two references to verify that the school is only Year 9 and 10 in 2015; if you know of any reference that there are Year 11, then please include it.

The school roll is drawn from a database ({{NZ school roll data}}), which allows the roll for every school in the country to be updated in bulk. We're just waiting on the March roll return file, then the roll will be updated.

Re the memorial - if it a photo you've taken yourself (or you have permission), you can upload it to Wikimedia Commons and include it in the article. Any photos of the school are much appreciated! Lcmortensen (mailbox) 05:47, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

Would it count as a reference I mean people are more credible than websites Dystopia in a bag (talk) 06:37, 1 April 2015 (UTC) I'm also going to add a bit on the different teaching style I'll try to get references I believe there is some info on the schools website for that anyway Dystopia in a bag (talk) 06:41, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

Airbus and Boeing Passengers vs Range

Hi - Ben Lewis here - is there any chance you can provide the original data used to produce this chart and/or an SVG of the image. I'd like to produce a version without overlapping labels. Thank you!

The data was collated from each aircraft's respective article into an Excel spreadsheet. Unfortunately, I can't find the original spreadsheet, so we may have to collate the data again. Lcmortensen (mailbox) 05:06, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

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Secondary school building types

Where did you get the information about which schools contain b;ocks of various construction types as someone who audits school buildings i would be keen in finding out more203.97.56.43 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 05:04, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

The Ministry does have a catalogue of standard building types, although this only lists building types found in the greater Christchurch area. From that, most school building types have been identified by comparing aerial photographs. Lcmortensen (mailbox) 08:52, 30 May 2015 (UTC)

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Religion in New Zealand

Hello. Do you intend to do more work on the page's table? You may well have done some very good work in bringing the statistics up to date, but there may be some dissatisfaction over the reversing of the order of the three census columns and the promotion of "Buddhist" to the top of the table. I'd like to seek consensus before you go further, so it may pay to stop 'till we can get other eyes on it. Akld guy (talk) 13:06, 18 July 2015 (UTC)

Census figures

Hello. At Religion in New Zealand, may I ask you to check that the 2013 figures in the census table for Hindu, Buddhist, and Islam/Muslim are correct? They are 89,919, 58,404, and 46,149 respectively. About 3 weeks ago, I calculated the percentage increases for those denominations and updated the "Significant trends" section, based on the 2013 results that appeared in the table at that time. When you recently updated the table, discrepancies became apparent, which are possibly typos; the latter two figures look particularly like typos - 58,404 versus 58,440 and 46,149 versus 46,194. On the other hand, it could be that typos were made by the original editor of the table, not yourself. Akld guy (talk) 08:30, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

The original table used the "2013 Census totals by topic" data from December 2013. The new table uses the "2013 Census QuickStats about culture and identity" data from April 2014. There appears to be some discrepancies between the two sources - the total for Buddhism in the Totals table is 58,440, but the total in the QuickStats table is 58,404. Since the QuickStats table is later and in theory more up-to-date, I used the QuickStats table. Lcmortensen (mailbox) 08:48, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

OK you haven't directly answered whether there were typos or not in the Hindu and Islam/Muslim columns. Akld guy (talk) 09:01, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

I don't know whether they're typos or just discrepencies - you have to ask Statistics New Zealand for that. The QuickStats figures for Hindu is 89,919 and Islam is 46,149. Lcmortensen (mailbox) 09:09, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

There's probably not a reader in the world who would have taken a bizarre meaning like that from what I wrote. I did not ask whether Statistics NZ had made typos. I asked whether you had made typos in transferring the figures from their data to the table. Anyway, thank you for confirming that the figures in the table match. I will change the figures in the "Significant trends".Akld guy (talk) 09:29, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

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I have no idea what the Maori party stands for, though I presume it's indigenous advocacy. It may also be, I presume, a majority coalition member in order to best represent the interests of its constituents, not necessarily sharing the dominant partner's world view, but rather as member of a diverse amalgam, as in Greece. I just restored a deletion, then cut and pasted an entire section to move to a more appropriate header. Feel free to change as appropriate, of course. Thanks for your interest in the subject. Please ping me if you want me to see a response. Activist (talk) 21:44, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Just looked at your edit. I'm not at all uncomfortable with it and wondered about the characterization when I originally did the cut and paste but didn't pursue it. Activist (talk) 21:49, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

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thank you very much for uploading this very nice high-quality map of the flag referendum results! I was wondering if the small map in the right lower corner should not have a lighter red tone (that for "Existing 50-59%")? Greetings --Furfur ^{⁂ Diskussion} 20:45, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

@Furfur: - the map in the lower right corner is for the Maori electorate results, whereas the main map is for the general electorate results. These electorates all recorded votes of 60%+ so should be the darker red.

