Talk:Kalmyk Americans

Move without vote

Khoikhoi, I did not get your reason - Why Kalmyks in the United States is better than Kalmyk people of the United States? Calmouk 07:14, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

The reason why I moved it because you had a name in parenthesis in the title, which doesn't conform to Wikipedia's Manuel of Style. --Khoikhoi 07:23, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

It is ridiculius. Show me plz a policy of Wiki which prohibits using parentesis in the title Calmouk 20:45, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Khoikhoi, I am creator and only contributor to this article. So do not move page without voting Calmouk 19:25, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Ownership of articles. No one owns an article. --Khoikhoi 19:49, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Asian American

Are they Asian American, because their article implies that they have a strong affinity with Mongolians? --23prootie 23:27, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Possible sources

• Vol 17, No 2 (1999): Special Issue: Reassessing Peripheries in Post-Communist Studies - Special Issue Section Social and Cultural Change in the Mongol-American Community
• Sanderson, Sagan T. (2004). "Kalmyks". In Lurie, Maxine (ed.). Encyclopedia of New Jersey. Rutgers University Press. p. 434. ISBN 9780813533254. Retrieved 11 October 2012. Originally refused entry into the United States because of Asian Exclusion laws, the Kalmyks were reclassified as Caucasians. {{cite book}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); More than one of |pages= and |page= specified (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
• Michael Aaron Rockland (14 March 2011). "Meet the Kalmyks". Living. New Jersey Monthly Magazine. Retrieved 11 October 2012. It was not until 1951 that Kalmyks began to come to New Jersey. Earlier, they had been rejected under the Asian Exclusion Acts (repealed in 1943) and immigration quotas based on race (repealed in 1965). They found an ally in the United States Attorney General who argued that since Kalmykia is in European Russia, the Kalmyks are Europeans not Asians, going so far as to insist that they are "Caucasians"—which is silly, but so is racism.

--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 10:26, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

Relation to Mongol Americans

Working on the Mongol Americans article and I'm wondering how these two articles should relate to each other. Kalmyk peoples are part of the Mongolian culture and people, so maybe these two articles should be merged? Any thoughts?--IanVG (talk) 16:36, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

Philadelphia Pennsylvania

I added in information about the Kalmyk people who live in Pennsylvania and how there is a Kalmyk church or place they worship. I found it by accident when I looked up a highschool friend.100.34.234.175 (talk) 18:31, 21 March 2023 (UTC)