Template talk:New Zealand elections

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I propose we remove the referendums from this template. Referendums are not the same thing as templates, and it is unlikely that we will ever have encyclopedia articles on each of the many liquor licensing referendums.-gadfium 01:18, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

I would suggest moving them to its own template Brian | (Talk) 01:43, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

How would that help? Unless you expect that many of the articles in the template will be written someday, the new template will be almost entirely redlinks.-gadfium 02:02, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Oh, sorry I was not very clear. It in wrong imo, to have Referendums on the election template, however if we want a Referendums template, it should be on its own template, as is the case in other wikipedia templates Brian | (Talk) 02:27, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Some of the referendums are reasonbly important and/or interesting: the electoral reform referendums, military conscription and six o clock closing spring to mind. I would be happy to do brief pages on each of these. I suggest the template be rejigged to allow referendums to be grouped by subject, with the dates in brackets, ie Electoral Reform (1992 and 1993); Liquor Licencing (1911-1987) etc. As everyone has said, no one will ever write articles on each of the individual liquor licensing referendums, but one article on all of them would work.

Currently the electoral reform referendum links go straight to the electoral reform pages, and this might provide a model for the others; they should be more a history of the issue than anything else. --Helenalex 02:31, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

...however if we want a Referendums template, it should be on its own template, as is the case in other wikipedia templates. Actually referenda are included in the election templates in all other countries, the rationale being that the templates include all votes held at the national level. See the complete set here. Number 57 11:15, 29 January 2007 (UTC)