Talk:Republicanism in New Zealand

message: NPOV, I belive that this article does not meet the NPOV requiment, it is pro Republicanism Brian | (Talk) 09:33, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: How is the article pro-republican? Which category of NPOV does the article fail to meet? --Lholden 19:50, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

text: Err... what exactly was 'won'? --Lholden 00:24, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The renaming Brian | (Talk) 00:38, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Heh, it's not a war Brian. --Lholden 03:02, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I know :) Sorry for been so abrupt, um, thanks for citing your quote Brian | (Talk) 04:45, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

text: No it isn't. See Andrew Townend's article, section VII. --Lholden (talk) 02:28, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: NPOV

message: I propose we remove the link to the blog Queen & Country, a check shows that there have been no posts since late May, any objections? Brian | (Talk) 00:53, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, although Wilmot is still on the web, he just e-mailed me a very long load of BS about HRH Prince Charles. I suspect my response may encourage him to restart his blog... --Lholden 09:19, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  link 

message: Do we need the Republicanism in Oceania template; considering that; there are only a few monarchies in Oceania and the red links are distracting. I propose that we remove it, any objections? Brian | (Talk) 00:50, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Nope, I agree. The problem is most pacific states wouldn't consider monarchism as part of their constitutional make-up when considering independence, except for maybe Fiji and Papua New Guinea. --Lholden 01:52, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I just made a replacement we could use on the 4 main articles:Template:Republicanism, what do you think?  Brian | (Talk) 02:00, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

text: Looks good to me--Lholden 02:03, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Republicanism in Oceania template 

message: Reading through this I see that there are a lot of statements that are not referenced. I have added citation needed templates to several sentences but there are more needed. This article seems to get regularly edited, so was wondering if those editors could find some sources for the info in this article? - Shudda talk 07:36, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll dig them up, they'll mainly be to newspaper articles. --Lholden 09:24, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Referencing 

message: Why are we quoting Peters on Clark in the Labour Party subsection, when there's a perfectly good quote by Clark already in her own article? This looks to me like bias in the article, since the Peters quote is saying Clark is implementing Republicanism by stealth, while Clark is openly saying Republicanism is inevitable. Any objection to my putting the  Clark quote in place of the Peters one?-gadfium 22:41, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Put both in imo. The Peters quote sums up how many people feel about this government’s changes Brian | (Talk) 23:54, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Put them both in, as they show how silly the "republicanism by stealth" claim is :-) --Lholden 02:15, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Winston Peters quote

message: Reading through the section "Recent developments" makes me wonder what this material has to do with republicanism.  There are monarchies that have supreme courts, oaths without reference to the monarch, and their own national awards without any threat to their status as monarchies.  I can see how the moves covered in this section show a break from Britain, but I fail to see what they have to do with abolition of the Crown. --G2bambino 00:29, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You'd better ask your monarchist friends down here why they think it's necessary... --Lholden 04:08, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent developments 

message: This is a really nice article.  I propose it be given Good Article status.  60.234.139.116 06:58, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Great article 

message: Extract from the 2007 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting: Final communiqué 
"Heads of Government also agreed that, where an existing member changes its formal constitutional status, it should not have to reapply for Commonwealth membership provided that it continues to meet all the criteria for membership."
In cases of changes in constitutional status, as when a monarchical realm becomes a republic, it was agreed that the old procedure of reapplying for membership is not necessary. It was accepted that where an existing member changes its constitutional status, e.g. from a monarchy to a republic, it should not have to reapply for Commonwealth membership as long as it continues to accept all elements of the criteria for membership. --Dlatimer (talk) 09:02, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Excellent.--Lholden (talk) 20:54, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: However, the article text is incorrect in its statement (sourced to a republican group's site) that this has applied since 1949. When South Africa became a republic in 1961, they were not allowed to remain members, and when Fiji did so in 1987, their membership was declared to have lapsed (in each case this was done to entrench racially biased power structures and the nations were readmitted after these had been replaced).LE (talk) 04:41, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, I've re-worded that part to reflect what the citation states (i.e. since 1949 republics have been able to be members). I'll also add the CHOGM details, the link above is now broken. --LJ Holden 20:50, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Commonwealth Membership not terminated 

