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I am generally of a mind to simply delete the material on this page about tourist attractions on Kaua'i as not encyclopedic, even while mindful that most Wikipedians have that as their only experience with the Hawaiian Islands. However, I note there are pages on Tourism, so I've created a Tourism in Hawaii for this sort of thing and moved it there. Look at Tourism in Hawaii#Kauai. Marshman 08:22, 4 Aug 2003 (UTC)
I think this material recently added is appropriate for WikiTravel or the article on Tourism on Kauai - Marshman 17:42, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
I'm unclear why you are reverting the addition of external links to photo pages. These appear not to be commercial in nature. There is no general rule that external links are to be removed, unless they are commercial in nature. Please explain? - Marshman 01:21, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
The text linking the widespread prevalence of chickens to the 1992 hurricane strikes me as odd, because I observed chickens roaming free when I visited the island in 1984. In fact, I was awakened by the crowing of roosters each of the 5 mornings I spent there. One of the explanations I was given at the time for free-ranging 'domestic' animals was that 19th century sailors made a practice of setting mating groups of animals loose on islands, in hopes that on a later voyage, they would find the animals had multiplied, providing a local source of meat for the returning seamen. Okie Born 18:19, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
Kaua'i, I think, is generally erroneously assumed to rhyme with Hawai'i outside of the island, and I think the Cow-eye pronounciation is simply a pidgin version of a Hawai'ian word. -- Stormj 17:57, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
In 1818, Dr. Schäffer, a Russian entrepreneur, occupied Kauai and negotiated a treaty of protection with the island's governor Kaumualii, vassal of King Kamehameha I of Hawaii, but the Russian Tsar refused to ratify the treaty.
-G —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.231.32.127 ( talk • contribs) 12:59, 1 May 2007 (UTC).
Can we get a section added under "Economy"?
Something to list what the major business activities are, the job generators. It seems agriculture is big; any idea what type of crops? The missile facility probably generates a lot of local expenditure. Somewhere I read there are 70 military housing units, so there's at least 70 military staff, but probably a lot of local civilians work there. Also, the tourist industry -- how many hotels, how many rooms, how many jobs?
It's usually desirable, when you have a Wiki article on a particular geographic area, to include a section on "Economy", even if it is just rudimentary and has no stats. But stats (eg: $) are always welcome too.
-- Atikokan ( talk) 22:16, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
I started one. Stwiso ( talk) 20:41, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
I created these to follow the format of the Article on Hawaii, then I moved some existing Kauai text into the new sections —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stwiso ( talk • contribs) 22:30, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
It's an attractive picture, but those are not palms. They are Pandanus tectorius also known as screwpine or Hala in Hawaiian. DaKine ( talk) 07:28, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
Is the Kawai company link at the top too commercially direct? It seems out of wikipedia styling and doesn't forward to a disambiguation page like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawai_(disambiguation) if we are really looking to be helpful for people misspelling Kawai as Kauai. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.53.83.41 ( talk) 06:05, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Kauai/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.
Brief introduction to the island needs expansion with Kauai-related topics. — Viriditas | Talk 09:25, 2 December 2006 (UTC) |
Last edited at 09:25, 2 December 2006 (UTC). Substituted at 20:59, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
![]() | This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 1 |
I am generally of a mind to simply delete the material on this page about tourist attractions on Kaua'i as not encyclopedic, even while mindful that most Wikipedians have that as their only experience with the Hawaiian Islands. However, I note there are pages on Tourism, so I've created a Tourism in Hawaii for this sort of thing and moved it there. Look at Tourism in Hawaii#Kauai. Marshman 08:22, 4 Aug 2003 (UTC)
I think this material recently added is appropriate for WikiTravel or the article on Tourism on Kauai - Marshman 17:42, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
I'm unclear why you are reverting the addition of external links to photo pages. These appear not to be commercial in nature. There is no general rule that external links are to be removed, unless they are commercial in nature. Please explain? - Marshman 01:21, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
The text linking the widespread prevalence of chickens to the 1992 hurricane strikes me as odd, because I observed chickens roaming free when I visited the island in 1984. In fact, I was awakened by the crowing of roosters each of the 5 mornings I spent there. One of the explanations I was given at the time for free-ranging 'domestic' animals was that 19th century sailors made a practice of setting mating groups of animals loose on islands, in hopes that on a later voyage, they would find the animals had multiplied, providing a local source of meat for the returning seamen. Okie Born 18:19, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
Kaua'i, I think, is generally erroneously assumed to rhyme with Hawai'i outside of the island, and I think the Cow-eye pronounciation is simply a pidgin version of a Hawai'ian word. -- Stormj 17:57, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
In 1818, Dr. Schäffer, a Russian entrepreneur, occupied Kauai and negotiated a treaty of protection with the island's governor Kaumualii, vassal of King Kamehameha I of Hawaii, but the Russian Tsar refused to ratify the treaty.
-G —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.231.32.127 ( talk • contribs) 12:59, 1 May 2007 (UTC).
Can we get a section added under "Economy"?
Something to list what the major business activities are, the job generators. It seems agriculture is big; any idea what type of crops? The missile facility probably generates a lot of local expenditure. Somewhere I read there are 70 military housing units, so there's at least 70 military staff, but probably a lot of local civilians work there. Also, the tourist industry -- how many hotels, how many rooms, how many jobs?
It's usually desirable, when you have a Wiki article on a particular geographic area, to include a section on "Economy", even if it is just rudimentary and has no stats. But stats (eg: $) are always welcome too.
-- Atikokan ( talk) 22:16, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
I started one. Stwiso ( talk) 20:41, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
I created these to follow the format of the Article on Hawaii, then I moved some existing Kauai text into the new sections —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stwiso ( talk • contribs) 22:30, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
It's an attractive picture, but those are not palms. They are Pandanus tectorius also known as screwpine or Hala in Hawaiian. DaKine ( talk) 07:28, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
Is the Kawai company link at the top too commercially direct? It seems out of wikipedia styling and doesn't forward to a disambiguation page like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawai_(disambiguation) if we are really looking to be helpful for people misspelling Kawai as Kauai. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.53.83.41 ( talk) 06:05, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Kauai/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.
Brief introduction to the island needs expansion with Kauai-related topics. — Viriditas | Talk 09:25, 2 December 2006 (UTC) |
Last edited at 09:25, 2 December 2006 (UTC). Substituted at 20:59, 29 April 2016 (UTC)