Talk:First Taranaki War

message: Should that actually be a "References" section?? At the moment its not clear if this article is referenced or not. 
Kotare 03:44, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Certainly should be, and it's easily provided. I'll do something in the next few days if no one else beats me to it.Grimhim 09:46, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

text: It's still on my to-do list. Grimhim 07:02, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Further reading

message: I have removed the below
Early in June 1860, he began building a pa, Puketakauere, which was only a mile away from the British base at Waitara (easily visible today to the south of the main highway immediately to the west of the bridge over the railway at the top of Big Jim's Hill.
as I feel it detracts from trying to follow what happened 
Aatomic1 14:03, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Geographical Description

message: Hobson did not bring a copy of any treaty with him to Waitangi. The document he had was a proclamation of sovereignty which was read out at Waitangi. It had already been published in Sydney. Both the English and the Maori version were hurriedly written in NZ at Waitangi. The best European Maori speakers were used to write a Maori translation that the chiefs could understand, as the English version contained terms unfamiliar to Maori, most of whom had a smattering of spoken English but could not understand any written English or Maori. Missionary Henry Williams selected terminology that Maori were more familiar with from religious texts which were their only source of literature at that time. Both versions were written in less than a week.115.188.178.77 (talk) 08:19, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: The Maori version was written in one night. I have restored the original text that said the translation was done in haste. BlackCab (TALK) 09:06, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

text: Utter bullshit. Chapter 3 of Claudia Orange's Treaty of Waitangi book lays out in great detail the inadequacies of the Maori translation of the treaty; on page 115 she explains the difficulty many Maori had in grasping the full consequences of selling land. As usual, you are plucking the expert backing for your notions out of the air. You have zero credibility. BlackCab (TALK) 10:16, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Writing of the treaty 

message: The Battle of Puketakauere section has several long paragraphs that are entirely lacking in citations. —howcheng  {chat} 06:59, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: In fact just two paragraphs, one of them very short, lacked citations. The descriptions of the battle are both drawn from the same sources, both cited repeatedly through that section of the article, so there is no need to pepper the paragraphs with identical citations when there is little likelihood of their veracity being challenged. (Wikipedia's content guideline states that inline citations are required "for any material challenged or likely to be challenged".) However to satisfy your niggling request I have added two more citations. BlackCab (TALK) 05:20, 16 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. If I had included that in OTD for the Main Page, someone else would have complained about the same thing. —howcheng  {chat} 03:54, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  section needs more references 

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