message: Hi all, I came across this article and was surprised by the number of issues.  It says to be bold when editting, so I have made some changes when they are obvious.  I summarise below:
1) Republicanism is not really a movement, it's a political construct.  The "Republican Movement" is a movement!
2) The idea does not necessarily require that a realm become a Commonwealth Republic.
3) I've removed the Hone Heke reference as there is no evidence that he was acting out of republican sentiment.  He was motivated by a disagreement with authority, regardless of that authority's structure.
4)Re: Te Whiti, the citation for this source points to a self-published work which wikipedia prefers not to rely upon according to their guidelines.  It could be restored, of course, if a more reliable source is found.
5)The material regarding Bolger not being supported in his call included mass attribution and no citations.
6)"His government ended the awarding of British honours in 1996, introducing a New Zealand Honours System."  This has nothing to do with republicanism, it is one of a number of examples in this article which attributes a non-neutral point of view to an historical event.
7)Shipley's views on the flag are not really related to republicanism.  Note the flag of Fiji.
8)Woolcott's views are not really relevant to an article on NZ republicanism.
9)Wikipedia is not a forum for debate.  Many of the points listed there are mass attributions and do not express anything more than the opinions of various groups.  These opinions belong on the pages of those groups.
10) Wikipedia expresses concern in their guidelines regarding the citation of editorials.  The views of Colin James, while fascinating to vast swaths of the New Zealand populous, are not facts, no matter how fervently he may cling to them.
11) The opinion poll section makes numerous claims which are not backed up by citations, or use citations which are quite old.  The paragraph ends with an acknowledgement that the polls are unreliable.  As that is clearly the case, it seems odd to include the paragraph.
12)The Labour paragraph has been editted to remove mass attributions and he-said, she-said components.
13)If national's vote was not motivated by republicanism, as the paragraph stated, then why is it on this page?
14)The citation for Turia's views is a self-published work.  Furthermore, it does not actually demonstrate the views being asserted.
15)Moved New Zealand First to the "Parties Outside Parliament" section.
16)The Privy Council reference is mass attribution again.  As with point 6), this is another example of a non-neutral point of view applied to an historical event.
17) The Constitutional Issues section is highly speculative.  It seems like shadow-boxing in some sort of they-say we-say dynamic.  This has led to many mass attributions.  I won't remove it at this moment as perhaps it can be cleaned up.  However, if not it probably should come out.
18) I have removed all of the extraneous material fromt he recent developments section.  Almost none of those issues directly relate to republicanism.  I have left the only one that does.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.238.120.244 (talk) 10:22, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Major Revision 

message: Further to the discussion below I have amended the introduction to reflect what was agreed upon - specifically that Republicanism can refer to both dissent against the government historically and as the modification of the constitution.
:Fair enough, although I think the sentence should reflect the historical meaning. Also, you need to sign your comments with four tildes (see above) --Lholden (talk) 09:08, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:   I appreciate your view, but the use of the protest term is not confined to history in this article.  Hence the way it was written.  As it is used both ways throughout the article, it should reflect that in the introduction.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.237.17.73 (talk) 06:49, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure what you mean "not confined to history", from the way the article's been edited, the contemporary republicanism is not "dissent against the government". --Lholden (talk) 09:17, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Sorry, I realise I wasn't very clear in the wording of my previous explanation.  The way the article is written, the term republicanism refers to both the theoretical constitutional concept and protest movements.  You proposed that the term republicanism, as a protest movement, was "historical" and that the only meaning of the term at present is the constitutional concept.  That is not what appears in the article.  The article frequently alternates between the meanings with no apparent connection to the past or present.  I think the wording as I have modified it reflects this.  Of course the whole thing would be simplier if this article was about a single concept and not two distinct concepts with the same name "republicanism".  Cheers.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.237.17.73 (talk) 13:23, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Objectively the protest movements of the past no longer exist, neither is the term associated with protest other than in a pejorative sense, which the article explains. However, you seem to be saying that it would be simpler to simply state the theoretical aspect of republicanism? I won't edit the lead again for now, but if you could respond on that point I'd be much obliged. --Lholden (talk) 17:25, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minor change 

message: As per the above - the lead has been re-extended to summarise the article, as per WP:SS --Lholden (talk) 10:13, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  New lead 

message: I've reverted a removed paragraph regarding the Succession to the British throne as despite the editors' claim, the law itself has not yet changed, and even when (or if) it does, the discrimination against Catholics from being New Zealand's head of state remains. The paragraph should therefore stand. --LJ Holden 19:39, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: ...and I've changed the most recent addition, which was only partially accurate and badly worded. --LJ Holden 02:26, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Succession 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: There should be a mention of the idea of a uniquely New Zealand monarch in the article. I do not think that there are currently any sources for this idea, but they are unnecessary because it only requires one person to make a suggestion. It would be included in the debate section, and would read as follows. 
" It has been suggested that New Zealand should have a uniquely New Zealand monarch, whereby someone who is in line to the New Zealand throne, but who is not expected to become monarch of the United Kingdom, would become monarch of New Zealand, and reside in New Zealand. It has been claimed that this would be a suitable compromise between monarchists and republicans. This proposal, however, does not have mainstream political support. "
:Why would you suggest that this proposal doesn't need sources, when it has already been removed from the article because it is unsourced? Further, you would need to show why this is relevant to this article, which is about republicanism rather than monarchism.-gadfium 04:07, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Please only add information if you can cite it with reliable sources at the time of adding it. Helper201 (talk) 05:36, 27 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: There are no reliable sources. The reference doesn't support the text. --LJ Holden 21:03, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

text: If the source is deceptive, then it's not a good source. --LJ Holden 00:47, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Uniquely New Zealand monarch  

message: I think that the title should be changed to Debate on the monarchy in New Zealand. There is no monarchism in New Zealand article, and creating one would be unnecessary, as this article could easily function as both a monarchism in New Zealand article and a republicanism in New Zealand article.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Iliketoeatbeansalot (talk • contribs) 14:56, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, if you're suggesting a title change you'd need to use the correct template to do so, although I think you'd need a bit more than the claim of nationalism. --LJ Holden 00:47, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change of title request 

message: Article has next to no coverage of what type of republic (e.g. parliamentary republic or presidential republic) proponents generally favour. Nurg (talk) 01:05, 17 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, have added that in --LJ Holden 02:26, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Type of republic