Talk:Porirua

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Perhaps this article should mention some other prominent residents like author Patricia Grace, or poet Sam Hunt? Also, I have lots of photos of Porirua and suburbs that I will happily license in a free way for Wikipedia. I'll see what I can dig up this weekend, since there seem to be no pics on here at all... Karora 13:04, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If I knew who those nameless people were, I could verify such a claim, but is it important? Certainly as someone who lives in Porirua there is no particularly obvious visibility. Karora 06:21, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
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message: I think that statement needs backing up (I've tagged it with citation-needed).  I've done some research today on the Statistics NZ site, and the 2001 stats don't provide average income by territorial authority, while the 2006 census stats only seem to allow me to drill down to Region (Wellington Region comes out tops).  Karora 04:45, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Highest per-capita income? 

message: One version of this article was copied by slider.com saying it was copyright slider.com 2000-2008 or some such, adding that it was distributed under GFDL, but making no mention of Wikipedia. I've written to them asking about it. I think they copied a rather old version, this one or one soon after:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Porirua&oldid=8416235
Robin Patterson (talk) 11:47, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copying by slider.com 

message: I've added something about the Ara Harakeke pathway under the section 'Transport links'. This might be better placed in a section on 'Recreation', and I suggest that the paragraph be shifted once such a section gets set up. Schwede66 (talk) 22:01, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ara Harakeke 

message: copied from my talk p. -- DGG. 
 
I am a resident of Porirua city, a barrister and solicitor with a keen interest in New Zealand politics and political history.  
Regarding your suggestion to merge the page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Planning_in_Porirua_(1940-1970) with the main Porirua page: I disagree.  
The State Planning page gives an insight into a particular political era in New Zealand, and the Porirua example of State Planning explains to many New Zealanders why their towns and cities look and behave the way that they do.  Yes, this is part of the history of Porirua City specifically, but more broadly it's an insight into the political history of New Zealand.  
Although we're a small country, and our cities are accordingly small also, for us, these two pages have two distinct purposes.  Merging the one into the other would lose the impact of the real political story that is State Planning in New Zealand.  Porirua just happens to be a great example of a state planned community - the location is not the story!  
In addition to the historical example of Porirua, New Zealand has other examples of state planned settlement - but mostly in relation to trade or production needs, rather than, as in Porirua, a desire to plan a community.  The most controversial would be the moving of the town of Cromwell to accommodate Lake Dunstan (part of a major political scheme of the 1980s known as 'Think Big') and the fully planned town of Twizel, built in the late 1960s to provide workers for a nearby hydroelectric scheme.  
Forgive me if I've ranted on a little bit!  To me there's a clear distinction between the purposes of the two pages, and merging them would be a loss to the pool of easily available historical New Zealand knowledge.  
I'm happy to discuss this further :-)
Rachel
Rkwrkb (talk) 04:44, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: response by [[:User:Rkwrkb]] 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I check pages listed in :Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of :Porirua's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "Carman":
From Tawa, New Zealand: 
From Tawa Flat deviation: 
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 04:55, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orphaned references in [[:Porirua]] 

message: I think that since there is a section regarding the Porirua Coat of Arms it would be ideal if there was an image of said Coat-of-Arms to aid the reader's interpretation of the description.
I know there are images available of the crest online, e.g. at Heraldry wiki and the old Porirua City Council website (Archived), but I don't have the copyright or permission to upload it.
Similarly, it could be good to have the flag for Porirua on the page, consistent with the basic info box on the Wellington page. Examples of the flag at Flags of the World and the old Porirua City Council website (Archived)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Radicuil (talk • contribs) 12:44, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I have just added an image of the coat of arms --Radicuil (talk) 10:10, 9 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Porirua Coat of Arms and Flag