Talk:Kahuna

Advertising?
Is it really a good use of "other meanings" to link to the commercial websites of companies selling anything called Kahuna? I'm thinking of removing all commercial links, and just adding a blanket entry saying that "Kahuna" has been used as a product name or brand name by many companies. Anyone else reading this? Comments? Zora 03:53, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Agreed. Apart from specific copyrighted brand names standing as intangibles asset for a notable product/company (like CocaCola, whose proncipal asset is the brand name) other brand names on product related pages will only encourage advertisers to use WP as an advertising channel. Zora, it's time for you raise the advertising debate at the village pump. I think you have at least one supporter here. If we have a specific guideline to fight advertising it would make life simpler for all editors. It's difficult to use only personal judgement to fight something as entrenched as advertising. - Aditya Kabir 15:46, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Re-write
I re-wrote the Hawaiian section to make it accurate and removed inauthentic and non-referenced statements. Makana Chai 21:11, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Pharmacy Manager?
This was in the body of the article:
 * Kahuna can sometimes be used by a Pharmacy Manager to refer to his or herself. The term is   found to be somewhat vulgar in such usage.

This seems dubious to me. Can anyone confirm? Roman à clef 22:32, 4 August 2007 (UTC)


 * That at least sounds plausible: If the term has mainly referred to practitioners of herbal medicine since 1919, it could conceivably be co-opted by pharmacists. And if that did happen, I'd imagine it would seem rather vulgar. 72.82.227.247 (talk) 01:06, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Clarify please
Re: "most kahuna practices remained legal" - unclear whether this refers to spiritual practices or craftsmanship. From what I've read, colonisation meant that spiritual practices were outlawed as "superstition"; but I'm not aware that crafts expertise was under threat.Julia Rossi 04:58, 17 October 2007 (UTC)


 * see changes to main article Makana Chai 08:18, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Unsourced trivia

 * Kahuna is the name of a German boardgame designed by Reiner Knizia and published by Kosmos.
 * The "Big Kahuna" is the name used for a test administered at Shaker Heights High School in Shaker Heights, Ohio to students enrolled in AP United States History
 * In an episode of the American TV show "Magnum P.I.", it is said that a Kahuna can be identified by a "red flash" in his eyes.
 * Kahuna or Ka Huna massage is a rhythmical style of massage.
 * In some computer programming shops (for example, IBM), "kahuna" is a synonym for "wizard" or "guru" (see internet slang).
 * Kahuna is also the code-name for Windows Live Mail, the successor to Microsoft's Outlook Express.
 * "The Big Kahuna" is the nickname for Major League Baseball Broadcaster Jon Miller.
 * "Kahuna" also refers to a very large fish, usually a walleye or Bass so named by Lake Erie fishermen in the late 1970s.
 * "The Big Kahuna" is the name of a burger-joint in Quentin Tarantino's second film, Pulp Fiction. It is also seen in the Robert Rodriguez movie From Dusk Till Dawn (for which Tarantino wrote the screenplay) and mentioned in the Tarantino-directed Death Proof.
 * "Kahuna Airlines" is the name of an airline company in Thomas Pynchon's 1990 novel Vineland.
 * There is a gaia class on the MMORPG Rappelz called Kahuna that can be seen as a buffer for other players.
 * Kahuna is the main character in the game SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs.
 * big_kahuna is a paper tough guy on the internet. He's nothing more than a dope dealer.
 * One who has "Big Kahunas" - Aussie Slang - denotes person who is known to be brave, without fear. Possibly derived from Spanish cojones.
 * Title of some of the world's largest, fattest men.
 * "Big Kahuna" is the nickname of a supporting character in the American television series Raven played by actor Andy Bumatai, who appeared in 11 episodes.
 * Kahuna is also used as slang language for testicle. For example, "I have got bigger Kahunas than you"
 * Kahuna Surf Shops is the name of a clothing store in Orillia, Ontario, Canada.
 * Kahuna is also a brand name of a make of wrist watches and jewellery, marketed as surfing apparel.
 * To put a Kahuna on someone or something is to curse it with bad luck. This is perhaps derived from its etymological roots of sorcerer or wizard.
 * Is a slang word for a pair of large breasts.
 * Kahuna is the call-sign for flight leader Mike Stewart of the World Record Holding precision flight formation group "Team RV" based in Atlanta, Georgia.


