[WikiEN-l] Category:Jews -> Category:Jewsih people

jayjg jayjg99 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 8 21:21:51 UTC 2007


"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds". Ralph Waldo
Emerson in "Self-Reliance".

On 2/8/07, Cool Cat <wikipedia.kawaii.neko at gmail.com> wrote:
> I see where you are getting at. But what do you think of the consistency
> issue?
>
>     - Cool Cat
>
> On 2/8/07, jayjg <jayjg99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 2/8/07, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
> > > jayjg wrote:
> > >
> > > >The American Heritage(r) Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
> > > >Edition.  2000.
> > > >
> > > >"Jew" is not a dirty word.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > While true, that's a different question than presented here.  "Greek" is
> > > not a dirty word either, and yet our category is at [[:Category:Greek
> > > people]], not [[:Category:Greeks]].
> > >
> > > -Mark
> >
> > Steve Bennett specifically said that he finds the word "Jew" to be
> > "awkward" and have "unfortunate connotations". The response was made
> > in that context.
> >
> > Jay.
> >
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