User talk:Lau78

Hi there, and welcome to Wikipedia!

THANK YOU for the articles you've uploaded in the last 48 hours about the Lau Islands and their history. We're VERY short-staffed in the Fijian department on Wikipedia, and I'm so pleased to see people like you who are willing to contribute. I hope you'll want to become a regular contributor.

Just one thing I need to mention: If you change your mind about the naming of an article (e.g. Laufitu Tonga), please don't blank the page, and please don't cut and paste - that destroys the edit history. Instead, rename the article (there is a MOVE button at the top of each article. If you have any difficulties, any administrator (I'm one of more than 600 of them) will be willing to help you at any time.

Anyway, I look forward to seeing a lot more of you around. David Cannon 10:25, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Lau Articles
Bula DavidCannon, seriously sorry for doing that. I actually started some of the Lau content under the handle Sanaya, but for some reason cant seem to log on using the password I had. Anyway Imback on as Lau78, I have been adding stuff not as a user, one being the correction to Qarasebeing from Kabara. Im from Lau so Im trying to add as much as I can, and cross checking as much as I can with archive records and recording s of oral history. Now that Im on leave I can try to dedicate more time to adding more to the island pages you created, really cool and well done.


 * Thank you so much for your kind words. I'm sorry that your old ID/password got munted.  I'm guessing, but the problem may relate to the software upgrade we had earlier in the year.  Users' passwords sometimes get messed up whenever we do that.  I'm so glad you're back, anyhow.  By the way, what part of Lau are you from? David Cannon 22:32, 11 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Im from Tubou, Lakeba, where Ratu Mara hails from. Just read the papers this morning, Kabara is installing one of their chiefs next week, not sure if this is wikipedia worthy to add.


 * That most certainly is the kind of information we're looking for. The way to do it would be to create a biographical article (a stub will do to start with) about the chief, and include some info. about his installation.  I look forward to reading it.  By the way, I find it really interesting that you're from the Great Chief's hometown!  As a student of history, I have to say this: of the many nation-builders I've studied, I can count on my fingers those who combined the far-reaching vision with the exceptional integrity that Ratu Mara possessed.  I'm not sure that his contemporaries fully appreciated that, but when future generations look back, they will know what a great man they were blessed to have. David Cannon 12:43, 12 December 2005 (UTC)