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==Advanced Technology Solar Telescope==
==Advanced Technology Solar Telescope==
FYI, [[Advanced Technology Solar Telescope]] has been nominated for deletion. [[Special:Contributions/76.66.193.224|76.66.193.224]] ([[User talk:76.66.193.224|talk]]) 03:06, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
FYI, [[Advanced Technology Solar Telescope]] has been nominated for deletion. [[Special:Contributions/76.66.193.224|76.66.193.224]] ([[User talk:76.66.193.224|talk]]) 03:06, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
:That's absurd. It's received a massive amount of media coverage. [[User:Viriditas|Viriditas]] ([[User talk:Viriditas|talk]]) 04:24, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

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Stubs and topics

I note that there are relatively few stub categories within the general Hawaiʻi stub space. I'm thinking of creating a history related stub, as I think that might help to identify where some of the history buffs could help contribute. There's already categories for geography, politicians, and radio stations. Perhaps we could add a few more categories of stubs, just to help organize them a bit. (Better yet, let's all expand them...but one thing at a time, yes?) I'll create the history stub, once I recall how that works. I'm going to first use it as a section stub on the Kauaʻi page, since it's history section is really just one paragraph. Feedback, as always, welcome. (By the way, would this be better placed here, or on the Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Hawaii/General page?) Davidlwilliamson (talk) 08:12, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi. IMO, the stub project should have been disbanded a long time ago, as the WikiProject assessment and category system have all but replaced it with "Stub-Class" categories. I think you have made a good argument for beginning the process of splitting articles into work groups (also called "task forces"), in this case, a Hawaii history work group. This is easy to setup and makes a lot of sense. IIRC, by modifying the project template to allow for this option, we can place the articles in both a WikiProject Hawaii history work group and a WikiProject History work group category. Other projects can be added to the mix, such as the United States history work group. This is ideal, and allows us to collaborate across projects by coordinating a separate collaboration/work group page. Stub categories in the mainspace may have once been useful years ago, but at this point they are not very helpful. The first step would be to create Category:WikiProject Hawaii task forces, and then add Wikipedia:WikiProject Hawaii/Hawaii history task force or something similar. After we tag all of the articles with the history task force flag, we can create separate assessment statistics that lists the articles by quality and importance. We can make a bot request to start us off, merely by tagging all articles within Hawaii history-related categories. —Viriditas | Talk 08:32, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
So many standards to choose from. :-) I went ahead and created the relevant stub category and template, and then discovered there's a procedure for such things, which I entirely violated. I just finished proposing such a stub category, but you're arguments about the utility (or lack of) of stubs makes sense to me, and using the Wikiproject framework to help coordinate this sort of thing seems ideal. So...I think we should get started on organizing the task force bits, and I'll go ask for speedy deletion of the cruft I created this evening. (On a sad note, it's cold and rainy here in San José, which sucks compared to the beautiful weather I experienced this morning in Līhuʻe. Bummer.) Davidlwilliamson (talk) 08:43, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
No worries. One thing we have to do is get a rough estimate of how many history-related articles we are dealing with. I see 97 articles in Category:History of Hawaii and 11 subcategories. These articles represent an informal criteria for inclusion, but I suggest you come up with a rough one based on what we already have, or a modification that you think works better. Your criteria will then be used to sift through what we already have and to add new articles. As for creating the task force, that's the easy part. Do you have the time and the energy to take a leadership role here? I can help set it up, but somebody is going to have to maintain it. —Viriditas | Talk 08:50, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
I might be up for that, as long as no one expects a lot of progress too quickly - my day job generally keeps me pretty busy. In terms of number of articles - the history category seems to have a nice start, but the individual island entries could certainly use some work and aren't in that category. I suspect that something like 150-200 articles are history related in some way. Hawaiʻi seems to also be one of those places where history and geogrpahy are intimately related, so many geographical pages may be relevant to history, too, which may increase the total article count. I'll make a point of thinking about inclusion criteria and see if I can some up with something useful. Davidlwilliamson (talk) 09:10, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
Great. Why don't you take some time to think about this? Check out Category:History_WikiProjects to see how some projects use task forces while others use separate WikiProjects. My preference would be to start with a task force, and if you can recruit enough people and interest in improving articles, then split it off into its own project. But please, make note of the inactive projects. One reason for keeping this as a task force for the time being, is to prevent the project from collapsing. —Viriditas | Talk 09:19, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
Unresolved
 – Thrum biography still needed

Okay, I finally wrote a stub for this, please help! Mahalo, Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 07:06, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Thomas George Thrum is still only a redirect to this page. We could use a bio. Viriditas (talk) 16:30, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

Added new link to online copy of Thrum's hosted by UH. Viriditas (talk) 14:04, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Unresolved
 – Primary topic disambiguation and Owyhee article need attention/creation

