Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/Māori task force

This task force covers all subjects closely related to the indigenous Māori people of New Zealand, including their language, culture, history, politics, relationship with the land, and many other topics. It includes Moriori, but does not cover Cook Islands Māori.

{{align|right|{{User WikiProject New Zealand/Māori task force}}}}To join the New Zealand Māori task force, place the following on your user page:

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To invite somebody else, place the following template and instructions on their talk page:

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To join the New Zealand Māori task force, please place the following on your user page:
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:Category:WikiProject New Zealand Māori task force participants shows the membership.

Note that you can watchlist these alerts:

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Assessment results in articles being included in the table above. Article class and Māori importance are the aspects to be assessed:

• Add {{tlx|WPNZ}} to the talk pages of articles that come under WikiProject New Zealand's scope.
• Articles that come under this Māori task force's scope should have |maori=yes included in the WPNZ template. Importance to this task force can be defined by including and filling in the maori-importance= parameter.
• For example, for a start class article of low importance for WPNZ, but mid importance for the Māori project, the full template entry would look like this: {{WPNZ|class=start|importance=low|maori=yes|maori-importance=mid}}. See WP:WikiProject New Zealand/Assessment for more information.
• All existing articles should have had the |maori=yes added to them; we will achieve this through a bot run in December 2010.
• New articles created since need to have the parameters added manually.
• If you find a category where the articles fall within the scope of this project, but the Māori parameters are missing, please leave a note on the project talk page.

The above table updates itself about daily. It's done by a bot. So if you have just assessed an article, the table will not change immediately. As a rule of thumb, we should end up with the following classification:

• Top: 2–5%
• High: 5–10%
• Mid: 25–30%
• Low: 60%

The following category stub can be added to stub articles:

• :Category:Māori stubs {{tl|Māori-stub}}

Other stub types are also available.

There is a complete list of past and present Māori MPs. Each article should have a parlbox, a succession box, and eventually an infobox. This should usefully be added by electorate. If anybody is keen but needs a hand to get started, drop a note on the politics talk page. Have a look at the Western Maori pages for an example of succession boxes. Samples (from Mete Paetahi) are also shown here.

{{Infobox_Officeholder

|honorific-prefix = Hon

|name = Mete Paetahi

|image = Mete Paetahi.jpg

|imagesize = 180px

|alt = Formal seated portrait photograph of a man in his 50s wearing a uniform and holding a patu.

|caption = Formal seated portrait photograph of Mete Paetahi, one of the first four Māori MPs, wearing a uniform and holding a patu.

|constituency_MP4 = Western Maori

|parliament4 = New Zealand

|majority4 =

|term_start4 = 1868

|term_end4 = 1870

|predecessor4 =

|successor4 =

|birth_date = ca. 1813

|birth_place = {{NZL}}

|death_date = 22 September 1883

|death_place = Putiki, Wanganui
{{NZL}}

|spouse =

|children =

|religion =

|profession = Māori chief, politician

}}

Here's a list of what needs doing:

Maori task force