The United States categories go - United States / States / Counties / Towns etc.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:United_States_of_America Here you will see that the categories for states appear beneath the first level - That of the country, United States of America

I propose that New Zealand should do the same, with the Region categories appearing beneath the first level, New Zealand

Unitary territorial councils are on the same level as Districts, the categories for Wellington Region and Wellington city are described above, I'll fill out the proposal for Auckland.

The names I use are the official ones; taken from the Government Local Authority Web pages. The names listed above for Auckland show the old city names with the recent change of name.

Please point out each mistake you see, so that it can be addressed and fixed.

Do you need links and dates for local body regulations? I have tried to make each note on the Region category clear, but there are people who don't like to see a lot of text there.

Our regions are the equivalent of the US counties or Canada sub provincial divisions as another example in function. Not the States!! The next equivalent level down in the US locational structure is Local Governmental Entities, Suburbs and Towns all in one level. Just like the New Zealand locational structure is set up currently. The US States function as an equivalent to New Zealand as a country (With the exception of Foreign affairs). So bearing that in mind the current structure is the Equivalent structure of a US State with State/New Zealand, County's/ NZ regions, Local areas/Local areas.

As for the information you have added to the New Zealand Region category pages I am recording it and the mistakes and missing information for a presentation to the Categorization Project team and New Zealand Project leaders so they can decide to keep or discard that information as in it's current form it is inaccurate.

What is the point of pointing out mistakes on this page as you have ignored mistakes pointed out by Fiona and myself in previous comments. It might be a good idea before you do anymore edits to this page, New Zealand Categories and created free space pages to actually do some research before doing anything else.

We are only talking about Place Names - the states of the United States have their own political function - for the purposes organizing a category tree for Places in New Zealand, the USA model fits the need of big, smaller part of the first, smaller parts of the first division.

Fiona and I have been in contact by email; the issues Fiona raised have all been addressed and our combined result is on this page.

Their equivalent district councils and cities and towns are at their bottom level of categories just like New Zealand's districts, Cities and towns are now. Their next tier up is County's and New Zealand's next tier up is Regions. Their States are an equivalent to most Countries. It is the same in pretty much every other countries location category hierarchy having a three tier situation of Country level equivalent, Region level equivalent, Local level equivalent. Only the United States and Canada have an extra tier but the States and Provinces are effectively the equivalent of countries themselves in Wikitree and in real life.

The issues raised by Fiona at 12:45pm on 29th May in the comments section of this page have as of 3:30pm 29 may still not been fixed.

I repeat the question What is the rational from a genealogical or source finding reason to include a council as a tier?

To myself and others it looks like a scheme that would involve lots of extra work for the Categorization project and the New Zealand Project to do for no real reason. The various Councils have no relevance for genealogical information barring Cemeteries and even then there are a lot of Cemeteries the Councils wouldn't have information about. BDM's are done at a regional and national level. Available Electoral rolls are national with a few exceptions that are for old pre 1876 records so not relevant for current local councils.

Thanks, noted; it was there in brackets because of Wikipedia - I think it is only descriptive and we should set the standard, not Wikipedia; so deleted that.

I think the title Greater Wellington as per the Govt web page - https://www.localcouncils.govt.nz/lgip.nsf/wpg_url/Profiles-Councils-by-region-Wellington - might be something like this Greater Wellington - the metropolitan area of Wellington includes the four cities of Wellington; Wellington City, Hutt City, Upper Hutt and Porirua.