Hi; not part of this WikiProject but I've worked on these two articles; I'm wondering if they should be part of your WP; Kanaka certainly I'd think, but in Owyhee's case it's to do with the legacy of Hawaiian workers/settlers in North America; it's currently a disambig but I think it shouldn't be, although it's still mostly only a list page, just one needing some discussion as to how the name came about. The particular Hawaiian the HBC mappers/explorers named the river for can probably be determined, by the way, from company logs; or the specific incident as to how it gots its name anyway.Skookum1 (talk) 18:53, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Good catch. We need to decide what to do here. Primary topic disambiguation, etc... Viriditas (talk) 16:32, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

Help updating Portal:Hawaii

Unresolved
 – Portal needs updating

Actually, as long as we're on the subject of revitalization, I've taken over the maintenance tasks on P:HI. Most of this work involved creating templates to ensure consistent formatting throughout the portal, particularly on the pictures and "on this date" features.

I was hoping to have another couple of standardized items in place before asking for help, but now seems as good a time as any to expand the content. So, to that end, I'd be greatly appreciative if people could help flesh out the following areas:

The formatting has been set for the selected anniversaries, and the biography/ʻŌlelo/quotes content should be fairly self-explanatory. I think we're more or less all right on pictures and articles, although it never hurts to add any good content that you may know of.

Mahalo! --jonny-mt 01:38, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

How do you feel about going for a more tropical color and floral scheme? —Viriditas | Talk 10:46, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
Is there a good way to handle floating holidays like Malasada Day on the Selected anniversary page? —Viriditas | Talk 10:53, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
I actually don't mind the current color scheme that much--it seems to be based on the Hawaiian flag--but if you want to try something out, feel free to go nuts! As far as floating holidays go, I don't think there's a good way to handle those using the magic word-based system that's currently in place, but I can check it out. --jonny-mt 08:39, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
I would like to see a more tropical/floral scheme. The page looks great, and I realize they are colors of the Hawaiian flag, but it has more of a British feel than a Hawaiian feel, imo. If no one minds, I'd like to take a crack at it a few days yonder... : ) --MPerel 23:49, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
BE BOLD!!! I just thought this was a better start for the design, because I didn't like that ghastly black bordered box. No offense to anybody involved in creating that, of course... – The Obento Musubi (Contributions) 08:54, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Collaboration with the Hawaiian Wikipedia?

We should collaborate with the Hawaiian Wikipedia to improve the design of that encyclopedia, because I, for one, am not satisfied with the main page. – Obento Musubi (CGS) 04:54, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

I'm up for giving the main page a facelift as well, but it's protected and there are no active administrators available. As far as I know, Singularity, haw:User:Kamehameha, and myself are the only active editors. Kal (talk) 05:42, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
I must have not been logged in last time, because I can now edit the main page. Odd. Kal (talk) 01:25, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Small help needed maybe - words 'chiefess' and 'chiefly'

Unresolved
 – Needs attention

Was fixing spelling errors and came across article Kahikikala. It like several (~45) Hawaiian-topic articles use the word 'chiefess', and sometimes 'chiefly', in ways I now believe are unique or most closely associated with Hawaiian history. Among other places I looked up the word at Wiktionary but was dissatisfied with what I found there. I left comments to that affect on the wikt page's talk page, mentioning a nice reference for the unique usages. There is no article here at en:WP for the word, and I don't suppose there should be (entry should be expanded at wikt). Is there some page here which talks about Hawaiian terms, including 'chiefess' and 'chiefly'? Shenme (talk) 03:39, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

"Chiefly" should be unproblematic: it's just a normal English word meaning "of or pertaining a chief or to to the office of chief", analogous to "presidential".
"Chiefess" seems weird to me. We don't use "authoress" or "aviatrix"; why not just use "chief" even when the chief is a woman? - Jmabel | Talk 18:42, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
To me it is the other way 'round. I find "Chiefly" strange, since it is a normal English adjective or adverb, not used as a title. I do not mind the word "Chiefess", since Hawaiian names can often be used for both sexes, and it helps me keep track of which one of the couple is the mother etc. I just created an article using the word in its title: Chiefess Kapiʻolani to distinguish from the Queen. There is a school in Hilo officially called "Chiefess Kapiʻolani". Some aricles just call them "Aliʻi", but that is not an English word so should be used sparingly in my opinion, and gives no clue of sex either. For Wikpedia precedent, notice we talk about Louis XIV as "King Louis XIV of France", not "Le Roi Louis Quatorze". Sometimes they are "High Chief" too, but since a person's title can change through life (as the previous Aliʻi Nui passes away, etc.) That is also problematic. Some articles also used "Chieftess" but those are mostly gone. The Aliʻi article once said the title would be translated as "Lord" or "Lady" but I have never seen them used. "Noble" would be another reasonable term, since there was a "House of Nobles" for example in the Kingdom. Perhaps the "Aliʻi" article could be expanded. As usual, sources would be nice! W Nowicki (talk) 17:29, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Akahi Nui

Unresolved
 – Needs attention

I'm way outside of my areas of expertise here and seeking help. Seems to me like the article Akahi Nui is hostile to its subject (which reminds me of an old joke: "But the King is not a 'subject'!"). I made a few edits to tone that down, but I don't know enough about the topic to do much more. For an example of an article bringing a much more neutral tone to a similar topic, see Quentin Kawānanakoa.

