Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Treaty of Waitangi

Treaty of Waitangi

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Original – Treaty to establish a British Governor of New Zealand, consider Māori ownership of their lands and other properties, and give Māori the rights of British subjects.

Reason

A very important historical document.

Articles in which this image appears

Treaty of Waitangi, Aboriginal title, Constitution of New Zealand, New Zealand, Treaty of Waitangi claims and settlements, Waitangi Day

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/Others

Creator

William Hobson, James Freeman, and James Busby (English version); Henry Williams and Edward Marsh Williams (Māori translation)

• Support as nominator --♥^(Theparties) 10:29, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
• Support - Document is in poor condition, but as there are few extant copies, I think this is acceptable. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:10, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
• Support Per Crisco. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 15:44, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
• Support due to its historical and encyclopedic value, but the description is partially wrong. As stated on the NZ archives site , the treaty is not a single large sheet of paper but a group of nine documents: seven on paper and two on parchment. This is just the first one. You can find the rest of them in there (IMO if they are all PD, they should all be in that article, but that has nothing to do with this FPC). On a totally unrelated note, I find it unbelievable this document was so neglected and left to be eaten by rodents... --CyberXRef^☎ 20:20, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
  • If the Kiwi government is anything like the Indonesian government, we should be thankful that's the least that happened. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 06:38, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
• Support High quality reproduction of a very important document. Crisco, the NZ Government now keeps these documents in a darkened vault-like room in the Archives New Zealand building in Wellington. Nick-D (talk) 00:15, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

• "Now". At least the condition won't get much worse. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:06, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

• Heh, true. The documents are kept in very impressive facilities now, so they should be safe for a long time. Nick-D (talk) 07:55, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

• Support Should track them all down and upload as a set. Aaadddaaammm (talk) 04:47, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Promoted File:Treatyofwaitangi.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 10:44, 23 March 2014 (UTC)