Talk:Mau rākau

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Liastnir 05:53, 8 March 2006
Ive added some references but had trouble finding more. I tried to clean it up a little but it still needs some work. Im not very clear on the accuracy of the mythology section as that is from the original article which was unreferenced. Porco-esphino 07:35, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
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message: There seems to be a lack of references to this really being an martial art of ancient origin. Could be please find some. Especially the pre-European bit. Otherwise things will probably have to be trimmed. - SimonLyall (talk) 10:18, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lack of References. 

message: The new page is more informative. There are not many sites that talk about Mau Rakau or Maori history. Hell, the Kawiti's Ohaewai Pa page is one of the top 3 worst defeats the British suffered to the Maori rebels and it is barely a stub.
The sources are good enough and have all the information needed to provide Wikipedia for a good enough page.
Hell, here's something to change. The Famous practitioner list. Sala Baker, where's a source that says he practices it? Seamus Fitzgerald sure he was at Mokia Island but he isn't exactly famous, he just appeared as a character on a SpikeTV show.
Why not add Cliff Curtis who has admitted that he has practiced the Martial Art and Temuera Morrison who demonstrated the skill on the film the Marine 2.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Snugglbunny (talk • contribs) 11:57, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The really big thing to be careful of in this article is that the martial art is based on traditional Maori weapons. There is pretty much zero evidence (that anyone has posted) that Mau rākau itself is more than a few years old. So the article should talk about how it is practised now and recent (read documented) history not speculation about how it was used in real combat 200 years ago (unless we have real references to that). - SimonLyall (talk) 18:52, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

text: If you add information it must have proper references to good sources. If it doesn't then it will definitely be removed. Try some of the old New Zealand newspapers that are online.  If tomorrow I start a martial art based on (say) Roman Swordfighting then it is not suddenly 2000 years old. Some Martial arts (like say Sumo or Italian school of swordsmanship ) have been practised for hundreds of years. I know of another article which has people trying create an ancient history out of a modern thing and it's very sad to watch (especially the fact they feel an ancient history is worth lying about) - SimonLyall (talk) 08:55, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Keep the new page. 

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