Talk:Nadleh Whut'en First Nation

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Exonym

I understand that the use of endonyms is important, especially in Canada. But many readers need the historically used exonyms to be able to understand what the endonyms refer to. I am all for making the endonyms the primary identifier of indigenous groups, but I don't think makes sense to exclude them entirely, especially not as long as they are still prominent in the literature.·maunus · snunɐɯ· 15:42, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

As I mentioned in my edit comment, there are lots of people around the world who don't know what First Nations means, but we don't put (Indian) beside it. If people don't know what Dakelh is, they can easily click it to find out. There are lots of readers who would't know what Carrier means either, but we don't need to put in an explanatory sentence every time we use a word, because you don't need to know what Dakelh means to comprehend the sentence. To be clear, I'm 100% in favour of using historic terms beside contemporary terminology when the term itself is the subject of the article. Romani people should definitely mentioned the term "Gypsy" but not ever article referring to Romani people needs to have "Gypsy" in parenthesis. - Themightyquill (talk) 18:48, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

In this case specifically I came as a reader to the article wanting to know what language the Nadleh Whut'en traditionally speak, and I didnt find it - I had to follow the link to Dakelh to find out that it is the language that the linguistic literature describes as Carrier. Also I am not quite sure "gypsy" is the best comparison both because "gypsy" has a much longer and more significant history of pejorative use, and also because the literature has completely abandoned the term gypsy several decades ago. In Canada the move towards endonyms is quite recent, and not well entrenched in the literature yet - and it does not appear that "Carrier" has been generally used in a pejorative way, or considered to be that by the people themselves.·maunus · snunɐɯ· 20:07, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

Well, in response to your particular case, I'll point out that, for example, Matsqui First Nation only mentions that they're Sto:lo, so you'd still have to click again to see that they traditionally speak Halkomelem. You'd also be okay adding a reference to Carrier language to this article if you think it's worthwhile. My opposition to your current edit, however, is not pejorative vs non-pejorative. The point is the location of the term within a different article. If you think Carrier should be used everywhere instead of Dakelh, you're welcome to suggest a move of that article (though I wouldn't be in favour, personally). But what you're suggesting is the equivalent of suggesting that (Danzig) should be placed next to every instance of Gdańsk on Wikipedia. - Themightyquill (talk) 11:18, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

No, because I am not making any argument about consistency. I experienced that the term was missing here, I added it here and have no plans of engaging in something as futile as trying to create consistency. I am also not going to spend more time argueing this ultimately inconsequential piece of text. You may revert it back if you insist, or leave it if you find my arguments persuasive.·maunus · snunɐɯ· 16:12, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

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