Talk:Aboriginal Victorians

Requested move 4 February 2019

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The result of the move request was: moved as requested per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 06:20, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

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Victorian Aborigines → Aboriginal Victorians – As discussed in the Indigenous Australians article, "Terms that are considered disrespectful include Aborigine and ATSI". This move would also make the page consistent with the title of Aboriginal Tasmanians. tamasys (talk) 06:05, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

• Support for consistency and per nom's point about the current name being disrespectful --DannyS712 (talk) 08:40, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
• Support per all the above. I was coincidentally just today reading several Australian style guides by govt. agencies (e.g. the Gov.AU Content Guide), universities, and media organizations, and they're unanimous in not calling indigenous Australians "Aborigines", but that "Aboriginal" remains a viable adjective. If the proposed title is considered a hair too potentially ambiguous (in that "aboriginal" retains some currency as a general adjective, not always tied to Australia except when capitalized, but we can't tell if the first letter of a WP article title is meant to be capitalized in mid-sentence), an alternative (at the cost of some WP:CONCISE) would be "Victorian Aboriginal Australians".  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  01:57, 8 February 2019 (UTC)
• Support per all the above. Bacondrum (talk) 01:26, 10 February 2019 (UTC)

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