Forums: Index > Watercooler > German people, People of Germany, People from Germany, Emigrants from Scotland - and so on
Categories and lists are easier to follow if all the entries of the same type have the same form. Not like this:
- Emigrants from Switzerland
- German people
- Germans in Austria
- People from Austria
- People from Turkey
- People of Sweden
- Swiss people
Wikipedia has some consistency but not complete. I think Commons is better, though much less detailed. I hope we can combine the best of them to get a system that gives maximum standardisation without having page names that are too unnatural.
There are problems with the difference between nationality and race/descent. Discussion on Wikipedia has not settled this one! Am I right in "remembering" that the residents of parts of Czechoslovakia were Germans and were therefore the excuse for Hitler's "liberation" of them?
Robin Patterson 02:16, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
- After some discussions between some admins, project leaders and very active contributors, at Commons we settled on the [Noun of placename] form. I proceeded to write up the guidelines ages ago By location category scheme, and it has since been nominated for a policy document. Folks here might find it of some interest. It discusses some of the pros and cons of adjectives, which I only dimly recall. Some of the rules may be far too detailed for our use. -Mak 05:28, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
- Great work, Mak! We can have our own cut-down version at project:By location category scheme. Robin Patterson 12:09, 6 September 2007 (UTC)