User talk:TakakaCounty

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Former Counties

Hi there, It is good to see someone creating articles on former counties of New Zealand. There is one thing, however, that I have changed on two or three of your articles already: Because a county was a Territorial Authority, I think the "currently part of" entry in the infobox should be the current Territorial Authority rather than the region. Hence what was Akaroa County is now part of Christchurch city.

BTW, when I have time, I am visiting the library to go through the New Zelaand Gazette, finding references for proclamations. (I'm up to 1877 so far, mainly with boroughs). dramatic (talk) 23:55, 15 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sometimes I couldn't find the TA easily, and sometimes I didn't know whether the county fully was located within the TA. I also have to closer look into the template, don't understand all the variables. Something with successor and predecessor should be possible. BTW: Full dates in the county listing would be nice preferably in YYYY-MM-DD format, so the listing is still easy to read. TakakaCounty (talk) 09:40, 16 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Good work on this. Glad to see that this tedious work is being tackled. As for the stub tag, can I suggest that the appropriate regional geo stub is more appropriate rather than {{NZ-geo-stub}}? This category has a list of them. I've changed Akaroa and haven't looked at your other articles, but are assuming that the same applies there. Schwede 66 23:51, 18 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If I always knew the region... Did you ever work with "subst:"? I would like to create stubs for all counties and it is faster if via subst PAGENAME the name would be inserted. Also: The Template:Infobox former subdivision does not seem to be well maintained. And it does not seem practical. Is there any general territory-template that accepts the variable "disestablished" - that could make it automatically a "former" country subdivision. TakakaCounty (talk) 10:56, 19 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding regions, I once worked with User:LJ Holden on a map for the Provinces of New Zealand. Maybe it would be useful to have a map for the 1966 counties – I'd talk to Lewis about that. Given that you found the PDF of a map, this should be straightforward. And once that is done, Lewis could simply overlay the current regional boundaries and you'd have that aspect nailed.

Regarding substitution, try the following in your userspace and see if it works:

'''{{subst:PAGENAME}}''' was one of the [[counties of New Zealand]] on the [[South Island]].

Regarding the infobox, I don't know. I hope this helps! And don't hesitate to ask if you have further queries. Schwede 66 20:27, 19 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The subst:- worked well and I created some more county articles. Too bad I am blocked indefinitely, would have liked to create one for every county. Best regards and thanks for your help. TakakaCounty (talk) 23:31, 26 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Blurpeace 20:59, 26 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This is libel! TakakaCounty (talk) 23:28, 26 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I provided some comment above. When I arrived at this talk page and saw the rather recent welcome notice, I looked at the edit history. I was most surprised to see a brand new account doing rather advanced things on Wikipedia. My thoughts at the time were that somebody has been an anon for a long time before getting an account. Schwede 66 02:00, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]