Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Hawaii/Archive 4

This is an archive of past discussions on Wikipedia:WikiProject Hawaii. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page.

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Archive 2

Archive 3

Archive 4

Missing Hawaii Supreme Court Justices

Drafts have been created for dozens of missing Hawaii Supreme Court Justices at Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/United States judges and justices#Hawaii. Please feel free to complete these drafts and move them to mainspace. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. Cheers! bd2412 T 16:57, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

Okina redirects

I've asked for okina-version redirects, and they've been rejected at WP:AFC/R. Do you think that Fia Tootoo needs additional information to support okinas? The rejection of the okina-form redirects would seem to indicate that okinas should be removed. (I'm asking here since WPHAWAII is Polynesian and active, while WPSAMOA is dead) -- 70.51.44.60 (talk) 09:22, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

I am not surprised at such a reaction at WP:AFC/R. There are two ways to approach this.

Find an appropriate WikiProject talk page (like here) & ask there. Eventually someone may come along & fulfill the reqest.
Register yourself as a user, then create the redirect yourself. (See WP:Just do it.)

Two notes

#REDIRECT [[Fia Tootoo]] is what you use to redirect to the Fia Tootoo article.
{{Okina}} is the template that you can use to produce the ʻokina character if you cannot copy & paste it.

Peaceray (talk) 03:39, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

List of counties in Hawaii

Why have a featured list with just 5 entries? --Skr15081997 (talk) 11:15, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Hawaiian speakers: Article requests in Hawaiian

Does anyone know some Hawaiian speakers on here? I am looking for someone to start Hawaiian Airlines on the Hawaiian Wikipedia

Thanks, WhisperToMe (talk) 03:22, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

@WhisperToMe: can you link the Hawaiian Wikipedia? I wasn't aware we had separate wiki sites for individual U. S. states. — Maile (talk) 14:27, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

User:Maile66, It's right here haw:Ka_papa_kinohi :) - The Wiki sites are for each language. So English, Hawaiian, Japanese, Korean, etc. have separate Wikipedias. WhisperToMe (talk) 18:39, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

@WhisperToMe: Of course. I was aware of all the other language sites. It just never occurred to me there might be one for Hawaiian. Thanks for the link. — Maile (talk) 19:16, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

@Maile66: You're welcome :) - If you know Hawaiian speakers please let them know about this! WhisperToMe (talk) 19:17, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Malia O Ka Malu

See Talk:Malia O Ka Malu § Translations needed for proper description.

Malia O Ka Malu is clearly "Maria [something]", not literally "Our Lady of Peace"— maybe "Maria the Peacemaker"?; I don't know. Malia o ka Malu Hale Pule Nu is "Maria [something longer]". Can a Hawaiian-speaker please provide accurate translations for these names? Please {{Ping}} me to discuss. --Thnidu (talk) 01:17, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

Please See - Submissions

https://wikiconference.org/wiki/Submissions
--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 00:47, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

US 50,000 Challenge invite

Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject United States/The 50,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more states than they might otherwise work on. If there's the interest I will start 1000 State Challenges like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of states regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for the US and your specialist/home state like Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon, sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every state, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any state sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thankyou.♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:13, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

New article Cannabis in Hawaii

I just started Cannabis in Hawaii as part of my general campaign to have a cannabis article for each state. I've got the main details on the 2010 MMJ program, but I think the article could definitely use some expanding about the uniqueness of Hawaii's cannabis culture, how it got there, its financial and social impact, etc. Just listing here since someone might find it an interesting challenge. Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney (talk) 00:38, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

Talk:Haole

Could someone take a look at Talk:Haole please. I made a comment on the page, then noticed that an anonymous editor had used a cite book template, causing a reference to appear at the bottom of the page, which I think tends to discourage any further comments. I don't want to edit someone else's post so maybe an admin could take a look at it. Piwaiwaka (talk) 22:52, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

Done easy fix! — Maile (talk) 23:08, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

Thanks !!! Piwaiwaka (talk) 23:56, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

@KAVEBEAR: @Maile66: @Piwaiwaka: There is actually a way to have the reference appear within the section, so I converted it to that. The way to do this is to use the |group= parameter in both the <ref> tag & {{reflist}} template., such as:

<ref group="Remove unsourced section">
{{Reflist|group="Remove unsourced section"}}

I took the liberty of putting this construct into the Talk:Haole#Remove unsourced section discussion.

