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PS and if they are the same, this article should also have the BCproj template; that Fort Durham is involved says to me that
History of British Columbia should maybe be here; especially as until 1903 it was assumed that the whole Taku basin, including its estuary was (as with the Stikine and the Dyea-Skagway area) part of British Columbia....01:56, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
Great; anyone know if these people in AK are the same group as the Taku River Tlingit, then? e.g. the Okanagan and Kutenai straddle the BC/US border similarly and have all relevant templates/content....
Skookum102:14, 30 April 2007 (UTC)reply
According to the source cited, "[t]he Tlingit that inhabited the area that is now the City and Borough of Juneau at the time of the first European contact were the Auk, Taku, and Sumdum peoples."
[1] So, yes, I believe so. --
Evb-wiki03:14, 30 April 2007 (UTC)reply
I guess it'll have to be checked with/about the Taku River Tlingit if that means the same thing as the Taku Tlingit; I'm not from that part of BC so wouldn't know....
Skookum103:41, 30 April 2007 (UTC)reply
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The result of the move request was: Not moved. A numerical majority opposed this move. The various guidelines and precedents didn't all pull in the same direction. No one of them seemed decisive. How should we weigh the fact that the city of Taku in Japan has more residents than the
Taku people has members? We'll continue to debate this type of thing long into the future. Linking to the essay
WP:UNDAB as though it provides a decisive argument is not helpful; it's just an opinion.
EdJohnston (
talk)
21:47, 8 April 2014 (UTC)reply
Taku people →
Taku – current page is a disambiguation page, most of the links on which derive from the name of this people; some are about Japanese first names though there is one city in Japan by that name (pop 21,909) and a redlink to a town in India.
Taku should be moved to
Taku (disambiguation) (currently a redirect to
Taku rather than continue under the illusion that the unrelated-to-this-people are equally important usages in English, which they are not. "+ people" as in other cases was a needless violation of
WP:UNDAB.
Skookum1 (
talk)
06:08, 20 March 2014 (UTC)reply
Yes, they do not, as already observed; but the tiny town in Japan cannot be construed as a rival primarytopic in English, and
WP:UNDAB is clear about "FOO whatever" vs "FOO", as is the conciseness section of
WP:CRITERIA.
Skookum1 (
talk)
10:03, 20 March 2014 (UTC)reply
Skookum1, what having a dab as the primary means is that There is no primary topic, WP:CRITERIA has 5 elements. As far as that essay it may be helpful for someone to put in a proposal to move
WP:UNDAB to a title where it is clear that it is only an essay by a couple of editors.
In ictu oculi (
talk)
10:31, 20 March 2014 (UTC)reply
As is also, really,
WP:NCLANG, which I have been taunted to 'go ahead and try and change that guideline' as if the cabal presiding over it would ever listen to me (instead of delete my posts and say "get a life" as two of them have... re that clearly anti-CIVIL "get a life" comment two of them are admins and because of that IMO should no longer be.).
Skookum1 (
talk)
10:36, 20 March 2014 (UTC)reply
Yes it is, and it is relevant and applicable to the issues discussed in that guideline. If anything from there relates to this or other RMs you are very welcome to cite from it.
In ictu oculi (
talk)
14:06, 20 March 2014 (UTC)reply
Oppose until the issue is addressed properly. These should be discussed at a centralized location.
There was a discussion once on whether the ethnicity should have precedence for the name, and it was decided it shouldn't. That could be revisited. But it really should be one discussion on the principle, not thousands of separate discussions at every ethnicity in the world over whether it should be at "X", "Xs", or "X people". —
kwami (
talk)
12:24, 20 March 2014 (UTC)reply
"These should be discussed at a centralized location." LOL that's funny I already tried that and got criticized for mis-procedure. Your pet guideline was never discussed at a central location nor even brought up with other affected/conflicting guidelines nor any relevant wikiprojects. And as for "There was a discussion once on whether the ethnicity should have precedence for the name, and it was decided it shouldn't" that's fine to say about a discussion that you presided over on an isolated guideline talkpage that you didn't invite anyone but your friends into..... WP:ETHNICGROUPS is clear on the variability of "X", "Xs", or "X people" and says nothing being people mandatorily added as you rewrote your guideline to promote/enact. It says quite the opposite; the CRITERIA page also says that prior consensus should be respected, and those who crafted it an attempt to contact them towards building a new consensus done; and calls for consistency within related topics which "we" long ago had devised the use of "FOO" and often "PREFERRED ENDONYM" (for Canada especially, where such terms are common English now and your pet terms are obsolete and in disuse and often of clearly racist origin e.g.
