Talk:Honolulu

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This seems to be a request for a picture of the State capitol. There are lots already up in various articles. I will see if this is a linking problem - Marshman 04:11, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Yes, this building well represented and linked; see Hawaii State Capitol - Marshman 05:11, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Gerald, You must be kidding. Do you work for DBEDT? Honolulu is hardly the "...economic center of ...the larger Asia-Pacific Rim region". Aside from not even being part of the "Asia-Pacific Rim", its location is considered by those economic powers that are part of the rim (Seattle, San Francisco, LA, Tokyo, Taipei, Hong Kong, etc.) to be "remote". Neither people nor cargo, moving between the larger North Pacific ports of entry, come through Hawai'i. As a resident, I cetainly wish there were some truth in what you wrote, but at best, Honolulu is a quasi-central location between the US west coast and Asian east coast where certain kinds of economic promotion and support mechanisms (like the East-West Center) are well suited to be located. Otherwise, those economic powers have pretty much ignored Hawai'i and all of the rest of the Central Pacific through the 20th-21st centuries.

Sorry, I wrote a lot more here, but somehow lost it. Basic points: I encourage you to work on Hawaiian and Honolulu articles (actually, I see you have contributed a lot of good stuff in the historical areas), but you need to be careful not to delete factual information already in the articles, and avoid duplication by checking around to see if there is already an article better suited for the info you wish to add (there are City & County of Honolulu and O'ahu articles for island wide stuff, for government stuff, for climate, etc. This article is on the place: Honolulu; therefore your geography descriptions were wrong. Also, I'm unaware of any current plans to construct a fixed rail on O'ahu. Legislative and City Council actions this year essentially relate to "appointing a committee" to look into it.

I tried not to revert your stuff (an option I was tempted to use), but would not because I feel your additions were put in the article in good faith. Therefore I "edited mercilessly". Some of your additions were good and I kept those or moved them to a more appropriate article. I looked over some of your other very prolific stuff on Hawaiian History and historical places, and it is all very good. Not sure what happened with your addditions to this article but a number of the facts you inserted in the place of perfectly good stuff were questionable. - Marshman 00:29, 25 May 2004 (UTC)

Perhaps the Bus Rapid Transit system is also worth mentioning, since it seems construction has already started on it? (Kuhio Ave. is such a mess now...  :( ) KeithH 18:22, 29 May 2004 (UTC)

Yes. Certainly will be a reality long before a fixed rail will be - Marshman 07:51, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

Under External Links I Put In the Current URL for Honolulu's Official Web Site

The City and County of Honolulu has recently replaced its http://www.co.honolulu.hi.us URL with http://www.honolulu.gov.

BKH2007, 8 July 2004, 7:16 a.m. (Hawaii time)

Semiprotection

I just put a semi-protected tag on the page to deal with the recent vandalism. Put the "vprotected" tag on it first, but decided it was too extreme and changed it to "sprotected". — Dale Arnett 01:20, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Flag of the City

Does anyone notice that the city's flag on this page reads "CITY AND COUNTY OF THE HONOLULU"? What is the "THE" doing on the flag? The county page does not have the indentical flag - also note the different shades of the yellow. Etoncal 22:54, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Infobox

I added the city seal from the city's website. Though I wished it didn't have a white background. I could not find the city's flag on a public website. Also, does anyone know how to get rid of the seal below the seal? I does not appear in other infoboxes, so I a miffed as to why it is here. User:Thurifer 03 Oct 06

Found a fix for the infobox error...the box was not set up to allow the okina - a hawaiian apostrophy of sorts. So I removed them for a cleaner look. User:Thurifer 04 Oct 06

Survey on proposal to make U.S. city naming guidelines consistent with others countries

There is a survey in progress at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (settlements) to determine if there is consensus on a proposed change to the U.S. city naming conventions to be consistent with other countries, in particular Canada.

This proposal would allow for this article to be located at Honolulu instead of Honolulu, Hawaii, bringing articles for American cities into line with articles for cities such as Paris and Toronto.--DaveOinSF 16:46, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

However the proposal would allow U.S. cities to be inconsistent with the vast majority of other U.S. cities and towns, which (with a few exceptions) all use the "city, state" convention. -Will Beback 23:40, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Pronunciation

Is it pronounced "Honolooloo" or "Honolülü" (as in German, for example)? I'm talking about the traditional name, as it would be said by native Hawaiians. I presume it must be a transliteration from the Hawaiian language, but do we have any information on that? Thanks 70.52.18.58 22:38, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

History and how it became mainline

we should include a part on how honolulu went to ticky-tacky to mainline with all the art,shops,djs... 00 tux(my point of views(for npov), howto customise a signature) | talk 18:23, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

chinese neighbourhoods

which are the chinese neighbourhoods of honolulu. other than chinatown.