Peaceray (talk) 16:36, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

2016 Community Wishlist Survey Proposal to Revive Popular Pages

Greetings WikiProject Hawaii/Archive 4 Members!

This is a one-time-only message to inform you about a technical proposal to revive your Popular Pages list in the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey that I think you may be interested in reviewing and perhaps even voting for:

Fix and improve Mr.Z-bot's popular pages report

If the above proposal gets in the Top 10 based on the votes, there is a high likelihood of this bot being restored so your project will again see monthly updates of popular pages.

Further, there are over 260 proposals in all to review and vote for, across many aspects of wikis.

Thank you for your consideration. Please note that voting for proposals continues through December 12, 2016.

Best regards, Stevietheman — Delivered: 18:01, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Peer review/Liliuokalani/archive1

Please help in the improvement of Liliuokalani by commenting Wikipedia:Peer review/Liliuokalani/archive1 for suggested improvements. Thanks.--KAVEBEAR (talk) 19:40, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

Kamehameha Schools Song Contest

Could someone from WP:HAWAII take a look at Kamehameha Schools Song Contest? The article was prod deleted back in December 2016, but re-created almost immediately thereafter. The creator Kamehameha Schools Song Contest has been soft-blocked for their username, and most of the content is being added by IPs. Lots of BLP content in the article and almost all of the sources being cited are primary sources to school related webistes. I'm not sure if this contest has received enough WP:SIGCOV to satisfy WP:NEVENT, but perhaps someone from can find better sourcing. Something more than typical run-of-the-mill local media coverage is probably going to be needed if this article is to survive AfD. Thanks in advance. -- Marchjuly (talk) 06:51, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

Upcoming "420 collaboration"

You are invited to participate in the upcoming

"420 collaboration",

which is being held from Saturday, April 15 to Sunday, April 30, and especially on April 20, 2017!

The purpose of the collaboration, which is being organized by WikiProject Cannabis, is to create and improve cannabis-related content at Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects in a variety of fields, including: culture, health, hemp, history, medicine, politics, and religion.

WikiProject Hawaii participants may be particularly interested in the following: Cannabis in Hawaii.

For more information about this campaign, and to learn how you can help improve Wikipedia, please visit the "420 collaboration" page.

---Another Believer _(Talk) 14:55, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

May 2017 on Women in Red

Welcome to Women in Red's
May 2017 worldwide online editathons.
Participation is welcome in any language.

"Organizations"

"Sports"

"Pacific islanders"

(To subscribe: Women in Red/English language list and Women in Red/international list. Unsubscribe: Women in Red/Opt-out list) --Ipigott (talk) 10:44, 30 April 2017 (UTC)

Popular pages report

We – Community Tech – are happy to announce that the Popular pages bot is back up-and-running (after a one year hiatus)! You're receiving this message because your WikiProject or task force is signed up to receive the popular pages report. Every month, Community Tech bot will post at Wikipedia:WikiProject Hawaii/Archive 4/Popular pages with a list of the most-viewed pages over the previous month that are within the scope of WikiProject Hawaii.

We've made some enhancements to the original report. Here's what's new:

The pageview data includes both desktop and mobile data.
The report will include a link to the pageviews tool for each article, to dig deeper into any surprises or anomalies.
The report will include the total pageviews for the entire project (including redirects).

We're grateful to Mr.Z-man for his original Mr.Z-bot, and we wish his bot a happy robot retirement. Just as before, we hope the popular pages reports will aid you in understanding the reach of WikiProject Hawaii, and what articles may be deserving of more attention. If you have any questions or concerns please contact us at m:User talk:Community Tech bot.

