User:Nurg

This page is Nurg's toolbox. There is not much here about Nurg. They started editing 6 October 2003 and created their account 31 October 2003.

• Manual of Style - Biography - Avoid small font in infobox etc. (MOS:FONTSIZE) - Featured articles
• Article titles - Companies
• Capital letters - Title case for books etc
• Category sort keys - a space for main articles; asterisk for other highly relevant articles
• Citing sources - {{Citation needed|date= 2026|reason=}}
  • Citation templates: book - ency/dict - journal - press release - thesis - news - web (news on web can use either)
  • {{cite book |last= |first= |date= |orig-date= |chapter=<title> |chapter-url= |chapter-url-access=registration/limited/subscription |editor-last= |editor-first= |title= |url= |url-access=registration/limited/subscription |edition= |place= |publisher= |page= |isbn= |access-date= 2026}}
  • {{cite book |title=Discover New Zealand – A Wises Guide |year=1994 |edition=9th |publisher=Wises Publications |page=}}
  • {{cite book |last=Reed |first=A. W. |date=2016 |title=Māori Place Names: Their Meanings and Origins |others=Revised by Peter Dowling. |edition=4th |publisher=Oratia Media |isbn=978-0-947506-08-7 |page=}}
  • {{cite encyclopedia |last= |first= |date= |title= |url= |editor-last=Miskelly |editor-first=C. M. |encyclopedia=New Zealand Birds Online |access-date= 2026}}
  • {{cite encyclopedia |first= |last= |date= |title= |url= |volume= |pages= |encyclopedia=[[Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand|Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand]] |access-date= 2026}}
  • {{cite encyclopedia |title= |first= |last= |editor-first=A. H. |editor-last=McLintock |editor-link=Alexander Hare McLintock |encyclopedia=[[An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand]] |date=1966 |url= |via=Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand |access-date= 2026}}
  • {{cite encyclopedia |last=Williams |first=Herbert W. |author-link=Herbert Williams (bishop) |title= |dictionary=A Dictionary of the Maori Language |date=1971 |publisher=A. R. Shearer, Government Printer |place=Wellington |edition=7th}}
  • {{cite journal |last1= |first1= |last2= |first2= |date= |title= |url= |url-access=subscription |journal= |volume= |issue= |pages= |doi= |doi-access=free |access-date= 2026}}
  • {{cite news |title= |first= |last= |date= |url= |agency= |work=[[Stuff (website)|Stuff]] |access-date= 2026}}
  • {{cite news |title= |first= |last= |date= |url= |agency= |newspaper=[[The New Zealand Herald]] |access-date= 2026}}. The online Herald and the paper Herald may have completely different headings for the same article.
  • {{cite press release |last= |first= |date= |title= |url= |place= |publisher= |agency=[[Scoop (website)|Scoop]] |access-date= 2026}}
  • {{cite web |title= |first= |last= |date= |url= |work= |publisher= |access-date= 2026 |url-status=dead |archive-date= |archive-url= }} Omit publisher when its name is substantially the same as the name of the work
  • {{Cite web |title= |url= https://statsnz.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/sidebar/index.html?appid=3a406ce8fbb14367ab5caae21c07ab8b |website=Geographic Boundary Viewer |publisher=[[Statistics New Zealand]] |access-date= 2026}} E.g.
  • {{cite web |title= |url= |website=NZHistory |publisher=[[Ministry for Culture and Heritage]] |date= |access-date= 2026}}
  • {{cite web |title= |url= |website=Māori Maps |publisher=Te Potiki National Trust |access-date= 2026}}
  • {{cite web |title= |url= |website=Te Kāhui Māngai (Directory of Iwi and Māori Organisations) |publisher=[[Te Puni Kōkiri]] |access-date= 2026}}
  • {{cite web |title= |url= |website=New Zealand Gazetteer |publisher=[[Land Information New Zealand]] |access-date= 2026}}
  • |department=  for regular department, column or section within periodical or website
  • |url-status=deviated  when page is not dead but no longer supports the content (since this change; s.a. Template:Cite web#csdoc urlstatus)
• Dates & numbers - US$100 format. Need to be in edit mode for 'MOSNUM dates' formatting script to appear
• Disambiguation - hatnotes - dab pages (cf. set index articles, eg, Puarangi, Wīwī)
• DNZB citation template
• Encyclopedic style & tone
• External links from WP to ...
