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The article currently says that the constellation represents an American Indian (a.k.a. Native American). Presumably this comes from the cited source. But one of the external-link pages says it isn't known whether that's true or whether it's a person from India. I have no idea which source is more reliable on this, but in cases where one source says "not known" and another asserts a plausible claim as truth, it seems depressingly common that "not known" is correct.
Since Indus is "the Indian", I was about to link to this article from the Indian disambiguation page, but now I don't know whether to put it in the "American Indian" section or in a new section about things where it is not clear what the referent is!
-- 207.176.159.90 ( talk) 02:42, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
AstroLynx ( talk · contribs) asks "if Plancius did not create it, then who did?". The answer, obviously, is Keyser and de Houtman. Modern sources are divided in assigning credit. -- Elphion ( talk) 12:44, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
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The article currently says that the constellation represents an American Indian (a.k.a. Native American). Presumably this comes from the cited source. But one of the external-link pages says it isn't known whether that's true or whether it's a person from India. I have no idea which source is more reliable on this, but in cases where one source says "not known" and another asserts a plausible claim as truth, it seems depressingly common that "not known" is correct.
Since Indus is "the Indian", I was about to link to this article from the Indian disambiguation page, but now I don't know whether to put it in the "American Indian" section or in a new section about things where it is not clear what the referent is!
-- 207.176.159.90 ( talk) 02:42, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
AstroLynx ( talk · contribs) asks "if Plancius did not create it, then who did?". The answer, obviously, is Keyser and de Houtman. Modern sources are divided in assigning credit. -- Elphion ( talk) 12:44, 18 May 2022 (UTC)