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Might I suggest, in light of the fact that the article was already over the maximum recommended article size, that the recent additions are bordering on image bloat. If it continues would anyone find a {{Too many photos|date=February 2023}} tag inappropriate? DerbyCountyinNZ (Talk Contribs) 09:34, 2 February 2023 (UTC)Reply
I notice this page has 4 images of Maori doing haka. The haka is a globally recognised symbol of Maoridom largely because of its association with the All Blacks (NZ's infamous national rugby team), but there is some evidence that it has led to a general misunderstanding of Maori culture as aggressive and warlike. Is it possible that the over-representation of the haka in this article contributes to a harmful stereotype which propogates violence within and towards Maori communities? Source Other Source Seansi.c (talk) 00:58, 3 August 2023 (UTC)Reply
Per Merriam-Webster, "Indigenous, or less commonly indigenous: of or relating to the earliest known inhabitants of a place and especially of a place that was colonized by a now-dominant group". If anyone thinks that the Māori, the earliest known inhabitants of mainland New Zealand, are not Indigenous, please explain here instead of trying to edit-war. Daveosaurus (talk) 05:59, 26 October 2023 (UTC)Reply
My (seemingly harmless) addition of the spelling "or Maori" in the lead sentence was repeatedly removed, and I would like to know why. According to WP:OTHERNAMES, various names commonly used for the topic in question are to be mentioned in the lead sentence, or if that would make that sentence too long, in a separate section. That also applies to spelling variants – the article on behavior mentions that it might also be spelled behaviour, organization gives organisation as alternative name, etc.
The same clearly applies to the word Māori/Maori, which has two common spellings in modern English (with or without the macron). Both are widely used, both are listed in dictionaries, and which one any specific publication or author uses is very much a "house style" issue. So why not acknowledge that both spellings exist in the lead sentence, and then move on and use the spelling Māori throughout the rest of the article (as is already the case)? As I understand it, this is something we must do – OTHERNAMES is part of a policy, it's not something that can be ignored for any given article because a few editors decide that they don't like the alternative spelling. Gawaon (talk) 19:18, 18 March 2024 (UTC)Reply
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