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New Zealand Notables

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Welcome to the New Zealand Project, New Zealand Notables Team

Members

Team Leader: Melanie Paul
  1. Campbell Braddock - Badged NZP and Notables member - working on Oamaru Notables

Definition of Notable Profiles

Definition from Category: Notables: Notables are people who are worthy of note, remarkable, eminent, or persons of distinction. They may be famous, now or in the past. Or they may be less than famous to the general public, but well-known among their own esoteric accomplished peers. Or they may be infamous, or "Black Sheep", particularly if they reached a high level of disrepute among authorities and media, such as criminals who were once listed on the FBI Ten Most Wanted List.
Examples: those with profiles in Who's Who, encyclopaedias, New Zealand Dictionary of Biographies, or Wikipedia. See the Notables Project and Requirements for Profiles of Notables

Deceased and Living Notables

  • The New Zealand Project has kindly developed specific guidelines for Living Notables we can use here, NZ Notables Profiles Needed.
  • All deceased Notables and their deceased family members should have their privacy level set to "Open", (although we recommend leaving deceased notable profiles at Green (Public) privacy level for up to 3 months after the date of death, as a mark of respect). All members must be able to contribute to these profiles. The Notables Project does not generally manage profiles of deceased Notables. If you manage a deceased Kiwi notable profile and feel it is eligible for management by the New Zealand Project, contact Melanie Paul.

Adding the Notables Sticker

Please add the Notables sticker template, by using one of the New Zealand Notables categories listed in the following section as a parameter, eg. {{Notables Sticker|New Zealand, Notables}} and add to the profile below the Biography heading.

Notables Project
... ... ... is Notable.


  • The Notables Sticker automatically applies the category New Zealand Notables in addition to the New Zealand Notables category used as a sticker parameter. Any other applicable Notables categories and/or occupation categories can be added manually.
  • Do not add the template {{Notables}} to profiles. This is the Notables Project Box and it is only added to profiles that are managed by the Notables Project. See also,NZ Notables Profiles Needed

Notable Categories under "New Zealand, Notables"

Notable profiles should be categorised into one of these sub-categories using the Notables sticker:

Some other stickers that may be relevant

... represented New Zealand at the Olympic Games
  • Olympian - {{Occupation |image=Olympic_Movement.png |text=represented New Zealand at the Olympic Games}} will give you:
... ... ... was awarded the Member of the Order of New Zealand.
  • Awards - eg {{Medal | medal=Member of the Order of New Zealand | image=Occupation_Image_Capture-31.jpg | Category=Members of the Order of New Zealand}} will give you:
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... ... ... was featured in a media genealogy show.
  • Genealogy in the Media - {{Genealogy in the Media Sticker}} will give you:

How can I help?

Genealogy in the Media

• Who Do You Think You Are?
Launched in Britain in 2004, this popular show is now a global franchise, featuring celebrities as they journey around the world in search of their family histories. New Zealand's WDYTYA airs on SBS.
• Finding Your Roots
Finding Your Roots premiered in 2012 on PBS America and has run for several seasons. The show, hosted by Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr, traces the ancestries of noteworthy guests, following a unique theme in each episode. There may or may not be kiwis featured. If there are, they are likely expats.
• This is Your Life
While technically This is Your Life is noted as a biographical documentary and reality show, there are few episodes that do not add genealogical information in the presentation of the person's life. Based on an American show that began in 1952, This is Your Life has a British version which began in 1955, a New Zealand version in 1984, and an Australian version in 1975, relaunched in 1995. Another relaunch occurred in 2010, but was not very popular and lasted just 4 episodes. Yet another relaunch began in 2022.

