Talk:Pompallier House

A fact from Pompallier House appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 November 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Pompallier Mission is New Zealand's oldest industrial building and printed some of the earliest texts in Māori?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/November.

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Proposed renaming.[edit]

The name of this article "Pompallier Mission" seems to be inaccurate.

The building being described was part of a larger compound built by French missionaries at Kororareka/Russell. According to the Historic Places Trust links given, "This French factory was built in pioneer New Zealand to print Maori language books for the Roman Catholic Mission" and was not the mission itself (I recall tour guides emphasizing something along these lines, July 2007).

The register at the Historic places trust gives the names "Pompallier" and "Pompallier House", but does not list P.Mission as a name.[1]

I note that "Pompallier House" currently redirects to P.Mission. Unless someone can provide an authoritative reference to suggest otherwise, I propose that this should be reversed, ie. the page renamed P.House (with appropriate editing elsewhere) and P.Mission having the redirect.

--Zaqrfv (talk) 03:35, 27 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]