Ok, thank you, I did not realize this. Then it is of course correct. --Furfur ^{⁂ Diskussion} 12:10, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

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List of power stations in New Zealand.

I see that you have removed a connection to a Google Earth .kml file offering a schedule of all electric power stations in New Zealand without any remark explaining why, beyond "update", that is associated with other changes as well.

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Is there some substantive reason for this removal? Or do you just dislike Google and its works?NickyMcLean (talk) 13:48, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

Sorry, I removed it since it was embedded in the image. I've found a new home for it now. Lcmortensen (mailbox) 19:28, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

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Parasport classification categories.

I think your new classifications categories are a welcome addition, but naming may be a problem. Paralympic surely means competing at the Paralympics, but classifications are given to all disabled athletes that just want to compete, not just at Paralympic level. regards FruitMonkey (talk) 00:00, 11 June 2016 (UTC)

@FruitMonkey: The naming came from the super-category Category:Paralympic swimmers. It was just to keep things consistent (I personally prefer para-swimming). Lcmortensen (mailbox) 00:05, 11 June 2016 (UTC)

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Country at the Paralympic Games question

Hi Lcmortensen. I also asked @FruitMonkey: this but as you're also active in this space, I thought I would ask you too as I'd appreciate the extra input. I'm currently researching disability sport in Cameroon for some articles I am drafting in my user space. Cameroon did not participate in the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Summer Paralympics. There is some information about Cameroon's attempts to qualify and why they did not participate in these Games. (NPC suspension, money issues, etc. for non-participation. A few athletes were trying to qualify.) I was wondering if articles could be created about this, and what their names should be given that Cameroon did not actually participate. "Cameroon and the 2000 Summer Paralympics" as a title given the non-participation? And given the lack of participation but importance of why they missed out, how would that be worked into the infobox that generally goes on those articles? In any case, your input would be greatly appreciated by me. :) Thanks. --LauraHale (talk) 05:44, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

Hi @LauraHale:. Generally a county's non-participation at a particular Olympics or Paralympics is not notable enough for a separate article, and should be incorporated into the country's Olympic or Paralympic article (i.e. Cameroon at the Paralympics). There are of course exceptions, such as United States at the 1980 Summer Olympics (which redirects to 1980 Summer Olympics boycott) and Russia at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. Lcmortensen (mailbox) 06:25, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

There are enough mentions in various media sources and books about their non-participation that I think it may be notable. I won't create an article unless I think it can pass that WPW:GNG threshhold because yeah. I'm not close to doing that yet. When I am done drafting on my user space, I'll probably add that information to the general article. I was thinking using "and" as opposed to "at" because they were supposed to be in Sydney and were announced as competing in Sydney but did not compete in Sydney. Then their bans for 2004 and 2008 made that impossible. Do you think and is better than "at" given the non-participation issue? --LauraHale (talk) 06:36, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

Most, if not all, of the Paralympic link templates rely on the use of the "X at the Y Paralympics" format. If you did deviate from this and use "X and the Y Paralympics", you would need a redirect which would introduce another spanner in the works.Lcmortensen (mailbox) 06:42, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

@FruitMonkey: and @Lcmortensen:, I believe the template is customized, so putting "Cameroon and the 2008 Summer Paralympics" would be doable for Template:Infobox Paralympics Cameroon without creating too many issues (though unsure how to add non-participation because that really needs non-participation as opposed to Summer Games participation). Beyond that, for templates like Template:NPCin2008SummerParalympics, non-standard participation or non-participation has tended to go in a special category at the bottom. See the 2016 Refugee team as an example. Template:NOCin1980SummerOlympics makes no reference to non-participating teams. In any case, User:LauraHale/Cameroon at the 2008 Summer Paralympics is where I am currently drafting the article about 2008. It isn't complete yet as the topic was covered pretty extensively in the limited sources available, and I am still adding information. I can leave that name of "Cameroon at the 2008 Summer Paralympics" and then worry about potential footers later. I need to finish drafting it. The whole issue is rather fascinating when you start reading the sources. --LauraHale (talk) 06:16, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

Hope you don't mind me adding here Lcmortensen but as most discussion with @LauraHale: have occurred here I thought I would just state that I agree with your view-point that any years that a country does not participate in an Olympics / Paralympics should be covered in the X at the Paralympics, apart from major international events which often define those Games. FruitMonkey (talk) 21:12, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

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Hockey

Hi , please create this article in asian hockey.

