Template:Infobox New Zealand suburbs

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[edit] Usage

All values except 'name' and 'city1' (=local authority) are optional, all information except the 'surrounded by's should be cited within the article.

None of the fields except 'city1' and 'city2' wiki-link automatically. For all other fields, enter the wikilink brackets by hand. Wikilinking was automatic in the first version of the template, but this prevented link piping and multiple articles / extended information from being entered.

{{Infobox New Zealand suburbs
| name           =
| image          =
| caption1       =
| city1          =
| city2          =
| ward           =
| established    =
| area           =
| population     =
| popdate        =
| trainstations  =
| ferryterminals =
| airports       =
| hospitals      =
| north          =
| northeast      =
| east           =
| southeast      =
| south          =
| southwest      =
| west           =
| northwest      =
| map            =
| caption2       =
}}

[edit] Field use

• name - name of the suburb. Where the article name has a qualifier (like "Devonport, New Zealand") please omit the qualifier unless there is a second New Zealand version of the suburb.

• image - link to an image of the suburb here. This should not be a map (these go further below). Use the full name, including the ".jpg" (or whatever the filetype) suffix, but without the "image:".

• • caption1 - caption of the picture. Please restrict to one or two lines, three at most. Please use a stop at the end.

• city1 - this is the city the suburb is in. This is defined by the local authority (i.e. Auckland City, not Auckland).

• city2 - second local authority. More a precaution, this is for suburbs which might be overlapping two authorities. Rare, maybe nonexistant?

• ward - defined ward of the city. If available, and probably not very important these days.

• established - approximate year suburb was established. May in some cases be pre-European, but only if there was reasonable continuity. If exact date unknown, use the following format "1860s (Approx.)".

• area - area for the size of the suburb in hectares. The "ha" will be added automatically.

• population - population size. Please use thousand-commas as in "10,200".

• • popdate - date for the population count as a year. If no date is available, but the population figure is still referenced, please use "????" instead.

• trainstations - local train stations (local only please, NOT the closest). Please sort alphabetically and separate by commas.

• ferryterminals - local ferry terminals (local only please, NOT the closest). Please sort alphabetically and separate by commas.

• airports - local airports (local only please, NOT the closest). This does include smaller airfields and heliports (but not single helicopter landing pads such as for a hospital), as long as regular activity exists. Please sort alphabetically and separate by commas.

• hospitals - local hospitals (local only please, NOT the closest). This excludes most medical centres - hospitals as defined here would need to have in-patients (patients staying overnight) or be especially large/notable medical centres without inpatients. Please sort alphabetically and separate by commas.

• north, northeast ... - location of the suburb with the surrounding suburbs. Restrict to one each per direction, unless there are clearly more than one in that directly directly adjacent (should not happen, there are rarely more than 8 directly surrounding suburbs!) Note that this field can be filled with non-suburb links such as Wellington Harbour. If such a non-suburb link is used, please put in round brackets such as the following example: (Waitakere Ranges).

• map - provide a map image if available, see 'image' above for syntax.

• caption2 - provide a caption in the line of 'Location of (spell out 'name' by hand) in (spell out 'city1' by hand). Please restrict to one or two lines at most. Please use a stop at the end.

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