Talk:Oklahoma

The meaning of the word Oklahoma

There appears to be some revisionism going on with this. I’ve never heard or read anywhere this Honored People defintion of the Oklahoma.

To back up this point this is a link to a Choctaw Nation owned website.

“The first Choctaw name that we must mention is "Oklahoma" itself. Following the Civil War, delegates from the 5 Civilized Tribes traveled to Washington D.C. to resume formal relationships with the US government. During the meeting, federal officials proposed the creation of an Indian Territory. Choctaw delegate Rev. Allen Wright suggested naming it "Oklahumma" (Meserve 1941:319). In the Choctaw language "okla" means "people" and "humma" means "red". Thus, the area would be named Oklahoma Territory, or literally "Territory of the Red People". Today "The State of Oklahoma" literally means "The state belonging to Red People".”

https://choctawschool.com/home-side-menu/history/choctaw-place-names-in-oklahumma.aspx

The Wayback Machine has that page being up and those words on it since October 17 2012.

http://web.archive.org/web/20121017080821/https://choctawschool.com/home-side-menu/history/choctaw-place-names-in-oklahumma.aspx

Not sure why the definition of the word has suddenly been changed other than to fit someone’e false narrative the Choctaw never referred to themselves as the Red People. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.101.42.226 (talk) 02:51, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

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Give it its own page about its culture

It's big enough to have its own article imo Jarapod (talk) 05:44, 4 August 2022 (UTC)

Images screwed up

There are a bunch of images that are clearly meant to be in the history section, but have been pushed down into the following section because of the (uber-long) infobox about state symbols. This is undesireable, particularly as some of the maps are really important to understand what the history section is talking about. Solutions: (1) Delete the state symbols cruft-box (probably a no-go); (2) remove some of the history images and shunt the rest to the left side of the page (tends to create a bit of a WP:SANDWICH). What do others think? Furius (talk) 09:27, 10 November 2022 (UTC)

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Requested move 24 June 2023

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The result of the move request was: Not moved - WP:SNOW oppose for the move, there does not seem to be a chance this will ever succeed. (non-admin closure) ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 20:08, 25 June 2023 (UTC)

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Oklahoma → Oklahoma (state) – Per WP:CONSISTENT. Conforms with New York (state). The current title can be ambiguous with Oklahoma City, as is with "New York State" and "New York City". Wikiexplorationandhelping (talk) 12:21, 24 June 2023 (UTC)

• Oppose, it appears most state articles don't have the disambiguator of (state). Also, "City" is a WP:NATURALDISAMBIG here. "New York (state)" is most likely at its current title because another name for NYC can just be "New York". ― Blaze Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 12:41, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
• Oppose - is Oklahoma City commonly referred to as just "Oklahoma"? Even if so, I would guess that that is not nearly as commonly used as "New York" is when referring to NYC. Tim O'Doherty (talk) 14:09, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
• Oppose, I don't see any confusion here. Kansas is not Kansas (state), just because there's a Kansas City. With regard to New York I believe the state should have precedence over the city and the correct title should be New York for the state and New York City for the city. Smallchief (talk) 14:12, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
• Oppose per User:Tim O'Doherty. 162 etc. (talk) 15:53, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
• Oppose unlike "New York" the city's official and common name includes "City" per the AP style book. Crouch, Swale (talk) 16:20, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
• OpposeThe current title isn't ambiguous with Oklahoma City as no one in Oklahoma calls Oklahoma City just Oklahoma. This isn't New York where everyone calls New York City just New York.--Dcheagle • talk • contribs 05:06, 25 June 2023 (UTC)

Oppose per above. estar8806 (talk) ★ 15:25, 25 June 2023 (UTC)

• Oppose (what is the average snowfall in Oklahoma?) Randy Kryn (talk) 15:39, 25 June 2023 (UTC)

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