Talk:Waitākere Ranges

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copyright issue?

"Made famous as the backdrop [...]and black sand beaches." I am too new to WP to know whether such copy-pasting is within the limits of "fair "use" and "brief citation". —Preceding unsigned comment added by MarmotteNZ (talk • contribs) 12:12, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for reporting the problem. Even apart from the copyright issue, unacknowledged copying like that fails to follow our guideline on plagiarism. Given that the source was cited, this was probably unintentional. I think we could claim fair use on something that brief if it was properly acknowledged as a quotation, but doing that wouldn't read well in this case, so I've just deleted it. It would be nice to say something about the movies and TV shows filmed here, but we should write it from scratch, not copy it. --Avenue (talk) 14:42, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

Spelling?

Why the different spellings of Waitākere? Rwood128 (talk) 17:08, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

The agreement is to use the official spellings as determined by Land Information New Zealand, e.g. Waitākere for the locality, but Waitakere City for the former city (even if that name never got formalised). Is that what you are asking? Schwede66 23:31, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

Thanks Schwede, I was curious about the use of the macron (diacritic) mark: the a straight bar placed above the a letter. It was replaced with "English spelling" on Trail blazing. I will revert that now.Rwood128 (talk) 12:53, 11 September 2020 (UTC)