Slavey people). The crafters of the ethnicities and tribes naming convention (which your guideline violates) clearly respected our collective decisions/consensus from long ago re both standalone names without "people/tribe/nation/peoples" unless absolutely necessary and also re the use of endonyms where available; but when I brought it up in the RMs of last year you insulted and baited me and still lost. Now you want a centralized discussion when you made no such effort yourself and were in fact dismissive about any such effort. Pfft. NCLANG fans like to pretend
WP:OWNership on this issue, especially yourself as its author but that's a crock. The way to "address this issue properly" is to examine all of these, but bulk of them needless directs from then-long-standing titles moved by yourself, one by one as I was instructed/advised re the bulk RMs; as case-by-case decisions are needed. You want a centralized discussion, but never held one yourself.
Skookum1 (
talk)
12:58, 20 March 2014 (UTC)reply
No, no-one would criticize you for discussing this rationally. But this multitude of move requests is disruptive. They should all be closed without prejudice. —
kwami (
talk)
14:34, 20 March 2014 (UTC)reply
Support per nom. An identified people should be the primary topic of a term absent something remarkable standing in the way.
bd2412T02:40, 22 March 2014 (UTC)reply
That guideline is under dispute, including the two words "preferred" and "unambiguous" re "FOO people", but both are in violation of the terms of TITLE and various other things I am too tired to repeat, here and across other guidelines, and decisions have come down which establish a bloc of precedents, consensus-made, which at least one closer has observed is already there; and as CambridgeBayWeather indicates above it already was. NCL remains flawed in demanding there be the people dab, and resistance to any discussion of changing it to match the widepread emerging consensus is deep and bitter; and hence the two oppose votes below from architects of NCL.
You are evading the point of the MOSTCOMMONUSE and PRIMARYTOPIC in English. That is a very small city, even by Japanese standards, and though the Taku people are less numerous, their territory is the size of New Jersey or more (and other than in Juneau, they are the dominant population). I will run the customary view stats tests and googlebooks as I have done elsewhere; I would be very very very surprised if that Japanese city is viewed anywhere near the times a page on one of the main kwaans of the Tlingit.
Skookum1 (
talk)
15:15, 6 April 2014 (UTC)reply
The PRIMARYTOPIC is the issue here, not the diversity of secondary topics; only "Taku" is a candidate for PRIMARYTOPIC, not Taku River and, unless it is shown to have more views and English sources/googles, the Japanese city is an also-ran. Ongoing opposition to reverting undicussed moves instigated by NCL is getting repetitive, and as always is full of factual and logical and evidential holes:
1) Opining that a 13th-century Tosafist rabbi from Bohemia, an Albanian soccer player or a Cameroonian soccer player might be more of a PRIMARYTOPIC as a surname, in English, is rather reaching, don't you think?
20 The people-name is what the other various North American titles on the dab page are derived from, via the river being named for them (perhaps by them, I don't know their name for the river); Taku River and Fort Taku (of the HBC not the forts in China) are maybe more known the people, I'd venture without having done the view stats yet, but they are not disambiguation candidates by dint of being two words, not the standalone version.
3)I have revised the dab page to group things accordingly, rather than in the seemingly random list of supposedly unrelated names suggested by its former state. Of the Asian items, the Taku Forts are the only real candidate; the Japanese personal names included are also not conceivably PRIMARYTOPICS.
