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Should it be referred to as the Sixth Labour Government or the first NZ First-Labour government? The article itself refers to it as a NZ First-Labour government.
Mattlore (
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02:37, 20 October 2017 (UTC)reply
I'm not sure it is the same situation. In 1996, it made sense to see it as a continuation of the 1990-1996 National Government, and it makes sense to have one article about 1999-2008 rather than a 1999-02 Labour/Alliance article and an 2002-08 article. We haven't had a coalition government since then. Here, for the moment, it is three years of a Labour-NZ First coalition government and I think the name should reflect that. Either way, it will be soon clear what reliable sources refer to the government as and as always wikipedia should be guided by the sources.
Mattlore (
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23:19, 21 October 2017 (UTC)reply
At least two news articles have referred to the "Sixth Labour government".
[1][2] I expect more sources will follow this usage. It has become a very well established convention to refer to "X National/Labour Government". --
Hazhk (
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00:00, 22 October 2017 (UTC)reply
In the short term I propose adding some clarification along the lines of "also referred to as the Labour–New Zealand First Government". --
Hazhk (
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00:13, 22 October 2017 (UTC)reply
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Typhoon2013: I wouldn't say it's that much of an issue, but it probably does make more sense to have a background/history section come first. I'd go ahead and change it – if someone has strong objection to it i'm sure they'll stop by to explain why.
Clesam11 (
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23:43, 24 November 2017 (UTC)reply
"Sixth" Labour Government
Don't mean to be pedantic except it was slightly annoying trying to find it
Could someone with a lot more Wiki Tech skills than myself create a re-direct from people searching for "6th"
As all the other Labour Government articles use the actual digit so I just assumed this would and it couldn't find it
Since there are Greens as ministers in the cabinet, why are the Greens considered to only be offering "confidence and supply" rather than being part of the government? --
Jfruh (
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08:47, 21 June 2018 (UTC)reply
All 3 parties in the current govt and all official speeches and interviews from Jacinda Ardern now refer to the current government as a "Coalition Government". In fact both Winston Peters and Ardern have been at pains to clarify it should no longer be referred to as a Labour lead Govt.
Surely this article should follow the governments own naming conventions and the name should be changed to reflect this.
This suggestion by gadfium is good because the question has wider implications than this article and input from a wider range of editors is appropriate. A move to
Sixth Labour-led Government of New Zealand and moving all previous MMP coalition articles to the same format seems right to me. Please note the spelling of "led" here.
Akld guy (
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02:41, 5 June 2019 (UTC)reply
Thanks gadfium and Akld guy, I agree that this matter needs further discussion. Will keep it at Sixth Labour Government for now until we can agree how to name the various governments of NZ.
Andykatib10:31, 5 June 2019 (UTC)reply
The name is fine. The government is a Labour-led government (the last one was National-led) as the Prime Minister is the leader of the major governing party.
Ajf773 (
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23:24, 5 June 2019 (UTC)reply
If the "Significant policies and initiatives" section is a list of things they intended to do, some of which they did do and some of which they abandoned, this should be made clearer, as many of the items are written as achievements, rather than as just intentions.
Nurg (
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09:06, 4 December 2020 (UTC)reply
I think it would make sense to update the section to reflect the policies which the government actually implemented. Readers likely expect to see real outcomes rather than intentions, especially now that the government is no longer in power.
Philipp.governale (
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00:37, 2 December 2023 (UTC)reply
Trimming
Hi there, this article is over 576,000 bytes. Most of the fat is the history sections. Per the
discussion on the New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board, I have taken the initiative of creating two draft articles for the
twoterms of that Government. I plan to replace the history section with a few short paragraphs that correspond to the lead section of those two offshoots. Feel free to help out.
Andykatib00:46, 14 December 2023 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Gadfium: and @
Roger 8 Roger:, I have managed to trim this article down to about 316,000 bytes. The year-by-year body sections were the main areas that I worked on. Let me know if further condensing is needed. I'll also need to add archival references to the list of policies and controversies sections. Cheers.
Andykatib14:17, 23 June 2023 (UTC)reply