Warm regards, the Community Tech Team 17:16, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

Drafts for missing Hawaii Supreme Court Justices

Drafts have been initiated for the following missing Hawaii Supreme Court Justices:

Please help get these articles written and moved to mainspace. Cheers! bd2412 T 13:52, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

Is there any interest in adding Hawaii wikiproject talk page template to the template {{WikiProject United States}}? It wouldn't change anything about the project, just the template itself. It seems like a useful template for regional articles that are of interest to many states. I'm working on some botany pages that span multiple states, and I'm hoping to not have to add separate banners for states that aren't in the template. @Kintetsubuffalo: it seems like you might be the only person active in this project based on Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Hawaii, is that correct? -Furicorn (talk) 08:37, 9 September 2017 (UTC)

'Okina use in Kauai article

I would appreciate some assistance from others in preventing an edit war on the Kauai article. An editor known only as 2602:306:ceab:8320:7c88:ba84:2b8e:c0c9 has removed all use of the 'okina from the article. I don't want to argue with them, so I am asking for assistance. Please help.DaKine (talk) 23:56, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

DaKine the article has been protected for three days. If the issue ever happens again on any article, you may refer to Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Hawaii-related articles instead of arguing - the MOS for Hawaii specifically mentions the 'okina use for Hawaii articles. I would have temporarily blocked the IP, but they seem to be IP hopping. — Maile (talk) 00:19, 25 November 2017 (UTC)

Maile Mahalo Nui.DaKine (talk) 02:38, 25 November 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on the Talk:Hawaii#Merger proposal

Please discuss the Talk:Hawaii#Merger proposal that proposes merging Hawaiian Islands (created 2002-12-15) into Hawaii. Peaceray (talk) 06:48, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

New Hawaiʻi userbox templates

New Hawaiʻi userbox templates are now available at Template:User WP Hawaii and Template:User WP United States. Yours aye, Buaidh talk contribs 22:29, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

2018 lower Puna eruption suggested to merge with 2018 Hawaii earthquake

There's an ongoing discussion about Merge from earthquake. According to WP:PM I'd like to notify this Wikiproject to get a wider range of opinions. --ThT (talk) 09:40, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for letting us know! I hope someone else from this Wikiproject decides to weigh in on this discussion; I don't think I know enough about geology and volcanoes to offer any suggestions.Mcampany (talk) 21:10, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

La'aloa Bay

Please comment at Talk:La'aloa Bay about the spelling of La'aloa Bay re: shouldn't it have an okina? Kendall-K1 (talk) 20:28, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject

The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.

Portals are being redesigned.

The new design features are being applied to existing portals.

At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template {{Transclude lead excerpt}}.

The discussion about this can be found here.

Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.

Background

On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.

There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.

So far, 84 editors have joined.

If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.

If you have any questions about what is happening with portals or the Portals WikiProject, please post them on the WikiProject's talk page.

Thank you. — The Transhumanist 07:40, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

The Hulihee, a style of beard

Please see Talk:Hulihee for a red-hot, fascinating, bizarre, and completely stunning discussion over the notability of this style of beard!!! Okay, that was just advertising. It's just a normal discussion, but please check it out anyhow. Thanks! :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 03:00, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

This article is now at AFD Hulihee. — Maile (talk) 13:07, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

Qualifications for WP Hawaii article

Hi everyone,

I've been chipping away at the assessment and cleanup backlogs, and have a question. The front page says that our focus is on "Hawaiʻi and the Hawaiian Islands, its history and its society, its people and its places, its culture and its spirit." For "its people", are we counting anyone born here as belonging to Wikiproject HI, or just those who have done noteworthy things here?

For example, Chris Barron is part of WP Hawaii because he was born here, but moved away at least by the time he was 8. That is the only Hawaii connection; Hawaii is never mentioned again in his wiki article. There are a lot of biographical articles that are tagged with WP Hawaii that are in this situation, and I'm not sure if they should be removed or not. I'm leaning toward removing them since our focus would then be a little tighter, and we wouldn't get distracted by articles that are only marginally Hawaii-related. I also don't see many other Wikiprojects tagged simply because someone was born there. What do you all think? Mcampany (talk) 02:44, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

I would leave the Hawaii banners on articles where they already exist. Thank you for all your work that you are doing in this regard. Your efforts are admirable. For a comparison, Dwight D. Eisenhower has a Texas project banner because he was born there. But the family moved to Kansas when he was an infant. Eisenhower didn't even know he'd been born in Texas until he ran for political office. Editors have all kinds of reasons for putting a project banner on an article. If there is any connection to Hawaii at all, I'd leave the banner and move on to the next article. The banners don't hurt anything by being on an article. — Maile (talk) 11:34, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

That makes sense. :) I'll do that. Mcampany (talk) 15:32, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

Edit-a-thon of protest in Hawaii

Being held on July 14th 10:00am – 2:00pm. Sponsored by the Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies, Art in Hawaiʻi and CONTACT (an annual juried exhibition of contemporary art). For more info see this off Wikipedia, Eventbrite webpage.--Mark Miller (talk) 07:45, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

Cool! I'll be at work on Saturday, but I hope it goes well! Mcampany (talk) 23:51, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

In case inyone in Honolulu is interested it is being held at;

Venue: Hālau o Haumea, Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, 2645 Dole Street, Honolulu, HI 96822

Parking: $6 in KCHS structure, or free on street

Refreshments provided

Enquiries: janecmi@gmail.com, josh@nameahawaii.com, keahiahi@hawaii.edu

The events are free and open to the public with registration.--Mark Miller (talk) 07:25, 12 July 2018 (UTC)

Charles Irving Elliott

Would you mind looking over the Charles Irving Elliott article to see if it fits in the WikiProject Hawaii scope? Thank you KlausVonVilver (talk) 05:09, 18 October 2018 (UTC):

KlausVonVilver It certainly fits into WikiProject Hawaii, as well as WikiProject Aviation. I've added both project banners to the talk page. Thank you for contributing this article. — Maile (talk) 11:20, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

RfC on election/referendum naming format

An RfC on moving the year from the end to the start of article titles (e.g. South African general election, 2019 to 2019 South African general election) has been reopened for further comment, including on whether a bot could be used move the articles if it closed in favour of the change: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (government and legislation)#Proposed change to election/referendum naming format. Cheers, Number 5 7 15:45, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

Editathon at the Hawaii Library Association Conference

Aloha everyone! I just wanted to give everyone a head's up that Mkahili (talk · contribs) and I are going to do a short editathon as part of our presentation at the Hawaii Library Association Conference on 11/17. Attendees will be working mostly on library science and Hawaii-related articles, so please don't WP:Bite, and feel free to ping either of us if you notice something amiss that isn't resolved within 15 minutes. Mahalo! Mcampany (talk) 07:22, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

Mcampany While I am not able to join in that edithon ... what a coincidence. At the suggestion of KAVEBEAR, the DYK nom Kalākaua's 1874–75 state visit to the United States is scheduled for it's main page slot on November 17. It's the anniversary of the beginning of the king's trip. I look forward to editors in Hawaii tackling all varieties of topics that day. Thanks to you and Mkahili for making this happen. — Maile (talk) 12:27, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

What a wonderful coincidence! I'll be sure to share that with the other participants. I really appreciate all of the hard work you and KAVEBEAR put into important Hawaiian history articles like Liliʻuokalani. Mcampany (talk) 19:30, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

Nomination of Hawaii Tea Party for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Hawaii Tea Party is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hawaii Tea Party until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. --HighFlyingFish (talk) 22:06, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

A link to a DAB page

Kauai links to the DAB page Kamehameha (search for 'disam' in read mode and for '{{d' in edit mode). This was presumably Kamehameha IV or V (1857 or later), but I can't work out which. Can any expert help solve this puzzle? Narky Blert (talk) 10:45, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

Don't know if this helps, but Knudsen served in the legislature 1860, 1862, 1868, 1890. — Maile (talk) 19:51, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

Hawaii. Laws, etc; Lydecker, Robert Colfax (1918). "Roster legislatures of Hawaii, 1841-1918 [electronic resource] : constitutions of monarchy and republic : speeches of sovereigns and president". Honolulu : Hawaiian Gazette Co.

He seems to have served in low-level government appointments, such as tax assessor, under Kam IV.

Chronicling America newspaper search

Artists of Hawai'i Wikipedia edit-a-thon Friday 2/8/2019

Aloha! Please join the Honolulu Museum of Art and UH-West O‘ahu's James & Abigail Campbell Library for a half-day edit-a-thon where we’ll work to increase the visibility of Hawai‘i artists on Wikipedia. It'll be on Friday, February 8, 2019, from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm at UH West O'ahu. Computers, training, reference sources, and light refreshments will be provided.