Skookum1 (
talk)
15:15, 6 April 2014 (UTC)reply
Each of these situations are different, and, in this instance, Taku has so many diverse meanings that there isn't evidence that the majority of users are looking for this article. -
Uyvsdi (
talk)
15:33, 6 April 2014 (UTC)Uyvsdireply
I'd completely overlooked the whale, who is tucked down inside "Other", and it seems that it is the main search that people do on Wikipedia; even though
Taku (whale) is a redirect to
List of captive orcas#Taku and so not even a true candidate for a dab; the whale was named for the river/inlet/sound, though he was not caught there but born at
SeaWorld Orlando; nor should redirects be used on dab pages at all, as I recall: but here's the view stats on all titles listed; the Taku Forts, which as a two-word item is also not a true candidate for PRIMARYTOPIC status as a standalone term, came a close 2nd to the river:
"Taku Takahashi" was viewed 4603 times in 201403. How many of those got there from the
Taku dab page is unknown; if he is widely known as "Taku" only that would make a case for PRIMARYTOPIC, but as a double-word title it is not eligible as PRIMARYTOPIC and DAB definitions
"Taku Forts" was viewed 1305 times in 201403. Like other word-titles it is not a true PRIMARYTOPIC candidate, unless someone can show that this group of forts or the battles that took place there are commonly referred to only by "Taku" this is not a proper candidate for PRIMARYTOPIC for the standalone name "
Taku".
"Taku", the dab page, was viewed 841 times, indicating that the hits for Taku Forts, Taku Takahashi, Takuma Sato, and the whale Taku mostly did not come to those pages via the dab page.
I do not have time to go through every possible item on
Special:PrefixIndex/Taku; but the issue here is not double-name titles of any kind, but the standalone version of "Taku" and most common use in English is what counts; all those other Japanese names, many of which can be shortened to Taku, if not Taku already, unless that person is widely citable and unique as "Taku", do not qualify for consideration anyway.
Taku (whale) is redirect to a different title and it's clear that searches for simply "Taku" are not where those 3500+ hits from; more likely pipes on other pages mentioning captive orcas or SeaWorld or animal captivity.
These results only concern Wikipedia viewer stats and not English as a whole; I have no more time just now to do Google Books and Google News searches, and when I do I will limit it only to the "large-number" items, and not bother with the "small" ones (150 hits or less). Many of the smaller items derive their name from the river and/or the people, though I don't know why Taku Arm is named that, other than maybe it was a source of salmon ("Taku" is Tlingit for salmon, or from the Inland Tlinkit dialect anyway); it doesn't seem to have a connection to the river, though Taku Plateau and also
Taku Mountain, which doesn't have an article, and Taku Inlet and Taku Harbor do; was the river named for the people or the other way around? I'm not sure yet.
Skookum1 (
talk)
07:26, 7 April 2014 (UTC)reply
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PS and if they are the same, this article should also have the BCproj template; that Fort Durham is involved says to me that
History of British Columbia should maybe be here; especially as until 1903 it was assumed that the whole Taku basin, including its estuary was (as with the Stikine and the Dyea-Skagway area) part of British Columbia....01:56, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
Great; anyone know if these people in AK are the same group as the Taku River Tlingit, then? e.g. the Okanagan and Kutenai straddle the BC/US border similarly and have all relevant templates/content....
Skookum102:14, 30 April 2007 (UTC)reply
According to the source cited, "[t]he Tlingit that inhabited the area that is now the City and Borough of Juneau at the time of the first European contact were the Auk, Taku, and Sumdum peoples."
[1] So, yes, I believe so. --
Evb-wiki03:14, 30 April 2007 (UTC)reply
I guess it'll have to be checked with/about the Taku River Tlingit if that means the same thing as the Taku Tlingit; I'm not from that part of BC so wouldn't know....
Skookum103:41, 30 April 2007 (UTC)reply
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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. No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the move request was: Not moved. A numerical majority opposed this move. The various guidelines and precedents didn't all pull in the same direction. No one of them seemed decisive. How should we weigh the fact that the city of Taku in Japan has more residents than the
Taku people has members? We'll continue to debate this type of thing long into the future. Linking to the essay
WP:UNDAB as though it provides a decisive argument is not helpful; it's just an opinion.
EdJohnston (
talk)
21:47, 8 April 2014 (UTC)reply
Taku people →
Taku – current page is a disambiguation page, most of the links on which derive from the name of this people; some are about Japanese first names though there is one city in Japan by that name (pop 21,909) and a redlink to a town in India.
Taku should be moved to
Taku (disambiguation) (currently a redirect to
Taku rather than continue under the illusion that the unrelated-to-this-people are equally important usages in English, which they are not. "+ people" as in other cases was a needless violation of
WP:UNDAB.
Skookum1 (
talk)
06:08, 20 March 2014 (UTC)reply
Yes, they do not, as already observed; but the tiny town in Japan cannot be construed as a rival primarytopic in English, and
WP:UNDAB is clear about "FOO whatever" vs "FOO", as is the conciseness section of
WP:CRITERIA.
