User talk:Kahuroa

Mucho tiempo no hablar!

Hey man

Como te vas? Long time no talk! My 3 month wikibreak ended up turning into a year-long absence of leave, lol, so I'm a bit out of the loop. I have been busy however, running a forest conservation fundraiser (out of which I plan to found a new charitable trust named after the Huia!), learning Spanish and studying away at uni. What have you been working on lately?

Last time I checked "Huia" was still the most recent NZ wikipedia article to get bumped up to FA. I know the process now and I intend to get another NZ bird article to FA before the year is out - I will have shitloads of spare time over Summer, because I get student allowance even thougt the courses I'm doing A) don't last very long and B) are pretty easy. So i'm just going to go apeshit a la biblioteca gathering references and then just go for it. You'll know which one I have chosen when the flurry of activity begins, haha!

All the best,y hablar pronto Kotare (talk) 07:44, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

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I removed "unmistakeable from this edit since it sounds like broken english Pass a Method talk 09:27, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

File:Tararua Range and Mt Dundas 20 August 1909.jpg

Hi Kahuroa, I've discovered that the photographer of this picture you uploaded died in 1964,[1] so it seems to be a copyright violation. I've tagged it accordingly and dropped the relevant template on your Commons talk page. I'm just telling you here in case you read this page before that one. --Avenue (talk) 08:58, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

Article on the Kingitanga State?

See talk pages:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Māori_King_Movement
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_New_Zealand/M%C4%81ori_task_force#Article_on_the_Kingitanga_State.3F

I am wondering if there should be a new article created for the state or confederacy ruled over by the Maori monarchs of the Kingitanga and allied chiefs. It seems like from the time the confederacy was formed in around 1858 until 1881, when the Kingitanga Movement began leaving aside isolation and finally made peace with and opened up to the settler government, the Kingitanga functioned as an independent state.

From what I understand, the Kingitanga held power over a substantial portion of North Island, originally centered in the Waikato Region. Then the settler government under Governor Grey interpreted their existence as a threat to British sovereignty and justified attacking them and initiating the Land Wars in the Waikato based on a claim that Ngati Maniapoto warriors helping other tribes fighting settlers in Taranaki Region were Kingitanga agents. After brutal fighting, the Kingitanga government occupied Ngati Maniapoto territory and became a neutral player throughout the rest of the Land Wars although remained independent from and at war with the Colonial Government until they opened what had by then been regarded as "King Country" in 1881. Afterwards, they progressively integrated with the rest of New Zealand over several decades, beginning with rail projects several years after peace was established although the Tainui chiefs and Maori king directly ruled the territory and didn't suffer land confiscations and settlement quite on par with other regions which allowed for a higher-than-average Maori population to exist there even to the present day. Unfortunately, not all of this is in the Kingitanga Movement article, and I'm not sure if it would be best for some parts of this to be applied there or if the Kingitanga should actually have its own state article for the period between 1858 and at least 1881 or 1894 (the year when the second Maori King, Tāwhiao, died) in addition to the existing article on the Maori King Movement.

Based on this background, do you think it is reasonable to create a new article for a state with this information included or that it should be included only here in the Maori King Movement article or both or neither?Nanib (talk) 00:06, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

The following are relevant articles on nzhistory.net.nz, a New Zealand government history resource (that you likely already know of) that is a wealth of information for New Zealand and even other Polynesian histories, which I believe would be helpful to consider:

http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/politics/maori-king-movement-1860-94/build-up-to-war http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/politics/maori-king-movement-1860-94/response-to-war http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/politics/the-maori-king-movement-1860-94/raupatu-confiscations http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/politics/maori-king-movement-1860-94/maintaining-te-kingitanga http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/politics/the-maori-king-movement-1860-94/tensions-ease