• Hockey Asia Cup
• Source : http://www.todor66.com/hockey/field/Asia/index_Men.html , http://www.todor66.com/hockey/field/Asia/index_Women.html
• 1982 Men's Hockey Asia Cup
• 1985 Men's Hockey Asia Cup
• 1989 Men's Hockey Asia Cup
• 1993 Men's Hockey Asia Cup
• 1999 Men's Hockey Asia Cup

• 1985 Women's Hockey Asia Cup
• 1989 Women's Hockey Asia Cup
• 1993 Women's Hockey Asia Cup
• 1999 Women's Hockey Asia Cup
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hi , for complete wiki database , can u create past World Para Athletics Championships? 1994 to 2002 . result history exist in paralympic site. thanks. https://www.paralympic.org/results/historical Sportsloverrr (talk) 13:05, 22 July 2017 (UTC)

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(Reverted good faith edits by Jol123 (talk): "Invited" here means "not explicitly not invited". (TW)) That is not an interpretation of "Invited" that I am familiar with. Most people reading the article and looking at that table will assume that those parties have been explicitly invited to those debates. While there is no information about whether a party has been invited or not, a better solution would be to just leave those boxes blank. What precedent is there on Wikipedia or otherwise for taking "Invited" to mean "Not explicitly not invited"? Jol123 (talk) 00:46, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

@Jol123:: Well, how else are we supposed to express "not not invited" without using a double negative? Lcmortensen (mailbox) 05:50, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

You don't. You leave the box blank. If there's no information available then don't give the appearance of providing information.Jol123 (talk) 01:44, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

@Jol123:: I did originally leave the boxes blank, then someone else reverted it. Besides, they're all going to be replaced with "present" or "absent" within the next 18 days, so the fact it says "invited" is trivial. Lcmortensen (mailbox) 01:49, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

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Hello there. I would just like to know if you could post a link to the blank world map (.svg) with which you created that map on the death penalty?

Since I'm planning to create similar maps that I'd highly appreciate having your source map.

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@Ernst Zweifel: - sorry for the late reply. The source blank map is at File:BlankMap-World.svg. Lcmortensen (mailbox) 19:48, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

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Thank you for your addition to the "Queen Elizabeth" matter. It was thoroughly talked about in the talk section, and although I realise the treaty/tiriti is not directly relevant to the article, it appeared that the matter was being defined by overseas websites which people had been citing. My reasons for adding in the treaty to this was to clear up the relation to New Zealand which Queen Elizabeth II holds, it was fairly agreed upon in the talk that she was New Zealand's head of state. This is true. It is also true that she is a Queen, however unless one is fluent in Te Reo, it is increasingly and frustrating difficult to explain how the two different copies are is in fact worded. It is not up for debate as the disparity in wording of the first Article is a well known fact in New Zealand and to the Waitangi Tribunal.

New Zealanders who are familiar with this will understand the issues presented. Someone with less understanding of the first documents of New Zealand may assume she is "Queen" of New Zealand if they are to read on foreign websites, my citation was to prevent this assumption. The only way to describe the difference to those people I suppose is that, although Queen Elizabeth II is a Queen, the Māori version did not grant her full dominion over New Zealand, it granted her Governorship of New Zealand. A Queen can be a governor, but a governor isn't a Queen. I understand you don't need a lecture on the issue, as you seem to agree on that point. Thanks for the support on the issue. Good to see kiwis keeping the facts right on wikipedia.

Persecution of the Māori people should not feature in the article and certainly should not rear it's ugly head in a sensitive persecution article such as this.Clumster (talk) 06:39, 24 March 2019 (UTC)

@Clumster: I didn't realise there was a talk on the talk page initially, hence I reverted it. The whole point of the statement is to clarify why QEII's response is located with other New Zealand figures to someone who is unaware that she is New Zealand's head of state. The reference was removed because issues regarding the Treaty of Waitangi is irrelevant to the point at hand - we're not talking about a Māori person shooting Queen Elizabeth II and trying to use the Treaty as a defence to high treason. Lcmortensen (mailbox) 07:29, 24 March 2019 (UTC)

@Lcmortensen: I see, yes that is correct. At the time there were multiple edits on it and multiple 'undoos' it appeared that it was being changed willy nilly to state an incorrect fact. However I do agree with your decision to remove the citation. It seems to have settled.