Skookum1 (
talk)
10:03, 20 March 2014 (UTC)reply
Skookum1, what having a dab as the primary means is that There is no primary topic, WP:CRITERIA has 5 elements. As far as that essay it may be helpful for someone to put in a proposal to move
WP:UNDAB to a title where it is clear that it is only an essay by a couple of editors.
In ictu oculi (
talk)
10:31, 20 March 2014 (UTC)reply
As is also, really,
WP:NCLANG, which I have been taunted to 'go ahead and try and change that guideline' as if the cabal presiding over it would ever listen to me (instead of delete my posts and say "get a life" as two of them have... re that clearly anti-CIVIL "get a life" comment two of them are admins and because of that IMO should no longer be.).
Skookum1 (
talk)
10:36, 20 March 2014 (UTC)reply
Yes it is, and it is relevant and applicable to the issues discussed in that guideline. If anything from there relates to this or other RMs you are very welcome to cite from it.
In ictu oculi (
talk)
14:06, 20 March 2014 (UTC)reply
Oppose until the issue is addressed properly. These should be discussed at a centralized location.
There was a discussion once on whether the ethnicity should have precedence for the name, and it was decided it shouldn't. That could be revisited. But it really should be one discussion on the principle, not thousands of separate discussions at every ethnicity in the world over whether it should be at "X", "Xs", or "X people". —
kwami (
talk)
12:24, 20 March 2014 (UTC)reply
"These should be discussed at a centralized location." LOL that's funny I already tried that and got criticized for mis-procedure. Your pet guideline was never discussed at a central location nor even brought up with other affected/conflicting guidelines nor any relevant wikiprojects. And as for "There was a discussion once on whether the ethnicity should have precedence for the name, and it was decided it shouldn't" that's fine to say about a discussion that you presided over on an isolated guideline talkpage that you didn't invite anyone but your friends into..... WP:ETHNICGROUPS is clear on the variability of "X", "Xs", or "X people" and says nothing being people mandatorily added as you rewrote your guideline to promote/enact. It says quite the opposite; the CRITERIA page also says that prior consensus should be respected, and those who crafted it an attempt to contact them towards building a new consensus done; and calls for consistency within related topics which "we" long ago had devised the use of "FOO" and often "PREFERRED ENDONYM" (for Canada especially, where such terms are common English now and your pet terms are obsolete and in disuse and often of clearly racist origin e.g.
Slavey people). The crafters of the ethnicities and tribes naming convention (which your guideline violates) clearly respected our collective decisions/consensus from long ago re both standalone names without "people/tribe/nation/peoples" unless absolutely necessary and also re the use of endonyms where available; but when I brought it up in the RMs of last year you insulted and baited me and still lost. Now you want a centralized discussion when you made no such effort yourself and were in fact dismissive about any such effort. Pfft. NCLANG fans like to pretend
WP:OWNership on this issue, especially yourself as its author but that's a crock. The way to "address this issue properly" is to examine all of these, but bulk of them needless directs from then-long-standing titles moved by yourself, one by one as I was instructed/advised re the bulk RMs; as case-by-case decisions are needed. You want a centralized discussion, but never held one yourself.
Skookum1 (
talk)
12:58, 20 March 2014 (UTC)reply
No, no-one would criticize you for discussing this rationally. But this multitude of move requests is disruptive. They should all be closed without prejudice. —
kwami (
talk)
14:34, 20 March 2014 (UTC)reply
Support per nom. An identified people should be the primary topic of a term absent something remarkable standing in the way.
bd2412T02:40, 22 March 2014 (UTC)reply
That guideline is under dispute, including the two words "preferred" and "unambiguous" re "FOO people", but both are in violation of the terms of TITLE and various other things I am too tired to repeat, here and across other guidelines, and decisions have come down which establish a bloc of precedents, consensus-made, which at least one closer has observed is already there; and as CambridgeBayWeather indicates above it already was. NCL remains flawed in demanding there be the people dab, and resistance to any discussion of changing it to match the widepread emerging consensus is deep and bitter; and hence the two oppose votes below from architects of NCL.
You are evading the point of the MOSTCOMMONUSE and PRIMARYTOPIC in English. That is a very small city, even by Japanese standards, and though the Taku people are less numerous, their territory is the size of New Jersey or more (and other than in Juneau, they are the dominant population). I will run the customary view stats tests and googlebooks as I have done elsewhere; I would be very very very surprised if that Japanese city is viewed anywhere near the times a page on one of the main kwaans of the Tlingit.
