Talk:Baker Lake, Nunavut

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This is such a typical white (Kabloona) stereotype. As an inuk who works hard for what he's got, I don't drink, i don't smoke up i raise my children as good as if not better than my parents raised me. Idiots like you are a cancer to our people, don't forget kabloonaks introduced us to christianity and the fathers (the so called worker of god who sexually and physically abused many innocent inuit children and fu&*ed up their future). I have met alot of ignorant kabloonaks but you take the cake! People like you only come to Nunavut only to pay off bills, if you were still down south (where you belong) you would still be in debt. You even say so in your blog "i am paying off my bills" So don't be so judgemental about us and our way of life, when it was your forefathers who raided or land and our way of life and told us that it was wrong. When are you people going to realize it was you who Fu*&ed up our people? This is the white way we were told that was better. Who introduced us to Booze to rape our inuit women? Who introduced us to drugs to make us dependant so the white man can come in and say we'll save you! Well no thanks lady!

216.126.240.3 20:09, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * What are you talking about? I can't find any link from this article to a blog and I went back quite a while to see if it was removed. I checked through all the other Nunavut articles and the only thing I found was a link out from the Iqaluit page (gone now) to someones pictures at SSIMicro. If you can point out where the link to the blog is (which article) I'll remove it as that sort of link is not allowed. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 06:03, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

You might want to add Janet Kigusiuq (1926-2005) as well as Victoria Mamnguqsualuk (b. 1930) to the list of Baker Lake artists. They are both daughters of Jessie Oonark. See e.g. the already linked page of Spirit Wrestler Gallery. http://www.spiritwrestler.com/catalog/index.php?artists_id=94 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.149.48.42 (talk) 10:24, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Merge Baker Lake Here
Since there are multiple Baker Lakes (California and Washington states both have notable Baker Lakes), and since this article already exists, I'm going to very strongly suggest that the content currently on the page Baker Lake be merged in here and a disambiguation page be put in its place. Dweekly (talk) 17:20, 10 February 2008 (UTC)


 * The current article on the lake could easily go to Baker Lake (Nunavut), if any of the other lakes with the same name had articles. Given that the lake has an area of 1887 sqkm and the hamlet just 1600 inhabitants, these two should probably be described on different pages. -- User:Docu


 * The lake and community should be seperate with the lake at Baker Lake (Nunavut), Baker Lake as a disambiguation for Baker Lake, Nunavut, Baker Lake Airport, Baker Lake Water Aerodrome, Baker Lake (electoral district) and the two US lakes. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 19:39, 10 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Moved Baker Lake to Baker Lake (Nunavut), makes little sense to merge a page about a lake with one about a community. Now Baker Lake should probably be converted to a dab page. --Qyd (talk) 16:24, 13 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I've turned it into a dab page but I wasn't sure about the US lakes and didn't add them. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 23:32, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

State of article
This article needs cleaning up. It seems that editors including User:134.117.141.66 and User:Blitzwerk want to write a nice chatty piece about the community of Baker Lake, rather than an encyclopaedic article. Jezhotwells (talk) 03:12, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks to the efforts of CambridgeBayWeather the article is improved so I have removed the re-write tag. There are still citations that need to be supplied and the citations would be better if citation templates are used. Jezhotwells (talk) 20:34, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

Commercial references
Baker Lake is an important community for Inuit art, but when I (Esoltys) provide a reference to the commercial gallery where I work it is removed by CambridgeBayWeather as "spam". At the moment our gallery is displaying over 150 pieces of artwork from Baker Lake including every artist mentioned in the article. With numerous photos of each piece and accompanying artist biographies our site is a reference for readers wanting to learn more about Baker Lake art. Just because information is provided by a commercial source does not make it "spam".Esoltys (talk) 22:48, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Because you didn't add it as a reference but just as an external link to your workplace to sell more art. Enter CBW, waits for audience applause, not a sausage. 05:01, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: not moved Peter Karlsen (talk) 23:38, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Baker Lake, Nunavut → Baker Lake — Currently a disambiguation. Within Nunavut the hamlet is the main usage rather than Baker Lake (Nunavut). There are three lakes of the same name in the US, Baker Lake (California), Baker Lake (Maine) and Baker Lake (Washington). Having looked through, and recognising that it is not a definitive answer, Google.com, Google.ca, Google.co.uk (|countryGB&cr=countryUK|countryGB&sa=X&ei=OYu3TO-RO4musAPsxqG1CQ&ved=0CAcQpwU pages from the UK) and Google.co.au (pages from Australia) that the main usage is the community in Canada with either Baker Lake (Washington) or Baker Lake (Western Australia). Therefore Baker Lake should move to Baker Lake (disambiguation) and Baker Lake, Nunavut to Baker Lake. Relisted. Jafeluv (talk) 01:56, 23 October 2010 (UTC) Enter CBW, waits for audience applause, not a sausage. 01:01, 15 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Oppose since the case presented leaves me believing there is no primary use here. Geographic features are so numerous that we are missing too many and have way too many stubs.  So the lack of articles and the following lack of information which leads to fewer links is not a way to establish primary use.  Dab pages are not bad. Vegaswikian (talk) 00:38, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose a dab page should remain primary, considering the low usage of all cases. 76.66.199.238 (talk) 04:46, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Strong Oppose No reason at all that the Nunvaut instance should have primacy; and the lake in Washington is significant, especially if you're in that area of Washington or neighbouring parts of BC, where it is a major recreation asset as well as a man-made geohazard (see Concrete, Washington).  That it is disambiguated by parentheses vs comma is only incidental and not relevant to primacy or "superior notability".Skookum1 (talk) 17:38, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

google map block out
Is this the same spot that has a big black out rectangle on google satellite maps ?--— ⦿⨦⨀Tumadoireacht Talk/Stalk 13:27, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm not seeing any black out rectangle on Google Maps or Google Earth. It might be one of the other Baker Lakes. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 06:09, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

Transliteration
I notice that the transliteration from Inuktitut to English has an apostrophe in it: Qamani'tuaq. However, the spelling in Inuktitut syllabics has a small "ta" in that place, indicating another "t". I know that transliteration is tricky between Inuktitut and English but would that not then be transliterated as "Qamanittuaq"? There might be a rule of transliteration I am not aware but everywhere else I have seen the superscript letters indicate a sound without a following vowel and I haven't seen an apostrophe in any other transliterated word or name. Happy to be corrected, though. 199.212.215.11 (talk) 16:52, 30 October 2017 (UTC)
 * On the communities official site the use Qamani'tuaq. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 00:10, 3 November 2017 (UTC)