Talk:North American Indigenous elder

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Latest comment: 2 years ago by Robertsky in topic Requested move 30 July 2022

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What's wrong with the references? Hyacinth (talk) 03:27, 22 March 2011 (UTC)Reply

Requested move 30 July 2022

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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. (closed by non-admin page mover) – robertsky (talk) 04:30, 14 August 2022 (UTC)Reply


American Indian elderNorth American Indigenous elder – The term in this title is falling into desuetude, especially in Canada (see Indigenous peoples of the Americas#Terminology) other than in legal terminology, and does not include the Inuit or Métis. Montréalais (talk) 15:28, 30 July 2022 (UTC) — Relisting. — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 18:31, 6 August 2022 (UTC)Reply

  • support per non and wp:commonalityblindlynx 16:16, 30 July 2022 (UTC)Reply
  • Support only in that it's better than this title. Open to better suggestions. FWIW, and I know that Wikipedians are allergic to capitalizations, in common usage often lowercase "elder" tends to just mean an older, elderly person. In the case of someone regarded as a respected Elder, in the sense indicated in this article, "Elder" is often capitalized. YMMV. - CorbieVreccan 19:01, 30 July 2022 (UTC)Reply
  • Support for the reason you described. Also, when you said that slur was still in use legally - were you referring to legislation drafted by white people, Native American people (in a reclaimed sense) or both?Stephanie921 (talk) 22:37, 30 July 2022 (UTC)Reply
"American Indian" is not generally considered a slur!--Eldomtom2 (talk) 09:45, 2 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
regardless, it is not used in Canada and weshould strive for wp:commonalityblindlynx 12:13, 2 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
"Native American" is not used for Indigenous Canadian / FNIM peoples, so wouldn't cover the scope of article. - CorbieVreccan 18:29, 1 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
English-speaking Indigenous groups in Canada and the US use "Indigenous", not "Indigene". This is English Wikipedia; we use "Indigenous". - CorbieVreccan 18:29, 1 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
The Chicago Manual of Style, the CBC, and other news outlets all now capitalize "Indigenous" when referring to the people/ethnicity. We support this at the Indigenous Wikiproject and have been standardizing it across the 'pedia. - CorbieVreccan 21:12, 4 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
Where can we review the discussion of this? Dicklyon (talk) 03:15, 5 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
Indigenous peoples of the Americas uses capitalization, moreover typically names of ethnic groups are capitalized—blindlynx 17:42, 5 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
@Dicklyon: see my reponse to Mello, below. - CorbieVreccan 22:31, 6 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
Probably replying to the relister is pointless, as he's not taking sides in the discussion. And you haven't pointed out where any discussion might have occurred; if it has, but only within the project, that's problematic per WP:CONLEVEL. In any case, MOS:CAPS will apply, and if you look at sources you'll see that most relevant contexts in which "North American Indigenous" is found are actually dominated by lowercase indigenous. Most of the capitalized ones over the last couple of decades have been for the "North American Indigeous Games", a proper name, or a mention of the 2007 book title "North American Indigenous Warfare and Ritual Violence"; other uses have already been strongly dominated by lowercase indigenous, though that's gradually changing. After all those style guides cause the usage in books and such to change, Wikipedia will follow. For now, I don't think so. Dicklyon (talk) 23:54, 6 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
  • Per Wikipedia:Naming conventions (ethnicities and tribes).
  • Per The Chicago Manual of Style Online: We would capitalize "Indigenous" in both contexts: that of Indigenous people and groups, on the one hand, and Indigenous culture and society, on the other. Lowercase “indigenous” would be reserved for contexts in which the term does not apply to Indigenous people in any sense—for example, indigenous plant and animal species. A parallel distinction arises for the word “black,” which many writers now capitalize in references to ethnicity and culture (a usage that CMOS supports) but not, for example, when it is simply a color.
  • Per the Associated Press style guide: Indigenous (adj.) Capitalize this term used to refer to original inhabitants of a place. Aboriginal leaders welcomed a new era of Indigenous relations in Australia. Bolivia’s Indigenous peoples represent some 62% of the population.
  • Per the APA style guide: Likewise, capitalize terms such as "Native American," "Hispanic," and so on. Capitalize "Indigenous" and "Aboriginal" whenever they are used. Capitalize "Indigenous People" or "Aboriginal People" when referring to a specific group (e.g., the Indigenous Peoples of Canada), but use lowercase for "people" when describing persons who are Indigenous or Aboriginal (e.g., "the authors were all Indigenous people but belonged to different nations").
Cheers,  oncamera  (talk page) 13:17, 7 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
The WP conventions page you linked doesn't say much about capitalization. Has this been discussed some place? As to the external guides, sure, we recognize that many have come around to recommending capitalization. But we don't see that reflected very much in sources yet. Dicklyon (talk) 17:20, 7 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
Your google search on "sources" doesn't indicate quality or accuracy of those "sources". There wasn't debate about it on here as it's not up for debate anymore in the field; capitalization is the standard. - CorbieVreccan 21:25, 7 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
As I mentioned above, at the Indigenous wikiproject we have a list of resources that support and explain the reasons "Indigenous" is capitalized when referring to the peoples/ethnicity: Wikipedia:WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America#Style Guides. In addition to this now being the standard set by the Associated Press and other mainstream outlets, we also have resources from the Native American Journalists Association, such as this one: Reporter's Indigenous Terminology Guide. - CorbieVreccan 22:31, 6 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
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