Elizabeth II is Queen of New Zealand. That much is stated several times on the official government website, e.g. here. It is also made explicit in law and in the oath/affirmation of allegiance. I am concerned by the clearly POV-driven attempts to obscure this fact. Surtsicna (talk) 14:55, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

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Kia ora LC, I hope you are keeping safe and well in your bubble. You may have seen that we've moved a lot of pages according to WP:NZNC to include macrons. Unfortunately, the population transclusion requires an exact match and a macron scuttles that. What we've discovered is that simply duplicating an entry (i.e. one without macrons and one with) is a good workaround. I've done the 1992 template in its entirety but before I have a go on the remaining items for the 2018 template, I thought I'd check with you as the main template maintainer whether you've got other / better ideas. Schwede66 01:17, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

The template always had the option to manually specify the area name (i.e. without macrons or ", New Zealand") for example, {{NZ population data 2018|Paekakariki|y}} for Paekākāriki. The main problem with adding alternate names to the template comes to the annual update, but I don't have to worry about that until Labour Weekend! Stay safe too. Lcmortensen (mailbox) 02:00, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

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The figures in https://www.stats.govt.nz/information-releases/regional-gross-domestic-product-year-ended-march-2019 are expressed as $(million), but each individual figure is in the thousands, so the result is in the billions. I've changed Manawatū-Whanganui, you might like to check the others you've added.-gadfium 08:43, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for that. All I have done so far have been corrected.Lcmortensen (mailbox) 09:54, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

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Why removing my list?

Why did you remove a list of populated places for this local authority district that I worked hard to search each one thanks to a topographic site? Hence your recent edit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hurunui_District&diff=next&oldid=968774837

Your thoughts? jlog3000 (talk) 03:00, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

It has been restored with some minor formatting changes. Lcmortensen (mailbox) 03:35, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

Thank you. As I'm slowly trying to reanalyze and reedit for the other local authorities (districts and cities) of New Zealand, but yet it's still a process. Gotta thank NZ Topomaps or something of a site for this reference. Assuming you're from New Zealand too, correct? jlog3000 (talk) 03:40, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

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I wonder if it's worth noting in the column header or with some form of reference that the power is the maximum licensed by RSM, e.g. RNZ is not transmitting 160 kW on 567 and 657 AM.

The actuals for all the AM transmissions are somewhat less as published on mwlist.org

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I have just updated the demographics at Havelock North, which replaces the demographics you added a few months ago. My demographics are a little more detailed. Interestingly there are minor differences in the figures. I presume this is due to Stats NZ fuzzing the data slightly differently in different sources. I believe the tables I use have the same data as the 2018 Census Place Summary pages.

I hope you don't mind that I've replaced your work with mine. If you think your presentation was better than mine, I'm happy to discuss changing my presentation (and I have modified it earlier based on your work, e.g. by adding the Individual Statistical Areas table where several statistical areas are combined). Alternatively, I can stop updating articles which already have 2018 demographics added by you, as my changes are not essential.-gadfium 02:44, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

I don't mind - Your demographics are far more comprehensive than mine.Lcmortensen (mailbox) 08:24, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

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@Gadfium: There are no obvious issues. Good job and thank you! Lcmortensen (mailbox) 23:01, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

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That's probably my mistake. It's calculating the population of Wellington City urban area only, although it explicitly states it's using the four urban areas. I'll fix it later tonight unless you get to it first.-gadfium 06:23, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

 Done Lcmortensen (mailbox) 06:32, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

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Give me around half an hour, and I'll have it updated. Lcmortensen (mailbox) 04:27, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

 Done. There may be some breakages due to "city" and "district no longer being capitalised (e.g. "Opua (Far North District)" is now "Opua (Far North district)") - in common with {{NZ population data 2018}} and the source. Lcmortensen (mailbox) 04:38, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

I notice they've also split a few areas so they no longer are one-to-one with the 2018 census, e.g. Patumahoe has been split into Patumahoe and Patumahoe Rural. I'll fix any errors I find over the next 24 hours.-gadfium 04:50, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

I've just checked the 2021 SA2 classification. There are only three splits this year: Ruby Bay–Mapua into Ruby Bay and Maupa, Patumahoe into Patumahoe and Patumahoe Rural, and Waipu into Waipu and Waipu Rural. There is also a new SA2 for Motunau Island. Lcmortensen (mailbox) 05:03, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

All errors due to capitalisation or splits in the SA2 template have been fixed.-gadfium 04:33, 23 October 2021 (UTC)

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