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I created an infobox in the form of the Template:infobox country. There was some things that I could not find so I did not put it in this article. The regular editors of this article can decide to use it or not. It is availble for editing (if desired) at Template:Country infobox data Cook Islands. MJCdetroit 21:24, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
The population figure for the Cook Islands is wrong. It is not 21,000, but about 13000
I've added some basics to the History section, which was almost empty. I'll need to check a few other things, such as when the London Missionary Society arrived in Rarotonga, before adding anything else. This section also needs something on precolonial (and pre-Christian) history. Aridd 14:01, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
The South Pacific is a big place! Can someone who knows better edit the article to give readers a better idea of where the islands are in relation to more well-known places? (I'm guessing from the article that they're somewhat close to New Zealand?) Right now all the reader knows is that they are located in the southern part of the largest ocean on Earth, which doesn't help a whole lot! ;) -- Hux 09:52, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
We are neighbours, Niue is about an hour flight from Rarotonga, Cook Islands, oh well Rarotonga is about 4 hours flight from Auckland. Much easier to look at the map. 203.184.5.147 ( talk) 14:45, 12 September 2008 (UTC) Oops sorry my comments, forgot to login...cheers! Sioneholof ( talk) 14:55, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
It states that the Cook Island Dollar can't be used elsewhere. What currency can?
History of the Cook Islands says Cook visited there in 1770, but here it says 1773 and 1779. It also says he visited Raratonga in 1813, which is impossible. Adam Bishop 21:05, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
There is an inconsistency here. The text says "Another Spaniard, Pedro Fernández de Quirós, made the first recorded European landing in the islands when he set foot on Rakahanga in 1606", but later "The first recorded landing by Europeans was in 1814".
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.47.36.190 ( talk) 02:51, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
Should it be mentioned that the Cook Islands feature the humourous website suffix of Co.ck? Also, does anybody know whether this hilarity was done on purpose, or was automatically assigned? ZeroG91 09:13, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
In my ongoing efforts to try to include every country on the planet included in the scope of a WikiProject, I have proposed a new project on Polynesia at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#Polynesia whose scope would include Cook Islands. Any interested parties are more than welcome to add their names there, so we can see if there is enough interest to start such a project. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 17:17, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
What is the difference in policies between Cook Islands Party and Democratic Party 217.39.26.57 20:12, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
Editors of this article may wish to comment on the edits being made at
Official residence, advancing the unusual view that the official residence of the Queen's Representative for the Cook Islands, and those of his equivalents in other jurisdictions, are "royal" residences (i.e. official residences of the monarch), and that this aspect (assuming for the moment that it exists) deserves mention in a list of official residences, alongside "vice-regal", the somewhat opaque term being substituted for "Queen's Representative" and the like, by the royalising editor.
(For your further information, the "royal" issue began in the "Canada" entry. Afterward, the same editor spread it to the entries on "Cook Islands" and a number of other countries. He did so in conjunction with his "general cleanup" of the article. The "cleanup" is also making the article worse in some other ways, in my opinion. You might wish to look at that, too, but those are separate, or at most indirectly related issues. I would not bother mentioning these tangentials, here, but in the cases where I have left them out, the royalising editor has placed a follow-up note saying that I've "...omitt[ed] the point that the ["royal"] edits ... are part of a broader cleanup..." (for an example of his full remarks, see
this), obliging me to place another follow-up, alike to this parenthetical, to dispell the potential impression that I've been less than fully truthful about the situation. Sorry for this digression; I'd much rather have stayed focussed on the main issue.)
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Lonewolf BC
23:34, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
I am concerned by the large number of templates this article is accumulating. While most of the templates are by default collapsed, and so don't take up much screen space, they add significantly to the page load times. The rendered text in this page is now about 140kb. Before the last two templates were added, it was 105 kb. Without any of these navigational templates, the article text would be 70 kb. That's quite a difference, and I can't see that there's enough value in the templates to justify the increase in size. Getting to related articles is what categories are for.
