Talk:Turtle Island

Basic logic of continent names
Don't want to be unnecessarily skeptical, but ordinarily there would be no real reason for any language to have a name for a continent specifically unless the speakers of that language were aware of the existence of more than one continent... AnonMoos (talk) 20:28, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Not to mention that the chance is very, VERY slim that any Natives would have visited both the West and East coast and considered North America to be an "island". Adding a tag. Bataaf van Oranje (Prinsgezinde) (talk) 11:54, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Agreed. This article currently states, without justification, that Turtle Island is a concept referring to North America specifically... rather than "the land that humans know", or "the world", etc. Mebden (talk) 23:29, 31 May 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm going to move it to a new title that isn't specifically tied to North America, as I agree that the name does not seem to have been originally intended to refer specifically to North America, but to all land on Earth. Kaldari (talk) 22:03, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
 * The foundational sources for this page agree that Native Americans of the Northeastern Woodlands used terms variously translated as Turtle Island to refer to the known world which to them was North America. The term referred to the known world of those Native Americans and they knew solely of North America and thus today the term has become associated with North America alone. No reliable sources have been provided that reject this notion and considering that the change to the name "Turtle Island (Indigenous North American folklore)" has also caused controversy regarding the eurocentrism of the term folkore, I'm going to suggest moving the page back to "Turtle Island (North America)". AethyrX (talk) 21:47, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Why do you say they only knew North America? Indigenousin North and South America have many genetical similarities (see Genetic history of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, and there was much exchange, from today's Mexico to Canada and Ecuador and Bolivia. As well as many of the Caribbean and Pacific Islands. The idea that they only knew North America is very.... North American. 204.101.158.131 (talk) 19:46, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

Requested move 11 May 2024

 * The following is a closed discussion of a 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 after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Sceptre (talk) 18:23, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

– The use of term 'Turtle Island' referring to North America appears to be the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC based on page views and traffic out of the dab page  —blindlynx 00:38, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Turtle Island (Indigenous North American folklore) → Turtle Island
 * Turtle Island → Turtle Island (disambiguation)

The term is used by too many different people for too many different geographic locations. In this instance, a disambiguation page makes sense. Yuchitown (talk) 14:03, 11 May 2024 (UTC)Yuchitown
 * Support. Looks like the Haudenosaunee and Delaware topic is primary, so I'll change my vote. Yuchitown (talk) 14:59, 15 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Support - If not moved, the word "forklore" should be removed from the title. oncamera  (talk page) 17:25, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Support per nom, also agree with oncamera that 'folklore' should be replaced with something else if not moved. Maybe like "concept," since it has largely evolved past being simply "folklore" from one culture. Other suggestions would be appreciated. PersusjCP (talk) 03:46, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Oppose. Can't see any evidence it's the primary topic given how many others there are. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:04, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Page traffic aside, looking through google scholar hits are overwhelmingly as a different name for north america—blindlynx 22:57, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Comment. Perhaps the name could be changed to Turtle Island (Indigenous)? Agree with Oncamera and PersusjCP that folklore should be removed. Yuchitown (talk) 22:47, 14 May 2024 (UTC)Yuchitown