Talk:Americans in the United Kingdom

message: Like COP663 i'm noit a huge fan of the original name 'American-British' as I've never really seen or heard it used. Not sure that 'American Migration to Britain' covers it either - the article is actually about people with American descent, rather than a population movement per se. How about 'Britons with American Ancestory'. Lets discuss it a little before making a move. Indisciplined (talk) 19:26, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: "Britons" are people who are actually British. Is Madonna a "Briton" if she owns a house here? The article says "London is home to many Americans, mostly workers in the City of London. This population is anecdotally thought to be fairly mobile, coming for a few years or just perhaps a few months before departing again." Are such people "Britons with American ancestry?" Of course not. If you want to call this article "Britons with American ancestry" you'll need to delete a lot of unrelated material. The title "American migration to Britain" covers everything this article is about: immigrants, the children of immigrants, migrant workers, and temporary residents. So it depends what you think the article should be about. Cop 663 (talk) 20:12, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmmm.  And therein might lay the bigger problem. Lots of these articles were created in a very short space of time without a particularly clear theme. This is one of them. Americans aren't an Ethnic group, like say Greek Britons. Whether there is an 'American community' in Britain is questionable. Not all the people cited are US citizens or US born.  Some people listed were born to British parents who happened to be living in the states at the time. But the article isn't about a 'migration'. What is the article for?  As more and more information has been added, it seems the article's focus has become a lot more blurred. (BTW, doesn't Madonna probably holds UK citizenship by right of her British husband?)Indisciplined (talk) 22:23, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, quite. If we don't know what the article is for, it makes sense to have a title as broad as possible. There is an "American community" in Britain, but it's mostly students and temporary workers hanging out together, nothing like the long-standing Greek-British community. Using the word 'migration' doesn't mean a migration, it just means the act of migration in general (Madonna has migrated to Britain). But maybe something even broader like "Americans in Britain" would be better. Incidentally, I don't think citizenship is automatically conferred by marriage. Cop 663 (talk) 00:29, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: 'Americans in Britain'. Perfect! (Phew! The Wikipedia concept does work after all). Lets go with that. (And ditto 'Canadians in Britain') Indisciplined (talk) 23:56, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Of course, if Winston Churchill is going to stay, the title will have to be interpreted loosely as including the 'effect' of Americans in Britain (i.e. the existence of jowly prime ministers of part-American ancestry on our native soil). But I don't suppose that's a big problem. Cop 663 (talk) 02:59, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Name change

message: Erm....what exactly is the point of stating the ethnicity of the notable people. It's crept in somewhere, and I can't see why. Indisciplined (talk) 12:06, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Ethnicity

message: I moved the Union Flag to infront of the USA flag as it should come first.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.69.200.23 (talk) 19:22, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Just to say...

message: I am going over the Life in the UK test, and it is saying that one of the largest groups to enter the UK during the 1980s were Americans. Why the 1980s? Did something happen during that time period that I don't know about?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.74.179.78 (talk) 21:36, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: 1980S

message: I propose that we merge African Americans in the United Kingdom into this article. Both articles are quite short and the material at African Americans in the United Kingdom could easily be used to bulk up the material under the sub-groups heading here. We'd then have a more complete article rather than two less complete ones. Cordless Larry (talk) 23:38, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger proposal

message: I've removed the notable people section because it was unsourced. If anyone wants to reinstate it, with reliable sources as references, I've pasted it below as it appeared prior to removal. Cordless Larry (talk) 17:40, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Notable people section

message: Ironic, isn't it...o_O Ismael Perez (talk) 03:08, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Brits of Native American decent 

message: Tim Dalton is British, born in the UK with an English father and an American mother, having lived in the UK all his life. You could argue that he could be added to the 'British-Americans' article but he is not 'American'. I think we need to remove anyone who was born in the UK, who was on holiday or working in the UK from America temporaririly and move them to the correct article otherwise editors will complain that its nothing more than US-centric identity appropriation, regards. Twobellst@lk 10:02, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article Is Cultural Appropriation 

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