Talk:New Britain

message: The whole of 'Melanesian people and culture' looks like it's a quote. While there is a footnote to the effect that the article '...incorporates text from the public domain Catholic Encyclopedia.' I don't think it's good practise to have an entire section be merely a quote. What should be done, remove it entirely, prune it, retain it but with clearer quote marks,...? Dougg 04:10, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: native name Birara,
Because there are numerous languages, and the name for New Britain is different in each language. I've made a bunch of other changes too. The problem with slowly modifying a large quote is that it results in a very strange 'tone', with the parts I've written, it seems to me, contrasting strongly with the quotes, which have a very old-world character. Dougg 23:52, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Large quotes 

message: I removed a few paragraphs from this section which seemed to have come straight from the 1911 Encylopedia Britannica complete with Victorian Imperialst opinions - they seemed a bit offensive and non NPOV for a modern Encylopedia. It still needs a lot of work, though; among other things I imagine a lot's changed in 100 years. Plus it's self-contradictory about whether the tribes have chiefs or not. I'm sorry if I caused any offense with my edits!
Tasiel 12:51, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  People and culture 

message: Why is dewarra redirected to this page? I'll change this and create a new page for dewarra if there are no objections. Although, I'm not sure if dewarra is the most appropriate title for it - possibly Tolai shell money, although I think that it is used on the Duke of Yorks too (which I think is where the name dewarra/diwara comes from) so that's probably not appropriate. In Kuanua (at least the dialects I'm familiar with) it is referred to as tabu - but this also has a lot of other meaning. Any thoughts?--Sheena V 05:34, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dewarra 

message: I added the cleanup tag so that hopefully this article will get some attention.  It still reads too much like the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica and Catholic Encyclopedia in some places ("the natives"?!?).  Paxsimius 23:43, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup tag

message: I came in search of information regarding the Arawe of New Britain and their practice of circular (annular) cranial modification. According to an article I read this group practiced cranial modification in the 1950s. I was interested in learning if this process is still practiced.
Blackwood, Beatrice, P. M. Danby.
1955. A Study of Artificial Cranial Deformation in New Britain. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. 85, No. 1/2, pp. 173-191.
kcelw 23:31, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arawe and cranial modification practices 

message: I have just done some fairly major revision of the article.  Changes I've made:
* rename Description to Geography and create new Administrative divisions section;
* rewrite geography section to update 100-year old writing style and add more detail;
* remove long para in People and culture section which appears largely derived from 100-year old sources.  Published knowledge of New Britain cultures has come a long, long way since then, and this section was highly unrepresentative of the current state of knowledge, not to mention being flat-out wrong in several respects.  In my view that material is not worth including - better to start from modern sources with a clean slate, as such.
* remove Ecclesiastical history section entirely.  I just don't believe this level of detail of a short span of time of (specifically) Catholic missionary activity is justified in this article.
* move Postage stamps section to new article Postage stamps of New Britain.
It now needs further expansion in almost all sections - especially Geography, History and People and culture. Wantok (toktok) 06:21, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Major surgery 

message: This is a very interesting, notable story from MSNBC about the Island from WWII to now, and how one revered American changed the entire island's educational system through fundraising. Definitely needs to be added. Any volunteers? 72.213.129.138 (talk) 03:35, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  VERY Interesting 

message: The article says "New Britain and New Ireland are so named because their outlines on a map roughly correspond to those of the British Isles".  But looking at the map this isn't at all obvious.  Also, on the New Ireland page it says "The island ... is often described as having the shape of a musket."  which is obvious, but no-one would say Ireland is the shape of a musket.  So is this just nonsense?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.139.230.147 (talk) 18:30, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Clearly a false statement - removed Grunners (talk) 10:14, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  ... so named ... 

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