Category talk:People by nationality and descent

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Ethnic groups

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Countries

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Cleanup : clean-up listing for Countries
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This category was nominated for deletion on 19 May 2006. The result of the discussion was no consensus.

This category was nominated for deletion on 20 May 2006. The result of the discussion was no consensus.

This category was nominated for deletion on 18 July 2007. The result of the discussion was no consensus.

This category was nominated for deletion on 28 May 2009. The result of the discussion was keep.

This category was nominated for renaming to Category:People by ethnic descent on 22 October 2014. The result of the discussion was keep.

This category was nominated for merging Category:People by ethnic or national descent to Category:People by descent on 26 December 2023. The result of the discussion was merge; but in effect, split to Category:People by nationality and descent.

question/discussion item

Not a nomination, but a question/discussion item:

In Category:People by ethnic or national descent, there are mostly sub-categories named 'People of Foo descent'. In Category:Emigrants by nationality, there are mostly sub-categories named 'Foo emigrants'. Looking down further into these sub-categories, they are both populated with sub-sub-categories named 'Foo Goo', where 'Foo' is the origin country and 'Goo' is the destination country. Examples: see Category:People of Canadian descent and Category:Canadian emigrants, having Category:Canadian Americans, Category:Canadian Australians, etc. Sometimes, in the matching sub-categories, the sub-sub-categories are the same; more often, there is partial or even no overlap.

Should there be either be categories named 'People of Foo descent' or 'Foo emigrants', but not both? Is there some naming decision somewhere that states what we should be using? Was the decision never implemented or, worse, partially implemented? What is happening here? Thanks Hmains 21:51, 9 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

So shall we create categories recognizing every connection between every country? This is American hyphenization gone to the most ridiculous extremes. NorthernThunder 20:30, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]