Talk:Mount Taranaki legend

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Proposed merge

It appears that this article overlaps with Mount Taranaki/Egmont#Mythology. Would it be better to merge this into that section, instead of leaving a small dangling article here? I don't feel strongly about this, I'm just asking. If there is actually enough material to develop a separate Good Article, then we should leave it. If not, I think we should merge. Thanks. --Seattle Skier (talk) 22:25, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm only familiar with the story in the Mount Taranaki/Egmont#Mythology, but there are different versions of the legend depending on who is telling it. For example, this Version has Ruapehu as the women they are fighting over. This Versionhas Taranaki fleeing underneath the Wanganui River. Including these and other variants in the Mt. Egmont/Taranaki article would be too difficult. Efil's god 04:47, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't agree with Seattle Skier. The Legend is really a story on its own. When I have time (.....) I'll try to find out some more information on the Legend of Mount Taranaki (and the other mountains of Aotearoa, and for instance incorporate the information of Efil's god. But of course there's a good chance that in the meantime someone else does it! Dick Bos (talk) 06:47, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that this is best merged into the Taranaki article. Groot42 (talk) 21:00, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This is a dead discussion. If you feel strongly that merging is warranted, you're free to start a new discussion below, dated to the current month and year — but you cannot simply revive a seventeen-year-old discussion like this, or add a maintenance template to the article that's backdated seventeen years and generates a backdated tracking category that doesn't exist anymore. Bearcat (talk) 15:37, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I'll do this now. Groot42 (talk) 20:05, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ruapehu vs Pihanga?

Responding to the point raised by Efil's God above, though I think it's separate to the merge issue so I'm making this a new topic. It seems while there is some disagreement among reliable sources, most reliable sources agree the maid is Pihanga. The first link by Efil's God above on a similar point is dead but I imagine it is meant to link to this Te Ara article, which claims it is Ruapehu ; this is corroborated by this page. The second link is also dead and the Wayback Machine's archive seemingly has a broken interface, however NZ Herald, Taranaki Mounga Project, this other article by Te Ara and Taranaki Iwi's own website claim it is Pihanga. [Interestingly, an Oregon State University article says the maid was Tongariro, but given this is contradicted by every other source I could find I am inclined to ignore this one entirely.] Groot42 (talk) 21:05, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tone

In the event that this is not merged to the existing Mount Taranaki article, the writing here seriously needs to be cleaned up to have an encyclopedic tone. Passages such as "she presented a stunning sight and all the mountain gods were in love with her" and "The earth shook and the sky became dark as the mountains belched forth their anger" are, admittedly, great prose but are very much WP:POETIC. In the meantime I've added the story tag. Groot42 (talk) 21:19, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Merge into Mount Taranaki article

Starting a new topic for this per above.

I honestly don't see how it adds anything to have this article separate to the main Mount Taranaki article. It is a WP:PERMASTUB and the topic is already covered in the main article (see Mount Taranaki#Māori mythology) with roughly the same amount of characters. Are there any objections to a merge? Groot42 (talk) 20:57, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The lack of sources and poor prose quality along with coverage of the topic already make me believe a merge is pointless. Instead it should be redirected to the section within Mount Taranaki. Traumnovelle (talk) 03:00, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done! Groot42 (talk) 00:20, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]