User talk:Funauckland

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Hello, Funauckland, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I see you may be a New Zealander (or at least, appear to be by your edits). There are several NZ related Wikipedia pages.

Adding {{User New Zealand}} to your userpage will list you as a New Zealander.

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! -gadfium 19:53, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Kura Kaupapa Māori

{{helpme}} i am writing an article on kura kaupapa maori, maori immersion schools in new zealand and cant find any citations. any tips on how i might find citations?. I dont think there are comprehensive articiles written about kura kaupapa maori. (Funauckland (talk) 00:06, 5 June 2008 (UTC))

  • If you can't find any sources, then it's probably best not to write an article. If you want sources, try a search of Google and/or Google News, and please read WP:CITE and WP:V regarding sources. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps) 00:11, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
There are some sources available. In a discussion just before the article was written, User:Kahuroa found the following:
As well as the first source, other possible sources are Smith - good background, translations of terms, books, google scholar, Maori language commission timeline, another googled book, Linda Smith,pdfs, Charles Royal, korero Māori, G Smith again, and Leone Pihama. Kahuroa (talk) 21:05, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
Also, you're not restricted to English-language sources - if you can read Māori, you can add citations to sources in that language, so long as the article here is in English. If you want to write in Māori, the Māori Wikipedia will welcome you.-gadfium 03:49, 5 June 2008 (UTC)


{{helpme}} Ive been busy finding citations for my article so it wont be deleted, can someone look at my article to see how i am doing and give me feedback if I am on the right pathway. I never went to university so citationing for me is a pretty new experience.

I'm sorry if you got the impression that this article was under threat of deletion. It isn't, because it's clearly a notable topic, and it has quite a few citations. Ideally, every paragraph or point would have a citation, but this is a higher level of referencing than is required simply to keep an article. If you want this to become a Featured article, then you might have to reach these very high standards.
You're doing very well with this article.-gadfium 08:08, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Yep, you're doing well, so go for it while you're in the flow of writing. Kāhuroa (talk) 22:44, 6 June 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Practise Code

Kia ora FA. Did you know you can start yourself a subpage off your user page as a 'practice page' when you want to tutu with the text or the code - for instance, by clicking on this: User:Funauckland/Sandbox - just remember to put a link to it on your user page so it doesn't get lost... Kāhuroa (talk) 22:53, 8 June 2008 (UTC)