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
 * 1) **Categories for discussion/Log/2009 January 13
 * 2) Regional ethnicity parent categories without hyphen: Bar Fooian people
 * Category:Native American people
 * 1) **Categories for deletion/Log/2005 November 28
 * 2) **Categories for discussion/Log/2007 May 9
 * 3) Single word national ethnicity adjective followed by nationality (noun) without hyphen: Barish Fooians
 * Category:Polish Americans
 * 1) **Categories for discussion/Log/2009 May 3
 * Category:Turkish Americans
 * 1) **Categories for discussion/Log/2009 May 2
 * 2) National ethnicity compound adjectives followed by occupation (noun) must have hyphen, even though the parent category has no hyphen:
 * Category:Italian-American musicians
 * 1) **Categories for deletion/Log/2006 September 24

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)