Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Fiji/Archive 1

Requested photos
I have created the currently empty Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Fiji, to add this to an article add to the talk page. Perhaps someone can add this info to the project page for future reference. GameKeeper 11:02, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Day Awards
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 20:18, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Featured Articles
None of the articles listed in this section of the project page are actually featured articles. I'm not sure if the page is using the term generically to mean "good articles", or if there is some misunderstanding. Please change this section to use some other term, or move articles which have not received featured status out of the section.- gadfium 08:18, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Australia - Fiji Federation?
I have been reading "A New Geography Comparitive" by Prof. J.M.D. Meiklejohn, pub. Alfred M.Holden, London, 1898, in which he stated (p.454:18) "Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, West Australia and the Fiji Islands have formed a Federation." As there is no mention of this in the Wikipedia material, I wondered if this had any factual basis. Iandmac 08:56, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Melanesia
User:Warlordjohncarter has activated this Project. It clearly overlaps with the Fiji Project. How do you think the two projects should be related? --Bduke 23:03, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Bilateral relations discussion
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Waisale Serevi FAC
I have nominated Waisale Serevi for FAC. It's be great for a Fiji article to be an FA, and this guy is a great player. You can leave your comments here. Any comments are welcome, and if there are concerns raised any help addressing them would be fully appreciated. Many hands make light work! Thanks. - Shudda   talk  07:54, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Fiji Scouts Association
Can someone please render "Fiji Scouts Association" as well as "Be Prepared", the Scout Motto, into Fijian? Thanks! Chris 14:41, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Assessment
The parameters of Template:WikiProject Melanesia could be easily adjusted to give separate assessments for this project. Would the members of the project wish such action or not? John Carter (talk) 20:59, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Use of "Fijian" to denote a Fijian Citizen or something of Fiji
I noticed that Wikipedia uses the term "Fijian" when referring to a citizen of Fiji or referring to something belonging to Fiji e.g Fijian Constitution, Fijian Government, Category:Fijian judges, Category:Fijian trade unionists, etc.

While the term is (wrongly) used widely by the media outside Fiji as refering to anything from Fiji, within Fiji (both legally and in the media) itself the term is used exclusively when refering to ethnic Fijians. Shouldn't Wikipedia use the term "Fijian" like how it is used in Fiji too since that is the correct usuage of the term?

i.e. This would mean renaming all Catergories/ references that use "Fijian" to refer to Fiji citizens and things from Fiji Tiki Nss (talk) 07:26, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

The term Fijian is used in all the english speaking world to refer to people from Fiji. So it's according to Wikipedia rules.Mistico (talk) 15:40, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Errrm is Fiji not part of the English speaking world? Besides while "Fijian" is indeed used by the world media, in political and academic circles this would not be the case and since wikipedia is an encyclopedia shouldn't the correct terminology be used be used instead? Tiki Nss (talk) 10:17, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Nope, on Wikipedia we do not play the racial card and anyone from Fiji who is the citizen of that country regardless of their race or ethnic background is classed as a "Fijian" here..-- Cometstyles 11:39, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

This has nothing to do with playing any race card. If the Fiji Government both officially and unofficially does not use the adjective "Fijian" to describe citizens of Fiji, the term must not be used in Wikipedia to described Citizens of Fiji as to do so would be incorrect. "Fijian is to Fiji" just as "Malay is to Malaysia" just as "Moari is to New Zealand" just as "Aborigine is to Australia". The correct term for a citizen of Fiji is "Fiji Islander" and "Fiji" is the correct generic adjective used to describe anything general from Fiji. If anyone has a reliable source that specifically says otherwise I would like to see it. Tiki Nss (talk) 11:37, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Constitution of Fiji
Hi! I just came across the Constitution of Fiji article series. It seems that some of the articles in the series contain analysis of the document's chapters, although it is poorly sourced, and others just present the exact text of the chapters. I've PRODed a few of these later ones because the information is already available on WikiSource, but I thought I'd mention it all here for someone more familiar with Fiji to look into. -Drilnoth (talk) 17:45, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Need some local help
I need a non-Wikipedia-related favour from someone who lives in Fiji - could anyone able to help ping me an e-mail? Sorry for the tangential intrusion on this page Fritzpoll (talk) 15:44, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Coordinators' working group
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2009 Fijian constitutional crisis
Not sure how active this project is - but there are a large number of pages that need updating in respect to the ongoing situation in Fiji. I have worked on a few including the one in the title but many others remain. Lots of help would be appreciated. Rmhermen (talk) 18:14, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I have kept the 2009 Fijian constitutional crisis pretty well up-to-date. There are a number of related court and government agency pages that still need updating, at least to mention there current fluid situation. Fiji seems to have a pretty large selection of articles compared to some other small countries - but that may mean more work to keep them updated. Rmhermen (talk) 19:36, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Justin Lewis
The links to Justin Lewis for Attorney and Solicitor General are incorrect. The real Justin Lewis has no Wiki page. For the record the correct person is Henry Roger Justin Lewis who was known as 'Justin'. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lewisinspain (talk • contribs) 14:58, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

mormon temple in Suva
There is a Mormon temple in Suva. Should the article belong to this WikiProject? LDS-SPA1000 (talk) 03:17, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Paramount Chief/Tui Viti
There's a discussion at Talk:Paramount chief of Fiji about merging that article with the page Tui Viti. If anyone with some knowledge of the subject would like to weigh in, their help would be appreciated. Cheers. -- Ħ   MIESIANIACAL  00:56, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