I left a note several days ago at Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard‎ but it doesn't seem to have produced any response.

Any help would be appreciated. - Jmabel | Talk 18:32, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Reexamination of old disputes

Unresolved
 – Needs update

At the urging of Viriditas, I've followed-up on a question posed in the first issue of the WPHawaiʻi newsletter and reexamined some old disputes related to eight significant articles. I've put my comments below in the hopes of getting some wider feedback.

  1. Talk:Apology Resolution#Dispute - Resolved with this edit; accepted as a resolution here.
  2. Talk:Evan Dobelle#Dispute - Resolved with a semi-protect that was lifted here. User:FisherQueen's advice to properly source the claims was taken to heart, and it seems to be standing today.
  3. Talk:Hawaii#Dispute - Don't see any indication that the dispute over okina and other diacritics is still ongoing, but I don't think this will ever be fully solved until MOS:HAWAII reaches a solid consensus.
  4. Talk:Kingdom of Hawaii#Dispute - Although the dispute is no longer ongoing in User:JereKrischel's absence, I don't think the NPOV issues are smoothed out enough in the section on the overthrow to warrant removing the tag. Specifically, a number of claims in the section are written for the other party in the dispute rather than for a general audience--claims are led with "Russ says" or "Kizner wrote" which, while not bad in and of itself, serves to place more of an emphasis on presenting specific, verifiable points of view about rather than creating a neutrally-toned encyclopedic overview. I'd leave this one on for the time being.
  5. Talk:Legal status of Hawaii#Dispute - Doesn't seem to be ongoing; the article has remained in place since the initial dispute.
  6. Talk:Liliuokalani#Dispute - Although the initial dispute seems to have more or less died down, it seems that some of the issues related to the overthrow are still percolating in this article. While it could probably do without the dispute tag, it might be a good idea to get some more eyeballs on it.
  7. Talk:Morgan Report#Dispute - This one also seems more or less settled, and the POV tag has been removed.
  8. Talk:Overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy#Dispute - Although the original dispute has more or less died down, given the events of recent months I think more work is needed here to obtain a neutral balance.

Mahalo! --jonny-mt 14:58, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Re 3: This is effectively resolved at the MOS, at least for the text, in favor of using diacritics. WP:UE says diacritics are neither encouraged nor discouraged, while WP:MOS cites the Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Ireland-related articles) as a good example of diacritic guidelines, which would mean they should be used for all Hawaiian language words. The remaining debate is with WP:NAME. In this case, diacritics are expressly discouraged, but 1) they're already widely used, and 2) the Irish MOS uses them in titles. Anybody who would like to weigh in on this, please do so on the, because I'd like to see the MOS finalized; I think doing so would prevent individual page disputes like those at Hawaii and Iao Valley from repeatedly breaking out. Personally I prefer to leave them out because I dislike having garbage characters in the address bar, but I think it's far less important than the general usage issue. KarlM (talk) 20:46, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Cities

Can someone please find for me, in the Hawaii Revised Statutes, a citation for local government format (i.e. counties have all the power, no cities except Honolulu) that's used in Hawaii? Nyttend (talk) 01:34, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Isn't all that information online? Try here. See also: archives. Note, there's a phone number. Viriditas (talk) 02:10, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Hawaiian on Wikibooks

For those who want to learn the Hawaiian language, I've started a textbook at Wikibooks. It may take several months, but I'll try to finish it ASAP. Singularity 08:18, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you, Singularity! I'm very much looking forward to this! Here's an interwiki link: Hawaiian WikiBook. – Obento Musubi (CGS) 01:53, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
How about linking to a new lesson or tip in every newsletter? A regular column would be nice, as long as it links to current Wikipedia articles. Viriditas (talk) 03:22, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
Unresolved
 – Not sure what is needed here. Sounds like an expansion request?

