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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 22:31, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  • Source: "There are currently 67 territorial authorities in New Zealand, each with a mayor elected from the district at large, together with over 700 councillors." link
  • Reviewed:
5x expanded by TheLoyalOrder (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has less than 5 past nominations.

TheLoyalOrder (talk) 02:02, 12 August 2024 (UTC).[reply]

  • I'll know a thing or two about local government in New Zealand. I shall review this. Schwede66 04:37, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Very nice work! Content first. What you call "Provincial legislation councils"—a term that I've never heard and I suspect one that does not exist—refers to New Ulster Province and New Munster Province; you might want to rephrase that. Please correct "mayors that worked" to "mayors who worked". I shall note that I have only ever heard first-past-the-post voting being abbreviated as FPP in New Zealand, and not FPTP. As one doesn't register in New Zealand, "two people registered within the area" isn't quite correct; rather, those two people must be on the electoral roll for the respective local authority. What I'm missing—and note that this is not a DYK-pass criterion—is historic information about term length and voting procedures. Initially, councillors appointed one from within their ranks as mayor. This changed to election at large, with the initial term length of one year, then two years, and finally three years. Those changes were all legislated for. Ah well, material for a future article expansion, I suppose. Now to the DYK criteria. Article expansion was started on 10 August. It's a massive 30-times expansion. Earwig is clean. The article is suitably referenced and neutral. The hook is referenced but a bit bland in my view. The notable mayors provide material for more interesting hooks. Or you could make something up about the newest mayor being a double-Olympic gold medallist. A notable mayor missing from your list is Charles Mackay (mayor), and he could no doubt provide an interesting hook as well. No QPQ needed as the tool shows just one previous credit. Please have a look at this feedback and see what you can achieve, TheLoyalOrder. Schwede66 05:32, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
ALT1 and ALT2 are approved. Schwede66 05:39, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]