Fiji Foreign relations : Rest of the World
Could someone note that the table entry for United Kingdom ends with a reference to United States attitudes. This is either a simple typographical error in that "US" should read "UK" or the reference should be in the United States entry. Hopefully, someone knows enough to resolve this. 86.16.134.133 (talk) 16:00, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

Graeme (Graham) Leung can you help?
The article on this former President of the Fiji Law Society was tagged as an unreferenced biography of a living person in March 2009. I have now added one reference which takes it out of the "unreferenced" category, but it seems to me from the content that some of it could be regarded as controversial and should be fully referenced. I'm posting here in the hope that someone with better knowledge of Fijian politics and recent history than I will take an interest and improve the article. It could probably also do with moving to "Graham Leung" as there are more news hits under the spelling of that name.--Plad2 (talk) 08:39, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Similar problem with Naiqama Lalabalavu - can you help?
A similar problem to that with Graham Leung (posted just above). Long-term unreferenced BLP. Potentially controversial content. No mention of the prison sentence which led to the 2005 resignation, for instance. Needs oversight, updating and references adding by someone with better knowledge of recent political history than I. I've added one reference, which takes it out of the "unreferenced" category but I feel it urgently needs more attention. Hopefully, someone here will find it interesting enough to take it on.--Plad2 (talk) 09:03, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Need help on Moala Islands
The article on the Maola islands is lacking in good sources. When I tried fixing it up, I noticed a disagreement about which islands comprise the group, how many islands there are, and what the proper name of the island group is. Whereas the article says there are three islands that collectively make up the "Maola Islands," this National Geographic article seems to refer to this group of islands as the "Yasayasamoala group," which is says encompasses "Totoya, Moala, Vanuavatu and Matuku islands, plus the atoll Navatu." Which is the proper name for this group of islands? And are Vanuavatu and Matuku one thing, or two truly distinct islands?  The Blue Canoe  05:14, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Best way to contribute photos?
Bula everybody. I'm new here and I'm starting to make contributions relating to Fiji.

I'm in the process of uploading my own photos to Wikimedia Commons, and am wondering what the best way to contribute photos to articles.

Should I add photos to the appropriate areas myself? Should I put them on the discussion section of the relevant article page first?

Help would be appreciated --Fijiisparadise (talk) 09:51, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Be Bold and add them in if the article is suitable and can cope with it. If someone objects then talk to them and come to an agreement before potentially re-adding them. On another note it seems like you need to provide some evidence that you own the images before they can be used.Jason Rees (talk) 12:09, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Expert attention
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I-sala
I recently created an article on the I-sala, a barkcloth turban/headscarf worn by male chiefs of Fiji. Can someone possibly add to it more since it isn't really within my knowledge?--KAVEBEAR (talk) 20:59, 18 July 2015 (UTC)

Problem with articles in Template:1997 Constitution of Fiji
Virtually all articles there are copies of text of the articles of the Fiji constitution, and as such should be in wikisource. Is there anyone who can transwiki/compare/comment on them before I AfD them as content that should not be on Wikipedia? If you reply here please WP:ECHO me. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 07:48, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

Ratu Wilisoni Tuiketei Malani
Would some members from this WikiProject take a look at this article? It's seems to have been pretty much unsourced since 2008; someone recently added some general references to videos found on YouTube, but these appeared to be user-generated content (possibly even home videos) and not anything which would likely be seen as being reliable per WP:RS, WP:YOUTUBE and WP:RS/P. Quite a bit of the article has the feel of someone's original research, which probably needs to go, and what's left (and what can be supported by sitations) would need to be written more in an encyclopedic WP:TONE, and should possibly be divided up into a few sections to improve readability. The page was moved a few years back from Wilisoni Malani to its current title without any real discussion; so, this might need to be reassessed as well. Normally hereditary titles like Ratu are not included in the titles of pages about monarchs, etc. per WP:NCNT for articles like this, but maybe the WP:COMMONNAME is to use "Ratu". -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:41, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

Discussion at WP:THQ
You are invited to join the discussion at WP:THQ -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:43, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Perhaps someone from this WikiProject can help sort out what appears to be a content dispute at Nakorotubu District. A question was posted about it at the Wikipedia Teahouse, and resolving it might require assistance from someone more familiar with Fiji and its provinces/districts. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:45, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Adi Laufitu Malani
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Adi Laufitu Malani. -- Marchjuly (talk) 02:07, 5 October 2019 (UTC)

Discussion at Articles for deletion/Taku bullion coin
You are invited to join the discussion at Articles for deletion/Taku bullion coin. P,TO 19104 (talk) (contribs) 23:41, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Waisale Serevi now a GA nom
I've been working on Waisale Serevi for some time. I have nominated it for Good Article status but it may need a copy-edit before it's promoted. Would someone be willing to have a read through and do that for me? It's very hard to do when most of the article was written by myself. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. - Shudda   talk  14:03, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

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Category discussion:Alumni by secondary school in Fiji
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Fiji2Dollar2012.jpg
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