I request a section be split from James Dole. Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 13:11, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Can you clarify your request? Are you saying you want to get rid of the redirect and merge content into Dole Plantation? Viriditas (talk) 13:38, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
Yeah, with the world's longest maze, it warrants its own page. Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 12:27, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
There's also some interesting free photos over on flickr. Viriditas (talk) 12:33, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Hey! We at the BYU Wikiproject are working on this article and plan to have it at GA status by month's end. I was wondering if any of you lived on Oahu or in Laie and could upload some nice pictures of the campus for us. Any takers? I'd do it, but I'm kind of far away (Kansas). Wrad (talk) 03:37, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Have you also tried e-mailing dlfeedback AT lib.byu.edu and asking them to release either a free or copyright with permission photograph? They have more than 210 photographs online. There's also an archives and special collections request page with a phone number at the bottom. Viriditas (talk) 11:21, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
Unresolved
 – Still needs a photo

Hi! The Consulate-General of Japan in Honolulu is at 1742 Nuunanu Avenue - http://www.mofa.go.jp/Mofaj/annai/zaigai/list/n_ame/usa.html

It would be great if one took a photo of it and posted it at Diplomatic missions of Japan and at the consulate's page WhisperToMe (talk) 18:48, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Hawaii

Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7.

We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Wikipedia:Release Version Nominations.

A list of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles. A team of copyeditors has agreed to help with copyediting requests, although you should try to fix simple issues on your own if possible.

We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 23:17, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Unresolved
 – Needs photograph

For some esoteric reasons I've just written the Mary Tiles bio. Perhaps someone can contribute a photograph? Also she seems to hold quite a few positions in commitees at U of Hawaii, if there's anything considered relevant, please add. --Pjacobi (talk) 12:54, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Project update

The main project page is really out of date and needs to be rewritten. If anyone has any ideas they would like to see implemented, add them here. Viriditas (talk) 08:31, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Proposals

Laualoha

Ok, by request here are my thoughts: in order to be more inclusive, I would really like to see "Islands of Hawai'i" or something like that, rather than "U.S. State of Hawai'i", which seems a little limited. Also, while I honor and love Auntie Nona Beamer (I never heard her associated with the word until I read the page -- very interesting!), the word "Hawaiiana" has come to be seen as a little 1)dated, and 2)representative of an incomplete view of Hawai'i, as it is often associated with entities like Bishop Museum, which are generally viewed by Kanaka Maoli scholars as purporting viewpoints without a full understanding of their subject matter. Mahalo! --Laualoha 10:49, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

I sympathize with you, but the Bishop Museum has been nothing but a positive force for Hawaii and her people. We need more, not less of their work. Go ahead and make the changes that you want. If someone doesn't like it, they will let you know. Viriditas (talk) 10:56, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
Interesting link supporting Laualoha's position:[1] Viriditas (talk) 13:55, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
Interesting. I wonder how this critique will change given the new Hawaiian Hall that has a very fresh approach to the subject. Arjuna (talk) 10:00, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

Theodore Calvin

Unresolved
 – Need to reboot fictional character discussion

Are fictional television characters like Theodore Calvin part of the scope of this project? Viriditas (talk) 13:58, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject invitation templates

Unresolved
 – Needs updating

I would like to start using a template like {{Invite User University of Florida}} for prospective members. To see what other projects are using, check out Category:WikiProject invitation templates. If there are any suggestions or comments about this proposal, please respond here. Thanks. Viriditas (talk) 08:13, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Sounds like a great idea :) —Kal (talk) 23:50, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
Can you help? I'm really bogged down, from trying to improve Hokulea to writing the newsletter (Obento, where are you??) Viriditas (talk) 08:22, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
I think I could help while running a one-man show at haw-wiki. Was there any specific template you thought of basing WP Hawaiʻi's template on? —Kal (talk) 03:59, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
Heh, you've got quite the wit about you. Touche. The best way you can help is with your input. And, you know what? Let's put a link to haw-wiki in there, too. :) Viriditas (talk) 08:11, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
Any wit that may have slipped in was not intentional. :P Anyway, I'll try to take a look at some of the templates tomorrow and give some input. —Kal (talk) 08:35, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. Viriditas (talk) 00:05, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
Sounds great! I'd be glad to help. – Obento Musubi (CGS) 00:55, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
I'm creating it now. It is at Wikipedia:WikiProject Hawaii/Invite. I figured it would clutter up the template namespace, so I should just keep it within our Wikiproject. – Obento Musubi (CGS) 07:14, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
Wow, that looks great :) Very appealing to potential members. —Kal (talk) 21:48, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Hawaii articles needing geographic coordinates

Unresolved
 – Need to work on this

0 articles in Category:Hawaii articles missing geocoordinate data do not have geographic coordinates. Coords are useful for making the article appear on Google Maps & many other mapping services; and they allow our users to click through to see the article subject location on a map. There's a short guide to on how to add geocodes to articles ... it really is very easy to do. I hope you'll take some time to ensure that Hawaii is as well represented as it can be on wikipedia by fixing up the listed articles. thanks --Tagishsimon (talk) 00:02, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Father Damian

