Talk:Malia O Ka Malu

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copyvio (fixed)

The entire text of the article was lifted straight from one of the sources I found while editing it, The World Heritage Dictionary (a free book from Project Gutenberg), from which I paste here (without hyperlinks)

Malia O Ka Malu or Our Lady of Peace is an appellation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Hawaiian language and an official title of the motherchurch of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace. Similar Marian titles have been given to Hawaiian churches honoring Maria Lanakila or Our Lady of Victory in Lahaina, Malia Hoku O Ke Kai or Mary the Star of the Sea in Kahala and Malia Puka O Ka Lani or Mary the Gate of Heaven in Hilo.

It is identical to the text of the article before my copyedits, pasted here:

Malia O Ka Malu or Our Lady of Peace is an appellation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Hawaiian language and an official title of the motherchurch of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace. Similar Marian titles have been given to Hawaiian churches honoring Maria Lanakila or Our Lady of Victory in Lahaina, Malia Hoku O Ke Kai or Mary the Star of the Sea in Kahala and Malia Puka O Ka Lani or Mary the Gate of Heaven in Hilo.

Along with providing references, I have rewritten the article to change from copyvio to legitimate paraphrase. Please {{Ping}} me to discuss. --Thnidu (talk) 01:05, 17 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Thnidu:, just to note the "World Heritage Dictionary" is a mirror of Wikipedia, not the other way around. They do a very poor job of executing the necessary attribution, but at the bottom of each page there is a link back to the "citational source", which is the article here. Kuru (talk) 14:50, 18 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Kuru: (Facepalm) I should've thought of that! Their highfalutin' name deceived me, as it was intended to do. Thanks for the reminder. --Thnidu (talk) 17:32, 18 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Translations needed for proper description

Malia O Ka Malu is clearly "Maria [something]",* not literally "Our Lady of Peace"— maybe "Maria the Peacemaker"?; I don't know. Malia o ka Malu Hale Pule Nu is "Maria [something longer]". Can a Hawaiian-speaker please provide accurate translations for these names?

* Hawaiian has no /r/ sound and substitutes /l/ for it in loanwords.

Cross-posted to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Hawaii § Malia O Ka Malu.

Please {{Ping}} me to discuss. --Thnidu (talk) 01:14, 17 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not Hawaiian, but I am a speaker of Māori, a closely related language. Here's my take: Malia o Ka Malu = Maria of (the) peace; Malia o Ka Malu Hale Pule Nui: Cathedral (of) Maria of (the) peace.

Hale Pule Nui = Great House of Prayer, ie cathedral. @Thnidu: Piwaiwaka (talk) 08:36, 7 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Piwaiwaka. This tends to confirm my "educated hunch", but it's still not sufficient. --Thnidu (talk) 08:47, 7 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Understood, all good. ... tho if even you just look up each word in a Hawaiian dictionary, the meaning is obvious : Maria of the Peace House Prayer Big. Piwaiwaka (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 10:02, 7 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]