Talk:Hawaii (island)

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Small changes such as Hawaii to Hawai’i are respectful of the culture of the state and native peoples of Hawai’i. It is inclusive language to reflect the diversity of The United States. All citizens should be respected for the culture they bring to the country. Eafleeen (talk) 06:51, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: The language of this article

message: The Island of Hawaii is an important place in the Pacific.  It is not (although conterminous with) the County of Hawaii, a modern political division.
Marshman 22:54, 1 Aug 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems to me that the article on the county should focus essentially on the county government (and therefore be fairly small), and the Hawaii Island article should focus on everything else.--Fellnearshiva 20:04, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Holy cow! An article called "Hawaii (island)" is about the geography and geology of the place, and not about human institutions there -- government, schools, churches, and so forth. For example, this is not the place to say anything about the University of Hawaii at Hilo98.81.11.27 (talk) 01:51, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: "However, the term "Big Island" is starting 
I was born and raised in Hawaii and have never heard the Big Island referred to as the "Orchid Island."  Where did you come up with the following statement:
In fact, because of Hawaii Island's reputation for growing beautiful orchids, the island has the nickname "The Orchid Isle."
:By "you" I presume you mean the plural "you" I did not add that statement to the article, but I do find it hard to believe that you were raised on Hawaii and have never heard the island referred to as the "Orchid Island" (of course I'm also assuming you have been on the planet for more than 20 years).  I agree, it is not at all used locally anywhere in the state, but it is / was certainly common in tourist literature. It is perhaps a lot less used now that Kona side has become the focus of the tourist industry, as the term was likely devised to attract tourists to the Hilo area where the big orhid growers are located. I suppose some modification of the article is in order, to reflect the declining and non-local sense/use of the term - Marshman 19:17, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: On a related note, I've lived in Chicagoland my whole life (I'm 21), and didn't know what "chi-town" was untill earlier this year - reason: Chicagoans don't use it. -Aknorals 23:20, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's hip-hop culture slang. Are you part of that subculture, or do you expose yourself to it? If not, that might explain why you haven't heard the term. Personally, I think Chi-town is still used, but it's like Frisco, if you live in S.F., you'll never hear that term, but people use it all the time outside the city. Furthermore, I think you were 10 years-old when the term became mainstream, so you might not have paid as much attention to it as you do now. Viriditas | Talk 01:13, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm a lifelong resident of Chicago (25) and I've heard many people refer to it as Chi-town.  That's how I generally refer to it myself...  Perhaps it depends what part of the city you're from? 63.73.199.69 (talk) 18:43, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Probably something that the Hawai'i state govt knows about. Like official state polka song or something like that. Kortoso (talk) 23:25, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Weasel terms?

message: For some reason the land satellite infobox image isn't showing up. I tried some brackets, sizing and thumb coding to no prevail. Anyone want to give it a whirl? --Travis Thurston+ 07:20, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I've had no luck either. It does show up fine in , though. -- Avenue (talk) 09:32, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Landsat image 

message: I can't see the land satellite image or the shield volcanos image. Could someone bring these to the attention of someone who knows about images and how to fix them? (I think merely leaving it to the people who stop by here is not sufficient.) I'm not sure who to address but I'm sure someone does. Thanks. Softlavender (talk) 14:01, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The image works, but thumbnails appear to be down for some reason, and only on select articles.  We might be having server problems with the images again.  That's my best guess.  I'll keep looking into it, but the last time this happened, the problem resolved after a day. Viriditas (talk) 14:09, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: There was a mention of something similar to this on WP:AN earlier this week.  I believe it is an issue with WP:COMMONS.  — Kralizec! (talk) 19:42, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

text: I noticed yesterday that it still was not working and made a fix request at Commons.  Everything appears to be working normally now that the image was re-saved properly.  Thanks, — Kralizec! (talk) 04:36, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two images not visible 

message: Is there a wikifairy out there who can make that image come back? Awien (talk) 01:43, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Five volcanoes image 

message: I've been doing a little research into Waikoloa and it seems that at one point the term referred to the "ahupuaʻa", which included the Puako area and mauka up to Waikoloa Village. So, when a user searches Waikoloa should they be directed to Waikoloa Village, the area of Puako (which includes Waikoloa resorts, golf courses, etc) or a dab page with sections (mauka and makai) explaining that both areas use the term. --Travis Thurston+ 06:41, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It looks like you already created the dab page for Waikoloa which I suppose is fine, although there are many many insances where an ahupuaʻa or moku name has been replaced in general usage to mean a modern town or beach, and we probably do not need that many. Just a short note to that effect in the article is probably good enough. In this case, there already was an article for Anaehoomalu Bay which is the same place as Waikoloa Beach so they should be merged. No sense to have two separate articles unless they are separately notable. Anaehoomalu is marked as "orphan" so that is another reason to merge. W Nowicki (talk) 22:45, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Waikoloa