Father Damien is in need of in-line citations. Any help would be most welcome. -- Secisek (talk) 21:34, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

In progress. I will be updating the bibliography after Friday, January 2, 2009. I will also be helping to bring this article to GA status and encourage other to participate. Viriditas (talk) 03:08, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Hiking trails

I have requested help over at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Hiking_Trails#Collaboration_request. Please add any trails to Category:Hiking trails in Hawaii. Thanks. Viriditas (talk) 02:13, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Francophone WikiProject Hawaii

I am pleased to announce that the French WikiProject Hawaii (called "Projet Hawaï" in French) has been launched. Please see this to join! All Francophones are wanted! So, if you speak French, please join us! We need help! Merci beaucoup ! obentomusubi 10:39, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Good work. I would like to know how we on the English Wikipedia can help facilitate the translation process. Viriditas (talk) 03:09, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
Any Francophones who know English can informally translate, or we can collaborate with the translating team to formally translate from French to English by having outsiders translate the article impartially. If you create a page on the French Wikipedia, don't forget to add the template {{WikiProjet Hawaii|avancement=XX|importance=XX}} on the talk page, replacing XX with the class and importance, respectively. Thanks, obentomusubi 08:15, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
It's probably obvious, but I recommend starting with the FA/GA articles on en. Viriditas (talk) 10:37, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
Good idea. There are currently two FA (in French AdQ, article de qualité) articles on the French Wikipedia that may contain information that could be added to WP Hawaii (Ukulélé and Mauna Loa). obentomusubi 04:37, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Milestone Announcements

Unresolved
 – Sign up needed
Announcements
  • All WikiProjects are invited to have their "milestone-reached" announcements automatically placed onto Wikipedia's announcements page.
  • Milestones could include the number of FAs, GAs or articles covered by the project.
  • No work need be done by the project themselves; they just need to provide some details when they sign up. A bot will do all of the hard work.

I thought this WikiProject might be interested. Ping me with any specific queries or leave them on the page linked to above. Thanks! - Jarry1250 (t, c) 21:56, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Okina template discussion

Ongoing, needs technical input: Template_talk:Okina#Mass_subst.2C_moved_From_User_talk:KelleyCook. Viriditas (talk) 01:25, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Coordinators' working group

Hi! I'd like to draw your attention to the new WikiProject coordinators' working group, an effort to bring both official and unofficial WikiProject coordinators together so that the projects can more easily develop consensus and collaborate. This group has been created after discussion regarding possible changes to the A-Class review system, and that may be one of the first things discussed by interested coordinators.

All designated project coordinators are invited to join this working group. If your project hasn't formally designated any editors as coordinators, but you are someone who regularly deals with coordination tasks in the project, please feel free to join as well. — Delievered by §hepBot (Disable) on behalf of the WikiProject coordinators' working group at 05:35, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Workgroup?

Unresolved
 – Coordinate with Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Hawaii#Stubs_and_topics

I'm interested in creating a workgroup for Volcanism of Hawaii, based here. I'de like to tackle the topic, but I can't do it all by myself! So far this is only a proposal. Also going out to WP:VOLCANO. Cheers, ResMar 00:09, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Coordination and update needed. Viriditas (talk) 04:52, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

Need help at Aloha Tower

The lede of Aloha Tower claims that it is a lighthouse. All evidence from NOAA and the USCG indicates that this isn't the case and probably never was the case. If someone can come up with a good cite, OK, but in the meantime I don't know that I can edit the lede to remove this without destroying it. As it is, it's rather puffy anyway. I'm also posting this at WP:NRHP. Mangoe (talk) 01:31, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

According to this historic lighthouse article it appears to have been designed to be an "observation tower with a beacon":

An article in the May 30, 1926 edition of the Honolulu Advertiser provided a detailed description of the tower, including the following lines on its beacon. “On top of the tower the harbor light, which is now located on Sand Island, is to be installed, and the light on Sand Island done away with. The light will be known as Honolulu Light, and will be visible to ships at sea for many miles."

