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Hey, I think this article is misnamed.Euphemism is about slapping a nicer name on something which is considered taboo or impolite-to-discuss-openly-for-some-reason. On the other hand, this is an excellent article about politically motivated name changes. This is not euphemism!

So I propose to rename this article to "List of political renamings". How's that?-Bazuz (talk)21:02, 11 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I check pages listed inCategory:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content fororphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some ofList of politically motivated renamings's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct forthis article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "books.google.com":

• FromItaly:The Middle East and Europe. Google Books. 24 November 1998. Retrieved30 May 2011.
• FromAfrican American:Baugh, John (1999).Out of the Mouths of Slaves: African American Language and Educational Malpractice.University of Texas Press. p. 86.ISBN 978-0-292-70873-0. RetrievedJanuary 20, 2011.
• FromAl Jazeera: Hugh Miles, 2005. Al-Jazeera: The Inside Story of the Arab News Channel that is Challenging the West. New York: Grove Press, p.346,Books.Google.com

Reference named "kaplan":

• FromAboriginal peoples in Canada:Olson, James Stuart; Pappas, Nicholas Charles (1994).An Ethnohistorical dictionary of the Russian and Soviet empires. Connecticut Greenwood Press. p. 213.ISBN 0-313-27497-5.{{cite book}}:Unknown parameter|unused_data= ignored (help)
• FromInuit: Kaplan, Lawrence. (2002)."Inuit or Eskimo: Which names to use?",Alaska Native Language Center,University of Alaska Fairbanks, Retrieved on 2007-04-06.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not.AnomieBOT⚡14:51, 23 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I fixed the first orphaned reference, but the second one eludes me. I lived in AK for 7 years and my brother is Native Alaskan - I am almost positive the bit about being able to refer to all of the tribes as Inuit is incorrect but I didn't want to change it in case I am mistaken... Anybody have a citation?Caffeinated42 (talk)18:29, 30 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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A clear example of a politically motivated change of a geographic name:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartow_County,_Georgia (see History section)

Many items on that page are part of this page, making the latter essentially a sub-list of this, so I think they should be merged.Xeroctic (talk)16:04, 11 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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