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

Cool Cat wikipedia.kawaii.neko at gmail.com
Sun Feb 4 18:15:10 UTC 2007


That would require renaming all nationality/ethnicity categories and not
following the manual of style.
   - Cool Cat

On 2/4/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I proposed a rename as per wikipedias categorization scheme, we add
> "people"
> > to any ethnicity. There appears to be a number of panic "oppose" votes.
> What
> > do you think?
>
> I don't see any panicking going on. People are just opposing,
> generally with valid reasons. I understand why you proposed it, but by
> the look of that discussion, it would seem the preferred consistency
> would be achieved by removing "people" from all the categories where
> it isn't necessary (so [[Category:Christian people]] becomes
> [[Category:Christians]]), rather than adding "people" to the other
> categories.
>
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