Talk:Mauri

Latest comment: 5 years ago by Ammarpad in topic Requested move 1 August 2019

Proposed merge with Maouri people

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No. These are two different groups in different parts of West Africa. Since "ou" in French orthography is generally the equivalent of "u" in English, it is easy to see the reason for confusion. Merge tag should be removed, please.--A12n (talk) 03:53, 25 December 2012 (UTC)Reply

Indeed, the two terms have different meaning: the "Maouri" are a modern group, while the "Mauri" is a generic term used by ancient writers for the Berbers of the Maghreb. I am removing the merge tag.Constantine 13:05, 2 January 2013 (UTC)Reply
so how'd they get to New Zealand then? prison colony a la Oz? 67.150.81.69 (talk) 06:48, 4 February 2013 (UTC)Reply

*Maurisi

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great, there are now 7,000 sites on the internet repeating the misprint or typo "Maurisi" attributing it to a fictional "book 18" of Strabo. (I fixed it). --dab (𒁳) 12:51, 14 October 2014 (UTC)Reply

Requested move 1 August 2019

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The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Moved. (non-admin closure)Ammarpad (talk) 06:27, 8 August 2019 (UTC)Reply


– The term "Mauri people" is awkward, since Mauri is already a (Latin) plural. This page gets three times as many hits as the disambiguation page. Srnec (talk) 00:03, 1 August 2019 (UTC)Reply

  • Support. Was concerned that there were a lot of entries on the disambiguation page, but given the amount of page traffic and the availability of "Mauri (disambiguation)", I don't think it'll be a problem. The hatnote will need to be changed to point at the disambiguation page, as well as at Maori and Maouri. P Aculeius (talk) 12:28, 1 August 2019 (UTC)Reply
  • Support. Of the other full title matches, only AB Mauri has an appreciable numbers of page views: 13/day compared with 112/day for Mauri people. IMO the latter is WP:PTOPIC.
Nom's point that the current title is grammatically equivalent to "Americans people" is also telling. Narky Blert (talk) 15:13, 6 August 2019 (UTC)Reply

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