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There is no historical evidence to idicate that there was ever an explorer by the name of Manus Sylvster in Manus Province, Papua New Guinea. The Province is widely considered to be named after that largest ethnic group in the province who at the time of European contact were known as the Manus (or Mwanus)(See any of the references below), they are now known as the Titan after their own word for ‘that's it’, ‘good’, or ‘that's right’, a word one should be reluctant to use about this article about the history Manus Province. The fact that the Germans called the islands 'der Admiralitäts-Insulaner' (The Admirality Islands) should have made it obvious to the author (see for example Ohnemus 1996).

A few references:

Mead, Margaret. 1930. ‘Melanesian Middlemen’ Natural History 30, no 2: 115-130.

Mead, Margaret.1956. New Lifes for Old: Cultural Transformation – Manus, 1928-1953. London: Victor Gollancz LTD.

Ohnemus, Sylvia. 1996. Zur Kultur der Admiralitäts-Insulaner in Melanesien. Chap. 8. Basel: Museum für Volkerkunde und Schweizerrisches Museum für Volkerkunde.

Otto, Ton. 1991. The Politics of Tradition in Baluan: Social Change and the Construction of the Past in a Manus Society. PhD-thesis, The Australian National University

Otto, Ton. 2002. ‘Manus: The Historical and Social Context’. i: Kaufmann, C., Schmid, C.K. og S. Ohnemus (red). Admirality Islands. Art from the South Seas. Zürich: Museum Reitberg, pp.: 29-37

Otto, Ton. 2004. ‘Manus – historie, samfund og kultur’ Jordens Folk 39(2)

Pearse, Richard. 1977. “Die Boote von Manus. Ein Exkurs zum Kulturwandel“ in Heintze,Dieter & Ohnemus (red.) Teure Bräute. Manus – Kunst und Leben auf einer Südsee Insel. Übersee-Museum Bremen, pp.: 73-78.

Schwartz, Theodore. 1982[1975]. ‘Cultural Totemism: Ethnic Identity Primitive and Modern’ in De Vos, George & Lola Romanucci-Ross: Ethnic Identity – Cultural Continuities and Change. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.38.32.3 (talk) 13:27, 1 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Detention Centre[edit]

I've put this info because it is an employer. And it is a foreign organisation too. Its run by the Australian government. I was asked for another source, Ive put some sources, lets move on. 113.197.13.138 (talk) 05:56, 22 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'm glad to see that someone has reverted your edit, because it was wrong on several counts. Firstly, the sources did not actually support the content (for one, the centre officially closed in 2017,not 2019). Secondly, what you added was unrelated to the heading, because it gave no indication as to how the centre affected the economy. (It might have been positive, negative or neutral economically.) Please read a few links on the welcome panel you've been given, and learn a bit more about editing Wikipedia before you start arguing with experienced editors, and you will gain more respect. (And WP:BAREURLS are not good practice for a number of reasons.) Laterthanyouthink (talk) 09:59, 22 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]