Talk:Lahaina, Hawaii

message: The median household income seems to be off by about $100,000 according to some research I have been doing on Google.  What gives? Mah58@georgetown.edu 02:24, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Household income 

message: According to Place Names of Hawaii, Lāhainā is the old pronunciation.  It seems like this page and Lahaina (the redirect) should be switched.   KarlM 08:04, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This is somewhat disputed. Generally, the spelling is Lāhainā in Hawaiian, and the pronuncuation is Lahaina. However, it is not true to say it is an "old" spelling - one is true to the Hawaiian language, and the other is a result of primarily immigrant and post-colonial influence. Lordmuggins (talk) 21:35, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: I'm moving the article from Lāhainā, Hawai'i to Lahaina, Hawaii.  This aligns it with the US census rendering  and the United States Geographical Names Service .  It also seems to be the common usage (the only diacritics I could find on the first 10 google hits are the ones for the wikipedia article) .  Lastly, there seems to be more wikipedia-internal links to "Lahaina" versus "Lāhainā"  Erudy 16:26, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Moving Article

message: The Star-Bulletin of July 13, 1920, gave two versions of "How Lahaina Got Its Name," which merited more attention than it received. The first version differs from the well-established tradition in assigning the point of departure for Kahiki, as from Lahaina, instead of from the west point of Kahoolawe. It also introduces us to the pioneer Ad Club of the islands, boosting the charms of Maui, in the eleventh century. But their slogan, "laha aina" (proclaiming land), though dropping a superfluous a to form the new name they had adopted, would not give us the accent on the last syllable as Hawaiians pronounce it. 
The second version sounds more reasonable, and aids somewhat in our search for the time when the name Lahaina was substituted for its former one, Lele. The newer name clearly shows it to be commemorative of a notable day in the history of the place. In the time of Kakae and his brother, Kakaalaneo, about 1630, it was still known as Lele. When after this period the change occurred is not clear, but analysis of the name, as properly pronounced Lā-hai-nā, would be "a day of calamity, or cruelty," and such an experience is known to have befallen Lahaina in the battles of warring chiefs waged for supremacy, more particularly following the death of Kekaulike, in the invasions of Alapainui of Hawaii, about 1735. But the change of name must have taken place earlier than this date.
All about Hawaii: Hawaiian Annual for 1922 The Reference Book of Informationc and Statistics Relating to the Territory of Hawaii. Page 86
Is this enough to be an Etymology of the name Lahaina?
KAVEBEAR (talk) 05:20, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yep.  It's covered in Clark's The Beaches of Maui County. Viriditas (talk) 09:26, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Etymology

message: Halloween is not being sanctioned this year.  Front Street will not be closed and no keiki parade is scheduled nor permits issued.Nokaoi2007 (talk) 02:14, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Halloween 

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message: "The chances of becoming a victim of crime in Lahaina is 1 in 385, compared to a higher rate of 1 in 323 in the State of Hawaii as a whole."
Excuse me for saying so, but this is the silliest statistics I have ever seen. 1 in 385 per what? If I am the 385th tourist visiting Lahaina on a certain day, is somebody going to snatch my purse?
To make matters worse, these numbers are not supported by the source. The website has totally different numbers, so it would at least be necessary to state what year we are talking about here, and use numbers that are supported by the source.
I also have some doubts if a real estate website is such a great source for this kind of data. --217.239.10.120 (talk) 23:25, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Crime Rate 

message: Howard from NYC (talk) 06:32, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably not, as this is a common occurrence in such disaster recovery areas.  Today, there were six cars in Kahana (north of Lahaina) that had their gas tanks tampered with, either due to potential arson or because the perps were trying to steal gas.  We are going to see this kind of thing with some regularity in the coming days, but at least the military presence will help diffuse some of these issues. I think they should setup the remote IP camera systems or a high-altitude Gorgon Stare-like wide area surveillance network to help in this regard. It's unfortunate, but looters, arsonists, and other miscreants are a real and present danger. Viriditas (talk) 08:23, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Q: fraud? 

message: Although the 2023 fires have been added as a new section, much of the article has not been updated accordingly and is now incorrect. E.g. there are statements saying, "Lahaina is...", whereas many of the things referred to no longer exist. 2A00:23EE:2868:DDFC:8E53:7058:1E81:4C89 (talk) 12:43, 13 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Aloha anonymous IP editor. Please see Paradise, California and review our MOS, guidelines and the tag at the top of the page. This isn't a news article and patience may be needed.--Mark Miller (talk) 06:35, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed the tenses. Not a happy task. Feedback encouraged. Lfstevens (talk) 19:04, 20 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Out of date 

message: That should be added since the town is unfortunately in the news now. 99.228.43.228 (talk) 22:48, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: We need something like this: Honolulu (/ˌhɒnəˈluːluː/;[8] Hawaiian: [honoˈlulu]). Perhaps someone might be found to do this for the article.--Mark Miller (talk) 03:01, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  English pronunciation  

message: I reverted the following edits by User:Rando597:
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Both of these contributions are highly problematic, erroneous, biased, and distortions.  In the first edit, there is no evidence that "many who died or are missing are children" and I'm curious where this comes from, as the source cited doesn't say any of this, nor does it support it.  Furthermore, the source cited is out of date altogether. 
The same goes for the second edit which the sources don't support.  The president and other authorities could not visit the area for two weeks due to fires, fires which continue to burn (as of now, Kaanapali).  The idea that Biden could have arrived prior to the two week period is absurd and unsupported.  It took the military two weeks to secure the area and for the firefighters to contain it.  Furthermore, the area was toxic and too dangerous to visit during that time.  Unfortunately, this is a popular talking point in the right wing media-sphere, but has little to no factual accuracy.  Furthermore, there is good evidence that a failed GOP candidate and operative on Maui is helping to promote it on unreliable media, such as OAN. And that's why I removed both of them.  There's a difference between facts and GOP talking points. Viriditas (talk) 08:55, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent edts 

message: Lāhainā is correct way to spell the town in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi (which is the meaning of the town - Lā + Hainā).  However it is accepted that kūpuna of the area, particularly post-annexation, have pronounced the town Lahaina, without emphasis. As such it is accepted that variation may exist between the spelling Lāhainā, and the generally accepted pronunciation of Lahaina. To respect the language, it is asked that the Hawaiian spelling, where specified, remains Lāhainā, even if the pronunciation in parenthesis is different. Lordmuggins (talk) 07:08, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation vs Spelling