• Layout: Lead, Works/Bib/Pubs (by the subj), See also, Notes, Refs/Citations/Works cited (eg here & here), Further reading, External links, succession & geog boxes, navboxes, bars, authority control, coords, cats, stub templates (preceded by 2 blanks). Talk page layout
• Linking to a diff: [[Special:Diff/oldid]] (rel to prev ver) or [[Special:Diff/oldid/diff]] (rel to non-adjacent ver)
• Maori word formatting: {{langx|mi|}}
• Non-breaking space ({{nbsp}} or  ) between a number and a unit of measurement symbol; non-breaking hyphen: ‑
• Obtaining geographic coordinates - GeoLocator
• People: Ainge Roy, Eleanor (Roy, Eleanor Ainge)
• Reliable/unreliable sources list (the weirdly named "Perennial sources") - Breaking-news reports
• Romanization of Ukrainian - Romanization of Russian
• Speedy deletion - To reverse redirect (it's a pity something so simple requires admin rights)
• Square bracket inside link eg {{bracket|sic}} for "[sic]"
• Stub - Stub types (categories)
• Template index: Cleanup, Sources - {{clarify|date= 2026|reason=}} - {{Failed verification|date= 2026}} goes after </ref> - {{Dead link|date= 2026}} goes after the ] or after the {{cite x}}
• Titles - italic (book, periodical, album, film); quote marks (article, chapter, song); neither (legal doc); etc.
• Tools - Internet Archive bot - archive.today - prefix https://archive.li/ to find archived copy
• Either US or U.S. may be used in any given article, but use should be consistent with other country abbreviations in the same article (thus the US, UK, and USSR). Wikipedia:Manual of Style#US and U.S.
• Village pump (technical)
• WikiProjects - New Zealand project (Popular pages) - Auckland - Albums - Birds
• New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board
• WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements - WikiProject Cities/Settlements: Article structure
• WP:REFERS - about things, not the words for things
• Wikivoyage templates - {{wikivoyage}} or {{wikivoyage|}} or {{Wikivoyage-inline}}
• Don't wikilink everyday use of "de facto"
• Wikipedia:Offensive material
• How to improve your writing by Tony1
• Editor's Index to Wikipedia
• Resources: The Wikipedia Library - Request copies of articles etc.
• AllMusic as a source
• Make template expandable then can add setting in articles
• Changing "Other" to "Draft" in assessment tables - documentation at Template:Release version parameters
• New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board/Archive 1#Should Articles Be Using Macrons (2005)
• Wikipedia:Article titles#Foreign names and anglicization: "The choice between anglicized and local spellings should follow English-language usage, e.g. the non-anglicized titles Besançon, Søren Kierkegaard, and Göttingen are used because they predominate in English language reliable sources"
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Opportunities for commonality "For an international encyclopedia, using vocabulary common to all varieties of English is preferable."
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Strong national ties to a topic "An article on a topic that has strong ties to a particular English-speaking nation should use the (formal, not colloquial) English of that nation."
• New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board/Archive 18#Regions of New Zealand, revisited
• Proapteryx micromeros – Miocene Apterygidae
• m:Tech/News
• 1000 Māori place names at NZHistory is not a reliable source. Eg, there are two errors with the macrons for Onekaka alone. The NZHistory team should be ashamed.
• Filter out Wikipedia mirror sites in Google searches
• A reminder of why I've avoided RfA: An admin who passed by a healthy margin in Jan 2021 said "RFA was an unpleasant experience for me, and if I'd known exactly what to expect beforehand, I would not have run." And another.

This user has been editing Wikipedia for more than twenty years (22 years, 5 months). This user is an editor on Wikivoyage. This user is an administrator on the English Wikivoyage. (verify)

Māori language

I graduated with a BA majoring in Māori many years ago. I can contribute with some confidence regarding use of Māori words and phrases in the English Wikipedia.

Other wikis

• My user page at Wikivoyage
• Māori Wikipedia
• Simple English Wikipedia

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