Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Whatu


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.  

The result of the debate was delete - Liberatore(T) 16:48, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Whatu
This was one of the 50+ Polynesian mythology articles submitted in a big batch (see Articles for deletion/Ahoeitu). After much discussion at that afd, I'm re-submitting all of the items individually. Some of them may be keepers, most of them will be deletable. I'm deferring to editors such as User:Kahuroa who know their Polynesian mythology as to which is which. Grutness...wha?  05:22, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. As far as I can tell, unverifiable. Bucketsofg 05:27, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Whatu means 'stone' in Māori. To make it mean hail, you have to add the word for rain: ua-whatu (stony rain) or ua-ā-whatu (rain with stones). It makes no sense for the everyday word for stone to be used without these additions and expect anyone to understand it to refer to hail. Whatu is definitely a Māori word, and cannot appear in this form in any other Polynesian language so this cannot be a Polynesian god in the wider sense. Hail is not that common here in NZ, and I would think even rarer still in tropical Polynesia. Apparently hail does occur in Hawaii, but how could they have used a Māori word for it? Kahuroa 06:13, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete as unverifiable. --Ter e nce Ong 16:00, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep - as above. For great justice. 16:42, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
 * HUH? How can you "Keep as above" when all the entries above are for "Delete"? Looks like this user is adding Keeps to every AfD, as some form of WP:POINT. Fan1967 21:08, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I think 'For great justice' means well but his reasoning is hard to follow. (see my talk page). I take it that he is supporting Grutness' intro above where he says 'keepers...deferring to editors...' and means to indicate that he supports what the 'editors' (ie, me) decide. I think... Kahuroa 22:56, 31 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete - as per User:For great justice. - Hahnchen 01:24, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. --Khoikhoi 03:09, 1 April 2006 (UTC)


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