Talk:Inuksuk

message: Merged inuksuk and inukshuk. -- Montrealais 04:38, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge 

message: I still don't understand the difference between 'inuksugaq and inukshuk. I was hoping the article would clarify what each of them means, how much their meanings overlap, and how the terms can be used contrastively.--Sonjaaa 03:22, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There is little if any difference between them. It's more or less a variation in spelling due to the large number of Inuktitut dialects that are used across the Arctic. I live in Cambridge Bay and inukshuk is the word used here (and for the most part west of us) and you would never hear inuksugaq used. It would be considered an Eastern Artcic word by the people that live here. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 06:13, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

text: I don't know whether this is the best place for this or not. If not, somebody please move it. There seem to be a few different purposes for this kind of figure - inuksuk or similar - direction markers, ancestral remembrances and a few others that i have read. With some amount of research I have been unable to determine which of these purposes are original and which have been perhaps suggested by NonInuits.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Demarshall (talk • contribs) 16:31, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Distinctions 

message: The common spelling "Inukshuk" is incorrect, as there is no 'H', nor any 'shhh' sound in Inuktitut.
Why is inuksuk redirecting here?  Why is "inukshuk" never used in the article, nor in other languages or the commons?  I think this page ought to be a redirect to inuksuk, and I think there is evidence enough to move it. -- Sy / (talk) 00:03, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. 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 debate was no consensus. —Nightstallion (?) 11:16, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  There is no such thing as an InukSHUK 

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* Support -- All other language links and the wikimedia commons use "Inuksuk". -- Sy / (talk) 00:09, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: This should settle the spelling debate. The book CAPS and SPELLING by the Canadian Press uses and recommends Inukshuk, with sh and with always capitalized I. This is the style used by journalists across Canada, which is the country with the most Inukshuks in it. :)--Sonjaaa 19:12, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: The Canadian Press

message: Why is no mention made of the Superfriends superhero Apache Chief in the modern usage section? The phrase 'inukshuk' (with any number of misspellings, such as 'inukchuk' or 'enuch chuck') has become quite popular in geek culture for the way it refers to the cheesy 'minoriteam' heroes added to the Superfriends lineup with no regard to their culture or the meanings of their names. As a sort of followup, 'inukshuk' is also used the activate the Justice League of America character Manitou Raven's superhuman growth powers. 71.232.25.117 17:02, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Superfriends

message: This article suggests inuksuk are endemic to Canada alone.
Not true.
The building of stone cairns, whether called inuksuk or not, extends across Greenland, North America (including Alaska) and into much of Siberia.
I find this article highly partisan to Canadian interests, perhaps in large part because the authors of this piece probably hail from Canada.  Even then, it needs serious expansion to include every region in which inuksuks are commonplace and culturally significant.
69.178.38.95 (talk) 09:46, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This article, though, is specifically about inuksuit in Canada. Wikipedia also has an article about cairns, which has broader scope, and specific culturally-significant cairns, such as Mongolian Ovoo. The inukshuk is culturally and historically important to Canada, so an article specific to this type of cairn exists to describe those details, which would overwhelm the more general article about cairns. There's no reason we can't have both. Mindmatrix 14:46, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: But the Inuit also live in Alaska, Greenland, and Siberia. It would seem reasonable that inuksuk exist in those places. The article says they exist in Alaska and Greenland (not Siberia) but only mentions examples and pictures of inuksuk in Canada. Hypertall (talk) 23:57, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  O Canada? 

message: Removed the following claim as poorly sourced:  "On a commercial level, a local stone quarry built an inuksuk in Schomberg, Ontario as an attraction.[18] It is the largest in the world.[19]"  But I'm putting the information back into the article (with a proper source) because it actually is listed in GBWR.  Even so, it is a pretty shameless publicity stunt.
I also rearranged the paragraphs in the Modern usage section, trying to group similar things.  Frankly, it could still use a lot of tightening up.  The article seems to have a balance problem, without due weight being given to the original cultural significance and use of inuksuit. Richigi (talk) 18:47, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed claim 

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