So, the intro appears to be somewhat accurate. We could add some of this to the article with cite for good measure. --Travis Thurston+ 18:14, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
That's not the same thing as a lighthouse though. I think it would be more accurate to say that the light on the tower is used as a beacon by ships, than to say that the tower is a lighthouse. The latter implies that it was designed for the purpose of housing the light, rather than that the light was put there because it's a tall building that happens to be near the ocean (which seems to be what happened). KarlM (talk) 18:57, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
How about "The Aloha Tower is an observation building and monument considered to be one of the premier landmarks..." Its reference as a "guiding beacon" is stated in the second sentence. more ref material --Travis Thurston+ 19:32, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
I've been pointed to some material that indicates that it did function as a lighthouse for a period. I think maybe the best approach might be a slight rewrite which makes it a bit clearer what the various functions were. We have a couple of other similar cases nationwide. Mangoe (talk) 20:38, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Assistance needed- Okina struck from Kapaʻau article

I am having a hard time explaining to a fellow about how okina is appropriate for references in to Kapaʻau in article Kapaau, Hawaii. The same guy seems to think that Census stats are more significant than its status as birthplace of Kamehameha. If anyone wants to straighten me out re Okina within articles on Hawaii places, or take a crack at persuading him, please see Talk:Kapaau, Hawaii#Okina in name. -J JMesserly (talk) 05:06, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Left my comment there. Not deriding anyone in particular at all, but the mindset of treating Hawaiʻi English polished spelling as "foreign" spelling and not "correct" English strikes me as uptight arrogance from a grammatical ivory tower, divorced from the reality of valid regional variation of Standard English. It becomes exhausting after so long. - Gilgamesh (talk) 07:29, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
It will take time. To her dying day, my grandmother from texas pronounced it Hawaiya, no matter how many times we corrected her. And what she did to spanish was much worse... I never understood why because she lived in a border town. The parochialism is not limited of course. Interestingly, the Russians don't have a letter for a soft h sound, but instead of substitutiting their hard H, they use G. So Hollywood sounds like Goellywvood, and then there is Goenoelulu, Gahvai, and so on. I'm not making this up. Anyway, long term- in english, given the globalization of the language it makes sense to upgrade it at some point to add a few more glyphs, like the gargly "h" sound the Jewish toast "lechaim"- it occurs in Russian and northern african languages. It's shear conjecture and it may take several decades, but it makes sense. -J JMesserly (talk) 07:57, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Project layout and design

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We don't need the header, the project name should appear first, not a flower, and there needs to be more information located towards the top rather than falling towards the bottom. Viriditas (talk) 10:29, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

No offense, but your project page is a total mess. I endevoured to try and fix it in my sandbox, but it was uneedingly complex and unyeilding to no end...ResMar 23:38, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
It seems to be getting worse as the days go by. It needs a complete overhaul. I can barely read anything and the image on top is driving me nuts. Viriditas (talk) 10:19, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Would like to see some suggestions on redoing the project page. Viriditas (talk) 04:48, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

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Request

Would someone mind photographing the Hawaiian Airlines headquarters? They are at 3375 Koapaka Street, G-350, by Honolulu Airport. Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 21:45, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

Kahoolawe "Target Isle": Proposed changes to the infobox

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This discussion initially took place at Talk:Kahoolawe --BlueMoonlet (t/c) 13:54, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

An editor recently added a fact tag to the "Target Isle" name in the article. I am unclear as to why the tag was added, as this is an accepted, common name for the island, still in use by the media.[2] While it is true that the island is no longer used for this purpose, the naming convention in the infobox is accurate. Viriditas (talk) 09:44, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

I am concerned that Wikipedia may play a role in conferring "official status" on a nickname. This is especially true when the nickname is listed in the infobox, rather than the text. In some cases, (e.g., the Big Island), the nickname is clearly so predominant that WP is simply affirming what is already true. But I am somewhat suspicious that every Hawaiian island has a nickname in its infobox. Why must each island have a nickname? Every U.S. state has a nickname, but those are semi-official. Is there some authority conferring at least semi-official status on one (and only one!) nickname for each Hawaiian island? If not, then I contend that at least some of these nicknames should be taken out of the infoboxes. --BlueMoonlet (t/c) 15:57, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
I should add that the answer to my question may well be "yes". I don't know a great deal about Hawaii in particular; my concern is on general principle. --BlueMoonlet (t/c) 15:59, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
BlueMoonlet, are you aware that in the United States, each state has a nickname? I'm assuming that you are. You will also find it in the infobox on every article about a U.S. state. Perhaps our Hawaiian Island infoboxes could use a similar format (smaller font) rather than the large font currently in use. Would that begin to address your concern? Viriditas (talk) 16:43, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
Yes, I am aware of that, which is why I mentioned it in my last post above. As I said, those nicknames are semi-official. Are you saying that the same is true of the nicknames for the Hawaiian islands? If so, you should be able to provide a much stronger reference than some journalist saying it was once called that. --BlueMoonlet (t/c) 00:28, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
Let me see if I can address your concerns. You said that you were worried that Wikipedia was conferring some kind of official status on the nickname. Can you tell me, on what evidence do you base these concerns? Viriditas (talk) 00:41, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
It is well known that the general public gives way too much credence to what is written in Wikipedia. If something is only partly true or even completely untrue, its credibility can be greatly enhanced in the public mind if it is listed as true on Wikipedia. This enhances the importance of citing reliable sources for any piece of information that is significant and/or questionable. --BlueMoonlet (t/c) 15:21, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Here's a reference from a 1966 book hosted by the State of Hawaii Department of Transportation, Airports Division.[3] I'm still open to modifying the infobox or the article. However, the 1998 edition of the Atlas of Hawaii does not recognize the "Target Isle" as a name.[4] For the encyclopedia's sake, I think it is safe to add formerly next to "Target Isle" until we have a better solution in place. My guess it that the nickname hasn't been current since 1993. Viriditas (talk) 00:55, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

