Dear Chicheley 

 The discussion of the "Welsh-speaking people" category has not been there the same length of time as all the others with which it has been bracketed.  It needs to be there for a week.  I doubt that you understand the minority language issue as well as you think you do, otherwise you would not suggest that Welsh speakers do not consider this one of their defining characteristics  they surely do.  The way other people have voted on the blanket removal of all language categories shows that they don't understand the issue either, but they are entitled to vote.  However, many of them had already done so before this category was included.  Any vote dated before you added the category to the list on 6 July must be discounted unless the user in question verifies it.