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] → ? – This page was ] (]) 10:18, 26 February 2014 (UTC), saying "moved St'a7mes to Stawamus over redirect: Move to English-language name. See discussion at ]". The problem is that creates a namespace collision with the MOSTCOMMON meaning of "Stawamus" in English being a reference to the ] mountain/cliff that overhangs this village site (note also ]) or of the ] as evident on . ] does exist as an official name, but in modern usage the phrasing "Sta7mes Reserve" now prevails in local usage; . The spelling "Sta7mes" the original title of this article, which was stable from 2007 until 2011, and the use of "7" character is fine by existing romanization standards and practices despite being unfamiliar to people not used to seeing it. Other parallel articles using it such as ] were not changed. The suggestion that "Stawamus" is an English-language name is, I might note rather pointedly, specious in the extreme, like other anglicizations of indigenous names; I've tried a search of the local newspapers, whose search pages don't lend themselves to this, but I know that "Sta7mes" ''IS'' found in English publications, and not just those of the ] and it is definitely the preference ''in English'' by Skwxwu7mesh persons, including the article's author.....the long-standing title here, created by a Skwxwu7mesh person, and not really an English name ''at all'', was wrongly changed without discussion and should be reverted. The title ] should be made into a disambiguation page, also.] (]) 10:18, 26 February 2014 (UTC) |
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] → ? – This page was ] (]) 10:18, 26 February 2014 (UTC), saying "moved St'a7mes to Stawamus over redirect: Move to English-language name. See discussion at ]". The problem is that creates a namespace collision with the MOSTCOMMON meaning of "Stawamus" in English being a reference to the ] mountain/cliff that overhangs this village site (note also ]) or of the ] as evident on . ] does exist as an official name, but in modern usage the phrasing "Sta7mes Reserve" now prevails in local usage; . The spelling "Sta7mes" the original title of this article, which was stable from 2007 until 2011, and the use of "7" character is fine by existing romanization standards and practices despite being unfamiliar to people not used to seeing it. Other parallel articles using it such as ] were not changed. The suggestion that "Stawamus" is an English-language name is, I might note rather pointedly, specious in the extreme, like other anglicizations of indigenous names; I've tried a search of the local newspapers, whose search pages don't lend themselves to this, but I know that "Sta7mes" ''IS'' found in English publications, and not just those of the ] and it is definitely the preference ''in English'' by Skwxwu7mesh persons, including the article's author.....the long-standing title here, created by a Skwxwu7mesh person, and not really an English name ''at all'', was wrongly changed without discussion and should be reverted. The title ] should be made into a disambiguation page, also. As to ''which'' part of the ] discussion is being referred to by this article's mover, that's not very clear at all given all that is on that page, whether on that date or since. ] (]) 10:18, 26 February 2014 (UTC) |
