Category talk:American people by descent

Naming conventions

Rather than debating these case by case, and Cydebot surreptitiously making changes without a CfD (as it did for Jewish-Americans→Jewish Americans), here is a comprehensive American guideline, as proposed at recent CfD, and the Village Pump, and annotated with some recent decisions. This differs from the world consensus, as follows:

1. Multiple word ethnicities in the now standard form: Fooian people of Barian descent
   • Category:American people of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines descent
     • Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2009 January 13#Category:Vincentian people
2. Regional ethnicity parent categories without hyphen: Bar Fooian people
   • Category:Native American people
     • Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2005 November 28#Category:Native Americans to Category:Native American people
     • Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 May 9#Category:Native American people and Category:Native American people of the Indian Wars
3. Single word national ethnicity adjective followed by nationality (noun) without hyphen: Barish Fooians
   • Category:Polish Americans
     • Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2009 May 3#Category:Americans of Polish descent
   • Category:Turkish Americans
     • Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2009 May 2#Category:Turkish Americans
4. National ethnicity compound adjectives followed by occupation (noun) must have hyphen, even though the parent category has no hyphen:
   • Category:Italian-American musicians
     • Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 September 24#Italian Americans

Will folks enforce these in the future without exception? Otherwise, the bickering will continue.
--William Allen Simpson (talk) 16:17, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Emigrants who landed in America after long travel

The family of the famous physicist Michel Ter-Pogossian fled Armenian Genocide from Turkey to Gemany, then moved to France, then to the United states. As a result, his bio is categorized into a multitude of cross-national category. To save space, I will abbreviate categories "X-ans of Y-an descent" with "c:X<Y" My question is, whether is it correct to classify Michel Ter-Pogossian with

c:Tu<Ar (forCategory:Turkish Armenians),

c:Ge<Tu, c:Ge<Ar,

c:Fr<Tu, c:Fr<Ar, c:Fr<Ge,

and finally,

c:US<Tu, c:US<Ar, c:US<Ge, c:US<Fr (the last one for category:American people of French descent).

This is not a joke, just look into the article.

I know people with even longer wander....

Are there a rule to reasonably restrict this categorization?

Is there a more general page in wikipedia to discuss this issue? Ralph Saroyan (talk) 20:32, 13 May 2010 (UTC)