 * Thanks for being bold. I agree it's unsourced trivia, yet I believe most of it is true, and it's helpful to have this information available in the article. How about moving back into the article and calling it "usourced trivia"? I'd rather have it unsourced than sourced, or we'll end up with a bunch of ridiculous links, methinks. Mahalo Makana Chai (talk) 20:23, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I may have been too bold! I've added the section back in per your suggestion, but I've also added a trivia tag.  Are you familiar with WP:TRIV and the links at the bottom of that page?  Perhaps we can work together to improve this article. Viriditas (talk) 09:06, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Mahalo. I'll check WP:TRIV. Right now I'm researching something for the main part of the article, which I'm more concerned about. And then we're supposed to be working on Hawaiian religion :-) This one is lower on my list. Makana Chai (talk) 06:33, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
 * So true. :)  Ok.  Let me know if I can be your research assistant.  Viriditas (talk) 10:12, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I looked at WP:TRIV and this doesn't seem to fit. This isn't a random list of trivia, it is a list of non-Hawaiian uses, a legitimate section, me thinks. But speaking of trivia, I pared down the history section to take out some inessential details. Now if we can just get to religion ... Makana Chai (talk) 08:46, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I understand what you are saying, and I think you are making an important point, but on Wikipedia, trivia sections are generally considered lists of information that are not important to the subject in question. The question to ask is, how is this material important to the subject?  If the answer is, "it isn't", then it probably doesn't belong here.  Whenever possible, we try to incorporate the trivia into the body of the topic, or convert lists to prose.  This process usually requires expansion.  If a list of material is deemed important, it should be restricted to a particular topic.  Trivia that doesn't have sources is usually removed on sight. Viriditas (talk) 11:54, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
 * You're right. I moved it all to a new disambig page. Hope that's okay. Should we take out all the listings above that you put there for safekeeping? Makana Chai (talk) 01:50, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
 * It depends on the entry. The dab project has a set of strict guidelines that they use, and they will eliminate any entry that doesn't have an actual page.  If you think the information is important, and can easily be converted into prose, it may be necessary to merge it into other articles, or failing that, find the appropriate redirect.  Red links are usually deleted on dab pages. Viriditas (talk) 21:40, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, if you look at the dab, someone wrote "bollocks" in the comment section. There are hardly any links at all. Is there some other format we can find for this? Otherwise, I fear we will spend the rest of our lives defending this page from people putting up every trivial reference to kahuna. And the trivia info is useful on some level. Just not here. Makana Chai (talk) 22:27, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Leave a very brief note over at Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation and Wikipedia talk:Trivia sections and ask for help. There are usually good editors watching those pages.  I can of course, offer more advice, but maybe it is best to get more editors involved; That might give you more choices.  Viriditas (talk) 22:40, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Good job, Makana. It looks like you received a number of helpful replies. BTW, the "bollocks" that User:Closedmouth left in the edit summary had nothing to do with your article. That user was upset because their previous edit was a typo. You can see it, here. :-) Viriditas (talk) 13:07, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

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"Onconcihouua"
Is this a misspelling? It doesn't look like a Hawaiian word. Jarble (talk) 11:30, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

Language cleanup - Hawaiian speaker/writer needed
I just reverted the removal of the cleanup template. As I put in the reason: Many Hawaiian words are incompletely cited, or have confusing/conflicting definitions and probably WP:OR. While some cleanup has been done, more is needed by someone who speaks/reads Hawaiian. - CorbieVreccan  ☊ ☼ 00:12, 7 August 2023 (UTC)