Talk:Taitā, New Zealand

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The coords appear to be for Naenae, no? 125.239.130.100 (talk) 11:05, 24 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed, rather belatedly.-gadfium 04:19, 10 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 2 October 2018[edit]

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: no consensus without prejudice against speedy renomination. The move notice was removed Special:Diff/862545563 in October after the RM elapsed, but it was never officially closed; based on the current discussion, and the fact that readers and editors since October weren't aware of the discussion, I'm closing this as no consensus with the suggestion to create a new move request and ping the users that participated in this one. Closed per request at WP:ANRFC. (closed by non-admin page mover) Thanks, -- DannyS712 (talk) 01:07, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]


Taitā, New Zealand → Taita, New Zealand – The spelling "Taita" dominates in English Ross Finlayson (talk) 13:54, 2 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This is a contested technical request (permalink). -- AlexTW 14:10, 2 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose. The spelling is identical, it is a question of diacritics, and the current location at Taitā, New Zealand with a redirect from Taita, New Zealand reflects WP:TSC. Sam Sailor 14:06, 2 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support I don't understand why User:Sam Sailor chose to contest this. This is a clear application of WP:COMMONNAME. (Note that the page already notes the Maori-language spelling "Taitā", and the current page name "Taitā, New Zealand" would still redirect to "Taita, New Zealand" after the move.) Ross Finlayson (talk) 14:32, 2 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    • My oppose was not copied from RM/TR, I have pasted it above. Sam Sailor 14:37, 2 October 2018 (UTC) P. S.: As requester you obviously "support" your move. Sam Sailor 14:39, 2 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
      • As you noted, the page is currently named "Taitā, New Zealand", with a redirect from "Taita, New Zealand". I merely asked that this be reversed - i.e., that the page be moved (renamed) to "Taita, New Zealand", with a redirect from "Taitā, New Zealand". As I noted above, this is a clear application of WP:COMMONNAME (not to mention WP:ENGLISH). Ross Finlayson (talk) 14:45, 2 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
        • WP:TSC. Sam Sailor 14:56, 2 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
          • You need to explain how, specifically, you are applying WP:TSC to oppose the move. Just saying "WP:TSC", with no explanation, is not sufficient. There is already a redirect between the diacritical and non-diacritical version (and there still would be under the proposed move). WP:COMMONNAME is the relevant guideline here. Ross Finlayson (talk) 15:02, 2 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
NB: We don't normally have the nom support his/her own move to avoid double counting. In ictu oculi (talk) 12:59, 3 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support per COMMONNAME. I too fail to see the applicability of WP:TSC here, other than to legitimize the use of the diacritics if the WP:COMMONNAME in English for this topic included the diacritics. I don't see evidence supporting that requirement, so no basis for the diacritics in this title. --В²C ☎ 16:13, 2 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose per https://teara.govt.nz/en/wellington-places/page-9 this is a long vowel, Taitaa, the Maori letter is there for a reason, this is a Maori place name and having a Maori name in Maori enables pronunciation. Anti-Maori diacritic wars went out in the 1990s in New Zealand so visitors (or surfers) from overseas will just have to be offended at the NZ Govt's use of the Maori long a. In ictu oculi (talk) 07:58, 3 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    • What you're completely missing here is that "en.wikipedia.org" is the English-language Wikipedia. The guidelines that apply here are WP:COMMONNAME and WP:ENGLISH. The origin of the place name (whether English, Maori, Swahili, or whatever) is irrelevant. (Note that there is a Maori-language Wikipedia at "mi.wikipedia.org"; feel free to create a page titled "Taitā" there. Ross Finlayson (talk) 08:08, 3 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Is https://teara.govt.nz/en/wellington-places/page-9 written in English or Maori? It looks as though it is an English website to me. In ictu oculi (talk) 12:58, 3 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
"Te Ara" is basically a 'blended' English+Maori encyclopedia. It's an encyclopedia specifically about New Zealand, and includes a lot of Maori words and phrases as well as English. Their policy for Maori-origin words is apparently to always use the (current) macronised Maori-language spelling, regardless of how much (or little) that spelling is commonly used in English. Wikipedia's policy, however, is distinctly different. In Wikipedia, there are separate encyclopedias for different languages (including English and Maori), and for the English-language Wikipedia, its policy for page titles is explicitly to use the spelling that dominates in English-language usage - i.e., [[WP::COMMONNAME]]. (I don't know what your association.affiliation is with NZ, but you apparently (and fortunately for you :-) missed the extensive and excruciating discussion about NZ place names that occurred earlier this year.) Ross Finlayson (talk) 13:26, 3 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Upgrading to Strong Oppose - this is clearly a govt website which spells names differently on the English and Maori pages but for this name keeps it with long a in both. In ictu oculi (talk) 13:35, 3 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Prior to European settlement there was no written version of Māori and that which is now in place was put there by the early settlers. The writing of these Māori words in New Zealand has evolved in recent times into using macrons. My view is the English version of written Māori words is the same as the Māori version, unless you translate the word into its English meaning. For Taitā you would have to use driftwood on the bed of a river, otherwise you are using a Māori word and therefore the macronised spelling should apply.
If you read early texts written in Māori you will not find macrons. These only came into play in the late 20th centuary as more people began to learn Māori. It is also the reason why Māori place names have only recently become macronised. The older versions are actually Māori as written at that time rather than a mistranslation or a translation into English. NealeFamily (talk) 01:48, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Oh for Christ's sake, the last thing I wanted to do here is resurrect the interminable "Paekakariki" discussion. Although (IMHO) the case for moving this page based on WP:COMMONNAME is clear, I have better things to do with my time than argue about it here. So I'm removing my 'requested move' and walking away. Bye. Ross Finlayson (talk) 02:27, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, but that is the issue. NealeFamily (talk) 02:49, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. According to the New Zealand Gazetteer, the recorded place name is Taita. There is no official name for the suburb. +mt 21:36, 15 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. Strongly support, I have just become aware of this discussion. Eddaido (talk) 02:05, 9 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.
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