Talk:ʻUliti Uata

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Possible Copyvio

I found this page: http://www.mic.gov.to/appointments/new-ministers-/2085-hon-uliti-uata-is-the-new-health-minister ...on the Tonga Government Portal. It's a profile of 'Uliti Uata, posted January 27, 2011. Some of the text is almost verbatim what is on his page here. Based on the history of the Wikipedia page, and the date of the post on the Government Portal, it seems that Wikipedia is the original, and we do not have to worry about Copyvio.

An example:

Wikipedia: "Uata was re-elected for an eight term in the 2010 election, and nominated to the post of minister of health on 25 January 2011[5]."
Tonga Government Portal: "Uata was re-elected for an eight term in the 2010 election, and before being nominated to the post of minister of health on 25 January 2011."

...the Tonga Government Portal sentence seems awkward, no? Like they took the Wiki sentence and inserted "before being", but didn't completely correct the grammar of the sentence. Also "re-elected for an eight term" is incorrect, it should be "eighth term", which also suggests to me that Wikipedia is the original, and they have copied the grammar mistake along with the rest of the text.

...I have left a similar note on Talk:Clive_Edwards_(Tonga)... Dracunculus (talk) 22:05, 23 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

also Talk:Sosefo_Fe’aomoeata_Vakata and Talk:Sunia_Fili. Dracunculus (talk) 22:26, 23 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It's not the first time the Tongan government websites plagiarise Wikipedia... Sometimes they even copy the internal links within the text, leaving the links back to Wikipedia articles. Aridd (talk) 16:28, 25 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Number of children

Currently, this biography says: "...his family (he has ten children). He is also the father of 12 children..." This is abominable documentation. We should try harder as Wikipedians to avoid glaring mistakes like this, especially in the articles about living people. I have made improvements accordingly. - Whole milch (talk) 03:49, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The number of children someone has is usually not relevant information anyway, and I agree that it shouldn't be there. IdiotSavant (talk) 06:13, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]