Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kahomovailahi

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. JIP | Talk 05:52, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kahomovailahi

This was one of the 50+ Polynesian mythology articles submitted in a big batch (see Wikipedia: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 and User:Bucketsofg who have been looking onto these articles as to which is which. If looking for onther online verification, please note that many of these originally were sourced via the extremely unreliable Encyclopedia Mythica - if this is the only verification it can be discounted. Grutness...wha? 03:26, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

• delete. The bibliography supplied comes from Encyclopedia Mythica, which makes lots of mistakes. Bucketsofg 03:49, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as above. Not a Samoan name in any case. Kahuroa 04:15, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per above. --Khoikhoi 07:21, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per above. Weatherman90 21:30, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
• Weak keep clearly a Tongan name (for some reason many of these articles confuse Tonga and Samoa), clearly a "famous" Tongan ancestor, but the "water feelers" thing is a bit hard to verify. Crypticfirefly 04:08, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

  Comment: Cryptic, I know what the water feeling thing is about. Traditional navigators were so familiar with the sea and its swells and with their canoe that they could just sense (thru their bodies) what course the canoe was on - ie, they were subconciously keeping track of the swells, wave patterns, the noises the canoe was making and correcting the course and position in their minds. It makes sense actually - feeling with the hand is just an extension of this. I agree its Tongan and could be persuaded. Kahuroa 06:47, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.