Talk:Gisborne, New Zealand

message: I tried to make it less tourist-brochure like. Try to maintain a NPOV! Grutness 00:23, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Tourist-brochure like

message: The climate section is pretty poor. Gisborne never has "tropical" weather. Potentially sub-tropical, but even that is questionable (sub-tropical implies mean temperature 22C in the warmest month by Koeppen definition. Gisborne has more like 20C mean temperature). 
As for the nonsense about recording temperatures higher in the "heart of the city", this can be applied to every city in the entire world. It's irrelevant to the article.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.154.145.33 (talk) 02:20, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Climate

message: This page has a comma (,) in its title and URL. Is this appropriate, correct, and/or good-practice? 121.74.18.96 (talk) 00:37, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, yes and yes. Refer to Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(New_Zealand). dramatic (talk) 09:22, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Comma in article name

message: I'd like to suggest that this New Zealand city is the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. I've looked at page view stats:
Article title                    	Dec 2015 views	percentage
Gisborne (surname)               	55            	1%
Gisborne District                	485           	9%
Gisborne Region (redirect)       	551           	10%
Gisborne, New Zealand            	3521          	64%
Gisborne (New Zealand electorate)	97            	2%
Gisborne, Victoria               	739           	13%
Electoral district of Gisborne   	75            	1%
total                            	5523          	
The New Zealand city's district, region (a redirect!) and the Victorian town all sit at around 10% of views, whilst the New Zealand city gets close to two thirds of the views. Comments welcome. I'll leave a note on the Victorian town's talk page so that page watchers can chip in. If this suggestion gets (near) unanimous support, let's move articles accordingly. If there's some dissent or not more than four comments in total, we can turn this into a formal move request. If it's clearly unsupported, we can leave things as they are. Schwede66 20:52, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: * I didn't state that because there is a naming convention for it; the dab page would be moved to Gisborne (disambiguation). Schwede66 21:41, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: *Yes, that is the naming convention, but I do not agree. Who searches for "Gisborne (disambiguation)"? Leave it as it is. If you look for "Gisborne", you easily fined the disambiguation page, and then you see the two places. It has been that way for a long time.--Bduke  (Discussion) 22:46, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: * - have you got policy-based objections? Are you saying that you disagree with the concept of primary topic? Schwede66 22:50, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: *Well, it is certainly no Broad-concept article, which fixes many of these problems. The concept of primary topic is part of a guideline which says in its header - "It is a generally accepted standard that editors should attempt to follow, though it is best treated with common sense, and occasional exceptions may apply". The common sense broad issue is that the term "Gisborne" is used for several places and concepts and I think it should remain that way. I do not think you are giving sufficient reason for a change. Let us see what others think. This is my last word for now. --Bduke  (Discussion) 23:27, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Primary topic 

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message: The article says the Māori name is Tūranga-nui-a-Kiwa but no citation is provided. The Māori name for Poverty Bay (the embayment) is Tūranganui-a-Kiwa. The Māori name for Gisborne was formerly Turanga (which would now be written Tūranga). There are sources that say Tūranganui-a-Kiwa is the name for the "Gisborne area" (which seems to mean the Poverty Bay district, not the city). Is there a reliable source for what the Māori name of the city is? Nurg (talk) 03:59, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I had a go at this. Better sources may well be available. Tairāwhiti  re-appears in the culture section, which makes sense. Ben MacDui 09:15, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for having a go at that. However, Tairāwhiti is a name for the region, not the city, & the source does not say it was for the city. So, I have made a further change. The article is now better as a result of our combined efforts, so thanks again. Nurg (talk) 01:51, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Māori name – verification needed