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Proposed name change[edit]

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]

Orphaned references in List of politically motivated renamings[edit]

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of List 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 for this 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":

From Italy: The Middle East and Europe. Google Books. 24 November 1998. Retrieved 30 May 2011.
From African 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. Retrieved January 20, 2011.
From Al 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":

From Aboriginal 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)
From Inuit: 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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Cass County, Georgia (USA)[edit]

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