Suggestion to Rename Myth/IncaMythology to "Quechua Mythology"

When talking about Indigenous groups, I make an effort to refer to them by their endonym (or, at the very least, a phonetic equivalent thereof), rather than the exonyms given them by outsiders, as a mark of respect for the people in question. For that reason, I recommend that the Inca Mythology page should be renamed to "Quechua Mythology." The people themselves, and their language, are properly known as Quechua; inca is merely the word for "ruler" in the Quechua tongue.

This seems as if you're trying to Right Great Wrongs.

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We can add that in as a searchable redirect but the page itself will remain as it is

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I think that would be running into the wiki’s policy of using Descriptive, not Prescriptive language. If offsite literature and conversations overwhelmingly use “Inca” then that is what we go with.

"Quechua mythology" has a non-trivial number of hits on Google (though "Inca mythology" is more common).

(By which I mean I would not object to Myth.Quechua Mythology becoming a redirect to Myth.Inca Mythology, not that Myth.Inca Mythology should be renamed.)

Edited by LordGro on Sep 5th 2021 at 11:45:52 AM

Let's just say and leave it at that.

Yeah, I agree with that too.

A redirect would be fine.

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+1 for making that a redirect.

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I would suggest that we use the common English word. More people call them "Inca" then "Quechua" at least in the US. That's why we call it Georgia (Europe) instead of Sakartvelo, and Germany instead of Deutschland.

However, you could put it as a redirect.

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Burns my bread that English does that, but descriptive is the path we should follow.

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I've created the redirect.

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