User talk:Puakatau

Thank you for the Puakatau History
May be you should write it up as an article of it own.. There are a few correction to your articles which have to be addressed which is the timeline.

Battle at Velata was between Laufilitonga Tu'i Tonga and Taufa'ahau the son of passed Tu'i Kanokupolu Tupouto'a for the control of Ha'apai.Aleamotu'a was already recognised as the Tu'i Kanokupolu in 1826 and was addressed as Tupou.

The Battle was in September 1826 as recorded by the missionaries and Taufa'ahau was not the Tu'i Kanokupolu but he was battling to regain the control of Ha'apai which was under his father, Tupouto'a..and remember to sign your message or article thanks again..Puakatau (talk) 15:00, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

==HOW KING TAUFA'AHAU DEFEATED LAUFILITONGA, THE TU'I TONGA AND BECAME THE REIGNING KING OF TONGA HAU PEA KUI (Blinded by Victory)== This is a true story. This story is set back in the days, when Tonga was made up of three dynasties: the Tu'i Tonga, Tu'i Kanokupolu and Tu'i Ha'a Takalaua. They were all fighting each other (civil war) for supremacy, to determine who was the most powerful of them all and consequently become the only king of Tonga. This civil war went on for years, until there was only two kings left: the reigning Tu'i Tonga (Laufilitonga) from Tongatapu and the Taufa'ahau, the Tu'i Kanokupolu from Ha'apai. Tonga is made up of five main islands, namely Tongatapu, Ha'apai, Vava'u, Niua and 'Eua. The Tu'i Tonga of Tongatapu whose name was Laufilitonga sailed to Ha'apai with his warriors in their wooden war canoes primed for battle to fight the Tu'i Kanokupolu of Ha'apai whose name was Taufa'ahau. In those days, the best and bravest warriors were from 'Eua and notably amongst the best from 'Eua were the fierce 'Eua warriors who were two brothers, Kaufana and Puakatau. Taufa'ahau knew of them so he went to 'Eua to ask for their assistance in his war against Laufilitonga. Taufa'ahau went straight to Ha'aluma beach where Kaufana and his brother Puakatau lived. As when two great warriors meet, they started off by "getting to know each other", engaging in a wrestling match on the beach of Ha'aluma, where they soon realised that they were both no ordinary Tongans due to their strength and fighting abilities. Kaufana now realising that the man he had confronted was Taufa'ahau the Tu'i Kanokupolu, paid his respects, and getting that out of the way, they rested and introduced themselves properly and Taufa'ahau discussed with Kaufana why he came to 'Eua. Taufa'ahau wanted Kaufana and his brother Puakatau, to come to his aid in his battle with Laufilitonga the Tu'i Tonga. Kaufana accommodated the Taufa'ahau informing him that there was no need for both himself and his brother to go to battle as he believed Puakatau would be more than enough to defeat Laufilitonga and his warriors. Kaufana also owned some guns and firearms, so along with his brother Puakatau, he gave them as well to Taufa'ahau, but under one condition. He made Taufa'ahau promise him that whatever happens to Puakatau in the war, Taufa'ahau was to bring him back to 'Eua, even if he died, Kaufana would like to see his brother's body as he wanted to bury him in their homeland,'Eua with their ancestors. Taufa'ahau sailed off to Ha'apai with Puakatau and his warriors from Tongatapu and the firearms Kaufana gave him. When they arrived in Ha'apai the battle was well under way. This war was called the “Tau 'o Velata” or "The War of Velata". As the war progressed, it was obvious Taufa'ahau and his warriors from Tongatapu were winning over Ha'apai and Puakatau the 'Eua warrior was easily leading the battle. As time went on and the battle was drawing to an end, Puakatau was so fierce and unstoppable. He was so powerful and impressive with his leadership in the battle that the people and the warriors were looking at Puakatau as a potential king of Tonga. This of course caused a disturbance in the ranks and jealousy in the king.

To whom who send me the message.
OK, first of all it is not your article but our history. It is not vandal but to set the record right. Tongan history belong to all Tongan people. I have rewrote the Aleamotu'a article and put as much references as possible to prove to you that I believe you have confused the identity of people in our history.

I also try to save you and your family from the embarrassing situation you are in since everyone is hearing what you said here in Wiki and also some post on the bebo page. This show that either your family are not very well educated or the term fietu'i or fie'eiki and everyone is mocking your family.

1. My challenge to you is to read my article and cross referenced with the reference I provided, from Tongan author to palangi, 1800s book by missionaries and later books on our histories and it also from Catholic and Methodist to keep the balance. 2. The second challenge is to give a reference from a 1800s book by a Missionaries who wrote the name Namoa or even talk about Namoa. 3. The third give me a reference to prove that Aleamotu'a died in 1830 as you alleged or that he gave up the King to become a chief as you also alleged... Puakatau (talk) 15:03, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Please don't delete categories off articles, and please sign your posts
Greetings, this is like the 8th time I've come to Aleamotu'a and found the Category markings chopped off. Categories are what tie related Wikipedia articles together, and without them an article is very hard to find and of limited use to anyone. When making edits, hit "Preview" and make sure you haven't messed up any reference blocks, broken a section heading, sliced off the Categories, etc. On "Preview" the categories don't appear in the window, but at the bottom of the page.

In addition, when posting in Discussion pages, make sure to sign your posts by type four tildes ( ~ . Otherwise it's very difficult to tell who's speaking. MatthewVanitas (talk) 13:08, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

July 2010
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Kolomotuʻa, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. The reverted edit can be found here. Thank you. Mithrandir∞ (Talk!) (Opus Operis) 10:03, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

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Hallo! Please do not post on my user page; please post on my talk page instead.

As to the article, I have no idea if what you're saying is true or not (I'll assume it is) but I think as long as you can cite your sources using reliable third-party sources, and don't add POV to the article, you will be fine. However, if you continue to blank articles, your edits may be undone (by myself or, more likely since I'm not on 24-7, by someone else.) Thank you! -- Mithrandir∞ (Talk!) (Opus Operis) 23:41, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Your recent edits
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I have no idea about Tongan kings, so I can't comment on any of the facts of the case. I can tell you that WP:PROD is only to be used for uncontentious deletions - if anyone disagrees for ANY reason, then you must nominate it at WP:AFD instead. What ever you do, stay calm, do not under any circumstances attack the other editor and try to get some help from independent/uninvolved people - maybe asking at WT:WikiProject Tonga or WT:ROYALTY might help? Good luck. The-Pope (talk) 14:48, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Talakaipau
Do you still want to delete this article? I will help you fix the AfD if that is your intention, but I won't if you've changed your mind. Note that the article does have references, however they happen to be paper-form only, and listed as "rare", and thus cannot be easily accessed by the average reader. This is one of those borderline cases where it's difficult to know what to do. Anyway, let me know if you still want to put the article up for deletion.  — Soap  —  13:47, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I forgot about this. There needs to be a nomination statement, similar to the one at Articles for deletion/Hala 'o Vave, before it can go live.  And neither of the two is live right now because they aren't "transcluded" onto the main AfD page.  You can do that whenever you're ready, and if you're not sure how, I'll do it for you in the morning or whenever you reply to this message.   —  Soap  —  01:16, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Well you still haven't written a deletion rationale on Articles for deletion/Talakaipau. It just says [placeholder], and that's what I put there.  If there's no rationale for deletion the AfD will probably be un-listed as "malformed".   —  Soap  —  11:13, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

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