Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/Sources
Sources
[edit]This is a necessarily incomplete list of sources for New Zealand topics.
| Source | link | Kinds of documents | Best for | Good for | Bad for | Count (2011-10-02) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parliament of New Zealand | [1] | Official policy, Ministerial Speeches, etc | Contemporary local issues | Criminal proceedings | 695 | |
| Law of New Zealand | [2] | Current legislation | Current Acts and Bills, Regulations | Stale Acts and Bills, Regulations | Old Acts and Bills, Regulations (focus is on current law) | 612 |
| Scoop | [3] | Press releases | government, politicians, activists, pressure groups, businesses points of view | Balanced coverage (almost all content is press releases) | 1956 | |
| Papers Past | [4] | Old newspapers (English) | Historical news coverage, around New Zealand | Advertisements | Te reo Māori newspapers (see below); little content 1940-2011 digitised | 2724 |
| Māori Niupepa | [5] | Old newspapers (Māori and bi-lingual) | Contemporary coverage of early Māori issues | Historical news coverage, around New Zealand | Balanced coverage, much content blatantly biased as most news papers essentially partisan mouth pieces for the crown, the chiefs or the church. All sources use old orthography and may need to be adjusted for quoting. | 11 |
| NZETC | [6] | Misc | Early New Zealand out of copyright sources; WWII official histories; The Cyclopedia of New Zealand 1897-1908'Contemporary New Zealand literature especially poetry | 2207 | ||
| National Library | [7] | Copyright deposit library catalog | Authorship details, ISBNs of NZ books (including pre-amazon books) | Full text of works | 54 | |
| Te Papa Collections online | [8] | National Museum catalog | Images of Māori cultural objects; correct names of Māori items in modern orthography | Images of New Zealand art and artists | High res images usually not available. | 731 |
| Stuff.co.nz | [9] | National Newspapers online | News from c. August 2007 onwards | 5773 | ||
| The New Zealand Herald | [10] | Auckland Newspaper | News from c.2000 onwards | 9948 | ||
| Television New Zealand | [11] | Nationwide television broadcaster | News | 2908 | ||
| 3 News | [12] | Nationwide television broadcaster | News | 609 + 202 | ||
| Radio New Zealand/ Radio New Zealand International |
[13] [14] | Nationwide/International radio broadcaster | News | 382 / 1679 | ||
| New Zealand Listener | [15] | Weekly magazaine | Current affairs | 335 | ||
| Otago Daily Times | [16] | Daily newspaper | Dunedin/Otago news | 642 | ||
| National Business Review | [17] | Weekly business news | Business news | Some content paywalled | 306 | |
| Te Ara | [18] | Encyclopedia of New Zealand | 3208 incl DNZB | |||
| New Zealand Historic Places Trust | [19] | Historic places register | Detailed place descriptions | 1443 | ||
| Audit Bureau of Circulations | [20] | Newspaper/magazine circulation data | 21 | |||
| Statistics New Zealand | [21] | New Zealand statistics | 1315 | |||
| BDM/Council cemetery records | [22]/various | biography details | ||||
| Land Information New Zealand | [23] | Geographic | 1362 | |||
| Dictionary of New Zealand Biography | [24] | Biographies of people who have died | 525 | |||
| TKI | [25] | School records | 3960 | |||
| Parole Board Decisions of Public Interest | [26] | Information on convicted criminals recently up for parole | Warning: history of periodically removing content. | 8 | ||
| New Zealand Legal Information Institute | [27] | Old legislation; case law; appeals details; Broadcasting Standards Authority rulings; etc; etc | Criminals; victims of crime; biographies of lawyers | Warning: all content is WP:ROUTINE and cannot be used for notability. |