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Notification of articles for Speedy Deletion
[CSDs retracted; they no longer apply]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Please do not remove speedy deletion tags from articles that you have created yourself. If you do not believe the article deserves to be deleted, then please place  on the page (please do not remove any existing speedy deletion tag) and make your case on the article's. Administrators will look at your reasoning before deciding what to do with the article. Thank you. --健次 (derumi)talk 07:56, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
 * problem solved. Hey, give people with slow internet access a few seconds to repair mistakes! --Tauʻolunga 08:04, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
 * CSDs are retracted (I've removed the notifications above). It didn't make sense to have two articles redirecting to each other, as they had originally started out. As one of the articles is now a stub, the CSDs no longer apply. Apologies for acting too promptly. Good luck with your article. --健次 (derumi)talk 08:09, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

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Mala'ekula sources
Hello. Thanks for helping to build Wikipedia. Can you cite your sources for this? Wikipedia needs verifiable sources whenever possible. Cheers, :) MikeReichold 23:50, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Tongan Language Tables
I don't know maybe your computer has it different or something but when I look at the tables in their current form, they are all black. That's why I took away the colours. If you find a way to actually show the colours, you should put it like that. Munci (talk) 10:01, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Then I am afraid there is something wrong with your computer or browser, as the colours are generated by standard html codes. In fact they are even limited to the old 216 web colours only.

The only thing I can imagine that you have an old browser, not able to deal with 3 digit colours. Do the two orange table cells above look different to you? --Tauʻolunga (talk) 06:11, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Yes, it appears you are right. The one on the left is black and the one on the right is orange. The computers provided by my uni are obviously old. I think the table should be in the wiki format for tables in case anyone else has an old computer and that's what tables are supposed to be in and that would take less code space up anyway. Munci (talk) 08:57, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Well then the problem is easily solved by changing the colours in the article to 6 digit values. I can do that. But I am not going to wikify the tables, because I always mistake in the proper syntaxes for that. But you can do it, of course. --Tauʻolunga (talk) 07:09, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you! Cool colour scheme now I can see it. Munci (talk) 13:52, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Tongan music notation
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Reconsidered
After looking into this more, I think the article should stay, but I've deleted the text that was a copyright violation. This left the article very short, but people will still be able to follow the link to the webpage that describes the notation. Same as noted above: if you want to re-add the description of the notation, please do it in your own words rather than by copying from other websites. –  j ak s mata 22:22, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Astronomy image software
Hello Tonga, I have been admiring the images that you add to articles. What software do you use to create the astronomy images, such as this one: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Outside_view_of_precession.jpg Thanks in advance. Dotancohen (talk) 10:40, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Cinema 4D, but probably any other 3D drawing program would do as well. --Tauʻolunga (talk) 09:17, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Are the celestial sphere images available somewhere, or did you create them yourself? If so, are they available for download? Thanks! Dotancohen (talk) 19:56, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Just any starmap mapped onto a sphere. I do not have the originals any more. Much easier to recreate when it is needed again than try to find them in a dusty archive, not to speak that the program used in that time to read the file now probably does not longer exist. --Tauʻolunga (talk) 05:56, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I see, Tauʻolunga, thanks! Dotancohen (talk) 10:11, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Late (Tonga)
Why did you revert my recent edit? --Stepheng3 (talk) 05:43, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Oops, you are right, sorry. I thought ID stood for identity rather than Indonesia, but it was ID_ and not ID| --Tauʻolunga (talk) 05:52, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

Declined PROD: Michael G. Horowitz
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George Tupou V
I removed a highly POV paragraph that did not link any sources. If you feel it belongs, please re-add it in, but make sure that it has a neutral point of view. The previous passage only mentioned criticism, but did not include sourced information like, which says "local Tongan community leaders say it was right for him to have attended the festival in Scotland". And something such as "accused him of being too wrapped up in himself and insensitive to his people's grief" (from the previous version) definitely needs a linkable source, otherwise, it's not very verifiable. Happy editing,  Spencer T♦ C 21:25, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
 * On reading the other mentioned Herald articles, his supposed indifference was more an accusation from the local newspapers, to boost their own sales probably, than that of the people. It has nothing to do with his personal life too. Leaving it out. --Tauʻolunga (talk) 07:22, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

