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

Cool Cat wikipedia.kawaii.neko at gmail.com
Thu Feb 8 13:47:51 UTC 2007


Buddhists should also be named [[Buddhist people]] to be consistent.
   - Cool Cat

On 2/8/07, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/5/07, Cool Cat <wikipedia.kawaii.neko at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2007_February_2#Category:Jews
> >
> > 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?
>
> For what it's worth, I do find the formulations "Jews", "American
> Jews" etc rather awkward and find they have unfortunate connotations.
> Is it preferable to have "Jewish people" inconsistent with
> "Buddhists"? I don't know.
>
> I do know that tags instead of categories (which is what these really
> are) would make this easier: "Jewish", "American".
>
> Steve
>
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