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Clerk of the New Zealand House of Representatives

I see that you are new to Wikipedia; hence the welcome message above. You may find Wikipedia with its countless rules and regulations a bit daunting, and here's something for you to consider. There are rules as to what topics get included, and that is mostly defined via notability. I suggest that being clerk of the house does not bestow inherent notability, which means that you'd need to proof, on a case-by-case basis, that an individual is notable through a number of reliable sources that discuss the person in question. They may have an entry in Who's Who in New Zealand plus a detailed obituary in one of the main papers, and you'd have that person over the line. The article on James Coates, in its current form, does not demonstrate how he would be notable. So before you create any more articles in this series, I suggest you get on top of this issue. I'm more than willing to help. I fear that it won't be long before somebody suggests that the Coates article should be deleted again, so I'd make this a priority. Schwede66 00:28, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

moved here from Schwede66's talk page

Kia ora Schwede66.

Thanks for your comments on my draft Clerk of the House of Representatives article. I must admit I wasn't expecting people to start editing before I finished working on it! I can see what you mean about notoriety of James Coates but the person who combined my draft article with an existing article has really messed up because the articles cover two different people.

I was intending to follow the style used in the article on the Clerk of the Canadian House of Commons: i.e. there would be a general article on the office of the Clerk of the House and then separate pages with a bit about each of the 13 clerks who have held office since 1854.

Do you think it would be better to have one large article with internal links to the separate clerks? Your advice appreciated. Cheers Peter. NZHistoryResearch (talk) 09:09, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

Hi Peter, it's generally better to keep conversations in one place, hence I've moved your reply from my talk page to yours. I suggest that you write the Clerk of the House article next, and then we'll have a look whether Coates is notable. If not, we'll merge his info with that page. And then we'll go from there. By the way, your edits get noticed because there's a new page monitor. Schwede66 19:34, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

Well, you have certainly shown beyond any doubt that Coates is notable. That's a rather decent piece of work, and you are giving justice to your user name. Keep up the good work. Schwede66 05:58, 10 May 2016 (UTC)

merge and redirect

Welcome to Wikipedia. I've merged and redirected your James Coates (parliamentary official) to the long standing James Hugh Buchanan Coates. We can debate the best name for the article, but there certainly should only be one. Stuartyeates (talk) 06:47, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

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Campbell

You might have seen that I have written an article about Francis Eastwood Campbell's father. I need to add more about Campbell senior's family to his article, but have so far drawn a blank. Do you know anything about Lady Campbell, say? Did they have other children than F.E.? Schwede66 10:15, 28 June 2016 (UTC)

Hi - yes I did see that - thanks for creating that page. I have quite a bit of info on James Campbell that I collected while researching his son. I'll try to add that info to the page over the next little while. James Campbell only had one other child that I am aware of: Blanche Emily, who later married AG Anderson and whose daughter was Dame Adelaide Anderson (see references 4 & 5 on Francis Eastwood Campbell's page). Do you have any objection to me adding an Infobox officeholder template to the James Campbell page? NZHistoryResearch (talk) 08:12, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Infoboxes are good and helpful in my opinion, but thanks for asking. I shall look forward to your amendments. By the way, my plan is to write articles for the elections for Superintendent of the provincial councils. Whilst not everybody who stood for election will be notable, this guy sure was. The Lyttelton Times tore strips off him as soon as he set foot in Canterbury. And when I think of it, the articles were most probably written by James FitzGerald, who won the first election for Superintendent, defeating Campbell. Schwede66 09:38, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Very good. Yes Lt-Col Campbell seems to have annoyed most people with whom he came into contact. I'm working on the next Clerk of the House George Friend at the moment.NZHistoryResearch (talk) 18:08, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

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