Talk:New Zealand delays emissions trading scheme

Missing review
Personally, I will not use flagged revisions to sight anything that has not been reviewed with the peer review template. Thus, it is pointless to try and self-publish, your article will not be sighted to appear on the front page.

As a result I have moved this article from publish to review and will take a look at it. My key concern is that the top source is the only one immediately obvious as dated today and is not a news report, but an agreement. Since the sources are not sorted by descending date the article technically fails review on style.

Ideally this would have a secondary news source to back up some of the assertions within it, as it stands there is only one from the NZ Herald. This covers the formation of a minority government which is not the same as stated in the article, "The National Party won a convincing victory over the Labour Party in last week's elections". A majority government would be a convincing victory. --Brian McNeil / talk 09:04, 16 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Sorry, it was unclear that the review policy had been finalised. From the discussion here, people were still voting on it.


 * I have added more sources, including one to Key's election win. Since you're listed as being from Belgium, I assume you're familiar with proportional representation systems.  If not, this result - a near majority - is considered "convincing" for New Zealand, particularly given the ease of coalition formation (we Do Not Do majority government in this country anymore - its a threat to democracy).  But given that its the easiest way to cut the BS, I'll just cut the word, and leave it at "victory".


 * The agreement was the top source because a) I prefer to go to original documents rather then me tooing existing media; and b) no other news outlet had reported it yet except in passing. I've added a link to the relevant Herald piece (which wasn't available at the time of writing).  I could add one to the same piece on Stuff too if you like, but it won't add anything - it all comes from NZPA, because they're the only people awake in NZ on a Sunday (I link the Herlald BTW because their links are stable; Stuff links tend to disappear after a month).


 * If you see minor style problems, feel free to edit them rather than simply pontificating. That's what wikis are for, after all.


 * Hope this helps. --IdiotSavant (talk) 11:13, 16 November 2008 (UTC)