Category talk:Linguists by nationality

comments

 * Net Koene (dutch linguist) should be placed at K and not at N Amdewaard (talk) 16:31, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Possible change of some subcategories
Dear fellows. I have been going through this Category:Linguists by nationality and I see some problems. So far, it contains 86 categories, of which 82 refer to specific countries. But it is quite "uneven": some appear by their country name (e.g. "Category:Linguists from England") and others appear by their denomyn adjective (e.g. "Category:Egyptian linguists"). I think it would be good to find one single criteria for all and move the "wrong" categories accordingly. What do you say? Regards, --Fabio Descalzi, aka Fadesga (talk) 14:12, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
 * This was because of consensus at Categories_for_discussion/Log/2012_November_13 to use "Linguists from Foo" in cases where "Fooian" was also the name of a language, to avoid ambiguity.
 * Support was expressed for also renaming the others such as Egyptian, for consistency. Later did so in 2018.
 * Sorry,, I did not notice your recent Speedy nominations which have now been processed, contrary to the consensus at full CFD linked above. Would you mind if I summarily reverse the speedy renames, or would you prefer to take them to a fresh discussion? – Fayenatic  L ondon 21:10, 8 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Those speedies do seem to have been an error, so it was right to revert them.
 * I know that @ is an experienced and conscientious editor of categories, so I am sure that this was a good faith oversight. I think I can guess how it happened: that the sample which Oculi checked had been created after the 2012 CFD, so their page histories showed no link to that CFD.  May I suggest to @Fayenatic london that some note about that CFD be left on the category talk pages and/or in the edit summary of a dummy edit to the category pages?  That would make it easier to avoid such tangles in future.   Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 08:17, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Agreed. Oculi has been following up a nomination of mine and renaming a few rare hierarchies in the form "X people from Foo" to "Fooian X people". I acknowledge that those Linguists cats which were renamed speedily in 2018 had no link to the 2012 CFD in their page history. However, they do now – I listed them under that CFD when I reversed the latest renaming. – Fayenatic  L ondon 09:08, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Good work @Fayenatic london. You were ahead of me.   Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 09:14, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I have also added a note on this parent category page. – Fayenatic  L ondon 23:46, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I have now reversed the Speedy nominations and relisted the set under Opposed on the Speedy page. – Fayenatic  L ondon 16:24, 9 January 2023 (UTC)