Talk:Pita Sharples

Doctor?
What kind of Doctor is Pita Sharples? 123.200.196.33 (talk) 10:53, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Not a medical doctor, one with a PhD.Adabow (talk) 22:58, 5 July 2009 (UTC)


 * So really he is not a real doctor. Does he have a doctorate in Maori?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.12.47.66 (talk) 12:05, 20 November 2010 (UTC)


 * PhD in Anthropology and Linguistics, University of Auckland 1969-1976 - page now updated to include this. Snori (talk) 04:37, 21 November 2010 (UTC)


 * I know this subject is long past, but I feel it needs to be recorded here that yes, he really is a real doctor, with a real doctorate and everything. People who spend 8 years or more at university to earn their doctorate are not in any way less entitled to the style and dignity of doctor. It is rather rude and disrespectful when people refer to those with non-medical doctorates as "not real doctors", as if their expertise and achievement is somehow fake or of less value than medical practitioner's. And the more common colloquial use of 'doctor' to mean 'physician' is not an excuse for this, nor does the prevalence of it somehow mean that a medical practitioner is more "real" of a doctor than a non-medical one. Especially considering that many physicians, particularly those in New Zealand, don't even have actual doctorates. In which case, who is the more "real" doctor - the one who has an actual doctorate or the one who simply bears the style of doctor as a fossilised relic of a time when obtaining doctorates was normative for the profession? 101.98.251.88 (talk) 11:55, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

Pronunciation
Should we have the pronunciation of Sharples' name (Pita)? I have heard a lot of people incorrectly calling him 'pit-ah' rather than 'pee-tah'.Adabow (talk) 22:58, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

British?
Since an anonymous revision on 23 November 2009 from IP 114.164.57.3 this article has claimed "...he also holds British citizenship due to an English father...". I've removed this. Comparing to  this seems likely to have been a misunderstanding. Snori (talk) 08:51, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

Can someone explain why he changed his name from Peter to Pita? 120.20.2.164 (talk) 10:47, 27 June 2011 (UTC)Me
 * Because this is clearly such a monumentally significant incident that might cause the world to end any day soon, I'll respond by hazarding the guess that Pita is the Māori spelling for Peter. Funny thing that. There, how's that for co-operation from a fellow wikipedian? Can you reciprocate? Is it more momentous than the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha's changing their name to Windsor? Moriori (talk) 00:00, 28 June 2011 (UTC)