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Hi, thanks for taking the time to write me back and repost changes you saw fit. French
Polynesia is close to my heart, and I want the article to be as true as possible. I understand your point about 'L'Italia'. To give you an example, 'France' and 'French Polynesia' in French are the same as 'United
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I understand you need to make sure people do not write whatever they feel like but I think it was really harsh to delete all the work I did. I spent the last 3 hours to make the article better, and now it's all gone. I wish you had asked me those questions before you deleted my edits. Besides, the
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for instance) did not follow that rule for the phonetics, so to be consistent, we should not have 'La'. Lastly, I might enter more info about the islands of each group later. If so, I will make sure to reference everything. Plus, if you have any questions or want to edit anything, feel free to
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Hi, I have edited the article because I know French
Polynesia, and as a French person, I know its status inside the French Republic. I have also found information on French Knowledge articles (PolynĂ©sie française, Pape'ete, and Fa'a'Ä) and in English travel books I own. I can reference them.
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Sorry if I seemed a bit harsh. I've put your edits back, with tweaks per points one and three of my original message (plus a couple of wikilinks and the removal of "around" in "around 118 islands). The only point I'd like to dispute Is point #1, as I know a little
Italian which, as far as I
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Nobody says "Polynésie française" when they talk about the place. We always use "La" (The) in French. The French article omitted it in the title because it is a title. We also say "La
Marseillaise", "La RĂ©union", "La Guadeloupe", "La Martinique", and "La
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I didn't know it was prohibited to change the spelling of kilometer. I do respect both. As I was rewriting the article I just wanted to make it consistent. This does not matter to me.
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article has now become incomplete, poorly-organized, and presents false pieces of information. It is really sad. I have saved a draft. Let me know if I can be allowed to repost it.
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Glad it's all sorted. One more thing: your signature doesn't contain a link to your user or talk pages at the moment, unlike almost all signatures on
Knowledge. To fix this, go to
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because while many of them seemed reasonably helpful, they were all unsourced and unexplained and I have serious questions about many of them. For example:
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The true spelling of the 2 following cities in French/Tahitian is "Pape'ete" and "Fa'a'Ä'". I have never seen "Pape'ete" with an accent on the final 'e'.
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understand, is similar to French in this respect: Italy is often called "l'Italia" in
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