message: "The racial makeup of the county was 31.55% White, 0.47% African American, 0.45% Kanaka Maoli, 26.70% Asian, 11.25% Pacific Islander, 1.14% from other races, and 28.44% from two or more races. 9.49% of the population were Hispanics or Latinos of any race."
So "Kanaka Maoli" means native polynesian hawaiians,  and there is not very many of them (0.45%).  What are the other 11.25% of the population (Pacific Islanders) then ?   Samoans ?    Or are they native Hawaiians too?Eregli bob (talk) 23:45, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Demographics hard to understand 

message: The Merge from the county article is almost complete. There is one last task, and I'm leaving it up to this articles regular editors. This is the island article's old "Cities and towns" section. Except for it's lead (which I've integrated into the "Localities" section), it's just a less organized version of the county's "Localities" section. Could sombody check and make sure that everything listed here is in the "Localities" section (if it should be listed, I don't know what the story is behind the ones that aren't links). 
Also the formating of this is much better then the formating of the "Census-designated places" sub-section of "Localities", but I couldn't figure out how to apply the formating to the sub-section. Somebody want to take care of that? Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 00:54, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge from county article almost complete, one last task. 

message: There's inconsistency in this article on whether "Hawaii" (in the context of the island) should be spelled with or without an ʻokina (Hawaii or Hawaiʻi). I'm no expert on this. Anyone's thoughts? —Will(B) 17:57, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: No <span class="unicode">&#x02BB;</span>okina?

message: A new image of Hawaii, if anyone is interested in adding it to an image or other section.  
http://www.nasa.gov/content/island-of-hawaii-from-the-international-space-station/#.VPdcMvnF8mE
Island of Hawaii from Space, February 28, 2015 
from the International Space Station  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jcardazzi (talk • contribs) 19:38, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images  

message: Substituted at 17:16, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: With more than fifty references in place, is the decade-old (Feb 2008) citations needed tag still appropriate? — 宜しくねー クロノ  カム  19:48, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

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message: Every link I tried redirected to the same YouTube site: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHSo0yJse94  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.53.223.135 (talk) 03:52, 5 August 2017 (UTC)
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message: With more than fifty references in place, is the more than decade-old (February 2008) Citations needed template still in use?  クロノ  カム  20:27, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: ー「宜しく 」・ クロノ  カム  18:58, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations needed 

message: NEW CALEDONIA IS THE THIRD LARGEST ISLAND IN POLYNESIA, NOT HAWAII
With 18,000 sq. kms (7,000 sq. miles), New Caledonia is much bigger than Hawaii (island)--213.60.237.52 (talk) 20:44, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: While it is true that New Caledonia is bigger than Hawaii, the New Caledonia article states that "the archipelago, part of the Melanesia subregion …" New Caledonia is thus not in Polynesia, although many Polynesian people live there. Peaceray (talk) 22:46, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: New Caledonia is much bigger than Hawaii (island)

message: Shouldn't there be an explanation of the different spellings (with and without okina)?  71.235.184.247 (talk) 03:18, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling 

message: An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Hawai'i. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so.  King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 17:53, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Hawai'i" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

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thread_title:  Move discussion in progress 

message: In the history section of the article, the following is written:
Cook was killed on the Big Island at Kealakekua Bay on 14 February 1779, in a melee which followed the theft of a ship's boat.
The source supporting it is a digitized 1970 BBC biography of Cook, and may reflect an outdated historical consensus. I would like the opinion of interested editors as to whether this section should be edited to indicate that the death of James Cook is more nuanced than a melee resulting from the theft of a boat.
My personal opinion is that the article should be edited to convey that Cook made a series of poor decisions and was killed in his attempt to abduct the chieftain or ali'i, based on this source.
Trogdor314 (talk) Trogdor314 (talk) 15:17, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I have looked at several sources, which differ wildly in their descriptions of events. I visited (for several days) the area where Cook died, where I talked with a lot of the locals. Just as many different stories. The source you linked to looks good, and probably worth referencing in the article, but I think we also need to mention the lack of certainty about what happened. HiLo48 (talk) 00:21, 9 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Legacy and Historical Revisit of Capt. James Cook