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Redirect target[edit]

This started out as an article discussing the native origin of the name of Canada, the country, and was then clobbered by a buggy mw:ContentTranslation tool (not the fault of the user), and then incorrectly linked to Kanata, Ontario.

This page should be the article title of the disambig page for 'Kanata', but unfortunately Kanata (disambiguation) already exists. What ought to happen imho, is that their histories should be merged, and Kanata (disambiguation) should be renamed 'Kanata' but that needs admin intervention because the articles exist already.

For the moment, I'm restoring the original sense of this article as related to the etymology of 'Canada' by changing the redirect target to Name of Canada, until an admin becomes involved. Mathglot (talk) 22:43, 16 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Done, see here. — Godsy^(TALK_CONT) 06:24, 21 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Aboriginal or indigenous term[edit]

Hello 198.163.47.9 (talk), I think that you probably made the right call changing the word "aboriginal" to "indigenous" in this edit.

But I just wanted to point out in the strongest possible terms, that the reason given in your edit summary, namely, Changed "aboriginal" to "indigenous" per the government of Canada's request to use the latter term, is absolutely the wrong reason for the right change. Just think about it for a second. One day, the government of China objects to the use of "Tibetan", and says the language is now called "Himalayan Chinese", and would we please start using that term. Nopity-nope, no way, no how. We use the consensus of reliable sources and try to establish a common name, but no way do we ever bow to what a government, or any single source says about something like that. Still, no harm, no foul; so all is well. I mostly just wanted to point it out for future reference. ;-) Happy editing, Mathglot (talk) 02:44, 30 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]