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Can you provide the page history links, please? By the sounds of it, it sounds less like vandalism and more like agenda-driven edits and Edit Warring in general.
Maybe? they are edit warring at least. You could try messaging them and asking why this is being done.
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Some brief research shows the Chief's name was actually Wahunsenacah, but he was introduced to the English colonists as Chief Powhatan, and they kept on using that name until fairly recently. The Powhatan are a native American tribe, several tribes here in Virginia claim direct descent from them.
So yes, it's technically correct to use Wahunsenacah, also going by the historical record, in European sources he was always referred to as Chief Powhatan.
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Thanks for your help guys. i just wanted to make sure.
Thing is, we've discussed this before
, and a mod made it clear that the character should be referred to by the name Powhatan, since that's what the character in the movie is named.
Not to mention that if Briskin put back the same edits twice, that's edit warring.
Edited by MichaelKatsuro
Yeah, this user has brought up things like changing all instances "Inca" to "Quechua" before, but was vetoed.
Seems like a case of Righting Great Wrongs, if not Single-Issue Wonk.
^ This again? They're done, probably for good this time.
Did JBriskin get blocked.? If so, does this mean that we can put the original edits back?
Edited by kittyface44
It seems that JBrisken was kicked out, so I suppose it's okay to put back the original terms.
They're another satisfied customer of Uber Yeets; the page can be put back to the way it was.
There's a user named JBriskin who has been putting down edits on the Pocahontas character pages, specifically under Chief Powhatan. The edits are mostly about how his actual name is Wahunsenacah. I don't know if this is actually true or not, given that Powhatan himself was inspired by the real Powhatan and is his name was Wahunsenacah; but his actual name was never once spoken in any of the movies.
The point is, when I tried fixing these edits, JBriskin changed them back. What do you think? Would what he's doing be considered inserting false information?
Here's the link to the history page.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Characters.Pocahontas
Edited by kittyface44