This is much more the kind of reference I was looking for. The table below compares the nicknames in these two editions of the Atlas with the nicknames currently given on WP pages. I think the 1998 atlas should be cited for the current nicknames of the five islands where they agree. Perversely, the most popularly known nickname (the "Big Island") is not given in the 1998 atlas. For Hawaii and Lanai, it appears that multiple nicknames are current, while we now seem to agree that Kahoolawe no longer has a nickname though its former nickname should probably be listed. Given these ambiguities, it might be best to move these nicknames down to an entry in the infoboxes, rather than below the name. Thoughts? --BlueMoonlet (t/c) 15:16, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
Island 1966 Atlas 1998 Atlas Wikipedia
Hawaii Big Island The Orchid Isle The Big Island
Kahoolawe Target Isle none The Target Isle
Kauai Garden Isle The Garden Isle The Garden Isle
Lanai none The Private Isle The Pineapple Isle or The Secluded Isle
Maui Valley Isle The Valley Isle The Valley Isle
Molokai Friendly Isle (formerly Lonely Isle) The Friendly Isle The Friendly Isle
Niihau Island of Yesteryear The Forbidden Isle The Forbidden Isle
Oahu none The Gathering Place The Gathering Place
The 1966 ref isn't to an atlas. It's just to a book on a historical aviation site maintained by the state. I agree with redesigning the infobox template and moving the nicknames down. I was planning to do it myself sometime ago, but got too busy with other things. With your permission, I would like to move this entire discussion (copy and paste) to WT:HAWAII so that the project members understand what we are doing and can comment if they so desire. Viriditas (talk) 03:56, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
That would be fine. --BlueMoonlet (t/c) 13:39, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Discussion placed here for notification of impending changes to the infobox, and/or for continuing discussion on the subject. Viriditas (talk) 22:35, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Islands and counties

I was asked to come here and write something about the islands of Hawaii and the countries of Hawaii. I maintain that the US State of Hawaii is composed of the counties of Hawaii. Each county has a government and has elections. Each county consists of land, in this case, one or more islands or parts of islands. It is NOT the other way around: the state of Hawaii composed of islands, which are composed of counties. These islands do not have government and elections. This information can be found in the government of Hawaii and government of each county articles. We need not look elsewhere to 'prove' this. Hmains (talk) 01:03, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Can you provide some context? I can't quite tell what the dispute is here. Politically, the state is divided into five counties (two of which consist of a single island); geographically, it's composed of islands. Maui County consists of Maui, Lānaʻi, and most of Molokaʻi; Kauaʻi County includes Niʻihau; and Kalawao County consists only of Kalaupapa and adjacent valleys. KarlM (talk) 01:19, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
I made the previous comment before viewing your talk page; now I see what the issue is. Frankly, as I see it, categories are a complete waste of time for everyone concerned. I've never found them useful, in part because people make interminable numbers of levels (each of which often only has 10 or fewer articles). And there are enough people who are so thoroughly obsessed with creating them that it's pointless to fight them, so I've given up. If you want to make a grouping of articles useful, put it in a box at the bottom of the article (like the CDPs). KarlM (talk) 01:30, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

List-Class Hawaii articles

Could someone go through Category:List-Class Hawaii articles and report back to the project on the best articles (most complete, ready or close to ready to be nominated for FL) they can find? Thanks. Viriditas (talk) 09:08, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

Image sorting needed on Commons

commons:Category:Hawaii needs sorters to go through each image and sort them into the appropriate categories. I'm currently working on just the Maui category, but we need lots of people to help complete the job for the other islands. Remember, many images aren't even found in the Hawaii categories, so if you focus on a specific area (Oahu for example) remember to also search for images outside the named categories. The advantage of sorting these images into the correct categories is that a {{Commonscat}} link can be added to each Wikipedia article, providing readers with a direct link to the topic-related images on Commons. Viriditas (talk) 03:12, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

Family tree of Hawaiian monarchs

I've made a family tree of Hawaiian monarchs. It doesn't show much information, only how they are related to one another. If anyone could place it somewhere else and add links to it, that would be great.--Nathan M. Swan (talk) 20:26, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

