Talk:List of suburbs of Auckland

Rename

In a discussion here, Grutness suggested that this article should be renamed: "Suburbs of Auckland would be more in line with the long-standing Suburbs of Dunedin (and with the few similar overseas suburbs articles I've seen)." I agree, so if no one objects in the next day or two I'll move it to Suburbs of Auckland. -- Avenue 13:09, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

There's been no objection, so I'll move it. -- Avenue 01:55, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Wasn't moved?! Oh well... then I'll do it. Mathmo ^Talk 03:57, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

I did move it, from Auckland Suburbs to Suburbs of Auckland. The latest title (Suburbs of Auckland, New Zealand) seems unnecessarily verbose, but this doesn't worry me enough to bother an admin about changing it back. -- Avenue 09:52, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

I just realised I can move it over a trivial redirect myself, so I've done it. -- Avenue 14:35, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

A note on naming suburb articles

If you are creating new articles on individual suburbs, please use the standard naming guidelines for places in New Zealand, as follows:

1. If the place name is unique in the world, simply use "Name" - e.g., Onehunga.
2. If the placename is found elsewhere in the world, but is unique in New Zealand, use "Name, New Zealand" - e.g., Mount Wellington, New Zealand. There is nothing wrong with also adding a redirect at "Mount Wellington, Auckland" for ease of navigation).
3. If the name is also found elsewhere in New Zealand, use "Name, Region" - e.g., Silverdale, Auckland (all the suburbs on this page are in the Auckland Region). Consider also making a disambiguation page at "Name, New Zealand" in this case (such as the one at Silverdale, New Zealand).

The reason for this is that most people outside New Zealand and many within New Zealand (i.e., most WP readers) may know a place is somewhere in New Zealand but not know whereabouts. This naming makes it easier for them to find specific articles. Grutness...wha? 21:50, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Really suburbs?

I'm not familiar enough with Auckland to know, but many of the names I'm NOT familiar with in this list sound like the sort of names given to large subdivisions. Is a block of a couple of hundred houses (with no commercial centre) really worthy of being called a suburb? (These ones seem unlikely to ever merit articles). dramatic (talk) 12:15, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

I'm not familiar enough with South Auckland and Papakura to really comment on them, but the rest seem reasonable enough to me. I might quibble about a few of the more remote North Shore ones (e.g. how distinct is Waiake from Torbay?), but my knowledge of them is a bit vague too. --Avenue (talk) 14:38, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

Pukekohe

In this edit, an editor created a new section "Pukekohe" and listed a set of .... well, I hesitate to call them suburbs. I put them into 4 columns and in alphabetical order without committing myself on whether they're appropriate. I'd like a discussion as to whether these places can be called suburbs. I'm familiar with only Pukekohe, which I visited on a day trip a year or two ago. It's a bustling little township, but still seems too remote and unconnected from Auckland to be called one of its suburbs, despite being under Auckland Council's jurisdiction. Akld guy (talk) 06:33, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

Using local boards for area

I understand that the old cities were abolished and this is why it was changed to local boards, but I found the city designation far more useful for navigation. The cities are still well used as geographical locations by people. With local boards a few are obvious as to where they are such as Upper Harbour, but even that has issues like Riverheard being considered geographically Upper Harbour but not in the local board and Windsor Park being part of the Upper Harbour board but geographically not being Upper Harbour. Some of the other local boards are next to useless in description, no one even thinks of Parnell when they hear Waitemata.

@Prosperosity Tagging since you made the change. Traumnovelle (talk) 09:59, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

@Traumnovelle: There's a few issues with breaking up suburbs, and I'm not sure if there's really a good answer. Ideally we want the suburbs chunked into smaller blocks that people understand, but the definitions of these get a bit hazy. Here are a few of the options:

• Geographic areas ("West Auckland", "South Auckland", etc). These are what people use and understand, but the borders are hard to define. Henderson is definitely West Auckland and nothing else, Avondale is variously west or central, and South Auckland can be anywhere with poorer demographics south of Epsom. This is my favourite option but would likely cause edit wars and plenty of double-ups.
• 1989-2010 cities/districts: these are historical and increasingly not relevant to Auckland over time (like how the pre-1989 cities like Waitemata City or Tamaki City aren't really relevant to how people split up Auckland), especially considering urban sprawl and growth: areas that weren't suburbs of a 2010 Auckland city that have since been developed. We also have a big issue with "Manukau City" - this is a list that covers East Auckland and most of South Auckland (but not all).
• Current local boards: these are precise and definable modern areas, and the basic administrative blocks of the city. They're also not necessarily what people think of when they think of geographic areas of Auckland.

What are your thoughts? I'm not strongly tied to local boards as divisions for the suburbs, but I'm strongly against splitting them up into the pre-2011 divisions. --Prosperosity (talk) 22:26, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

Geographic areas would come with the caveat of edit warring over it.

The districts are not entirely historical, they're still used on road signs for example and even very recently installed ones. Many businesses use the old city boundaries for their services such as TradeMe.

>areas that weren't suburbs of a 2010 Auckland city that have since been developed.

You mean places in Franklin/Rodney? Just include Franklin and Rodney to solve that. If you mean new subdivisions/suburbs, I'm not aware of any but they'd fall under whatever the area was before.

I feel the old cities/districts provide the most useful geographical information without being subjective. Personally I still use the old counties to describe areas in some contexts, even though I was born well after they were abolished.

Local boards are also subject to change, they've already discussed changing it. Traumnovelle (talk) 04:52, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

@Traumnovelle: Westgate (only became a suburb in 2013), Auranga, Waiata Shores (although neither of these two have articles yet), plus places like Fairview Heights, East Tāmaki Heights and Mission Heights where building predated the current unitary council, but their recognition/identity as a distinct suburb grew after amalgamation. Sorting these and all future suburbs into the former four city/three districts is anachronous.

Every administrative area (even countries) is subject to change; that things could potentially change isn't a good argument for or against something. Local boards are the current administrative division that we use (and if the system changes, the page would reflect these changes).

Another potential option would be to replace sections with a table, where each suburb could be sorted by local board, ward, former city/district, and geographic area. --Prosperosity (talk) 05:32, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

Something like this:

Name	Local board	Ward	Former subdivision (1989–2010)	Geographic area
Browns Bay	Hibiscus and Bays	Albany ward	North Shore City	East Coast Bays

--Prosperosity (talk) 05:36, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

Westgate isn't new, it's just a renamed part of Massey. Auranga and Waiata Shores aren't suburbs. I don't think it's that hard to sort them into an area given the land was always under the authority of something, besides Herald Island that had a period of no governance.

The table is probably the best option given this is a list, with WP:NOTPAPER considered we could also include the old counties and national electorates. Traumnovelle (talk) 05:46, 20 April 2024 (UTC)