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MDaisy MDaisy ( talk) 23:04, 20 March 2008 (UTC) reply

I've removed the following paragraph from the introduction. "Origin Samoans originate from the Olmecs(ancient Africans)and the Red-Indians by blood. The Red Indians are a result of mixing between the Olmec and Chinese. The Olmecs were ancient africans who migrated to south america thousands of years ago. These people were indigenous to america until the chinese people arrive and mixed with them thinking there were descendants of the black 'Yi' chinese people. This mix resulted in the Red indians. Recently they also have some uropean blood during mixes in slavery. 203.213.20.103 ( talk) 09:44, 3 April 2009 (UTC) reply

This edit removed this photograph of Samoan people with an edit summary explaining that the material is inappropriate-- as far as I can tell, the photograph is an accurate representation of how Samoan girls appeared at the time the photograph was taken. I've revered that edit as per WP:NOTCENSORED. Orange Suede Sofa ( talk) 04:02, 24 December 2010 (UTC) reply

The photo might not be inappropriate per se, but it is definitely out of place. Such a photo belongs in an article discussing native Samoans in a historical context, and even then I believe there are much more suited photos than this one. A current up-to-date photo or no photo at all would suffice. It seems that the photo is also duplicated/copy-pasted in other articles discussing Samoans in general, which strikes me. When the very first picture discussing Europeans would be a picture showing a scene from the 1900's that would be similarly out of place. Please delete this photo from this page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.194.99.152 ( talk) 10:15, 15 June 2011 (UTC) reply

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I am so confused. I was editing the Hawaii page "Ancestry groups" category under the "Demographics" section, but I didn't know how to label the people of America Samoa. First I labeled them as Samoan Americans, then American Nationals then Samoans. The people of America Samoa are not American citizens unless one of their parents is a U.S. citizen...but Samoan Americans are American citizens of Samoan origin. Samoans are split between Samoa, American Samoa and the US, so I guess someone with more knowledge should fix my "population of Hawaii" chart edit to reflect the proper label. Chic3z ( talk) 22:23, 22 June 2013 (UTC) reply

I added some images of famous Samoans to the infobox. I tried to fair as possible adding people from different period of history, different fields and different regions (American Samoa, Samoa and New Zealand? also having rugby, American football and wrestling and no repeats). I think nine is enough for now. There is a shortage of females at the point, no writers, musicians, or artists since I could find any in the Samoan people category, and no really good image for Malietoa Tanumafili II (he has to be on here). Anybody more knowledgable should add and remove.-- KAVEBEAR ( talk) 02:45, 13 July 2013 (UTC) reply

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