Talk:Wharenui

The Use of Whare
I'm pretty sure i've never heard the term Whare Wharenui been used before (it's like saying "Big house house"). I've changed it to Wharenui.--Tarzipan 12:10, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

move
I think this page should be moved to Wharenui because the present title only applies to carved houses. In some areas many meeting houses are not carved, but fill all the same functions. Kahuroa (talk) 04:16, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

Wharenui at Auckland Museum
Auckland Museum has many splendid examples of wharenui. Many date from the 1863 Maori land war in the Waikato when the government soldiers removed some of the well carved houses and shipped them to Auckland. Over the years they have been rebuilt but maintained the same style. Most of these building date from a period about 60-80 years after contact with Europeans and their steel tools. Photography became more common in the 1860s and even though the cameras were large and cumbersome and roads non existent many photos were taken of marae scenes and dwellings.They clearly show that well carved large wharenui were the exception rather than the rule.One area on construction which is not authentic is the wooden flooring in the museum wharenui. Wharenui almost always had earth floors as did most Maori buildings until the late 1800s. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.62.226.243 (talk) 09:44, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

Redirects
There seem to be quite a lot of redirects to this page, including from the various parts listed under Structure. This has caused a problem with the Raparapa redirect, as this is also an alternative name in an Australian Aboriginal language for the Fitzroy River (Western Australia), and I wanted to add this as a redirect. In this case, a For template wouldn't do because the name doesn't relate to the article name, so I think that the redirect page needs to be converted into a disambiguation page. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 07:49, 1 June 2019 (UTC)