PM Lord Tuʻivakanō
Hi. Are you absolutely certain it's "Sialeʻataongo Tuʻivakanō", rather than "Sialeʻataonga"? The spelling with an "a" gets over 2,000 Google hits, including articles in reputable media (including Matangi Tonga), and the CIA's page on the Tongan cabinet. The spelling with an "o" gets just 87 Google hits, most of them mirrors of one another, and only one is a media article usable as a source. I see you've mentioned Planet Tonga to source the move, but I very much doubt Planet Tonga constitutes a valid source for Wikipedia's purposes. Unfortunately, there's no information yet on Tongan government websites, so unless you have a reputable source proving that the spelling with an "a" is wrong, I think we should revert to that spelling. Aridd (talk) 09:50, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes, I am quite certain. ʻAtaongo is a common name in Tonga, although somewhat rare, while ʻAtaonga is not. ʻAta-ongo has a meaning (many meanings in fact, not sure about the right one: far-carrying/well-known freedom/openness), while onga does not exist. Siale (flower) is a very common name. The proper writing of the name is probably Siale ʻAtaongo, but merging them would not be extraordinary.
 * Indeed it is remarkable how secret Tuʻivakanō's real name appears to be, or his familyname for that matter (Kaho). I guess one day a biography will appear somewhere with them mentioned, but when?
 * I also did these Google searches already in December, and at that time there was barely any hit for both. I cannot escape the conclusion that Idiotsavant introduced the name Sialeʻataonga on 9 December and that all hits you see now are just copies of it. Wikipedia is a trentsetter! And where did he get it from? Genealogical Gleanings - a site which does not exist anymore, but which I have known in the past to contain spellings errors. Planet Tonga in this respect is not better and not worse. So if we have to go by these types of sources, everything is 50%-50%. But at least these sources are original. I knew this error already for some time, but have waited with the change until I found it in at least one such source. Matangi Tonga? I have watched it all the time: not a single time they have used the name.
 * Absolutely certain? No, 99% at most. But ʻAtaonga is even less sure. --Tauʻolunga (talk) 06:28, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
 * All right. Given the paucity of sources, and your knowledge of Tongan names, that makes senses (even if it doesn't really abide by Wikipedia's policy of "Verifiability, not truth"). Thanks for the clarification. (As for Matangi Tonga, if you Google "Sialeʻataongo Tuʻivakanō", one of the first hits is a strangely truncated title of a Matangi Tonga article: "Siale'ataonga Tu'ivakano by 14 votes to - Matangi Tonga Online". But if you click on the link, the name no longer appears. Seems they initially included it, then dropped it, for whatever reason. Aridd (talk) 08:38, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Finally found an official biography. Should we change the title of the article to Siale ʻAtaongo Kaho ? It would be better. --Tauʻolunga (talk) 06:10, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

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Tongan national anthem
Who wrote the words? Book source said Tēvita ʻUnga but the official site of the palace says its Uelingatoni Ngū.--KAVEBEAR (talk) 08:11, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
 * So probably no one knows, and the historian who yells loudest is the one who will win the fight and get right. But I have never heard anything else than Uelingatoni Ngū. --Tauʻolunga (talk) 02:28, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Solomone Ula Ata
Thank you for uploading the pic of Ata. Can you help by putting a more dignified portrait of King Tupou IV in his info box rather the the porr one that is currently there? Castlemate (talk) 11:26, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
 * The pictures I have may not survive Wikipedia's stringent copyright rules --Tauʻolunga (talk) 05:25, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

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Equation of time
You made substantial changes to Equation of time in 2006. Several edits have been made to this section recently, and there is still a request for citation after the table giving minima and maxima of the equation of time. Would you please explain where you obtained these values from? Jc3s5h (talk) 13:37, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
 * I have no idea anymore; there are so many books giving this table. And does it matter as the fomulas to calculate it are given farther down? --Tauʻolunga (talk) 05:07, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

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Tongan Funerals
Hi, I've copy edited the article Tongan Funerals. I haven't changed the meaning of any of the sentences but if you want to check that, I'd be very grateful. Red Fiona (talk) 19:08, 10 April 2021 (UTC)