Category talk:American people

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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)

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)

Please cite the Wikipedia naming convention which supports this contention. I object to the proposed move. RickK 19:35, Oct 11, 2004 (UTC)

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)
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)
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)

[edit] Suggestion for new subcategory

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)

Shouldn't ALL people of the United States--current citizens--be placed in this category? I realize that's a large project, but it should be done or this list is inevitably selective and incomplete.

[edit] people in Category American people

This category includes 26 sub-categories, most of which are not mutually exclusive. A person in 'American people' could belong to many of the sub-categories that exist now and could belong to additional sub-categories created in the future. There are also 99 individual people articles in the 'American people' category. This is by no means a complete list of all the people that appear in all the subcategories of the 'American people' category. And there is no indication of why these articles are directly under 'American people' and not just in one or more of its subcategories. Should the 'American people' category be made into a supercategory that is just composed of categories? If not, what should it be? Thanks Hmains 17:46, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

I presume it should include everyone with American nationality regardless how many other American subcategories the person is categorized in. This will make the category very large but in this case, as with Living people, might be acceptable. I'll support the project but before I start adding all the Americans to this category, I want to make sure I have the approval of at least five other users. Pink moon 1287

I'll suggest creating a page that lists all of the many subcategories, like a directory. Pink moon 1287