Talk:Karen (name)

message: The name derivates from Karine and Katherine both female names, and it is not a male variant of a female name. Just because there are some guys names Karen the name does not turn into a gender neutral name, for example Anne Rice was named Stanley so was Barack Obama's mom, and Stanley stills a male given name. I'm changing it to female since it is a female name.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.248.40.184 (talk) 20:11, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Female Name

message: Can anyone explain whya) this article is tagged with )?b) the normal procedure of tagging questionable sentences with  (or similar) is not used?-- Fullstop 23:22, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ahem. "any of its statements?," like "Karen is a female given name," or do you mean specific statements that you consider needing a citation? -- Fullstop 23:34, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, "any" of its statements.  The list of names likely doesn't need citing, but everything in the opening paragraph does. Valrith 23:41, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources

message: the page is the prime source for "Karen" where the name is far from the most important or most universal, the Myanmar ethnic group would be here instead, or at the very least a disambiguate page.Lihaas (talk) 10:27, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  redirect/disambiguate 

message: also a Japanese name, written 可憐 213.249.135.36 (talk) 21:16, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  also 

message: Here's a proposed addition to the English, Europe & Scandinavia section:
:During the late 2010s, the name "Karen" was used as a synonym for "Becky", to refer to a busybody middle-aged woman making formal complaints about minor activities.
Deepred6502 (talk) 03:03, 15 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  As a meme 

message: The section only lists people from East Asia. And the earlier half of the article states that the name has an etymology in East Asia as well. 
But Armenia is in (West) Asia too. You might as well just add them to the Asia section as well.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shatter Sky (talk • contribs) 19:50, 24 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  The section titled "Asian People" with the name should be re-titled to "East Asian people" with the name.  

message: I want to re-organize the sections on the page. Like so
Such changes include compressing the various origins of the name to an "Etymology" section.
Then I think we should add separate Female/Male subsections in the "Notable people" section and within the "Female" sub-section, add a subsection within that one to add all the "East Asian people" with the name (they're all women anyways).
Then just add a "Male" subsection because several of those "Armenian Men" are Russians nationality wise (but of Armenian origin). Then a "surname" sub-section for everyone with the surname, because the one person in the "Armenian Men" section whose surname was "Karen" is Zarmihr Karen who wasn't Armenian, but Iranian. 
Then I would like to move around people to their proper sections.Karen Kong is Malaysian (but of Chinese origin). Malaysia is in Southeast Asia, not East Asia. Karen Mok is from Hong Kong, which is in East Asia but she's included in that section for some reason. And I mean, Karen Chen and Karen Chin are Americans of East Asian ancestry but aren't included the "East Asian people" section because they're Americans so... Clear Looking Glass (talk) 06:30, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I do not think that’s an improvement or a decluttering. The sequence you propose “female, Malaysian people, male, surname” is arbitrary. You also lump fictional and nonfictional names together, which isn’t helpful. If you find errors on the page, you are, of course, more than welcome to correct them. Kleuske (talk) 10:25, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reorganizing the sections on the page 

message: Why are there multiple unrelated names in the same article? Shouldn't they be separated into different pages?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Malcolmmwa (talk • contribs) 18:25, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unrelated names