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Happy editing! – Garuda ^Talk! 21:16, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Inuit

Thanks for correcting those articles.

have a Wikipedia day, Augmented Seventh (talk) 22:03, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Replacing Inuit with Inuk as adjectives

Dear colleague, All dictionaries that I have consulted list examples of using Inuit with a singular noun. The word Inuk is almost unknown and practically unused (cf. Google comparison [1]). Please stop your mass change and start the search for consensus (cf. WP:Mass editing). Sincerely, Викидим (talk) 23:09, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not the IP, however I want to say that they are correct in making these changes.

Inuk is singular for Inuit; the changes are correct and proper usage.

Webster's dictionary:[2]; Government of Canada:[3]; The Canadian Encyclopedia:[4]; Collins dictionary:[5]; Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada [6] and many more such sources are available. It doesn't really matter what google n-grams has to say regarding the frequency of use, as there is no context provided in those stats.

BTW, a discussion has been opened on the WP:IPNA Wikiproject talk page. Netherzone (talk) 23:48, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Webster is perfectly OK with "Inuit" as an adjective attached to a singular noun, see [7] ("an Inuit settlement"). I have no doubt that "Inuk" is a word. I have objected to a mass replacement of a seemingly valid (and well-known) word by a word that very few people use or even know (the frequency of use of Inuit vs Inuk is about 40:1). I will continue at the IPNA. Thank you for the link. Викидим (talk) 01:29, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@64.231.225.81, not sure if you receive pings as an IP editor, so I am leaving a note here in the event that you are watching this talk page. You are free to participate in the discussion on the WikiProject Indigenous people of North America talk page, it is located here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America#Inuit -> Inuk.

It seems that you are a new editor, and I wanted to express a big Welcome to you, and to encourage you to create an account and continue editing! The message Garuda left you a couple days ago has a link that shows you how to create an account. Netherzone (talk) 17:57, 15 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Just reaching out again to let you know that the order to stop making the changes you were making, has been withdrawn by Викидим, so you can ignore the big red stop sign above. You have done nothing wrong. Through the process of consensus, which is how these types of decisions are made, it was determined that your changes were indeed correct, that the singular form of Inuit is indeed Inuk when applied to a singular person. You probably already knew that, and I hope you do not take it personally or felt discouraged. Your edits and improvements are welcome here. Netherzone (talk) 16:33, 16 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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