User talk:Kahuroa

Good article review help: Netball in the Cook Islands

Hi. I nominated Netball in the Cook Islands for a good article. As you're part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Polynesia, I was wondering if you could help review the article. If not, could you do the assessment for article as part of the project, level of importance and if it is at least worth a B? Thanks! --LauraHale (talk) 08:45, 6 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

bit out of my area of expertise. Maybe one of the other people you contacted will be able to help. Kahuroa (talk) 20:33, 6 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox language - Flags

Hi Kahuroa, I noticed that you reverted a few of my edits consisting of adding flags to language articles. I was adding flags beside country names because they are visually helpful in picturing countries and are already used on hundreds of similar articles; Armenian language, Basque language, Catalan language, Danish language, Estonian language, Finnish language, just to name a few. Flags are also used on articles about ethnic groups; Germans, Hungarians, Icelanders, etc. I hope we can discuss this issue and find an agreement. In any case, I don't understand why you wrote (spam) as a reason for undoing my contributions, because however relevant they might seem to you, they are not spam. -Iketsi (talk) 23:47, 22 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I was just following the Manual of Style about flags in infoboxes - I agree with the MOS here - unless the flags tell you something the text doesn't, they aren't needed. Kahuroa (talk) 00:00, 23 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I see. In that case flags on infoboxes listing only one or two countries will be deemed unnecessary, but cases where multiple countries are listed are subject to debate. Thanks! Iketsi (talk) 22:11, 23 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure how you arrive at that but you are welcome to restart the debate as you see fit. Cheers Kahuroa (talk) 01:11, 24 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Waitangi

Outstanding, if only all such imbalances in life and Wikipedia were so quickly and easily remedied! Some little edits are bigger than others. Cheers, DBaba (talk) 02:39, 12 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! You are welcome. Kahuroa (talk) 02:57, 12 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Huhu beetle

Hi, do you happen to know whether "pepe tunga" is an appropriate name for the Huhu beetle or Huhu grub? I can not find an online reference which supports this. I had always assumed Huhu was the usual Maori name. I find "tunga haere" and "tunga rākau" for the grub and "tunga rere" for the beetle. Any idea on this one? Thanks, --Tony Wills (talk) 08:16, 26 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Pepetuna (not pepe tunga) is the puriri moth. I'd say huhu is the usual Māori word while the terms "tunga haere" and "tunga rākau" for the grub and "tunga rere" for the beetle are the Tūhoe dialect terms. Kahuroa (talk) 01:45, 27 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

ps huhu seems to be the grub only according to the dictionaries. Kahuroa (talk) 04:06, 27 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks :-). So is there no common Maori term for the beetle? The Huhu article has had "pepe tunga" from when it was created, it appears to now be widely quoted around the net :-(. --Tony Wills (talk) 12:28, 27 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

looks like huhu is the grub (and also in related languages. But that doesnt mean there wasnt a term for the beetle - it might take a bit more research. Kahuroa (talk) 20:29, 27 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Couple of sources: Best (re Tuhoe)

and Miller re Maori insect names etc. Miller has some terms for the beetle. But the Maori Language Commission-produced Te Pataka Kupu dictionary, p1005, gives tunga rere for the beetle. That's plenty good enough for me Kahuroa (talk) 21:24, 27 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks again. I have had a go at amending the article, feel free to correct my mistakes :-) --Tony Wills (talk) 23:11, 27 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Tai Tokerau in Mau Piailug

You substituted a different wikilink but you did not replace the misguided wikilink (diff) I removed. That link was to Tai Tokerau which is about a church group (I believe) unrelated to Sir James Henare. Do you know whether the name Tai Tokerau originates from geography/history or appears in legend? (Was there a Maori migration canoes group of the same name? (--not that I read in the wiki article about the migration canoes at least.) Was it the people who were Tai Tokerau or was it the area they settled that they named Tai Tokerau?) Sir James mentions "the five tribes of Tai Tokerau." The Northland Region of NZ is also called {Te} Tai Tokerau by Maori, but the wikilinked article also fails to mention where the name comes from or describe its significance. Is there anything better than a wikilink to Northland Region masked with Tai Tokerau to explain this? Maybe that Northland Region article is the place that could use a sentence about this name? Thanks! –Newportm (talk • contribs) 23:02, 30 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah I realise that my edit summary is a bit ambiguous, and that the new link isn't perfect either. (Te) Tai-tokerau is the Maori name for Northland, literally te tai = the sea, tokerau = north wind, but it isn't completely synonymous with the English term "Northland region", because as in the Sir James Henare quote, it symbolises the Maori people of Northland and carries overtones of respect for them. When I added the link I I thought about proposing on the NZ Wikipedians noticeboard that we write a disambig page for Tai Tokerau. It's also a parliamentary electorate (Te Tai Tokerau), and lots of other organisations use the term. I don't think it would warrant an article of its own though. Kahuroa (talk) 23:35, 30 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]