Category talk:Ancient pueblo people

Ancient Pueblo peoples/ Anasazi category name controversy edit

(Moved from User:Huebi talk page on 5 August. It's continued presence there was objectionable to Huebi.)

Observe en:Anasazi. Where are you redirected? The accepted name is Ancient pueblo people. Let's use the names that WP decides are correct.

In this particular instance the reason is: Anasazi is a pejorative Navajo term meaning "Enemies of my ancestors". The people of these tribes take great exception to this term. Conforming to Wikipedia's NPOV, the term to use is Ancient pueblo people or some variant. - Mak 23:25, 4 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

I dont take care whats going on in en:WP, and i dont have the opinion that using the Term Ansaszi is some kind of NPOV. Lets use the name indian people are using: Anasazi. --Huebi
Sorry, can't go along with you. Anasazi is an intentionally insulting term. Just because you people are ignorant about the meaning of racial slurs makes them no less offensive, and not a good reason to use them. I don't see what is the big deal about not using an equivalent term. Most people have never heard of Anasazi anyway so who cares.
You offer no alternate authority. It's a term from the US, and the EN:WP says it is Ancient Pueblo People. Seems to me they should have jurisdiction over an english term. I'm ok with accepting their authority on the matter. So what is the big problem here? Folks type in Anasazi, they will come to this page anyway. Anasazi is mentioned on the category page, so it will come up in google hits too. Do we need to put an insult up in people's faces? Well- no, there is no good reason to do so, so let's not. -Mak 09:42, 5 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Again i dont care whats going on in en:WP, and was in the US for a long time and talked to indians and the themselves are talking and naming their ancient anasazi, another ancient tribe is fremont people. you too are offering no authrity, you just claim you're right. and thats not a fact and you dont have right. i think its just your personal decision. Go to en_WP and do what yu want. --Huebi 10:50, 5 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
I am a commoner, and seldom make changes to english or the other wikis. I had no input to that article. The land for the Anasazi/ancient pueblo peoples is the United states, and the wiki that corresponds to that country is En:wiki. That wiki is the authority. Not my personal opinion. Your line of reasoning is that you were there and talked to a few people. Well fine. I was there and probably have talked to many more indians there than you have. So what. Unless you can cite some other authority to the contrary, I can't see how you can expect me to be convinced of the truth of your assertion.
We now have a split category. I shall continue to revert this to the proper naming. Sorry. It would have been better if we could have reached a more civilized solution for this controversy, but I see from your talk page that this is not an unusual thing for you. -Mak 16:43, 5 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
unsplit by now. Arlo James Barnes 02:55, 7 March 2024 (UTC)Reply
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