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Nomination of Navybearcat2/Inuit religion for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Navybearcat2/Inuit religion is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. CoconutOctopus  talk  12:49, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Page deletion
Hi, I saw that your page was nominated for deletion. There are several issues with it offhand:


 * This has issues with the writing style, as it's more of a reflective piece because it's written fairly casually, with judgement statement type words like 'tremendous'. Keep in mind that words like this tend to carry inherent issues with notability. Using the word large is a bit better, but we should try to attribute statements like this along the lines of "Historians have stated that...".


 * There doesn't seem to be a specific section on Christianity's impact on the Inuit religion as a whole, so I would actually recommend that it would be better to take a more general perspective as opposed to focusing specifically on health and technological impacts of the missionaries. On a side note, I don't really see an article for Christianity and the Inuit people, so this is something that could make for a good article in the future, if you're interested. For the time being though, we'll focus on section you've created. On that note, sections should be moved into the live article and not made their own page, but this has some work that needs fixing before we do that.


 * The sources need to be placed after the claims they're supporting. Since we're only summarizing the source material, it's important that the sourcing be placed after the given claim it's backing up so that people can tell what is sourcing what.

This needs some re-writing. Here's how I would re-write the content:

Large amounts of Christian missionaries began settling in Inuit territories around the late 1800s. Per Ernest S. Burch, Jr., Russian Orthodox priests were the first to systematically introduce Christianity to Alaska Natives, followed by Presbyterians and Protestants. Other regions in the Artic, such as Pelly Bay, had a small Christian population but did not gain large amounts of converted Inuits until missionaries arrived in their areas around the early 1900s. Prior to their arrival the Inuit religion placed a heavy emphasis on animism, which was in conflict with Christian beliefs.
 * Impact of Christianity (retitled this to fit header conventions)

Conversion was facilitated by advances in medicine and technology provided by the missionaries, some of whom also chose to incorporate aspects of the indigenous religion into their own teachings. The introduction of Christmas appealed to some Inuit, due to the importance and tradition of great feasts in Inuit culture, and the holiday eventually supplanted traditional winter feasts. The addition of trade routes, as well as new schools and churches on Inuit land, also lent to natives incorporating Christianity into their daily lives. As of 2019 the bulk of the Inuit tribes prescribe to the Christian belief, however, some more elder tribesman still hold onto old traditions or mix aspects of their old faith with their newer Christian doctrine to create a hybrid between the two.

I added some material in, but this synopsis changes the direction some to focus on the overall impact of Christianity on Inuit religions, notably that the advances brought in by missionaries made it easier to merge the religions together or to supplant one with the other. You can definitely feel free to use this content however you want since most of it is your own work, just tweaked and re-written. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:50, 26 November 2019 (UTC)