Talk:Gayo people

Units

I notice non-standard, local units being used in the article:
"which has elevations of over 12,000 feet and extends more than one thousand miles."
I do not know of any Wikipedia rules on this, and also could not find about that with a brief search.
Does anybody know if these units are allowed, or if they should be converted?
--Vanboven42 (talk) 17:38, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

Gayonese?

There is no evidence of the usage of this term in literature. The title of this article should be returned to "Gayo people", Humboldt 09:13, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Gayo derives from "Goyim"?

I am not an expert on the Gayo people, but in copy-editing this article, I was swiftly confronted with the following phrase: "Gayo may also be a variant word of Goyim, originally meaning non-Jewish or non-Roma, a name given by outsiders in the coastal area for the interior people and later taken up as the tribe's own name." First off, I've never heard of goyim referring to non-Romas. My understanding is that it's a Hebrew word used in a Jewish context. Now, while I don't discount the possibility of Jews living on the coast of Sumatra and bestowing this exonym on the Gayo people, it seems unlikely, and it's certainly not backed up by anything in this article. Would anyone object to excising this dubious notion from the page? Tigercompanion25 (talk) 23:55, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

Alright, as no one has objected, I'm going to go ahead and remove the bit about goyim. Tigercompanion25 (talk) 23:50, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

Requested move 6 October 2021

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Lennart97 (talk) 15:22, 13 October 2021 (UTC)

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Gayonese people → Gayo people – Per WP:COMMONNAME. "Gayonese people" does not even appear in an Ngram search[1], and only yields 18 search results in Google scholar[2], against 237 search results for the proposed target "Gayo people"[3]. Austronesier (talk) 08:06, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

• Support per nom. "Gayonese" on its own does have some results in Ngrams, but it still trails behind "Gayo people" (which is also a more restrictive term thanks to the appended noun). ModernDayTrilobite (talk) 20:36, 6 October 2021 (UTC)
• Support per nom. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 23:18, 6 October 2021 (UTC)
• Support per nom--RicardoNixon97 (talk) 11:05, 7 October 2021 (UTC)
• Support per nom.--Ortizesp (talk) 15:08, 7 October 2021 (UTC)
• Support. I always found it strange the page wasn't called "Gayo people" as is common in the literature. A few other Southeast Asian ethnic groups have had similar naming issues like this. SlackingViceroy (talk) 15:43, 7 October 2021 (UTC)
• Support as overdue. Abhishek0831996 (talk) 14:45, 13 October 2021 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.