New Zealand Notables not in New Zealand Notable Categories

This report lists profiles that have a Notables Sticker or Project Box, have a birth, death or marriage location in New Zealand, but do not have one of the 15 kiwi Notable categories listed above. They need to be checked for eligibility as kiwi Notables and the relevant Notable category or categories (listed above) added to them. List of Profiles

Weekly Connection Finder

Keep an eye out on the G2G for the call for nominations for the weekly Connection-Finder and nominate New Zealand Notable Profiles that fit. If you or someone else nominates a profile that needs work, it's a great opportunity to improve the biography, add an image, or connect the profile to the global tree. You may also be inspired to create a profile for a person that fits for that week, but isn't yet on WikiTree.
Suggesting profiles that fit the Connection-Finder themes and that also fall under the heading of diversity can help promote New Zealand, as well as diversity - so keep an eye out for people who may "fall outside the box".

Profiles that need work

New Zealand Notables who already have a profile containing a Notables sticker or template can be found here: New Zealand Notables Search or for profiles that are Orphans New Zealand Orphaned Notables Search.

The search results may be analysed in the BioCheck app. This will reveal a range of style problems. If the inline ref count is low or zero, then the profile is likely in need of improvement.

You can also choose profiles from Category:New_Zealand,_Profile_Improvement_-_Notables to work on. If a profile is on a privacy setting and is managed by the New Zealand Project, request trusted list access.

A list of New Zealand Notables with Data Doctor suggestions or errors can be found here: New Zealand Notables DD Suggestions

For unconnected New Zealand Notables - Unconnected New Zealand Notables

If you only have a few minutes to spare, consider moving profiles from the New Zealand, Notables category into a lower category, correcting the sticker if necessary.

Profiles that need creation

Profiles in need of creation may be found at several sites including, but not limited to:

Halls of Fame & Honour Rolls

Various Halls of Fame and Honour Rolls contain information on notables.

The Arts

Sports

Walks of Fame

5-Star Profiles

5-Star profiles are those profiles with 1,000+ views by at least 100+ different visitors in the past year, and the vast majority of these profiles are for notables. This may be the first, or only, view a person has of WikiTree, so it is important to make a good first impression.

Here is a list of 5-Star profiles associated with New Zealand in some way. This report is updated weekly.

This report is for 5-Star profiles that have DD suggestions.

Are you the manager of a 5-Stars Profile? Take a look. Click here and in the Text field enter “5stars” followed by a space and then your WT ID. Click “Get Profiles”.

Guidelines for working on New Zealand Notables

The New Zealand Notables follow the general criteria for notability as defined by the Notables Project, that is, people that have their own Wikipedia page, but persons may also be considered notable if they are listed in New Zealand publications such as Biography New Zealand, the Teara New Zealand of Biographies, or are recognised within New Zealand for their achievements.

Whilst the profile should focus on genealogically relevant information it is important to also include an overview of the achievements which have made the person notable.

See also: David Randall's Completed Profile Checklist

Profiles should include:

  • Adherence to WikiTree style standards.
  • As many original sources as possible.
  • Narrative biography.
  • Inline citations to the Chicago Manual of Style standard, or similar.
  • Archive as many sources as possible to the Wayback Machine to prevent loss.
  • The Notables sticker should be added under the biography header. Please add a parameter that will place the profile in a relevant Notables category, e.g. {{Notables Sticker|New Zealand, Notables in the Military}}
  • Add additional categories as relevant. New categories can be created when there is a need for them. To ensure consistent category naming and structure globally, please request new categories here, Categories Waiting to be Added or Renamed, rather than create them yourself.
  • Other stickers may be appropriate, see New Zealand Sticker and Maori Sticker.

Ideally profiles will also include at least one relevant image and be connected to the main tree.

Do not include entire obituaries, Wikipedia articles, nor articles from the New Zealand Dictionary of Biography, or similar sources. These sources do contain errors and copying in the entirety may be a breach of copyright. Selectively quote from these sources when the information cannot be located in an original source.

Please do not add the Notables template {{Notables}} or the New Zealand {{New Zealand}} Project template. Profiles with project templates must also be managed by the project and this is not necessary for the majority of notable persons. For further information see NZ Notables Profiles Needed.





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