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the list of ethnic groups needs to have order its a mess a big jumble cant we at least group them into groups so that readers can be more informed about the Polynesian people diaspora? also needs a secondary list for extinct Polynesian peoples such at ethnic Hawaiians (indigenous natives of Hawaii and so on for the rest of the extinct Polynesian tribes 76.244.151.164 ( talk) 15:21, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
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I've removed content that was copy/pasted from this PNAS publication. Those interested are welcome to rewrite the content to avoid copyright violation and re-add properly referenced to the source. Vsmith ( talk) 19:03, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
As I understand it, the Polynesians as a people date to only a few thousand years ago. The people who "arrived in the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea at least 6,000 to 8,000 years ago" were ancestral to the Polynesians, but not Polynesians themselves. When you look at all the related, but non-Polynesian peoples between the Bismarck Archipelago and Polynesia, you have to wonder where and when you can talk about the emergence of the true Polynesians. Which is another problem: an article about a people should have more about when and where and how that people appeared as something separate from other related peoples. All we have here is vague talk about the prehistory of Oceania and the Austronesians.
At the very least, the introductory paragraph (which seems to have been lifted whole from the Sundaland article, or added by the same person to both) should be removed or completely rewritten, since it deals with events thousands of years before anyone could be remotely describable as Polynesians. As it stands now, it's self-contradictory, since "drowning" a "peninsula" doesn't "extend" a "landmass", but it would better fix the whole thing than just that sentence. To keep the paragraph, we would have to add an explanation of how the end of the last ice age was connected to the emergence of the Polynesian people somewhere else more than 5,000 years later.
On the whole, this article is an almost-embarrassing stub compared to the treatment at Polynesia. Someone needs to harmonize the two by improving this one. Chuck Entz ( talk) 21:21, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
Chamorros are not linguistically and culturally or even look remotely Polynesian, although both are Austronesians and lived on islands doesn't mean they are Polynesians. Fijians are closer to Polynesians than to Chamorros. Look at the language, Chamorro is listed as part of Sunda-Sulawesi group of languages, which means they are closer to Southeast Asian Austronesians (Filipinos,Borneans,Malays,Javanese etc) than to Polynesians. I hope you check much deeper about Chamorros.
Anonymous — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.9.97.237 ( talk) 03:40, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
I have a tough time buying that there are only 300,000 Polynesians in the United States, seeing as the largest Polynesian island chain is actually part of the United States. -- SchutteGod (not logged in) 70.181.183.169 ( talk) 02:35, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
Is Hawaiki just the mystical home of Maori people or of all polynesians? If the last is right, it would be nice to add some information about Polynesian culture and religion in it. -- Die Mathematik ( talk) 22:56, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
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almost every website and book out there says that the Polynesians only reached Easter Island as their easternmost voyage. Kika.txt ( talk) 02:52, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
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The Rotumans are not part of the Polynesian ethnolinguistic group. They are a hybrid culture -- Theudariks 2.0 ( talk) 23:22, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
Why Fiji haven't their language 2A02:587:983A:3200:F142:C2D:7651:FE07 ( talk) 08:14, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
Probably need a better source on Polynesians being 96% Christian. Māori make up a sizable chunk of Polynesians (there's like 900,000 of us) and roughly half of us are irreligious. That's a lot more than 4% of Polynesians lol Bob27271912 ( talk) 08:58, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
Chiles polynesian population seems random and wrong. Should't it be the number of Rapa Nui people or population of Easter Island. AnonRed96 ( talk) 19:56, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
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