Category talk:Anti-national sentiment

Create Category:Anti-Americanism?
Would someone like to go ahead and create Category:Anti-Americanism to go with all of the other "anti-[country]" categories in this main category? Frankly, I'm quite surprised that this category hasn't been created yet. --172.144.223.76 11:35, 20 June 2007 (UTC)


 * It was always there, but someone used the 2nd argument to have it sort under 'U' where you couldn't find it. It's fixed now. If you're not tired of waiting, or dead, that is.  Mathglot (talk) 23:46, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

Make a New Policy
I've been editing the anti-Americaism article--got sucked in and can't escape (!). Lately, I've been looking at some other anti-national sentiment articles. They all tend to push POV on political matters. The anti-Japanese article, for example, has a section on whaling protests, intepreting the oppostion as racism against Japanese. Meanwhile, the anti-Americanism article cites a protest against a US military base, in the wake of Marines raping a child, as an example of anti-Americanism. All of this is interpreting and labelling the views of others, on political matters, and isn't appropriate for an encyclopedia.

Proposal: anti-[national sentiment] articles should only be about people who self-declare as anti-[nation]. There are people who describe themselves as anti-American. There can be a neutral article about them and what they believe. Everything else--anti-Mexican sentiment (the article dismisses immigration concerns as prejudice against Mexicans....), anti-Americanism, etc--is just POV pushing, often, often about living people and other ethnicities.

Here's what I wonder: Is it possible to have a policy about this, or is Wikipedia too de-centralized for something like that? Life.temp (talk) 01:56, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
 * This would be more appropriate at WP:VPP, and gets tons more attention there. You might want to move it there when you get the chance.  Equazcion •✗/C • 10:20, 12 Apr 2008 (UTC)
 * This was raised at WPP:VPP/Archive 43. Mathglot (talk) 23:57, 17 February 2017 (UTC)