I'd be interested in feedback on which of the navigational templates are considered useful, and why.- gadfium 07:29, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
Could the Historical dates section be moved to History of the Cook Islands or at least included in the History section of the main article? — AjaxSmack 20:23, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
I really don't have much interest in this, but this edit caught my eye. A bit of googling turned up Michael Fowler; Julie Marie Bunk (1995). Law, Power, and the Sovereign State: The Evolution and Application of the Concept of Sovereignty. Penn State Press. pp. 52. ISBN 978-0-271-01471-5. That made me wonder whether this article and/or the sovereignty article might benefit from clarification re the sovereignty status of Cook Islands. Just a drive-by comment. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 02:03, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
This edit placed a {{
dubious}} tag, saying, "The date seems dubious; it isn't in the source and our article on Williams says he was in the Pacific from 1817" (see
John Williams). I googled around a bit and found Bill Goodwin (2004),
Frommer's South Pacific, John Wiley & Sons, p.
182,
ISBN
978-0-7645-7428-3, which says that Williams "eventually found Rarotonga in July 1823." Ebenezer Prout (1843),
Memoirs of the Life of the Rev. John Williams, Missionary to Polynesia, W. Dodd, pp.
122–124 gives some details, but omits dates. Ngatupuna Kautai & 7 others,
Atiu: An Island Community, editorips@usp.ac.fj, p.
143,
ISBN
978-982-02-0163-7{{
citation}}
: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (
link) also has details and lacks dates. Lonely Planet (2012),
Rarotonga, Samoa & Tonga Travel Guide, Lonely Planet, p.
329,
ISBN
978-1-74321-356-8 says that he landed on Rarotonga in 1823.
John Garrett (1982), To Live Among the Stars: Christian Origins in Oceania, editorips@usp.ac.fj, pp. 30, ISBN 978-2-8254-0692-2 describes how Williams had left two Raiateans, Papeiha and Vahapata on the island of Aitutaki in 1821. Pages 82-83 revisit this, describing a return to Aitutaki in 1823 and seem to describe Williams' discovery voyage to Rarotonga. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 23:56, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
I deleted Mauke as a copyvio, so someone might want to create a proper article about the island.-- SPhilbrick (Talk) 01:11, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
The term "Cook Islands" is plural. The question is what to say about the country called "Cook Islands". The CIA Factbook uses the singular. I think that is sufficient evidence (and it's about all I could find easily) to use singular. (I had assumed plural was grammatically correct. Probably I was wrong.) But when referring to the islands (not the country), plural is indeed correct. Zaslav ( talk) 22:33, 16 December 2013 (UTC)
The article states
"In 1813 John Williams, a missionary on the Endeavour (not the same ship as Cook's) made the first recorded sighting of Rarotonga"
This is said after mentioning Cook had called the islands the Hervey Islands and so forth. How can a first recorded sighting occur in 1813, forty years after cook, and years after sailors from Portugal and Spain?
Montalban (
talk)
06:10, 30 November 2014 (UTC)
Cook Islanders are full citizens of New Zealand. There is no separate status of citizens with Cook Islands nationality. Royalcourtier ( talk) 02:13, 16 August 2015 (UTC).
Gadfium I think that a detailed breakdown of the population's age in four year brackets for both 2006 and 2011 goes outside of the scope for this article. These are part of a series of edits that have added such information to every single country's demographics page (see User talk:178.217.194.100#Population pyramids). I also do not know how to verify the information is correct. Jolly Ω Janner 07:00, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
According to GeoHive, the enumerated population of the Cooks for the 2011 census was 17,794 ( http://www.geohive.com/cntry/cookislands.aspx). The population given on the website in the references appears to be the population of residents. Is there a WP policy on which is preferred? I couldn't find anything.
The OECD say "For census purposes, the total population of the country consists of all persons falling within the scope of the census. In the broadest sense, the total may comprise either all usual residents of the country or all persons present in the country at the time of the census.
"The total of all usual residents is generally referred to as the de jure population and the total of all persons present as the de facto population." ( https://stats.oecd.org/glossary/detail.asp?ID=2090) Dan ( talk) 17:18, 27 July 2016 (UTC)
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Or at least incomplete WisDom-UK ( talk) 00:45, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
No the one in the info box. WisDom-UK ( talk) 11:25, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
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Just touching base here. In relation to List of dignitaries at the state funeral of Elizabeth II, are the Cooke Islands a sovereign state, a separate "commonwealth realm"? GoodDay ( talk) 21:43, 23 September 2022 (UTC)
Cooke Islands does recognise New Zealand's monarch, as their (Cook Islands) monarch. GoodDay ( talk) 00:29, 30 September 2022 (UTC)
The text says 'the last Australian census...' - when was this? (And, given that the NZ census mentioned was in 2013 the relevant figures might need updating sometime this year.) Jackiespeel ( talk) 10:49, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
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