To join us in person, please RSVP by following the instructions here. You can also participate remotely by signing up at Wikipedia:GLAM/Honolulu Museum of Art. Looking forward to seeing you there :)! AwedOakSun (talk) 00:05, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas#Alfred de Zayas memorandum regarding the Hawaiian Islands

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas#Alfred de Zayas memorandum regarding the Hawaiian Islands. -- Marchjuly (talk) 05:44, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

1950 constitutional convention delegates

Does anyone know if any of the delegates to the 1950 constitutional convention are still living? I'm guessing no. With the death yesterday of Jack Coghill, I'm trying to determine whether or not we have only one living signer of an original state constitution left in the entire country. I question whether it really matters, as the community buried the last attempt to create an article on this person and has continued to pretend that he is not notable because no article exists, despite the fact that he was a territorial and state legislator in addition (so much for the presumption of automatic notability), but I thought I'd try nonetheless. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 02:00, 15 February 2019 (UTC)

You mean the 1950 Hawaii State Constitutional Convention, right? If so, it doesn't seem like it. I ran all of the names from the booklet published for the convention through Ancestry.com, and most came back with a record from the Social Security Death Index. I searched for the names that didn't return a record on Google, and found obituaries for most of them. The only ones I couldn't find any kind of death record for are Harold S. Roberts, J. Pia Cockett, Ed C. Bryan, and James F. Gilliland, but based on the short biographies in the booklet, I'd guess that they are probably not living anymore either. Cockett was retired at the time of writing, Gilliland had served as a secretary to Jonah Kalanianaole, and the others graduated from high school 1929 and 1937. I'd be really surprised if any were still alive. -Mcampany (talk) 22:29, 15 February 2019 (UTC)

Kaniela Ing

Kaniela Ing needs to be updated to reflect that he is no longer in office. GeekInParadise (talk) 00:14, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

Robert Hoapili Baker

Aloha everyone Seeking some assistance from the Wikiproject Hawaii community. I’ve been working through some disagreements with a fellow Wikipedian about the genealogy of the aforementioned and some of the interesting and widely accepted points about his life but we are unable to settle on wording of the article. Before proceeding to a RFC or 3rd opinion process I thought I’d turn to the community since Hawaiian genealogy and the quality of the sources can be a little technical and might benefit from more local knowledge before proceeding to external mediation. Essentially you’ll see on the talk page that I contend: - RH Baker is the son of Malie Napuupahoehoe of the House of Moana and Ikekelei’aiku (also spelt Ikekeleeiku and Kekeleeiku, as you know the consistency of name spelling conventions in the 19th century) son of Kamakahelei as per multiple sources, some in ‘Olelo Hawaii, and as you can imagine none of them primary sources as he didn’t have a birth certificate - that Baker was an adoptive surname given in honour of his step father Adam C Baker as per the Papakilo article I cite on the talk page. - the aggressor contends that because there is not a primary source then every secondary source needs to be explained which as you see does not lend itself to a readable article. When the majority of sources concur it makes little sense to word it the way he does, or refuse to include that the explanation for the ha’ole surname is adoption - he also refuses to include the widely accepted story that was both interesting and discussed repeatedly in articles and books per my older edits, that RH Baker and JT Baker both posed as models for The Kamehameha statue - he insists on including the line about the genealogy that was published in Na Makaainana and subsequently in Edith McKinzie needing to be “corrected”. Whilst it is true that this is stated in the original article, it does not change the substantive fact that this lineage was published and reprinted in and after the life of RH Baker without contestation, and to add that line unduly creates ambiguity.

If you have the time, please read my edits of a week or two ago and then the talk page and I think you’ll agree the quality has diminished substantially in the intervening time but as I’m at an impasse with the other editor I implore your help. I hope I’ve posted this on the right oage, if you think there’s somewhere more appropriate for this appeal for help let me know. Mahalo

Mrabray (talk) 21:42, 3 March 2019 (UTC)

Article about Mana Up Hawaii women-led business accelerator

Hello dear colleagues! I am new to creating articles from scratch. Although earlier I repeatedly anonymously improved already existing articles. I noticed that there are not many articles about Hawaiian companies and especially Hawaii based business accelerators and so i wrote one. Could you please help me with its' improvement and review?