Good work, but it seems like Kaahumanu III is in a confusing place; the tree makes it look like she was the daughter of Kamehameha I, but according to her article she was his cousin, stepdaughter, and later wife; then later married Kamehameha II; and Lunalilo was her son by another marriage. Not sure how best to represent that on a tree! Seems like it would be best to put her as cousin, but that might add too many branches. KarlM (talk) 06:48, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
We could certainly use help on the monarch articles. It is a large effort. The problem is the graph is not even planar! For example, I am working on a Kepooʻkalani article: he is the double great-grandfather of the Kalakauas, not single as you note. An obvous issue with your simplified chart is that it does not distinguish men from women, showing only one parent. Also it confuses blood relationships with hanai (adoption), or ah, I see it hides the several Kaʻahumanus with easter-egg links. W Nowicki (talk) 17:37, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
OK I published the Kepooʻkalani article. You are missing the generation of Kamanawa II -> Kapaʻakea for male line, or ʻAikanaka for female line. And as as KarlM says, the relationship of Lunalilo also is a bit more distant by blood. Her mother was one of the consorts of Kamehameha I but she was not his daguhter. W Nowicki (talk) 19:09, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

A-Class review for USS Hawaii (CB-3) now open

A Military history WikiProject A-Class review for USS Hawaii (CB-3) is now open; all editors are invited to participate, and any input there would be appreciated! Thanks! —Ed (talkmajestic titan) 01:36, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Category-Members of the Hawaii Territorial Legislature

It would be a good idea to create a category on the Members of the Hawaii Territorial Legislature. The present categories involving the Hawaii State Legislature relate to the legislature since Hawaii was admitted to the union. Using these categories for a member of the Hawaiian Territorial Legislature would be inaccurate. I know Arizona has a category involving concerning the members of the Arizona Territorial Legislature. Thank you-RFD (talk) 22:07, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Especially if you volunteer to put appropriate articles in the cat! Are there that many? You could make it a subcategory of Category:Members of the Hawaii Legislature perhaps. I have a similar problem with the Kingdom, right now they are just in a category Category:Hawaiian Kingdom politicians which might need refining. Similarly you could create a category "Hawaii Territory politicians" or something like that? Many overlap, e.g. territory and Kingdom, or territory and state, etc. W Nowicki (talk) 19:29, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Hanai template

I created a new template to list "Hanai" information in bioboxes. I noticed some had a paramter to the royalty infobox that was not used. I think it is important enough to put there. It probably begs for an article explaing more about hanai, and perhaps a list of notable ones. But one thing at a time. W Nowicki (talk) 19:29, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Topo maps do not work

At low resolutions they seem to find Oahu and Kauai, but the other islands nothing at all shows up for the "topo" views. For example, try 20°48′N 156°20′W / 20.800°N 156.333°W / 20.800; -156.333 (Maui) with any of the topo choices and it is all blank. Does it work for anyone else? W Nowicki (talk) 23:46, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

The trails.com one works for that link, but it uses Topozone which is now a pay site, so it only gives you one chance to see a small portion of the map. KarlM (talk) 05:15, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Follow-up: after finally getting ni touch with someone from topozone, I got them to fix their topo maps. At least more of them work now. At various resolutions parts still disappear, but for free they are a decent resource. W Nowicki (talk) 21:55, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

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Charles Djou's intention to run

I thought that Charales Djou announced his intention in March "2010" to seek the office that Abercrombie has vacaated Cdauer (talk) 20:37, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Annexation

It states the the annexation of Hawaii was a victory but it was not. There are no annexation documents ever found up to present day. The congress had to vote to annex Hawaii but they did not ever receive enough votes to ofically annex Hawaii and today remains as land occupied by the United States and is not owned by the United States, but by the people of Hawaii. It also states that there were no casualties and only one wounded in the overthrowing of the kingdom which is definetly not true. Many natives lives were lost which led to the Queen surrendering in an act for peace and not to continue the violence. [comment above was added by User talk:Chasekale 09:36, 28 April 2010]

The situation is more subtle than that. See Newlands Resolution for example. That article could defintely use more beefing up with inline citations. It does gloss over the distinction between a "treaty" and "resolution". Not sure about the "lives lost"? Perhaps you mean during the counter-revolutions? Please provide reliable verifiable sources of course. W Nowicki (talk) 23:14, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

Hawaiian Airlines headquarters

I found this on Google Maps - Is this the headquarters of Hawaiian Airlines? WhisperToMe (talk) 17:41, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Advanced Technology Solar Telescope

FYI, Advanced Technology Solar Telescope has been nominated for deletion. 76.66.193.224 (talk) 03:06, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

That's absurd. It's received a massive amount of media coverage. Viriditas (talk) 04:24, 7 June 2010 (UTC)