Skookum1 (
talk)
15:15, 6 April 2014 (UTC)reply
The PRIMARYTOPIC is the issue here, not the diversity of secondary topics; only "Taku" is a candidate for PRIMARYTOPIC, not Taku River and, unless it is shown to have more views and English sources/googles, the Japanese city is an also-ran. Ongoing opposition to reverting undicussed moves instigated by NCL is getting repetitive, and as always is full of factual and logical and evidential holes:
1) Opining that a 13th-century Tosafist rabbi from Bohemia, an Albanian soccer player or a Cameroonian soccer player might be more of a PRIMARYTOPIC as a surname, in English, is rather reaching, don't you think?
20 The people-name is what the other various North American titles on the dab page are derived from, via the river being named for them (perhaps by them, I don't know their name for the river); Taku River and Fort Taku (of the HBC not the forts in China) are maybe more known the people, I'd venture without having done the view stats yet, but they are not disambiguation candidates by dint of being two words, not the standalone version.
3)I have revised the dab page to group things accordingly, rather than in the seemingly random list of supposedly unrelated names suggested by its former state. Of the Asian items, the Taku Forts are the only real candidate; the Japanese personal names included are also not conceivably PRIMARYTOPICS.
Skookum1 (
talk)
15:15, 6 April 2014 (UTC)reply
Each of these situations are different, and, in this instance, Taku has so many diverse meanings that there isn't evidence that the majority of users are looking for this article. -
Uyvsdi (
talk)
15:33, 6 April 2014 (UTC)Uyvsdireply
I'd completely overlooked the whale, who is tucked down inside "Other", and it seems that it is the main search that people do on Wikipedia; even though
Taku (whale) is a redirect to
List of captive orcas#Taku and so not even a true candidate for a dab; the whale was named for the river/inlet/sound, though he was not caught there but born at
SeaWorld Orlando; nor should redirects be used on dab pages at all, as I recall: but here's the view stats on all titles listed; the Taku Forts, which as a two-word item is also not a true candidate for PRIMARYTOPIC status as a standalone term, came a close 2nd to the river:
"Taku Takahashi" was viewed 4603 times in 201403. How many of those got there from the
Taku dab page is unknown; if he is widely known as "Taku" only that would make a case for PRIMARYTOPIC, but as a double-word title it is not eligible as PRIMARYTOPIC and DAB definitions
"Taku Forts" was viewed 1305 times in 201403. Like other word-titles it is not a true PRIMARYTOPIC candidate, unless someone can show that this group of forts or the battles that took place there are commonly referred to only by "Taku" this is not a proper candidate for PRIMARYTOPIC for the standalone name "
Taku".
"Taku", the dab page, was viewed 841 times, indicating that the hits for Taku Forts, Taku Takahashi, Takuma Sato, and the whale Taku mostly did not come to those pages via the dab page.
I do not have time to go through every possible item on
Special:PrefixIndex/Taku; but the issue here is not double-name titles of any kind, but the standalone version of "Taku" and most common use in English is what counts; all those other Japanese names, many of which can be shortened to Taku, if not Taku already, unless that person is widely citable and unique as "Taku", do not qualify for consideration anyway.
Taku (whale) is redirect to a different title and it's clear that searches for simply "Taku" are not where those 3500+ hits from; more likely pipes on other pages mentioning captive orcas or SeaWorld or animal captivity.
These results only concern Wikipedia viewer stats and not English as a whole; I have no more time just now to do Google Books and Google News searches, and when I do I will limit it only to the "large-number" items, and not bother with the "small" ones (150 hits or less). Many of the smaller items derive their name from the river and/or the people, though I don't know why Taku Arm is named that, other than maybe it was a source of salmon ("Taku" is Tlingit for salmon, or from the Inland Tlinkit dialect anyway); it doesn't seem to have a connection to the river, though Taku Plateau and also
Taku Mountain, which doesn't have an article, and Taku Inlet and Taku Harbor do; was the river named for the people or the other way around? I'm not sure yet.
Skookum1 (
talk)
07:26, 7 April 2014 (UTC)reply
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requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a
move review. No further edits should be made to this section.