Talk:American Indian Wars

message: One month ago I removed an excessive number of flag icons from the infobox, per the guidance at :Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Icons. In particular I removed the flagicon for Sweden because that country is not mentioned in the article. Yesterday,  added the Swedish flagicon to the article and I reverted that edit. Today, SpinnerLaserzthe2nd reverted my edit, restoring the Swedish flagicon without discussion, even though there is still no mention of Sweden in the article. I think that the Swedish flagicon should be removed from the infobox, but I wiil not edit war over it. Donald Albury 00:56, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I tried to find any mentions of incidents involving Sweden through sources but the only mention I ever found is that Sweden had good relations with the Native population. SpinnerLaserzthe2nd (talk) 01:26, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re-addition of Swedish flag to infobox 

message: has restored many of the flag icons I removed after the discussion in the section "Flag icons in the infobox" above. I feel that those flagicons are excessive, and violate the guidance at :Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Icons#Inappropriate use. I have invited Korg82Champ74 to discuss this here. Donald Albury 15:34, 5 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re-adding of flag icons 

message: And as I don't want to add to a closed discussion, I will add this paragraph here from Indigenous peoples of the Americas
"The term Amerindian, a portmanteau of "American Indian", was coined in 1902 by the American Anthropological Association. It has been controversial ever since its creation. It was immediately rejected by some leading members of the Association, and, while adopted by many, it was never universally accepted. While never popular in Indigenous communities themselves, it remains a preferred term among some anthropologists, notably in some parts of Canada and the English-speaking Caribbean."Terminology."  Survival International. Retrieved 30 March 2012. "Aborigen"  Diccionario de la Real Academia Española. Retrieved 8 February 2012."
If this sort of behaviour continues, a report to ANI may be required.
 Doug Weller talk 10:28, 29 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: If they're changing quoted text to match their preferred word usage, I'd say it's a pretty clear case of NOTHERE. While Amerindian may be in more common usage in Central and South America, it certainly isn't in the United States...especially in scholarly work surrounding the Indian Wars. Intothatdarkness 13:01, 29 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Apologies. I did not notice the quotation. I was using CTRL+F. DaRealPrinceZuko (talk) 19:52, 29 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: @DaRealPrinceZuko you need to stop these mass changes. Doug Weller talk 20:42, 29 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Some of these articles already had the term "Amerindian" used frequently that predated my editing. DaRealPrinceZuko (talk) 21:22, 29 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: That's okay, but each article is self-contained; just because we do things one way in another article doesn't mean we must do the same here (though that can be an argument for doing so).  The advice here is more that mass editing is just a bad idea in general.  Errors like the one you encountered here are bound to crop up eventually.  Better to go slow and account for context.  Cheers. Dumuzid (talk) 22:07, 29 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[User:DaRealPrinceZuko]] has at least once changed a quotation which read "Indian" to "Amerindian" 

message: Please see the infobox documentation first: Template:Infobox military conflict. You used the "partof" parameter incorrectly. Mellk (talk) 17:58, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox