Category talk:People by nationality and descent

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question/discussion item
Not a nomination, but a question/discussion item:

In Category:People by ethnic or national descent, there are mostly sub-categories named 'People of Foo descent'. In Category:Emigrants by nationality, there are mostly sub-categories named 'Foo emigrants'. Looking down further into these sub-categories, they are both populated with sub-sub-categories named 'Foo Goo', where 'Foo' is the origin country and 'Goo' is the destination country. Examples: see Category:People of Canadian descent and Category:Canadian emigrants, having Category:Canadian Americans, Category:Canadian Australians, etc. Sometimes, in the matching sub-categories, the sub-sub-categories are the same; more often, there is partial or even no overlap.

Should there be either be categories named 'People of Foo descent' or 'Foo emigrants', but not both? Is there some naming decision somewhere that states what we should be using? Was the decision never implemented or, worse, partially implemented? What is happening here? Thanks Hmains 21:51, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

So shall we create categories recognizing every connection between every country? This is American hyphenization gone to the most ridiculous extremes. NorthernThunder 20:30, 31 July 2006 (UTC)