In working on NZ electoral articles I needed to create a series of templates to standardise and simplify the work. Since then I've become a strong believer in the use templates across most of my editing interests, and I note some of these templates are being used in other wikiprojects.
Also continuing work on by-elections means digging up more New Zealand colonial and early history than I ever thought I'd need. Many thanks to Paperspast, DNZB and my local library.