Category talk:American people

message: I think the category name "United States people" (or possibly "U.S. people" if brevity is prefered for some reason) would be more appropirate and better in line with naming conventions here at Wikipedia when talking about people from the United States. -- Infrogmation 21:31, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I second that. If no one votes against in two weeks, I will move this category to category:United States people. Mikkalai 19:14, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

text: If you oppose, I will start adding people from Canada and Chile, and bet you will not find an article in wikipedia that will forbid me doing this. Let's be reasonable here. I know that the President of the USA likes to address to "American people", but America is biger than that, man.Mikkalai 20:50, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: United States#Notes make me to back off. BTW, the same usage note is applicable to Russian language as well. Mikkalai 21:01, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

text: There is a List of people from the United States. People didn't want it to be called List of Americans, see the discussion about the naming. But this category can't be named People from United States, because it doesn't match with other category names in :Category:People by nationality. Let's wait another two weeks if we will get a proper argument against the name change. -Hapsiainen 21:02, Nov 16, 2004 (UTC)
So what was decided here?Mejor Los Indios (talk) 09:25, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I have an idea for a new subcategory...
I'd like to see a subcategory exclusively for natural-born U.S. citizens born outside the United States. There might be some difficulty with a proper name for the category. For example, "foreign-born U.S. citizens" would be too inclusive, as that would include naturalized citizens, who already have their own category.
I can think of a few people off the top of my head, with Wikipedia articles, who would fall into this category:
*Shawn Bradley
*John McEnroe
*George Romney
*Earnie Stewart
*Dominique Wilkins
There should be enough additional people to fill a category.
Any takers?  Dale Arnett 06:16, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggestion for new subcategory

message: Am I the only one who finds it strange that [Category:American people] is a subcategory of [Category:North American people]? Shouldn't it be the other way around?Mejor Los Indios (talk) 09:22, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with you that it should be vice versa, and it is why this page has been on my watchlist for long. To answer your question from above "So what was decided here?Mejor Los Indios (talk) 09:25, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks Biblbroks. I'm going to make a proposal below.Mejor Los Indios (talk) 13:28, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: So many Americans

message: I propose this category be the parent category for all people of the Americas, rather than just the US of America as it is at present. I'm not entirely sure how to go about this, so advice is welcome.Mejor Los Indios (talk) 13:43, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: We can define the term American either way, but most automatically assume the way it is now so we should keep it as is. Richardc020 (talk) 21:10, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi. I am not sure that the argument of frequency of people's assumptions is more important than the argument of existence of other meaning(s) (which are at least more precise, if not even less biased). I took the liberty in interpreting your comment with such summarization - i apologize, if i have made a mistake in this interpretation. In general, i think this poses a complex question of educative features vs. "stating the facts" features of Wikipedia. By "Wikipedia" i mean here the term Wikipedia as described in Wikipedia article's lede - the ..."multilingual" encyclopedia project. Best regards, --biblbroks (talk) 09:42, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Renaming

message: Category:Asian_American_athletes says
:20:43, 20 February 2006 Freakofnurture (talk | contribs) deleted "Category:Asian American athletes" ‎ (content was: 'Classification:American people:By ethnicity:[[:category:Asia...')
What's wrong with having ethnic-related categories? There're many such on Wikipedia. I propose a reinstatement of that categeory. Richardc020 (talk) 05:27, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: From my experience ethnic-related categories usually cause trouble. I remember reading a guideline that touches this issue, but I can't find it currently. Let me demonstrate this with a question: if :Category:Asian American athletes category should exist, why not :Category:American Asian athletes also. Not that I know such athletes exist, but are you sure they don't? All the best, --Biblbroks (talk) 08:01, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category:Asian_American_athletes