Sorry if this is not the right place for such requests.

The article is here Draft:Mana_Up Jedi2be (talk) 23:19, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

Jedi2be, are you familiar with List of Hawaii companies? I am former kamaʻāina now living in Seattle & have occasion to edit List of companies based in Seattle, which I think is a good model. Peaceray (talk) 23:57, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

Peaceray I was not familiar with this list, but I know some companies from it Jedi2be (talk) 08:24, 27 August 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool

Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Thirty Meter Telescope could use more eyes

The lead is disputed, see talk page and edit history. --mfb (talk) 05:18, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Hawaii#Hawaii or Hawai'i?

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Hawaii#Hawaii or Hawai'i?. Peaceray (talk) 16:04, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

[sic] (It should be Hawaiʻi!)

Discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red#Patsy Mink

You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red#Patsy Mink. Women in Red is looking for public domain & freely licensed photographs of Patsy Mink. Peaceray (talk) 00:32, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

some historic Hawaii hotels, including Hilo one at AFD

Please consider commenting at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Grand Naniloa Hotel. Also please consider helping develop out coverage about 6 historic Hawaii hotels at National Registry of the Historic Hotels of America#Hawaii. --Doncram (talk) 17:37, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

Recent page moves

I came across a user talk page discussion related to quite a number of pages moves (e.g. moving University of Hawaii–West Oahu to University of Hawaiʻi – West Oʻahu, Waikiki to Waikīkī and Ukelele to ʻūkēkē). There seems to have been a bit of previous discussion related to this type of "spelling correction" at Talk:Hawaii#Hawaii or Hawai'i?, but it doesn't seem to have led to a change in Hawaii. Perhaps it might be a good idea if some members from this WikiProject could weigh in and help sort things out, maybe by starting a more general discussion (RFC if needed) to see whether such page moves are justified and how to best implement them if they are. Pinging Explicit and Kwamikagami as a courtesy since they were the two editors involved in the aforementioned user talk page discussion. -- Marchjuly (talk) 06:52, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

Main thing I was trying to do was correct trivial orthographic errors, like quotation marks or apostrophes in place of the 'okina, or using 'okina but not macrons or vice versa, but while doing that I made some attempt at straightening out inconsistencies among our articles. Often the form used in the article disagreed with the form in the title. In general, it seems that there's a long-term trend toward reflecting Hawaiian orthography, so I erred in that direction, but the names of the state and the islands won't always have the 'okina. State departments don't use it, UH does, it's a matter of how anglicized or hawaiified the names are. For the UH sports teams I don't know, but since only one of them had Hawaiian orthography, I moved it to match the rest.

Personally, I'd like to see the 'okina and macron in the island names, including the articles Kauai, Oahu and Hawaii (island), but generally not for the state when it stands alone. The state is so completely assimilated into English that adding an 'okina to it seems like pronouncing Paris "puh-REE" or correcting Canada to "Kanata", though in some proper nouns that include the name of the state, the 'okina might be appropriate (e.g. UH). Some people even try adding an 'okina to the adj/demonym "Hawaiian", which IMO is ridiculous because that's not Hawaiian word. Personal and other proper names can be tricky, of course, like the asteroid Manoa, which has an IAU-accepted spelling without the macron, or names of laws and bills where they're omitted. Other than that, I think we should try to consistently use both macrons and a proper 'okina. Might not be able to when there are no records as to what they are, of course. — kwami (talk) 09:45, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

Re. the main article, I am opposed to moving it. I just checked the USGS website, and their usage seems eminently copyable --

Kīlauea - Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. 
Kīlauea is the youngest and southeastern most volcano on the Island of Hawai‘i.
Geologic map of the southern flank of Mauna Loa Volcano, Island of Hawai‘i, Hawaii.

That is, State of Hawaii but Island of Hawai‘i, as I suggested above. Macrons on features like Kīlauea, that aren't rare in English but where people probably won't know which vowels are long. No 'okina in 'Hawaiian'.

I think we can justify moving all of the island articles, citing the USGS, as well as any Hawaiian monarchs etc that might still not be in Hawaiian orthography. As far as living people with Hawaiian names, it's probably safe to assume in most cases that the giving of a Hawaiian name is an intentional connection to Hawaiian culture and therefore should be given its Hawaiian spelling, even if some of our sources (e.g. the NFL) don't bother to do so. — kwami (talk) 10:10, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

I can understand how the change being made might be appropriate for proper nouns (e.g. geographical names, names of organizations), particularly when the that is how the name is spelled by most reliable sources. I also can see how the use of macrons or okinas—something which might not have been as common in the past—might also be reflecting a change in how the spelling (sorry if that's an inaccurate way to describe things) has evolved and is still involving over the years. I'm sure lots of geographical names where simplied in the past just for the sake of convenience and perhaps to make them seem more appear anglicized. However, I'm not so sure about what appear to be common nouns like ukelele, which are more or less loan words taken from Hawaiian over the years, and which now seem to have become fully adopted into English. In such cases, maybe a brief sentence could be added to the lead which provides the native spelling, but doesn't necessitate that title of the article be changed per MOS:DIACRITICS and WP:UE. -- Marchjuly (talk) 04:45, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

There is some guidance on the matter in MOS:HAWAII, which suggests that 1) it is preferred that the correct regional spelling and orthography in articles due to differences in spelling leading to differences in meaning, and 2) that the title and the spelling used in the article should match. Also to be considered is undoing the harm that long-term supression of indigenous cultures has done, both in Hawaii and elsewhere. I opened a new move request on Talk:Kauai, unaware of the one on Hawaii (island). That one has been closed and merge with the new request. Skyerise (talk) 22:18, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

Hawaiian vs. American at Willie K

There is a discussion open at Talk:Willie_K about how William Awihilima Kahaiali'i is identified in the first sentence of his article. It currently says "American". Should it say "Hawaiian", or even "Native Hawaiian"? JimKaatFan (talk) 05:17, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

Why is this still an issue? Let the man rest in peace! Jamesskull — Preceding undated comment added 09:09, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Question about the Picture Bride article

Hello! I am wondering why the article on picture brides is only classified as a start class by this WikiProject when it has quite a bit of information in it already and a comparable project like WikiProject Japan / History gave it a B rating. Is the information less relevant to Hawaii than to Japan, for instance? Thank you! Bokchoychoy (talk) 22:08, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

Bokchoychoy It's assessed as a start because nobody from this project came by to reassess it. It looks good to me so I've reassessed it as a B, but you can request reassessment for any page by adding the parameter "reassess=yes" to the wikiproject box on the talk page. Thanks! Mcampany (talk) 20:47, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

Ka Wai Ola and related sources

I just created Ka Wai Ola after reading the latest issue. It still needs lots of love but I figured it was better to start by adding a little something. I used all the sources I could find. Does anyone have suggestions on other articles or places I might look to find talk about this newspaper and its history? RayScript (talk) 04:17, 23 April 2021 (UTC)

RayScript Thanks for creating that page! I wonder if "Shaping Hawaii: the Role of Newspapers in Hawaii" by Helen Chapin might have anything. It's my go-to for the history of journalism in Hawaii. Mcampany (talk) 20:49, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

Mcampany That's a great tip! I checked out the book and it does mention the newspaper once so I went ahead and added a line based on that. RayScript (talk) 22:52, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

NCIS: Hawai'i

Please comment at Talk:NCIS: Hawai'i as to whether the article title should have an apostrophe, an okina, or neither one. GA-RT-22 (talk) 02:36, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

Pele Defense Fund

After submitting Draft:Pele_Defense_Fund for review I got the feedback that the sources didn't have significant enough coverage. I think the book cited and TLP article are significant coverage though. Does anyone have suggestions for further sources about the Pele Defense Fund? I've poked around some Hawaii based paper websites but between the bad search and broken links didn't have too much luck. Here is one article directly about the organization but I'm not sure how it could be incorporated.

Would appreciate any help improving the article or finding sources! Mahalo RayScript (talk) 17:24, 9 May 2021 (UTC)

@RayScript: Yes, I agree that the book chapter should be enough. I'll add a couple more sources just in case, then move it to mainspace. Next time someone declines your article, you can always drop them a note on their talk page and explain why you think the article meets WP:GNG. Mcampany (talk) 01:09, 17 May 2021 (UTC)